Felicity from the Perspective of the Holy Qur’an- by Dr Muhammad Reza Fakhr Rohani- Thu 13/01/2022

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Weekly Webinar on Quranic Lifestyle

Talk by Dr Muhammad Reza Fakhr Rohani - University of Qom

Topic: “Felicity from the Perspective of the Holy Qur’an “

️ Thursday 13th January 2022

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Transcript

[0:00]assalamu alaikum and welcome to this weekly webinar with me the moderator

[0:04]video as you know the topic of this webinar is quranic lifestyle

[0:09]and it is a topic that will be discussed every thursday at

[0:12]6 00 pm uk time here on zoom in youtube until march

[0:16]of 2022 as you know the webinar is an open webinar meaning

[0:19]that you the viewers are able to join and participate uh with

[0:24]your questions and inshallah learn from our guests uh during these few

[0:27]months i will be joined by steam scholars and guests that will

[0:29]delve into their own sub-topic uh relating to the main topic of

[0:34]quranic lifestyle and today we are blessed to have dr muhammad who

[0:37]is actually joining us from um inshallah before i introduce him a

[0:44]quick biography insha allah in iran he studied english literature and linguistics

[0:49]at the university of tehran and he has been active in the

[0:52]realm of literature in english and has translated several islamic texts from

[0:56]arabic and persian into english it translated into english a collection of

[1:01]imam al-hussein's sermons and letters and discourses he also authored the first

[1:06]book length biography of allama amini in english among his forthcoming works

[1:12]the following may be mentioned ashura encyclopedic dictionary and martyrdom narratives uh

[1:18]which are basically the mukhtars of imam was saying as you know

[1:21]the layout will be their guest speaking for about 45 minutes or

[1:24]so in charlotte indian will have a quick question and answer session

[1:27]in which you the viewers can send in your questions to me

[1:31]or on the chat here on zoom or youtube inshallah and i

[1:35]will be asking the guests uh them salaam alaikum doctor thank you

[1:37]so much for joining me today thank you very much good evening

[1:41]uh inshallah whenever you're ready you can introduce the topic that you're

[1:44]going to be talking about today and shall we begin the webinar

[1:48]no i'm ready okay go ahead please this is gonna begin please

[1:56]uh first of all uh i should like to express my uh

[2:01]deep condolences to all the attendants i mean those people uh who

[2:08]have the opportunity of uh i mean viewing this online webinar on

[2:15]the uh occasion of the marquis anniversary of hazard after that i

[2:24]should like to mention that according to the topic already selected that

[2:29]is only felicity from a quranic and islamic perspective uh i should

[2:36]like to say that in the holy quran there are many uh

[2:41]verses i mean uh that refer to uh the i mean two

[2:46]sides or two uh i mean uh two end points or two

[2:49]destinations one of them is uh paradise and another one is the

[2:53]hellfire in the holy quran uh in surah al hash it's indicated

[3:00]in this way although the regime the people of the hellfire and

[3:12]the people of the paradise and divine paradise are not on a

[3:16]call with each other as how will the people of the uh

[3:22]people of the paradise of the divine paradise are the felicitas now

[3:27]when we um delve into this topic in the quranic verses we

[3:35]can find out that according to quranic teachings one of the main

[3:42]gateways to reaching the divine pleasure and in effect the uh reaching

[3:49]the divine paradise in the world hereafter is having good faith i

[3:58]mean being sincere not as i mean superficially or i mean initially

[4:05]on the word of for example just saying or just i'm claiming

[4:09]something but the holy quran says it means that first of all

[4:14]people are expected to have a firm belief in the holy quran

[4:20]in the islamic religion and then do and practice whatever has been

[4:27]instructed in this way uh from the allah the form allah subhanahu

[4:33]wa ta'ala and the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam as the last

[4:41]divine prophet practiced all of the those notions and uh rights and

[4:45]rituals in his own um in his own lifestyle so that we

[4:51]find that the holy quran is explicit in that it asserts that

[4:58]you for you there is a good role model in the personality

[5:03]and character and career of the prophet muhammad it's asserted by all

[5:11]muslim scholars i mean with the shia or sunny or otherwise said

[5:14]that the prophet muhammad was no doubt and the manifesto exemplar in

[5:26]terms of practicing whatever loss of hana wata'ala advised his i mean

[5:33]his i mean his create his creatures and the best role model

[5:41]was none but the uh prophet muhammad now we find that i

[5:45]mean based on the topic of i mean um felicity i mean

[5:49]related to this we find that in the surah al-mu'min the 23rd

[5:55]surah of the holy quran it's i mean in verses 55 to

[6:01]61 it's indicated that some people find some people guess that i

[6:06]mean being uh being i mean being provided with worldly gains such

[6:11]as for example properties and children uh i mean according to the

[6:18]quranic i mean assertion being provided with worldly gains for example for

[6:25]better children never never prove being felicitous rather those who are practically

