Night 1 - 'Wilayat al-Faqih: Guardianship of the Jurist' - Dr. Sayed Ammar Nakshawani

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[0:00]filled with such sorrow to see my assigar i crave i hear

[0:10]nothing but his cries oh son please do not arise and with

[0:20]this mother sympathize and with this mother sympathize the moon of muharram

[0:33]times of sadness have come the crescent has now arrived casting glomond

[0:44]karbala casting glomond karbala witnessed it the trampling on shameghari bar so

[1:03]that night the terror board is scattered afar tans looted and on

[1:14]fire earrings snatched from rukaya the moon also in such pain this

[1:27]household bound in chains this household bound in chains the moon of

[1:36]muharram times of sadness have come the crescent has now arrived casting

[1:50]gloom on karbala casting glomond karbala from this month my bb had

[2:04]to wander well less zoharra's grave is restless for her daughter princess

[2:18]the cloak of purity from this mother so holy the beloved of

[2:29]atema paraded in the bazaar paraded in the bazaar the moon of

[2:43]muharram times of sadness have come the crescent has now arrived casting

[2:58]muhammad wali muhammad salwat or the guardianship of the jurist is without

[11:03]a doubt one of the most important concepts in shia'i thought and

[11:08]indeed there's a concept that requires a thorough dissection for it's one

[11:14]which affects each and every one of our lives the discussion concerning

[11:18]wala'at al fakih is a discussion that allows us to delve into

[11:22]the world of islamic law of islamic history of islamic political theory

[11:29]as well as understanding the concept of governance and authority in shia

[11:34]thought because since time immemorial mankind has always asked the question how

[11:40]do we ensure that we have the perfect government what makes the

[11:45]perfect government who leads the perfect government what is the ideal candidate

[11:50]for the perfect government how does state and religion come together should

[11:56]state and religion be separate or should they even be intertwined should

[12:02]religion and politics mix or should they be completely separate from one

[12:06]another you found in different epochs in the history of man that

[12:11]we've either had states which in some cases were known as theocracies

[12:15]and others were known as democracies and others were known as secular

[12:19]states the abrahamic faiths will clearly show you that in their history

[12:24]and in some of their discussions concerning governance and authority the clergy

[12:29]have to be at the helm if the prophets of god such

[12:33]as david or solomon or joseph were both rulers politically as well

[12:40]as spiritually then likewise the representatives be they the rabbis be they

[12:45]the priests for example also have to be able to be of

[12:49]those who rule they shouldn't just guide us for example in the

[12:54]area of spirituality where they tell us which supplications to recite but

[12:59]they should also be of those who head a whole state politically

[13:03]providing us with political guidance sociopolitical dimension where we as the followers

[13:11]of the clergy or the followers of the hierarchy of the priesthood

[13:15]or the follower of the hakim or the sultan we seek guidance

[13:20]from them on political affairs therefore you find that when you come

[13:24]to the history of man before one may argue the enlightenment religion

[13:29]and the state would come together the clergy would have a quite

[13:34]pivotal position at the helm then post enlightenment we went towards a

[13:38]world of secularism that as soon as you had mentioned religion people

[13:42]would always say to you keep the church and the state separate

[13:45]from one another but until today there are some who cannot conceive

[13:50]of the idea that someone who looks like a mawlana or looks

[13:54]like an imam of a mosque can be the head of a

[13:56]state for them keep the mawlana keep the head of the state

[14:00]in your mosque he can recite an istikhara for you he can

[14:04]do talaq for you he can do a katbiktaab or an aqid

[14:08]for you but don't let him get involved in the political scene

[14:12]they say the political scene is for the statesmen the statesmen have

[14:17]that authority therefore they are the ones who should be the ones

[14:20]who head the state today the very idea of a religious government

[14:25]or the idea for example of a philosopher type king at the

[14:28]helm may be seen as something symbolic you might have a queen

[14:32]who heads a church her role is symbolic not necessarily political but

[14:37]rather she might be symbolically there to keep the state in order

[14:41]the discussion of wilaat al fariy is a discussion that allows us

[14:46]to delve into the shi'i conception of governance and authority if i

[14:52]as a shi'a was to discuss the ideal government or i as

[14:56]a shi'i was to discuss the ideal state then when i discuss

[15:01]the ideal government or i discuss the ideal state what would happen

[15:06]what would happen would be that i'd have to look at the

[15:08]foundations of this ideal state the discussion therefore of the guardianship of

[15:14]the jurist is a discussion that allows me to go back into

[15:18]one thousand four hundred years of shi'a history i ask any of

[15:22]our congregation what's your relationship with shi'ism most of the shi'a community's

[15:27]relationship with tashayuq is the first couple of hundred years they know

[15:31]the prophet and the imams ask them the remaining thousand years after

[15:38]your imam went into khaybah what's your role as a shiai are

[15:43]you meant to wait for the imam and just completely suspend any

[15:47]involvement in the political realm are we meant not to even establish

[15:52]a government until the imam returns you find therefore that these questions

[15:57]emerge because these questions then allow me to understand that if i

[16:02]was to think about governance and authority how would i establish governance

[16:08]should governance be forced if governance is forced then is this something

[16:12]acceptable or non acceptable what if the people want a government what

[16:17]if there's a referendum for a government what if there is a

[16:21]land where the referendum leads to a government unfortunately this discussion which

[16:27]is one of the most beautiful discussions has become a discussion where

[16:31]people have begun to hate and slander one another you're either pro

[16:35]wilaat al fatih or you are anti wilaat al fatih you are

[16:39]either with us or you are against us you are either someone

[16:44]who reveres ayatullah khamenei may allah lengthen his life or you're someone

[16:49]if you don't follow that way then you're someone who opposes the

[16:53]marja or the wali al amr of the muslim community you find

[16:57]therefore that people have begun to be involved in slanging matches slandering

[17:03]one another attacking one another abusing one another may allah lengthen his

