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کونسی تجارت فائدے مند ہے؟ - درس ۱۶
Urdu Bayan, 33 mins
24th June, 2020

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أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ اشْتَرَوُا الضَّلَالَةَ بِالْهُدَىٰ فَمَا رَبِحَتْ تِجَارَتُهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا مُهْتَدِي
In these initial verses of the Quran, Allah subhana wa ta'ala has mentioned most of all, with regards to all these verses that we are reading, that we are seeing, about such a group Allah ta'ala Is referring to; they are about such a group which is in extreme loss and deluded, deceived and Allah ta'ala is extremely upset, displeased with this group and Allah ta'ala has openly expressed His displeasure in these different verses. Allah ta'ala stated, Allah ta'ala has called them deceivers. Allah also said that they try to deceive Allah, they try to deceive the people with imaan. They are liars. They are kaathib. All these titles and definitions, Allah ta'ala has applied to this group of people and more and more Allah ta'ala has explained and told us about them in the Quran, that for these people there will be a very severe punishment. Allah ta'ala in this age of fitna and mischief, may Allah ta'ala protect our imaan. My brothers, the most precious time for a person will be that time when he will be departing this world. That will be the most essential critical time. If our imaan is intact and a person departs the world nicely Imaan, then consider he has left with everything. Success.
Everything, business, is a deception. House is a deception, children is a deception.
Diversion - we will leave the shops here, we will leave the money here, we will leave the children here. Everything is going to be left behind and nothing goes along with us. We know this reality, we recognise this reality, we are aware of this reality, but the magic of the world overwhelms a person; that for the life of a few days, he forgets everything.
The Quran time and time against reminds us about this, repeatedly reminds us. These aren't empty words. They shouldn't feel bitter to us, we shouldn't turn our faces from these. We should accept the reality. The deficiency we see in us when we sit infront of the Quran, we should make true repentance to Allah.
Allah ta'ala loves taubah and appreciates taubah. A person came to the Holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم and said, "please make dua for me, I have deficiencies, I feel I am a hypocrite and I don't worship. Theres is no sin that I have left."
Look how straightforward and honest he was. The Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم didn't dislike him, didn't shove him aside. Rather, Hadhrat Umar رضي الله عنه was present there and he spoke. He was Umar رضي الله عنه isn't it? He said, "what is this you are doing, that you are making the Holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم a witness to your sins?" Then Allah's Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم, said, "Umar be quiet, stay silent."
Allah. A unique statement the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم replied. He took him and said, "better than the loss of the hereafter, is the loss of this world." Allahu Akbar. So we try to save ourselves from issues in this world and we do all the wrong. We sell our imaan, we sell our deen just to get betterment in this world. What is it? Who is this group, the one in between, the one on the fence? Brothers, everyone knows, they have imaan, they know about imaan, but it is the nafs that has overtaken them. Passions, desires, the worldly love, fear of people and fear of dunya. So what a beautiful statement of the Holy prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم, that the loss in this world is better than the loss of the hereafter. The loss of the hereafter is much more severe than the loss in this world. In other words, he was accepting these issues in the world. That's fine. The loss of this world. Even if people are upset, less people would be upset. No issue, no problem. However, regarding the hereafter, if a person loses out in the hereafter, then how will he survive in the hereafter. Allahu akbar. The punishments of the Hereafter. What does a human being do? Think.
The hands of his desires. We see sometimes that for example there's a business man. He invests money, spends invests and after investing or spending his money, he spends his money for this purpose, that I will do trading business and inshaaAllah I will earn. Have you seen a businessman who does business and in the background, he doesn't ponder, that with this money I will make profit then I'll sell, then I'll make profit, then I'll buy, then I will sell, make profit. Every business thinks like this isn't it? But a person who, if he invests and after trading and investing that wealth, let's say it is gold, which is valuable yes, will he sell it for pennies? For nothing? Gold. Will he sell it for the price of coal and say take it? "Here is the gold, here take for the price of coal and I'll give you gold." Will he get profit? Let's say he is selling wheat and he is selling the wheat at the price of grass. "Here take the wheat, give me grass take the wheat, give me grass." Have you ever heard anyone, seen a trader like this? Has a businessman ever had profit like this, the Quran asks us, will he get profit? He will get loss isn't it? No profit. How can it not be that he won't incur loss. So Allah says in the Quran:

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ اشْتَرَوُا الضَّلَالَةَ بِالْهُدَىٰ
So what trade, transaction does the hypocrite carry out? What does he implement?
What business is he implementing? What is he purchasing? What trading is he doing? The hypocrite, instead of guidance, he is purchasing error at the price of guidance. He is purchasing error. Instead of jannah, he is taking jahanam. Think for a moment. Instead of permanent happiness, he is purchasing sin. He prefers sin. Allah ta'ala says that he is purchasing misguidance just for the sake of guidance. For this reason that, It's not that he doesn't know. He knows. He is aware. They all know. Everyone knows. Those without faith, they don't know. They don't have that knowledge. Yes but the hypocrite he knows. He has the Quran infront of him. He hears the Quran. He reads the Quran and he hears the sermons. He goes to the masjid. He hears the hadith. Here is the lectures. Here is the speech. Here is the bayaan. In their homes, there are huffadh and Ulamah and Male and female scholars but despite all of that, due to hypocrisy, such a poison of hypocrisy is within him, such that he rejects the guidance. Which guidance? The path that the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم brought.

لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ

Allah says, that he is such a Rasul, Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم, everything of his is guidance. Everything of his is guidance and betterment to the high grade. Akhlaaq husanah. Allah is praising him, every action every statement, every bodily movement of the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم was great guidance. Every sunnah of the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم none of them are minor. Every Sunnah takes a person to Paradise.
The holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's every method, every action, every movement, it takes a person into paradise. It makes a person close to the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم. It gives the pleasure of Allah. SubhaanAllah. So this is the glory of the people of imaan. The believers. This is their status. Allah's Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم did he not say, reported by Hadhrat Anas رضي الله عنه, " He who loves my sunnah, loves me. Whoever loves me will be with me in Jannah."
Look a great announcement the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم made.
He who loves my sunnah. What does love mean?
The sunnah doesnt mean that one thing is sunnah, no.
لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ
His complete lifestyle. Every action, every second of his teachings, is guidance. Two lives. Parts.
One is; that the life according to the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم total complete lifestyle and one is the opposite to that. 2 opposite ways of living a life. The person of iman who has faith belief alhamdulillah, then it is right and proper, that what he does, is fit and proper. Whatever action he carries out whether he is ill, or happy, a wedding or function, business, home, any phase or life, any movement of life, then the believer implements those actions according to the respected honourable way of the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم. If he implements all his lifestyles phases and sectors, according to the way of the Holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم then imagine how many things he will acquire. What will that person acquire by implementing the sunnah of Rasulullah صلي الله عليه وسلم? He will get nearness to paradise. The love of the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم, the prophet gave good news.

Whoever loves my sunnah then I will take him with me into paradise. What a great great reassuring piece of news.

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ اشْتَرَوُا الضَّلَالَةَ بِالْهُدَىٰ

That's why its stated, such a great great asset, you are leaving the sunnah and you are embracing hypocrisy. And what is the definition of hypocrisy? Because the method of Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم, to leave that and to adopt and embrace other ways. That is defined as hypocrisy. One believer who claims to have faith, because a person who has no deen, a kafir can't do this. A believer, one who has iman, for him to shun, disregard and neglect the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's way and method for any action and do to that action in another way. To consider that non sunnah way to be better or okay and to really like that and to prefer that. And this Is happening today, it's visible. If you love something, if you love someone more, if you think something is better, only then you will bring that action and that practice in your life. If you want to buy some clothes. That colour which you like, the style you like, the material, the fashion, that is what you're going to buy isn't it? Or not ? You're not going to buy the clothes you don't like. So what we realise is that when you take the ghair methods for anything, the non deeni methods and you bring those into your life and you impement them and we prefer their speech or their methods in comparison to what Allah talaa praised. Allah says, I love the way of my habib صلي الله عليه وسلم so a Muslim how can he even contemplate, forget about practising the sunnah, rather he goes to the point of criticising the deen. He expresses his dislike for the Sunnah. Such people they say wrong statements and they speak against the people who practise and then they claim they have imaan. The holy
Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم has clearly stated that such a person has no link with me. No association with me.

