Ashura 2023 | English Program | Night 1

7 المشاهدات· 24/06/21

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[0:03]foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] Moon to me [Music] in the United [Music]

[1:15]on [Music] come on [Music] [Music] anymore [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign foreign

[2:36][Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah yeah [Music] [Music] Muhammad [Music] is Muhammad

[5:41][Music] assalamu alaikum my dear brothers and sisters our respected scholarship Madi

[5:58]and dear families we welcome you all to the majalis of ABBA

[6:03]Abdullah Hussain alaihissalam to the Muharram program for this year hosted by

[6:10]the ashwora project peace be upon Hussein upon Ali son of Hussein

[6:19]upon the children of Hussein upon the companions of Hussein tonight my

[6:25]brothers and sisters we commemorate the first night of Muharram tonight we

[6:30]follow in the teachings of our prophet sallallahu alaihi and His holy

[6:38]progeny peace be upon them tonight we emulate our role models and

[6:45]mourning and lamenting and commemorating the struggle of Truth and faith in

[6:53]the face of treachery despotism and godlessness tonight we commemorate to commemorate

[7:02]like the salaam did and we also commemorate to learn submissiveness to

[7:10]Allah and not to desire to learn god-weariness to learn discipline to

[7:15]resist evil and falsehood to learn god-weariness to learn discipline to distinguish

[7:23]between the friend and the foe to prioritize and to solve change

[7:30]and these nights are keys to unlock both our minds and our

[7:37]hearts to attain that change and that is because our cure is

[7:43]within us our guidance is within us and our willpower and reason

[7:48]all come from within us and hence the theme Hussain The Light

[7:56]Within our dear rastani was born and raised in the U.S he

[8:00]finished high school in the Islamic Republic of Iran and then joined

[8:05]the Islamic Seminary of come for six years of introductory and intermediate

[8:10]studies before attending hezboth advanced classes taught by Grand Ayatollah said Sheikh

[8:17]Madi is currently a resident scholar at the city of knowledge Islamic

[8:20]Center in Dallas Texas and an instructor at Mizan Institute please help

[8:26]me welcome for tonight's lecture with aloud Salat Muhammad thank you thank

[8:58]you recite allowance please [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] Moon [Music] um [Music]

[10:26][Music] [Music] foreign [Music] I can imagine For the Love of our

[11:16]beloved prophet and his beloved progeny a second loud salawat um for

[11:24]the hastening in the return of our beloved twelfth Imam a third

[11:30]final loud salawats it's an honor to be again here with the

[11:37]dear brothers and sisters from this community I pray that inshallah what

[11:44]we go through over the following ten nights is of benefit to

[11:47]our dear audience as well as to the speaker himself a big

[11:50]thanks before I begin to the dear brothers and sisters who have

[11:56]worked very hard leading up to this ashra and I'm sure will

[11:58]be working very hard as we go through this ashra to make

[12:03]these majalis possible for us for them for their families for all

[12:06]of those who work behind the scenes to make these majalis as

[12:09]well as other majalis possible for us another loud salawats the topic

[12:19]that we'll be discussing tonight and tomorrow night inshallah is the topic

[12:23]of building an Islamic identity this is a topic that is even

[12:27]more crucial for us to discuss as Muslims living in this part

[12:32]of the world because the reality is growing up from the very

[12:36]beginning you start to notice something about your life that is different

[12:40]from the lives of the people around you everyone else when you

[12:45]start to go to school might be celebrating certain holidays you might

[12:48]come home one day very happy you tell your baba you tell

[12:51]your mom everyone's celebrating Christmas they tell you no this is not

[12:54]something that we celebrate from a very young age you notice that

[12:59]you're doing things very differently in your household you might get a

[13:03]little bit older get into Middle School get into High School you

[13:06]see your friends they are engaging with the opposite gender they have

[13:09]relationships it's a very normal thing Valentine's Day is a thing taking

[13:13]people to Prime is a thing you come home your parents will

[13:17]tell you no this is not allowed in our faith you have

[13:19]to do things differently you go out with your friends from school

[13:25]sometimes for your colleagues your peers they go out to eat some

[13:28]food you can't necessarily eat that food all of a sudden you

[13:31]see things are different in your your life every step of the

[13:35]way you make it into college you find almost everybody in college

[13:39]is experiencing with drugs and alcohol and all sorts of things and

[13:43]at the very least theoretically you and I know that we're not

[13:48]supposed to engage with these things move on to you're getting married

[13:50]now you look at your wedding you look at the Instagram worthy

[13:53]wedding of a non-muslim couple and you see these weddings are quite

[13:57]different from each other at least they're supposed to be and so

[14:02]every step of the way you start to realize that you do

[14:04]things differently in this Society it seems as though the way you

[14:10]do things and the way the normal person within Society or the

[14:13]average person within Society does things are quite different from each other