[17:10]life discuss this beautifully on one occasion he says those who are

[17:14]pro pro the theory of the guardianship of the jurist or the

[17:19]concept of the guardianship the jurist and those who are against many

[17:23]of them have not even finished the middle stage of hausa if

[17:27]you ask many who tell you that i'm with walehat al fakih

[17:30]or i am against walehat al fakih you'll find that many of

[17:33]them have not even finished the preliminary studies that you need to

[17:37]discuss such concepts you look at him vehemently and vociferously speaking out

[17:43]against walehat al fatih without knowing history of the meaning of the

[17:47]term walayah what is the meaning of fatih who are the scholars

[17:52]who have discussed this there's a misconception that ayat al khomeini may

[17:55]allah bless his soul was the founder of the theory or the

[17:59]concept of walayat al fatih on the contrary you find that many

[18:02]ulema before ayat al fatiyeh had already discussed wila'at al fatiyeh but

[18:08]how many people know the writings of sheikh al mufiyeh how many

[18:12]know sheikh tusi how many know for example karaki how many know

[18:16]narati how many even know for example others such as gulpai gani

[18:21]naini ansari ayatullah al khawi some of these are household names others

[18:27]of them none of us have read their works there are some

[18:30]people who will sit and attack those who either are with or

[18:37]against and you'll find they don't know any of the discussion concerning

[18:42]this issue this discussion of wullahi al fatih is a discussion of

[18:46]an academic nature it allows us to delve into not only our

[18:51]history but on a contemporary level because the reality is since 1979

[18:56]the only shia majority country with a government is iran that's something

[19:01]we cannot deny there is no denying that since 1979 many people's

[19:06]passion and inspiration for their madhab for tashayyur was because of the

[19:11]iranian revolution therefore for us when we discuss this it's not a

[19:15]matter of discussing so that we fight each other when our ulema

[19:19]from the time of sheikh al mufid and sheikh hattusi to the

[19:22]times of sheikh al fatih karakiya and naraati and fayed kashani and

[19:27]the likes of sheikh mortab al ansari ayatullah al khoi ayatullah al

[19:31]khomeini have all discussed they discussed it so that we were able

[19:36]to understand whether and what is our responsibility in the gaiba of

[19:40]the imam how many times have you sat down at home and

[19:42]thought what's my responsibility in the absence of the imam what is

[19:46]my role am i meant to sit back and suspend all involvement

[19:50]am i meant to be proactive that's where the discussion of wilayat

[19:53]al fati comes in let us tonight examine in-depth wilayat al fati

[19:59]in order that we're able to understand the backdrop of this concept

[20:04]of governance and authority within shiite thought and i'd like to dissect

[20:09]this in the following stages number one ultimately who does all authority

[20:14]belong to number two how was it this authority devolve to the

[20:19]prophets as well as to the imams of ahlul bayt number three

[20:26]was the prophet simply a spiritual man or was he also political

[20:30]and if you were to name seven duties that the prophet peace

[20:33]be upon him and his family had what would they be number

[20:37]four how did the day of gadir and the giving away of

[20:40]the ring transfer wilayah from the prophet peace be upon him's family

[20:44]to the imam number five did the ahlul bayt believe religion and

[20:49]government should come together or should they be completely separate and which

[20:54]hadith mentions how religion and government are twins that both need one

[20:59]another number six therefore when the twelfth imam went into ghaybah how

[21:05]then did we understand the wilaya of allah the prophet and the

[21:09]imams and how did ayatollah al khomeini may allah bless his soul

[21:14]discuss what had already been discussed by many before him number seven

[21:20]what's the difference in the theory of and which has been elucidated

[21:28]upon between ayatollah al khomeini and ayatollah al khui number eight and

[21:34]of the utmost importance when iran established an islamic state and governance

[21:40]and authority was this forced or was there a referendum finally was

[21:46]there a constitution can it be amended and how do we reply

[21:50]to those who say there are mistakes made by fallibils therefore such

[21:54]concept should be completely withdrawn let's discuss this and dissect this topic

[21:59]in complete depth wilaiah means authority of course when we come to

[22:05]the word wilaiah there may be other meanings such as closeness but

[22:09]the reality is that many times when one looks at the word

[22:12]it refers to a guardianship or an authority ultimately the highest authority

[22:19]in islamic thought is allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and therefore you'll always

[22:23]find wali or walaiah next to the name of the lord almighty

[22:31]in the quran many of us when we come to read ayatul

[22:34]qursi and what comes after it we come across the clearest of

[22:39]lines allah is the of those who believe why because if i

[22:53]take allah as my guardian then i can never lose the quran

[22:58]says that i may take my guardian as who i could take

[23:01]shaitan as my guardian i could take the disbeliever as my guardian

[23:06]but those who take allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as their wali as

[23:10]their guardian in terms of authority he takes them out of darknesses

[23:16]and into light therefore i find that on the highest level has

[23:22]the wilayah the authority and the guardianship his wilayah can be seen

[23:27]in where it can be seen for example when it comes to

[23:34]guardianship in the world of creation he creates what he wants and

[23:39]guardianship in the world of legislation yes is in what is in

[23:46]the era of creation allah creates what he wants ultimately allah part

[23:51]of his authority guardianship and power is that he creates what he

[23:56]wants but likewise part of his authority is that he legislates what

[24:00]he wants he legislates for us on the earth to follow that

[24:05]legislation he looks after our rizq that's part of his wilayah he

[24:10]creates that's part of our his wilayah he's the all seeing the

[24:15]all hearing the all knowledgeable the all powerful all of this comes

[24:18]into what remit the of allah yes when the quran for example

[24:24]says that authority guardianship is to allah this authority of allah subhanahu

[24:34]wa ta'ala how is it manifested how is it devolved could allah

[24:40]subhanahu wa ta'ala give part of his wilaya to his creation of

[24:45]course because for allah to manifest that legislation and that power is

[24:51]by appointing prophets on the earth who have some of that how

[24:57]many times when you look in the quran you find allah subhanahu

[25:00]wa ta'ala mentioning that not only is he the wali but that

[25:04]rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa'alehi is also the wali of course rasulullah salallahu

