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[7:40]for watch.
[8:28]Alam allayikum brothers and sisters.
[8:32]Tonight we gather to commemorate the martyrdom of the mistress of the
[8:50]woman of paradise.
[8:53]We ask Allah in a night like this to make us from
[9:00]the sincere followers of B and to grant us the of Fatima
[9:07]Zah in the day of in the day of judgment inshallah for
[9:10]the love of Fatima.
[9:13]Let's do another loud salah Muhammad.
[9:19]Over 20 years ago, I uh moved to the US from Lebanon.
[9:29]And on that first day, I came to the US, my cousin
[9:35]took me to a major in Durborn.
[9:40]Few minutes after I arrived, I realized that the lecture was going
[9:45]to be in English.
[9:46]And um you know being born and raised in Lebanon, we speak
[9:52]only Arabic.
[9:53]That was the first time in my life that I was going
[9:56]to listen to an English lecture.
[9:59]Um so few minutes into the lecture I um told myself, well
[10:07]it's, you know, I was curious and I said it's uh it's
[10:14]it's it's going I like it.
[10:16]It's it's not bad.
[10:15]I um loved the lecture and the topic was uh what topic
[10:22]was nice but most importantly the speaker on that day uh was
[10:29]someone who um was unique in my opinion who uh has a
[10:33]different and unique style.
[10:38]Um even I remember he dressed very well.
[10:41]I uh I um I never used to see someone really dressed
[10:45]uh that well you know in Mazjido lecture back home.
[10:50]So I was like um you know this is good and his
[10:56]lecture was so um complex and deep but yet so simple to
[10:59]follow.
[11:00]So I fell in love with that speaker and I came every
[11:07]night in that program uh and I followed him for years and
[11:11]here we are 20 more than 20 years later I'm in a
[11:17]podium here and um in a center that offers mainly English programs.
[11:23]Um, I am honored to uh welcome to the podium tonight here
[11:33]at Mecca the same exact person or speaker who I um was
[11:37]referring to in in that story and that's Haj Hassan Rajab Ali.
[11:45]We are honored Haj Hassan to have you here.
[11:49]uh as you know Haj Hassan is a respected renowned speaker not
[11:52]only this community but across the whole uh world we are lucky
[11:56]to have him not only tonight but also tomorrow inshallah at 7:30
[12:02]inshallah uh before I ask um our guest speaker uh to come
[12:11]in here I have couple of announcements to uh remind you all
[12:15]I um I want to remind you that we now do daily
[12:18]prayers Monday to Friday uh here and we've been doing that for
[12:24]the last few months.
[12:23]We ask uh you all to join us and uh I also
[12:28]want to remind you that after the lecture we have about 10
[12:30]minutes of LAMA inshallah with brother Mai and we're going to have
[12:39]a Q&A session uh as well with Haj Hassan and uh also
[12:43]um I want to remind you that we have the uh sweatshirts
[12:48]at $10.
[12:50]Uh we have discount today uh for sale outside.
[12:51]Um, I see some new faces today and uh some faces that
[12:56]I uh didn't see here for a while.
[12:58]So, I want to take a minute uh or two just to
[13:02]give you an update on uh our progress toward building the new
[13:05]Mecca center that you see here.
[13:09]Uh, alhamdulillah, we have very good news.
[13:09]We have already um got everything uh accepted as far as plans
[13:16]with the city.
[13:16]Now, we're in the process of pulling permits and doing uh all
[13:22]the paperwork.
[13:21]So inshallah if everything goes well and no major obstacles inshallah anymore
[13:28]we are going to ground break inshallah somewhere or sometime next year
[13:33]in 2026 with a caveat that we should have the money already
[13:37]at that point.
[13:39]Our goal is to have inshallah $4 million to start the groundbreaking.
[13:43]The good news is we are now at $2.7 million.
[13:49]Alhamdulillah we're doing very good.
[13:50]Matter of fact, in the last week or two alone, we raised
[13:52]more than $400,000.
[13:54]So that if if that tells you anything, it tells you uh
[13:59]how generous this community and how they are serious in uh inshallah
[14:03]supporting this project.
[14:05]And we ask you uh if you want to support to see
[14:07]me to see one of the brothers here or to go to
[14:11]the website or scan the uh QR code here and we appreciate
[14:17]all your help.
[14:16]Now I don't want to take much time here.
[14:19]I would ask you all to um help me welcome uh Haj
[14:29]Hassan.
[14:28]Yes.
[14:29]And yes, there is a Q&A after inshallah um with uh Haj
[14:35]Hassan.
[14:36]So help me welcome him with three loud salat.
[14:38]Muhammad Muhammad Amen.
[14:50]Amen.
[15:19]Alhamdulillah.
[15:21]Alhamdulillah.
[15:27]Alhamdulillah.
[15:43]>> [clears throat] >> Subhanahu wa tala.
[16:17]I begin in Allah's name the beneficent, the merciful and all praise
[16:22]belongs to Allah subhana tala for creating us in this world and
[16:25]giving us this opportunity where existence is superior to non-existence and not
[16:30]only that but in our existence God has endowed us with tremendous
[16:34]potential and that potential of obviously is with the intent of eternal
[16:41]existence.
[16:42]So all creations that come from nothing have the potential of eternal
[16:46]existence by the will of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
[16:49]But what makes us unique as a human race is that we
[16:51]are endowed much more than most creations.
[16:54]While every creation is gifted in their own position and they're satisfied
[16:59]in their own potentials, you and I have been given greater potentials.
[17:03]And as a result, what Allah wants from us is to realize
[17:09]this potential to act in the direction of such realization in that
[17:14]we give um thanks to Allah subhana tala for what he has
[17:17]given us and that to maximize our growth and to minimize the
[17:24]destruction that is possible in this transient world.
[17:26]Obviously Allah subhana ta did not create us for this world.
[17:33]many reasons but a few critical points to remember.
[17:34]Allah is merciful all merciful.
[17:37]His rahma is beyond description.
[17:39]No matter how you and I dissect God's mercy, we will never
[17:44]understand the gravity of his mercy.
[17:46]It's impossible.
[17:48]Allah's rahma is beyond expression.
[17:52]And Allah says because of his he created us.
[17:58]Allah says, "I've made incumbent of myself upon myself mercy." When we
[18:06]dissect that mercy, we realize that there's there seems to be to
[18:11]be a bit of a contradiction when we say that majority of
[18:14]the human race will instantly in a knee-jerk reaction respond by saying,
[18:19]"If God is so merciful as you claim he is, why is
[18:24]this world filled with trials, tribulations, losses, grief, injustice which is so
[18:28]prevalent in life today?" A just God, a merciful God would not
[18:33]allow such things to happen.
[18:38]Why does God allow tyrants to kill infants?
[18:40]Right?
[18:40][snorts] What's happening with the IDF today in Gaza?
[18:44]Why does God allow that?
[18:46]Why has God given that potential?
[18:49]And this many a times if we don't understand the gravity of
[18:54]the purpose of life we will be sucked in a vacuum unfortunately
[18:58]where we will become apathetic towards God and and lose faith.
[19:03]It's extremely important to dissect this correctly.
[19:06]Im Ali Muhammad Muhammad >> gives advice to his son Imam Hassan
[19:16]Alisam and tells him that never stop being grateful lest you become
[19:23]an atheist.
[19:24]Can I im Hassan become an atheist?
[19:28]Of course not.
[19:27]He's purified.
[19:29]He's chosen.
[19:28]Right?
[19:31]He's right.
[19:31]But Allah subhana ta is showing us through Imam Ali Alaiisam that
[19:38]even prophets and imams are chosen and their actions are built on
[19:43]constant remembrance of God's mercy and that all these trials and tribulations
[19:47]are part of the design of God for us to live.
[19:50]Now you might ask the question what what is the what is
[19:53]the point of God's mercy?
[19:54]Well, we know 100% that we were not created for this world
[19:59]because God's mercy would be defied under this condition, for this too
[20:04]much injustice.
[20:03]Too many good people are not given credit.
[20:06]Too many bad people are allowed to do bad things.
[20:11]Young children are killed unfairly.
[20:12]People live with a lot of money in a disparity where the
[20:18]poor are deprived.
[20:17]And God allows it.
[20:21]A merciful God should never allow this.
[20:25]So Allah is clearly telling me that you were not made for
[20:29]this world.
[20:30]This was not the reason you were created.
[20:34]Allah says you love this world but the hereafter is better.
[20:40]It is forever.
[20:41]So Allahh is clearly telling me you were not made for this
[20:46]world.
[20:47]You were made for the next world.
[20:49]Now if I simplify this you will notice why are people disbelievers.