[14:18]and this gives rise to a question and puts a question into

[14:22]all of our minds and that is what is my place in

[14:26]my role in this Society who am I what is my identity

[14:29]because clearly I'm not just one of the members of this Society

[14:34]clearly I do things differently compared to the way they do things

[14:40]they're living their lives one way I'm living my life a different

[14:41]way who am I what is my identity what is my place

[14:47]within Society so you ask yourself that question and you start to

[14:51]realize the answer to that question is far more complex and complicated

[14:54]than you thoughts because in reality when you look at your own

[15:00]life you realize that you identify in a multitude of different ways

[15:05]sometimes you identify based on your ethnicity you might say I'm Arab

[15:09]I'm Iranian I'm Pakistani whatever the case might be sometimes you identify

[15:13]based on your career I'm a doctor I'm a lawyer I'm this

[15:17]I'm that sometimes you identify based off of your last name some

[15:22]last names are so well known it's an identity in and of

[15:25]itself sometimes you identify based on where you grew up you say

[15:29]I'm American I'm Canadian I'm this I'm that and all these other

[15:32]sorts of identities that you can think of but at the end

[15:36]of the day which one of these are you am I Muslim

[15:38]am I an American Muslim am I Muslim American how do I

[15:44]identify what is my identity and the reason why this discussion is

[15:48]so crucial to us is because I your identity and your conduct

[15:52]and your behavior are always tied to one another anytime you want

[15:58]to see how someone is acting in life it has to do

[16:00]with how they see themselves it has to do with how they

[16:06]identify what they consider to be their identity therefore it is crucial

[16:11]for us tonight and tomorrow night to take some time to understand

[16:14]who am I what does Islam say about my identity and that

[16:20]will in turn then determine for me how I'm going to live

[16:23]my life and in order to delve into this topic we'll pose

[16:29]the following questions number one how is the conduct and the behavior

[16:33]of the human being always tied to his identity and the way

[16:36]he sees himself number two what are the different ways that we

[16:42]identify and if we have different ways that we identify which one

[16:46]of them is the most foundational the most crucial to Who I

[16:50]Am Number Three how does the Quran speak of the identity of

[16:55]the human being and our origin story number four how does Imam

[16:59]Ali speak of the of our origin and those moments when we

[17:04]used to be in the womb of our mother number five what

[17:09]does the Quran mean and what is it talking about when the

[17:12]Quran says the one who forgets about God he will forget who

[17:18]he is himself and number six and finally how do the lines

[17:23]in this salats that we perform after everything in the life of

[17:27]a person is all said and done how do these lines show

[17:30]us the true identity of the human being tonight inshallah we'll delve

[17:39]into these six questions with aloud Muhammad let us begin from here

[17:48]when you look at Islam as a religion it comes with many

[17:50]rules and regulations so many do's and don'ts and so before we

[17:57]get into all of these do's and don'ts you can't dress like

[17:59]this you can't eat this you can't listen to this you can't

[18:03]look at this you can't do this you can't do that first

[18:06]we have to understand what is my identity otherwise I'm always going

[18:10]to struggle with these do's and don'ts of Islam because I'm always

[18:13]going to feel as though someone else is coming and taking away

[18:16]my Liberties and my freedom as a human being someone is coming

[18:22]this religion this Islam this God whoever it might be is coming

[18:25]and telling me what to do what not to do with my

[18:28]life as long as I see myself as an independent being as

[18:31]someone who has authority over his own life I will feel like

[18:36]someone is intervening in my life all the time but if I

[18:38]identify in a different way if I understand who I am well

[18:43]then things are going to be very very different from one another

[18:45]and the reason why this topic is so crucial is because we

[18:51]said that the identity of the human being is fundamentally what will

[18:56]Define his behavior and his conduct the way you see yourself the

[19:01]understanding you have of who you are is what's going to dictate

[19:06]what you will do when you're in a situation where you have

[19:08]to make a decision there are some of your friends you come

[19:11]across they sleep very late at night you automatically give them an

[19:19]identity say this friend of mine is a night owl that's it

[19:21]he takes on this identity yes now when you're hanging out with

[19:26]him he says listen Baba you know who I am I'm a

[19:27]night owl I'm gonna stay up I'm not gonna go to sleep

[19:31]until 2AM yes Fajr is something else we'll figure out Fajr later

[19:34]yes but he says this is my identity this is who I

[19:40]am you have another friend yes he wakes up very early in

