Night 7 - Hajj Hassanain Rajabali

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[0:14]Allah muham muhamed Allah [Music] [Music] [Music] Allah [Music] alhamd [Music] ald

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[15:36][Music] and Salam alaykum everyone welcome to mea nightly program my name

[16:18]is Hassan Bon I'd like to thank all our sponsors throughout the

[16:22]nights and all our donors throughout the uh holy month of Ramadan

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[16:45]Haj husseini I have been a part of Mecca since day one

[16:51]as you all know um we started this journey in our living

[16:57]rooms we outgrew our living rooms and started renting classroom and we

[17:01]outgrew our classrooms and we ended up here in this beautiful space

[17:04]that we we were able to rent out now we're outgrowing this

[17:10]space and we're looking to be in our forever home and without

[17:14]without further Ado we'd like to for everybody to be able to

[17:17]help us get to our further home our uh forever home and

[17:23]it's geared towards a beautiful new center with amenities that are geared

[17:28]towards the youth we're going to have a two full court gyms

[17:33]in our new home inshallah and we're doing all this so that

[17:35]our kids and grandkids will have a place to come to um

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[18:18]it your second home you don't have to be like me we

[18:22]have events going on March 7th is Brothers game night and special

[18:26]attendance will be by Haj Hassan and Haj Shar for our game

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[18:38]3:00 a.m.

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[19:21]sell out um I have a challenge for everybody here today so

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[19:43]completed and you all know that the space has really starting to

[19:49]get tight so that's why we're looking to grow into our future

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[20:12]sponsorship that's going to give for your eternity it's not just something

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[20:21]is going to be some sakar um our guest I think is

[20:26]a little bit running late today so we're going to do a

[20:31]little Quran resuscitation can you please do some Quran yeah please when

[20:47]you're done I'll introduce [Music] Millman what [Music] [Music] [Music] had [Music]

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[26:54]muhamad salaat please recite for of our sponsors for tonight and for

[27:17]your please help me welcome haassan with a loud Muhammad muhamad thank

[27:57]you faat please ald Muhammad I begin in Allah's name the beneficent

[29:27]the merciful for all good originates from Allah and everything that we

[29:34]do that is good originates from Allah subhana tala and if we

[29:39]perform any evil then it is not from Allah subhana tala tonight

[29:43]I'd like to sort of summarize because I've got I think tonight

[29:47]and tomorrow is my last lecture I'd like to summarize some very

[29:51]important issues which I think is essential for us to sort of

[29:57]rejuvenate our Spirits in Ramadan and of course for the rest of

[30:01]our lives and inshallah forever for there is no doubt that Allah's

[30:05]Mercy has created us and we have a function on this Earth

[30:11]and if we reject it we become our own enemies we cause

[30:16]ourselves harm and in this blessed month Allah revealed the Quran in

[30:24]you know in the night of Allah revealed the Quran in this

[30:34]month the Quran was revealed and all the scriptures actually tat zabur

[30:37]injil were revealed in Ramadan in the month of uh on the

[30:44]nights of it's very important to understand that and of course that

[30:48]one night ofad as you know is better than a thousand months

[30:51]thousand months is about 82 years and that's a long time that's

[30:55]actually a lifespan so that one night is equivalent to a very

[31:03]good lifespan of 82 years and Allah subhana tala wants us to

[31:06]indulge in the Quran because they said the Quran is the light

[31:12]that will turn on in the our Graves and in the Hereafter

[31:15]and if you and I make friends with different chapters of the

[31:19]Quran then each chapter is a creature it's a person it has

[31:25]a manifestation it's very beautiful you might think this is some kind

[31:29]of of metaphorical talk but no it's real every chapter in the

[31:33]Quran from f toas are 114 persons of the same large person

[31:39]called the Quran and if you fall in love with one of

[31:42]them or many of them and you make them part of your

[31:48]life and it guides you and me then it becomes a friend

[31:54]forever when the prophet was explaining you know and the AY that

[31:58]came in I think it's you know this verse when Allah says

[32:13]the beauty of this world is your wealth and your family what

[32:16]is left are your good deeds and the explanation by our Scholars

[32:20]is one of the greatest Deeds is the manifestation of making friends

[32:25]with the Quran and if you can absorb to a certain degree

[32:29]that your capacity has the chapters of the Quran and live by

[32:36]them then they will become your friends Imam writes this in Salah

[32:39]where he says on Judgment day you will see magnificent beings spectacular

[32:43]looking and you will be mesmerized by their beauty and you will

[32:48]wish to possess them because you'll be so impressed by the way

[32:53]they look and that beautiful creature will look at you and said

[32:55]I could have been your friend had you been mine on Earth

[32:59]and I would have stayed with you forever so please I advise

[33:04]us all spend as much time and don't make excuses I'm not

[33:08]an Arab Arabic is not my language okay while I speak many

[33:12]languages Arabic is not my language but I love Arabic I do

[33:18]believe that Allah has chosen this language as the finality of the

[33:21]law and it is imperative that every Muslim on Earth even non-arabs

[33:26]and the majority of the Muslim population is non-arab and some of

[33:30]the best Quran reciters in the world are non-arabs but the excuse

[33:35]is not to say well you know I'm not Arabic Arabic is

[33:39]a difficult language Allah four times repeats in we've made the Quran

[33:49]easy to remember who will pay heed and I mentioned before even

[33:52]5y olds in Islam memorize the Quran where the only religion where

[33:57]the scripture of God is memorized no religion Christians Jews Hindus Buddhists

[34:01]all religions in the world nobody memorizes their scriptures to the degree

