Night 16: Let's Donate Our Qualities - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini | Ramadan 2024

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[0:10]I begin in the name of the almighty God, the compassionate, the

[0:17]merciful, the one who has created everything in utmost perfection.

[0:22]And may the peace and blessings of the Almighty God be upon

[0:26]his pure and beloved messenger, the peak of his creation, the symbol

[0:35]of humanity, the holy prophet Muhammad Samuham and his immaculate progeny of

[0:48]the B peace be upon them, especially the leader of our time,

[0:54]the awaited savior immedi haste in his reappearance and make us all

[1:05]amongst his sincere and dedicated servants.

[1:08]Respected brothers and sisters, it is very refreshing to be with you

[1:21]in the second half of the blessed month of Ramadan.

[1:23]I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept your to accept your

[1:29]to accept all of your good deeds in this blessed month as

[1:35]you are all the guests of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and we

[1:40]say ya Allah if you have not forgiven us up until this

[1:45]day half of the month of Ramadan we hold on to your

[1:52]generosity and to your mercy and we ask you to forgive us.

[1:55]Allah subhana wa ta'ala states in the holy Quran in verse 92.

[2:08][Music] You shall not attain righteousness unless you donate.

[2:18]But donate what?

[2:23]from that which you love, from that which you're attached to.

[2:31]When you're attached to something and you love it and it's dear

[2:35]to your heart, yet you are willing to let go of it,

[2:39]you are willing to sacrifice it for the sake of Allah subhanahu

[2:42]wa ta'ala.

[2:44]you are willing to use it for a good cause, then you

[2:47]shall attain b you shall attain righteousness.

[2:54]Illuminate your hearts and minds with a loud salawat.

[3:04]The prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi famously stated I am the city of

[3:15]knowledge.

[3:16]If you want any knowledge that's beneficial for you that leads you

[3:20]to success, it's with the messenger of Allah.

[3:23]But there is a gate to the city of knowledge.

[3:27]Who is the gate to the city of knowledge?

[3:30]that is and hence when you examine the legacy of Imam you

[3:39]find that his knowledge is mesmerizing.

[3:44]When you look at the gems and the treasures in which is

[3:49]a compilation of his sermons, of his statements, of his letters, you

[3:53]find an ocean of knowledge, a vast universe of experience.

[4:00]Truly, it is a big loss if I live my entire life

[4:05]not experiencing the gems of not delving deep into the knowledge of

[4:10]Ali.

[4:13]In sermon 123 of the Imam has very beautiful words of wisdom

[4:24]to share with us.

[4:25]It has been reported that the Imam gave this sermon at the

[4:31]battle of J.

[4:31]And you'll notice, you'll find that many of the sermons of Bala

[4:38]were delivered either before a battle, at a battle, or after a

[4:42]battle because the Imam Alisam represented justice.

[4:45]And there were many out there who wanted to bring down his

[4:49]justice.

[4:51]And it was his role to defend the religion of God, to

[4:56]defend the community of believers.

[4:57]So you'll find that the Imam took advantage of those moments on

[5:00]the battlefield to give the world words of advice to sprinkle the

[5:08]universe with his wisdom.

[5:10]In this sermon, the Imam Alisam has advice for those who have

[5:19]strengths, for those who have good qualities.

[5:22]Some fighters in the battlefield, they are known for their defensive qualities.

[5:30]They're excellent at defense.

[5:34]They know how to defend themselves.

[5:36]The Imm has a word of advice for them and for us.

[5:43]The Immiam beautifully states, "And if any one of you finds yourself

[5:54]having in Arabic means heart or chest means strength.

[6:05]If you find yourself having a strong heart, you're courageous, you're brave,

[6:11]you're firm in the battlefield, you know how to defend yourself, you

[6:16]have this excellent quality, you have the strength.

[6:20]The Imam is addressing all those who have a strength, a good

[6:24]quality in their lives.

[6:25]So what do you do if that is the case?

[6:27]The Imam says, if you come to realize that you have the

[6:32]strength, But you see one of your brothers, one of your friends

[6:42]struggling.

[6:43]They have a weakness.

[6:45]They're failing.

[6:47]They're not able to defend themselves.

[6:49]You have that strength, but your friend, your brother, your cousin, your

[6:54]community member has a weakness.

[6:57]What's your obligation towards those who struggle, who have weaknesses?

[7:04]They do not have the strengths that you have.

[7:06]What's your obligation towards them?

[7:11]For some of us, if I have a strength and I'm excelling

[7:12]and I'm successful and I see my cousin failing, for some of

[7:18]us, the last thing that I want to do is help that

[7:23]cousin.

[7:23]In fact, sometimes the ego and shan they team up against me

[7:27]and they whisper to me and they instigate me to enjoy the

[7:33]suffering and the loss of those around me.