[19:42]the morning this friend of yours is the type of person who

[19:47]wants to wake up early and God forbid he's the type of

[19:49]person who wants to let everyone else know that he woke up

[19:53]early yes that type of a friend is a problem but you

[19:56]give him an identity he's an early bird that's what he does

[20:01]the moment you give him that identity that is going to determine

[20:04]his behavior his conduct that's what you expect of him these two

[20:07]are always tied to one another very very closely I'll give you

[20:13]an analogy so you understand this better imagine one night you know

[20:17]your mother tells you go and put the trash out yes it's

[20:19]late at night because she told you earlier you didn't do it

[20:24]yes but now it's okay it's late at night go put this

[20:27]trash out you want to take the trash out down the driveway

[20:31]it's dark for some of us it might be scary imagine you're

[20:36]going down this driveway carrying this trash with you and in the

[20:39]bushes you start to hear some noise and so I think we've

[20:45]all been there you hear this noise some of us of course

[20:49]will run back yeah back in the house but when you hear

[20:54]this sound in the bushes what's the first question you ask yourself

[20:57]first question you ask yourself is what is this you want to

[21:03]figure out its identity what is it is it a dog is

[21:07]it a cat is it a cute little rabbit is it a

[21:12]snake God forbid God forbid God for the worst of all is

[21:14]it a racks yes the rat is probably the worst of all

[21:18]even though the snake can kill you but still the rat is

[21:19]the worst case scenario yes you want to figure out what this

[21:24]thing is why because you want to figure out what it's going

[21:27]to do the identity of that thing that's moving around in the

[21:32]bush will determine for you how it's going to act and what

[21:36]it's going to do if you can pinpoint its identity then you'll

[21:39]know am I supposed to run back to my house or can

[21:42]I just be brave and move forward the identity of everything is

[21:47]going to determine how that thing is going to do things okay

[21:50]great Allah can you just tell us what our identity is why

[21:55]can't Islam just tell us what our identity is so we start

[21:57]to look into our identities the problem is that you identify in

[22:01]a million different ways sometimes you identify based off of your economic

[22:05]status sometimes you identify based off of your ethnicity where you grew

[22:09]up what type of food you like some people even identify based

[22:14]off of where they went to school the college they went to

[22:16]is what they identify based off of all of a sudden they

[22:20]do some weird symbols towards each other you realize well they went

[22:22]to the same high school they went to the same college for

[22:24]example yes we identify in so many different ways so then the

[22:31]problem starts and begins from this point and that is where Sometimes

[22:38]some of these identities start to contradict one another they start to

[22:42]overlap with one another like one identity is asking you to do

[22:46]one thing another identity is asking you to do another thing you're

[22:51]stuck in this situation what am I supposed to do who am

[22:54]I give you a simple example your friends call you they say

[22:59]listen we're gonna go we're gonna spend some time tonight yes we're

[23:02]gonna hang out tonight this is your identity as a friend calling

[23:07]you to go and attend go and spend time and then you

[23:08]get a call from the family well we're gonna go and check

[23:12]and see our relatives tonight so your identities are doing what now

[23:16]they are contradicting one another now you're stuck you don't know am

[23:21]I supposed to go this way am I supposed to go that

[23:24]way and you will see that every single human being who's ever

[23:28]lived and is living right now and will ever live will be

[23:32]in this position and they will always prefer one identity over the

[23:36]other when they start to overlap always give importance and preference to

[23:40]one of these identities over the other one it's very key is

[23:44]the key to our discussion and he always gives a preference to

[23:52]that identity that's more crucial and is closer to who he really

[23:56]is is more foundational to who he is that's what he does

[24:00]so if his friends call him even if he's not Muslim if

[24:04]his friends call him say hey we're gonna go spend time and

[24:08]then his wife calls him says listen we have to go to

[24:10]the hospital I'm hoping I'm praying that he's actually going to do

[24:17]what he's going to give preference to that relationship that he has

[24:20]in the household he'll say you know what I'm more of a

[24:23]husband than I am a friend right now this one is more

[24:28]foundational to who I am yeah I am a friend too other

[24:30]situations I would be going out spending time all that kind of

[24:34]stuff but you know when these two contradict each other I'm gonna

[24:37]give importance and preference to that identity that is more foundational to

[24:42]who I am so he goes spends time with the family you

[24:47]switch this up sometimes his identity as a friend contradicts his identity

