Imam Ali (AS) In the Quran - Sayed Mohammad Baqir Qazwini

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Imam Ali (AS) In the Quran - Sayed Mohammad Baqir Qazwini
in celebration of the birth of Imam Ali (AS) at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo

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[0:06]i begin in the name of the almighty god the compassionate the

[0:12]merciful the one who has created everything in utmost perfection and may

[0:16]the peace and blessings of the almighty god be upon his pure

[0:20]and beloved messenger the peak of his creation the symbol of humanity

[0:25]the holy prophet muhammad and his immaculate progeny of the bait peace

[0:38]be upon them especially the leader of our time the awaited savior

[0:42]al-imam al-mahdi may allah hasten his reappearance and make us all amongst

[0:50]the sincere and dedicated servants respected brothers and sisters assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi

[0:59]i extend to you my sincerest congratulations on the birth of the

[1:05]commander of the faithful imam this is a very joyous and auspicious

[1:13]occasion for us as we are infinitely thanking the almighty god we

[1:22]are infinitely grateful to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for blessing us with

[1:28]such a leader and we ask allah to allah to never take

[1:31]away the will of our hearts there are many dimensions to examine

[1:40]in the life of amir al-mu'min in these few minutes in our

[1:47]english part of the program which will be followed with a short

[1:51]arabic presentation as well i would like to share with you one

[1:56]very important question that many people have about imam ali and we'll

[2:05]spend a few minutes answering this critical question some people ask imam

[2:14]has such a an important place in our religion the belief in

[2:20]his leadership the belief in his imam is an integral part of

[2:31]islam without it islam is incomplete that's because after the prophet sallallahu

[2:37]alaihi declared to the world that imam ali is the wali is

[2:42]the mawla is the ruler is the successor after him allah subhanahu

[2:47]wa ta'ala revealed this verse in surah today i've perfected my blessings

[3:08]upon you and today i've accepted islam as your religion what does

[3:15]this mean what is the implied meaning of a verse like this

[3:19]if someone tells you today i'm satisfied with you what's the implied

[3:26]meaning it means yesterday something was incomplete now i'm satisfied with this

[3:32]if you're working on a project and the one that you're dedicating

[3:38]the project to tells you today now i've accepted your project that

[3:43]means previously it was incomplete when allah states that now i've completed

[3:51]your religion now i've accepted islam as your religion the implied meaning

[3:55]is that if you omit ali ibn abi ta'ala islam from islam

[3:58]that's not an islam that allah wants that's not islam that allah

[4:03]is satisfied with that's an incomplete faith and this is from the

[4:07]quran so we know how important the place of imam ali is

[4:13]but the question is that many people have how come allah does

[4:17]not mention the name of imam ali in the quran isn't he

[4:20]our imam we have to believe in him he represents the prophet

[4:24]we take our religious values and teachings from him where is his

[4:27]name then how come god did not mention his name in the

[4:32]holy quran in answering this very critical question we will briefly analyze

[4:39]several dimensions to this question number one when you're searching for the

[4:47]truth and the path of the truth you don't necessarily search for

[4:58]names you search for qualities and attributes allah subhanahu ta'ala wants us

[5:02]to focus on qualities and attributes why is it that we believe

[5:08]in prophet muhammad many people in history have claimed to be prophets

[5:13]once i was in california for a program and i was walking

[5:17]on the street when a man came up to me and he

[5:21]says i'm a prophet follow my message i told him you really

[5:26]you're a prophet what's your miracle he says i don't need a

[5:29]miracle i told him that how are you going to prove to

[5:33]me that you're a prophet he's like anybody can be a prophet

[5:35]i'm not saying i'm the only prophet on earth there could be

[5:38]other prophets i don't need a miracle anyone can make that claim

[5:45]but the intellect teaches us that you follow a prophet who's infallible

[5:48]who has a miracle who is connected to allah ta'ala if you

[5:53]see a person committing sins violations his knowledge is incomplete automatically you

[6:00]know this person is not a prophet we examine attributes characteristics and

[6:08]qualities in the holy quran allah allah has filled his blessed book

[6:13]with the qualities and attributes of amir and mu'min and you can

[6:18]find this in hadith that all muslims have narrated not just shia

[6:22]sources hundreds of verses in the holy quran were revealed about amir

[6:30]al-mu'min examine those qualities one example of those verses is chapter 5

[6:39]verse 55.

