Interfaith & Intrafaith Dialogue - Sayed Hossein Qazwini

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[0:01]tonight we have a special guest from karbala so before we start

[0:09]our program we will be listening to some Quran recitation with the

[0:14]brother Ahmad after Salat Muhammad Muhammad foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music]

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[6:18]I am tonight foreign [Music] [Music] Muhammad [Music] beautiful recitation ascent I'd

[7:14]like to start with few announcements uh quickly as you all know

[7:21]this Saturday at 5 PM we have the service day in the

[7:26]honor of Nam Hussein this is at the Plymouth Islamic cemetery and

[7:30]the details are on the Flyers to sign up and would like

[7:36]to all see you there at five o'clock inshallah also uh we

[7:41]have the Arvin art competition on August 27th submissions are underway uh

[7:49]all submissions have to be due by August 24.

[7:53]again the details are on the Flyers of how to sign up

[7:57]and and pay um also after a successful first year the city

[8:02]of knowledge weekend School the Sunday school is now open for registration

[8:07]as you all know last year we had or we were limited

[8:14]to only accept around 80 uh 80 kids or students this year

[8:21]we rented the place next door here down the um on the

[8:24]same complex the same parking lot and inshallah we should be able

[8:29]to get more students we as of this morning we are almost

[8:33]100 students so with all these seats are fed up quickly so

[8:37]please register your kids if you're planning to do this year the

[8:42]other good news is inshallah we are in a process of planning

[8:48]for an Arabic Saturday school as well so um we are still

[8:50]in a planning phase more details would come later but if you

[8:56]are if you want to volunteer as maybe a teacher or someone

[9:01]who can help building the structure of the school please make sure

[9:04]you see us and we'll give you more details one of the

[9:08]other programs also we're working on is tutoring uh with the beginning

[9:14]of the new uh school year we will have a program for

[9:18]our kids for tutoring different subjects and maybe two or three times

[9:24]a week we're working on the details we'll share it later but

[9:27]if you are interested in helping or being a tutor or in

[9:31]any subject you like please see us as well we appreciate your

[9:36]help um the other the final announcement we have another good news

[9:39]as you all may have seen right here we have reached the

[9:49]820 000 of the 950 000 goal to buy the land um

[9:57]uh you were very generous during Muharram a lot of you have

[10:05]donated or Ashura is over uh well it's not technically over because

[10:09]so if you did not get the chance during the days of

[10:15]Muharram you can always see us pledge and help us we want

[10:21]to reach our goal we have 130 000 left we have uh

[10:26]less than four weeks to close on the land so inshallah we'll

[10:29]make it happen inshallah will make it happen with your help and

[10:32]if you like to pledge or you're thinking to do it so

[10:36]and you need more details please see me or hash Hassan we

[10:40]should be able to help you okay and um now I'm honored

[10:46]to introduce our special guest as I said from karbala Syed Hassani

[10:50]said Hassani is a graduate of the UC Berkeley he is a

[10:57]student of najaf and karbala under high ranking Scholars he's a teacher

[11:02]of uh in karbala but I know it's one of the most

[11:11]complex and uh high-level subjects that they teach on cemeteries seminaries how's

[11:15]that so um he also authored numerous books and of course he's

[11:22]the uncle of our beloved and a brother of our beloved Muhammad

[11:25]as well another Branch from the sojara Mubarak of the kazuinis um

[11:31]without further Ado um now with Syed Hussein and the lecture titled

[11:37]Interfaith and intra-faith dialogue after Salat Muhammad assalamu alaikum alhamdulillah Allah [Music]

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[14:30]for the past several decades there have been serious attempts to engage

[14:38]in Interfaith dialogue between world religions Islam Christianity and Judaism the followers

[14:45]of these different faiths there have been serious attempts to engage in

[14:51]conversation to understand one another to know one another and we have

[14:59]seen World conferences workshops many events many visits of course we can

[15:06]categorize the visit of the Pope to the holy city of najef

[15:12]in 2021 when he visited this was a highlight this was a

[15:23]major event in the world of dialogue between world religions this was

[15:29]a very important event and we recently saw just three days ago

[15:34]that said sistanya also wrote a letter to the pope and the

[15:41]Vatican Islam my dear brothers and sisters encourages dialogue with other religions

