Debunking Doubts 1 - Duā Iftitāh

25 المشاهدات· 24/03/25

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[0:00]a few things come to mind first of all i wonder why

[0:05]those who try to attack any text that doesn't conform with their

[0:08]narrow secular view why they don't employ the same tactic and the

[0:13]same logic to the holy quran and they will rest assured soon

[0:18]enough they'll turn their malicious pseudo-intellectual guns towards the quran itself for

[0:24]example all the verses that discuss hell and its torment they're super

[0:29]negative because you can take any part of a text especially religious

[0:34]text zoom in on it and then extrapolate meaning from it and

[0:39]apply that meaning to the entire text but that's disingenuous that's not

[0:44]something that a scholar would do what he's doing is he's taking

[0:49]one part of dua which is incredibly inspirational which is a text

[0:55]that brings you nearness to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala awareness of allah

[0:58]subhanahu wa ta'ala and he's sort of as i said he's taking

[1:02]that one text and then he's saying this creates negativity if you

[1:08]look at the quran once again you have the verses that talk

[1:12]about how the believers are a minority is an example of that

[1:19]no matter how hard you try no matter how hard you strive

[1:24]most people will not be believers this is what the verse in

[1:27]the quran is saying so the statement from is rephrasing this same

[1:32]verse in the holy quran so your problem is with the quran

[1:39]maybe you should start there but for now it's about hadith and

[1:42]it's about supplications which ironically form an incredibly rich part of our

[1:49]devotional tradition but then i guess that's the sign of the times

[1:51]this is where we are at the moment where our duas are

[1:54]being attacked number two it's funny how when they find a part

[1:59]of a dua irritating they conveniently place that text on a mortuary

[2:04]table slice it and dice it and perform an autopsy on the

[2:08]dua taking only the part that fits their mindset and throwing away

[2:11]the parts that don't in this case as we said it happens

[2:18]to be where even he admits is an impeccable text that's nothing

[2:21]short of breathtaking until it gets too negative for his taste and

[2:28]speaking of negativity let me ask him uh uh a simple question

[2:32]first off what are your scholarly foundations i'm asking about your epistemological

[2:38]principles are they derived from and grounded in the quran and sunnah

[2:46]are primary religious texts or are they from psychology because if it's

[2:51]derived from psychology is it freud is it watson is it skinner

[2:56]is it abraham maslow or if you happen to have a left-leaning

[2:59]persuasion maybe you happen to be a fan of vygotsky i mean

[3:03]it's ridiculous the reason i ask is this he says what is

[3:08]all this negativity right that was the quote and if i understand

[3:13]that um you know ultimately we live in a world where it's

[3:16]a feel-good now culture where sadness and anxiety or any negative emotion

[3:22]for that matter is the greatest evil in this culture denying reality

[3:26]is seen as a form of the dreaded negativity so let me

[3:31]borrow from your hypersensitive emotion-centric worldview what you call negativity is an

[3:39]incredibly powerful motivator if you're making a plea for charity for an

[3:43]earthquake-stricken village for example do you talk about the rewards of giving

[3:48]or do you show images of the earthquake images of destruction pain

[3:53]and human misery negativity is what sticks and inspires behavioral change here's

[4:00]another example you can tell a smoker all about how nice unpolluted

[4:09]air is but that's not how you change them they need to

[4:13]see repulsive images of lungs infested with cancer to consider the consequences

[4:18]of their actions i can give a thousand more examples of how

[4:22]behavioral psychologists acknowledge the power of negative emotions also until you acknowledge

[4:31]reality you can't and won't change it if a morbidly obese person

[4:34]was surrounded by their friends and family who walked on eggshells and

[4:39]always told her she looks beautiful no matter what she'll never understand

[4:42]that her health may be at risk acknowledging reality is an essential

[4:47]prerequisite towards fixing our problems which means that someone who lives in

[4:54]an ivory tower free from discomfort or the hammer of justice both

[4:58]physical and religious of course they're not going to acknowledge reality and

[5:02]any reference to that bitter truth will be mischaracterized as negativity so

[5:07]let's look at what the imam actually teaches us to say in

[5:14]to understand just how disingenuous this this attempt is at undermining our

[5:20]duas the dua that section of the dua which is cited is

[5:27]this essentially we complain to you about not having our prophet may

[5:40]your peace and blessings be upon him and his family not having

[5:44]him amongst us and the uh the absence of our guardian what

[5:55]and the numerous enemies that we have and the fact that we

[5:59]are a minority again just like the quran says and the intensity

[6:05]of the trials and the tribulations that have afflicted us [Music] so

[6:16]help us give us backing and support because he seems to dismiss

[6:32]this whole part and the entirety of because of what he calls

[6:39]complaining right so the word neshku meaning we complain to you and

[6:42]my suggestion is it's the holy month of ramadan so maybe recite

[6:48]the quran so you wouldn't have these misconceptions and then spout them

[6:54]from the pulpit i'll give you the address for easier reference okay

[6:58]in surat yusuf allah says god essentially recounts a conversation between yahoo

