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It is a great pleasure and honor to be here. The first time I met them was I think almost 22 years ago. When they were studying in the Al-Humza Karia. And Alhamdulillah we is their father. Dr. Mirza Baudin is a friend of mine. I am also from Al-Haidur. So we go back many years. Alhamdulillah. And may Allah enable me and through me whoever this message reaches to participate in this work of this deen. Because this is not a work for anybody else. It’s for ourselves. And Alhamdulillah Allah gives us this understanding that it’s for us that inshallah we will try and do it to the best of our ability. What I want to say is basically I am reminding myself. I don’t think any of you would need reminders from me. I want to begin with a question. My question to myself and to you is what is Islam? How would you discuss Islam? If somebody comes to you who does not know anything and says what is Islam? What is the answer? What is Islam? What is it? One word one… What is Islam? It is the truth. Alhamdulillah. Good answer. Reveal way of leading one’s life. Reveal way of leading one’s life. Right? It is the truth of course but this is a way of leading your life. Islam is not a philosophy. Islam is not a theory. Islam is a practice. There is only one way of learning Islam by doing Islam. Obviously I am not saying don’t read the book. How to do you read? That’s how you know. No, that is not necessary. But unless I practice… The reason I am saying this is… Allah SWT said… So my question is as an ustad or as myself, I am reading Quran. And I am teaching Quran to the children. Right? So what is my focus? What is my focus when I am teaching the Quran? What is the focus when I am reading Quran? My focus will be the Tajbees of the student. Maqari Sahib… He is not able to do it. He is deciding it from the correct place. In terms of if there is a… Is it visible? Meaning audible in the sound. If I am teaching some Qiraat then is it… You know, is it harsh or is it tough or whatever it is. But… For example, if the child is reciting… So as the ustad and listening to that, did he say Rahman or did he say Rahman? Was it Ha or Ha? Everything is correct. It should be done. But did we stop for a second and say, very good. Now tell me, when you recited this, what happened to your heart? Can we ask? Do we reflect on it ourselves? I just recited Ayatul Kursi. What was the effect on my heart? Now if you are not doing that, then this Ayatul Surah Al-Anfal which I recited for you… Who will do it? Allah did not say about Tajweed. That doesn’t mean Tajweed is not important. My point is Allah is putting the emphasis and telling us what is really important is that when Allah is mentioned, something must happen to your heart. When Allah’s Kalam is recited and when you see the Ayat around you, something must happen to your heart. There should be a reflection in your heart. Is it happening or not? Is it happening or not happening? Trey? I am saying that what we teach, the orientation of that teaching. What is your purpose? So which is my second question. You are teaching here in this… May Allah bless all of you and all those who are associated with Darussalam. May Allah bless you. My first visit here and Alhamdulillah this is for me in terms of what I have been dreaming and talking for now literally 25 years. I am seeing that here happening in action. Alhamdulillah. So all of you are here. My question is very simple. What describes for me your product? The product of this comes out. What is that product? Quickly. What are you making here? I come from a corporate background. I am a corporate consultant. I work with many multiple corporations. The corporations, multinational corporations rule the world. Not politicians, not Donald Trump. It is the multinational corporations and the billionaires who own them who run this world. As we speak, eight men, eight, which will fit into one mayhem. Right? Eight seat or nine seat? Eight men own collectively more wealth than 50% of the population of the world. The world population is roughly 8 billion. Give or take a few million here and there. Eight men own more wealth than 4 billion other people. And I can say very clearly that none of you is that eight men because those are eight white men. They collectively own more wealth than 50% of the world. If I gave you this as a challenge, I said, can you create a system where eight men will own more wealth than 50% of the world? You will tell me, Shriyak, your mind is messed up. It is impossible. You are nuts. What kind of a thing is this? We did it. We created it. You know why? Because they work systematically. Because their goals are clear. Maybe an evil goal, but that evil goal is very clear. Evil goal is clear. Clear, absolutely clear. They have the methodology of how to achieve that goal. So my question to you is what are you creating here? What is your goal? What do you call what you are creating here? Suppose I come to you and I say, I come to Hussain Azim. I say, Maulana Sahib, please pray for me. Pray for what? I am setting up a factory. I will do the upper. Then I say, Maulana Sahib, please tell me what machinery should I buy? Should I buy the machinery from Germany or should I buy it from… What is the question you will ask me? What are you trying to produce? What exactly? What are you trying to produce? How can I answer the question should