Haj Hassanain Rajabali - February 3rd, 2017

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[0:00]That's what life is about and that we should find a silver

[0:06]lining in all the trials and tribulations that we have to undergo.

[0:10]And of course, nothing is more qualified in a human being than

[0:17]to be patient.

[0:28]give the good news to the patient ones who we've tested and

[0:33]they say that we are from Allah and we return to Allah

[0:36]for Allah is the ultimate origin of all good.

[0:40]He is the absolute good and all good originates from him and

[0:48]everything returns to him.

[0:49]So holistically while this world is filled with injustice and evilness and

[0:53]rejection of good we find that the holistic mechanism of God's system

[0:58]is all from good and will return to good and I think

[1:04]that we should never forget regardless of where we are but regardless

[1:07]of the losses that we have to endure regardless of the hopelessness

[1:14]or helplessness we may feel we must never lose hope.

[1:21][Music] Allah is oft forgiving.

[1:28]Don't lose hope.

[1:28]Never lose hope.

[1:30]You were not created in vain.

[1:32]You know the believer, the deeply rooted individual who thinks as the

[1:37]Quran explains They think the deeply rooted individuals think constantly.

[1:50]Why am I here?

[1:52]Why am I aging?

[1:54]Why is that everything I acquire so temporal?

[1:58]My children, my wealth, my health, everything is temporary.

[2:04]There's no way we can secure it.

[2:06]There's nothing you and I can do to secure anything in this

[2:09]world except our good deeds.

[2:12]You know Quran says Allahh says your wealth and your family are

[2:27]the beauty of this world.

[2:28]They're beautiful.

[2:30]They're essential.

[2:30]They're beautiful.

[2:35]But they're earthly.

[2:38]They're temporary.

[2:38]on the heart.

[2:40]What remains are your good deeds.

[2:43]So it's a blessing to have this auspicious occasion where we are

[2:48]celebrating the birth of one of the greatest human beings that walked

[2:55]this earth.

[2:55]And she was a woman, an intrepid woman, a woman filled with

[3:01]wisdom, strength, a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister.

[3:08]She represented every aspect of womanhood and she reached the apex of

[3:23]role models as a woman who became one of those skyions of

[3:29]justice and strength.

[3:30]A woman who was indomitable, who refused to bow to the injustices

[3:36]of the world.

[3:36]vocal, patient, wise, none other than of course Samu [Applause] and in

[3:53]remembering her and today's title as you know we chose it as

[3:58]the Muslim identity given the fact that the geopolitics of the world

[4:04]today where Islamophobes are becoming more bold old and they're being empowered.

[4:10]People like Bannon who was a nobody yesterday, just a loudmouth running

[4:14]a small little website and a talk show host suddenly becomes the

[4:18]most powerful man where the president doesn't make a move without listening

[4:21]to what he has to say and he's sitting in the oval

[4:26]office dictating the outcome of the foreign policy as well as domestic

[4:29]policy.

[4:30]And it's an interesting reality that we have to wake up to

[4:36]that one does not have to go through those channels to reach

[4:38]power.

[4:39]One simply has to be vocal enough and to be recognized by

[4:47]an individual who has power to empower and to enable which may

[4:52]cause massive destruction.

[4:53]You know um I mean history is very obam for example interesting

[5:04]person was condemned by the prophet you know he was condemned by

[5:08]the holy prophet he and his father were exiled were actually told

[5:13]to leave the christings of the Muslim world and told to get

[5:19]out because they were known to be troublemakers.

[5:22]So bin hakam was known to be a troublemaker.

[5:26]He was a nobody but he was related to the third shifman

[5:30]bin.

[5:31]So man brings him in as an adviser.

[5:35]Think about this you know and nobody suddenly becomes somebody who becomes

[5:43]a khalifa.

[5:43]Yeah just think about it.

[5:47]I mean if you just do the analysis of an individual who

[5:50]actually caused the destruction of he was the architect behind man getting

[5:56]killed.

[5:57]Okay.

[5:58]Marbin Hakam was the architect behind the destruction of bin A and

[6:03]he was the architect partially in Kabal and he's the one who

[6:09]killed the son of Yazid because son of Yazid as you know

[6:12]Muawi II was a lover of B and he refused to take

[6:18]the position of Khalifa because he considered it illegitimate.

[6:22]Soak poisons him and he becomes the khalifa.

[6:28]Let's take a lesson from history that nobody pe people can become

[6:34]somebody very powerful like and cause massive destructions in society and it

[6:41]can be so devastating that we will we will be scratching our

[6:43]heads in the future saying how did this happen?

[6:46]How did we get struck with such a big baseball bat and

[6:50]we didn't see it coming?

[6:51]It's because we're not diligent.

[6:54]We are lethargic community.

[6:57]We're busy in petty politics.

[7:00]We're busy in faultf finding and gossiping.

[7:07]And the prudent enemies are are wise enough to figure out our

[7:11]weak spots and then they attack us.

[7:13]And so in commemorate in celebration of Zam a woman who stood

[7:22]firm who teaches us how to identify ourselves as Muslims, how to

[7:27]live as proactive individuals should not be taken in vain.

[7:32]The event of Kbalai is not a historical event like Disney that

[7:35]reenacts it every year.

[7:38][Music] No, their actions in Kabala.

[7:44]Imm Hussein Alisam and his family and his companions are the template

[7:51]but can you get another microphone please?

[7:55]This guy is going to die.

[8:05]So Unfortunately, we as Muslims, particularly we followers of B and I

[8:16]I address the whole Muslim audience.

