Our Soul on the Goal to Perfection - Muharram Night 5

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[0:10]Hussein mother.

[0:30]No, alhamdulillah.

[1:11]Mustham.

[1:30]Alhamdulillah.

[1:39]Alhamdulillah.

[1:58]I'm for a second salawat in honor of our holy prophets and

[2:38]his blessed progeny.

[2:45]And the third, with your loudest of voices, in honor of the

[2:51]hastening of the appearance of the Imam of our time, Dear brothers

[3:03]and sisters, there is no other school other than the school of

[3:12]Islam that promotes this idea of insan having a very high noble

[3:21]and value.

[3:20]The extent that Islam explains about the value of insan will truly

[3:27]make us understand what our capacity is.

[3:28]Can I please ask everyone to just come forward?

[3:30]I think we'll have other people to join us with your recitation

[3:34]of a salawat.

[3:41]For in the view of Islam, man has the highest of per

[3:48]positions.

[3:49]He has that opportunity, that capacity to reach the highest of highs,

[3:55]to reach that closeness to perfection as possible.

[3:57]We as insan once we truly understand the value of our position

[4:04]in the eyes of Allah and to what extent that we can

[4:06]truly reach we should try our hardest to reach that point.

[4:11]I know in the past few days we've understood our identity and

[4:15]soul and what makes us that identity but tonight I want to

[4:19]take that opportunity to delve a bit deeper in our understanding of

[4:23]perfection.

[4:24]We said the goal of man is to be happy.

[4:29]He finds that happiness through perfection.

[4:31]That perfection is with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[4:33]So at the end of the day, whatever action he does, it's

[4:38]what every single action I do, it should be the sake of

[4:44]Allah.

[4:45]I want to make sure that with I my actions I can

[4:49]reach Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[4:50]But tonight we want to look a bit deeper.

[4:52]We want to understand with every action what do these actions mean?

[4:57]What's the significance of these actions?

[4:59]And how am I supposed to be able to reach?

[5:03]How am I supposed to be able to reach perfection?

[5:05]And that can be only done when we try to reach our

[5:10]highest of potentials.

[5:10]That can only be done through.

[5:15]What is to understand ourselves to have self knowledge when I truly

[5:25]understand my when I truly understand my soul and I understand that

[5:29]I'm made up of two or three different sides mind body and

[5:34]soul when I'm able to incorporate all three elements and understand what

[5:38]my soul is I can only then reach that level of true

[5:44]spiritual perfection that I want to reach.

[5:45]And many of us we unfortunately don't.

[5:48]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says in a verse in verse 19 he

[5:55]says do not be like those who have forgotten Allah.

[6:07]Those who have forgotten Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[6:12]It is as if what they forgotten themselves.

[6:16]When we forget Allah, when we forget that spiritual element, that goal

[6:21]towards Allah, Allah says you are going to forget yourself.

[6:25]You're going to get to a point where you won't realize who

[6:28]you are.

[6:32]It's quite straightforward.

[6:35]Allah says, "Those who forget Allah, they forget themselves." So we need

[6:39]to make sure we don't forget ourselves.

[6:41]How do we not forget ourselves?

[6:46]Ali says in a very famous narration, he who knows himself knows

[6:56]his lord.

[6:55]It's a very simple line.

[6:59]He who knows himself knows his lord and he who forgets his

[7:03]lord forgets himself.

[7:04]So when we say self-nowledge.

[7:10]Do we mean for example that I have to know that I

[7:15]was born on this day and my father is this and my

[7:20]mother is this?

[7:18]Is that it?

[7:20]No.

[7:20]When we talk about it means to understand the h of your

[7:25]soul upon yourself.

[7:27]It means to understand what that soul is that journey to Allah

[7:31]what it is and to understand the true reality of being.

[7:34]When you understand the reality of being and that reality of the

[7:39]universe, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes you truly remember yourself.

[7:43]And when when that happens, no one can ever hurt you.

[7:48]The Quran says in verse 105, "Oh you who believe, for you

[7:58]is yourself.

[8:01]It will not harm you if someone chooses to deviate as long

[8:06]as you are rightly guided.

[8:07]Like we said, today we live in a society where everyone is

[8:14]trying to deviate you.

[8:15]They're trying to bring you towards a different path, right?

[8:19]Everyone is trying to take you towards their own version of H.

[8:23]When you realize what that hap is, Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells

[8:28]you It's not possible for anyone to deviate you once you've been

[8:35]guided once you reach a level of guidance.

[8:38]It's not possible for you to get lost.

[8:40]So we need to make sure we understand ourselves.

[8:44]We need to make sure that we understand Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[8:47]at the same time.

[8:47]Inshallah we can do that with the recital of your salawat.

[8:59]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says in verse 53, we will show them

[9:14]our signs in the universe and within themselves until it became it

[9:18]becomes clear to them what hap is.