[20:54]Let's look at atheism.
[20:56]Atheists don't consider the hereafter as possible.
[21:00]They say we become nothing.
[21:04]People who abuse religion think that somehow if there is a life
[21:09]after this life they can buy their way out.
[21:12]Like the pharaohs.
[21:11]The pharaohs of Egypt and kings who userurped wealth thought that that
[21:15]wealth if they were buried with it they'll use it to continue
[21:20]their you domination over whatever god or whatever is out there.
[21:26]Obviously that doesn't work because all that wealth that the the Egyptians
[21:31]buried is still on earth.
[21:42]So Allah subhana ta is very clearly saying that this material world
[21:48]that you're holding on to is a means for the next world
[21:50]but it will not come with you in the next world.
[21:54]Only the intentions and the deeds behind these deeds will come with
[21:58]you in the next world.
[21:59]So Allah is clearly telling me that I did not make you
[22:03]for this world.
[22:04]Now what happens is when you really understand what I'm saying right
[22:08]now, you will start to worship God.
[22:10]You will become sacrificial.
[22:11]You will become forgiving.
[22:12]You'll become caring.
[22:15]You will become sharing because by nature you know that what lasts
[22:19]is the next world and this world is the trial and the
[22:22]examination.
[22:23]And you're willing to forego some of your comforts on this earth
[22:26]in order to achieve higher standards of existence in the next world.
[22:30]Those who are disbelievers and non-believers are the ones who negate the
[22:37]hereafter.
[22:36]So Allah subhana ta insists in the Quran that not only is
[22:42]the worship of Allah essential but the belief of the eternal hereafter
[22:45]is essential and in that is predicated the day of judgment.
[22:51]So if you remove that factor then your entire faith system falls
[22:55]apart.
[22:56]people like Netanyahu 100% Dick Cheney who's alhamdulillah gone back to his
[23:01]lord uh and many more to go back to their lords and
[23:03]us to go back to our lords because the the best news
[23:07]god gave is that's the best news that was ever given to
[23:11]the creation that Allah created any creation the best news that was
[23:19]ever given to a created being is So those who lose faith
[23:30]say there is no life after this life.
[23:32]You know in you know you know the angels are asking how
[23:46]did you come to this hell?
[23:47]They said well weren't you warned?
[23:48]Said yeah but when they came we called them liars.
[23:52]We belied them.
[23:52]When prophets came, we not only belied them but we killed them.
[23:56]And Allahh says why did you do that?
[23:59]Because you didn't believe in life afterlife.
[24:01]You thought that your supremacy was only on this earth and that
[24:06]everything you do is just for this earth.
[24:08]Therefore, you're a survivor and you're an accidental being and that at
[24:13]the end it's all nothing.
[24:16]What a preposterous idea.
[24:17]Think about it.
[24:17]Humans are so focused in their transactions and actions and they manipulate.
[24:24]But if you really believe you came accidentally and you when you
[24:28]die even accidentally that you'll become nothing, why bother with anything in
[24:35]this world?
[24:36]What a what an absurd idea.
[24:38]To me it's the most preposterous idea ever ever concocted by anybody.
[24:44]And this is the work of shaitanl.
[24:47]And if you were to somehow manipulate yourself in saying that maybe
[24:53]there's a hereafter, but I am going to manipulate that like the
[24:56]ban is the Jews who 52% of them are atheists claiming to
[25:01]claim a land in the name of God.
[25:04]But 52% are atheists.
[25:05]What a what a hypocrisy inde I mean what hypocrisy.
[25:08]You don't believe in God, but you say God gave me this
[25:12]land, but you don't believe in him.
[25:13]Like, what hypocrisy?
[25:15]I asked Jews, I said, "You for Israel?" Said, "Yeah." I said,
[25:18]"How?" It's theft.
[25:20]Can you dare say to me as an atheist that God gave
[25:23]it to you?
[25:24]Cuz to you, God doesn't exist.
[25:26]What a preposterous idea.
[25:28]But they believe that God is in their pocket.
[25:32]You know that today we look when you look at pornography who
[25:36]are the biggest financiers and owners of pornography they are you look
[25:41]at the LGBT move you'll find in all when you look at
[25:46]Apac in in the destruction of the human race that is being
[25:49]funded and controlled in Congress when you study this you'll find that
[25:53]they have no compunctions when it comes to belief in God now
[25:59]I also know Jews who are true believers in God who are
[26:02]conscious of their moral duties and they will fight to death for
[26:06]justice.
[26:07]So it's not about Judaism.
[26:11]It's about people among the Jews like people in Islam like MBS
[26:14]who don't believe in a hereafter.
[26:16]They think I've got this golden egg in my hand.
[26:20]I'm going to play with it and do what I want with
[26:24]it now.
[26:22]Not realizing the consequences.
[26:26]Like Moawa Yazid when they came into power they didn't care about
[26:31]the hereafter.
[26:29]was pleasure at the moment.
[26:33]Omar Iban A was like that.
[26:35]He had over a thousand red camels.
[26:37]Muawi under Muawi's rule.
[26:40]He he made sure Muawi became the Khalifa.
[26:41]He amassed a thousand red camels.
[26:46]People don't understand the value of one red camel today.
[26:48]But they were extremely expensive.
[26:49]He had over a thousand of them.
[26:51]And by the time he's breathing his last, he lost all thousand
[26:57]camels.
[26:57]Muawei took it all back.
[26:59]And Allah is showing us you will know when you enter the
[27:09]grave.
[27:07]Now why did I bring this introduction when we talk about the
[27:14]shahada of the greatest lady you know you know I mean she's
[27:22]given so many names that are honorific in quality that we need
[27:26]to discuss her position as a woman and tonight and tomorrow night
[27:30]inshallah we will dedicate that time but I want to set the
[27:35]foundation that when you when you examine their level the prophets and
[27:39]the imams level of sacrif sacrificing towards Allah and not willing as
[27:45]Allah says there is no bargaining for the of Allah how does
[27:54]that come they are 100% believers that the day of judgment is
[27:57]tomorrow 100% believers in the hereafter and then they know this world
[28:05]is temporal and therefore all the problems s we see on this
[28:08]earth is part of God's divine mercy because everything will be corrected
[28:11]in the next world.
[28:13]So to prove the point of God's infinite mercy is the fact
[28:16]that if Allah were to only have created us for this world,
[28:20]then not a single human being would be harmed.
[28:24]And I think you and I would live forever on this earth
[28:27]because Allah's mercy dictates that when he creates something, he gives it
[28:31]eternal existence.
[28:32]And if you and I were only created for this world, then
[28:34]we would exist on this on this earth forever.
[28:38]And there would be no injustice and no premature deaths, no uh
[28:42]killing, no tyrcy, none of that.
[28:45]That would not exist on this earth.
[28:48]But Allah's proof positive that the reason this exists is for you
[28:51]to have a clear understanding that you were not made for this
[28:54]world.
[28:55]Now, what I just stated, many of us say, "Yes, yes, brother."
[29:02]But when the dollar comes in my hand, when power comes in
[29:06]my hand, when popularity comes in my hand, we get drunk and
[29:09]we forget that we weren't made for this world.
[29:13]We forget and then we become corrupt.
[29:16]People who become corrupt deep down don't believe in a hereafter because
[29:21]Allah mentions that the greatest people whenever even Allah says Muhammad Muhammad
[29:33]>> when she vowed when the when her two sons Imam Hassan
[29:38]and Imam Hussein Alisam were ill and you she vowed to fast
[29:44]and as you know in Allah mentions that event Now when you
[30:11]study just this select verses, it's profound and pure in how you
[30:15]and I should behave.
[30:17]that if we truly believe that every salam, every look, every breath
[30:20]I take is for the hereafter and that the day of judgment
[30:23]will be held liable upon me when Allah will say, "Recite what
[30:31]is on your chest, every do, every deed, every thought that you
[30:38]had." If I truly believe in that, not in a prohibitive way,
[30:41]but in a progressive way, whereupon I am seen as a a
[30:47]a a chosen individual who God has chosen me from nothing into
[30:51]something and that Allah wants me to participate at maximum levels.
[30:55]Then we will be highly productive in this world and we will
[31:00]achieve when we say it's at this level.
[31:07]So if I truly believe in this in this verse inan Allah
[31:12]says they fulfilled their vows what did they do?
[31:17]Well, when they're about to break their fast, as you know, a
[31:19]poor person comes, an orphan comes, a wayfairer comes, each time they
[31:25]give away give away most of their food and they eat very
[31:29]little.
[31:29]Now, who would do that?
[31:33]Only the one who knows that there's a day of judgment and
[31:36]there's a merciful God and there's a hereafter.