[8:32]You want the Okay, this is Can you increase the volume of

[8:57]this, please?

[9:00]Thank you.

[9:05]Without feedback.

[9:05]Thank you.

[9:07]So the family of B and as we know is a template

[9:13]in my opinion.

[9:12]You know I by Allah's grace I travel a lot.

[9:16]I meet all kinds of people around the world.

[9:19]I'm blessed to to discuss and have discussions with some very learned

[9:24]scholars of different religions.

[9:27]And I'm of the belief clearly now with my travels and my

[9:34]exposure to the world that Allah is incredibly merciful and that he

[9:40]has created a world of people who are holistically good and every

[9:46]religion, every temple I walk into, every church I walk into, I

[9:49]see good people.

[9:51]The intent is the same.

[9:52]I know I reflect this and what is my audience when I

[9:56]speak to my audience?

[9:56]What kind of people do I address?

[9:59]What kind of people am I seeing in the other parts of

[10:00]the world?

[10:01]And I see similarity.

[10:03]We're very similar.

[10:04]We're very similar.

[10:07]And we have been enjoying as a human race to love and

[10:11]to cause unity within ourselves and to see the commonalities within ourselves

[10:17]in order to represent Allah properly.

[10:19]I find that the basic principle of divisiveness where we find faults

[10:29]in each other and we we hate each other and we train

[10:31]each other to hate the other it leads to negative aura which

[10:35]leads to destruction.

[10:37]It's a very simple formula.

[10:39]It's in fact it sounds mind-numbingly simple but it is the driving

[10:44]force of the problems in the world and I think if we

[10:50]don't address it properly we will be party to that destruction within

[10:54]our communities when you listen to people talk we we talk a

[10:58]lot of hate in between our sentences we somehow feel that it's

[11:04]us versus them and if I do not protect my boundaries and

[11:06]my territory then I'm really I I don't have an identity.

[11:10]I have an identity crisis.

[11:12]And the only way to maintain my identity is to also condemn

[11:17]the other and to promote myself.

[11:19]And I would argue that identity is extremely important and that it

[11:24]should be promoted but not at the cost of condemnation of the

[11:30]other.

[11:31]Rather, the proper identity should be to promote the holistic identity of

[11:37]humanity with minimal condemnation.

[11:39]But we can't do it.

[11:42]And the reason we cannot do that is because for us to

[11:44]reduce the level of condemnation, our wisdom and knowledge base has to

[11:49]increase because the unknown is something we fear the most.

[11:55]And when we don't know something, we don't like it.

[12:00]And when we don't like it, we condemn it.

[12:02]Even though it may be good for us, but because we don't

[12:07]know it, then we don't like it.

[12:08]And when we don't like it, we condemn it.

[12:12]And when we condemn it knowingly or unknowingly, what we end up

[12:15]doing is we end up causing more destruction than construction.

[12:17]And that's the problem of society.

[12:19]If you go to the Christian Zionist groups, the ultrarightwing xenophobe, Islamophobes,

[12:25]you go to other schools of thought within our Muslim community that

[12:29]are condemning within our school, we're condemning other schools of thought.

[12:34]If you look at all of us, we we don't know the

[12:35]other side.

[12:36]And when we asked them, hey, do you know that they believe

[12:40]it now?

[12:38]No, no, they're no good.

[12:41]I've had people come to my door, knock on the door, you

[12:42]know, from other religions and say, you know, we want you to

[12:45]read our book.

[12:45]I said, great, I'll read your book.

[12:47]How about you read mine?

[12:48]No, no, no, no, no.

[12:52]Not good.

[12:52]We've been told, don't read this book.

[12:53]Very bad.

[12:54]I said, you've come to change me, but you don't want to

[12:57]read mine.

[12:58]You know, you want to be a doctor.

[12:59]You want to cure me?

[12:59]I think you should know my disease first, don't you think?

[13:02]Before you can cure me.

[13:03]I mean, that's what doctors study, right?

[13:04]They don't study, they don't just study healthy bodies, they study unhealthy

[13:08]bodies.

[13:08]So I'm unhealthy to you.

[13:09]Come study me.

[13:11]No, no, no.

[13:10]We can't do that.

[13:12]See that ignorance is the most dangerous thing.

[13:15]And the prophet is said the most destructive thing in the world

[13:19]is ignorance.

[13:20]You know that had they say if you think education is expensive,

[13:25]try ignorance.

[13:25]It's extremely destructive and expensive.

[13:28]And we as a society when we are busy within the scale

[13:33]of time indulging in mundane matters within the scale of time that's

[13:38]eating away finite time of our lives we end up having very

[13:40]little to have accomplished within the scale of time that God has

[13:46]given us because we're busy doing something else.

[13:47]It's like allocation of time.

[13:49]It's like when you're driving the car, you shouldn't be texting, right?

[13:53]Because the human mind can only allocate so much resource to something

[13:56]and then it has to allocate the rest of the resource somewhere

[14:00]else which means that you have less attention somewhere else which is

[14:02]what causes accidents on the road.

[14:07]Well, the same principle is about life that if I constantly allocate

[14:11]myself with mundane issues and running, you know, with the hype of

[14:17]the world that's created within the facade of the entertainment world, then

[14:21]I have no time to indulge in knowledge and and exposure and

[14:25]reflection and cogitation and meditation.

[14:27]I don't have that time.

[14:31]And when I don't have that time, then my net worth upon

[14:33]my death is minimal.

[14:36]And God forbid within that process I would have been very destructive

[14:40]because my ignorance would have led me to condemn the other.

