Imam Mahdi Series - The Purpose of The Imam in Occultation - Sayed Ahmed Al-Qazwini

10 المشاهدات· 16/06/15

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In the seventh lecture of a series about Imam Mahdi, Sayed Ahmed Al-Qazwini explains the concept and purpose of Imamah to assist in clarifying the roles of the Imam during his occultation. Such roles include being a reason for our creation and continuation in existence, and as a refugee for the believers to resort to in calamities and difficult situations. Al-Rasoul Islamic Society | The Month of Ramadan 1437 - 2016

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[0:49]respected brothers and sisters what is the purpose of an imam that

[0:58]is an occultation al ghaibah is an important question that may come

[1:04]across the minds of many individuals and that's in the same way

[1:07]that many do not understand why imam al mahdi went into the

[1:14]state of occultation likewise many do not understand what's the benefit of

[1:19]imam al mahdi if he is in a state of occultation do

[1:23]we benefit from imam al mahdi what's his purpose many people ask

[1:27]if imam al mahdi is in the state of ghaybah if he's

[1:30]not around to help us to guide us to lead us for

[1:33]us to ask questions for him then what's the benefits and purpose

[1:37]of imam al mahdi they see him as useless and why do

[1:40]we even consider him as an imam if he is not beneficial

[1:44]to us if he is useless why do we deem him as

[1:46]an imam to begin with now before we can answer this question

[1:50]what's the purpose of imam al mahdi in this raiba the large

[1:53]raiba the major raiba al ghaybat al qubra we have to first

[1:58]understand two concepts if we understand these two concepts this will help

[2:02]us a lot in understanding the answer to this question the first

[2:06]concept that we have to understand is the concept of ghaybah and

[2:10]here i have to re emphasize what i already mentioned we said

[2:14]that many people have misunderstood the concept of ghaybah and because of

[2:18]their wrong understanding of the gaiba they accuse there's misconceptions and there

[2:24]are there's ignorance many people we said they think that when we

[2:27]say imam al mahdi is in the state of gaiba imam al

[2:31]mahdi is completely isolated he's hiding on an island somewhere or in

[2:35]a basement somewhere this is wrong we said because if we did

[2:38]believe in this then of course this would justify the question what's

[2:41]the purpose of this imam if he is on an island all

[2:44]by himself secluded he's isolated from the world in a basement but

[2:48]however we prove this during the last few nights that the ghaybah

[2:52]of the imam does not mean he's isolated the imam lives with

[2:55]us the only thing we mean is that the identity of the

[2:58]imam is concealed that's all we mean we do not recognize him

[3:02]we said many of us may have met him and saw him

[3:04]and saw him and that he goes to hajj every year he

[3:07]has 30 companions he walks in the streets in the market so

[3:10]imam al mahdi lives normally just like us but we do not

[3:13]recognize him so this is the first thing if we understand the

[3:16]concept of gaiba then what then this will help us in understanding

[3:21]what's the purpose of imam al mahdi because just because i cannot

[3:25]recognize the imam does not mean he's useless the imam is not

[3:28]secluded he lives with us just because i can't identify him and

[3:32]recognize him does not mean that the imam is useless and that's

[3:36]why when we come to the holy quran allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[3:39]he shows us through a beautiful story he shows us how an

[3:42]imam or a leader or a prophet can be in the state

[3:47]of gheba but at the same time he can be very beneficial

[3:50]to his community you see the stories of the quran allah subhanahu

[3:54]wa ta'ala doesn't just want to tell us a story bedtime story

[3:58]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to learn wants us to benefit

[4:01]so that we can relate to other matters that are relevant to

[4:04]us in our time allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the story that

[4:09]happened between prophet musa and khidr he shows us how a prophet

[4:13]or a wise man that's guided by allah can be in the

[4:17]state of gaiba meaning no one knows him no one knows his

[4:20]identity no one knows how he's helping but at the same time

[4:24]he could be very beneficial for his community how you've all read

[4:27]the story that happened between musa and khidr khidr we said he

[4:32]was either a prophet there's a the area this is the area

[4:35]of this dispute between the ulema and some say no he's not

[4:38]a prophet he was a wise man that was given knowledge by

[4:41]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the holy quran says the story and our

[4:46]hadith say that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he ordered musa with his

[4:50]disciple yusha ibnu he ordered them to go and meet khivr because

[4:56]he was a wise man and he ordered them to learn from

[4:58]al khivr allah mentions the holy the whole the story in the

[5:02]holy quran allah mentions this they met they met khvar now khvar

[5:13]no one knew who khvar was he was just a normal man

[5:15]and that's why allah says abdul min ibadan he was just a

[5:17]servant of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he was in a state of

[5:20]gaiba meaning identity concealed no one knew that he was a prophet

[5:24]or a wise man that had knowledge and you've all read the

[5:27]story i'll quickly say it what happened when musa said i want

[5:30]to benefit from your knowledge khidr did three things that even musa

[5:34]who's a messenger of allah did not know what khidr was doing

[5:38]did not understand the first thing is what the first thing is

[5:41]that he sunk he put a hole in the boat the boat

[5:44]sank why to save the boat from that oppressive king he wanted

[5:48]to take it and then what and then he saved the two

[5:52]good parents because of their great ungrateful son he killed the ungrateful

