Birth of The Stars - Sheikh Wael El-Zein

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[0:10]Shime.

[0:14]Miss [singing] >> [singing] >> Foreign [singing] Um, we also have u

[1:59]Ali from the Saturday school who inshallah is going to present an

[2:04]for us.

[2:06]Amen.

[2:45]Hallelujah.

[3:07]The crew of the moon.

[3:21][singing] A man [singing] >> [singing] >> who [singing] [singing] speech You're

[4:27]my life.

[5:11]Say Abdu Mansust.

[5:32]Brothers and sisters, thank you for show for showing up in this

[5:39]very cold night to celebrate the birth of Al Hussein Abu Abbas

[5:48]and Alim.

[5:51]It's no surprising that you show up in a night like this

[5:58]because this is what the SH of did for centuries expressing their

[6:04]love for B through celebrating the of all the imams and the

[6:12]shahada of all the imams.

[6:13]And uh this has become something um part of our identity and

[6:18]who we are.

[6:20]and we ask Allah to continue uh on this path inshallah.

[6:23]Tonight we are um lucky to have a special guest to celebrate

[6:32]this event with us um Sheh Wen who came all the way

[6:38]from Canada and um luckily we don't have to worry uh about

[6:41]him getting bothered from cold because the last I checked Ottawa was

[6:48]much colder than uh Canton.

[6:49]So um but inshallah he would add warmth to this beautiful gathering

[6:54]with his with his nice lecture.

[6:56]Shehen is is a prominent speaker and lectureric studies.

[7:16]So we look forward inshallah for the lecture.

[7:19]Uh but before that I want to remind you all we are

[7:22]celebrating the uh imi shar on the 15th of shaan.

[7:31]Um on the February 7th we are celebrating we're doing the annual

[7:36]family ice skating event at the architect edge on uh Michigan Avenue.

[7:40]uh we ask you all to sign up and uh make sure

[7:44]you buy the tickets because those will uh likely sell out quickly

[7:48]like uh they do every year.

[7:49]So we look forward to seeing you all and um without further

[7:56]ado, I would like to welcome She with the loudest of the

[8:01]salawat.

[8:33]I request please recite fat please.

[9:00]My is enough.

[9:02]I'm just kidding.

[9:08]Yeah.

[9:08]I don't know what warmth I'm going to bring with me.

[9:10]It just seems that every time I show up here, something happens.

[9:12]It gets really cold.

[9:14]The last time I was here, you guys had Sever snowtorm, right?

[9:17]Yeah.

[9:17]What was it about 2 centimeters?

[9:20]That's severe to you guys?

[9:21]Yeah.

[9:22]That's summer time for us.

[9:23]We barbecue at 2 centimeters of snowman.

[9:34]Alhamdulillah.

[9:51]See me.

[10:23]to hasten the reappearance of our awaited im.

[10:28]I request we recite three salawat to the loudest of our voices.

[10:35]Respected brothers and sisters, scholars in Islam, when the name Imam Hussein

[11:01]is mentioned, the mind right away thinks about and starts beginning or

[11:05]begins to imagine the tragedies and the events that occurred in Kbalah.

[11:11]Yet the question that is really worthy to ask is that how

[11:13]much do we really know about Im Hussein prior to the tragedy

[11:21]of Kbalah?

[11:22]No doubt one cannot argue that Kbalah was none but the pinnacle

[11:26]of everything that I im Hussein saw Ali stood for from his

[11:31]childhood up until his momentous uprising in the land of Kbalah.

[11:38]Yet if you were to ask many of us to answer a

[11:40]question about the teenage years about of Imam Hussein Ali, where was

[11:47]I im Hussein Ali during the reign of the first and the

[11:53]second and the third caiff for example?

[11:55]Or what do we know about the childhood of Imam Hussein?

[11:57]Or what do we know about the upbringing of Imam Hussein Ali?

[12:03]As there are numerous numerous renarrations that indicate how sayy zaham would

[12:10]focus a lot on the upbringing of Imam Hassan and Im Hussein

[12:15]Ali.

[12:15]You take for example a famous hadith by Imam Hassan Alisam.

[12:18]He would say that every time we would return back from the

[12:21]masjid, my mother Fatima would sit us down and she would begin

[12:27]asking us about what our grandfather sallallahu alaihi wasallam said in his

[12:32]she would even ask us our opinion is that what do you

[12:37]think about this point that you just told me?

[12:39]Why don't you show me howasool led his salat?

[12:43]And that's a clear message to many of us that how many

[12:45]of us sometimes we do the same with our children on our

[12:49]way back from the center is that we have a discussion about

[12:51]what the child just heard in the majus for example or how

[12:55]many of us we even ask our children to demonstrate to us

[12:59]what they have learned from the molana for instance.

[13:02]So you find that even the question is worthy to ask that

[13:05]what do we know about the childhood of Imam Hussein or for

[13:09]example what do we know about Imam Hussein's knowledge rather than what

[13:14]we have heard from the words of Imam Hussein in Kbala as

[13:19]many of us have repeatedly heard on the manab during Muharam about

[13:23]the sermons of Imam Hussein Ali in Kbala but what do we

[13:29]know about the sermons of Imam Hussein Ali those seven years arguably

[13:35]before Kbalah.

