Sayed Saleh AlQazwini - The Role of Religion in Our Lives

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[0:00][Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] alhamdulillah [Music] muham muhamad a question question that

[1:04]many times people ask is how relevant and how important should religion

[1:15]be in our lives we see so much Bloodshed we see so

[1:24]much violence and fighting and dispute within communities within Nations within group

[1:31]groups of people many times that dispute it goes back to religions

[1:40]and some people they say that it is the religions that are

[1:47]the source of fighting and dispute so let's just forget about religions

[1:53]Let's ignore all religions and act like there's no religion so that

[2:00]we will have Peace So that we will establish peace and there

[2:04]will be no more problems and there will be no more Bloodshed

[2:08]and there will be no more struggling and we don't need all

[2:18]this religion talk anymore because now we have science we have technology

[2:25]we are in 2016 we don't need the talk of religion anymore

[2:31]because it is irrelevant now there are other ways that we could

[2:36]solve our problems today and we don't need to go back to

[2:43]religion go back to Faith to solve our problems because now technology

[2:48]and science and advancement in medicine it is solving the problems that

[2:54]people used to go back to religion to before to solve now

[3:00]now we have science and technology and medicine so there's no need

[3:04]to go back to religion people used to fool themselves they used

[3:10]to say let's go to religion let's turn to God they create

[3:13]a God and they create a religion a system of life so

[3:17]that they could fool themselves when they are struggling when someone dies

[3:22]in their family when someone has a disease in their family when

[3:28]they're struggling they go back to the religion to seek Refuge this

[3:35]is a very common argument that many atheists and many people who

[3:40]are against religion make today and you find this especially if you're

[3:47]in the universities in the academic arena you will find many people

[3:52]in the name of Academia in the name of Science in the

[3:55]name of technology in the name of advancements they rical religion talk

[4:01]about against religion saying because we've solved our problems right now and

[4:07]we have the forms to solve our problems today and therefore religion

[4:17]is irrelevant in our lives we don't need religion because we have

[4:21]the brains to solve our problems and this is not just talk

[4:29]this actually study actually show that there are many people especially here

[4:34]in the United States in the west they are actually going towards

[4:38]this belief system the Pew Forum on religion and this is one

[4:44]of the top uh organizations that does statistics statistical analysis in America

[4:50]it's known the Pew Forum on religion and public life released a

[4:55]study two years ago that found that 20% of Americans say that

[5:00]they have no religious affiliation they have they're they're they don't go

[5:06]back to any religion in their lives and that is an increase

[5:14]from 15% in The Last 5 Years so within within 5 years

[5:16]it increased 5% and this is a huge number if you look

[5:21]at the whole population of America within five years 5% of people

[5:27]they say that they don't feel that religion is relevant and they

[5:33]don't they don't have any religious affiliation so now here's the question

[5:42]how relevant is religion in our lives how relevant should religion be

[5:48]in our lives and what is the role that religion should have

[5:52]in our day-to-day lives there's one argument that I mentioned earlier where

[5:57]a group of people say they don't need religion anymore but the

[6:01]answer is religion is as relevant today in fact more relevant today

[6:07]than it was probably a thousand years ago or 500 years ago

[6:13]because the problems that we are facing today are also much greater

[6:16]than the problems than the challenges that people faced 500 years ago

[6:20]and a thousand years ago so religion is not outdated science and

[6:26]technology and advancements they have not come and erased and removed the

[6:33]need for religion and the problem that many people say the problem

[6:38]is religion it is not because of religions it's because of people

[6:42]that are hiding behind religions it's because of politicians that use religions

[6:47]to carry out their own agenda isn't this what we Muslims have

[6:54]been trying to prove to the world that Islam is not a

[6:56]religion of violence Islam is not a religion of terrorism it's a

[7:01]group of people people that are using Islam that are using religion

[7:04]to carry out their own agenda and Islam is not the only

[7:06]religion that has to deal with this problem you look in history

[7:10]you see that Christianity had to deal with this problem C Catholicism

[7:14]had to deal with this problem Judaism has and had to deal

[7:18]with this problem and every religion every religion there's a group of

[7:25]people that Resort behind religion to carry out their own selfish desires

[7:28]and their selfish needs but then when we look at the essence

[7:35]of religion most religions we see that they call for peace they

[7:40]call for love they call for worshiping God and creating a system

[7:45]of relations within within people within Society this is the two main

[7:49]purposes of religion building a vertical relationship with Allah and second a

