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[0:04][Music] [Music] Allah Alhamdulillah.

[1:11]The first of our loud salawat in honor of Sam.

[1:15][Music] Second loud salawat in hon of Imman.

[1:32]The third with your loudest voices in honor of the Imam of

[1:36]our time, Immed scholars, brothers and sisters, why did Zam not fight

[1:56]the Umayads.

[1:57]Why did he never raise a sword against any of the Umayad

[2:01]califfs or any of the Umay soldiers?

[2:04]We know that Imam Zadisam throughout his life in one way or

[2:12]the other lived under um rule that even when he was only

[2:15]a few years of age, the Umays had taken over the Islamic

[2:20]Empire.

[2:19]And yet the Imam had seen a number of their most prominent

[2:24]califfs especially from Yazid onwards.

[2:25]The Imam lived for 34 years after Kabala.

[2:29]In these 34 years after Kabala, we never hear for a single

[2:35]moment that Imam Zam ever used a sword to rise against injustice

[2:40]because the it word no doubt in the Shia world today and

[2:47]throughout history has always been that it's our role that we must

[2:50]rise against injustice.

[2:52]That the imams of have taught us that we have to always

[2:58]rise against injustice.

[2:58]When you see aim and someone who takes the rights away from

[3:04]the people then your role is to try in one way or

[3:08]the other rise against them.

[3:08]Many of us of course saw what happened at Kbala and then

[3:12]straight away automatically concluded that Imam Hussein's way would be our way.

[3:18]We would be called Husseinis forever.

[3:21]Somehow his son didn't go that way.

[3:25]While many of the followers of Imam Hussein headed in that direction,

[3:32]the son of Imam Hussein never picked up a single sword against

[3:35]any of the violence of his time.

[3:38]when he doesn't pick up a sword against any of the violins

[3:42]of his time, any of the oppressors of his time, oppressors who

[3:45]are known for different forms of oppression, as in some of them

[3:51]have enacted genocides against children or have enacted genocides in certain Muslim

[3:56]lands, most notably Mecca and Medina, for example.

[4:00]Are there two holier lands in the religion of Islam than the

[4:04]lands of Mecca and Medina?

[4:07]No, there isn't.

[4:07]Today if in the Muslim world you see a land where people

[4:13]face genocide or where people face an attack automatically you'll hear people

[4:17]saying that the path of the Shia has to be the path

[4:19]where we speak out against any genocide where we even have to

[4:27]eventually militarily defend ourselves against the oppressor.

[4:31]Imm 34 years after Kbalah does not decide that the which we

[4:38]believe in Shia theology is in his inheritance is in his possession

[4:42]doesn't raise this sword at all.

[4:45]Why then would we follow Im Hussein's Kabala and not Im Zed's

[4:51]seeming pacifism?

[4:53]Because if you were to look at the Imam, the Imam does

[4:59]not ever come to tell a group of people, let's all go

[5:02]and rise against Yazid.

[5:06]Okay, Yazid dies.

[5:04]After Yazid, his son Muawia comes into power, dies.

[5:10]After them, the Maruanid side of Baya all come into power.

[5:14]You all know your Abd Malik bin Marans and all of their

[5:19]bin Yusfs and so on and so forth.

[5:21]All of them come into power and an imam is alive.

[5:26]What's the duties of an imam?

[5:27]Duties of an imam as we know an imam is a divine

[5:32]guide chosen by Allah subhana wa ta'ala who ensures that he protects

[5:35]the message of the holy prophet peace be upon his family gives

[5:38]the correct teachings of the holy Quran teaches us the morals through

[5:46]either theory or practice and ensures that the message of the religion

[5:51]of Islam remains alive.

[5:50]And if the Imam sees take place then the Imam may have

[5:57]a duty to speak out against that moment of oppression or those

[6:00]years of oppression.

[6:03]Further to add to that is that the Shia of course have

[6:05]a belief that their imam is the strongest man alive.

[6:09]Yes, the Shia believe all the way to different theologies within the

[6:14]Shia is that nobody is as brave as the Imam.

[6:19]Their first im of the Shia was of course that Imam who

[6:21]fought in all those battles undefeated in all those battles.

[6:26]And then of course I im Hassan and Im Hussein Alam one

[6:30]only looks at their bravery for example at J or as an

[6:36]example and then later battles.

[6:37]So all of these imams, the first three in particular, have a

[6:42]history of raising a sword to at least defend themselves.

[6:47]But then the fourth of them decides that for 34 years while

[6:54]being imam as soon as his father died in Kabala decides that

[6:58]we will not raise a sword.

[7:02]Now many comparisons are made by people about beni then and beni

[7:07]now.

[7:08]Yazid of then, Yazid of now, tyrant of then and tyrant of

[7:11]now.

[7:12]Always you hear these comparisons that are made.

[7:16]When these comparisons are made today, we are told that we must

[7:20]rise against Yazid.

[7:22]We must rise against Omaya of our time.

[7:24]But then what if the man who lived in their time never

[7:26]rose?

[7:26]Of course, it doesn't help the situation that his son didn't as

[7:29]well.

[7:30]and then his son and then his son and then his son

[7:35]and then his son and then his son and then his son

[7:39]and then his son.

[7:40]And so what doesn't help is that imams number 4 to 11

[7:45]don't rise against the Yazids of their time.

[7:48]We are meant to rise against the Yazids of our time because

[7:51]today every Shia will have an opinion on what should be done

[7:55]politically in the world.

[7:58]Every single person under me gives an opinion to those on membar.

[8:02]So the ones under member will say this one doesn't speak out.

[8:06]This one speaks out.

[8:11]This one betrays.

[8:10]This one is not speaking for justice.

[8:14]This one did not boycott a shampoo.