[31:41]You can't do it otherwise.
[31:42]You would become very self-centered, selfish.
[31:45]You'd become a survivor.
[31:46]Are you willing to sacrifice?
[31:48]You may get sick.
[31:50]You may die if you don't give this food.
[31:52]Shaitan will threaten you with poverty.
[31:55]But Allah welcomes you to windfall.
[31:57]Which one do you believe?
[31:58]Allah is showing to me that each state in the Quran where
[32:05]Allah speaks highly of his servants, he lets me know that what
[32:08]was their thinking span, what was in their head.
[32:10]When Allah says, right?
[32:14]When Allah describes these special people that he has chosen in the
[32:18]end, he says um notice Allah is again describing these great personalities
[32:40]who are untouchable that fire doesn't even touch them.
[32:47]And when you're asking who are these people, Allah is describing this
[32:51]in the Quran to me.
[32:52]He says, who are these people that you have spoken so highly
[32:57]of that their names are mentioned in the houses and they become
[33:01]a means to the worship of Allah.
[33:07]Who are these people?
[33:10]Men who don't bargain for any price.
[33:14]They maintain their prayers.
[33:17]They give charity and they're afraid of that day when everybody will
[33:23]be held accountable.
[33:24]Notice that equation is extremely important for you and I to believe
[33:30]in it.
[33:29]When you and I fight for petty things, we find faults in
[33:34]each other.
[33:36]We nag for unnecessary things.
[33:37]Look in the mirror and speak to yourself and say, "I have
[33:40]forgotten Allah.
[33:42]I have forgotten the day of judgment.
[33:44]I promise you that if the day of judgment was so attainable
[33:47]to you and me and it tasted like tomorrow, you and I
[33:53]would not get indul indulgent in such petty issues.
[33:56]But look at the human race insan is constantly bickering and fighting
[34:04]especially in our communities finding faults with jealousy.
[34:09]we're, you know, trying to attack each other.
[34:14]Forget about animosity by the non-Muslims.
[34:17]In my life, in my 40 years of social work, I have
[34:20]never been threatened and um challenged more than by my own community.
[34:28]I always wonder like if I have such friends, who needs enemies?
[34:34]And then they're [clears throat] Husseinis.
[34:37]We pray, we go to zara.
[34:40]Have we understood it?
[34:42]And I'm not claiming to be anything special because I got resistance.
[34:45]I'm glad I got resistance.
[34:47]Alhamdulillah, I love resistance because it purifies me.
[34:53]It validates me.
[34:53]I don't mind resistance.
[34:56]I don't mind a bullet.
[34:57]I have to die anyway.
[35:00]But if I'm doing it for Allah, let it come.
[35:03]Who cares?
[35:03]You might say, "Brother, what do you mean by that?" I said,
[35:07]"Well, at the end of the day, this life is short-lived.
[35:09]I don't care how long you live." My respected brother Hammud mentions
[35:16]20 years ago.
[35:16]I was thinking, "My god, 20 years.
[35:18]It's almost like 20 months.
[35:23]A year is like a month these days, right?
[35:24]A week is like a month and a day is like a
[35:27]week.
[35:28]We're moving at a rapid pace given the kind of information that
[35:33]we have and what we need to accomplish." But it doesn't matter
[35:36]for if Allah decrees that I should live for a thousand years,
[35:40]I will live.
[35:41]But at the end of the day, Allah says, I have not
[35:44]created you for this world.
[35:47]Put in your mind and in your heart that awaits you.
[35:50]So every dollar you earn, how are you going to invest it
[35:56]for?
[35:55]Many of us don't believe in that.
[35:58]If I have a nest egg and I have a billion dollars
[36:00]parked all over even in those offshore markets, you know.
[36:05]Yeah.
[36:05]Do you know how difficult it is to account for that stuff
[36:08]and you go into probate probate once you die and then your
[36:11]family has to fight for all that money?
[36:13]You leave behind an anathema a bala because your children and your
[36:20]spouses, they don't understand the sweat equity you went through.
[36:22]Then what have we done?
[36:25][clears throat] Look at us.
[36:27]We're all vying and pushing each other's, you know, shoulders and elbows
[36:31]try to say, "I'm better.
[36:34]I'm smarter.
[36:33]My house is bigger.
[36:36]My car is better." Seriously, who's got time for that?
[36:39]Should your house not be better?
[36:41]Yes.
[36:41]Should your face not look good?
[36:43]Yes.
[36:44]Should your clothes not be good?
[36:45]Yes.
[36:46]Should your bank account not be rich?
[36:48]Yes.
[36:49]Nothing wrong with that.
[36:50]But do it for the sake of Allah.
[36:54]that if I've been given this opportunity where I'm going to earn
[36:59]money to spend that they spend they spend money for the pleasure
[37:03]of Allah then give it to me I want it if I
[37:07]can if I can handle it I will handle it this masid
[37:11]that is being built here at Makkah center right mashallah you're short
[37:15]1.3 million in no time I said to say you will raise
[37:20]this inshallah every person should understand that every dollar you put in
[37:24]these centers.
[37:25]It's I don't care who runs it.
[37:30]Please understand that.
[37:30]People who have gone into the graves, who've donated money to centers
[37:34]and Islamic centers and projects and schools, Allah continues to give them
[37:39]the rewards.
[37:41]What a what an investment.
[37:42]When no one's fighting for your land and your property, it's bequed
[37:46]to Allah.
[37:48]It's guaranteed return 100%.
[37:50]But your own wealth you park it in some place in a
[37:53]bank.
[37:54]There is no guarantee that there will be any accountability.
[37:56]In fact Allah will hold you accountable.
[37:59]Imam says those [clears throat] who have wealth get into mischief and
[38:11]those who are poor struggle and strive.
[38:13]So you need to balance yourself and say I need to have
[38:16]wealth for Allah or my tongue is the wealth my mind is
[38:21]the wealth my sweat equity is the wealth but it should be
[38:23]constant [clears throat] struggle upon struggle till you meet your lord you
[38:33]can't do that if you don't have certainty of the day of
[38:38]judgment I see people who cheat and who lie and who amass
[38:39]wealth and take their own siblings rights that parents have left and
[38:46]they usurper it.
[38:46]Such people don't believe in a day of judgment and they will
[38:51]regret it.
[38:50]They will bite their tongue and their fingers on judgment day.
[38:55]And what did they accomplish?
[38:55]What did you get?
[38:56]Tell me.
[38:58]The cars that we drive today will be junk tomorrow.
[39:03]Okay, it's nice to drive a nice car, but it'll be junk
[39:06]tomorrow.
[39:07]The world will laugh at you if you drive it tomorrow.
[39:09]say well this old thing you're driving get the new one but
[39:16]your heart when it's committed to Allah it's forever so Allahh is
[39:23]talking about fatham says look at her what is her response what
[39:27]did they say we don't want thank we don't want any reward
[39:36]not even thanks Because what God has given us already, shame on
[39:44]us to demand any payment for God has given us too much
[39:50]credit for us to demand a deficit.
[39:52]How many of us believe in that?
[39:55]Honestly, it requires a lot of thinking.
[39:58]And I advise us all when we go to the graves and
[40:02]bury somebody, I advise us all when you look at that beer
[40:09]that's been taken, the janaza, think of that as you because it
[40:14]will come.
[40:19]It will meet you.
[40:21]Once you have that, now tonight when we talk about the commemoration
[40:25]of Fatima, I want you to have this frame of mind that
[40:30]that when she was born, as you know, the messenger of Allah
[40:34]had two sons Abdullahim and Abdullah.
[40:39]And you notice that there was a man by the name of
[40:43]Ib who was present in Mecca.
[40:45]He was the enemy of God.
[40:48]And he was with his son.
[40:49]And he heard that the messenger just lost his son Abdullah.
[40:53]Some say cost but it was I think it was Abdullah.
[40:55]Abdullah right and he called the prophet.
[41:00]So the young boy says I don't like this man cuz he
[41:02]was poison.
[41:03]No children cannot like the messenger.
[41:05]And the father said yeah he's abar.
[41:08]Now what is abar in Arabic?
[41:13]Abar is a tailless dog in its you know explanation of Arabic
[41:16]to my understanding meaning there's no progeny and this surah is revealed
[41:21]to the messenger now I want you to understand the context of
[41:24]this surah I think it's very important al kar of course also
[41:30]can mean and does mean paradise a tremendous position in paradise but
[41:34]the messenger was not a material person he didn't serve Allah for
[41:38]paradise we know that because Imam Ali Alisam who was his student
[41:45]said oh Allah I don't worship you for paradise nor do I
[41:48]worship you for the fear of hell I worship you because you're
[41:53]worthy of worship so when Allah says Allah is not consoling the
[41:59]messenger because he felt bereft of the possibility of not entering paradise
[42:03]no Allah had a pact with the messenger that Allah took his
[42:09]two sons Some historians say that before he took these two sons,
[42:13]Allah offered him options.
