Dhul-Qarnayn Series - Sheikh Dr. Usama Al-Attar - 2017 Ramadan Night 15

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[0:00]Madhvi ali muhammad assalamualaikum and welcome to the 16th night of our

[0:10]Madan program just about halfway through inshallah you guys have been reaping

[0:15]the blessings of the holy month and the creative you've been benefiting

[0:18]from the programming before we begin I just have a few quick

[0:22]announcements to make the first one is about hour of thought on

[0:24]wheels which is going to be this Friday the 16th so we're

[0:30]basically going to have three different food trucks joining us and tickets

[0:34]are $25 and allow for one meal from each vendor so inshallah

[0:38]that's a fun creative way to have a thought and we hope

[0:43]that you guys will be joining us inshaallah the other announcements is

[0:48]that from today until the end of Ramadan our programs will be

[0:52]on a nightly basis so Chawla will be seeing you guys every

[0:55]night from now on and my final announcement is that we have

[1:02]been having some trash being left in the prayer hall so if

[1:04]you guys just see any trash or you while exiting if we

[1:09]could just pick it up and keep our prayer hall clean it

[1:11]would be highly appreciated and without further ado today joining us we

[1:20]have Imam dr.

[1:19]ossama al-assad who holds a master's degree in education and a PhD

[1:23]in chemistry he completed his postdoctoral fellowship and has several publications and

[1:29]some may have been highlighted in many news agencies including the BBC

[1:36]Imam dr.

[1:38]Sadick Imam dr.

[1:38]al-assad also studied religion with great scholars including a allah Saeed Matsuzaka

[1:44]Sweeney and ayatollah sayyed Badal al malik al Milani he is currently

[1:48]the principal and CEO of al-bakr Academy in Edmonton Alberta so we're

[1:54]very blessed to be having him joining us without further ado please

[1:57]help me in welcoming him with us allah wa ala muhammad wa

[2:01]ala muhammad smellorama no raheem alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen valhalla marimba a Columbia

[2:18]in mousseline ma salatu wa salam ala Ashraf ill and mir USA

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[3:12]no Jim bismillah r-rahman oe OE s a luna candy no pony

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[3:37]sub ever thought possible Salim's allah muhammad wa aale muhammad my dear

[3:56]brothers when your sisters salaam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh it's a pleasure to

[4:05]be back here amongst you again although i think this is my

[4:09]first time spending part of the holy month of ramadan in this

[4:16]city which everything is different in here in all aspects in retrospect

[4:20]you know the city is so lively things are just ongoing and

[4:23]just everything is different here but inshallah if Allah gives us no

[4:27]fear over the next couple or so weeks that we will be

[4:35]having together the schedule will be the discussion mainly will concentrate around

[4:42]the story of a personality that appears only once in the Holy

[4:48]Quran by once I mean in only one of its chapters yet

[4:54]there is some description about this personality some of the adventures that

[5:00]this personality went through yet there isn't much discussion about who he

[5:06]was what he did and this personality is according to the Holy

[5:11]Quran full of nain nain which literally translates as the man with

[5:22]the two horns while we discuss insha allah the story of dhul-qarnain

[5:27]as it appears in surah till calf will try to shed some

[5:30]light about some of the lessons that we would learn from this

[5:37]story in our lives now we will also come across the time

[5:44]of the Shahada of imam ali salawatullahi wa salamu alayh and so

[5:48]we will take a break from the discussion about the nine for

[5:51]about three nights on the eve of the 19th the 20th and

[5:57]the 21st of the holy month where we'll dedicate these three nights

[6:03]for Imam Ali Salaam allaha la learning about some of his history

[6:07]and then we have one night which is the 23rd night of

[6:13]the holy month of Ramadan which is lailatul Qatar the third night

[6:16]of lailatul God also will dedicate that night also for lailatul Qatar

[6:19]so this takes about four nights away from us leaving us approximately

[6:23]with about eight to nine nights give or take to discuss the

[6:29]story of the leg nine so that will be kind of our

[6:30]schedule and sha Allah over the next two or so weeks if

[6:34]Allah gives us hope we have to do so so tonight insha'Allah

[6:39]we will commence our discussion about dhul-qarnayn and the verses in Surat

[6:47]al-kahf that talk about him and then towards the end we will

[6:50]also try to shed some light about the Battle of bedder which

[6:55]took place on the 17th day of the holy month of Ramadan

[7:00]that was the first battle in Islam so try to kind of

[7:04]wrap up with that tonight if Allah gives us topic tomorrow insha'Allah

[7:08]we'll continue with the struggle cognate then as I said three nights

[7:11]off we go back to the cognate one night off and then

[7:16]we continue towards him until the end of the month so now

[7:19]you have some idea about what we will be discussing if Allah

[7:22]gives us no fear to do so before I get into the

[7:27]discussion of or about dhul-qarnayn when it comes to history there are

[7:33]ideas about how should we approach history for example there is a

[7:39]famous historian by the name of Butterfield he came up with a

[7:45]preposition suggesting that a historian should not write or give any moral

[7:55]implications when discussing history in other words all the historians job is

