How the Imams Dealt With Oppressors - Sayed Saleh Qazwini & Mulla Mustafa Juma

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[12:14]of the eighth Imam one of the foundations of our faith faith

[12:32]and our beliefs is to establish justice and to stand against oppression

[12:39]you see that this is a theme in the Quran this is

[12:45]a theme in the life in the lives of the prophets Allah

[12:49]subhah waala says verily we sent our prophets and our Messengers 124,000

[13:06]prophets and Messengers and we brought down the books for one reason

[13:11]and that is for people to establish justice for people to do

[13:18]that which is right that which is the that which is correct

[13:21]and we see that a foundation in our faith is to stand

[13:28]against oppression to establish Justice and we believe that Allah subhanahu wa

[13:34]ta'ala does not oppress we the followers of theate one of the

[13:40]foundations one of the of the sh is to believe in meaning

[13:46]that God is just and that Justice is something sacred in our

[13:54]eyes we cannot oppress I cannot be an oppressor and still at

[13:57]the same time consider myself a Muslim and consider myself a Believer

[14:03]Allah subhana wa tala does not oppress Allah says in the Quran

[14:12]Allah subhanahu waala does not oppress anyone the oppression comes from people

[14:20]today Sometimes some people might see some things maybe for example there's

[14:26]a natural disaster maybe there's a hurricane Maybe there's a tsunami maybe

[14:29]there's a flood like the one that just took place in Libya

[14:35]where they're estimating over 20,000 people are probably going to lose their

[14:41]life or have lost their life some people when they see this

[14:44]right away they say look this is God this is Injustice coming

[14:47]from God however if we think it through if we think of

[14:54]it thoroughly we will see that the Injustice is not from God

[14:59]go and read the report report s go and read the news

[15:01]you see that a lot of the suffering a lot of the

[15:05]pain it could have been avoidable but it is because of the

[15:08]corruption and because of the mismanagement of individuals and communities and societies

[15:15]and governments that you find thousands of people they lose their life

[15:21]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has a natural system and when there's corruption

[15:26]then there's going to be suffering so it is the duty of

[15:29]the Muslims it is the duty of the Believers one of the

[15:33]obligations of every believer is to establish justice Allah says in the

[15:41]Quran by time indeed the human being is at loss except for

[15:52]several categories except those who have believed do good deeds and establish

[16:02]justice stand for the truth this is an obligation upon every single

[16:07]one of us and to be patient now my dear brothers and

[16:15]sisters oppression and a lot of us when we think of Oppression

[16:18]what is oppression what is according to Hadith from and from they

[16:26]Define oppression as in three types of categories there's three types of

[16:31]Oppression one thei from he says the the oppression is three times

[16:41]three types there's one oppression that Allah subhana tala will never forgive

[16:52]and then there's one one oppression that Allah will not hold you

[16:56]accountable for you are forgiven for and there's a third oppression and

[17:06]that is an oppression that will stay connected with a person until

[17:11]a person finds the solution for so what is the what is

[17:14]the oppression that Allah subhah wa tala will never forgive that is

[17:20]Allah says in the Quran Allah subhana tal there's one sin in

[17:37]the book that Allah subhana wa tala does not forgive and that

[17:41]is associating a partner with Allah subhah wa ta'ala meaning you're worshiping

[17:46]other than God instead of worshiping Allah you're worshiping someone or something

[17:52]else and this in itself is one of the greatest acts of

[17:56]Oppression why is it an act of Oppression imagine your mother cared

[18:02]for you your mother carried you for 9 months in her womb

[18:04]she loved you she raised you and then you go and you

[18:08]find another lady another person and you start treating the other person

[18:11]as your mother and you disregard your mother isn't thisum isn't this

[18:17]oppression that is oppression now multiply that by hundredfold a millionfold Allah

[18:25]subhah wa ta'ala we have received blessings and benefit and sustenance from

[18:29]Allah that is much more than what a mother could give but

[18:31]you find some people they do not worship God and they go

[18:36]and they worship something else this is this is oppression to God

[18:40]and this is an oppression that Allah does not forgive why because

[18:44]the person has cut off the chain of forgiveness because if I

[18:48]believe in God then anything I do wrong I turn to Allah

[18:53]and Allah will forgive me for that but if a person is

[18:54]worshiping someone or something else how are they going to be forgiven

[18:59]they've disconnected their line of Toba so this is the one one

[19:06]type of that Allah does not forgive there's another and that is

[19:10]the one that Allah will forgive and this is when we oppress

[19:13]ourselves by sinning when we oppress ourselves by doing Haram whatever sin

