Beta Believers; Stop being so weak - Sayed Mahdi Modarresi | 4th night 2022 Muharram

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[0:13]bismillah [Music] [Applause] [Music] so foreign [Music] [Music] oh foreign for the

[2:18]hastening of the reappearance of the master the savior the avenger muhammad

[2:33][Music] one of the most dangerous and detrimental vices that could completely

[2:54]derail a believer's pursuit of the pleasure and satisfaction of the imam

[3:02]of his or her time in other words one of the worst

[3:11]vices that many people suffer from is to be indecisive and be

[3:20]weak and feeble undetermined in arabic the word to describe this kind

[3:31]of vice this state of mind this condition is one and one

[3:36]simply means weakness you look at a guy and you can tell

[3:43]that he spends [Music] endless hours at the gym and there's nothing

[3:52]wrong in being physically strong if you can avoid falling into haram

[3:56]in the process and we know what gyms are like with all

[4:03]the music and the gender mixing and all that sort of stuff

[4:07]and yet somehow people enter this kind of environment and in their

[4:14]minds they justify it by saying that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allah

[4:25]loves those that are strong but let's not use that as justification

[4:32]to commit acts of sin that's not to say that there is

[4:37]anything wrong with being physically powerful but the reality is that even

[4:48]though this person can lift some serious weight but they'll be the

[4:53]weakest when lifting themselves up from bed to prey they'll be the

[4:59]weakest and i'm not stereotyping i'm just saying generally speaking people are

[5:03]like that they'll be the weakest when it comes to making decisive

[5:12]decisions strategic choices in their lives are abandoned or procrastinated because they

[5:22]simply lack the courage to take those decisions to do the right

[5:27]thing the right thing that they know to be good or to

[5:33]avoid something that they know to be wrong and immoral they'll have

[5:39]the weakest characters unfortunately because they suffer from the condition of being

[5:46]indecisive weak feeble wohen one of the attributes of the companions of

[5:57]imam al-hussein and the noble companions of the but of course this

[6:04]attribute was perfectly epitomized by the companions of abba abdullah hussain on

[6:11]the plains of karbala is that they were not weak they had

[6:17]the courage to do the right thing at the right time no

[6:21]matter the circumstances in fact in this era we read the following

[6:31]technique i bear witness that you never showed any sign of weakness

[6:42]means you never turned away you didn't turn away from your obligation

[6:48]you didn't turn away from your imam of the time you didn't

[6:52]turn away from your responsibility not a single shred of weakness was

[6:58]exhibited by the companions of imam al-hussein now who is a weak

[7:11]person i like to refer to this group of people now it

[7:13]may include me it may include people out there it's easy if

[7:20]you know what you're looking for to spot signs of this weakness

[7:23]that we're about to talk about tonight but i like to call

[7:30]them beta believers as opposed to alpha believers an alpha believer is

[7:36]decisive it's like the companions of imam al-hussein they'll do the right

[7:42]thing no matter their ambiance their environment their circumstances a beta believer

[7:49]on the other hand is someone who reads the room and makes

[7:56]decisions based on what others think they'll react in other words usually

[8:02]these are people who are reactionary in nature they'll first look around

[8:08]and see what other people are doing what other people are doing

[8:11]and so they'll swim with the current they'll go with the flow

[8:17]they will never take initiative they'll never be the first to do

[8:25]the right thing they're happy being the second third fourth maybe they'll

[8:29]be all the way at the end of the queue but to

[8:33]do the right thing and be the one who breaks the taboo

[8:36]who initiates the chain of reaction they'll never be that person why

[8:45]because they don't have the courage to do it they don't have

[8:48]the bravery to make those decisions at the split second window that's

[8:53]presented to them now these mind you these split-second windows aren't confined

[8:59]to being in the battlefield they're not confined to when the imam

[9:04]comes and calls for help these are things that we experience on

[9:09]a daily basis but on a small scale there'll be a split-second

[9:14]window as to whether you will go this way or that way

[9:16]whether you will accept your friend's invite to doing something that's fishy

[9:24]at the very least if not completely haram or choosing to say

[9:27]no i'm not going to do this because it's hard it's extremely

[9:30]difficult if you suffer from this condition it's extremely difficult to say

[9:38]no to a friend to say no to a neighbor to say

[9:42]no point blank but that's who they are beta believers they will

[9:47]always swim with the current as opposed to doing the right thing

[9:52]even if they happen to be the only person to do that

[9:55]one of their characteristics is they procrastinate they put off making those

[10:03]major life decisions that they know to be good they put them

[10:06]off and i'm not just talking about putting off submitting your assignment

[10:10]to the last minute i'm talking about putting off and procrastinating on

[10:16]fulfilling your obligations towards allah or on abandoning this sinful habit you

