Imam Ali's Well..

12 Bekeken· 24/03/25

Sayed Mahdi Modarresi
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Part of the lecture series delivered during the holy month of Ramadan, 2023, in Mumbai, India. Night 20

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[0:00]foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] I mean foreign foreign [Music] [Music]

[2:13]yeah as a gift and a small token to the one to

[2:22]whom This Night Belongs in Muhammad [Music] for our sins to be

[2:51]forgiven for our Mal to be accepted for when we call out

[3:00]Allah for Allah for these calls to rise to the heavens along

[3:05]with by the Imam of our time for the hastening of his

[3:12]reappearance recite another loud Muhammad [Music] in yearns for his brothers we

[3:37]mentioned some of them that he specifically cited in his very last

[3:43]sermon only a few days before he was assassinated and martyred at

[3:54]the hands of the wicked Muradi the narrator of the sermon in

[4:01]fact says that the weak did not end except that we saw

[4:09]Amir lying on the ground of Masjid al-kufa those were very turbulent

[4:15]times very difficult phase in the life of news was coming left

[4:24]right and Center that cities were falling and that Maui's armies were

[4:33]marching huawea was known as someone who would not keep his word

[4:35]he broke every single one of his promises to amironmentin and he

[4:42]continued his Conquest and every time they brought news to Emil Momin

[4:47]that a new city or town had fallen the imam's heart would

[4:57]bleed we know that would receive news for instance had ambushed a

[5:03]town and he had threatened the Christian or Jewish women of the

[5:08]town and the Imam would immediately Ascend the pulpit deliver a sermon

[5:14]and say that if someone heard of this and died of Agony

[5:18]and grief I wouldn't blame him because a Christian or a Jewish

[5:27]woman had been intimidated or threatened or they had some of their

[5:32]jewelry taken from them so imagine every time Emily Momin heard that

[5:36]Muslims were being violated that his she hour being hunted down what

[5:41]that did to the Blessed heart of only Allah knows and so

[5:49]the Imam longed for the people who had given their pledge of

[5:56]allegiance to him truthfully the ones that he mentions had vowed to

[6:00]die for him he says where are those people where are the

[6:10]ones who stood up and spoke the truth at the cost of

[6:16]their so-called worldly reputation sometimes we hear the sanctity of the imams

[6:24]is violated they are desecrated they are disrespected but we choose not

[6:33]to speak out in order to maintain what we think of as

[6:40]civility because our reputation to us matters more than the reputation of

[6:45]rasulullah the reputation of the the reputation of Imam Zaman that even

[6:50]though there are liars and imposters and charlatans trying to take away

[6:55]the most precious thing that we have which is our Allegiance and

[7:00]love to the bait to take away the only source of wealth

[7:04]that you and I have brothers and sisters Allah isn't that what

[7:15]he said to the messenger of Usman when uthman sent his slave

[7:20]offering him some money first he interrogated the slave you've all heard

[7:26]the story he said where did this come from he said the

[7:29]Khalifa sent it to you he said which Khalifa as far as

[7:34]I know ofman had no money prior to becoming Khalifa is this

[7:38]his personal money or did he take it from the Muslim Treasury

[7:41]if it's his personal money where did he take it from how

[7:45]did it come into his possession he needs to be audited and

[7:49]if it's from the Muslim treasury am I the only one receiving

[7:53]it or is this something that's being distributed equally among every single