[5:56]son because what he was dangerous for his parents this was number

[6:00]two and number three he built a wall to protect the money

[6:04]of the two orphans who had no one to look after them

[6:07]now the quran says that khidr did these three important things while

[6:12]no one was aware he helped all these people in the community

[6:16]he helped the parents he helped the orphan he helped those poor

[6:20]people that had that boat while they did not even know about

[6:24]it they were not aware even musa was not aware he's a

[6:28]messenger of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he was not aware of how

[6:31]qidr is what of how qidr is helping the people while he

[6:35]was seeing qidr he was with qidr so allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[6:38]is trying to show us in the story of between prophet musa

[6:41]and khidr what that just because you cannot see the imam or

[6:45]a prophet or a wise man does not mean he's not helping

[6:48]people does not mean the imam has his special secretive ways of

[6:52]helping the people correct if khidr could do it secretly while no

[6:56]one was aware even musa wasn't aware why can't imam al mahdi

[7:00]do the same thing so we see how beautifully allah gives us

[7:06]the story of prophet qidr of prophet musa with khidr in the

[7:09]quran to show us that just because a prophet or imam is

[7:13]in the state of ghaiba does not mean he has no purpose

[7:17]does not mean he is useless so this is number one we

[7:19]have to always concentrate on the notion and concept of ghaiba ghaiba

[7:23]doesn't mean that imam is not with us it only means we

[7:25]can't recognize him this is number one number two the second concept

[7:30]that we have to fully understand is the concept of imam what's

[7:35]the concept of imam because many people say what type of imam

[7:39]is this if he's not here to help us if he's in

[7:42]hiding if he is in ghaiba how is he my imam imam

[7:45]should lead me imam should guide me so what type of imam

[7:48]in this is this now when we come to ahlus sunnah they

[7:53]define the imam if you if you were to ask the ahlus

[7:56]sunnah how do you find define the position of imam they will

[8:00]tell you the position of imam and the imam is the one

[8:05]that rules whoever rules whoever is in charge of the government he

[8:10]is your imam and that's why if you were to ask many

[8:13]of the ahlus sunnah who is the imam of your time do

[8:16]you not narrate the hadith of rasoolallah that says then who's the

[8:24]imam of your time they will tell you the king the prime

[8:27]minister the president the queen whoever whoever is in charge of the

[8:30]government the head of the government whoever is ruling then that person

[8:34]is my imam because their understanding of the position of imam means

[8:38]what means political position means whoever is in charge of the government

[8:43]now when we come to the school of thad of ahlul bayt

[8:45]you find a complete different definition of imam i have to first

[8:48]understand when i say this is my imam what do i mean

[8:51]by imam so that if i say imam is in ghaibah i

[8:54]don't say what type of imam is this is in ghaybah when

[8:57]we come to the school of thad of ahlul bayt we find

[9:00]that the imam is allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's decision to choose allah

[9:06]chooses someone and he will be the imam and the imam has

[9:09]many roles and functions and one of the small roles and functions

[9:14]of the imam is to what is to rule if it's possible

[9:17]if it's not possible he's still the imam the imam has so

[9:21]many other roles it's not just whoever is leading the government that's

[9:25]not the main role of the imam the imam has so many

[9:29]other roles and based on these roles of the imam we can

[9:33]understand the answer to our question tonight what is the purpose of

[9:38]imam al mahdi if he is in the state of ghaibah so

[9:41]we come and we say brother sister first do you understand what

[9:45]the role of the imam is and thus that's why you think

[9:48]that the gaiba is preventing the imam from practicing his role the

[9:52]gaiba is not preventing the imam from practicing his role because imam

[9:56]does not mean to lead the government does not mean the ruler

[10:00]this is just one job of the imam if it was possible

[10:04]so what's the job of the imam what's the purpose of the

[10:06]imam tonight i will mention to you three purposes at least three

[10:11]there may be infinite amounts of purposes imam al mahdi has but

[10:16]i'll purposes imam al mahdi has during but first the first purpose

[10:30]of our imam the twelfth imam in zaman al ghaybat al qubra

[10:34]is that imam al mahdi is what does this word mean what

[10:42]does this sentence mean what this basically means is that imam al

[10:50]mahdi and all the imams of ahlul bayt they are god's intermediaries

[10:55]between his benefactions and his creation what do i mean as sheikh

[11:04]muhammad taqi al isfahani one of our great ulama'i in his book

[11:08]miqi al makaram which is a very beautiful book whoever reads arabic

[11:12]i encourage you to read it it's two volumes about imam al

[11:15]mahdi in his book he says sometimes certain individuals ask me what's

[11:21]the purpose of al mahdi if he's in ghaiba he says this

[11:26]is such a silly question why he says this is such a

[11:31]silly question because i tell that person when your initial creation is

[11:37]in debt to imam al mahdi and the continuation of your creation

[11:41]is in debt to imam al mahdi you come and you ask

[11:44]what's the purpose of al mahdi isn't this rude and silly what

[11:49]does he mean he is speaking about al wasataf al fayd the

[11:53]imam of our time is al wasataf al fayd between us and

[11:57]allah now what does that mean this has two meanings the first

[12:02]meaning like a sheikh ahmad taqi says the first meaning is that

[12:07]if it was not for ahlul bayt allah would have never created

[12:11]us to begin with and then you come and say what's the

[12:14]purpose of imam mahdi if it wasn't for imam mahdi you would

[12:17]have never been born to begin with your entire initial existence is

[12:22]due to imam al mahdi now wait a minute where do we

[12:26]get this from many ahadith this is called al wasat al fayyid

[12:30]where do we get this from the most famous hadith is what

[12:33]you've all read it hadith al kisa sometimes we read it for

[12:36]barakah sometimes we have to what we have to read it to

[12:39]understand it we have to ponder upon the meanings what does allah

[12:43]tell ahlul bayt in hadith al kisaa you've all heard hadith al

[12:48]kisaa when prophet muhammad imam ali fatima hassan hussain they went under