Except He who refused إلا من أبي

So what a dangerous era and generation. If we look across the whole islamic society, then how dangerous a situation we can see around us? And ontop of that will Allah's punishments not come?
And Weird diseases and illnesses. Allah is upset with us. Allah is not happy with us. Our situation is different from the people without faith because we have Quran. We have imaan and guidance. That's why Allah said, such a great asset you have. Guidance. Such a fantastic way of life. Imaan. You've been given Quran and you have left that. Allah says you have left the way, the practical method of my habib صلي الله عليه وسلم and you've gone towards the wrong side, the wrong practice. Allah says will that business give you benefit? Allah has called it a business transaction. SubhaanAllah. Allah says this business transaction that you're carrying out. This purchase or sale. Will it give you benefit?

وَمَا كَانُوا مُهْتَدِينَ

Allah says, No way, no way. So their commerce doesn't prosper, neither are they guided. Allah says, you've invested in the wrong way. You have purchased and sold wrong. You have got no profit from your sale. You had imaan. You had the great wealth, the greatest asset, but you sold it at a loss. You sold it at a loss. In replacement for your imaan, what did you purchase? Allah said. Imagine. What is it that you have purchased? So brothers, this is a big point which we need to worry about, be concerned about. Just like I mentioned the hadith to you. That man, that person who came and said I am a hypocrite drowned in my sins. The Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم raised his hands and made a supplication that, "oh Allah make his hypocrisy distant. Save him from sins and open the doors of guidance for him." SubhaanAllah

So today if we are overwhelmed by the dunya and we are drowned in our desires, the reality is that we need to accept where we are. Where were are at. The path of paradise is only one which is obedience and following the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم in every action, in every action of life. In every turn of life. I'm not saying this, no molana is saying this. No mufti is saying this. Nobody is saying it.

قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ

Allah is stating in the quran, Oh my beloved Muhammad صلي الله عليه وسلم announce with your honourable tongue on my behalf SubhaanAllah. So Allah is included and Rasulullah صلي الله عليه وسلم is included.
And the Quran becomes a witness.
Definitely definitely definitely the Quran has clearly announced only and only and only Allah. To please Allah, to arrive to Allah's nearness, everything we are doing to please Allah, isnt it? Fasting, hajj, zakah worship, deeds. Allah, said I put my hand ontop of everything. I put it to the side. One condition. Allah has announced in the Quran clearly that Allah's pleasure will only and only be attained through one source, one method, what is that?
فَاتَّبِعُونِي
When you obey and follow Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. So in other words, Allah is saying what? That you can get only get paradise in one way. Success is attained only through one way. You can only be saved from the fire of hell in one way. You can only be saved from the punishments of hell in one way. You can only be saved from the punishments of the grave through one method. In the world, all success will be earnt through one method. All of the peace in the world you will attain through one method. No wazifa, no prayer, no repetition, no recitation. From no action at all Allah's announced clearly. Waahid. Only one action.

فَاتَّبِعُونِي
Imitating, following, obeying, not love, Allah hasn't said "love" the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم because we fall into the trap here. Allah hasn't said love the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم Allah said : قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ
If you want me to love you. He hasn't said, love the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم He said فَاتَّبِعُونِي so what do we realise? Obedience, following and love, there is a difference in the wording and in the actual reality. When a person obeys and imitates, then love in included. When he loves and he doesn't imitate, then the two don't co exist. Remember that. Today in the world, this is the biggest deception amongst the believers. Everyone claims, I love the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم. What love? Going in the car, got the nasheed on, tears come out the eyes. Passion, and he says, "I am a lover." If you go to conference gathering, someone is reciting a nasheed, bayan and you get emotional "ahh I enjoyed that." Emotional tears come out. yes. He's a lover. The holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's blessed name comes up, body starts shaking. "Oh he's a lover." This is a mirage. Allah says, this isn't reality. This is a mirage. This isn't a reality. Rather what has Allah said, قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ
follow and imitate my Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم . Follow and obey him and imitate him. SubhaanAllah.

