2. Imam al-Sadiq (as): Black Lives Matter

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[1:55]imam asada alaihis salam's wife hamid al barbaria was of african origin

[2:02]this would come as a surprise to many who would assume that

[2:06]imam asada alaihis salam would marry someone for example locally from medina

[2:10]or someone from mecca for example he would be like for example

[2:15]imam ali alaihis salam or like imam al hasan alaihis salam or

[2:19]say like imam zain al abideen who married local arab ladies however

[2:28]you find that imam asada alaihis salaam began a trend a trend

[2:33]which was part of a social movement to highlight that the lives

[2:38]of humanity and the people around the world have to find a

[2:44]way in which they honor one another in removing racial tension that

[2:49]may exist because today when we see the killing of george floyd

[2:53]you find that no doubt this is brought about outrage and sent

[2:58]shock waves around the world there are many who are in a

[3:01]state of disbelief when they saw the way george floyd was being

[3:06]treated and hence you saw people from around the world coming together

[3:11]and standing up against what seemed like the continuation of racism and

[3:16]a disease that continues to affect the human being because without a

[3:20]doubt one of the worst diseases that can affect each and every

[3:24]one of us is racism seeing a moment where a person says

[3:29]something or makes a racial comment whether it's at home or in

[3:33]the workplace or in public or in private no doubt is something

[3:39]which is seen as abhorrent in the eyes of many we thought

[3:43]that systematic or systemic racism had in many cases come to an

[3:48]end but the reality is that whether it's systematic racism or systemic

[3:53]racism it still exists one may ask what is the difference between

[3:58]the two in terms of systematic racism you may find for example

[4:04]where an employer makes it clear that there will be no hispanics

[4:08]working in this particular office any application you get from somebody for

[4:15]example from latin america rip up the piece of paper and throw

[4:18]it in the bin that may be seen as being systematic racism

[4:23]where there is no chance whatsoever for someone who comes from a

[4:27]particular racial background in terms of their skin color or in terms

[4:33]of their ethnicity or ethnic group to get a chance for employment

[4:37]in a certain area or to get a chance for a job

[4:41]in a certain position that's been made available then you have systemic

[4:45]racism where you may have for example that the workplace is so

[4:51]much orientated towards a particular group of people that it becomes very

[4:57]hard for others of a different skin color to get a job

[5:00]there sometimes they refer to certain jobs as the white establishment or

[5:06]that you have to have studied at oxford and then eton before

[5:10]you get a job in that place so when they refer to

[5:13]that they're highlighting that okay it may not be clear the racism

[5:17]but it's going to be very unusual for a person to be

[5:21]given or approached for a job in that area when we saw

[5:25]what happened with george floyd it reminded us of the racism that

[5:30]a lot of the black community had faced in america as in

[5:34]when you saw the black lives matter movement without a doubt a

[5:39]person was reminded of what martin luther king had to go through

[5:44]what the likes of baldwin and parks and others had to go

[5:47]through where literally they were not able to sit in the same

[5:52]section as for example the white person on the bus in america

[5:57]or those who were burnt for example by members of the ku

[6:01]klux klan or for example those who in alabama were told that

[6:05]you cannot have an education because your skin color is different to

[6:10]mine we thought that that was part of yesteryear that was part

[6:15]of the 60s for example or that was something that we only

[6:19]saw in hollywood films that happened on cotton fields where members of

[6:23]the black community were racially abused or racially tortured and yet we

[6:27]saw with george floyd again a return a return of the racist

[6:33]language the racist rhetoric the racist outlook where a person found it

[6:40]normal to racially target somebody and even if that person was gasping

[6:47]for breath because more than anything that touched us was when someone

[6:51]tells you that i cannot breathe or a human tells you that

[6:55]i'm hungry or a human tells you that i'm thirsty at that

[6:58]moment automatically you take away all the religions that you confess or

[7:04]you claim to believe in and you come as one humanity that

[7:08]one humanity comes together and says that this is not what should

[7:12]be happening there should be other ways in which a person is

[7:16]able to for example discuss this area without us arrogantly approaching people

[7:23]or forcefully or harshly or in a way which is oppressive therefore

[7:29]when we come to imam asadaq alaihis salam we found that when

[7:32]imam asadaq wanted to get married he married somebody from africa and

[7:38]begun a trend because imam al qadam alaihis salam married someone from

[7:43]africa and imam al rada alaihis salam africa imam al jawad alaihis

[7:48]salam was even seen by his son because of his color they

[7:52]would say that he is someone who is black and if that's

[7:55]the case then the great grandson of imam al jawad imam al

[7:59]hadi is bound to be of that particular complexion would that be

[8:05]a problem for us or not let's discuss tonight the second in

[8:10]our series of lectures on the biography of imam asad alaihi salaam

[8:14]by looking at his wife hamid al barbariya and what lessons can

[8:18]be learned not only from their marriage but its connotations on racism

[8:23]in the world today and i'd like to do this in the

[8:25]following stages number one how did imam asad approach hamid al barabariya

[8:35]number two and of the utmost importance was he the first member

[8:39]of ahlul bayt sallallahu alaihi wasallam who had married a lady from

[8:43]africa number three why the interracial marriage and is this something recommended