[6:32]pious help the needy the poor in the cause of god and

[6:36]for the sake of god's pleasure and they are at the same

[6:41]time god fearing not at the level of talking or claiming rather

[6:43]i mean at the level of practice uh later and they believe

[6:51]that they will in the long run um be uh i mean

[6:56]turned it toward allah because i mean our destination is toward allah

[7:00]certainly these people uh i mean are referred to as avi felicitas

[7:07]people uh in the meantime i should like to say that i

[7:11]mean these are kind of um kind of i mean i should

[7:19]like to say controversy in this regard in that for example when

[7:25]we check some authoritative english dictionaries such as for example uh short

[7:30]outside english dictionary i mean i'm i'm just i should like to

[7:35]make references to shorter outside english dictionary because this this is uh

[7:40]i mean uh reliable reference work on which so far as we

[7:47]know uh a great host of academics have been working in it

[7:52]when we check the term felicity we find that i mean for

[7:58]felicity the following terms are given i mean by way of i

[8:02]mean definition happiness bless cause or source of happiness prosperity and appropriateness

[8:08]in invention or expression or for example a happy inspiration and so

[8:16]on now we find that i mean one of the major differences

[8:18]between uh divine religions i mean the religions introduced by uh god

[8:25]and promulgated by the divine prophets and in islam those i mean

[8:32]religious percepts as included in the holy quran have been um have

[8:40]been have been uh shown in detail and uh received uh adequate

[8:46]uh adequate exposition by the infallible imam so we find that in

[8:53]them um felicity uh receives another aspect and another definition it's this

[9:02]uh joint chair that we find that almost all diva all philosophical

[9:10]trends or currents or for example great philosophers or great uh i

[9:15]mean personalities in the world right from for example suppose uh ancient

[9:20]greece up to now for example i mean dispose socrates or plato

[9:25]aristotle and so on i mean and we can move on in

[9:31]this i mean line and reach our own time we find that

[9:33]almost all of them have tried to touch upon the nature and

[9:41]definitions of felicity in contrast to happiness we find that i mean

[9:47]happiness i mean something quite i mean transitory or transitional while the

[9:53]felicity is something quite uh long-lasting and at the same time we

[9:57]find that um this kind of happiness or felicity stand in in

[10:07]you know in somewhat in opposition against whatever has been introduced whatever

[10:16]have been introduced in the uh i mean in abrahamic religions and

[10:20]among the abrahamic religions we find that the most uh accurate and

[10:27]the most reliable of them is in the islamic religion first of

[10:33]all in the quranic uh in in in i mean in the

[10:37]text of the holy quran and later on we find it that

[10:41]after that i mean as expositions of the holy quran we find

[10:43]i mean these notions well elaborated and well um i mean um

[10:49]interpreted in in terms of the hadiths that we have received from

[10:55]the infallible imams then we find that i mean there's another aspect

[10:59]and another perspective which uh i mean deserves being addressed and mentioned

[11:05]uh naturally as uh human beings we do have the right uh

[11:12]to attain felicity let me give you an example for example everybody

[11:17]i mean every mankind everybody has a variety to receive education to

[11:22]receive freedom i mean to be provided with his or her basic

[11:28]needs for example calmness or freedom freedom of expression and freedom of

