Night 3 | You think you’re tough?! | Muharram 2020/1442

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Sayed Mahdi Modarresi
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Sayed Mahdi Modarresi discusses how vulnerable we are in the facing of massive tides of deviation how we can be inspired by the legend of Hussein to persevere. He then ends with the story of Imam Hussein’s three year old orphan daughter Ruqayah

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[0:00][Music] yamaha we said that the very last portion of contains what

[1:05]could be described as the crown jewel of this incredible text a

[1:15]text whose chain is a golden one because it starts with imam

[1:23]al-baqarah and ends with god himself and so technically speaking it's a

[1:38]sacred narration passed down from god revealed to his archangel to the

[1:45]holy messenger of god to the commander of the faithful to imam

[1:50]hussain to imam is sadjad and finally [Music] this infinitely precious document

[2:02]has a crown jewel that adorns it even greater than its priceless

[2:14]nature the crown jewel is the prostration at the end of the

[2:22]xeon in that prostration we make a statement of praise in which

[2:26]we thank allah subhanahu wa and we make two prayers the focus

[2:33]of this series is on those two prayers in simple terms we

[2:43]fall down in prostration and say allah i praise you the way

[2:58]those servants who are thankful to you would praise you in other

[3:04]words i could never express praise and thanks to allah as he

[3:11]deserves to be thanked i could never show true gratitude to allah

[3:17]i am incapable of doing that in fact i'm incapable of thanking

[3:21]allah for even a single one of his bounties let alone for

[3:28]this priceless bounty which is what the fact that i am afflicted

[3:35]by the tragedy of hussain i am personally invested in the tragedy

[3:44]of hussein this isn't about some person getting killed in some distant

[3:51]land in the past tense i've said this before and i'm sure

[3:56]you can all relate to this brothers and sisters when muharram begins

[4:03]it feels not as though you're commemorating a historic event rather it

[4:11]feels as though you're counting down to something the whole notion of

[4:20]linear time past present future is completely upended when it comes to

[4:30]ashura it feels as though this event is about to transpire it's

[4:32]going to happen and so you count down to the day of

[4:39]ashura and it's a journey it's a path it's a process you're

[4:45]moving towards it you're not moving away from it due to the

[4:49]passage of time but rather is coming hussein is calling hussain is

[4:56]crying does it feel like you're recounting or recalling some his some

[5:05]story that happened in the past that's why we feel invested we

[5:15]feel immersed in the story and the saga of imam hussain and

[5:19]for that we are thankful to allah because in case you didn't

[5:26]notice the vast majority of the people on this earth don't even

[5:30]know about imam hussain partly our fault but that's the reality and

[5:37]then again you have people who know imam and hussain but whose

[5:41]perception of the imam is so flawed i was watching a video

[5:49]the other day of an individual who i i don't even know

[5:53]if we can call him a salafi or a wahabi because we've

[5:58]seen selfies and we've seen wahhabis and yes many of them are

[6:01]antagonistic towards the shia many of them have these deep seated resentments

[6:06]that are unfathomable for us we can't really explain them but then

[6:12]you have someone who's on a whole other level of hate and

[6:16]vitriol to the point that he's recorded a series of videos i

[6:24]watched two of them one of them was titled this was hussein

[6:29]a martyr so this isn't even about the tragedy of imam was

[6:36]saying the status of imam hussain the proximity of the imam to

[6:42]the holy messenger of god was saying all the all these things

[6:49]are completely disregarded instead he's asking a question which he presents as