[15:47]with world religions we see several verses on the Quran that begin

[15:55]say o the people of the book and even this concept itself

[16:02]people of the book that means we have something in common we

[16:04]have a book and you have a book we both are people

[16:09]of the book The Quran says engage them engage people of other

[16:15]religions in one verse Allah tells us to emphasize what we have

[16:24]in common not to emphasize what we differentiate or what we disagree

[16:32]upon but rather what we have in common let us come O

[16:38]the people of the book let us come to agree on something

[16:44]that we have in common Allah a common ground that we do

[16:53]not worship other than Allah and we do not perform and that

[17:04]we don't worship one another or we worship each other we worship

[17:12]some members of our communities Allah also tells us that those people

[17:16]of other faiths and religions if they do not fight you if

[17:20]they do not drive you out of your lens if they show

[17:24]no animosity towards you be good to them show kindness to them

[17:29]Allah those who don't fight you from other faiths be good to

[17:41]them show kindness to them be fair with them Allah also tells

[17:49]us not to argue with people of the book Christians Jews don't

[17:57]argue with them there was no reason to argue and start a

[18:00]quarrel on the contrary start with common ground tell them that we

[18:07]believe in the same God we believe in the same Heaven and

[18:12]the same hell and we believe in the day of judgment start

[18:13]with what with what you have in common Allah says unless there

[18:23]is some good in dial in argument with them fine otherwise don't

[18:29]argue as tell them that we believe in what was what is

[18:40]revealed to us and we believe what is revealed to you we

[18:44]believe in your prophets we believe in Jesus and Moses we believe

[18:48]in the in the Torah and the inji these are divinely revealed

[18:51]books now have they they've been tampered with or not this is

[18:56]a different discussion we believe they've been tampered with but the original

[19:01]Torah we accept it as a book of Revelation the original injil

[19:04]We believe it we accept it as a book of Revelation um

[19:14]we believe in the same God o Christians and Jews you don't

[19:18]have a god different from ours we may call him differently we

[19:25]may call him different names Jews call God Yahweh we call them

[19:30]Allah and so on and so forth we might have different names

[19:33]but the essence is in Islam my dear friends we learn respect

[19:42]for other faiths and religions this is what Islam teaches us and

[19:47]if you see a speaker a scholar that preaches hate and hatred

[19:52]and animosity towards people of other faiths and religions known that this

[19:57]person does not represent scripture does not represent the Quran one day

[20:02]was walking in the streets of kufa while he was the Khalifa

[20:08]of the time he was the ruler he saw I beggar in

[20:10]this roots of kufa he said mahada what is this he didn't

[20:16]ask manhatta who is this he asked what is this because the

[20:22]sight of a beggar begging during the days of Amir was something

[20:25]extraordinary during the time of Emil Momin there were no Beggars because

[20:29]there was no poverty so they told him this person is a

[20:42]Christian he's a Christian beggar he's become an old man and now

[20:46]he's begging thinking that this will reduce means anger as long as

[20:53]he's a Christian beggar it's okay I mean was very upset he

[20:57]said you have not done Justice to him when he was young

[21:07]you made use of him you made him go through hard labor

[21:13]now that he's old you leave him to beg a jerus have

[21:16]him a set salary a monthly salary from the Islamic treasury it

[21:23]didn't make a difference whether the beggar was a Muslim or a

[21:32]Christian was known for his famous saying people are of two kinds

[21:41]either your brethren in faith or your counterpart in humanity if he's

[21:45]not your brethren in faith he's a brother in humanity this is

[21:49]how we should see everyone else we don't divide people in two

[21:54]camps like one famous president once said you're either with us or

[21:58]against us no we don't have that in Islam we don't give

[22:01]people ultimatums and we tell them to choose you're either with us

[22:06]or against us we tell them you're either our brethren in faith

[22:09]or you're our brother in Humanity we're all Brothers in humanity Muhammad

[22:22]with the Christians and Jews in his community under his watch they

[22:28]were called were Christians and Jews that lived in the Muslim Nation

[22:33]and they enjoyed their rights and they enjoyed protection their rights were