[14:43]So I believe the Islamic identity that you and I need to

[14:48]have requires parameters with which for us to follow.

[14:49]And if we do not follow that then we will not identify

[14:54]ourselves properly as Muslims.

[14:55]It's like you want to be a doctor you have an identity.

[14:59]You want to call yourself an MD doctor something.

[15:01]There's a protocol.

[15:03]You're going to learn the basic facts of what you're going to

[15:06]promote yourself as when you carry the license.

[15:08]If you're going to train yourself to be a pharmacist, you better

[15:11]know the principles of pharmacy within the the the spectrum of medicine

[15:15]and and and chemicals, etc., etc.

[15:18]And if you don't have that capacity, then do not identify yourself

[15:22]as somebody who is authorized to fill a prescription.

[15:27]Don't you agree with that?

[15:28]Isn't that wonderful that thank God there are institutions that regulate that?

[15:33]Isn't that wonderful that you can't just step up to the plane

[15:38]and say I want to be a doctor today or I want

[15:40]to be a pharmacist tomorrow.

[15:41]You can't do that.

[15:41]You have to go through protocols.

[15:43]Unfortunately, within the reality of Islam, as much as there are protocols

[15:47]which are self delegated, self-relegated, we do not conform to that because

[15:53]we don't think it's essential.

[15:54]We feel that taking a shortcut around this deal, hopefully God will

[15:58]be pleased with me on judgment day because I'm so busy with

[16:03]the mundane, but then I know the holistic image of God being

[16:05]so merciful and forgiving and inshallah on judgment day, you know, he'll

[16:09]turn a blind eye and send me to earth.

[16:12]It doesn't work that way.

[16:15]No human being ever dares to say, "Yeah, that's how it works."

[16:17]You know, the law of probability, you know, enough permutations, hopefully you'll

[16:21]get it.

[16:21]No, it doesn't work that way.

[16:25]just doesn't work that way.

[16:25]So, we all agree that we have a time scale.

[16:28]And I'll give you a simple other example.

[16:30]Those of us who become parents, like I'm a parent, those of

[16:36]us who are parents, when a child is born, you have to

[16:39]chart out a calendar.

[16:41]There's just no way to to maintain the trajectory of this child

[16:47]outside of calendar.

[16:49]You need to know dates.

[16:50]When my child is this day, when they're at this age, when

[16:54]they start to battle, when they start to crawl, when they start

[16:56]to walk, when they start to run, when they go to school,

[16:58]when they're going to graduate, you know, early graduation, late graduation, what

[17:04]university going to it's time scale, you know, a child who's 16,

[17:08]17, they're already planning the university life.

[17:10]It's just no other way.

[17:11]Now, you could be 20, 30 and plan university life, but the

[17:16]general movement of life is within those parameters and it's expected.

[17:19]And by the time you're in your 30s, you better be set

[17:21]in in your pathway of your career.

[17:24]And in your 50s, you're starting to talk about retirement.

[17:28]And guess what?

[17:30]You lose your job in your late 50s.

[17:33]It's very difficult to get hired because companies see you as a

[17:35]liability because you have a lot of experience, but you're expensive and

[17:38]you're a liability because you're going to retire soon.

[17:42]Don't you agree?

[17:42]So, it's harder to get a job.

[17:45]So, you better be established by your 50s and 60s, otherwise you're

[17:48]going to have a problem.

[17:49]Unless you're self-employed and you're quite wealthy and you know enterprising otherwise

[17:56]it's difficult.

[17:55]Why is this set?

[17:58]Why does the human race sets such parameters?

[18:01]Allah says by time man is at a loss.

[18:11]You know this is an ayah that's negative in its first verse.

[18:16]Any verse in the Quran that starts with a negation followed by

[18:19]exception is an important verse to remember because it leaves no arguments

[18:24]because it cancels all possibilities and says this is the only possibility.

[18:30]When you say it's not except this means you've canceled everything except

[18:36]what's within the exception.

[18:36]When there's an except those who believe here the belief system is

[18:47]in the realization of the good of existence in the realization that

[18:52]somebody has created me in the realization that I have a goal

[18:58]in the realization that I wasn't created in vain in the realization

[19:02]that I have an objective in life and I need to fulfill

[19:05]objective and that there's a time scale by which I need to

[19:10]fulfill it and if I did not do it within this range

[19:14]of time I may be one among the I may be one

[19:18]of those who is a loser because I will lose out within

[19:19]the scale of time and time is a vector that's one direction

[19:25]you can't take it back once it's happened it's sealed in the

[19:28]annals of history and you and I can do nothing about it

[19:32]except change it in the future hopefully to mitigate it if it

[19:35]was not true but otherwise there's nothing you and I can do

[19:39]think about it there's no such thing as negative time and Allah

[19:45]has set this pathway in motion at birth without our considerations Has

[20:07]man not considered they were not worthy of being mentioned at the

[20:12]time?

[20:10]But we created them.

[20:13]Allah says and we made them out of a clock and we

[20:17]created them to test them and we gave them faculties of hearing

[20:20]and sight so that they're able to fulfill their objectives and we

[20:24]guided them to the path whether they're grateful or ungrateful.

[20:27]This is a blessing of God.

[20:29]So Allah says within the spectrum of time Allah says I decide

[20:32]when I place you within this scale of history and you will

[20:36]come as a bleep on the radar and you will disappear.

[20:40]And if you are a great person you may remain on the

[20:42]radar longer but at the end of the day when the day

[20:46]of judgment comes all of this will be rolled up like a

[20:50]scroll and you will be brought in front of your Lord to

[20:51]be questioned.