[6:55]some kind of a fall intellectual argument in which he basically posits

[7:02]that imam hussain wasn't can't even be considered a martyr he was

[7:06]murdered yes he was killed by a bunch of persians he says

[7:11]it was the persians who came from kufa to kill him on

[7:14]hussain himself he deserved to be killed he says he's pretty influential

[7:24]by the way i'm not just talking about some random fringe personality

[7:32]here he's from iraq his name is of the worst caliber ex

[7:40]bathi present day reformed wahabi person living in saudi arabia he says

[7:47]hussain deserve to be killed as per the quran and i'm sitting

[7:53]there wondering hang on a second i'm really intrigued at this point

[7:57]because if he's going to cite the holy quran surely it's not

[8:01]the quran that we're used to it's not this quran must be

[8:07]something else and so he kept saying according to the law of

[8:10]god hussain had to be killed so instead of then citing an

[8:18]actual verse which doesn't exist he then cites what he says the

[8:26]holy prophet said exalted is rasulullah innocent is the messenger of god

[8:30]from these lies from these accusations he says the holy prophet says

[8:37]that if one person was a khalifa another person then came along

[8:42]and said i am so in other words he challenged the authority

[8:47]of the first khalifa the second person must be killed then he

[8:52]makes his case he says yazid was a legitimate khalifa because all

[8:57]of the companions of the prophet had a consensus that yazid should

[9:04]be the legitimate heir to his father muawiyah hussain then comes along

[9:13]challenges he must be killed then he says i'm not saying that

[9:15]he's going to go to hell this is how low we've stooped

[9:23]this is where we are in the 21st century this is what

[9:26]we're dealing with now evidently we are he said i'm not going

[9:32]to say and this person is speculating on whether or not hussain

[9:49]is he said no we don't say that we don't go that

[9:56]far not in front of the camera anyway but rather we say

[10:00]may allah forgive him so this reminds you the reason i've said

[10:04]this and i know it's heartbreaking i know it hurts for us

[10:08]to hear someone who exposes his illegitimate birth without a dna test

[10:15]like this we don't need a dna test it's as clear as

[10:20]daylight alhamdulillah it hurts us to hear these things but the reason

[10:24]i said it is so that you would appreciate the fact that

[10:28]as imam hussain himself said in dua thank you for bringing me

[10:43]into a world where i have parents i have family i have

[10:47]relatives i have a community i have a group of people who

[10:52]espouse the love of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and who are submissive

[10:58]to god and who love thee which is why we say at

[11:00]the beginning of the when you're about to step into the sacred

[11:06]sanctuary of hussain in the holy city of karbala may allah grant

[11:10]us all that honor once again you from now until the day

[11:30]of judgment and we don't even sleep or eat or do anything

[11:32]else but worship god in gratitude for this gift we would not

[11:39]do it justice deeply moved and afflicted and injured by the tragedy

[11:54]of hussein but thank [Music] this requires a separate discussion we'll leave

[12:09]that for is to remain still that's what means it's to remain

[12:32]steadfast it's not to shake not to move a believer is like

[12:45]a mountain so firm and so still and so strong the greatest

[12:49]example you can present about something that is steadfast and strong and

[12:55]solid is what a mountain subhanallah this reminds me of a hadith

[13:01]which describes the companions of the 12th imam when he reappears may

[13:05]allah hasten his reappearance [Music] says [Music] the imam isn't being figurative

[13:41]this isn't hyperbole the imam is being as literal as possible within

[13:47]the confines of the arabic language he says that if the companions

[13:50]of the imam got to a mountain and they decided within themselves

[13:53]that this mountain represents an obstacle in our way this represents an

[13:59]obstacle in the way of the imam achieving his divine mandate so

[14:03]we must remove the mountain they would single-handedly remove the mountain and

[14:09]not shake which reminds me also of one of the companions of

[14:18]a man by the name of have you heard that name before

[14:25]not one of those common names unfortunately even though traditions tell us

[14:28]that on the day of judgement a call will be made and

[14:31]this hadith is in the kishi and kashi is considered one of

[14:36]the earliest records of biography of the companions of the imams and

[14:40]the narrators of hadith an incredible text the sheikh tusi summarized it

[14:44]long story short which talks about the narrators of hadith in terms

[14:51]of authenticating them are they reliable are they not reliable and so

[14:53]on and so forth mentions this hadith that on the day of

[14:55]judgment yeti [Music] where are not the companions where are the disciples