[7:55]horizontal relationship with people in society with you this is is the

[8:02]purpose of religion of course every religion has its own way but

[8:06]overall this is the main function of religions so religion and specifically

[8:11]Islam is not outdated and we are in need of religion today

[8:18]just as people needed it back then and in fact we need

[8:21]it even more today than people needed it before because the problems

[8:25]that arise today they are more now there's also another argument that

[8:32]you find many atheists and many people who are against religion they

[8:37]use they say that religion contradicts science religion and science do not

[8:43]go hand in hand they are always bumping heads they're always against

[8:50]one another now this may be true with some religions for example

[8:53]you look at the history of the Catholic Church you look at

[8:57]the history of Christianity you see that they waged a war against

[9:02]science an advancement of science from scientists the first scientists Galileo and

[9:07]many of the scientists they were imprisoned and they were probably executed

[9:12]and they were excommunicated from the church and from the community because

[9:17]they were establishing a scientific lifestyle but then you come and you

[9:23]look at the religion of Islam now that argument yes probably some

[9:27]people could use it against certain religions but it can not be

[9:31]used against Islam because Islam and Science and logic they go hand

[9:34]in hand Islam in fact it's a scientific religion it's not based

[9:41]only upon believing where you find other religions they'll tell you just

[9:45]believe and you will be saved Islam does not say just believe

[9:48]and you will be saved believing is half of being saved the

[9:55]other part is having the other part is reaching certainty based on

[9:59]logic and you cannot reach certainty in Allah subhah wa ta'ala you

[10:03]cannot believe in Allah until you use your intellect and you use

[10:09]your mind this is why you look at the verses in the

[10:23]Quran the Quran probably every page in the Quran you see that

[10:30]it refers to some type of seeking knowledge some type of pondering

[10:33]some type of thinking the religion of Islam wants you to think

[10:42]so Islam for someone to say that Islam contradicts science and scientific

[10:48]advancement this is very false and if you look at the history

[10:53]the history you will see that the start of scientific advancements it

[10:58]started Ed where started with Islam started in Muslim countries in Bagdad

[11:07]it started under the guidance of our IMS IM under the guidance

[11:16]of Al and the religion of Islam and therefore today you look

[11:23]at our Scholars you look at our fukah you see that Muslim

[11:27]countries especially specifically the school of you see that they are the

[11:32]most lenient when it comes to advancement in science when it comes

[11:39]to some types of research stem cell research some types of advancements

[11:43]that you would have to have scientific advancements you see that the

[11:47]religion of Islam and specifically the of it is the most lenient

[11:55]when it comes to these issues because we have a common principle

[11:58]this common princip principle that we took from the Quran and we

[12:05]took from the and this principle tells us everything is halal unless

[12:15]you have certainty and proof that it's Haram so unlike many other

[12:20]religions and many other belief systems where they tell you everything is

[12:23]wrong until we tell you it's right Islam says no everything is

[12:27]okay until we tell you until you have proof that it's wrong

[12:33]and this is the beauty of Islam and specifically the of so

[12:38]we see that Islam does not contradict science and Islam does not

[12:42]contradict and go against advancement in medicine in technology in science and

[12:51]in any type of advancement scientific advancement however on the other hand