[8:50]number four in the muslim community do we have incidents of systematic

[8:55]and systemic racism and if we do is this the same racism

[9:01]that has been witnessed for example in america and how can we

[9:05]evolve in order that the disease of racism does not affect us

[9:10]or affect our children number five how was the wife of imam

[9:16]asada known as a jurist in her own right and what hadiths

[9:21]do we have from her in al kafi of sheikh al kulaini

[9:24]and in bihar al anwar of al majlisi number six which companion

[9:29]of the imam when asking imam asada said to him tell your

[9:32]wife to ask my wife and what possible area of discussion could

[9:37]this lead to in the area of female maraja and shia thought

[9:43]number seven how was she known for her purity as well as

[9:48]her morality and finally when it came to the lady who she

[9:53]helped her son imam al qaalam get married to how did she

[9:58]give birth and what did imam asadaq alaihis salam say about the

[10:02]birth that day and how did she help her son in his

[10:05]marriage let's examine this and dissect the topic in complete depth many

[10:10]do not discuss hamid al barbaria barbaria of course is arabized barbaria

[10:18]is arabized from the berbers the berbers who are normally discussed in

[10:23]relation to northwest africa because when you talk of that region of

[10:28]the berbers you find that some of the most important members of

[10:31]christian history as well as islamic history came from that area of

[10:36]northwest africa sometimes we don't study african history so that we're able

[10:42]to appreciate the heritage of africa the for example or the you

[10:50]had people who are of christian descent such as augustine saint augustine

[10:56]originally from was from that northwest area of africa then you had

[11:01]that that same area was an area from which imam asadak's wife

[11:05]emerged she was the daughter of sa'id al barbari and you found

[11:11]that at the time imam al baqar alaihis salam was sitting imam

[11:16]asadaq was next to him this story is a wonderful story of

[11:20]how imam asadaq alaihi salam got married because imam asadaq alaihi salam

[11:24]was sitting next to his father who was there al qasha bin

[11:28]mahsun al asadaq alaihi was sitting there and he looked towards imam

[11:34]al baqir alaihis salam he said when are you going to get

[11:37]imam asadaq married you know sometimes in your house you always have

[11:41]a friend of the family who will always say come on when

[11:44]are you gonna get married what are you waiting for so akaash

[11:48]ibn masan al asadi he was sitting with imam al baqar alaihis

[11:52]salam he looked towards imam asada alaihis salam and he said to

[11:56]him that when are you going to marry off jafar bin muhammad

[12:01]he's now at the age of marriage imam al baqar alaihis salam

[12:06]had a pouch of money next to him he took out the

[12:09]pouch and he said this money i have reserved and saved for

[12:15]imam saddak's marriage i've kept this on the side because sometimes some

[12:20]families will keep a certain amount of money on the side for

[12:23]their son or their daughter's wedding day they keep it on the

[12:26]side saved up until their son and their daughter get married so

[12:30]he says that i've kept it on the side the day will

[12:34]come when you will know that imam asad alaihis salaam his wife

[12:40]has arrived he said what do you mean he said you will

[12:43]see in those days there were slaves that were being sold from

[12:48]northwest africa who would come and land in medina the ships that

[12:53]would sail towards the hijaz there would be these slaves that would

[12:57]come at the end of the day the slaves were part and

[13:00]parcel the slave industry was still there and these slaves would be

[13:05]sold to work for example in certain households at the time imam

[13:10]al baqir alaihi salam said to uqasha one day the son of

[13:13]masan al asadi he said to him there's going to be a

[13:16]ship that will come with some slaves some of those slaves are

[13:20]male slaves some of those slaves are female slaves i want you

[13:26]to go there and you're going to see somebody who's going to

[13:30]reside in the house of maimun when you go to the house

[13:34]of maimun that person is the one who's selling these slaves the

[13:39]male slaves and the female slaves go there take this pouch which

[13:44]has money inside it and when he asks you for a particular

[13:49]price give him what is sufficient aukashem and masan al asad he

[13:54]says i do not know how much was in that pouch i

[13:58]didn't have a clue how much was in the pouch i went

[14:01]and i had heard that yes there had been a ship that

[14:04]had arrived when the ship had arrived he mentions that when the

[14:10]ship had arrived i asked where the person had gone they said

[14:13]to me he had gone to the house of maimon so he

[14:16]said i went towards the house of maimon while i was in

[14:19]the house this person who was selling the slaves said to me

[14:24]that look i've only got two slave girls left these two if

[14:28]you want to purchase them you're able to purchase them it's up

[14:32]to you he said to him but why were these two not

[14:36]sold to work in somebody's house he said because these two have

[14:40]fallen ill everybody who had purchased these slaves everybody who had purchased

[14:46]them had chosen those who were feeling well who had no issues

[14:52]whereas these two because they were feeling unwell then what happened they

