Ramadan 2026 - Hajj Hassanain Rajabali

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[0:13]Allham.

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[2:42]Alhamdulillah.

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[10:36]Why?

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[14:31]Say forever.

[14:58]Muhamad Ali.

[15:28]Allah Salawat.

[16:38]Allah has Fore!

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[17:35]Islam.

[18:01]Allah foreign.

[18:46]Why?

[19:42]Wow.

[20:03]Isn't it?

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[20:25]Allah Fore!

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[20:59]for Muhamad.

[21:44]Muhamad.

[22:11]Muhammad Ali Muhammadu.

[22:22]Um, thank you for uh joining us tonight.

[22:25]Tonight's the uh 26th uh night that we've had here at Mecca

[22:31]for Ramadan.

[22:33]Um we're kind of on the home stretch.

[22:36]Hope everybody's getting close to their target as you reflect on where

[22:44]are we with uh during this holy month.

[22:46]We still have some days left.

[22:48]So we still have some time to make up.

[22:50]uh inshallah all your duats are answered and uh your your family

[22:58]is blessed.

[22:59]Um tonight I would like to thank our sponsors uh for supporting

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[23:16]Mahm.

[23:14]Um, for their and all the shadats um like to recite fat

[23:23]after Allahawat Allah Um first of all again you know these programs

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[24:06]interesting and intriguing as well.

[24:12]Um, you know, at the same time, I think we with all

[24:14]the injustice that's going on in the world, our duas are needed

[24:19]more than ever um to support all all our uh all the

[24:26]means around the world today.

[24:28]um every time you listen to the radio, you turn the TV

[24:34]on, it's constant borment of what's going on and all the injustice.

[24:38]Um so please continue keeping all the means in your dua every

[24:46]day and support any way that you can.

[24:50]Inshallah, Allah will bless you and your family and give you uh

[24:55]tenfold.

[24:54]Um, at this time, um, we're we're still waiting for He's here.

[25:00]Okay.

[25:01]So, if you give us, uh, a few minutes, uh, we'll, uh,

[25:04]get going with, >> [snorts] >> uh, our our guest speaker for

[25:09]tonight.

[26:56]>> [clears throat] >> Muhammad regime.

[27:27]Raheem me down the Lord.

[27:51]will be mel.

[27:54]Rising in light is them.

[28:20]be Illah Oh, [snorts] sweet.

[29:23]Z me.

[29:31][singing] [singing] What is [singing] in my swing.

[30:38]Most Please my [singing] for will be belong.

[31:46]Oh, you are >> [singing] >> Oh, adore.

[32:51]Go for one.

[33:00]All you Allah alawat.

[34:04]Okay.

[34:05]Um I would like to uh welcome Hassan Rav Bali to with

[34:13]a lot Muhammad.

[34:20][clears throat] Alpha.

[34:33][snorts] Alhamdulillah.

[34:49]Alhamdulillah.

[34:55]Alhamdulillah.

[35:14]Amen.

[35:21]Subhan Allah.

[35:48]I begin in Allah's name, the beneficent, the merciful.

[35:52]All praise belongs to Allah subhana wa ta'ala and I thank him

[35:57]for giving us this guidance and of course the opportunity to exist

[36:01]and Allah's mercy's upon us in that he has shaped us in

[36:08]the most beautiful of forms for mankind has been shaped in the

[36:11]most elegant of ways mankind has been shaped in the best of

[36:19]forms and shapes and Our capacities and our abilities are unmatched among

[36:26]creations that we know of.

[36:29]Of course, there are other creations who may be equal, but indeed

[36:32]we are one of those best creations in the universe.

[36:36]And that's a gift of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[36:38]And I want you to bear in mind something very important.

[36:44]Allah creates all kinds of creations.

[36:47]All kinds.

[36:49][snorts] We can't even count them.

[36:51]There are so many creations, but you will notice that we are

[36:55]one of the best creations.

[36:57]And I want us to ponder on this very quick question that

[37:01]I'm posing.

[37:03]What did we do when we were non-existent to deserve to be

[37:08]created humans?

[37:08]Tell me.

[37:10]We're humans.

[37:12]We're endowed with the best gifts of God.

[37:16]We're endowed with intellect, free will, power, all kinds of realities.

[37:21]We could have been born dogs, cats, animals, insects, but Allah created

[37:27]us human.

[37:29]I want us to ponder for a moment and think, what did

[37:35]we do when we were nothing that we deserve to be made

[37:40]humans?

[37:38]The answer, nothing.

[37:41]Nothing.

[37:43]Allah decided, Allah decreed.

[37:48]I want you to understand that.

[37:50]So when you and I look at ourselves that the gift God

[37:53]has given us among creations is to make us human.

[37:57]He could have made us into horses, donkeys, cats.

[38:02]But he made us human.

[38:05]And when he made us human, he gave us the power to

[38:07]use everything underneath it.

[38:20]Do you not see that we made the universe subservient to you

[38:25]whether you can see it or not?

[38:27]This is something that we must ponder on for often we don't

[38:31]appreciate this fact that Allah subhana ta has chosen us human by

[38:39]his own mercy.

[38:38]Now those that are created as dogs and pigs and horses also

[38:45]appreciate their own creation but they are limited within their frame of

[38:50]understanding and they're satisfied being dogs and satisfied being cats and they're

[38:55]satisfied being snakes or whatever.

[38:58]But you and I are higher and we recognize that satisfaction but

[39:04]they don't recognize us.

[39:05]The animals cannot recognize our greatness but we can recognize ours and

[39:12]theirs.

[39:13]Think about that gift of Allah.

[39:15]You will notice that who will enter hell.

[39:17]If you examine this very premise, you will see that when Allah

[39:21]creates a human being as a human being, he gifted this being.

[39:28]Allah says, "We have honored the children of Adam.