[8:04]to relate what happened in history the events and we leave it

[8:08]up to the reader when you are reading that history you then

[8:12]come up with your judgment about what happened who was right who

[8:16]was wrong according to him a historians job is not to impose

[8:25]his beliefs his ideologies or her ideologies to their reader and that's

[8:32]what they call keeping out the moral tone of history so that's

[8:37]one example about the approach towards reading history other historians however including

[8:45]a one recent contemporary one from the University of Illinois in Chicago

[8:48]James Kraft however he writes in one of his papers that history

[8:56]as a historian you have to give your moral judgement to what

[9:00]happened in history so when we read when we learn about history

[9:06]we have to analyze history it's not just a matter of relaying

[9:09]it to the people but rather we need to really analyze it

[9:15]go through it discuss it and figure out who was right who

[9:18]was wrong why where events done so that we can learn from

[9:23]them and interestingly James craft himself suggests that when it came to

[9:30]Butterfield himself the man who suggested that we should keep morality out

[9:36]of historian history's portrayal he himself fell victim a couple of times

[9:45]to his own problems or his own notion where he himself sometimes

[9:49]suggested some moral tones and used some moral words towards his portrayal

[9:54]of some turn aspects of the history that he was portraying so

[9:59]nonetheless it seems that when we take a look at history it

[10:06]is important to do so in addition to just reading it we

[10:08]need to analyze it we need to characterize it we need to

[10:14]go through it reflect opponent learn from it that's why you find

[10:17]in many of the major universities in the world today if not

[10:20]all of them they all have a Department of history and there

[10:25]are historians who read that history analyzed the history and try to

[10:30]derive lessons from history so it's a very important aspect that we

[10:33]have to learn about the Holy Quran also contains some history the

[10:41]Holy Quran tells us lessons about things that happened in the past

[10:45]when it came to prophet musa peace be upon him and the

[10:48]pharaoh when it came to prophet ibrahim alayhis salam other stories so

[10:55]there are some historical notions or historical facts in the quran or

[11:03]on however does give some what we may call moral analysis for

[11:08]example when it comes to firown' one of the examples used in

[11:16]the quran about him and his followers in suet is olaf allah

[11:20]subhana WA Ta'ala says first Africa Ummah who for Aparo n Nam

[11:25]Cano Bauman phosphine he fooled his people so they obeyed him they

[11:30]followed him the Pharaoh indeed they were transgressors that suggests to us

[11:37]that allah subhana wa ta'ala is condemning their act in following the

[11:43]pharaoh suggesting to us we should analyze the history that happened between

[11:49]prophet musa alehsalaam and the pharaoh and learn from it and learn

[11:54]which paths to take someone was right and the other one was

[12:00]not in surat al Mehsud bismillah r-rahman r-rahim Temba ta da ABI

[12:06]Lahab in a tab tradition to the hands of Abu Lahab who

[12:12]was the prophets uncle you know and his wife Allah has telling

[12:16]us with the vocabulary with the use of the verbs have bet

[12:22]that do not follow that example it's a bad example in another

[12:26]ayah in some other stories about della Palma Valley mean away be

[12:32]those people who are oppressors tyrants so we find in numr examples

[12:38]and accounts and the holyoke of odd allah subhana wa ta'ala when

[12:43]he uses history Allah is trying to teach us lessons about what

[12:48]happens one thing interesting about the stories of the Quran however they're

[12:55]not factual they're real they're things that have happened in the past

[13:01]they are things which we can relate to we're dealing with real

[13:06]humans and not fictitious not fiction but it's real and that's important

[13:13]because we then have a rich and abundant history consisting of all

[13:23]those people who are found in the Holy Quran who were real

[13:29]people in addition as Muslims we have the history of rasulullah sallallahu

[13:33]alayhi wa ala in addition as followers of ahlulbayt alayhi wa sallam

[13:38]we also have the history of the muscle mean salawatullahi wa sallam

[13:41]wali him ajma'in and this is something very important because it gives

[13:46]us a wealth of role models that we can learn from and

[13:53]follow we do not need to create fictional characters to learn from

[13:58]and to derive lessons from them let me share this example with

[14:05]you many years ago when I was doing my undergraduate degree and

[14:09]in the class of English at the University we were studying a

[14:15]play by Shakespeare called Hamlet hey guys familiar with Hamlet remember that