[11:38]choosing a religion or for example freedom of where to live and

[11:42]what kind of occupation the person may have these kinds of freedom

[11:48]these different i mean aspects of freedom have been uh largely discussed

[11:53]by both philosophers and experts in the in in the realm of

[11:58]uh law and legal studies i don't want to embark on those

[12:01]aspects because i mean it will be a different story however i

[12:06]should like to say that from the islamic perspective we find that

[12:11]everybody has the right to attain to attain felicity from the islamic

[12:23]perspective you find that in the holy quran it's mentioned [Music] it

[12:32]means that all mankind you are walking you are i mean trading

[12:38]in a street in a way you know on a road i

[12:40]mean the end point is nothing but god and for example in

[12:49]um in a divine discourse i mean as indicated in the holy

[12:56]quran uh god allah subhanahu wa ta'ala addresses the moses the prophet

[13:01]moses i've created you for my own sake i've created i've created

[13:08]you for the sake of my own aims and my own sublime

[13:13]aims so we find that the whole world haven't been the whole

[13:19]world hasn't been created in vain rather everything has been i mean

[13:25]well calculated by allah at the same time we find that the

[13:30]holy quran i mean as the explicit and intact word we have

[13:40]shown him the way uh whether he chooses i mean mankind man

[13:44]chooses to go to the hell fire or to the paradise so

[13:48]we find that allah has shown us the right way and he

[13:53]has provided us with the right means of attaining felicity both in

[13:57]this world and in the world hereafter the basic philosophy of uh

[14:03]of dispatching prophets uh i mean on the side of allah for

[14:10]mankind is because uh men as such certainly meets a confident guide

[14:17]i mean based on his suggestions and guidelines men may may find

[14:27]his way toward not only god's pleasure but the the divine paradise

[14:34]so we find that in all i mean these indications i mean

[14:42]mostly elaborated in islamic texts islamic classics we find that the the

[14:51]kind of felicity as indicated and defined and referred to whether explicitly

[14:56]or implicitly in the hall of fame or we find that i

[15:03]mean the um the uh connecting threat is uh divine uh unicity

[15:11]or monophase it's through uh islamic teachings i mean it's uh i

[15:15]mean uh by islamic teachings that people i mean all people may

[15:22]find their ways uh toward allah it taught achieving felicity and and

[15:32]enjoying felicity both in this world and in the world hereafter at

[15:39]the moment i should like to say that uh some of our

[15:43]viewers may ask this question that okay the holy quran is a

[15:46]divine rate and well it has received that many i mean this

[15:53]is great i mean we accept it however in order to uh

[15:59]put it in i mean in simpler terms uh in shia we

[16:04]are proud that you have a very important book a very important

[16:08]document in fact it's i mean all uh kind of reliable hadith

[16:14]that's his resultant hope treaties and rights or children rights it was

[16:21]uh issued by the fortune salomon and it has received several expositions

[16:34]in in islamic languages such as in arabic in passion and most

[16:38]probably in uldus i mean to my knowledge if not in other

[16:41]languages and dialects here we find that i mean fortunately in the

[16:50]english translation of as done as in in uh in the english

[17:06]translation of uh resolutely as done by um the american scholar uh

[17:15]professor william city and published by oxford university press in 1988 at

[17:19]the end um i mean we find that a somewhat uh i

[17:26]mean uh synoptic translation of research always indicated later on such as

[17:34]for example let me find this book over here i mean for

[17:44]my uh i mean it's available on my desk let me find

[17:49]it yes later on uh i mean the indian scholar the late

[18:05]say that uh produced an english translation of it i mean i

[18:10]should like to take it i mean just in front of the

[18:16]camera so that the viewers may find it missing it okay um

[18:19]now we find that i mean in this book uh in this

[18:25]short treatise uh issued originally by the fourth infallible imam and in

[18:34]answer to a request that he had received and i mean most

[18:39]presumably the uh immediate and the first audience and uh addressee of

[18:47]this reseller hall was uh better known as abraham's formality who was

[18:55]a confident uh companion of the fourth infallible imam ali we find

[19:01]that in it i mean uh the various kinds of rights have

[19:06]been indicated from the right of allah to the right of unto

[19:09]the rights of body organs to the rights of with whom we

[19:16]have we have i mean interactions like for example our parents our

[19:21]children our neighbors our teachers our students of fellow workers and so

[19:27]on now one may say that okay why so many uh elaboration

[19:30]on one why so much elaboration uh on on this aspect this

[19:39]is because from a purely islamic perspective and according to uh that

[19:45]is reliable type of lifestyle we find that an ethicity is the

[19:50]uh the thing or the the i mean the end point felicity

[19:55]is the end point that all people uh yearn to reach because

[20:01]i mean it entails uh i mean a deep and profound happiness

[20:04]both in this world and in the world hereafter i should like

[20:11]to make uh some references to astahipasta i mean at the same

[20:16]time i should like to say that unfortunately uh we haven't been

[20:24]that much associated with the save as a judea because the fourth

[20:28]infallible imam ali issued several several supplications and prayers and his son

[20:39]the fifth infallible imam muhammad al-baq transcribed all of them and uh

[20:48]centuries of cassanchi's generation after generation up to now this vicious collection