[39:30]You and I have been blessed." And God says since I started

[39:36]this blessing of having made you a human being and not a

[39:38]donkey or a horse which would now although it's a beautiful creation

[39:43]horses are a beautiful creation but we ride them we use them

[39:49]you know they carry things for us they pull things for us

[39:53]when we are made human Allah [snorts] expects us because of our

[40:01]intellectual power and because of this gift that God has given us

[40:04]that he expects us to take this humanity to higher stages.

[40:09]There is an expectation by God that I have gifted you humanity.

[40:15]Now I expect you to be the one who is going to

[40:18]promote yourself to higher stages.

[40:21]It's many many verses in the Quran.

[40:27]Allahh constantly tells us you're the best in the community.

[40:34]You promote good, you forbid evil.

[40:37]When Allah says, struggle, oh mankind, struggle upon struggle until you meet

[40:45]your Lord.

[40:46]Allah is telling me, take yourself to higher stages.

[40:49]When a human being rejects that and a human being decides to

[40:57]denigrate that gift where they become dangerous to theirelves and others around

[41:03]them which is they practice hatred, jealousy, xenophobia, misogynism, islamophobia, any kind

[41:12]of phobia that they promote the negative behavior that leads to destruction

[41:17]or self-destruction.

[41:18]Allah says that I gifted you with humanity but rather than taking

[41:23]it to higher stages, you're taking it to lower stages.

[41:26]You are killing humans.

[41:29]You are destroying others.

[41:31]You are forbidding humans from progressing.

[41:34]You'll find people who lie, people who prevent people from speaking the

[41:39]truth.

[41:40]People who are honest are punished in the world today.

[41:41]You notice dishonest people are rewarded.

[41:45]Those kinds of people have something against theirelves on judgment day that

[41:50]Allah will throw them in hell.

[41:56]Why?

[41:54]Listen to this logic.

[41:57]Allah says to this human being, I gifted you with humanity.

[42:00]I started you off from nothing into a very high stage and

[42:06]rather than appreciating that stage and taking it to higher stages, you

[42:11]decided to belittle it and to lower it.

[42:14]Therefore I will lower you.

[42:16]Allah say who are these?

[42:30]The ones who are conscious of theirelves and understand the value of

[42:35]life.

[42:36]They will listen to you when you remind them.

[42:36]For Allah says, you see, remind them.

[42:45]Reminding is beneficial.

[42:45]But who will listen to you?

[42:46]The one who appreciates theirelves and is looking for ways to make

[42:52]themselves better.

[42:53]But the one who is jealous, the one who is wants to

[42:58]stand in the path of progress, the one who wants to challenge

[43:01]Allah's mercy, Allah says, "I denigrate you the way you denigrate others."

[43:09]So the criminals today that are causing all this chaos and killing

[43:13]in in the world today that are causing innocent children to be

[43:18]killed, innocent human beings, women and men to be killed.

[43:23]Allah says I allow you but I will lower you.

[43:27]Now Allah subhana ta the way he lowers a person in hell

[43:30]is he first throws him into hell after having given them many

[43:37]opportunities.

[43:36]But who will remain in hell forever?

[43:41]The recalcitran being who is persistent in rejecting Allah's mercy.

[43:44]Imam Aliat wasam says that who will remain in hell forever?

[43:47]The one who even after having been punished in hell for a

[43:53]long time is given another opportunity to submit to Allah and that

[43:57]individual persists in rejecting Allah.

[43:59]That individual will remain in hell forever.

[44:03]So the foreverness of hell is subject to the individual's capacity in

[44:08]whether or not they want to submit to Allah or not.

[44:10]What is interesting is Mulas Sadra beautifully explains this in hisar where

[44:16][clears throat] he says that the human being that will go into

[44:21]hell and remain in hell will morph into a subcrete meaning that

[44:26]being will not remain in hell forever in the sense of fire

[44:31]but will remain in hell forever as a denigrated creature.

[44:34]A creation that was chosen to be human that rejected Allah, Allah

[44:39]denigrated that being into reptilian state.

[44:43]Okay.

[44:44]Allah says he made mankind in the best of forms and then

[44:56]he lowered the same human being to the lowest of the low.

[45:01]Meaning two meanings here, two basic meanings although there are many more.

[45:05][snorts] One is that we have the capacity to be higher than

[45:07]angels.

[45:07]Imam Ali Alisam says this and by the way anytime I say

[45:12]Imam Ali says, Imam Hassan says, Imam Jaffer Sadi says I want

[45:15]you to understand this categorically that whatever the imam say is what

[45:20]the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said Muhammad Muhammad.

[45:28]So I immiam says that this human being who will remain in

[45:35]the lowest state is the one that has refused to submit to

[45:39]Allah subhana wa ta'ala and being lowered to the in other words

[45:45]being lowered be below the animal I imam says the human being

[45:52]has the capacity to be higher than angels or lower than animals.

[45:58]That capacity is within us and that's a brilliant capacity.

[46:03]Why?

[46:05]Because my ability to go lower than animals validates that when I

[46:10]go higher than angels, I am truly worthy.

[46:12]For if my ability was not there to go lower than animals

[46:17]and I did good, it wouldn't be so great.

[46:20]So remember the greater the negative potential the higher the value of

[46:26]the positive potential.

[46:26]It's just the law of life the law of nature.

[46:30]The more you can fail and therefore you pass the greater your

[46:34]value.

[46:35]The less you can fail and you pass the value is less.

[46:41]I hope you understand this.

[46:42]This is very important uh principle that Allahh lays in the Quran.

[46:46]And therefore you will see that the rahma of Allah for me

[46:52]I always had a difficulty that how does Allah punish someone eternally

[46:56]for a finite misdeed meaning when you come to this earth and

[47:00]you do a wrong thing for a short period of time even

[47:04]for a 100 years how could you be punished forever that's a

[47:10]breach of justice but on the flip side if you and I

[47:11]do a little good and God gives us eternal paradise it's possible

[47:17]because God is all merciful and he's all giving.

[47:18]So the the latter makes sense, but the former challenges the mind.

[47:24]This is what atheists use, by the way, that how can a

[47:26]merciful God put somebody in hell forever when they have rejected God

[47:32]for a short period of time.