[42:14]He said, "These two sons or Hassan and Hussein, your grandsons, which
[42:19]one do you take?" He says, "I take Hassan and Hussein." So
[42:24]Allah said took the two sons as a trial.
[42:27]It's very interesting when you study that what when his I think
[42:33]his son Kasim died there was an eclipse of the sun and
[42:36]you find that people said oh God is very sad because you
[42:41]lost your son and the messenger looked at them and said don't
[42:43]say that it's got nothing to do with the loss of my
[42:46]son notice how you and I try to spin religion into making
[42:51]it some kind of a fairy tale into some kind of a
[42:53]storytelling mythraic idea you The messenger was so blunt that he could
[42:59]have won a few accolades.
[43:02]He said, "Yeah, yeah, God, you know, never because the messenger is
[43:06]Hak and Huck is the messenger." So when he says, he says,
[43:11]"Don't say that.
[43:10]That has nothing to do with me." Many times you and I
[43:14]try to connect.
[43:15]Oh, today something bad happened.
[43:16]I saw the eclipse of the sun.
[43:17]It must be a bala on me.
[43:19]Please don't say that.
[43:24]Okay?
[43:26]Allah doesn't send such bala.
[43:25]When Allah says, It is by natural order of transactions where the
[43:34]bal come.
[43:36]Okay.
[43:36]Allah doesn't split open the earth for you and I to have
[43:38]balah.
[43:39]Nor does he put an eclipse for you and I to have
[43:43]a bala.
[43:44]Some of us are too superstitious in our ways.
[43:46]And sometimes we think that this is the way God is communicating
[43:49]with me.
[43:50]I mean, there's 8 and a half billion people on Earth experiencing
[43:53]similar physical phenomena.
[43:54]For some odd reason, that eclipse just had you in mind.
[43:59]Does that make sense?
[44:00]Of course not.
[44:01]It's illogical.
[44:02]Now, Fatima represents to us womanhood.
[44:08]And let me describe this briefly.
[44:12]You'll find all prophets came as ma as males, as men.
[44:14]And the Sharia of Allah, the rules upon which we need to
[44:20]follow the laws of Allah were brought predominantly by men.
[44:22]But every once in a while, Allah brings a woman.
[44:27]And honestly, she counterbalances all the men.
[44:32]That's powerful what I just stated.
[44:36]You may have a thousand men coming and it takes one woman
[44:38]to counterbalance a thousand preceding men.
[44:41]Fatima was that that when Girel comes when verse 33 was revealed
[44:50]says Muhammad >> look the prophet is the seal of prophets the
[45:06]entire prophethood is in his hand he's included in The entire imam
[45:12]is in the hand of so and immedat with wa is pivoting
[45:21]around one woman Fatima whom Fatima her father it is her her
[45:31]father her husband and her sons.
[45:34]Wow.
[45:33]Extremely powerful.
[45:36]Look at the continuity of prophethood.
[45:39]Isaam is born without a father.
[45:41]Why without a father?
[45:42]Allah's wisdom can never be understood fully.
[45:45]But we can speculate that one of the greatest wisdoms that Allah
[45:51]is showing is look at the continuity of prophethood through a woman.
[45:55]for when Mariam's mother had her in the in the womb and
[45:59]she vowed to sacrifice this child for Allah in in the service
[46:06]of Allah she thought it's a male but when Miam was born
[46:10]Quran mentions that she's not what you thought she is this baby
[46:14]is not what you expected once again Allah is making a a
[46:21]very profound point to you and I that don't underestimate the power
[46:25]of womanhood hood.
[46:25]Now I also want to set the framework correctly that fatam was
[46:30]known as the leader of all women in this world and in
[46:36]the hereafter.
[46:38]When you study her you will see that actually she's standing on
[46:41]the shoulders of her mother Khadijah.
[46:45]Khadij Aliasam was such a great woman that she financed the entire
[46:52]establishment of Islam.
[46:55]You know in human history it was usually the men who were
[46:58]the breadwinners.
[47:00]The ones who financed projects were men.
[47:05]It's unprecedented that a woman finances the finality of Islam.
[47:08]The finality.
[47:09]One point I want to make by the way and I keep
[47:14]hearing this in the news.
[47:14]You know, Islam, the youngest Abrahamic religion, it's total nonsense, misinformation, disinformation,
[47:22]rubbish.
[47:22]Islam is not the youngest of the Abrahamic faiths.
[47:25]It's the oldest.
[47:27]It's the original and it was completed 14 centuries ago.
[47:31]It's not the youngest.
[47:33]In fact, I was just in New Jersey and I was talking
[47:36]about that and he says, "No, was Alisam was a Muslim.
[47:40]Ibraim was a Muslim." So a Jewish man comes and says to
[47:42]me, "So I was a Muslim before." I said, "Yeah, you just
[47:46]left it." And then I asked him, I said, "Do you think
[47:51]Abraham was a Jew?" And he looks at me, he says, "Yeah,
[47:56]I think so." I said, "Judaism came way after him.
[47:58]How could he be a Jew?" Judaism was his great-grandson, Yehuda.
[48:01]Where'd you get that from?
[48:04]Ask any Christian.
[48:04]Was Moses a Christian?
[48:07]See, nobody's ever asked that question.
[48:10]Was Abraham a Christian?
[48:12]Was Noah a Christian?
[48:12]Was Adam a Christian?
[48:17]Didn't exist.
[48:16]So to throw this poison pill at us that we concocted this
[48:22]religion 14 centuries ago.
[48:23]And somebody was just mentioning today, I was listening on social media
[48:26]say Islam was nent 1400 years ago.
[48:29]Nent.
[48:30]You know what nent means?
[48:31]He was just born.
[48:32]And I said, "Wow, such misinformation." The guy had good intentions.
[48:38]We as Muslims should correct the audiences and not be afraid to
[48:45]inform the ignorant of what the truth is because people have a
[48:49]profound change of heart and mind when they realize that the Quran
[48:53]talks about all the prophets 25 plus in a profound way and
[48:59]mentions them by name.
[48:59]Mentions Jews, Christians and Sabi by name.
[49:03]No scripture.
[49:02]Christians, Jews do not have any mentioning of other religions by name.
[49:10]And Jesus was definitely not a Jew.
[49:15]He was a Muslim.
[49:17]And the people who followed him were all Muslims.
[49:22]Allah says they were called Muslims before and now.
[49:28]The religion of Ibraim is Islam.
[49:31]So when we look and study and realize that Allah's mercy and
[49:37]honestly just a cursory observation ask Christians and Jews was Adam a
[49:42]prophet of God he said no he was the first man when
[49:45]did your prophet start probably Noah.
[49:48]So who was there before?
[49:51]Nobody answers.
[49:52]Ask a philosophical question.
[49:53]You're telling me Adam and his children had no guidance?
[49:57]There was no religion.
[49:59]and they were just floating in the air like a bunch of
[50:01]meteors.
[50:04]In Islam, Allah says Allah taught Adam the names and then Adam
[50:12]taught the angels the names and Allah chose him.
[50:17]He's a prophet of God.
[50:18]So Islam started for humans started with Adam.
[50:22]But Islam has always been there in all creations of the universe.
[50:26]You and I, if you and I were to go to the
[50:28]other side of the universe, there would be Islam there.
[50:30]There is no place in the universe where there is no Islam.
[50:36]It's always been there, will be there forever, even in paradise.
[50:41]Muhammad Muhammad, >> Father to us represents womanhood.
[50:51]Her mother was such a great woman that historians say that the
[50:55]messenger of Allah this is accepted by Sunnis and Shia by the
[50:58]way that there's not a single hadith what the prophet said that
[51:02]I will be in paradise with any of his wives he had
[51:06]many wives after Khadijah the only authentic hadith is that he said
[51:10]khadijah and I will be in paradise together only khadijah now some
[51:16]of the wives of the prophet will enter paradise salma for example
[51:18]the prophet said that but he never said any of the other
[51:25]wives will be.
[51:24]She was so special to him.
[51:28]Now why was she special?
[51:28]She had purity.
[51:30]She was known as she submitted to the messenger instantaneously.
[51:34]She never worshiped idols ever.
[51:37]Right away she was she was born a Muslim.
[51:41]She accepted the final finality of message from her comes Fatim.
[51:46]Please understand that when we commemorate her shahada, this is not an
[51:51]ordinary person who was born in an ordinary family.