[20:53]What did you do within this mercy that God has given you?

[20:59]On that day you will be asked what did you do with

[21:04]this gift?

[21:03]This scale of time Allah starts with the negation.

[21:07]By time mankind is at a loss in not Muslim means humanity

[21:15]the intelligent sentient being is at a loss and Allah has conditions.

[21:25]He says, "Except those who believe." There's a there's a condition.

[21:29]You can't just believe and say, "I believe.

[21:32]I'm a Muslim.

[21:34]I have a big title on my forehead.

[21:38]Muslim, Shia, Sunnah." Titles to Allah mean nothing.

[21:41]In fact, it's a burden.

[21:45]It's a liability if we do not live by its standards.

[21:48]It's like claiming to be a doctor, but you're not.

[21:50]There's a liability there.

[21:52]You may get sued.

[21:53]You may go to jail for claiming to be something you're not.

[21:58]Humanity has same what we call civil code, civil rules are saying

[22:07]that you pretend to be something you're not, then there's a liability

[22:10]there.

[22:11]And when you promote what you believe in, then it's an asset.

[22:16]It's just a simple law of life.

[22:19]So Allah is [Music] saying do good deeds.

[22:28]By the way here you might say 7 and a half billion

[22:31]people we're a minority that believes in Allah we're a minority.

[22:37]So majority is going to go to hell.

[22:40]As I mentioned before in my lecture can you reduce the volume

[22:46]please as of Thank you.

[22:47]Oh, you know we might think Islam means go to have a

[22:58]long beard you know maybe do of the entire Quran you know

[23:02]have the depth which is talks to you this is no it's

[23:06]not I'm being I'm exaggerating here but some of us do think

[23:09]that way you know when you're religious you have to be very

[23:13]pious you have to go to the Himalayas somehow and find your

[23:16]soul someplace you soulsearching.

[23:17]You don't need to soul search on the Himalayas.

[23:21]Trust me, what's in us is bigger than the universe.

[23:24]Forget the Himalayas.

[23:26]It's in here.

[23:31]It's in here.

[23:34]My universe is greater than the universe.

[23:38]I promise you.

[23:37]When you and I see the potential of our own existence, subhan

[23:43]Allah.

[23:44]What is peripheral to us in terms of the outward universe this

[23:48]not within but without is much smaller than what's in here much

[23:53]smaller but we don't find it because we're busy indulging in mundane

[23:59]and we have ignored that which should be focused on and I'm

[24:03]sending a very clear message to myself and to all of us

[24:07]that our identity as Muslims particularly Clearly when we say Muslims not

[24:14]ones who just take a title of Muslims to me a Muslim

[24:20]by definition is one who understands Allah and knows Allah correctly.

[24:28]Sadly many Muslims don't know Allah.

[24:29]Allah is a name.

[24:32]He's a being out there somewhere.

[24:33]I've been told a lot of times about Allah and I do

[24:38]pray to him but I don't know him.

[24:40]And when and if I do know him, it's usually I know

[24:44]him through fear because he's so mighty he's going to throw me

[24:48]in hell and he's going to punish me or I do love

[24:49]him so much that I abuse him by ignoring him.

[24:54]The Allah I'm talking about is the essence of the ultimate good.

[25:00]You and I have that capacity to understand perfection that when we

[25:06]look at something beautiful, our mind somehow can take it to higher

[25:09]scale and say, you know what, this is incredibly beautiful.

[25:11]How do you know it's beautiful?

[25:14]Well, I'm comparing it.

[25:14]I said, you have the capacity to compare that which is not

[25:17]so beautiful to that which is more beautiful.

[25:18]Said yes.

[25:19]I said then you can also compare it to something intensely more

[25:22]beautiful.

[25:23]Right?

[25:24]I can imagine.

[25:26]I can fantasize intense beauty.

[25:27]And of course we have limitations to our fantasies until we experience

[25:30]it.

[25:31]Then we can take it to higher scales which is inshallah what

[25:33]will happen on judgment day after the day of judgment which is

[25:35]paradise.

[25:36]But nonetheless we have the capacity to take things mentally spiritually within

[25:41]our souls to perfection.

[25:43]And sometimes we're overwhelmed by it and we can't handle it because

[25:46]it's just too good.

[25:48]And then we come down to reality is it's impossible.

[25:50]That perfection is impossible.

[25:55]Well, guess what?

[25:55]That exercise the ability with which to understand that existence existential nature

[26:01]of perfection is sufficient evidence for us that you and I should

[26:05]understand Allah through that says Allah is before even before was before

[26:14]and he's after even after was after and he is not good

[26:20]he's beyond good is a relative term that's That's why Allah is

[26:24]absolute but our minds can't capture that and it's okay if we

[26:26]can't capture that.

[26:28]Allah doesn't expect us to capture it, but he expects us to

[26:30]make effort to try to capture it.

[26:35]And that effort should not be an exercise in futility, but it

[26:38]should be an exercise with which to say, "Okay, God, I know

[26:40]you're great.

[26:41]I know you're perfect.

[26:43]I know you're beyond perfect.

[26:44]I know you're intensely good.

[26:47]Thank you.

[26:49]Leave me alone." No.

[26:51]Is to say, "You are intensely beautiful.

[26:54]You made me.

[26:56]I am part of that beauty.

[26:58]How do I connect with you again?

[27:00]And I see nothing but good in you.

[27:04]When it starts to resonate within the fabric of our soul, hopefully

[27:09]we will start to live it.

[27:12]This is what it means.