[34:06]we have it's a miracle the Quran in and of itself is

[34:11]a miracle and it's from the perspective of the message that it

[34:14]has and the beauty of the Quran the way it presents itself

[34:19]is it has many stages it's got Universal verses which we call

[34:24]verses Universal they address all of Creations all of mankind typically the

[34:30]Quran is addressed to mankind so Allah is addressing mankind then it's

[34:39]addressing a specific group of mankind in the Quran it's addressing a

[34:47]specific group among mankind Quran has general principles and has specific principles

[34:53]the verse I'm reading right now inat is Allah says all mankind

[34:58]this is a universal verse and it's elegant it's very beautiful it

[35:03]establishes the fundamental social principle of Life which when Imam says to

[35:09]Malik that there are two people under your toled they are your

[35:11]Believers in faith or your equals in humanity it comes from this

[35:18]verse indeed we created you two genders we have only two genders

[35:25]we might have a third from the perspective of hermaphrodites who kind

[35:31]of Teeter between the two but there are two main genders and

[35:39]you notice by the way our biggest social problem in life is

[35:46]what the misogynist men who put down women women have suffered tremendously

[35:50]in history they've been marginalized for centuries if not for thousands of

[35:56]years they've been abused used they've been used as chattles they've been

[36:01]used as conduits to bring children and they've been belittled and abused

[36:06]sexually abused physically abused financially abused psychologically abused let's State the facts

[36:14]the way it is and I'm not here to please our sisters

[36:16]but this is the truth and in societies if if societies can

[36:21]choose a gender they tend to go towards the male because they

[36:26]find an economic benefit that the son will inherit and therefore the

[36:30]wealth will stay within the family it's cruel there's a lot of

[36:34]Cruelty in that and it has brought such an imbalance in society

[36:38]you know in America up to the early 20th century women couldn't

[36:42]vote they were considered second class citizens and the level of morality

[36:50]among women with all due respect which we must recognize is that

[36:53]the Europeans when they migrated to the United States one of the

[36:57]the cultures of the Europeans is alcohol the Germans the Irish the

[37:02]English you go to their countries every block there's a pub they

[37:11]drink Beyond thought you know they just are inebriated constantly and Quran

[37:18]calls it rids it's filth it's nudis it's bad stay away from

[37:22]it but look they live by it so they brought alcohol to

[37:27]the United States and who who are the biggest opponents to alcohol

[37:31]in America the women the Abolitionist if you study the history it

[37:35]was the women on the front lines fighting for legislation to ban

[37:38]alcohol in the United States not the men so you notice this

[37:45]this disparity because the men consider that they've got more strength and

[37:50]they're abusive because they've got so somebody was asking me you know

[37:55]you know black lives matters why don't we have white lives matter

[37:59]I says the dominant race that has abused the rest of mankind

[38:04]has been the white race so we talk about black lives because

[38:07]they're the marginal we don't talk about men's rights but we talk

[38:11]about women's rights we have organizations for women's rights Why women's rights

[38:17]and not men's rights because de facto the men have been the

[38:20]one who have been abusing the women so there's no need to

[38:24]talk about men's rights in fact their rights should be taken away

[38:27]for they're being so abusive look I can speak I'm a man

[38:33]so yeah I can talk you know it's only fair but I

[38:36]I you know when you look at this disease historically it has

[38:41]taken us back you know and I used an example of a

[38:44]bird when a bird flies it's got two wings and they're mirror

[38:48]images of each other let's just some make two hands they're mirror

[38:51]images of each other I can't cut my right hand and put

[38:56]it on my left side it won't work nor can I take

[38:59]my left hand and move it to the right nor can I

[39:01]marginalize my left hand over my right hand the same with a

[39:06]bird you can't clip if you clip the wings of a bird

[39:09]typically by the way to prevent a bird from flying you clip

[39:14]one side of the Wings you don't clip both sides so the

[39:17]bird when he takes off it goes into a tail spin Society

[39:21]has been going into a tail spin because One Wing in society

[39:26]is the man and the other is the woman and we've been

[39:30]so busy clipping one side so we're going in circles seriously let's

[39:37]face the facts historical facts you can ask chat GPT deep seek

[39:44]ask which gender the Quran Nails it look at the Quran it's

[39:55]so balanced I love it you know there is no misogyny in

[39:58]it there is no what we call bias in one side to

[40:03]the other I see the Quran is synthesis you know yesterday I

[40:09]mentioned about thesis antithesis synthesis let me make one more point about

[40:14]that you'll find when you propose a thesis it's biased no matter

[40:17]how true it is it's biased and the antithesis is also biased

[40:24]in general any thesis has a bias the synthesis May accept it

[40:31]one side versus the other but the synthesis by Nature eradicates bias

[40:35]once bias is removed it becomes just the problem with us is

[40:42]when women condemn men that's a bias when men condemn women it's

[40:49]a bias when white people condemn non whites it's a bias when

[40:56]non whites condemn the white it's a bias so neither side is

[41:01]right though the white race may be the one that's abusing but

[41:04]it is wrong to condemn the white race for the white race

[41:09]is equal to all the other races that's elegant in the Quran

[41:12]and believe me brothers and sisters listen with all due respect we're

[41:16]here to discuss how do we make our lives better we must

[41:22]understand the forensics of the devil and what's causing degradation in our

[41:28]society what's leading our children to have all these vulnerabilities and misconceptions

[41:31]that lead to depressions and possible suicide it's this the imbalances where