[19:20]it is do not give up hope in the mercy of Allah

[19:29]because Allah forgives all of the sins with the exception of sh

[19:33]of course never forgive me the Imam tells him what's wrong with

[19:36]you why are you saying this he says I was from those

[19:40]who participated in the murder of your father Hussein now Imam he

[19:46]tells him the crime and the sin of saying and assuming that

[19:53]God will not forgive is greater than the murder of IM Hussein

[19:55]he doesn't tell him God will forgive you because someone who their

[19:58]soul carries them to participate in the murder of IM Hussein probably

[20:05]their soul is so contaminated that it will be difficult for them

[20:08]to actually turn to God but from God's side Allah forgives Allah

[20:12]subhah wa ta'ala the doors of Mercy are open and then the

[20:21]third type this is the of each other when we have oppressed

[20:24]one another when we have hurt one another when we have abused

[20:29]one another when we steal when we backbite when we make fun

[20:33]of other people sometimes oppression some people have the idea that oppression

[20:38]is only something that a dictator or a king or a tyrant

[20:41]someone who's in position of power that they commit that type of

[20:45]Oppression no sometimes oppression is between a husband and wife sometimes oppression

[20:51]is Between Brothers sometimes oppression is between family members this could be

[20:57]this is a highly likely possibility of Oppression and we have to

[21:01]be very careful some sometimes when we oppress we are committing an

[21:08]act of unjust Injustice an act that is wrong maybe for example

[21:13]you might see someone who is one who is a little bit

[21:18]younger than you who probably has less money than you someone who

[21:21]is unable to defend themselves keep in mind that if you see

[21:26]someone they're unable to defend themselves know that Allah is this person's

[21:31]Defender IM he says my father he says he says when my

[21:43]father IM Hussein was about to be killed when im Hussein the

[21:49]last thing he did when he was saying farewell to his son

[21:53]IM Z he says IM husin he hugged IM he says and

[22:08]then he says what is it he says he says be very

[22:22]careful of oppressing someone that there is no one that will help

[22:26]this person other than God you might find someone you see this

[22:30]person is weak you see this person has no way of Defending

[22:35]themselves know that this person has Allah subhana tala be very careful

[22:39]of that person be very careful of oppressing that person these are

[22:45]the words of IM Hussein minutes and probably hours before he was

[22:53]killed who is the IM that was oppressed the most he has

[23:00]a beautiful statement he says he says I would rather be M

[23:10]I would rather be oppressed that is better for me than being

[23:14]from amongst the oppressors this is why sometimes some people they come

[23:17]and they say why didn't just take power he could have fought

[23:23]them he could have killed them he could have done something and

[23:26]he could have played some tricks just like the others play tricks

[23:29]and he would have been definitely in power but they would come

[23:35]and they would tell him that he says I'm not going to

[23:43]ruin myself to fix you to fix your matters if you want

[23:47]me to be your Imam if you want me to be a

[23:48]rightful leader then I'm going to do what Allah subhana tala has

[23:54]commanded me to do whoever wants to join will join but I'm

[23:56]not going to ruin myself so that I could fix you and

[24:01]that I could be your IM no and this is a very

[24:06]beautiful philosophy on life that teaches us Sometimes some of us because

[24:10]of other people because of relationships because of work because of um

[24:15]some type of things we have commitments we have in life we

[24:19]compromise our relationship with God for these temporal for these temporary relationships

[24:26]and this is wrong mentality on life teaches us be a better

[24:34]than being a and in his last words to his sons IM

[24:40]Hassan and IM Hussein and those who were listening to his he

[24:44]tells them he tells them always keep this a philosophy in life

[24:53]be an enemy be a an arrow in the face of aim

[24:59]of an oppressor and always be a supporter of the of those

[25:04]who are oppressed and you see the sh identity has always revolved

[25:08]around that you see our IMS was Iman was mum IM Hussein

[25:17]was mlum and all of the imams of the they were oppressed

[25:20]and they teach us it's okay to be M but do not

[25:25]be from the do not be from the oppressors and disassociate yourself

[25:32]with any Act of Oppression disassociate yourself with any act any individual