[7:57]citizen every Muslim so the slave said to him listen just take

[8:02]the money I just took a peek inside your home you're a

[8:06]poor man you need this money we all know that your family's

[8:12]starving your children have no food on the table this is it's

[8:18]a statement made by the slave but it was the biggest insult

[8:23]to Abu dhar he said you're calling me a poor man oh

[8:34]God I have the most valuable thing in this entire universe you're

[8:47]calling me poor I'm the richest person there is someone came to

[8:52]our sixth Imam and he could complained about his financial situation and

[8:57]he said to the Imam that I need help I'm poor Imam

[9:02]said to him but you're not poor though are you he said

[9:06]look at me why would I be asking you if I wasn't

[9:09]poor Imam said to him you have something what would you say

[9:15]if you were offered the entire world and the Seven heavens above

[9:21]and everything beneath them in exchange for your love to us would

[9:26]you give that up he said no the Imam said then you're

[9:31]the richest person how could you say you're poor and so when

[9:36]this love is under attack when someone comes along and tries to

[9:40]take it away from you tries to take away your faith and

[9:46]your belief and your Creed that's not the time to be thinking

[9:50]about my reputation that's the time for you to stand up and

[9:53]speak the truth that's all most of us need to do speak

[9:58]the truth that's it the Imam yearns for people like that they

[10:08]say that speaking of Sohan whose name we mentioned in the last

[10:12]Madness when to Basra she wrote to him he was a very

[10:22]notable personality it was very important in his tribe and so she

[10:31]sends him a letter in which she says Bismillah men um so

[10:53]she Praises him she tries to portray him as someone who's close

[10:59]to her heart and we all know how these games go right

[11:04]she said to him from the mother of the Believers to her

[11:11]righteous son zate I wish for you to come and join me

[11:17]in my Conquest in my battle to avenge the blood of the

[11:21]oppressed what do you say Zaid wrote back to her listen to

[11:31]this he said to her you have been commanded by Allah to

[11:36]do one thing and we have been commanded by Allah to do

[11:41]something your obligation is to stay in your home as instructed by

[11:47]Allah you have abandoned your own obligation and you've come to us

[12:02]to try and stop us from a from fulfilling our obligation which

[12:05]is what Allah has commanded us to stand by the holy prophet

[12:12]said foreign the holy prophet commanded you to stay in your home

[12:31]and he commanded us to fight alongside against his enemy not only

[12:37]have you failed to fulfill your own obligation you want us to

[12:41]not fulfill ours she said to him does that mean that people

[12:44]will fight me he said I will be the first to fight

[12:47]you yearned for people like this I'll mention another example yeah sir

[12:57]when Aisha announced that she was going to lead the armies into

[13:05]battle on the back of her camel amironmentin sent his son Imam

[13:10]al-hasan and Amar to kufa remember he was in Medina Mecca and

[13:17]in makkashi announced once she realized who had been sworn in who

[13:23]had been given the Pledge of Allegiance she thought it was going

[13:27]to be or Talha once she realized there was suddenly she raised

[13:32]the flag of the oppression of Ottoman and his shirt and said

[13:37]that we now have to find his killers so a mirror womanin

[13:42]sent his son and Amma to kufa when they went to kufa

[13:46]they went to Massachusetts who was the governor it was Abu musal

[13:50]ashari you know some of the things that he did the role

[13:55]that he played the very destructive actions that he took he was

[14:02]the governor so Imam al-hassan got up and he spoke he addressed

[14:05]the people then Ahmad spoke and addressed the people ashari stood on

[14:13]the pulpit and he said I have heard from rasulullah that if

[14:21]a fitna emerges if there is Discord or confusion then you should

[14:30]stay in your homes and my suggestion to you is to stay

[14:35]in your homes and not do anything Amma got up he said

[14:38]then did the prophet really tell you this he said by Allah

[14:42]the prophet told me this he said to him in that case

[14:46]why don't you go and stay in your home instead of telling

[14:49]the people that they shouldn't side with just be quiet shut up

[14:54]and be quiet go and sit in your home if that's what

[14:57]what the prophet really told you as for me foreign those who

[15:11]break their Pledge of Allegiance the first people to give their pledge

[15:19]that they will fight him and he told us all to stand

[15:23]by Ali and defend him and to fight his oppressors that's what

[15:30]the prophet told us go and sit in your home yearn for

[15:32]people like this people like imagine Nathan was number one Persian he

[15:46]was not an Arab number two he was a slave right someone

[15:53]say some historians they say that the origin story of Nathan was

[15:59]like this went to this person who sold slaves he engaged in

[16:05]slave trade he said to him present your slaves to me so

[16:09]he presented all the slaves the Imam looked in their faces he

[16:14]said no you have somebody else so he said yeah I have

[16:21]a Slave but he's ill and doesn't really serve much of a

[16:23]purpose the Imam said bring him you brought him out it was

[16:29]made them the Imam said how much do you want for this

[16:33]slave the slave trader realized that the Imam was seeking something there

[16:39]was a reason there was a purpose he wanted this slave and

[16:42]not the others who were perhaps stronger and more muscular and more

[16:49]useful so he upped the price if a slave was sold for

[16:54]a hundred Dinars for instance he said I want 200 for him

[16:56]Imam said to His companion he said pay him 200.