[25:10]alaihi wa'alehi is not independent it's dependent on who dependent on allah

[25:16]giving him the in the quran what do we see in surah

[25:20]five verse 55 surely indeed allah is your guardian this is fundamental

[25:31]in our understanding of allah is your guardian all muslims agree on

[25:39]this and his prophet look how some of the of allah subhanahu

[25:47]wa ta'ala is given to rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi was given to

[25:52]nuh alaihi wasalam was given to alaihi wasalam was given to isa

[25:58]alaihi salam when the quran says guardianship it means that allah had

[26:10]manifesting his authority and guardianship manifested ed it in the form of

[26:15]a prophet who walked on this earth like other prophets they came

[26:20]with clear truths with clear proofs as a guidance and authority on

[26:25]behalf of allah subhanahu ta'ala do you agree therefore when we all

[26:28]look at this we found that rasulullah was like other prophets when

[26:33]the quran said we have sent our messengers with clear proofs and

[26:45]with them what have we sent the book and the scales so

[26:49]that they may judge with equity wait i thought rasulullah only comes

[26:54]to teach us namaz he just comes to teach us prayer fasting

[26:58]hajj no he also has the wilayah of qadha with shariaqa rasulullah

[27:04]sallallahu alaihi wa'ale if his lord's wilayah is legislation then he must

[27:08]implement that legislation that's why if i was to ask all of

[27:12]you define for me seven roles or seven areas of the wilayah

[27:18]of rasulullah these definitions are vital why because we're gonna see the

[27:23]transfer and how much of that transfer moves from one epoch of

[27:27]shi'ism to another epoch of shi'ism rasulullah when the quran said what's

[27:36]his willaya first he's the one who establishes laws for us do

[27:41]you agree on behalf of who on behalf of allah subhanahu ta'ala

[27:44]he tells us what is halal what's haram he tells us what's

[27:48]wajib what's makru what's mubah do we all agree he tells us

[27:53]about all of these that's number one number two he adjudicates in

[27:58]our affairs yes he doesn't just sit there and pray salah and

[28:02]sit in a cave twenty four seven he adjudicates in our affairs

[28:07]if there's a dispute that takes place he adjudicates in that dispute

[28:12]number three he looks after the needy and the downtrodden in the

[28:18]society's wealth or for example what there has been left behind for

[28:23]them yes if for example there is an orphan that orphan the

[28:30]parents have died the parents left behind a few £100,000 you've got

[28:35]a boy who's nine years old and you've got a girl who's

[28:38]six years old can a boy who's nine look after a bank

[28:42]account of few £100,000 no you can't so then what do you

[28:46]have you have rasulullah part of his walaiah is what is that

[28:52]he can look after those funds until what until that boy reaches

[28:58]for example the age where he is able himself to have responsibility

[29:03]for this these we call them umar hasbiyyah the holy prophet peace

[29:07]be upon his family can look after the wealth of an orphan

[29:11]or the wakf the endowment if there's an issue for example he

[29:15]can be responsible or on the fourth level rasulullah can also solemnize

[29:23]or dissolve a marriage you know sometimes there may be husbands who

[29:27]are like listen i'm not gonna give you a divorce i'm your

[29:30]welly i'm your guardian i'm the one who's in charge here if

[29:34]that husband has financially not looking after his missus and that husband

[29:39]is someone who's not looking after her also in other areas which

[29:43]is her right then what happens the husband can turn around at

[29:47]the moment say you're never gonna get divorced rasoolallah sallallahu alaihi wa'ala

[29:50]at that moment can come in he can dissolve a marriage because

[29:53]of his wilayah what do we have now the one who provides

[29:57]us what's halal and haram the one who adjudicates in our affairs

[30:01]the one who has the wilaya to be able to look after

[30:06]the endowments orphans the one who could solemnize a marriage or dissolve

[30:11]a marriage number five another area of his wilayah what is it

[30:15]collection of khums distribution of khums collection of zakat distribution of zakat

[30:24]was there khums in the time of rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi of

[30:27]course there was a clear eye on khums if there's a clear

[30:30]eye on khums who's the one who has the authority to look

[30:34]after the khums who is it who's the one who distribute the

[30:37]khums who's the one in charge of the khums who's the one

[30:41]who collects the khums rasulallah part of his collection and distribution of

[30:47]khums collection and distribution of zakat number six to implement the penal

[30:53]code of allah on earth controversial one which i'm gonna come to

[30:58]in the next few nights about sharia law implementation of the cutting

[31:02]of the hands of the thief implementation for example of lashing the

[31:08]one who has committed adultery implementation of for example areas such as

[31:13]stoning and so on isn't this part of his authority that he

[31:16]has to make sure that if there is this happening then he

[31:19]has to make sure he is the one who looks after these

[31:22]affairs and number seven governing the state was rasulullah someone involved in

[31:29]politics because those who say mawlana's and ulama should not be involved

[31:34]in the world of politics rasulullah himself was the head of the

[31:39]state of medina our prophet may have been different to others who

[31:43]may as some claim said give to caesar what's caesar yes and

[31:47]give to the lord was the lord's for example no our prophet

[31:50]was the head of the state he didn't say because i am

[31:54]a religious figure have to stay at home he said no on

[31:58]the contrary at the end of day all of you look for

[31:59]political guidance not just religious guidance you come to me for an

[32:03]istikara i'll do an istikara for you but the sociopolitical dimension of

[32:08]how to live with the christians and the jews and the mushriqs

[32:12]who were living in medina also that area i have to guide

[32:15]you if i'm not aware of the political circumstances of what's going

[32:19]on in medina then how can i be your guide at the

[32:22]end of the day i am the one who has the wilayah

[32:25]from allah therefore would you come to me for because when there's

[32:30]a political issue i'm the one who has to give you that

[32:32]guidance would with all of these areas of wilayah seven of them

[32:37]would he leave the world without ensuring that someone looked after those

[32:42]seven areas as it is it's rational that my prophet who is

[32:46]in charge of the what in charge of halal and haram my

[32:50]prophet who is in charge of adjudicating affairs my prophet who is

[32:55]in charge of looking after the downtrodden and the needy my prophet

[32:59]who's in charge of solemnizing or dissolving a marriage my prophet who's

[33:04]in charge of the collection of khuns my prophet who is in

[33:08]charge for example of implementing the penal code my prophet who is

[33:12]in charge of governing the state he would then leave the world

[33:15]and say you guys choose who should look after these seven areas

[33:18]as in rationally when i'm a shia why am i a shia

[33:21]because i'm born into a shia family not at all it's because

[33:25]i could not conceive that a man would leave the world with

[33:28]these seven areas of wilayah of his authority without someone looking after

