Muharram [Night 9] - The Party of Satan | Sayed Mahdi Qazwini

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Muharram [Night 9] - The Party of Satan | Sayed Mahdi Qazwini
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[0:13]muhammad abdullah foreign [Music] the late scholar and biographer sharif in his

[1:43]comprehensive biography on say this details the elements that the umayyad army

[2:01]on the day of ashura were comprised of and he says that

[2:08]if you were to break down the elements of that army the

[2:12]army of um that you would find five elements five types of

[2:18]people or five groups rather number one were the opportunists these were

[2:27]people who had agreed or a fear of either gaining or losing

[2:37]personal gain these were the people like omar ibn assad who was

[2:48]there and present and commanded the army because he was promised to

[2:54]be the governor of ar which was and is a city south

[3:03]of present-day tehran in iran so he was there as an opportunist

[3:10]not because he was ignorant of who imam hussain al-islam was and

[3:15]the cause that he was standing for but the greed for personal

[3:21]gain the fear of missing out on that personal gain is what

[3:25]caused him to be there so he was an opportunist another one

[3:32]was praised this entire family were known for their enmity towards the

[3:45]beta were there on the day of ashura they were involved in

[3:56]arresting muslim and bringing him to the governor the governor's palace and

[4:05]they also stood against him in battle out of greed for reward

[4:11]this was one group of people another group were mercenaries and mercenaries

[4:18]we know they show up during times of conflict because they know

[4:24]that if if they follow through that the reward is gaining some

[4:33]of the spoils of war these were the people who went as

[4:40]far as stealing the personal belongings of the bait these were the

[4:49]ones that were responsible for looting the tents of the woman folk

[4:54]the family of imam hussain alaihi in the story in the epic

[5:00]of karbala when imam hussain alaihi salam is is murdered they began

[5:05]to loot and plunder and steal the clothes that were on his

[5:09]body the rings that were on his hand the turban that was

[5:16]on his head reports tell us that because imam hussain ali salam

[5:22]anticipated this that before going out into the battlefield for that final

[5:29]time he requested that the woman folk bring for him a piece

[5:34]of clothing which was tattered and torn and not desirable so that

[5:39]he could wear it under the clothes the armor so that he

[5:45]would not be kept naked under that sun imam hussain anticipated this

[5:50]mercenaries who were promised reward a third group were sadists these were

[6:01]people who internally and deep within their souls they were looking for

[6:08]evil that the act of murder and looting and plundering satisfied something

[6:13]deep within their soul the sadists which in today's term we would

[6:23]classify them as sociopaths or psychopaths these were the people that were

[6:28]directly responsible for the murder of imam hussain people like shimra nadal

[6:33]joshin these were the people that had a bloodlust that when they

[6:45]saw blood and violence it satisfied something within their soul and here

[6:50]was a golden opportunity for them to feed that lust that they

[6:58]had number four were those that were compelled to be there those

[7:03]that might have not wanted to be there but they were too

[7:09]afraid to oppose the leaders of the army and some of them

[7:12]were even asked that why don't you go if you feel so

[7:16]sympathetic to the cause of the of the imam why don't you

[7:19]switch sides but the fear kept them from doing so and when

[7:27]al-mukhtar bin abi obeyed a few years after the event of ashura

[7:31]went on his spree of vengeance when he began to avenge the

[7:38]martyrs in karbala their excuse this group of people their excuse was

[7:42]that we were compelled we were forced to be here this is

[7:46]a fourth group and a fifth were the khawarij the khawarij were

[7:53]people who had broken off from the army of imam ali salaam

[7:58]they had fought against him in the battle of nhrawan and so

[8:01]there was there was a small group of them that had survived

[8:04]and there were unresolved grudges and they wanted to take out their

[8:13]grudge on the son of the imam these were people who when

[8:16]the imam identified himself on the day of ashura they said we

[8:19]know exactly who you are we know that you are the grandson

[8:23]of the prophet we know who your family members were and what

[8:25]the grant what your grandfather said about you and your brother and

[8:29]all of this but we despise your father ali ibn abi talib

[8:33]for what he did to us and that was that remained within

[8:39]their hearts the khawarij so knowing all of this knowing that that

[8:42]there were different elements in that army that there were different motivations