[15:07]of ali is a person who's so close to the individual like

[15:13]the disciples of jesus right right like it's like having someone who

[15:17]is not just a companion in the sense that they spend time

[15:20]with you but they are the keepers of your secrets they are

[15:24]the ones you trust when it comes to the biggest and toughest

[15:28]missions you handed to them so the hadith says where are the

[15:32]disciples of ali and those who will rise there's about five or

[15:39]six of them one of them is um who was this man

[15:43]i remember the first time reading with hadith thinking i should know

[15:47]more about this man wasn't considered one of the disciples of the

[15:52]imam as great as he was by the way this doesn't take

[15:55]away from his status but the disciples is a title given to

[16:01]the top of the top the cream of the crop other companions

[16:14]who are incredibly great they're not also one of the disciples listen

[16:23]to what he says to amir al-mumineen he comes to the imam

[16:27]i believe in the battle of safin he says to him if

[16:37]you tell me that i should empty out a sea just try

[16:44]and visualize this right if you tell me about it that i

[16:49]should go and empty a sea an ocean and i had to

[16:54]scoop it out scoop out the water one cup at a time

[16:58]while i would do it for you if you asked me to

[17:04]tear down a mountain and i had to do it by hand

[17:06]by god i would do it for you that is my belief

[17:11]in you this this is this is what this is what they

[17:16]have debate want from us brothers and sisters i know it's a

[17:22]it's a an incredibly almost unfathomably difficult feat yes but as the

[17:29]chinese say every journey of a thousand miles begins with what one

[17:35]instead at least that's why we're here that's why muharram is there

[17:39]and that's why that's why we've been blessed with ashura in the

[17:43]remembrance of imam hussain because i swear to the almighty allah my

[17:48]dear brothers and sisters that you could walk in other seasons but

[17:56]you could run during muharram you can jump in other occasions throughout

[18:02]the year but you can make giant leaps during these blessed nights

[18:07]of muharram in the name of imam hussain by seeking inspiration from

[18:13]him don't take hussain is a lantern of guidance and an ark

[18:35]of salvation if anything can save me this petty pathetic sinful insubordinate

[18:40]soul of mine it is hussain because he is the lantern of

[18:47]guidance and the ark of salvation anyway you ask allah subhanahu ta'ala

[18:53]for you say oh allah grant me steadfastness and perseverance [Music] in

[19:02]the way of allah abdullah and we said last night i mentioned

[19:10]the hadith of imam narrated by muhammad in his blessed collection of

[19:21]hadith in which the imam says that a believer has two constant

[19:27]fears you all know that we have multiple traditions that say a

[19:33]believer can only function and move and progress towards their salvation if

[19:37]they have both hope and fear we all know that and you

[19:42]need them in equal measure you need hope but not more than

[19:47]you need fear because if you had too much hope you'd become

[19:51]complacent and you just leave it to allah allah is merciful allah

[19:54]will forgive all allah won't ask me allah don't judge me because

[19:57]you have too much hope you're like oh god is too merciful

[20:00]so you need an equal and proportionate amount of fear to tell

[20:06]you no hang on a second allah is merciful but allah also

[20:12]created hell for a reason allah is merciful but he's also wise

[20:17]allah is merciful but he's also the moon he's an avenger how

[20:24]could someone like me end up in the same place as rasulullah

[20:29]and the albeit that would be against the wisdom of god so

[20:35]i have to be cleansed i have to be purified from my

[20:40]sins so the fear has to be there the hope has to

[20:41]be there that's not what i want to talk about this hadith

[20:46]of imam assad in the book the imam breaks down the fear

[20:53]element the scale on which you have fear he breaks that down

[20:56]into two portions he says a believer has first of all fear

[21:04]of his previous sins i don't know i mean i go to

[21:12]the mosque in the holy month of ramadan it's the night of

[21:17]destiny i pray i plead i beg i grovel i cry my

[21:24]heart breaks in the hope of what of having my sins forgiven

[21:28]but do i have a blank check do i have some kind

[21:32]of a guarantee that my sins have in fact been forgiven since

[21:37]i don't where does that leave me in a constant state of

[21:43]maybe he hasn't forgiven me maybe he will hold me to accountant

[21:47]maybe i will have to answer to that maybe i will have

[21:53]to be punished for those sins i think i mentioned this hadith

[21:59]if i'm not mistaken where the imam says that once a martyr

[22:03]dies the greatest honor is for someone to die in the way

[22:15]of allah to be killed for god's sake put that aside now

[22:21]we have another hadith which says that the moment a single drop

[22:25]of a martyr falls to the ground allah forgives all of their

[22:31]sins their entire record is expunged but with a caveat except for

[22:38]this the sins and injustices they committed against other believers allah says

[22:42]you have to deal with them directly i have forgiven all of

[22:48]the sins between you and me but if you've ever hurt anyone

[22:53]if you've ever slandered someone if you've ever tarnished someone's reputation if

[22:56]you've ever committed reba against someone if you've ever made two believers

