7. 'The Successor to Ayatollah Sistani?' - Dr. Sayed Ammar Nakshawani - Muharram 2022

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[0:01]so please can we welcome brother muntazir to the podium with a

[0:08]loud salute please muhammad and spent from what we have given you

[1:03]in this world and spent from what we have given you before

[1:06]death approaches any one of you such that you will approach your

[1:10]lord and say oh my lord if only you had let me

[1:11]live on this earth for a little while longer so that i

[1:15]would have given charity and bring from among the righteous ones my

[1:19]name is muntazir jafar i am from london and i work for

[1:24]the zahara trust many of you will have heard of the sahara

[1:28]trust um as brother imran mentioned many of you will have known

[1:32]muhammed fazal marum fazal was an integral part of the trust and

[1:35]i can see faces here that i've been introduced to through him

[1:39]we primarily work in two ways number one is emergency aid so

[1:45]many of you will have heard of the attacks on the schools

[1:47]in afghanistan the natural disasters that took place in afghanistan as well

[1:51]so our team is on the ground over there providing emergency aid

[1:54]as well as uh in yemen i know said amar gave delivered

[1:59]a lecture on yemen yemen is currently undergoing one of the worst

[2:05]crises and we are on the ground over there helping in the

[2:08]cities of hodeidah and aiden and sana the other way we work

[2:15]is through long-term sustainable projects and one of the one of the

[2:18]things that mohamed fazel taught me and that he was a very

[2:19]big advocate of is that helping the poor helping the needy is

[2:23]not just about throwing money at them and walking away it's about

[2:27]ending the cycle and the only way to end the cycle is

[2:29]through education and so the zara trust works on long-term projects such

[2:37]as schools housing and medical such that the people who need the

[2:42]help so directly it reaches them we operate our main office is

[2:48]based in london we have a branch in canada and a branch

[2:49]in north america as well and one of the things about the

[2:53]zara trust is that we have our own teams on the ground

[2:54]in majority of the locations that we work in we have a

[2:58]stall outside in the in the foyer i believe it's called on

[3:02]the gent side and on the ladies side as well we are

[3:04]selling some children's activity books children's books to learn from for the

[3:08]holy month of muharram and before i end i'd like to share

[3:13]with you a brief story and this has happened to me personally

[3:16]i was on the ground in one of the areas that we

[3:18]work in in march and i went to visit one of the

[3:22]houses of the beneficiaries and to call it a house would be

[3:24]an injustice it was a room inside of an abandoned hotel and

[3:28]the mother was explaining to us a mother of five children and

[3:31]she was explaining to us that how difficult it is for her

[3:36]to sleep every single night knowing that at any point throughout the

[3:39]night anybody could access the room that she sleeps in along with

[3:45]her children that's not something that anybody should have to go through

[3:48]they have one generator about this big that costs two hundred dollars

[3:52]that generator was falling apart and it provides them with one hour

[3:59]of electricity a day to stay connected to the world right and

[4:03]the worst part is that they had no hot water and they

[4:08]would need hot water and the only way they could heat water

[4:13]was to dip the live wires from the back of the generator

[4:15]into a bowl of water now obviously we know that wouldn't make

[4:18]the water entirely hot but it will make it a little bit

[4:24]more usable so these are the the the pla this is the

[4:26]plight of the people that the zahra trust are trying to help

[4:29]and the reason i bring the story to your attention is that

[4:33]it's very easy in the uk to put money in a charity

[4:36]box and not really think about where it's going to put a

[4:39]fiver in a box and not really think about the impact it's

[4:42]having on people's lives so next time inshallah whichever charity um whichever

[4:46]charity you is your choice to donate to that's not a problem

[4:50]but next time you put the money in the charity box or

[4:51]you tap your card on that machine and you hear that beep

[4:56]please please do remember that the impact you're having in these people's

[4:59]lives is actually tangible and people really really need that think about

[5:03]that one generator that cost 200 dollars that would enable this family

[5:06]to live a much better quality of life if everybody here was

[5:10]to donate five pounds how many of those generators could we buy

[5:14]how many of those families could we provide electricity for such that

[5:18]they could have the basic needs of their home that any of

[5:21]us would require if you do have any questions about the charity

[5:23]if you do have any inquiries if you want to ask more

[5:27]find out more about the areas that we work in please do

[5:30]find me outside i will be there to answer any questions you

[5:36]may have on behalf of the the general firstly i'd like to

[5:40]thank the jamaat for accommodating us and having us here and we

[5:45]really appreciate it and on behalf of the organizers could i ask

[5:47]everybody to please move as far forward as possible so not to

[5:50]disrupt the flow of the programme tonight's program has been sponsored in

[6:02]the name of the march mean whose names will be on the

[6:06]screen please do recite a surah for allah muhammad before i begin

[6:53]thank you so much bless you and bless all of you i'd

[7:01]like to first thank you all for the generosity that you showed

[7:06]in the appeal for yemen which continues until today and which has

[7:10]raised close to forty thousand pounds in six nights of muharram and

[7:14]insha allah all of you online if you haven't had the chance

[7:18]try and donate the link is there with the work with the

[7:23]zahra trust so at least our brothers and sisters in those lands

[7:25]do not ever feel that we've neglected them or that we've forgotten

[7:31]them in any way whatsoever bismillah alhamdulillah be the third with your

[9:31]loudest voice is in honor of the imam of our time imam

[9:33]zaman respective scholars brothers and sisters allah who will succeed may allah

[9:53]lengthen his life is a question which has been asked by many

[9:59]within the shi'i world indeed we know that in the shia world

[10:03]today arguably the merger who has the most followers the grand ayah

[10:06]to allah is ayatollah because naturally we find that within our communities

[10:12]worldwide that is a prominent position as on that note to all

[10:21]of our prominent maraja reality is that when any member of the

[10:25]religion of islam reaches the age of adolescence there comes a point

[10:30]where responsibilities on the legal level begin in their lives that moment