the machinery come from Germany or France? Are you making caps? Are you making plastic bottles? Are you making rocket ships? What are you doing? Then I can tell you, this is the machinery, blah, blah, blah. But you have to define for me what is the product. Unless you define what is the product, how do you know… In this case it’s not machinery, it’s your methodology and the content and so on. How do you know it works? I am not saying it’s useless. It’s Allah’s work. It is the mercy of Allah. If you just sit and read the book, you will be able to do it. It’s not a big deal. The issue is that… This is the benefit of the day. If you sleep, it’s okay. If you sleep so much, he is getting enchanted. I mean what? What do you want? That’s why all the people have slept. Everyone sleeps and goes to heaven. But the point I am saying is that… If you sleep, you will be enchanted. You will be enchanted. The point is, but however, since there is no such thing, there is so much of effort. Believe me, here to me, the investment is not the buildings and the money. The investment is the lives. The investment is your hearts. The investment is the intellectual investment. That’s… There is no value in that. Nobody can put out all the value of that. The value of the building, the value of the land, there is no value in that. I was telling the other guy on a side note, I told him, Siddhi, Bandhvi, Ramachul, you guys go and sign. Now look, one man, one single man, he went to the Jambal Ghat and opened the temple. I mean can you imagine, in the middle of the bandit swine, that’s… Till today, in the night, trucks don’t drive on the road. They form a convoy and they go with the police escort. That place is a lonely man, Mella’s. I was there for a car, I was there for a long time. Maybe about 10,000 to 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 to 8,000. Exactly, I am thinking, imagine that kind of, you know, in the jungle, Mangal kind. So story, starts with one single person, right? So that’s what I am saying, what is the value of that? So Mella, bless you and may you live long. And may you live long. That’s what I am saying, what is the value of that? So Amrila, you all are here, may Allah bless you and may Allah put Baraka in this. What are you trying to create? What is the name of this product? The reason I am saying that is, based on that product, will be the effect of that product in the environment. You said, I am making a plane, then this plane will fly. If you say, I am making a locomotive, I am making a train, that train will pull a lot of load, but that train will never fly. I am making Bugatti, no problem, fantastic car, I hate the bloody thing, this is too low. But I am saying, but you know, great car, very fast, but it will never fly. It will go 200 miles an hour, but it will never fly. But I am making micro-light aircraft, which run on a fractional horsepower engine, but it flies. So what is the purpose of this? So what are you making? Because if your purpose is flight, and you say, I am making this fabulous Bugatti gold plate, I say brother, it’s a fabulous Bugatti, it will never fly. Guess what? It will never fly. Right? It’s exactly like that. What are you trying to create? And what is that thing which comes out of here supposed to do outside? What is the purpose of that? What do you want to do? Everyone has to go to heaven, that’s a different issue. Leave that out. I am talking about this world. What do you want to do in this world? Right? So please give this some thought. If I am, if the, I get multiple answers, if one says, boy. Absolutely, multiple responses. So very, very important to keep this in mind. Number one, Islam is a, complete way of life. It’s a practice, it’s not only a theory. Number two is what is your product? The person who graduates out of here, what are you expecting? You must have a complete clear definition in your mind. And what is, do you expect that person to do in society? What will he do outside? Right? Now third thing, and you don’t, this question you don’t need to answer, but for you. And ask this question to every teacher here. Do you make dua for your students by name in tahajjud, in sujood? Do you do it or not? I am not doing dua. I am doing it for all my students. No, not by name. I am doing it for all my students. I am doing it for all my students. Not by name. By name. That is the power of dua. And I am telling you, your children have the right over you. That they get their teacher’s dua. If the teacher is not doing dua for the children, then he is not giving them the right. Because every child needs a different thing. Do you do that? You must do that. I am telling you, if you start doing that, you will see the effect of it. You will see the effect. Next question I want to ask you is, we said Islam is a practice. We said Islam is a way of life. In your institution, where is this practice done? If you go to a school, you have to go to a school, you have to go to a school, you have to go to a school, you have to go to a school, you have to go to a school, and then this practice is done. If you go to an institution teaching science, physics, chemistry, there are labs. They practice it. What they learn, they practice it. You go to a flying school. Have you ever seen a flying school without a training aircraft? No. Part of flying school is training. Have you ever seen a medical school without a residency