[10:27]know the classic example of i'm not ready to wear hijab just

[10:32]yet maybe one day when i go to hajj when i do

[10:34]this when i do that as though there is something that you

[10:37]need to prepare in advance you need to do something before you

[10:42]make the choice to put on the hijab or i'm not ready

[10:45]to pray just yet i'm not ready to go to hajj just

[10:49]yet i'm not ready to do ziada just yet this i'm not

[10:53]ready type of mentality is grounded in procrastination and procrastination is is

[10:59]one of the attributes of those people who are weak in their

[11:04]character they don't want to do the right thing because that requires

[11:08]courage and the reason they procrastinate is because they want to escape

[11:14]their reality because facing reality and responding to these questions requires a

[11:21]degree of bravery not a whole lot but just to be free

[11:28]to be free from the pressures of society to be free from

[11:34]being shackled by the opinions of people around you opinions imagine most

[11:40]of the time we do things not because we don't want to

[11:48]face verbal criticism by society but because we're shackled by electrical synapses

[11:56]in their brains we don't want to be seen as an outsider

[12:02]by the people around us in other words we're afraid of what

[12:07]what they might think about us not what they might do to

[12:11]us nobody's going to kill you if you wear hijab in this

[12:15]country nobody is going to hurt you or even curse you if

[12:18]you pray and the time is tight your salat is becoming and

[12:24]the only place you have to pray is by the side of

[12:27]the road where it's safe or in the park nobody's going to

[12:30]do anything to you but we're afraid of what they might think

[12:34]as they walk past us look at the weakness look at the

[12:38]feebleness wallahi brothers and sisters sometimes i see adherents and followers of

[12:46]other religions in particular jews and you can't help but feel inspired

[12:50]by how much they hold on to their faith no matter what

[12:55]you say or think or do they'll do what they know to

[13:00]be true and right they'll follow their religion irrespective and in and

[13:06]regardless of people's opinions and ideas they don't couldn't care less because

[13:10]they believe this to be their religion their obligations as per the

[13:15]instructions of the talmud for instance and yet you look at our

[13:22]community i look at myself i apologize my community is way better

[13:25]than me but i look at my own self and wonder why

[13:30]the weakness why this beta believer mentality that we have where we

[13:37]feel so undetermined and indecisive and weak that i have to always

[13:45]appease [Music] other people's opinions and thoughts so they'll procrastinate one of

[13:53]the attributes of this group of people is that they will do

[13:58][Music] the wrong thing in spite of you advising them against it

[14:05]it's like imagine somebody driving and then their passenger says to them

[14:11]hey i think you're on the wrong road man this is the

[14:15]wrong route but because they don't want to be seen as weak

[14:19]because they don't want to acknowledge their mistake they'll keep at it

[14:23]they'll keep driving down the wrong road and find a sneaky way

[14:28]to get back on the right track if that if that how

[14:34]many people have fallen because they don't want to ask for directions

[14:38]how many and i'm not just talking about driving i'm talking about

[14:43]the ones who are too proud to ask a scholar is the

[14:49]way i'm doing right or wrong is the way that i pray

[14:53]my salat right or wrong because they feel i'm too old at

[14:58]this point if i ask somebody and i'm 27 i'm 34 i'm

[15:01]40 years old i'll feel embarrassed it's awkward but because they don't

[15:08]ask they'll keep doing the wrong thing over and over again it's

[15:11]like the hadith of imam assad who said to one of his

[15:15]companions he said to him how shameful is it that you'd be

[15:19]60 70 years old and you still don't know how to pray

[15:22]you still don't know the basics of your religion because they're too

[15:29]proud because they're too arrogant there's a reason why you have the

[15:33]brake pedal and the reverse gear so that if you make a

[15:37]mistake you simply turn around you should feel proud that you corrected

[15:42]a mistake you shouldn't feel embarrassed you shouldn't feel humiliated i made

