2015 Muharram Night 11

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Muharram Program 2015 of ACT

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[34:48]when the earth is shaken to her convulsion and the earth shows

[34:52]up throws up her hundreds and man cries what is the matter

[34:56]with her on that day will she declare her tidings for that

[35:02]your lord will have given her inspiration on that day will men

[35:06]proceed in companies sorted out to be to be shown the deeds

[35:10]that they had done then shall anyone who has done an adam's

[35:15]way good see it and anyone who has done an adam's way

[35:20]of evil shall see it so live alone holy salonah my bride

[35:24]of heart sorry you know i was just given a job right

[35:39]now because brother musa is not here so i have to do

[35:43]the moderation couple of announcement that i have to make it every

[35:51]friday and around 07:30 there will be a lecture here with dua

[35:57]kumar dua kumar will not be on thursdays actually it's gonna be

[36:02]on every friday and there are a few more things that they

[36:07]are planning to do every friday evening so best thing is to

[36:12]follow us at the facebook and see what the next plan is

[36:17]second thing is there is a handout in the back that you

[36:22]will see for the women and it's basically about their opinion about

[36:26]the quran recitation program there are two options wednesday from 10am to

[36:33]12pm or friday two to 4pm so it's a survey it said

[36:39]it will be at the back and if they can fill it

[36:42]out then the the organizers will review it and based on the

[36:47]common consensus they will decide at what time the quran recitation will

[36:53]be and will be had for the women without further delay i'm

[36:59]gonna call doctor norris to come in and give a lecture about

[38:02]today doctor bessi apologized for providing the lectures i will be trying

[38:09]to cover a few concepts on the day of ashurban on the

[38:15]day after the day of ashurban i want to start with this

[38:22]slide aishwara is a big responsibility let us ask ourselves what did

[38:28]we do the last ten days what did we learn and what

[38:34]change has it made us if there is any change as we

[38:40]all know that ashura is a launching ground not the end of

[38:46]movement or revolution so my question is this what was the last

[38:52]call from imam hussein on the day of ashwa in kabulah what

[38:59]did imam hussein quote so who was he calling all his followers

[39:33]already called they already gave their lives so who the first question

[39:40]why was the call made if the people already he is talking

[39:45]to them there is no another very hard to find another khur

[39:50]at this moment at that moment who was the audience who are

[39:57]the people he directed his call to and who was how was

[40:02]it going to be broadcast if he's in a limited geographic place

[40:07]in kerala and he is asking who is going to reply to

[40:14]him so the first one why the call was made number two

[40:19]who was the audience and number three how this message gonna be

[40:24]transmitted so let's start with the first question why was the call

[40:29]was made as we know for the revolution of imam hussein there

[40:35]are three factors for the revolution the first one is intellectual factor

[40:39]which we call the islamic concept why imam hussein wanted to have

[40:44]this revolution done there are there are some basics for that number

[40:49]two is the emotional factor why the imam hussein wanted it to

[40:55]happen in that way because he could have taken an an advice

[41:00]from his brother and gone to yemen but he insisted to forfeit

[41:07]this legacy so the tragedy part and then the last one the

[41:13]media because if you have the concepts and you have the tragedy

[41:18]that means this has to be transmitted to people who are the

[41:21]people or how or how we gonna make this message transmitted over

[41:26]the generation to generation and after generation as we all know when

[41:33]we talk about the islamic concept for the revolution of democracies this

[41:38]was the main thing i have come i have come out for

[41:54]reformation in the nation of my grandfather i intended intended to enjoy

[42:00]the good and forbid the evil that was the slow down of

[42:04]the revolution that was the main reason and i will show you

[42:09]a few examples of what does this mean what is the what