[14:58]were not sold off he said very well how much would you

[15:01]take if we want to take this slave or one of these

[15:05]two he said to him 70 dinar no less no more i'm

[15:11]not gonna take a penny less not a dinar less not a

[15:14]dinar more you give me 70 i'll sell her to you so

[15:19]he looked towards him he said to him listen give us some

[15:21]sort of discount at the end of the day she's not feeling

[15:24]well because he doesn't know how much is in the pouch so

[15:27]he's thinking that you know what let me just make sure that

[15:29]i have enough money so he said to him give us some

[15:32]sort of discount he said to him i'm not giving any discount

[15:35]whatsoever you can forget about it when i have stuck it in

[15:39]my head that it's 70 dinar i'm making 70 dinar so at

[15:43]that moment aukash ibn mas al asadi gave him the pouch he

[15:47]said look count how much is in there and let's see if

[15:50]it's enough it's enough exactly 70 dinar in the pouch that was

[15:57]given to the man ahlul bates salawatallahu alaihi ma'am don't just give

[16:01]you a pouch of money without knowing what's going to happen they

[16:04]know exactly what's in that pouch so what happened was the 70

[16:09]dinar they gave it to him at that moment he said to

[16:12]him which of the two would you recommend he said to him

[16:17]this one in particular is the purest that you'll see yes that's

[16:23]why when you come towards her name one of her names or

[16:27]one of her titles what al musafat al musafat what does it

[16:31]mean al musafat means the pure yes that which is safi when

[16:36]you say something is safi you're saying that this thing is so

[16:40]pure pure from all impurities like what like that gold bullion you

[16:50]know when they say to you this is 24 karat gold you're

[16:54]like yes that's what i want he imam would say that my

[16:59]wife hamidah is what she is somebody who is purified from all

[17:09]impurities don't ever imagine that just because she's a slave that means

[17:14]that there must have been a period of time where someone was

[17:17]really impure and they became pure on the contrary some of those

[17:21]who have gone through hardship in their life you find that they

[17:24]can smile more than us who have lived in ease there are

[17:28]those whose morals who have gone through hardship are higher than our

[17:31]morals who have lived luxuries and comfort all our life imam asadaq

[17:36]alaihis salaam therefore would say that hamida is what that she is

[17:45]pure from all impurities like the gold bullion then what would he

[17:49]say angels have protected hamidah my wife from when from even before

[17:57]she had married me what did we say yesterday the wife of

[18:02]an imam like farooq the wife of imam al baqir or hamidah

[18:06]the wife of imam asadaq they are protected allah subhanahu ta'ala make

[18:10]sure that there are angels that protect them from the very beginning

[18:13]because they know that one day this is going to be a

[18:16]mother of an imam a wife of an imam so therefore he

[18:20]said okay i will take this one with me he came back

[18:23]to imam al baqar's house when he came back imam al baqar

[18:27]was there imam al saddak was there and imam al baqar introduced

[18:31]like you have matchmakers today imam al baqar introduced imam al saddak

[18:35]to hamid jafar my son this is hamid hamid this is jafar

[18:40]we would like to offer a proposal of marriage if you two

[18:43]would accept she said i've accepted from before allah said what do

[18:50]you mean said way before i have even seen you in my

[18:56]dream one day i saw a lamp a moon i saw the

[19:00]moon in my lap when i saw the moon in my lap

[19:05]i knew that this had to have a special significance and of

[19:08]course that moon one day would be imam musa najafar alaihi wasallamu

[19:12]alaihi salaam therefore you found that imam asadaq alaihi salaam wanted to

[19:17]provide for us an example which example the first example he wanted

[19:23]to show those people in africa the best example of the teachings

[19:29]of the religion of islam that's on the first level why because

[19:33]it was after egypt was conquered that they went towards the maghrib

[19:37]and they conquered the area of the barbar who conquered that area

[19:40]the umayyads had conquered that area and these africans may not have

[19:45]been given the teachings of the religion of islam like the teachings

[19:48]of muhammadan al muhammad therefore on the first level imam saddiq alaihis

[19:54]salam in marrying hamida welcomed the people of africa to the purest

[20:00]teachings of al muhammad sallallahu alaihima egypt wasn't conquered necessarily by al

[20:05]al bayt the umayyad expansionalism had gone into north africa into northwest

[20:10]africa and those who read about tarek bin ziyad and others who

[20:13]came later on so you found that imam sadiq alaihis salaam when

[20:18]you have intermarriage with people of a different culture on the first

[20:21]level what is there that they are able to learn about the

[20:24]religion of islam imam zainul abidin alaihis salam used to teach some

[20:28]of his slaves after karbala the religion of islam they would become

[20:33]scholars and spiritual guides simply because they were studying under imam zainul

[20:39]abdi alaihis salam on the first level therefore imam sadi alaihis salam

[20:43]brings about that intercultural relations on the second level that you make

[20:49]it clear whether somebody is an african slave and whether i am

[20:54]an arab noble man there is no distinction between us in the

[20:59]eyes of allah subhanahu ta'ala except our god consciousness what did the

[21:04]quran stress 49 verse 13 o mankind because this issue is an

[21:24]issue for all of mankind whether it's in the time of imam

[21:27]asada alaihis salaam or in the time when we see george floyd's

[21:31]killing this is an issue for all of mankind we created you

[21:35]male and female from different races and different tribes in order that

[21:41]you get to know one another the best amongst you in the

[21:46]eyes of allah subhanahu ta'ala is the arab no the best amongst

[21:51]you in the eyes of allah subhanahu is the persian no the

[21:56]best amongst eyes subhanahu wa ta'ala is the european no the best

[22:01]amongst the eyes of allah subhanahu ta'ala is the indian the best

[22:04]amongst you you in the eyes of allah is the african no

[22:07]the best amongst you in the eyes of god are those who

[22:10]are conscious of god's presence in their life therefore imam saddai when

[22:16]marrying somebody of african descent people could have easily raised the question

[22:21]that imam firstly why don't you marry a sayyidah imam asadaq is

[22:27]our master he is the one we look up to he is

[22:32]a sayyid from the progeny of rasool allah sallallaho alaihi wa'alehi he

[22:37]could have easily married a sayyid because there are some communities who

[22:41]will stress that if my son is a sayyid he has to

[22:44]marry a sayyid imam saddai alaihis salam could have easily married somebody