[8:16]This one did not for example eat this chocolate.

[8:20]What the people?

[8:20]Everybody gives their opinion under the as if they have studied the

[8:28]whole of and every im of has a every single one has

[8:32]a carbal im has a carbala im has a carbala imbala imi

[8:35]has kbala and you know these guys lived under the worst guys

[8:40]they lived under either the um or in the case of Im

[8:43]bakar onwards you'll see from Imat these people live under the abbassids

[8:48]the abbasids are worse than the um yes it's one thing being

[8:54]stabbed for example in the front but to be stabbed in the

[8:57]back by your own cousins is even worse so the Abbassids the

[9:04]imams lived under them but where is the use of the swords

[9:06]of the earlier Imams especially there is something intriguing about Im Zam

[9:12]from the moment I im Hussein leaves the land of Medina until

[9:18]he gets to the 10th of Muham Haram.

[9:21]How many hadiths have you ever heard discussing a sentence of Im

[9:25]in those six months from Medina all the way until so we're

[9:36]talking from Rajab until Muaram.

[9:37]How many times do you ever hear Im Z say anything at

[9:45]all in those six months?

[9:46]How many hadiths do we have that Imam Z for example like

[9:52]his brother Ali Akbar or Muslim or for example others of the

[9:59]family they all have a dialogue don't they have a dialogue with

[10:02]their father with their cousin with their uncle on the way to

[10:05]Kbala they stopped here discussed Akbar discussed Muslim discussed they all discussed

[10:11]one way or the other from Medina all the way to Kbala

[10:17]except Except Immad.

[10:17]He has no discussions.

[10:19]Never do you find from Medina all the way until does Im

[10:29]say anything.

[10:30]Never does he discuss with his dad.

[10:35]The max you might get is a line or two of poetry

[10:36]on the night or on the day of Ash about what life

[10:42]is and how much it betrays you.

[10:44]Otherwise, where is Imam Z's presence in all of this?

[10:50]Why are there those who are not mum in the sense of

[10:53]theology that we have the 12 imams?

[10:55]Why are there more words from the one who is not an

[11:01]imam as such according to designation more than the imam who's mum.

[11:07]So therefore there's a number of question marks that are posed because

[11:13]people until today raise the questions either that if you're an imam

[11:18]you could see we are told when we seem we must oppose

[11:22]the oppressor and support the oppressed aren't we told that isn't that

[11:27]in the was of IM Ali who knows IM Ali better than

[11:34]I zam nobody knows him better than I imm seemingly doesn't want

[11:38]to ever pick up a sword and that's why this particular dynamic

[11:41]becomes fundamental even more by one issue bear with me in this

[11:49]introduction in al kafi there are a number of hadith where I

[11:51]im talks about why he pledged allegiance to yazid now one of

[11:58]the problems in the sh world which we inshallah are working on

[12:01]improving and this is all part of our growth and evolution is

[12:07]that we are now slowly going to become more aware of our

[12:12]books and more of an understanding of our books.

[12:16]Moshe will not own al kafi forget have read al kafi reading

[12:18]put that on the side that's difficult that's one you need a

[12:24]mentor and a guide and so on but owning al kafi we

[12:26]don't many of us are not readers we're not a generation of

[12:31]readers we want quick 30 second reel one minute real quickly quickly

[12:34]give me the message quickly I don't want to be patient like

[12:37]maybe our dads and our granddads were when they would sit patiently

[12:43]for a drop of Because of that, sometimes there's hadiths in our

[12:48]books and the hadiths really they put a spanner in the works.

[12:51]But if you don't know your books, then you get dumbfounded.

[12:56]So when someone comes and tells you, but I immediately he or

[13:06]I imam mentions that the reason my dad gave to Yazid was

[13:11]because of the following.

[13:14]Now for the Shia mind this turns everybody upside down I think

[13:17]and you have to bear with me because we'll go into the

[13:19]analysis shortly but the mind gets turned upside down number one can

[13:24]I give bay to a tyrant if I could give bay to

[13:27]a tyrant can conflict resolution be done with tyrants IM Hassan Muawia

[13:31]did one did Zin do one with Yazid if they done it

[13:33]with Yazid how does that affect me in 2025 but can I

[13:37]say a word if I don't say a word do I say

[13:39]a word but can I not say a word what if people

[13:43]will call me a traitor betrayal, kill me, ostracize.

[13:46]The problem is most who give opinions are under member, not on.

[13:54]And sometimes the ones on have a particular direction that they want

[14:00]everyone to only follow.

[14:02]And so it's either our way or the highway.

[14:06]either you follow everything that I say about Islam and the way

[14:13]I view Islam and I've always been a believer when you give

[14:17]a melus what you are doing is you're presenting art a person

[14:20]can appreciate some of the colors they don't have to agree with

[14:26]everything you say this is not an agreement game okay I'm not

[14:29]mum never will be there's only 14 never add any more to

[14:35]14 yes those 14 are the only ones everybody Somebody else when

[14:38]they give you a opinion that opinion is relative relative to their

[14:43]research relative to their worldview relative to their current political climate that

[14:49]they live in.

[14:48]AI living in London views the world different from Mia living for

[14:54]example in Pakistan.

[14:53]Ashia living in India views the world different from a living in

[14:57]Bahin.

[14:58]We all view things different and we're all at different moments in

[15:03]our developments.

[15:02]And so were the imams of Alb.

[15:06]One im of b lived in Medina.

[15:10]Another lived in another lived in Sam.

[15:12]Another lived in meas.

[15:13]You think all of their politics is going to be the same?

[15:18]It's impossible.

[15:16]The vision and direction ultimately is one to Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[15:21]But the vision and the roles may differ depending on the situation

[15:27]either.