[12:52]the kisaa the cloak and then jibrael came allah sent a message

[12:56]with jibrael to the holy prophet what did jibrael say he said

[13:00]allah tells you you muhammad have we not read hadith al kisaa

[13:27]what does allah tell the holy prophet i have not created the

[13:35]world and the skies and the moon and the stars and the

[13:38]sun and all existence but because of my love for muhammadan al

[13:43]muhammad if it wasn't for ahlul bayt allah wouldn't even bother creating

[13:48]me and then i come and i ask what's the purpose of

[13:51]ahlul bayt isn't this rude brother sister if it wasn't for imam

[13:56]al mahdi and the other imams of ahlul bayt you would not

[13:59]have been born allah wouldn't bother have created you he wouldn't have

[14:03]bothered to create you and then you come and ask what's the

[14:07]purpose of imam al mahdi your initial existence is due to imam

[14:12]al mahdi you're in debt to him the fact that you're alive

[14:15]and walking and breathing this is all because of allah's love of

[14:19]imam al mahdi if it wasn't for imam mahdi allah would have

[14:21]never bothered to create me and that's why in one hadith rasulullah

[14:25]he tells ali imam ali he tells him if it wasn't for

[14:41]us allah would not have created adam or hawa or the hell

[14:46]or the fire the hell in heaven he would not have created

[14:49]the world and any human being it was because of allah's love

[14:53]for us that he created every single human being now some may

[14:58]think that these hadith there's many of these hadith not just one

[15:02]or two that these hadith they contradict the quran why because allah

[15:07]what does he say in the quran allah says in the holy

[15:16]quran i did not create human beings and jinn but for them

[15:20]to what worship me the quran says allah created us so that

[15:23]we worship him you say according to these hadith that allah created

[15:28]us because of his love of ahlul bayt there's a contradiction correct

[15:31]no why is there not contradiction because allah in this verse the

[15:36]muftas sireen they have said allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not saying

[15:40]why he decided to create us he is speaking about our role

[15:45]in this world now that i have decided to create you for

[15:48]whatever reason now your job is to what ibadah so if i

[15:53]were to ask allah created me what's my goal what do i

[15:57]do in this dunya do i just have fun and just relax

[15:59]no allah created you so that you worship him but why did

[16:03]he decide to create you and other human beings for the love

[16:06]of al bayt for the love of ahlul bayt but now that

[16:10]he created you he wants you to do ibadah so there's no

[16:14]contradiction between this verse and between these ahadith so this is number

[16:18]one of the first meaning of al wa sultaf al fayid that

[16:22]our existence our initial existence is due to ahlul bayt and imam

[16:27]al mahdi if it was for imam al mahdi i would not

[16:29]have been living today this is number one number two this is

[16:33]what is shaykh muhammad says he says number two the continuation of

[16:38]your existence it's also in that to imam al mahdi so it's

[16:41]not like allah created me because he loves ahlul bayt and then

[16:44]i tell ahlul bayt okay thank you i no longer need you

[16:46]anymore no every second of my existence that continues i need ahlul

[16:52]bayt every time i breathe it's because of the blessings of ahlul

[16:57]bayt and if it was not for ahlul bayt i could no

[17:01]longer continue living how this has two meanings the first meaning is

[17:07]we have many ahadith that state listen carefully brothers and sisters this

[17:11]is a delicate point we have many ahadith that state if allah

[17:16]were to take out the imam from the world for one second

[17:21]he were to remove the imam of our time he's an gaiba

[17:24]we can't see him we can't recognize him but if allah were

[17:28]to remove him for one second from the dunya the dunya would

[17:31]collapse this whole world as we know it would be destroyed and

[17:35]annihilated and we'd all be killed and this is not a hadith

[17:39]that we the shia now i know some of you may be

[17:41]thinking this is this guy what is he talking about we are

[17:45]making ahlul bayt like allah this is exaggeration correct come to the

[17:50]sunni books they narrate these hadith the book of musnad ahmed we

[17:57]all know ahmed ibn hambal what ahmed ibn hambal he is one

[18:00]of the four imams of the ahlus sunnah there's four schools of

[18:03]thought they have one of them is ahmed ibn hambal in one

[18:06]of his books by the name of sahaba he has a book

[18:10]called fala al sahaba you can find us on the internet today

[18:13]he narrates this hadith from rasulullah he says that rasulullah sallallahu alaihi