[9:22]We will show our signs in the universe and we will show

[9:28]show our signs within themselves and only then will they understand.

[9:33]And in another verse it's the exact same.

[9:35]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says in a different verse that Allah subhanahu

[9:41]wa ta'ala will guide you through yourself.

[9:47]At this moment I have this verse but Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[9:53]says in other verses as well that there's two ways to understand

[9:57]him.

[9:58]There's two ways to understand h through the universe and through yourself.

[10:03]So Allah subhana wa ta'ala is telling us that there's two simple

[10:11]ways that I can guide you and one of those is what

[10:17]our fra Allah subhana wa ta'ala gives us fra what's fra it's

[10:22]our innate disposition our innate nature to seek Allah when insan doesn't

[10:28]even know anything from the beginning of time when you look at

[10:33]different civilizations They've tried to connect themselves to a higher power.

[10:37]They've tried to find a higher power.

[10:40]Whatever it may be, we can see that every single instance of

[10:48]humans living without connecting to each other, they realize that there is

[10:51]a higher power that must have created them.

[10:54]So, it's because of that higher power that has created them.

[10:57]They're looking towards it.

[10:59]It's only we're naturally inclined to do so.

[11:03]And second he says our signs are in the universe.

[11:06]For example, one of the things that we believe in is the

[11:11]anthropic principle or that we for example live in a goldilock zone.

[11:14]In science there is a belief that if the earth after the

[11:22]big bang for example was to be either too hot or too

[11:24]cold then life would have been impossible to exist.

[11:28]just a few temperatures colder or a few temperatures hotter, nothing would

[11:36]come to exist.

[11:36]We would not have existence within itself.

[11:39]When some people view that the big bang, for example, must have

[11:47]been an accident.

[11:47]How can an accident create order?

[11:52]It's only through the order of a being that we can create

[11:55]that order, which is that anthropic principle.

[11:57]It's because that we live in a Goldilock zone, an area that

[12:01]the earth can exist without being too hot or too cold that

[12:07]we're able to live in a manner that we can be able

[12:12]to do of Allah.

[12:12]Allah says our signs are in the universe and the signs are

[12:17]within yourself.

[12:18]One of the most important things that we're often told to is

[12:21]just look around you.

[12:22]Look at the creation of Allah.

[12:25]Look at what Allah subhana wa ta'ala the earth that he's made

[12:27]to just view the art of the artist makes you understand the

[12:31]beauty and the design of that artist.

[12:37]So it's these two two ways withinelves and within the universe that

[12:41]I can understand Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[12:43]One of those verses that's the other verse that I was referring

[12:51]to.

[12:52]There are countless signs on the earth for those who have faith

[12:55]and there are within yourselves.

[12:59]Allah subhana wa ta'ala is questioning and do you not see it?

[13:04]Do you not see within yourselves that fra that exists that calls

[13:08]you towards Allah subhana wa ta'ala?

[13:09]It does.

[13:11]We are always inclined towards the existence of a god.

[13:15]So it's because of that that we need to make sure that

[13:20]we try to look towards this god and look inwards to understand

[13:23]how I can reach towards it and it's only through our souls.

[13:28]Many of us for example we work on our bodies we look

[13:33]we work on one aspect we look at our mind only for

[13:35]example we look at our body only and we leave that soul

[13:39]right Allah subhana wa ta'ala says just as the sim similar ways

[13:41]that you work on your body you have to work on your

[13:46]soul in the same way when you work on your body you

[13:47]go to the gym for any reason you have to go to

[13:50]the gym right you stop for example someone stops going to the

[13:55]gym for a month what's their body going to get it's going

[13:58]to get weaker after a while they won't get as strong right

[14:02]for example I know a lot of us during co a lot

[14:07]of us a lot of us play football you didn't get a

[14:08]chance to go to the field you came back after a year

[14:12]to actually play football with friends you realize you're not you you

[14:15]forgot a lot of things right you have to practice again it's

[14:19]that what we say practice makes perfect it's because you need to

[14:23]have that working regiment for your soul that you build it that

[14:27]you use that soul as a way to connect to Allah subhana

[14:31]wa ta'ala.

[14:32]So it's our soul that searches towards it.

[14:33]Imam he says in one of the narrations I wonder about this

[14:38]person he urgently searches for sometimes when he loses something but he's

[14:43]lost his soul but he's not searching for it.

[14:47]There are some who for example don't even search for it.

[14:49]They don't understand the soul.

[14:50]They've neglected the soul to a point where it's become dark.

[14:55]It hasn't they don't refer to it at all.

[14:58]It's only their body and you can see that you can see

[15:02]that in certain people's character in the way they act that sometimes

[15:06]you feel that there's not someone who is working on themselves.

[15:11]Inshallah all of us can try to work towards our souls.

[15:14]We can always use our regiment with which Allah subhana wa ta

[15:17]has given us.