[7:36]Sometimes we are in a situation like that when my friend who's

[7:43]my classmate there's competition between between me and my friends my colleagues

[7:49]my cousins and I see some of them failing I feel happy

[7:57]inside why because the ego of the nefs deceives me into thinking

[8:01]that if my cousin my friend fails I achieve achieve more success.

[8:07]My success will be highlighted more.

[8:10]There will be a greater spotlight on me and our ego enjoys

[8:17]that.

[8:18]We love that.

[8:20]But here comes the commander of the faithful to restore the moral

[8:26]compass for us.

[8:25]So if you see yourself having a strength but you see people

[8:31]around you having a weakness, then what is your obligation here?

[8:34]What do you do?

[8:35]The Immiam beautifully states.

[8:39][Music] The Immiam says now that you've been blessed with this courage,

[8:52]you're firm in the battlefield, you know how to defend yourself, then

[8:55]go and defend your brother.

[8:59]Use this good quality that you have to defend your brother.

[9:05]Don't just defend yourself, defend your brother.

[9:08]Use the strength that Allah subhana wa ta'ala has given you to

[9:13]defend those with you.

[9:16]We conclude two very beautiful lessons from these words by Imam Ali

[9:24]Alisam.

[9:23]The first lesson, my dear brothers and sisters, is to analyze what

[9:31]your strengths and weaknesses are.

[9:32]You'd be surprised that many of us do not even know what

[9:35]our strengths are, what our weaknesses are.

[9:38]Dedicate some time, dedicate resources to exploring that.

[9:41]What are the gifts that Allah subhana t has given you?

[9:45]Are you a good communicator?

[9:46]Are you a good writer?

[9:49]Do you have empathy?

[9:49]Can you help people through your empathy, your patience, your intelligence, your

[9:57]compassionate heart?

[9:58]We have all these blessings that Allah has given us, but sometimes

[10:04]we're not really aware of them.

[10:06]The Imam in these beautiful words is inviting us to know and

[10:12]assess what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses.

[10:15]Be aware of your strengths and weaknesses at the individual level, at

[10:20]the family level.

[10:23]Have you ever gotten together with your family on a Saturday night

[10:27]and instead of watching your favorite Netflix series, you say to your

[10:31]family, "Let's sit tonight and figure out we as a family, what

[10:37]are our strengths?

[10:36]We have strengths as a as a family in the community.

[10:41]Let's list them.

[10:40]What are our weaknesses?

[10:44]How can we overcome those weaknesses?" So when the Imam is addressing

[10:48]those fighters in the battlefield and he's telling them if you find

[10:51]a strength in you and you see a weakness in your brothers,

[10:55]the Imam is inviting them to critically think and analyze.

[10:57]What are your strengths?

[11:00]What are your weaknesses?

[11:02]Strategize accordingly.

[11:02]That's how you achieve success.

[11:04]This is the first takeaway point from these golden words by Imam.

[11:10]The second takeaway point, once you've come to realize that you have

[11:18]a strength, this strength, this good quality is not for free.

[11:24]There is a tax that you have to pay on it.

[11:26]There's a big tax that you have to pay on it.

[11:31]Allah subhana wa ta'ala gave you that strength.

[11:35]So you use it to help those around you.

[11:39]Use your strength to address the weaknesses of those around you.

[11:44]That is the expectation that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has from us.

[11:51]And then the imam beautifully states Allah is the one who gave

[12:04]you your qualities and your strengths.

[12:06]If Allah wished, he could have taken your strength and given it

[12:11]to those who are struggling.

[12:11]Allah could have done that.

[12:13]Realize that all the good qualities that you have, all the strengths

[12:18]that you have, they are from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[12:21]Because many time we fall into the trap of thinking that we

[12:29]create our strengths.

[12:31]If you're a person who's courageous, you made yourself courageous.

[12:36]If you're generous, you made yourself generous.

[12:38]If you're smart, somehow you created your own intelligence.

[12:44]If you're savvy, you created your own savviness.

[12:48]We human beings think that we create our good qualities.

[12:51]But in reality, it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who has given

[12:58]you your strengths.

[12:58]Some people by nature they're generous.

[13:01]Who gave them that generosity?

[13:04]Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[13:05]Some people by nature they're courageous.

[13:08]Some people by nature they're patient.

[13:10]Some people by nature they're wise.

[13:14]And we always want to be praised for our qualities.

[13:18]We want to take credit for them.

[13:20]The imam is teaching us here these qualities are given to you

[13:25]by Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[13:26]He could have given them to someone else.

[13:29]So don't think that you are the one who created your strengths.

[13:32]God is the one who gave you your strengths.

[13:37]Now someone may argue how come then we praise great individuals like

[13:44]Imam Ali himself.

[13:47]If Allah subhana wa ta'ala gave him his strengths, why should we

[13:53]praise him?

[13:52]You know what Allah praises you for?

[13:55]Allah does not praise you for the presence of the quality because

[14:02]he's the one who gave it to you.

[14:05]Allah subhana wa ta'ala praises you and evaluates you based on how

[14:12]much you use that quality.