[41:39]we force things on people thinking we have some natural right when

[41:45]Allah takes that falsehood away and says wrong you're going to be

[41:52]just maintain the balance and don't tip it cuz the the minute

[41:58]you tip it you're going to cause trouble for yourself so here

[42:04]we made you male and female what's another problem in society tribalism

[42:18]oh my God which country do you come from oh your country

[42:25]is terrible same country which part of the country you come from

[42:31]Subhan Allah then from that part which Village oh my God then

[42:38]which family oh my God we get so granular and I've seen

[42:43]people fight in tribal communities I mean I was in the Philippines

[42:46]and I was talking to some brothers and they said you know

[42:49]we fight with each other I said you're such beautiful people says

[42:55]we're tribal Lebanon Iraq KES where I come from oh my God

[42:59]our community if you're K from India or Pakistan you're not the

[43:02]same as the one from Africa the Supreme ones of the African

[43:09]ones topnotch which Village and then from Africa which city I come

[43:13]from Zanzibar you know 40 minutes down is Daris Salam you're from

[43:20]Daris Salam you're second class I'm from Zanzibar I'm better Subhan Allah

[43:25]and then in Zanzibar which family which Village Subhan Allah my God

[43:30]shayan's got us like for everything you are so like when I

[43:37]came to Dearborn are you Lebanese I said no oh he's not

[43:45]one of us I said more so the reason or Iranian are

[43:53]you Iranian sh Irani say no ah so what's the problem well

[44:02]we love our own kind every Army fights for its own cause

[44:09]there's a comfort level when people of your own culture come next

[44:14]to you they speak your lingo they eat your food their methodologies

[44:18]sink and they kind of go with you you know it's beautiful

[44:21]so the Quran answers that it doesn't condemn it it says so

[44:27]you you recognize it you honor it you indulge in it nothing

[44:34]wrong when a community gets together and they do their own cultural

[44:38]thing and they like being with their own kind nothing wrong it's

[44:42]a Rah of Allah it's beautiful you understand but the problem is

[44:47]the many there's an outsider now Shayan starts to play games on

[44:53]us instead of saying oh but there's another Community next to me

[44:56]that has its own Circle and now I got to go burn

[45:04]it turn it off conquer them enslave them dominate them you know

[45:09]Shan says destroy them divide it and Conquer it but Allah answers

[45:14]let I tell you this verse just this one verse verse number

[45:20]13 it's so elegant [Music] it solves all our social problems if

[45:32]only we follow the Quran then Allah in the end says now

[45:39]he's put everybody on the scale indeed the most honorable to Allah

[45:46]is the one who's God conscious not male not female not triack

[45:49]and what you know uh skin white and skin Brown and SK

[45:56]no Allah says all of you are a gift from God and

[45:59]all your capacities to speak thousands of different languages are my gift

[46:03]to you let not one dominate the other through discrimination and through

[46:09]subjection of any kind of Injustice honor it love it this is

[46:15]one of the gifts Allah gave me that when I travel around

[46:17]the world every continent I land on every people I go to

[46:22]I fall in love with them and I say to my parents

[46:25]I said I want to live here I love this country I

[46:27]love these people wherever I was in Asia I want to stay

[46:30]in Asia I was in Iran I fell in love with I

[46:33]was in Iraq recently I was looking around I said oh my

[46:34]God it's such a beautiful place I'd love to live here I'm

[46:39]in Africa I love it everywhere I go I see people say

[46:43]wow this is amazing what diversity the Indulgence the capacity for me

[46:48]to expand my own Horizons because I was raised in America within

[46:53]a certain culture and now I'm being exposed to a different culture

[46:55]and now I can compare myself with others and I can take

[47:01]what's good in them you know and I can share what's good

[47:03]in me that exchange is so lovely and Allah says that's what

[47:09]tawa is all about that you guard yourself from the evil inclinations

[47:12]and that you promote good through love and care by showing gratitude

[47:18]around you that's the solution to the human problem and look what

[47:26]I introduced today gender problems tribal problems racism institutional racism if there

[47:34]is a poison shitan has placed in the human race that leads

[47:39]the human race to never progress it is institutional racism it's been

[47:46]designed in the most vicious of ways the African-American population in the

[47:51]United States the male one out of every two potentially ends up

[47:55]in prison the United States has a massive prison population you start

[48:03]thinking about that how can a Land of the Free be so

[48:06]incarcerating because it's business it's money but there's a deep rooted slavery

[48:12]in this country that when the chains which were conspicuously visible were

[48:17]removed the silent chains were placed the economic pressure the psychological pressure

[48:24]to such extent that even the black population now has learned what

[48:30]we call learned helplessness where they are sitting as marginalized people and

[48:35]they themselves ensure that they're marginalized forever and the race that dominates