[22:59]become antagonistic toward one another those are sins you have to answer

[23:05]for or you deal with them even a martyr so the believer

[23:13]will always if you and i i won't even speak about you

[23:16]if i for a second think that i am sinless that i

[23:21]don't have anything to worry about i don't have any problems then

[23:25]i'm the worst sinner or at the very least i am the

[23:31]most juvenile imbecile it's like someone who's crazy and is laughing the

[23:37]whole time in the middle of let's say a hurricane you tell

[23:40]them listen there's a hurricane out there there's an earthquake there's a

[23:44]pandemic no no he's laughing because he doesn't know what's going on

[23:50]he's foolish that's me that's me right now thinking that bygones are

[23:56]bygones whatever i've done i did say a stuff for a lot

[24:01]of viewers that's good enough as how far as know that do

[24:05]i have any guarantees so that's one fear the second portion of

[24:11]the fear element the imam says what's going to happen in the

[24:19]future are you going to be one of the mourners of imam

[24:24]which was saying until the day you die or is it possible

[24:30]at least conceivable that i could lose my way that i could

[24:34]go astray even after being a believer is that conceivable do you

[24:40]think is that possible well i did mention a couple of examples

[24:44]yesterday took his sword after he was killed in battle in the

[24:56]battle of german because he was one of the masterminds one of

[25:00]the people who plotted and schemed against in fact he opened the

[25:07]floodgates of mutiny against the commander of the faithful but did you

[25:11]know he was the cousin of amir as i said he was

[25:16]at the house of fatherhood when the ambush happened he was the

[25:20]only one to take up arms and try to defend the mistress

[25:23]of the women of the worlds and yet fast forward 25 years

[25:29]he's standing there facing off with whom the prophet declared over and

[25:35]over and over again whoever fights you fights me when they brought

[25:43]his sword to the imam the imam took the sword he looked

[25:50]at it and in a gesture of extreme disappointment and sorrow the

[25:57]imam said it was with this sword that zubair protected the very

[26:10]life of rasulullah imagine you get to defend rasulullah from death only

[26:16]to end up in the fires of hell i'll give you a

[26:23]more perhaps shocking example a manager of the highest caliber could a

[26:32]manager go astray if the prophet's cousin could he was such a

[26:43]highly regarded manager that his resale he was the equivalent of today's

[26:46]what we call probably bigger than the title that we have today

[26:53]in other words he was the source of emulation of every xi'an

[26:59]we don't have such a bugger today the shia is split they

[27:04]follow different math different different sources of emulation may allah bless them

[27:12]all and we shouldn't ever be dragged into this mudslinging disgusting bickering

[27:19]amongst ourselves on the basis of which marjah we follow our mirage

[27:23]are doing their they're fulfilling their duties doing their thing what we

[27:28]have to do is to get off of salah for crying out

[27:32]loud what we have to do is to maintain the minute differences

[27:38]between the maraja is negligible let's not make too much of a

[27:43]deal out of it unless the person becomes a complete deviant like

[27:50]this case he was followed by almost every xi'an the time was

[27:58]during the lesser occultation during the uh ambassadorship of al hussein who

[28:08]was the third emissary of the twelfth imam the first emissary spa

[28:17]i think he was the representative of the imam the special envoy

[28:21]to the amount for about five years the second one was the

[28:25]emissary for about 45 years so after that extended period hossein came

[28:34]along when hussein of the was selected as the emissary of the

[28:41]12th imam by a royal decree a handwritten note that the imam

[28:43]sent to the second emissary there were people within the community who

[28:51]felt jealous why partly because al-hussein of nauru wasn't very recognized at

[29:00]least on a popular level on a community level he wasn't like

[29:03]this popular person that everyone expected to succeed and become the emissary

[29:09]of the imam when he became the kid when he became the

[29:14]savior a man by the name of muhammad who was a murderer

[29:19]who was a fakir who was a jurist whose book of resale

[29:24]was in every home belonging to the shia he felt jealous and

[29:30]so what did he do he created this new cult if you

[29:36]like in which he practiced walu what did he say he started

[29:43]saying that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has emerged in the form of

[29:47]the imams of the advaith what we call in other words god

[29:53]is reincarnated in the imams of the other debate the imams had

[30:04]a zero tolerance policy when it comes to certain things one of

[30:08]them was if someone attributed divine attributes to the imams of the

[30:18]other bait as independent deities not as intercessors between us not as

[30:25]people who are endowed with knowledge of the unseen and so forth

[30:32]no no to actually claim that they are demigods as we say

[30:34]to say that the imams of the other day were gods or

[30:39]that god was reincarnated in them the imams of the other bait

[30:45]would never tolerate such a thing they were after all the guardians

[30:51]of tawheed so for the imam of our time to have someone

[30:56]who claims to be his follower and claims to be a manager

[31:04]and claims to be allah and make such a claim the imam

[31:09]wouldn't tolerate it so the imam wrote what we call a toriya

[31:11]meaning a handwritten note once again addressing the emissary as well as

[31:17]the general shia public saying that this man has deviated this man

[31:22]has made claims that are considered against allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and therefore

[31:29]he has become a kaffir kaffir imam's not mincing words here imagine

[31:40]which is why brothers and sisters i said this last night i'll

[31:45]say it again we need to confess to the stark reality and

[31:49]to acknowledge the fact that we have nothing nothing from ourselves whatever

