Proactivity and Personal Responsibility: Defining Ashura - Sayed Mahdi AlQazwini - Night 9 -

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[0:00]him hamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa sallahu wa salam o allah al anbiya

[0:09]even more saline habib allah al al-amin Abell Cozumel Mustafa Muhammad voila

[0:19]elevated peanut butter in Alma so mean al muntaha bin sallallahu salam

[0:29]alaika rasool allah allahu wa salam alayka ya abdullah yah Matala hill

[0:37]wa way a bobbin a jetty l'm gallatin economic um ced when

[0:45]a four thousand edema audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim bismillahi r-rahmani r-rahim

[0:56]la Cotte the canopy use of our what here to listen in

[1:01]sonic allahu allah allahumma salli ala muhammad wa ala muhammad dear brothers

[1:12]and sisters elders scholars and guests assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh

[1:20]chapter number 12 in the Quran so that you've Yusuf is said

[1:26]to have been revealed when a group of Jewish scholars asked a

[1:30]group of mekin idolaters to ask the Prophet Muhammad upon some details

[1:36]of the life of Yusuf and the response was this revelation which

[1:47]by the way when you read is the only chapter which relates

[1:52]a story of any figure in a chronological form so you notice

[2:01]the stories of the other prophets such as ASA or Ibrahim or

[2:06]Musa there is mention in different chapters however with so let's use

[2:11]of it is one remembrance and it is remembered in a chronological

[2:15]fashion as well in the same way that a story is mentioned

[2:20]and it is unique chapter 12 is unique in this regard so

[2:24]the reply came in the form of a revelation and this corresponds

[2:31]with what you read today in the Bible in the book of

[2:34]Genesis chapters 37 to 46 and it was common for those who

[2:42]were skeptical about the message of Islam in the beginning to ask

[2:47]the prophets certain details about figures from the past such as yusuf

[2:52]or such as ibrahim and sometimes you find some verses which begin

[2:59]with the word yes Allu naka meaning they ask you and usually

[3:06]these come from either from within the outside the Muslim community that

[3:09]they are asking the Prophet about certain details or sometimes from within

[3:14]the Muslim community some of the Companions of the Prophet would ask

[3:19]certain details about certain things which were revealed in the Quran and

[3:26]what is interesting is even though the Prophet revealed to them these

[3:32]details many of them still did not want to accept Islam and

[3:40]the message of Islam and the Quran says well jihad will be

[3:44]Hamas they ferrata and for him that truly on the inside they

[3:49]had yaki and they they knew that there was conviction they had

[3:52]conviction they knew that it was the truth well jihad OB ha

[3:57]was safe and essa and for him however they fought against it

[3:59]even though deep down they knew that it was the truth for

[4:03]whatever reason sometimes were revealed the truth but we don't accept it

[4:07]because because for instance our ego does not allow us to accept

[4:13]it such as such was the case with many of those who

[4:14]came in contact with what sort of loss of Allah how do

[4:19]you know why he was sent him and what's interesting is that

[4:23]some made the claim during that time that the Prophet was taught

[4:27]he was M'Lynn he was taught by people of earlier traditions and

[4:32]this is where the revelation came and if you study if you

[4:35]look at Orientalism and and Orientalism is is the study of Near

[4:42]East religions and something which has been around for the past few

[4:45]in the late 70s there were a number of oriental scholars that

[4:50]through their own study came to a number of conclusions one group

[4:56]of orientalist came to the conclusion that everything that the Prophet Muhammad

[5:01]SAW Nalani who I do send I'm said was taken from scholars

[5:04]of Christianity and Judaism and so he came up with his own

[5:10]religion where he took pieces from here and from there and he

[5:13]put that together and came up with the religion of Islam now

[5:18]we're not gonna sit and refute everything that they said because that's

[5:21]an entire lecture series in fact some of them themselves they walked

[5:25]away from there early earlier suggestions they abandoned their own thesis because

[5:30]they saw that it was false number one we talked about the

[5:38]Prophet being illiterate meaning what meaning that he was not taught and

[5:42]it's important to understand this that that teaching literacy reading writing in

[5:46]today's world it is an obligation upon every parents to send their

[5:54]child to school if you don't send your child to school you

[5:56]can get in trouble in those days this wasn't the case so

[6:00]we when we look at it in retrospect we need to take

[6:01]it into consideration that learning to read and write was a privilege

[6:09]it was not a right that's why many people did not read

[6:12]and write so it's not considered something against the Prophet that he

[6:18]did not read and write in fact when we it is actually

[6:24]considered for him that he did not read and write meaning that

[6:27]he did not take his teachings from anybody else because the idea

[6:31]the opinion is that he read and he wrote and he read

[6:34]this in earlier scriptures and he just put something together on his

[6:38]own well taking into consideration that was illiterate this is impossible where