[17:01]the slave trader realized that he had something in his possession that

[17:07]was worth a lot he said no no no no the price

[17:09]is 300.

[17:10]the Imam said pay him 300.

[17:12]then he said no no it's 500.

[17:15]the Imam said pay him 500.

[17:16]he kept jacking up the price and the Imam gave him whatever

[17:21]he asked for then he took him and left the Imam said

[17:27]had he continued to increase the price until the day of judgment

[17:30]I would have paid him whatever he wanted because this is Nathan

[17:35]this is someone who would become one of the confidants of someone

[17:40]who never left the sight of Amir which is why the Imam

[17:47]gave him secrets that he had not given anybody else he told

[17:52]him when he would die how he would die the exact moment

[17:57]his soul would depart his body he even told him about other

[18:03]people imagine someone knows when everyone's going to die and how they're

[18:06]going to die how precious would this person be and then whenever

[18:11]he went into the markets upon Allah there were big shops and

[18:16]there were small shops and the Imam would walk past each and

[18:18]every one of them and go all the way to this little

[18:23]table that was set on the ground with nothing but a small

[18:25]shade on top of it and on the table there were some

[18:30]dates and he would sit next to make them and sometimes if

[18:33]Nathan had errands to make things to do he would have to

[18:39]go and you know go about his Daily Business the Imam would

[18:42]sit in his place and he would sell his dates but the

[18:47]time spent with Nathan was time in which he radiated upon the

[18:52]heart of this man with knowledge and wisdom so much so that

[19:00]mathem was often seen going to this palm tree which was dead

[19:06]it didn't give it didn't produce any fruit any dates the top

[19:11]of the palm tree had dried out and it was cut off

[19:15]and yet Nathan would go and water this palm tree they would

[19:22]say why do you do this this is the work of a

[19:23]Madman he would say no one day me and this tree we

[19:29]will have a moment together our picture will travel across the centuries

[19:37]me and this tree were supposed to be friends even our bus

[19:44]one day came to me even a boss someone who's known now

[19:50]if you ask any Sunni Muslim who is the greatest exeget of

[19:53]the Quran of the Quran who will they say Allah when the

[20:03]prophet passed away he was just a child everything even Abbas Learned

[20:06]was from none other than but they gave him a prominent position

[20:13]and he wouldn't even mention he wouldn't quote or cite amironment the

[20:18]things he's learned from the Imam he would simply present them as

[20:22]his own knowledge anyway we're not here trying to analyze IBN Abbas

[20:30]but it is truly sad and tragic that in the collective mind

[20:37]of the Muslim Nation the exeget of the Quran is who is

[20:46]one of the small students in the Elementary classes so even Hamas

[20:55]even though people recognized him and they appreciated him and they elevated

[21:01]him but he knew inside his heart deep down that he didn't

[21:07]have much he says that all night long I traveled with Talib

[21:13]and he spoke to me about none other than Bismillah in fact

[21:16]is telling him that don't think you have much whatever you have

[21:20]is from us don't think you have much in fact I have

[21:23]not elucidated any thing other than the dot underneath the bar of

[21:30]Bismillah to you Imam is trying to deliver a message to him

[21:34]and so he knew whenever he came across one of the true

[21:40]ariadite Defenders the Guardians of the truth he knew that their status

[21:49]was above and beyond anything that he had once began to elaborate

[21:55]on a verse from the Quran immediately took a pen and paper

[22:02]and started to write the only time you would pick up a

[22:07]pen and paper to write is when you know that you're receiving

[22:09]something valuable something precious if it's something you've heard elsewhere you wouldn't