[31:56]we have is from allah subhanahu wa if it's knowledge it's from

[32:00]allah if it's money it's from allah if it's fame if it's

[32:02]from allah if it's any kind of recognition in the community it's

[32:06]from allah if it's any kind of authority it's from allah if

[32:09]it's any skills that we might have it's from allah subhana wa

[32:13]once you recognize this once you recognize all of this and you

[32:19]re you you separate yourself from all of these additives all of

[32:25]these things that are acquired meaning that they are given by allah

[32:32]subhanahu wa that's when you can feel relatively safe from shaytaan and

[32:37]even then you're not safe even then you're not safe because there's

[32:43]a beautiful hadith actually multiple um incidents where certain wives of the

[32:50]prophet sallallahu alaihi would tell different versions of the same thing essentially

[32:56]i'll narrate the one by almost says i woke up at night

[33:01]and i noticed the prophet was missing from his bed meaning that

[33:08]for a second i thought to myself the prophet has other wives

[33:11]as he left me and gone to one of the other wives

[33:13]what's going on so i got up from my bed i went

[33:18]to the uh the courtyard in the house because the way the

[33:21]prophet's house was designed was that there was a courtyard and there

[33:25]were rooms each one attached to the courtyard so each of the

[33:28]wives basically had a room it wasn't like separate housing for each

[33:31]of the wives so she says i went into the courtyard it

[33:35]was dark you didn't have you know torches you didn't have any

[33:40]any lighting and so i i couldn't really see very well and

[33:43]it was at that point that i noticed the holy prophet sallallahu

[33:46]alaihi was in a state of prostration he was praying and so

[33:52]i didn't disturb him i didn't bother him i just stood there

[33:56]and listened to what he was saying he was making a dua

[33:59]a supplication it's a beautiful supplication in which the prophet starts off

[34:06]by saying don't leave me to myself for a blink of an

[34:16]eye so the prophet finishes this dua and then once he gets

[34:23]up almost goes up to him and she's crying god was allah

[34:28]you you say this you're afraid that god would leave you to

[34:31]yourself you're afraid that you'll be abandoned by allah subhanahu wa if

[34:36]you say that then what's going to happen to the rest of

[34:40]us how could i ever feel safe that i will deviate that

[34:42]i won't lose my way the prophet said actually there's another hadith

[34:47]in which she says i heard the prophet say this seventy times

[34:51]he said yeah how could i feel safe from deviation when my

[34:58]own brother yunus he was neglected by god he was let to

[35:04]himself left to himself for a fraction of a second for a

[35:08]blink of an eye and look at where he ended up i

[35:16]mean [Music] had he not turned to allah once again had he

[35:27]not begged allah for forgiveness had he not exalted allah while he

[35:32]was in the belly of the whale allah would have extended his

[35:37]life and the life of the whale until the day of judgment

[35:39]and he would have had to be incarcerated and the belly of

[35:45]the whale as a form of punishment punishment for what punishment for

[35:51]neglecting allah for a blink of an eye the prophet said if

[35:59]this happened to my own brother yunus why wouldn't it happen to

[36:03]me so even the prophet yeah even the prophet feels that he

[36:07]needs to constantly pray to allah not to be left to his

[36:14]own whims left to his own and by the way what this

[36:17]actually means is i think it's important to elaborate just a little

[36:22]bit in case you're wondering to be left to our own whims

[36:26]means this at least this is one manifestation of it have you

[36:31]noticed how if you commit a sin you're young you're still kind

[36:37]of trying to explore the world and whatnot you know this is

[36:42]wrong you know that let's say stealing this packet of gums from

[36:46]the convenience store is haram you know it's wrong not because someone

[36:51]told you but because you know you have this primordial nature you

[36:55]have the fit which tells you this is wrong this this can't

[36:59]be right this is other people's property but you go ahead and

[37:03]do it anyway or you know that lying to your parents is

[37:06]haram but you go ahead and do it anyway at some point

[37:09]remember how guilty you feel obviously you feel guilty sometimes the guilt