[25:38]whether it's a person whether it's a government whatever it is if

[25:43]they're hurting other people refrain from that he teaches us that you

[25:52]should not even oppress an ant not even an ant one day

[25:54]during hisa a man I M was the head of government and

[26:00]he was the judge as well so one day a man comes

[26:04]and he brings him a type of sweet a dish he knocks

[26:06]on the door he mentions this in he says and I am

[26:11]surprised at this at this knocker who comes and knocks on the

[26:14]door and he brings a suite a dish and tells him what

[26:21]is this this is or Z because that is Haram upon us

[26:24]then the man he tells him no this is a had this

[26:29]is a gift tells him you've come you've used the gift to

[26:36]come and try to fool me you've used the gift to come

[26:41]and bring away from the [Applause] truth he says if I were

[27:00]to be given this whole dun and the Seven layers and levels

[27:03]of this dun and all that it has to take a grain

[27:08]a piece of grain from an ant wrongfully I would not do

[27:13]that and then he says he says this of yours look at

[27:19]he was the top student of this is why did not buy

[27:27]this D and did not care for this Dunya he did not

[27:29]treat it he did he treated it as if it was nothing

[27:34]he says W he says this dun of yours that people are

[27:46]fighting for fighting for power fighting for money oppressing one of one

[27:50]each each other this is worth less worth less than a piece

[27:56]of grass in the mouth of a grass Hopper that is chewing

[28:00]on how much value does that have says this is worth less

[28:06]than that for me and then he says he says what does

[28:15]Ali have with a a blessing that comes to an end find

[28:19]me the richest person find me the wealthiest person their comes to

[28:24]an end there's an expiration date on everything that you have the

[28:28]only thing that does not have an expiration date is your relationship

[28:31]with God is the Good Deeds that you do the that you

[28:37]built that does not have an expiration date because the is eternal

[28:41]Allah subhah wa tala says this D whatever it is it's going

[28:49]to come to an end and and the IMs of the they

[28:50]understood that so this is why my dear brothers and sisters we

[28:56]have to be very careful in this D not to oppress sometimes

[28:59]people oppress because of a bite to eat sometimes people oppress because

[29:04]of a few dollars sometimes people oppress because of some simple things

[29:10]in this Dunya those who are connected with God those who have

[29:15]the IM and the tawa they're very careful to make sure that

[29:18]they do not make their soul contaminated with the talk of this

[29:28]D there's an interesting beautiful story of a scholar who lived in

[29:36]the 10th Islamic Century this man he was young before he became

[29:41]a scholar this young man one day a young man is walking

[29:51]in perhaps in a city in Iran by the name of aril

[29:53]and he is walking there he sees a farm and he's walking

[30:00]by farms and he passes by a river of water a stream

[30:07]of water he's drinking from that water and he sees an apple

[30:11]he sees an apple it comes and it comes to him and

[30:17]without thinking he takes the apple and he eats it after he

[30:20]eats it he thinks to himself he says whose Apple was this

[30:25]I did not buy this apple this apple did not belong to

[30:28]me whose apple is this so he asks him he begins to

[30:34]ask himself why did I eat from this apple it's not even

[30:36]mine I just took it I found it and I took it

[30:40]and I I thought of it as it's being mine and I

[30:43]ate it right away so he said no this might be this

[30:45]might belong to someone even something as simple as an Apple so

[30:51]he said I want to go and find who's the owner of

[30:53]this Farm where did this apple come from he goes back and

[30:57]he starts walking walking and walking he starts tracing where this apple

[31:02]might have fallen from and he sees that there's a farm that

[31:05]has an apple tree and this Apple has fallen into that stream

[31:11]he goes and he knocks on the door and he tells the

[31:14]person I probably I ate from your Apple and I want to

[31:20]ask you for forgiveness make it Halal upon me make it Halal

[31:24]upon me because I don't want to be judged as someone who

[31:28]has stolen or taken something that does not belong to me that

[31:32]man he tells him yes this is my apple he tells him

[31:37]okay do you forgive me or do you make it Halal upon

[31:41]me he tells him no unfortunately I don't he tells him why

[31:45]what do I have to do he tells him if you want

[31:49]this apple to be Halal upon you you have to do certain

[31:51]things for me tells him what is it what do I have

[31:55]to do for this apple to be halal he tells him you

[32:01]have to marry my daughter he says marry your daughter he says

[32:07]yes but there's one catch my daughter she's blind and she is

[32:15]mute she cannot speak and she's deff she can't hear you have

[32:21]to marry her this is the only way this apple becomes Halal

[32:27]upon you this man he thinks for a while and this is

[32:33]a very tough decision in life so after a while he contemplates

[32:36]and he says I will accept to marry your daughter so I

[32:48]mean getting married to a normal beautiful everything is hard as it

[32:55]is now imagine with all these conditions so here this young man

[32:59]he goes and the father he does theab he does the marriage

[33:05]and this young man he goes and he sees the bride he

[33:07]sees she's the most beautiful and she could see and she could

[33:13]hear and there's nothing wrong with her there's nothing absolutely nothing wrong