[22:39]very similar to the rights of the Muslims yes they they would

[22:43]pay a different tax called jizya while Muslims paid zakat and homes

[22:48]but they enjoyed the rights he who hurts or assaults meaning a

[22:59]Christian and Jew whom we have an agreement with whom we have

[23:03]a bond with then I will face him on the day of

[23:07]judgment and I will stand to argue with him on the on

[23:12]the day of judgment one day Salaam foreign they have different laws

[23:36]from us in their faith a brother can marry a sister it's

[23:39]in their faith it's in their religion so this individual in the

[23:48]presence used a very negative word towards that zoroastrian how could he

[23:53]marry his sister or a relative stop stop um this man marries

[24:08]his mother or his sister this is unheard of their mom said

[24:13]in another narration this is their marriage this is their law there's

[24:19]no reason to make fun of them or ridicule them there's no

[24:25]reason to ridicule them for what they believe in and another Hadith

[24:31]mentioned in was sitting with a group of his companions a Jewish

[24:44]corpse a corpse of a Jewish individual passed by rasulullah stood foreign

[24:59]standing so they told him this person is Jewish why would you

[25:08]stand for this corpse while it belongs to a Jewish person is

[25:15]he not a human being so what is it if he's Jewish

[25:19]or a Christian he's a human being I respect him as a

[25:26]human this is what rasulullah will teach us one day passed by

[25:33]a rundown Church one of his companions he said this is a

[25:40]house in which Allah time and time again they perform shirk in

[25:47]this house you have it wrong this is a house that time

[25:55]and time again Allah was worshiped this is the house of worship

[25:58]the towns of worship whether it's a church or a synagogue or

[26:04]a mosque these are places of worship Islam respects these places of

[26:10]worship just because they worship differently from us it doesn't mean that

[26:14]this we we can tarnish this place or have disrespect for that

[26:18]place no it's a place of worship it's a house of God

[26:25]whether it's a church or a synagogue or a mosque this is

[26:27]our faith my dear friends this is our religion our religion teaches

[26:31]us respect for other religions and followers of other religions this great

[26:40]scholar who left us at a very early time if he passed

[26:45]away may Allah be pleased with him if he's still alive may

[26:48]he returned to us safely one day in Lebanon in in an

[26:56]area there's Christians they're Muslims maybe a heavily Muslim populated area there

[27:03]was an i and everyone in Lebanon knows this story there was

[27:07]a ice cream seller but no one buys from no one is

[27:13]buying from his ice cream why because he's Christian and Muslims believe

[27:19]that Christians aren't edges how can you buy ice cream how can

[27:22]you buy food so he saw that this person is selling ice

[27:25]cream but no one is buying from him so he stopped and

[27:29]he bought ice cream and he started eating in front of everyone

[27:33]and you know in in the etiquettes of hausa you don't do

[27:38]this you don't eat food let alone ice cream in the street

[27:42]but I said want to set a lesson that so what if

[27:46]he's a Christian that is selling ice cream what's the difference between

[27:49]a Muslim selling ice cream or a Christian selling ice cream and

[27:53]that person's business boomed from the day that Satan bought ice cream

[27:59]from him people went and they started buying ice cream from him

[28:01]in modern day my dear friends someone had to say to sistani

[28:08]when Dash entered Iraq and they occupied our lands in Iraq when

[28:11]half of the country fell in the hands of daesh I say

[28:17]this is standing the same way that he fought for Muslim blood

[28:20]he fought for Christian blood the same way that he would preach

[28:26]and speak and defend Muslim blood he defended Christian blood and easy

[28:31]the blood and yazidis they're not even from people of the book

[28:35]they're not people of the book but they are a religious faction

[28:37]and Iraq whom says fought for their rights and he defended them

[28:44]and we also pictures the same way when they liberated certain towns

[28:50]and cities they helped build churches they helped bring back bells to

[28:59]churches these are the teachings of Islam this is what Islam teaches

[29:02]us Muhammad there was a man by the name of was a

[29:15]pagan or he didn't even believe in God not that he was

[29:18]a pig he didn't even believe in God time and time again

[29:21]he would come to Imam and he would engage in dialogue he

[29:26]would engage in dialogue peacefully respectfully academically not once raise his voice

[29:37]against and tell him that what are you saying what you're saying

[29:42]is a blasphemous that I need to kill you or I need

[29:46]to do this I need no was an atheist an atheist and

[29:55]he and he kept on making arguments against Islam against Imam was

[30:01]always nice to him one day has a dialogue a conversation with

[30:09]one of the companions raised his voice he got angry calm down

[30:19]when I speak to your teacher he doesn't get angry with me

[30:23]but you get angry with me learn from your teacher learn from

[30:28]your teacher how to have patience how to have tolerance for other

[30:31]views why why would you get angry with me for having an

[30:38]academic conversation an academic dialogue some say it but what is the

[30:44]purpose of dialogue to sit with Christians Jews Interfaith events by the

[30:48]way I think some individuals believe that tonight was going to be

[30:53]an Interfaith event I'm sorry to disappoint you the topic is Interfaith

[30:58]but it wasn't a Interfaith event inshallah next time and I will

[31:01]get to that and I will get to that and I believe

[31:07]that Mecca Mecca under the guidance of my dear respected honorable nephewini