program with a hospital? You study theory, you go and learn. Then how can, I am not saying you have it, I am saying if there is a madrasa, which is teaching Islam, and there is no specific practical method where they can practice what they are learning. Where is the place for the mosque? You have taught namaz. So what is namaz? Namaz is what? Namaz is a tool. Inna salata limaza tanha anil fahshai wal munkar. Namaz is not for itself. Namaz is for this. So what measurement is there of whether Allah has a relation with a person or not? We have taught dua. Is this dua a good thing or not? We are teaching Quran. Has it entered your heart or not? Where is the practical area? Where are the labs? Where is the place where they can test it out? I will tell you two verses. One, Allah Almighty said, Inna fi khalqi samawati wal ardi waqtila fi layli wal nahari la aali. Inna fi khalqi samawati wal ardi waqtila fi layli wal nahari la aali. Allah Almighty said, Inna fi khalqi samawati wal ardi waqtila fi layli wal nahari la aali. Allah Almighty described who are the ulil al-bab. Alladheena yazkurun allaha qiyamun wa qu’oodan wa ala junubihim. wa yatafakkarun fi khalqi samawati wal ardi. The same sentence, If I substitute au for the waw, grammatically it is correct. Right? Alladheena yazkurun allaha qiyamun wa qu’oodan wa ala junubihim. wa yatafakkarun fi khalqi samawati wal ardi. Grammatically sentence is correct. But is that the ayat or the quran? No. In the ayat, Allah Almighty described two connected aspects of ulil al-bab. Those who remember Allah SWT as standing, sitting and lying down, which is the definition of the Muttakhi. Continuously connected with Allah SWT, constantly aware and conscious of and concerned about the pleasure of Allah SWT, and Allah SWT as standing, sitting and lying down meaning in every aspect of his life. wa, waw, that is the key preposition in this ayah which gives the whole thing meaning is that one letter waw. And, yatafakkarun fi khalqi samawati wal ardi. This is the beauty of the bayan of the quran. In yatafakkarun fi khalqi samawati wal ardi, Allah SWT collected every single conceivable known part of science that exists or will happen till the day of judgment. Is yatafakkarun fi khalqi samawati wal ardi. Somebody who is connected with Allah SWT and who is knowledgeable about the functioning of the universe. And in this context, Allah SWT also described the sequence of that, which must happen first. The reason why many scientists become atheists is because the sequence is reversed. Right? They are seeing the, they understand the kainat better than you and me. Certainly better than me, I don’t know about you. They have seen the world far more closely than you and me. But, kabhi unke zawaan se Subhan Allah nahi nikla. They never looked at him and said, Subhan Allah, kya Allah hi khudrat hai. Yonka Allah ka taaroob nahi hai. He doesn’t know who Allah is. So you think this happened? Re chahi ki pehli nahi mirti, bina bana hai ke, wo kaise ho jati saali duniya? Re chahi ki pehli nahi mirti, bina bana hai ke, wo kaise ho jati saali duniya? So Allah showed us sequence and both are important. Someday I am seeing that here in this, may Allah bless you. It’s very important. Otherwise, normally our novel system, we teach the Quran as if there is no creation. And you teach the creation in some other school as if there is no God. In this country it is actually illegal to say the word God in a regular school. Can you believe it? Then you say we have depression, we have mental illness, abhi aur kya hoga? So that is wrong. Maha hum nahi karte hain. We teach only the theory, we teach the theory very well, hamdhula, but there is no connection with the reality so the theory doesn’t matter for me. Phir parishan fir rahe ho, uske haat sine mein Quran bhi hai parishani bhi hai. Yeh kais haf sakte hain? Andhera bhi hai, hujala bhi hai. Nahi ho sakta hain, it’s not possible. These are mutually exclusive, right? Jaapki aapke sal mein kya Quran hai, toh parishani kais jaake bhai. Keh toh yeh toh wo nahi hai. Toh alfaah je Quran hai, sound of the Quran, he is half is of the sound of the Quran, he is not of the Quran. He understands that the sound of the Quran is half, but he doesn’t understand anything. So how is the Quran half? You will get the reward, there is no problem with the reward, I don’t say that. You will get the reward even without understanding it, there is no doubt about it. But was the purpose of the Quran’s introduction that you should read without understanding it? Or the purpose of the Quran’s introduction is that you should read, understand, act, spread it around the world. Which was the purpose? Yes. The reason for this is, which I will finish my talk with, is we have forgotten the methodology of Rasulullah SAW. I am not accusing you, I am just saying this. Because Allah SWT has used the word of blessings only in the honor of Huzoor SAW. Allah SWT has said Arabic Right? Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic So Allah SWT gave four steps, I call these four steps. Arabic Arabic Then? Arabic Purify them. Arabic Arabic Arabic This is an effort, it has to be made, it won’t happen automatically. Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic And the wisdom behind it, the methodology. That is why Allah SWT has said Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic This is the connection between the kitab and the sunnah. The sunnah is the tafsir of the kitab, the life of Rasul SAW is the practical application of the kitabullah. Now my submission to you is, illa mashaAllah, out of these four things, Allah SWT gave four things, all four are connected, all four must be fulfilled if you want the final result. What we have done, illa mashaAllah globally is, we do the first and the third. We don’t do the second and the third, and the fourth. First, the jihad ul khur are experts. Global experts. Different methodologies, ways and the works. Taskiyat-un-nafs, zero. No focus. Some person happens to be born in a family of scholars and people who know, maybe you get something. Maybe there is some teacher, mil gya tu mil gya. My point is just as we have a proper syllabus, methodology, metrics, my greatest learning in corporate consulting is, My point is just as we have a proper syllabus, methodology, metrics, my greatest learning in corporate consulting is, the power of metrics. If you don’t measure it, you don’t know. One of the things which in my corporate consulting I do is, Six Sigma Quality. Six Sigma Quality. The guy who invented Six Sigma Quality is a chap called Michael Harry from Motorola. He had a beautiful quote. He said, If you want to know what somebody values, see what they measure. If you want to see what somebody values, you want to know what somebody values, see what they measure. And to know what a person values, see what he measures. You know we all say time is money, right? You heard this. We say time is money. But if you lose a hundred dollars, you will feel the pain. But people spend six hours on TikTok. Average time spent on TikTok, on social media in this country is six hours a day. Six hours per day. Per day. Six hours per day. That’s a full working day practically, right? Anyway, let’s go back to something. So, Tilawat-ul-Quran, Taskeet-ul-Nafs, no. May happen accidentally. Most of the time it doesn’t happen. I am saying there has to be metrics for that. Just like you have metrics for Tilawat-ul-Quran. You test a student on Tilawat-ul-Quran, you pass him, you fail him. Because of metrics. How do you test somebody including yourself on Taskeet-ul-Nafs? Third thing, Taalim, Alhamdulillah, perfect. Different mathas, different piqh, different hadith, sunnah, tafseer, the works. A thousand, thousand books. You’ve got big curricula, we have examinations. Salah-ut-Ain. Wahikma, which is the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. How much sunnah is there in my life? That you hear. You hear the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. How much sunnah is there in my life? That you hear. You hear, it’s visible. But is the sunnah restricted to the beard? So where is the metrics for sunnah? No metrics for Taskeet and no metrics for sunnah. We have metrics for Tilawat, we have metrics for Taalim. Which is why, I am sorry for my anger. The problems and the difficulties and the conflict between the ulama are a sign of this. I am being very simplistic but I am a fool. If you are a scholar of Islam, how do you have disrespectful disagreement with another scholar of Islam? Issue is not about disagreement. The issue is about disrespect. One of the things I teach is Adab-ul-Iqtilaaf. It’s a seminar, a couple of hours. We have acrimonious arguments and conflicts and splitting of organizations because of Iqtilaaf bain-al-alib or bain-al-alib. Why? Because of the differences between the ulama and the ulama. The antidote to the poison of kibur is Taskeet-un-Nafs. We don’t do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. We do it. I want to close with this. Alhamdulillah, may Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala bless you and bless this beautiful effort. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala grant it acceptance with him jalla jalalu and open the doors of khair and baraka as he promised. May Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala make all of you and me among those who Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala who are in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, mutaqoon so that our duas are accepted so Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala is pleased with us. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala never to be displeased. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to protect this beautiful work. May Allah bless all of you and may Allah bless your father, founder of all this. Alhamdulillah, may Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala take this from strength to strength and spread it to the whole world. Spread the beauty of this and its methodology all over the world. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala focus and help us to focus on making this more and more and more perfect by fulfilling all of these four beautiful steps for teaching and learning of Islam that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala sent His Habib Muhammad Rasulullah SAW with. So we fulfill the full right of this deen. That it must be taught with equal emphasis on all of these four aspects which have been delineated and specified by Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala Himself in His Kalan. Wasallallahu ala nabil karim wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmaim bi rahmatul karam wa rahim.
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