[15:19]Allah has given us salah.

[15:19]He's given us the different parts of to build ourselves.

[15:24]Inshallah, we can build ourselves with this recital of a salawat.

[15:33]>> Can you see if there's a tissue like should be in

[15:39]the back somewhere?

[15:42]Insan's highest position is what?

[15:46]We said Insan has the highest of capacities.

[15:48]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says what?

[15:50]is verse 70.

[15:56]And certainly we have honored we have made him the highest of

[16:02]positions.

[16:03]It is as a result of ensan's capacity that we've honored him

[16:11]and we have taken him through lands and through the seas and

[16:19]we have given him risk from or from the goodness and then

[16:28]we have privileged them far above other creatures.

[16:32]What is this privilege that insan has our our ability to have

[16:43]intelligence?

[16:40]our ability to be able to understand.

[16:45]Allahhana hasn't given it to any other animals, right?

[16:50]He's given it to insan.

[16:52]What does he say ine?

[17:00]He has succeeded.

[17:03]Who purifies it?

[17:06]He who purifies his soul, he's successful.

[17:10]But what does he say?

[17:13]And he who has failed, he's corrupted his soul.

[17:17]So we need to make sure we purify that soul.

[17:20]And Allah subhana wa ta'ala is always giving you opportunities.

[17:23]In every single moment, Allah is telling you come towards me.

[17:27]It's like for example when there is a rain a lot of

[17:32]the time when it rains and someone they want water, right?

[17:37]They're very thirsty.

[17:36]Allah subhana wa ta'ala is always bringing that rain down onto you.

[17:40]But it's not the fact of how much rain you're going to

[17:44]receive.

[17:44]It's how much of your cup that you can hold.

[17:47]It's upon yourself to take which Allah subhana wa ta has given

[17:50]you.

[17:51]Allah gives us many opportunities to connect to him.

[17:56]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says we've g we've given the sons of

[18:03]Adam a high position an honorable position but now he says onto

[18:07]you how much can you go to your capacity how much can

[18:12]you reach that level of spirituality that Allah subhana wa ta'ala has

[18:15]left for you we always need to like we said work on

[18:20]ourselves to try to to try to strive towards that perfection and

[18:24]there's various degrees of perfection >> if we look at Allah subhana

[18:29]t as the ultimate perfection everything else not just insan is trying

[18:34]to reach towards it no there are degrees of perfection let's say

[18:39]a tree for example there are many trees around us there are

[18:43]certain trees that are not as strong they don't for example they

[18:46]haven't received as much water so you can't really use them as

[18:51]shade right they haven't reached that level of perfection that a tree

[18:55]should.

[18:55]On the contrary, sometimes we'll see certain trees, they can give us

[19:00]shape and they for example grow very healthy and they bear fruits.

[19:04]That tree for example at the same time has reached its level

[19:09]of perfection, a higher level of perfection towards that other tree.

[19:12]So all of us exist on different planes on different levels and

[19:16]degrees of perfection.

[19:19]And when we try to get ourselves closer to Allah, it's through

[19:21]that way that we can reach a higher degree to bring ourselves

[19:24]closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be able to connect with

[19:32]him.

[19:33]What does what do we say in one of the surah by

[19:50]the tea by the fig we have created in sand in the

[19:57]best of forms.

[20:04]It's because you didn't realize your potential.

[20:07]It's because you didn't try to seek perfection.

[20:12]It's because you've corrupted your soul.

[20:14]You've gone to the lowest of lows.

[20:17]Allah subhana wa ta'ala had a big plan for you.

[20:21]He wanted you to reach the best of creations.

[20:24]Sometimes it's because of our lack of attention to our spiritual side

[20:28]that we are to the lowest of those in that hellfire.

[20:33]We go to the lowest of those.

[20:36]That's what we need to pay attention to.

[20:38]Allah subhana wa ta'ala wants us to reach a high potential.

[20:43]Allah has given you that opportunity to reach that potential.

[20:45]But if not, that's what we get.

[20:48]What do we sometimes when we pray when we pray salah?

[20:53]One of the verses we'll recite often just because it's short.

[20:56]We want to recite it.

[21:00]It's shorter.

[21:03]By the time indeed mankind is in loss, it's quite straightforward.

[21:11]Allah saying that is going to always lose.

[21:15]Mankind are losers.

[21:19]But except except for if you do what you believe and because

[21:35]of that belief you do good.

[21:37]You believe you do good.

[21:41]You follow h and you have sabah.

[21:44]When you go towards h when you go towards sabah it's only

[21:49]then that you do not lose.

[21:52]We have that opportunity my dear brothers and sisters to reach the

[21:56]highest levels.

[21:58]We are the ones who have been dignified.

[22:00]So why should we bring ourselves to a low level?

[22:04]Ensance created three different creations and he refers to them.

[22:09]He says, "We created angels." The angels have what?