[22:15]really care he started writing so then made them a Tamar told

[22:22]him by the way I'm going to be crucified on that tree

[22:25]over there even I'll bust threw the papers down and he started

[22:29]to shred them he said that means you're not a scholar you're

[22:34]just a fortune teller you're telling me that you're going to be

[22:37]crucified on that tree what are you talking about you're a fortune

[22:40]teller you're nothing but a guru Make them set them just wait

[22:45]wait don't Shred the papers if you see me crucified on that

[22:51]tree then keep what you've written if I was not crucified on

[22:56]that tree and died in some other way then you can take

[22:58]them and shred them whichever way you want just wait just make

[23:03]them to mock one night maitham says that I saw a million

[23:14]in the middle of the night I said to him where are

[23:20]you going he said I want to go out of kufa he

[23:25]said can I come with you the mom said yes you can

[23:29]so he narrates the story in great detail he says that we

[23:36]left and went to a message it outside of kufa the Imam

[23:41]stood there he prayed four units then he recited this Dua then

[23:46]he recited that Dua then he did sajdah like this and he

[23:49]narrates the exact things that emiral Momin said and did when they

[23:54]finished the Imam said to him I want to go into the

[24:01]desert pitch black darkness can I join you he cared about the

[24:07]Imam he knew the Imam had assassins and enemies and people who

[24:10]wanted him dead so he says I said to the Imam would

[24:15]you give me permission to come with you the Imam said yes

[24:16]so we went to this very desolate dark patch in the middle

[24:22]of the night desert then the Imam with his index finger drew

[24:29]a line in the sand and said to me yamatham do not

[24:36]cross this line whatever you say the Imam then went he went

[24:44]Nathan says the imam's absence took longer than I expected perhaps it

[24:51]was half an hour an hour after which I said to myself

[24:56]Nathan says Waylon FC what are you doing your master your Imam

[25:00]he's in danger he's gone you don't know if he's safe or

[25:05]not what if something happens to him go and find out so

[25:10]he was torn between obeying the imam's command or trying to protect

[25:18]him should he be in need of protection so he says I

[25:21]went after the Imam and that's when I saw Amir he had

[25:26]stuck his body inside a well all the way down to his

[25:32]hips the Imam was speaking to the well and what's even more

[25:45]mesmerizing is that the well was speaking back to him as soon

[25:50]as I saw that knew that I was there so he came

[25:58]out of the well he looked at me and he said to

[26:04]him didn't I command you not to cross that line he said

[26:08]but I couldn't help it I would have blamed myself if anything

[26:12]happened to you I had to come so the Imam said to

[26:19]him yeah did you hear what I said in the well any

[26:22]of the things that happened in the conversation he said I didn't

[26:29]hear it then the Imam said to him he said yeah Nathan

[26:34]my chest is under so much pressure I feel this heaviness on

[26:43]my heart there are things that I want to speak of but

[26:46]I can't and every time I feel this way I come outside

[26:50]into the desert to speak inside a well foreign that you were

[27:02]so lonely you had to come and vent your grievances to the

[27:06]well and the water and the well brothers and sisters tonight is

[27:13]not a night for me to blabber and talk for too long

[27:20]it's a night that's special for two extremely significant reasons number one

[27:27]The Descent of the Holy Quran the book of Allah and number

[27:36]three is the ascent of the speaking Quran so this convergence of

[27:47]events makes this night absolutely critical and life-altering it's life-altering because number

[27:58]one Allah has invited us to repent and to seek forgiveness and

[28:05]Redemption he's opened the gates to his Mercy and he's given us

[28:10]the chance to speak to him and to beg and plead and

[28:17]ask him to take yet another look at the sinful slave of

[28:23]his but Allah's Mercy is so great that he is also made

[28:33]these two occurrences coincide so that we could use the name of

[28:41]Allah to ask Allah for his forgiveness and so in other words

[28:45]the way we speak to Allah is oh Allah don't look at

[28:50]me look at the one that I love and follow I ask

[28:53]you in his name they say that once there was a person

[29:00]who committed a crime in the time of rasulullah and the prophet

[29:04]said that this person should be killed if you can arrest him

[29:09]and bring him to me so be it I will have him

[29:16]executed the prophet didn't kill people randomly or For No Good Reason

[29:21]imagine the crime he must have committed must have been grave if

[29:25]he can be arrested then we'll have him executed if not kill

[29:31]him wherever you find him this man was absolutely desperate what did

[29:36]he do in the middle of the night he went to the

[29:39]house of Emir in the morning he said to him I was

[29:45]friends with your father and so I want you to intercede for

[29:50]me I want you to speak to our soul Allah to forgive

[29:52]me to absolve me of my crime and so it was almost

[29:58]Fajr time took this man he went into the Masjid as soon

[30:02]as he entered the prophet knew what was happening holding this man's

[30:09]hand because he happened to love Abu Talib as soon as the

[30:14]prophet saw that he said I have forgiven him for your sake

[30:22]and so on A Night Like This really what do we do

[30:28]what do we do what recourse do we have How can I

[30:32]and with what excuse can I turn to Allah even if I

[30:40]want to mention really the famous prophetic Hadith says Ali is the

[30:48]scale by which our actions are weighed and evaluated Ali honestly if

[30:55]the standard is then we might as well just pack up an

[30:59]abandon religion altogether how can my actions be compared to Imperial moment