[51:55]She was highly selected by God.
[51:58]Highly selected, chosen, purified and bliss even knew who they were.
[52:02]In fact, so many historians talk about the attempts to try to
[52:08]kill these family members where they'd go in and try to kill
[52:11]them before their birth because they were already knowing who these people
[52:15]are.
[52:16]Tonight when we commemorate the shahada of Zaham, we want you to
[52:21]understand one thing that when the laws of God came, it came
[52:23]through men.
[52:25]But Allah is merciful that he brings a uh a similarity to
[52:35]the men who reflect manhood but as a woman as the law
[52:38]of Islam.
[52:39]Khadijah was the law of Islam.
[52:41]Mariam in the Quran was the law of Islam.
[52:45]She was chosen by Allah.
[52:51]As Muzah was the law of Islam and the as we said
[52:53]the collection of all laws was Fatima.
[52:56]That's why she's known as the mother of her father.
[53:01]So her position was extremely high.
[53:06]Now I want to take it to another step because of her
[53:09]greatness, her beauty, her wisdom, her intelligence.
[53:12]I mean it's it baffles the human mind that when she went
[53:17]to claim her fedak, I'll talk about it tomorrow.
[53:19]The she gave scholars of today who are highly learned still are
[53:27]perplexed by the intensity of her wisdom.
[53:30]They're unable to understand her wisdom in their until today.
[53:35]They're still studying her presentation.
[53:39]One presentation that she did famous.
[53:40]What you find is that she represents the Sharia as a woman.
[53:48]So when we want to look at what are the commandments of
[53:52]hijab, modesty, womanhood, spousehood, motherhood, etc., etc., we look at Fatima Hassam
[54:00]and we look at her family.
[54:00]And Zanabam is the granddaughter of Khadijah.
[54:04]So once again you see her showing her colors in front of
[54:11]Yazid when she looks at him and says, "Oh you son of
[54:12]a freed slave." And then he says, "You know, I killed your
[54:16]brother.
[54:16]I did this." She says to say that honestly is an impossible
[54:24]statement.
[54:25]You can't say that.
[54:24]No human being can say that.
[54:27]where after your family is massacred your own children are massacred to
[54:34]say to this tyrant I see nothing but beauty it defies the
[54:37]human mind and Zabam is teaching me that Hassan if you want
[54:44]to succeed on judgment day then you better see nothing but beauty
[54:48]otherwise you have not understood the of Allah subhana tala that's womanhood
[54:52]so when Allah reveals his surah we've given you abundance.
[54:58]You look at the history of the ones who rose against all
[55:02]the enemies of Islam who tried to silence the growth of Islam
[55:06]in its finality.
[55:08]You'll find at the forefronts were the children of the prophet.
[55:12]The family of the prophet were the flag bearers on the front
[55:18]line who were fighting and many of them were killed, buried alive,
[55:23]buried between columns by the by the omayads and the abbasids.
[55:27]They knew who these people were that these are going to be
[55:32]the ones who will resist us.
[55:33]And the messenger of Allah describes that.
[55:36]He says, "Have respect for my family, for they will pay a
[55:38]huge price up front because of what I represent." While in the
[55:44]eyes of Allah, the best is the one who's God conscious, no
[55:50]doubt.
[55:47]But when Allah is countering, they're the ones who will be tailless.
[55:53]What Allah is also telling me in this surah is that the
[55:58]progeny of the messenger is going to grow to such levels in
[56:02]unprecedented ways not only in birth rate but in the message of
[56:09]Allah.
[56:10]I think that's very important to to pay attention to that in
[56:13]the message of Allah that this generation of the prophet is going
[56:16]to play such a huge role that their children their grandchildren are
[56:19]not only going to be a number of children but they're going
[56:26]to be huge factors in the continuity and the establishment of the
[56:29]purity of the religion of Islam.
[56:31]And this is attested today in the world.
[56:33]We don't have to go outside of the world and do research.
[56:37]It's it's quite visible in so many ways.
[56:40]While there are those who are not of the family of the
[56:44]prophet directly who are also sacrificial and have stood firm in fighting
[56:48]and some of the companions like Salman Farci who was not the
[56:52]prophet's family but his status was like a balik ashtar what he
[57:00]did on the battlefield.
[57:02]So we have lots of examples in both directions.
[57:06]But in retrospect to this statement by Allah says now I also
[57:15]want you to understand that fatam plays a huge role in many
[57:20]factors.
[57:19]I'll just touch a little bit today and then we'll continue tomorrow.
[57:24]You find that when the Christians of Najan came and the debate
[57:30]was about the oneness of God, you know, Allah says, right, that
[57:38]we should worship none other than Allah.
[57:40]When the Christians had this disputation and they came into an impass
[57:46]from the point of view that they were insisting Jesus is without
[57:50]a father and therefore is God.
[57:51]Allah says, "Okay, then call your sons, our women, and ourselves." Right?
[58:00]So in Arabic is plural.
[58:04]Now, please understand that when when this happened, it was almost in
[58:10]the end of the prophet's life in Medina and the messenger was
[58:13]already married to all the women.
[58:14]Many of his wives were there.
[58:19]But in Mubah which took place even Sah Muslim mentions this that
[58:28]in Mubah when the the Abdullahb Mas agreed to have this disputition
[58:32]with the messenger he said give us time for the night to
[58:35]think about it and interestingly he made a statement and his comp
[58:38]his companions made a statement that if this Muhammad the messenger of
[58:41]Islam if he were to bring his companions he's a liar they
[58:47]say it.
[58:49]Even the Christians know where the truth belongs.
[58:51]Even they knew.
[58:53]Think about it.
[58:55]Now what's the discussion about?
[58:56]It's not about it is actually about wai but you get it.
[59:04]It's now simus mentions that the next day when the messenger shows
[59:07]up he had Imam Hussein on his arm, Imam Hassan in one
[59:10]arm.
[59:11]Behind him was only one woman Fatima.
[59:14]Only one woman.
[59:17]Though the plurality of the verse meaning our women once again nobody
[59:21]was qualified to be in that high position except Fatimal Hassan.
[59:28]Nobody.
[59:28]And behind her was Amir Mo.
[59:31]And then the Christians bowed down re you know refused to go
[59:36]ahead because they said it.
[59:38]He says the light that came out of their faces if they
[59:40]put their hands up to pray none of us would be alive.
[59:44]We would all be destroyed.
[59:44]And the prophet says once again in public he would keep saying
[59:51]this is my now father was magnificent with wisdom pure.
[59:59]Every man in Arabia wanted her hand.
[60:02]This is something I want to complete tonight.
[60:06]You know you become cursed when you're beautiful in this world of
[60:12]treachery.
[60:13]It's like a curse.
[60:13]When you're beautiful and you're smart and you're eloquent and you're wise,
[60:19]you're cursed because the evil forces can't stand you.
[60:24]Yufu Alisam suffered that by his own brothers who were children of
[60:35]prophets.
[60:33]Jealousy.
[60:34]Allah says, "Are you jealous?
[60:41]Oh my god, jealousy.
[60:42]It is one of the most powerful tool eliss uses against us.
[60:47]When we see organizations thriving, we're jealous.
[60:50]When we see leaders or speakers or social people or when they're
[60:56]thriving, when we see our children achieving high levels of success, we're
[61:02]jealous.
[61:00]Instead of saying mashallah, blessed is he who gives who creates everything
[61:08]good.
[61:09]And oh Allah make me good like that.
[61:13]Let me accelerate also.
[61:13]No, no, destroy them.
[61:16]So when Fatima Alisam was growing up as a child, she was
[61:20]sought after.
[61:21]And the first two caiffs clearly proposed to marry her.
[61:25]Clearly many.
[61:27]There were many proposals.
[61:30]But she was not meant for any of them.
[61:32]Impossible.
[61:33]She's not the quality of those kind of people.
[61:38]Only one man fits.
[61:38]That's none other than >> now you put these two together.
[61:50]Okay, you've quantified jealousy almost to infinity.
[61:56]That's the unfortunate reality that both of them when they became shahid,
[62:02]we didn't know where they were buried.
[62:04]Fatim Alisam for sure we don't know where IM Ali Alisam was
[62:11]discovered in the fifth IM's time.
[62:12]So why all these imams periods his grave had to be hidden?
[62:19]Because that jealousy doesn't stop until today.
[62:22]People see you love Alibab I hate you.
[62:25]The holy prophet said on judgment day the litmus test Allah will
[62:29]use for the believers will be alib.