[6:43]would he read if he did not know how to read what

[6:47]scriptures would he read so that de monks that claim that the

[6:52]Prophet had taken his faith from other people even with all of

[6:59]that they would still ask the Prophet questions and so it is

[7:02]said that chapter number 12 so it's Yusuf is one of those

[7:07]cases where they asked him about some of the details of the

[7:09]life of Yusuf and he related through the revelation when you look

[7:15]at the personality of the Prophet Yusuf as is related in the

[7:21]Quran number one yusuf represents a figure of divine beauty he was

[7:26]known as a figure of divine beauty not only in the way

[7:31]that he looked his physical appearance because his physical appearance was remarkable

[7:37]when he the Quran says that when he walked among the women

[7:41]that is Olathe the woman who had made advances on him that

[7:49]had tried to seduce him and make advances on him when he

[7:53]resisted those advances and people began to point fingers at her and

[8:01]blame her she invited them and when he walked amongst them what

[8:04]did they say they said paulina hasha allahi maja de Bashara in

[8:08]ha de la manna kun cream this is not an earthly being

[8:14]Bashar is someone who is created of the earth this is not

[8:19]an earthly being truly this is Melek meaning that he is an

[8:24]angel he's come from the sky but not not only physically was

[8:27]he what did he portray physical beauty but also he portrayed spiritual

[8:32]beauty and he was a model for patients at times of adversity

[8:38]now how did he exhibit that patients what was his character what

[8:44]was his behavior number one we find that Yusuf took a proactive

[8:48]instead of a reactive response what does that mean you know for

[8:53]most of our lives we don't take a proactive response to our

[8:57]life we take a reactive a response to our life meaning what

[9:03]meaning that we wait for tragedies to happen for us to react

[9:06]instead of focusing on what can I do right now in my

[9:11]life so that I prevent bad things from happening and by the

[9:14]way bad things happening is it's inevitable it doesn't mean that if

[9:19]we take a proactive approach that everything is going to be fine

[9:23]and dandy but you can become a more effective person if you

[9:26]learn to be proactive rather than reactive for instance very very simple

[9:31]example of being proactive rather than reactive some people they don't care

[9:35]about what they eat they don't watch what they eat they'll eat

[9:38]everything and then finally when they end up in the hospital they

[9:46]realize that now it's time to change and maybe that works maybe

[9:48]you know our bodies are very work in a very spectacular way

[9:53]or our bodies can always rebuild themselves when we give up bad

[9:57]habits such as smoking or eating our body can always rebuild itself

[10:01]but that's a reactive approach a proactive approach is when you don't

[10:07]engage in unhealthy behavior in the first place so that you don't

[10:11]have to go to the doctor specifically for that that is a

[10:16]proactive approach and if you list the things in your life that

[10:18]you can take a proactive approach instead of a reactive approach it'll

[10:22]amaze you how many problems and how many obstacles you can overcome

[10:28]this works for students as well some students they know that their

[10:31]teacher may be lenient with them so they don't study for the

[10:33]test they get a bad grade and then sometimes the teacher feels

[10:37]bad for them and says okay I'll give you extra credit after

[10:39]this that's a reactive approach a proactive approaches study in the first

[10:43]place and get a good grade so that you don't have to

[10:47]go through the headache your parents don't have to go through the

[10:50]headache your teachers and principals don't have to go through that headache

[10:54]so we anticipate things before they happen and this requires foresight in

[11:01]the case of our faith Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells us it

[11:06]is clear in the Quran those who do good what they're out

[11:08]come we'll be and those who do bad and evil what their

[11:13]outcome will be family a myth Aladar rotten hi Yama Yama Yama

[11:21]: or rotten shunran yaaaah he who puts out in the amount

[11:24]of a mustard seed of good it shall return to him meaning

[11:29]sometimes we look at these deeds and I spoke about this immortal

[11:32]yesterday in passing but these minor deeds that we do these good

[11:35]deeds you never know how it's going to return to you either

[11:39]in your life or in the afterlife or in the lives of

[11:43]your children and your grandchildren or all three of them sometimes just

[11:47]because we receive a reward in this life doesn't mean that God

[11:50]is not going to reward us in the next life and the

[11:54]same way sometimes we do things which cause torment and punishment for

[11:58]ourselves in this life and also in the next life this is

[12:01]apparent from the verses of the Quran Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says

[12:05]in the ladina calluna my Elliot Emma Goldman in Nemea kunlun of

[12:10]people Tony him Nara or saya slowness are two things one in

[12:13]this life they are consuming fire in their stomachs and one is

[12:18]in the hereafter say alone that is a verb which is in

[12:20]the future tense saya slowness ira so there is torment meaning that

[12:26]what's the tournament in this life you know they're not going to

[12:28]feel the burning in their stomachs but that money that they take

[12:31]from the orphans unjustly and this was a problem which persisted before

[12:34]before you didn't have social security services that looked after children if