[10:34]they imitate one of the scholars that are alive one of the

[10:40]scholars who for example is a grand ayatollah who has completed all

[10:45]of his studies and published in that area and taught in that

[10:51]area you therefore find that in muslim communities and the followers of

[10:54]there is a continuous imitation of scholars from one century to another

[10:59]other schools in islam may still refer to themselves in relation to

[11:04]scholars who lived over a thousand years ago so you may find

[11:09]for example some people calling themselves hanafi some might call themselves maliki

[11:14]some might call themselves some might call themselves or muhammad bin idris

[11:25]were not alive 20 or 30 years ago they were living in

[11:30]some cases in the time of imam al-baqarah therefore you find that

[11:43]while others in the schools of islam refer to themselves by a

[11:47]particular much tahiti who lived a thousand years ago we tend to

[11:52]refer to ourselves also by but also recognizing that that door of

[12:04]ichthy had was a door that remained open after the riba of

[12:10]the 12th imam naturally for us when we look at the life

[12:15]of the imams the imams for us are those who are chosen

[12:19]by allah subhana wa ta'ala the imams of other schools in islam

[12:22]like abu hanifa or like the maliki or the shafi or the

[12:25]hambali school they do not see them as imams chosen by god

[12:29]rather they see them as erudite scholars for us the imams are

[12:35]those chosen by god and hence the discussion of nasa's there within

[12:40]shia thought but then in the absence of the imams we refer

[12:43]to the scholars of the community these scholars were scholars who came

[12:49]one generation after another some of these scholars were based in for

[12:53]example the land of najef baghdad medina mecca om and other parts

[13:02]of the world you therefore find that one century after another this

[13:07]continuation of has always been there it's as if even if you

[13:10]ask your parents who are sitting in the crowd or watching online

[13:14]they'll say to you they may have lived in the time of

[13:18]five maharaja there are some who are sitting in this hall who

[13:21]remember the days of ayatollah may allah bless his song others may

[13:27]remember the days of ayatollah may allah bless this song others may

[13:31]remember the days of ayat allah may allah bless his soul others

[13:45]may remember the days of may allah bless his soul all of

[13:53]these left an unbelievable legacy be it in law mainly but also

[13:56]some of them left a legacy in quran some left a legacy

[14:02]in theology but arguably one man whose legacy and we pray to

[14:06]allah although the lecture discusses who his successor is that his life

[14:10]continues to be a long one one man who continues with their

[14:17]legacy that is unbelievable is ayatollah ayatollah sistani's legacy has very much

[14:21]been part of our lives here as and you can look at

[14:25]literally everybody who's sitting here right now and you'll see that in

[14:28]one way or the other they have an understanding or relationship try

[14:33]to allah to the extent that the pope wanted to meet ayatollah

[14:37]imagine in the eyes of some they may say well what difference

[14:43]does it make to us if the pope wants to meet but

[14:44]on a world stage the pope is followed by half of the

[14:49]world so when the pope is followed by half of this world

[14:51]or let's say in some cases one third of this world the

[14:55]reality is that we also have to recognize his important position the

[15:01]pope meeting ayatollah highlighted just the enormous level of extent of legacy

[15:07]that ayatollah sistani had left behind both nationally and internationally as and

[15:13]i'm sure you'll all agree that allah was the one who was

[15:17]able to quell the sensitive sectarian issues that could have erupted in

[15:23]iraq for example and many of his statements were made in the

[15:26]context of the people of iraq recognizing that there could have been

[15:34]a sunni and shia bloodbath that took place likewise at the same

[15:37]time he survived persecution he survived the period of saddam's rule likewise

[15:41]at the same time he was the teacher of many of the

[15:47]students of knowledge who are there today when i told my sister

[15:51]he passes away who then succeeds him and becomes the dean one

[15:56]may argue not only of njef but one may argue of the

[16:00]whole shia world because many people wonder that when that day comes

[16:06]is it a transmission or a successorship that is smooth is it

[16:10]one that is going to be rocky is there going to be

[16:16]someone like ayatollah sistani with his leadership skills who's going to decide

[16:21]how do they decide because when you look for example at what

[16:24]one might say is the equivalent in catholicism the pope the pope

[16:29]there may be a group of people who may decide who the

[16:33]next pope is how does it work in the case of allahistani

[16:36]if now i'm qualified how do i know who the next successor

[16:41]will be who are the possible candidates because there are some who

[16:48]might still be alive who others might follow so now for example

[16:51]you have marajah alive like is alive you have for example you

[16:57]have for example in jeff ayatollah just passed away recently but there

[17:10]are others in najaf as well who are alive such as ayatollah

[17:13]synod is alive of those who is there so someone might go

[17:19]towards that direction but the ultimate question is who are the main

[17:22]candidates to succeed him are there candidates who will be able to

[17:26]lead shiasm into a new era yes ayatollah might living longer than

[17:32]some of the people i'll mention tonight but also at the same

[17:37]time mentioning who the candidates are tonight highlights to us that in

[17:41]a way there is a protection continuously for the scholars who protect

[17:46]the heritage of the imams because the reality is that some of

[17:52]the names we might mention tonight are names that you may have

[17:55]heard of other names are names you may not have heard of

[17:57]but the legacy that they have already be they in their 50s

[18:03]and their 60s and their 70s is already a strong one let

[18:07]us tonight examine who could be the successor to ayatollah and i'd

[18:11]like to do this in a few stages number one how important

[18:16]is it that nedjef is honored and that najef remains a symbol

[18:20]for shiite thought and how did njef reach such prominence in it

[18:24]being the center of shii religious learning number two how important was

[18:30]the successorship of previous scholars number three who would i like to

[18:36]see as the successor of ayatollah and number four who are the

[18:44]ten candidates that can be possibly chosen from from those who are

[18:47]alive and number five what do those all share in common with

[18:54]one another in relation to their lives let's examine this and dissect

[18:57]the topic in complete depth ayatollah sistani today is known as the

[19:01]dean of the seminary of najef or director of the seminary of

[19:08]najef najif without a doubt for us is ivy league in the

[19:11]same way in america someone might say harvard and princeton are ivy

[19:16]league or in this country someone might say oxford and cambridge we

[19:20]have of course najef and kom producing some of the greatest ulama

[19:24]that we've ever seen but where did najef gain that prominence from

[19:29]in reality najef before islam already was quite prominent because there was