[24:51]as an employee of an organization or Corporation yes they call him

[24:57]into work but then his friend calls him and says listen I

[25:00]need you I need your time for this issue or that issue

[25:02]yes this is a contradicting with one of he's being pulled from

[25:06]two different directions and ideally if he's the right friend for you

[25:10]he will call back and say listen right now I'm more of

[25:15]a friend than I am an employee so I'll call into work

[25:19]and tell them I can't come because this is a very crucial

[25:21]moment in your life and you really need my help and so

[25:26]on and so forth Muslim or non-muslim your identities are always going

[25:29]to clash with each other and when they Clash you always give

[25:32]preference to one of these identities over the other one yes this

[25:38]is understood this is very clear and Islam expects the same thing

[25:42]from you and I Islam says listen you have a hundred different

[25:46]identities figure out which one of them is the most foundational to

[25:50]you and then if they ever Clash never override the most foundational

[25:58]one never override that one don't take this one for granted never

[26:02]prefer anything over this one because this one is the most foundational

[26:08]to who you are this is what Islam wants from us I

[26:10]can have a million different identities no problem if they ever Clash

[26:13]with that most foundational identity then Allah expects from us to give

[26:19]preference to that identity okay wonderful I get it I understand let's

[26:24]move on yallah what is my most foundational identity that if any

[26:30]other Identity or role were to ever contradict it I have to

[26:32]give preference to this one this is where the discussion gets a

[26:35]little humbling yes it's going to take a little bit of humility

[26:40]so you knock on the door of the Quran can you tell

[26:44]us what our most foundational identity is who are we at our

[26:47]very core and the Quran says sure I can tell you that

[26:50]it's going to be a little humbling but let me tell you

[26:53]what that is see you are most foundational identity what really makes

[26:57]you who you are at your very core is that you are

[27:04]a servant because the thing is you don't own anything because you

[27:10]don't own anything you don't have ownership over anything you have to

[27:14]serve the one who gave you the stuff you have and this

[27:18]is the difficult part because you and I sit there and say

[27:23]wait a second uh excuse me I think there's been some kind

[27:24]of a mistake I kind of have my own life and I

[27:27]make my own decisions and I have a career and friends and

[27:31]all of this I'm an independent being so what do you mean

[27:34]servant this servant that serve who I have all these things in

[27:38]life I have I own a house I have a career I

[27:41]own a car I have this I have that and the Quran

[27:42]says yeah you know all that stuff you have someone gave them

[27:47]to you none of them belong to you you have nothing to

[27:52]your name you don't own anything see but all this stuff I

[27:56]have I have a whole life it says yeah but somebody else

[27:59]gave you all of that any of that and so because you

[28:05]don't have any ownership you also don't have any authority over your

[28:10]own life so what's my identity you have to go serve the

[28:20]one who owns everything in your life this is how it works

[28:23]Authority comes from ownership if someone walks onto your lawn you can

[28:27]turn around to them and say listen you need to leave my

[28:30]house right now what gives you permission to tell them go leave

[28:33]my house it's a fact you own the house ownership okay Bismillah

[28:37]the stuff in your life the Quran will say oh you don't

[28:39]own any of them well if I don't own any of them

[28:45]well then I have no authority over my life that's your identity

[28:49]you're like no but I I don't think it works like that

[28:52]I'm kind of an important person you know I sit I talk

[28:57]people listen you know I kind of have a have a little

[28:58]thing going for myself in my life and the Quran says listen

[29:02]somebody else gave you all of that you want me to demonstrate

[29:04]for you how you had nothing and then someone else gave you

[29:08]all of that let's go back to your origin story let's see

[29:11]where you came from so you go to Surat to Tariq verse

[29:17]five through seven the Quran says the human being should think sometimes

[29:20]uh where he came from you should you should take a a

[29:29]little trip back yes in in your history and remember where you

[29:31]came from because now you're acting like you own a bunch of

[29:33]stuff you don't own anything you're kind of a nobody in front

[29:39]of God yes in society you have rights you're independent all of

[29:43]that makes sense yeah but in your relationship with God you don't

[29:46]really own too much okay so where did I come from it

[29:52]says he should take a look of where he came from okay

[29:55]so where did I come from you came from a drop of

[30:00]fluid oh wait a second I thought I was like kind of

[30:04]important you are important from other angles you are important but from

[30:08]this angle you were empty-handed you had nothing yes it comes from

[30:17]the loins and so on and so forth this is who used

[30:21]to who you used to be foreign but I thought I was

[30:27]really important he says listen let's go a little bit back if

[30:30]we go a little bit further back it's not even that drop

[30:35]of fluid you're like almost nothing before I made you into something

[30:40]I was the one who made you who you are otherwise on

[30:44]your own you had nothing to your name so then suratul insan

[30:51]which sometimes we refer to as Surat has three beautiful verses when

[30:54]you go home tonight take a look at these three verses yes

[30:57]the first three verses is all of our life in a nutshell

[31:04]essentially three verses the first verse starts out like this it says

[31:10]does the human being not remember there was a time he wasn't

[31:15]even worthy of mention that's who you used to be yes now

[31:20]you're sitting here you're a full-fledged human being with Consciousness intellect so

[31:25]on and so forth a whole life of your own yes but

[31:27]someone brought you this far someone else did all of this so

[31:33]now your identity is to serve him nothing to your own name

[31:37]nothing from yourself your ears your eyes your Consciousness your intellect your

[31:42]mind all of this came from somewhere else the Quran says listen

[31:45]you don't own any of these things that's why the Quran says

[31:50]Allah owns everything you guys are empty-handed the human being is empty-handed

[32:00]he doesn't own anything you want to go a little bit deeper

[32:02]to understand who you are you know Islamic philosophers they talk about

[32:05]this it's a long discussion but I'll simplify just so you get

[32:10]the terminology Islamic philosophers call you and I a mumkin mumkin mumkin