[8:48]in that army all of them united in the perpetration of evil

[8:53]we can ask the question where does evil reside and where does

[8:58]evil come from the quran says and it clearly commands us not

[9:05]to cooperate in the perpetration of sinful acts that come together and

[9:18]cooperate in righteous acts in righteous deeds and do not come together

[9:23]in the co and cooperate in the perpetration of evil deeds and

[9:29]sinful deeds these different groups were all united in one purpose in

[9:37]one mission and that was to fight against the grandson of the

[9:42]messenger of allah so where does this evil nature come from where

[9:48]does this evil spirit come from is it something which is inherent

[9:54]meaning that are people born or some people just born evil or

[9:59]is it an acquired characteristic and for centuries scholars psychologists sociologists they've

[10:09]tried to figure out the question of where does evil really come

[10:15]from in the judeo-christian tradition the story of evil begins with lucifer

[10:21]in the quran known as iblis and in the judeo-christian tradition lucifer

[10:27]was a fallen angel meaning that he was an angel that god

[10:31]had created and he was one of god's favorite angels however he

[10:37]became a fallen angel and god let him out of heaven and

[10:40]he fell to grace in hell him and the angels that followed

[10:43]him in the islamic tradition it is similar with the difference being

[10:49]that iblis is not considered an angel but he is considered a

[10:54]jinn the jinn those creatures that are created from a smokeless fire

[10:59]and that behave very similarly to human beings and that they have

[11:03]the they have the choice whether to obey or to disobey and

[11:11]iblis was one of the jinn so is it something which is

[11:16]inherent is there an evil gene in certain people that doesn't exist

[11:24]in other people so sociologists in exploring this and social psychologists they

[11:30]say that there are three possibilities they say that evil might be

[11:36]a result or a product of dispositional causes what does that mean

[11:42]what is disposition disposition is something which is inherent inherent of the

[11:49]character or the mind what we refer to as the fitra that

[11:55]which is already found within an individual this is a dispositional cause

[11:58]it's either a dispositional cause or it could be a situational cause

[12:05]when a person is placed in a certain environment that environment or

[12:12]that or a situation that situation causes evil to come out and

[12:17]emerge from within them or the third possibility is that evil is

[12:23]a product of systemic causes so it's not the individual nor is

[12:26]it the environment it's the system that controls the individual and the

[12:31]environment we've all heard the term that uh one bad apple or

[12:37]two a couple of bad apples ruins the whole barrel if we

[12:41]were to apply this logic the dispositional cause would be to look

[12:44]at those bad apples and try to figure out where did those

[12:48]bad apples come from why were they rotting or why were there

[12:50]why were they in the barrel in the first place to look

[12:54]at it from a situational cause is to study the entire barrel

[12:58]and see what was in that barrel that caused those apples to

[13:02]rot and make the rest of the barrel the apples and that

[13:05]barrel rot as well but if you were to look it from

[13:10]it look at it from a systemic point of view you would

[13:12]turn to the barrel makers who created that barrel who structured that

[13:19]barrel so that whatever allowed it to rot whatever allowed those apples

[13:25]to rot should not have been there in the first place i

[13:29]say this because as we look at the world around us we

[13:33]see that evil exists it persists in many forms sometimes it's an

[13:39]individual sometimes it's a group sometimes it's an entire system most recently