[12:55]for the group of people that say we don't need religion and

[13:00]religion should not have a role in our lives because we have

[13:05]solved our own problems with our own methods you ask them where

[13:12]are your advancements and your technology and your money and your level

[13:18]of knowledge that you have reached even though even though Allah subhana

[13:21]wa ta'ala says that the human has reached a very small level

[13:28]of knowledge we think that we have reached a very high level

[13:31]of knowledge Allah says in the Quran that the that you have

[13:38]is something very little compared to the whole creation what we know

[13:43]is something very little but you find that the human being he

[13:46]learns a few things and he becomes so arrogant he starts saying

[13:53]he starts considering himself to be God so you ask these people

[14:03]the ones who say that we don't need religion anymore you ask

[14:06]them has your so-called knowledge that you have reached has that stopped

[14:12]suffering on Earth has that stopped poverty has that stopped people from

[14:18]feeling the hunger they will say No in fact there are probably

[14:24]more people feeling hungry today in fact there are probably more people

[14:28]suffering today so this is on one hand on the other hand

[14:34]you ask them has your advancement and what you claim to be

[14:40]enough and you don't need religion anymore has that stopped you from

[14:43]feeling sadness and have that has that stopped you from feeling The

[14:51]Emptiness within yourself they will also tell you no the there's a

[14:55]rising there's a rising rate of depression of stress of people feeling

[15:00]lonely despite the fact that they have millions of dollars they have

[15:04]so much you give a person millions of dollars will that remove

[15:11]will that change the feeling in the heart no because Allah is

[15:14]Allah is the one that changes the hearts someone could have everything

[15:20]in this life but they could still feel miserable why because the

[15:27]hearts are locked and when the heart is locked it will not

[15:32]feel happiness unless you have a higher for a higher power bringing

[15:37]happiness and bringing Comfort to the heart and this is why Allah

[15:41]says in the [Music] Quran it is only through the remembrance of

[15:55]Allah that the hearts will find comfort and stability now someone could

[15:59]tell you I'm happy with their millions and billions of dollars that

[16:05]they have but you see that this person will have so many

[16:10]other social diseases one example is Donald Trump Donald Trump he has

[16:15]billions he doesn't know what to do with his money but you

[16:18]find the things that he is saying and the social problems that

[16:24]he has and the way that he's lying it shows that there's

[16:27]an emptiness inside it shows that there's something missing but when someone

[16:34]has Allah subhana wa ta'ala they will have the full happiness and

[16:39]the religion of Islam does not stop you from advancing in technology

[16:43]and science and in anything that you want in fact the religion

[16:48]of Islam does not tell you how rich you could be it

[16:50]does not stop you from being rich it does not stop you

[16:55]from business from doing many things everything is halal unless just a

[16:58]small few things that are Haram but there are some groups of

[17:04]people they leave everything 99% of the things that are Halal and

[17:07]they follow the 1% that is Haram so religion it is meant

[17:16]to there is a another aspect of religion there's two sides of

[17:23]Our Lives the human being we have two Dimensions we have the

[17:26]materialistic Dimension and this has to to do with our body the

[17:32]physical features yes probably I could find comfort in that sense but

[17:37]where how could I guarantee to find Comfort when it comes to

[17:40]the other dimension and that is the soul and that is the

[17:43]spirit how can I remove fear fear is something that it could

[17:50]not no one could remove it nothing could remove it how could

[17:53]I remove death eventually every single one of us will die within

[17:59]our soul within our cells there is a programmed death a cell

[18:07]is programmed to die at one day or another how can I

[18:11]stop that how can I feel remov the fear and remove the

[18:15]burdens and remove the depression and remove the stress that I have

[18:21]facing my own reality that one day I will leave this life

[18:24]we find that through Allah subhah wa ta'ala we find that through

[18:29]comfort in building a bond with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala thus there

[18:37]is a dire need to have spirituality in our lives and everything

[18:41]that the people that say we what we have today advancement and

[18:47]technology and everything they will say that that will bring happiness but

[18:51]yes it may bring happiness in the materialistic realm but it cannot

[18:55]bring happiness when it comes to the spiritual side it it does

[19:00]not bring happiness when it comes to the intangible needs that we

[19:04]have and that comes only from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala another very

[19:12]important issue for the ones that say religion is not relevant and

[19:19]that issue is that the advancements that we have reached today has

[19:25]that stopped the suffering that we have today has that stopped the

[19:29]oppression that we see going on on Earth today yes before people

[19:34]probably used to fight with swords maximum a few hundred a few

[19:40]thousand people would be killed in a war today how many people

[19:44]are being killed every day because of the advancements because of the

[19:49]sophisticated weapons how many people are being killed millions of people thousands