[32:15]means what Mom can means that thing that's so weak if it

[32:21]wants to exist something else has to want it to exist otherwise

[32:26]it can't even stand on its own two feet this is mumkin

[32:29]monkin is that thing that exists that in its own existence and

[32:35]in everything it does it needs someone else to come and do

[32:37]it for him his heart needs to beat someone asks us to

[32:41]come to it his lungs have to work someone else has to

[32:44]come to his blood has to run through somebody else he needs

[32:46]eyes someone else has to say ears someone else so what's my

[32:52]identity you're that thing that can't even exist on its own that's

[32:56]who you are that is foundationally our identity that is the most

[33:00]foundational identity that we have as human beings this is why the

[33:03]Quran says by the way your existence is so flimsy yeah that

[33:08]if God wanted to wipe you out and then bring in another

[33:12]group of people it's not like once he created you you're stuck

[33:17]with you you can't do anything about it no no yes if

[33:23]I wanted to I could wipe you out bring out another group

[33:28]of people and you know what it's very easy for me because

[33:30]your existence is so flimsy removing it bringing it it's like a

[33:36]flip second just a split second I can do it so he

[33:40]says when we want to get stuff done it takes us one

[33:43]moment it's like you bat your eyes that's what we can do

[33:51]that's how flimsy of an existence you and I have now with

[33:55]this flimsy existence we're standing there with nothing to our name and

[33:58]then Allah says you need to do this you need to do

[34:02]that and I'm like well I don't think so I don't know

[34:05]if I want to trust you so much and this and Baba

[34:08]you don't own anything you're not in a position of authority you

[34:12]know sometimes you go into negotiations right when you're negotiating with the

[34:15]other person you need some Leverage if you need something ownership over

[34:19]something so that you can point towards it recite us please you

[34:28]need something you own so you can point towards it and say

[34:31]oh well if you don't give us this we own this you're

[34:34]in a position of authority and God's saying listen you're not in

[34:36]position of authority everything you want to do I have to do

[34:40]it for you what Authority what ownership you can breathe on your

[34:49]own huh this is why I lived he explained so beautifully in

[34:55]one of his how we came to be the human beings that

[34:58]we are it's very humbling humbling he says listen let me tell

[35:05]you who you are he says yeah oh the one who first

[35:13]of all someone else had to create you someone else had to

[35:18]come in and organize your Affairs yes means the one who created

[35:23]the human being and then he organized him he put him into

[35:26]proportions yes your head is going to be here your arms your

[35:30]limbs your organs so on all the headache all the headache of

[35:32]the design of the human being this is fasawa foreign you are

[35:43]the one who God brought you forward through the darknesses of the

[35:47]wombs generation after generation after General you were part of this body