[27:14]Not where you say I went to Hajj seven times.

[27:20]Mashallah.

[27:22]Nice.

[27:23]Haj is great.

[27:27]Do it more.

[27:25]went to Zara over 14 months.

[27:29]I kissed every sarcophagus, every I was there.

[27:34]I touched it with my bare hand.

[27:36]Mashallah.

[27:35]More power to you.

[27:38]Do it again because it's a baraka.

[27:39]Going to visit B, going to visit the graves, going to Hajj.

[27:43]These are great blessings.

[27:47]But sadly, it's surface.

[27:47]It's not reflective.

[27:50]It doesn't have the depth.

[27:51]You know, we went to do it because it's the ritual.

[27:52]I'm supposed to do it like a mechanical robotic thing.

[27:55]You know, there was a book of instructions.

[27:57]I need to do A and I need to do B and

[27:59]then I need to do this and I need to make sure

[28:01]everything's within the protocols otherwise God won't accept my deed and then

[28:05]when I come back I feel so purified and holified and then

[28:11]we go on our merry ways and we're the same as his

[28:16]companions did you go to Haj said yes he said did you

[28:21]change were you capable of seeing life differently did you see the

[28:25]world from a different perspective and the companion said No, the imam

[28:28]says go back there because you haven't figured it out yet.

[28:31]Hajj is not the kind of a ritual simply for us to

[28:34]go and put a seal of approval on our passports.

[28:35]I wish to say I'm a Haj.

[28:37]That's not the impetus of life.

[28:41]In fact, then I would be sitting on the sidelines and say,

[28:43]"Listen, why do I need to go and circumambulate the cabba seven

[28:45]times?

[28:46]Every time I would go around the cabba, I asked Allah, why

[28:51]am I doing this?

[28:50]Oh Allah, I'm saying, "Okay, I I I acknowledge you, my Lord.

[28:56]I see your house here.

[29:00]Subhan Allah.

[28:59]It's brilliant.

[29:01]It's historical.

[29:00]It's the oldest building on [Applause] earth." God said the best house,

[29:14][Music] first it's a blessing.

[29:18]So I'm asking myself, okay, this house is a blessing, but why

[29:21]am I here?

[29:23]Why does my left shoulder have to face this?

[29:25]And why do I have to do it seven times?

[29:27]And then after I've done the seven times, I need to do

[29:29]the two cycles of prayer.

[29:32]What is this?

[29:30]What's all this for?

[29:33]Why is why is like I'm a I'm a I'm a robot.

[29:37]Do it.

[29:38]And if you do it, it's good.

[29:38]I started to think.

[29:39]I started to cry.

[29:40]I said, "Wait a minute.

[29:40]My Lord, you didn't take me away from America to come here

[29:46]on this long journey and told me to dawn a special dress

[29:50]with special conditions only for me to write it in within my

[29:55]annals of history that I went to Haj so that I'm blessed

[29:59]on judgment day that I have, you know, check mark one item

[30:01]on the list of to-dos.

[30:05]Sadly, we're like that.

[30:08]I've done it.

[30:09]I'm pure.

[30:10]I'm saved.

[30:12]But then I think, okay, you know, there's roughly two billion Muslims.

[30:16]If you do the math, roughly three billion, three million people, 3

[30:21]million people come to Hajj every year.

[30:23]Roughly, you can't enter more.

[30:24]3 million is a lot.

[30:27]4 million.

[30:27]Even then there are rules and regulations.

[30:29]You have gateways to come through, you know, you can't just enter

[30:32]Makkah.

[30:33]You know that.

[30:34]You can't just like Z people say no 40 million people went

[30:37]to zah.

[30:38]But it's a different rule when you go to Zara from Hajj.

[30:43]Hajj when you're a Muim there's a different rule.

[30:44]You you can't just walk in and go kiss the Cabba and

[30:48]go around the Cabba.

[30:50]You can't do that.

[30:50]There are rules and regulations with which you need to follow.

[30:52]So it's much more difficult to enter the Cabba.

[30:57]And now you've added this extra burden of these creatures who are

[31:02]running the show there.

[31:09]you know what we call um brown roers of the west who

[31:12]have sold their souls to the west they control the cabba now

[31:17]you got to deal with that problem you can't even practice your

[31:21]faithfully they're monitoring you just scared you terrified of right so it's

[31:26]not easy and when we go there I say okay that's 2

[31:32]million 3 million there's two billion of us in in a 100

[31:35]years we can't cover this a thousand years you can't get it

[31:38]so there's a majority of the Muslim population that will not go

[31:44]to Haj what happens to them you all go to hell God's

[31:46]going to punish them of course not because we know the conditions

[31:49]right in Haj you need to have conditions but so then they're

[31:57]denied that proximity to God so I have wealth I'm endowed I'm

[32:02]blessed is it fair.

[32:03]There's a poor person who is begging every single day who will

[32:09]never see the precincts of the Cabba.

[32:12]Is it fair?

[32:10]So I asked my soul, is it fair that I am so

[32:15]blessed to live in a five-star hotel, threestar hotel, whatever.

[32:18]I can come in a bus, air conditioned, and I can do

[32:22]what I want and get back on a plane and fly away.

[32:25]I'm so blessed.

[32:27]So, will I stand higher on a scale on the day of

[32:32]judgment because I have all these amenities that God has afforded me

[32:36]versus that majority of the population that doesn't have it.

[32:45]Can you can you give me another microphone?

[32:55]Sorry.

[33:00]Say, can you just change the battery?

[33:02]It's very simple.