Emulating and love is included hundred percent but in the word 'love', following is not included. It's not the same the other way round. It's not vice versa. Remember this truth I am telling you. Those who claim to love but dont follow Rasulullah صلي الله عليه وسلم. Lengthy conferences, shrieking "naare", calling out slogans, shouting out, marches. You can have lessons of Quran and hadith, whatever you do, say, it doesn't matter what long titles you put after or before your name, it doesn't matter. The Quran rejects.
قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ الله
Allah says " you cannot get my nearness until oh my Habib, announce how will you get my love Allah says, فَاتَّبِعُونِي

I will only love you Allah says if you obey and love my Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم if you obey my rasul صلي الله عليه وسلم 's sunnah. No man in his life can he alhamdulillah totally totally completely, if he tries fully to imitate and follow the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم in his life and he practices according to the sunnah everything in his life, in character, worship, sunnah, manners, buying selling society, he swears and promises that my lifestyle will be passed like this. Doesn't matter how many difficulties come, whatever occurs, no problem. Great status. After this a person gets Wilaayah - friendship, status and closeness to Allah. Then he becomes a Wali. A Mujjadid.

The Mujaddid - the great miracle was not vision and dreams. His greatest achievement was following the Sunnah. Did I not narrate the incident to you? I will narrate it again.
A wali of the time came to meet Hadhrat Mujjadid Alf Thani رحمة الله عليه

Hadhrat Mujjadid Alf Thani رحمة الله عليه was speaking about him, Sarhand Shareed رحمة الله عليه The reviver of the deen. There was a great wali Allah. He had a great status. Another wali. He came to meet Mujjadid Alf Thani رحمة الله عليه. When he came to visit, he sat down next to Hadhrat mujjadid Alf thani رحمة الله عليه and infront of the Mujaddid he began speaking and he began to shake, tremble and began to get emotional. The earth begun to shake. So Mujaddid Alif thani رحمة الله عليه he himself was great so he brought him back to his consciousness. Mujjadid Alf Thani رحمة الله عليه said, "you made the shake earth MashaaAllah, but to us, we don't have the deeds to make the earth shake." He said," Allah tala has given me such a status that today you see this graveyard, if I raise my hands and supplicate then all the deceased will be forgiven. SubhaanAllah. But this is not an achievement sufi saahib this is not an achievement." What is the Amal?
Then he took the miswak from himself and said, "this is the achievement alhamdulillah. Better than the earth shaking by your sitting, is to follow the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet صلي الله عليه practically. It was better that you utilise the miswak." The Sunnah. Suddenly his passion disappeared. And that wali said, "yes, you spoke the truth Mujaddid."

So the best demonstration of love is to emulate the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم. Any difficulty or distress come in life, problems obstacles, barriers. If you take the holy Prophet's صلي الله عليه وسلم sunnah, it will take you out of that conundrum, that trap, because theres no limit to the greatness of the holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's blessings. Allah says in the Quran, "what a great transaction it is." This is one of transaction of the hypocrites, that they sell their whole deen for the sake of the world. What would people say? What will the world say? They change their faces appearances, attire, eating, drinking, wealth house in, out, everything. They change for the sake of the world. Everything is different. The Quran is telling us that their trade, their life, transaction Allah says what have they done? They've purchased error themselves in place of guidance.

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ اشْتَرَوُا الضَّلَالَةَ بِالْهُدَىٰ

Instead of guidance, they've purchased deception, error. They've removed the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's ways from their family and their lives and out of their homes and replaced them with the ways of the ghair. Then what will their children be?

To take out the The Holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's method out of your home and to bring another method into your home, eating, drinking, everything, standing sitting, all your actions, all the actions against the Sunnah. The whole house is full of that. Yes and they do khatams of Yasin for their problems. These are the hypocrites. This is what they do. It is stated that your trade is very wrong. You are purchasing at a massive loss. Allah said, I gave you imaan and you even threw that away. Such a great wealth was given to you. The greatest wealth that you could've attained. The highest stage in the hereafter. So Allah stated;
قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ
After imaan, if you want to purchase, then purchase something greater brothers. Purchase something greater.