[35:55]then this body then this body then this body in the darknesses

[35:58]of the wombs when people didn't even know who you are there

[36:02]was someone who had to hold your hand and bring you all

[36:05]this way own anything we don't we don't we're not in a

[36:09]position of authority with God and you were hidden behind multiple layers

[36:21]your creation started from a speck of dust and then what happened

[36:29]then someone brought you and put you into a place of residence

[36:34]for a certain period of time foreign you were going from one

[36:42]corner to the other corner of the womb of your mother you

[36:44]were just in the womb of your mother foreign you were so

[36:52]insignificant no one could speak to you and you couldn't communicate with

[36:58]anybody this is who you were don't approach God from a position

[37:04]of authority because it's not true there's no reality to it you

[37:08]don't own anything I don't own anything it's a difficult pill to

[37:11]swallow he says you came from there and then God brought you

[37:20]out into a world this is very beautiful he says then God

[37:27]God brought you into this world you were born yeah but even

[37:31]when he brought you into this world you didn't even know the

[37:33]basics of life and then he asked this one question one question

[37:40]he says he says who taught you to go to your mother

[37:51]when you were hungry who taught you that you say oh no

[37:59]Sheikh if you study science we have some doctors in the community

[38:01]they said this comes naturally to the child no the stuff that

[38:08]came naturally to the child someone inspired this child to do these

[38:12]things someone taught him how to do these things says you're the

[38:17]one who is that Speck of dust all of it even when

[38:21]he brought you here then he had to teach you that listen

[38:23]if you're not comfortable crying because if you cry then your mother

[38:29]will come your aunts will come everyone will come yeah if you're

[38:32]hungry Yeah scratch the chest of your mother a little bit Yeah

[38:35]struggle it then they'll come you say oh this is all natural

[38:40]no it's not natural saying somebody inspired you for all of this

[38:44]so then that was you the one who had none of these

[38:49]things someone had to teach you all of the basics now you've

[38:52]come all of this way and now you're looking back and you

[38:57]see yourself as an independent being you're like yeah I did all

[38:58]of this on my own no what do you mean you did

[39:01]all of it on your own God is a part of everything

[39:04]you do because you need him in everything you do and this

[39:08]is why verse 19 from Surah 59 suratul is a very key

[39:14]verse in this whole discussion because Allah says something that for me

[39:19]personally growing up hearing it in lectures never made sense to me

[39:21]always hear this verse in lectures never made sense to me but

[39:26]if you understand this discussion we had now it makes a little

[39:31]bit more sense the Quran says don't be like those people who

[39:38]do this you know the Quran has this terminology yeah you know

[39:41]sometimes we say you don't want to be that guy right don't

[39:46]be that guy the Quran is saying don't be like those people

[39:49]like who don't be like those people who forgot about God okay

[39:55]so what happens if I forget about God there's a bunch of

[39:57]people they don't even think about God you know not even once

[40:00]a year seems like their life is going very well what's the

[40:02]problem he says because they forget who they are themselves what do

[40:13]you mean they forget who they are themselves because you are that

[40:16]being that can't exist on your own the moment you take God

[40:20]out of the picture there's no more you you don't exist anymore

[40:25]you forget about who you are you can't picture who you are

[40:30]without God being part of the equation you forget about God okay

[40:35]great you're lost in life you have no idea who you are

[40:40]you will forget who you are yourself because you are that being

[40:45]that is constantly reliant on God that's your definition that's who your

[40:50]identity is the moment you take God out of that equation there's

[40:52]no more you anymore you're not independent you have nothing to your

[40:57]name they are the ones who end up disobeying God the one

[41:04]who thinks he's independent God's out the picture so now he thinks

[41:07]it's his own thing now he gives himself permission to do as

[41:11]he wishes so now he has Fisk now he has open sinning

[41:15]now he commits sins he does this he does that because he

[41:20]lost and forgot who he was why because he took God out

[41:23]of the equation you know what the foundational identity of the human

[41:28]being is at its very core where this presents itself in the

[41:34]most manifest in the most clear way is when at the end

[41:37]of the life of this human being they bring the body they

[41:40]say we're going to do a Salat now that Muslims will do

[41:46]Shia and Sunni will do when they want to recite the Salat

[41:51]I'm sure many have already attended in the past there are lines

[41:54]that are to be recited these lines are to be recited by

[41:56]everyone who's part of this the Imam is not supposed to recite

[42:01]on your behalf like a normal Jamara right you do it in

[42:03]Jamal but you recite all the lines yourself there's five tech peers

[42:09]and after every takibir certain lines you say yes there's the Kalima

[42:13]you say and then you pray for all the Believers you do

[42:15]all of these things yes until you come to the last lines

[42:19]you're going to mention before the fifth takibir and the Salat is

[42:25]over this last between takapir four and five you're going to talk

[42:28]about this who's in front of you all the other things are

[42:30]General stuff that's when I say General stuff not that they're not

[42:34]important but you're talking about general concepts between four and five this

[42:38]was in front of us I want to be careful not to

[42:42]point to any of the dear brothers here this mayatu is in

[42:45]front of us so what do you say in these lines this

[42:49]person who had a million different identities he was a lawyer he

[42:55]had this ethnicity he had that last name Bubba he had a

[42:58]last name when he used to say this last name people would

[43:01]just you know be like yeah whatever you want we all know

[43:05]people who are like that he had the identity of the type

[43:10]of wealth when he walked in people are like yeah sure we

[43:14]can make it happen he had these identities he had the identity

[43:19]of a certain class of society all of these different identities okay

[43:23]now everything is all said and done and now we're going to

[43:29]talk about this but look at how you talk about him to

[43:31]God so you start you say Allah oh Allah this one who's

[43:42]lying in front of us now you're going to refer to him

[43:47]so you have to use his identity right so the identity is

[43:50]for to point to things foreign he's a servant of yours who

[44:05]was also born from a male servant and a female servant about

[44:09]what happened he had all this this whole life of his all

[44:14]these identities he had this story and this experiences and all this

[44:17]kind of stuff what about all of that you say yeah that

[44:21]kind of stuff doesn't matter anymore that those identities were all cool

[44:28]and nice yeah wonderful great job but then at the most foundational

[44:32]level this was his identity if he utilized those other ones uh

[44:36]to build more of this great if he didn't he just had

[44:41]those other identities well that's fine they're not necessarily Haram either but

[44:44]you know it's fine but they don't have much value today it

[44:47]doesn't matter much today anymore the only thing that matters now is

[44:58]that he's come to you and while you're the best one to

[45:01]come towards you're the most welcoming to come towards okay so now

[45:05]what matters now Allah if he did well in other words I.E

[45:16]translation if he was a good servant e he took steps towards

[45:24]you o Allah out of your mercy out of your grace out

[45:28]of your father add to his goodness and if he didn't do

[45:35]well well then Allah forgive him what's your most foundational identity your

[45:40]most foundational identity is that you are that existence that cannot breathe

[45:46]or live on its own everything else layers of your existence if

[45:53]you go to your very core this is who you are okay

[45:58]wonderful this is my most foundational identity it's humbling but I'll take

[46:02]it because the Quran is saying so so if this is my

[46:05]most foundational identity and this leads us to our discussion for tomorrow