[15:46]a mistake that's why most of us find it so difficult to

[15:50]say sorry to each other that's why so many marriages fall apart

[15:54]because the wife or the husband or both they are too arrogant

[16:00]and proud to say sorry to each other even though they know

[16:04]they made a mistake they know they've hurt their partner brothers and

[16:11]sisters you make a mistake simply acknowledge it just say you're sorry

[16:16]you'd be amazed how much that short simple word can restore the

[16:22]love and harmony in your life whether it be in a marriage

[16:26]or in a friendship or in the context of the wider community

[16:31]because words can hurt you need to measure every syllable that rolls

[16:37]down your tongue because you can burn bridges you can cause irreparable

[16:46]irreversible harm and damage to your relationship and before you know it

[16:50]they're fighting each other in court bickering over who gets what why

[16:55]because the guy or the woman was too proud to say sorry

[17:01]one too many times why offering apologies as well as accepting someone's

[17:21]apology is a sign of the intellect that you should accept the

[17:29]apology because it works both ways right it takes so much courage

[17:31]for someone to say they're sorry but then when the recipient of

[17:38]the apology finds themselves in a position of strength that's when they

[17:41]try that's when the arrogance kicks in as well where they don't

[17:46]want to acknowledge they don't want to accept the apology because they

[17:48]want to rub it in because they feel they've been wronged and

[17:53]hurt so much they can't just say okay i accept your apology

[17:55]so the imam says that if someone offers you an apology you

[18:00]must accept it even if you know that they don't mean it

[18:07]because sometimes they'll be like no you don't mean it you have

[18:12]to mean it but just accept the apology it took so much

[18:15]from them to apologize to say they're sorry just accept it help

[18:21]them mean it [Applause] once again says that if somebody comes comes

[18:29]up to you and insults you in your right ear ten times

[18:33]then they turn around to your left ear and say i'm sorry

[18:38]accept it from them in other words there are so many reasons

[18:40]why you'd you'd be right to think that they don't mean it

[18:45]there are so many reasons why you would be right to say

[18:48]hang on a second you can't just insult me ten times to

[18:52]my face and then say you're sorry and i have to accept

[18:54]it the imam says you must accept it and so the hubris

[19:00]the arrogance the procrastination all of these are signs of a weak

[19:07]character of a feeble individual these beta believers stop it it's not

[19:12]worth it all these fights all this bickering that happens between husbands

[19:15]and wives and parents and children and believing brothers and sisters are

[19:19]not worth it we're at a time brothers and sisters where we

[19:27]need to come together as a community as the imam of our

[19:33]time says [Music] these are the actual words of god's proof in

[19:44]our lives in this world to a sheikh mufid he says if

[19:48]only our followers may allah back them may allah give them the

[19:54]support to do the right thing to obey us to follow us

[19:56]if they were united in honoring their commitment to us then they

[20:03]would meet us then we would come to save them and to

[20:09]bring them relief sooner rather than later and so this infighting this

[20:17]bickering these vicious conflicts especially personal problems if i disassociate from someone

[20:25]because they happen to backstab the imam of my time or because

[20:28]they've left the fold of the shayla that's a whole other thing

[20:31]if i find them to be weakening the community of the followers

[20:40]of the other bait that's another thing but these personal problems they

[20:43]have to come to an end in fact be the bigger person

[20:48]and apologize to the one who doesn't talk to you even though

[20:50]this is according to our hadith even if you know that they

[20:56]were wrong and that you never made a mistake but take the

[20:58]initiative and believe me allah will reward you for that allah will

[21:02]give you the kind of tawfiq that you couldn't imagine to get

[21:07]just by yourself because you took that initiative and you apologized to

[21:12]your believing brother or sister and ended that conflict which goes on

[21:15]and on for no good reason just say you're sorry that's all

[21:23]it takes but as i said this is one of the attributes

[21:27]of these people who are weak they keep putting things off they

[21:34]keep procrastinating you know that this is haram listening to all of

[21:40]this poisonous garbage that feeds you ideas and beliefs that completely erode

[21:48]your commitment to the imam of your time i'm not just talking

[21:53]about the music but the songs and their content contents themselves they

[21:57]eat away at our faith stop it just say you're sorry say

[22:05]you're sorry to allah say you're sorry to the imam of your

[22:09]time be brave enough to throw it all out delete the app

[22:12]delete the songs that you've purchased or you've downloaded or whatever it