[33:17]with her so then he goes back to the man he says

[33:22]I think you gave me the wrong person the man tells him

[33:26]where could I where could I have found someone who wants to

[33:30]make sure that the the food that they're eating is halal I've

[33:36]been praying my whole life to make sure that someone comes who

[33:38]is looking for Halal who does not want to oppress who does

[33:41]not want to do wrong and when you came and you knocked

[33:45]on the door I realized that I found the perfect person the

[33:50]F perfect match for my daughter because my daughter she is blind

[33:54]from looking at the Haram she has never seen the Haram and

[33:57]and she is blind from or she is mute from speaking the

[34:02]Haram she's never said any she's never done anything Haram and she

[34:05]does not listen to the Haram this was how what he meant

[34:10]when he was saying that they get married and this marriage this

[34:14]is what is mentioned in the history this marriage The Offspring and

[34:21]the child that they have becomes one of the holiest and the

[34:24]most sacred of the scholars that is known amongst the Shia a

[34:28]scholar by the name ofed who is known as they call him

[34:38]Al he is a saint because of how he lived his life

[34:44]why because of his parents because his mother and his father made

[34:48]sure that they do not oppress made sure that they do not

[34:51]steal even as something as simple as an apple they make sure

[34:55]the father makes sure that he does not take take that wrongfully

[34:58]and you have that kind of halal food and that type of

[35:06]Halal income then your Offspring will be pure so my dear brothers

[35:11]and sisters we see that there's an insistence from the IMs of

[35:16]the that they made sure to be very careful they they they

[35:24]tell and instruct their sh and their followers to be very careful

[35:28]from committing any Act of Oppression from committing anything wrong and the

[35:34]Quran says this the Quran says maybe sometimes you yourself you're not

[35:40]committing the you're not doing anything wrong but maybe you're supporting someone

[35:45]who is committing the wrong meaning supporting the and you will be

[35:52]held accountable for supporting the the they're enjoying the D they're enjoying

[35:56]the Haram you're just supporting this person but you will have to

[35:59]pay for it on the day of judgment and Allah says in

[36:02]the Quran be very careful do not associate yourself with oppressors and

[36:14]tyrants because the fire that burns them will also catch on to

[36:17]you the fire that is they are going to burn in will

[36:22]also burn you and the IMs of the here is how we

[36:24]get to IM the IM of the they were very careful in

[36:30]instructing their sh and their followers to disassociate with all types of

[36:35]Oppression look at IM look at the IMs of the all of

[36:44]Ben um stay away from them because Ben umya were all contaminated

[36:48]with the oppression that was committed maybe one person maybe it was

[36:55]yazid maybe it was muawiya but the whole clan because of eating

[36:58]Haram because of getting themselves in a toxic environment and atmosphere they