[48:43]them is having fun with it all the way I give you

[48:44]a simple example not to make a big deal but a quick

[48:48]footnote a white man who's got 34 indictments with nice glowing orange

[48:55]hair rich white man what does he say in his first election

[49:02]cycle he said I can kill a man on Fifth Avenue and

[49:06]I will still be elected president my God that's a privilege that's

[49:11]incredible you murder a man on Fifth Avenue Fifth Avenue is a

[49:17]very popular place in New York City says I can kill somebody

[49:19]on Fifth Avenue I'll still be voted in 34 indictments I mean

[49:23]the pundits were saying he will rule America from prison then he'll

[49:27]pardon him himself you find a brown person black person anybody other

[49:35]than a white person who's got half an indictment will be buried

[49:40]under the sea talk about privilege it's working it's very powerful and

[49:47]the sad thing is you and I also support it when our

[49:54]children are born say he's so bright skin is so light blond

[49:58]haed blue eyed mashah why because now my child is going to

[50:02]succeed in society but the minute the baby is born dark skinned

[50:08]problem we're not happy go to Asia and see how many lightening

[50:15]you know skin lightening creams are in the shops it's aisles and

[50:21]aisles and aisles like you go crazy you go from one aisle

[50:26]to another every aisle are creams to lighten your skin and I

[50:29]said to these people what what so we we don't go out

[50:32]in the sun we don't want to get dark what's wrong with

[50:36]dark my God institutional racism is working all the way out in

[50:42]the another continent called Asia I walk around and I say are

[50:45]you are you okay you know how beautiful dark skin is it's

[50:52]magnificent it's the original Adam was made from dark skin Quran mentions

[50:55]it we made him out of black mud from black you get

[51:01]white from White you don't get black genetically but look at us

[51:07]the Quran is addressing you mankind you foolish people how dare you

[51:13]do this so please I want to send a clear message even

[51:18]in the mosques if a person of another skin color especially Dark

[51:22]shows up some of us feel uncomfortable but we say allahar we

[51:30]love the prophet we love I remember I was reading a story

[51:35]of John Ben John who was a companion in carala and he

[51:43]comes to Imam Hussein says give me permission to go fight I

[51:47]know I'm dark I said whoever has written this little story is

[51:52]not speaking the truth for John Ben John would never ever say

[51:56]that to Imam Hussein it's not his nature companionship is colorblind the

[52:04]messenger of Allah took a slave called Bilal habashi he was very

[52:09]dark skinned very dark and he was a slave of one of

[52:16]the mckans when the messenger freed him bought him freed him made

[52:22]him the commander of his army the Arabs were stunned they said

[52:26]that that's a Slave how did you make him a commander look

[52:31]they're doing look at the bigotry and what we forget is how

[52:42]dare we did Shah how dare we aimed towards how dare we

[52:44]did suud and we have the audacity the tarity by which to

[52:50]practice such racism when we all agree unanimously as a Muslim umah

[52:55]including the judeo Christian people that the downfall of the devil was

[53:03]on this basis that he considered himself Superior to Adam he was

[53:07]a racist and he said I'm better than Adam I'm made of

[53:12]fire he's made of clay what a dumb suggestion it's like plastic

[53:15]is better than wood what a dumb but see in order for

[53:20]you to to create fitna find find a reason he's got curly

[53:25]hair I don't like curly hair let's condemn all the people who

[53:28]curly here then Society just goes nuts just find something divide me

[53:33]for any reason so Shayan was jealous because Allah honored Adam rather

[53:40]than say how can I also be honored with Adam how can

[53:45]I also Elevate myself for God is merciful how can I also

[53:48]submit for the Dominion of God is wide and how can God

[53:53]also Elevate me among with the with Adam and his children rather

[53:57]to say I condemn Adam and not only this I'm going to

[54:02]work to destroy them we have people in our societies that's all

[54:05]they do they sit on the phones all day manufacturing lies to

[54:09]destroy other people's lives it's common Quran condemns it and says if

[54:17]you indulge in that I will throw you in hell Forever Until

[54:22]You desist you will remain in it so tonight I just want

[54:25]to talk about some of the social ills we have and if

[54:29]we simply look at them and say oh my God I need

[54:33]to remove this for the devil who worshiped Allah for thousands of

[54:37]years can drop from position of high level in malakut to drop

[54:42]instantly just because he's a bigot how can you and I as

[54:48]Muslims walk around in the mosques and in Islam and look down

[54:53]on anybody how I beggar it's Al to think please we have

[54:58]it as much as we say yeah it's wrong we have it

[55:03]even Malcolm Gladwell who a famous writer who's half black he says

[55:09]when I took the tests I failed as a black man for

[55:11]even in me I'm a racist I'm a black man from Jamaica

[55:16]but I'm a racist how do you become a racist when you're

[55:22]a black man he says the intrusion of Shan is so subtle

[55:24]and it's so absorbing that it becomes the fabric of who you

[55:28]are not realizing that you're promoting evil instead of good so in

[55:34]the month of Ramadan when we fast and we become cognizant and

[55:39]we introspect and retrospect and meditate and cogitate to say what of

[55:46]me needs correction what of my character needs Improvement what of my

[55:52]lingo and my attitude needs a change this is what Ramadan is

[55:56]for we enjoined fasting upon you what does Allah say in this

[56:04]verse huh the ones who do same God conscious it's all one

[56:14]story but it's a behavioral change so I advise us all as

[56:20]a society you and I should be vigilant to break all bigotry

[56:24]to break all injustices and to feed the poor and the needy

[56:29]and yes some of us I know even in this audience some

[56:33]of them have been abused as children by their own relatives or

[56:37]by their own parents some of the most heinous crimes committed I

[56:42]see it I talk to people they tell me and I gasp

[56:47]I said really said yeah my uncle did this or my cousin

[56:52]did this or my ex you know Mr ex or what whoever

[56:54]somebody has abused me I look at that person said Subhan Allah

[56:59]what a mercy of God you're still standing and talking to me

[57:02]what a mercy of God that you have hope what a mercy

[57:07]of God that you're working to find a means to forgive what

[57:11]a mercy of God that you've still held on to the faith

[57:15]of God isn't it amazing that after that abuse for a person

[57:18]to remain steadfast in Islam towards Allah is a miracle so let's

[57:25]encourage each other the world is is not a Bed of Roses