[15:28]Now when this happens, if Yazid has ple if Imam has pledged

[15:35]allegiance to Yazid cuz I heard there was this poor Pakistani molana

[15:37]last year he had discussed something along these lines.

[15:41]The one who's a pharmacist or the one who is for example

[15:46]under the meimar he he works as a in property or something

[15:49]is now debating the molana who studied the subject.

[15:53]enter you stick you have to stick to your day job because

[15:58]if you do open your mouth you end up touching on areas

[16:01]which are not your field in the same way I cannot touch

[16:06]on areas which are not my field this poor man like others

[16:08]they get ostracized how could you say that Yazid gave or that

[16:14]im gave to it's in my books what am I meant to

[16:19]do burn my books if it's an ali and you're telling the

[16:20]whole world and of course the other conundrum for the shia is

[16:23]what is that there are some shia we believe all the four

[16:26]books all the hadiths are to be accepted so when you go

[16:28]to the school and the school some of them not all we

[16:32]do not want to generalize because there's many colors and it's not

[16:36]right to generalize because there's amongst the people different researches but within

[16:40]the school there was a current that believed the four canonical works

[16:44]and the and every hadith within there is to be taken so

[16:51]now what do I do if there's a hadith within there that

[16:54]says imbu and I am anari I'm in difficulty if I'm not

[16:58]anari do I now this is fundamental before I enter my analysis

[17:05]when I look at such hadiths do I try and dissect them

[17:07]to preserve h or the way I was bought up now there's

[17:14]a problem when I dissect an issue do I dissect a theological

[17:22]or historical issue to preserve what my mom and dad have raised

[17:27]me with or what the book says cuz I've got to be

[17:32]true to h as well.

[17:32]I as a sh have to also be truthful to not just

[17:37]hold on and protect because I am inherited a religion which I

[17:42]need to protect.

[17:43]Many times people may do theology wrongly and insincerely when the is

[17:50]presented to them inith or in a book they as the people

[17:56]of put your uh fingers in your ears I don't want to

[18:00]hear this I don't want but you have to hear it why

[18:01]because your kids have access to the net and they have access

[18:06]to sheh GPT yes and they can go and click anything they

[18:10]want and then straight away they will see these things and then

[18:13]The onus and the responsibility comes on me later because the onus

[18:17]and responsibility will be like why didn't you guys tell us Immad

[18:21]pledged allegiance to Yazid why didn't you people say you don't need

[18:27]to blame the people under me here they are doing their day

[18:30]jobs but the people on MBA have to open these things up

[18:35]without being worried why be worried about an issue everyone has different

[18:39]political situations there are different political slogans and banners and roles rules

[18:43]that we all have to play that the prophets played as well.

[18:46]Therefore, tonight I'd like to open this discussion inside out.

[18:48]We are in it's the period of Zin and it's the period

[18:54]he deserves the most respect and the most analysis and I'd like

[18:58]to do this in the following stages.

[18:59]Number one, did I immedah?

[19:03]And if he did, which hadiths indicate that he clearly did?

[19:09]Number two, after carbala, why did I imbed not protect the ladies

[19:16]who were raped by Yazid soldiers in Medina?

[19:19]And as an imam, aren't you meant to protect anyone facing a

[19:23]genocide at all times?

[19:27]Number three, and what of the traditions that mention that the imam

[19:32]remains silent while his father stood up?

[19:35]And how could an Imam remain silent when he sees occur in

[19:39]front of him?

[19:40]Number four, how does immed discuss as well as Bakayazid and what

[19:48]could be the contradictions in such a number five.

[19:53]What was Im's opinion when Mktar led a political revolt?

[19:56]And does that show that sometimes the Imam may not be at

[20:01]the front but may support what could be a face of a

[20:05]political movement?

[20:07]Number six, if imam didn't rise against the tyrant of his time,

[20:10]does that show a wisdom that a previous imam had shown?

[20:12]And number seven, how did the imam decide that sometimes conflict resolution

[20:17]is the best cause of an action for a shattered Shia community

[20:22]post carbella?

[20:23]Let's examine this and dissect the topic in complete depth.

[20:29]So we move from Medina, we get to carbella day of ash.

[20:32]Now there's a question being raised.

[20:34]Immadin is in his 20s.

[20:38]He is in a great age to fight.

[20:40]Why does he not fight?

[20:41]What many of us have always wondered about and even though sitting

[20:44]on Mimar is one issue when does the man fall ill?

[20:49]Because if he falls ill a couple of months before, you could

[20:55]still recover from an illness.

[20:57]Two months before, if you fall ill a week before, you can

[21:01]still recover from an illness.

[21:02]I'm even going to add a spanner in the works and say,

[21:06]even at your most ill and you're in a very difficult moment

[21:13]in your life, if your dad's alone, wouldn't you must whatever you

[21:17]can to stand up and fight?

[21:18]Let's be real.

[21:21]Your dad's alone.

[21:21]There's a huge battlefield.

[21:23]There's a bunch of animals and lower than animals who are about

[21:28]to face him.

[21:27]Yep.

[21:28]What would you do?

[21:30]You'd stay in a tent or you try your hardest to even

[21:35]get up.

[21:33]Some people when you ask them, so what was wrong with him?

[21:37]Say he was ill.

[21:37]Yeah.

[21:38]Which illness stops you defending your father?

[21:41]Which illness stops you defending your father?

[21:45]I think you have to have been really really unwell and unwell

[21:50]to a level where there surely must have been even some injuries

[21:56]on your body.

[21:56]And that's where it's interesting.

[21:58]The two people indicate that Im Z may have been ill but

[22:06]also injured in Kbella.

[22:06]If he's injured in Kbalah, that means he fought in Kbala.

[22:11]Because for many while they don't want to say it, it doesn't

[22:17]make sense that Imam Zim doesn't fight.