[31:12]can you can do a lot in Interfaith and this is what

[31:16]I'd like to introduce tonight what the name of McCann this beautiful

[31:20]Islamic Center there's a lot to do when it comes to Interfaith

[31:24]engagement and Interfaith Outreach and Interfaith dialogue what is the purpose my

[31:31]dear friends some say that the purpose of interfaith dialogue When We

[31:35]Gather at conferences when we visit churches or they visit our mosques

[31:39]is to convert one another they either convert US to Christianity or

[31:44]we convert them to Islam No no that is simply not the

[31:50]purpose of dialogue the purpose of dialogue when we have dialogue with

[31:53]other with other religions we are not giving up on our faiths

[31:59]and principles not one not one of our principles do we compromise

[32:03]we do not compromise on our faith on our belief on our

[32:06]principles and we are not apologetic what we believe in we strongly

[32:12]hold to our faith and our belief but what is the purpose

[32:16]of dialogue some say that today there's a hoax those who call

[32:21]for the dialogue of world religions the purpose is to form an

[32:31]abrahamic faith is to form one religion this is a hoax there's

[32:34]no such thing the purpose of interfaith dialogue is not to form

[32:41]One Faith No as a Muslim respect your faith as a Christian

[32:43]respect your faith as a Jew respect your faith the go the

[32:48]dot the purpose behind dialogue is one my dear friends to understand

[32:52]one another to understand one another and to work with one another

[32:55]today my dear friends we have common challenges there are challenges that

[33:04]all people of Faith face not just as Muslims but as Christians

[33:07]and Jews and we need to work together there's an African proverb

[33:14]that says if you want to walk fast if you want to

[33:20]fast walk alone but if you want a fact if you want

[33:24]to walk far walk together I'm sure you've tried that during autobahi

[33:27]you want to walk fast walk by yourself don't have anyone with

[33:33]you but if you want to walk far walk with others have

[33:35]a companion and you will walk far today my dear friends we

[33:39]need to walk far in this nation people of Faith people of

[33:46]religions we Face common challenges today whether you're a Muslim or a

[33:50]Christian or a Jew we have common challenges one youth are running

[33:55]away from religion places of worship are empty not just mosques even

[34:01]churches even synagogues places of worship are empty youth are running away

[34:07]from religion today there's a common challenge there's the gender issue at

[34:14]schools teaching our children at the age of six seven eight do

[34:16]you want to be a boy or do you want to be

[34:20]a girl come and choose your gender something that doesn't make sense

[34:27]Allah created us this human nature to understand who we are and

[34:31]what our identity is Allah created us as men and women these

[34:43]people who claim to follow science where's science where is science God

[34:51]created us as men and women males and females you want to

[34:53]change that there's a threat my dear friends there's a threat in

[35:02]addition to the propaganda from the lgbtq community that have that are

[35:10]trying day and night to indoctrinate our young children they're coming after

[35:16]our children my dear friends and they're not stopping they're going and

[35:21]I hide speed to come after my children and your children now

[35:27]this is a threat this is a common threat a common threat

[35:29]whether you're a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew this is

[35:34]a common threat we need to work together to overcome this threat

[35:39]we are here to stay my dear friends you know lately I've

[35:43]been hearing from a lot of people that we are going to

[35:47]pack our bags and leave leave where do you think you're going

[35:53]good luck with that Lebanon Afghanistan Iran where do you want to

[36:04]go I assure these families who say we will pack our bags

[36:07]and leave I give them a year or two years at most

[36:11]and they will be back we are here to stay my dear

[36:16]friends that's why we need to think of real solutions and these

[36:19]real solutions these real threats we can only face them if we

[36:22]wait if we work together with other peoples of faith and other

[36:27]religions because this is not just an Islamic threat this is a

[36:30]threat for all people of faith and we can work together we

[36:35]live in a country that is diverse there's Christians there's Jews there's

[36:41]a Buddhists there's Muslims there's Hindus this country is diverse we live