[57:30]it's got its trials and tribulations and sadly it comes from our

[57:35]closest circles within the family sisters who want to wear hijab their

[57:39]first resistance is their own family not the Christians not the Jews

[57:43]not the neighbors the family you want to become spiritual it's find

[57:47]the family will attack you yesterday I mentioned that parents will stop

[57:53]their children from worshiping Allah this is all the intrusions the for

[57:57]as I mentioned of shitan is tactical and he doesn't leave a

[58:03]single stone unturned and therefore when God warns me and I remember

[58:08]I used to read the verse of the Quran when Allah says

[58:12]be careful I used to say to myself Allah why why do

[58:13]you keep you know threatening me with this you keep telling me

[58:21]almost like like I should be paranoid life is beautiful I'm having

[58:25]fun with my friends that's the Jah in us not realizing that

[58:30]when Allah is warning me everything looks Rosy my friends are nice

[58:36]my family is nice my business is doing well what's the big

[58:38]deal why should I be a m why should I be afraid

[58:43]God is merciful Allah says watch out you have no idea how

[58:46]shitan Works he's going to take you all the way to the

[58:51]top of the mountain and then throw you and you will think

[58:56]you're climbing up and progressing and you'll think you're in such good

[58:58]hands and then in the end he'll turn around and throw you

[59:04]that's happened all the time in life so when we talk about

[59:07]Islam prayers fasting Dean constant reflection of God understanding the day of

[59:14]judgment our obligations we need to be vigilant for if we're not

[59:20]we're not diligent and Vigilant we will find ourselves on the wrong

[59:29]side very easily for the Machinery of elbl is very subtle they'll

[59:33]come and whisper something the next thing you're doing something before you

[59:37]know it you're causing damage so please brothers and sisters in this

[59:40]month of Ramadan I can't stress enough the importance of constantly looking

[59:45]around and saying my lord loves me when I promote good and

[59:50]my lord loves me when I demote evil and my lord loves

[59:52]me when I think of him what do I need to do

[59:57]to maintain those three critical points in life I need to find

[59:59]out what my strengths are what my weaknesses are what is which

[60:06]gate in my house is weak where the Trojan Horse can enter

[60:10]how can I fixed it Imam Ali Alam beautifully explains one little

[60:17]action on a battlefield and when I read that I smiled I

[60:19]said oh that's my life that's my life right there Imam is

[60:24]walking and examining the military his soldiers before a battle and he

[60:29]sees a man wearing a chain link and some of the links

[60:35]were broken Iman takes his sword and touches it he says fix

[60:38]this the enemy will strike here now it's a battle thing isn't

[60:47]it chain link armor fix it but to me Imam was saying

[60:50]you have weaknesses fix it for Shan will get you there so

[60:56]if you don't know something know it if you're weaken something strengthen

[61:00]it for Shan is coming at you right there cuz the minute

[61:04]he is a weak link he going to get you so notice

[61:08]you might say what is all this this is exactly Islam it's

[61:13]a it's a modest religion it's a just religion it's a balanced

[61:17]religion and you will see the entire Quran Allah does not have

[61:20]any biases look even in s if you study in bar Allah

[61:27]talks about Christians Jews and Allah says that we have enjoined upon

[61:32]you fighting why have we enjoed upon you fighting Allah says if

[61:38]you don't defend the churches and the temples of other believers will

[61:46]cease to exist I'm saying what oh Allah you address these Jews

[61:53]and Christians they have rejected you partially yet you talking to them

[62:00]like with honor and and and Grace look at the balance of

[62:02]Islam I was reading yesterday Allah says among theis there are True

[62:09]Believers most of them are transgressors but some are real Believers for

[62:13]Allah to say that that among Christians and Jews there are people

[62:17]of Faith you know what it does to you it changes the

[62:22]Dynamics of how you see the world it's not black and white

[62:25]and Allah says protect their churches protect their temples what protect them

[62:31]Allah said yes fight don't let them be hurt Imam Ali alisam

[62:36]once was traveling with his soldiers and there was a dilapidated Church

[62:39]a church and one of the Muslims was making derogatory statements about

[62:45]the church Imam looks at him and says don't say that Allah

[62:51]was worshiped here respect it a dilapidated Church meaning a ruined Church

[62:57]a non-existent functioning Church IM Ali looks at him and says don't

[63:04]belittle this house of God respect it my god when I read

[63:06]that this is the religion Allah has blessed me with with such

[63:11]balance that he doesn't discriminate on against the other its discrimination is

[63:17]purely at the Merit level of ethical values where you and I

[63:20]need to discriminate at ethical levels where somebody's violating a core principle

[63:25]of morality discrimin reject disassociate condemn not the person but the ACT

[63:37]that's Islam the balance is phenomenal honestly I'm telling you when I

[63:44]studied religion and I I embarked on knowing the truth because I

[63:47]wasn't sure if Islam is right I wasn't sure if the way

[63:50]of a b is right I said I'm going to embark on

[63:54]a journey and I'm going to discover the true religion people said

[63:58]how how are you going to do that it's murky I said

[64:03]it is but I'm going to Anchor myself with fundamental truths and

[64:07]I will not stop practicing my religion but I will search and

[64:12]if I find something better I will jump but what was the

[64:18]Criterion or criteria I said one rule is this God that I'm

[64:22]going to worship better be universally just nondiscriminating meeting not biased in

[64:29]one group against another for such a God is a true God

[64:34]but if a God who says I've chosen you as a chosen

[64:35]people and you can go now and invade people's lands and take

[64:42]everything for yourself and be paranoid and want to kill everybody around

[64:46]you because I'm a special person from God you're the biggest liar

[64:51]That Ever Walked on Earth and such a God does not exist

[64:55]I spoke I speak about that in universities I said anybody who

[64:58]claims that God has chosen you and given you authority to go

[65:04]take people's lands such a God does not exist and all you

[65:06]atheists join me please because I'm with you because such a God

[65:13]does not exist it's a lie a god who's just Universal caring

[65:16]loving merciful is the god that I want to worship and now

[65:21]I've never found a religion that has the en level core of

[65:26]Justice like Islam the Quran is very fundamentally clear on this principle