[13:46]one of the recent examples that we saw of course today we're

[13:51]seeing examples unfold but a few months ago there was the incident

[13:54]that took place in palestine in jerusalem which began with the eviction

[14:03]of palestinian families from their home in an area known in a

[14:08]neighborhood of jerusalem known as a number of families who had been

[14:12]living there for decades were evicted from their homes of them evicted

[14:18]by israeli settlers and some of you have may have seen the

[14:22]video where there was a woman a palestinian woman who her and

[14:25]her family had been living in that home for decades was confronting

[14:29]an israeli settler because he was there to take over their home

[14:34]the israeli settler's name was yaka fauci you know where he was

[14:39]from he was from long island new york and if you've seen

[14:44]the video he's in her home and she's demanding that he leave

[14:46]the home and what does he say he says if i don't

[14:49]do it somebody else is going to do it he throws his

[14:51]hands up like this this isn't my fault i didn't cause this

[14:54]if i don't do it somebody else is going to do it

[15:00]you can't argue with that logic i mean this is this is

[15:03]logic beyond aristotle and socrates if i don't do it somebody else

[15:09]is gonna do it so where does that where does that sense

[15:12]of entitlement come from so there were there's been a number of

[15:18]studies conducted over the years which seek to understand the relationship between

[15:26]the perpetration of evil and authority and where does evil actually come

[15:33]from so one study was conducted in 1961 at yale university and

[15:40]the person who pioneered that study was a man by the name

[15:45]of stanley milgram it's known as the milgram experiment and it coincided

[15:50]with a trial that took place an international trial that held responsible

[15:57]a nazi officer by the name of adolf eichmann and this officer

[16:04]was one of the perpetrators of the holocaust so stanley milgram thousands

[16:10]of miles away was trying to figure out was it really his

[16:16]responsibility because the defendant claimed that it wasn't really my responsibility i

[16:22]was just being forced by those which were above me and he

[16:25]reported sources say that he reported to the man himself adolf hitler

[16:30]and he was trying to figure out from a sociological point of

[16:36]view from a psychological point of view is there any legitimacy to

[16:41]this claim that i was forced to do this now what does

[16:44]the quran tell us the quran tells us in chapter 34 verse

[16:48]33 surat sabha wakana that on the day of judgment a group

[17:03]of oppressors will be called to justice those group of oppressors will

[17:09]have two types of people the influencers and those that were influenced

[17:13]al-ladina stakbaru and al-avina estorifu so the quran talks about a conversation

[17:24]between the one who is influenced to the influencer they say bel-makru

[17:35]that it was your fault that we disbelieved because you schemed and

[17:41]you plotted day and night and we were just the product of

[17:44]your command and of course the quran says that that excuse will

[17:49]not come to their avail it will not come to their rescue

[17:52]because at the end of the day as compelled as you believe

[17:57]you are just like those who stood against imam hussain salaam at

[17:59]the end of the day you made the choice so how did

[18:04]they conduct this experiment they conducted it at yale university and what

[18:08]they did is they put out a flyer a poster inviting people

[18:12]to come be part of a study but they didn't reveal to

[18:16]them the true nature of the study they told them that this

[18:18]study which we will pay you four dollars a day for which

[18:23]in today adjusted for inflation is around 35 dollars that you are

[18:26]going to be taking part in a study to help students memorize

[18:30]and learn better and what they did was in the study there

[18:36]were three individuals involved there was the experimenter who knew the true

[18:42]nature of the study there was the teacher who did not know

[18:45]the true nature of the study and then there was the learner

[18:48]who knew the true nature of the study the experimenter and the

[18:53]teacher would be in one room adjacent to that room sharing a

[18:59]wall another room would be where the learner was they would strap

[19:05]the learner to an electrical shock chair an electrical shocking chair which

[19:10]didn't really give any electrical shocks but the teacher the volunteer thought

[19:15]that it would administer electrical shocks the experimenter who was also in

[19:21]in on it who knew the reality would wear a lab coat

[19:24]so they would show themselves as if they were an authority figure

[19:29]and then they would sit with the teacher in a room and

[19:33]observe what was the teacher's job the teacher's job is that they

[19:37]would communicate to the learner in the other room a number of

[19:40]questions multiple choice questions and if the if the learner got the

[19:45]question right if they answered right then nothing would happen they would