[47:33]For no matter how long we live on this earth, it's only

[47:37]timestamped.

[47:37]So Allah answers us in this in this statement that I just

[47:42]made that humans who will go to hell forever are the ones

[47:44]who want to be in hell forever.

[47:48]So that's the justice of God.

[47:50]Meaning Allah will never put a person eternally in hell unless they

[47:53]want to be there.

[47:56]No human being will remain in hell if they don't want to

[47:59]be there.

[48:00]This is profound when you really think about it because the reality

[48:03]here is that it goes to a higher stage as I mentioned

[48:07]a few nights ago that Allah preserves the free will.

[48:09]The limited free will we have is preserved by Allah even in

[48:14]the next world.

[48:14]Meaning that in this world you will notice while people commit crimes

[48:18]we ask Allah to intervene and to stop them and Allah does

[48:24]because Allah's system has what we call natural recycles what we call

[48:28]karma.

[48:29]What goes around comes around.

[48:30]Anybody who indulges in evil ultimately will suffer in evil.

[48:34]That's the law of nature.

[48:37]But Allah also physically in the in the sense interjects when you

[48:42]and I pray at times.

[48:42]But the majority of the time, Allah responds to us and says,

[48:49]"You go fix it.

[48:49]You see evil, do something about it.

[48:52]Stop it." As Malcolm X says, "If you're not part of the

[48:56]solution, you are the problem." Meaning, when there's a problem in the

[49:01]world, we the human beings who are good should work unitedly together

[49:05]to stomp and and prevent evil.

[49:08]Today what's happening right now in the war this is the example

[49:13]of the stumping of evil you will see that many things are

[49:16]coming out now by the grace of Allah among the believers who

[49:22]are now finally showing their real flex and they're telling the enemy

[49:27]back off because we're going to decapitate you and I think that's

[49:31]a gift of Allah but if we didn't do that and we

[49:35]remained subservient and complacent or koi or cowardly then Allah says you

[49:41]deserve to be destroyed for by your own hands you didn't do

[49:46]anything to prevent evil but Allah preserves the free will and therefore

[49:50]he allows the evildoer to continue to do the evil on this

[49:55]earth by the same token when we die Allah continues to preserve

[49:58]our free will even in paradise that when we worship Allah we

[50:02]will not lose our free will those of us who who will

[50:07]enter paradise will worship worship Allah with the free will.

[50:09]We will love to worship Allah.

[50:14]We will love to get close to him, the true believers.

[50:15]But then those who enter hell will love to reject Allah.

[50:20]And Allah says, "As long as you're continuously rejecting me, I will

[50:24]continue to reward you accordingly.

[50:26]Therefore, if you want to reject my rahma, then I will remain

[50:30]you will remain in the state of abject condemnation upon which where

[50:36]you deserve where you belong.

[50:39]It's incredible.

[50:38]If you study the basic justice of Allah's system, it's sublime and

[50:44]it's magnificent.

[50:46]Muhammad Muhammad.

[50:48][snorts] Now taking it to another stage meaning Allah chose us to

[50:55]be humans within humanity.

[50:56]Allah chose people.

[50:59]You and I may ask how did Allah choose the holy prophet

[51:01]as the prophet of humanity as how did Allah choose?

[51:07]Allah chooses by his own will.

[51:09]There is no pretest that the prophet took in any state as

[51:15]some people claim.

[51:15]No, there was no such trial at that time.

[51:19]No creation was tested prior to coming to this earth and that

[51:22]the prophet passed the most and therefore he became the prophet.

[51:28]No, such realities are foolish for the very origination of the universe

[51:32]is the will of Allah.

[51:32]then there is no need for a pre-est you know and therefore

[51:39]Allah now decides to create humanity because there was this pre-existential state

[51:44]of some kind of spirituality and that spirit was very positive and

[51:49]therefore Allah decided to create the universe absolutely not Allah created the

[51:54]universe purely out of his mercy and when he created it he

[51:59]created it perfectly within that spectrum of God's decision to create from

[52:04]nothing into something Allah's decree through his wisdom decreed that mankind should

[52:08]they have limited free will need to be guided and therefore Allah

[52:14]decreed the best guide it's got nothing to do with anything else

[52:17]it is the will of Allah to have created the n of

[52:21]the holy prophet and the b and all the prophets around them

[52:23]and all of humanity having received that light from the prophet that's

[52:30]the will of Allah subhanana wa ta'ala okay very important to understand

[52:36]this.

[52:33]So Allahh chose the holy prophet chose the family of the prophet

[52:41]chose that the tree upon which that will guide humanity is one

[52:45]blessed tree.

[52:50]A blessed tree which is neither east nor west.

[52:53]Meaning they are so chosen and selected that they don't belong to

[52:59]the general public societies though they are human just like us.

[53:02]They eat and they sleep and they have pain and they are

[53:04]born and they die.

[53:07]But Allah has endowed them with extra mercy and given them what

[53:11]we call it's a special light that enables them to see the

[53:17]unseen.

[53:18]The other day I mentioned why don't prophets commit sins and imams

[53:22]and I said they can but they don't.

[53:25]Let me specify they can.

[53:26]Prophets and imams can commit sins but they don't.

[53:31]How come?

[53:32]It's because God gave them kudus special light to see the unseen.

[53:36]Because they see that they see the evils.

[53:40]Now to give a routine example between you and I as human

[53:45]beings.

[53:45]We as a human race can kill.

[53:47]It doesn't take much to kill a person, right?

[53:51]Just go into the shop and buy a gun and aim at

[53:55]somebody and shoot them.

[53:56]It's preposterous.

[53:59]the thought it's evil, but we can.

[54:02]You're in the kitchen, you're holding a knife, you can stab, right?

[54:06]You can, but we don't.

[54:07]Alhamdulillah.

[54:08]The majority of the human race does notice.

[54:12]We can, but we don't.

[54:14]Why don't we?

[54:16]Because we can see the ugliness.

[54:18]We know the consequence of death.