[12:38]they lost their parents normally children and even in today in many

[12:42]Islamic countries children when they lose their parents they go into the

[12:49]care of family members and sometimes and many of you have probably

[12:52]seen this sometimes those family members they don't look after the children

[12:55]the orphans in the way that they should I've seen this with

[13:00]my own eyes in some countries where you have a large number

[13:05]of orphans in MI Kuna people Tony him nama meaning that money

[13:10]that they take they're not going to see any blessing from it

[13:12]and on the day of judgment they shall be punished for it

[13:15]so number one is having foresight how do we become proactive and

[13:20]will come later as to how Yusuf was proact when it came

[13:24]to his challenges that he faced instead of being reactive one part

[13:28]of being proactive is to anticipate results before they happen and number

[13:33]two is to understand consequences now sometimes consequences are a result of

[13:41]natural law for instance if somebody decides to throw themselves from a

[13:48]top of a building what's the consequence the consequence is that they

[13:52]are going to fall once they choose to throw themselves off that

[13:55]building they're not subject to their own choice anymore they can't say

[13:59]stop and stop themselves now they are subject to what to the

[14:04]laws of nature so the laws of gravity and we can't at

[14:07]least not yet with all of the advancements that we have we

[14:13]haven't figured out a way to suspend the laws of gravity completely

[14:16]in our natural state but to understand even even though sometimes we

[14:22]talk about consequences in a way that it's not in my control

[14:25]because consequences are from natural law however that choice to step off

[14:32]of that building was your choice and that's why when we talk

[14:35]about punishment when we talk about the philosophical basis of understanding punishment

[14:39]when it comes to consequences yes maybe the consequence is not within

[14:46]your control however the choice that led to the consequence is within

[14:50]your control that's why we talk about the punishment or the reward

[14:54]for the choices not only for the consequences so for instance when

[14:58]you come across the narration that says men son men send a

[15:03]son attend husana fella who I drew hawa a gentleman Amina B

[15:06]ha ni omen p.m.

[15:09]woman Sanderson attend say yeah finally here is Roja whoa is Roman

[15:11]I mean a B ha ni omen Fiamma he who introduces a

[15:16]good practice within a community within a society shall reap the rewards

[15:20]and the rewards of everybody who practices that practice until the day

[15:24]of judgment and likewise the opposite he who introduces an evil practice

[15:29]that's why we have to really be careful of what we do

[15:34]and we'll come to this is when people say do whatever you

[15:37]want as long as you're not hurting anybody YF eclis this does

[15:40]not make sense philosophically this does not make sense those who introduce

[15:45]an evil practice shall also reap the rewards until the day of

[15:49]judgment now you may say it was out of my control it

[15:53]was out of my control that this person on the other side

[15:57]of the globe did evil because of me no you had the

[15:59]choice initially to introduce that practice of good or evil even when

[16:05]it comes to good imagine if someone does something good and says

[16:07]no I don't want anybody to do good anymore because of me

[16:09]it's not your choice you did the good and now people aren't

[16:15]following in your practice that's why it's about the choice more than

[16:19]it is about the consequences but that's why we have to understand

[16:22]the relationship between choices and consequences we have to have foresight and

[16:26]we have to know that everything that we do today has consequences

[16:29]when you pick up one side of the stick you also pick

[16:35]up the other side of the stick and this leads us to

[16:36]the second point is do anything that you want as long as

[16:41]you don't hurt anybody how many times have we heard this whatever

[16:44]you want go ahead do whatever you want you're not hurting anybody

[16:50]now first of all if we're to address this question ethically and

[16:54]philosophically who determines what is hurt and what is not hurt if

[16:57]I choose for instance to get on a motorcycle without a helmet

[17:03]and I say I'm not hurting anybody many people they they have

[17:09]this attitude I'm not hurting anybody well I may be a professional

[17:12]rider I may be careful and I may not hurt myself but

[17:17]what about the person who is an amateur rider who may look

[17:19]at me and take after my example so how do we how

[17:23]do we even determine what is hurt who determines what is hurt

[17:27]is it the individual or is it the society because if it's

[17:30]the individual that determines what is hurt then the world will be

[17:34]run by everybody's whims this person has an opinion who is different

[17:36]from that person's opinion who is different from that person's opinions there

[17:41]will be as many definitions as the word hurt as there are

[17:46]as people the opinions the society define what hurt is know because

[17:51]sometimes society in itself an entire society is doing wrong look at

[17:55]Nazi Germany everybody was doing one thing does that mean that it

[18:00]was right so how do we determine what is hurt instead of

[18:05]thinking about don't hurt anybody or do it as long as you

[18:11]don't hurt anybody instead of following those kinds of ethics and those

[18:16]kinds of philosophies we need to follow principles when we follow principles