[22:19]Surely surely he would come forward and fight.

[22:23]You find that a couple of people address this one.

[22:27]Interestingly in his mentions how Hussein and how many for many of

[22:34]us when we were brought up we were told Abbas did not

[22:38]fight in Kbella which is nonsense.

[22:40]F Abbas fought and fought and fought but when for example he

[22:45]was amongst the last to go towards the battlefield that's when Imam

[22:48]told him about water for example for the children otherwise before that

[22:53]f doesn't make any sense that f just watches seventh muharam eighth

[22:57]muharam nth muharam 10th muharam fbas is standing there says hussein and

[23:05]fb went together and had a skirmish with the opposition by the

[23:09]water of theat and this may have been the last time water

[23:13]came to the tents maybe around the seventh or eighth of muharam

[23:15]and they lived off that for the next couple of nights doesn't

[23:20]mention which ali hussein and you know I im hussein may Allah

[23:27]bless him he loves to just name his sons Ali yeah and

[23:28]so that makes it very complicated and that should be an indication

[23:31]to all you guys as well every family has to have many

[23:37]ali yeah you have to have ali don't fall for this nonsense

[23:39]on Google you type call Muslim name and all that rubbish.

[23:44]No, don't fall for that.

[23:45]You just keep naming Ali as much as you can.

[23:48]Yeah.

[23:49]Imm Hussein, he himself could name a million words from the Quran.

[23:53]This is Ali Akbar, Ali, Ali.

[23:57]Otherwise, he could have named a million words from the Quran which

[24:02]are beautiful Arabic words and so on.

[24:04]But Ali Ali Ali says Hussein and F went to retrieve water.

[24:08]On the one level here we have an indication there is an

[24:13]Ali Hussein who has gone with Abbas to go and get some

[24:19]water for the army.

[24:19]What adds to this is the companion of Imam Fel the son

[24:26]of Zub or F the son of Zub who mentions that Hussein

[24:35]Hussein.

[24:36]No one remained from the army of Im Hussein except who husse

[24:47]ill.

[24:52]What did he then say?

[24:57]He goes on to mention something very interesting.

[25:04]And he had become wounded that day from being stabbed.

[25:12]Wait, wait.

[25:14]I'm raised to believe that Immad was ill in Kbala.

[25:18]What it seems is that while there's a group of sources that

[25:23]mention and that a stomach pain affects Imadisam, stomach pain is intense.

[25:30]But when your dad's alone and he's the imam chosen by Allah,

[25:33]there's got to be something deeper.

[25:35]What happens here is that he has this famous book.

[25:43]He has this book.

[25:45]Many of you would have heard of it.

[25:47]He mentions within the literature that what does it mean?

[25:54]It could have three meanings.

[25:54]One meaning is what is that you find someone who's living while

[26:04]the others are dead.

[26:04]The second is wounded.

[26:05]The third is someone who's been taken as a prisoner but was

[26:10]not killed.

[26:12]If we put these meanings together, Imam Z was a wounded person

[26:15]taken as a prisoner who was not killed.

[26:18]which means that Imam Zam most likely was injured in fighting in

[26:24]Kbella the depth of the cuts of the injuries and the plan

[26:32]of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala yes above all of this we can

[26:35]all think we're planning Allah plans that im continues through Ali Hussein

[26:43]true why when after the battle of Kbalah you know people Say

[26:49]Allah did not let them kill imb said she said kill him

[26:59]kill him finished said kill him Muslim was amongst those who said

[27:05]listen the guy's injured what's he going to do to us look

[27:07]how deep he's injured and that's where shimmer said okay leave the

[27:10]guy what's he going to be of any use that injured now

[27:14]im's ill you're not going to say he's ill leave Clearly there

[27:19]is a deeper deeper wound that's affected Imam.

[27:24]If you put that together with Tabar's description that Hussein went with

[27:30]Akbar went with Abbas towards theat then that Hussein could have easily

[27:36]been immediately says that Im Hussein was the last person to be

[27:45]remaining the last man standing but he was wounded indicated that Imam

[27:49]Zam was ready to fight for his father but he had been

[27:54]injured and therefore the idea that Imam Zam did not fight at

[28:00]all in his life automatically we remove that but the second problem

[28:04]is what some people say but he lived with when after Kbalah

[28:07]and Yazid was in power why did IM not raise his sword

[28:12]on other occasions I im himself judges what's best for the community

[28:15]notably people ask this question in relation to which incident two and

[28:21]a half years after Kbalah the famous incident of the har means

[28:26]the rocky terrain in Medina.

[28:30]You had a group of people two years after Kbalah revolted against

[28:34]Yazid.

[28:35]The people of Medina and the people of Mecca led by Abdullahb

[28:40]and Abdahb they revolted against Yazid bin.

[28:44]When they revolted against him Muslim that person led his soldiers towards

[28:52]Medina.

[28:53]Now here's the situation.

[28:57]These people are going to enter Medina with like 25,000 soldiers.

[29:00]The people of Medina, there's no way they have that many soldiers

[29:04]ready.

[29:04]But they've revolted against the Sham government and they've kicked out the

[29:08]governor of Medina and they want a new government similar to what

[29:12]Kufa was planning against Yazid.

[29:13]Okay.

[29:14]When they came therefore to attack, there's a major question here.

[29:19]Why did I imb Medinian troops?

[29:22]Im Z two years after Yazid is still in power there's about

[29:29]to be a mass genocide does IM Zam rise or not rise

[29:36]here's an interesting point IM according to some if we are all

[29:39]meant to be Husseini only fighters against injustice then we have to

[29:45]ask Immad why aren't you just fighting against injustice this is a

[29:49]chance to topple the um Omay government they come into Medina.