[42:18]what what did rasulullah what kind of message he brought to the

[42:23]people that you know hussein has to sacrifice his life and his

[42:27]family members and his most sincere followers just to keep that message

[42:31]alive the second thing he wanted to give us a message that

[42:41]when there is injustice someone has to stand up now that this

[42:54]is forcing me to choose between the death and dishonor how impossible

[43:03]is it for me to accept this grace so the two concept

[43:09]one is to pursue the message of rasulullah second to defend it

[43:17]even that will cost the life of the sage of adam jindlin

[43:22]the master of the youth of the paradise so that was the

[43:30]first thing so the call was made alaam in nasrul in yahweh

[43:34]alaam in uranian it was made for that cause the second that

[43:40]who was the audience and as you know surely imam hussain was

[43:47]in a very small limited area surrounded by the enemies there is

[43:52]no medium there is no stations like a new station there is

[43:58]no internet there is basically nothing imagine yourself you are in the

[44:02]desert of karbala surrounded by 30,000 of the enemy and you want

[44:07]to deliver a message that you want generation to hear how are

[44:11]gonna make that it's almost impossible especially when he expect that the

[44:17]older people tell they have no interest to deliver his message and

[44:23]the people with him already been good but he repeated that the

[44:28]the narration said that he said it four times in every direction

[44:37]sayed it four directions why he did it four directions because he

[44:42]wanted to send this message to someone that's why he kept repeating

[44:47]that message it wasn't only one time and the reason why because

[44:55]of what i just mentioned thus this was not for the people

[44:58]in kabbalah his housewife they know that this is his his followers

[45:04]who were who died they are not there anymore his family knows

[45:08]about these things but they cannot provide any help so who was

[45:13]his audience brother and sister his audience was us us the people

[45:19]who came after the people who were at the time of the

[45:22]imam crusade in kufa medina and the next generations so what does

[45:30]he want from us we cannot now if we say the people

[45:34]in the kufa he was he was surrounded in kabbalah so they

[45:37]they can't come and give him a help so what kind of

[45:40]help he was asking because he knows no one gonna come from

[45:43]kufa to kabbalah at that time so what's around it and he

[45:46]knows the people here he's been here they cannot come and help

[45:49]him now so what kind of help he was asking he was

[45:53]asking us to follow the message of the prophecies to follow the

[45:59]guidance not what are the guidance of the prophecies they are the

[46:03]guidance of our rasul and al qur'an before that so what he

[46:06]wants to tell us that you need to help me al an

[46:10]nasrulian story by following the quran instructions guidance by following al rasul

[46:17]by following ahmad bay this is the way how he wants and

[46:22]he is also want us to help him to fight any tyranny

[46:26]throughout the years so let's go over a few of the instructions

[46:33]our rasulullah or from al al baqar these are the things which

[46:37]imam hussain wanted us to follow what does that mean it means

[46:50]allah said if you wanna say something it's better to work on

[46:55]it and act based on that it means allah will look like

[47:02]the person who say something but act or behave completely differently if

[47:08]i ask someone to pray i have to pray first if i

[47:13]ask someone to fast i have to fast first and this is

[47:19]what quran said okay in the sight of allah that you say

[47:29]what you don't do not do that allah hate it the most

[47:34]hateful thing in the eye of allah so let us brothers and

[47:42]sisters think about this when we talk about any concept of islam

[47:47]let's first ask ourselves are we a role model for that if

[47:52]yes we should say it if not i'm not saying don't say

[47:56]it work on making yourself a role model so you can say

[47:59]it and allah will be pleased for it the second thing no

[48:04]that's not even enough what what more than that and hadith from

[48:09]the muslim not only allah want us to say to do what

[48:19]we say or say what we do he also want us to

[48:25]present ourselves not just by talking because sometimes i might say something