[33:12][Music] [Applause] I'm going to Can you hear me all of you?

[33:30]Yes.

[33:31]Yes.

[33:31]I'm just going to continue speaking in the microphone.

[33:34]Anyway, my point I'm saying is that Allah subhana ta in has

[33:40]warned us that time is against us and what's under trial is

[33:45]not our accomplishments of and our academics.

[33:48]These are all essential.

[33:49]Don't get me wrong.

[33:52]They're very important.

[33:52]Very important.

[33:53]But I urge us all that when we do indulge, even in

[33:57]prayer, even in Hajj, even in Zarat, let's look inside us and

[34:04]say, "Who am I?

[34:04]Who am I?

[34:06]And what have I what am I doing here?

[34:08]Why am I here?" And Allah will speak to us within our

[34:13]will say your objective no matter how accomplished you are in the

[34:17]world is to be conscious of God's ultimate goodness and to put

[34:22]it in you meaning stop being evil stop negating things stop hating

[34:30]start loving start seeing the fabric of God's creation as a mercy

[34:37]see humanity as a blessing Start living by that ethos and become

[34:43]a proponent of justice and equity in the world and stop backbiting

[34:48]and faultf finding and stop being jealous and stop looking down on

[34:52]others and stop being envious of those who are better than us

[34:55]and say I am within this scale of projections of you know

[35:01]productivity and growth and my approach to my Lord and then on

[35:04]judgment day when I do stand in front of him hopefully I'll

[35:08]be The foremost of the promise, who are they?

[35:14]They consistently thought of nothing but good.

[35:19]This message is very clear.

[35:22]It's not a complicated message.

[35:23]Even a young child like him looking at me understands this.

[35:25]These young boys looking at me.

[35:27]Same thing.

[35:29]Sister saying simple message.

[35:30]You're going to go home and say from now onwards I refuse

[35:34]to be a liar.

[35:34]I refuse to be manipulative.

[35:38]I refuse to be arrogant.

[35:39]I refuse to to cover my faults.

[35:41]I want it exposed.

[35:44]I want to improve.

[35:44]I want to become better.

[35:46]When you have the one who's successful in prayer, the one who

[35:57]approaches God with sincerity, that is what brings real identity.

[36:01]Then when you start to resonate, you become a beacon of light

[36:05]for humanity.

[36:06]And it doesn't matter what religion you belong to.

[36:10]The world will recognize you.

[36:11]The minute you walk into any area, people will recognize you as

[36:16]a different person.

[36:16]Just your resonance will be different.

[36:18]You don't have to tell people, "Excuse me, you know, I'm very

[36:20]pious." You don't have to say anything, nothing.

[36:24]Just you, the way you dress, the way you walk, the way

[36:30]you talk speaks louder than words.

[36:31]So Allah says, Except those who believe and do good.

[36:36]We think do believe means this and this that those are all

[36:39]subcomponents of life.

[36:39]Those are elements that help us towards Allah.

[36:45]The here is these prayers.

[36:49]For example, prayer keeps you away from evil and wrong.

[36:57]It helps you hijab.

[37:02]Our modesty and decency, our kind tongue, kind speech and forgiveness is

[37:07]better than charity followed by injury.

[37:09]God is saying these are the protocols when you recognize my ultimate

[37:14]good.

[37:15]If you know that I am ultimately good, that even if I

[37:17]take your entire family and they're annihilated at the hands of the

[37:20]enemies of God, God says, "Don't lose hope in me." People like

[37:26]Yaser witnessed his mother being stabbed with a spear and witnessed his

[37:30]father being stabbed with a spear.

[37:32]The first martyrs in Islam.

[37:32]Amma was a youth who became a believer in his 30s with

[37:38]the holy prophet.

[37:37]When he accepted Islam, Shayan was whispering in his ears, look you

[37:42]accepted this religion and you lost your parents.

[37:46]Not in that reg normal death, but in a treacherous death where

[37:51]they were taken in the desert and tied on the floor and

[37:54]stabbed and killed and he witnessed it.

[37:57]Which child can dare to witness the extinction of their parents on

[38:02]this earth?

[38:03]It's not normal.

[38:06]You can't go to sleep at night.

[38:08]You must live with a nightmare.

[38:10]Yet Amar in his old age old very old in his 90s

[38:15]they say you know 60 years later 50 years later he was

[38:18]in Raqqa Raka today the base of Dish and ISIS what an

[38:22]irony I was in Raqqa many years back you know where am

[38:25]the battle of Saf took place there and Amma was doing at

[38:30]the age in the '9s and I remember this message it struck

[38:33]me so deep I it doesn't leave me I was with my

[38:39]mother we visited the grave of it was just being built you

[38:41]know the sarcophagus and the was being built it was in raqa

[38:47]and I was on his grave you know doing fath for him

[38:52]and just admiring him and the footprints of our blessed Imam was

[38:56]here he buried him and you know it was just this time

[39:00]stops for that moment and you look around and say I can

[39:04]see the footprints of my imam I can see the footprints of

[39:06]this great mr and When I see me here, I said, "What

[39:12]an honor.

[39:10]I've traveled from America to Damash and driven almost 12 hours to

[39:18]get here." And here I am.

[39:19]I'm blessed and I walk this Euphrates.

[39:21]The footprints of our imams were immar talking to me.

[39:34]Says, "See me, I witnessed my mother's death.

[39:38]I witnessed my father's death.

[39:40]I was tested thoroughly.

[39:40]I reached a very old age.

[39:45]I came to Raqqa in this region to teach these people how

[39:48]to pray in Syria.