[14:13]You can have someone who only has a 20% capacity of courage.

[14:20]Someone by nature he's not courageous.

[14:23]Some people lack courage by nature.

[14:26]It's very difficult for them to be courageous.

[14:29]So they only have the capacity of 20%.

[14:33]But they use this capacity 100%.

[14:40]Compare this to someone who has the capacity to be courageous 100%

[14:49]but only uses half of it, uses 50% of it.

[14:52]Who's greater in the eyes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

[14:54]The one who maximizes what he has.

[14:59]A person who's not generous by nature but he but does his

[15:07]best to be generous.

[15:07]brings himself to give as much as he can is greater in

[15:12]the eyes of Allah subhana t than someone who by nature is

[15:17]generous and he gives easily.

[15:18]That person is greater because that person is struggling.

[15:21]We praise Ali because he used whatever Allah gave him to the

[15:28]fullest 100%.

[15:29]He maximized it and that's what Allah subhana t will evaluate you

[15:34]for not the presence of qualities.

[15:35]Allah created many of these qualities.

[15:37]Yes, you have some room to develop them.

[15:42]Sure.

[15:42]But the basis for many of your personality traits are given to

[15:48]you by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[15:51]And therefore realize that there is a tax that you have to

[15:57]pay.

[15:55]And that tax is to use your strengths to benefit and help

[16:02]those around you.

[16:03]That is one type of donation that the Imisam here in the

[16:08]sermon is highlighting.

[16:08]Normally when you think of a donation, you think of a financial

[16:11]donation, giving money.

[16:14]Maybe you think of volunteering.

[16:16]But have you ever thought that Allah subhana wa ta'ala wants you

[16:21]to donate your qualities?

[16:25]If Allah has given you intelligence and you're savvy, you know how

[16:30]to establish a successful business.

[16:32]If you want to do justice to this and blessing that Allah

[16:36]has given you, share your intelligence and your success with those around

[16:41]you.

[16:42]But we do the opposite.

[16:42]If I discover a way to be successful, to have a successful

[16:47]business, that's a secret.

[16:50]I don't want anyone in the community to know.

[16:52]The Immiam is teaching you if you have that strength, then those

[16:58]around you who don't and they're struggling, you need to take your

[17:03]strength and defend them and help them.

[17:05]A true believer is the one who when he realizes he has

[17:09]a strength, he will share it with those around him.

[17:12]Yes, it's not easy because the shaitan comes to you and the

[17:16]selfishness instigates you.

[17:18]But if I share my business secrets with my community members, with

[17:22]my cousins, with my friends, I'm not going to be that successful.

[17:27]There's going to be a lot of competition around me.

[17:31]And so we fall into the trap of forgetting that Allah is

[17:38]the Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who sustains you, not

[17:42]you, not your smartness and savviness.

[17:45]It's from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[17:47]And hence you find in this sermon the imam addresses this concern.

[17:52]A fighter can say to the imam my im if I go

[17:57]and I defend my friends I will increase the chances of me

[18:02]dying in the battlefield.

[18:03]Let me just defend myself and then I'll flee.

[18:06]But if I want to defend those with me the likeliness of

[18:12]me dying will increase.

[18:13]So the imam gives these powerful words of advice for us.

[18:19]The imam says you think you can escape death if it's meant

[18:28]for you to die in that battlefield you are going to die.

[18:33]You think there is escape from it.

[18:34]If you're firm in your place and you defend yourself only don't

[18:39]think you can escape death.

[18:41]Allah subhana wa ta'ala has determined that you do your part and

[18:48]Allah subhana wa ta'ala will protect you.

[18:50]If you abandon your brothers and sisters, don't think that you will

[18:54]succeed because that's the trap that we fall into.

[18:59]If I share my success with others and I show them how

[19:03]to establish a good business, for example, my sustenance will decrease.

[19:07]Your sustenance is in the hands of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[19:13]In fact, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will put greater baraka and blessings

[19:17]in everything that you do when you share it with those around

[19:20]you.

[19:21]It requires patience.

[19:21]It requires reliance on Allah subhanana wa ta'ala.

[19:25]It requires that you trust Allah that he is the that he

[19:28]will put the quality in your life.

[19:34]But at the end of the day, he is the So the

[19:36]Imisam in this sermon invites us to examine our qualities.

[19:41]If you have strengths, my dear brothers and sisters, be humbled.

[19:44]Realize Allah gave them to you.

[19:47]Many times it's very difficult to do that.

[19:50]When you have a certain strength in your family, you tend to

[19:56]think that you're better than others.

[19:57]If my IQ is higher than my cousin's IQ, I tend to

[20:02]think that I'm better.

[20:04]If you think that you're more beautiful, you're more handsome than your

[20:10]friends, deep down inside your heart, you feel better.

[20:13]I'm better than them.

[20:15]I get more attention from them.

[20:17]The Imam here is giving us a reality check.