[37:16]is so overwhelming that you can't even go to bed that night

[37:20]and this is one of the blessings of allah that guilt is

[37:24]your own conscience telling you you shouldn't have done this that's your

[37:28]own spiritual immune system telling you you should not have done this

[37:32]this is wrong this isn't you you're better than this the second

[37:38]time around that sense of guilt is diminished also slightly i remember

[37:47]reading in the autobiography of a sniper who was in the u.s

[37:52]army in iraq it was a lot of news about him a

[37:56]few years ago i forgot what his name was but he was

[37:59]considered one of the most deadly snipers in u.s military history he

[38:06]killed something like 500 people in iraq and so he wrote a

[38:11]book and i think they even made a movie about it they

[38:12]adapted the book into a into a movie obviously making him out

[38:17]to be this incredible hero um who at some point decided against

[38:22]shooting a a child masha allah look at the mercy and the

[38:32]compassion of this uh human killing machine so anyway one of the

[38:36]things he says in the book is they ask him like was

[38:39]it hard is it hard killing human beings and he's like at

[38:42]first it is but it gets easier the second time the third

[38:47]time the fourth time by the 10th 12th time you don't even

[38:50]think about it it's just spontaneous it's automatic you go by muscle

[38:53]memory you just try and do the best job you can of

[38:57]course you know it's not that he doesn't feel any guilt anymore

[39:00]but that voice of his consciousness that tells him this is wrong

[39:04]is now so faint and so weak that it might as well

[39:09]not even be there god letting us leaving us to our own

[39:15]whims is this guilt becoming smaller and weaker and weaker and weaker

[39:20]until it's gone so if you ever feel that you've consistently committed

[39:29]the same sin and you don't really like it doesn't even bother

[39:35]you anymore be careful be afraid that perhaps allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[39:39]is saying you know what i've tried i gave you the conscience

[39:45]i gave you the quran i gave you the scholars i gave

[39:46]you the books i gave you all of these reminders but it

[39:50]looks like you don't really care so you know what do whatever

[39:54]you want doesn't that happen in classrooms doesn't that happen in families

[39:58]where a child is so insubordinate so willingly and deliberately trying not

[40:08]to listen to people who are wiser and smarter than them their

[40:12]parents to the point where it gets to a point where the

[40:17]insubordination is so obvious that the parents were like you know what

[40:22]i there's nothing i can do about him anymore or her they

[40:26]can do whatever they want i've seen this that is allah leading

[40:32]us to our whims look at says to the holy prophet it's

[40:48]a divine call to the holy messenger of god to deliver a

[40:54]message what is it push the believers to go and fight to

[41:05]practice jihad struggle hard against the disbelievers and the pagans polytheists struggle

[41:21]fight in the first verse allah says if you have 20 who

[41:27]are patient they will become victorious against 200.

[41:32]so there's this constant push go fight don't be afraid you're not

[41:39]afraid of death they are that's what gives you the edge look

[41:45]at what the companions of imam hussain did some reports say that

[41:52]he was over 90 years old he's depicted in the movie as

[41:57]this young muscular man which kind of makes sense given what he's

[42:00]done but some say he was an elderly man people used to

[42:05]wear if you're trying to protect yourself and save your own life

[42:08]instead of one layer of armor you put on two three four

[42:13]whatever you can so that the shower of arrows that is coming

[42:18]towards you like bullets if one layer doesn't stop it then maybe

[42:24]the two will stop it maybe three will stop it if you're

[42:27]trying to protect your life this is what you do he goes

[42:30]out there he notices that the enemy is charging against his master

[42:36]in order to distract them from the imam he says you know

[42:41]what attack me come get me so he takes off his armor

[42:44]throws it to the ground he takes off his helmet throws it

[42:46]to the ground he still can't get their attention he then takes

[42:50]off his shirt and says i have nothing come kill me leave

[42:54]my master hose alone i saw one report that said that when

[42:58]abyss headed towards the right flank of umar bin sad's army you

[43:07]know what means it's like someone having a taking a walk in

[43:14]the park one report literally says that when he charged against the

[43:19]enemy it was like a lion chasing after a flock of sheep

[43:21]they would all flee from him run away from him may my

[43:35]parents be ransomed for you what is it that made these people

[43:39]so powerful and so strong against an army of thirty thousand at

[43:41]the very least the most conservative estimates are thirty thousand the hadith