[33:33]them the only man amongst those who surrounded him who can look

[33:39]after all those seven areas was imam emir al muminin and how

[33:44]much we miss the nares of the majalis that we would always

[33:47]have you found with imam emir al muminin al alaihi salam the

[33:51]imam on the day of gadir no not just the day of

[33:54]gadir i didn't finish that earlier ayah of surah five verse 55

[33:58]we begin right from the origin of understanding allah's the prophet's did

[34:11]it stop there who is the wali indeed allah has the wali

[34:26]all muslims agree we all agree allah is the guardian for all

[34:29]of us we all agree yes my prophet is a guardian allah

[34:34]said listen islam is not complete just by stopping there there's another

[34:37]area you have to continue which area and those who believe what

[34:43]all of us are the guardians no particular those who establish salah

[34:51]and they give zakat while they are in a state of ruku

[34:57]which man gave away his ring in a state of ruku when

[35:01]the poor in medina was looking for somebody who would at least

[35:05]give him something in the mosque of rasulullah which man was it

[35:10]who gave away his ring the moment he gave away the ring

[35:14]the quran came down and said what don't all you muslims say

[35:18]that authority and guardianship is only allah and the prophet how many

[35:21]times you sit with people who say to you muhammadan rasoolallah is

[35:26]enough no no no no wait the quran made an extension muhammadan

[35:30]next verse and whoever takes allah as his guardian and the messenger

[35:46]of allah that's it no and those who believe then surely they

[35:55]are the party of allah and they are the victorious ones if

[35:59]islam was only two in the kalimah why is allah telling me

[36:03]that i have to make sure i take three as my guardian

[36:06]if islam was only about two in the kalimah then why does

[36:13]the quran in surah five verse 56 says whoever takes allah has

[36:21]his guardian whoever takes the prophet peace be upon his family as

[36:24]his guardian and whoever takes those who believe meaning the man who

[36:28]gave away his ring they are the party of allah yes a

[36:33]muslim needs to believe in the wilayah of allah and his prophet

[36:37]you want to become a mu'min then you have to follow amir

[36:40]al mu'mineen you want to when you want to be of those

[36:45]who follows amir al mu'mineen why because on the day of gadir

[36:49]when the prophet said don't i have a over all of you

[36:56]surah 33 verse six don't i have guardianship of all of you

[37:02]they said he said whoever i have guardianship and will i over

[37:11]now ali ibn abi talib has that meaning what how many times

[37:16]i tell people when you say do you know what you're saying

[37:20]how many for years recite ashhadu an nhaliyan well i asked them

[37:24]what are you saying what you're saying is that the seven areas

[37:27]of authority and guardianship rasulullah had now i believe imam amir al

[37:34]mumineen has them because i believe that my lord has transferred his

[37:39]willaya parts of his willaya manifested them in who in muhammad sallallahu

[37:45]alaihi wa then manifested it on the day of gadir on who

[37:49]imam ali ibn battalion which seven rasulullah told us what's halal and

[37:54]haram does anyone know anything better than alib nabi ta'ala when it

[37:57]comes on what's halal and haram rasulullah used to adjudicate our affairs

[38:02]the judiciary does anyone like imam emir al mumin was anyone more

[38:07]learned with more wisdom than imam ali when judging affairs where ladies

[38:11]children are about to be cut in half and he is able

[38:16]to tell them which one the child belongs to number three rasulallah

[38:21]sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi used to look after the endowments used to look

[38:24]after the orphans he has that control now imam ali alaihi wa'alehi

[38:29]number four rasoolallah sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi could wa'alehi solemnize or dissolve a

[38:33]marriage ali ibn abi talib if he feels a marriage should be

[38:36]dissolved he can do it there and then number five collection of

[38:40]khums distribution of khums collection of zakat distribution of zakat rasulullah was

[38:47]in charge of it from the day of gadir imam ali was

[38:50]in charge of it but number six and number seven there's something

[38:54]interesting here imam ali was announced on the day of gadir do

[38:58]you all agree he didn't take power for twenty five years that

[39:01]means governance as well as the implementation of the penal code had

[39:07]to wait because when others came into authority within the islamic state

[39:13]within the empire imam ali had to wait until when the thirty

[39:17]sixth day after ijira on those other areas people were still coming

[39:21]to imam ali alaihi salam but imam ali alaihi salam had governance

[39:25]and established the sharia when he became khalifa imam ali alaihi salam

[39:31]did not turn around and say religion and government should be separate

[39:33]listen to this hadith what do the ahlul bayt tell us religion

[39:39]and government are like two two are like twin brothers who need

[39:44]each other religion is the foundation and government is the god a

[39:52]place a government without a religion without that foundation will be lost