[37:04]will they were all contaminated with the Haram and this is why

[37:08]the imams of the they would instruct all their followers to stay

[37:12]away from oppression one of the companions of IM by the name

[37:17]of Subhan Allah this man he was one of the companions of

[37:25]IM sad then he turned against IM and he was from the

[37:27]leader of the where he did not follow IM and he he

[37:32]suffered but Subhan Allah ironically this is a story where he brings

[37:36]someone to he ends up losing himself that's a different story but

[37:42]here he says I saw a man in kufa who comes to

[37:47]me and he tells me I want to be forgiven I want

[37:50]Allah to forgive me and this man used to work for Ben

[37:55]umya he was he used to do some work for Bena collect

[37:58]money carry out certain acts for B so he says I took

[38:02]him by the hand I took him to IM IM sad saw

[38:07]him and the man he tells the IM I want Allah to

[38:12]forgive me the Imam tells him you want Allah to forgive you

[38:15]but you are so contaminated with you have committed so much by

[38:24]supporting bani and then the IM tells him if bani because they

[38:26]had people like you that support them and that do the donkey

[38:30]work for them our H and our rights was taken away from

[38:35]us so then the Imam tells him the Imam tells him you

[38:40]want God to forgive you I will give you away for God

[38:45]to forgive you and I will guarantee you Paradise but you have

[38:47]to guarantee me that you do certain things he tells him I

[38:53]want you to disassociate yourself from all of the Haram money that

[38:58]you have all of the Haram money the man he tells the

[39:03]Imam all of my money is Haram all of my money is

[39:05]Haram the Imam tells him you disassociate yourself with the Haram money

[39:10]and I will guarantee you Paradise the man puts his head down

[39:18]for a while and he says I will do it Al Hamza

[39:20]says we went back to kufa and this man the Imam tells

[39:24]him you either people who you've taken money from the unjustly you

[39:27]give it back to them and if you don't know whose it

[39:31]is you go and you do s on their behalf this is

[39:34]called so the the man he says he started giving giving giving

[39:39]giving and he started giving away everything until he had nothing even

[39:43]the clothes that he was wearing he gave it away Alam he

[39:47]says we went and we bought him some clothes because he had

[39:50]nothing and he goes and he stays in his home he says

[39:55]I came to check up on him a while later I saw

[39:59]that this man has become sick he's become frail and he has

[40:03]nothing he's given up everything because all of his money was Haram

[40:06]and then he says we kept checking up on him until the

[40:11]man was dying the man was dying he says we visited him

[40:14]while he was on his deathbed as he is dying he tells

[40:23]me the the your IM the IM s he kept his promise

[40:28]the man he saw during those moments he saw Paradise he says

[40:35]you're the Imam IM has kept his promise he said the man

[40:39]died and we buried him then he says I went to Medina

[40:45]and I saw Imad he says as soon as I entered on

[40:48]Imad now IM sad is in Medina this man is in kufa

[40:51]he says as soon as I entered IM sad before before I

[40:55]even walked in he he tells me oh we have kept our

[41:07]promise to your to your friend meaning the Imam knew that this

[41:10]man had died and he knew exactly what had happened to him

[41:14]but the man purified himself by distancing himself from the Haram and

[41:22]another Hadith from IM M there's a companion of IM by the

[41:31]name of you know the Z of that you recited a few

[41:34]days ago who was the narrator of this Zara safan safan he

[41:40]was a camelier he has camels and at that time they used

[41:43]to rent out camels this man safan he would travel with IM

[41:49]he would travel with IM tobala and he would hear the Zara

[41:52]and he records the Zara and he gave us the Zara this

[41:56]is why also and there's another man by the name of Al

[42:00]on the day of we read du these people they would travel

[42:05]with the IM he sees him he tells him oh safan everything

[42:11]in you is perfect except one thing tells him what is it

[42:17]he says you rent out your camels to harun Haron is the

[42:21]Khalifa and you're renting out your camels so safan he tells him

[42:29]but my master harun he goes to Hajj with these camels he

[42:32]takes a caravan hundreds of camels and he goes to with him

[42:37]with them he tells him still this is wrong this is you're

[42:40]supporting the he tells him don't you want to get paid he

[42:45]says yes I want to get paid he says that means you

[42:46]want him to stay alive that means you want him to remain

[42:50]so then this man safan Jamal he says I went and I

[42:57]sold the whole whole Fleet of camels the whole all the camels

[43:00]that he had he goes and he sells them because he doesn't

[43:04]want to have Haram income he doesn't want to be supporting theim

[43:06]he says I went and I sold them and harun summoned me

[43:11]harun called me he tells me I know you sold them because

[43:17]M ja told you I know you sold them because M ja

[43:19]told you if not for you being a close friend to us

[43:24]and you after an old age you've always been with us and

[43:29]and and been with us and we know you I would have

[43:31]killed you right away safan tells him I became old and these

[43:36]and the workers they're not working enough so I decided to sell

[43:40]them but the reality is he sold them because he did not

[43:43]want harun to benefit from them Subhan Allah look how Imam tells

[43:49]safan to go and sell his camels but there was another man

[43:55]who was one of the Great greatest Companions of Imam and he

[43:59]became The Treasure of harun's government IM kadam is in prison and

[44:05]this man he's the treasur of the government of Haron he writes

[44:10]a letter to the IM he tells him please allow me to

[44:14]leave this position I don't want to be in the government of

[44:17]Haron the Imam tells him you have to remain in the government

[44:25]of har however have tawa in Allah here's Scholars they say what's

[44:28]the this man he has to go and sell all of his

[44:32]camels he cannot be in the government of Haron he cannot rent

[44:34]out camels for harun and this man he's in the government and

[44:39]the IM tells him to stay what's the difference between the two

[44:42]they say the difference is one of them has only personal gain

[44:46]personal gain he's benefiting he's renting out his camels he receives personal