[18:18]wa sallam said this he says rasulullah according to ahmad ibn alhambah

[18:32]not the shia ahmad ibn alhambah the leader of the ahlus sunnah

[18:36]school of thoughts he says rasulullah said that the stars they are

[18:40]protection for whom for the people that live in the skies whom

[18:45]who lives in the skies maybe for example the angels the stars

[18:49]serve as protection for them meaning if the stars go will be

[18:53]destroyed that's why rasulullah says if the stars were to be taken

[19:00]away if they were gone then the people of the ahlusaba of

[19:04]the skies they could no longer continue living and then rasulullah says

[19:08]this and then he says in the same way that the stars

[19:21]they are protection for the people of the skies of mine they

[19:26]are protection for the inhabitants of earth if are taken away the

[19:32]people of the dunya they will all die none of them can

[19:36]live so is this the shia they're narrating or this is ahmad

[19:40]ibn hambal from rasulullah so now do we understand the position of

[19:44]imam al mahdi if allah were to take imam al mahdi out

[19:47]none of us can continue living this is from their sources when

[19:51]we come to our books we have many hadith about it i'll

[19:54]read you two hadiths one hadith from imam al baqir he says

[19:58]in one hadith he says one hadith he says he says if

[20:10]the imam were to be taken out of the dunya removed from

[20:13]the dunya in one hadith one hour in one hadith one second

[20:17]one second remove the imam imam al mahdi from the dunya what

[20:20]happens he says what will happen he says everyone will be destroyed

[20:29]what will happen to the dunya it will begin to shake and

[20:32]collapse just like in the middle of the ocean you see the

[20:36]high waves how do they keep coming left and right this is

[20:39]what will happen to the land this is what will happen to

[20:41]the earth it will completely shake and everyone will be killed this

[20:45]is the first hadith of imam al baqar the second hadith is

[20:48]of imam al mahdi himself one of the companions of the imams

[20:53]by the name of ishaqab i yaqub he sends a letter to

[20:57]imam al mahdi in zaman al ghaybat al sukhwa he asked the

[21:00]imam what's the purpose what's your purpose if you are in the

[21:04]state of gaiba we can't access you we can't reach you so

[21:08]what's your purpose he asked the imam directly the imam he writes

[21:12]back in the taqiyah he tells him what a beautiful hadith and

[21:35]then he says look at the beautiful hadith of imam al mahdi

[21:46]what does he say he says this he says in the same

[21:51]way that on a cloudy day you can't see the sun correct

[21:56]he gives this beautiful example analogy he says on a cloudy day

[22:00]can you see the sun no but does that mean the sun

[22:04]is not there does that mean the sun is not benefiting the

[22:08]world of course not just because you cannot see the sun doesn't

[22:14]mean the sun is not doing what it has to do just

[22:17]because i can't see the sun because of the clouds doesn't mean

[22:20]the sun is useless the sun as we've read in science and

[22:24]probably when you read this in elementary the sun is vital for

[22:28]our life if the sun turns off one day we all die

[22:31]we'll be too cold to live it'll affect the oxygen the ocean

[22:34]everything plants we can't live without the sun correct it's vital for

[22:38]our life imam al mahdi says me in my ghaybah i am

[22:42]just like the sun behind the clouds you can't see me you

[22:46]can't see the sun but the sun is vital for you even

[22:49]on a cloudy day i am vital for your existence even if

[22:53]i am in the gaiba that means without me life cannot continue

[22:57]even if you can't see me it doesn't matter if you see

[23:00]me or not and that's why many ahadith we have from the

[23:04]imams from rasulullah as well rasulullah was asked one day after he

[23:08]spoke of al mahdi he was asked by one of the sahaba

[23:11]then what's the purpose of al mahdi if he's in ghaibah rasoolallah

[23:14]he gave the same analogy he said al mahdi in his ghaibah

[23:18]is like the sun behind the clouds just because you cannot see

[23:21]the sun does not mean the sun is useless just because you

[23:25]cannot see al mahdi does not mean al mahdi is useless the

[23:28]sun is vital for your life on a cloudy day and al

[23:31]mahdi is vital for life when you cannot see him in the

[23:34]raibah this is the first meaning of al wasat hafal fayd meaning

[23:39]continuation we cannot continue to live without imam al mahdi the second

[23:44]meaning what's the second meaning the second meaning of the second meaning

[23:50]of we cannot continue to live without the existence of imam al

[23:54]mahdi is this the hadith of il baiy tell us that if

[23:59]it was not for imam al mahdi allah would punish us in

[24:02]this dunya for our sins go and read the quran how many

[24:06]tribes did allah punish them in the dunya because of their sins

[24:08]and disbelief noor didn't allah wipe out the people of nuh with

[24:12]the flood because they disbelieved lut didn't allah destroy them the people

[24:17]of prophet lut of prophet for example sha'ib prophet salih you have

[24:22]for example the people of prophet musa didn't allah destroy firaun and

[24:29]his people and so on and so forth we have so many

[24:31]messengers of allah when his people would disbelieve allah wouldn't wait till

[24:36]the day of judgment he would destroy them in this dunya what

[24:40]happened all of a sudden now how come allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[24:43]became so tolerant the people of rasulullah our prophet they disbelieve they

[24:50]tried to kill him they did this and that there's no adab

[24:53]there's no punishment right now it's been fourteen hundred years so much

[24:57]corruption today in the world so much oppression so much killing so

[25:01]much violence why doesn't allah just wipe out the evil ones the

[25:06]imam one of the imams he says in the beautiful hadith when

[25:10]he was asked about this he was asked why must there be

[25:15]an imam all the time why you al bayt say there must

[25:18]be an imam all the time the imam gave this beautiful answer

[25:22]he said because allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he