[19:54]of people are dying every day because of all of the sophistication

[20:00]and there's so much oppression that's going on today today we see

[20:07]that there are so many social problems so many spiritual problems yes

[20:12]probably before people they did not live very comfortable when it comes

[20:17]to the materialistic lifestyle you see probably 50 years ago 100 years

[20:24]ago you see a huge family 15 20 people they are crammed

[20:27]in one small house today yes we were able to build huge

[20:32]houses but you find a huge house that's empty there's no love

[20:37]in that house there's no compassion in that house there's no dialogue

[20:42]in that house so what has that done to us yes I

[20:44]have a big house I have a fast car but what is

[20:49]what did it do to me what kind of Happiness did it

[20:52]bring to me so when we think of religion it reminds us

[20:57]and when we think of Allah tala it reminds us of the

[21:00]intangible needs that we have and that is only answered through religion

[21:09]and through the correct form of religion of course not any type

[21:14]of religion another issue today you look at human rights for the

[21:18]ones who say we don't need religion anymore religion is irrelevant who

[21:24]brought human rights who taught us human rights you look in the

[21:31]history and you see 200 300 years ago from this long human

[21:35]history finally people started thinking of some some rights to give to

[21:41]people human rights here in the United States women were allowed to

[21:44]vote just a few decades ago just a few decades ago there

[21:52]were slaves here there was separation based on Races there's one water

[21:57]fountain for the colored and one water fountain for the whites this

[22:00]is just a few decades ago and then you come and you

[22:06]look at the religion of Islam Allah subhana tala in the Quran

[22:13]says Allah subhana wa ta'ala 1,400 years ago tells everyone that everyone

[22:19]is created equally from One Soul all of you are from the

[22:27]children of Adam and Adam is from soil we all go back

[22:30]to the soil so why should I think that I'm better than

[22:36]someone else why should there be Wars and fighting based on color

[22:39]based on race based on ethnicity Allah subhana T says in the

[22:45][Music] Quran this is what the religion teaches us we created you

[23:02]all from one soul and we created you in tribes and communities

[23:06]for what so that you fight with one another so that you

[23:11]steal each other's resources so that you go and you attack another

[23:14]country and you steal all the resources that it has no so

[23:20]that you get to know one another and then Allah says where

[23:29]you see just a few decades ago communities that consider themselves so

[23:35]Advanced they were living a segregated lifestyle based off Prejudice and based

[23:40]off superiority you see that the religion of Islam it brought equality

[23:49]between someone who is from Persia and someone who's from Arabia someone

[23:54]who's from Ethiopia and someone who is from Rome someone who is

[23:59]from Arabia this is what Islam brought for us you see he

[24:05]was able to establish social justice in a society in a time

[24:12]where there were so much class different classes and different communities he

[24:21]brought b b to be the spokesperson of Islam to be the

[24:24]MU the one who calls people for prayer this is the first

[24:29]thing anyone that enters the Muslim Community the first thing that they

[24:33]will see and the first thing that they will hear is the

[24:35]voice of Adan and the voice of Bal who was a freed

[24:40]slave and Bal one thing about him he used to he was

[24:46]not able to say the sheen so he used to instead of

[24:50]saying he used to say so some of the Arabs they were

[24:58]very arrogant just like in some countries we see today they came

[25:05]and they told they told how can you allow this non-arab EXs

[25:13]slave to recite the aan when there are so many Arabs and

[25:17]the Arabs they were so proud of their language this if there

[25:20]was one thing that they were proud about it was their eloquence

[25:26]and their language one of them he he saw Bal reciting thean

[25:29]on the he said he said one of the one of the

[25:42]Arrogant individuals he who was fighting but he was an Arab he

[25:50]says I did not imagine that I would live to see this

[25:55]black crow on the Kaa performing thean and then some of them

[26:02]they would come and they would tell he's not even pronouncing it

[26:05]correctly he says told them when B says in the eyes of

[26:18]Allah it's ASU don't worry about the way he says it and

[26:21]this is how was able to establish social justice muham muhamad and

[26:36]it's not only B someone could say yes this is one example

[26:42]that we hear the speakers they mention every time go and look

[26:45]at our imams the imams of the you see that most of

[26:51]our imams most of the imams of the their skin color was

[26:58]dark they had dark skin color and do you see that the

[27:05]imams when it came to marrying getting married they did not have

[27:08]this Prejudice and racism that we see we still find today in

[27:12]Muslim communities they did not have that one person one Imam who

[27:20]we are commemorating today on the the his marm is on the

[27:23]25th of is IM his mother was she was from Morocco which

[27:32]is a part of Africa Imam he was not racist he did

[27:40]not have Prejudice when it came to marrying someone who was from

[27:44]different color or different racial background different ethnicity because the religion of

[27:50]Islam teaches us that the only thing that you should look for

[27:55]is for the tawa for the pety and nothing else else and

[27:59]you see that most of our imams if you if you read

[28:04]their biography you see IM they say he had dark skin Imam

[28:07]he had dark skin IM Jawad he had dark skin most of

[28:11]our imams many of them their skin color their tone of their

[28:15]skin was dark so why is there continued Prejudice in some Muslim

[28:22]communities another issue that the religion of Islam was able to move

[28:29]was hunger and poverty until today you find that there is poverty

[28:38]according to the United Nations 1/8 of the 7.1 or 7.2 billion

[28:41]people on Earth suffer from chronic undernourishment one8 of the people on