[44:50]gain the other one Al he's in the government but he's taking

[44:56]orders from the IM and he's protecting the Shia he's defending the

[44:59]Shia this is why the Imam kept him so this sometimes people

[45:04]they ask this question what if for example I'm voting or I'm

[45:08]getting involved in a government that may be oppressive here's the rule

[45:12]if you are using this position to help other people then it

[45:17]might be okay but if it's just for personal gain personal pleasure

[45:23]personal satisfaction then it becomes Haram now here IM Al his father

[45:29]Haron his his father Imam was killed and poisoned by Haron M

[45:36]comes to power and he forces IM to join the Abbasi government

[45:43]IM became the Crown Prince of course IM did not want to

[45:50]IM was in Medina for most of his imama his imama was

[45:52]about 20 years most of it he was in Medina mmon writes

[45:57]him a letter he tells him I want you to come and

[46:00]be the Crown Prince the Imam tells him no I don't want

[46:02]to be the Crown Prince he says you have to mmon he

[46:04]wanted to make his image look better in front of other people

[46:09]and he's bringing IM and it was a plan but IM he

[46:15]tells him if I come then I will not be involved in

[46:16]any politics I would not be involved in any decision-making any hiring

[46:23]any appointing any removing people and the im.

[46:25]was for to go toan this is why is buried in mashad

[46:32]right now because that was the capital of the Abbasi government during

[46:36]the time of mm some of the Shia they came and they

[46:40]told the Imam or some of the people that did not believe

[46:44]in the IM they come and they say how can you be

[46:47]in the government of these oppressors these tyrants how can you help

[46:51]them and support them and be the Crown Prince in their government

[46:54]a a man from the he hit a knife he hit a

[47:00]knife in his pocket and he says I'm going to kill him

[47:02]if he does not give me a good answer he comes to

[47:06]the Imam and he tells him why is it that you joined

[47:12]the government of mm and he's angry with the Imam the Imam

[47:14]the the knife is hidden the Imam tells him remove your knife

[47:19]and I will answer you and this shows that Allah subhana tala

[47:22]has given some type of knowledge for the imams Tells remove your

[47:28]knife and I will answer you and then he tells him YF

[47:32]Prophet YF he goes and he asks the Pharaoh the he goes

[47:38]and he asks the the government that does not even believe in

[47:40]God he tells them let me be in your government and he

[47:45]is the one who goes to a non-believer he tells him let

[47:48]me be in your government he says first of all mmon is

[47:50]a believer in God and he has forced me I did not

[47:54]choose to do this he has forced me to to be involved

[47:58]in this and he gives them several examples and the man was

[48:00]convinced the man was convinced but of course IM he joined the

[48:06]government not for personal gain he used his power and he used

[48:10]his time and authority and in power to spread the message of

[48:16]Islam to spread the teachings of the bit and to teach people

[48:20]to stand against oppression and against these were the teachings of IM

[48:27]on his way toan he passed by an area by the name

[48:33]ofur and there they say 100,000 scribes meaning 100,000 Scholars they have