[22:50]who you would see one may argue on his level somebody for

[22:54]example when we say on his level not in terms of the

[22:56]knowledge of imam saddai alaihis salam but in terms of what in

[23:00]terms of for example coming from the same area as him from

[23:04]the same background as him he makes it clear that no why

[23:08]as a sayyid do i have to marry a sayyidah if i

[23:11]want to then i can but i'm going to marry who a

[23:15]lady who none of her line goes back to rasool allah sallallaho

[23:19]alaihe wa alehi but she is a lady who has the highest

[23:23]of akhla one of her titles was what muhaddaba when you say

[23:28]someone muhaddaba muhaddaba what does it mean literally their manners are like

[23:32]gold one may argue golden morals they have imam al saddam alaihi

[23:37]salaam did not say if her nesab is from my grandfather say

[23:42]from the granddaughters of imam al hassan i will not know there

[23:47]is a lady she is musafat she is muhaddaba the best of

[23:51]akhlaq pure from all impurities did imam asadaq look at her skin

[23:57]color did imam asadaq turn around and say well you know what

[24:01]she's african she's black she may be of a brown color we

[24:05]don't marry from those colors not at all not one bit nor

[24:10]of imam asadaq not imam al qadam not imam raba not imam

[24:15]al jawad none of the imams after imam asadaq cared one bit

[24:20]that the lady they were marrying was of african descent this was

[24:25]a fundamental lesson early on why because for imam sallallahu alaihi salaam

[24:30]to marry someone from africa when the arabs used to look at

[24:34]themselves as being higher than everybody else until today you'll find that

[24:37]some arabs will see themselves as higher than the african some africans

[24:40]will see themselves as higher than indians some indians may see themselves

[24:44]as higher than other indians if you just look at some of

[24:47]the castes throughout their lives wanted to highlight that all lives matter

[24:54]in the sense that not the sense that it's been taken out

[24:58]of context today when you see today it's been hijacked we don't

[25:02]need it to be hijacked reality is all of us are one

[25:05]family humanity is one family and the quran says don't ever reach

[25:10]a stage where you look down at others because what is the

[25:14]root of racism as well as what these three if you put

[25:21]them together they are the roots of racism self conceit ostentatiousness and

[25:28]arrogance whenever you see a racist you'll see they have those three

[25:33]diseases sayyidina what do you mean diseases self conceit ostentatiousness arrogance how

[25:41]do i take them to a pharmacy there are certain diseases which

[25:46]are physical which they cannot prescribe for eupanadol or paracetamol or anything

[25:52]else these are spiritual diseases if you're affected by riyah or by

[25:57]ujjob or by takambur you're affected by self conceit or you're affected

[26:04]by arrogance or you're affected by pride where you look at others

[26:08]and you say to them i am greater than you i look

[26:12]down at you you're not worthy of being around me those diseases

[26:16]when they come together you have a racist unfortunately racist environment in

[26:22]the world that we live in but when you look at imam

[26:24]saddam what was imam saddam doing he said yes my wife is

[26:28]not from northwest africa she's not from medina nor is she from

[26:32]mecca nor is she from kufa she may not be of the

[26:36]same background as me but at the end of the day if

[26:39]i have someone who is more hathdebah her akhlaq are the highest

[26:43]akhlaq she is more than pure then what else do i want

[26:48]it's an honor for me to be married to somebody of african

[26:53]descent was he the first to marry someone of african descent from

[26:56]ahlul bislat was he the first no he was not the first

[27:01]the first was rasulullah sallallaho alaihi wa'alehi rasulullah sallallaho alaihi wa'alehi when

[27:07]he married mary the coptic was from egypt the holy prophet did

[27:14]not insist i am muhammad sallallaho alaihe wa'alehi and i will only

[27:20]marry from mecca or medina his wife mary al qumtaiyah was from

[27:25]egypt she was not from his area and she was a lady

[27:29]of the highest reputation the highest morals you will not find morality

[27:35]like her morality highly respected amongst the members of al muhammad salaam

[27:42]sallam alaihehim so therefore what do we have we have imam asadaq

[27:45]alaihehis salaam marrying someone asked okay sayyidina if i now want to

[27:50]marry somebody for example who is of an african background or african

[27:55]caribbean background or african american background in our communities there's no way

[28:00]our parents will let us if i bring a sister for example

[28:05]to my mother or to my father and i say that look

[28:08]this is someone who i really want to get married to she

[28:11]may be born in the path of ahlul bates salawatu allah sallamu

[28:14]alaihim or she may be someone who has reverted towards the path

[28:20]of the family of the prophet peace be upon them at that

[28:23]moment i'll come to my mother or my father and they'll straight

[28:25]away say no not at all not only that in our mosques

[28:30]sayyidna you'll see that sometimes there is this racism that exists so

[28:35]what do we do about that are we meant to come forward

[28:39]and pretend that it doesn't happen is it something that's recommended that

[28:44]we do something about there's an important point to be mentioned over

[28:48]here first and foremost what context are we talking about and when

[28:52]it comes to for example the communities in the west there is

[28:56]still an evolution where we are progressing very well alhamdulillah when i

[29:01]look for example in birmingham i see sheikh noor is the resident

[29:05]islam of the birmingham jama'at sheikh noor originally is from ghana and

[29:11]the jamahat in birmingham originally are from east africa but they did

[29:15]not look at his skin color rather they looked at the knowledge

[29:20]and the impeccable character of somebody like sheikh noor and when they

[29:25]saw this they said that that person is a person who should

[29:28]lead this community it may not have happened twenty thirty years ago

[29:32]maybe maybe for different reasons but we're evolving we're growing we're trying