[19:49]move on to the next one but if they got it wrong

[19:53]the teacher would have to press a button that would administer an

[19:58]electrical shock to the learner in the other room now it didn't

[20:04]really administer an electrical shock but the whole point of the test

[20:08]was to see that this teacher this volunteer how many electrical shocks

[20:14]and to what intensity would they administer electrical shocks while being influenced

[20:18]by the experimenter which was the authority figure and it was meant

[20:22]to reveal how much people how to what extent are people willing

[20:28]to administer torment and punishment while being under authority and so the

[20:36]learner in the other room would intentionally get some of the answers

[20:39]wrong it would start at a shock of 15 volts and it

[20:45]would go all the way up to 400 volts and stanley milgram

[20:52]asked the students at the psychology department at yale university he asked

[20:56]them he said to what extent do you think what percent of

[20:59]these teachers were going to extend were going to administer the full

[21:05]extent of the shock meaning that they would they would administer up

[21:08]to 400 watts or 400 volts i'm sorry one of one or

[21:11]the other which one is more significant i'm not sure but anyways

[21:17]let's say 15 units versus 400 units and the students of psychology

[21:26]said that only one percent by the end of the experiment there

[21:33]was if my memory serves me right about 60 percent of the

[21:38]teachers the volunteers who administered the full extent of the electric shocks

[21:43]when they would administer an electric shock an automatic recording would play

[21:48]from the other room the person would wail or scream and so

[21:53]this would add pressure to them they would want to quit if

[21:56]they wanted to quit the experimenter who was the authority figure would

[22:02]prompt them would say you have to continue you must continue the

[22:06]experiment must continue and they would continue to add on pressure they

[22:09]would continue to add on pressure and so the experiment would end

[22:14]one of four ways either the experimenter would have to pressure the

[22:20]teacher four times consecutively or they would administer the shock to the

[22:24]full extent three times consecutively either way in order for the in

[22:32]order for the experiment to end someone really needed to be shocked

[22:37]in reality nobody was being shocked but it came to show how

[22:41]when people are placed under a pressure an intense pressure pressure situation

[22:47]where they have an authority above them who is forcing them to

[22:52]what extent will they administer the punishment and so with that data

[22:57]they began to think well maybe these soldiers who committed war crimes

[23:03]maybe we should go a little bit easier on them it was

[23:09]very interesting another experiment was conducted 10 years later this one actually

[23:14]has a documentary that you can watch it's called the stanford prison

[23:17]experiment it took place in the year 1971 at stanford university in

[23:21]california and the professor at the time what he did was he

[23:28]asked for a group of student volunteers about 24 of them this

[23:33]time the students who would volunteer for this experiment were all pre-screened

[23:37]they made sure that none of them had a record of of

[23:42]criminality or uh all of them were were sane and they were

[23:47]they were in upright standing and all of that 24 of them

[23:50]to take part in a mock prison experiment meaning what that they

[23:56]would set up a mock prison in the basement in one of

[23:58]the departments in yale university half of them the volunteers would be

[24:02]assigned the role of a prison guard the other half would be

[24:07]assigned the role of a prisoner and they knew that it was

[24:10]a mock experiment they all knew that it was a mock experiment

[24:13]but they had signed that they would abide by the rules any

[24:16]rules that were forced upon them the professor acted as the superintendent

[24:20]and he chose his assistant professor to act as the warden and

[24:26]this was all a play and it happened in 1971 and so

[24:32]who who did they determine would be the prison guard versus the

[24:38]prisoner by a flip of a coin and you had to accept

[24:41]the results so 12 of them became prison guards 12 of them

[24:46]became prisoners and they had the professor and the assistant professor as