[14:21]to be or not to be guy you know whether tis nobler

[14:23]in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

[14:25]and that that guy you know that that person so interestingly you

[14:31]know we're learning about Hamlet and whatever you know the problems that

[14:34]Hamlet had you know his father died when he was young and

[14:37]created problems its mother remarried so on so forth you guys are

[14:44]familiar those of you who've read the play one day I was

[14:46]talking to the instructor of the classroom and they were saying you

[14:50]know it's quite interesting but why do we invest so much time

[14:55]learning about Hamlet you know what was Hamlet thinking for example at

[14:58]that instant you know when he committed this or when he did

[15:00]this what was going on through his mind well it's fiction I

[15:05]mean Hamlet is not even real you're asking me what was going

[15:08]through Hamlet's mind I mean he's a fictional character for God say

[15:12]I mean you can tell I'm a scientist here with all the

[15:14]respect to humanitarians you know people do humanities I I have a

[15:18]lot of respect for them of course because historians are amongst them

[15:21]but nonetheless sometimes they just invest a lot of time studying what

[15:26]was Macbeth thinking about when he was doing this what was Hamlet

[15:30]thinking about winning so one day I was having this conversation with

[15:33]with the instructor of the class and I was saying you know

[15:36]you're asking us all these interesting questions you know and I used

[15:42]the adjective interesting you know in some interesting ways but you know

[15:47]so you're asking us all these interesting questions about what was going

[15:51]through the mind of Hamlet I mean he's a fictional character for

[15:54]God's sake I mean it's not even real no he didn't even

[15:57]have a mind because it's fiction so she said what are you

[16:04]talking about don't say that it's like as if I offended her

[16:09]she says do you know as of today this was well some

[16:18]time ago she says as of today there are 3,500 research papers

[16:24]in universities people who've done research people who do master's degree PhD

[16:30]degrees 3,500 research papers written on Hamlet on Hamlet and I'm like

[16:36]are you serious I mean Hamlet is not even real is fiction

[16:40]if you tell me there are 3500 research papers written on Shakespeare

[16:47]I can understand that at least he was real the man was

[16:49]a genius you know as a poet you know he made a

[16:52]lot of contributions I guess to the English literature so okay understandable

[16:56]people cannot study the life of Shakespeare what he was what was

[16:59]Shakespeare thinking about when he wrote Hamlet at least that's that I

[17:07]can digest maybe but 3500 research papers written about a fictional character

[17:14]they asked what do people research on Hamlet so she's like no

[17:20]we need to really search and study about Hamlet what events transpired

[17:25]in Hamlet's life that made him go through the difficulties and the

[17:30]problems that he went through these are lessons we can learn from

[17:39]and implement them in real societies here that we learn from a

[17:46]fictional character created by a poet and we derive lesson from that

[17:50]fictional character and the life of that fictional character so that we

[17:59]can implement them in the real society nothing interesting 3500 research papers

[18:06]on a fictional character how many papers do we have written on

[18:13]Fatima to Zara Ali has Sarah how many papers do we have

[18:16]written on a mammal media Jalal Allah Allah Hafiz Imam he's alive

[18:22]he's with us right now those were real people they were not

[18:30]fiction in fact Allah says they were the best of Allah's creation

[18:32]how many papers do we have written about the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu

[18:37]aleyhi wa about imam ali salam on llaha la how did they

[18:48]govern what was the governorship system of the prophets of Allah Allahu

[18:52]Allah and that of Imam Ali how did they govern their societies

[18:54]that's something interesting to learn about because it's real it's something that

[18:58]is not fictional it's something that happened in society people lived at

[19:04]peace in that society for example at the time of the Prophet

[19:07]sallallahu alayhi wa al and medina towards the end of his life

[19:14]people were in such peace that people did not need to lock

[19:18]their stores there were no thieves no thieves well how did he

[19:22]manage to achieve that what did he do this is not fiction

[19:27]it's real so we need to study this this is something worth

[19:32]of studying and that's something in sha allah we will shed some

[19:35]light on in sha allah allah gives a stealthy about one of

[19:37]the aspects on imam ali salam ala highly how he handled poverty

[19:42]and how he dealt with poverty because there's a lot of discussion

[19:45]these days that we would like to eradicate poverty well we have

[19:50]a system in history that eradicated poverty how did it work what

[19:54]did he do see this was something that's something interesting because that's

[20:00]real that's not fiction and that's answers also the question that I

[20:05]get asked many times at different places I get told chick you

[20:09]know you're telling us that we need to follow role models such

[20:13]as the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa as Fatima to Sahara Ali

[20:16]has said you talk to me about the hijab of a say

[20:20]default on alehissalaam the hijab over say the zainab salam alayka the

[20:24]the life of a seder Khadija Salam Allahu alaihi you talk to

[20:27]me about the great lives of the Imams alayhi wassalam those however

[20:32]were people who lived 1,400 years ago give or take or twelve

[20:37]hundred years ago and now we live in this century you're talking

[20:42]to me for example about the hijab over say the Sahara alehissalaam

[20:46]from 1400 years ago well in her days there were no Calvin

[20:51]Klein Versace banana Gabbana whatever all those things didn't exist so how

[21:02]do you relate it well I tell them for God's sake if

[21:07]researchers are studying the life of a fictional character that was created

[21:14]400 years ago give or take four hundred years ago he was

[21:20]created by a mind of a poet and they're learning from his

[21:26]life to derive lessons in the real world don't tell me that

[21:29]we can go back sixteen or fourteen hundred years ago and learn

[21:33]from the life of a real character like a say Desiro alehissalaam

[21:36]and the job of a say Dada ha and a job over

[21:40]say the zeyneb and the life of a sailor Khadija and the

[21:41]life of Ahlul Bayt alehissalaam when in fact the Quran tells us

[21:47]they are your role models locket cannula comfy rasool allahö swattin hasan