[46:09]night and then the Quran is going to tell you now if

[46:11]this is your most foundational identity when you take on other identities

[46:15]that's not a problem only when they clash with this one this

[46:23]one overrides them if they don't Clash fine a lot of times

[46:29]they won't some identities will never clash with this no problem sometimes

[46:34]they will and Allah expects from you and I that because this

[46:39]is the most foundational identity of yours this is the most important

[46:42]thing that makes you who you are if anything clashes with this

[46:50]one this gets preference this one gets precedence this one gets to

[46:56]override everything else if you start to override this one and give

[47:00]preference to other things then you're forgetting who you are truly and

[47:05]tomorrow night we will talk about how a human being can sometimes

[47:11]give preference to this identity and how the human being sometimes can

[47:14]make the big mistake of giving preference to his other identities with

[47:20]that inshallah we'll bring tonight's talk to and end let us take

[47:25]a moment to recite soon for all of your man and especially

[47:29]for the Mount of all of those who have who have worked

[47:35]hard to make these majalis possible foreign [Music] before we begin our

[48:40]Muslims we share two small announcements inshallah number one the ashwora project

[48:45]youth program begins tonight and is held every night during the Arabic

[48:49]program it's an educational program held in the classrooms for young boys

[48:53]and girls ages 4 to 12 that includes activities and contests please

[49:01]see the youth program coordinator in the hall on the left hand

[49:05]side for more information number two is the alcohol youth contest which

[49:12]is an educational online questionnaire contest for Youth Of Ages 8 to

[49:18]14.

[49:18]the contest form will be available at the hall entrance and online

[49:23]at ashworaproject.org and all forms must be submitted via the collection boxes

[49:28]and prior to Friday July 28th or the 10th of Muharram the

[49:32]prizes will include a tablet airpods and mini drones and winners will

[49:40]be announced after Allah which has been narrated peace be upon you

[49:53]from one who knows your rank one who is Sincere and following

[50:00]you one who's clean-handed from your enemies peace be upon you from

[50:04]one whose heart is pierced over your calamity one whose tears upon

[50:09]your mentioning fall peace be upon you from one who is Afflicted

[50:14]and said peace from one who were he to be with you

[50:19]in karbala would have sacrificed himself to defend you among the swords

[50:25]and made his soul ransom for you until death and battled alongside

[50:31]of you and made you Victorious amongst those who fought you and

[50:35]sacrificed his body Soul money and children for you and whose soul

[50:42]for yours is Ransom and whose family for yours is sacrifice for

[50:47]since time has delayed me and Destiny to hinder me from Making

[50:53]You Victorious and I not be a fighter to those who fought

[50:59]you and an enemy to those who took you enemy then I

[51:03]lament you day and night and I will cry blood instead of

[51:08]Tears over you heartbroken over you and said upon what you went

[51:15]through until I die from this tormenting tragedy and aching sorrow every

[51:20]night my brothers and sisters over these 10 nights we will remind

[51:27]ourselves and our brothers and sisters why we're here every night we

[51:31]will recite Hadith the accounts of the prophetam crying over Imam Hussein

[51:36]or discussing the importance of these majalis and every night together we

[51:43]will ask Allah subhanahu ta'ala to grant us the privilege of knowing

[51:46]the right and rank of the Imam through a famous Dua the

[51:49]Imam taught one of his companions that I kindly ask you all

[51:55]to recite with me Allah foreign thank you all right foreign foreign

[53:48]we journey with our hearts [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] May the peace

[54:57]of Allah fall upon the benevolent heart of Imam Hussain May the

[55:07]peace of Allah be upon you above [Music] as you are his

[55:20]vast Mercy and the salvation of this woman [Music] a stranger [Music]

[55:51]together a stranger [Music] a stranger [Music] May the salutations [Music] foreign

[56:41][Music] [Music] except for the eye that your tears for the tragedy

[57:12]of Hussein that I will be happy and the waiting Rewards and

[57:21]one of our imams has said [Music] [Music] one of our imams

[57:41]has said any believer whose eyes shut a tear for the killing

[57:45]of Hussein the son of Ali until the steer runs down his

[57:56]chain Allah will grant him spacious rooms in Paradise that he shall

[58:02]inhibit for Everlasting times tonight is the first of Muharram and we

[58:07]call Abdullah my Mastery office I ask you what is this great

[58:16]Calamity that you experience in which if we shall run on a

[58:23]steering grief over you we open the doors of Mercy to Allah

[58:26]of mercy of Allah was it because you were surrounded by thousands

[58:37]of enemies the Thirsty under the scorching Sun yet you refuse to

[58:45]give up your principles or is it because you witnessed the most

[58:50]beloved of your sons and your nephewsim and the brothers of al-qasim

[58:59]and others like Akbar and calls him did you see them is

[59:05]it because you saw them get slain before your eyes and you

[59:08]remain steadfast and trusting Allah or was it because when you fella

[59:20]love your horse and your Noble face Landing upon the burning sand

[59:26]that you reached out into art to Allah reciting his praise and

[59:32]never wavered from your faith indeed you are the door to Allah's

[59:46]Mercy and in your sacrifice you're preserved for us the true message

[59:52]of rasulullah yes brothers and sisters the tears that we shut for

[59:59]Imam and the agony that we feel when we recall his story

[60:02]year after year is what safeguards our faith and brings us into

[60:07]the unending mercy of Allah with this first night of Muharram let's

[60:14]recall our Imam lonely wounded against the merciless Army and he raised

[60:28]his bloodied hands towards the heavens and besieged Allah saying [Music] [Applause]