[48:30]but again i might behave differently the best way to make dawah

[48:36]for people the best way to invite people to our islam the

[48:41]right islam the islam of muhammad the best way is the way

[48:49]how you act not the way how you say it it's the

[48:52]same way when you raise your kid when you raise your kid

[48:55]the best way you teach them how to do things is not

[48:59]by just keep telling them and acting something different it's by what

[49:02]they they the kids will listen and see but they will see

[49:07]the effect of seeing is more than the effect of listening despite

[49:11]the growth reported so this is what islam says be silent propagators

[49:18]to our cause which is islam without using your tongues by using

[49:23]your behavior i'm not sure why this came like this to love

[49:31]and repay ali islam the meaning of the hadith because i don't

[49:55]remember the hadith exactly in arabic but the meaning of it that

[49:58]that you need to love us in a way that when you

[50:02]reach to a point that that love if it exceeds the way

[50:06]how it should be it would be backfiring and this is very

[50:11]important express your love to us the way you love islam do

[50:16]not exaggerate and express your love to an to the extent that

[50:20]it will turn against us what does that mean i can give

[50:24]you an example today i wanted to find a picture of karbala

[50:28]2015 to put it in my presentation so i went to google

[50:34]and i put karbala 2015 and i advise you to do that

[50:52]okay but i found maybe like about 400 picture of what do

[50:57]think what you can find blood everywhere people are half naked beating

[51:04]themselves every picture that if you put it people when when when

[51:09]they look at it they all will be gonna get a very

[51:13]very poor and bad impression about ahmad bayt path because they think

[51:19]this is ashura they think anytime we mention ashura this is what

[51:23]we're talking about and that's that's a major issue that's why we

[51:28]have to speak up because this kind of behavior they are not

[51:33]accepted regardless who's gonna say it i'm gonna say this is my

[51:37]personal opinion but i can tell you there are many fukaha many

[51:41]fukaha and very respected ones probably most of the respected ones they

[51:49]are against these kind of behaviors if they distort the the image

[51:54]of a halimbate and this is what it means this hadith says

[51:58]express your love to us the way you love islam do not

[52:05]exaggerate and express your love to ahlul bayt to the extent that

[52:08]it will turn against us so another hadith it says from everyone

[52:43]haslam but from you is haslam and al tabir from everyone is

[52:49]tabir women call aqla what that means it means when someone does

[52:55]something good it's good from whoever is gonna bring come up with

[53:00]it whether that is a muslim or non muslim whether it's a

[53:04]kafir or muslim good no one can say if someone helps someone

[53:08]sick that's good everyone appreciate it but the imam saying if it

[53:13]comes from the shia that's even better because why because you are

[53:19]counted as one of our followers people look at you as you

[53:23]are one of our followers and the bad things is bad from

[53:27]mother gonna come up with you but from the shia if we

[53:32]claim we are shia we are shia of ahmadreid it's worse because

[53:37]people will consider us as a follower of ahmadreid and then the

[53:43]next hadith says that every muslim has to pay sadaqah everyday so

[53:51]one of the companion asked rasul can we really afford it guiding

[54:09]a person to his way visiting a patient enjoining good for many

[54:19]people are returning the greeting these are the reason i'm putting these

[54:25]hadith maybe when someone would ask what does this have to do

[54:28]with the ashura these are the core of ashura ashura came for

[54:32]these days the reason why we celebrate ashura one time to mourn

[54:37]democracy but the second thing we have to to follow these things

[54:42]because this was the cause of democracy if we don't follow these

[54:45]things what is good for us to come here and cry for

[54:48]ten days and go home and then say okay we did that

[54:51]believe me some people think by just coming here they're gonna get

[54:56]to paradise because they are coming crying for for imam hussein and

[55:03]they will get to paradise that doesn't happen you have we have

[55:06]to be good muslims we have to have our salat has to

[55:10]be accepted our sunnah has to be accepted shabbat and and and

[55:17]and it doesn't come unless if we have done our job first

[55:21]first it's like exactly when you wanna apply for a job if

[55:25]you ask someone to put a good word for you to be

[55:28]accepted in that job for that job if you don't have the

[55:32]minimum how people they're not gonna bring someone maybe that's gonna happen