[18:20]we make sure that we're doing the right thing why because principles

[18:24]are universal we mentioned this the other day principles are universal principles

[18:30]are also time-tested for instance something cannot be a principle if it's

[18:37]not time-tested even if a lot of people practice it if it's

[18:40]not time-tested it does not become a principle so some principles are

[18:44]like what the Quran speaks about principles justice justice is a principle

[18:52]truthfulness honesty those are all principles that's one thing another thing is

[18:59]when we're talking about hurt yes sometimes we don't hurt others but

[19:03]we may hurt ourselves this is what the Quran refers to as

[19:09]Volman Neffs sometimes we engage in Vollmer Neffs for instance the people

[19:17]of Musa after they crossed the ocean after they were they were

[19:25]saved from throne after they followed moosa' within a few days they

[19:30]abandoned worshiping God and they began to worship idols the Quran says

[19:34]they came across a group of people they saw them worshipping idols

[19:37]they told Musa let us have an Idol like them so that

[19:42]we can worship them within only a few days within only a

[19:48]few weeks they went when Musa left in order to receive the

[19:51]when he went to receive the revelation from Allah he came back

[20:00]and he saw them worshiping a calf AG and he said to

[20:02]them you comb in the column and first a combi Tejada come

[20:08]alleged that oh people you have you haven't oppressed me Moussa sane

[20:12]you have an oppressed God you have oppressed yourself because you have

[20:17]decided for yourself that you shall abandon and even when we decide

[20:20]to abandon if we are following if we are followers of God

[20:24]if we're not followers of God this is a different discussion but

[20:26]if we are followers of God we have to understand that when

[20:30]we when we engage in laulima Neffs when we oppress ourselves that

[20:36]is also not acceptable because our everything that God has given us

[20:41]which is our body which is our heart which is our mind

[20:42]our intellect all of that is an Amana it is a protection

[20:46]we have to make sure that we are protecting it from home

[20:49]we have to make sure that we are protecting it from oppression

[20:56]another point is the point of leadership each and every single one

[20:59]of us in some way or another is a leader a leader

[21:04]isn't simply a person that sits on the pulpit or the person

[21:07]that leads the prayer or the person who has a designated title

[21:11]some people they pride themselves on their title the more acronyms they

[21:20]can rack up on the title the more authority that they have

[21:23]this is not true leadership leadership is a position of influence and

[21:29]every person has the capacity for leadership when you look at the

[21:33]first two people that God created Adam and hawa one of them

[21:39]was the leader so it doesn't necessarily mean you have to have

[21:42]a big group in order to be a leader the leader is

[21:47]the person who is of authority and influence and it is a

[21:51]leader can also be the first person to do anything that's why

[21:55]when you talk about companies for instance they say that this company

[21:59]is a leader in the field of Transportation or it's a leader

[22:04]in the field of medicine meaning that this is the first company

[22:11]to explore certain avenues when we consider this we stop thinking in

[22:15]terms of do some do whatever you want as long as you

[22:20]don't hurt anybody why because we take into consideration the fact that

[22:24]people are watching us when you look at a family the father

[22:27]is usually the leader but doesn't have to be the leader sometimes

[22:30]the mother can be the leader sometimes the son or the daughter

[22:34]can be the leader the person who is paving the path of

[22:36]influence the one who others are following in their example that is

[22:41]the leader so when we take that into consideration we stop thinking

[22:45]so much about what I want and what is good for other

[22:48]people because you start thinking well other people are watching me other

[22:52]people may pick up this habit and maybe I stay safe by

[22:56]not putting on my helmet but if somebody else is watching me

[22:59]I can endanger that person's life even if I have good intentions

[23:06]and that's why understanding our capacity for leadership is also important Allah

[23:10]subhana WA Ta'ala tells the women of the Prophet in the Quran

[23:17]he says bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim yawn ISA and Nabi may yet even