[21:51]and the example of the Prophet and the Messenger of God is

[21:54]a role model for you people when you say that people like

[22:02]oh okay yeah okay the guys I ask people I mean how

[22:06]many of you guys those of you in universities you guys studied

[22:09]Hamlet have you said in Macbeth steady dog go go talk to

[22:14]your teacher I mean maybe you can update my numbers you know

[22:17]Batman back then there were 3,500 research papers I don't know what

[22:20]what they're at right now and people who invest their PhDs to

[22:24]do a PhD you need like three four or five years of

[22:27]your life you dedicate to a fictional character studying a fictional character

[22:32]I mean I respected I respected I have great respect for it

[22:39]because it's something to learn but I come back and say if

[22:43]that's how much time is invested on studying a fictional character then

[22:47]why not we invest the time to learn about the whole vitalica

[22:55]Mesilla you know interestingly as of today as of today in the

[23:00]English world in the English academic world in universities there is not

[23:07]a single major work on natural balada for example natural Bulava which

[23:14]is the words and the sermons of imam ali salam ala ala

[23:18]there isn't one single major work unnatural Bulava papers maybe here or

[23:24]there so interestingly a fictional character receives 30 500 research papers whereas

[23:32]the words of Imam Ali's Alabama Holly don't receive any attention or

[23:37]very very little attention see that's where we need to invest time

[23:42]and that's one of the reasons we will be taking a look

[23:46]at the story of the logname it's a story that comes from

[23:49]the Quran about a character who is real he's not fictional and

[23:53]therefore the things he did can really give us lessons about things

[24:00]we can implement in our life because the Quran was not only

[24:04]written 1,400 years ago it's written for eternity until the day of

[24:09]judgment at least so speaking of dhul-qarnayn very briefly the ayah begins

[24:17]in verse number 83 surat al-kahf smilla rahman al rahim why as

[24:24]a loon occur on Delco name and they ask you about gog

[24:31]9 who's you they ask you who's you huh you guys with

[24:41]me here hello we have people here who's you allah i'm eduardo

[24:47]muhammad long what's wrong with you salah whathe brothers and sisters you

[24:51]know this is this is not very encouraging when the first night

[24:53]you know I don't know anything let's write this against allah allah

[24:56]muhammad wa ala muhammad salla i do i do my god that's

[25:01]a little bit more encouraging here you know the prophet sallallaahu Alice

[25:05]says our prophet says whenever my name is mentioned raise your voice

[25:09]loudly by saying Vassallo odd because the and hood alpha in to

[25:16]the Heavenly Father I mean a little it removes hypocrisy from the

[25:20]heart so salli ala muhammad wa ala muhammad okay and that was

[25:28]not supposed to be a tricky questions my brother and sisters they

[25:31]ask you about the pugna in you is referring to the prophet

[25:37]sallallaahu oil so who was asking that's an interesting question someone is

[25:41]asking a group of people are asking where's Aluna k and l

[25:44]canaan who's asking it is said that the non-believers of Croatia of

[25:53]Mecca than unbelievers when the prophet sallallaahu wallace started preaching about islam

[25:57]question trivia question again maybe i don't know if the English how

[26:02]old was our prophet when he started preaching or when he received

[26:08]the message I sent to masha'Allah very good mashallah good okay 40

[26:11]years old so when the prophet sallallaahu while it was 40 years

[26:15]old and he started preaching or talking about the religion of Islam

[26:23]okay he's got police got agitated they tried different tactics some of

[26:27]them failed in fact all of them failed one of the tactics

[26:30]they tried was this they said you know what if this guy

[26:35]claims that he knows things which people don't know let's test him

[26:39]maybe we can humiliate him well how do we do this let's

[26:42]go to people of the book Hubble kitab or al kitab the

[26:48]people of the book christians jews let's go to them unless ask

[26:51]them about some stories that are found in their books and they

[26:56]will teach us and we can go back and ask the Prophet

[26:58]to test him and if he can't answer perfect we just humiliated

[27:03]him great so they actually travel at lengths to meet with some

[27:10]people of the people of the book and they talk to them

[27:15]they say to them you know give us some questions that we

[27:16]can ask this prophet of ours you know the man who claims

[27:20]to be a prophet so we can humiliate him give us some

[27:25]questions they say well okay fine ask him about a group of

[27:28]people who slept in a cave and they woke up sometime later

[27:36]okay good okay ask him about boob he said okay but what

[27:41]is the story of the people who slept in the cave tell

[27:45]us I mean if he answers how do we know he's telling

[27:46]us what's right or what's wrong we don't know what the story

[27:49]of the people of the cave so they taught them they told

[27:51]them what the story of us hobbled can the people of the

[27:55]cave okay according to what was written in the scripture so okay

[28:00]well what else said well ask him about a king who ruled

[28:06]the East and the West okay well what is the story of

[28:10]this king who ruled the east and the West so they told

[28:12]them this is the story that's found in the Torah okay well

[28:18]what else the third question some commentators of the Quran they differ

[28:24]on they said it was either about the story of the scholar

[28:28]home prophet musa alayhis salam was asked to follow according to the

[28:32]quran also instructed calf moosa aleihsalaam was asked to follow some scholar