[48:42]their pens and their papers in their hands and they were waiting

[48:44]for the IM to pass because this is the son of they

[48:48]a lot of these people have never seen any sahabi they've never

[48:52]seen anyone who resembles the only people that they saw were people

[48:57]who were fighting for power so now they wait they say that

[49:02]when the Imam passed some of these people they fainted when they

[49:05]saw the IM when they saw IM and they tell him tell

[49:10]us aith and the IM was passing he was riding a carriage

[49:15]and he's passing so he removed the cover from the carriage and

[49:18]he tells them I heard from my father M who heard from

[49:22]his father ja who heard from his father from his father from

[49:25]his father from what is the Hadith he says I heard saying

[49:43]will enter you into the sanctuary of God and if you enter

[49:49]into the sanctuary then you are safe from the of Allah and

[49:52]this is what it means when you say this differentiates between the

[49:55]Muslim and the cfir it's one statement but it makes you a

[50:00]Muslim when you become a Muslim then you will receive the mercy

[50:05]of Allah but then the IM he brings his head out once

[50:07]again and he says has conditions it has conditions you have to

[50:18]believe in certain things you have to accept certain things and one

[50:20]of them is believing in me meaning believing in the IMs of

[50:27]the this is why that man who took the who took the

[50:32]man to do and when im when im passed away he died

[50:41]in the prison Alam was the W of the IM meaning he

[50:44]was the one who people would come and they would give their

[50:46]hes they would come and they would give the money that is

[50:49]supposed to go to IM they give it to Al when im

[50:54]passed away Hamza he did not want to hand over the money

[51:01]to Im so what did he say he said IM is in

[51:04]he's an occultation and they began him and several others they began

[51:09]the sect of the meaning they stopped at IM IM many years

[51:15]later he tell he's sitting with his people with his friends with

[51:18]his companions he tells them today Ali Hamza died and he was

[51:27]they washed his body and they did the and they buried him

[51:30]and when they buried him the Angels came down to interrogate him

[51:33]in his grave and they began to ask him he answered what

[51:38]is your he answered who is your prophet he answered who is

[51:44]your first IM he said who's your second IM he said alassan

[51:47]then he said Hussein then he said Z then he said then

[51:52]he said then he said and then they asked him who is

[51:54]your who is the next IM he has no answer he has

[52:00]no answer so IM said the Angels they whipped him in his

[52:06]grave that the whole grave lit on fire this is a Hadith

[52:08]from IM because he did not he refused to accept the imams

[52:13]of his time this is why we have to know the names

[52:17]of the imams and we have to believe in the imams IM

[52:20]he taught people that even if you earn power you have to

[52:25]live a simple life you should not oppress and you should not

[52:31]abuse and The Poets and the scholars they would come and they

[52:35]would visit him and they would learn from the Imam one of

[52:42]the poets Abu noas Abu noas was a famous poet of the

[52:46]time he came to visit the IM and M he would put

[52:51]up a show apparently he would show that he respects the IM

[52:56]M he tells he tells tells Abu all of these poets they

[52:58]came and they gave poetry in Praise of IM but you have

[53:03]not why have you not praised so right away he began to

[53:24]say he says they tell me why have you you are the

[53:41]best of The Poets why have you not praised Al he says

[53:45]how can I got how can I praise Al when jbra was

[53:51]the servant of his grandfather how can I praise someone who is

[53:55]that that great so this is Abu and another poet that comes

[54:03]to visit IM was a poet that many of you have heard

[54:09]of he says for 40 years I I was carrying the wood

[54:16]of the wood of um crucification on my neck a metaphor to

[54:23]mean that for 40 years I have been chased by the governments

[54:26]because I've been praising the bit because he would go around and

[54:29]praising the bit and the government and the authorities would chase him

[54:36]has a famous poem he comes to and the IM he tells

[54:42]him I want you to recite your poetry that you have recited

[54:45]for us so he begins to praise the and then he begins

[54:54]to talk about the graves of the the have graves in KU

[55:04]and there are graves in in was one of the battles where

[55:15]the descendants of Allah A man also by the name of Hussein

[55:17]he was killed from the descendants of talking about the Shah of

[55:30]z z Shah the son of IM Z and from the descendants

[55:34]of and then he says and there is one grave in Bagdad

[55:47]for a pure NS that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has taken him

[55:54]to the highest levels referring to IM then IM who's the son

[56:02]of IM he tells him can I add also a line to

[56:07]your poem he tells him yes it would be my honor then

[56:11]the IM he says he says and there's one grave in this

[56:38]is such a m this is such a Calamity and we wait

[56:40]for the day that Allah will send the Imam who will seek

[56:45]Vengeance for all of the martyred imams he tells I don't know

[56:54]anyone of the who's he points to himself and he says referring

[57:11]to his own grave referring to the grave of IM he says

[57:18]my grave will be in I will be buried there and then

[57:20]the IM he tells his he tells them whoever visits me in

[57:36]my loneliness whoever visits me inan I will visit this person in

[57:43]their lonely time he begins to remind the IM of IM Hussein

[57:54]he begins talking and saying poetry in the tragedy of imin oh

[58:13]fa if you were to see Hussein in the land ofal you

[58:22]would slap your face and you would cry for him and IM

[58:25]continues to cry for IM husin IM was poisoned by m he

[58:34]was buried everyone came out to bury the Imam a huge fun

[58:40]funeral procession for the Imam but this reminds us ofin all of

[58:48]the imams when they died people came out to respect their body

[58:56]to bury them but 's body was left on the sand ofala

[59:00]for three days without burial without without and be and me yeah

[59:54]be tell be [Music] Happ [Music] let me hear your [Music] voices

[61:07][Music] and be happy be [Music] by the Crown Prince calls out

[61:40]oh dear reite a PO and let the tears fall the Crown

[61:57]Prince calls out oh de recite a PO and let the tears

[62:17][Applause] fall sit before fix in his place how luy were his

[62:40]two eyes to see his [Music] faceand de B to strengthen his

[62:54]voice Onin Story begin your voices [Music] voices links hin story to

[63:25]his mother saying go how I wish would have seen how they

[63:42]butur your grandfather would have seen how they buted your grandfather how

