Racism, Ignorance, and Pride: The Roots of Societal Destruction - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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Racism, Ignorance, and Pride: The Roots of Societal Destruction at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo

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[1:14]if we ask some people what is religion to you what does

[1:22]it mean to be a muslim some they will answer if i

[1:30]pray i fast i go to hajj once in my lifetime i

[1:36]give my charity and i fulfill my day to day obligations that

[1:43]makes me a good muslim this is an answer however this is

[1:53]not the full answer what makes a person a true muslim is

[2:01]when we take all of the teachings of the religion of islam

[2:07]and the religion of islam doesn't just become a checklist of things

[2:13]that we have to do but it becomes a lifestyle it becomes

[2:18]a life of principles it becomes taking a stance in life making

[2:27]decisions based upon the satisfaction of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala constantly placing

[2:34]allah before our desires before anything other than allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[2:43]and being a muslim means that we submit to the government of

[2:51]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala there's no escape from the government of allah

[3:00]there's no escape from the system that allah brought forth for us

[3:08]and it doesn't just mean that we accept it but it means

[3:14]that we have to embrace it and it means that we have

[3:18]to embrace all of the creation of allah embrace all of the

[3:25]beings of allah we have a beautiful hadith it says he who

[3:36]does not show appreciation and thanks to the created this person has

[3:42]not shown thanks and appreciation to the creator being a muslim means

[3:51]accepting the system of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepting what allah subhanahu

[3:59]wa ta'ala has destined for us and not looking down upon others

[4:07]because the moment we start questioning why does this happen to me

[4:14]or we begin to look down upon others that is the moment

[4:19]we have left iman and that is the moment we have taken

[4:24]a step away from faith and that is arrogance when a person

[4:32]is arrogant this person could acknowledge that he is created by god

[4:37]this person acknowledges that he or she is living in a system

[4:41]and allah is the lord maybe this person might be praying their

[4:46]whole lives they might be fasting they might be going to hajj

[4:50]they might be fulfilling their religious duties but they still have that

[4:55]arrogance that taqabbar in their hearts and you know that arrogance was

[5:00]the first sin ever committed the first crime the first sin ever

[5:06]committed against allah was the sin of arrogance who was it it

[5:12]was iblis iblis iblis was amongst the angels iblis is satan he

[5:20]was amongst the angels and he was a worshiper where the hadith

[5:25]says that he was worshiping in a way that the angels thought

[5:28]that he was one of them they didn't know the difference they

[5:32]couldn't tell the difference he used to worship so much until one

[5:41]day allah tells him do sujood to adam bow to adam that

[5:48]is the moment that his arrogance overcame him and he erased all

[5:54]of his good deeds all of the good that he has done

[5:59]in one hadith he says that one of the sajdah one prostration

[6:04]of iblees lasted for six thousand years six thousand years he had

[6:10]his head down bowing to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but the moment

[6:15]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asked them the moment allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[6:20]asked them to bow to adam his arrogance overcame him he says

[6:26]you created me from fire and you created him from soil and

[6:35]fire is better than soil he made that judgment and he refused

[6:44]to bow to adam and he was kicked out of the mercy

[6:48]of allah because of that moment of arrogance now is a person

[7:00]who is a muslim a person who believes in allah does that

[7:03]mean that arrogance is right away taken away from their life that

[7:07]means this person is not arrogant no unfortunately see that arrogance and

[7:15]arrogance leads to racism and prejudice and intolerance of others it lasts

[7:21]until today and here in the united states where we are 2017

[7:29]we see that we are still and this country is still coping

[7:34]and dealing with this test that it's going through and not only

[7:37]this country you see all over the world many groups of people

[7:43]they are being tested through this the test of arrogance the test

[7:47]of racism and prejudice and pride where one group of people views

[7:53]themselves that they are better than all of the others why because

[7:59]of the color of their skin or because of their heritage because

[8:03]of their culture because of the country that they were born in

[8:07]because of the faith that they practice you see one group views

[8:11]themselves better than the others and then you see the hatred the

[8:17]discrimination the bigotry the xenophobia as a result of this and this

[8:22]is something that we are witnessing you don't need to you know

[8:26]all you do is turn on the tv and you hear about

[8:30]it it's very clear you hear about it and what's sad is

[8:35]that it's coming from the highest points of power in this country

[8:42]the highest positions of power are there's racism and prejudice and intolerance