[28:36]his name is not mentioned in the quran but the commentators say

[28:41]it was algebra alehissalaam the Prophet algebra the story is mentioned in

[28:45]the Quran either that or the question was asked him about what

[28:50]is the soul of what is the soul he will answer two

[28:57]of them the third one will be a very difficult one to

[29:01]answer you guys will not understand the answer so see what he

[29:08]replies back with Wes Aluna kya ho ho ho ho men Emily

[29:10]grab me huama multi-terminal me Allah Allah they ask you about the

[29:19]soul the rule say in response to their question it is a

[29:24]matter of my lord and you don't have enough knowledge to understand

[29:30]so that's what was the reply about the third question either that

[29:34]or the story of Musa and el Kabong either one but the

[29:37]first two questions was about this hubblecast the people of the cave

[29:41]and the king who ruled the east and the west so when

[29:44]it came to us Hubble keV and that's why the surah was

[29:46]revealed the name of the surah is the people of the cave

[29:49]was hotel kept the cave so the answer was given about Assad

[29:56]will care the people of the cave and when it came to

[29:59]Musa and the island he replied also in the same surah and

[30:05]when it came about the king who ruled the East and the

[30:08]West well here is the reply that we will be discussing over

[30:11]the next shall a few nights with regards to the soul that

[30:17]is inserted it's raw so if that was the third question then

[30:20]the response was you don't have enough knowledge to understand what the

[30:25]soul is either way we're not here to discuss about that's a

[30:28]separate story altogether so why as a luna candle canaan and they

[30:33]ask you about dhul-qarnayn literally it means the king or the man

[30:39]of the two horns okay we'll figure that later pulse at lo

[30:43]alaikum minho dakara say i will respond to you by reciting verses

[30:51]of the quran the quran i will recite verses of the quran

[30:54]and response to you question now interestingly the ayat beautifully says to

[31:01]us all say yah rasul allah sat at loo say a clue

[31:06]means I will I will this is a lesson for us the

[31:10]prophets of allah allahu allah could have immediately answered them because allah

[31:13]taught him but it's a lesson for us when people ask you

[31:18]a question don't immediately jump at the answer take few seconds to

[31:24]think reflect and then respond even if you know the answer even

[31:29]if you know then like the prophets already knew the answer he

[31:35]did not need time to wait but it said you know i

[31:39]will discuss with you about him I will tell you who he

[31:41]is and he started indeed it's a lesson for us whenever you're

[31:47]asked a question reflect think what is the best way to respond

[31:50]and then you go ahead and you respond now why was he

[31:56]called AG 9 is that really his name well some commentators differ

[32:00]some of them say maybe his name was but apparently that was

[32:07]an adjective a description okay well why is he called the man

[32:10]with the two horns some of them claim that he wore a

[32:15]helmet and it had two horns maybe that's a reason well that's

[32:19]one answer the second reason some people say because he took the

[32:24]horn of the east and the horn of the West he ruled

[32:28]he rolled the world from east to west and that's why he

[32:32]was called Canaan the man with the two horns a third reason

[32:41]among others they say he was a man who was a virtuous

[32:43]man he came to his people at his time and he started

[32:48]calling them inviting them to believe in Allah subhana WA Ta'ala so

[32:52]they hit him over his head which created a bump on his

[32:56]head when he kind of recovered a little bit from this bump

[33:02]he came back and again he started discussing with the people he

[33:05]didn't give up inviting them to believe in Allah and to God

[33:10]Almighty to follow their teachings of God and they hit him again

[33:14]on his head which created another bump these two bumps became known

[33:19]as the two horns quote-unquote hug named according to some of the

[33:26]commentators this was an apply given by Imam Ali Saddam llaha la

[33:29]and Imam Ali when he was asked about dhul-qarnayn why he was

[33:35]called alkaline he said because he had two bumps he was hit

[33:37]twice on his head what he committed and there is amongst you

[33:42]a man who's like him referring to himself imam ali salam ala

[33:46]hele was also hit twice on his head once do you remember

[33:49]when in which battle conduct I sent him the Battle of the

[33:56]trenches by armed with no head he hit him once on his

[34:00]head and the second time is when no not high but high

[34:02]bother he was not touched in clay bug in message of Kufa

[34:06]when he was killed so da bobba Holly that was the second

[34:10]time so that was the second time and hence imam ali saying

[34:18]refika mythili there is a one right now amongst you a man

[34:20]living amongst you who's just like him he will also be hit

[34:24]twice on his head what he is calling you to believe in

[34:25]allah subhana wa ta'ala and believe in the message of allah subhanahu

[34:31]wa'ta'ala so that was his response so these are among the theories

[34:34]there are others but we'll leave it for that for now the

[34:36]quran however did not mention why he was called the Ignite so

[34:40]in essence it's not really so important we should not concentrate so

[34:44]much time as to why was he called Kulkarni but that's their

[34:49]second question commentators asked as well maybe that's why he was called

[34:58]nain maybe he had a horn you know two horns helmet with

[35:00]two horns maybe he ruled the horn of the East the West

[35:03]that's another reason maybe he was hit twice on his head had

[35:10]couple of bumps okay but who was he who was the country

[35:12]well to find out come back tomorrow Shahla more inshallah we'll discuss

[35:22]about some of the theories about who was the colony so we

[35:29]can learn about this character even then even then these are all

[35:35]theories we'll start with that if Allah gives us tell fayek and

[35:41]then we'll jump into some very important thing about him Allah tells

[35:47]us about this man that Allah taught him the means of doing

[35:52]things the ways he showed him the way how to do things

[35:58]that's quite interesting that's what we would like to focus on insha'Allah