[23:21]could not be fahisha t-mobile Jana yah Allah Allah adabo my vain

[23:27]Wakana dhalika ala llahi Asiri a woman of the Prophet whichever one

[23:31]of you comes forth with an evil deed she shall be punished

[23:36]twice and also the opposite is true what my approach men Cornell

[23:43]allahi what are Sunni what time I finally honey ha ha ha

[23:45]moral attained that whenever you do good we shall also reward you

[23:54]twofold why because you are in the spotlight because other woman they

[23:57]look up to you as role models that's why there needs to

[24:02]be an emphasis on leadership on what we do you can't say

[24:05]I'm going to do something and it's not going to hurt anybody

[24:11]other people are looking up to you now the question is if

[24:14]other people are not looking up to you does it make it

[24:18]right you still have the relationship between you and Allah subhana WA

[24:21]Ta'ala you know Yusuf it has said that one day it was

[24:23]asked to Jakub that why was why is use of your favorite

[24:32]son why did you favor Youssef over his brothers and his reply

[24:36]is one day I gave a task to all of my sons

[24:40]to take an animal a small animal and to go and slaughter

[24:43]to find somewhere where God where nobody can see them and to

[24:49]slaughter it so they all came back and they had slaughtered except

[24:54]for Youssef he said why didn't you slaughter Youssef he said you

[24:57]told me to go somewhere where nobody can see over me and

[24:59]everywhere I went I saw that God was watching over me so

[25:04]I couldn't complete it so knowing that God is watching us every

[25:07]time and people are watching our example and sometimes were confused on

[25:11]how to teach with our example sometimes you just have to set

[25:15]the right example you don't have to say anything there's a story

[25:17]which most of you or all of you have probably heard from

[25:21]the life of imam hassan and imam hussain ali who must salaam

[25:24]when they were younger and they came across a man who was

[25:28]not performing because we'll do it properly so they decided that instead

[25:32]of telling him because even though they were the grandsons of the

[25:35]prophet but they they were children at that time you know it's

[25:37]it's tough for a child to teach an adult by telling them

[25:41]to do something even if they're right maybe that adult will not

[25:44]take it I'm supposed to learn from a child we all have

[25:48]egos or protective of our egos so what did they do they

[25:52]came up with a plan that one of them was going to

[25:53]perform the will go in front of the other he was going

[25:56]to make a mistake in the other would correct him and they

[25:57]would do it in full view of this man and so that's

[26:01]what they did and that's how they taught the man how to

[26:05]correct his way of doing what Allah so people are watching us

[26:09]so Yousef going back to the story of Yusuf Yousef he was

[26:17]proactive in that he could have blamed everybody however he decided to

[26:22]work within his own circle of influence and this idea is that

[26:24]each and every single one of us in order to be proactive

[26:29]we have a circle of influence we work from the inside out

[26:31]instead of outside in what does that mean each and every single

[26:35]one of us we have a circle of influence there are things

[26:38]in our life which we can influence outside of that circle of

[26:42]influence so if you imagine two concentric circles one Circle and then

[26:46]a larger circle which is outside the smaller circle on the inside

[26:49]we'll call the circle of influence the larger circle on the outside

[26:55]we'll call the circle of concern so the circle of concern is

[26:57]things which we are concerned about what they're not within our influence

[27:01]such as what you may be concerned about things which are going

[27:03]on in the world right now politics halfway across the world things

[27:07]which you know you cannot influence so what do you do you

[27:14]work effective people instead of always worrying about the things that are

[27:18]outside of their circle of influence they worry about the things which

[27:21]are inside their circle of influence and they work inside out and

[27:24]they expand their circle of influence and this is exactly what the

[27:30]case with Yousef was how outside of his influence was what people's

[27:35]behavior his brother's behavior zuleyka what she did to him that wasn't

[27:40]his choice that was something that was her choice what was in

[27:45]his circle of influence his choices how he was going to respond

[27:49]his attitude his behavior all of that are within our choices sometimes

[27:54]people make the claim that this person makes me angry do you

[27:59]know what that means that means that you have no control over

[28:01]your emotions do you know how ridiculous that sounds when you say

[28:04]this person makes me angry no you decided to be angry maybe

[28:10]they had certain behavior you can't change their behavior but you it

[28:13]was your choice that made you angry that's why when we talk

[28:16]about happiness you may hear this all the time that they say

[28:20]happiness is a choice it truly is a choice being miserable is

[28:24]also a choice we always we always have the ability to control

[28:30]what's in our circle of influence Yousef he took a proactive approach

[28:37]he controlled what was in his influence when she had tried to

[28:40]seduce him and advance towards him he didn't say I can't handle

[28:44]myself I have to engage in sin he could he handled himself

[28:49]he ran away and when it became apparent that she was the

[28:53]perpetrator all she wanted him to do was admit that it was

[28:57]his guilt and he was looking at two options admit his guilt

[29:03]which was wrong because he didn't he didn't commit it or choose

[29:09]prison What did he say Karla obesity No aha boo I am

[29:16]in my own any la I would rather take prison for these

[29:19]many years rather than accept their judgments everything was his choice even

[29:26]though the consequence was what prison and he unjustly went to prison

[29:30]but he understood that he needed to work within his own circle

[29:36]of influence he did not want to violate his print again this

[29:38]goes back to principles he did not want to violate his principle

[29:41]of truthfulness and when we when we know what we stand for

[29:45]when we have principles and when we know what we stand for

[29:48]they say that when you don't stand for anything you will fall

[29:53]for anything however when you actually stand for something and most people