[22:15]They have a connection to Allah, but they don't have naps.

[22:21]They don't have a need to do sins, right?

[22:21]They're forced to worship Allah.

[22:25]When then we have animals.

[22:28]The animals, they don't have and they have desires.

[22:32]They have enoughs.

[22:31]So the animals are going to be those who don't worship Allah

[22:37]and they'll walk on this earth and that's fine because they don't

[22:41]have an and then Allah subhana wa ta'ala has created insan insan

[22:45]is created with both what ands when you let your naps override

[22:51]your when you let your desires take a hold of you instead

[22:58]of your then you reach lower than those of the animals because

[23:01]the animal doesn't have right if he doesn't have he doesn't get

[23:05]punished for it but we who had but we didn't use it

[23:10]we get we get a position below those of animals and on

[23:15]the contrary when we for example use our and we also have

[23:19]naps and we let our take control it is our that brings

[23:27]us higher than the angels it's our position that becomes even higher

[23:30]and we get to a potential where we reach it and it's

[23:33]only through that that we can inshallah connect to Allah subhana wa

[23:38]ta'ala and connect to the holy prophet and his blessed promises is

[23:52]one of his hikmas one of his sayings He who regards himself

[24:05]with dignity, his desires become insignificant to him.

[24:08]When you view yourself as a creation of Allah, when you see

[24:14]yourself with the highest of capacity, you're not going to look towards

[24:21]this sin as if you want to do it.

[24:24]You realize that I who am in this high position, why would

[24:26]I fall into this sin?

[24:29]Only when you realize your dignity, when you realize your capacity, when

[24:35]you realize that my nef is meant, my soul is meant for

[24:37]a higher position, you won't waste your time doing, for example, other

[24:41]things that disgrace that nefs.

[24:43]And that's the way that we view our imams.

[24:46]Our imams have a true understanding of sins.

[24:51]When they, for example, see that there's a sin, they won't go

[24:55]towards it.

[24:56]Now, someone will ask a question, right?

[24:58]Some of you might have asked this, wait, but imams, they're not

[25:02]they they can't sin.

[25:06]They're so what about their judgment?

[25:07]How can we how do they have a if they, for example,

[25:09]are not allowed to sin?

[25:13]The imam was asked that one time, what did the imam do?

[25:17]He took the man's hand and he brought him outside to to

[25:21]a piece of garbage or so.

[25:24]He showed him that garbage and he said, "Would you put your

[25:26]hand in that garbage and eat it?" Is that disgusting?

[25:31]Why would I do that?

[25:31]The imam says, "The way you view that is the way that

[25:37]we view sins.

[25:37]Would you, for example, do something that is disgusting, dishonorable, embarrassing?" He

[25:45]says, "Us imams, we've come to that realization, that level of that

[25:51]level of understanding myself that when I go and I see something

[25:56]that for others it might look interesting, I see it as haram.

[25:59]I see it as something that is disgusting." And it's important to

[26:06]understand that when we say something is not good for us, for

[26:09]our souls, it's not always halal and haram.

[26:12]Some people think that halal and haram is the be all end

[26:17]all of what I can do and what I can't do.

[26:20]I want to bring this important note tonight.

[26:23]Our set of rules are not just halal and haram.

[26:25]That's pep that's Jewish prudence and that's the in the hands of

[26:32]amar what they decide humans for example insan are allowed to do.

[26:35]But there's a different set of rules for one who wants to

[26:39]seek perfection.

[26:38]And this is a level of that we need to understand.

[26:42]There are levels of perfection and rules that are in our our

[26:50]is very different.

[26:54]Sometimes something is halal.

[26:55]Something is allowed but it's not going to it's going to hurt

[26:57]your soul.

[26:59]For example, if I were to sit with friends and we were

[27:05]to waste our time, we were to talk about useless things, things

[27:09]that waste our time and we don't make use of the time

[27:13]that we have, what happens?

[27:15]It hurts our soul.

[27:18]We don't benefit from it.

[27:18]Is it haram?

[27:20]No.

[27:21]It's not haram to waste your time.

[27:24]But when Allah subhana wa ta'ala gives you time in terms of

[27:29]our we need to make sure we make use of it.

[27:30]That's what brings us to perfection.

[27:32]It's notal and haram we're talking about here.

[27:34]It is for example what will help my soul is it?

[27:42]Yes or no?

[27:44]Is that is it on us?

[27:49]No.

[27:50]Is it on you in terms of for it is on them

[27:54]in terms of because they want to reach a level of perfection.

[27:57]It's that they want to bring themselves to do it becomes recommended.

[28:04]They must do it.

[28:05]This is what we talk about when we set we bring a

[28:09]set of rules according to there are certain things that are allowed

[28:14]sometimes you can have bad thoughts right Allah says that you don't

[28:18]get sinned for thinking of doing something haram you don't get sinned

[28:24]for example for thinking or being jealous towards someone you see someone

[28:29]they have something nice and you become jealous of it Allah is

[28:32]not going to become to give you a sin because you got

[28:36]jealous jealous of him, right?