[36:04]tomorrow Allah gives us no field but imam ali saddam allaha la

[36:07]the hero the man who is like the Canaan as he himself

[36:13]claims and says that what he commits Allah and there's amongst you

[36:17]a man who is like Vulcanian who was beaten twice on his

[36:20]head when he invites people to the path of Islam he was

[36:26]also the hero of the Battle of better the Battle of badger

[36:30]was the first battle to take place in Islam the Muslims as

[36:35]long as they were in Mecca they were ordered not to engage

[36:38]in combat the environment the climate their numbers was not enough for

[36:45]them to defend themselves so they were beaten they were oppressed they

[36:51]were killed persecuted executed but they were patient until they emigrated to

[36:59]Medina when they came to Medina a verse was later revealed bismillah

[37:03]r-rahman r-rahim o Dina little Aveda you caught a luna banana home

[37:07]bully mu1 Allah Allah Allah him la pedir permission has been given

[37:11]to those who have been fought against that they have been oppressed

[37:16]and surely Allah subhana WA Ta'ala is capable of making them victorious

[37:24]that ayah is extremely important in surah al-hajj because what does the

[37:28]is a permission has been given to those who have been fought

[37:33]against not fighting what does that tell you why did the Muslims

[37:39]fight they were attacked they were attacked Muslims fought in defense and

[37:49]therefore all the prophets Wars all of them we're in defense the

[37:57]Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa salam ala muhammad sallah never initiated war

[38:09]he was either attacked he had to defend or they had a

[38:13]treaty they had a treaty with a group of people and they

[38:19]violated the terms of the treaty for example in the year six

[38:21]after hijra the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa li made the treaty with

[38:25]Koresh with Mecca the people of Mecca became known as the treaty

[38:32]of hudaibiya so they made the treaty and among the terms that

[38:37]they would not kill each other but sometime later - finds a

[38:43]group of Muslims by themselves unarmed attacks them kills them so now

[38:48]they violated the terms of the treaty as a consequence the prophet

[38:52]sallallaahu one in the year 8 after hijra took an army and

[38:59]went over to mecca because they violated the terms of their treaty

[39:03]and they killed and attacked Muslims so the Prophet again in defense

[39:06]but even then look at the greatness of the Prophet Allah muhuali

[39:10]he when he arrives at the gate of Mecca or the borders

[39:17]of Mecca those were the people who had fought against him for

[39:23]more than twenty years 20 years they fought against him they tried

[39:27]to kill him they killed some of his dearest companions they killed

[39:34]his uncle Hamza they killed his cousin obey their in the Battle

[39:37]of better he was killed in the Battle of Beddoe so they

[39:39]killed his dearest companion some of his relatives his uncle they fought

[39:46]against him now after more than twenty years the profit becomes victorious

[39:50]and he comes back the prophet sallallaahu brings an army of about

[39:56]ten thousand men he tells them at night I want each and

[40:03]every one of you people to raise fire back in those days

[40:07]they used to count the number of people fighters by counting the

[40:12]fires because out of every let's say 10 people you need maybe

[40:14]one fire one torch give or take so if you have let's

[40:18]say a hundred torches they'll multiply that by ten give or take

[40:23]that's roughly speaking how they used to calculate well the prophet sallallaahu

[40:26]a lot is army he said I want each and every one

[40:32]of you to light a torch so what happened as Koresh sent

[40:35]their spies to see can we face them can we fight them

[40:40]at night they go this you know speculate how many people are

[40:43]there and what do they see a sea of fire we multiply

[40:49]that by 10 good lord we have a huge army there is

[40:53]no chance for us to stand against them what a genius tactic

[40:58]by the Prophet Allah Mahalo who had and what a peaceful tactic

[41:03]by the Prophet Solomon you are OAH then sends their men to

[41:06]the Prophet and say you know what we're laying down a repent

[41:08]weapons we're not fighting when I get again G engage in war

[41:13]so the prophet sallallaahu Hollywood sends one of his companions by steam

[41:19]of sad sad Nevada so it goes to Mecca and he says

[41:27]today is the day of punishment today is the day of revenge

[41:29]we're gonna take you all guys as prisoners when the news reaches

[41:34]the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa a prophet says what is this that's

[41:37]not right this is not true he says Imam Ali Ali you

[41:43]go you go and you fix the situation so he mama daddy

[41:45]Salam came and said today is the day of mercy day one

[41:49]when everyone will be protected any money does a very smart thing

[41:53]then he gives the banner to the son of south dice he

[41:56]says dice you take the banner now like father like son you

[41:59]know there's no difference but this is the slogan you use today

[42:04]is the day of mercy not the day of revenge and indeed

[42:06]the prophet sallallaahu Alec come to these people who have been fighting

[42:10]against him for more than 20 years and he looks at them

[42:15]with mercy and says what do you think I'm gonna do to

[42:19]you they said you're an honorable man son of an honorable man

[42:22]he says indeed so I set you all free show me an

[42:28]example in history of a conqueror who comes and takes his enemies

[42:34]under siege and they lay down their weapons and he lets them

[42:39]all walk away freely give me one example besides Imam Ali Salaam

[42:47]o bajalia in the Battle of channel long so Allah Muhammad Ali

[42:52]when people tell us that your religion is not about peace tell

[42:57]them in fact peace is the essence of our religion and that's

[42:59]what our prophet preached if the Prophet god forbid hypothetically speaking if