[62:33]He says while me as a prophet it's fundamental and essential for
[62:39]you to believe in me as to say but if you have
[62:46]hatred for Ali navid and his family paradise is haram for you
[62:53]I don't care what religion you belong to so that jealousy culminated
[62:56]to such levels that it created a monstrosity and the reverberations s
[63:04]were incredible.
[63:04]There's no time to talk about it tonight.
[63:07]The reverberations of the animosity, Shayan was hitting his fist to use
[63:15]the metaphor when this happened.
[63:15]He said, "I will destroy them." And it hasn't stopped until today.
[63:20]14 centuries later, you would think people were buried the hatchet.
[63:23]No.
[63:24]Global policies are built around this.
[63:27]And when the lover of B stands up, we're finished.
[63:32]I've taken too long.
[63:33]Let me conclude on this that Fatima was troubled very much.
[63:40]The prophet gave her faddak.
[63:42]It was taken after his departure.
[63:46]The prophet's departure soon after she left this world.
[63:49]She was a teenager.
[63:50]She delivered the best gifts on earth by giving us children that
[63:58]became the guiding light of humanity till judgment day.
[64:02]So you and I can never exhaust her greatness as a woman.
[64:07]And bear in mind her mother grew up in an era where
[64:12]girls were buried alive.
[64:12]Yet she stood firm and brought Islam to the people.
[64:17]She brought Islam to the people.
[64:19]She doesn't have to live long.
[64:20]And I hope we take that lesson inshallah.
[64:22]And tonight while we commemorate this shahada, I will discuss her shahada.
[64:28]Is it tonight say or tomorrow?
[64:31]Which?
[64:34]>> Okay.
[64:35]I want to conclude on this because we need to have that
[64:41]moment of emotions because emotions are very connecting.
[64:44]Having said what I just stated, you will find that the death
[64:50]of her mother Khadijah reached such a tragic level that this woman
[64:55]was so wealthy that she had an army carrying her wealth yet
[65:01]she distributed all for Allah.
[65:02]And when she was in shape of Abu Talib, when she was
[65:07]exiled by the Makans, she was so hungry that she became very
[65:11]sick.
[65:13]Fatima was present and she observed this difficulty.
[65:18]I just want to make a quick note also in history that
[65:23]those who became khalifas never visited the prophet in Shabu Talib the
[65:29]so-called great best friends of the prophet never visited the prophet for
[65:33]three years how how do you not visit the messenger of Allah
[65:37]when he's being exiled his community his family the bonuashim are starving
[65:46]but the mushikin of Makkah used to hide food and deliver to
[65:52]the messenger of Allah.
[65:53]Father Maisam witnessed that.
[65:58]She witnessed the entire fruition of Islam.
[65:59]And soon after her father's departure, she noticed the change.
[66:07]That change needs to be understood in our hearts.
[66:09]That you and I may think that we are in the peak
[66:12]of glory when it comes to our submission to Allah.
[66:15]Let's not fool ourselves.
[66:17]Many of us will beat the drum of Islam when the tides
[66:22]are high or when it comes to practicing the real Islam and
[66:27]when the trials and tribulations really start.
[66:28]Are you and I willing to give up all our comforts for
[66:35]the truth.
[66:37]Only Allah subhana t knows.
[66:38]But let's beg to Allah tonight in the name of father in
[66:42]her shahada that when she also witnessed her mother who became shahid
[66:47]that she didn't even have kafan she didn't have money even to
[66:54]buy a shroud the messenger you know takes his and covers her
[66:58]and buries khadijam in the grave and they say historians say that
[67:03]the messenger never cried as much as he did when he buried
[67:08]Khadijah His love for her was so intense that people observed the
[67:14]enormous amount of emotions the prophet had in losing her.
[67:17]That's how much love he had.
[67:21]I want you to understand that that love continued in Fatima.
[67:25]That when she would enter the room he would stand up.
[67:29]That's how much he honored father.
[67:33]that he his love for her was intense.
[67:39]And historians say that when he whispered into her ears that he
[67:43]will soon leave the world, she cried.
[67:45]But then soon thereafter, she smiled and Aisha noticed this event.
[67:50]And in this event, Aisha asked her after the messenger passed away,
[67:55]"What did the messenger say to you?" And she said that he
[68:01]told me he will soon leave this world.
[68:02]And I cried.
[68:04]But then he told me that I will follow him soon after.
[68:09]Now I ask any teenager, why would you smile if your father
[68:15]told you that soon you will join me?
[68:17]Why would you smile?
[68:17]Which teenager will smile?
[68:21]But she smiled.
[68:23]The gravity of the pressure on her to deliver the message of
[68:30]Allah was so heavy that she had this innate desire to return
[68:35]to Allah but also to expose the hypocrisy of people.
[68:42]My respected sisters and brothers, let's take a lesson in this.
[68:46]And if we truly love B [snorts] then respond to them and
[68:56]don't sell this for this dy.
[68:59]Don't do that.
[69:02]Please may Allah give us a topic in [snorts] we're going to
[69:11]do for If no one else will mourn you with me, I'll
[69:44]mourn you alone.
[69:46]Your broken ribs and your [singing] burning home.
[69:51]All this love and so less of you is known [singing] if
[69:57]no one else will mourn you with me.
[70:01]I'll mourn you alone.
[70:04]Your broken ribs and your burning [singing] home.
[70:08]All this love and so less of you is known.
[70:13]The tablet [singing] and the pen attached to you.
[70:18]The secrets of secrets rested with you.
[70:23]Allah sent from the throne blessings to you.
[70:28]I after I came in your [singing] name everyone.
[70:49]With the loudest of your voices and demon Amen.
[71:25]Allah Fore!
[71:43]Foreign!
[71:44]Foreign!
[71:46][singing] for [singing] [singing] Fatima.
[72:38]in the corner weeping [singing] when you saw her broken ribs.
[72:45]How will you tell your children this?
[72:49]How will you stand up again and pray?
[72:54]Did you bury her on Medina's plains?
[73:01]Did you bury her?
[73:03]Did you bury her on Medina's [singing] plains?
[73:07]Did you replies holding back heavy?
[73:16]She's buried in the hearts of the [singing] louder.
[73:35]All [singing] satim.
[74:07]>> [singing] >> Alhamdulillah.
[74:15][singing] Alhamdulillah.
[74:27]Alhamdulillah.
[74:31]Alhamdulillah.
[74:44]Fore!
[74:45]Foreign!
[74:46]Foreign!
[75:10]Fatim everyone.
[75:30]>> [singing] >> Last time everyone's voice is Mahima Fatima Muhammad.
[76:35]Everyone now we will begin with discussion.
[76:40]So if anyone has any questions we will benefit from this.
[76:54]If you have any questions, it doesn't have to be a question.
[76:58]It can even be a comment.
[77:01]>> Yes.
[77:24]Not true.
[77:25]There's not a single shirt of evidence that any of these came
[77:30]into power ever visited the prophet nor did they ever send him.
[77:34]Not true.
[77:36]There's no no historical evidence.
[77:37]And I I corroborate this by I was with the one who's
[77:44]written statement of Islamic history and he was methodical when it came
[77:49]to his research in history of Islam and I asked him that
[77:52]question when I was much younger and I said explain to me
[77:55]what is so profound he said do you know that they never
[77:57]visited there's not a single somebody tells you can you please So
[78:09]it would be interesting to know but there was there was no
[78:13]and listen we all know in history when the messenger of Allah
[78:18]died were they there to bury him oh Islam was in danger
[78:26]it's true Allah the prophet never cared about the danger of Islam
[78:32]but we care about the danger of Islam putting a card in
[78:37]front of No, we don't have to go too far with this.
[78:43]I'm not bashing anybody.
[78:45]Look, I'm telling you, I mentioned you can't enter paradise without your
[78:49]love for you to be a Muslim.
[78:54]You can be in any school of thought anywhere.
[78:57]Your love for is a sign that you're within the frequency and
[79:03]your emotional state and your love for truth because they are truth.
[79:12]It's a very famous statement.
[79:15]Allah created the universe in Allah created the universe.
[79:24]with is the right position to be it doesn't matter 8 and
[79:29]a half billion people whatever faith they belong if they have a
[79:33]hatred sorry because it's impossible and by the way you can't love
[79:41]them and love their enemies so let's get it right I don't
[79:45]love the devil and Allah any other comments or questions thank you
[79:49]for asking question Yes.
[80:05]So what I'm trying to get at is we know that the
[80:09]angels are they worship Allah without free will.
[80:14]They just worship Allah by design.
[80:16]So the concept of humans and jin only apply to this world
[80:19]this world or does that also apply to other parts of the
[80:25]universe?
[80:25]>> Well, first of all, you've made an assumption that angels don't
[80:30]have free will.