[19:35]already people of the abrahamic faiths who had settled in njef why

[19:38]would they settle in najev those of you who have done siara

[19:43]of najef will know that there are prophets who are buried in

[19:44]najef don't you agree with me there are prophets who are buried

[19:52]where in najef where but there are prophets who are neighbors of

[19:58]imam ali alayhi salam if i was to ask you who are

[20:04]the prophets buried next to imam ali alayhi salam it would highlight

[20:06]to you that najef is not just a place that was a

[20:09]center for shiasm it was the center of tawheed center of monotheism

[20:15]on one side of imam ali alayhim adam now that's pretty good

[20:28]neighbors to have because when you die you want the two to

[20:32]be buried next to you to be good people so here you

[20:36]have with nabi adam alaihis on the one side some say some

[20:44]say that the word najef comes from nay the water of the

[20:50]nay in the time of nebinuf as you know the flood went

[20:53]into that particular area that area when it became dry in arabic

[20:58]something which is dry is called jaffa and if the water area

[21:04]was known as nay so when the water dried after the flood

[21:07]of noah some say that that could be the meaning of putting

[21:11]the two words together nay jaf ne jeff others say no it's

[21:17]the hill on the upper reaches of najef irrespective that area therefore

[21:21]was an area a few miles away from kufa was an area

[21:26]where christians used to live people used to gather there from the

[21:29]christian community they used to celebrate the praises of the prophets of

[21:33]allah and that's why they say that nabi hud and nabi saleh

[21:39]are buried where buried in wadi salam and some say that imam

[21:45]ali alayhi islam wished to be buried in najef so that he

[21:48]could be next to his brethren hud and saleh but the reality

[21:51]of najef is prominence all centers on amir al-m that there is

[21:59]no doubt that if you want to see why negev is negev

[22:01]literally it's for imam imam ali when he moved from medina came

[22:08]towards the land of kufa moved his government spiritually maybe to be

[22:13]near prophets of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala there but of course politically

[22:18]to counter muawiyah and the rise of muawiyah and the land of

[22:21]imam ali alayhi lived in that area but someone asks if his

[22:26]house is in kufa then how is it that imam ali is

[22:30]buried in najef because you've got to travel how long from kufa

[22:33]to najeev let's say for example a number of kilometers to get

[22:39]there many of us who've done the siara will know that from

[22:41]our hotel in najif until we get to kufa it's like sometimes

[22:46]a 20-minute bus ride imam ali alayhi salaam died in his house

[22:49]in kufa next to masjid kufa then he is buried in najib

[22:55]how was he buried in najib imam himself had made it clear

[22:59]to imam alhassan to his sons that when you carry my janazah

[23:04]you will carry one part and there will be unseen forces that

[23:08]will carry the other imagine that i carry one side of the

[23:14]genizer and the other side is the melaka who are carrying it

[23:18]and they took it and he said to him you will see

[23:22]a grave and there will be a mark there that this has

[23:25]been prepared for ali by who by nebinu nebinu had prepared the

[23:34]grave of molar in that particular area but that grave like his

[23:39]wife's grave started off with nobody knowing where it is grave until

[23:44]today do any of us know where it is none of us

[23:47]know where it is it was always going to be a symbol

[23:49]that if you ever doubted what happened to me just go and

[23:53]ask where my grave is if it was as smooth as it

[23:56]looked my grave shouldn't be hidden anyway father her grave nobody knows

[24:02]imam ali 92 years nobody knew where he was buried 92 years

[24:05]only the imams would know nobody else one day abu hamza samali

[24:13]you know about the one with the long long long in says

[24:17]i and he says that he said to me come with me

[24:29]said where are we going he said just stand here and recite

[24:33]after me and he started to recite the ziara of imam ali

[24:35]alayhi salaam abu hamza asked why are we reciting here he said

[24:40]this is the spot where my grandfather is buried but it wasn't

[24:43]until the time of that this became open some tried to say

[24:49]that haruna rasheed or one of the abbas khalifas was playing with

[24:52]his dogs and his dog came near the grave but stopped and

[24:56]they found out that's the grave of mam ali that's a load

[24:59]of nonsense absolute nonsense reality is that the imams themselves knew where

[25:04]the grave was but they waited until the time that was suitable

[25:09]because of najef's prominence having imam ali alayhi people were always attracted

[25:14]to najef and therefore in the absence of the twelfth imam and

[25:18]in the raiba you found that ulama were attracted to go on

[25:23]ziada of amir al-mu'manin until one alim became the main man who

[25:26]ensured najef was established and that was shaykh sheikh tusi used to

[25:33]live in baghdad until the seljuks and the sectarian hatred that was

[25:38]present in baghdad don't forget that as a shiite when someone tells

[25:42]you don't be sectarian don't forget that we've faced years of bitter

[25:46]sectarianism towards us dogs and raw filth and god knows what other

[25:50]titles we've been called we've also faced sectarianism had a great library

[25:58]in baghdad that library was burnt they burned the library they burned

[26:02]the library of sheikh tusi but it was a blessing in disguise

[26:05]because sheikhotosi moved from baghdad to najib around which year about a

[26:12]hundred odd years after the twelfth imam went into his raiba around

[26:16]446 after hijra so we're coming very close to a big celebration

[26:23]in terms of najib's history from there therefore sheikh established najef as

[26:28]the central location that you are now a neighbor of imam ali

[26:32]alayhi you are now a neighbor of the most spiritual place because

[26:39]ultimately when i want to go and study i can study legal

[26:41]texts and theological texts in the uk i can study law and

[26:48]theology and ethics in america or in canada or in australia but

[26:51]being in a place where an imam of a little bit is

[26:59]buried it is the biggest honor allah sometimes i wish that we

[27:04]were able for example to be in medina studying over there next

[27:10]to the holy prophet peace be upon his family next to father

[27:13]next to the imams of jannah but it's sad that we cannot

[27:20]teach shiasm in that particular area so where were we teaching begun

[27:24]the teaching in the land of najef and olama even if they

[27:29]were studying somewhere else would still take a few days off to

[27:35]go to njf do some research and come back being an example

[27:38]even if he lived in hella he would still come to najef

[27:42]for a few days and then go back of course nejaf wasn't

[27:47]always prominent of course um had its time hella had its time

[27:51]baghdad had its time other areas had their time but ultimately you

[27:55]find that many years later najef remained that core where everybody wanted