[29:56]they they don't know what they stand for because they've never asked

[29:59]themselves what are my principles and what are my values have you

[30:01]ever asked yourself this what are my principles what are my values

[30:04]it's all in the Quran if you read the Quran those are

[30:09]that's where we derive our principles and our values from the Quran

[30:13]says that no matter what happens on the outside well no matter

[30:19]what people do to you you always have the choice to do

[30:21]good when I Angela Magna comes Anna Anna Coleman Anna and lady

[30:25]Lou I do know a club with taqwa do not allow those

[30:31]evildoers people who do evil towards you do not allow them to

[30:41]get inside your head do not allow them to change your course

[30:44]of action to deviate your course of action and to deviate you

[30:47]from the path of adalah justice Angela when I am under Commissioner

[30:57]Anna Coleman Anna and Lodi Lulu who are chromoly taqwa meaning that

[31:02]you always have a choice you can't say this person forced me

[31:05]to do this or this person forced me to do that you

[31:09]always have a choice let's take the sin brothers and sisters understand

[31:11]our prosperity our success our happiness our our joy that's something that's

[31:17]that that has to be there that has to come from within

[31:19]it has to be a choice we cannot always depend on other

[31:24]people to make us happy that has to come from within and

[31:27]that's why we talk about proactivity vs.

[31:29]reactivity what are some of the things that I can control my

[31:34]behavior what I say my tongue you know it said that when

[31:46]the prophet muhammad sallallahoalyhiwasallam when when his son ibrahim passed away ibrahim

[31:54]was around the same same age of imam hussain ali sena some

[32:03]narrations tell us that one day the Prophet had both Ibrahim and

[32:07]Hussein on his lap and Jabra L can to the Prophet he

[32:13]said Jana so Allah God has decreed that one of these two

[32:17]shall not live and you have the choice which one shall not

[32:24]live and which one shall continue and you know when we think

[32:27]about it we say this is an unfair choice when we think

[32:31]about it with our own minds because we're always thinking about what's

[32:34]fair and what's unfair the prophets they didn't think in the same

[32:37]way do you notice that the prophets they thought on a different

[32:40]level the Imams they thought on a different level because their attitudes

[32:43]that were different they looked at things differently so the Prophet said

[32:47]if this must be a choice then keep her saying with me

[32:51]because I cannot stand to see her saying my dear her saying

[32:56]to be taken away from me even though Abraham was also very

[32:58]dear to him so when Ibraheem passed away it is said that

[33:01]they were walking in the funeral procession and some people they noticed

[33:04]that the Prophet was not weeping you know when when when a

[33:09]loved one passes away we weep we tend to weep they saw

[33:10]that the Prophet was not crying he was not weeping so they

[33:14]asked him to City Auto so Allah don't you feel pain in

[33:17]your heart and he pointed to the mountain he said that if

[33:22]this mountain knew the pain that was in my heart it would

[33:25]crumble if it knew what was in my heart and then the

[33:29]Prophet said one of his famous narrations he says in an allotted

[33:36]matter well pal by liason he says that sometimes our tears they

[33:40]are drawn sometimes you see something and you can't control your tears

[33:44]have you ever seen a scene in a movie for instance we're

[33:46]in a play and you can't control yourself even though you know

[33:50]that it is fiction it's not real life but you begin to

[33:52]cry you weep or you've seen someone take advantage of somebody else

[33:56]and you cry you weep even if you don't know who that

[33:59]person is sometimes it's involuntary well if paddle ballet is and sometimes

[34:04]your heart breaks as well and you can't control it he says

[34:08]however and his hadith however he says we never say that which

[34:11]displeases our Lord meaning what meaning that sometimes you can't control where

[34:18]your heart goes or when your tears flow but one thing that

[34:24]you can always control is your tongue you can always control what

[34:29]you say and some people unfortunately when tragedy strikes they lose it

[34:34]they begin to swear some of them begin to disbelieve how many

[34:37]of you you know people who they disbelieve they begin to utter

[34:41]words of disbelief and co4 just because something bad has happened in

[34:45]their life and then they apologize and regret and say it wasn't

[34:47]in my control what you say is always in your control every

[34:55]single moment is always in control so understanding and taking ownership this

[34:59]is what Imam Hussain was about the message of Ashura is about

[35:05]being responsible and if and if we truly want to model what

[35:08]Imam Hussain are they said I'm did we would take we would

[35:13]take become accountable for our lives become responsible for our choices and