[20:21]Stop for a moment.

[20:23]Allah is the one who gave you these qualities.

[20:27]So don't claim any credit for them.

[20:27]Secondly, use this quality to benefit others.

[20:31]This is what Allah subhana wa ta'ala expects from you because if

[20:37]you don't, your strengths become a liability.

[20:41]If Allahh has given you intelligence and you're not using your intelligence

[20:48]to benefit those around you, your family members, your cousins, your friends,

[20:52]you are misusing the gift that Allah has given you.

[20:57]It becomes a liability.

[21:00]If you have wealth and you're not sharing your wealth with those

[21:03]who are in need, with people in your community who need it,

[21:06]family, friends who need it, that wealth is actually a liability on

[21:11]you.

[21:10]Allah subhana t will hold you accountable for it.

[21:14]Allah will tell you I gave you this blessing.

[21:17]You did not use it appropriately.

[21:19]Therefore all these strengths that we have my dear brothers and sisters

[21:25]we need to examine how can we use them to benefit others.

[21:27]If you stand out in your group of friends be humble.

[21:33]Don't let them feel that you're better than them.

[21:34]Allah is the one who gave you your qualities.

[21:37]And secondly use your qualities to help them.

[21:40]If you're in school, you have a classmate who's not as smart

[21:44]as you are, you take the initiative to go and help your

[21:48]friend.

[21:48]If you see a community member who's close to you, who's trying

[21:53]to establish a business and you know how the business is going

[21:58]to be successful, go and donate this good quality that you have,

[22:03]your experience.

[22:02]Donate it to this person and teach them how to be successful.

[22:08]Allah loves people who are willing to let go of that which

[22:11]they love, which they hold on to because we love our successes.

[22:18]We're very attached to our successes.

[22:20]We cannot let go of them.

[22:22]Allah tells us in the Holy Quran in Ali, you shall never

[22:29]attain righteousness.

[22:34]Only when you donate and give from that which you truly love

[22:40]and you're attached to, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will see you

[22:44]as righteous.

[22:46]Then Allah subhana wa ta'ala will accept from you.

[22:49]So the Imam Alisam teaches us by giving this advice to these

[22:56]soldiers in the battlefield, don't think you can escape death.

[22:58]If Allah has willed for your time to be up, it will

[23:03]be up.

[23:04]Don't think by going and defending your brothers and sisters your life

[23:08]is going to get shorter.

[23:10]Then the imam states the Imam says the most honorable death is

[23:18]to die in the way of Allah when you're in the obedience

[23:22]of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[23:23]Then he says I swear by Allah who controls my soul.

[23:28]My soul is in his hands.

[23:29]I would rather be struck a thousand times by the sword and

[23:35]to die in the battlefield as a martyr than to die on

[23:39]my deathbed, not in God's obedience.

[23:42]The imam here is teaching us about the quality of life.

[23:47]Today we live in a society that teaches you that your goal

[23:51]is to live as long as you can.

[23:56]Live long, physically healthy.

[23:57]That's your goal.

[23:58]Now whether you have a quality spiritual life that doesn't matter.

[24:04]The Imam Alisam is teaching us here very beautifully.

[24:06]We do ask Allah to give us a long life.

[24:12]Sure that's one of the gifts gifts of Allah.

[24:13]But having a long life in quality is what you want.

[24:18]Otherwise the imam says if I don't have that quality I'd rather

[24:20]die on the battlefield.

[24:23]I'd rather die in Allah's obedience.

[24:25]That's much better for me.

[24:27]It's the quality that counts.

[24:31]If you donate some of your good qualities to those around you

[24:35]and you sacrifice and you goes through stress and maybe your financial

[24:40]status decreases because you shared some of your successes with others, realize

[24:45]that maybe quantitatively your life decreased but not qualitatively.

[24:50]The quality that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala puts in your life will

[24:57]be greater.

[24:57]And so the Imam reexamines how we look at our qualities and

[25:06]how we benefit from our qualities.

[25:07]And the month of Ramadan, my dear brothers and sisters, is that

[25:11]best time of the year to reflect.

[25:12]I invite all of you to go tonight and examine what good

[25:17]qualities Allah has given you.

[25:18]Allah has given you a kind, compassionate heart.

[25:21]Use it to help those around you.

[25:23]You have many friends who are hopeless, who are lonely.

[25:26]Go and help them through your compassionate heart.

[25:31]Change their life.

[25:33]There is nothing greater in the eyes of Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[25:38]than teaching people and helping people to better themselves.

[25:42]According to one hadith from the holy prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi In

[25:53]this hadith, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam states on the day of

[25:55]judgment, a believer sees mountains of good deeds, clouds of good deeds,

[26:05]and he will say, "Ya Allah, why are you giving me the

[26:08]reward for these deeds?

[26:11]What did I do?" Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells him, "You taught

[26:14]this person how to be successful." So anytime that person, his family,

[26:20]his progeny, his society benefited from that success, you get a copy

[26:25]of that.