[55:37]in our companies but here you have to have the baseline you

[55:40]have to have the minimum requirement then the shefa'ah then the connection

[55:46]will help otherwise if we don't have the minimum required thing how

[55:50]does the connection get in you think of rasul or mam rasul

[55:53]can bring someone who has not prayed and not fast and no

[55:58]hijab or nothing just to say okay you know what because this

[56:01]person came and cry a little bit and i i'm someone who's

[56:05]you know fasting and doing all this is that fair that's not

[56:10]fair so that's something to keep in mind these are the concepts

[56:14]which imam hussein wanted us to do life as you feel you're

[56:44]gonna live forever but when it comes to the day after you

[56:47]have to work the way that you think that you can be

[56:51]dying tomorrow this is for the for the ladies for the young

[57:21]ladies people who the ladies who want to get married and you

[57:39]can have someone has a good mana but they have but doesn't

[57:42]have religion islam ask for both someone has religion pious and a

[57:50]good behavior they have to go side by side so if you

[57:53]want to look for someone there is nothing about money here in

[57:57]this hadith it's about what you do in in regard to the

[58:02]religion of the person and the same thing for men who look

[58:05]for a woman the same way you look at the religion and

[58:10]you look at the manner is that person pious do they have

[58:16]a good behavior and that what what what that's why the hadith

[58:20]separated the two because it didn't want to assume that anyone has

[58:24]religion has a manner or the vice versa another hadith which is

[58:37]very important here when you ask for right sometimes the right can

[58:43]be very bitter actually many times right will be very bitter and

[58:48]the imam this is from the imam zayn al abideen and was

[58:54]reported by imam al baqar for his about his father he said

[58:58]avoid i'm sorry this is is the next slide for this slide

[59:03]as the imam is asking about another lesson you know the the

[59:11]april fool i mean everyone knew that that one is haram based

[59:15]on this hadith people sometimes make joke lying that's joke the small

[59:21]one is harm based on this hadith well there's another is this

[59:38]is in in the school of democracy is not exact because they

[59:42]know how to represent democracy so that's another thing to keep in

[59:46]mind so i said avoid small lies and big ones both when

[59:51]you are serious and when you are joking and the other one

[59:56]which i mentioned now about the right it says that it would

[60:02]i will tell you that my father told me on his deathbed

[60:06]be patient and tolerant in pursuing the right no matter how bitter

[60:11]it might be the right many times is very bitter if someone

[60:17]if something happens and you want to say the right thing sometimes

[60:20]it can cost life sometimes it can cost job sometimes it can

[60:26]cost money but this is the advice of democracies save the heart

[60:35]even if it was very bitter and that's what makes difference so

[60:44]we just mentioned that what was the call for and who was

[60:49]the audience the third question how was it going to be broadcast

[60:57]as we mentioned there is now a new station so who's gonna

[61:01]better deliver this message and this is the thing which i wanna

[61:04]just focus a little bit about i mentioned that this is a

[61:12]very limited place there was no right in nothing and then now

[61:15]we talk about the people with the imam you're seeing the amis

[61:19]might talk about it but of course they're not gonna be in

[61:21]favor of the imam you're seeing but the two people who left

[61:24]in kabbalah who carried this message from their shoulder and delivered to

[61:31]this day were those two zaynab alaihis salam and imam zaynab alaihis

[61:37]salam and i'm sorry imam zayn al abidin because i i feel

[61:51]sometimes people don't know the background was born in thirty nine hejrib

[61:59]his father was the master of the martyrs sayyid sharad his mother

[62:04]was sharabal or they call it the shahzinam that's why they call

[62:08]him because he has his mother was like the daughter of of

[62:17]of the king of of iran so and his father his mother