[28:37]It's not like you went and stashed his tires or something.

[28:38]You just saw it and as a result you have a feeling

[28:44]of jealousy in terms of that's a sin.

[28:48]It's not haram.

[28:47]It's just a thought.

[28:50]But when we talk about the rules of the rules of the

[28:53]souls, the rules of perfection, it'll make your heart a bit more

[29:00]dirty.

[29:01]In that way our hearts, our souls will not be as clean.

[29:06]We have to remove that jealousy from our hearts.

[29:09]We have to remove certain things from our hearts to bring ourselves

[29:12]closer.

[29:13]It's only through that that we're able to connect with Allah subhana

[29:18]wa tala.

[29:19]It's only through that that we can understand.

[29:27]>> Another for example is lying.

[29:30]Lying is haram.

[29:30]Right?

[29:30]your parents tell you lying is haram.

[29:33]But sometimes we're not saying that it's it's ever allowed.

[29:37]It's haram.

[29:38]But the way that it affects you in a sense of is

[29:45]different.

[29:42]When we look at our soul, when we ask kids, for example,

[29:48]when we ask kids, a lot of them they can't lie.

[29:51]If they lie, it hurts them, right?

[29:53]They can't hold a lie.

[29:56]Often times, if you try to tell them, they'll always tell you

[30:00]the truth.

[29:59]So when we look at them is much different.

[30:03]When you ask someone who's older, a lot of them lying is

[30:09]something normal to them.

[30:09]There are even people who lie just because for example you'll call

[30:13]someone and I heard this story.

[30:16]You call someone and people they just like to lie.

[30:18]You'll ask them where are you?

[30:23]He said he tells you I'm in the supermarket but he's at

[30:29]home.

[30:27]Just because he says I want to lie.

[30:34]That act of deceiving someone I enjoy it.

[30:35]Some people they will do that but it becomes to a point

[30:41]where it affects your soul.

[30:42]When you lie every time or so you become what we what

[30:46]did we say when you sin one of it is to for

[30:50]example continue to do so.

[30:52]It's worse than that sin itself.

[30:52]When you belittle that sin, when you make that sin common, it

[30:59]becomes normalized.

[31:00]Today we see that so many sins are belittled.

[31:04]They're normalized.

[31:06]You ask someone, "Brother, why are you doing this?

[31:11]Why are you doing this?" They'll tell you, "At least I'm not

[31:14]doing that bigger sin." Because we've normalized that sin, it affects our

[31:20]souls.

[31:21]It affects our hearts.

[31:21]we get to a point where that sin feels like nothing to

[31:26]us.

[31:27]So it's important that in our journey to perfection, in our journey

[31:31]to connecting with Allah subhana wa ta'ala that we understand those realities

[31:35]inshallah.

[31:35]And now I want to finish off with three these three important

[31:39]points before we move on to our messiah.

[31:41]When it comes to our souls, there are three levels that our

[31:44]artists have explained.

[31:47]Your soul is in three different levels.

[31:50]What is it?

[31:49]On the first level we have on the lowest of levels there

[31:59]is a naps that wants to do.

[32:01]This is the lowest.

[32:01]This is the one we say is lower than the it is

[32:06]one they're driven by their naps.

[32:08]They want to do evil.

[32:12]Their has gotten to the lowest of points.

[32:15]They allow their their animalistic self to take control.

[32:17]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says in one of the verses indeed the

[32:25]soul commands to evil except for whom Allah has mercy.

[32:30]So we can see that there is a threat of enough that's

[32:33]on the lowest of levels the seconds of level that we want

[32:43]to reach to or maybe we are at that is the this

[32:45]is the reproachfulness.

[32:48]This is an who realizes that he's done wrong as a result

[32:51]of our har.

[32:53]He wants to come back to Allah subhana wa tala.

[32:56]He feels a sense of guilt and he slowly tries to bring

[32:59]himself to a spiritual life and that start begins and I swear

[33:07]by the reproaching soul.

[33:10]So Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells you if you've done wrong to

[33:14]rebuke yourself to bring yourself to and on the highest of points

[33:19]we have what the tranquil soul at this point the soul is

[33:25]it's at peace it is the most noble of positions when we

[33:30]said that it's this soul the one who's reached that capacity that

[33:37]he is at peace with himself.

[33:39]He knows that Allah subhana wa tala is happy with his actions.

[33:44]He knows that he is always going to try to do good

[33:45]that his naps is not ever going to overtake him.

[33:56]Allahhana he says return to your lord pleased with him and Allah

[34:04]subhana wa ta'ala is pleased.

[34:06]So enter into my paradise.

[34:11]So our goal should always be to reach what when I want

[34:17]my nes to be in the highest of points.