[65:35]and I love it Muhammad Muhammad now look at look at a

[65:43]practical Justice I mentioned I will speak about this briefly and then

[65:45]given the time that I have I also want to touch on

[65:47]slavery you were asking about how did Islam deal with slavery that's

[65:53]a Justice thing it's a very important thing slavery is a big

[65:56]problem we still have slavery in the world today by the way

[65:59]but we have a different kind of slavery this verse Allah the

[66:06]ninth chapter the ninth verse of the 49th chapter Allah says look

[66:31]at the Elegance of the verse if you understand Arabic wow it's

[66:37]just striking the most elegant words and it is setting the foundation

[66:40]of True Justice on Earth and I can guarantee you with all

[66:47]due respect you won't find such sentences in any place on earth

[66:51]like the Quran Allah says if two parties of Believers fight Coral

[66:58]make peace between them look Islam what is Islam peace it's religion

[67:03]of Peace make peace between them but if one of them acts

[67:07]wrongly wrongfully towards the other meaning they're insisting on creating trouble then

[67:13]Allah says fight them back the one who's wrong until they return

[67:18]to God's command see so Allah doesn't say turn the other cheek

[67:24]when somebody's doing bad no turn the the other cheek is personal

[67:27]when somebody says something bad where you can forgive turn the other

[67:30]cheek but when there's a breach of Justice where somebody has harmed

[67:36]you oh no there's a interesting story there was a man who

[67:40]slapped a man in public when Imam Ali alisam was the Khalifa

[67:45]of the time and Imam Ali was called they said this man

[67:48]slapped this man in public so the Imam looked at the man

[67:53]who was slapped and said it would be good for you if

[67:55]you forgave this man so the man says Amir I love you

[68:01]I forgive him so Imam Ali turns around and looks at the

[68:04]man who slapped and Imam slaps him he was stunned he said

[68:11]what I did is I'm the Hakim asari you did this in

[68:17]public I will teach you a lesson don't ever do this in

[68:19]public for he has forgiven you personally but you've done a social

[68:23]breach of justice and I will not allow this violation therefore as

[68:29]the judge as the Khalifa of the time the Justice demands that

[68:33]you be given your due process that you slapped I will slap

[68:38]you and don't ever do it again now that's Justice Imam Ali's

[68:42]Shield was taken he's the Khalifa of the time he calls the

[68:48]man he was a Christian man he says to him come to

[68:50]court that Shield you have is mine you took it on the

[68:55]battlefield and it belongs to to me and the Christian said no

[68:57]it's mine now I want you to make bear in mind IM

[69:01]Ali is the Khalifa is the master of the community he can

[69:05]execute anybody but look at the leaders of God the leaders of

[69:11]God are not like these common leaders today who are in power

[69:14]and they execute people they're just they hold back they're forgiving they're

[69:19]caring why because that's Islam it's loving so as he comes to

[69:27]court the judge calls him Abu you know calls him with an

[69:29]appellation that's with honor and dignity Imam looks at the judge he

[69:35]says you have violated Justice the judge says why Amir why he

[69:39]said you've given me more honor than the defendant I'm the plaintiff

[69:42]you have given him more honor than me you have already violated

[69:46]Justice how dare you do that and the judge recanted then the

[69:52]judge asked Imam Ali who are you Witnesses he says my son

[69:54]Hassan and Hussein so the judge says where are they he says

[70:00]they're not in town he says well and then in that case

[70:03]you lose the case my respected Judge David says ditto ditto I

[70:11]get it right you get that every day Subhan Allah now what

[70:16]does Imam Ali do he knew he needed a witness but he

[70:19]wanted to make a clear point he could have brought Imam Hassan

[70:23]and made a case out of it and the Christian Man looked

[70:25]looks at Imam Ali he says this man is the leader of

[70:30]this umah a man who's been chosen I mean obviously the Christian

[70:33]Man may not accept it but he's chosen by Allah he's he's

[70:41]the and he says to the judge I accept as they walk

[70:47]outside the Christian man goes to IM Ali Alam and says this

[70:53]Shield is yours Imam says why he says I was watching you

[70:56]to see what kind of Justice do you practice as a leader

[71:00]for I am so impressed that you as the leader of Islam

[71:03]are of this level of Justice I have never perceived it he

[71:09]said not only do I give you my shield back but I'm

[71:10]doing my shahada and I'm becoming a Believer and following you look

[71:17]in one stroke Imam Ali's Justice the balance by which he brings

[71:23]forth a clear argument right Allah [Music] says wow I I'm telling

[71:40]you when you understand what the verse is saying maintain Justice even

[71:46]if it goes against you do it it is closer to piety

[71:52]this is the command in the Quran we can't go around pointing

[71:55]fingers poking at fing at people fabricating lies in order to win

[72:00]a case or to bribe the judge or to figure out a

[72:04]way in which the jury will lean towards me Allah says play

[72:08]your games if you want but if you're not a man of

[72:10]Justice I will bring Justice to you on Judgment Day because Allah

[72:17]says you will see it whether you like it or not that

[72:21]Justice is within the fabric of our belief system brothers and sisters

[72:25]but please please please let's practice it before we die for our

[72:32]leaders who we look up to that we've been blessed to have

[72:38]the best leaders in the world we the followers of a b

[72:45]Bar None have the best leaders on Earth and one of the

[72:47]conditions I said when I was looking for religion besides the universality