[13:34]How many of us know that Imam Hussein Ali would have interfaith

[13:39]dialogues during the season of Hajj even before Kbalah or what do

[13:47]we know about Imam Hussein's debates with the Kawar for example is

[13:51]that if you were to look back into history there are many

[13:56]sources that mention the debates of Imam Hussein with the Kawar or

[14:00]how many of us even know about Imam Hussein's how Many of

[14:07]us know that Imam himself who was referred to as would speak

[14:13]about the of im Hussein that it has been narrated that one

[14:20]time a man asked Imam that how come your father Hussein did

[14:23]not have many children.

[14:26]He said because my father Hussein was dedicated to IA during nighttime.

[14:30]Could you imagine that even the I of Hussein Ali being praised

[14:34]by none but Imam or even the words of Im Hussein Ali

[14:42]or even when it comes to Kbalah itself you find that the

[14:48]focus that we always want to focus on is always about the

[14:50]events of the battlefield that occurred but what do we know about

[14:56]those nine days before the 10th of Muharam what happened in Kbalah

[15:01]the dialogue that occurred in Kbalah that indeed it's a school of

[15:04]thought no doubt you find that there are many lessons to be

[15:07]derived even from what occurred in those minor or we refer to

[15:14]them as minor events in Kbala or even the stance that Imam

[15:17]Hussein Ali took during the reign of the second and the third

[15:23]Khalifa or the position even of Imam Hussein Ali during his the

[15:27]life of his father Ali Abi Ali am as when we reflect

[15:33]back on the life of Imam Hussein, we find that there are

[15:39]fascinating events indeed that occurred beginning from the birth of Imam Hussein

[15:47]Ali.

[15:44]Every hadith that Sam uttered about Im Hussein was an indication to

[15:53]the divine status of Imam Hussein Ali.

[15:57]These narrations were not only to indicate the relationship of Sallallahu Alaihi

[16:05]Wasallam with his grandson but rather to indicate the responsibility upon the

[16:11]Muslim ummah toward Imam Hussein.

[16:13]When I hear the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says in saying in

[16:21]a narration that I im hass and I im Hussein are two

[16:25]imams whether they rise or they sit.

[16:28]The first thing that I need to think about isam was not

[16:35]complimenting his grandsons but rather indicating a theological perspective.

[16:40]And when Rasool Allah said that narration, how old were they?

[16:44]Arguably speaking, Imam Hassan was about f four years of age and

[16:51]Imam Hussein was about three years of age.

[16:54]Imagine that from that time appointed them as imams, isn't it?

[17:00]So you find that that's a theological reality that we need to

[17:05]reflect upon.

[17:04]Not only this but the fact that he is appointing them as

[17:09]imams from this very young age being children rather than being youth

[17:15]even being children that shows the responsibility that Allah has put upon

[17:20]the Islamic um towards them meaning whether they rise or whether they

[17:25]sit all the actions of Al Hassan and Al Hussein are considered

[17:32]guided by a divine revelation no doubt So whether they rise as

[17:38]imams or whether they sit as imams, they are still what?

[17:40]No doubt.

[17:42]Or for example, how many of us even reflect back on the

[17:49]duas mentioned by Imam Hussein Ali?

[17:51]I'm sure many of you have went to Hajj.

[17:55]May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us this honor.

[17:56]And you've recited the dua of Imam Hussein referred to as what?

[18:04]dua, isn't it?

[18:03]Yes.

[18:04]But how many of us have sat down and even dissected this

[18:11]dua and understood the perspective in this dua?

[18:13]As many of us, as soon as we think about Imam Hussein,

[18:17]we think about this man who's in his late 50s, that strong,

[18:20]courageous warrior who stood on the land of Kbala.

[18:25]But what do we know about Imam Hussein, the Abed, the Zahed?

[18:29]What do you know about the what do we know about the

[18:31]eloquence of Imam Hussein Ali his hadiths and his words of wisdom

[18:38]and like I mentioned earlier is that Allah began giving attention to

[18:43]Imam Hussein Ali much less Imam al Hassan Ali from their childhood.

[18:47]No doubt we all know that Imam Hussein was born in the

[18:54]fourth year after the hijra from Mecca to Medina and Allah died

[18:57]in the 11th year of Hijra, isn't it?

[19:00]So arguably speaking I im Hussein lived with Allah Sallam almost six

[19:07]years and in those six years could you imagine only six years

[19:13]and in those six years Rasool Allah was able to deliver a

[19:18]culture of literature a culture of what?

[19:23]of ba a vast literature of narrations concerning Imam Hussein that we

[19:30]hear those narrations narrations all being mentioned while Imam Hussein Ali was

[19:34]still a child and what I would like to do tonight inshallah

[19:40]is to focus and further dissect this topic from those from the

[19:45]following angles in relation to our knowledge about Imam Hussein Ali shedding

[19:51]the light even though briefly on the biography of Imam Hussein and

[19:56]I would like to do so from the following points.

[19:59]The first one is that I would like to shed the light

[20:06]on the early upbringing of Imam Hussein.

[20:10]And the second point is that I would like to shed the

[20:15]light on the role of Imam Hussein Ali mainly during the reign

[20:18]of the second and the third Khalifa which reflect his early stand

[20:27]for truth against injustice.

[20:27]And three is that his role I would like to shed the

[20:34]light on his role alongside his father immat.

[20:36]Before I would like to reflect back on the verse that I

[20:42]began with verse number 82 from Taha and its relation to Imam

[20:45]Hussein.