[34:19]I should look inwards.

[34:22]So remember my dear brothers and sisters to end off here.

[34:24]When you're trying to do something don't always look at it as

[34:28]aal and haram thing.

[34:29]Is it halal?

[34:31]Okay it's halal.

[34:30]Sometimes we say is it mro?

[34:35]Okay it's still allowed.

[34:34]Let me do it.

[34:37]No, when we talk about certain things, our actions should always be

[34:41]in terms of if we want to reach that state that peak

[34:43]perfection, if we want to say as Allah subhana wa ta says

[34:48]to know your soul says so inshallah all of us will know

[34:53]ourselves and as a result of knowing ourselves we will know our

[34:58]lord and through that inshallah we'll reach that level of perfection and

[35:01]if you are as well inshallah recite the salawat Muhammad or Ali

[35:06]Muhammad Hussein.

[35:19]Tonight we reach our next one of the Ms.

[35:27]We reach a point where the companions of the prophet of sah

[35:33]the companions of Hussein have gone and they fought.

[35:38]Now comes to the family of Imam Hussein.

[35:41]And tonight we're going to remember and Muhammad in this malis.

[35:46]We will remember him.

[35:50]We remember both and Muhammad the sons of Zam.

[35:54]saying yeah.

[35:57]When these words echo from the walls of our malis, a lady

[36:03]in a black hijab, she joins us.

[36:05]Who is this?

[36:07]This is she watches us and she cries with us in these

[36:12]malas.

[36:13]When we recite, she cries for us.

[36:16]She cries for our for her son Hussein.

[36:18]She collects our tears.

[36:19]So inshallah let's try to make sure that we feel that in

[36:24]our hearts that it's not just us by ourselves in these when

[36:31]we recite that fat is there with us we can use this

[36:34]as a way of our shaf on the day of judgment hussein

[36:37]he's inbalah and he hardly has 72 men with him and some

[36:43]of them are not even grown adults some of IM Hussein's men

[36:47]those 72 are children And who are those children?

[36:51]They one of those two of those children are and Muhammad they're

[36:55]the sons of Zam.

[36:57]Imagine a 13 and 11 years old.

[37:01]If I can ask you kids to just give me their attention

[37:04]if not for the lecture, give the attention for the Hussein for

[37:11]this.

[37:10]When we discuss and Muhammad what are how old are they?

[37:15]Alman is only 13 years old and Muhammad is only 11 years

[37:20]old.

[37:21]So not too far from the age from yourselves.

[37:23]And first when we look at them they don't look like people

[37:29]who for example would fight right when we look at 11 and

[37:31]13 year olds today we we don't feel that they would be

[37:36]ready for fighting.

[37:38]But during that time tonight let's conffort ourselves.

[37:43]Let's let us confer those mothers of Kbella who were proud to

[37:48]sacrifice their children for Islam the mothers of the mothers of the

[37:56]mothers of the mother of and the mother of these mothers they

[38:04]were proud of their children.

[38:04]They loved their children of course they did but like any mother

[38:10]they still had a heart of a mother.

[38:13]They still love their children.

[38:13]Why then do these mothers of Kbalah let their children to fight

[38:17]on that day knowing that they'll be killed?

[38:21]Because they knew the of they knew that these sacrifices would help

[38:26]Islam.

[38:27]So these mothers of any mother knows how much that love is.

[38:31]They squash that motherly love to sacrifice their children for Islam.

[38:35]How can we our Husseinis we ever forget those mothers?

[38:40]Why shouldn't we cry and do ma for those mothers of and

[38:46]their children these mal they will never die it it always allows

[38:53]us to remember the yaz of today it's these malis that bring

[38:57]ourselves to remember these people and remember that anyone can be a

[39:04]Husini anyone can fight on their side and on that night on

[39:07]the night of muaram it came it was ashan night.

[39:10]It was a very tragic night.

[39:12]This is the night of the martyrs of Kabella.

[39:15]No one in the camp of Hussein they slept on that night.

[39:20]The men they slept, they spent the whole night praying.

[39:23]They recited dua and they recited the Quran.

[39:26]But those mothers of our hearts are with them because in these

[39:30]nights they preparing their children.

[39:32]They're preparing their children for tomorrow.

[39:35]For that next day is ash.

[39:37]What do these mothers tell them?

[39:38]To be careful?

[39:39]Do they to hide?

[39:41]To save their faces?

[39:42]No.

[39:42]They tell their children to sacrifice their lives for Hussein.

[39:46]They were telling them to fight.

[39:50]But don't they love their children?

[39:52]Of course they do.

[39:52]Like we said, they have those hearts of a mother.

[39:55]They're proud of their children and they love it.

[39:58]But they know that Hussein was on the right path that their

[40:01]sacrifice would save Islam because Allah subhana wa ta'ala would be pleased

[40:06]with him.