[8:51]towards others coming from the highest points of power so where do

[8:55]you expect with the lowest people to do when the leader is

[8:59]portraying and and having this kind of hatred and racism towards others

[9:05]what do you expect from others what do you expect from the

[9:08]people who are being led who see that leader as a role

[9:12]model now is arrogance and racism something that's just going on right

[9:18]now no you see that perhaps all of the wars that have

[9:24]taken place on earth throughout history there is a they are a

[9:29]result of one group of people viewing themselves better than others what

[9:35]did what was the reason of world war two why did hitler

[9:41]he start persecuting a large group of people in his society because

[9:48]he viewed that he is the aryan race he is better than

[9:52]everyone else and then you keep going back to history why were

[9:56]millions of people millions of native americans killed on this land that

[10:03]we live on you know there were millions of people here before

[10:07]the white man came and took over there were millions of people

[10:11]that were living here they had lives here there was a genocide

[10:15]on the land that we're living on where millions of people they

[10:20]were killed and right now they are nowhere to be remembered you

[10:23]don't even see them in society they are the ones who happened

[10:27]to be here they were the original people who are from this

[10:30]land why were millions of people brought on ships they were tied

[10:36]and placed in ships and they were brought here to work as

[10:40]slaves isn't this doesn't this go back to arrogance doesn't this go

[10:45]back to racism and then you go to imperialism and colonialization and

[10:51]the empire building of europe where they colonized half of the world

[10:58]many big peace places of the world you see that that all

[11:06]goes back to the feeling of racism it all goes back when

[11:10]one group of people views themselves better than another group of people

[11:19]now what does the religion of islam say we go back to

[11:24]the quran we see that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks to people

[11:30]in many forms sometimes allah says o muslims sometimes allah says believers

[11:37]sometimes allah says o woman o men and then you find that

[11:43]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when speaking of the general rights of the

[11:47]human being allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says o people everyone is accepted

[11:55]everyone is every the quran it does not leave people out everyone

[12:02]is included but you find countries for example this country and their

[12:07]constitution this is for this group of people that that one this

[12:11]is for this group of people the people that practice this religion

[12:14]and that religion but allah subhanahu wa ta'ala being that he is

[12:18]the creator in the quran he speaks to everyone oh you people

[12:27]who believe have piety in your lord who created you from one

[12:32]nafs we all go back to one today the white the black

[12:37]the orange the the yellow all the colors we all go back

[12:44]to one you all go back to adam and adam is from

[13:02]soil why should i view myself better than another group of people

[13:06]why should someone else view another group view themselves that they are

[13:11]better than me when we all go back to one and from

[13:16]that soul allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created pairs and allah from those

[13:28]created men and women allah and the arham the ones who you

[13:46]share a womb with meaning the people who you go back to

[13:49]the same family tree with and we all today i might say

[13:55]have this family tree you have a family tree someone else has

[13:58]a family tree but ultimately we all go back to one tree

[14:01]we all go back to one father we all go back to

[14:04]one mother we shouldn't have a feeling of pride where i'm from

[14:10]this family what do you mean i'm from this family we all

[14:13]go back to one family we all have go back to one

[14:16]father and one mother now we see that during times when societies

[14:26]focus on differences and this is not something that we just see

[14:30]right now this is something that has been going on throughout history

[14:33]during the time of the prophet there were groups of people that

[14:37]were just focusing on differences this group is from quraysh this is

[14:42]from another tribe this is or even within quraysh one was from

[14:46]bani hashem another is from bani umayyah another from another group you

[14:51]see that certain the human nature what we like to do is

[14:55]we like to look at differences we don't look at things that

[14:59]we have in common is this the way allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[15:03]looks at people no allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he looks at

