Focus on the purpose

--- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- 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.