[40:07]Now let us listen to what the mothers of Kabella they were

[40:10]telling their children on the night of the son the mother of

[40:18]Ali Akbar what does she say to her son Ali my darling

[40:21]son Ali Akbar tomorrow is the day of the battle my son

[40:26]Ali Akbar remember your life is not more important than the life

[40:29]of your father your father's life you will be in danger tomorrow

[40:36]so don't hesitate to give your life to protect your father says

[40:39]to her baby.

[40:41]She's talking to her baby one who is just still drinking milk.

[40:48]She says, "My baby, I wish you were a young man.

[40:50]I would have sacrificed your life to save your father's life." She

[40:56]this the mother of Alim he says my son my darling if

[41:02]your father was alive today Hassan if he was alive he would

[41:06]have sacrificed his life first my darling don't embarrass me in front

[41:13]of your father on the day of judgment my son don't hesitate

[41:18]to sacrifice your life to protect your uncle's life Hussein's sister is

[41:24]sitting alone she's weeping.

[41:25]What does she say?

[41:27]Her brother, he hears her crying.

[41:31]He comes to her tent.

[41:32]Why are you crying?

[41:35]What's the matter?

[41:35]She says, Abbas, tomorrow is the day of sacrifice, but I have

[41:40]no child to sacrifice.

[41:42]My sister Kulum, don't cry.

[41:45]Abbas is still alive.

[41:46]Tomorrow, that sacrifice will be a gift on your behalf.

[41:51]I will sacrifice on your behalf.

[41:52]And then we go to She has and Muhammad.

[41:58]She says, "My sons and Muhammad, tomorrow is the day of battle.

[42:02]Your uncle Hussein's life will be in danger.

[42:06]My darlings, if anything happens to your uncle Hussein, while you are

[42:11]still alive, I will be filled with shade.

[42:13]my and Muhammad I will not be able to face your grandmother

[42:21]on that day of judgment so please don't let me down be

[42:26]those who are the first to sacrifice your lives and they spend

[42:29]that night of in prayer and then the day of arrives alkar

[42:35]he recites the faj ofan and they begin their faj prayer and

[42:42]the day it gets very hot and that army of 72 two

[42:44]they fight against that army of Yazid Hur goes onto that battlefield

[42:50]and he becomes Shahid and one by one Hussein's companions they are

[42:54]killed and since dawn say has been watching those bodies enter back

[42:59]into the tent she calls her sons and my sons what are

[43:06]you waiting for why are you not on the battlefield yet go

[43:10]and fight those enemies of Islam What do they say?

[43:16]Listen to this from Muhammad.

[43:16]Mother Ya, since dawn, we've been asking our our uncle Hussein.

[43:23]We want to fight.

[43:24]We're asking for permission to fight on your behalf, but he refuses

[43:31]us.

[43:32]Mother, help us.

[43:32]Give let to give his permission for us to enter that battlefield

[43:37]to fight on his behalf.

[43:38]So she calls Al Hussein to her tent.

[43:45]She says, "Yeah, Hussein, have I not been like a mother to

[43:49]you?

[43:49]Hussein, your mother, look at me as if you're I'm your mother.

[43:52]I'm begging you to let and let Muhammad they enter that battlefield

[43:58]for them to fight." Imam Hussein, he says, "What zi jihad is

[44:02]not waj on your children?

[44:03]How can I let my sister sons be killed while I'm still

[44:09]alive?

[44:10]No, Zab, I'm not going to allow it.

[44:12]And then she says, Hussein, my brother, if Ali Akbar dies before

[44:16]and Muhammad, how will I face our mother Fatima on the day

[44:21]of judgment?

[44:20]I'm going to be filled with shame.

[44:22]Please let my sons go.

[44:26]He sees that disappointment in her face.

[44:28]And his eyes are filled with tears and he puts his arms

[44:30]around Awan and Muhammad and he leads them to their horses.

[44:34]He kisses them one last time and he helps them out their

[44:36]horse.

[44:37]He says, "Go, go and show these beastly men that you have

[44:43]who?" The blood of Jaffel and you have the blood of Ali

[44:46]in your veins and they look at their mother and they say

[44:53]what?

[44:54]For the last time they say to their mother, she says, "My

[45:02]sons, I leave you to Allah subhana wa ta'ala." They go onto

[45:08]the battlefield and they fought bravely together.

[45:09]They're the grand they're the sons grandsons of Jaff and Ali.

[45:15]Why would they not?

[45:16]They push the enemies back.

[45:17]But the hundreds of Yazid's armies, they are too strong.

[45:21]Abbas and Hussein, they're watching these two brothers fight so fiercely despite

[45:25]they've been thirsty for three days.

[45:28]And Abbas, who has trained on Muhammad in this art, he's filled

[45:32]with pride.

[45:33]And during that time, Omar, Yazid's commander, he gets worried.

[45:36]So what does he say?