[39:52]And he sees the army of Imam Ali coming and he says

[39:55]that's my master.

[39:55]And he spills the water of the wudoo.

[39:57]He says I will go praying with my master.

[39:59]And he goes up there and he and imagine you know when

[40:04]you're 50 60 it's hard to carry a sword 90 carry a

[40:09]sword armor sit on a horse you know how how much dexterity

[40:13]you need to have to do that here's a man with resolution

[40:17]and vision and he's teaching me he says you are living in

[40:20]comfort I'm thinking in my cell in my soul you came in

[40:26]a car it's air condition you drove here I rode horses I

[40:29]rode camels.

[40:33]I walked and I maintained the identity of Islam and I rose

[40:37]and I never lost my faith despite all these trials and tribulations

[40:41]and I watched it with my eyes the injustices of the world

[40:46]that my messenger left that by the time he's leaving the injustices

[40:49]have started to be so prevalent such that mayhem and chaos is

[40:53]going to rain all the way to Kbar.

[40:55]But I haven't lost my faith.

[40:59]I am this identity that I'm going to go and become martyr

[41:02]now is the ultimate resolution on this earth.

[41:06]These people are now maybe I'll never reach that.

[41:09]I cried.

[41:08]I said I want to be in your footstep.

[41:10]Oh, I want to be in your footstep because you're a companion.

[41:14]But the companion says to me, start looking at the depth of

[41:19]God's mercy because you will not have that vision to maintain a

[41:22]steady pathway towards God unless you understand the mission of life.

[41:26]Otherwise, you will be derailed.

[41:27]Shayan will fool you.

[41:29]He will throw money at you.

[41:30]He will throw power at you.

[41:31]He will give you publicity.

[41:32]He'll give you everything and he will fool you and then you

[41:38]will lose.

[41:39]The way Shaitan lost.

[41:40]Shaitan was raised to high status until he lost it because he

[41:43]became arrogant thinking, "Oh, I'm some superstar." That's a problem.

[41:49]So our identity, brothers and sisters, is to be firm today in

[41:54]light of what's happening.

[41:54]Allah is telling us in the Quran [Music] Here the root word

[42:04]is to bequeath to leave behind to leave a legacy.

[42:11]You know when you die you leave a will.

[42:15]It's very powerful.

[42:17]Whenever a attorney or a judge reads a will is something special

[42:21]because the dead is talking.

[42:25]It's very important.

[42:26]Pay attention.

[42:26]Whenever you listen to a will, pay attention.

[42:29]Wow.

[42:30]This is I hereby this person is no longer here.

[42:35]But they're talking.

[42:36]They've left a legacy behind.

[42:39]It's wonderful.

[42:43]Quran says, truth, justice.

[42:45]Live by those standards.

[42:47]No money should be raining.

[42:49]No power, no publicity.

[42:54]Don't ever sell your soul tol or to the satanic what is

[43:02]in it pure sense teach long-term vision to our generations don't talk

[43:07]about just be patient it's okay no no talk to them about

[43:12]the future you know many of our youth and wives come to

[43:14]me said but how do I be good how can I be

[43:17]good I said think of tomorrow yesterday came to me she said

[43:21]you Oh, what's wrong if I high-five a boy?

[43:24]You know, he's a friend of mine.

[43:26]Just a boy, you know, boy, just a friend, you know, today

[43:30]boyfriend, you know what's wrong with you?

[43:36]So, I said to her, I said, "How about when you have

[43:38]your child tomorrow, your daughter is asking her and then this boy

[43:44]you're high-fiving could be the perpetrator that caused to take your shame

[43:49]away from you.

[43:48]Is that okay?" And by the way for you once he does

[43:52]you can't undo it.

[43:54]So I ask you which is better prevention or cure.

[43:56]She looked at me she said prevention.

[43:58]I said this is Islam.

[44:02]All these rules are not to be prohibited and to protect us

[44:05]because prevention is better than cure.

[44:06]So take it within that grain of salt.

[44:08]She said I understand what you mean by that.

[44:11]I said the problem we have is our next generation is not

[44:13]taught to think of the future.

[44:15]When you don't think of the future you think of today.

[44:19]You lose patience.

[44:19]Children who don't think of the future lose patience.

[44:23]And the best future is the future to meet Allah.

[44:26]Because the minute you see that real future, everything else is just

[44:33]passing over the cloud.

[44:33]You act in it, you're active, but you're patient.

[44:36]This is what Quran said.

[44:40]Allah says just be be patient, be patient.

[44:43]No, you're proactive and you are constantly moving, but you're patient by

[44:49]holding your tongue knowing that the law of God is such that

[44:52]good will come back.

[44:54]Good may be taken away from us today.

[44:57]Trump is pontificated in his throne on his throne.

[44:58]Let him bush came.

[45:02]He pontificated.

[45:03]He thought he was a genius and he thought God spoke to

[45:08]him and Allah probably sent him to Iraq and got rid of

[45:10]Saddam.

[45:11]Alhamdulillah and something different happened.

[45:14]Today the Middle East is run by the very nemesis of this

[45:21]country.

[45:22]You know the irony and the very institutions then fight for justice

[45:25]within the regions where they're being occupied.

[45:27]They're called terrorists.

[45:29]But today they're an indomitable force and they're getting more powerful and

[45:35]they're reaching the inner depths of nations and saying we are the

[45:39]we are of and the the world that wants to control and

[45:44]rule and shred the world because the corportocracies the ones who are

[45:48]billion billionaires who want to amass more wealth and we the general

[45:52]population need to be their slave in a feudal system.