[80:29]I don't >> that's the perception.
[80:35]>> While angels do obey Allah according to the Quran, they have
[80:41]did they ask Allah and Allah commanded them to bow to Adam?
[80:48]You want me, you want us to bow to this creation that's
[80:52]going to create bloodshed?
[80:54]They asked the question, didn't they?
[80:57]I don't know if you know, but they did.
[81:02]You don't have the capacity to ask questions.
[81:04]You just But they Allah says, I know that you don't.
[81:13]And then Adam was appointed Allah asks the angels tell me the
[81:21]names and the angel says we don't know.
[81:23]So then Allah says to Adam teach them.
[81:26]So Adam taught them just so the angels know that the status
[81:32]is being chosen by Allah that they have the capacity to cause
[81:36]bloodshed.
[81:37]They have the capacity to cause destruction but they also have the
[81:41]capacity to be higher than you or When they reject all the
[81:48]negatives when you give up your demigods and you hold on to
[82:00]Allah's rope, it will never break to do that is very difficult
[82:05]in the human race.
[82:06]So Allah honors the human being for that.
[82:09]And the angels were right in asking that question.
[82:12]Why should being that's going to disobey you.
[82:15]And by the way, people ask how did the angels know?
[82:19]People think there were others before.
[82:22]That's how they know.
[82:22]No, you don't need.
[82:25]There were thousands of Adams before Adam.
[82:27]But that's not the reason angels were asked.
[82:28]Allah informed the angels of what this children of Adam will do
[82:35]and therefore they question.
[82:35]It wasn't from past history.
[82:38]Angels, they're not going to take other creations that resemble human.
[82:43]and then apply that question that kind of chaos you know you're
[82:48]talking about analogy no angels were informed by Allah they cannot avail
[82:56]themselves of any knowledge except what Allah gives them so Allah informed
[82:59]the angels and then the angels ask the question so first first
[83:02]and foremost angels do have free will but they don't disobey Allah
[83:08]for many reasons number one is that they have capacity beyond, you
[83:14]know, they don't have curtains.
[83:16]Allah has chos and I I'll give you two examples.
[83:22]If on this earth right now, you coming in front of this
[83:25]huge ditch stinking and see, you know, your mind tells you it's
[83:37]a bad place to go.
[83:37]Would you jump in?
[83:38]But you can you have free will but you will never make
[83:44]that mistake.
[83:46]That's how angels are number one.
[83:47]Number two when we enter paradise will lose our free will.
[83:55]Yes or no?
[84:01]Whatever you desire will free will remain.
[84:07]Free will limit free will.
[84:11]No creation universe has free will.
[84:13]We have limited free will.
[84:14]That free will will remain and we will say no.
[84:21]And then in paradise Allah says you know that when you enter
[84:28]it you know.
[84:34]So when you study this our free will but will we commit
[84:38]any Will we obey Allah%?
[84:42]So then isn't that the same equation?
[84:45]So you notice that we think that when angels don't disobey Allah
[84:48]it means they lack free will but that's not the proper analogy
[84:55]you can have limited free will and totally depending on but here
[85:00]knows that the human race will most likely slip in the loves
[85:12]we Right.
[85:14]That's a different matter.
[85:17]But what was your question that?
[85:28]>> Yeah.
[85:29]So, let me give you a quick synopsis of it.
[85:33]You notice the Quran is an extraction from another book.
[85:39]This is an honorable Quran.
[85:44]form a guarded book.
[85:43]What is that book?
[85:47]It's the book of universal laws applied to all creations of Allah
[85:50]in in all the universes that he creates.
[85:53]From that universal laws of Allah is an extraction for human beings
[85:59]which Allah has codified as that which is recited from the law
[86:03]in written form.
[86:04]But in its pure essential form, it is no different than for
[86:09]another creation.
[86:10]It's just been adapted to the human race based on our capacities.
[86:15]You know, we have 24 hours a day.
[86:18]Therefore, there's three major prayers times, right?
[86:20]Five daily prayers.
[86:21]All of those prescriptions, fasting, sunrise to sunset because we experience sunrise
[86:27]and sunset.
[86:26]So, the Quran has been adapted to us based on our physical
[86:33]reality.
[86:32]But principally when it comes to its essential principle, it is no
[86:38]different than other creations that may have let's say 10,000 hours a
[86:41]day or 10 seconds a day.
[86:42]God only knows.
[86:44]The point is that it's all adaptive, but it all follows Allah
[86:49]says it's the system of God.
[86:57]It's incredible.
[86:58]You know, one of the things when I was deconstructing religion when
[87:03]I was a teenager in my later teenagers in my early 20s,
[87:07]this was one condition that I insisted.
[87:09]If I'm going to find the true religion, it better be universal,
[87:12]not only within my community, within earth, but for the entire universe.
[87:16]If it's not universal and it's concocted like the Jewish idea that
[87:20]you know, everybody is the scum of the earth except them, that
[87:24]God is no different than a Hindu god.
[87:27]You say the Brahman is better than or the Christian says I'm
[87:32]damned and doomed at birth.
[87:33]Uhuh.
[87:34]That's very that's very fascist.
[87:35]We're all guilty until proven innocent.
[87:38]I don't agree with that.
[87:39]No religion in the world would convince me that a merciful God
[87:42]creates me guilty and then I can become innocent.
[87:45]A merciful God must make me innocent with the potential of guilt.
[87:49]Otherwise, such a God is not merciful.
[87:51]And my debate with the Christians, I say, why didn't God just
[87:55]Why did he have to come and kill himself years ago?
[87:59]Like what equation is this?
[88:02]What law am I going to derive from this?
[88:03]And of all the people Jesus, he didn't commit any sins.
[88:07]He was pure.
[88:08]Why is he paying the price?
[88:10]This is ideal.
[88:20]I don't bash Christians because I believe they're true.
[88:24]They love God.
[88:24]They're worshipers of God.
[88:28]They're victims of misinformation.
[88:29]Just like us in Islam, we have hadith.
[88:32]We have ideas that are totally out of whack.
[88:35]You know, we think that they're from Allah.
[88:37]But alhamdulillah, the core principles that we have because of the perseverance
[88:43]of B and the sacrifices of B after the holy prophet that
[88:46]nobody can mess with our religion.
[88:47]You know when religion started with Adam there was only Islam and
[88:54]then it morphed into 100,000 religions today you know just in Christianity
[89:01]there's 35,000 religions just in the faith there's 3500 versions about you
[89:07]know the pope is one of the four popes on earth is
[89:10]not the pope of all he's the most recognized in the Vatican
[89:17]has a history.
[89:20]You study the Rothschilds and the builder, the ones who are the
[89:24]billionaires, you know who helps them.
[89:28]I don't want to go too deep.
[89:33]Let your imagination but think about Soon after his eyes after performing
[90:00]the greatest miracle they centuries make him a son of Islam answer
[90:31]comes to him says your forefathers have dried salt our is intact.
[90:42]Our salah is intact.
[90:44]Get away from the gate to the city and I promise you
[90:50]we will have the real religion till you what they did with
[90:56]Ibraim and MS and N and Isa and all of them they
[91:01]will not succeed in this.
[91:03]I see it.
[91:06]So the 100 religions we were on path ofan to create yet
[91:11]a few more thousand of us.
[91:14]Thank God for the thank God.
[91:18]If that didn't occur honestly you and I wouldn't be having these
[91:21]lectures we'd be talking about some esoteric supernatural stuff.
[91:33]Yes.
[91:50]No, no, no.
[91:52]It's a noun.
[91:54]It's not a word.
[91:55]No question.
[91:58]Islam.
[91:58]It's a noun.
[92:00]It's not only a word.
[92:03]The religion of Allah is send messengers with the God with the
[92:16]message of truth which will supersede all.
[92:19]Okay.
[92:22]If we don't believe in religious pluralism, we believe in social pluralism
[92:27]which allows multi-religious existence in Islam.
[92:32]The golden age of Islam welcomed the Jews when they were being
[92:35]persecuted by you know the Christians of Spain, right?
[92:40]uh Queen Isabella, King Phillip, they were persecuting Jews.
[92:45]The Jews escaped and the Muslims gave them protection because in Islam,
[92:50]the multifaceted religious ideology is acceptable as long as there's no damage
[92:55]and as long as there's no destruction in society.
[92:58]A peaceful society where people want to worship God in their ways.
[93:03]Allah does not forbid that.
[93:06]But what compels us in the Quran is truth.
[93:10]So God says there is no compulsion in religion.
[93:14]Truth is compelling.
[93:14]And I cannot find a sentence more elegant than that.
[93:18]In the social structure, there's no compulsion in religion.