[29:38]to understand each other we're we're trying to understand each other's cultures

[29:42]yes someone from tanzania and someone from ghana they may come from

[29:46]different cultures but at the end of the day our children have

[29:51]come to live together and learn from one another and alhamdulillah that

[29:55]some of the diseases that may affect certain people do not affect

[30:00]us when we make a decision for example to have sheikh noor

[30:03]as the resident alim where in birmingham or for example sheikh ayub

[30:08]sheikh ayub again originally from east africa but of the black community

[30:15]of east africa in east africa you may have people who originally

[30:20]are from the black african community and you may have people who

[30:25]are of the khwaja community who have gone to east africa so

[30:29]they may all live for example in dar es salaam they may

[30:32]live in arusha they may live in mombasa they may live for

[30:36]example in zanzibar people who have lived with one another they have

[30:40]lived with one another and someone says but sayyidna there may not

[30:43]be intermarriage they're not being intermarriage doesn't necessarily mean that there is

[30:49]a disease in the hearts of the community what it means is

[30:52]that slowly we have to try and develop ways in which we

[30:55]can bring our cultures together the way the quran tells us when

[30:59]the quran says that allah made you different races and tribes so

[31:08]that you get to know one another that should be our aim

[31:11]sheikh hayyub at the moment is the resident alim of a community

[31:15]in east london i guarantee you that the majority of that community

[31:19]do not come from an african black background rather they come from

[31:23]a background for example from the indoor pack subcontinent but when we

[31:27]see sheikh ayub leading the community alhamdulillah in the west if i

[31:31]see sheikh ayub here and i see for example sheikh noor and

[31:36]i see others they will admit to you that maybe twenty twenty

[31:39]five years ago that same interaction and that same development was not

[31:43]there i remember a time no doubt where sometimes those invites didn't

[31:48]come for some of the speakers but alhamdulillah fifteen twenty years later

[31:52]there has been a development even with myself i may be of

[31:56]an iraqi background but i have been given a privilege of leading

[32:00]a community that may be for example of a background from east

[32:03]africa and you'll find other speakers in the world not just here

[32:07]in the united states which highlight to us our racism that may

[32:11]exist cannot be compared to the racism that you normally associate with

[32:17]the ku klux klan for example klux klan and others were looking

[32:22]at someone black as if they should be burnt if not burning

[32:26]them they cannot have an education they cannot sit with me on

[32:29]the bus alhamdulillah our racism that may exist in our communities does

[32:35]not reach that level and if it does then every community has

[32:39]people who may have a disease in their heart it's not just

[32:41]us and other religions as well there are people who may have

[32:45]diseases in their hearts who may look down at others because of

[32:48]their skin color therefore someone says sayyidna so now if i want

[32:52]to marry a sister from who's from an african american background or

[32:57]a sister for example who comes from where who comes from an

[33:01]african caribbean background let's say from the west indies or someone who

[33:05]comes originally from africa let's say from nigeria my parents may say

[33:10]no your parents saying no doesn't mean they're racist your parents saying

[33:15]no maybe because they prefer that you marry someone from the same

[33:18]culture as you because there's no doubt when you understand each other's

[33:22]culture that takes a weight off one's shoulders when it comes to

[33:27]marriage yes there is no doubt that islam does have no problem

[33:32]with whatsoever with someone marrying from a different culture islam has no

[33:37]issue whatsoever with this at the end of the day you marry

[33:40]somebody who has the best akhlaq the best morals and somebody who

[33:46]is following the path of muhammad and al muhammad peace be upon

[33:50]them when i marry that person that should be the most important

[33:54]thing for me not somebody's skin color and if my parents for

[33:58]example are not accepting they may come around to accepting the onus

[34:03]is on the speakers scholars those who lead the community to highlight

[34:08]to us that we should try and find it within our hearts

[34:13]to open up to those of different cultural backgrounds in the shia

[34:17]world at the moment you have people who are shia who are

[34:20]living in malaysia shia living in indonesia shia living in mexico shia

[34:24]living in ghana shia living in nigeria shia living in iraq shia

[34:28]living in iran in lebanon and syria it is not like how

[34:32]it used to be where the demographic was concentrated for example in

[34:36]the middle east and the indo pak subcontinent now it's gone to

[34:39]south america north america it's gone towards australasia when it's gone towards

[34:44]eastern europe scandinavia in this way when it's gone to those areas

[34:49]there's going to be intermarriage ahlul bayt salaam wa ralayhi they always