[20:47]And before I proceed, I would like you to provide me with

[20:51]a loud salawats.

[20:59]As I said earlier covering the life of Imam Hussein, it is

[21:04]worthy that we have even ashraus not only in Kbala but even

[21:07]on the milad of Imam Hussein as his birth is as important

[21:12]and vital as indeed his martyrdom no doubt and thereupon to be

[21:16]able to cover all the aspects is indeed heart.

[21:19]What I would like to do tonight is at least shed the

[21:21]light on the moralities that we can learn from some incidents that

[21:27]occurred during the life of Imam Hussein.

[21:29]I said the first point I would like to shed the light

[21:31]on the childhood of Imam Hussein Ali.

[21:33]We all know that when Im Hussein Ali was born, the miraculous

[21:41]stages began even from his birth where I immust.

[21:59]And therefore the miracle of with Imam Hussein Alisam began with his

[22:05]name.

[22:06]Why?

[22:04]Because the name Hussein did not exist prior to Imam Hussein.

[22:10]And so was the same with Imam Hassan Alisam.

[22:15]Those two names did not exist before in history mainly in the

[22:19]Arabian Peninsula in the days of Jahyah.

[22:22]No one was ever named Hassan or Hussein before.

[22:26]Hence you will find that even from the beginning of his birth

[22:29]or from the early stages from his birth beginning therefore you find

[22:36]that Imam Hussein began that journey towards being so distinguished with so

[22:40]distinguished with virtues with unique characteristics that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala provided

[22:47]him with and so did the upbringing of Hussein aid in this

[22:53]no doubt and therefore you find that his name like we said

[22:56]was named by Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.

[22:58]Second, you find by the way that Imam Hussein did not speak

[23:02]before six months old.

[23:06]Before turning six months old before turning six months old, it has

[23:09]been narrated that Imam Hussein Alisam did not speak.

[23:12]And that's for a reason.

[23:13]And the famous narration that I would like to shed the light

[23:18]on is the narration whereas Sall Alam would constantly take Im Hassan

[23:22]and Im Hussein Ali with him to the masjid.

[23:25]Imagine even at this very young age which tells me what by

[23:27]the way on a side note is that it is so important

[23:30]to always bring your children to the masjid and to the center.

[23:33]And by the way on a side note yes sometimes speakers do

[23:39]get frustrated from children.

[23:40]I'm not going to deny it.

[23:40]No I'm not going to deny it.

[23:44]No it's something that we have to admit.

[23:46]Yes, it is frustrating.

[23:46]Is that if sometimes you're sitting down on the m you're lecturing

[23:50]and children begin running around crying, right?

[23:53]Or for example being loud.

[23:55]Yes, it is frustrating.

[23:57]No doubt because when you sit here and you're prepped, I'm sure

[24:00]the say knows here is that you're so focused on your points

[24:02]that you want to go through them that is so easy to

[24:05]get distracted.

[24:06]But that doesn't mean that the parents should take it personal.

[24:08]Not at all.

[24:10]Even if the speaker sometimes makes a remark that you find nowadays

[24:12]sometimes a short clip of a speaker goes around on social media

[24:16]complaining about children.

[24:18]But that's fine.

[24:18]Maybe that very child is someone related to him.

[24:21]Who knows, right?

[24:23]But in reality, that doesn't mean that the parents should not bring

[24:26]their children to the masid or they should just get mad and

[24:28]right away leave, right?

[24:29]You find that sometimes, unfortunately, people take things personal that right away

[24:34]the simplest issue that occurs in the center in this regard, they

[24:37]just get up and leave.

[24:38]Oh no, I'm not coming back anymore.

[24:39]Not at all.

[24:42]Yes, Allah subhana t loves to see children in the masjid and

[24:44]I'm sure even say can be a witness to this.

[24:48]One of the most beautiful experiences us as speakers have is indeed

[24:52]within the indo park and the community you find in the culture

[24:58]the wonderful thing is that the children are not playing outside in

[25:01]the center.

[25:02]The children are not sitting in the back and the children are

[25:04]not sitting in a private room.

[25:05]In fact, the children are the ones who are sitting in the

[25:10]front right under the m and they sit down and they listen

[25:12]and they focus.

[25:15]Why?

[25:16]Because of the upbringing, isn't it?

[25:18]Why?

[25:17]Because you find in their culture that the child is being brought

[25:22]to the to the masjid to the center from the very young

[25:25]age.

[25:26]Hence, they get used to it.

[25:29]They get accustomed to it.

[25:30]Isn't it?

[25:31]So that's why you find that it is important on I know

[25:34]that Allah taught us with his sunnah that to bring children to

[25:39]the masid all the time.

[25:40]At this very young age Allah would bring Im Hassan and Im

[25:43]Hussein Aliam to the masjid.

[25:46]And that's why you hear the famous narration that when I im

[25:49]Hussein Alisam would mount on the back of Saham brothers and sisters

[25:55]that was when during Allah would be leading Jama.