[72:50]of God's justice is that we have to have the best role

[72:57]models otherwise that religion is false if God chooses an ex murderer

[73:01]a thief a liar and call him born again I when I

[73:07]debated Christians I say to them Paul who was a Roman Jew

[73:11]killed Christians and he's a saint in your religion how did he

[73:15]become a saint well he was born again God is very merciful

[73:20]I said I'd like to put that in practice and the pastor

[73:22]looks at me he says what I said you have an ex

[73:26]pedophile who's born again and you have to go on a quick

[73:32]vacation just for a weekend and I'd like you to leave your

[73:38]child with this Born Again ex pedophile but it's born again forgiven

[73:45]God is loving you know how it is right and he looks

[73:51]at me I said you're doubting I looked at the audience said

[73:53]who among you among here here who see Paul as a saint

[73:58]and I'm giving you this analogy how many of you would place

[74:04]your child for 1 hour with an ex pedophile and nobody raised

[74:06]their hand I said please raise your hand I said God will

[74:08]take the whole religion and put it on an ex murder and

[74:12]you will now plaster it with a Band-Aid and say he's born

[74:18]again and God is forgiving are you kidding me it doesn't work

[74:21]that way never if a man cheated you when you were young

[74:26]and then 20 years later he comes he says let's go into

[74:28]partnership let's go into business together you will say well 20 years

[74:34]the guy's been asking for forgiveness never you will never do it

[74:38]when there's a violation of moral principles you'll find it's very very

[74:43]difficult if not impossible to take the move forward but that's the

[74:47]principle in Islam that our leaders are so handpicked and chosen by

[74:50]Allah that we have a security by God that when our leader

[74:56]chosen by Allah tells me to do something it's guaranteed right if

[75:00]they told us to do it because God has protected them Allah

[75:11]says we know what is in front of them and behind them

[75:16]and they cannot Avail themselves of any knowledge without my permission so

[75:21]Muhammad Muhammad I'm running out of time so forgive me here when

[75:29]Allah says that when two groups of Believers fight make peace if

[75:32]one rejects you know fight them till you bring back well guess

[75:36]what this verse is very powerful it gives us the ruling in

[75:42]Islam that within the umah somebody's creating trouble don't hide while he's

[75:46]a Muslim leave him alone let him create trouble even if he

[75:49]kills us you know it's okay we'll turn the other cheek no

[75:53]Quran says stand up now what happened in history that was really

[75:57]really amazing that Imam Ali expresses this is when im IM aliam

[76:00]became the khif after the third Imam as you know was always

[76:08]the Khalifa from way before the first God had already chosen him

[76:11]but from a political stand there were others who tried to take

[76:14]the seat when he becomes the Khalifa de facto chosen by people

[76:17]and by the way the only Khalifa among the Rashid that was

[76:22]chosen by the people nobody else was chosen by the people he

[76:26]when Aisha the wife of the Prophet heard she was in meccah

[76:33]she screamed she said May the sky fall on my head if

[76:36]that man has become the Khalifa I can't stand it she decides

[76:41]to en an army and she puts a big army in Bas

[76:46]and starts creating trouble Imam is the Khalifa and says to AA

[76:50]back off don't do this and the prophet told his wives he

[76:52]said I forbid any of you from riding my camel you wonder

[76:56]why the prophet would forbid his wives from a last will to

[76:59]tell them riding a camel like what rule is this because the

[77:04]prophet said there will be one of you who will ride it

[77:07]and not only this but when you're going towards riding that there

[77:10]will be dogs barking and I warn you and T and Zu

[77:14]were present they heard the prophet say that and it so happened

[77:17]when she was riding towards Basra they saw the dogs and they

[77:20]said oh my God the prophet told us this anyway long story

[77:25]short the battle is starting IM aliam says to AA the wife

[77:30]of the Prophet who is she now I want to make a

[77:31]quick Point here who's people say that she's the mother of the

[77:36]Believers mother of the Believers yeah she is and you better respect

[77:39]her okay respect her but when they create trouble you've got to

[77:48]fight it there is no privilege in violation Allah in the Quran

[77:52]says oh messenger you if you make one mistake I will grab

[77:58]you and cut your jugular it's in the Quran notice the balance

[78:02]of God's system there is no Wasa there is no special treatment

[78:05]there is no nepotism because Allah says my religion is it's the

[78:12]religion of Truth not biased in One Direction or another because the

[78:16]minut you become biased you have all the social problems we talked

[78:18]about so Imam says to her stop don't do this she said

[78:24]no and she got them all energized and she put herself in

[78:28]a cage on a camel and she was directing a battle on

[78:31]the camel in the annals of history in Islam No Prophet ever

[78:38]had a woman leading a battle everybody knows this but the Muslim

[78:42]Umma says but she's the mother of the Believers I said there

[78:45]were many mothers of Believers what are their names most of them

[78:50]don't know who they are I said but they your mother mother

[78:52]you know the prophet had many wives I said what are their

[78:56]names ask any Muslim Community other than a scholar who studied that

[79:00]history they won't know all the names of the wise of the

[79:04]Prophet I said but they're all the wives are your mothers Quran

[79:08]states that the prophet is greater right over the Believers and the

[79:16]wives are your mothers you don't do you know their names Khadijah

[79:20]was we'll talk about khadam as you know she was marted I

[79:25]won't I won't be lecturing on that because it comes on the

[79:30]9th and then the thir you know you have the later days

[79:32]of the battle of bad lots of things to talk about inshah

[79:37]other speakers will talk about it but she was also the wife

[79:39]but quick Point here I want to make it then I'm sorry

[79:42]if I don't touch on slavery I'll touch it tomorrow forgive me

[79:45]this is very important for me you find that Imam Ali alisam

[79:48]he trying to convince her she says no no no no no

[79:54]and by the way why are the wives call mothers anybody know

[79:57]it's not because they are really are mothers it's they're forbidden to

[80:03]be married once they marry the prophet like our mothers you can

[80:08]never marry your mother forever Haram so Allah uses that analogy that

[80:11]the wives of the Prophet are like your mothers and they are

[80:14]forbidden to ever remarry if once they marry the prophet they live

[80:21]if the prophet divorces them or the prophet dies they canot never

[80:26]marry again for they're forbidden to marry anybody that's the condition of