[34:53]tried as much as they could to try and ensure that this

[34:59]racism if it did exist there was guidance given there were challenges

[35:04]which the holy prophet peace be upon his family faced when jawaiber

[35:07]would come and say to him you rasool allah nobody gives me

[35:11]a chance to get married because of my black color and he

[35:13]told him to go towards labid you found for example when people

[35:17]would make fun of bilal when he used to recite adan and

[35:20]the holy prophet would keep encouraging so that that disease that may

[35:24]affect a good person but that disease can affect anyone at that

[35:29]moment the holy prophet peace be upon his side will say bilal

[35:31]don't worry you keep going even if you say allah allah will

[35:37]count it as ash hadu allah the holy prophet peace be upon

[35:41]his family would even say that aman the lady who raised him

[35:45]who was of black descent he would make it clear that this

[35:48]lady is my mother after my own mother he would highlight that

[35:53]if it wasn't for najashi in abyssinia islam would not have been

[35:57]able to spread to african shores all this time the holy prophet

[36:01]peace be upon him and his family had tried to highlight to

[36:04]all of us something very clear and that was that racism can

[36:08]always permeate one's skin and flesh can always affect our societies our

[36:15]communities but that we have to try and make a concerted effort

[36:19]to ensure that that disease does not spread within our communities let

[36:24]me make something clear as well when we say black lives matter

[36:28]no doubt the black community has seen years upon years of torture

[36:35]abuses of racism wherever they have gone but equally you can be

[36:41]a racist even if you are someone who is of a black

[36:44]background you could be racist towards someone who is of a brown

[36:47]background it can happen racism isn't a disease for a specific group

[36:52]of people it's a disease that can affect all human beings there

[36:56]are racists who are white who look down at others who are

[36:59]white there are certain people who are racist who are arabs who

[37:03]look down at others who are arabs so sometimes people of your

[37:07]same skin color look down at you sometimes people have a different

[37:10]skin color black looking down at brown white looking down at black

[37:14]people of different the point is that that's racism when it exists

[37:19]it's our role to try as much as we can to remind

[37:22]ourselves of the teachings of ahlul bayt on this issue and the

[37:26]quran when the quran says o you who believe oh you who

[37:37]believe don't let one group of you one nation of you make

[37:41]fun of another nation because there's a possibility the ones you're making

[37:45]fun of are better than you you can try being someone white

[37:50]who makes fun of the black community produce the lines of muhammad

[37:55]ali make fun as much as you want wallah you have not

[37:59]0% nothing compared to the charisma of muhammad ali nor do you

[38:06]have the passion of malcolm x nor do you have the eloquence

[38:10]of baldwin or the perseverance of parks when you therefore make fun

[38:16]of another group of people i could be a racist i could

[38:19]be arab and i have racist tendencies towards someone who's persian i

[38:23]could be persian and look down at someone who's arab i could

[38:27]be indian and look down my own people don't make fun of

[38:31]others when it could be that they are people who are better

[38:34]than you don't let one nation make fun of another nation for

[38:44]that nation that you're making fun of may be better than you

[38:49]therefore when you came to this area of the marriage of the

[38:51]imam imam marries hamid al barbariya sometimes she is known as hamid

[38:56]al and dalusia he marries hamid al barbariya when he marries her

[39:00]alhamdulillah allah blesses them imam abu basir narrates we were sitting with

[39:06]imam asada one day he had made lunch for us and what

[39:11]a lunch imam saddiq had made for us he says when imam

[39:15]saddiq alaihis salam had made that lunch we were all looking at

[39:19]the beauty and the generosity of the imam we were in abwa

[39:23]abwa is somewhere between mecca and medina possibly near juhfa he says

[39:29]we were in that area sitting down all of a sudden someone

[39:33]came he said master master your wife hamida she is calling you

[39:39]the pangs of pregnancy have come upon her imam saddai alaihis salam

[39:44]got up at that moment he went towards the house until he

[39:48]came back with a smile that was the widest smile abu bakr

[39:52]said may allah always keep you smiling in this way what is

[39:55]the news he said allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given me a

[39:59]blessing of the person who will be the greatest creation of allah

[40:04]on the earth in his time i have named him musa imam

[40:08]musa al qadam sallallahu alaihi wa sallamu alaihi he said i have

[40:12]named him what i have named him musa his mother said to

[40:16]me when he was born he faced his head towards the heavens

[40:20]and i said to her that is a sign that he is

[40:23]a chosen representative of rasulullah sallallaho alaihi wa'alehi because the holy prophet

[40:30]peace be upon his family would say that all of us when

[40:32]we are born raise our heads towards the heavens as a blessing

[40:37]from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala therefore you found that this hamid al

[40:41]barbaria gives birth to imam al qadam that means that imam al

[40:44]qadam alaihi salaam is more than 50% black does anyone have an

[40:48]issue and imam al qadum alaihi salaam's wife her name was najma

[40:55]she was from where northwest africa that means that imam rada may

[40:59]be more than 60% black does anyone have an issue do black

[41:04]lives matter they certainly do with our imams otherwise we have a

[41:08]problem then imam rada alaihis salam his wife black imam al jawad

[41:14]forget 5060 imam al jawad you could go towards 80% if we're

[41:19]heading in that direction then the twelfth of al muhammad then there's

[41:25]a possibility that he will be someone whose life no doubts matter

[41:31]because when we look at him and we see that black lives

[41:34]matter what if our imam if we're going through this area imam

[41:38]asadaq's wife from northwest africa imam al qadam northwest imam jawad imam

[41:44]rada for example imam alhad all them you'll find that their wives

[41:48]from northwest africa that means when we come to the imam of

[41:52]our time will anyone have that problem if you have that problem

[41:56]then work on it because allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to

[41:59]purify ourselves from these diseases she was a wife she was a

[42:05]mother but she was also a jurist as well yes imagine that

[42:10]this lady take all this skin color discussion away you have a

[42:15]human being in front of you a human being who aspires to

[42:19]grow in this world to build a family to be educated and

[42:22]a human being who had reached the highest level of realm she

[42:27]was a jurist in her own right which no doubt raises the

[42:31]question whether females could become one day marajah because we know that