[25:32]has mercy upon us and forgives us because of the presence of

[25:36]the imam or the prophet and then the imam he read this

[25:40]verse where allah says allah tells rasulullah you rasulullah will not punish

[25:50]the people as long as you are amongst them the imam says

[25:53]we inherited this quality as long as one of the imams of

[25:57]ahlul bayt is alive allah will be tolerant because of the love

[26:01]of the imam you see how much we benefit from the imam

[26:05]how much we benefit from the existence of the imam and then

[26:08]we come and say how do i benefit from imam al mahdi

[26:10]how rude is that your existence the continuation of your existence the

[26:16]rahmah allah is all because of imam mehdi or else we don't

[26:20]deserve the rahmah of allah look at how much evil doesn't allah

[26:23]say as long as they do istighfar allah will not punish them

[26:32]most of the world right now do they do istighfar no so

[26:35]why doesn't the punishment come down of allah so much evil everywhere

[26:40]it's because of imam al mahdi we don't realize it because we

[26:44]can't see him but that does not mean the blessings and the

[26:48]barakat of imam al mahdi are not coming and that's why we

[26:51]the school of thoughts of ahlul baydashi'a we believe that every zaman

[26:56]every period there must be an imam so many ahadith the earth

[27:05]cannot be void and absent of an imam why because if you

[27:09]take the imam away life will not continue that's why imam al

[27:13]mahdi is the imam of my time without imam al mahdi life

[27:16]cannot continue so this is what this is the first purpose and

[27:20]this is called what al wasatafil faith meaning the existence and the

[27:25]continuation of my existence is all due to the ahlul bayt alaihi

[27:30]wasallam and imam al mahdi this is purpose number one purpose number

[27:35]two before i mention purpose number two that the imam serves in

[27:46]ghaybat al qubra is that imam al mahdi he is the guardian

[27:53]of our faith of our religion the school of thoughts of ahlul

[27:56]bayt the school of thought of his grandparents who is the guardian

[28:00]of this school of this this madhab it's imam al mahdi and

[28:05]one of the jobs of imam al mahdi in al ghibatul qubra

[28:09]is to preserve the faith is to what is to protect it

[28:14]from what from innovation and from deviating from the truth because sometimes

[28:21]the faith begins people begin to deviate like christians are they practicing

[28:25]christians like they were a thousand years ago no as time goes

[28:28]on what they begin to deviate deviate deviate that's why i always

[28:31]say that christian woman before go back in history they used to

[28:34]wear hijab now they don't wear hijab slowly they begin to what

[28:37]deviate from their religion because they want life to be simpler what

[28:41]prevents us muslims from deviating what prevents us shia from deviating it's

[28:46]been one thousand years salis imam asghari has gone so how can

[28:51]we make sure still following the same madhab the same teachings the

[28:57]same fiqh the same aqa'at of ahlul bayt after one thousand years

[29:03]imam al mahdi this is what he does he preserves the faith

[29:08]from innovation he preserves the faith from what from diverting and deviating

[29:16]how does imam al mahdi do that now first of all he

[29:19]may do it through mysterious ways that we are not aware of

[29:22]but second and most importantly imam al mahdi does that by guiding

[29:26]our ulama our ulama and our malaja imam al mahdi guides them

[29:32]and that's why you find anytime our ulama are not infallible they

[29:37]make mistakes correct one mistake here there after a thousand years you'll

[29:41]have a million mistakes who is the one ensuring he keeps the

[29:45]ulama in check and we don't deviate imam al mahdi he is

[29:48]our guardian he is waliyah amr al muslemeen he is the one

[29:51]that makes sure the true genuine faith and religion of rasulullah is

[29:57]always what is always genuine is always correct and is always he

[30:04]always protects it from these innovations and that's why imam al baqar

[30:08]al imam al baqar he says in one hadith he says he

[30:27]says allah will always put an alim in the world alim meaning

[30:31]the imam what's the job of this alim the alim he has

[30:34]knowledge he has he has what alim he's a scholar he has

[30:38]knowledge the job of the alim is anytime the believers let's say

[30:43]the ulama they begin to deviate because they make mistakes he brings

[30:47]them back on track and imam al mahdi does that by guiding

[30:50]the ulama through religious affairs and through sociopolitical affairs what do i