[20:54]has the roots now we find that in uh in supplication 27

[21:02]in fragments number 15 it's indicated that oh allah you seal him

[21:10]with felicity and decree him with martyrdom i mean it means that

[21:13]i mean the pious people i mean those pious people uh i

[21:19]mean who receive the i mean who are who have been provided

[21:26]with felicity on the side of allah i mean they may reach

[21:31]they may attain the uh sublime position of being artists now we

[21:37]find that we smarted them i mean the uh most explicit instance

[21:42]of which can be found in the personality and in the uh

[21:48]in the sublime character of imam al-hussein al-salam he showed i mean

[21:54]in his lifestyle particularly on the day of ashura that in order

[22:01]to reach felicity one has to sacrifice whatever is has been available

[22:05]to him or her in the cause of allah out of sincerity

[22:10]elsewhere in safer such a d it's indicated on its application 39

[22:18]fragment 3 it's indicated that felicity is a divine bounty when it's

[22:24]when it's mentioned that felicity is a divine bounty it means that

[22:29]both we as uh i mean faithful people we have to do

[22:34]our best in the cause of allah yet we have to request

[22:41]the divine help divine assistance in order to reach this divine bounty

[22:45]elsewhere in a safer such idea in this application 46 fragments 17

[22:51]it's indicated that felicity in the light of the divine is felicity

[22:58]is the in the divine uh felicity in the light of the

[23:02]divine respite is for people to to repent and to return to

[23:07]him please note carefully that i mean um addresses both the pious

[23:19]and the scenes i mean as the infallible imam imam said salam

[23:26]never i mean never forgot on these sinners radha as the uh

[23:34]personality uh whose mission whose i mean mission is to take mankind

[23:39]into felicity imam sajad ali salam who was uh was was determined

[23:46]to take not only the i mean the good doers but also

[23:50]the sinners to the right path to the uh right way in

[23:56]order to reach felicity likewise for example we find that on the

[23:59]day of ashura imam al-hussein alisson tried hard in order to direct

[24:07]his foes his enemies i mean those people were actually i mean

[24:12]the fighting king imam was a resolute to guide them to felicity

[24:17]i mean to to the divine to the divine pleasure and to

[24:24]felicity so we find that the infallible imams were not such figures

[24:26]uh who who were only uh i mean concerned with their own

[24:33]fate or the fates of of and the fate of their own

[24:37]for example uh peers or close relatives or companions rather the infallible

[24:44]iman's wanted to show to everybody which is which and how people

[24:50]may attain felicity again or to return to a safety sacha i

[24:58]mean in fact safer is replete with these instances so that i've

[25:02]tried it to be rather very selective for this session in supplication

[25:12]63 fragment 10 indicates that that felicity uh i mean is a

[25:19]result of obeying god and receiving god's forgiveness so we find that

[25:23]both obeying god and receiving god's forgiveness all of them should come

[25:29]from god and this and this bounty this attention uh wouldn't come

[25:36]to anybody i mean out of the blue rather i mean people

[25:42]are expected to uh i mean to be active i mean um

[25:46]to discharge their own efforts in the cause of god in the

[25:51]cause of allah let me make let me give you an example

[25:54]supposedly suppose of that in a class for example some students don't

[26:02]study others among the rest of the students some of the students

[26:06]do their best yet those who do their best they receive some

[26:10]extra extra help or extra extracurricular help from their teacher in order

[26:16]to make better students and attain a higher status so we find

[26:24]that in the initially uh all people i mean initially everybody should

[26:29]do uh his or her best in order to be able and

[26:32]in order to develop in him or herself this capability of receiving

[26:38]the divine grace and the divine bounty and in this case the

[26:42]capability to to receive felicity that's where we find that felicity i

[26:50]mean felicity is defined that it's in effect of being well knight

[26:56]to god i mean having i mean being in proximity to god

[27:01]it's indicated in the in the safe as such idea in supplications

[27:04]in in another supplication uh i mean included in uh uh that's

[27:13]the william uh i mean translation it's uh i mean uh i

[27:17]mean uh the supplication of the fearful i mean supplication of those

[27:21]people who are fearful i mean with respect to allah elsewhere again

[27:29]in another supplication the supplications of the hopeful those people who are

[27:37]hopeful who are uh i mean uh i mean who expect to

[27:44]receive the divine bounty it's indicated that felicity is the divine mercy