[26:27]You get a copy of that reward.

[26:31]Imagine the baraka that Allah subhana t will put you in your

[26:36]life in this world and on the day of judgment when you

[26:38]guide someone, when you inspire someone, when you help someone.

[26:43]We have a very dear family friend.

[26:48]He's very close to my father.

[26:50]Once he narrated to us a very moving story that happened in

[26:54]the city of Tahran.

[26:55]He says there was a successful businessman in this businessman when he

[27:06]passed away they conducted a funeral for him.

[27:09]Some of his relatives noticed a stranger, a man whom they had

[27:15]never seen, a man whom they had never known.

[27:16]He's in the funeral crying like he had lost his mother.

[27:22]They were shocked.

[27:24]Who's this man?

[27:25]How does he know our father?

[27:27]And why is he crying like that?

[27:28]So they approach him.

[27:29]They tell him, "Brother, do you mind if we ask you about

[27:34]your rel your relationship with our father?

[27:36]Why is it that you're crying like that?

[27:41]We've never seen you.

[27:41]Were you his friend?

[27:41]He says, "No, I was never his friend.

[27:45]You were never his friend.

[27:49]Do you even know him?" "Yes, I met him once." "You met

[27:51]him once once and you're cry you're crying like a mother who

[27:56]who's lost her baby." He told them, "Yes, I have a story

[28:01]with him.

[27:59]One day he was in the masjid praying and I was on

[28:07]a very troublesome path.

[28:07]Sometimes I would steal.

[28:10]So I noticed that he was wearing a very precious ring.

[28:14]I decided to steal the ring from him in a savvy way

[28:19]such that he would not notice.

[28:20]So while he was in his salah, while he was in his

[28:27]prayer, I managed to discreetly take the ring from him.

[28:31]And I sat next to him acting as if I'm finishing my

[28:35]salah too.

[28:36]He says, "The minute he finished his salah, he held my hand."

[28:41]He told me, "Look, I know that you were very slick in

[28:48]the way that you took the ring from me, but I noticed

[28:49]that you took the ring from me." This man says, the thief,

[28:55]he says, "I thought now I was in trouble.

[28:57]He's going to call the police." He's like, "But don't worry.

[28:59]I'm not going to report you to the authorities or expose you,

[29:05]but I want to give you my phone number.

[29:10]Take my business card.

[29:11]Here's my phone number.

[29:12]You'll need it." He told him, "What do I need it for?"

[29:17]He says, "Now, you're going to take this ring to any ring

[29:19]shop.

[29:21]When the ring shop owner is going to see how expensive this

[29:25]ring is, he will know for a fact that it's not yours

[29:31]and you stole it because you look like an humble average poor

[29:35]person.

[29:34]So, if you're selling this ring and the shop owner brings the

[29:41]cops to arrest you, tell them, "No, this person gave it to

[29:45]me.

[29:46]Here is my number." He says, "I went to a random shop

[29:52]in I am selling my ring.

[29:53]I had it valued, right?

[29:55]What is the price of it?

[29:57]When they inspected the ring and they realized how expensive it was,

[30:02]the owner of the shop told me, "Look, I know for a

[30:04]fact this is not your ring.

[30:07]You've stolen this." I told him, "No, it's mine.

[30:09]I own this legitimately.

[30:12]The person gave it to me.

[30:15]The one who owns it gave it to me." He says, "No."

[30:16]He called the cops on me.

[30:20]The cops came.

[30:20]They're now investigating.

[30:22]I remembered that I had his number.

[30:25]I told them, "Look, the owner of this ring gave me his

[30:27]number.

[30:28]You can call him." They called him.

[30:30]They were shocked to know that this is the famous businessman there.

[30:33]And he told them, "Yes, indeed.

[30:37]I am the one who gifted him his ring." They let him

[30:41]go.

[30:40]This man sitting at his funeral, he told them, "Do you now

[30:46]blame me for crying on him like I would cry on my

[30:51]mother?

[30:49]I've never seen a man like him in my life.

[30:55]This businessman was blessed with blessings that Allah had given him with

[30:59]kindness, with generosity.

[31:02]He cared about the reputation of this person and he helped them

[31:07]in this manner.

[31:09]Imagine imagine this small act.

[31:09]It saved a soul.

[31:10]My dear brothers and sisters, this man was a thief.

[31:14]He would do this regularly.

[31:15]But one act of kindness, one act of humanity from this businessman

[31:21]saved his soul.

[31:20]And Allah says in the Holy Quran, when you save one soul,

[31:25]it's as if you've saved all of humanity.

[31:27]One small act, he saved this father.

[31:33]And when this father becomes righteous, his family becomes more righteous.

[31:37]His children become more righteous.

[31:39]His grandchildren become more righteous.

[31:40]Imagine until the day of judgment this businessman how many good deeds

[31:49]he receives from Allah from one simple act.