[30:55]mean let me give you an example of how imam al mahdi

[30:58]guides our ulama and religious affairs i'll tell you two stories story

[31:02]number one it's narrated that a shaykh al mufid he was the

[31:08]first marjah of us the shia he lived in the beginning of

[31:12]ghaybat al qubra so in the ghaybat al qubra the first merger

[31:15]was a sheikh al mufid he came a few years after ghaybat

[31:18]al sughwa he was a merger people would come to him he

[31:23]used to give them fatwa according to his understanding of the hadith

[31:27]it's reported that one day a villager came to a sheikh al

[31:31]mufid and he told a sheikh al mufid i have a question

[31:35]fiqh question i need your help what is it he met with

[31:39]a sheikh al mufid privately nobody knew about this only sheikh al

[31:43]mufid and the villager he told him we have in our village

[31:47]a woman died and she's pregnant there is a child in her

[31:51]stomach the child is still not probably formed well maybe four or

[31:55]five months something like that so here what do we do do

[31:59]we bury the child do we just leave the child and bury

[32:03]the mother or no we cut open the stomach subhanallah you see

[37:29]this alam when it's academic it's a it's a it's a you

[37:34]know basically it's a fiqh issue he goes to imam ali so

[37:37]i went and i told imam ali you ali ibn abi talib

[37:40]please help me you guide me he says i heard a voice

[37:43]from the grave of ali ibn abi talib say go to masjid

[37:47]al kufa and you will find the answer masjid al kufa he

[37:50]says i went to masjid al kufa i see a beautiful man

[37:54]a man that's so holy and i see him so much iman

[37:57]he told me asked me the questions i knew this can't be

[38:01]about imam al mahdi or one of the companions of imam al

[38:04]mahdi he said i asked the questions and he gave me the

[38:07]answers but do not tell anyone so you see how the imam

[38:10]guides the scholars now in certain situations the imam may directly meet

[38:14]the scholar because i mentioned a few nights ago most ulama they

[38:18]say in al ghaybatul qubra it is possible to see the imam

[38:22]but it's very difficult it's very rare only the ulama and the

[38:26]ones that are close to allah will have that honor maybe once

[38:29]or twice in their lives they can see the imam so it's

[38:31]possible so you see in certain times the imam may meet with

[38:35]the alim he may give him direct guidance at times he will

[38:39]do it indirectly like the story of a sheikh al mufid he'll

[38:41]send someone to correct the mistake or the imam may send signs

[38:45]to the alam that what you're doing is right or wrong or

[38:48]at times the imam could could do something as easy as what

[38:52]as whisper something good in the what in the head of the

[38:56]alim do we not believe that the shaitan iblees doesn't the quran

[39:01]say doesn't iblees whisper bad things in our ears does he or

[39:07]not if iblees can whisper bad things in my mind why can't

[39:12]imam al mahdi whisper good things in my mind why so many

[39:16]times maybe the ulama the decision they made or the fatwa they

[39:21]gave it was through the help of imam al mahdi he placed

[39:24]that thought in their mind so this is the guidance of the

[39:27]imam to our ulama in religious affairs you find sometimes in socio

[39:31]political or political affairs the imam may guide us he may guide

[39:35]the ulama how i'll give you one example there's a story of

[39:38]al mujadid al shiraazi mujadid al shiraazi who was a merger lived

[39:42]in the late 1800s he lived in samarah what happened one year

[39:48]in iran the qajar dynasty they were ruling the shah was from

[39:52]the qajar dynasty so the shah of iran he makes a deal

[39:57]with a british company one year a british company come to iran

[40:02]to grow tobacco there's a very famous story many of you may

[40:05]have heard about this to grow tobacco and sell tobacco in iran

[40:09]now during that time it was widely believed by the iranians and

[40:12]by the shia that this is what this is an evil scheme

[40:16]from britain they want to what infiltrate iran infiltrate the shia and

[40:21]they want to colonize iran and they'll you do it through what

[40:25]through coming and selling tobacco in iran so that's why the you

[40:29]know the religious the faithful they were so unhappy with this now

[40:33]al mujadid al shirazi he's al marjeel a'la the grand merger of

[40:37]the shia look at the guidance of the imam one of his

[40:41]students by the name of al fisharaki shaykh al fisharaki he comes

[40:45]to al mujahedd he says you are our marjer we love you

[40:49]we respect you but why are you silent do you not see

[40:52]what the british are doing to iran this is all a plot

[40:55]they want to take over they want to colonize us they want

[40:58]to what occupy us this is all an excuse the tobacco thing

[41:02]why are you silent are you afraid al mujadid the shirazi tells

[41:07]him no i'm not afraid but it's not easy if i say

[41:11]for example if i say something there may be it may backfire

[41:15]if i stay silent it may backfire this is a dilemma i'm

[41:18]still confused i don't know what to do and then it's narrated

[41:23]that the same day al mujadah al shirazi he went to the

[41:26]haram of al askariyayn and he met imam al mahdi in al

[41:30]haram of askariyayn because he asked allah to guide him and imam

[41:34]al mahdi gave him the order to give the fatwa he came

[41:37]out and he wrote the fatwa that everyone probably has heard of

[41:41]even though it's probably a hundred years ago but it's very famous

[41:44]the fatwa of al mujahid the shia'azi he came out and he

[41:47]wrote a fatwa for all the shia that followed him in iran

[41:51]it is haram for you to buy tobacco from this company boycott

[41:56]it and whoever buys or sells from this tobacco it's as if

[41:59]he has waged war against imam al mahdi famous fatwa subhanallah millions

[42:05]of shia and iran they boycotted the tobacco of the british company

[42:10]the british company went broke the shah he saw this is not