[54:20]We know the consequence of killing.

[54:23]It's irreversible.

[54:25]It's deadly.

[54:25]And it's self-denigrating.

[54:27]it leads to my self-destruction.

[54:30]So therefore, though we can, we don't.

[54:32]So when we say prophets and imams don't, it's precisely under this

[54:36]principle that they see so much of the evil that it's impossible

[54:39]for them to do wrong.

[54:43]A man comes and asks imaffhatam and says, "Why don't you lie?"

[54:49]Now at that time we didn't have vitrius toilets as we have

[54:53]today.

[54:54]Toilets made of glass.

[54:54]At that time there were just basic holes made for humans to

[55:03]deposit.

[55:01]So the Imam says, "Have you put your hand in the toilet?"

[55:07]The man who's asking our sixth imam, "Why don't you lie?" Our

[55:10]sixth imam responds and says, "Have you put your hand in the

[55:16]toilet?" And the man cringed because just the thought of approaching the

[55:20]toilet and putting your hand in it is disgusting.

[55:22]The Imam says, "The way you feel is how we feel when

[55:26]you lie." We see it like that.

[55:28]We see it like you're putting your hand in the toilet.

[55:33]So, we never lie.

[55:33]Subhan Allah.

[55:35]Look how elegant the infallibility factor is.

[55:38]Now, I also want to make a quick point here that when

[55:41]we say a human being is infallible, the classic knee-jerk foolish ignorant

[55:49]answer is that oh, only God is infallible.

[55:53]Please stop.

[55:55]God is not infallible.

[55:58]God is beyond infallible.

[55:59]God cannot be compared to infallibility.

[56:04]Allah is not under trial.

[56:08]Allah doesn't doesn't have that real upon which to say he's infallible.

[56:12]Whatever Allah creates is good.

[56:16]God is beyond infallibility.

[56:19]But in his creation there is the principle of infallibility.

[56:22]Not Allah.

[56:24]Allah is above that.

[56:25]You and I cannot say God is infallible.

[56:28]You cannot say that.

[56:30]That means the implication is when God is infallible, it implies that

[56:35]he can make a mistake.

[56:35]Allah does not never does make mistakes and cannot.

[56:40]The fact that Allah cannot make mistakes is not a weakness in

[56:46]Allah because in the English language two negatives make a positive.

[56:50]Allah cannot lie is a good thing.

[56:53]Allah cannot cheat is a good thing.

[56:56]Cannot with a negative makes it a positive.

[56:59]So don't be fooled into saying that when we talk about the

[57:04]attributes of God that when there's a negative it means Allah has

[57:06]a negative.

[57:07]It's like that foolish question.

[57:08]Can God create a rock heavy enough that he can't lift himself?

[57:11]It's a silly question.

[57:14]The answer is no.

[57:14]God cannot create a rock heavy enough which he cannot lift himself.

[57:18]It's got two negatives in it.

[57:19]So the best answer to that is yes.

[57:24]God can create any rock and he can lift it.

[57:24]It's the same.

[57:26]It's just a play of words and semantics.

[57:28]Understand that.

[57:30]Don't be fooled by those people who try to pretend that somehow

[57:33]they can, you know, obfuscate us in our belief in Allah subhana

[57:37]tala.

[57:38]It's a preposterous question to ask.

[57:41]Allah has no negatives.

[57:41]Like for example, can Allah die to know oh isn't that a

[57:49]limitation?

[57:50]No.

[57:48]Death is a limitation.

[57:52]Therefore, cannot die is lack of limitation.

[57:54]Understand that please.

[57:56]So when we talk about infallibility, it is within the creation of

[58:00]the human race.

[58:02]Now you and I have all practiced infallibility.

[58:06]I'm sure in this room most of us if not all of

[58:07]us have taken exams and we've scored a 100.

[58:12]We've become infallible in the exam.

[58:16]Did we now become divine?

[58:18]Did we become godly just because we scored a 100?

[58:22]How ridiculous is that?

[58:22]So when you and I avoid something perfectly and we do something

[58:27]correctly perfectly that didn't make us into God.

[58:30]So anybody who proposes his argument that infallibility is a is a

[58:36]is a unique attribute for Allahh, they don't know what they're talking

[58:42]about.

[58:40]Understand that.

[58:43]Now why is infallibility so important?

[58:46]Because the notion of perfection challenges the efficacy of one's thought.

[58:55]For example, when I make a statement to you and I'm explaining

[58:59]something to you, I have to do it in the best of

[59:04]ways such that it reaches the minds in the most pure and

[59:07]the best of ways.

[59:10]For if I allow degrees of doubt in it, then my thoughts

[59:16]will have natural doubts in it.

[59:17]When we make statements, we have to make the assumption that whatever

[59:21]statement a person made, it was a perfect statement.

[59:23]For if we reject the very essence of the statement, then nothing

[59:30]makes sense.

[59:30]So notice that the principle of infallibility is within us.

[59:34]For we are all trying to improve ourselves, aren't we?

[59:37]We're all trying to reduce our mistakes in life, aren't we?

[59:43]Aren't we?

[59:42]Yes or no?

[59:44]Yes.

[59:44]Okay.

[59:45]But you cannot do that if infallibility didn't exist because there'd be

[59:50]no trajectory towards it if infallibility didn't exist.

[59:53]If we say that everything is mush and there is no infallibility,

[59:55]then how can you say that I'm trying to reduce my mistakes?

[59:58]It's impossible to reduce because you don't know how to reduce because

[60:04]there's no movement towards perfection.

[60:06]So notice the Quran for example is the book of Allah subhana

[60:09]wa ta'ala.

[60:10]It's a perfect book.

[60:12]Allah says there is no mistake in it.

[60:16]This Quran has no mistake in it.

[60:17]And now we demand that it should have no mistake.

[60:21]Because the minute the Quran has a mistake, you start to doubt

[60:24]it.

[60:24]Because you say, well, if this is a mistake and that is

[60:29]a mistake, how far is this book made with mistakes?

