King or Khalifa

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. Hama baadu, my brothers and sisters, Allah SWT when He created Azam alayhi salam, before He created Azam alayhi salam, Allah SWT said, to the malaika, inni ja'ilun fil ardi khalifa. He said, I have decided to send on the earth a khalifa. Allah did not say, inni ja'ilun fil ardi malik. Allah did not say, I have decided to send on the earth a king, a khalifa. Who is a khalifa? A khalifa is one, the difference between a malik and a khalifa. A king, is somebody who is, who makes the laws. The king issues a farban. From tomorrow, this will happen. It will happen. Nobody, will question the king. So the first one, the king makes the laws. Number two, nobody can question the king. Why did you do this? Because I am the king. My word is law. Right? I am the state. This is the position of kingship. So king makes the laws. Nobody can question the king. And good and bad, is decided based on one criterion, which is, does it please the king? Is the king happy with that? It is good. If the king is not happy, it is bad. In the case of the khalifa, all these three are different. The khalifa does not make laws. The khalifa implements laws. He follows the laws, and he makes sure the law is followed in the states. Number two, the khalifa is questionable and answerable to the king. You cannot ask the king, why did you say this? No. But the khalifa, is answerable. The king can ask him, will ask him. And the third thing is, in the case of the king, good and bad is, what pleases the king. In the case of the khalifa, it is what pleases the king, not what pleases the khalifa. Right? So if I am the king, I will say, good is what pleases me. But if I am the khalifa, I will say, good is what pleases the king, not me. Even if I don't like something, I have to do it, because it pleases the king. Now this is very, very important. When we think about ourselves, the reason I am saying this is not for, some intellectual benefit. I am saying this because, this is the reality. This is our reality today. And the reason why, we have problems, is because we have forgotten this. We have forgotten that we are not kings. We want to live in this life, as if we are kings. And that's where the problem is. We want to make our own laws. And by laws, I don't mean parliament and this and that. I am saying, laws in terms of what we apply to ourselves. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala made a law, but we choose to follow it, or we don't choose, or we choose not to follow it. Selective obedience, is disobedience. Because if you are selecting, obey, if Allah has made three laws, you say, I will obey number one, I will obey number three, but number two, I don't like. This is not the, way a, Khalifa is to behave. That is why, if I ask myself, or ask you, are you Allah, or are you Abdullah? Which one are you? Astaghfirullah, Ilazim, Nauzubillah. You are not Astaghfirullah, Nauzubillah. Are you Allah? Are you God? Or are you, Abdullah, the slave of Allah? You are not Khadimullah. What is the word for, servant in Arabic? Khadim. Look it up. Go into Google Translate, and type, servant, and translate into Arabic. It will never say, Abd, it will say, Khadim. So are we, are we, Khuddamullah, or are we, Abdullah, Abdullah. So I'll, I'll talk about this tomorrow, InshaAllah. But today, as far as the, King and the, Vice-Chairman is concerned, the Khalifa is concerned, there was aifa from, Hussain, Mahmud, there is a wholeょ, you, One of the things which Hyderabad is known for and known for negatively, there is nothing to feel proud about it. People laugh at us. We should be ashamed. Is the Hyderabadi weddings. Right? We have become so shameless, we don't even feel ashamed. What would people say? If the wedding is at 8 o'clock, if it is at 10 o'clock, people start coming. They don't say. This is a good thing or a bad thing? People are praising us. They are laughing at us. They invited us at 8 o'clock, you must go only at 10. Only if you go at 10 then people will start coming. So is this something to feel proud about or something to feel ashamed about? The ostentatious spending in weddings. Right? Who are you showing off to? Who are you trying to show off to? I was in Jeddah once and one of my friends, there is one huge function place in Jeddah. Some, some name like this. The massive halls. The huge halls. The huge halls. So he told me that, so one of the, he told me the name of the Saudi person and he said he had his daughter's engagement here and he spent 30 million riyal. Daughter's engagement. So after the wedding, after the dowry, people wanted to impress her. She said, you are a very good person. You are a very good person. I said what is the big deal here. So even if some people want to impress her- it goes up to only 30 billion. If people are taking about an apprenticeship to do