[25:58]Do you understand that we're talking about hundreds of companions in Medina

[26:04]being standing in salat behind su alaihi wasallam and Imam Hussein comes

[26:12]and he climbs on the back of Allahool Allah stays in sjud

[26:18]that's something really to reflect upon because that's during jama everybody is

[26:22]being led by Allah everyone else in sjud one might argue that

[26:29]Why do I have to stay in sud this long yet saham

[26:33]is the im of this jama the messenger of this ummah and

[26:36]the message clearly to indicate is to what is that form I

[26:43]im hussein you stay in soot and therefore you find that focused

[26:49]on that upbringing of IM Husseinat from that very young age and

[26:53]one of the beautiful narrations is that one time brought IM Hussein

[26:56]Alisam with him to the masjid and he was 6 months old

[27:00]and like I said earlier I im Hussein did not speak before

[27:03]those six months and then Allah stood to lead salah.

[27:08]As soon as Allah stood to lead Salah he raised his hand

[27:10]with and he said Allah abar and the first word that Imam

[27:17]Hussein pronounced at that time was he repeated Allah abar after all.

[27:22]The first word that Imam Hussein spoke Allah because he was destined

[27:31]that the first words he would utter from his blessed lips is

[27:38]none but Allah Muhammad because no one reflected the of Allah after

[27:49]Allah and his father and his Im Hassan better than he did

[27:56]indeed.

[27:57]Hence the first word that Im Hussein uttered is what?

[27:59]Allah abar.

[28:00]Rasool Allah.

[28:02]Now I I really want you to focus on this.

[28:06]When Rasool Allah heard that his grandson, beloved grandson Hussein spoke after

[28:12]six months.

[28:11]Then Rasool Allah repeated again Allah Akbar.

[28:15]Imam Hussein repeated after Rasool Allah.

[28:20]Allah Akbar.

[28:22]Then Allah repeated it again up until seven times.

[28:25]That's the inat seven times.

[28:35]And therefore in the perspective and the say knows better than I

[28:42]do.

[28:43]It is they derive the that the are seven.

[28:47]Why?

[28:46]Because the childhood of Imam Hussein became a sunnah.

[28:52]The childhood of Imam Husse a child a child repeating Allah Akbar.

[28:59]Do you imagine that?

[29:01]That very childhood of Imam Hussein repeating after his grandfather Allah became

[29:10]a sunnah became a faka perspective to study to follow and that

[29:17]is the second miraculous stage in the life of Im Hussein.

[29:22]Then as soon as finished, you know what he did?

[29:29]He sat down with Imam Hussein.

[29:32]The first surah that taught Imam Hussein was surahed.

[29:35]The first surah and who resembled better than Im Hussein and isn't

[29:46]this fascinating that after Imam Hussein spoke and he said Allah abaras

[29:50]sat down after salat and he began teaching him no doubt.

[29:57]So you find that very Imm Hussein Ali that began that that

[30:04]the upbringing instilling those values in Imam Hussein Ali began from his

[30:11]early stages of childhood and therefore you find the famous narration by

[30:18]Salman Pharisee.

[30:18]Salman in a beautiful narration he says what he says I entered

[30:25]upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam while Imam Hussein was sitting on

[30:31]his lap he was kissing his eyes and then he was kissing

[30:35]his face and then he was sayingasool Allah you are a the

[30:42]son of a and thenool Allah continued saying you are an imam

[30:48]the son of an imam, the father of imams.

[30:53]And then Allah continued, you are a ha, a proof.

[30:58]Imm Hussein was still a child.

[30:59]You are a huda, a a proof, the son of a of

[31:04]the proof and the father of nine hajj, nine proofs from your

[31:13]bloodline.

[31:11]And the ninth of them is Ali Muhammad.

[31:20]That was a hadith narrated by Salman Pharisee when I im Hussein

[31:27]and Islam teaching Im Hussein that everything would say Im Hussein would

[31:33]repeat.

[31:34]Yeah.

[31:35]You don't want to know when I was a child what my

[31:37]Lebanese grandfather was teaching me and I have to repeat.

[31:41]But I'm sure many of you can relate.

[31:43]Yeah.

[31:44]It's rooted in our culture.

[31:45]Alhamdulillah.

[31:46]Yeah.

[31:48]Nevertheless, you find what is that that was the something that I

[31:53]wanted to shed the light upon.

[31:54]Moving on to the second point that I wanted to discuss tonight

[31:57]is that what was I would like to shed the light briefly

[32:01]on the role of Imam Hussein during the reign of the second

[32:04]and the third Khalifa.

[32:06]As many of us know that the Muslim Ummah went through many

[32:09]political conflicts.

[32:11]Some of them were apparent and of some of them weren't.

[32:14]And what I would like to do here is I would I

[32:17]would like to I would like to choose two incidents that occurred.

[32:21]One of them during the reign of the second Khalifa and the

[32:25]second one during the reign of the third Khalifa H.

[32:29]The first one is that during the reign of the second Khalifa

[32:33]you find that Im Hussein was about 10 years of age.

[32:40]It has been narrated that one time I im Hussein he entered

[32:44]the masid he found sitting on the m on the pulpit and

[32:49]by the way this hadith is narrated from non sources what's that's

[32:53]what's interesting nevertheless you find that Im Hussein Ali entered and he

[32:59]saw Katab sitting on the pulpit IM Hussein Ali walked towards the

[33:03]pulpit he climbed the steps of the pulpit and stood in front

[33:10]of Katab And then he told him, "Come down from the pulpit

[33:13]of my father and go sit on the pulpit of your father."

[33:19]Omar Katab replied back saying, "What?" He said, "You're right.

[33:24]This is not the pulpit of my father, but rather the pulpit

[33:27]of your father.