[36:46]in a diverse community and there's so much that we could do

[36:49]to work together some think that the notion of interfaith dialogue is

[37:03]a hoax and the only purpose is normalization with Israel that is

[37:08]the purpose why Muslims Christians and Jews should get together work at

[37:13]conferences the purpose is normalization with Israel absolutely not absolutely this is

[37:18]not the reason why we promote Interfaith the Quran promoted Interfaith 14th

[37:23]centuries ago the Quran says in many verses the verses begin oh

[37:32]the people of the book let's get together and discuss Common Ground

[37:37]what we have in common together it has nothing to do with

[37:40]normalization with Israel some say that Islam opposes Interfaith dialogue how because

[37:51]Islam considers Christians and Jews to be negis they are negis and

[37:56]hence we are meant to keep a distance keep your distance from

[37:59]Christians and Jews Islam put that barrier so that we do not

[38:05]engage in dialogue so that we don't mix we don't mingle with

[38:08]people of other faiths this is absolutely not true not true we

[38:13]have Scholars today many of our Scholars today they say people of

[38:16]the book are what Christians and Jews he was a brave much

[38:26]who came out and he said that the narrations that discuss the

[38:30]tahara the Purity and impurity of the people of the book it

[38:34]doesn't say that they are impure innately innately they are impure no

[38:40]no it's because they drink wine they drink alcohol they eat pork

[38:44]they are not just because of these things not because they are

[38:49]innately no they are not just innately in fact there are some

[38:55]jurists that are coming out today that are saying that all humans

[38:59]are pure all humans are pure I said well I had the

[39:06]honor of attending his upper level lessons in ninja for several weeks

[39:10]and he passed away less than two years ago um the last

[39:20]that he issued before his death was that all humans were pure

[39:25]all humans are pure whether you're a Muslim or a Christian or

[39:29]a Jew or even a Buddhist even a Hindu they're all pure

[39:33]we have such fat ones so there is no barrier that stands

[39:36]between us and dialogue what do we have to gain my dear

[39:43]friends what do we benefit from dialogue number one world peace imagine

[39:48]if Muslims Christians Jews Sunni Shia everyone sat and had peaceful dialogue

[39:54]to understand one another again not to convert one another when I

[39:58]have a dialogue with a question I don't want to convert him

[40:02]to Christianity nor do I want him to convert me do I

[40:05]want to convert him to Islam nor do I want him to

[40:08]convert me to Christianity no we want to understand one another and

[40:14]to work one another on common challenges World Peace look at all

[40:18]the terrorism that happens in the name of religion in the name

[40:22]of faith and in the name of religion we saw several years

[40:28]ago in Myanmar what happened with with Buddhist monks against the Muslims

[40:36]in that area hate done in the name of religion the hate

[40:41]that they had against people of other religions like Christians azitis and

[40:46]others and even Muslims themselves Muslims were the biggest victims to Al-Qaeda

[40:52]and Isis we can put an end to we can work together

[40:58]we can work together there's a saying in Arabic that says what

[41:05]you can't clap with one hand can you cap with can you

[41:10]clap with one hand unless you're very uh uh imaginative and creative

[41:16]that's another story otherwise I haven't seen anyone that can clap with

[41:19]one hand you need two hands you need two hands to clap

[41:24]you need a team to work together Interfaith dialogue helps us remove

[41:29]misconceptions regarding Islam my dear friends people are ignorant of Islam look

[41:35]at the burning of the Quran that happened in Sweden why why

[41:40]would anyone burn the Quran why what does Islam say that other

[41:48]books don't have to say there's an Islam preach tolerance and respect

[41:53]and love but it is misunderstood it is ignorance that drove that

[41:58]person and I personally I think that person was after popularity he

[42:02]wanted to become popular and he became popular he wanted Fame he

[42:07]became famous and today it's very simple today it's very simple if

[42:12]you see someone reading the Quran you don't become famous someone passing

[42:15]out a copy of the Quran you don't become famous you want

[42:20]to become famous set the Quran on fire and you become famous

[42:23]there was ignorance there's a lot of ignorance dialogue helps reduce ignorance