[28:49]Earth they suffer from chronic undernourishment what has the group of people

[28:55]that say our advancements we don't need need religion and religion is

[28:58]not is not relevant anymore religion should not play a role in

[29:05]our lives anymore what has that done to remove the poverty what

[29:07]has that done to remove the undernourishment and then you go back

[29:12]and you look at the Quran Allah subhah wa tala says eat

[29:20]eat everything is halal whatever is halal eat and drink do not

[29:30]waste a very important rule that if we live by in our

[29:33]lives we will be able to abolish and remove poverty and people

[29:41]suffering how many times do we throw away food that is edible

[29:45]how many times do we throw away food that other people they

[29:50]will probably die for and they will give so much money just

[29:56]to have a bite of food this is a rule in the

[29:58]the Quran Allah does not love the ones Allah does not like

[30:09]the ones who waste Allah subhah wa ta'ala gave us this Earth

[30:14]to live on it has so much resources it has so many

[30:21]things that everyone on Earth could live with a full stomach everyone

[30:23]on Earth should be able to live they should have access to

[30:30]water water to food to housing to everything it is the rules

[30:33]that we brought people they came and they created borders and they

[30:36]said this group of people is not allowed to cross into this

[30:40]land this group of people because they have this citizenship they are

[30:43]not allowed to come here and this group of people they we

[30:46]created these it is the human being that has created the suffering

[30:50]it is not Allah it is not religions that have created suffering

[30:53]it is people that created suffering you look at the look at

[31:02]our role models the leaders of the did the discriminate when it

[31:18]came to giving did they say this is from my community I

[31:21]only give to this person in fact they did not even discriminate

[31:25]against someone who was not a Muslim the a was not a

[31:30]Muslim they did not say I'm not giving this person because this

[31:32]person is not Muslim why do we discriminate today when the they

[31:36]never discriminated another thing that the religion brought and specifically the religion

[31:45]of Islam is that it brought love and compassion within the hearts

[31:51]of course unfortunately we don't find that love within the Muslim Community