[24:51]a superintendent and a warden they made them dress as prisoners they

[24:55]made them dress as prison guards they gave them wooden batons they

[25:00]kept them confined they even used the police the actual police in

[25:07]palo alto to arrest the prisoners from their home take them to

[25:10]the police station book them take pictures of them mug shots fingerprints

[25:14]all of that and then send them to the jail so this

[25:19]was supposed to be as real as possible and it was supposed

[25:21]to last two weeks and the goal just like the milgram experiment

[25:26]was to see to what extent that if a superintendent and a

[25:31]warden an authority figure would push the prison guards to abuse the

[25:39]prisoners to what extent would they comply and to what extent would

[25:43]they reject why is this relevant a number of years ago almost

[25:46]20 years ago now we know what happened in iraq during the

[25:51]war in abu ghraib the prison of where those soldiers that were

[25:57]humiliating and torturing the prisoners when finally they were caught because one

[26:04]of them had a conscience and he told when finally they were

[26:08]caught what was their excuse is that we were just obeying the

[26:10]authority figures we were encouraged by our masters our authority figures now

[26:16]what happened within that prison well they didn't use physical force but

[26:21]they would take away their food from them they would take away

[26:25]their mattresses from them they would put them in solitary confinement which

[26:28]was a closet a dark closet they would bang on the doors

[26:32]they wouldn't allow them to sleep all while knowing by the way

[26:35]they they all knew that this was an experiment but the most

[26:39]fascinating part about the experiment that the professor who administered this experiment

[26:43]and led it said he said after a few days even though

[26:46]they knew it was play it was mock they began to internalize

[26:51]it they really believed that they were prisoners they even hatched a

[26:55]plot to escape from the prison the prison guards really took their

[27:01]role very seriously you know they had the clothes and they had

[27:04]the mirrored glasses and they had the wooden batons they really thought

[27:06]that they were in charge and it all had to come to

[27:12]a screeching halt six days later it didn't last more than six

[27:17]days they noticed that within the start of the experiment within 35

[27:21]hours one of the prisoners had lost his mind he was going

[27:25]crazy he was shouting he was banging his head on the wall

[27:28]he was banging his hands on the door all it took was

[27:33]a few hours a few days for them to begin to internalize

[27:37]this process so it shows us how influential authority can be when

[27:46]it comes to the perpetration of evil a third example i'll give

[27:51]you and some of you may have heard this in the 1970s

[27:53]there was a cult leader by the name of jim jones who

[27:56]grew up in indiana and he was he was a self-proclaimed communist

[28:01]and socialist and he moved to california and he had uh you

[28:04]know he was very popular with with civil rights and civil rights

[28:06]movements and he had adopted a bunch of children and a very

[28:11]twisted person he created his own cult jim jones finally when it

[28:18]became very extreme he moved his people his entire congregation those that

[28:22]he had influence over he moved them to guyana south africa south

[28:27]america and he built for them a village that they lived in

[28:33]and so reports began to surface of human rights abuses so there

[28:39]was a u.s congressman who actually flew down to check out the

[28:41]situation and on the way back as they were on the runway

[28:46]the tarmac about to board the plane the congressmen and a few

[28:48]people they were chased down by some of the cult members of

[28:52]jim jones and they were shot so the u.s government wanted to

[28:59]seek repercussion so what did jim jones do he led them in

[29:05]a service they took kool-aid and they laced it with cyanide and

[29:09]they committed mass suicide more than 900 people including 300 children died

[29:15]within a few hours self-poisoning this was an authority figure who used

[29:21]the most manipulative techniques to get his cult followers to do what

[29:28]he wanted so authority is very powerful my friends these exp these

[29:32]experiments and these experiences show us the importance of influence and authority

[29:38]in our lives so moving from those experience psychologists began to ask

[29:48]what are the causes of evil and they came up with a

[29:52]list of causes number one is what is referred to as de-individuation

[29:56]de-individuation de-individuation is the phenomena of losing oneself in a crowd whenever