[6:39]you can't forget this verse 5 55 easy to remember allah declares

[6:45]to us the qualities of those who are his awliya those who

[6:51]have guardianship over us allah states innama innama in arabic means only

[6:58]and only it's a restriction this is restricted to these people only

[7:02]to these beings your guardian is allah what and his messenger who's

[7:11]the third one who's the third category those who have full faith

[7:18]who are they [Music] those who establish prayers and they give zakat

[7:32]they give charity while in the state of ruku look at the

[7:38]history of this verse and the sources that speak about this verse

[7:42]allah revealed this verse when a poor man a beggar walked into

[7:48]the mosque of the prophet sallallahu alaihi imam al ibn abi al

[7:52]islam was in one corner praying and he was praying we can

[7:58]conclude from the narrations the mustahab salah he was praying when this

[8:02]man came to him the ma the imam was was in his

[8:05]rook he asked the imam for help help me give me something

[8:07]now the imam is praying he wasn't carrying you know cash on

[8:13]him the imam was wearing a ring in the state of the

[8:20]imam extended his hand signaling to him to take the ring this

[8:24]is my sadaqa for you this is my act of charity the

[8:28]man took it and left from the outside it seems like a

[8:32]very simple event right that night the prophet came to see imam

[8:37]ali he met him after salah the prophet salallahu alaihi told them

[8:41]ali what did you do today imam said why what happened no

[8:48]tell me what did you two didn't it do today jibra il

[8:50]just came on me and he has revealed a verse in your

[8:56]honor you've done something so great in the eyes of allah subhana

[8:59]wa ta'ala that he documented it in the quran the imam alayhi

[9:03]salaam told him what happened see if you're looking for your guardian

[9:06]the leader whom you follow it's in the quran look at these

[9:12]attributes look at these qualities or in surat nisa verse 59 459

[9:17]allah commands us who to follow obey god and who his messenger

[9:27]and the guardians the guardians of your affairs who are the imams

[9:35]of al-bait we know that what is meant here is imam ali

[9:37]ibn abi talib and the imam's why because when the quran tells

[9:42]you to follow someone unconditionally follow god unconditionally follow the prophet unconditionally

[9:50]without any conditions we know that the next category those who have

[10:00]guardianship they must be infallible because allah would only tell you to

[10:05]follow someone unconditionally if they are infallible but if they can make

[10:13]mistakes if they can cause you to deviate if they make errors

[10:17]allah will not tell you to follow them unconditionally because that puts

[10:22]you in a contradiction imagine the one whom you have to obey

[10:26]and follow commits a sin do you follow them in that sin

[10:28]or no if you do you're committing the sin too if you

[10:32]don't you're not following the verse because the verse says follow them

[10:36]just like you follow god so we find that the qualities of

[10:42]imam ali alayhi salaam are mentioned in the quran that's the first

[10:47]point very briefly and this is a very effective way my dear

[10:50]brothers and sisters we follow imam ali salam because allah blessed him

[10:55]with these qualities the quran introduces him through his qualities you know