[22:19]is do the right thing if you find yourself struggling with salat

[22:23]be brave enough to simply start tonight with me just stand in

[22:31]the direction of the qibla and say allahu akbar that's all allah

[22:36]wants from you it takes a few minutes a day but be

[22:41]brave enough to defy the shaytan to defy the society to defy

[22:50]all the garbage that's out there all the different ideologies that push

[22:54]you in different directions just put all that behind you and say

[22:58]allahu akbar allah is greater than all of that because at the

[23:05]end of it all we keep procrastinating and saying one day but

[23:10]that day never comes and how do you know whether that day

[23:13]will come whether you'll make it to that stage in your life

[23:18]where you're ready quote unquote how do you know that amir al-mu'manin

[23:26]says he says don't be fooled by this false hope that one

[23:36]day i'll be ready one day i'll do this one day i'll

[23:41]do that so many people never made it to that day that

[23:45]they filled all the graveyards and cemeteries one of the things i'd

[23:51]like to do whenever i visit a new city or town or

[23:56]country is i go to the local cemetery there are three places

[23:59]in fact that i advise everyone to visit as much as you

[24:04]can and whenever you go to these three places you will always

[24:08]come back a different person you'll feel more content more satisfied more

[24:13]thankful you'll feel happier in your own life one of them is

[24:20]graveyards cemeteries because you remember that you're going to be one of

[24:25]those people that maybe someone will decide to visit but you're going

[24:27]to join them sooner or later emile moment was coming back from

[24:32]the battle of jamal when he came to kufa meaning al-ashraf where

[24:42]he was eventually buried and he came across [Music] when he got

[24:48]to those graves he addressed them listen to what the imam said

[24:51]he said o people of those terrifying homes the graves o people

[25:06]who dwell in these graves that are empty no one's with them

[25:14]they're all alone lonely places then the imam said oh people of

[25:26]loneliness oh people of dirt oh people of terrifying conditions he said

[25:47]i'm giving you news of what's happening here in this world because

[25:50]you've already crossed the bridge into the next you don't know what's

[25:55]going on here well let me tell you your homes now have

[25:57]new people living in them these precious places that you looked after

[26:03]that you worked your entire life to paying off that mortgage someone

[26:08]else is living in those homes now someone else has moved into

[26:12]your bedrooms and living rooms and kitchens your spouses have remarried and

[26:20]moved on your money was distributed and it's gone this is our

[26:28]news will tell us tell us what you think tell us about

[26:32]the world that you live in then the imam looked at his

[26:36]companions he said if they could speak they would say the following

[26:42]they would say that the best thing to carry with you into

[26:47]this world is piety none of that matters none of that holds

[26:53]any weight piety fear of allah refraining from sin and fulfilling your

[26:58]religious obligations that's all that matters that's the only currency that you

[27:02]need in the world of the baraz how do you know you'll

[27:08]have enough time to do the right thing how do you know

[27:11]whether that day will come when allah warns us when death descends

[27:20]upon you and stretches its claws into your soul to extract it

[27:25]at that point what happens everybody will respond in the same way

[27:32]no one is an exception my lord send me back give me

[27:44]just one more day give me just one more hour give me

[27:49]just a few minutes to do the right thing so that i

[27:53]could do that one thing i always put off i always procrastinated

[27:58]on the angel of death will say to them there is going

[28:10]to be a very long stay on this bridge that connects this

[28:15]world and the next but you'll never coming back has beautiful lines

[28:21]of poetry in which he says he speaks about those who are

[28:31]fooled by the mirage of that one day that will come the

[28:36]one day i will do this and i'll do that and i'll

[28:39]stop doing this right he says you're busy with your life you're

[29:03]busy with work you're busy with play you're busy with all of

[29:06]these things saying one day this one day that right death always

[29:11]comes without a warning even those people who are sick even those

[29:17]with stage four cancer even those who are terminal and they've been

[29:23]told by their doctors that you're gonna die when death actually comes

[29:26]to them they'll think it's too soon i've seen it i've experienced

[29:30]it with people close to me they know they're dying their doctors

[29:34]have already warned them but when death actually comes they'll be like

[29:39]i thought there's going to be another month or two or a

[29:43]couple of weeks at least right the box that carries all you

[29:56]need is your grave and it's your actions it's your intentions it's

[30:00]all of these things so my point in this is let's not

[30:06]procrastinate we have come to a place my dear brothers and sisters

[30:10]where we're ready to board the ark of salvation this is the

[30:18]description of imam al-hussein given to us by rasulullah i saw an

[30:26]inscription on the foot of god's throne when he this when he

[30:36]ascended to the heavens in the mirage the prophet said i saw

[30:40]this inscription i saw this engraving what is it was is a

[30:52]lantern of guidance you want to know what the right thing to

[30:57]do is just ask yourself this question what would imam al-hussein do

[31:00]it's very simple if you're ever confused if you're ever unsure about

[31:06]which direction to take this question usually revives your moral compass what

[31:13]would imam al-hussein do in this circumstance board the ark of salvation

[31:23]so if we're going to change course if we're going to turn

[31:30]around if we are going to do the right thing and have

[31:34]the bravery to stop that sin to do this swajib this is

[31:38]the place to do it this is the place to make that

[31:43]commitment to make that choice because with imam al-hussein and his ark

[31:48]approaching you the wave pulls you to him in other words you

[31:50]have this divine backing now any other time throughout the year any

[31:54]other month any other season you don't have that divine backing now

[32:00]you do now you have the name of imam al-hussein you have

[32:02]the flame of imam al-hussein you have the energy of imam al-hussein

[32:06]pulling you toward his ark and he's got his arm stretched right

[32:14]out waiting for people to say come and save me let me

[32:19]be the one that you want me to be let me at

[32:22]least take a step in the right direction in the direction of

[32:27]the companions of imam al-hussein the imam wallahi i swear in the

[32:31]honor and the name of the imam of our time if you

[32:35]make that commitment imam al-hussein will help you and whatever challenges have

[32:38]stopped you from making those commitments have prevented you from doing the