[43:03]he was if he were a blood you know thirsty individual he

[43:08]would have killed this entire nation all these people you guys have

[43:12]been fighting against me for 20 years you drove me out of

[43:14]my home city you took everything that I had 53 years of

[43:18]my life I spent in the city I was born here you

[43:23]guys took everything not only this you killed my uncle Hamza you

[43:27]mutilated his body what a such a you know savage way of

[43:32]killing my uncle you killed my cousin Oh BAE there you guys

[43:35]killed my dearest companions well it's revenge time now it's time for

[43:39]me to kill you if he were that kind of a person

[43:43]however to the contrary exact opposite a conqueror who usually comes with

[43:49]rage and anger he comes with love and mercy and he sets

[43:53]people his own enemies people like Abu Sufyan who fought against him

[43:57]people like hind' who mutilated the body of his own uncle she's

[44:03]standing right there in front of them and he lets them all

[44:05]go freely you show me a better example of love of peace

[44:11]of mercy than this so this is the example the prophets wore

[44:19]were always in defense or because people violated the treaty and even

[44:25]then he showed them mercy he showed them love showed them peace

[44:29]but when he was attacked he defends in the Battle of better

[44:33]the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa as a consequence to polish seizing the

[44:38]wealth of the Muslims they took all the money of the Muslims

[44:43]their houses everything they let them you know they drove them one

[44:45]way from Mecca with only clothes on their bodies that's it they

[44:47]have nothing so the Prophet wanted to impose sanctions we see that

[44:52]today in the world happening you know sometimes one day when countries

[44:56]want to avoid military conflict combat they impose sanctions when we see

[45:00]that happening today in the world ok the prophet sallallaahu I wanted

[45:03]to do the same thing impose sanctions financial sanctions on Koresh how

[45:09]there was a caravan that was coming led by Abu Sufyan this

[45:14]caravan Hawaii had invested lots of its wealth into the Scarab and

[45:18]the Prophet sallallaahu Ali said if we seize this Caravan away from

[45:22]place since they've seized all our wealth as Muslims they take everything

[45:28]away from us and they're planning on attacking us so if we

[45:33]seize this then this will weaken them financially and it will avoid

[45:39]any military confrontation they come they try to take the caravan however

[45:45]Abu Sufian learns about it he was the head of the caravan

[45:50]from flesh he diverts his route and he makes it to Mecca

[45:52]safely he tells the people of Croatia guess what guys this was

[45:57]what I was about to happen our caravan your investments were about

[46:00]to be seized so Abu jahil got up and says we have

[46:05]to teach this prophet a lesson and each one who messes with

[46:08]Boesch have to be taught a lesson Abu Sufyan said you know

[46:12]what since we managed to get away let's just forget about it

[46:14]he says no they have to learn a lesson ok that's what

[46:19]you say they take a vote and they raise an army of

[46:21]1,000 men well-equipped well-armed all horses and they come to attack the

[46:25]Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa they come all the way to the borders

[46:30]of Medina at a place of better those of you who have

[46:31]been to Hajj if you've been to Medina from there you go

[46:36]to a message it called message ara that's where you do your

[46:39]rom the area was just around there and until today they call

[46:45]it Abajo Ali the place the wells of Ali because Imam Ali

[46:47]Ali Salaam dug some wells there to bring water to fetch water

[46:51]to the army so until today it's called our bar Ali in

[46:54]that area so people have come to your border line if they're

[46:59]attacking your borders what do you do all you have to respond

[47:01]so the prophet sallallaahu while it prefers an army of about 300

[47:07]mm edoardo mohammed rasoolallah mohammed when impala they prepare an army of

[47:11]about three hundred thirteen people 313 people whom it is narrated in

[47:19]the hadith the leaders and the commanders of the imams army alehissalaam

[47:22]our imam when he reappears will be the same number as the

[47:25]fighters of bedrug 313 these are the commanders may Allah make us

[47:30]among them if not at least may Allah make us among the

[47:32]soldiers it sha Allah of the army and the companions of the

[47:37]Imam 313 poorly equipped they only had several swords amongst them only

[47:42]two three horses they were very poorly equipped outnumbered three times but

[47:48]they were united they had unity they loved the prophets of lollywood

[47:52]they listened to the prophet sallallaahu ali they obeyed the prophet sallallaahu