[31:07]how what do we do it's tough brothers and sisters which is

[31:12]why it's so important that tonight when we attend these majalis and

[31:15]these gatherings where we find all of these many to supplicate together

[31:22]that we don't feel that we've achieved anything what I pray to

[31:27]Allah for an hour or two or three in now I think

[31:31]that my cup has been filled that all my wishes have been

[31:37]granted because I prayed for a couple of years a couple of

[31:39]hours throughout the year we do nothing I am speaking about myself

[31:42]all of a sudden tonight I allocate a few hours and the

[31:47]company of these and I think that I've achieved something notice one

[31:52]thing about Dua Josh ocean you mentioned a thousand and one names

[32:02]of Allah right beautiful names that honor and glorify the creator of

[32:09]the universe and yet after every 10 verses in that Dua what

[32:15]do you say Allah what does subhanak mean you're exalted from this

[32:30]exalted from what did I God forbid insult Allah did I say

[32:37]something that was inappropriate or wrong so why do we keep saying

[32:45]subhanak where in the Quran do we say subhanak ad Allah Allah

[32:50]says the Christians say that Allah has a son subhanah Allah has

[32:57]exalted from this when somebody says something that is insulting or derogatory

[33:06]or somehow brings down the station and rank of the creator of

[33:10]the universe that's when we say subhanik so why is it that

[33:16]when we say yeah all these beautiful honor honorific titles of Allah

[33:26]that we read in Dua Joshua why do we have to say

[33:30]subhanak afterwards the reason is this imagine I'll give you an example

[33:37]to illustrate imagine if a child a school boy was trying to

[33:42]describe someone with a PhD and cosmology because this school boy is

[33:53]so limited in his capacity and comprehension he might describe this preeminent

[34:00]Scientist by saying that you know the books we study at school

[34:07]in third grade he studied all of them is that not an

[34:11]insult of course he studied all of them of course he knows

[34:14]all these things of course all of these titles of Allah are

[34:17]true the problem is when I speak them because I don't know

[34:23]who I'm talking about I have to then end by saying you're

[34:28]exalted from this because I don't know Allah notice what Imam says

[34:36]I want to read the actual portion the Imam says oh Allah

[34:48]had it not been obligatory for me to obey your command and

[34:55]speaking about you and honoring you and exalting you and doing Victor

[35:03]of Allah I would have exalted you from my mention and my

[35:13]remembrance who am I to speak about Allah because it's not something

[35:22]that has the capacity to speak about you I don't have the

[35:28]capacity it's an insult for me to even mention the name of

[35:31]Allah who am I to be a vehicle for the exaltation and

[35:42]honoring of Allah one of your greatest blessings and gifts and honors

[35:55]from me is that you have allowed me to remember your name

[36:00]you've allowed me to mention your exalted name you've allowed us tonight

[36:07]to come together and recite and the other duas one of your

[36:16]greatest blessings is this foreign now that you have given us this

[36:43]blessing to address you and to speak directly to you then Inspire

[36:47]us to constantly remember you and so back to the point I

[36:56]was speaking of earlier we're trying to get near Allah subhanahu wa

[37:02]ta'ala but the fact of the matter is I look at my

[37:05]deeds and I see nothing but insults I see nothing but desecrations

[37:11]of the name of Allah I have nothing to offer nothing and

[37:17]then you look at the beta oh we spent four hours on

[37:24]the night of Qatar we prayed I'm sure it's all been wiped

[37:30]clean all of my sins all of my transgressions we did this

[37:32]Amal and that Amal we call them Amal and yet look at

[37:40]lady zainab when she places her hand beneath the body of ABBA

[37:43]Abdullah she says oh Allah accept this little offering from Al Muhammad

[37:53]because zainab knows Allah zainab knows How Majestic the creator of the

[37:59]universe is and so the torn body of above Hussain is a

[38:07]little offering in the way of Allah you look at the imams

[38:13]of the the descriptions of their prayers and their supplications is truly

[38:21]mind-boggling would scream and cry and then fall down unconscious and become