[39:57]and a government without that guardian will be perished notice here that

[40:02]the didn't just say look at us as people who lead you

[40:06]in salah and we tell you how to perform at siyam we

[40:11]are also those who give you political guidance we will also head

[40:16]a state if the people are ready for us we're not gonna

[40:20]force it upon them when they came to imam ali alaihi salam

[40:24]to become a khalifa he said this is not worth anything for

[40:27]me except to establish justice yes otherwise i don't want something which

[40:32]i don't want to force something on you at saffin when they

[40:35]wanted to do an arbitration did imam ali alaihi salam said i'm

[40:38]the khalifa of you have to follow me no if you people

[40:40]believe that you want to head in that direction then it's up

[40:43]to you imam ali alaihi salam therefore when he had the wilayah

[40:48]he was in power for four years highlighting that the same wilayah

[40:54]that rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi had was transferred to imam ali alaihi

[40:59]salam the other imams of ahlul bay salawatu wa'alehi wa'alehi did not

[41:03]of course rule they collected khums they distributed khums imam asadaq until

[41:09]imam al asghari had a wikala system of collecting and distributing khums

[41:14]they would look after endowments they would adjudicate cases they tell us

[41:19]the halal and the haram when our imam went into khaybah a

[41:38]major question arose what was that question who is the authority for

[41:43]us now who is our guardian because we knew allah subhanahu ta'ala

[41:49]is our guardian always rasulullah has died imam ali alaihi salam the

[41:55]other imams have passed away who then is our wali who is

[42:03]the guardian of the affairs of the muslims and this guardianship how

[42:09]far does this guardianship extend you found that when it came to

[42:15]the proponents of let me make something clear here maraja and many

[42:22]of our scholars all believe in but the scope of the wilaat

[42:29]that is taken from the prophet and the imams to the fakih

[42:33]is what they differ over how many of those seven of the

[42:39]prophet and imam ali alaihi salaam in that list are passed on

[42:43]to the fakir because the proponents of that which is espoused by

[42:51]the likes of karaki naraki ayatullah al khomeini may allah bless us

[42:56]all and others before them as well you found their pro those

[42:59]proponents what do they say they all agree with each other in

[43:03]terms of those who don't agree with the full extent they agree

[43:06]that in the absence of the twelfth imam rationally the walayah goes

[43:11]to the most learned of the community because what is walayah at

[43:15]al faqi faqi fiqh fiqh deep understanding of religion which is transferred

[43:22]in most circles today in the understanding of the word law for

[43:25]example so you find is the guardianship of the jurist before it

[43:32]was the of rasulullah then it was the wilayah of the imam

[43:36]then it became what wilayah the guardianship of the jurist who looks

[43:42]after the affairs of the ummah in the absence of the twelfth

[43:46]imam they have their rational proofs for it and they have traditional

[43:52]proofs for it in terms of rational in terms of just following

[43:56]a jurist as your wali they'll say rationally that look you have

[44:00]to go to the most learned twelfth imam is not with us

[44:04]so who do we go to we would obviously go to the

[44:06]most learned in the absence of the twelfth imam someone might turn

[44:11]around and say that i don't believe in taqlid according to text

[44:14]i say well rationally speaking if you haven't done a phd in

[44:17]islamic law and you're not a professor of islamic law you'd have

[44:21]to probably follow someone who is because see that dictates that if

[44:27]i am not an expert in pharmacy i'm gonna go to the

[44:29]pharmacist i'm not an expert in medicine i go to the medic

[44:32]rationally speaking therefore i'm gonna go to who i'm gonna go to

[44:36]the doctor of fiqh they have the wilaya on a rational level

[44:41]then in terms of a textual level how what is there in

[44:46]the text which they use to prove the wilaya of the faqeeh

[44:52]remember we said they all agree wilaya till faqeeh but they differ

[44:58]on the scope of the seven which are transferred from the imam

[45:02]to the jurist how do they differ first what text would they

[45:07]use they choose for example one of the tawkiyat imam the twelfth

[45:12]imam in his tawkiyat to ishaat bin yaqoo he says for example

[45:17]when you come to which area when you come to for example

[45:22]the hawadif that are affecting you right in front of you every

[45:26]day occurrences that are affecting us every day nude occurrences that emerge

[45:32]who do you go to the narrators of our traditions for they

[45:36]are our hujja over you and we are the hujja of allah

[45:40]over the people people okay so they say that this is the

[45:42]first proof that you go towards who you go to the jurist

[45:47]in the absence of the imam okay the second proof is what

[45:52]do they say the second proof is that they say that you

[45:56]go to the of umar ibn hanbala umar ibn hanbala he was

[46:01]what he was one of the companions of imam saddiq there are

[46:07]two traditions omar ibn hanbala in the makbullah and the hadith of

[46:11]abu khadija both companions of imam saddiq ask him a question if

[46:15]two shia have an issue who do you go to can they

[46:19]go to the tahut the non muslim judge imam sallallahu alaihi salaam

[46:25]says no you go to the learned ones or the hakim who

[46:31]we have appointed over you those who know the prohibited the halal

[46:36]and the haram those who know the laws and the ordinances i

[46:40]have appointed them over you therefore in both these traditions the mabullah

[46:45]of omar ibn hanbala and in the other tradition of abu kharija

[46:49]they point to the fact that the imams themselves have said you

[46:53]shia when the twelfth imams gone into kaiba our wilayah our authority

[46:59]if you want to go towards those in authority from amongst you

[47:03]you go to the jurists you go to the haqim you go

[47:07]to the narrator of our traditions some may differ on the reliability

[47:12]of some of these traditions text wise is the isnaud accurate is

[47:15]it not suffice that we can go rationally if we go rationally

[47:20]rationally i would always have to go towards the one who's more

[47:23]learned than me in any subject therefore i do taqlid i'm a

[47:26]muqalid for example of may allah lengthen his life when i do

[47:31]the taqlid of what am i doing i am doing the taqlid

[47:35]of and i recognize rationally that is the most learned in the

[47:41]subject so i follow what then became the difference if they all

[47:46]agree on the of the fatih and they look at these traditions

[47:49]what then became the difference like naraki like karaki also in discussions