[15:08]people allah looks at the common denominator what we share in common

[15:14]and allah does not look at the differences being a point of

[15:18]a point of separation but rather the differences should be something that

[15:23]bring us together you have a talent this person has a talent

[15:28]you have something that person has something you come and you you

[15:32]come together to make yourself better to help yourself become a stronger

[15:37]person one of the reasons why the united states became such a

[15:41]successful nation is because it after all these suffering and after so

[15:47]much persecution and injustice it was willing to let go of the

[15:51]differences but until today we see that the roots of arrogance and

[15:57]pride and racism are still there but we find that the majority

[16:01]of the people they are willing to put that behind them and

[16:04]focus on what we have in common and this is what allah

[16:08]tells us to look at for what so that you get to

[16:22]know one another so that you interact with one another not so

[16:26]that you sit in a box and you sit in a group

[16:29]of people and you build a wall and you say we're going

[16:32]to have this group of people here and that group of people

[16:34]there and we're not going to interact what is this is this

[16:39]the way allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created for us to be no

[16:43]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created this world and this universe with resources

[16:49]for what just so one group of people they come and they

[16:53]take all of the resources and they say there it's theirs no

[16:58]these resources everything the oil the air the water everything it's to

[17:06]be shared this is allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created it for everyone

[17:10]allah did not choose one group of people that they are favored

[17:14]and they are blessed they are chosen and they are entitled to

[17:18]everything while millions of people don't have food to eat they don't

[17:22]have medicine to eat and this is what's going on today this

[17:25]is the injustice that we see today we hear some people coming

[17:29]and saying we don't need religion anymore we don't need god anymore

[17:33]take god out of the equation we have modernized and when you

[17:38]are modern when you live in a modern society religion is a

[17:41]part of the past well guess what if we are modern why

[17:46]are there millions of people dying out of hunger why are there

[17:50]millions of people that don't even have the nutrition and the food

[17:56]to give their children is this modernity is this what modernity has

[18:03]brought for us this is not modernity if half of the people

[18:06]or 90 over 90% of the population is suffering and just 10%

[18:12]or 1% they have all of the wealth this is not modernity

[18:17]no this is oppression and this is what the religion of islam

[18:21]stood against because allah teaches us the logic of viewing differences as

[18:29]a positive thing rather than viewing it as a negative thing in

[18:32]fact it's one of the signs of allah allah says allah says

[18:52]one of these signs of allah you know allah many times he

[18:55]says from the signs of allah he created the sun and the

[18:58]universe and the solar system these are signs of allah these are

[19:02]miracles of allah but you know what else is a miracle of

[19:05]allah it's you and i we are miracles of allah and our

[19:10]differences that is one of the miracles of allah imagine if we

[19:14]all look the same if we all have the same nose the

[19:16]same eyes the same hair we all were exactly the same wouldn't

[19:21]that be such a boring life if we all were like robots

[19:26]we're all exactly the same this is the beauty of allah the

[19:32]beauty of the creation of allah where everything is different you don't

[19:36]find two people two people you don't find them identical exactly a

[19:42]100% identical to one another isn't this a miracle of allah isn't

[19:47]this a sign of the creation of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so

[19:52]this is the sign of allah our differences they are one of

[19:57]the signs of allah the skies and the earth these are the

[20:04]signs of allah also the tongue the language we don't all speak

[20:12]one language this is a good thing this is a sign of

[20:18]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and your colors this all of this is

[20:28]signs if you ponder if you think then you will know that

[20:33]this is the sign of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala now we know

[20:38]that this is the system of allah and we muslims we have

[20:42]accepted that system but let's ask ourselves is there racism and bigotry

[20:48]and intolerance within the muslim community yes just because we have assumed