[30:05]you attend an event say a sporting event if you've ever attended

[30:10]a sporting event and everybody is cheering for one team what happens

[30:12]you may not even be a supporter of that team but you

[30:16]start cheering on why because you get lost in the crowd everybody

[30:19]else is doing it the individuation refers to a loss of a

[30:25]sense of self you start to lose your sense of self because

[30:30]you're blended within a crowd when you attend now there are there's

[30:33]positives and negatives when you attend a medlis what's so special about

[30:39]attending a medjlist in person versus seeing it online is because in

[30:46]the medjlist you are around others you are influenced by others you

[30:49]are all there for the same purpose to commemorate or to celebrate

[30:55]so when it comes to evil deindividuation is one of the factors

[31:02]that helps perpetuate evil that people are more likely to commit evil

[31:08]when they are around others who are also committing evil it's a

[31:14]fancy way of saying peer pressure which teaches us the importance of

[31:20]being in the proper environments where you choose to spend your time

[31:24]who you choose to spend your time with some people their their

[31:30]sense of association is random you know you you you grew up

[31:35]with this person you were friends you lived on the same street

[31:38]you went to the same school and that's enough to qualify a

[31:42]person as an influencer in your life there's no study beyond that

[31:45]so this is one cause another cause they found is when people

[31:53]remain anonymous and in the age of the internet it's easier than

[31:58]ever to remain anonymous we all see online on social media the

[32:03]fake accounts this fake social media accounts that perpetuate fake news and

[32:09]evil correct we see anonymous groups who are proud to be anonymous

[32:17]spreading lies and spreading rumors and spreading hate speech and this is

[32:28]why the quran reminds us it says that when two people come

[32:34]together not for righteous purposes for sinister purposes that they are not

[32:39]two people the shaitaan is always the third and they are if

[32:44]there are three people the shaitan is the fourth and if there

[32:47]are four people the shaitaan is the fifth he joins them what

[32:50]do we read in the quran bismillah chapter 58 who believe if

[33:05]you come together and the verb is which comes from nejwa nejwa

[33:12]is a secret conversation it's a secret council oh you who believe

[33:17]if you come together for the purpose of secret counsel do not

[33:19]do so bill duane do not do so for the purposes of

[33:26]evil and disobeying the prophet watanagio if you are to gather in

[33:34]secret do so for the purpose of righteousness and piety what and

[33:41]revere god the one who you will return to so the state

[33:47]of being anonymous the third is the trend of dehumanization those who

[33:54]perpetuate evil amongst others on others they get caught in the mindset

[34:01]of dehumanization that this person is less human than i am if

[34:04]you read about the rwandan genocide the genocide that took place in

[34:12]the country of rwanda many years ago between the the hutu and

[34:18]the tutsi the two the two tribes the two ethnic groups rather

[34:21]how did it begin how was it perpetuated well you had the

[34:27]leaders of one ethnic group before before the killings began before the

[34:31]murders before the before the abuses began they would go to the

[34:37]national radio stations where they had influence and they would refer to

[34:42]the other ethnic group as less than humans they would dehumanize them

[34:47]first and what happened the perpetration of evil followed naturally after that

[34:52]so when we dehumanize people that they are less than us and

[34:56]unfortunately i'm not talking about not this takes place in the center

[35:03]of the muslim world where in some countries citizens of other countries

[35:09]which share the same religion and even the same school of thought

[35:13]the same medhab are considered second third fourth tenth class citizens this

[35:20]is a form of dehumanization and number four are cover stories and

[35:24]justification everyone sees themselves as right everyone sees themselves as correct when

[35:32]we abuse when we when we assault when we hurt others when

[35:40]we perpetuate evil towards them there's usually some sort of justification behind

[35:45]it look at what all has been done in the past twenty

[35:48]years under the slogan of national security and protecting national security look