[45:37]He orders his soldiers to separate the two.

[45:40]He says that if they were by themselves, it would be easier

[45:43]to kill them.

[45:45]So then on both sides they're separated.

[45:47]A and Muhammad are separated from each other and they're surrounded by

[45:51]Yazid's armies.

[45:53]And the two brothers they were attacked by the horsemen running from

[45:58]each side and they were attacked by arrows by swords and by

[46:02]spears and by daggers by both sides.

[46:07]And how can two young children thirsty and hungry for three days

[46:11]take?

[46:11]As they fall they call out to their uncle.

[46:15]Yah uncle.

[46:13]Yah Hussein, come quickly.

[46:17]Come and help us.

[46:20]Yah.

[46:21]Hussein and Abas.

[46:20]They rush to the battlefield.

[46:24]There's children there.

[46:25]We They're severely wounded.

[46:26]And they take their last breath.

[46:28]They say, "Uncle, give my salams to my mother.

[46:36]Uncle, please tell my mother that we did just as she had

[46:41]told us.

[46:42]We did not go towards the river and drink any water.

[46:45]We fought thirsty on this plains of Kabala.

[46:48]Imm Hussein and Abbas they carry those two young bodies as they

[46:55]give their last breath.

[46:56]And Ali Akbar he cries and Muhammad they've been killed.

[47:00]And Zab she hears this cry.

[47:03]Imagine a mother in that moment hears that in that moment that

[47:06]her sons have have died on that battlefield.

[47:09]She does not cry.

[47:12]She lays her mah in front of her and she performs a

[47:14]sag and she says what?

[47:19]Ya Allah, I have given my sacrifice.

[47:20]Please accept my sacrifice and Muhammad.

[47:24]Ya Allah, I ask you to be proud of my two sons

[47:28]who have given their lives for Islam.

[47:31]A and Muhammad as their bodies they lay on that floor and

[47:36]the ladies they gather around it.

[47:37]They cry and they do not for them in that moment.

[47:48]They're crying around her.

[47:51]But Zena does not cry for she sees that she does not

[47:53]want her brother Hussein and Abbas for they're still standing.

[47:57]And it's she still tries to keep a strong face because she

[48:01]knows that there are others who are looking towards her as her

[48:08]two sons they lay on that field of Ya Allah, we ask

[48:33]you.

[48:31]Let's recite ya Allah 10 times as we call him.

[48:36]Ya Allah.

[48:38]Ya Allah.

[48:41]Ya Allah.

[48:37]Ya Allah.

[48:39]Ya Allah.

[48:40]Ya Allah.

[48:42]Ya Allah.

[48:44]Ya Allah, we ask you to allow us to use these nights

[48:50]to bring ourselves closer to you.

[48:52]Ya Allah, we ask you to make us as near to the

[48:56]Imam of our time and make us one of his loyal companions.

[49:00]Ya Allah, we ask you to accept these malis and accept these

[49:02]tears and let these tears be our shaf on that day of

[49:07]judgment.

[49:08]Ya Allah, we ask you, we've sinned.

[49:10]We've become short many times.

[49:11]We've had many shortcomings.

[49:12]Ya Allah, we ask you to forgive our sins.

[49:15]Ya Allah, we ask you to make this ash an eternal revolutions

[49:19]within our souls.

[49:21]Ya Allah, we ask you to make our lives the lives of

[49:26]and the deaths of the deaths of Ya Allah, we ask you

[49:28]those who are sick.

[49:31]Tonight, let's recite for those who are sick.

[49:35]They've asked us to ask for dua.

[49:38]Let's recite five times in their honor.

[50:13]Yo, all you who hears our dua and answers it, those who

[50:18]are sick, ya Allah, we ask you to heal Ya Allah, we

[50:22]ask you.

[50:23]There are many Muslim men today who are standing up to the

[50:26]oppression.

[50:27]We have those in Afghanistan, those in Iran, those in Shanad in

[50:31]Pakistan.

[50:32]We have those I I've noticed recently there was a story outside

[50:38]of Zam in Surya.

[50:40]They're not even allowing them.

[50:41]Those people who are in charge of surya those sons of they

[50:48]these people they don't even allow them to enter the to mourn

[50:52]in these times ya Allah these people are the ya Allah those

[50:57]in those who are struggling in right now we ask you ya

[51:00]Allah to help them in these affairs ya Allah keep us away

[51:05]from the and bring us towards the ya Allah we ask you

[51:07]for the bah of on the day of judgment and ya Allah

[51:11]We ask you to haste in the appearance of the imam of

[51:13]our time with this recital of foreign.

[52:04]Allah Hello.

[52:35]If anyone would like to come up and voa, you're free to

[52:40]come up.

[52:41]Thank you.

[52:41]>> Yeah, you can do it.

[52:43]>> I have no data left.

[52:46]>> I've used the play block bus.

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