it. Then what is impressing them of? He said 30 billion.. He spent 30 billion but forgot it. What is this impression back at home that I have on you feelings the impression? So what is the show about? You also have dance and you have also have music and you also have all kinds of, you know ostentatious spending and men and women, Conflict, everybody together. And then he said, you know, we areprü midantis fans, pues gallo palkea Rabbis bulundum.. Majores, ensions kes mas nghĩa rah pulsaya.. Well.. everybody together and all kind, everything which Islam has prohibited, we do in the weddings of our children and then we are very surprised when three months later they are divorced, six months later they are divorced. Every bad deed, what do you say, you get blessings. How do you get blessings? Where do you get it? You buy blessings from Ratanadeep. Really, I mean, the question is, what nonsense is this? And as far as I am concerned, I hold people who do this and people who go to these parties equally responsible. Why do you go? They go and then they come back and tell stories. Sir, what do I tell you? Do you know what was happening yesterday? I don't know. I don't know what was done. I don't want to hear any mischief. Why did you go to die? Seriously. Come and tell the story. First you did a wrong thing, now you do another bad thing. Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this? You don't have food at home, why did you eat? These are not ways of... Gaining the Rida of Allah Subhanaw Taala. You do everything which Allah has prohibited and then you want some Barka to come from somewhere. From where? That is the reason why Allah Subhanaw Taala made Salah Fard on us for five times a day. To remind us of who we are. Sometimes people who don't know Islam or non-Muslims, they ask this question. Why do you need to pay? You need to pay five times. You can pray once. You can pray once in a week. You can pray once in a day. Or maybe in the morning, in the night. Why five times? To remind us of who we are. This Salah is not a favor upon Allah. Some people ask the question, why does God need? God doesn't need. Allah doesn't need. We need. Salah is for us. To remind us of who we are. Who are you? I am a slave. I am a vice-gerent of Allah. I am a Khalifa. So I remind myself again and again. One of our teachers, Yunus Patel Sahib Rahmatullah Ali, he used to say, Salah begins outside the Masjid. Your Salah, the effect of your Salah, is it Qabur? Or it is rejected? It is seen in the way you placed your shoes outside the Masjid. It is seen in the way you park your car. I remember many years ago, in Ramadan, we were having Talawi here. And we get a desperate call from the church outside, opposite us. To say that somebody, one of your people has parked their car across the gate. And it so happened that, the priest there, he had some health emergency. He had to be taken to the hospital. They cannot get him out. They can't take their car out because, one of our people has parked his car across the gate. I even found out who it was. So, but I don't want to expose the name. He bought a car worth Rs. 50 lakhs. He didn't park it. He didn't park it. What can we do? What is the solution to this? You buy the car, and then you want to drive it on the highway. 150, 160, 160. You can't drive it on the highway. 160, when you are driving your car on the highway at 140 kilometres an hour, 160 kilometres an hour, one little stone, like that is enough. So, I said to one of my friends, I said, when you drive, you drive on 160, and then on 260, how will you drive? But remember, that if you crash, you have two options. If you die, you have died in a haram maut. And if you don't die, then you will have to live, all your life, with the knowledge, that because of you, all the people who were in your car, some of them died, and some of them were maimed, and became paralysed, and paraplegic, and wheelchairs, and they got blind, or something happened to them. And then whoever you hit, whatever happened to them, all of this, is your fault. You will have to live with that memory for your whole life, and then when you go before Allah , all of them will be standing in line, saying, Ya Allah, give me my haq from this stupid man, or stupid woman who was driving this car at this speed, knowing it is wrong. Knowing it is against the law of the land. The Zahiri ulama have given a fatwa to say, that if somebody, if a Muslim goes against the law of the land, which is made for the benefit of everyone, this Muslim, has left Islam, he is a Murtad. Hey! Even if you don't go there, even if you don't say he is a Murtad, definitely that person has committed a major sin, guna-e-kabeera, for which he will be answered to Allah . It is not just a matter of speeding tickets. It is not a question of saying, I will drive fast and there is no cop. No, that is not the point.