[42:36]a female in the school of ahlul bayt could be a mujtahida

[42:40]we have a mujtahid and we have the mujtahida a female could

[42:44]become a mujtahidah like we have for example mujtahids in the world

[42:48]today you could have a female mujtahidah we have a few female

[42:52]mujtahidahs in the last hundred years who have reached the level of

[42:56]a mujtahid a mujta head someone says but can she become the

[43:00]marajah of the school the marajah the one who everyone returns back

[43:04]to you find that there is a debate and interesting if you

[43:08]see the work of the discussion of marhom shamsuddin on ayatollah al

[43:13]khawi's discussion of whether a female could become the grand jurist of

[43:20]the school of ahlul bayt salaam wa salaam wa salaam wa find

[43:24]with them that ahlul bayt alaihi wa salaam salaam what do we

[43:27]see ahlul bayt alaihi wa salaam we see very clearly with them

[43:30]that they were turning around and saying that this lady if you

[43:35]want a question answered you go towards her and she will answer

[43:39]your question because you found that abdul rahman the son of hajjaj

[43:45]says i came to imam asada one day why would you go

[43:48]to imam asada because you got a question and you want that

[43:51]question answered don't you so he goes i went to imam asadh

[43:55]alaihis salam and when i went to the imam i had a

[43:59]question to ask him about our child imam said tell your wife

[44:05]the mother of the child to go and ask my wife hamida

[44:11]do you know how huge that is because when imam saddai alaihi

[44:15]salam says let your wife ask my wife and my wife will

[44:21]give her the exact answer what's he saying here's an ijazah my

[44:26]wife much that much that in which sense will come to ijtihad

[44:30]shortly in the forthcoming nights but rather she is someone who was

[44:35]deep in her knowledge of the sciences you asked her a question

[44:40]about the quran she could answer you question about the quran you

[44:43]asked her a question about history she can ask your question answer

[44:47]your questions on history you asked her a question about which area

[44:51]you ask her a question for example about hajj say i have

[44:56]hajj and i want to take my son or my daughter with

[44:59]me to hajj if you went to hamidah the wife of imam

[45:03]asada alaihis salam and you came to her and you said to

[45:06]her hamidah i would like to ask you a question and we

[45:10]need this in our communities sometimes i may answer questions for example

[45:14]of the males in our communities sometimes there are sensitive questions that

[45:17]our sisters want to ask they can't ask me so if there

[45:21]is someone who is a female jurist for example or someone who's

[45:24]learned and studied then she can answer that question so they would

[45:30]come towards her and they would say to her that we have

[45:33]a question in al kafi of sheikh al kulaini and in bihar

[45:38]al anwar of allama al majlisi you'll find that we have narrations

[45:42]where she answers or gives knowledge to the people in one area

[45:47]when she is asked about hajj if you want to take for

[45:49]example ask questions about your children and their relation with hajj she

[45:54]answers the question and then in which area in the area for

[45:58]example of narrating what happened to imam asada alaihis salam in his

[46:03]final moments she is the narrator so we have from her as

[46:08]well that when imam asad alaihis salam says allah what a line

[46:19]this is about the wife of the imam this lady of african

[46:23]descent she is praised in this world and treasured in the hereafter

[46:38]she is praised in this world and she is treasured in the

[46:43]hereafter imagine in this world she is praised she is known as

[46:46]one who is muhaddaba she is known as all of these titles

[46:55]are reserved for her but also what also treasured in the hereafter

[47:00]meaning that in the hereafter she will have the highest of positions

[47:05]a position that is not just reserved for the arab not just

[47:09]reserved for the persian but also reserved for all people of different

[47:14]races and different tribes who held on to the message of muhammadan

[47:19]al muhammad because no doubt you'll find that with this lady she

[47:25]made sure that when it came to her son imam musa najafar

[47:29]she is the one who found the wife for him she found

[47:32]the wife by the name of najma or some say she had

[47:37]found the wife for him and she had known that that lady

[47:43]was the purest of ladies to the extent that when she had

[47:46]married imam al qa'vam she had her name changed to tahira the

[47:52]purest of ladies that were there so in other words she could

[47:55]have easily turned around and said that no we'll go back to

[47:58]marrying a lady from where from arabia no who is the best

[48:02]who is able to be in the household of the prophet if

[48:04]they are from africa then so be it and if they are

[48:07]from arabia then so be it because all of us are creations

[48:10]of the lord and all of us have to be one family

[48:14]that shows respect to one another and that was the way of

[48:17]al muhammad no doubt if you look at their lives they didn't

[48:22]mind where their companions were from their companions could be from turkey

[48:27]as long as he was on the path of the prophet peace

[48:30]be upon him and his family that's all that mattered their companions

[48:35]could be from where from rome as long as they were on

[48:39]the path of the prophet peace be upon his family that's all

[48:41]that mattered a companion could be from kufa a companion could be

[48:45]from medina a companion could be from basra a companion could be

[48:49]from parts of iran it does not matter as long as they

[48:54]were on the path of ahlul batesallahu alaihi wasallamu alaihihim that was

[48:58]the main point that was the main condition and that's why when

[49:03]you look at the tenth of muharram imam al hussain alaihi salaam

[49:07]with the companions that surrounded him you find that those companions where