[63:58]the shorts upon his skin and bone would dwell would she have

[64:26]seen the fire rage as if they had burned the every page

[64:36]she feel bent a rib inside her rib cage and her house

[64:49]of flame and M she recall [Applause] would eyes witness her grand

[65:22]daughter running in fear and day distress frantically putting out fire in

[65:35]their dress wondering just how Heaven Must endure hell [Music] he how

[66:03]I Tri if they saw the blood of her Be Love son

[66:14]to Earth po a sight that breaks bone and shakes souls to

[66:24]their core making her forget the nail and the wall well well

[66:49]sonin slaughtered like Lambs are are slaughtered defiantly and for God he

[67:04]was mared have you seen or remembered how shame D upon his

[67:22]neck would fall [Music] [Applause] and with him the gy shake every

[67:48]tear that Fales they would make to see your master cry would

[68:01]make your heartbreak now he cries Vin hear his call now he

[68:18]CES Heavens he his call when [Music] I beg you my beloved

[68:43]Master intercede for me for my here after for for I am

[68:58]your poet your sincere wrer and I'll sing your praise before Menin

[69:13]and all and I'll sing your praise before Menin and all [Music]

[69:31][Applause] [Music] I would like you all to imagine the sister of

[69:53]our eighth Imam telling us of the pain she experienced and how

[70:00]life wasn't the same or worth living without her father and brother

[70:05]she says I will tell you of my pain why my soul

[70:16]withered away my father tied down in Chains my brother lonely in

[70:21]pain my soul no longer remains my soul no longer [Music] remain

[70:45]I will tell you of my pain why my soul way away

[70:58]my father tied down in Chains my brother lonely in pain my

[71:13]soul no longer remains my soul no longer remains I will tell

[71:28]you of my pain why my soul withed away my father tied

[71:42]down in Chains my brother lonely in pain my soul no longer

[71:55]is remains my soul no longer remains I will tell you of

[72:07]my why my soul withed away my father tied down in Chains

[72:21]my brother long in pain my soul no longer remains my soul

[72:37]no long one more time I will tell you of my pain

[72:45]why my soul hey my father Li down in Chains my brother

[72:59]lonely in pain my soul no my soul my soul no long

[73:17]I would often gazed at the stars shining bright they glowed like

[73:28]my guards over time they would lose their lights the path once

[73:36]bright CH into night now I Stumble through the darkness there is

[73:49]no light I can harness there is no lightness the source of

[74:02]light in from far has diminished with their two scars my father

[74:13]with in Chains my brother taken in pain my sadness starts with

[74:30]their pain my life feels like it has drained my soul no

[74:37]longer my soul my soul no longer I will tell you I

[74:47]will tell [Applause] you soul way my father tied down in chain

[75:05]my brother in pain my soul no long my soul [Music] no

[75:21]I would long to Embrace father my heart would ache to get

[75:31]closer the more I longed for my father the more my soul

[75:43]would be tortured my heart shattered when I was told there is

[75:51]darkness in him is deep underground in a small cell the place

[76:05]of his final farewell the place of his well I struggle to

[76:20]breathe when told he could not breathe unless told his back was

[76:31]bent like he old I then felt like I aged old my

[76:39]soul no long my soul my soul no long I will tell

[76:51]you I will tell you my pain why my soul with I

[76:58]will tell you I will tell you of my pain why my

[77:09]soul hey my father tied down in Chains my brother lonely in

[77:22]pain my soul no [Music] longer my soul no long I won't

[77:39]gaze at my brother face from a young age he was my

[77:45]grace my Proctor and my teacher without him my heartbeat slower when

[77:59]he was forced to leave his home my heart had sank with

[78:13]great sorrow my heart had sank with great row I could not

[78:20]bear the long distance I went too far find his loness I

[78:28]would dream of his Embrace I'd awake I'd wake drowning in dispare

[78:42]I walk day and night searching but death walked behind luring I

[78:55]walk day and night searching but death walked behind luring my soul

[79:08]no longer remain my soul no I will tell you I will

[79:22]tell you why my soul why my soul way I will tell

[79:28]you I will tell you of my pain my soul away hey

[79:40]my father tied down in Chains my brother l in pain my

[79:51]soul no long PR my soul no long [Applause] remains 10 times

[80:13]in the loudest of your voices Allah Allah Ya Allah Allah Allah

[80:30]Allah Allah Allah [Music] [Applause] Allah [Applause] [Music] mamam Al [Applause] muhamed

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