[11:00]sometimes let's say i'm introducing my friend to you i can tell

[11:02]you here my friend his name is x and i introduce him

[11:08]to you but sometimes if i'm introducing my friend to you i

[11:12]prepare the grounds and i tell you now i'm introducing the most

[11:18]truthful person the most honest person the most humble person and then

[11:21]i bring my friend forward isn't this more effective because now you

[11:26]will focus on the qualities of my friend this is the first

[11:31]point and the first aspect the second point my dear brothers and

[11:34]sisters we know that allah created us for what for a trial

[11:40]allah has given us the intellect allah wants us to search search

[11:45]for the truth your professor at the best school that you'll go

[11:52]to does your professor give you all the answers no the professor

[11:56]trains you how to find the answers but when the time for

[12:01]the examination comes your teacher is not going to give you all

[12:04]the answers you have to search for those answers allah has given

[12:09]us the tools to find out who his representatives are and what

[12:13]their qualities are and how we follow them allah has given us

[12:17]the tools but allah is not going to give us all the

[12:20]answers there in one book you have to research you have to

[12:25]use your intellect you have to examine history because life is a

[12:31]trial it's an examination that continues for decades you live 70 years

[12:37]your trial is 70 years so that's why some things allah doesn't

[12:41]just clearly mention in the quran he wants you to investigate them

[12:47]he wants you to go and research them that's the second point

[12:51]here the third point my dear brothers and sisters if allah had

[12:58]explicitly and you'll see why i say explicitly soon when we talk

[13:02]about the fourth point if allah had explicitly mentioned the name of

[13:05]imam ali alayhi islam in the quran do you know what would

[13:11]have happened to the quran any ideas what do you think would

[13:17]have happened to the quran when the umayyads were ruling muawiyah started

[13:24]a tradition of cursing imam ali alayhi salaam for 70 years on

[13:30]the pulpits do you know this happened to the muslim ummah after

[13:35]ma'awiyah they would open their friday sermon by cursing imam ali salah

[13:39]what a tragedy this is what the umayyads did do you think

[13:46]if allah mentioned his name clearly in the quran they would have

[13:51]accepted that quran they would have omitted those verses in the quran

[13:54]and allah does not want anyone to change the quran allah wants

[13:58]the quran to stay intact till the day of judgment had the

[14:02]name of the imam been clearly explicitly mentioned in the quran the

[14:06]enemies of imam ali al-isram would have tried to omit this verse

[14:10]from the quran and that would have opened the door for people

[14:13]to tamper with the quran and play with the quran just like

[14:16]people did with the torah and the bible allah doesn't want that

[14:21]to happen and this definitely would have happened after the prophet sallallahu

[14:27]alaihi so allah gave us a plan such that the quran is

[14:30]kept intact for those who want the truth the truth is there

[14:33]that's the third point here's the fourth point and the most important

[14:39]point the question assumes that the name of imam ali al-islam is

[14:45]not mentioned in the quran right that's the assumption many of our

[14:49]scholars and researchers today are examining verses in the holy quran and

[14:54]a number of our scholars and researchers have been able to demonstrate

[15:00]beyond any doubt with sufficient evidence and proof that the name of

[15:07]imam ali ibn abi talib is mentioned in the quran where this

[15:12]may be surprising to some of you but i sh i will

[15:17]share with you the verse in which the name of imam ali

[15:20]ibn abi talib is actually mentioned in the quran in order to

[15:25]see where the imam's name is mentioned it's important for us to

[15:32]remember the dua that prophet ibrahim alaihissalam made allah talks about the

[15:36]dua of prophet ibrahim in surah 84.

[15:40]prophet ibrahim makes a request from allah he says to allah oh

[15:52]allah give me a tongue of truth amongst the later generations suratu

[16:00]verse 84 what does this mean tongue of truth in arabic when

[16:07]you say tongue of truth that's a symbolic way of saying o

[16:13]allah give me a good reputation give me someone who will carry

[16:20]my legacy in the end of times in the later generations that's

[16:25]what ibrahim was asking for i want someone from my progeny later

[16:29]in history to come and carry my legacy revive my name keep

[16:35]my name alive that's what he asked for now prophet ibrahim when

[16:44]he makes a prayer do you think allah will answer him or

[16:49]no yes allah answered the dua of prophet ibrahim where does god

[16:54]capture that in the quran surat maryam verse 50.