[33:30]But tell me, who taught you this?" 10 years of age.

[33:33]10 years of age.

[33:36]You see focus when in the court of Yazid he says what

[33:47]that we were given six given six characteristics and then we were

[33:55]favored with seven and among those characteristics is what is courage bravery

[34:01]that is something rooted in bani hashim he stood in front of

[34:06]him and he told him come down from the pulpit of my

[34:09]father.

[34:08]Then finally asked him who taught you this subhan allah who taught

[34:14]you this.

[34:14]It's as if Imam Hussein was being sent to deliver a message.

[34:20]Imam Hussein replied saying what?

[34:22]He said no one taught me s no one taught me this.

[34:28]I said it on my own.

[34:29]And you find that Imm Hussein Alisam reflected that awareness about the

[34:34]political conflicts from that very young age and he was able to

[34:41]voice it and stand up to it.

[34:43]The second incident it happened during the reign of the third Khalifa.

[34:48]We all know the story of Abu Dafi Ali where Abu Dafari

[34:55]was exiled to a place called Alaba a really rough place to

[34:59]live in and he died there.

[35:03]When Abu Dafari was exiled, it has been narrated that there were

[35:06]three people that walked him to the outskirts of Medina.

[35:08]Even though there was an issue [snorts] from the government, a ban

[35:16]on anybody even accompanying Abu Alari, I imbu Hassan Ali and Im

[35:25]Hussein Ali.

[35:28]They walked Abu Dafi to the outskirts of Medina.

[35:33]No doubt here reflect on the words of Imam Hussein.

[35:35]He was about 28 years of age.

[35:38]And he spoke to Abu Dafi at that time.

[35:41]What did he say?

[35:43]Beautiful words of Im Hussein.

[35:46]Indeed, a lesson for everybody to learn.

[35:49]Note that when you are being fought, note that when you are

[35:57]being confronted for standing for h or for speaking h, reflect on

[36:00]those words of Imam Hussein.

[36:01]He told him what said, "Oh, uncle." And that by itself is

[36:05]a virtue being referred to.

[36:07]referred to very few companions as uncle by the way such as

[36:13]Salman Abu and on the land of honored Habib by calling him

[36:24]what uncle isn't it said oh uncle they feared you for their

[36:27]worldly life to Abu Dar they feared you for their worldly life

[36:33]for their dunya Right?

[36:37]For the benefits of this dunya, they feared you for the for

[36:42]their worldly life and you feared them for your religion.

[36:46]See, brothers and sisters, fear is a natural feeling.

[36:54]There's nothing wrong in being afraid.

[36:56]Fear is a very natural emotion.

[37:01]What's unnatural if the fear becomes cowardice that's wrong but fear in

[37:11]general as a natural feeling among those natural feelings is fearing what

[37:17]fearing for that dean that one does not want to lose his

[37:25]dean that's a logical type of fear that's a good type of

[37:31]fear Here when one does not want to lose their dean hence

[37:34]they need to react.

[37:37]Imm Hussein is telling what is that they feared you for their

[37:41]worldly life and you feared them for your religion for your dean.

[37:46]So leave to them what they fe what they fear for.

[37:51]Leave that dunya for them.

[37:53]Do not fight over dunya.

[37:57]Do not fight over the materialistic aspects of this life.

[38:03]Do not struggle for anything worldly in this life.

[38:07]It's all going to vanish.

[38:09]What is it?

[38:10]What's going to remain from it?

[38:11]And you'll find that Imam Hussein Alam said this to Abu Dar

[38:16]said leave it for them.

[38:17]Just leave that dy for them.

[38:18]So leave to them what they fear for and carry with you

[38:23]what you fear for.

[38:25]You feared for your dean.

[38:29]So carry that dean with you where to by yourself.

[38:32]That loneliness that they have thought that they might have exiled you

[38:39]to then understand that a person like Abu is not alone because

[38:43]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would be with him and he took his

[38:45]dean with him and that is something and this is what I

[38:49]wanted to focus on.

[38:51]And the third point, Imm Hussein during the ruling of his father

[38:57]Ali Abisam.

[38:58]At that point, Imm Hussein saw Ali had reached the height of

[39:05]his bravery and his courage.

[39:08]And at that time, Imam Hussein was a ferocious warrior indeed.

[39:16]And therefore, Imm gave him and his brother Imam al Hassan and

[39:21]their brother Muhammad Hanafi many responsibilities.

[39:25]Among them is that Imam Hussein Ali took a part in Jamal,

[39:28]the battle of Jamal leading battalions.

[39:32]They were generals in the army of their father in in to

[39:42]the point and they were so courageous on the battlefield to the

[39:48]point that it has been narrated that Imam would tell to the

[39:52]pe would say to the people hold [snorts] them back.

[39:56]Do you imagine is that it was narrated that Im Hass and

[39:58]Im Hussein Alam as soon as the battlefield would begin they would

[40:03]attack the front lines of the enemy.

[40:05]Imam would always say hold them back for I fear that the

[40:13]bloodline of Allah might get cut off.

[40:15]Do you imagine that?

[40:18]Yes.

[40:17]In fact, during one of the battles has been narrated during the

[40:21]battle of Safi, there was an incident that took place that I

[40:24]would like to shed the light on.

[40:25]A man came to Muhammad Hanfi, the son of Imam.