[32:44]right thing they will be a lot easier to overcome he will

[32:49]help you but you have to at least make that promise you

[32:53]have to make the commitment you can't just wait for one day

[32:57]that one day is today it's tonight we're right in the middle

[33:03]of this season this is night five of a ten night journey

[33:07]towards imam al-hussein if you haven't made a commitment to please the

[33:14]imam of your time tonight's the night to do it you need

[33:18]to be strong let me give you a couple of examples was

[33:28]a unique caliber of a human being let me tell you something

[33:34]about him so who was one of the incredibly devoted companions of

[33:42]amir al-mu'min and later encountered imam hussein on his way to karbala

[33:49]i'll leave his story for another time but was someone who had

[33:56]exhibited incredible strength of character in defense of the truth and in

[34:01]defending his master and his mawla amir al-mu'manin there was an encounter

[34:07]between him and muawiyah which is worth a read if you can

[34:13]look it up where he goes to muawiyah completely humiliates muawiyah with

[34:18]his approach but i'm skipping through all of that because i want

[34:22]to mention something that he said to muawiyah listen this is the

[34:29]before the battle of safin he said go tell ali that i

[34:34]am sending him so many soldiers i am filling the battlefield with

[34:39]what he called khardell gardel is what's called mustard seed and mustard

[34:45]seed if you've ever seen it it's one of the tiniest seeds

[34:50]it's about a millimeter in diameter so it's very very small maui

[34:53]said i am bringing so many people to fight with him that

[34:57]they will be like and they will gobble up the water of

[35:03]the river tigris and they can then spit it back into the

[35:05]river euphrates in other words he's describing the sheer military prowess that

[35:11]he's bringing to the battle but the description he uses is mustard

[35:17]seeds i will fill the plains with these tiny mustard seeds all

[35:23]of these thousands upon thousands of soldiers responded to malawi he said

[35:28]to him okay well there is something you haven't thought about something

[35:33]you've forgotten which is that let's not talk about him for a

[35:39]second you don't need ali he has deacon esther he has this

[35:47]rooster called malik and this rooster is going to pick all of

[35:50]these tiny little seeds of yours and then store them in his

[35:55]gizzard and then go and feed his soldiers with it in other

[35:59]words one thing is going to destroy you and your entire army

[36:05]you've forgotten to factor him into your equation malik was someone that

[36:13]amir al-mu'manin describes like this he says he is more severe on

[36:18]the fujaar min he is more severe on the evil doers than

[36:26]a menacing flame his strength was legendary he was someone who was

[36:33]above and beyond even the closest confidance of amir al-mu'manin malik the

[36:40]imam himself says he says he was like a mountain malik was

[36:45]someone that the imam sent to egypt and he said in his

[36:49]letter of appointment as the governor of egypt he said to the

[36:52]people that you should follow him because everything he tells you is

[36:56]a commandment from me if he says to you you should fight

[37:00]then you should fight because i am saying so he's a spokesperson

[37:04]for ali this was and yet the strength of malik isn't found

[37:12]on the battlefield of jamal and safin the strength of maelic the

[37:21]bravery the courage of malikip malik is found when he's walking in

[37:28]the streets of kufa and this group of kids these delinquent little

[37:34]teenagers they try to play games and so one of them grabs

[37:37]a handful of dirt he makes a ball with it and throws

[37:41]it on the back of malik when malek turns around these kids

[37:45]realize that they've just messed with the wrong person this is the

[37:53]top lieutenant of amir al-mu'min this is the talk of the town

[37:58]this is the icon this is malik al-ashtar himself they all begin

[38:02]to shiver saying we're all dead malik keeps going the kid runs

[38:09]after malik and he notices that he walks into a mosque you

[38:12]must have heard the story he runs after him begging him he

[38:18]falls to his feet malik says what happened he said i was

[38:20]the one who threw that dirt on your back malik said well

[38:24]that's why i'm here because i've already forgiven you but i came

[38:27]to this masjid so i could pray two units of prayer and

[38:31]ask allah for your forgiveness as well that is strength of character

[38:36]that's someone who's able to curb his desires he was able to

[38:43]tame that beast within was able to do the right thing at

[38:47]the right time because ultimately brothers and sisters before i transition into

[38:52]the masaab which of the knights of muharram tonight tonight's remembrance and

[39:03]commemoration is truly near to my heart at the end of the

[39:08]day you and i are special you and i have this rank

[39:13]a status in the eyes of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we

[39:17]have to maintain there's a man by the name of ash he

[39:22]was a shia but he was a delinquent shia he was a

[39:25]rebellious shia he was a sinful shia he used to drink now

[39:34]can you be both sinful and a follower of the imam of

[39:41]your time the answer is yeah because at the end of the

[39:45]day if i am sinful if i commit all these acts of

[39:50]disobedience against allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it doesn't mean that i should