[35:57]at what happened in afghanistan for 20 years trillions of dollars tens

[36:04]of thousands of lives killed and you see the press briefings coming

[36:13]from our leadership in the country not an ounce of remorse not

[36:19]an ounce of regret justification we have to be very careful when

[36:30]we try to justify our actions so how do we fight how

[36:33]do we resist against this type of evil well number one we

[36:40]disobey the quran tells us that even when it comes to your

[36:46]parents who in terms of obedience are second in line after the

[36:51]obedience to allah we know as muslims that the station and the

[37:01]rights that our parents have above us our fathers our mothers allah

[37:07]spoke extensively on the rights of the parents on the children no

[37:13]he says about your father know about your father that he is

[37:21]the root and you are the branch and that any goodness you

[37:26]see within yourself do not forget to attribute it to the roots

[37:32]and be thankful that you came from him what about the rights

[37:38]of the mother how many times are we told that and reminded

[37:46]that heaven lies beneath the feet of the mother what greater form

[37:50]of respect and obedience is there to any human being than the

[37:56]father and the mother but even then allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says that

[38:00]if they lead you down the wrong path in chapter 29 verse

[38:06]8 it says do not obey them if they're leading you down

[38:09]the wrong path if they ask you to disbelieve if they ask

[38:16]you to ascribe partners to god fala homa elem because your return

[38:23]is to me so to disobey when we are told to do

[38:30]the wrong thing the second is having a sense of accountability studies

[38:36]have shown that people who are accountable people who try to accomplish

[38:40]a certain task those who are accountable if they have an accountability

[38:47]partner or someone to keep them accountable are more likely to stay

[38:51]on track likewise when it comes to the opposite if you're slipping

[38:55]off the right track and if you're going down the wrong road

[38:59]or the wrong track accountability and having a sense of accountability can

[39:03]help remedy that and number three understanding that it's not just dispositional

[39:12]or situation or situational causes that cause evil but there are systemic

[39:16]causes to evil and that we all have a responsibility as muslims

[39:20]to work towards the removal of the systemic causes of evil and

[39:26]this is this is a great task and it's a daunting task

[39:30]when we pray for our 12th imam what do we see give

[39:49]him the ability to destroy any sort of evil and injustice wherever

[39:55]he sees it and to establish good to work on the systemic

[40:02]causes this is what is important when it comes to having a

[40:06]sense of accountability and knowing that we are being watched imam allow

[40:18]me to have reverence and fear as if i'm able to see

[40:23]you with my eye in another place he says blind is the

[40:34]i that does not recognize that you are watching over it this

[40:37]was the attitude of imam hussain this is where the source of

[40:47]his his taqwa and his his piety and his reverence for god

[40:49]came from knowing that god was watching and this is why the

[40:54]imam refused to begin them in battle he refused to tonight we

[41:00]commemorate the memory of one of the people who was dearest to

[41:06]the heart of imam hussain that was his eldest son ali akbar

[41:10]who according to him he says similar person to the holy prophet

[41:36]peace be upon him in his appearance in his demeanor in his

[41:44]mannerisms the way he carried himself the way he spoke and if

[41:48]we longed for rasulullah if we missed rasulullah we would look to

[41:54]the face of this young man because of his striking rebel his

[41:57]striking resemblance to his great grandfather imagine having this gift in your

[42:06]life and being robbed from it one day a man sees in

[42:10]his dream he's a non-muslim he sees in his dream the prophet

[42:12]peace be upon him and he wants to accept islam so he

[42:17]travels to madinah this was during the time of imam hussain and

[42:23]ali akbar was a little boy at that time so he finds

[42:27]imam hussain he tells him the story of the dream he accepts

[42:31]islam and then he says the face that i saw the face

[42:36]of your grandfather the prophets is there any way that i can

[42:39]get a glance of it i miss i saw that face i

[42:43]saw it for a few moments is there anyone that resembles him

[42:46]anyone that looks like him imam hussain alaihi salaam said wait he

[42:50]brought out for him ali akbar and when the man saw ali

[42:55]in akbar he said by god that is him this is what

[42:59]he looked like exactly imagine having this gift in your life the

[43:03]young man who had striking resemblance to the prophets grew up in

[43:10]the care of his father he learned the wisdom of his great-grandfather

[43:16]and grandfather and uncle from his father he was one of the

[43:24]proud men of banu hashem and on the way to karbala the

[43:30]report says that imam hussain alaihissalam out of exhaustion he would fall