[20:57]the religion of islam and we said the shahada and we come

[20:59]to the masjid and pray does that mean that we have removed

[21:03]the bigotry and hatred and racism from our hearts no and this

[21:09]is what it means to be a real muslim being a real

[21:13]muslim is the day i purify my heart where i have no

[21:17]hatred in my heart if i'm a mu'min i should not have

[21:27]hatred for the mu'mineen and not only the mu'mineen for people for

[21:33]the race the creation of allah i was mentioning earlier between the

[21:38]salah where imam zain al abideen he was willing to teach his

[21:42]enemies how to seek forgiveness now the imams of the al bayt

[21:49]they were willing to teach their enemies the ones who persecuted them

[21:52]and killed them how to get closer to allah how to be

[21:56]saved in the afterlife why is it that i look at someone

[22:00]just because of the color of their skin because of their language

[22:03]because of the dialect that they have because of the country that

[22:06]they were born in i look at this person as if i'm

[22:09]better than this person what have i done that makes me better

[22:12]than this person even if i pray all of my days and

[22:17]my nights and i fast and i go to hajj but if

[22:21]i still have that feeling in my heart that i am better

[22:24]than that person then know that my prayer has not done anything

[22:27]to me it has not made me a better person if i

[22:31]have that feeling that i am better than this person or i

[22:34]look down upon a person because of the color of their skin

[22:37]or their language or the country of their origin let me pray

[22:40]my whole life it's not going to help me this prayer it's

[22:44]not going to take you anywhere so we have to take all

[22:51]of this negative feelings out of our hearts but unfortunately we find

[22:57]it that even within the religious communities and sometimes you find it

[23:02]within the most religious communities you find this masjid belongs to this

[23:08]group of people this masjid is for this group of people where

[23:13]do we have that in the quran did rasulullah come and say

[23:16]this mosque is for this group and this mosque is for that

[23:18]group no mosques belong to who they belong to allah i can't

[23:32]say this is the mosque for this group this is the mosque

[23:35]for the other group now i know we do have that for

[23:39]example you go to communities sometimes because of language barrier there's nothing

[23:44]wrong with that but if it if it if that is traced

[23:48]and it goes back to arrogance where no this group is not

[23:52]allowed here and that group is not allowed here then know that

[23:56]their prayers are not going to be accepted in that mosque because

[24:00]what's the point of prayer what's the point of fasting what's the

[24:04]point of worship is worship our goal no worship is not our

[24:09]goal worship is the means worship is a tool it's the vehicle

[24:14]that brings us to taqwa it's the vehicle that brings us closer

[24:17]to allah worship is not the goal worship is the vehicle that

[24:23]takes us to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so let me pray as

[24:27]long as much as i want but if my prayer is not

[24:30]making me become a better person then what's going to be the

[24:34]difference with my prayer and the prayer of the ones who killed

[24:36]imam al hussain the day of ashura they were praying as well

[24:40]the enemies of the ahlul bayt but they also went and they

[24:44]killed the family of the prophet this is why we have hadith

[24:51]narrations from rasulullah he says he says he who has a mustard

[25:08]seed of arrogance and prejudice and racism allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will