[60:30]And if that is the case, then how do I know that

[60:34]which I believe in is not a mistake.

[60:36]Notice it starts to corrode the very thought.

[60:39]When you look at other scriptures of other religions, you will see

[60:43]that they are riddled with mistakes, filled with mistakes, hundred thousand plus

[60:47]mistakes.

[60:48]Some of the famous scriptures in the world today where billions of

[60:53]people follow hundreds of thousands of mistakes.

[60:55]We shrug our shoulders and say, "Ah, it's okay.

[60:59]We'll just cherrypick what we want." What happens then is you put

[61:02]the card in front of the horse because now guidance from Allah

[61:06]stops.

[61:06]That is why we insist that prophets and imams are infallible for

[61:11]their power of delivery has to be perfect.

[61:14]And therefore you will notice the miracle of Allah.

[61:15]Allah could have revealed the Quran as a book made of sub

[61:21]you know substance that nobody is aware of and that it maybe

[61:24]glows in the dark and it does in miraculous things.

[61:28]But Allah did not do that.

[61:30]The Quran could have come as a book completely.

[61:32]In fact, the disbelievers asked the messenger of Allah, "Why doesn't your

[61:37]God bring the Quran from the sky in a in a structured

[61:40]form?" Now, let's analyze this very quickly.

[61:44]You will see that the reason Allah doesn't bring that is because

[61:50]the Quran is a guide for mankind.

[61:52]It's a practical guide.

[61:53]If the Quran came as a scripture upon us, there'd be no

[61:58]context to this book.

[61:58]there'd be no relative context for in terms of examples.

[62:04]We would have no examples to follow.

[62:06]So Allah subhana ta takes the holy prophet as the example of

[62:10]divine will of God.

[62:13]For Allah says what I will I have put it in my

[62:18]prophet and what the prophet does is my will.

[62:22]What he doesn't do is my will.

[62:24]Therefore he is my will.

[62:24]So since it is the will of the prophet for the holy

[62:29]prophet to be the example, it's only logical that the laws should

[62:32]come through him.

[62:34]Therefore, Allah brings the laws of Allah through the mouth of prophets.

[62:38]You'll find Mus Alisam.

[62:39]Although Musa received the tablets, he also received revelations from Allah directly

[62:46]through his mouth.

[62:46]Jesus received the the inje through his mouth.

[62:50]He preached it.

[62:52]He spoke it.

[62:54]It's contextual.

[62:53]What it does is it relates me that the law of God

[62:59]is connected to a person.

[62:59]That's why Allah says indeed in the in the messenger is your

[63:07]best role model example because if I didn't have the holy prophet

[63:13]as a role model I wouldn't know what to do.

[63:16]And notice that all the verses of the Quran that came came

[63:18]at separate times over the span of 23 years precisely to explain

[63:22]the Quran contextually that each verse would come and there would be

[63:29]a reason of something.

[63:30]Somebody would ask a question and Allah would respond.

[63:33]For example, somebody came and asked the prophet tell me about this

[63:41]this spirit that lies in the human being.

[63:44]What is it?

[63:47]So the messenger remains silent.

[63:47]Allah revealed meaning that they ask you about this.

[63:52]Tell them this is in the command of God.

[63:54]You say a man comes to the holy prophet and said let

[63:59]God punish me with rocks coming from the from the sky.

[64:03]So he came and asked the question Allah reveals it all the

[64:07]time.

[64:07]The Quran is constantly contextual, but it's telling me the laws of

[64:11]God through actions and transactions.

[64:12]Now, we as Muslims across the board, all five major schools of

[64:19]thought, agree that the Quran is an infallible book, we all agree

[64:23]the Quran has no mistakes.

[64:26]But then we have to ponder on the question that this Quran

[64:29]came through the mouth of a person.

[64:31]Therefore, this human being who brought this Quran to us had to

[64:36]be perfect for it would be impossible for Allah to bring a

[64:39]perfect book through an imperfect being.

[64:41]It's like passing clean water through a pipe that's tainted with dirt.

[64:45]For then the water that comes out on the other side of

[64:50]the pipe will be intermixed with dirt.

[64:52]But notice the entire conduit that delivers the message of Allah has

[64:57]to be clean and pure for the message of Allah to be

[65:01]received upon mankind.

[65:00]I hope I'm making sense on this Muhammad Ali Muhammad.

[65:07]>> Now within this time that I have Allahh the verse that

[65:11]I started was in Ali Imran verse number 33.

[65:14]This is another level of choice that Allah has made.

[65:18]While Allah chose us as humans, as Allah chose all particles in

[65:21]the universe to be what they should be.

[65:23]For an electron to be an electron is a gift for the

[65:27]electron.

[65:27]For the dog to be a dog is a gift for the

[65:30]dog.

[65:31]For the horse to be a horse is a gift for the

[65:32]horse.

[65:32]Allah says for humanity the gift is I made you human.

[65:38]But on a higher stage of humanity which is expected from God

[65:40]that we now need to take ourselves to higher stages.

[65:45]Allah has chosen beings infallible beings as guides.

[65:52]So Allah in verse 33 says Allah surely chose Adam and the

[65:58]descendants of Ibraim and the descendants of Imran above the nations.

[66:03]Now watch the next verse.

[66:08]offspring one of the other and Allah is hearing knowing offspring meaning

[66:16]it's in one family that means Allah kept the entire prophethood and

[66:20]the wlayah and imamat within one family very important to understand it's

[66:25]not royalty royalty is different the royalty that happened in the omayad

[66:31]empire under muawya that royalty was a breach of justice for that

[66:35]is not based on merit, that is not based on divine choice.

[66:40]It's based on bloodline.

[66:40]And if your son is a royal idiot, he still becomes a

[66:45]king or a khalifa, that's a violation.

[66:48]Even you will notice that Ibraimis when Allah says, "I have made

[66:55]you among mankind and imbrai and my generation." Allah says, "Not the

[67:02]evildoers in your generation.

[67:06]They cannot hold this position of imamat.