[29:55]You know what they do in Medina?

[29:58]If you read the books of history they rape the woman of

[30:03]Medina.

[30:01]They go around raping women and then any lady who's pregnant they

[30:11]cut the stomach.

[30:10]They take fetus out.

[30:13]Yeah.

[30:12]That was what was happening.

[30:16]That's a genocide.

[30:15]You agree?

[30:17]It's a genocide.

[30:17]Thousands of people are killed.

[30:22]But Imm saying doesn't really speak out and he doesn't raise a

[30:26]sword.

[30:27]And it's an interesting moment.

[30:28]Why not speak out?

[30:29]Why not raise a sword?

[30:32]Why not say let's go like my father?

[30:35]My father was butchered but he spoke out.

[30:38]He stood with a sword.

[30:39]Imam doesn't.

[30:39]If you read the books of a hadith, it's very interesting.

[30:42]Imam actually takes a neutral stance.

[30:46]He has a house outskirts of Medina.

[30:50]Anyone of the people who seek safety from this pillaging, he welcomes

[30:54]all of them.

[30:55]Even whether you know B, you don't know B ladies are all

[30:59]told come and stay with us.

[31:01]Even there are hadith that mention Marwan and his family.

[31:04]He's seeking the guy who's one of the perpetrators of FNA.

[31:07]But in that moment sought help from Imam Zed from who?

[31:12]From Abdullahb Hal and Abdub's army.

[31:14]Imam allowed this side to come and seek sanctuary and he allowed

[31:18]that side to seek sanctuary as well.

[31:25]Why Im Z then do you not rise with the sword?

[31:27]Why don't you topple Yazid's government?

[31:30]This is fundamental this question.

[31:32]You see when an imam does something firstly know that there is

[31:39]a precedent by either an imam or a prophet before them.

[31:42]Nebi Harun when he when Moses went to collect the tablets.

[31:49]Nebi Harun was with B is made B is worship the calf

[31:51]Nabi Harun at that moment why did he just unsh the sword

[31:57]and say you know what let's fight let's kill let's just go

[32:02]all out knew number one we are outnumbered number two if there's

[32:08]another option that will safeguard the good people then I'll prefer that

[32:12]option than see innocents killed number two Number three, he is a

[32:20]mum chosen by Allah who knows what to do.

[32:21]You do not tell a what to do.

[32:26]This is a huge line because the of the of is not

[32:32]easy.

[32:32]Listen, it's not I pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that when

[32:36]the imam returns, I pray that I have the ability to submit

[32:42]blindly to my im.

[32:42]Honestly, my imm.

[32:44]I'm not talking people like me, non-Mus who make mistakes and sin

[32:49]and so on.

[32:51]I'm talking im of I pray that I'm not one of those

[32:52]who's like who are you?

[32:54]Where did you come from?

[32:55]What do you think you are?

[32:55]And so on.

[32:56]And not like the B don't welcome questions.

[32:59]Of course they welcome questions.

[33:02]But when saw a very difficult situation, people around him were saying

[33:08]say something say wait if I say something will cause a bigger

[33:10]conflict and many will die and so on.

[33:14]Nabi Harun he looked at it and one may argue one of

[33:19]the reasons the prophet said Ali is to me like Harun was

[33:25]to because I im Ali faced a similar situation I im Ali

[33:28]after you think I im Ali could have just taken out and

[33:34]said let's go and fight so with Imam and my problem is

[33:37]this is in my literature now someone says well say not everything

[33:40]in books is we don't have like yes it's True.

[33:45]But what's interesting is that there are hadiths which are authentic within

[33:52]our literature that even reach a stage where Yazid this is in

[33:57]alafi Yazid enters Medina on the way to Hajj.

[34:00]When Yazid enters Medina on the way to Hajj, he meets this

[34:06]guy and he tells him, "You give me as you are my

[34:11]slave, not the slave, not God's slave.

[34:12]You are my slave." So the person's like, "Listen, my dad's better

[34:17]than your dad.

[34:16]I'm better than you." D.

[34:19]So Yazid then he goes to him, "So what are you telling

[34:21]me to be your slave or Allah's slave?" He said, "Your slave.

[34:24]So I'll never be your slave." So Yazid said, "Then we'll behead

[34:28]you." And so they behead this guy.

[34:32]Yazid then goes to Imam Zed and he says to him, "You

[34:37]give me pledge of allegiance to become my slave.

[34:39]Otherwise you'll be beheaded.

[34:44]Otherwise you will be what?

[34:50]Beheaded." And imbi he pledges to Yazid because otherwise he'll be beheaded.

[34:57]On the one hand, on the one hand, the imams before I

[35:02]im each one faced a difficult moment where they had to change

[35:06]the course for the sake of the um is that true or

[35:11]no?

[35:11]Yes.

[35:12]Immass.

[35:11]Yeah.

[35:11]So on the one hand, if a wants to say no way,

[35:15]then you've got a problem justifying the previous imams.

[35:18]On the other hand, there's a problem here.

[35:20]And sometimes you pick up these contradictions.

[35:22]What is it?

[35:26]Yazid after Kbalah never went to Hajj.

[35:30]The hadith is an Senate is a good senate but there's a

[35:36]problem with the historical accuracy.

[35:37]Yazid never went to Hajj.

[35:40]Yazid after Kbalah stayed in Sham.

[35:45]He died in Sham.

[35:45]He never went to Hajj.

[35:49]The hadith says Yazid met Im Z in Medina on the way

[35:51]to Hajj.

[35:52]But Yazid never went to Hajj.

[35:54]So there is no meeting between Imam Zah and Yazid.

[35:57]And so there is a major question mark whether Imam was forced

[36:04]to pledge allegiance to Yazid.