[43:48]what is it that made them so powerful that they ended up

[43:53]killing so many and i won't put a number to it because

[43:55]we don't know we honestly don't know it's speculation what we do

[44:00]know is this they say that after the battle of karbala every

[44:04]home in kufa was mourning someone who was killed by imam al-hussein's

[44:10]camp khufa was a city every home was mourning someone every home

[44:15]had a medullus for their dead corpses who were killed by the

[44:20]imam and his companions how first of all the quran says that

[44:26]if you have 20 who are patient they can kill 200 right

[44:30]in the case of the companions of imam al-hussein you may have

[44:36]had about a hundred but they included the likes of ahabasib they

[44:45]included the likes of al-qasim al-qasim 13 years old reports i was

[44:53]looking at it today reports say that qasim at his young age

[44:55]killed 80 of them eighty al-azra was someone who was akin to

[45:08]am ripped you all know the story of ahmadinewood a man by

[45:12]the name of al-azhar originally from was considered to be a warrior

[45:17]that could face off with a thousand men when he came to

[45:23]karbala he just sat there and watched umar bin sat came to

[45:27]him he said look when i go back to ibn ziyad i

[45:30]will tell him you did nothing why are you sitting down why

[45:33]aren't you fighting he said because i'm not going to fight a

[45:36]bunch of children and a few soldiers who don't even have horses

[45:44]this is beneath me he said so um said but you have

[45:54]to fight it's the order of he said you know what i'm

[45:58]going to send one of my eight sons to go fight he

[46:02]said do you know who your son will be fighting with it

[46:06]is al-qasim the orphan of imam al-hasan he said the thirteen-year-old i'll

[46:13]send my youngest boy to go and finish him off he sent

[46:19]his boy he was immediately killed by a cousin this time it

[46:22]became personal he sent the second boy he was killed the third

[46:27]the fourth the fifth all eight of them were sent straight at

[46:30]the bottom of hell awesome and again these aren't exaggerations but qasim

[46:36]was a boy he was 13 years old but he was trained

[46:41]by his uncle abbas okay that's the difference plus qasim is there

[46:45]to die for his uncle he's not there to win a handful

[46:50]of dates he's not there to be praised by his friends one

[46:54]of the brothers of imam al-hussein alaihissalam one of the younger brothers

[46:57]of abel abbas i believe his name was when he came to

[47:05]imam al-hussein and asked him for permission to go and fight the

[47:08]imam wanted to test him so he said to him don't you

[47:15]see the shower of arrows coming towards us how do you survive

[47:21]this he said my brother hussain the one who's here determined to

[47:35]give you the blood of his heart couldn't care less about how

[47:38]many there are and what weapons they're using and how many arrows

[47:43]they're shooting i'm here to die for you that's the difference allah

[47:50]was the last person to go he said may the sins of

[47:55]all of the arab tribes fall onto my shoulder if i don't

[48:01]make this boy's uncle grieve for him and even he was killed

[48:05]by al-qasam that's the difference right when you have allah subhanahu wa

[48:10]ta'ala on your side when you recognize that you have nothing of

[48:14]your own and everything you have is from him foreign whoever wants

[48:52]honor without a tribe whoever wants wealth without money whoever wants glory

[49:01]then they should extract themselves from the humiliation of sinning and disobedience

[49:10]to allah and enter the sanctuary of obedience to him now why

[49:16]did i say all of this allah telling the believers to go

[49:21]fight to struggle to practice jihad but when it comes to shaytaan

[49:25]allah doesn't say ya rasulallah go and struggle in the way of

[49:33]shaytan no no he doesn't say that you know what he says

[49:35]is shaytaan o messenger seek refuge in allah from the shaitaan because

[49:44]the shaytan is not easy to overcome you can't do it on

[49:55]your own seek help from allah i seek refuge in you protect

[50:00]me from the shaytan protect me from falling into his traps save

[50:05]me o allah i can't do it if you ever feel trapped

[50:11]by a desire by lust by a bad sinful habit that you

[50:14]can't overcome seek refuge in who and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala nfc