[27:48]and or practical utility of it so i mean based on these

[27:55]indications it becomes clear that desiring desire i mean the desire to

[28:01]reach to receive the desire to achieve the status of being capable

[28:07]of receiving the divine guidance of the divine light and by the

[28:12]same token the the i mean the capability or the capacity of

[28:19]receiving uh this uh divine grace and divine attention uh i mean

[28:27]it isn't i mean it isn't the end point in itself rather

[28:31]we have to be able to develop uh in ourselves at the

[28:35]capacity of the capability of practically obvious i mean being able to

[28:41]uh i mean to practicalize i mean to to practice i mean

[28:46]how to make the most of this opportunity the opportunity of receiving

[28:53]um this felicity because this felicity i mean this for example uh

[28:59]receiving god's grace or receiving the the uh divine attention to uh

[29:04]to to repent to him to allah and to reach the divine

[29:10]satisfaction and divine uh pleasure this may happen to for example everybody

[29:17]however it isn't it isn't enough i mean at the moment it

[29:21]comes but it depends on our own capability whether we are um

[29:28]we are capable enough in terms of i mean restoring the muscles

[29:36]or for example making the most of it uh elsewhere in uh

[29:41]asafoetida and in the um uh in the uh prayers uh indicated

[29:48]and offered by the fourth infallible imam ali ibn hussein islam it's

[29:54]indicated that i mean if the philosophers is one who practically beseeches

[30:01]allah and this is very important i mean there are i mean

[30:04]two concepts i mean available in uh steakhouse one of them is

[30:12]sadha this is another one so the felicitous person is the person

[30:19]who receives the initial uh the beam of light of felicity and

[30:24]i mean having developed in him or herself the ability to rest

[30:28]to to restore it makes him or herself capable of receiving more

[30:35]divine attention also faithful praising allah makes us makes us and leads

[30:44]us to become felicitous so we find that i mean in this

[30:49]regard you'll find that the philistic felicity comes to people especially at

[30:56]special on special occasions for example in uh safer in uh fragment

[31:07]49 uh felicity it's indicated in this way felicitus is one whose

[31:13]rituals are fasting in ramadan is well accepted okay it proves that

[31:19]if someone desires and years to reach felicity to attain felicity he

[31:25]or she must be sincere in practicing the rituals indicated in the

[31:32]islamic religion i mean to practice good things and i mean whatever

[31:36]has been recommended and to abstain from uh committing whatever has been

[31:41]declared as a sinful of improper from the islamic perspective and that

[31:47]at the end of the month ramadan i mean suppose that a

[31:53]person i mean a believer a faithful person a practicing believer has

[31:58]been fortunate to to fast throughout every month of ramadan and at

[32:04]the end uh he comes to offer uh a prayer to god

[32:10]i mean this is i mean this has been available i mean

[32:14]this type of player is already available in as safe as such

[32:18]attila in supplication number 45 also in the um imam sajad in

[32:26]the salons exposition and prayer uh it should be recited at the

[32:35]end of finishing one uh i mean one round of reciting the

[32:39]holy quran we find that the holy quran is regarded and is

[32:45]described as the source of receiving divine uh felicity so we find

[32:51]that i mean there are many ways in is from the islamic

[32:57]perspective for reaching felicity however the hardcore and the i mean common

[33:05]core of all these definitions based on explicit and will document this

[33:11]text i mean for example the uh holy quran first of all

[33:18]the holy quran as the intact divine book divine scripture which is

[33:21]intact i mean we believe in islam in this way and the

[33:27]um and the supplications offered by the fourth and fallen uh who

[33:34]find that i mean the hardcore is first of all having firm

[33:40]belief in the divine unicity and then practicing the divine commands and

[33:47]commandments and keeping away from keeping away from uh committing sins with

[33:54]a major or minor i mean there's no difference between major and

[33:57]minor sins because all of sins are sins and according to the

[34:03]peace of hadith grave sin is the the small or i mean

[34:07]a minor scene uh or a sin that's i mean the person

[34:12]who commits it regards as a minus we shouldn't look at the

[34:19]sin in itself whether we have to be careful uh in front

[34:21]i mean in the presence of the creator we disobey his commandments

[34:28]and his orders so we find that i mean in contrast to

[34:33]the indications available in all amongst the great religions or great i

[34:43]mean attitudes or currents or i should like to say that i

[34:49]mean trends i mean whether philosophical or mystical or otherwise we find

[34:53]that the kind of approach uh i mean introduced and the kind

[34:57]of definitions provided in islamic texts i mean especially particularly in the