[67:07]They cannot.

[67:09]Allah says, I choose them as pure upright beings but within one

[67:13]family.

[67:13]I think that's very very important to understand.

[67:16]And I want to place this as the the foundation of the

[67:19]discussion that we're going to have because now when this happens you

[67:25]and I as human beings when we have leaders chosen by Allah

[67:28]and Allah is telling me the subservient being who's also by the

[67:32]way ahalifa by the way every one of us in this room

[67:36]are also to Allah says in the Quran you are you are

[67:43]all representatives of God.

[67:44]Please understand that.

[67:45]But we are what we call secondary if not tertiary not primary.

[67:49]There's primary secondary tertiary.

[67:53]Understand that you and I are meaning we have been chosen by

[68:00]Allah to represent God in the same degree as prophets and imams

[68:03]but at a lower level.

[68:06]Meaning we are dependent on guidance from prophets and imams and the

[68:10]Quran and Allah but we are subservient to these structures.

[68:13]Whereas prophets and imams the imams are dependent on prophets to guide

[68:19]them and prophets are dependent directly from God to guide them through

[68:23]girail.

[68:24]So understand the structure.

[68:25]Now how do we say this?

[68:27]Well let's examine furued in Islam.

[68:28]We all agree that we have and we have are the roots

[68:35]of Islam which is the roots of the the entire structure of

[68:39]my belief system.

[68:39]You'll notice that the roots are hidden is hidden.

[68:44]My faith in God, my oneness in God, my belief in is

[68:50]hidden.

[68:49]Okay?

[68:49]My nua, my belief system is hidden.

[68:52]My willa is hidden.

[68:55]Day of judgment is hidden in my heart.

[68:59]It's the root.

[68:58]The exemplification of that belief system comes into a branch which is

[69:03]known as furuin.

[69:05]The furu are the transactions the practical expressions of.

[69:11]You will notice it is incumbent upon us to do of a

[69:16]learned scholar on the levels of but not at the levels of

[69:23]that means at the level of we do our own.

[69:26]All human beings have to struggle on their own.

[69:28]Yes, we can get guidance from the maraj.

[69:30]We can get guidance from the Quran and etc etc.

[69:34]But the responsibility is entirely upon ourselves.

[69:38]But for you and I either do our own and we become

[69:44]our own or we follow a who we call.

[69:49]If we don't do this then we're denying ourselves proper guidance.

[69:55]Now within as you know we have 10 all of us probably

[69:59]know this right.

[70:02]We have rights we have is enjoining good is forbidding evil.

[70:13]But forbidding evil has two components to this and the promotion of

[70:17]good.

[70:18]The the initial component means upon myself enjoining good upon myself is

[70:27]enjoining upon myself.

[70:30]Upon myself once I do this I have a social responsibility also

[70:33]to promote good to others and I also have a responsibility to

[70:38]prevent others from doing sin.

[70:43]So is also that I should discourage others from committing sins.

[70:47]So notice this responsibility of promotion of good and forbiddance of evil

[70:51]is a tertiary level of kilafa because at the end of the

[70:56]day what do the khalifas do?

[70:57]What do the imams do?

[70:58]What do the prophets do?

[71:01]Same they promote good forbid evil.

[71:03]So notice that we also have this responsibility.

[71:05]Okay, it's very very important.

[71:09]Now because we have this responsibility, one of the characters that Allah

[71:13]holds us liable upon and I want to touch on this before

[71:16]I end tonight is jealousy.

[71:19]Okay?

[71:20]Because Allah has appointed us with such high stature and because we

[71:24]have such capacity, we have within ourselves a vulnerable state.

[71:30]When we are born as children, you'll find the vulnerability of a

[71:36]child is in their self-identification.

[71:37]You'll find when children are born and raised, their biggest problem is

[71:41]identity.

[71:42]Who am I?

[71:44]And how do I identify myself?

[71:45]So you will notice that one of the most profound events of

[71:48]children is to befriend others.

[71:52]For then they can bounce off their level of security.

[71:54]And if I'm accepted by somebody else, that means I must be

[71:58]worthy.

[71:59]It's all about self-worthiness.

[72:01]It's built on a very core principle of self-worthiness.

[72:04]This is where true iman comes that Allah says, "Yes, I've made

[72:09]you precarious.

[72:10]I've made you into a state of trepidation.

[72:15]I've made you in a state of stress." And many of us,

[72:21]if you examine the human race today, the majority of the human

[72:23]race is suffering through vulnerabilities.

[72:26]Our emperor president we have today has a serious problem with identity.

[72:32]Serious.

[72:33]He cannot slap his name enough anywhere.

[72:37]If he could do it on highways and on the moon, he

[72:40]would do it.

[72:42]This person has a serious problem of identity.

[72:45]He doesn't know what to do with it.

[72:47]He's gone mad with it.

[72:49]You will notice that the human race, all of us, when we

[72:53]see others that are more beautiful supposedly than us, although I think

[72:57]everybody's as beautiful because beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

[73:01]It's ridiculous to say this one is extremely beautiful.

[73:04]Of course, everybody's beautiful and there are some who just happen to

[73:09]be within the Fibonacci principles of perfection, right?

[73:12]And they just look beautiful.

[73:16]But I think beauty in its real form is when intelligence and

[73:19]intellect exudes itself.

[73:20]That's when real beauty shows up, not in the physical.

[73:25]Because the combination of intellect with the physical completes the beauty of

[73:29]a person.

[73:30]Now when we see somebody who has more than we do, their

[73:35]homes are nicer, their cars are better, their lifestyle is better, they're

[73:39]smarter than us.

[73:41]Often in class you will see that when a student raises their

[73:44]hand with the right answer all the kids look at them like

[73:46]like how'd you get that answer?

[73:49]This guy always has the answer.

[73:50]Do you notice instead of saying alhamdulillah this guy has the answer

[73:53]like why do we say why do you always have the and

[73:56]by the way the funny part about this whole thing is even

[73:59]blood siblings are jealous of each other.