With imaan, you should follow the method, the lifestyle of the holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم so that your paradise is decorated when you get there. This is the justification of imaan. Every second, every moment of our lives, we should spend in the emulation of Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم. So Allah has announced in the Quran, totally, completely clearly, no person can attain success at all. Don't even contemplate that you can reach Allah's nearness. No matter how much worship you do, deeds you pray, there is one condition;

فَاتَّبِعُونِي

Not love, I'm a lover, I've obtained the heights, I'm a lover. Emotions. There are big lovers today in society. In every home you will find an aashiq, from one to the next to the next to the next sitting, they are claiming to be something. Yes. They all come out in different times, they have special dates. They all come out - aashiqs. They dont know anything apart from that. Aashiq is a big status. To claim to love the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم is a big claim. So Allah says فَاتَّبِعُونِي it's not regarding love, leave your love۔ Allah says just show me the emulation of the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم in your lives. So here we get a big lesson my friends. A big lesson: that if you want to find the path of guidance, if you want to search guidance, then put one method in your life. To judge that and that is the way of the sunnah of the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم. When you're seeking a Shaykh, if you want to attain guidance, self rectification, you dont need to go to anything. No matter what people tell you. Just seek one thing. Does that person live his life according to the sunnah? In comparison to that if people claim he is a lover and don't ask about anything else. "His love is so great he recites naats and nasheed and this happens and that happens." Apart from the smell of rice in that gathering, there is nothing else. But thos people who implement the sunnah, there you get the fragrance of the sunnah of the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم. In the other gathering, you smell the rice and the food and in the proper gathering, you smell the beautiful fragrance of the Sunnah of the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم . Permanent fragrance. Beautiful smell. The smell of the holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's sunnah. SubhaanAllah

So this is time and era of deception and delusion. Allah has mentioned their deception clearly. Look how much detail Allah ta'ala has gone into to explain and define the hypocrites. The holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم - to leave his way, his method, do whatever you want in the world, people consider you to be whatever you want, but Allah says that you are not the people who have attained guidance. Allah says, وَمَا كَانُوا مُهْتَدِين

You have not prospered, neither are you guided. Regardless what the world says. You have wasted your trade. Allahu akbar. But Allah has given a beautiful example about these people. It doesn't matter what the people of the world say, praise you about your deeds, your worship, no no. You are two faced. Wherever you see benefit, you change your appearance and your ways. You have sold yourself at the hands of the ghair , the strangers. Everything of yours, you run after them, according to them, like them, Allahu Akbar and you increase that and you commit more sin.

So this is Allah's announcement that not aashiq, don't seek the title of a lover, seek to be the person who imitates the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم , who follows and obeys the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم.
When he does that, he automatically becomes a lover. That's It. If a person imitates and obeys, the love comes in automatically. So understand that if you're looking for a lover of the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم, look for a shaykh who follows the Sunnah of Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم and that's where your reformation will take place the Quran explains. Dont fall into the trap, the Quran says , totally not. They are those people who have purchased error at the price of guidance they have taken the path of misguidance. They have taken a turn instead of the right path. What is guidance?
The Holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم's path. The path of His sunnah and Shariah. That is guidance. And what is misguidance? To leave the path of the sunnah and Shariah. Doesn't matter what else it is, it is all darkness and misguidance. to leave the sunnah and Shariah, to leave Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم whatever alternative there is, It is total misguidance. One, is the Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 's way.

لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ

The best way. Hadyah Muhammad.
His way was the best method and besides that, all other paths, methods - all are paths of misguidance.
Doesn't matter how many proofs a pesosn gives to you, if it doesn't match with the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم's method, it is misguidance. Doesn't matter if there's vision and dreams, whatever you feel and see is empty and hollow and nothing at all. And the purpose of reading these verses in the Quran, what is Allah ta'ala telling us? If you see these weaknesses and deficiencies within you, then the Quran says, you have been sold. Dont worry. Allah's Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم did dua, so you should also fall into sujood, make dua, that, "Allah ta'ala take the hypocrisy out of me." Do taubah, repent and adopt the lifestyle and the Sunnah of Rasulullah صلي الله عليه وسلم. These temporary issues barriers, hurdles will come. Allah ta'ala will give you issues and tests but even that will be a means of your ranks being elevated. May Allah ta'ala give us the holy Prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم 'a lifestyle and sunnah and implementation of the Quran. May we be those who find the path of guidance that Allah announces in the Quran: you are on the right path and you are successful. Ameen.
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