[35:03]holy quran and in the authentic and authoritative uh hadith especially and

[35:09]in this case i mean the case i mean from which i've

[35:12]mentioned several examples that is in a safe as the idea or

[35:18]in other supplementary prayers uh that we have received the formula and

[35:23]also in his uh brief but content-wise very great masterpiece it must

[35:34]be indicated that i mean all in all there's one way obeying

[35:41]allah disobeying or neglecting satanic temptations which are available at every single

[35:48]moment and that we have to uh we have to make sure

[35:51]that we are not alone we are constantly being watched and we

[35:59]have to help not only ourselves or our close relatives rather we

[36:05]have to help all human beings in order to reach this felicity

[36:09]uh i guess uh i've talked enough so uh in case you

[36:15]may you may want to intervene or you may want to to

[36:19]say something or receive the comments of the respected viewers i'm ready

[36:27]well i don't know uh how much i've talked but i think

[36:30]i uh i'm approaching the end of my i mean the time

[36:37]you elected me i sense yes inshallah we are going to move

[36:40]on to the second part of the webinar uh which is the

[36:44]question and answer session but before i do get into it just

[36:46]a reminder uh to the viewers that this is inshallah recurring webinar

[36:50]uh every thursday at 6 pm uk time with the main topic

[36:55]being quranic lifestyle and of course you know each week we have

[36:58]a different scholar or different guest learning guests uh talking about their

[37:02]own sub topic uh relating to uh the main topic of quranic

[37:05]lifestyle so doctor you know the first question uh of course that

[37:09]comes to mind when we talk about uh the topic that you

[37:11]are discussing is the idea of happiness in islam what is the

[37:17]meaning of happiness or how does one gain happiness in accordance to

[37:23]islam yes uh please note carefully that's uh i mean from the

[37:28]purely islamic perspective this world cannot be dispensed with in favor of

[37:33]the world hereafter i mean there's a piece of hadith from the

[37:38]second infallible imam al-hasan al-muslav in which he asserted to one of

[37:45]his companions on his deathbed he mentioned i mean he he instructed

[37:53]he instructed one of his close uh i mean companions be for

[38:04]your for your life in this world as if you are going

[38:08]to live in it forever and be and be for your uh

[38:12]life and and be ready for for death as if you are

[38:18]going to die tomorrow so this this attitude i mean shows that

[38:22]the kind of good and reasonable and rational um equilibrium should be

[38:31]uh should be maintained uh no same peoples would say that people

[38:36]don't don't need uh happiness certainly happiness is needed however the type

[38:42]of happiness and the way we reach is very important okay in

[38:49]being happy uh we don't have to infringe the rights of other

[38:52]people or to transgress the limits of the limits indicated by god

[38:59]or to harm other people to for example ridicule other people to

[39:03]offend other people's feelings rather there are many um peaceful and rational

[39:08]ways of uh i mean being happy or make other people happy

[39:14]in this world however what's important in this regard is that we

[39:21]fall beyond happiness uh comes felicity about which i mean some important

[39:25]the other six and important uh i mean indications have already been

[39:29]revealed i sense thank you for that beautiful answer another question that

[39:36]comes into mind is slightly different uh to the topic that you're

[39:41]discussing but of course it is of course uh related to the

[39:43]uh elements of quranic life silence is that you know in the

[39:48]quran and etcetera that allah has you know created every every man

[39:52]and every woman with different trials and tribulations so why is it

[39:55]that some people are tested more than others and some people are

[40:02]not tested as much uh this is of course i mean indicated

[40:08]in the holy quran i mean the first of all that people

[40:11]are created not exactly like each other it's in the i mean

[40:15]it's answered in the holy quran certainly we have created you uh

[40:25]i mean mankind i mean in the form of different tribes different

[40:30]skin color and so on so that we would be distinguished from

[40:34]each other this is one however the holy quran indicates and he

[40:39]asserts that the most honored the most honorable of all of you

[40:44]before allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and or in the eyes of in