[31:52]One of the ways that you can help those around you is

[31:57]not just financially but to protect their dignity.

[32:02]If you're someone in society who's in good social standing, you have

[32:06]good connections, people respect you, and your brother, your cousin, your friend,

[32:11]someone a community member does something wrong, and you step in to

[32:17]protect their dignity, that is one of the best deeds you can

[32:19]do in the eyes of Allah.

[32:22]Because when Allah has given you dignity, there's attacks on that dignity.

[32:26]Allah subhana t wants you to use your dignity to protect others

[32:28]in your family and in your society.

[32:31]That's one of the greatest deeds that you can do and one

[32:35]of the best donations that you can give.

[32:38]Yes.

[32:39]Donate your dignity.

[32:40]One day Almadi was visited by a poor man and he told

[32:46]him, "I'm extremely poor and I need money." The Imam was in

[32:53]Sam in the military complex of the Abbassids.

[32:56]So he was basically under house arrest.

[32:58]He did not have much money to give him.

[33:00]He told him, "Look, at this time I don't really have any

[33:04]money to give you.

[33:06]I have nothing to give you.

[33:08]But there's one thing that I can give you." He told him

[33:11]what?

[33:11]He told him, "Tomorrow when I'm sitting with the Khalifa and the

[33:17]elites of the community, I will write a check for you now,

[33:24]a document that I owe you money.

[33:31]I owe you 20,000 coins.

[33:32]I will write this document.

[33:39]I ali I owe you 20,000 dirhams.

[33:42]You come in the gathering of the Khalifa and you start yelling

[33:48]at me and shout at me and tell me, "Oh, Ali Hadi,

[33:53]didn't you write this document?

[33:54]You have to give me this money.

[33:57]You're indebted to me." And be as tough as you can.

[34:04]be as aggressive as you can in that gathering.

[34:07]The next day, this man, he goes to visit Almadi in the

[34:14]palace of al-Mutbasi, the powerful Khalifa and he tells the guards, I

[34:21]have a document against Ali Hadi.

[34:23]I have a document against him.

[34:25]They were happy because they want someone to come and pick a

[34:30]fight with imi.

[34:31]They're like, "Yeah, come let's see what you have." So he comes

[34:36]into the presence of the im and he says, "Oh people, oh

[34:40]khalifa, see I have a document with his handwriting that he is

[34:43]indebted to me for 20,000 dhams." The khalifa told the imam, "Did

[34:50]you write this?

[34:50]Do you recognize this is your handwriting?" He said, "Yes, this is

[34:54]my handwriting.

[34:56]Now the Khalifa knows the Imam is under house arrest and he

[35:00]doesn't have money.

[35:00]The Khalifa felt bad for the Imam.

[35:03]So he told his guards, "Go to the treasury and bring 20,000.

[35:06]Let's pay it on behalf.

[35:08]Let's give this man the money so he doesn't keep embarrassing imi."

[35:16]Would you ever in your life use your social status and your

[35:22]dignity to save someone like that?

[35:24]I'm not willing to do that.

[35:27]We're not willing to do that.

[35:29]When I am dignified in my society, I want the ultimate respect.

[35:33]I'm not willing to sacrifice from my dignity to help someone out.

[35:37]Yes, I'll help people as much as I can as long as

[35:41]my dignity is not in question.

[35:41]But the minute my dignity is in question, no, forget it.

[35:47]Why should I do that?

[35:48]Honestly, we're not willing.

[35:48]But the true believers Don't you love your dignity and your honor

[35:57]in society?

[35:59]Allah expects you occasionally sacrifice it for Allah.

[36:04]Are you able to do that?

[36:06]That's why our imams are so great.

[36:08]That's why they're such amazing role models.

[36:11]The Imam was willing to sacrifice a part of his dignity to

[36:18]help someone who was desperate.

[36:19]His family was starving, suffering and this was the only way that

[36:23]the Imam could help him.

[36:25]And this is the lesson that we learned from Al Hassan Al-

[36:31]Much Altaba.

[36:32]Today was the 15th day of the month of Ramadan.

[36:35]It marks the birth of Al-Mucha.

[36:38]Almuchaba was very generous.

[36:43]the way that he would donate.

[36:47]Believe me, no person in history has donated like Alm Hassan.

[36:51]And normally we are familiar with his financial donations.

[36:55]One day a man comes to him and he tells him, "Oh

[37:04]imam, I have an enemy, a ruthless enemy who has no respect

[37:07]for me.

[37:08]He does not respect any elder.

[37:10]He does not respect anyone young.

[37:11]He's very aggressive.

[37:14]He's very rude and he's destroying me.

[37:17]Can you help me against this enemy?

[37:17]The imam told him, "Which enemy are you talking about?

[37:22]Who is this enemy?" He told him, "This enemy is poverty.

[37:31]Poverty is destroying me.

[37:34]He does not respect my old age.

[37:37]He does not respect the poverty of my children.