[74:03]You know that if I go to two brothers and I praise

[74:07]one, the other one looks at me like, right?

[74:12]Aren't you happy that I'm praising your brother?

[74:15]Notice that even your own brother when being praised, there's jealousy.

[74:21]Why is there jealousy?

[74:24]Deep rooted is our lack of faith in connecting with Allah.

[74:28]And we have an identity crisis.

[74:30]Now, there is no expectation when you're young to be totally connected

[74:35]with Allah, for you are still figuring things out.

[74:36]But my God, when you reach in your mid- ages, come on,

[74:41]there's an expectation of you to be more stable.

[74:43]And by Allah's grace, Allah does take a bit of our so-called

[74:48]vibrancy and beauty away and starts to give us wrinkles and make

[74:51]our hair more, you know, light.

[74:54]It's a blessing of Allah.

[74:57]For Allah says, I will remove this distraction from you.

[74:59]You seem to have been caught too much in it in your

[75:03]teenage years and in your 20s and in your 30s.

[75:05]It's time I take it away from you so that you really

[75:07]focus on what you were created for.

[75:11]Did you notice that?

[75:12]It's a it's an incredible reality when Allah Allah is helping us

[75:16]to identify ourselves and to strengthen our iman and to get connected

[75:20]with God more easily without being distracted.

[75:24]But you'll notice even people in old age they are still vulnerable

[75:29]and they still have this problem where they cannot hold on to

[75:32]something with faith.

[75:34]When they see somebody progressing they don't smile and say oh wow

[75:39]that's wonderful.

[75:38]They have this moment of you know feeling like why don't I

[75:44]have it?

[75:46]But if you'll notice that if you believe in Allah then you

[75:52]will own everything.

[75:52]When you see a very beautiful person, sometimes you don't even want

[75:58]to blink because they're so beautiful.

[76:00]You just want to keep looking.

[76:02]You are incredibly enamored like how does this person how can this

[76:11]person be this way?

[76:13]You know, you're like stunned and everything about them is like right.

[76:19][laughter] What do you do?

[76:21]A true believer at that moment immediately says, "Blessed is he who

[76:29]creates such beauty." What you just did is you owned that person.

[76:32]Because when you see a very beautiful person, the first thing you

[76:36]want is to own them.

[76:38]You wish they were yours.

[76:39]If it's a beautiful child, you wish it was yours.

[76:42]If it's a beautiful girl, you wish it was your spouse.

[76:46]If it's a beautiful boy, you wish it was your spouse.

[76:47]Isn't it?

[76:48]So Allah says you can just come to me for know that

[76:55]I made that.

[76:54]So let's jump in really quickly and you will notice the story

[77:01]of Ysef within this 10 five seven minutes.

[77:04]Allah says, Allahh is saying, do you have jealousy for the people

[77:22]upon which Allah has given them of his grace?

[77:26]By the way, every one of us has received grace.

[77:28]Every one of us.

[77:30]The mere fact that we exist is a grace of God.

[77:35]But notice, we're not satisfied.

[77:35]But indeed, we have given to Ibraim's children the book and the

[77:42]wisdom.

[77:42]And we have given them a grand kingdom.

[77:45]Oh God, when you think about this, Subhan Allah, you know, um

[77:49]when when we when we focus on how Allah subhana tala chooses,

[77:56]you know, his beings and obviously it's logical that some should be

[78:01]ahead of us.

[78:03]You can't you cannot be ahead of everybody for everything.

[78:06]You notice and somebody has to be ahead of you.

[78:09]That's a trial.

[78:12]Allah mentions that I have made some excel from others to test

[78:16]you.

[78:17]Now the one who's excelling there's an expectation that the one who's

[78:22]ahead should look behind and take care of those behind and the

[78:26]one who's behind should look at the one who's ahead and look

[78:31]upon them with uh grace and gratitude.

[78:33]So in you'll find that in y Allah saysman right let me

[78:44]start with thisham I'll spend five minutes and I'll endur Allah lays

[79:00]the foundation by the way you know These are known as singular

[79:08]letters and they are secret letters and only when the imam reappears

[79:13]and when the prophet was there they knew the meaning of these

[79:17]letters.

[79:18]They are secret they are protectors of the Quran and they are

[79:22]uniquely placed in certain chapters that begin with they are special kinds

[79:27]of letters.

[79:29]Allah says these are this is the book that these are the

[79:31]verses of the book that makes things manifest.

[79:34]We have revealed it as an Arabic Quran.

[79:37]Quran please I say this very very sincerely.

[79:43]Those of us who don't know how to read Quran pay attention

[79:47]to this verse verse number two in Ysef the 12th chapter.

[79:51]Indeed we reveal this Quran in Arabic.

[79:53]So you know Allah is not talking to the Arabs.

[79:57]Allah is talking to humanity.

[80:01]that if you are a believer, learn Arabic.

[80:06]Please learn it.

[80:09]It's the means to the grace of God.

[80:11]Let's not use this as an excuse to say Arabic is not

[80:15]my language.

[80:15]With all due respect, some of the best reciters, some of the

[80:19]best huas in the world are non-Arabs.

[80:21]Okay?

[80:22]I want you to understand that one needs not be an Arab

[80:25]to understand the Quran.

[80:29]For Allah says, we have made the Quran easy to remember in

[80:33]Allah repeats this verse four times.

[80:40]So I just want to make this very quick footnote.

[80:42]Then Allah says I'm going to tell you we were I are

[80:55]going to narrate to you the best of narratives by our revealing

[81:00]to you this Quran though before this you were certainly one of

[81:03]those who did not know.

[81:03]So Allah is revealing something of an event that took place before

[81:08]the holy prophet and Allah says I'm letting you know this is

[81:12]what happened.

[81:13]But it's in other words meaning it's a story deep and rich

[81:22]with lessons.

[81:23]So I'm going to touch on it very briefly.

[81:25]Tomorrow I'll continue this discussion because I think it's very important for

[81:29]you and I to to find our vulnerabilities within us.