[36:06]Had I not noticed, by the way, Yazid on his way to

[36:09]Hajj, then there'd be a problem and a dilemma on the one

[36:15]hand.

[36:16]But on the other hand, I must say this, I ims whatever

[36:20]they do, if they rise, I submit.

[36:23]If they sit still, I submit.

[36:27]I'm going to give you a wonderful hadith where our imam says

[36:35]we are like stars.

[36:37]Each of us sometimes rises, each of us sometimes are hidden.

[36:45]When Allah orders us to rise, we rise.

[36:49]And when Allah orders us to be patient, we remain patient.

[36:56]Yeah.

[36:54]Because rising is not always wisdom.

[36:59]And they are the people of Hikma.

[37:02]They are the people of wisdom.

[37:04]Rising which puts your people in danger.

[37:08]Rising which causes loss of lives of the Shia.

[37:12]Not every rising and every speaking and every louding and every is

[37:16]logical and wise.

[37:17]Today even in the Shia world we have so many purehearted people.

[37:22]So many.

[37:24]and they mean well.

[37:24]But not every time you jump in every city, we all have

[37:29]to copy each other.

[37:30]Some of us live in areas where we can.

[37:32]Others of us live in different situations.

[37:34]As long as of course your heart bleeds when you see oppression

[37:40]and not I'm just going to turn a blind eye.

[37:41]But when an imam rises, we submit to that imam.

[37:46]And when imam sits, we sit with that im.

[37:50]And hence the prophet said Hassan and Hussein are imams whether they

[37:53]are sitting or standing because some people try to make it out

[38:00]that Im Hussein is braver than I immul with today.

[38:05]If you say to a do with Muawi, what would they do

[38:10]to you today?

[38:10]If you told the Shia do with Muawi, what they do to

[38:15]you?

[38:16]Wallah they'll the problem is they make it sound like every imam

[38:22]lived exactly the same life every imam didn't live the same life

[38:26]they lived with the same message but the life and the roles

[38:31]and the situations are different and that's why if anyone says Im

[38:34]was anti someone rising with a sword no because is an important

[38:42]example he rose 5 years after Kbalah and he is the one

[38:46]who orchestrated the killing of Ib Zad and Omarbad and the rest

[38:52]of all of those perpetrators of the crimes on the 10th of

[38:55]Muaram.

[38:56]Did Im according to some of our hadith say may Allah have

[39:02]mercy on Mktar.

[39:04]If IM was against soldiers rising at some moment then he would

[39:09]never ever have given sanction or legitimacy to true he would have

[39:15]turned around and said we are against but Imi knew that there

[39:18]are certain people I publicly praise others if I don't publicly outwardly

[39:23]always say it doesn't mean I don't feel of course I feel

[39:30]it if one of my men is killed or if someone doesn't

[39:35]avenge what happened on the 10th of Muhamad of course I feel

[39:37]it but there is a time for the sword and there is

[39:41]a time and that's why The Shia have a dilemma.

[39:45]The Shia which dilemma do they face?

[39:49]Is every day a and every land Kbala?

[39:51]I'm not sure.

[39:56]Number one, it's not a hadith.

[39:59]So if it was a hadith, okay, I have to follow what

[40:01]the imam says.

[40:02]It's not a hadith for me to have to follow it blindly.

[40:04]Number two, someone's going to tell me, "No, but there's 17 different

[40:08]interpretation." Okay, cool.

[40:10]There's many interpretations of it.

[40:13]But number three, every imam has their role.

[40:19]And the highest imams are who?

[40:19]Immass.

[40:23]Unless we've forgotten the order.

[40:27]Many Shia today you ask him are you what are you?

[40:30]Says I'm Husseini.

[40:32]Why aren't you a Hassani?

[40:32]What did Im Hassan do wrong to you?

[40:35]Has he done something wrong to you imam Hassan?

[40:39]There is no day.

[40:39]This is Shiaism.

[40:41]There is no day like Abdah's day.

[40:45]That's Imm Hassan's own words.

[40:48]But Imm Hassan, Imam Hussein are imams whether they sit or they

[40:56]stand.

[40:57]Some currents of Shia decided that political military outspokenenness was a current.

[41:01]Other currents of Shiaism went to a different direction.

[41:06]Others amalgamated.

[41:05]Same way imballam saw his father saw yazid sawi saw what was

[41:13]best for the shia and decided what's best for the sh we're

[41:15]a few number let's rehabilitate a shattered community what do we mean

[41:23]shattered community was shattered the shia as shattered as one may argue

[41:27]even now we're a difficult position wallah I feel for the shia

[41:33]of Lebanon especially wah the shia of Lebanon are in a difficult

[41:37]position.

[41:39]difficult position one way and ac across every border they're in a

[41:46]difficult position I don't know this one is a difficult one how

[41:51]this one gets resolved because every border is a difficult this one

[41:56]enters or this one enters depends I don't know how it's going

[42:02]to happen Allah we ask Allah to help all the oppressed but

[42:06]the imam he saw a shattered community that carried had broken were

[42:12]broken after well what's the role of the imm will inspire you

[42:20]to find Allah and he did that in he reminded everyone talk

[42:26]to Allah whatever face problems we face while Allah is around we

[42:32]have our master Allah whatever armies will face us whatever we maybe

[42:38]a community of only three four five Then one day you'll see

[42:40]we will be a community of millions who shout yah Hussein true

[42:44]and imagine at that time people were like fight rise sword kill

[42:49]relax first start build again build number two with let everybody know

[43:00]the h of their lord because they've forgotten the h of Allah

[43:03]and a community that forgets the h of Allah on us that

[43:10]community is a dead community because the h of Allah if it's

[43:16]not observed then everything else becomes little the first hack the hack

[43:20]of Allah the hack of the nefs the hack of the eyes

[43:22]the hack of the tongue the hack of the stomachs the hack

[43:25]of the private parts then the hack of our parents the hack

[43:27]of the non-Muslim IM one by one rebuilt Islam or if not

[43:34]rebuilt Islam what did he do please note this down Benya's Islam

[43:39]was going to remain forever.