[47:56]of many of our said that those areas of the wilayah of

[48:05]rasulallah and the wilayah of the imam are now all transferred to

[48:09]who are transferred to who are transferred to the jurist transfer to

[48:15]the jurist meaning what meaning that that authority to govern the jurist

[48:21]can govern to implement sharia the jurist implements sharia to be in

[48:27]charge of an as well endowments the jurist also is the one

[48:32]who implements these as well ayatollah al khomeini says that if allah

[48:37]if the prophet and the imams are telling the people to go

[48:41]towards the scholars the scholars themselves if they have the authority to

[48:46]judge between the people how are you going to be able to

[48:49]judge unless you're in power and if rationally speaking then government is

[48:54]a necessity who best to lead a government someone who's aware of

[48:59]the principles of the religion you can't let someone lead a government

[49:03]who's not aware of the laws of halal and haram therefore if

[49:06]governance is a necessity and you need someone to lead that government

[49:12]the best amongst you and the most learned is who is the

[49:15]jurist so therefore the jurist should be the one who has the

[49:19]to lead that government not just lead the government if rasulullah was

[49:26]implementing the penal code likewise the jurist is the one who has

[49:31]to ensure that these judgments are there as well further than that

[49:35]that the jurist also not only gives fatwas a jurist will give

[49:40]a fatwa but a jurist also can give a hokum a hokum

[49:47]that is not only telling me what's halal and what's haram but

[49:50]the sociopolitical dimension of the world of the shia not just where

[49:56]he is he provides guidance for the shia as well meaning that

[50:00]in the same way rasulullah was a political leader providing guidance related

[50:06]to what is jurisprudential and what is political likewise that will ayah

[50:12]of rasulullah and of the imams is transferred to who transferred to

[50:18]the fuqaha now we know that there may be a couple of

[50:21]areas which for example says don't completely transfer to the imam for

[50:27]example not believing in jihad ibn tayyi where offensive jihad can be

[50:34]called a prophet or an imam can call offensive jihad but you

[50:38]will find that idol al khomeini may not necessarily believe that this

[50:42]is something where there is solid proof that it can be completely

[50:45]transferred or others like naraki and karaki have spoken as well so

[50:50]what you have here ayatollah al khomeini when looking at wila'at al

[50:54]fakih as with others who came before him or i've mentioned such

[50:57]as narakih and such as karakih believe in the complete extensive absolute

[51:05]authority of the jurist okay which means that those seven areas when

[51:11]they're passed there's absolute authority which is passed to the jurist the

[51:16]jurist is not just someone who gives fatwas the jurist sees that

[51:20]governance is something which is a must and that if it is

[51:25]a must it may even take precedence over acts of worship if

[51:31]the fatih believes that hajj should be not attended that year because

[51:39]of a sociopolitical dimension and an issue with the killing of the

[51:44]people who love ahlul bayt a year before then he says i

[51:47]have the remit to place an order for people not to go

[51:51]to hajj but his presidents comes with backing from times of the

[51:56]imams if i have to give a hukum about a man who

[52:00]slandered the prophet peace be upon him and his family in his

[52:03]book others may be quiet others may say that i prefer just

[52:07]to do for you istaqara i may do nikah for you i

[52:10]may do talaq for you he said look at imam al hussain's

[52:13]sermon at minna imam al hussain's sermons at karbala imam al hussain

[52:18]when he spoke out against those who were clergymen who remained silent

[52:24]when they saw volm he says therefore there is a political dimension

[52:30]a dimension where you implement the wilayah of the prophet peace be

[52:34]upon waslam the way he established the state in medina it is

[52:37]the remit of the faqi therefore to inherit that dimension that therefore

[52:42]is what the maraja agree is to the jurist how extensive ayatollah

[52:50]al khomeini and others speak of it being extremely extensive covering all

[52:55]areas who had a difference of opinion with this ayatollah al khomeini

[52:59]being amongst them ayatollah al khomeini said yes out of those seven

[53:03]for example we can say that a few of them are definitely

[53:06]the remit of the jurist but there's a couple which aren't okay

[53:10]so he believed in what i as a jurist give you adjudication

[53:17]i give you fatawa halal haram i look after the endowments or

[53:21]i look after orphans collection distribution of khums but for example there

[53:26]may be other areas such as establishing a government or a state

[53:30]not necessarily whereas surprisingly what's interesting believed in offensive jihad ayatollah al

[53:39]khumayni with all of the authority of the 12 being passed on

[53:44]to the jurist did not believe in offensive jihad the way ayatollah

[53:49]al khawi actually believed in jihad libtiday he believed in offensive jihad

[53:55]likewise ayatollah al khawi within his work speaks about also the implementation

[54:00]of the penal code therefore one may ask the question ayatollah al

[54:05]khawi is different with ayatollah al khomeini although there is clear works

[54:08]where ayatollah al khomeini says ayatollah al khomeini says don't have sufficient

[54:11]evidence for that scope of authority of the faqing not that the

[54:17]jurist doesn't have authority the scope that ayatollah al khomeini says there

[54:22]may not necessarily be that particular evidence however maybe ayatollah al khui

[54:27]being someone who lived under the ba'ath regime under saddam could not

[54:31]be so open about talking about governance or authority whereas you find

[54:37]had it been a different time a different period then maybe ayatollah

[54:41]al khawi would have been more open on some issues however what's

[54:45]clear as ayatollah munir al kabbahs may allah lengthen his life our

[54:48]teacher says that you have of the mutlakah and you have of

[54:52]al hisbah there is precedence in those before him such as as

[55:00]i mentioned the likes of whom such as karaki such as such

[55:04]as sheikh mufid such as sheyid afani also there is precedence in

[55:08]those before him this shouldn't result in a slanging match between us

[55:13]that our mosque follows and you follow nathareid al hezbo i'm with

[55:21]you i'm against you you're not with us you're against us my

[55:24]dear brothers and sisters don't fall into this trap believe you and

[55:27]me someone says for example that this is all shirazis versus wilaat

[55:32]al fakiyyah and this is all shirazis said muhammad al shirazi also

[55:36]was a believer in wilaat al fakiyyah now when i say this

[55:41]line there might be people who say how could you say that

[55:43]muhammad shi'razzi believes said muhammad shi'razzi believes in wilayah but the wilayah