[39:53]turn my back to the majalis of abba it doesn't mean that

[39:59]that gives me cause to say you know what i'll throw the

[40:03]baby out with the bath water who cares about religion look at

[40:05]me look at my actions look at my lifestyle if anything we

[40:11]come to these majalis in order to change we come to the

[40:14]gatherings held in honor of hussain so that we fix those flaws

[40:18]and these problems in our lives we come here to say we're

[40:23]sorry we come here to apologize to the imam of the time

[40:26]and turn around and actually make our lives in accordance with his

[40:30]wishes so this man shachrani used to drink one day there's an

[40:37]encounter between him and imam al-qadam alaihis-salam he meets the imam and

[40:44]i don't want to get into the story but the encounter happens

[40:48]he says the imam walked up to me he didn't tell me

[40:53]why are you committing all of these sins what's wrong with you

[40:55]he didn't say you're going to go to hell look at the

[40:59]way the imam treated this person and how he nudged him in

[41:02]the right direction he said to him something that we should a

[41:12]good deed is a good deed no matter who does it you

[41:16]can be an atheist but the good deed itself is still good

[41:23]even if the person doing it isn't but when you do it

[41:30]it's even better [Music] this is the bid that hurts at least

[41:38]it should he said when an evil act a sinful act is

[41:44]ugly and hideous and disgusting no matter who does it but it's

[41:49]worse when you do it it's worse when the hajj and the

[41:55]hajja do it it's worse when the hussain commits that act it's

[41:59]worse when the one who wears hijab does it it's worse than

[42:02]when the one who prays and who has a beard and who

[42:08]keeps the appearance of a believer does it the imam then explains

[42:15]why he says because you're one of us you're connected to us

[42:22]because you're a shia of imam al-mahdi you're a follower of the

[42:29]12th imam so when you do it it's just so much more

[42:31]hurtful so much worse tonight is a night of seeking forgiveness because

[42:43]the greatest act of repentance perhaps took place and it's being commemorated

[42:53]tonight and so don't be ashamed of saying to your imam i'm

[42:59]sorry for as the children of yahoo told their father they said

[43:06]ask allah to forgive us i know i'm not worthy i know

[43:12]i don't deserve to be forgiven i know i don't even know

[43:17]how to apologize for what i've done but maybe you can do

[43:22]it for us by asking you perhaps allah will forgive our sins

[43:30]he was standing in the enemy camp he didn't think that they

[43:38]would actually go through with it he actually thought that this was

[43:44]about putting pressure on imam al-hussein cornering him the imam will then

[43:48]give his pledge of allegiance to yazid and everybody can go home

[43:53]he didn't think that there was going to be a battle that

[43:56]people would be killed that the son of the daughter of rasulullah

[44:01]would have 30 000 swords unsheathed in his face he never thought

[44:08]that would it would come down to that but when he looked

[44:12]at the mobilization of the two camps on the day of ashura

[44:16]and he heard um say i want ten horses to be prepared

[44:22]and i want these horses to have new fresh sharp shoes he

[44:29]came and said what's going on are you actually going to fight

[44:35]this man al horrible what a brave man even though you might

[44:41]think it was too late but it's never too late tonight isn't

[44:45]too late no matter who i am no matter what i've done

[44:49]no matter my rap sheet my track record it's never too late

[44:54]but you just have to make that take that step and just

[44:58]say you're sorry you have to say it don't be too proud

[45:04]don't let uberus shackle you just say you're sorry that's all it

[45:09]takes iraqis have this tradition when you go to the shrine of

[45:15]abel abbas or imam hussain or any of the imams in iraq

[45:17]if you look inside the varia you'll find packets of cigarette and

[45:23]some people think like what is this why would somebody throw i

[45:27]mean people give donations to the shrine and whatnot but cigarette and

[45:31]the reason for that is because they're trying to quit so they

[45:36]come and they take that packet and they just throw it inside

[45:41]the shrine and say you know what you take this i'm never

[45:44]smoking ever again.