[31:56]the love that we are supposed to have Allah says in the

[32:06]Quran the ones who believe and they do good Allah subhah wa

[32:13]ta'ala creates love in the hearts of others towards them there should

[32:17]be a loving relationship as long as I consider myself a m

[32:24]there should be a loving relationship between the we should deal with

[32:27]each other with love with compassion this is why we have numerous

[32:32]many many narrations give your M brother or sister in faith 70

[32:42]excuses how many excuses do we give people and Allah subhanahu tala

[32:49]also says one of the qualities one of the qualities and characteristics

[33:03]of a m is someone the ones who Give in secret and

[33:13]private and then the ones who control their anger and then they

[33:23]forgive people that have harmed them and wronged them and this verse

[33:29]it has a story with Imam he had a slave of course

[33:40]at that time there were many slaves in society and the imams

[33:47]of the ah B they would purchase slaves not to abuse them

[33:50]and exploit them but rather to educate them to give them better

[33:54]lives and then they would free them if you read the if

[33:59]you read the lives of the imams in a society that everyone

[34:01]had slaves how is the Imam going to elevate the level of

[34:07]a slave who has is is brought from a different Community he

[34:10]doesn't speak the language he doesn't know the religion he doesn't know

[34:13]anything the imams they would bring them in their homes they would

[34:18]teach them they would help them and then they would free them

[34:21]in the way of Allah so one day the Imam had a

[34:27]slave or a servant who who was who was pouring water or

[34:30]something and the he had a jug in his hand and he

[34:37]accidentally cut the Imam he dropped it and he cut the Imam

[34:39]the Imam started bleeding what would anyone do in that scenario here

[34:48]the Imam and that that slave was a was a learned slave

[34:52]because he's in the house of the Imam the slave said the

[34:57]ones who control their anger so IM he says I have controlled

[35:04]my anger and then he says so the Imam tells him I

[35:10]have forgiven you for what you have done and then he says

[35:13]Allah loves the ones who do so the IM he says you

[35:20]are free in the way of Allah imagine turning a situation where

[35:25]of anger into into doing something good this is IM this is

[35:35]the IM that we look up to today IM mam I want

[35:41]to speak a little bit about the life of this Im so

[35:46]that we receive the bar of remembering the imams of the Allah

[35:51]subhah wa tala [Music] says [Music] these are the imams The imams

[36:07]Who their whole lives it was a life of sacrifice in the

[36:12]way of Allah subhana wa tala and my dear brothers and sisters

[36:17]we follow our imams not because of stubbornness not because of just

[36:26]we decided to follow these imams we follow them because they were

[36:30]the only people after who would did not compromise their faith because

[36:36]of power or because of a king a Calef a leader told

[36:41]them to do something they were the only ones that did not

[36:44]take money to issue a fatwa you look at all of the

[36:48]scholars during the time of Imam during the time of IM sad

[36:50]during the time of all the imams they did not take they

[36:57]did not take money the imams they did not take anything in

[37:00]exchange that compromised their faith Talib it was very easy for him

[37:08]to ass to take the power he had the official the official

[37:11]imama it was very easy for him to fool people and take

[37:17]the just like mu did but he stood with Justice because he

[37:20]saw that power having a few days of leaders ruling on Earth

[37:24]it's not worth compromising my values and my faith and you see

[37:30]all of the imams they did the same thing go and look

[37:32]at IM Hussein IM Hussein what made him go and sacrifice his

[37:39]whole family his children his six-month-old son in the land of carala

[37:42]he didn't need to do that he could have stayed in his

[37:46]home in Medina and he could have lived a life where nothing

[37:48]is hurt no one is harmed in his family but he did

[37:53]that for the sake of Islam for the sake of you and

[37:57]I so that we pray so that we fast so that we

[38:01]know so that the religion is brought to us in the correct

[38:03]form and you see Imam he also did the same thing IM

[38:13]he lived during the lives of four AB his imama it lasted

[38:21]during four abif and he he died at the age of 55

[38:26]his imama lasted for 35 years so he saw al man and

[38:32]then he saw Ali and then he saw Ali and then he

[38:36]saw who poisoned the IM but the IM because of his not

[38:45]he did not compromise his faith you see that the Imam he

[38:52]had to endure punishment and torture because of his stance the the

[38:57]first one that came al- mansur he died he he was the

[39:01]one who poisoned Imad he died during the life of IM and

[39:05]then [Music] came says about him he's not a he's not a

[39:15]guide this man he placed the Imam in prison for a short

[39:18]while then he released the IM and then after him came another

[39:25]one by the name of Al who caused one of the greatest

[39:30]massacres with the children of Al one that resembles the massacre ofala

[39:39]over 180 children of they were killed in a battle that this

[39:44]man Al ABI he attacked the city of Medina and he killed

[39:52]over 180 in an in an event called over 180 he killed

[39:57]them and then he took some prisoners he told them why are

[40:01]you revolting against me someone falsely told him that M was the

[40:08]one who sent us even though IM he did not do such

[40:12]a thing so he swore to kill Imam someone comes and tells

[40:18]IM Al kadam that this man he swore to kill you so

[40:20]Imam he goes in the room and he begins reciting a Dua

[40:26]and that is Dua we have it until today Dua that Dua

[40:33]it has a part of it a this hour this hour this

[40:40]hour Imam comes out of the room he tells them he's in

[40:42]Medina he tells them the Khalifa is dead and then a few