[80:31]marrying the prophet of Allah so and Quran mentions that in that

[80:34]same Surah in Allah mentions clearly that the mother your mother has

[80:38]a greater right on the womb but these women don't have a

[80:43]right in your inheritance if if the wives of the Prophet are

[80:45]our mothers then we need to give them some inheritance when we

[80:47]die notice none of that happens so there's a breach of Justice

[80:54]here but IM is facing that and look how he addresses it

[80:57]he said the battle started and there was showering of arrows coming

[81:04]on the army of Imam Ali in Bas and the soldiers and

[81:06]the commanders are next to IM Ali sayir they have started this

[81:11]battle and they're attacking us Imam is trying to negotiate with her

[81:14]stop stop why make peace Imam is following this one verse peace

[81:24]peace peace don't do this please walk away whatever it is I'll

[81:28]forgive you nothing nothing nope she said I'm going to do this

[81:34]now look at the balance of IM Ali Alam honestly in the

[81:36]annals of history when I studi this you won't find anybody like

[81:38]this sorry if I'm taking a little extra time today but I

[81:42]know it's a weak day forgive me but please it's very important

[81:44]for me to make this point the battle starts the the sky

[81:52]is black because of arrows the soldiers are looking Imam says give

[81:56]them one more minute maybe she will change her mind my God

[82:01]which leader in the world will do that then Imam Ali Alam

[82:07]says to Muhammad bin hanf he says take the flag and go

[82:09]forward Muhammad bfia was the son of IM Ali looks and his

[82:14]father the sky is black with arrows he says he hesitated for

[82:19]a split second he said I felt a breeze and I found

[82:23]my father on the front lines for Imam looked at him says

[82:25]you doubt by leaves him alone and he runs he said I

[82:31]see my father with the fly the level of in the annals

[82:39]of History you won't find people like this then Imam as he's

[82:44]fighting the battle he notices Aisha is commanding and people are dying

[82:51]soldiers are dying 20,000 soldiers were killed in that battle 20,000 you

[82:55]know with swords to kill 20,000 is a lot with a bomb

[82:59]you can kill thousands but with swords it takes a lot of

[83:02]work you should have seen how much Carnage was taking place Imam

[83:08]wanted to stop it he says to one of his main s

[83:11]uh Commander soldiers he says go cut the legs of that Camel

[83:13]the one she's sitting on he goes and cuts the legs of

[83:18]the camel and the camel Falls and the battle stops look how

[83:20]Imam saved the day not by hurting her not by attacking her

[83:26]not by attacking the Believers he said I must minimize this damage

[83:30]the camel is the Troublemaker he cuts the legs of the camel

[83:33]the battle stops Aisha is now is in the in her tent

[83:38]Imam says return to your home in Madina because why it's in

[83:40]the Quran verse 33 of Surah 33 Allah says remain in your

[83:48]houses oh wives of the Prophet do not leave your houses Imam

[83:51]wants to bring her back to the justice and what I'm saying

[83:55]saying by the way is unanimous history everybody believes in it she

[83:59]refuses she says I won't go and who does he send first

[84:02]Muhammad bin Abu Bakr who's Muhammad bin Abu Bakr the son of

[84:08]Abu Bakr Imam Ali Alam loved him he took him like his

[84:13]own son and Imam says you are Maham go talk to your

[84:15]sister so Muhammad bin Abu Bakr goes to his sister and says

[84:19]a pack up go back to Madina by the command of God

[84:22]she says I won't that man has defeated me I'm not going

[84:25]to go Imam Hassan shows up she belittles him you know she

[84:30]used to put on hijab when she saw Imam Hassan though she's

[84:33]Maham to him Imam Hassan says something and I end with this

[84:39]he said Aisha if you don't listen to my father my father

[84:46]will be forced to do something you won't like and then Imam

[84:50]Hassan leaves within seconds she jumps puts on her clothes packs up

[84:54]and the Caravan is leaving so the women of Aisha said what

[84:59]moved you so fast she said that man has the power to

[85:02]divorce me what how well this Allah says whoa these two wives

[85:31]who are rejecting the prophet Allah says in 66th chapter you don't

[85:35]the prophet might will divorce you but Allah addresses even the so

[85:42]the prophet looks at IM aliam says you are my brother you

[85:44]are I authorize you to divorce me anytime and she was a

[85:50]witness of that she knew that if im Ali pronounced a divorce

[85:53]she's finished so she jumped but look at the power when Allah

[85:58]says God loves the peacemakers this is how Imam Ali addressed it

[86:05]she went back to Madina remained until her death did the Imam

[86:09]taunt her did the Imam strike her did the Imam curse her

[86:16]no let's face the facts where it is and put our faith

[86:18]where it belongs may Allah give us the inshallah that as we

[86:24]speak this I end by saying and I want you all to

[86:29]go home knowing we are so blessed with such a beautiful religion

[86:32]that is so just that when you analyze it in the annals

[86:38]of History you will never find this level of Justice being practice

[86:42]may Allah give us the to every one of us to practice

[86:44]Justice [Music] I will also talk about yakin tomorrow inshallah my final

[87:16]night

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