[81:33]and to find our identity and to know that when we are

[81:41]alone, we should not feel lonely.

[81:42]A true believer is never lonely.

[81:44]As the prophet said, a true believer is never bored.

[81:48]A true believer is never lonely.

[81:54]Okay?

[81:51]Because God is with you.

[81:57]You are giving your trust to Allah.

[82:02]That connection with God is extremely important.

[82:04]The minute you and I are are grounded with Allah, jealousy goes

[82:10]out the window.

[82:10]Vulnerability goes out the window.

[82:12]Backbiting goes out the window.

[82:14]Hatred goes out the window.

[82:17]People who have hatred are not connected with God.

[82:18]That's why they hate.

[82:21]People who are connected with Allah love.

[82:24]They don't hate.

[82:24]They only hate evil.

[82:27]They don't hate humans.

[82:28]They don't hate people.

[82:29]They don't hate cultures.

[82:31]They don't hate tribes.

[82:33]Now, so Allah is now telling me, and this, by the way,

[82:38]this chapter 12 is chronological and it's brilliant.

[82:42]If you look at the sheer number of verses about the story

[82:45]of Ysef, it's so deep and encapsulated, yet it's so rich, yet

[82:51]it's so efficient that when you look at how Allah talks, the

[82:54]story of Ysef from childhood to the time he becomes the leader,

[82:58]meaning the the governor of Egypt to the time his brothers and

[83:05]his father and his stepmother bowed to him.

[83:05]My god, it is the most efficient storytelling ever in the annals

[83:11]of history.

[83:11]I'll discuss this tomorrow inshallah.

[83:13]But Ysef Alisam is saying to his father, foreshadowing, it's what we

[83:17]call adumbberating.

[83:19]You know, it's an English word.

[83:21]When you adumberate, it means is you're foreshadowing something in the future.

[83:26]So, Yufisam is talking as a child and he was a magnificent

[83:31]child, very beautiful.

[83:31]And I want you to know that he had 12 other brothers.

[83:35]Okay?

[83:36]As you know, Benyamin was his real brother from his mother.

[83:41]The other brothers came from different mothers, but they were all children

[83:46]of Yak.

[83:48]They were older than Ysef.

[83:49]Ysef was one of the youngest.

[84:08]Let's lay this foundation.

[84:11]We'll talk more about it late tomorrow.

[84:13]But Ysef says to his father, "Oh my father, I see 11

[84:15]planets and the sun and the moon bowing to me sid doing

[84:22]sujud to me." The father replies, "My son, do not relate your

[84:27]vision to your brothers, lest they devise a plan against you.

[84:31]Surely Shayan is an open enemy of man." Notice, subhan Allah, the

[84:36]father who's a prophet knows that his own sons are jealous against

[84:40]his own son.

[84:42]This is incredible.

[84:42]Now, when you and I live on this earth, every one of

[84:48]us is subject to somebody's jealousy.

[84:50]Every one of us has been somehow traumatized by other people's jealousy.

[84:55]We call it an evil eye.

[84:56]You have a beautiful house.

[85:00]People come into your house and people look at it.

[85:01]Evil eye.

[85:03]People are worried about an evil eye.

[85:05]I will recite tomorrow because I don't have time tonight.

[85:10]I will recite tomorrow from Jad Dua number 23 which is known

[85:16]as dua the dua for well-being.

[85:19]It's also in du but in dafia Im zulisam is describing about

[85:25]the evil eye people who have jealousy people who don't like your

[85:30]successes we need to seek protection for the evil eye can have

[85:35]negative consequences I'll talk about it tomorrow but notice is saying to

[85:42]his son don't reveal this to your brothers because he already knows

[85:45]their nature he knows that this child is a prophet of God.

[85:51]He's magnificent.

[85:50]He's wise.

[85:51]And God is already telling him that tomorrow you are going to

[85:56]be a great person because they will be bowing to you.

[86:00]Now what is this future?

[86:00]Allah at that moment.

[86:03]But Yakob already knew he was already aware of this fact.

[86:06]So when Ysef Alisam was taken from him, he wasn't crying because

[86:08]he thought Ysef is going to die.

[86:13]He was crying because he missed Ysef.

[86:17]The separation of him and his son is what made Yakob cry

[86:20]to blindness.

[86:21]It wasn't because he thought his son was eaten by a wolf.

[86:24]He knew it's a lie and he clearly knew it because in

[86:29]the Quran when they brought the the shirt of Ysef with blood

[86:35]he Yakub looks at his sons and say this wolf that ate

[86:39]my son was a very intelligent wolf because this wolf ate my

[86:46]son without ripping his shirt.

[86:48]It's bloody but it's not ripped.

[86:52]Look at the wisdom of Yahoo.

[86:53]He's telling you, he's telling his sons, you guys are concocting this

[86:57]lie in in with your with your uh plan to get rid

[87:04]of my son.

[87:07]So the basis tonight and I end with this is that as

[87:11]the prophet said, when you are jealous, you burn like fire burns

[87:20]wood.

[87:21]Meaning a jealous person burns like a piece of wood.

[87:25]So Allah is telling me that when you are jealous of somebody,

[87:30]you're actually pushing that person higher and you're lowering yourself.

[87:33]And the moral of the story in the story of Ysefam was

[87:39]they wanted Ysef dead.

[87:40]And then time came where they had to bow to him just

[87:46]for grain of food.

[87:49]And Ysef was standing on the throne magnificently clad looking at his

[87:54]brothers and they were stunned.

[87:56]They said we wished him dead but look today he's so much

[88:02]ahead of us.

[88:01]So you and I should stop being jealous.

[88:04]We should pray for those who are jealous that they should get

[88:10]haya.

[88:09]And you and I should never stop to progress towards Allah.

[88:13]And I will show you tomorrow how and why Ysef reached such

[88:17]a high stage.

[88:19]If you and I followed this of Quran, you and I will

[88:27]understand the real message of the Quran.

[88:53]Ramadan.

[89:00]For Muhammad island.

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