[7:17]and his sons after having lost his son yusuf he says he

[7:24]turned away from them and said alas for yusuf and his eyes

[7:32]became white with the grief of that he repressed so jacob goes

[7:37]blind from all the grief that he repressed within him for the

[7:41]loss of his son yusuf they said by allah you will never

[8:00]cease to remember yusuf until you are ill or until you are

[8:04]of the perished ones in other words you're going to die by

[8:09]the you know you have you've got so much grief and so

[8:14]much sadness and you keep remembering yusuf you're going to die and

[8:18]this is the part i want you to focus on in bethesda

[8:27]he said i only complain of my anguish draw a hundred red

[8:32]lines under the word complain i only complain of my anguish and

[8:37]my grief to who to allah now go back to that section

[8:51]we complain to you about our prophet about our tribulations which means

[8:57]that complaining to god is what prophets do it is the most

[9:02]noble form of worship if you think that invites negativity then frankly

[9:07]i don't know what to say to you if yakub can grieve

[9:11]over his missing son until he goes blind and complained to god

[9:15]about him then why can't we do the same for the use

[9:21]of of muhammad s why shouldn't we cry day and night for

[9:29]not having the imam of our time amongst us or is it

[9:36]something more fundamental something more nefarious perhaps like for example not believing

[9:42]in the mahdi to begin with is that what your problem is

[9:46]and i'm not saying that you don't believe in a mahdi right

[9:50]you probably don't believe in the mahdi the shia belief in the

[9:55]savior the awaited imam in other words your conception of the savior

[10:01]is not that of the shia faith but some kind of mystical

[10:06]human transfiguration or intellectual evolution and he's been known for saying stuff

[10:11]like that and i wouldn't be surprised at all since everything he's

[10:16]been saying is anti-shia this would top it all up and you

[10:24]know honestly what all of this reminds me of because in a

[10:26]way there's a silver lining when you hear people making statements like

[10:32]that attacking our dua attacking our heritage attacking shia culture in a

[10:37]way there's a silver lining and a means of optimism in all

[10:45]of this because it reminds me the imposters the pseudo scholars the

[10:57]fake intellectuals the imam they are more harmful for the weak members

[11:09]of our followers the weak shia those whose knowledge isn't strong enough

[11:16]these pseudo scholars are more harmful towards them from the army of

[11:27]yazid toward the camp of imam al-hussein why the imam explains he

[11:32]says because the army of yazid take their lives they take their

[11:41]possessions doubt and misconception into the hearts of those who are weak

[12:00]amongst our followers why do you think there will be a group

[12:03]of people who are described as scholars who tell imam al-mahdi when

[12:11]he finally finally returns oh son of fatima go back we don't

[12:19]need you because maybe we needed you in the minor occultation but

[12:24]now we have smartphones now we have the internet now we have

[12:29]big fancy institutions and millions of dollars being pumped by millionaires who

[12:36]back us to find loopholes in religion so we really don't need

[12:41]you to restore the prophet's religion we've distorted it so much that

[12:45]your presence amongst us is a threat it's too inconvenient to have

[12:52]your return just go back to where you came from we seek

[12:55]refuge and allah from these individuals the imam says in another hadith

[13:02]i believe imam assad he says relief won't come until you are

[13:16]sifted until you are filtered until the good is separated from the

[13:20]bad the impostor from the truthful and the righteous from the hypocrite

[13:28]said it three times the process of filtration has to happen over

[13:33]and over again until allah removes all the filth all the dirt

[13:43]and keeps only the purest of the pure now i will make

[13:49]one uh final observation about and its authenticity because the chain of

[13:56]the dua goes back to muhammad ibn uthman ibn saeed now those

[14:02]of you who are familiar with the uh the minor occultation and

[14:06]the emissaries of imam zaman will recognize this name because was the

[14:12]first emissary the first safir of the imam and his son muhammad

[14:17]uthman became the second the second representative he is the one who

[14:22]wrote this dua in a book and he said that this dua

[14:28]is recommended for the month of ramadan we also know that imam

[14:33]al-hasan gave the highest possible accolade to uthman said and his son

[14:44]muhammad to whom this chain ends this hadith is mentioned by rajadi

[14:50]scholars and it's considered as i said the highest possible accolade that

[14:53]an imam could give to someone because the imam says the first

[15:05]representative and his son are reliable allah whatever they deliver to you

[15:17]they are delivering it from me whatever they give you in matters

[15:22]of religion at least the imam doesn't restrict it to matters of

[15:25]religion but obviously this would be the context of the hadith whatever

[15:30]they give you they are quoting us whatever they tell you they

[15:40]are telling you from us it just keeps getting better and better

[15:45]the imam says so listen to them and obey them for they

[15:52]are the true the two trustworthy ones and reliable ones the dua

[15:58]is narrated by this individual and it's been narrated and recited by

[16:05]our great scholars for centuries but it seems that none had the

[16:11]eagle-eyed precision of making this ground-breaking discovery that the dua may contain

[16:16]and i can't believe i'm saying this some negativity so that those

[16:21]sleeping on comfortable beds and deriving and and deriving their teachings from

[16:25]psychology and going around in their jaguars can appreciate the fact that

[16:34]to eradicate injustice on a universal scale requires divine intervention and that

[16:38]we are too weak and too meek to play god unless of

[16:44]course you're so arrogant that you think you're the infantile center of

[16:48]the universe and can do all of those things it's obvious it's

[16:53]obvious to me that your problem isn't with this dua per se

[16:57]but with shia literature and our religious culture and identity a culture

[17:04]that's based on centuries of exhaustive scholarship and meticulous research may allah

[17:14]prolong his life he makes an observation that is quite incredible it

[17:19]gives an example he says that our work the work of a

[17:22]scholar is like digging a well with a needle that's how meticulous

[17:27]and painstaking the process is right this culture that's composed of spiritual

[17:34]devotions the like of which no other religion has seen and supplications

[17:39]that are the envy of others to the extent that i've seen

[17:42]with my own two eyes on some arab tv channels these same

[17:47]duas being plagiarized and attributed to the likes of hassan al-basri and

[17:52]other imposters then this random guy comes along and ravages them because

[17:57]he feels depressed

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