[16:59]what does allah state in surat maryam verse in this verse allah

[17:06]subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about the family of ibrahim the sons of

[17:10]ibrahim and how allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed the household of ibrahim

[17:14]allah states in surat in verse 50 gave them from his mercy

[17:30]allah prophet ibrahim with his mercy with ishaq alaihissalam with isma'id and

[17:40]their progeny and the prophets of bani israel allah make them from

[17:44]the progeny of prophet ibrahim and then allah concludes the verse by

[17:50]stating and we have given them a tongue of truth a good

[17:59]reputation who is that tongue of truth now some people will tell

[18:11]you the word aliyah here is not the name of imam ali

[18:18]it's an attribute which means what hi i have a question for

[18:23]you if you look at different languages that describe the tongue we

[18:29]find that in various languages we have different descriptions for the tongue

[18:34]if your friend is truthful how would you describe his tongue in

[18:42]arabic even in english i would say his tongue is truthful it

[18:47]means he doesn't lie he's a truthful person if in arabic we

[18:56]say this if your friend talks a lot he's bold and he

[19:02]challenges you he's kind of rude right what do they say in

[19:10]arabic lisanuhu say it someone he's rude in arabic we say he

[19:16]has a long tongue what does long tongue mean that means this

[19:20]person is a little bit disrespectful talks too much cuts you off

[19:25]he objects to you he's rude he would say if a person

[19:32]uses bad language inappropriate indecent language how do you describe his telling

[19:39]dirty right even we say this in english his tongue is dirty

[19:43]because he speaks inappropriate words now my question to you have you

[19:50]ever heard anyone a person in your community a poet someone who's

[19:55]eloquent have you ever heard someone describe a tongue as being high

[19:59]the ali if he's eloquent you say this he's eloquent you say

[20:06]that in arabic that's why it's called right you say this if

[20:13]it's very eloquent and proper are words to describe a tongue that

[20:18]is eloquent but none of these languages arabic english or other similar

[20:23]languages none of them describe a tongue as being high therefore our

[20:28]scholars are saying it doesn't make sense to take the word aliyah

[20:34]here as an adjective as an attribute which means allah is saying

[20:39]i gave them prophet ibrahim and his family a high tongue what

[20:43]does a high tongue mean it's not eloquent to say in arabic

[20:49]high tongue no poet ever used that expression languages don't use this

[20:53]expression and we know the quran is at the peak of the

[20:54]eloquence the quran doesn't say something that's strange we know the tongue

[21:01]is not described as high he has a high tongue does it

[21:08]make sense this is not used that's why this leads our scholars

[21:12]to believe that the word aliyah here is not a description but

[21:18]rather the name of the commander of the faithful and if you

[21:28]look at the previous verses on surat maryam allah see he's mentioning

[21:36]names then in the next verse allah mentions the name of imam

[21:40]ali and indeed my dear brothers and sisters who supported this religion

[21:47]of islam and made this religion a successful religion such that the

[21:54]name of ibrahim was kept alive in history the quran was kept

[21:58]alive in history who was the one who gave support to this

[22:01]religion so that the prophet could broadcast this message to the world

[22:06]none other than and if you read dua that we are to

[22:16]recite friday mornings it's muslim to recite it it reminds you of

[22:19]the imam of your time in this dua the imam al-islam who

[22:25]narrates it he's talking about prophet ibrahim ibrahim asked you a tongue

[22:36]of truth you answered him so in addition to those three points

[22:51]that we mentioned no there is evidence that the name of the

[22:56]imam is actually mentioned in the quran but allah wants you to

[23:01]research to ponder every single verse but yes we do acknowledge that

[23:05]the name of the imam is not explicitly mentioned you still have

[23:10]to research these aspects for the reasons that we have already mentioned

[23:14]before that allah wants you to focus on the attributes number two

[23:18]it's a trial allah wants you to research number three if the

[23:23]name of the imam was explicitly mentioned in the quran his enemies

[23:26]would have omitted it from the quran and that would have opened

[23:31]the door to playing with the book of allah and allah did

[23:34]not want that to happen my dear brothers and sisters as we

[23:42]are commemorating the legacy and the birth of amir al-mu'min in salawat

[23:46]let us go by the spirit of this holy verse to leave

[23:54]a good reputation yes we sincerely work for allah subhanahu wa to

[24:01]allah and by sincerely working for allah allah will give you a

[24:06]good reputation good reputation means a good legacy think about your legacy