[28:01]to come and study someone says question the likes of ayatollah for

[28:06]them to reach that position of aya to allah how do they

[28:11]reach it exactly so say i signed up to study in njf

[28:15]tomorrow what do i begin with if you were to sign up

[28:18]now to let's say loveboro university and you wanted to study law

[28:24]at loughborough how many stages would it be for you to learn

[28:26]you do a bachelor or llb let's say for example and then

[28:31]you might do a masters in law and then you're going to

[28:35]do a phd yes you're going to do these three stages when

[28:38]you finish your phd you reach a level where you are similar

[28:44]for example to other doctors in the field but then you might

[28:46]lecture and lecture and lecture until you become a professor no one

[28:52]finishes a phd and automatically becomes a professor really does that happen

[28:55]unless they may have written 20 30 journal articles that say while

[29:00]they were doing their phd likewise najef was the same ayatollah when

[29:07]he goes towards that muhammad s with all his studies in um

[29:15]he wanted one day to be able to be in njf which

[29:19]he eventually was because of exile they all start off by doing

[29:23]a bachelor's the bachelors begins with what they call it the mukaddamat

[29:29]yes is like you doing a ba or a bsc you start

[29:32]off by doing arabic grammar fundamentally and something missing in shia communities

[29:39]worldwide is being strong in arabic that's something we need to work

[29:44]on now these are areas which in english all of you know

[29:51]rhetoric syntax morphology we are not as strong in arabic as other

[29:55]schools in islam in arabic you will find that many of our

[29:59]kids grow up without learning arabic if a person from a young

[30:07]age establishes arabic in their children believe you me they can become

[30:11]the greatest scholars for islam be it literally or representatives for islam

[30:14]metaphorically fundamentally when they start in a jeff ayatollah sistani and others

[30:23]young age they will start for example by studying arabic grammar there's

[30:27]a number of famous texts which we share with the non-shia community

[30:32]sunnis and shia when it comes to arabic grammar both agree that

[30:35]one of the prime texts that has to be studied or one

[30:39]of the prime subjects that has to be studied be it njf

[30:43]be it al-azhar be it medina is that you have to start

[30:45]off by mastering the language of the quran today we have a

[30:50]generation in some cases who don't read du'a in arabic but they

[30:54]read in english why because they say that i understand it better

[30:59]they have a point yes or some days read it in english

[31:03]so you understand what you're reading but it's a shame that at

[31:07]your age you are not able to learn arabic and master arabic

[31:11]why is it that we the shia and the 2022 are amongst

[31:16]the weakest when it comes to arabic grammar when there are so

[31:21]many courses online for us to learn syntax and morphology the quran

[31:24]becomes a different book when you look at the secrets of the

[31:28]arabic language a word that looks like the most basic word suddenly

[31:32]becomes a monumental word in the way it changes you as a

[31:36]human being but the onus by the way is on the leaders

[31:39]of the community to push arabic grammar so sunni and shia najef

[31:46]or al-azhar or these are the main arabic texts that people will

[31:59]study the likes of seba and others who are masters of the

[32:05]arabic language will begin with studying that and then at the same

[32:09]time study logic someone says wait in house they study logic i

[32:13]thought you can study quran and hadith no of the main subjects

[32:18]is logic because ultimately we need to make sure that the way

[32:21]we think there are rules for what's right what's wrong what's common

[32:24]sense what are analogies and so on and so people will study

[32:30]mantra you see arabic grammar mantra people will study a text like

[32:34]then others will do hadith studies introduction to hadith at the end

[32:39]of the day i want to protect the sun of rasulallah so

[32:41]i need to study the world of hadith then i might open

[32:46]a resale amelia or a treatise of a previous merger so some

[32:51]people if i'm living now i might open them this is all

[32:58]where bachelors we haven't even gone on to masters masters then goes

[33:02]on to certain assigned texts from either the medieval period or recent

[33:09]so i might study a text in my master's from a great

[33:15]islam like shahid al-awal or like shahid athani or like or like

[33:19]nasir dina torsi but people will say baba these are from a

[33:24]few hundred years ago that's why people like muhammad baqarah may allah

[33:28]bless his soul were of the ulama who began to write texts

[33:32]that were a bit more user-friendly for the master's degree yes amongst

[33:37]his texts he wrote them much more user-friendly after doing my masters

[33:40]what do i do after that i then move on to ph.d

[33:45]masters what did we say it's called mukadamat introductory sorry bachelor's mukadamat

[33:51]masters which means you go even further than the assigned literature you

[34:03]begin to discuss and debate with the marjah who's teaching you for

[34:08]example or with the much tech who's teaching you so if you

[34:11]look in the cases of for example the scholars that are alive

[34:17]today some of them were students of ayatollah muhammad they would have

[34:21]sat you see how i'm sitting here they would sit under them

[34:24]these teachers would talk discuss chapter of fasting chapter of hajj goes

[34:28]what are the maraja they are jurists who have reached the highest

[34:34]level of ichtihad where they are able to extrapolate the laws from

[34:38]the sources so you sit there if you've reached phd now someone

[34:42]says can i attend for example this phd class of merger x

[34:47]anyone can attend but you might look a bit baffled if you

[34:49]haven't done your bachelor's and master's imagine now i go to a

[34:52]particular course at loughborough university and it's a course in economics phd

[34:57]level can i attend i don't think the uni professor's gonna look

[35:03]at me and say to me you can't be here but it's

[35:04]going to be like what you're doing in a phd class on

[35:07]economics when you've not done a bachelor's but anyone can attend there's

[35:11]a particular socratic way of learning where you can discuss the teacher

[35:16]is open with you and that has produced some of the greatest

[35:19]scholars but also has produced people who are mobile people who are

[35:24]wrestling islams and so on and so forth when you finish how

[35:27]do you become ayat allah your teacher or the merger he will

[35:33]assign you with a license when he believes you are competent enough

[35:36]to be able to derive law from the sources if he sees

[35:42]that you have for example an expertise in understanding jurisprudence and the