[42:30]it helps us understand one another know more about each other to

[42:34]recognize how much we have in common how much of the Quran

[42:38]and the Torah and the injil how much they have in common

[42:40]the stories the figures you know these Prophets is all of these

[42:50]prophets that are accepted by all all of these religions they accept

[42:54]them as prophets we accept them as prophets what's the difference except

[42:58]that we believe in Muhammad also my dear friends we are a

[43:13]minority in this country in this Society we want Islam to be

[43:16]recognized how do we do that if we don't engage in Interfaith

[43:20]dialogue how do we want our holidays like to be recognized and

[43:30]you know we saw tweets or messages from the president or from

[43:36]your local state representative the U.S Congress member that represents your area

[43:44]we saw certain tweets and this is what we need recognition of

[43:48]our faith recognition of ashola recognition of Imam recognition of our events

[43:54]on our holidays how do we do that we let others work

[43:58]others work or we go and we engage we do the work

[44:03]we engage with others we invite them to come to our Islamic

[44:07]centers what stops dialogue my dear friends what stops us from engaging

[44:16]in others there are several factors number one hate speech hate speech

[44:21]we condemn people to to hell there are some speakers that come

[44:27]behind the podium and they believe they are The Gatekeepers of Heaven

[44:32]and Hell they are the sheriffs someone gave them a badge by

[44:36]accident and appointed them as a sheriff to heaven and hell this

[44:39]group goes to heaven and that group will sell Christians go to

[44:42]hell Jews go to hell and they're the only person that go

[44:48]to heaven who appointed you who who appointed you as a gatekeeper

[44:52]to Heaven and Hell this hate rhetoric my dear friends this hate

[44:56]speech stops in the face of interfaith dialogue we need to put

[45:01]an end to hate speech the emphasis on differences no we need

[45:05]to learn from the Quran an emphasis on what we have in

[45:11]common not an emphasis on what divides us also ignorance my dear

[45:16]friends misinformation ignorance not reading about other schools of thought not reading

[45:21]about other religions ignorance will stop you from engaging in dialogue we

[45:25]followers of a debate we've been victims of ignorance in our countries

[45:33]back home we saw what others believed in US how they saw

[45:38]us how they viewed us they believe that we have another Quran

[45:40]we believe that made a mistake instead of going accidentally went to

[45:49]rasulullah they accuse us they accuse us of such accusations this stems

[45:54]from where ignorance misinformation lack of learning lack of reading insecurity is

[46:03]also another problem that no we should not engage with Christians and

[46:07]Jews what if what if we're affected what if our children are

[46:11]affected and they convert to Christianity they convert to Judaism no we

[46:15]do not feel insecure we have no insecurities we know our faith

[46:20]we know our religion we know that we know the truth but

[46:24]we'd like to engage with others now there are steps my dear

[46:31]friends there are steps in saying that Christians and Jews this was

[46:36]a step this was a step there have been many steps towards

[46:42]Interfaith dialogue conferences meetings and this is what I'd like to say

[46:48]tonight I I would like to invite this Islamic Center here in

[46:51]Mecca on this blessed Thursday night to officially start an Interfaith program

[46:57]and start with the local churches start with the local synagogues temples

[47:02]and with other mosques as well unfortunately there are some people that

[47:07]are willing to engage and enter Faith dialogue but they are not

[47:13]willing to engage in intra Faith what do we mean by intra

[47:15]Faith Interfaith meaning Muslim Christian Jewish Buddhist Hindu dialogue intra Faith with

[47:23]an a in traffic dialogue means what you see some people that

[47:29]are willing to to engage with Christians Jews and Buddhists and dialogue

[47:33]but they are not willing to engage with Shia not with Shia

[47:38]why Interfaith dialogue starts with intraphate dialogue if you can't sit with

[47:43]fellow Muslims with Sunni and Shah they can't sit together and discuss

[47:49]how do you expect others to listen to you Muhammad my dear

[48:00]friends amongst the purposes of interfaith dialogue is to introduce Imam Hussain

[48:11]but he is for all we should not keep him for ourselves

[48:17]we need to share him we need to introduce the world who

[48:22]is Imam Hussain what did he do what did he accomplish Imam

[48:26]Hussain was the Martyr of this nation we should not restrict him

[48:29]just for the Shia his majalis we need to introduce others during

[48:34]other times introduce others bring friends let us introduce the world to

[48:42]the message of Imam Hussain if people knew who Imam Hussain was

[48:45]they would flock to our faith and our school of thought but

[48:48]we haven't introduced them properly it's our shortcoming if Imam Hussain was