[43:40]Let me make clear to you.

[43:42]Kbalah didn't finish Benya's Islam.

[43:43]It remains.

[43:45]It's there till today.

[43:46]Anyone who tells me Benya's government ended, Benya is still here.

[43:50]But im offered you an alternative Islam, the true Islam.

[43:57]That Islam is still there.

[44:00]That will always be there.

[44:04]That will remain.

[44:03]But the pure source of Islam he offered through some called it

[44:10]a book of dua.

[44:13]It's not it's a book of which he put in dua.

[44:15]A book of in what in dua and all these you read

[44:25]all of you dua dua.

[44:28]Look at these wonderful duas that we recite.

[44:30]Honestly, are there duas like these duas that we recite and all

[44:36]of these dua Abu Hamza tamali raise a generation where you teach

[44:41]them to in its truest form.

[44:42]Not the of Yazid and the of those who would come afterwards,

[44:46]but the of Abuham and all of these other that you read

[44:53]slowly he built and he built and he built.

[44:57]You didn't need to go around fighting and blood and so on

[45:02]so forth.

[45:01]Rather you rebuild and look we are inshallah the seeds of that

[45:07]building the seeds of what he laid down.

[45:10]We are the fruits of those seeds that have grown until today

[45:13]the beautiful Islam of until today.

[45:19]Wherever you go in a household, you'll see and in you'll hear

[45:27]dua and you'll see who was victorious.

[45:28]Where's Yazid's duas?

[45:32]Where's Muawia's teachings about and look at Zedines?

[45:36]They're absolutely everywhere.

[45:39]But for someone to say he didn't use a sword at all,

[45:42]I reply with one line.

[45:45]And that is for me to conclude by saying that sometimes the

[45:48]sharpest sword is the sword of the tongue.

[45:53]As a person can cut you with their tongue viciously.

[45:56]Yes.

[45:58]Weight of the tongue is so light.

[46:04]But the power of the tongue is devastating.

[46:05]And sometimes it needs one man to make sure that when he

[46:10]used his tongue in Sham, he made clear to everybody that whatever

[46:13]tenants and building blocks they're trying to destroy in Sham with one

[46:18]sermon, I'm going to make sure they remain alive.

[46:21]And he used his tongue as a sword.

[46:23]What was the building blocks they tried to destroy?

[46:29]They try to destroy the presence of and he's the one who

[46:37]said Allah gave us excellence in seven from us is the holy

[46:42]prophet imagine I say this to you you're all my lovers he's

[46:45]saying it in sham next to yazid from us is the chosen

[46:54]prophet from us is the lion of Allah Ah from us is

[46:59]the mistress of the woman of paradise.

[47:01]From us are the masters of the youth of paradise.

[47:02]So the first thing you've destroyed they want to destroy these people's

[47:06]merits.

[47:07]You are mentioning their names in the lion's den.

[47:12]Yes.

[47:10]You're mentioning this guy's grandma had chewed his liver.

[47:15]Now you're bringing his name in his very house.

[47:18]Yes.

[47:18]That's cut with the sword.

[47:20]The second thing is you make sure that Allah is the highest.

[47:26]Not Yazid's grandfather.

[47:26]Yeah.

[47:27]Yazid wanted to raise his grandfathers as the highest.

[47:33]Later I im said I am the son of the man who

[47:34]was taken to I am the son of Muhammad al Mustafa.

[47:39]Someone might say why does he need to mention in sham?

[47:44]Because the um were spreading the idea that the was in a

[47:50]dream.

[47:51]It wasn't real.

[47:50]So in sham I'm going to say it was real and he

[47:56]was taken to Muhammad.

[47:57]That's number two.

[47:59]But number three how do you cut someone the worst is when

[48:02]you begin to recite the of the man they hate and you

[48:10]recite his one by one in sham I'm the son of the

[48:14]man who fought forahill.

[48:17]I'm the son of the believers, pious one, descendant of the prophets,

[48:23]annihilator of the polytheist, commander of the faithful, glorious of the worshippers,

[48:26]honorable of the criers.

[48:28]I am the son of the man who fought the disbelievers until

[48:33]they saidahill.

[48:34]The man who was constantly assisted by and did not disbelieve in

[48:40]Allah for even the twinkling of an eye.

[48:44]Your grandfathers, they start off rubbish, then they come.

[48:47]Whereas my grandfather never disbelieved in Allah, never worshiped an idol, never

[48:54]bowed down to an idol.

[48:55]And he continued to cut the sword by saying the lion of

[49:03]hij and the master of meiab and one after another of Imam

[49:13]Amir.

[49:14]And then to add insult to their injuries, he recited Masah Hussein

[49:18]in Sham.

[49:20]Ah, that's a sword.

[49:21]Yes.

[49:22]To recite Masb Hussein in the middle of the enemy's backyard.

[49:25]Yes.

[49:26]Because he said, "I'm the son of the inheritor of the Masharin.

[49:31]I am the son of the father of Hassan and Hussein." Then

[49:33]he mentioned and I am the son of the purest of woman

[49:38]fat.

[49:38]What is Zah?

[49:40]that I am the son of the man who lay on the

[49:44]earth of Karabella whose body lies on the earth of Carbella surrounded

[49:52]by the wilderbeasts.

[49:51]Yes, Yazid knew you could have bought a thousand swords.

[49:56]They would not have been the same as Zaledin's tongue.

[49:58]He said cut him recite the adan.