[35:16]for our consequences see going back to the story of Yusuf what

[35:20]does he say he says and I mentioned this in passing the

[35:25]other day finally when he meets his family he says what by

[35:27]the asana be it a Hajj and him in a Sydney he

[35:30]says God has been gracious to me after all these years that

[35:35]he brought me out of the prison he didn't say God put

[35:37]me in prison I blame God God brought me out of the

[35:43]prison what God accented orogeny - Sydney why ja I become in

[35:45]LED women body and as Irish I found obey Nene were they

[35:50]in equity God has been so gracious to me that he brought

[35:53]me out of prison that he brought my family from a far

[35:55]land away and that he brought them even after the shape on

[36:03]got between me and my brothers never once did did Yusuf blame

[36:07]his brothers even though his brothers were at fault they threw him

[36:11]in the well which caused him to be sold into slavery which

[36:13]caused him to be in the home of the minister which caused

[36:18]him to be in jail for more than a decade which caused

[36:21]him all of that distraught and all of that tragedy he never

[36:29]once blamed anybody it was his language it was his attitude what

[36:32]but I Sena me it's a legend he made a Sydney Rajah

[36:36]become another bad women body unless of a Chicano vania vania T

[36:39]so this is the language of someone who is responsible someone who

[36:44]was accountable likewise Imam Hussein honey sanam he didn't complain and say

[36:47]I was just bail I was just dealt a bad card if

[36:51]only my brother god forbid if only my brother had negotiated better

[36:57]if only my father had fought harder if only my grandfather had

[37:00]done this did you did you ever see this language from Imam

[37:03]Hussain Hani Salaam did you ever see him say if only I

[37:08]had a thousand more supporters hey rather he said there are no

[37:11]companions as good as my companions imam hussain ali salaam he took

[37:17]ownership even if even though the decay of the muslim ummah was

[37:23]not his fault however he still took ownership and sometimes things brothers

[37:28]and sisters happen in our lives it's not our fault that's understandable

[37:32]but sometimes we still take ownership because it's the responsible thing to

[37:38]do it's the proactive thing to do and if we really want

[37:41]to lead our communities and our children in the right direction we

[37:46]have to learn proactivity and taking responsibility and taking ownership sometimes of

[37:50]consequences which are unintended an imam husain honey Saddam could have said

[37:56]fine I will pledge allegiance to you as Eid and that'll be

[38:00]the end of it however that wasn't the right thing to do

[38:02]that wasn't the model of leadership that he wanted to keep behind

[38:08]for generations now we honor Imam Hussain and we'll talk about this

[38:11]time tomorrow is why is a show not relevant and why do

[38:16]we honor him to remind ourselves because he made a choice that

[38:19]perpetuated for eternity for hundreds of years for thousands of years he

[38:23]could have laid back and said it's not my fault and if

[38:29]he would have done that we would not know anything about Islam

[38:31]today or we would have a very very warped version of Islam

[38:36]we don't we don't even want to think about what it would

[38:39]have been however Imam Hussain Hani Salaam and he understood fully his

[38:44]choices and the consequences of those choices tonight is the night brothers

[38:49]and sisters we remember Ali Akbar the first from among the family

[38:55]of imam hussain ali salam to go out into the battlefield and

[39:00]narrations tell us that an enol akbar was very similar in his

[39:05]demeanor in his character and the way he walked in the way

[39:10]he spoke to his grandfather rasool allah khanna Ashkenazi help and Oaxacan

[39:16]woman the can be rasul allah an imam hussein says that when

[39:20]we could not - Tecna if we longed for to see Rasul

[39:26]Allah Nirvana in our jihad al Holland we would look into the

[39:29]face of this young man because he he was so similar to

[39:35]the Prophet in his demeanor in his characteristics and he was a

[39:40]young man who knew full well what was going on he wasn't

[39:44]confused from the first day he knew what was going on he

[39:46]was well aware and narrations tell us that when Imam Hussein and

[39:54]his family were headed towards Caribana one narration says that imam hussain