[60:38][Music] are you pleased my Lord think from me until you are

[60:50]pleased with my sacrifice for you foreign [Music] Grace Salaam from our

[61:34]weeping eyes [Music] salon upon your Noble body as you fall off

[61:48]your sleep anyone he fell off the horse to the ground in

[61:56]karbala Salaam what happens when he falls off the horse and he's

[62:02]wounded Salah upon your face that over the sand and bleed [Music]

[62:14]salallah to you [Music] and your babies [Music] [Applause] [Music] enough [Music]

[62:58]for you weeping [Music] lest we forget [Music] the righteous God [Music]

[63:25]um yes brothers and sisters the tragedy of Imam Hussain breaks the

[63:37]hearts and sheds the tears of every believer however this tragedy breaks

[63:42]not only our hearts but also the heart of our beloved Syed

[63:48]as she also sheds her tears with us and joins us enjoys

[63:54]those who mourn her son Hussain and their sorrow foreign [Music] Imam

[64:25]is broken also weeps for the tragedy of his grandfather he says

[64:43][Music] over you and sorrow and grief of what befell you Brothers

[65:02]and Sisters Let's imagine if what would she say [Music] my son's

[65:28]house [Music] his son is before him and in front of his

[65:59]eyes his sons before him butcher than me and there's more [Music]

[66:13]face covered with blood answers [Music] he cried for zaina when he

[66:31]could no longer stand [Music] they even raised his head if their

[66:46]mom was to respond to his grandfather grandmother Fatima [Music] for Hussein

[66:57]in blood I wept and cry yes [Music] as I recall his

[67:12]prayers before he died [Music] they trampled his body from every side

[67:28]yes [Music] when I will run and raise His Banner that the

[67:51]Heavenly sky because my call to the world will be loud and

[67:59]clear my grandfather [Music] was incredible thirsty [Music] [Music] and call upon

[68:46]you by your greatest theme the mighty is the most honorable this

[68:49]and your blessings and praise upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad

[68:57]and that you accept of us our worship we ask that you

[69:02]send your mercy upon the death of the believing man and woman

[69:07]we ask you by Hassan [Music] the Martyr and his mother and

[69:21]father whoever was in the Gathering of our words has a need

[69:25]that you fulfill it for them we pray that you relieve the

[69:28]suffering of all those oppressed and let you haste in the return

[69:34]of our twelve Imam Ya Allah May the peace of Allah be

[69:37]upon the noble who said the children of Jose and the family

[69:46]of Hussain May the peace of Allah be upon together [Music] Allah

[70:00][Music] foreign [Music] foreign all right [Music] ten years ago we embarked

[71:50]on a mission to revive the True Values of Islam within our

[71:54]community empowered by the faith and dedication of our volunteers and your

[71:59]endless support our projects impacted the lives of tens of thousands in

[72:03]our community and Beyond since day one our effort was recognized as

[72:07]one being led by the youth and the youth have always been

[72:11]at the center of our Focus our goal was and remains to

[72:18]instill Islamic values that Enlighten the Young Generation strengthen their identity and

[72:21]Empower them to become successful leaders in the future but as the

[72:26]times you are in become more challenging every day and our values

[72:31]are consistently under attack we cannot stand still and having a facility

[72:36]that allows for bigger and better projects became a necessity alhamdulillah today

[72:41]Taha Foundation the para organization of the Ashura project and most of

[72:46]us Scouts is pleased honored and excited to announce the next milestone

[72:50]in our journey as of May 5th we have completed the purchase

[72:55]of the upcoming Taha Foundation Community Center a forty eight thousand square

[72:58]foot facility that has the amenities we need to improve and expand

[73:05]our programs including a lecture hall classrooms a gym and a spacious

[73:09]outdoor Gathering area while we're able to secure the purchase of this

[73:14]building a lot of work is still required to transform it into

[73:18]the state-of-the-art facility that serves our needs in the most effective and

[73:21]efficient way possible [Music] today more than ever and for the sake

[73:29]of our kids and families who are asking for your support and

[73:32]raising the funds needed for this project our fundraising Target is 580

[73:38]000 that will go towards Renovations repairs furniture and Equipment your contribution

[73:43]no matter how small will make a significant difference join us as

[73:48]we embark on the next stage of our journey with Allah's guidance

[73:53]and your support we can empower the next generation of leaders and

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