[62:25]died right after the the the next like right at the time

[62:29]of the birth and on the day of mashura many people might

[62:34]not know what was the age of of zaynur abdi alaihis son

[62:37]he was 22 years old he was a prisoner of war for

[62:44]almost one year and then he returns to medina and he stayed

[62:50]there until for thirty seven years and when he was he became

[62:59]martyrdom on when he was 58 years old so this is the

[63:07]life of imam zainul abidin and unfortunately when you hear many speakers

[63:11]when they talk imam zainul abidin what kind of image they put

[63:14]for us if you think about it you think about imam zain

[63:19]abdul many people will put it like this a victim of tragedy

[63:24]a sick person who was always sick prisoner of war spent his

[63:29]life trying praying and making dawn isn't that that's the image which

[63:35]many people have in their mind few people will think about he

[63:40]was islamic missionary who guided people to the goal of revolution of

[63:44]imam hussein she was married to abdullah ibn jafar ibn abi talib

[64:40]and they had basically there are two different stories but sources one

[64:47]of them say that he had three another say four that's why

[64:50]the three sons and the number four so the question is now

[65:21]what was the role of the woman in the hosseinian school what

[65:26]was the role of zayn what was her role there what was

[65:30]the image of zayn what do you think what how do we

[65:34]envision zaynab how to become zaynabian the image of zaynab ali islam

[65:42]in many of the speakers is not better than the image of

[65:45]imam zaynab ali some people will describe her as a bedwet female

[65:54]with feebel spread striking by calamity and taking captive and you can

[65:59]hear it in many of the poetries some an only woman who

[66:03]did not find her tribe calling for tribal revenge other will call

[66:09]her whose worries were limited to her pains her children and other

[66:15]women without any interest in the main cause and you can see

[66:19]it in many many of you know talks and many things but

[66:23]zaynim was much much much bigger than that and much different than

[66:28]that image and i will go to the court from oh sister

[66:52]i beseech you so do honor my appeal when i die do

[66:57]not tear off a garment nor scratch a face do not scream

[67:03]in wailing and lamenting because of me a very powerful message different

[67:10]than what we hear let's see what she told him what she

[67:15]answered him she said rest peacefully assured you will find me only

[67:28]as you wish and as you please this is the image of

[67:34]zayn al alaihi salaam why because the message imam hussain wants to

[67:38]give never let your enemy rejoice at our misfortune that was the

[67:45]image that was zaynir gave on the gate of kufr in the

[67:51]palace of evincia and in the palace of izmir this is the

[67:56]image which zayneb gave never let our enemy rejoice like our misfortune

[68:04]so if we go i don't want to exceed my time if

[68:10]we go over the speeches that zaynani gave or what she did

[68:15]before we go to sweden what did she do in karbala those

[68:19]are the five main things on the way to kabbalah she ensured

[68:24]chosen sorry cohesion and stability of the people inside the camp of

[68:34]imam hussain she prepared for the battle organizing the families and children

[68:39]in their tents and ensuring no negative effect on the fighters keeping

[68:44]them in the tents the children and the women providing all possible

[68:49]support for the fighters during and after the fight soothing the pain

[68:54]of the battle and alleviating the impact on the companions' families and

[68:59]one of the most important thing protecting the life of the survivor

[69:04]and on the top of them imam zaida abdulani once they get

[69:10]to kufa right at the gate of kufa she started telling people

[69:18]who are this character who are who who who are they because

[69:23]people didn't know many people didn't know who they told them these

[69:26]people are were against the emir ibn ziyadh and iraq so when

[69:31]they came to kufa she started introducing herself and then she started

[69:39]telling the kufian people about what kind of sin they committed and

[69:48]she criticized them criticized them about the crying she said weep because