[38:27]so stiff he looked like a chunk of wood they would go

[38:32]back to Fatima to Sahara just died Fatima would say no this

[38:42]is praise to Allah every single night until he loses consciousness Imam

[38:50]Assad's face would turn pale and white when he's about to wrap

[38:58]the Haram they say to him what is wrong he would say

[39:01]I'm afraid that when I say Allah would say no you're not

[39:09]welcome you're not answering my call is as if as if they

[39:20]were the biggest Sinners even though they had not committed a single

[39:24]sin of hell was as if he was the only person who

[39:31]was going to be thrown in hell as if of course at

[39:36]the same time he had hope that if everyone ended up in

[39:40]the fires of hell that he would go to paradise that hope

[39:47]that we don't have that fear and if I'm going to follow

[39:54]in the footsteps then I should be truly terrified if Ali is

[39:58]terrified of the fires of hell am I more Brave than Ali

[40:03]Ali is afraid he says I wouldn't take away a grain from

[40:08]an ant Allah I wouldn't even oppress an ant in exchange for

[40:26]everything in the heavens some of us seem to be more Brave

[40:32]than Ali because Ali is afraid of the fires of hell but

[40:35]we're not there's something wrong here and so what do we do

[40:41]we're looking for a solution this is how desperate I am this

[40:46]is how incapacitated I am this I have to understand which is

[40:55]why when we come to these majalis you consider yourself to be

[40:58]the poorest of the poor you don't think you've done anything in

[41:03]God's favor anything poverty has to be exhibited holistically in me but

[41:11]let's say I reach that State of Mind how do we get

[41:18]out of this Quagmire what do we do the answer lies I

[41:24]want to read you this quick Dua inshallah I won't take too

[41:27]much of your time but it's the night of Dua and prayer

[41:31]someone sends or comes to Imam and he says to him give

[41:40]me a Dua teach me it for the most difficult times look

[41:46]at how the Imam teaches him to speak to Allah subhanahu wa

[41:52]ta'ala again you'll find the key to our Salvation in this Dua

[41:55]he says oh Allah my sins and the sheer volume of my

[42:08]transgressions have made my fur my face dirty in your eyes and

[42:18]they've prevented me from deserving your mercy um he says oh Allah

[42:48]had it not been for the fact that you have warned us

[42:52]against hopelessness and despair I would have reached hopelessness and despair when