[50:02]When they recited the adan, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah

[50:08]Akbar, Imam looked, he said, "Of course, Allah is the greatest." Then

[50:14]Allah said, "My skin, my eyes, my body, my flesh, all testify

[50:21]that there is no god but Allah." Then he heard the lines

[50:25]and Allah.

[50:27]He then looked towards him.

[50:28]He said, "Oh Yazid, is Muhammad your grandfather or is he mine?

[50:34]If you say he is your grandfather, you're a liar.

[50:39]But if you say he's mine, then why did you butcher his

[50:46]grandson?

[50:44]Then why did you butcher his grandson on the plains of Kabella?

[50:50]That butchering of his father remained in his heart forever." One hadith

[50:56]narrates he would never finish drinking a glass of water until his

[51:00]tears had mixed with the water he was drinking.

[51:04]How much love do you have for your father that every time

[51:09]all of us love our fathers and those of you whose fathers

[51:10]have passed away you cried for your father and you may every

[51:15]once in a while cry but I ask you have you ever

[51:16]ever reached a stage where the tears from your eyes they mix

[51:23]with the water that you drink?

[51:24]Yes.

[51:25]34 years after Kbella, every time he would drink a glass, he

[51:29]would drink water.

[51:31]The tears would mix with the water that he would drink.

[51:33]The worst thing about when your father dies is that there are

[51:39]certain places you remember something with your father.

[51:40]Yes, those of you here who've lost your fathers, I'm going to

[51:44]leave tonight for you, inshallah.

[51:45]There are certain places they bring back memories.

[51:47]There are certain places they evoke memories.

[51:51]There are certain places they break your heart.

[51:54]Amongst them, no doubt the Makbar, the Kabraan.

[51:58]Yes, the graveyard.

[51:58]Especially remembering your father and the way he left the earth.

[52:03]And that's why one day in the graveyard when he saw in

[52:07]front of him a man who was there working, he said to

[52:12]him, "Oh man, when I die, will you bury me?" He said

[52:14]to him, "Yes, oh grandson of Rasool Allah, of course I'll bury

[52:20]you when you die.

[52:19]He said to him, "Oh man, my father lay on the earth

[52:25]of Kerbella for three nights with no one to bury his holy

[52:28]body." Another time he saw a man about to slaughter a sheep.

[52:33]He said to the man, "Have you given water to that sheep

[52:36]before you slaughter it?" He said, "Of course, oh grandson of Rasool

[52:40]Allah, we would never allow for there to be an animal to

[52:43]be slaughtered without water being given to it." He said, "My father

[52:48]lay on earth with no one to quench his thirst." One day

[52:54]in the streets of Medina, he heard a man call out.

[53:01]He came to sit by the man.

[53:05]He said to the man, "When you say, "You're a stranger.

[53:07]When you say this, is it because you have no water to

[53:13]drink?" He said to him, "No, I have some water here next

[53:14]to me.

[53:16]Maybe no food to eat.

[53:19]He said, "I've got some food here.

[53:21]Maybe you don't have much family." He said, "I've got some family

[53:28]around." He said, "Then no man, never call yourself a is someone

[53:33]who dies with no one to quench his thirst and no family

[53:40]to bury his body.

[53:41]My father is the he lay on the earth of Kabella with

[53:47]no one to look after his body.

[53:50]I assume that for many years he would continue to cry but

[53:56]it would stop at a certain point until Imakis himself said he

[54:01]said it was even when he was dying there was only one

[54:05]man in his mind when he was dying.

[54:07]You'd think it was about himself or about his sons or about

[54:10]his grandchildren.

[54:11]He said when the poison of the omay surrounded his body.

[54:14]He was on the bed.

[54:17]The poison was all over his body.

[54:19]So he came said I came like any son would come I

[54:24]hugged my father saying on his chest.

[54:27]He said the moment I hugged him I saw him begin to

[54:29]cry in a way like I've never seen him cry.

[54:33]Now he's seen him cry for 34 years.

[54:35]What is it about this moment that breaks him?

[54:37]He said that I looked at him.

[54:41]I hugged his chest.

[54:41]I said to him, "Father, why do you cry?

[54:43]In a moment you'll see.

[54:44]In a moment you'll see in a moment you'll see.

[54:49]In a moment you'll see Hassan.

[54:51]In a moment you'll see why do you cry father?" The reply

[55:01]in Kabella especially breaks our heart.

[55:03]He said to him, "Muhammad, Muhammad, Muhammad, I cry because when I'm

[55:11]dying, you're on my chest." Allah, I cry because when I'm dying,

[55:17]you're on my chest.

[55:17]Whereas, you know who sat on the chest of my father when

[55:23]he was dying.

[55:31]Raise your hands my dear brothers and sisters.

[55:34]Ya Allah raise us with the Imam of our time, Im.

[55:39]Allow us to be amongst those who complete the z of im

[55:47]Hussein and receive the shaf of Im Hussein.

[55:48]Originators of this majus and the spiritual journeys team and all of

[55:54]those who have joined us as part of our family tonight.

[55:55]Raised them with Muhammad and Al Muhammad.

[55:58]Our Marin who instilled in us the love of Imam al Hussein.

[56:04]Praise them with Imam Hussein.

[56:05]For those who have hijab tonight, and I'm sure all of you

[56:09]have, all of you have something deep down.

[56:11]You hope is answered.

[56:12]Something that changes in your life on a personal level.

[56:17]Raise your hands and with the tear that is near your eye.

[56:20]Ask for your Haj.

[56:23]You're in the land of next to say where better can you

[56:27]be?

[56:31][Music] Mashallah may [Music] agore.

[56:50][Music] [Music] We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with a but

[57:14]before it the loudest of your salawah.

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