[50:25]even prophet yusuf says i don't have any guarantee that i can't

[50:31]fall into sin i know my soul is one that has evil

[50:34]inclinations the only way i can save myself is to is to

[50:39]reach out to allah wa ya allah you helped me prophet ayub

[50:43]alaihi said o allah i ask you to protect me from my

[50:48]sins and my transgressions because i know that without your help i

[50:52]will commit a sin he's not challenging god he's just making a

[50:56]statement of fact without your help i will fall into sin i

[50:59]will slip up when it comes to shaytan when it comes to

[51:06]fearing deviation in our lives you have to reach out to allah

[51:11]you have to beg him for help you have to ask him

[51:14]to intervene in your life that's why you reach out to abba

[51:16]abdullah that's why you say with a bitly i do apologize especially

[51:31]from our esteemed guest this and eminence him a long life of

[51:38]service to abba abdullah having served in this capacity for decades may

[51:44]allah prolong his life let's take you to the three-year-old orphan of

[51:53]abba abdullah i thought long and hard about which aspect of the

[52:02]tragedy of imam al-hussein to convey to you tonight but i felt

[52:06]like definitely deserves a mention early on in the ten nights of

[52:16]muharram those of you who have been to sham know that she

[52:20]has a small shrine with an even smaller crypt of arie that

[52:26]believers flocked to from across the globe and i had the honor

[52:32]and the privilege of spending several years there visiting her shrine one

[52:36]thing you'll notice in sha allah when you all get to go

[52:39]there one day is that the streets leading down to the shrine

[52:45]are they have there's a lot of stores and many of those

[52:52]stores sell children's toys part of the reason is that the pilgrims

[52:57]come and they think what do i take to the shrine of

[53:03]lady raqqa and so they end up buying dolls if you ask

[53:09]them why are you buying a doll why are you doing this

[53:14]buying toys and then leaving them at the shrine of ladies they'll

[53:21]say where we come from wherever that may be if we saw

[53:25]an orphan the best way to calm down the orphan if she's

[53:31]crying and she's asking for her father who's dead who's deceased is

[53:35]by giving her a doll to play with may my life be

[53:42]ransomed for the orphan who instead of being given a doll or

[53:45]a toy to play with she was given her father's sever had

[53:51]to be ever healed you know ladies on the way to karbala

[53:59]while she was with abba abdullah hussain historians say that her mother

[54:05]was already deceased did you know that she didn't have a mother

[54:10]all she had was abba abdullah and boy was she daddy's girl

[54:14]allahu akbar as most girls are right and so she'd constantly spend

[54:20]as much time with her father as she could and so on

[54:24]the day of she was too young to understand what happened there

[54:31]are many indications to this by the way that she didn't quite

[54:37]grasp what happened to her father she did notice that ali akbar

[54:41]went and never came back that abbas went and never came back

[54:47]that al qasim went and never came back and that ultimately her

[54:50]father went and never came back she did hear her father say

[54:56]she heard her father's voice but he never came back all she

[55:00]saw was the horse without her father so she didn't quite know

[55:06]what happened to abba abdullah hussain she would cry a lot and

[55:10]so some have speculated we don't have these details but some have

[55:14]said that perhaps the way imam al-hussein calmed her down the way

[55:18]lady zainab rather calmed her down just a little bit was the

[55:23]way rasulullah calmed down his daughter fatima what did the prophet do

[55:28]when he noticed his daughter crying profusely while he lay in his

[55:33]death bed she says my father whispered in my ear he said

[55:43]a few words after which fatima zara went from crying to smiling

[55:48]when they asked her why were you crying just a moment ago

[55:55]and now you're smiling from ear to ear she said because my

[56:00]father told me you will be the first person to join me

[56:03]after my death in other words they won't spare you for too

[56:10]long you will be joining me very soon on a found solace

[56:14]in her father telling her that you will join me perhaps that

[56:19]is how lady zainab gave solace to that is how abba abdullah

[56:26]comforted his daughter and so all along as they were moving from

[56:32]karbala and the caravan was heading towards kufa rukaya must have felt

[56:38]excited my father told me that we will meet once again in

[56:41]the we will meet once again in the ruins of sham what

[56:46]is the ruins where is sham a three-year-old doesn't know these things

[56:51]but she's excited i will meet my father very soon and so

[56:56]when they got to the khariba that night she started crying it's

[57:02]been too long [Music] which is when ladies and gentlemen your father

[57:10]is on a trip he is traveling meaning the suffer of but

[57:15]that night she couldn't have it she wouldn't have any of these

[57:19]excuses anymore i want my father i want my father now let's

[57:23]not kid ourselves brothers and sisters we know that if you bring

[57:29]the severed head of a father to his three-year-old daughter we know

[57:33]that's going to kill her he wasn't trying to comfort rukaya bellahin

[57:38]was trying to kill her because he was humiliated by zainab in

[57:44]his court and so he wanted zainab to bear the pain of

[57:49]yet another martyr this time when they walked in i could only

[57:56]imagine lady zainab getting up and saying please don't show the head

[57:59]to the girl i promise she will go back to sleep i

[58:02]promise to make her quiet again they say that one of the

[58:10]times zainab was lashed was at this moment they lashed her on

[58:14]zainab as soon as rokaya removed that veil removed the cover she

[58:20]might have thought to herself when i meet my father i'm gonna

[58:23]tell him what they did to us i'm gonna show him my

[58:28]feet i will show him my bruised body i will show him

[58:32]what they did to my face but as soon as she saw

[58:36]her father's severed head she forgot all about her feet and hands

[58:39]and face she said oh father who did this to you who

[58:50]cut your lips who made your beard full of your own [Applause]

[59:02]blood [Music] oh [Music]

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