[25:16]resurrect this person with who with the arabs of the jahiliyah the

[25:20]pagans before islam because that's what the pagans were the pagans they

[25:26]said we are arabs we are better than this group of people

[25:29]we are from this clan we are from this tribe we are

[25:33]better than the other tribe and they would go and have raids

[25:36]and kill others and carry out violent crimes just because this person

[25:41]happened to be from a different regional location or a different tribe

[25:48]in another hadith rasulullah says if you have prejudice and racism then

[26:03]during that moment you are separated from iman you're a mumin but

[26:08]if you are carrying out a feeling of racism and you practice

[26:15]it and you say something because we can't control our feelings this

[26:20]is something that allah is not going to hold you accountable for

[26:23]but the moment we start displaying it the moment we start acting

[26:29]upon it it becomes very dangerous one day one of the wives

[26:34]of the prophet a lady she passed all she did was the

[26:40]lady was short all she did with her hand was like this

[26:45]she's short rasulullah told her you lost all your tawab so it's

[26:51]very dangerous it's very dangerous this is why it's better to take

[26:56]those feelings those negative feelings out of our hearts because if we

[26:59]have that negative feeling it's going to be with a small glance

[27:03]maybe you see someone you smile smile making fun of that person

[27:08]or you look at a person in a different way one day

[27:11]also one of the companion in the in the masjid of the

[27:15]prophet a poor man he came and he wanted to sit there

[27:18]was a rich man he came and he gathered his clothes when

[27:22]the other person came next to him you know sometimes we do

[27:25]this without realizing if i'm sitting somewhere and i see someone who

[27:30]looks poor someone who doesn't look like they have it all what

[27:34]do we do when that person comes and sits next to us

[27:37]we want to be private we don't want that person touching us

[27:41]as if the poverty of that person is going to transfer to

[27:44]me as if the race of that person the color of that

[27:47]person is going to transfer over to me one of the companions

[27:50]did this the prophet right away while he was giving a lecture

[27:55]in the masjid he told him what you are doing is wrong

[27:59]that companion that person who did that he said i'm willing to

[28:05]give half of my money to this person ibn abi maktum he

[28:09]says i'm willing to give half of my money to this person

[28:14]that poor person he said you rasulullah i don't want his money

[28:18]i don't want his money if money is going to make me

[28:22]become like that then i don't want his money so we have

[28:28]to cleanse our hearts and this is what the religion of islam

[28:32]came with this is the prime message of islam a message of

[28:37]purification a message where we purify our actions and purify our hearts

[28:42]more importantly now is there a problem some people ask if i'm

[28:50]not allowed to have an ounce a mustard seed of asabi'ah does

[28:55]that mean that i say i'm from this country i'm from this

[28:58]group of people does that mean that i should not have national

[29:01]pride this question was asked to imam zain al abideen the imam

[29:17]they told him what is prejudice and racism he says he says

[29:35]the prejudice and racism that allah will punish someone for is when

[29:40]you view your people the people from your country from your village

[29:44]from your nationality but they're not good they're not fit for the

[29:48]job you favor them over people from a different nationality but they

[29:54]are fit for the job this is wrong for example i come

[30:00]and i vote for someone who is just from my country from

[30:05]my nation from my city i vote for this person that's the

[30:09]only reason i voted for this person not because he is better

[30:13]maybe there's someone that's better than this person but i come and

[30:15]i favor that person this is and this is haram however then

[30:20]the imam he continues he says so it's not and prejudice to

[30:33]say i like my nation my nationality my group of people but

[30:36]it's haram to help them in oppression where i favor someone just

[30:41]because he happens to be from my from my city from my

[30:44]community i favor this person even though this person is not fit

[30:48]for the job i favor him or her over someone else this

[30:52]is haram and this is something that the religion of islam stands

[30:57]against and we see that rasulullah he managed to he managed to

[31:06]stop this go and look at the companions of the prophet he

[31:11]had abu dharr al ghafari he had salman al pharisee he had

[31:16]bilal al habashi he had people from all over he had the

[31:22]coptic mari al qatiyah he had from rome he had people suhaybar

[31:29]rumi he had people from all over they were gathered in the

[31:34]mosque of rasulullah and he managed to remove that nationalism and this

[31:39]is one of the reasons why the religion of islam is the

[31:43]one of the most if not the most successful and fastest growing

[31:47]religion despite all of the negative negative you know advertisement negative agendas

[31:55]against the religion of islam and government spending millions of dollars you

[31:59]know there's a islamophobia industry spending millions of dollars each year against

[32:05]the religion of islam despite all of that you see each day

[32:10]the religion of islam continues to grow why because the religion of

[32:14]islam it's not contained by national or racial boundaries it's not contained