[55:47]of the fuqaha guardianship of a council or assembly of jurists in

[55:53]contrast to ayatullah al khomeini discussing one jurist ayatollah al shi'razzi what

[55:59]would he say he says a council or assembly of fuqaha he

[56:03]has his 19 points why he believes there should be a council

[56:07]of jurists in contrast to what one jurist with the walaah he

[56:12]believed that there should be a council because if you put one

[56:14]at the helm it could result in a dictatorship he replied well

[56:19]even if you put 19 at the helm or you put 21

[56:22]at the helm what's there to say that there isn't going to

[56:23]be the only those people who rule the whole state but still

[56:27]at the end of the day when we talk of shi'raazi and

[56:30]today people say he's a shi'raazi firstly with myself i follow ayatollah

[56:33]sistani may allah lengthen his life secondly i have respect for all

[56:38]of our marajah they're all our bright flags and our lights thirdly

[56:42]if you are not privy to the thoughts of for example then

[56:54]don't open up on these issues there are certain subjects like economics

[56:59]and finance pharmacy and medicine i will not sit there and open

[57:02]up on because i know i'll be baffled with what i'm talking

[57:04]about likewise on these areas don't make slanderous accusations about people without

[57:10]knowing what their works are discussing in terms of authority so what

[57:15]happens ayatollah al khomeini's discussion of was ten years before the revolution

[57:22]13 lectures in najaf 1969 until 1970 discusses the guardianship of the

[57:29]jurist in the absence of the twelfth imam ten years later the

[57:33]iranian revolution when the iranian revolution happened at the '79 nobody straight

[57:38]away said that this is meant to be what that this is

[57:41]meant to be an islamic republic a referendum was held a couple

[57:45]of months or so after the revolution march '79 referendum you vote

[57:51]for what this is gonna be called 98% overwhelmingly voted for an

[57:56]islamic republic from there if the whole country 98% has voted for

[58:02]this then nobody could say that we forced islam down your throats

[58:06]someone turned around and said but you know that islamic republic has

[58:10]made mistakes number one sometimes you look at yourself in the mirror

[58:13]if allah punished you for every mistake you made wallahi you wouldn't

[58:16]be able to open your mouth but number two isaiah in the

[58:19]government of rasulullah there weren't people who made mistakes in that government

[58:24]in the government of imam ali alaihi salam imam ali didn't have

[58:27]people around him who made mistakes when you say that there are

[58:30]mistakes and errors that have been done by the islamic republic and

[58:34]the state is not perfect who said you ever gonna get a

[58:36]utopia the whole aim was to see that the implementation of islam

[58:42]can it happen or not can we implement islam in a state

[58:47]can we implement the guidelines of the religion i know from the

[58:51]outside someone might turn around and say that i don't really wanna

[58:54]live there it's not about living or not it's about asking yourself

[58:58]that this religion that you believe in if you had the chance

[59:00]to govern with it would it be something healthy would it be

[59:03]something practical would it be something that people are able to live

[59:07]under can we say that there weren't mistakes there were can we

[59:12]say that they claim to be infallible never no one and others

[59:17]never said that we are masson we are simply trying to manifest

[59:22]the government that is able to cater for the path all the

[59:26]way of the twelfth imam imam sahib al azawazaman but we don't

[59:30]want to reach a stage where people think that every single person

[59:34]over there has to for example accept that there haven't been mistakes

[59:39]there have been there are people who i know who are at

[59:41]the helm but at least someone decided in those years where many

[59:46]of the shia was sitting at home and not doing anything not

[59:49]saying anything decided let's try and do something to work on behalf

[59:52]of the twelfth of our time to try and work on behalf

[59:56]and ensuring that we cater did it work has it not worked

[60:00]realistically forty one years later many don't know the workings of this

[60:05]government i ask many of those who are anti what happens there

[60:10]what do you know about the constitution or the amendments in the

[60:13]constitution what do you know about or the what do you know

[60:19]about the expediency council many assume that there have been no developments

[60:25]and evolutions there have been even when became wali al fakih at

[60:30]the time he was not a marjak taqlid but you could tweak

[60:34]the discussion you can amend to allow someone who has that political

[60:39]acumen and is a mujtahid to come in today the same ayatullah

[60:43]al khamenei gives bahad kharaj lessons i guarantee you many don't know

[60:48]he gives kharaj al fiqh there are students who go to his

[60:51]class in kharaj al fiqh does that mean that iran represents every

[60:57]single theory in shia history regarding fiqh we mentioned ayatollah al khui

[61:01]was in iraq ayatollah al khomeini was in iran there are other

[61:05]shia who live in other places some places are not conducive for

[61:08]this other places may have we tried we looked what could be

[61:13]established what couldn't be but a person should not turn around neither

[61:17]look at something infallibly as if there's no errors nor just look

[61:22]to pinpoint errors to try and see how they can bring down

[61:27]from something ultimately we pray for all of our brothers there because

[61:31]the reality is that since '79 there may have been certain issues

[61:35]but there's been a lot of good as well and when we

[61:38]talk of a lot of good there are many areas that we

[61:40]can point to of good as well how many students have benefited

[61:44]from studying in the seminary in qom how many have been able

[61:48]to return back to their communities in africa how many have gone

[61:52]to qom and gone back to serve in africa how many have

[61:55]gone to qum and been able to serve in india and pakistan

[61:58]how many have gone to qum and been able to even go

[62:00]back and serve in south america where they have studied in qum

[62:03]and been able to further than that you cannot deny that even

[62:08]these movies about imam about muqtar al takafi about nabi yusuf these

[62:14]helped educate many of us as well these allowed many of us

[62:18]to understand our history that cannot be denied as well further than

[62:23]that we know very well that in reality how many times have

[62:29]they spoken out for the rights of other shia in the world

[62:33]if iran didn't speak out after iran was bullied one way and

[62:37]the other as soon as the revolution happened a war against them

[62:41]where every country backing saddam attacked them people forget this they forget