[45:46]it takes that again pride takes that courage throw it outside throw

[45:54]it to the imam of your time and say enough is enough

[45:58]i'm never doing this again are you actually going to go through

[46:07]with this are these soldiers here to fight responded by saying the

[46:21]least you're going to see today's heads flying and hands falling to

[46:26]the ground he said but why not listen to what he just

[46:39]told you all of these speeches that he gave the sermons all

[46:41]of the solutions that he provided why don't you listen to him

[46:44]he said look if it were up to me maybe but your

[46:49]emir meaning abedillah and yazid they want this to happen they want

[46:56]hussein's head on a lance again his entire life was completely engineered

[47:08]in a different way yes he didn't expect this to happen but

[47:12]he was one of the generals in the army of yazid and

[47:18]muawiyah how could a person like that simply turn around but that's

[47:22]what makes it so special all it takes is a moment a

[47:27]moment of saying i am sorry he says to one of his

[47:31]friends who was standing next to him he said to him don't

[47:34]you want to water your horse he said but i've done that

[47:38]already he said why don't you do it again so his friend

[47:41]realized that probably wanted to make a run for it so he

[47:45]took to the side then he came next to a man by

[47:49]the name of muhajar the narrators of the makta of imam al-hussein

[47:53]describe him like this they say hor was still on the back

[47:57]of his horse contemplating thinking how do you even turn around from

[48:03]something like this when you were the person who cornered imam al-hussein

[48:08]and intercepted his path you did all of this how how do

[48:14]you turn around so he's standing there thinking suddenly he shivers i've

[48:22]never seen you like this what's happening to you if somebody asked

[48:30]me who's the most courageous person in kufa i would never go

[48:33]past you what's happening to you at this point speaks his conscience

[48:39]he says i see myself between heaven and hell and by god

[48:55]i will never choose anything other than heaven even if i get

[49:02]killed come what may then he kicked his horse and ran in

[49:04]the direction of the camp of abba abdullah hussain look at how

[49:10]he approached imam al-hussein he took his boots off he tied them

[49:16]with a lace he wrapped the lace around his neck so his

[49:21]boots were hanging from his shoulders which is a sign of humility

[49:25]humility he then went towards imam al-hussein some of the companions of

[49:32]the imam were telling him we should launch the first attack we

[49:38]should have the advantage of being the first to ambush the enemy

[49:42]but imam al-hussein kept i don't want to be the first person

[49:50]to fight but maybe one of the reasons was that imam al-hussein

[49:53]was still expecting a guest he was expecting hor to come and

[49:56]join his camp when hurricane imam al-hussein asked his companions he said

[50:01]let's go and greet our new guest today imagine allah they all

[50:15]went towards this lonely rider who approached the camp of imam al-hussein

[50:20]his head was lowered like so he was completely filled with shame

[50:29]when he approached the imam he said to him means can i

[50:37]still repent but perhaps what he's asking is will my repentance even

[50:41]be accepted for what i have done i instilled fear in the

[50:53]hearts of the children of rasulullah now the women and children are

[50:57]frightened they're terrified of what will happen to them and it's all

[51:05]my fault will god even accept my apology and my repentance what

[51:09]does imam al-hussein say to him two things have been narrated one

[51:13]the imam saying to him in allah if you are repentant allah

[51:20]has already forgiven you meaning when you took that first step in

[51:23]my direction allah forgave all your sins others have said the imam

[51:31]didn't even say those words he didn't have to he simply said

[51:34]to him raise your head high allahu akbar tonight imam zaman is

[51:41]telling each and every one of us who is repentant who is

[51:46]saying i'm sorry to raise your head high a shia of imam

[51:50]zaman can raise their head high in pride that you have joined

[51:56]the camp of the imam the imam offered him the chance to

[52:00]repent joined imam al-hussein now historians have described how his son also

[52:12]joined him his brother also joined him his slave also joined him

[52:16]but how his brother when he saw his brother move in the

[52:24]direction of imam al-hussein this broke the back of the army of

[52:30]um because the top general switched side to that of imam al-hussein

[52:33]a lot of people were now left wondering what's going to happen

[52:36]the entire army was now in shamble and so they were looking

[52:43]to see what's going to happen hora's brother now needed a way

[52:49]to go and join him but he couldn't simply sneak away they

[52:53]say that he said to his comrades he said look at what

[52:57]my brother has done to us he has brought shame to my

[53:02]house he's brought shame to my tribe let me go and kill

[53:03]him he then runs in his direction and embraces his brother when

[53:08]he gets to him his son was now stuck not knowing what

[53:12]trick he's going to pull from his sleeve what is he going

[53:17]to do so he simply pulls out his sword and he begins

[53:22]to fight those people in his vicinity those around him until he

[53:26]was overpowered overwhelmed and killed his slave did the same thing look

[53:34]at this great example of repentance the companions of imam al-hussein brothers