[40:31]And he said to him, "What?" He said to him, "Your father

[40:38]Ali Ab is unjust to you." And he said, "Why?" He said,

[40:42]"You see him on the battlefield protecting his two sons, Hassan and

[40:46]Hussein, but then he throws you and he puts you on the

[40:47]front line." Oh, subhan Allah.

[40:52]So there are people in this life or in this dunya that

[40:57]feed off fitna.

[41:00]They love it, right?

[41:00]There are people in this life that the only way they're able

[41:06]to survive and go on by their day is only through gossip

[41:09]through planting nam doing for planting doubt in other people's people's minds

[41:17]isn't it so you find that man came to Muhammad and he

[41:22]said that your father Ali Abi is unjust to you and therefore

[41:25]why because he puts you in the front lines and he protects

[41:30]Imass Hussein Don't you hear him saying hold them back?

[41:32]Muhammad Khan gave him a beautiful reply and learned that sometimes a

[41:36]proper reply is sufficient.

[41:38]Brothers and sisters, right?

[41:41]Especially when someone is coming to cause discord in the community.

[41:47]Muhammad replied back saying what he said.

[41:50]Al Hassan and Al Hussein are his eyes and I am his

[41:57]hands.

[41:58]And a logical man protects his eyes with his hands.

[42:01]See, sometimes a proper reply is sufficient.

[42:03]And this is the best way to cut off any type of

[42:09]fitna in this regard.

[42:10]And that's why a beautiful hadith comes to mind in this regard

[42:15]from Imam Hussein Ali himself.

[42:16]It is said that one time I Hussein Ali was asked what

[42:20]is virtue?

[42:21]What is virtue?

[42:25]The imam replied, "Mastery of the tongue." Subhan Allah.

[42:30]Mastery of the tongue.

[42:32]Being able to control your tongue.

[42:37]Wah.

[42:38]Being able to control that tongue because it is your tongue that

[42:45]ends up reflecting your actions.

[42:47]I remember the first year of Hza.

[42:50]I can never forget this.

[42:52]I received one of the best piece of advice I've ever heard

[42:55]in my life.

[42:56]It's by a man, may Allah lengthen his life.

[42:59]He's a poet known in Windsor, Ontario.

[43:01]Nevertheless, he grabbed me one time and he said, "Well, do you

[43:06]know what's the hardest, most difficult stage a man can reach?" And

[43:10]I said, "What?" He said, "Maturity and intellectual awareness." Maturity.

[43:19]is that to be mature, to become a mature man, to be

[43:28]referred to as a mature man.

[43:29]Yeah.

[43:29]I see many women now turning back their heads and trying to

[43:35]stare with their husbands at the moment.

[43:36]Lebanese men never mature.

[43:39]Just live with it.

[43:39]That's just the way it is.

[43:44]They just never do.

[43:43]Live with it.

[43:45]Just halos.

[43:44]Anyways, I'm just kidding.

[43:48]Nevertheless, so he found what he said to He said, "Maturity, maturity."

[43:51]And then I said, "That's interesting." He said, "Now, do you know

[43:54]what's more difficult than that?" And I said, "What?" He said, "Acting

[44:02]always upon maturity." Meaning making your actions subservient to that intellectual maturity

[44:10]that you have attained.

[44:10]Because one can be mature, one can attain maturity, one can become

[44:18]alpha if that's you, if you would were to refer to it.

[44:23]Yet the problem is is that sometimes when you are being put

[44:27]under the test, you might lose that maturity and act immaturely.

[44:34]Unfortunately, let me give you an example.

[44:36]T Freud one time wanted to teach a lesson to his students.

[44:38]He told them, "I have the ability to transform a man into

[44:44]an animal." They said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Why don't

[44:46]you come down with me to the street?" He took them down

[44:49]to the street.

[44:49]And then he pointed at a man.

[44:51]He was dressed well.

[44:54]He was carrying a business bag.

[44:55]And then he asked them, he said, "What about that man?

[44:57]How does he look?" They told him, "I look," they told him,

[45:00]his students, they said, "He looks like a man of nobility, a

[45:02]man of class, of elegance." He said, "Internesting.

[45:06]As soon as that man went by him, he poked him with

[45:11]his stick.

[45:09]The man dropped down the bag and began hitting Freud.

[45:14]And then he looked at their students at his students and he

[45:16]told them, "See, I told you I have the ability to transform

[45:20]a man into an animal." So that's true because many of us

[45:27]might attain that mature level, but then when we are be being

[45:31]put under the test, we lose our sanity.

[45:34]Isn't it?

[45:36]Imm Hussein.

[45:38]He says what?

[45:38]Says master of mastery.

[45:40]The mastery of the tongue.

[45:42]It's a virtue.

[45:44]That's the definition of virtue.

[45:45]Literally master your tongue.

[45:47]Understand that what you say is something that you will be accountable

[45:51]for.

[45:52]Especially if you want to build your personality as a as a

[45:57]man.

[45:58]He says what?

[46:00]Mastery of the tongue and the offering of kindness.

[46:05]And then he was asked and what's deficiency the opposite of a

[46:12]virtue.

[46:12]What's deficiency?

[46:12]Imm Hussein Alisam replied saying what?

[46:15]To burden oneself with what does not concern you?

[46:21]Subhan Allah.

[46:23]Two very simple yet deep advice.

[46:25]Something that does not concern you, do not interfere in it.