[40:47]in the eyes of allah is the most pious of you so

[40:51]we find that i mean this kind of um piety this kind

[40:55]of i mean uh being got fairy or on godfaring or got

[40:59]fairiness or i mean this uh kind of a practical piousness of

[41:04]priority uh this is the artistic and you know in answer to

[41:14]your question in the holy quran it's indicated i mean these calamities

[41:21]disasters and so on or problems or i mean uh difficult situations

[41:27]or stressful uh conditions or context they appear to all nations all

[41:31]people i mean there's no difference but for example some people may

[41:36]receive more uh catastrophic situations because i mean they are living in

[41:40]a for example unstable situation and so on okay it doesn't mean

[41:44]that for example those people who live in for example in finland

[41:49]or for example in sweden they would be i mean free from

[41:51]any kind of disaster or any kind of problem no i mean

[41:56]we received the news of almost all kinds of calamities happening here

[42:01]and today in the news okay day and night okay so we

[42:04]can't say that okay one special nation or one special group of

[42:09]people may be uh modia to allah so that's i mean they

[42:15]are for example um uh i mean uh well i mean modi

[42:21]it's a dear to allah no people are people i mean allah

[42:25]created the whole universe the whole ami people and he tests all

[42:32]of all people all the time but we may not be able

[42:35]to sense various kinds of testings i mean done on the part

[42:40]of allah essence and another question that uh i've received is again

[42:48]in relation to connecting with allah through the quran uh you know

[42:52]gaining happiness of course you know the wajibata allah has asked us

[42:54]you know to pray or to fast but besides all of this

[42:58]what else can we do in order to connect to allah and

[43:02]gain the happiness with him i couldn't get it i said that

[43:09]you know basically we are asked about allah to perform namaz or

[43:12]or prayer and salah and to fast but what else can we

[43:17]do as human beings as muslims uh to gain a connection with

[43:19]allah and gain some sort of happiness towards him since your topic

[43:23]is on felicity yes actually i mean in islamic uh instructions for

[43:29]example helping other people uh is a very meritorious uh deed and

[43:35]act i mean very much i mean uh stressed and very much

[43:40]indicated and emphasized in the uh practices of the infallibles please note

[43:46]carefully that according to a reliable piece of hadith a piece of

[43:54]indication uh imam al-hussein al-assam was busy with a ritual when we

[44:00]practice for example i mean praying to allah performing salat namas and

[44:04]so on and at the same time someone approached him and that

[44:09]person had a problem then imam al-husseinism instantly left the mosque and

[44:14]got out of the mosque in order to help that person and

[44:16]we find it that for example when imam aliyah salaam as the

[44:22]first infallible the first immediate and infallible uh imam and successor to

[44:27]the prophet one but when he was only praying and he was

[44:29]mistaken in the i mean the position of boeing and when he

[44:36]at that time he noticed he found out that a beggar uh

[44:39]came inside i mean it entered the mosque in anticipation uh of

[44:46]receiving some financial help imam ali al-assam pointed to him and i

[44:50]mean implied it to him to get closer and then he donated

[44:56]his precious link to that needy person it indicates that there are

[45:00]many uh ways for not being volleyballs but for us i mean

[45:05]in order to receive the divine as the divine satisfaction mainly other

[45:13]people however i should like to say that i mean by way

[45:16]of i mean this helping other people the end point of uh

[45:21]i mean this helping should be something endorsed in the islamic religion

[45:27]uh supposed that if god forbid someone may want to commit a

[45:32]sin we are not entitled to help that person we have to

[45:39]prevent him from doing that not in order to uh to prevent

[45:41]him by the way of applying any kind of force or question

[45:47]on the person but by the way of rescuing i mean with

[45:49]this an intention to rescue this person from a certain punishment that

[45:55]he or she would receive in the world hereafter okay thank you

[46:01]so much uh inshallah just a few more questions uh before we

[46:06]wrap up the uh webinar here uh doctor i'm sure you know

[46:08]you have other things to do uh you know you have blessed

[46:11]us with your presence and your talk another question that i have

[46:15]here uh is in connection to uh the topic that you discussed

[46:18]you know felicity and happiness uh what can we define as felicity

[46:22]uh in regards to the quran actually i mean there are various

[46:29]kinds of or there are various shades of meaning for amy felicity

[46:34]felicity maybe i mean initially felicity in this world and felicity in

[46:38]the world here after okay felicity in this world is for example

[46:42]i mean receiving for example uh having good parents okay or for

[46:48]example receiving a family with family members wife i mean children and

[46:53]so on receiving good education reliable education or for being provided with

[46:58]the right side of for example um i mean i mean being

[47:05]raised in a good economic situation so that the person isn't in

[47:09]need of for example any financial help from here and there and

[47:14]all these would make a bridge or a step in order to

[47:22]reach felicity in the world hereafter okay please note carefully that's uh