[37:40]He's very aggressive with me.

[37:42]Look at the creative way this man found a way to the

[37:46]heart of Im Hassan.

[37:48]The Imam ordered one of his friends to go and bring 5,000

[37:53]dirhams, silver coins to give it to this man.

[37:59]And then he said to him, Allahbar, listen, listen to what the

[38:05]imam said to him.

[38:04]He told him, "Anytime this friend comes and this enemy comes and

[38:10]harasses you, come to me.

[38:14]I'll protect you against this enemy." So, we're familiar with the generosity

[38:16]of Im Hassan.

[38:18]And by the way, if you ever wonder how is it that

[38:22]Imm Hassan and Imam Hussein had so much money to give to

[38:25]the poor, because sometimes you hear these reports of them giving 10,000

[38:28]coins to this person, 20,000 coins to this person.

[38:31]Where did they bring all this wealth from?

[38:34]They brought it from the investment of their father.

[38:39]During the 25 years that Im Ali Alisam was marginalized during the

[38:44]era of the three caiffs, he was marginalized.

[38:48]The Imam did not sit at home do nothing.

[38:52]The Imam Alisam went to an area called Yamb.

[38:52]It's right off the coast of the Red Sea in modern day

[38:57]Saudi Arabia.

[38:58]It's not far from Medina.

[38:59]from Medina.

[39:00]When you go west until you reach the Red Sea, there's a

[39:04]village called Yambi Alam.

[39:08]During those 25 years, he created a vast network of farmlands there.

[39:16]He developed those farmlands with his own blessed hands.

[39:18]You know how many trees the Imam Alisam planted there?

[39:24]The Imam Alisam planted 100,000 palm trees in Yamb.

[39:30]Could you imagine with his hard work that's and he left this

[39:36]as an investment for his for his family to fund charities and

[39:39]to help the poor and to protect the believers.

[39:43]That was one source of the wealth of imam.

[39:48]So we're all familiar with the generosity of Alm Hassan.

[39:52]But there is a higher level of generosity that the Imam donated

[39:56]and that was his dignity.

[40:00]He donated his dignity to protect the believers in his era and

[40:06]that's when he concluded the political peace treaty with Muawi.

[40:11]All the companions of Alm Hassan were mobilizing him and instigating him

[40:19]to fight.

[40:18]Fight Muawi.

[40:20]Don't accept this treaty.

[40:20]Let's fight.

[40:22]Let's die in the battlefield.

[40:25]The Imam realized that if they continue fighting, Muawi is going to

[40:30]kill every believer out there in the world.

[40:33]So the Imam Alisam told them, "No, there is no wisdom now

[40:37]in fighting.

[40:38]Let's do the peace treaty." But you know what happened to the

[40:44]social standing of Alm Hass?

[40:44]This is a very sad era in the history of our imams

[40:51]that we're not aware of.

[40:51]When Alm Hassam for the sake of Allah, for the sake of

[40:53]Islam, for the sake of protecting the believers, he concluded the peace

[40:59]treaty with Muawi, he lost some of his social standing.

[41:03]Some of those friends around him, they started to disrespect him.

[41:08]You're so weak.

[41:08]You don't have the guts to fight Muawi.

[41:11]You don't have the courage of your father Ali to fight Muawi.

[41:14]Imagine hearing such words from your companions and from those around you.

[41:18]What would that do to you?

[41:21]That really affected the dignity of the Imam Alisam.

[41:25]But for the sake of Allah and to protect those believers, the

[41:30]Imam Alisam concluded that political peace treaty with Muawi.

[41:33]But he donated from his dignity so he can protect his community.

[41:39]And that's very difficult.

[41:40]It's easier to fight, my dear brothers and sisters, when someone instigates

[41:43]you, someone cusses at you, someone starts slandering your family.

[41:47]It's very easy, especially some aggressive guys, right?

[41:53]It's very easy to stand 60 feet tall and fight.

[41:57]It's much more difficult to be patient and not to fight and

[42:03]to forgive.

[42:05]It's much more difficult to let go for a greater goal.

[42:08]Even though your personal interests might be temporarily sacrificed, people will call

[42:17]you weak.

[42:17]Some brothers tell me, some brothers have told me, say it, when

[42:22]I'm forgiving with my friends, with my family.

[42:25]If I show compassion, my own friends make fun of me and

[42:31]mock me and they call me names.

[42:32]And you know what kind of names they call them?

[42:35]They call me weak.

[42:36]If I forgive, they expect me to always be aggressive.

[42:40]It's very difficult to forgive.

[42:44]It's very difficult to compromise.

[42:46]But that's how Alm Hassam saved the religion of Islam.

[42:51]And then the circumstances of Im Hussein Alam changed and he had

[42:56]to fight.

[42:57]He had to stand up.

[42:58]So the beautiful lesson my dear brothers and sisters that we learn

[43:04]from this amazing sermon by is to examine your strengths and qualities

[43:08]that Allah has given you.