[53:37]and sisters they show us how you can be strong in your

[53:44]character and in return end up becoming the greatest stars and the

[53:49]galaxy of hussein people that imam assad teaches us that when you

[53:53]visit their grave you should say the following words may my parents

[54:03]be ransomed for you imam assad is speaking about his father the

[54:07]imam and yet he says may they be ransomed for you may

[54:13]they be sacrificed for you why because look at what they did

[54:15]i'll just give you a few examples he says on the day

[54:23]of ashura or you see this dark night you can sneak away

[54:33]easily leave me alone leave me only with my son everybody else

[54:40]can leave you don't have to stay because if they get a

[54:45]hold of me if they kill me then they have no reason

[54:46]to kill you go back to your families what does borah robin

[54:57][Music] that we get the chance to fight between your hands in

[55:20]front of you so that we would be mutilated in your way

[55:24]in other words ya imam hussain we are thankful to allah for

[55:29]our bodies to be completely cut into pieces because this is in

[55:36]your way this is the other is goes out into the field

[55:46]while everyone was either sleeping the women and the children and the

[55:51]companions were resting the imam goes outside to keep watch suddenly he

[55:57]notices with him the imam says who are you he says the

[56:01]imam said yes you are means useful beneficial there was another one

[56:06]on the camp of um he was an enemy combatant but was

[56:13]on a whole other level he comes to the imam the imam

[56:18]said tim do you see how dark it is out there he

[56:22]said yes the imam said why don't you leave me you don't

[56:24]have to stay how does he respond to his master to the

[56:27]imam of his time may the lions and the beasts of the

[56:37]desert eat me alive if i ever think about leaving you how

[56:41]could you say that to me this is another companion another one

[56:47]is this young man who comes to shield imam al-hussein as he

[56:53]prayed on the day of ashura o believers my dear brothers and

[57:00]sisters take your salat seriously imam al-hussein lost two of his loyal

[57:04]companions for the sake of salat on the day of imam hussain

[57:09]was making a point when he prayed out there in public he

[57:14]could have gone to one of the tents to pray inside them

[57:16]but he chose to pray in broad daylight in view of the

[57:23]enemy camp to remind you and i that salat is important that

[57:26]salat is the pillar of our religion the imam stood there to

[57:32]pray one of them these great companions two of them stood to

[57:36]shield the imam from the enemy attacks from the arrows and the

[57:44]uh spears and this rocks and the stones one of them was

[57:48]this young man he stood in front of the imam wakana yatta

[57:57]he would block the arrows with his hands and he would block

[58:04]the spears with his neck why his neck you might think to

[58:07]yourself maybe he could use a shield or something but the reason

[58:12]he used his neck and his chest is because he had to

[58:15]keep a close eye on every approaching spear and so the closest

[58:20]thing to his eye was his chest and his neck by the

[58:25]time abba abdullah hussain finished his salah that man could no longer

[58:30]hold it he could no longer stand he fell to the ground

[58:36]abba abdullah [Applause] was i loyal to you did i fulfill my

[58:52]obligation you will proceed me to paradise yes you have that's another

[59:03]example the other is john this black slave an elderly man he

[59:09]was a slave of abu dhabi he was in his seventies imam

[59:12]al-hussein saw him he used to fix the the blades of the

[59:19]the the swords he was a swordsmith the imam came and he

[59:22]saw that he was getting ready to head into battle the imam

[59:25]said to him when you joined us you came so that you

[59:28]could live with us who wouldn't want to live with abba abdullah

[59:33]you came so that you could live with our family in our

[59:38]homes today is not the day to live today is the day

[59:44]to die you should leave us your old man [Applause] i know

[60:01]that i don't have a noble lineage i know that my skin

[60:07]is black i know that i don't deserve to be among those

[60:09]who get killed defending you voila give me the honor give me

[60:19]the privilege don't turn me away at this point he said this

[60:21]to the imam the imam said may allah bless you he headed

[60:26]into the battlefield he fought even at his old age until he

[60:31]was killed they say that for days and weeks after that there

[60:36]was this most beautiful fragrance that flowed from where he had been

[60:45]killed finally i want to mention islam this turkish slave who also

[60:51]joined the camp of imam al-hussein this man he went into battle

[60:56]he fought and fought and fought until he fell to the ground

[61:00]imam al-hussein tried to make it to every single one of his

[61:04]companions so that if they were still alive the last thing they

[61:10]would see is his beautiful face the face of the son of

[61:15]fatima so he hurried towards him but then at some point this

[61:20]turkish slave opened his eyes to see the cheek of abba abdullah

[61:24]resting on his cheek what did he say he said men mithli

[61:29]is there anyone like me allah nobody is like me how lucky

[61:41]am i that the son of the daughter of rasulullah has his

[61:46]cheek leaning against my cheek imam al-hussein bit this man farewell like

[61:53]this which is the same thing he did to his son now

[61:58]i say to you oh believers that whenever one of his companions

[62:13]fell to the ground that he was there next to them when

[62:19]they died and left this world they had the privilege of imam

[62:26]al-hussein being next to them comforting them helping them but who was

[62:31]there when the imam himself fell to his eyes only to see

[62:50]shimmer beneath the ocean sitting on his chest allah i shall zayn

[63:19]of calling out leave my brother alone get off of that chest

[63:28]i just [Applause] foreign okay [Music] jose la hussain

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