[47:26]in order to reach felicity in the world here after the hardcore

[47:30]is uh uh is being concerned with uh the uh the pleasure

[47:36]attaining the pleasure of allah please note carefully that's i mean in

[47:40]this yara texts i mean the pilgrimage players uh indicated and we

[47:47]have received from the infallible imams uh when we uh when we

[47:52]uh when we address the uh market companions of imam al-hussein and

[47:55]the salon we really were forced from thousands you have in you've

[48:02]reached the greatest felicity what does it mean it means that they've

[48:05]reached the felicity and the the sublime state of pleasure in the

[48:10]form of martyrdom why martyrdom because martin is the uh these the

[48:18]final stage of loving so that the person not only has done

[48:24]good in this i mean in his lifetime but at the end

[48:29]of his life he sacrifices his soul and his lifeblood for the

[48:33]sake of allah in order to in order by doing so to

[48:41]save either people or the islamic religion and the uh companions of

[48:45]imam hussain and first of all they wanted to rescue the mankind

[48:49]from ignorance from going astray even as indicated in my lecture imam

[48:55]hussain al-assad was very uh very intent and he was i mean

[49:00]he was very keen to direct not only his own companions i

[49:03]mean those people who were already with him intended to direct the

[49:10]enemy forces to the right path again this shows that an infallible

[49:13]imam is keen and his uh resolute not only for rescuing himself

[49:19]or his companions but even rescuing the enemy soldiers simply because there

[49:25]are uh human beings let me give you an example uh do

[49:29]i have enough time to make a slight contribution in this regard

[49:34]yes yes of course yes you do you do please note carefully

[49:38]that's i mean when imam al-hussein assalam was approaching me from mecca

[49:42]i mean he was approaching right when he wasn't in the vicinity

[49:48]of of the city of new york at that time he was

[49:53]an enemy commander he intercepted imam al-hussein al-islam and blocked his way

[49:57]and prevented him from reaching the city of kukufa yet when imam

[50:01]al-qasimesh found out that all his swordsmen and their horses were really

[50:09]thirsty imam and hussain and salam ordered his companions to to i

[50:16]mean to distribute the uh the amounts of water they had collected

[50:21]for themselves among the enemy forces among not only the enemy forces

[50:25]but i mean to rescue not only the enemy forces but also

[50:30]the horses from set and death what does it show it shows

[50:33]that an infallible imam wants to take everybody's hand to guide him

[50:37]or her to felicity even if this person at the moment may

[50:42]be an enemy of an infallible imam but at least the least

[50:45]condition is that as a human being he has the right to

[50:51]be directed to felicity and the infallible imam i mean practices it

[50:55]and tries to direct the person to felicity but it's i mean

[51:00]it depends on the person's capacity and i mean it depends on

[51:06]the recipient's capacity whether he or she is capable enough of only

[51:11]appreciating this kind of uh extra kindness or extra help and to

[51:15]receive this and to receive and restore this kind of grace or

[51:20]not this is because i mean all those people who had gathered

[51:24]over there on the day of ashura to kill imam and hussein

[51:26]among them some people joined imam and single islam among the enemy

[51:30]forces some of them joined imam al-husseins and why because they even

[51:35]at the last moment of their lives they appreciate it and they

[51:38]came to the point to appreciate the meaning of felicity and that

[51:42]they knew well that the infallible imam was intended to take all

[51:45]people to paradise but we find that the great majority of those

[51:51]people even some people who used to live with imam al-hussein and

[51:55]salaam for for several years okay they ignored and they bypassed this

[51:59]opportunity and they themselves made their ways it was the hell fire

[52:03]both in this world and in the world here after hassan thank

[52:09]you so much uh doctor allah bless you are you joined us

[52:13]all the way from uh today and you enlightened us on a

[52:18]very important topic and of course you answered the questions very beautifully

[52:20]too uh so thank you so much for joining us insha'allah for

[52:24]those who have uh who are watching this later and you have

[52:27]questions you can still send in those questions inshallah the next time

[52:32]we have our day guest here i will be able to ask

[52:34]him uh for those questions just to find a reminder before we

[52:38]wrap up the webinar that this is a recurring webinar inshallah every

[52:40]thursday at 6 00 pm uk time uh until march of this

[52:45]year or even more more than that inshallah uh so this has

[52:47]been our dear guest here uh from iran dr mohammed rezab rouhani

[52:52]and me the moderator thank you so much for joining dear viewers

[52:59]thank you you're welcome

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