[93:22]Truth is compelling.
[93:22]Meaning you're not in a world where there's no compulsion.
[93:28]But what an elegant compulsion when truth compels you.
[93:31]I mean if your children tell you, "Mom, I I'm a follower
[93:33]of truth.
[93:35]I'm compelled when your spouse when when your leaders tell you that
[93:39]I'm compelled to the truth.
[93:40]What a compulsion.
[93:42]It's not a gun on my head.
[93:44]It's self-delegated.
[93:46]It comes from the inside, not from the outside.
[93:50]So Allah recognizes this religion.
[93:55]Allah mentions them by the way.
[93:55]Allah says Allah is now explaining what is it in its principles.
[94:05]Right.
[94:08]Right.
[94:13]This is a bold statement in the Quran.
[94:16]Believers, Jews, Christians, Sabians, provide you believe in one God, day of
[94:20]judgment, do good deeds, right?
[94:23]You do good deeds, there's reward for you, you should have no
[94:27]fear.
[94:28]Now, this is a very subjective idea, you know?
[94:32]Who's Allah says for those of you who believe in the book
[94:38]don't say three Allah condemns so it is not for God to
[94:49]take a son for himself so that we abhore but Christians are
[94:53]given special position because they're scriptural they believe in the day of
[94:57]judgment they recognize the prophethood in general although they've made a a
[95:01]massive of our prophets in history.
[95:03]I mean, you read Genesis and the Old Testament, my God, I
[95:06]can't have my my children read it.
[95:11]It's so bad.
[95:11]It's awful.
[95:12]But we still respect them because Allah in the Quran mentions among
[95:16]the especially among the Christians when they hear the name of God,
[95:20]they put their faces on the ground and they cry.
[95:20]Look at the messenger of Allah.
[95:24]He sent Jaffur right Abdul Abu Talib and he sends him to
[95:31]to Najash was a Christian king and says seek protection.
[95:34]The prophet never met Najash, but he knew of his high qualities
[95:37]and he sends him there and Nash was actually a Muslim but
[95:42]he was doing because when he heard what Jaffer Abu Talib said
[95:47]he says this is hak he maintained that belief but his constituent
[95:52]audience were mostly you know believers in some kind of a deified
[95:56]Jesus but he didn't he didn't accept that he protected the Muslim
[96:01]ummah and on judgment day imagine the reward he will that.
[96:03]So one needs not be a Muslim or a follow of B
[96:07]to enter paradise.
[96:09]But there are principles that one must adhere to regardless of titles.
[96:15]>> Yes, brother.
[96:21]Yes.
[96:29]This was the work of Muawi.
[96:32]You know Masi in his historical statement states that when Muawi became
[96:36]Khalifa, nobody was talking about the two Khalifas.
[96:39]They were known as Sheh.
[96:42]Usman was an aberration.
[96:45]He wasn't even considered.
[96:45]The main focus in the Muslim world was uh Muawia.
[96:51]Muawia ratified the modernday asharid school of thought, the school of And
[96:57]ui says that he I went he says a man goes to
[97:01]Muawi and says look you wanted to become the Khalifa you became
[97:05]Khalifa now stop cursing Aliv Talib on the pulpit by the whole
[97:09]business of cursing on the pulpit started with Muawia you know they
[97:14]take umbrage to us cursing we're not cursing type they started it
[97:19]and when the cursing was taking place he said to Muawi stop
[97:23]cursing you know what Mabi replied He says, "How can I stop?
[97:29]That man has put his name in the adan and my two
[97:34]favorites.
[97:33]Nobody talks about them.
[97:36]You know that by the time we became Khalifa, Abu Bakr were
[97:39]were persona non.
[97:41]Nobody talked about them.
[97:42]It was they were fading in history.
[97:43]Muawi said, "I will revive them.
[97:46]I will bring them back and make them religion." And he took
[97:53]all the of and he flipped it and added their names.
[97:56]And then when Bkari and Muslim were collecting all the hadith, hundreds
[98:00]of thousands of fabricated hadith under Zohari who was one of the
[98:05]cronies of Muawia, he rubber stamped everything.
[98:06]Boom boom boom boom boom that our Muslim community has hundreds of
[98:11]thousands of falsified hadith.
[98:12]And yet when you read the sah of Muslim bkari right their
[98:18]their sitta is smaller than one of our books just al kafi
[98:24]is bigger than all their four books put six books put together
[98:26]our four books so what they did was they sanitized you know
[98:32]they per they they threw out a lot and it's more than
[98:37]40 50% statistically I don't know I've heard 60% repetitious say bkadi
[98:41]is 60% % repetitious.
[98:42]Same story over there's nothing.
[98:44]When you look at quantity of hadith, it's nothing.
[98:48]It's like a it's like a shell.
[98:51]Like why?
[98:51]Even those wrong hadith that Muavia fabricated keep it.
[98:55]Let let it be evidence.
[98:58]They sanitized because the school of jama actually the four was actually
[99:08]not what it was.
[99:10]They were hundreds.
[99:11]Islam had become so diverse.
[99:17]Everybody had an idea about Islam.
[99:18]And the jama realized that if we don't contain this and blockchiad
[99:22]and stop, we're not going to survive.
[99:27]So under the fourth im which is Ahmed Hal, you find that
[99:33]there was this jama which incorporated four schools in one school.
[99:37]There was no other way to protect this explosion.
[99:40]But the Shia of Ali, you know that in Muawi's time there
[99:47]were two groups of Shia.
[99:47]There was Shia of Muawia and Shia of Ali.
[99:50]The name Shia was given to anybody who who supported any group.
[99:56]So if you supported Muawia, you were known as the Shia of
[99:59]Muawi.
[100:00]But because Muawi became the de facto Khalifa and the rule for
[100:03]about 84 years that name Shia dropped and the Shia of Ali
[100:09]remained.
[100:10]But if you look at the Shia of Ali we in the
[100:15]Shia school we have a few extra schools is in is you
[100:17]have two Dudis and you have the Ahanis right?
[100:20][snorts] You have the Zadis the Houthis for example in Yemen.
[100:25]So you have a few but our in the Shia school of
[100:30]thought is alive and a living merger has to adjudicate any new
[100:35]laws that are needed in the school of jama is limited to
[100:42]the four imams who never saw the prophet.
[100:43]So it's a very there's a few differences but when you look
[100:49]at the essential momentum of Islam in its growth it's mindboggling.
[100:54]I mean 600 years after you're talking about you know 600 years
[101:00]after Jesus comes the finality of Islam and the Muslim population today
[101:07]is equal almost equal to Christians when it comes to practice we're
[101:13]far more practicing than Christians you know 90% actually 95% of Catholics
[101:21]in Detroit never enter a church in the Vatican in Rome.
[101:28]Muslims rent churches for Juma prayers [snorts] and they say it's better
[101:37]than spiderw webs worshiping God.
[101:37]They say it.
[101:40]So what I'm saying is the dean of Allah is growing.
[101:41]It's a promise of God.
[101:43]Why do you think all this animosity against Islam?
[101:45]It's not because Islam is a religion of terror.
[101:50]They're terrified because it's the religion of truth.
[101:53]Honestly, and I say this, I was once interviewed on a radio
[101:57]station.
[101:57]I said, you know, Islam is statistically the fastest growing religion in
[102:01]the world.
[102:02]And the guy was a right-wing white, you know.
[102:07]He looked at me, he says, "Why?" I said, "Because it's the
[102:13]truth." Next question.
[102:14]And then he just jumped on.
[102:15]He says, "If you want to get into it, I'm more than
[102:18]happy to talk about the truth." But they don't dare go there
[102:21]because they know.
[102:23]But listen, I'm not bashing any of these even within those schools
[102:26]of thought in the jama.
[102:30]They're good people.
[102:30]They are god-fearing people.
[102:31]You know, look at the their memorization of Quran, the establishment of
[102:37]massagids, the the prayers, and they are our brothers.
[102:42]Sayan said they yourselves.
[102:42]Don't look down upon them.
[102:44]We're not discussing that.
[102:48]We're discussing essential principles of religion which our sister asked which is
[102:52]in Islam Islam to Allah is this.
[102:57]You might say well brother you're saying it because you're sitting on
[103:01]the pulpit and that's what you believe in.
[103:03]I said of course it'd be foolish for me to say anything
[103:06]else.
[103:06]But if you want to have a dialogue I'm always open.
[103:13]Any other?
[103:14]Yeah, we make dua please.
[103:17]May Allah bless you all for coming.
[103:17]Inshallah.
[103:18]Um, if you have any comments or questions, tomorrow we'll continue inshallah.
[103:35]Alhamdulillah.
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