[45:53]It's not working.

[45:55]I swear today we're living in a different world.

[45:59]We're not in the dark ages of Europe.

[45:59]Alhamdulillah, we have media, we have power, we have knowledge, we have

[46:04]dean.

[46:03]And this great religion, Islam, will continue to grow.

[46:07]But not at the force with guns.

[46:09]No, as a force with the ultimate flag, which is to promote

[46:14]good.

[46:13]This is what Zavam was.

[46:16]To me, she represents to me as a woman, as a wise

[46:18]woman, an intrepid woman, a woman who saw the carnage of her

[46:23]family.

[46:24]She didn't lose faith.

[46:25]And then when she went in front of Yazid and she says,

[46:29]"I see nothing but beauty and mercy." She's sending me a message.

[46:34]She's 14 centuries later or 14 million years later.

[46:38]When you are trying under these trials and tribulations, nowhere near what

[46:43]I have, but even if it encroaches this, don't forget this sentence.

[46:49]I see nothing but beauty and mercy.

[46:51]See the silver lining.

[46:54]live by it and Allah says for sure you will not be

[46:56]on the this to me is the true identity of Islam now

[47:00]when we talk about the politics of how we're going to go

[47:02]forward and about all this ban Muslim ban and also all of

[47:07]this remember as bad as the Bush the Bush administration was as

[47:10]bad as the Trump administration all the other administrations have their hands

[47:13]in blood to some degree let's not just point a finger at

[47:18]them I'm of the belief that we as a Muslim society have

[47:23]a lot to be blamed for.

[47:25]Our ignorance, our recklessness, our disunityity, our constant bickering within ourselves to

[47:33]cause disunityity within our communities is the very objective the enemy wants

[47:37]from us.

[47:39]And we are aiding within this institution.

[47:39]We can point a finger at this establishment group and say, "Well,

[47:43]they're bad.

[47:45]They're Islamophobes." They are because they're ignorant.

[47:52]They're afraid of us.

[47:53]They don't know us.

[47:54]It's an irony when you ask them, "What is Islam?

[47:55]What is the Quran?" They haven't read it.

[47:57]Ask them, "What does Islam?" They don't know.

[48:01]That's why they're ignorant.

[48:01]But let's not be like them.

[48:03]Sunni Shia, examine and see brotherhood.

[48:06]See the commonality.

[48:10]We are 95% plus common, 98% similar.

[48:14]We're common.

[48:16]Let's not listen to anybody bashing.

[48:18]We will bash anybody who is out there killing people indiscriminately and

[48:23]beheading people and causing mayhem.

[48:26]We say we reject that.

[48:26]But other than that, let's not give ear to disunityity within our

[48:31]community.

[48:32]You follow which one?

[48:34]Which center do you go to?

[48:35]Who's your who is your imam?

[48:36]Oh, you go to that one over there.

[48:37]Ah, he's bad.

[48:39]This one.

[48:41]Oh, this one's better.

[48:42]I'm loyalist.

[48:43]You know, I'm a loyalist.

[48:44]I'm a tribalist.

[48:46]I'm a nationalist.

[48:47]Is that what Allah commanded us on this earth to do?

[48:50]To walk around say, you know, I only support this group, not

[48:52]that group.

[48:53]Really?

[48:54]On what grounds?

[48:56]Who authorized you?

[48:55]And even if you do, do you condemn the other side?

[48:59]For if you do, then you're no different than the enemy.

[49:00]There's a difference in how we approach our communities.

[49:04]Let's be vigilant.

[49:05]Very important.

[49:08]Muslims, Christians, Jews, atheists, talk to them.

[49:10]See within the fabric of God's system that we are all within

[49:15]his mercy.

[49:14]And if there's an atheist out there, they're not necessarily bad.

[49:19]They're misinformed.

[49:18]And if you and I are so blessed to be informed, then

[49:24]let's inform them in the way Allah says.

[49:29]Invite them to the way of your Lord with kind exhortation and

[49:35]with good argumentation, not ad homonyms and condemnations and you're going to

[49:39]hell.

[49:38]You're Catholic.

[49:39]None of that stuff.

[49:41]and say, "No, we're the same and we're all within the mercy

[49:46]of God and we're all praying to be in his grace and

[49:48]we're all going to pray with each other to be in the

[49:52]highest stations of paradise." If we have that attitude, think about it,

[49:56]common sense, most of our problems on this earth will go away.

[49:59]We won't have borders.

[50:01]We won't have such bans.

[50:02]We won't have such criminal activities.

[50:04]Poor people traveling on the plane, arriving exhausted, they're not given entry.

[50:11]This outcome is due to ignorance.

[50:13]It's due to people who have an axe to grind.

[50:16]The way we're going to solve it is we're going to retaliate

[50:18]by kindness.

[50:20]As I imatic says, when an enemy is har is harm, I

[50:22]mean is harsh to you, punish them with kindness.

[50:26]May Allah give us the faith inshallah and to give us the

[50:31]strength to be within the protocols of the holy prophets the particularly

[50:37]in today's celebration to be within her pathway never to give up

[50:43]to be the flag bearer of justice and equity and in my

[50:49]opinion that is the true identity of Islam and Allah guarantees it

[50:51]in the Quran that you will be successful if you do the

[50:54]following four believe Do good, promote justice and promote patience.

[51:14]My respected sisters and brothers in Islam, may Allah bless you for

[51:21]joining us tonight and for gracing us on this programs and the

[51:23]NYC for doing a wonderful job that he usually does.

[51:28]Uh let's give them [Music]

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