[49:12]did they come from they came from all different backgrounds there were

[49:16]companions who had come from kufa as was expected there were some

[49:21]who had come from medina some who had come from mecca they

[49:26]had all come from different backgrounds why to come and stand to

[49:30]support abba abdullah in his final moments and imam al hussain looked

[49:35]at each one of them he knew that each one of them

[49:37]was the purest not once did imam look at any of them

[49:41]and talk about their skin color or their tribal background on the

[49:45]contrary is that that look you could be alongside me and if

[49:48]you want you can leave i know your intention i know you've

[49:52]come pure over here but if you want you can leave and

[49:56]you'll find them one by one turning around to the imam one

[50:00]of them would say to the imam that even if my body

[50:03]was cut into a thousand pieces and i was resurrected a thousand

[50:07]times each time it would be an honor for me to stand

[50:11]in front of you another who would say that it will be

[50:14]my honor to stand in front of your grandfather rasoolallah sallallaho alaihi

[50:18]wa'alehi and say that i defended your grandson they came from different

[50:23]backgrounds their goal was one the service of the lord and the

[50:27]service of muhammad and al muhammad and of them you had john

[50:31]the son of haway this man who had been in the house

[50:35]of the family of the prophet for many years a man of

[50:38]abyssinian background do black lives matter they sure did on the tenth

[50:43]of muharram imam looks towards john as john wants to go out

[50:48]on the battlefield the imam says to him that john you've served

[50:52]our household enough abu dar al ghafari he served him imam amir

[50:57]al mumineen he served him imam al hasan what taufiq this man

[51:02]was given that he was able to serve the family and the

[51:05]companions of rasulullah sallallaho alaihi wa'alehi imam al hussain said to him

[51:11]that john you don't need to go out you can go back

[51:15]he said to him no allow me to go out i beg

[51:18]of you he said to him but john you've served us enough

[51:22]he said no let me go out i want to make your

[51:26]mother fatima tezara proud of me on this day what will i

[51:33]answer her on the day of judgment if i said that i

[51:38]left the grandson of rasulullah with no one to help him imam

[51:44]al hussain embraced him at that moment would you reply to that

[51:48]because it's a soft spot for imam al hussein when you mention

[51:51]his mother fatima it breaks his heart so at that moment imam

[51:55]al hussein said to him very well john no doubt deep down

[52:00]with imam al hussein he felt sorry that he was not able

[52:03]to cater or to serve john himself with at least a drop

[52:07]of water at that moment but john came out in the battlefield

[52:12]when he came out he made it clear that some of you

[52:15]in the opposition have your racial tendencies tendencies from the days of

[52:19]jahiliyyah some of you are arrogant towards people like me because of

[52:24]my skin color but he came out and he stood in front

[52:28]of all of them and he said he came out he fought

[52:51]valiantly on that day he tried to attack the whole of the

[52:55]opposition from his sword 25 of the opposition fell on the ground

[53:02]until eventually one of them came and attacked him when he fell

[53:06]on the ground he called out it didn't matter what color your

[53:14]skin was when you said that line imam al hussain hurried towards

[53:20]the body of john he sat by the body of john then

[53:25]he placed his cheek on the cheek of john this one moment

[53:31]is a stand against every racist movement my skin my skin may

[53:39]be the skin of an arab man from medina and your skin

[53:45]your skin may be the skin of a man from abyssinia but

[53:52]in my eyes i am not higher than you in any way

[53:57]what did john reply who is like me and my cheek is

[54:05]touched by the cheek of the son of rasulullah he buried him

[54:10]in the ground he took him back that day actually he carried

[54:14]him back and then he went around and he carried each of

[54:18]his companions he went when habib fell he carried him back when

[54:23]muslim fell imam al hussain carried him back when hurrah fell imam

[54:28]al hussain carried him back one by one the imam carried each

[54:35]of the companions back towards the tent i ask you who carried

[54:41]the body of imam al hussein when he lay on the ground

[54:46]on the plains of karabella i'm gonna leave you all with this

[54:50]one line george floyd was killed the knee was on his neck

[54:55]he called out i can't breathe i can't breathe human beings around

[55:00]the world broke down why because when we imagine it we think

[55:05]that this person had a knee on his neck and for minutes

[55:09]four minutes after minutes after minutes minutes eight minutes he's calling out

[55:14]i can't breathe i can't breathe how about when for over an

[55:21]hour you call out i am thirsty i am thirsty is there

[55:26]anyone to quench my thirst george floyd had one knee on his

[55:32]neck and it hurt him he was not able to recover i

[55:36]ask all of you my dear brothers and sisters a knee on

[55:41]the neck a knee on the chest a knee on the feet

[55:46]a knee on both of the arms each one of them digging

[55:52]deep into the greatest of rasulullah i'll leave you with this final

[55:56]line one knee hurts a person they cannot breathe it causes them

[56:01]an injury but i ask you the weight of a knee how

[56:05]much does it weigh and the weight of the hoof of a

[56:09]horse how much does that weigh how about the hooves of a

[56:15]10 horses i ask you what happened to the heart of fatima

[56:22]tazarah when she saw the horses kick the chest of imam al

[56:28]hussain around the plains of karabbalah we pray to allah subhanahu wa

[56:41]ta'ala to raise us with john bin haway with the wab shaul

[56:47]zab the companions of imam al hussain alaihi salaam we pray to

[56:53]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to raise us with the imam of our

[56:55]time imam sa haibala aztari wa zaman we do not care what

[57:00]skin color our imam has rather all we care is that one

[57:05]day we see that beautiful glorious return of the imam you allah

[57:10]for those who are feeling unwell we pray with the verse of

[57:13]the quran we pray to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for all of

[57:46]our marhumin but before it wherever you may be the loudest of

[57:53]your salawat

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