[42:13]going anywhere he broke the deal and the british went back to

[42:17]britain see how the imam guides our alama brothers and sisters it

[42:21]may be just one word that he tells our alama and that's

[42:24]why i always say years ago remember the fatwa of the and

[42:27]najaf when isis when they took muslim and then the they issued

[42:33]a fatwa that every shia and iraq they have to what they

[42:37]have to defend they have to go and fight jihad al kifai

[42:40]remember the fatwa who knows i say maybe imam al mahdi sent

[42:44]a sign to the marajah maybe he met them only allah knows

[42:47]but the point is keep in mind that imam al mahdi is

[42:50]there imam al mahdi has his eyes opened and imam al mahdi

[42:54]does take care of the school of thoughts and he does take

[42:57]care of the shia so this is the second purpose of the

[42:59]imam he preserves the faith and the shia by guiding the ulama

[43:05]and finally purpose number three is that the imam serves as a

[43:09]resort as a refuge for the shia to resort to how many

[43:14]times when we are distressed we don't know where to go to

[43:18]when we are being persecuted by the dalameen when we have a

[43:21]very difficult situation we have a sick person and the doctors say

[43:25]there is nowhere to go to how many stories have you heard

[43:29]those individuals go to imam al mahdi because he is what the

[43:32]door to allah do we not read in dua'an he is the

[43:39]door to allah how many times we go and we beg imam

[43:43]al mahdi we do to imam al mahdi and then imam al

[43:46]mahdi helps us you think imam al mahdi has forgotten us you

[43:50]think imam al mahdi has neglected us you think imam al mahdi

[43:54]has abandoned us if al khidr al khidr he was looking out

[43:59]for his people he saves a boat here he saves the life

[44:02]of these parents here and he saves the money of these orphans

[44:05]there if al khidr was able to do that why can't imam

[44:08]al mahdi do that for us how many times you unexpectedly see

[44:12]for example a stranger comes and helps you and he looks so

[44:16]holy how do you know imam al mahdi was not behind this

[44:20]how do you know imam al mahdi did not send this man

[44:22]do we not come across these situations you think imam al mahdi

[44:26]doesn't help us he helps us but we're not aware of it

[44:28]just like musa wasn't aware of the qudr just like the people

[44:31]of the time of qudr were not aware of his good actions

[44:34]imam al mahdi does help us and that's why in the letter

[44:37]that imam al mahdi sent to a sheikh al mufid beautiful letter

[44:41]i urge all of you to read it what does he tell

[44:43]him he tells him tell my shia that i have not forgotten

[44:50]them he tells him imam al mahdi tells sheikh al mufi tell

[45:06]the shia don't think that i don't know about you don't think

[45:10]that i have abandoned you no i know everything and if it

[45:15]was not for my efforts and my help wallahi yushia i would

[45:20]have been destroyed from many years ago look the shia of ahlul

[45:25]bayt for over a thousand years everyone is our enemies every government

[45:28]is our enemies the abbasid they kill shia the othmanis they kill

[45:32]shia every government right now looks to odia all these countries kill

[45:35]shia kill shia da'ish kill shia our books were destroyed our marajah

[45:39]were killed how is it that today you have three to 500,000,000

[45:44]shia around the world how everyone is our enemy the west is

[45:48]our enemy you guys are iran we're not your friends the sunni

[45:51]world is our enemy israel is our enemy who's our friend yet

[45:55]we're allah we're as alive as ever three to 500,000,000 shia all

[46:00]across the world don't you think imam al mahdi has a hand

[46:05]in this iran shia iraq bahrain shia the eastern promise in saudi

[46:09]arabia there's shia india there's shia go to lebanon shia in canada

[46:15]shia america did the shia spread when there's so much enemies against

[46:20]us and we're the minority you don't think imam al mahdi has

[46:24]a hand in this imam al mahdi says if it wasn't for

[46:26]my dua and my efforts we don't know what he does exactly

[46:30]but if it wasn't for his efforts he says you would have

[46:36]been what perished many years ago and that's why imam al mahdi

[46:40]is there for us just because i can't see him it doesn't

[46:43]mean imam al mahdi is not there to help me allah says

[46:46]about the angels in the quran allah says that i have entrusted

[46:56]certain angels to protect you to protect you from harm can we

[47:00]see the angels no but does that does that mean the angels

[47:03]are not protecting us no imam al mahdi is there and he

[47:07]protects us and he helps every single one of us but we're

[47:09]not aware of how he helps us just like the story of

[47:12]khidr i go back to the story of khidr keep the story

[47:14]of khidr in your mind you will understand the purpose of the

[47:17]imam and i will end with the story about eight hundred years

[47:21]ago this is a very famous beautiful story that happened in bahrain

[47:26]there was a governor in bahrain that was nasabi he was against

[47:31]the shia and his prime minister he was even more nasabi subhanallah

[47:36]just like now the king of bahrain is a nasabi and his

[47:39]prime minister's uncle they say he's worse than him so the prime

[47:43]minister he hated the shia and bahrain is always shia he hated

[47:47]the shia wanted to get rid of the shia so one day

[47:49]he comes up with a scheme an evil agenda plot what does

[47:52]he do he comes to the king the governor one day and

[47:56]he brings a pomegranate ramana he brings a pomegranate to the governor

[48:02]and he tells him look this is a miracle of allah what

[48:06]is it the king the governor he sees written on the pomegranate

[48:11]these words and then abu bakr omar uthman ali khalafa but how

[48:20]was it written not with pencil it was molded with the skin

[48:25]of the with the peel the skin of the of the pomegranate

[48:29]so it looks so natural as if allah grew it in that