[43:35]asleep he would close his eyes and then he would wake up

[43:38]and close his eyes and wake up and every time he would

[43:40]wake up he would say unto allah we belong in to him

[43:49]we return finally the report says turn to him he noticed that

[43:55]his father kept repeating this phrase he says my dear father what

[43:58]is the matter what is what is going on what is you

[44:02]what is having you repeat this phrase so the imam shares his

[44:07]concerns with him the young man replies he says are we not

[44:12]on the path of truth he responded yes he said then we

[44:20]as long as we are on the path of righteousness we should

[44:25]not care whether we fall upon death or death befalls us and

[44:29]on that day the day of akbar was being prepared to go

[44:35]out into the battlefield the reports tell us that he was among

[44:39]the first members of the family of imam hussain to go out

[44:43]into the battlefield imagine the heart of the imam as he is

[44:47]preparing his eldest son the one who reminded him of the prophets

[44:53]about to go out into the battlefield as he is preparing him

[44:58]he turns to um and he says may allah believe you as

[45:05]you are about to bereave me may he believe you in the

[45:10]way that you have may you feel the pain that i am

[45:11]feeling the ladies they begin to weep all of them were attached

[45:21]to ali but he was the one that reminded them of their

[45:22]great grandfather ali akbar goes out like a prince he places on

[45:28]his armor he he takes his sword he takes he rides upon

[45:34]his horse and he starts to head out into the battlefield saying

[45:54]and by god the one whose father is not known shall not

[46:00]rule above us laila the mother of ali akbar was in the

[46:03]tent and as she was in the tent she would look to

[46:07]the face of his father imam hussain imam hussain was looking out

[46:11]into the battlefield she was in the tent looking to the looking

[46:14]at the face of the father seeing if his facial expression would

[46:18]change and how it changed all of a sudden the reports say

[46:24]that the facial expression of imam hussein changed so she turned to

[46:28]him she said i see the expression on your face has changed

[46:35]has something happened to my son he says to her no however

[46:39]a warrior has emerged from the other side and i am concerned

[46:42]he said go inside and pray for the return of your son

[46:46]for i had heard rasool allah say that when a mother prays

[46:50]for her son the prayer is answered so she began to call

[46:54]upon allah wa ta'ala to bring him back within a few moments

[46:59]he returns he comes back but he comes back because of the

[47:02]intensity of the thirst the toll that it had taken upon him

[47:08]he turns to him sayyidi abbatta that the heaviness of the armor

[47:18]is weighing upon me and the thirst is killing me all of

[47:21]a sudden imam hussain salam shows him his tongue how he sees

[47:25]how dry it is and that the father is thirstier than the

[47:27]sun at that moment imam hussain embraces him he says go back

[47:32]to the battlefield for in a few moments you will meet your

[47:36]grandfather rasulullah and he will provide you with a drink that if

[47:39]you drink it you shall never be thirsty after that ali akbar

[47:43]goes out into the battlefield he starts to fight but because it

[47:49]had taken a physical toll on him he had become weaker all

[47:52]of a sudden yamu an enemy soldier finds the right opportunity and

[47:57]he strikes ali akbar in his chest with a lance with a

[48:04]spear the blood begins to gush down it covers the eyes of

[48:06]the horse and it takes the horse to the direction of the

[48:11]camp of um when he arrives close to the camp of nasa's

[48:14]the soldiers began to strike him they began to strike him from

[48:20]every angle imam hussain runs out to the battlefield my dear ali

[48:29]my dear son life is not worth living after you anymore look

[48:32]at what happened to imam hussain he had no power he had

[48:38]he had nothing and no strength within him to carry his son

[48:41]back to the battlefield to carry his son back to the tents

[48:45]he was assisted by the young men of banu hashem the first

[48:48]martyr to go from the family of imam hussain inaudible foreign

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