[35:48]principles of jurisprudence and you have of course they all give different

[35:52]criteria as to what are the attributes of america but on the

[35:55]one hand the criteria that your arabic is top that your ability

[36:00]to understand the legal text is top will put alongside that that

[36:06]your taqwa and god consciousness is top as well a person may

[36:10]be a genius in islamic law but maybe someone whose character is

[36:13]questionable or someone who may not be respected by his peers for

[36:20]his morals the idea is that that person who reaches that level

[36:23]that person has to be somebody who has reached a level where

[36:27]their taqwa and their intellect is equal not just that a person's

[36:34]intellect is enough ultimately that person all of us face a struggle

[36:38]in life to reach a certain level but if you look at

[36:42]the likes of ayatollah sistani for example ultimately has lived a life

[36:47]at least publicly has lived a life where one could say that

[36:52]it's as close to being as possible now someone says what do

[36:58]you mean why do i say that i don't think anyone could

[37:00]put a black dot on his character yes humans if they want

[37:04]to find a black god humans can put anything out of context

[37:07]if today i said god is god people can take that out

[37:11]of context true humans can take anything out of context but you

[37:15]look at sistani and truly all these years in the middle of

[37:19]all the upheavals all the troubles all the difficulties you find that

[37:24]he still is somebody who has impeccability i ask the question if

[37:27]someone like him can reach a level in their life where you

[37:32]find it hard to find a black dot on them allah couldn't

[37:35]create 14 who lived their whole lives without a black dot on

[37:40]them today when a person says are you sure that imams are

[37:43]i've got an example of someone who's lived at least 75 80

[37:48]percent good allah couldn't create 14 masu mean who could be impeccable

[37:51]is it that hard for allah you find therefore that's when he

[37:56]reaches this position he reaches this position someone says how is he

[38:04]assigned because he has teachers like ayatollah who may have seen him

[38:09]and that's ultimately how a person reaches that position your teachers either

[38:13]look at you and say that you're sharp enough to be able

[38:18]to do this or allah there are some people who become much

[38:21]the heads at 65.

[38:21]ayatollah is which age 31 31 some 65 muhammad al-sadr i think

[38:32]even much younger than ayatollah you're looking at possibly even teens or

[38:36]early 20s you look at some people's abilities differ some have this

[38:44]word they have this ability or potential at the very least to

[38:47]be able to do islam extrapolate the laws very young there are

[38:51]others it takes time ultimately is tawfiq from allah subhanahu wa and

[38:56]one when i look at the successorship of our rajya at least

[39:01]in the last hundred years or so i say a lot of

[39:04]it is tawfiq from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala believe you me when

[39:07]ayatollah was passing away people were wondering who's gonna come is there

[39:13]any scholar what's gonna happen how great he was who succeeded him

[39:18]in the eyes of many ayatollah yes and at the same time

[39:24]you had ayatollah al-khumani was present and there were others who were

[39:30]present like the the likes of for example he passed away you

[39:34]see even members of the community were wondering that who will succeed

[39:38]ayatollah at the time allah azza may allah bless his song was

[39:44]in a position where he had enough connections to be able to

[39:49]tell the community that this is the direction that we want to

[39:53]head some communities may not be privy to that guidance ultimately you

[39:57]as a shiite you can choose who you want to follow but

[40:00]when you look at what's happened with ayatollah some people were wondering

[40:03]what's going to happen what's going to take place i guarantee you

[40:08]many people did not know who ayatollah sistani was do you agree

[40:12]many people who at the time when i saw it was passing

[40:14]away many didn't know why tula sistani was today if i ask

[40:19]you someone might say to me but who's going to succeed to

[40:21]allah he's got such an amazing legacy the names that i'm gonna

[40:23]mention to you i guarantee that many may not have heard of

[40:28]them but that doesn't mean there isn't a conveyor belt of ulama

[40:32]who are ready but the ultimate toffee comes from allah when i

[40:37]passed away for a short period members of the community followed ayatollah

[40:42]sometimes people may have imagined he was going to live for another

[40:49]20 years passed away within months was there he passed away until

[40:54]it came to ayatollah sistani did it allah go looking for it

[40:57]this is interesting when he became marriage in the sense of people

[41:02]following him in the early 90s not looking for it but he

[41:06]had an ejazza a license an approval that was there and he

[41:12]became merger in that period from around 92 onwards or 94 onwards

[41:15]when we therefore look then after ayatollah and again i stress may

[41:20]allah lengthen his life because we don't want to make it sound

[41:25]in a way but people plan for afterwards if you were to

[41:32]ask me who i would want to succeed i to allah i

[41:35]will tell you who i want you allow me to tell you

[41:40]i believe and i'm certain that the best person and i think

[41:47]you won't disagree with me to succeed ayat allah stani not just

[41:52]to succeed but in reality even ayatollah say this is that i

[41:58]believe it is insha allah the twelfth imam's reappearance why do i

[42:04]say this because sometimes we get so drawn up in successorship stories

[42:08]instead maybe we pray that our 12th imam comes to lead even

[42:12]during the life of allah sistani because if our 12th imam reappears

[42:18]allah says i will be the first to be saying there you

[42:19]go o son of fatima isn't that true ultimately for me the

[42:25]first that i would want to do is allah to be the

[42:36]one who hastens the reappearance of the 12th this should be our

[42:40]dua first and foremost that before you name the fallible first think

[42:45]of the infallible how many of us recite always allah hasten the

[42:50]reappearance of our imam ya allah was you've all seen dua al

[42:58]ahad and you've seen dua farage which talk of hastening hastening wishing

[43:01]we can be there to see the reappearance for me ultimately like

[43:07]ayatollah sistani i pray that allah allows us to see the reappearance

[43:11]of the twelfth iman that's on the one level if not then

[43:15]who are the candidates there are ten who are seen as the

[43:20]main candidates three of them i could say we could put them

[43:23]in champions league positions in reality but then i'll leave the rest

[43:28]for you to decide there are three who are in the champions

[43:31]league positions and there are seven who themselves in all honesty are

[43:37]champions the equality but for one reason another may not be at

[43:39]the same level as the top three the one who many speak

[43:45]about as the successor to it allah is the first one and

[43:49]possibly in pole position as i is shaykh al-irawani yes he was

[43:59]born in 1949.