[48:32]way it was molded in that way so he brings the what

[48:36]the pomegranate he says look allah has showed us a sign that

[48:40]the shia are wrong and we are right and that's why i

[48:43]say bring the shia i tell them to believe if they don't

[48:45]believe kill them all the governor he fell for it he says

[48:49]good idea he calls the ulama of the shia he tells them

[48:53]look look at this pomegranate allah has sent aside allah has telling

[48:56]you shia you're wrong he has the name of omar abu bakr

[48:58]azma they are the khulafa so i give you four options number

[49:02]one become sunni abandon shia and nothing will happen or number two

[49:07]you have to pay the jizya and live just like the christians

[49:10]and the jews you're no longer muslims or number three you have

[49:13]to give an answer a refutation to this another explanation to this

[49:17]pomegranate or number four if you want to stay shia then i

[49:22]will kill all the men and take your woman and children ask

[49:27]what are slaves the shia they said where did this come from

[49:31]what do we do now so they held an emergency meeting the

[49:34]shia of bahrain what do we do we're all gonna get killed

[49:37]how can we we know this is what a game we know

[49:39]this is a plot a scheme but how can we prove that

[49:42]so they hold an emergency meeting all the alama attend what do

[49:45]we do they decide that they have absolutely no resort but imam

[49:50]al mahdi they say let us ask imam al mahdi isn't he

[49:53]the imam of our time let imam al mahdi solve this problem

[49:57]for us so they choose the 10 of the best bahrainis they're

[50:02]the most noble and pious ones and then out of those 10

[50:05]they choose the best three so the most pious three they're always

[50:08]salah never sin holy masjid dua quran these three they decide the

[50:16]king told them the governor i give you three days and you

[50:19]have to choose they say each night we send one of these

[50:22]three he goes to the desert from the beginning of the night

[50:25]tell fajr he does dua and to imam al mahdi so that

[50:29]the imam would help us the first one goes comes back nothing

[50:33]second one goes comes back nothing the third one a man by

[50:37]the name of a sheikh mohammed ibn aisa demistani very well known

[50:41]and he has a grave a shrine that the bahrainis visit in

[50:44]bahrain he went he started to cry your shia will be killed

[50:51]please help us please come to our rescue he says all of

[50:54]a sudden it was close to fajr a man came from behind

[50:57]and he held my hand and he knew my name he told

[50:59]me you muhammad ibn 'ai said the mustani are you in this

[51:04]dire and desperate condition what do you need he told that man

[51:08]he told him i cannot tell you i can only tell my

[51:11]imam i can only speak to my imam he told him i

[51:14]am your imam tell me what you need sheikh muhammad told him

[51:17]if you truly are imam sahib al asri wa zaman then you

[51:21]know why i'm here i don't need to tell you you know

[51:24]the imam tells him yes i know why you're here it's because

[51:27]of the plot the scheme of the prime minister i know exactly

[51:30]what's happening he says what do we do we're gonna get killed

[51:32]imam al mahdi tells him i have the answer he tells him

[51:35]this evil prime minister he had made a container out of a

[51:39]container he had made a mold and he had carved out of

[51:43]clay and he had he had carved in it to those letters

[51:46]those words of amr abu bakr and then he took this container

[51:49]this mold he placed it around a small pomegranate as the pomegranate

[51:54]grew it was what it was written and carved in it and

[51:57]it got molded in it those words so it was it's easy

[52:00]it's easy anyone can do it so he says okay but how

[52:03]do we sheikh mohammed says how do we expose him imam al

[52:06]mahdi says that go to the governor tomorrow tell him i will

[52:10]answer you this is not a miracle is all a joke but

[52:13]you have to come to the house of the prime minister take

[52:16]the governor with you enter the house go in this certain room

[52:21]make sure that the prime minister doesn't enter before you because he

[52:24]will hide that container make sure you go before him the prime

[52:28]minister will insist to not enter insist to enter once you enter

[52:33]you will find a hole in the wall there is a white

[52:35]bag open the white bag you will find what you will find

[52:38]that mold go take the mold you will see subhanallah the pomegranate

[52:42]fits perfectly it was the work of this mold he says okay

[52:46]he goes to the governor he says let's to go the house

[52:47]of prime minister i'll answer you there they go there let's go

[52:50]in the room the prime minister says no no let's not go

[52:52]there you guys are wasting time you guys are changing the subject

[52:55]he insists the governor says let's go what's the heart he goes

[52:58]he takes out the mold he shows him look it's a scheme

[53:02]it's a plot of this evil man and he put this and

[53:05]then imam al mahdi said i will give you something to tell

[53:08]the governor to show that we are truthful tell him as a

[53:12]sign that we met imam al mahdi once you open this pomegranate

[53:17]you will find ash in it there is no pomegranate there's no

[53:19]seeds it's filled with ash so they went they saw this the

[53:24]governor he saw yeah there's a mold and then they told him

[53:27]open it you'll see ash he saw it was filled with ash

[53:30]there was no fruit inside this is when history says that the

[53:34]governor of bahrain he killed the prime minister he what he forgave

[53:39]all the shia and he also changed his to the school of

[53:43]thoughts of ahlul bayt this is one example this is one example

[53:50]of how imam al mahdi rescues us and how imam al mahdi

[53:53]helps the shia i ask allah to bless us it's almost time

[53:56]for adhan so i'll quickly finish to bless us accept our and

[54:00]to forgive us and to help us in following in the footsteps

[54:04]of

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