[32:21]by borders just a few days ago was reading in china in

[32:27]china there are over 20,000,000 muslims more than many of the arab

[32:33]countries and by the way is islam a religion for the arabs

[32:39]no in fact the arabs they are the minority muslims they are

[32:44]a minority amongst the muslims arabs the majority of the muslims are

[32:49]not even arabs the most populated muslim country today is indonesia with

[32:55]over 200,000,000 muslims muslims speak all languages they come from all races

[33:03]all backgrounds it's not confined to one group of people and this

[33:06]is a misconception today that islam is for arabs no it's not

[33:09]for arabs islam is for everyone islam is for humanity and you

[33:15]find that many of the non arabs they accepted islam better than

[33:19]some of the arabs so there are no racial boundaries in the

[33:26]religion of islam and this is what rasulullah did and stood for

[33:31]but until just like today we see that it is a point

[33:35]of challenge that racism and bigotry and prejudice they create challenges for

[33:41]our communities whether muslim or non muslim you find that even during

[33:45]the time of rasulullah the community of rasulullah dealt with these challenges

[33:53]rasulullah he comes and he brings bilal bilal who was from abyssinia

[34:00]he makes bilal be the spokesperson of islam how who's the spokesperson

[34:05]of islam the person who any newcomer they come they hear the

[34:10]voice of bilal performing the adhan the day rasulullah conquered mecca bilal

[34:17]he went and he stood on the kaaba and he began to

[34:21]perform the adhan some of the arabs some of those arabs who

[34:26]were full of arrogance full of prejudice they began to speak to

[34:33]one another one of them he says to the other he says

[34:37]thank god my father died and did not live to see the

[34:41]day this crow he stands on the kaaba referring to bilal but

[34:46]rasulullah did not tolerate that rasulullah kept bilal performing the adhan until

[34:52]rasulullah passed away the bilal was the official and the only muadhan

[34:56]of rasulullah a man who had black skin and he was a

[35:02]slave a freed slave and his arabic was not even eloquent when

[35:08]he used to say instead of saying he used to say they

[35:14]came and they told rasulullah he tells them allah knows exactly what's

[35:21]in the heart of bilal you don't need to come and tell

[35:23]me and complain about the accent of bilal my dear brothers and

[35:29]sisters this is the islam that we have to portray to the

[35:32]world today but arrogance it's resulted by prejudice and racism is a

[35:40]result of arrogance and pride when one group of people view themselves

[35:45]better than another and also ignorance it's fueled by ignorance arrogance and

[35:52]ignorance ignorance it fuels islamophobia and the anti muslim sentiments today we

[36:03]need to show the world and we need to show the world

[36:07]through our actions through our that i have a non muslim muslims

[36:13]and non muslims we should remove all of the prejudice and intolerance

[36:19]towards others from our hearts but you see that it continues to

[36:23]be a challenge in our communities today and during the time of

[36:27]rasulullah after the death of rasulullah the caliphs that came after the

[36:35]prophet you see that they went back to that institutionalized racism and

[36:41]prejudice the caliphs that came after the prophet they started giving the

[36:46]arabs a higher salary than the ajams than the non arabs until

[36:52]amir al mu'mineen came the power came to amir al mu'mineen the

[36:57]official khalafa came to amir al mu'mineen it is narrated that one

[37:01]day a lady they were standing in line to receive their weekly

[37:06]or monthly salary from bayt al mal from the muslim treasury so

[37:11]emir al mumineen gave a lady then she came back she tells

[37:15]him oh amir al mu'minin you gave you made a mistake there

[37:18]was an error he tells her what was the error she tells

[37:23]him you gave me the same amount that you gave this non

[37:26]arab lady this ajami lady there was a mistake because the she

[37:31]she tells him this is a mistake because the ones before amir

[37:34]al mumineen the caliphs before amir al mumineen they would differentiate they