[48:55]a Christian you would see how Christians would sell the idea of

[48:58]Imam Hussain if Imam Hussain was Jewish you would see how Jews

[49:03]sell the idea of Imam but what have we done we have

[49:05]restricted him to our communities and our people only and that is

[49:11]our shortcoming towards Imam Hussain Imam Hussain is a universal message a

[49:16]message that needs to be delivered to everyone anyone who hears the

[49:19]message of Imam Hussain will fall in love whether you're a shiai

[49:24]or a Sunni a Christian or a Jew or even a Buddhist

[49:27]even a Hindu because the ideal that Imam Hussain died for was

[49:34]an ideal for Humanity all you have to be is a human

[49:38]to love what Imam did now let us come as we near

[49:46]the end of our lecture let us see what is happening to

[49:52]the Caravan of Imam Hussain seven days have passed seven very difficult

[49:57]days have passed after the martyrdom of Imam Hussain where is assay

[50:02]the zainab tonight where are the women where are their children on

[50:08]their way to kufa they're on their way to kufa in the

[50:12]middle of the desert the women were being paraded the children were

[50:19]being paraded and the heads of Imam Hussain and his companions were

[50:25]on Spears as they head towards kufa imams but they're all in

[50:34]the middle of the desert all of a sudden they notice that

[50:40]the Blessed head of Imam Hussein looks towards the desert his head

[50:45]churns on the spear and looks towards the desert and his eyes

[50:51]fixate on a position he said is everyone in the Caravan is

[50:59]everyone here do a head count because I see the eyes of

[51:05]my father it's fixated on a position this is very strange why

[51:11]they do a head count and they notice that one of the

[51:15]daughters of Imam Hussain is missing from the Caravan she's lost in

[51:19]the desert they go back and they found and they find the

[51:25]daughter the orphan of Imam Hussain and it's as if his sister

[51:31]zainab is complaining to her brother as she complains to her brother

[51:37]for taking care of his orphans what a difficult task it is

[52:02][Music] his head was a miracle the head of Imam the head

[52:18]of Imam Hussain would recite verses of Quran he would say the

[52:28]man in the Caravan one of the soldiers who would say your

[52:36]head is greater a greater Miracle than the people of the cave

[52:44]until they reach and I say the zainab enters the Caravan enters

[52:51]kufa and they come in the presence and his is in his

[52:58]court and he has the head of Imam Hussain displayed in front

[53:01]of him when zainab comes and she sees the head of Imam

[53:07]Hussain displayed in front of ebenezia and he speaks to zainab in

[53:11]a condescending manner did you see what Allah has done to you

[53:19]and done to your brother and your brothers here is I saw

[53:27]nothing but Beauty he tries to upset and say the Zayna but

[53:33]I say the zainab is that strong being that strong human beings

[53:36]and then they take the woman and children and they parade them

[53:42]in the streets of kufa cool from the city where I say

[53:45]the zainab would not leave her house during the day so that

[53:49]woman so that men would not see her during the day she

[53:52]would only leave at night today zainab is being paraded in broad

[53:57]daylight so that everyone can see her and her nieces see the

[54:04]children of Imam Hussain being paraded and the streets of cool foreign

[54:29]foreign to put the bodies to rest to bury the bodies of

[54:50]Imam Hussain and his companions Benny Assad a tribe A local tribe

[54:54]they come and they told them we will help you to bury

[55:01]the bodies they helped embody bury all of the bodies except the

[55:05]broken body of Imam Hussain and what was remaining of his body

[55:12]he had to collect the pieces the bits and pieces bring them

[55:17]together Imam he himself dug the grave of his father he put

[55:21]his father and his grave that headless body he put it with

[55:27]the broken ribs with the broken finger he put him on for

[55:30]saying in his grave as he was leaving Imam Zen and abedin

[55:36]removed the dust from his hands and he said [Music] my father

[55:47]as foreign with your face bring me bring me thy baby and

[56:22]put him on my chest what a chest what a broken chest

[56:25]that Imam Hussain had he wanted this small baby this small child

[56:32]to lie rests to rest on the chest of Imam for saying

[56:50]foreign foreign [Music] foreign 100 I don't get to hear it all

[58:17]the time so there you go come here the sky is one

[59:00]by one his companions died leaving him alone no what Muhammad thank

[59:39]you so much yes so do it uh okay so we um

[59:51]we have a Salah in few minutes inshaallah and we will have

[59:54]Dua Kumail right after that inshallah um

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