[42:57]I look at myself I look at my actions I look at

[43:02]my sins I can forget about ever receiving your mercy but you

[43:06]have told us that you should never give up and you have

[43:10]said these things and you've warned those who have despair foreign only

[43:22]those who are truly deviant will have despair from the mercy of

[43:30]Allah oh Allah then you invited us you called on to us

[43:35]and you said call on to me pray to me ask me

[43:41]and you said you said that those who are too arrogant and

[43:53]proud to pray to me to worship me they will end up

[43:58]in the fires of hell is I am in complete despair but

[44:15]because you have given you have promised the ones who have one

[44:23]who think that you are capable of giving us only that is

[44:27]in our interest and that is good because you have done that

[44:38]until the Imam says oh Allah what gives me hope is this

[44:52]you have said in your book and your word cannot change the

[45:02]day of judgment is the day we will call we will call

[45:06]on to every group with their leader with their master Cafe no

[45:12][Music] since that is the case that I will be called on

[45:27]the day of judgment with my Imam then oh Allah I confess

[45:33]and I acknowledge in secret and in public that what that is

[46:01]oh Allah not only is he my Imam and my master and

[46:22]my beloved leader but I also know that I cannot trust my

[46:27]actions and my Deeds except if I have his willia in my

[46:35]heart except if I follow him and I acknowledge all of his

[46:42]virtues I accept those who transmit his virtues and his merits he

[46:58]if you're going to reject all of my Deeds then you can't

[47:03]reject the fact that I love Aliyah that is true and you

[47:09]know it to be true and I follow his children they represent

[47:25]my way to Allah my religion is embodied by them and I

[47:32]believe in them then the Imam says and I'm skipping through some

[47:38]of the lines here he says oh Allah on the day of

[47:47]judgment when you call on to me have me as one of

[47:52]the people who flock towards them let them be my imams and

[47:56]my leaders is in the Imam then goes on to do tawasul

[48:13]to be him self and the hidden the hidden proof of Allah

[48:33]who is from their lineage I believe in them and I ask

[48:38]for their intercession and in their wasila the Imam then continues to

[48:45]stress on this point that even though I have nothing to show

[48:49]one thing I do have is the love maybe not the allegiance

[48:54]maybe I am not a Shia but I am of the Imam

[49:01]of the time maybe the love that I have towards the Imam

[49:05]of the time will be reflected back from the Imam towards me

[49:11]someone says someone wrote a letter to Imam al-jawad and the Imam

[49:16]wrote back to him there was an entire book that was recently

[49:19]published called beautiful collection all of the letters to various people so

[49:27]the Imam writes back to this person he says to him you

[49:32]have asked me to pray for you but when did I ever

[49:39]stop praying for you the Imam then said to him that I

[49:43]love you and I always think about you you've asked me for

[49:50]permission to use a portion of the I grant you all of

[49:56]them and you get you can do whatever you wish with them

[49:58]then the Imam says to him I love you and I pray

[50:03]that Allah raises you with us on the day of judgment may

[50:08]you be raised with us I constantly think about you imagine if

[50:15]the Imam of the time said this on a night like this

[50:19]do I deserve it absolutely not but is he such a noble

[50:28]master that even when his insubordinate sinful criminal slave turns to him