[44:00]some people here i don't know how many of you have heard

[44:02]his name some might not say i've never heard his name but

[44:08]shaykh was born in 1949 which makes him today approximately how old

[44:14]73 years of age he already comes from a scholarly family just

[44:18]to add that he's my relative but still i'll praise him a

[44:22]bit more he already comes from a scholarly family in that his

[44:27]father and his grandfather and his great-grandfather they are all scholars of

[44:34]the highest repute one after the other and you found that he

[44:38]was born in najef studied in najaf and taught in najaf studied

[44:41]in um and taught him but he has a particular dimension to

[44:48]him the first of them if you ask any mawlana who has

[44:52]studied in najaf and kum you say to them do you know

[44:55]shaykh straight away their eyes will pop up why because there's no

[45:00]way that you could have come towards the level which they had

[45:04]unless you would have studied one of his books either his books

[45:08]on or his books on rajal and the narrators of ahadith and

[45:14]the world of hadith or even introductions to works of theology and

[45:19]tafsir of the quran ask any mawlana you know just say to

[45:25]him mawlana have you heard of straight away of course one of

[45:30]his main works which every maulana one way or the other would

[45:35]have studied number two on the point of his books he wrote

[45:38]his books in a way so that the medieval texts which were

[45:42]a bit too difficult in the way they were studied he wrote

[45:46]his books in a way which would be more user-friendly for the

[45:50]reader yes his books by the way a few of them are

[45:52]available in english translated by icast press introduction to hadith introduction to

[45:58]fair very academic but soft style easy to read easy to understand

[46:07]in the past some of these students would have to study books

[46:10]from like five six seven hundred years ago you know some of

[46:12]them are studying for example these are books which can be very

[46:18]difficult to study in terms of islamic law you found that say

[46:25]muhammad al-sadar who happened to be the teacher came as a reform

[46:37]to what may have come before in things being easier to study

[46:40]in the world of hadith number one number two number three is

[46:45]that he's a people's person shaykh what does people's person mean he

[46:51]gives lectures he gives majalis he is a person who when he's

[46:58]talking will say the odd humorous comment as he talks he speaks

[47:01]in a very in a language which is easy for the street

[47:04]to relate to of course that doesn't mean that someone who doesn't

[47:09]do that it's a negative on them everyone has their own character

[47:11]but when he moved from najef towards the land of um you

[47:18]found that the man himself when he was went towards that land

[47:20]mixed with the people sat with the people laughed with the people

[47:24]etch with the people not known at all for being someone too

[47:27]difficult to talk to no easy to talk to easy to approach

[47:32]student of all rights allah he's their student and his lectures you

[47:41]type his name on youtube although his lectures are mainly in arabic

[47:45]but you'll see all his lectures are available online not just on

[47:51]fick even lectures on imam al-hussein lectures on he is seen by

[47:58]many because he is teaching a class of we said the phd

[48:00]class you have to teach that class for you to possibly be

[48:05]a successor to you can't just be someone who has knowledge he

[48:10]teaches and therefore in the eyes of some he is the number

[48:16]one candidate to succeed ayatollah he is revered by the office of

[48:22]say the sistani they reveal him they respect him every student of

[48:26]um and najef respects ayatollah al-irawani who we call backer or even

[48:32]though on his books he always signs off he doesn't put sheikh

[48:39]he doesn't put ayat allah he doesn't put hajjat in islam out

[48:42]of respect for his teacher who's still alive so he will only

[48:47]sign off in respect of the fact that ayatollah is still alive

[48:55]he will not write that but of course he himself is a

[48:59]much tahid and is number one in pole position that's number one

[49:01]someone says who's number two number two is say muhammad radha sistani

[49:07]son of ayatollah he at the moment many of you who visit

[49:10]ayatollah's office will see him standing at the door but many times

[49:15]people only see him in an administrative role they see him salaam

[49:20]welcome leave welcome salaam come that's what they see him but they

[49:24]don't realize that the man himself is an erudite scholar an assurance

[49:29]of his father as well a man who is teach and taught

[49:36]the highest level of islamic jurisprudence experts especially on the chapter of

[49:38]hajj so he is seen as candidate number two someone says why

[49:45]because he's already run an office of marjahir and therefore the infrastructure

[49:50]plays a major role there's no doubt about that someone who has

[49:54]the experience of seeing his father the way his father interacts the

[49:58]way his father talks the way his father runs for example in

[50:01]office he is seen as candidate number two candidate number three a

[50:08]name which many may not have heard of one of the great

[50:12]scholars who is alive today in the land of najef and a

[50:17]scholar who is seen by his peers as definitely somebody who has

[50:24]a chance to be at that position of being a merger okay

[50:27]so that's another of the scholars student of ayatollah muhammad and student

[50:35]of ayat allah al-hawa so you see the connection that exists all

[50:40]of these first three who are they always shouldn't of sudden student

[50:46]of hawaii student of sistani because there's a continuation you're my students

[50:49]and that's normal even if i graduated from university it's very normal

[50:53]for me to be a student of that professor if you look

[50:58]at in the professors in the world today there are many who

[51:00]have studied under professor x he has taught and graduated so now

[51:05]you have these three these three are the prime candidates to be

[51:09]successors to who tried to allah then after that there's another seven

[51:14]those seven maybe in europa sports or they may be getting close

[51:20]to the champions league or with trophies ultimately they could easily turn

[51:24]out to be the successor we don't know of them you have

[51:28]shaykh hassan al-jawah okay of them you have said zawari whose father

[51:33]of course was ayatollah a grand scholar of them you have of

[51:38]the hakeem family there are a number of people as you know

[51:43]the hakeem family produced many and continues to produce many grand scholars