[43:09]Allah has given all of you strengths.

[43:13]It could be the wisdom that God has given you.

[43:14]It could be your intelligence.

[43:18]It could be your social standing, your successful business, your big family.

[43:22]It could be your looks, your beauty.

[43:25]Yes, that's a gift that Allah has given you.

[43:25]Use it for his path.

[43:27]Have you ever thought about that?

[43:30]If in the group of your friends, okay, you stand out when

[43:32]it comes to your looks.

[43:33]There's a tax that you have to pay on those looks.

[43:36]Use that standing that you have to make your friends feel good.

[43:44]Be humble before your friends.

[43:45]In fact, if you have more good qualities than your friends, naturally

[43:50]they feel inferior to you.

[43:54]So as a true mu as a believer you have to be

[43:55]more humble than them so they do not feel inferior to you.

[44:00]Can you do that?

[44:00]Can you achieve that?

[44:02]That's why prophet Isaam this great messenger of Allah imagine when he's

[44:08]walking with his disciples and he's reviving the dead and he's walking

[44:13]on water right naturally you feel inferior to him.

[44:15]He's such a great miracle of Allah.

[44:17]Prophet Isa, as great as he was, one day he sat on

[44:24]the ground and he washed the feet of his companions, of his

[44:27]disciples.

[44:30]Very shocking.

[44:32]Someone like Isa, one of the greatest messengers of Allah, he washes

[44:37]the feet of his companions.

[44:40]You're not willing willing to wash anybody's feet.

[44:43]Believe me, even if they bring your mother today and you know

[44:46]heaven is beneath her feet and they tell you wash her mother.

[44:51]I'm sure there are some people they're not willing to do that.

[44:53]You want me to touch her feet and wash it?

[44:56]No thanks.

[44:57]I'm not willing to do that.

[44:58]Now imagine washing the feet of your disciples of your students who

[45:04]are lower than you.

[45:05]That's im.

[45:07]That's the highest level of faith.

[45:09]And so the Imam Alisam here is inviting us to examine our

[45:15]strengths and see how you can donate those strengths to those around

[45:19]you.

[45:19]If every one of us does this, the world would be a

[45:25]better place.

[45:23]Your families, your homes would be an oasis of peace and love

[45:31]and compassion.

[45:29]Your community would be a much more wonderful community.

[45:34]Even though alhamdulillah it is a wonderful community, we ask Allah subhanahu

[45:40]wa ta'ala to illuminate our hearts and minds in this blessed month

[45:46]of Ramadan with the wisdom of Islam with the light of the

[45:51]of I ask you now to raise your hands in dua.

[45:54]My dear brothers and sisters, this is the moment of dua in

[45:58]the month of Ramadan when you gather as believers.

[45:59]Allah has promised to answer your prayers.

[46:02]There are people who are ill who've asked you for dua.

[46:05]People who are struggling in their lives, they've asked you for dua.

[46:09]Let's remember our brothers and sisters who are being massacred every minute

[46:13]in in this month of Ramadan.

[46:15]They have no joy.

[46:17]They have no proper.

[46:17]Many of them lost entire family members.

[46:20]Let's pray for them and remember their suffering.

[46:25]Raise your hand in dua.

[46:26]Everyone with me.

[46:38]Ya Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah for [Music]

[47:21]my dear brothers and sisters, there is a hadith from the prophet

[47:25]sallallahu alaihi wasall.

[47:25]It's very striking.

[47:27]He says, "If the middle of the month of Ramadan comes and

[47:30]you still have not taken this month seriously, you still haven't opened

[47:35]your heart to forgiveness, Allah will not forgive you unless the next

[47:41]Ramadan comes." on this night, in this moment, as we come to

[47:46]the halfway of the month of Ramadan, say, "Ya Allah, even if

[47:49]I have not taken maybe these two weeks seriously, inshallah, most of

[47:53]you have, even if I've not found the time to open my

[47:57]heart and cry and repent, ya Allah, on this day, on this

[48:00]day, by the greatness, by the greatness of Alm Hass, by the

[48:07]shaf of Im Hassan, I ask you, Ya Allah, to forgive me

[48:09]one Okay, look at the of this verse in the verse states

[48:24]when they would come to you Allah and they would ask Allah

[48:28]to forgive them and they would seek your to forgive them Allah

[48:30]would forgive them in the of this verse one day a man

[48:35]came to the prophet he told him yeah Allah I'm sinful I

[48:39]am sinful and I have brought your grandsons, Hassan and Hussein, and

[48:44]I ask you to ask Allah to forgive me because they are

[48:48]the masters of the youth of paradise because they're your grandsons.

[48:51]On this night, say, "Ya Allah, I ask you by the master

[48:56]of the youth of paradise.

[48:57]By the light of the youth of paradise to forgive me and

[49:02]to forgive my family." May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you all.

[49:14]Ali Muhammad.

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