[47:59]Ali so these 313 people and initially they had a one-on-one combat

[48:05]Imam Ali comes out hamza comes out and obey definite hard at

[48:08]the prophet's cousin comes out and say we are going to fight

[48:13]against people from Kadesh who wants to fight us more how we

[48:16]as uncle comes out maryam maybe Sophia hence brother hence father comes

[48:23]out Maura we as grandfather comes out and we're our yes brother

[48:28]comes out three oh yes I was a fianc Sun hence Sun

[48:33]her brother and her father come out Imam Ali engages one-on-one combat

[48:41]Hamza on one on Khan combat and obey the one on one

[48:45]combat imam ali defeats his enemy kills him he finds hamza struggling

[48:48]salam on la la he helps him and they kill his opponent

[48:52]obey their his foot cut cut unfortunately he fell he collapsed imam

[48:58]ali went to his rescue and killed the third one as well

[49:03]so he killed Morales grandfather Malawi s brother and more awliyas who

[49:08]uncle and that is found in the letter one day he wrote

[49:13]to Maura we have Nia be Sofia and he says the sword

[49:14]with which I killed your grandfather and your uncle and your brother

[49:19]is still in my hands and it's ready to fight you as

[49:21]well if you engage in combat against us that's a natural balada

[49:27]so then the war erupted muslims engaged in combat against their enemies

[49:34]and 70 of the mushrikeen were killed 35 of them by the

[49:38]sword of imam ali salam ala hele half of them were killed

[49:43]by imam ali salam ala hele and abu jahal was killed in

[49:49]that battle one of the heads of perish so karesh lost tremendously

[49:55]devastating loss and they left in a devastating loss specially hint who

[50:00]lost her father son and brother in one shot all by imam

[50:06]ali salawatullahi wa salamu alayh and this brought victory to muslims in

[50:10]the first battle they fought which happened on the 17th day of

[50:13]the holy month of ramadan so they were fasting yet they were

[50:19]strong because they had the willpower and my brothers and sisters if

[50:22]we want to be strong if we want to succeed we need

[50:27]to be united when the muslims were united they succeeded even though

[50:30]they were outnumbered when they loved their prophet and obeyed him they

[50:37]succeeded so we really need to be united through the love of

[50:40]our prophet and through the love of Ahlul Bayt er a Hamas

[50:46]Salaam that's what would really bring unity to us and strength to

[50:48]us and that's my message to you my brothers and sisters for

[50:51]the next couple weeks or so that we have left of the

[50:55]holy month of Ramadan truly pray to allah subhanaw taala say yo

[50:58]rub my lord help me become a better follower of the prophet

[51:05]if I have any deficiency in my character and my religion that

[51:11]would make me a better person if I completed help me overcome

[51:15]that deficiency our allah if i have some arrogance will help me

[51:21]combat this if i have any string genus help me combat this

[51:25]make me a better person if I don't take care of my

[51:29]salat if I don't take care of my parents if I don't

[51:32]take care of my character and my manners if I don't take

[51:35]care of my head job yah rub through these couple weeks especially

[51:38]on the nights of cuddle say yah rub helped me become a

[51:43]better person once we become better people then insha'Allah we can achieve

[51:47]the love of a no debate a greater love of a debate

[51:49]greater unity greater strength and hopefully that will has turned every appearance

[51:53]of our Imam HL allahu ta'ala for adultery let's raise our hands

[52:00]and do our inshallah all the will let him in a shape

[52:02]or neurology signet on the moon at the door for the signal

[52:04]say no more like i all will let him in a shake

[52:11]wanna rajim bismillah him da da da hua Zhu da da da

[52:24]da da da da da da da da why Xiao su Allah

[52:40]- Anika Anna don't miss me kannada email album and as a

[52:45]general accra me ten times together Leo Allah Oh yum yum yum

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[53:45]what I am healthy girl Mattie camera I mean a beautifully when

[53:53]you are neither here or hama come on Bernice on Iwo Jima

[53:58]Vanessa yes Erna Bobby singer Tofana Robbie Johnny McKee muscle atonia Teva

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[54:20]girl Rajat evening Hassan Salameh to Colleen [Music] Vanessa what winkin listen

[54:36]Wally and what happened aah waaah aah waaah aah waaah danila whine

[54:44]ah ha turn to skin oh my god what do men feel

[54:54]Tamila grammatical or tomorrow I mean Allahu Allah not a chakra she'd

[54:59]well hotel Hamidah walk from Bhavana I mean otherwise in Mena la

[55:03]ilaha monopsony la cabeza yo Optima el Magos dr.

[55:07]Nassif are at the Sahara fit dunya will cupboard waffle after ayah

[55:11]Allah yell no no no come on Howard Rishi Pharrell Machiavelli cash

[55:18]we heard Yamaha de Lomo Liturgy d4g Maulana Sahib Loski was a

[55:22]man wha gwaan Minami not lassie Mohammed enjoy the scene on Halloween

[55:26]al burdy Lena machine well ah voila Dettol mahoma rahim allah militant

[55:32]Mubarak Al Fatah Hamas Allah loves Mohammed Mohammed watchable Solana muhammad wa

[56:04]ala muhammad Thank You chef now for that informative lecture with many

[56:10]lessons for us to derive from inshallah we can all see you

[56:13]too we can see you all tomorrow as we continue the lessons

[56:18]and inshallah we also see you Friday for iftar on wheels Salada

[56:22]muhammad wa ala muhammad you you

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