[51:47]you have said hussain al-haqim who was a student of the great

[51:52]sahaba hakeem the great scholar you have for example said muhammad jafar

[51:59]al-hakim who no longer teaches but was one of the top students

[52:03]of said muhammad s who passed away recently you have said muhammad

[52:07]al-hakim you have said said jaffa said all of these four hakeems

[52:14]all of them have a chance to be merged another one and

[52:16]the final one who has the chance to also be a successor

[52:19]triathlon is who the final one is his other son many times

[52:27]people meet say muhammad radha standing son of a said from a

[52:42]young age straight away you know people go and study arabic grammar

[52:46]from like 15 16 21 these from a young age already straight

[52:51]in arabic grammar hadith logic montag straight in from a young age

[52:56]he is another candidate to be successor you look at all of

[53:01]them therefore and someone asks is shiasm in a healthy position i

[53:03]think it is in a healthy position because with all of these

[53:08]they have their different characters their different personalities some of them are

[53:12]not just focusing on law some of them have gone towards the

[53:16]world of theology because we live in a world where there is

[53:19]now a new theology a theology that with the rise of science

[53:25]and philosophy and modernity we need to be able to address new

[53:27]issues so some of them have gone to a world of the

[53:31]earth because sometimes people say to me our they don't know what

[53:35]we're living don't you hear this sometimes you hear people saying i

[53:39]don't know what we're going through they don't know what we're living

[53:42]they don't know what we're seeing some of these personalities have made

[53:46]an effort to travel outside of najef as well to go to

[53:49]america to go to britain to go to lebanon to be able

[53:53]to see the mukhalidin let me see what your issues are what

[53:55]your difficulties are what your problems are not all of them are

[54:01]only residing in najif i know for example shaykh al-irawani has come

[54:05]to london and albeit he may have come let's say for family

[54:07]surgery whatever he has come to london others of them who i

[54:12]mentioned have come to london others of them have gone to europe

[54:14]others of them have gone through beirut and lebanon there is a

[54:19]need for those maraju there is a need for them to also

[54:21]meet the muqalladeen and to see some of the real life issues

[54:25]that we face so some of them have political theories discussion philosophy

[54:29]by the way philosophy you know philosophy is always a controversial area

[54:34]in shiaism there are some philosophers who people ended up calling mushrik

[54:39]and there are others who praised philosophy yes some people look towards

[54:45]the greats in philosophy and some people have doubts over them you

[54:49]see people dispute over the likes of allah and his legacy but

[54:55]in najaf some say najef has no place for philosophy no even

[54:58]amongst the teachers of najaf you might get one of the teachers

[55:02]of the hakim family saying no way and another of them saying

[55:04]no no let's study philosophy let's open modern contemporary philosophy and try

[55:09]and readdress there are some of them who've even gone back and

[55:14]said that instead of just following on fick and rulings let's even

[55:17]look at imam again and explain imam and elaborate on imam so

[55:22]they go towards o'sullivan and not just for aden najef therefore is

[55:25]in a healthy position with these that are there all of them

[55:31]are ensuring that their legacy continues who decides who's going to be

[55:35]next is it like the vatican where we all get in a

[55:39]room and we're like let's give it to so and so not

[55:42]really to tell you the truth it doesn't really work like that

[55:44]everybody pretty much knows who should be in the ascendancy but that

[55:50]doesn't stop others from also reaching a level but as for the

[55:54]rector or the dean of the seminary everybody pretty much knows beforehand

[55:56]that we're trying to push towards this direction this person's the best

[56:02]of the teachers he is someone who's favored by the current merger

[56:05]but without the merger himself saying this is my successor it's not

[56:10]a radii situation of saying that this person is the successor no

[56:14]not at all it becomes a situation i think ultimately of tawfiq

[56:17]in that moment to tell you the truth he led the jainas

[56:24]and was not announced straight away as much if you lead the

[56:30]jainism so ultimately it comes down to tawfiq and that we pray

[56:42]to allah wa ta'ala on nights like this to lengthen the life

[56:47]of all of our ulama and allow them to continue in their

[56:50]service of muhammad yes sometimes my dear brothers and sisters you may

[56:55]hear that this islam should do this that islam should say this

[56:59]at the end of the day try their hardest to try and

[57:03]be god-conscious to try and allow us to emulate them in the

[57:08]best way that they can to try and reach us but ultimately

[57:10]there are only 14 who are massam in this world apart from

[57:14]the prophets of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for a person to turn

[57:16]around and see an islam say something or do something turn around

[57:22]straight away and want to stab an attack no a person should

[57:25]turn around and ask those who are experts in the field you

[57:27]could have one issue one issue which one islam says is haram

[57:33]another says is mustahab and another says i don't give an opinion

[57:38]on is there one who is hundred percent right and she has

[57:41]them only one alimon no otherwise he should be the fifteenth muslim

[57:45]everybody has their rich they heard and ultimately we look towards their

[57:49]worldview but one thing they certainly all agree on is what as

[57:56]they all agree that they want to be near the shrines of

[58:00]al-muhammad that's something you'll see in all of them you sit with

[58:04]them and they'll say to you that's when they were in um

[58:08]they lived being next to sayyid yes how many of us yearned

[58:12]to do when they were in negev used to love najef because

[58:21]he could walk to the shrine of amir al-males you could have

[58:32]gone and for them they'll say to you you pray behind us

[58:34]maybe your best feeling by us going to the shrine and being

[58:38]next to al-muhammad that's our best feeling and among something they all

[58:42]have also is that they've all in one way or the other

[58:45]written poetry in honor of saying you see a person can be

[58:52]a great jurist he can focus on salah and so on but

[58:58]ultimately he'll say to you my tears for husain yes ultimately they'll

[59:04]say someone said to me once when he was writing tafsir for

[59:10]the whole year he would be busy writing the tips here except

[59:14]one day the tenth of muharram closed the book this day is

[59:19]abba abdullah's day that's it that there is nothing else but my

[59:26]focus is towards there you'll find others like shaheed motahari saying how