[37:39]would differentiate between the arab and the non arab and historians say

[37:45]that one of the reasons the second caliph was killed was because

[37:50]of racism because a non arab man was upset that he was

[37:55]mistreating them he came and he killed him amir al mu'mineen he

[38:01]came and he tells this lady tells her i read the quran

[38:05]i didn't see anywhere in the quran where it says that an

[38:08]arab is better than a non arab i saw that you are

[38:13]all the same you all go back to the soil and there's

[38:18]no difference between an arab or a non arab and we see

[38:25]that the ahlul bayt when it came to their lives there was

[38:31]no discrimination whatsoever so if they didn't discriminate why am i discriminating

[38:37]you know sometimes even when it comes to our giving when it

[38:40]comes to our charity we say no no no i'm only going

[38:43]to give my own people i'm only going to give people from

[38:46]my nationality go back to the al bayt don't we claim to

[38:50]follow the al bayt they gave to a poor person did they

[39:01]ask him what's your nationality do you have a green card or

[39:04]not do you have a citizenship or not what's your color an

[39:09]orphan and a war prisoner who probably most likely is from a

[39:15]different nationality different a different group of people but they they gave

[39:20]why is it today that when i want to give i come

[39:22]and i say no no no let me only give my own

[39:24]people is this what islam taught us is this what the ahlul

[39:28]bayt taught us but we see the ahlul bayt the ones who

[39:34]removed the intolerance and racism and bigotry from societies you see that

[39:40]they were subjected to that bigotry and that intolerance and that hatred

[39:49]abdullah ibn abbas the cousin of the prophet and the cousin of

[39:54]amir al mu'mineen this man he is a renowned scholar and he

[39:58]is accepted by the sunnis and the shias abdullah ibn abbas he

[40:03]came and he asked the second khalifa omar he tells him why

[40:11]did you not choose ali what was wrong with ali did he

[40:16]lack faith was he late to join the religion of islam was

[40:21]he did he lack the jihad and the sacrifice no ali he's

[40:27]on top for joining the religion of islam he was number one

[40:31]in the battles he was number one in knowledge he is the

[40:35]number one all of the companions they go back to the knowledge

[40:38]of amir al mu'mineen we have many narrations where they would go

[40:41]back in the ibadah he was number one so why did you

[40:47]not accept ali ibn abi talib why did you leave him in

[40:49]his home for thirty years he came and he told him why

[40:55]did you not choose ali he replies with an answer that depicts

[41:01]the reality that is prevalent in muslim communities and unfortunately until today

[41:09]until today you see that hatred is alive he tells him he

[41:23]says did not want bani hashem the clan of hashem to have

[41:29]prophethood and imamah and khilafa both be from the same tribe bani

[41:34]hashem and then they're going to become arrogant and they're going to

[41:38]have pride over all of the other quraysh what does this show

[41:42]this shows that allah chooses one thing and quraysh they say we

[41:46]want one thing else and because of their arrogance and because of

[41:50]their prejudice they turned against amir al mumineen and they left amir

[41:55]al mu'mineen and they did not accept amir al mu'mineen even though

[42:00]he was more fit and he was qualified he was the only

[42:03]one who was qualified to lead the ummah after rasulullah no one

[42:07]was qualified you go and you read the books the sunni books

[42:12]the books of the muslims you see that the khalafa that assumed

[42:16]the position they would sit on the mambar and they would say

[42:20]i am the least worthy of sitting here i don't have the

[42:24]knowledge they would ask the congregation we have many narrations they would