[62:45]the amount of people who were killed and yet iran managed to

[62:48]stay on its feet further than that we also have nobody looked

[62:54]after the ziyara of imam abu raba alaihi salam like it's been

[62:58]looked after i'm not gonna say before the revolution people did not

[63:01]do ziyara many did but you look at the way imam the

[63:06]way he's revered the way you do that ziyara the way you

[63:10]are able to see just how peaceful it is to walk around

[63:13]the haram of imam is there a more peaceful moment than walking

[63:18]around the haram of imam and seeing those fountains of water the

[63:23]drops of the rain and remembering imam in the past people could

[63:29]visit today you visit proud with your head up high with your

[63:34]family members going towards imam and we're fitting but to begin the

[63:40]first night of the masaib by remembering imam because no doubt when

[63:47]it came to the month of muharram and the masaib of imam

[63:50]al hussain alaihi salam you found that no doubt imam al radha

[63:55]alaihi salaam was at the forefront of the masaib of imam al

[63:59]hussain alaihi salaam therefore when you came towards imam al radha alaihi

[64:04]salaam he would always be there and he would always sit with

[64:09]his companions some of his companions were poets and these companions who

[64:14]were poets he would sit with them recite for me the masaib

[64:17]of sayyidah shuhada i know there are many of you who are

[64:20]watching at home on a night like this and i know that

[64:23]there are many of you who yearn a to be in karabella

[64:27]and there are many of you who b wish that you could

[64:30]be in majlis al hussein because no doubt we're not used to

[64:34]being away from majlis al hussein normally in these nights we're used

[64:40]to listening to an we're used to listening to a we're used

[64:45]to sitting with our fathers when they'd carry us to majlis al

[64:48]hussain they'd tell us go and wear black get ready we're used

[64:52]to being there with the family we're used to serving but imagine

[64:57]imagine now we sit here some of us home and we wonder

[65:01]when are we gonna return to on a sayyid ashohada if you

[65:05]think it was difficult for you imagine the imams of al muhammad

[65:09]some of them could not visit karbala because some of them were

[65:14]under house arrest others of them could only sit in medina one

[65:19]of them in khurasan alone with no family around him and when

[65:24]he'd sit there he'd sit with who he'd sit with the and

[65:30]he'd say to him recite for us that 120 stanza poem of

[65:41]remains one of the greatest poems in honor of imam al hussein

[65:45]and you know what wants to begin he wants to begin by

[65:48]giving condolences to the mother of hussein why because nobody was as

[65:55]broken as his mother knowing there'd be a day he'd be alone

[65:59]in karbala so when the imam would sit next to him the

[66:03]imam would say to him dabal recite for us let us hear

[66:08]your words would begin i'll recite in arabic first then i'll translate

[66:14]in english tonight is for all of you lovers of imam al

[66:17]hussain those of you who are sitting at home he'd say to

[66:21]him recite for us and would begin what is it that jabal

[66:55]said i'm gonna translate for you bibi if you're in this crowd

[66:59]i beg for your forgiveness i don't know if i may be

[67:02]near you you're my grandmother but i want to recite these lines

[67:14]you've seen the fallen hossein allahu akbar on the banks of the

[67:22]euphrates thirsty killed and he was slain you would have slapped your

[67:33]cheeks at the sight and the heated tears would have fallen under

[67:40]the smite allahu akbar imam rada would not stop there imam rada

[67:46]would sit with his other companions he would tell them the importance

[67:50]of remembering imam al hussain oh son of shabib oh son of

[68:06]shabib if you were to cry for anything then cry for abba

[68:13]abdullah for you were slaughtered the way they slaughter a sheep let

[68:19]me continue with this final line imam would remember wherever he'd head

[68:25]wherever he'd go he'd always say to the people recite masaib al

[68:29]hussain there's a secret in mujah al hussain you believe even until

[68:34]his final moments the poison and mesh had surrounded his body any

[68:39]of you have any hajjat with the tear coming down i want

[68:42]you to ask for your hajj with this masaib imam in his

[68:47]final moments the poison was on his body it had surrounded him

[68:50]everywhere he asked those around him take me off the mattress place

[68:55]my body on the ground they said to mola but your body

[68:59]is in pain the poison is all over you let's keep you

[69:04]here he said no no let me lay on the ground put

[69:06]my body on the ground they said but the ground is hard

[69:10]the ground is not comfortable said no please place me when they

[69:17]placed him on the ground the tears began to come down from

[69:22]the eyes of the imam why what did he say for a

[69:27]moment i wanted to feel what about abdullah felt when he lay

[69:34]on the ground i wanted to empathize with sayyid ashuhada knowing the

[69:42]way he lay on the ground on the tents of muharram oh

[69:47]imam you lay with your body on the ground hussein lay with

[69:52]many arrows on his body raise your hands my dear brothers and

[70:01]sisters wherever you may be you allah bless our you allah lengthen

[70:07]the life of the servants of ahlul bayl we pray to allah

[70:12]subhanahu wa ta'ala for the originators of this majlis we pray for

[70:16]those who have asked for our dua may allah bless them we

[70:20]have a sister who has asked for our dua let's all recite

[70:24]the lines from the you allah unite all of our shia and

[71:11]remove the differences that exist between us you allah don't allow the

[71:16]differences in the that we follow to envelope or take over our

[71:21]love that unites us of imam al hussein you allah for the

[71:27]originators of this majlis those who are hosting the al qa'im mosque

[71:31]project i ask you my dear brothers and sisters donate towards this

[71:35]mosque where we are holding these majalis as generously as you can

[71:40]in the name tonight of imam we pray to allah with but

[71:48]before it wherever you may be in any household and every household

[71:53]around the world the loudest of your salawat

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Night 1 - 'Wilayat al-Faqih: Guardianship of the Jurist' - Dr. Sayed Ammar Nakshawani

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