[46:30]It is absolutely an ugly habit.

[46:33]See brothers and sisters take it from me and I stand humbly

[46:38]here before you and before the say when I say this but

[46:40]take it from me you are not obligated to answer any personal

[46:44]questions if you don't want to.

[46:46]You see unfortunately we are told and we are set or we

[46:52]are t told and taught from a very young age that it's

[46:56]inappropriate if you don't answer back.

[46:58]Absolutely not.

[46:58]It's inappropriate when you answer back when you don't want to answer

[47:05]back.

[47:04]But you can just shut down the question with a very proper

[47:09]way.

[47:10]Simple as that.

[47:10]You are not obligated to speak about your personal life.

[47:16]You are not obligated to answer back nosy people.

[47:19]Some people are absolutely curious.

[47:24]I salute them for their courage.

[47:26]Where do they bring the self-confidence from to sit down and ask

[47:30]you the most personal questions ever to interfere in your life and

[47:34]take it from me?

[47:37]Subhan Allah.

[47:38]There are some people that all what they want is a material

[47:43]to discuss.

[47:43]Their life unfortunately is so empty and their minds are so empty

[47:49]rather than filling it with something useful, something intellectual, they want to

[47:54]fill it with gossip, a material to discuss.

[47:57]People truly just want a material to discuss a content something that

[48:01]they don't know about.

[48:03]So they're going to ask you personal questions.

[48:04]You are not obligated to answer.

[48:08]In fact, we have many narrations in this regard.

[48:12]many narrations in this regard.

[48:15]The sage knows in it's even to answer back how old are

[48:19]you?

[48:20]It's not recommended.

[48:21]Someone asks you the question say I don't want to answer.

[48:26]It's very simple.

[48:26]Learn how to reply back with a proper reply.

[48:29]Just say I don't want to answer.

[48:30]I don't feel comfortable discussing this issue.

[48:32]I don't feel comfortable discussing.

[48:35]It's interesting because many people sometimes come and tell you what are

[48:38]you hiding or what you know it just the center what everything

[48:43]what you mean what am I everything what are you a customs

[48:45]agent you know [laughter] for the love of God so sometimes I

[48:52]im Hussein Alisam is saying in a beautiful narration the mastery of

[48:57]the tongue and deficiency is what is that to burden yourself in

[49:00]something that does not concern you something that is out of your

[49:05]concern Subhan Allah.

[49:06]If anybody's more interested in this, I spoke about this in complete

[49:14]depth.

[49:15]Um when I was at the service of the HIC community in

[49:17]Orlando, um I gave 15 nights of the taps of anybody would

[49:21]refer back to them, it's on YouTube.

[49:25]Um and I spoke, you know, the deep perspective about it.

[49:28]You know, that's and how it can lead to many other things

[49:30]in this regard.

[49:32]Final point that I want to discuss, I would like to refer

[49:36]back to the blessed verse that I started with tonight.

[49:37]Surah ta verse number 82.

[49:43]And the relation between this verse and Im Hussein Allah subhana wa

[49:49]ta'ala says in this verse Allah subhana wa ta says beautifully in

[50:00]this vers I am truly most forgiving to whoever repents believes and

[50:10]does good then persists on true guidance.

[50:13]One of the things that I would like to discuss tonight in

[50:16]this regard briefly inshallah is that the first thing that Allah subhanahu

[50:20]wa ta'ala attributed to himself saying meaning what is different than is

[50:29]an intensive form of can uh a form conveying that Allah subhanahu

[50:37]wa ta'ala not only accepts pardons and forgives yet he constantly does

[50:43]So time and time again.

[50:44]So no one should ever give up from the mercy of Allah

[50:50]subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[50:49]One of the most beautiful things I find on the pulpit mainly

[50:55]in the school of thought is that you find that the pulpit

[50:57]always encourages you to turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[51:01]It is something wonderful you find in the school of thought.

[51:06]So Allah subhana wa ta here is saying what I am indeed

[51:11]most forgiving.

[51:12]But then he puts conditions and he provides me with four conditions.

[51:19]The first one is the one who repents.

[51:23]Repentance is abandoning sins.

[51:26]So the one who abandons sins.

[51:28]And then the second condition believes.

[51:31]So after tba comes what?

[51:36]belief is that when this heart is purified and this heart is

[51:42]enveloped with the light of faith.

[51:45]So after repentance comes what comes belief and does good translated this

[51:56]belief reflected this belief after in what an action and this is

[52:02]what the sometimes refer to as to what The practical form of

[52:09]we can sit down sometimes at night and do a thousand or

[52:14]you can come and volunteer at an event as a form of

[52:18]you can help out a person your Muslim brother or sister as

[52:26]a form of you can aid someone as a form of and

[52:30]that is considered the practical form of that Allahh is referring to.

[52:37]So the first one is repentance.

[52:40]Second one is belief and the third is what is doing good.

[52:42]And then what distinguishes this verse about Allah's and from every other

[52:54]verse in the holy Quran that talks about that talks about repentance

[53:00]doing good belief.

[53:00]There is one last condition which is the fourth condition not mentioned

[53:05]in any verse that speaks about the perspective of which is what

[53:12]then what persists on true guidance after repentance after belief after then

[53:20]finding the righteous leadership to always be guided by because that human

[53:27]soul sometimes might deviate from the path.