[42:29]come and they would ask the muslims explain to me this verse

[42:32]when did this verse come down the only one who did not

[42:37]ask his congregation and he had the knowledge because he was given

[42:40]that knowledge from rasulullah was amir al mu'mineen and he stands on

[42:45]the member and he says he says ask me before you lose

[42:55]me he was the only one who said that but they left

[43:00]him in his home and being that we are still in the

[43:06]days of fatima we remember fatima who the family of the prophet

[43:14]and until today you see the followers of the al bayt we

[43:19]are subjected to harassment and abuse and prejudice why because of the

[43:27]bigotry it goes back to bigotry and hatred today you go and

[43:31]you stand in some of the biggest muslim mosques in the world

[43:35]you hear the imam and the friday prayer where he's supposed to

[43:39]unite all of the muslims he comes and he says the shia

[43:43]are non arabs what is he trying to say he's trying to

[43:48]say that the shia are not muslim they are persian they are

[43:52]majus they are zoroastrians and they are non arabs first of all

[43:56]the majority of the muslims are non arabs being arab does not

[44:00]define whether you're muslim or non muslim and then you go and

[44:05]you look at the scholars of the sunni school of thought today

[44:12]the major heads of the sunni school of thought were they arab

[44:16]or non arab non arab bukhari he's from bukhara uzbekistan muslim is

[44:25]from nayshabur abu hanifa zuti he's not arab abu dawud from sistan

[44:31]at tirmidhi is persian nisa'i from turkmenistan ibn majah from kazween they're

[44:38]not arabs so why come and accuse the shia of being non

[44:44]arabs no there's no there's no there's no preference it doesn't matter

[44:51]if you're arab or non arab in the eyes of allah but

[44:59]however you see that sometimes when the hearts are blinded that is

[45:05]much worse than when the eyes are blinded it's the hearts that

[45:18]are blinded sometimes that cannot see the reality and this is what

[45:23]happened with the ummah immediately after the death of rasulullah where they

[45:33]turned against the family of rasulullah and one of the first victims

[45:42]of that terror that is alive until today was the very own

[45:48]daughter of fatima the daughter of the prophet who rasulullah for six

[45:56]months in narration and another narration for nine months he used to

[46:01]go in front of the muslims and he used to stand at

[46:04]the door of fatima and he used to say and then he

[46:16]would tell the muslims all muslims i'm leaving behind my family take

[46:26]care of my family in fact it wasn't just the prophet it

[46:30]was the quran that ordered the prophet i don't expect anything except

[46:40]showed love to my family days before his death he sands i'm

[46:52]leaving behind the book of allah and my family respect them honor

[46:57]them take care of them but you see that days after the

[47:03]death of the prophet fatima the daughter of the prophet was subjected

[47:09]to the harassment and the pain and the agony until she died

[47:16]she died and the imam he says she was a martyr how

[47:24]is it that a very young daughter according to the shia hadith

[47:29]fatima was 18 years old the day she passed away the other

[47:33]hadith says she was 28 years old now what's the difference 18

[47:37]or 28 still very young amir al mumineen he had to carry

[47:44]her and place her in the grave his very own beloved wife

[47:51]imam al hassan imam al hussein zaynab uncle thoom became orphans at

[47:56]such a young age why why did the ummah turn against the

[48:03]family of rasulullah in such a way narration say that amir al

[48:09]mu'mineen he and a handful of the muslims they gathered and they

[48:16]prayed and they led the janazah prayer in the middle of the

[48:20]night everyone when they want when they die they want people to

[48:24]attend their funeral they want people to pray the janaza prayer but

[48:29]fatima she says bury me at night so that these oppressors do

[48:34]not see where i'm do not participate and do not see where

[48:38]i'm buried and until today you go to medina you ask where's

[48:43]the grave of this person that person they'll tell you but then

[48:46]you ask them where's the grave of fatima the daughter of the

[48:49]prophet there's no answer there's no answer that answers with the imam

[48:56]of our time amir al mu'mineen he stood over that grave he

[49:01]buried fatima and then the narration says that after he buried fatima

[49:11]his emotions overcame him that man who is described as the man

[49:17]of patience he is described as a man of patience but you

[49:22]see that that moment amir al mumminin could not control himself he

[49:27]has lost his beloved wife at that young age he began to

[49:33]recite

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