[59:31]his teacher had a problem with his eyesight and someone said to

[59:36]him that that clay that's underneath those who come to image listen

[59:40]place that on the eyes and he said that he saw better

[59:44]than he had seen before you look at the others each one

[59:49]of them has a relationship with imam al-hussein even when i look

[59:53]i mentioned earlier i came across a beautiful poem from him highlighting

[59:59]how he feels about karbala and imam al-hussein he said riddled by

[60:08]trial and tribulation this is how the poem begins riddled by trial

[60:16]and tribulation we all come together to remember the grandson of the

[60:24]prophet the eve of ashura is not one night for it continues

[60:28]to live through all the years subhanallah he said the eve of

[60:32]ashura the night of ashura is not one night no no no

[60:36]no i thought it was the night no he said because it

[60:39]lives through years that night breaks all of our hearts doesn't it

[60:43]all of us gather so he said riddled by trials and tribulations

[60:50]we come to remember the grandson of the prophet the eve of

[60:56]ashura is not one night it lives through all of the years

[60:59]that even would break the heart of all the ulama if it

[61:04]broke their heart then what did it do to the mothers who

[61:08]were in carabella yes imagine you as a mother knowing this is

[61:15]the last night that i spend with my children i want the

[61:20]mothers to feel this wherever you may be wherever you may be

[61:22]you're a mum and the doctor says you 12 hours left how

[61:27]would you feel i asked the dads over here if a doctor

[61:31]came and told you only a few hours left what would you

[61:34]feel tell me your son has two of them a few hours

[61:36]left or your six-month-old baby only a few hours left yes what

[61:42]would you feel like i asked all of you that's eve you're

[61:47]right you're right that is not just an eve that lives through

[61:51]years it takes years to recover from that night i ask allah

[61:58]one question how did zainab recover from that night how how do

[62:02]you recover because and yet i see rabbi when i see the

[62:20]other all of them all of them ready yes some notes already

[62:26]was that ready to lose her baby that's something we'll always have

[62:31]to think about but that they had all given their sons they

[62:35]were ready to give theirs she wanted now to give hers yes

[62:40]when she wanted to give hers she told on and muhammad go

[62:46]now to your uncle and tell him it's our turn to go

[62:48]to the battlefield yes the two of them young boys young boys

[62:53]who were there they went to imam al-hussein they came to him

[63:00]and they said to him uncle it's our turn to go out

[63:04]he said no no return back to your mother i want you

[63:05]to be there for your mom is that my uncle she told

[63:10]us to come and he said no no go back to your

[63:13]mom make me happy if you go back to your mom they

[63:14]returned back to their mom they sat with their mom and then

[63:19]they looked towards them and she said but i told you to

[63:21]go why are you both back history will never see like this

[63:31]moment yes how mothers put al muhammad ahead of themselves that's a

[63:34]difficult stage to reach in life by the way it's a difficult

[63:38]stage to put the family to put your imam ahead of you

[63:42]before your own family is not easy she said no go towards

[63:46]that he said come back she went towards him she began walking

[63:53]towards him she stood next to him she said to him why

[63:56]have they returned back to me if i stopped here i think

[64:03]it would be enough for the night someone says no don't stop

[64:08]away never recited one muslim in his life someone came to him

[64:14]once he said to him mawlana just one he said no recite

[64:20]messiah i don't have that ability said to him just one please

[64:25]he said you want jose and saying to him please i ask

[65:01]you in the name of your mom that she knew would break

[65:08]him because his mother his mother was everything to him she said

[65:12]i ask you in the name of your mom allow me to

[65:17]be proud in front of my mom that i gave away like

[65:23]they gave away riddled by trial and tribulation we remember your grandson

[65:33]o prophet of god the eve of ashura is not a night

[65:38]it lives through years and generations yes you look at him that

[65:42]was a soft spot for him and he couldn't say no anymore

[65:47]so he came towards he said are you ready to fight listen

[65:50]to their reply to him they're like our grandfather from one side

[65:54]is imam ali and our grandfather from the other is don't worry

[66:00]about us and we've been trained by a bus if you've been

[66:05]trained by abbas how could you be scared of the opposition yes

[66:09]within a few moments the two of them were in the middle

[66:13]of the battlefield at the beginning of course the opposition was fighting

[66:16]them one-on-one or two on two when you fight the two of

[66:21]them the two or two you know these are the granasons of

[66:24]amir and you know that you're not able to get past them

[66:28]the moment they strike a member of the opposition they turn around

[66:33]they look at their uncle father wanting to see if their uncle

[66:40]was proud of them when one came to attack on muhammad would

[66:45]get in his way when another would attack muhammad all would get

[66:52]in his way until one of them laid a fatal blow on

[66:57]the two sons of allah [Applause] came running out onto that battlefield

[67:14]he removed those who were there from the opposition one of the

[67:19]poets says this quite beautifully he looked at one of them he

[67:25]said to him my dear nephew i apologize i could not be

[67:27]with you the nephew turned around he said one thing to him

[67:32]what is that thing what could be on his mind until tell

[67:40]my mother i died without drinking any water all of you this

[67:44]is your night tonight we are always saying i've been sham tonight

[67:47]all of you those who miss sham this is for you how

[67:56]can i drink and my uncle doesn't have any water to drink

[68:01]imam al-hussein carried them both back to their tents he knew this

[68:06]was going to be a difficult moment he carried why she didn't

[68:14]want the others to break down she didn't want her brother to

[68:18]break down when they took her to kufa she didn't break down

[68:24]when when she entered their bedroom and saw the mattresses [Music] she

[68:43]fell on one of the mattresses and called out forgive me for

[68:49]giving me that i never should tears for you [Music] i didn't

[68:58]want to break my brother's heart and allah with your tear those

[69:19]fathers who face difficulties those youths who are trying to get closer

[69:23]to allah those who are facing struggles in their life ask your

[69:26]dua now now all of you in these seconds i want you

[69:31]to ask ask from the bottom of your heart yes ask our

[69:36]only weapon is our tears that's all we have yes ask for

[69:43]your hajjat all of you everyone here has a hajj if not

[69:47]in dunya then for your ask now if not for you ask

[69:52]for your dad and your mom who instilled the love of zainab

[69:55]into your heart ya allah raise us with muhammad al muhammad raise

[70:08]allow them to continue in the service of muhammad al muhammad there

[70:12]are those of you who came to me said that their families

[70:14]some members are feeling unwell and facing difficulties so let us all

[70:18]wherever you may be here online whichever part of the world all

[70:25]the azadars let's come together all of you have sons or daughters

[70:48]in the name of awn and muhammad recite this loudly actually [Music]

[71:15]the loudest of yours you

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