[53:31]path even though after repentance and even though after belief in might

[53:35]totally deviate from the path unless it finds its true guidance and

[53:42]guided with the righteous leadership and that's what I imbak refers to

[53:49]as every im from and therefore you find the beautiful hadith from

[53:56]that says what hussein Allah here is putting the fourth condition tells

[54:09]me in a narration indeed al Hussein is the lantern of guidance.

[54:14]So not only the path of guidance but the lantern of the

[54:19]path of guidance.

[54:21]One can find the path of guidance but no one to lead

[54:24]them through it.

[54:25]Allah is telling me Hussein the most fascinating hadith in my humble

[54:31]opinion about Im Hussein indeed al Hussein as the lantern of guidance

[54:38]one guidance come to the door of Imam Hussein many people sometimes

[54:46]sit and complain I have a family member who is not willing

[54:50]to listen they're not guided they're losing the path they're losing the

[54:56]way and bring them to the path of Im Hussein Ali.

[54:59]I have many people sometimes they complain about their marital relationship.

[55:04]Reflect on the path of Imam Hussein.

[55:08]Many people sometimes complain that my son is not guided, my daughter

[55:16]is not guided.

[55:15]Speak to them about Im Hussein.

[55:18]Let them hold on to the path of Hussein.

[55:22]Let them connect with Imam Hussein and indeed they will find the

[55:31]guidance.

[55:29]Why?

[55:30]Because Allah confirmed it.

[55:34]Imam Hussein is the lantern of guidance.

[55:37]And then he continues and the ark of salvation.

[55:39]No doubt.

[55:41]May we all inshallah be encompassed.

[55:45]May we all inshallah be in that ship and the ark of

[55:49]guidance.

[55:49]No doubt.

[55:50]I could end with the dua, but I'm gonna leave it to

[55:53]the s.

[55:52]He's more better than me than this.

[55:55]I would love to hear it from his wonderful voice.

[55:56]But I just want to say a final message.

[55:58]This is the second time I come here after I had a

[56:03]wonderful um series of lectures amongst you during shah Ramadan.

[56:05]It was what couple of years ago, three years ago if I'm

[56:12]not mistaken.

[56:09]What was it?

[56:12]2024.

[56:13]2024.

[56:14]Are you sure?

[56:14]If I'm okay.

[56:16]Subhan Allah.

[56:15]Okay.

[56:16]It just felt like it was a long time, but it was

[56:19]wonderful.

[56:19]And we were in this blessed place and honestly it's a wonderful

[56:23]place.

[56:24]I see the sincerity and I see the purity in the but

[56:28]I would love it that the next time I'm invited here inshallah

[56:31]it'll be in the new center.

[56:32]You know you guys are distinguished with many things.

[56:39]The first one is that as immi you have a godly scholar

[56:45]a divinely guided scholar is a pure soul.

[56:48]Subhan Allah.

[56:49]His pleasant smile.

[56:50]This is something that we all speakers agree on.

[56:53]I'm telling you, everybody says that.

[56:55]Subhan Allah.

[56:55]So you have that.

[56:58]You're distinguished with that.

[56:58]So take advantage of it.

[57:01]And the second one is a wonderful community.

[57:01]You guys are generous.

[57:04]You guys are pure.

[57:04]You guys are kind.

[57:08]Um excellent hospitality.

[57:07]So let's make this happen and let's do it as soon as

[57:14]possible.

[57:11]even if it's going to cost us because trust me the obstacles

[57:18]are not finances the obstacles are not finances you go to any

[57:22]center you go to any molana any he'll tell you I don't

[57:26]want money what I'd rather is people's dedication when you have dedicated

[57:30]souls then the finance will come then will come that's on Allah

[57:34]subhanahu wa ta'ala is that he's the one who takes care of

[57:39]the and I'm very happy that you guys inshallah have progressed just

[57:42]a little but inshallah let's even see it further and I would

[57:45]love to come back inshallah by next year or whatever it is

[57:51]and we'd be in that blessed place I ended I say Please

[58:31]everyone, we take this opportunity to Thank our dear brotherh for blessing

[58:41]this gathering and joining us and accepting the invitation.

[58:45]He came from a colder place.

[58:47]He came from Ottawa.

[58:47]So this is like coming to Florida for him, right?

[58:51]So not really.

[58:55]No, [laughter] we we're wishful thinking.

[58:57]Alhamdulillah.

[58:57]We we thank him for joining us.

[59:01]His words are very inspiring, very beautiful.

[59:04]Mashallah a lot of knowledge we have to catch up mashallah some

[59:07]maybe we have to rec uh go back and relisten to it

[59:13]because every word mashallah every minute is something very beautiful and we

[59:18]pray that we see you more often here now inshallah um you

[59:22]said the next time is in the next is in the center

[59:25]I mean I'm afraid that might be a long time we want

[59:30]you to come before that so inshallah maybe if we are able

[59:32]to get it done.

[59:34]But if not, then definitely here until we get it done.

[59:37]May Allah subhana wa tala bless you.

[59:42]Let us raise our hands in dua.

[59:47]All We have We have a very beautiful looking cake that's waiting

[60:36]to be cut by uh sister.

[60:39]She made always every celebration that we have she mashallah does something

[60:44]very beautiful and it tastes even better.

[60:47]But we need the knife and we need the plates and we

[60:53]need all of that.

[60:51]So, inshallah will will cut the cake

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