[40:01]as he was riding on the horse for the camel that was

[40:04]taking them in that direction he he kept falling asleep and waking

[40:11]up and every time he would say how would i well out

[40:13]for water in love in love now how would i well out

[40:16]for water in love in la la la la he would do

[40:20]test beer and so on even in October he saw that his

[40:22]father kept saying la haula well I pour water in La Bella

[40:26]so he turned to his father he said but uh he says

[40:30]I see that you are you are frequenting the saying now how

[40:34]now well quwata illa billah' he says it's something wrong imam husain

[40:37]honey Salam he says no I'm just seeing a vision that we

[40:42]are going towards that final destination of ours so an enol acabar

[40:46]imagine the conviction he had in his heart he said Abbot ah

[40:51]my dear father our last night a little hot are we not

[40:54]on the path of truth Imam Hussain replied yes Bela yes we

[41:00]are so Anil Kumar said and then Landru body in the land

[41:06]no body it does not matter what kana ll mote I'm walking

[41:09]I'll mow to our leader it doesn't matter whether death befalls us

[41:14]or we fall upon death why because we know of our consequence

[41:18]we know our destination it doesn't matter what happens in between it

[41:23]doesn't matter that we have to fight because we know what our

[41:28]destination is this was a young man of conviction this is a

[41:30]young man who understood the concept of action and consequences and on

[41:34]that day when imam hussain ali sahib calls and a helmet nasa

[41:39]and your honor and a helmet morena in your honor and the

[41:42]you know i come on is the first to go out into

[41:46]the battlefield imam hussain ali sallam he prepares Ali Akbar and as

[41:49]he is sending him out into the battlefield he turns to Ramona

[41:55]bin Assad and he says oh I'm on my Allah I be

[41:56]review in the same way that you are attempting to believe me

[41:59]may Allah send you someone who will who will kill you in

[42:05]your sleep because of how you are believing me and then he

[42:09]recited the verse in the la dama wuhan brahim Alana Alana mean

[42:16]the rear to Muhammad by Allah who sent me on a knee

[42:18]mush had Ally him oh Allah I bear witness upon them burrows

[42:27]alayhim wala Ashkenazi honkin Oaxacan want the Canberra Sulak oh Allah I

[42:32]bear witness upon these people that this young man who is going

[42:34]out to the battlefield is the one who is most similar to

[42:37]rasulallah and when we were longing for us or allah we would

[42:42]look to the face of this young man and in an echo

[42:45]bar he went out into the battlefield he introduced himself the first

[42:49]member of the family to go out he introduced himself he said

[42:52]anna ali abdullah hussein Abner Ali nanu our ability I will have

[42:58]been a be available come be safe hot I Anthony Varma Holloman

[43:02]hashemian Allah we Talal I Akuma FINA blood I I am Ali

[43:08]the son of Ali the son of Hussein the son of Ali

[43:14]we are closer to the Prophet than these people and by God

[43:18]the one whose father is not known shall not rule above us

[43:21]meaning Yazeed the one whose father is not known and he went

[43:25]out into the battlefield laila the mother of Ali Al Akbar she

[43:30]was in the tents and she was Stan she was sitting in

[43:32]the tent however she was looking from inside the tent towards the

[43:36]face of Abu Abdullah Hani Salaam because he was watching his son

[43:41]in the battlefield all of a sudden the face as he was

[43:44]fighting valiantly in the battlefield the face of abar abdullah began to

[43:50]change Leyla she looked about Abdullah she said saya di ba abdullah

[43:53]hello sleep I wanna DB che as something happened to my son

[43:56]now I have noticed your facial expression has changed she says no

[44:03]he says to her no nothing has changed except for the fact

[44:06]that a warrior has come out into the battlefield and I fear

[44:08]for the safety of my son he says go inside and do

[44:12]do for your son that he returns for I have heard were

[44:17]sort of la say that the supplication of a mother is accepted

[44:19]for her son so she went she kept inside the tent and

[44:24]she turned to allah subhana WA Ta'ala she began to make the

[44:28]door Yared the Yousefi Alya coupe oh he who brought back use

[44:34]of the boob oh the one who removed the calamity from Ayub

[44:37]although the layaway lady bring back to me my son it was

[44:41]only a few months later that alina akbar he comes back to

[44:44]his father he says say the about abdullah he begins to complain

[44:49]he says say the about abdullah al hospital and he was left

[44:52]alone hadith eh hey Denis I am so thirsty I do not

[44:56]have that much energy to go out anymore into the battlefield imam

[44:59]hussain alayhi salam he shows him the narration says he reveals to

[45:04]his son his tongue which was like a dry piece of wood

[45:09]when a Lena like policies how thirsty his father was he returns

[45:13]back into the battlefield he begins to fight with full force with

[45:17]full bravery at that moment I want many Nana said that he

[45:22]was upon his horse out into the battlefield one of the one

[45:27]of the soldiers from the enemy army he launches he launches a

[45:31]spear which lands into the chest of onion and a kebab all

[45:34]of them they begin to surround a Lena a kebab they begin

[45:38]to strike him the strikes begin to come from all around him

[45:42]the blood the narration says the blood begins to gush from his

[45:47]head it falls upon the eyes of the horse and the horse

[45:49]instead of bringing him back to the camp of her saying it

[45:54]takes him towards the camp of a lot of Mossad all of

[45:56]a sudden the enemies they begin to surround him from every corner

[46:02]from every direction they begin to rain down upon him with arrows

[46:05]and swords at that moment he calls upon his father say the

[46:08]about Abdullah Imam Hussain Ali Salim rushes out into the battlefield he

[46:16]sees his son in this case he sees his son on the

[46:17]on the battlefield he is bloodied from head to toe buna Yallah

[46:24]Yallah dunya bad acalypha My dear son ani this life is not

[46:27]worth living after you and then he takes his cheek and he

[46:32]places it upon the cheek of his son in allahu alayhi roger

[46:34]own was a lady nevada more am uncle a bengali boon well

[46:42]our capital Medina Muhammad Ali Mohammed

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