[50:36]with a little sincerity and calls on his name and asks him

[50:43]to intercede for him the Imam is too good to turn his

[50:47]face away a man by the name of ashakrani lived in the

[50:53]time of Imam al-kavan the Hadith says that one day the Khalifa

[50:58]had given some money and distributed money to the people as shakrani

[51:01]also wanted a little bit of this money but no one knew

[51:08]him he was a shihad meaning somehow he had the love of

[51:10]the Arabia the love of the Imam of his time in his

[51:14]heart even though he was sinful truly sinful he committed a grave

[51:18]sin a kabira which was that he drank alcohol so Hadith says

[51:28]that as he was walking he came across Imam al-kalda the Imam

[51:33]came up to him the Imam whispered something in his ear he

[51:39]took the money he gave it to him he poured it from

[51:43]his slave sleeve into his sleeve then the Imam said to him

[51:48]foreign when someone carries out a good deed no matter who does

[51:56]it a good deed is a good deed it's if it's the

[52:00]worst of the worst a good deed is still good maybe the

[52:05]person who does it is bad but from you it's even better

[52:11]because of your position with regards to us because of your connection

[52:19]to us because after all people know you as a Shia and

[52:23]so if you do something good it's even better when you do

[52:31]when someone does something evil it doesn't matter who does it evil

[52:38]is evil but when you do it it's even worse because people

[52:41]will say that Shia did such and such did you hear what

[52:45]he did or what this community did or how this group of

[52:50]the followers and lovers of the got into a fight amongst themselves

[52:54]and they had to go and appeal to the court system did

[52:57]you hear what happened what a shame what a shame the evil

[53:05]that you commit is way worse now our excuse to Allah if

[53:13]he says to us why were you like this is number one

[53:18]yeah Overlook What I've Done forgive me and number two are excuses

[53:33]this and they've taught us to say this they have said that

[53:38]when the holy month of Ramadan begins recite and in the latter

[53:46]portion what do we say we say who said this the first

[53:55]person to say it was before the battle of Jamal began he

[54:03]said in other words oh Allah if our Imam was with us

[54:12]maybe I would have been a better person if I could see

[54:13]the Imam pray if I could see the Imam perform do I

[54:18]if I could see the Imam go to Hajj if I could

[54:22]see the Imam in front of me I might have been a

[54:24]better person you know it's an excuse maybe Allah will accept it

[54:44]from us maybe he will accept it my apologies for taking so

[54:53]much of your time I wish to take you to kufa now

[54:56]it's a very difficult night when the Muslim ummah became a teens

[55:04]Ma and so when Emily departed from this world we all became

[55:13]orphans I don't know if I can address the Imam of the

[55:20]time like this I do apologize forgive me but remember what a

[55:28]mural mohammadin said in his wasayya Allah Allah he said I ask

[55:33]you in the name of Allah to look after the orphans we

[55:39]are your orphans look after us tonight pray for us ask Allah

[55:45]to forgive us such a difficult night one of the recommended acts

[55:57]on the night of the 19th was what Allah why because was

[56:03]only the puppet marionette the strings were held by other people who

[56:10]was a Sunni historian he has a book called Ashraf in that

[56:17]book he mentions he says in his time as the Khalifa wrote

[56:28]to amribnell house was very special to the holafa he was often

[56:32]the person they would appoint to carry out the most critical tasks

[56:36]even ensure a sitter the committee of the sixth that were formed

[56:40]by Omar was tasked to supervise this committee and ensure that no

[56:48]one gets elected other than withman and so Omar writes the address

[56:55]is I wish for you to buy a house as a gift

[57:08]and give it to Abdullah and bring make sure the house is

[57:17]close to the Masjid and make sure it's a big house make

[57:22]him comfortable The Killers of Emil mohammadin it wasn't just and people

[57:31]like that it was a concerted orchestrated effort that had been set

[57:38]into motion years before and so imagine how difficult it must have

[57:53]been in these last few days he was surrounded by members of

[58:04]his family some companions when suddenly the Imam looked up and said

[58:08]welcome welcome who are you saying that to he said [Music] veiled

[58:25]her face before she died so that Ali wouldn't see the marks

[58:32]on her face now finally I get to see my beloved father

[58:36]I get to see her soon Allah [Applause] imagine having this conversation

[58:48]it was so hard every time I went into the alleyway where

[58:55]you were slapped it was so difficult every time I confronted is

[59:05]sitting with some of his companions the Muslims had become angry with

[59:13]the way Omar was running the government he was acting with favoritism

[59:17]helping his friends and distancing others and so Muslims became agitated in

[59:23]order to quell The Descent said all of his Governors have to

[59:28]present all of their wealth and say how much money they have

[59:33]and how much money they've been they've raised so that it would

[59:37]all be transparent but he gave certain exceptions some of his Governors

[59:42]were exempt from providing their income to the Khalifa and so someone

[59:48]says that I went to amirul momini was sitting in the Masjid

[59:53]surrounded by Salman by Amar by some of his companions he went

[59:57]and he said to the Imam did you hear what Omar did

[60:02]he said that all the governors have to transparently show their income

[60:06]but he gave exceptions to some of those governors and one of

[60:12]them was Al confused the Imam then looked to the right and

[60:17]the left in other words to be careful what he says he

[60:24]looked to the right and the left and then he said do

[60:28]you know why he Exempted him he wants to show appreciation and

[60:42]thank him for when he beat father with his whip that left

[60:45]the mark on the arm of father that's why he gave him

[60:54]that's why he Exempted him now imagine you're more meaning after this

[61:00]whole time is about to meet his beloved wife Fatima once again

[61:08]it's only Imam is on the one hand delighted the Imam is

[61:10]happy he said to one of his companions I'm going to Paradise

[61:17]to meet rasulullah and jaffar and my family members and Hamza but

[61:22]on the other hand when he saw his son Imam Al Hussain

[61:28]crying more than others the Imam also cried foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music]

[62:00]I can almost see the dagger on your throat foreign [Applause] this

[62:20]wasn't cool if I remember the Imam said can he be key

[62:26]when he saw it as for you I can almost see the

[62:32]day when you and other women in your family [Applause] you will

[62:38]be paraded like slaves in these same streets and Alleyways Hussain zainab

[62:50]is the one who narrates the story his boy came and asked

[62:58]him for permission to leave she says that with every stook step

[63:03]that Akbar took away from his father I could see the Imam

[63:09]trembling and shame after a while he heard the cry Abba alaikum

[63:17]father unlike every other companion who said Ricky come and save me

[63:24]didn't want to torture he said father salaam be upon you rasulullah

[63:38]Allah remember when I told you I was thirsty don't worry about

[63:47]me anymore [Applause] he says we have a cup waiting for you

[64:00]as well rushed to his son foreign laughs foreign [Music]

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