[24:11]our children think about your legacy what legacy are you leaving behind

[24:15]the imam whom you are celebrating his birth tonight he was at

[24:20]age 9 or 10 when he declared his islam and he became

[24:24]the first defender of rasulallah a young boy don't underestimate yourself start

[24:31]building your legacy from now have a good reputation for yourself for

[24:36]your family and we as muslims and specifically as followers of the

[24:43]bait we have the greatest responsibility to leave a good reputation around

[24:50]the world if you look at the hadiths my dear brothers and

[24:53]sisters that describe who the she is you know we use this

[25:00]term loosely lightly do you know who's really the shia the shia

[25:05]is the one who through his actions through his words through his

[25:12]behavior he reflects to the world who his leaders are my dear

[25:16]brothers and sisters today the people have not seen the bait they

[25:21]are debate lived centuries ago 12 to 14 centuries ago people did

[25:26]not see them today if people want to know about the bait

[25:31]who are they seeing where are they looking they're looking at us

[25:38]we are the catalogs that reflect the teachings of alibaba just like

[25:45]a company when they want to release a product they advertise for

[25:48]it they market it they have a catalog right you see the

[25:53]product you get interested in it you go and buy it and

[25:55]usually the product looks very good in the catalog right they give

[25:59]you the best image because they're trying to encourage you so you

[26:02]buy it the actual product looks not as good as it looks

[26:07]on the catalog we are walking talking catalogs who point the world

[26:12]to our imams have we been good catalogs brothers and sisters how

[26:21]would you evaluate that have we done justice to our imams on

[26:28]this night let's make a commitment with our leader in salawat to

[26:34]better reflect his justice his humbleness his services to humanity i'll share

[26:40]with you a couple of hadiths about who the shia really is

[26:52]our shia are those who offer everything that's good and beautiful in

[26:59]society everything that's good and beautiful you find the source of it

[27:05]is our true shia the one who avoids anything that's indecent inappropriate

[27:14]anything that's ugly the shia does not do it the shias are

[27:23]those who show the beauty of their actions of their akhla when

[27:29]it comes to projects to initiatives to serving others to volunteering to

[27:34]good deeds sarah they're very quick and fast their only hope is

[27:44]allah they want the mercy of allah subhanahu ta'ala for that is

[27:51]the one who is from us with us in another hadith whom

[28:00]we are celebrating his birth tonight he teaches us who the shiah

[28:03]are the imam states are those who have patience and forbearance they're

[28:11]like a mountain you cannot bring them down hurricanes can come and

[28:18]cause destruction to massive cities and states but when a hurricane passes

[28:22]through a mountain it can't do anything to a mountain in fact

[28:25]mountains mountain ranges they weaken the hurricane systems a mountain you cannot

[28:31]do anything with a mountain they are mountains of patience they have

[28:40]true knowledge about allah and the religion of allah they live by

[28:53]the love of their lord then the imam alayhi salaam states you

[28:59]find their life is based on humbleness it's based on ibadah [Music]

[29:06]their faces are yellow due to excessively worshipping allah their eyes are

[29:20]red because they cry out of their love for allah because of

[29:27]excessively remembering allah allah is on their tongue you see their lips

[29:32]withering have you seen someone when for hours and hours they're saying

[29:36]something doing something their lips actually start to wither this is symbolic

[29:46]they accept hunger for themselves out of humbleness when you look at

[29:54]their faces you're remembered you remember allah subhanahu wa their faces remind

[29:59]you of god they are the lanterns of every darkness the imam

[30:08]states these are my true shia and so on this night we

[30:14]ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to truly guide us to give us

[30:19]the tawfiq and the conviction to be amongst the true shia of

[30:24]amir al mu'min was

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