[69:54]you are only fit to weep yes by the almighty weep because

[69:59]you are only fit to reap yes weep in plenty and love

[70:04]less because you are holy still in the shame of the murder

[70:09]of the imam of your time and then when she came to

[70:16]the palace of ebn ziyad there was another scenario in that tyranny

[70:23]place with all the what we call the jabarut of that person

[70:27]who was killing everyone like i mentioned a woman which would describe

[70:31]she's weak all of a sudden she's not weak she's actually someone

[70:37]who can deliver a message with all a forceful message a brave

[70:43]woman delivering a very forceful message ebezi had told the daughter of

[70:49]ali have you seen how god has acted with your brother al

[70:53]ra'i sunam allah fikul what did she answer i have not seen

[71:01]a larger woman but benevolence and goodness from god and as of

[71:08]our people for whom god has blessed them with the martyrdom they

[71:13]defended themselves with their own o son of ziyadh god will bring

[71:19]you face to face with them when you will offer excuses which

[71:24]will be of no end and then when she moved to damascus

[71:33]she was at the palace of another town yazid and listen to

[71:41]this word the first thing she started she wanted to show who

[71:46]is the person she's talking to to the people because that's one

[71:50]way psychologically it's very important to try to first describe who is

[71:56]the person who's in front of so she so she say oh

[72:00]son of the released ones people know what this is it's a

[72:07]very shameful word at that time because ibn abdullah khan abdullah khan

[72:12]are the people who get in islam just because they fail they

[72:17]are the failure the failure the people who fought rasulullah to the

[72:22]last point and they exhausted every effort to stop islam and then

[72:28]at the end they surrounded and rasul gave them forgiveness so the

[72:34]the worst of the worst so she want to remind the people

[72:39]who is this person the first thing she started oh son of

[72:43]the released news yab nak talakap that you keep your ladies so

[72:48]now she want to compare him with him you keep your lady

[72:52]yibnatul akbar and you put the ladies of rasul salih al alhadwari

[72:58]outside with no fear and walking in the deserts so that's the

[73:04]first comparison and then she goes a little bit further but what

[73:10]do you expect from someone who was coming from his mother who

[73:15]ate the liver of hamzah so she went further not in of

[73:20]just the ibn al qulqa further that his mother is one that

[73:25]her flesh her flesh was made from the liver of hamzah who

[73:31]chewed the liver of purified wings and whose flesh grows out of

[73:35]the blood of the martyrs so this is a very powerful thing

[73:39]this is talking to yazidi it's not talking to someone like you

[73:42]know a soldier is the the the top of that the amoian

[73:47]empire so i'm gonna i'm almost done so the the message of

[73:56]imam hussein which sayyid ibrahim wanted to deliver this is what we

[74:02]talked about this is what imam hussein was trying to pass to

[74:10]us that the pastor and the son of the pastor has left

[74:14]us but two choices either resorting to the sword or capitulating how

[74:24]preposterous humiliation is not our cup of tea allah shall never let

[74:31]this happen to us so shall his messenger and that's what zaynab

[74:37]say your view shall be proven futile your days limited in number

[74:52]and your web wasted on the day when the caller calls out

[74:57]the curse of allah be upon the oppressors these are the revolutions

[75:03]which happened i showed you the other day that happened after allah

[75:07]ashura all from the message of zainab alaihah and the message of

[75:13]zainab al din which were coming afterward so just to recap the

[75:18]quality of the commemoration is based on the level of the balance

[75:26]between the emotional excitement and the islamic concepts there has to be

[75:33]a balance between the two and that's the responsibility of the scholars

[75:38]as well as the listeners and that's why ashura will continue to

[75:43]be a school for every generation and because of zayn efsirah almaria

[75:49]who sacrificed because of her sacrifice and heroism she will continue to

[75:55]be thank you brother lee for a very good lecture as he

[76:34]was giving lecture was reviewing few of the sayings of imam hussein

[76:39]and one thing that really stood out was one of his saying

[76:42]that he said salaam has 70 virtues 69 of which are for

[76:49]the one who is first to greet whereas only one award for

[76:54]the one who advise so says enough to say that you know

[76:58]we should always be first to greet people so without any further

[77:03]delay we will invite to come and deliver his lecture

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