[40:47]days later they hear that the KF had died then after him

[40:53]comes his brother a man by the name of Haron who they

[40:59]call call him harash har the wise but he was not wise

[41:01]a man no matter what you do in life but if you

[41:07]wage a war and if you torture and punish the Imam of

[41:13]your time you are not Wise Wise is the one who is

[41:15]able to secure his afterlife yes harun he had this life he

[41:20]used to look at the clouds and he used to tell speak

[41:24]to the clouds because of how rich he was and how powerful

[41:28]he was he used to tell the clouds go to the east

[41:29]go to the West wherever you go I will benefit from your

[41:35]rain the zakat will come from your reain but you see that

[41:37]this man in front of IM musam he would become very weak

[41:44]even though Imam had nothing had no power but he has Allah

[41:49]his son al- mm al- he says who also became the caleff

[41:54]he says I went with my father Haron to meca and Haron

[42:01]was welcoming and he was welcoming the children of Al Talib because

[42:05]AB they came giving people the impression that they show love to

[42:08]the but in fact they didn't so he says each one from

[42:16]Beni Hashim would come Haron would give him 5,000 he said suddenly

[42:21]M walked in he said when M ja walked in Haron he

[42:27]got up from his seat and he brought he placed him in

[42:32]his own seat and he showed so much respect to the Im

[42:35]so he said after he left after the Imam left Al he

[42:40]says I told my father who is this man why did you

[42:46]so unusual respect to him he says do you know that this

[42:50]man is more worthy of Thea than me he is the one

[42:52]who deserves theaa he is the son ofas Allah then M he

[42:57]tells his father then if you know that he is more worthy

[42:59]of theaa why don't you give it up to him he tells

[43:04]him even you my son if you fight with me over the

[43:10]I would kill you this man Haron he became very jealous of

[43:16]the Imam even though he had everything and this is why we

[43:19]were saying earlier that if you have Allah you're not going to

[43:24]feel that these feelings of jealousy and animosity harun he goes in

[43:29]Medina and he stands in front of the grave of he says

[43:33]peace be upon you oh cousin because they are the children of

[43:37]ab the uncle of he says peace be upon you oh oh

[43:48]my grandfather they say that that moment he decided on imprisoning the

[43:51]IM IM Haron in another story he tells Imam he tells him

[43:59]I want to give you back fed fed the first K and

[44:04]second K they took away fed from F from I want to

[44:07]give it back to you tell me what is the perimeter of

[44:09]fed what are the borders of fed so that I give it

[44:14]to you he was thinking that the Imam was going to tell

[44:17]him it's a village outside of Medina and this is the this

[44:20]is the border of fed IM tells him you are not going

[44:26]to give me fed he says why he says because the borders

[44:29]of fed are from sham to Yemen and the sea to Africa

[44:33]and that was the Muslim um at that time tells him this

[44:38]is fed fed is not a piece of land fed symbolizes the

[44:40]and this is what was taken away from so he decided to

[44:52]imprison the Imam he decided to place the Imam in prison prison

[44:56]and the Imam was placed in a few prisons the first he

[45:04]placed them he placed him in the prison of inas in he

[45:10]brought him from Medina to Bas and he placed him in the

[45:15]prison of a man by the name of he tells Haron tells

[45:21]the man to torture and punish the IM but is he refused

[45:24]so he brought him out out to place him in another prison

[45:32]the prison of one day har he goes and he visits he

[45:36]wants to see the prison and how he's dealing with the IM

[45:41]he want he tells he tells the prisoner to be tough with

[45:43]the Imam so they're standing on a roof and they were able

[45:49]to see the garden they were able to see inside har and

[45:55]they're standing tells har do you see that thing that's on the

[45:59]ground in the middle of the garden in the middle of the

[46:06]the middle of the the garden he tells him yes I see

[46:08]it what he tells him what does it look like he says

[46:11]it looks like a piece of cloth that's on the ground tells

[46:16]him that is doing and this is his sujud from dawn until

[46:23]night his whole time he is doing this is one of the

[46:33]nicknames one of the names of IM mus the one with the

[46:42]long prostration Haron he sends a indecent woman a prostitute he sends

[46:46]her in one of the in the prisons of the Imam so

[46:52]that maybe she could bring him away from Allah so that maybe

[46:54]she could distract him from the worship she goes and she sees

[47:01]that the whole time he is doing suud a while later they

[47:07]come back they see Imam doing suud and behind him that lady

[47:10]that they sent she is also doing this is M this is

[47:17]the IM that we are remembering today and then he takes him

[47:22]out to another prison who also show respect to the IM and

[47:28]finally he takes him to the prison of a wicked Man by

[47:35]the name of a this man used to torture the Imam he

[47:38]used to abuse the Imam and it is said that the day

[47:45]that they brought the body of the Imam out of that ditch

[47:47]in the ground it was a hole in the ground a hole

[47:52]in the ground that had a rock on it he had so

[47:57]many Shack Les 9950 chains and shackles that were attached to his

[48:02]hand that they move they broke and bent the bones of IM

[48:09]M this was the type of torture that they were punishing the

[48:16]Imam it is said that one day IM M because in that

[48:21]hole he was not able to distinguish between day and nighttime the

[48:25]only way was through the prayer times that was when he knows

[48:32]if it's if it's uh day or night time one day there

[48:34]was a opening he comes up a little just to take a

[48:38]fresh breath of air this manah he slaps the IM in his

[48:46]face this is the of Allah on Earth and this is how

[48:48]they dealt with him IM he writes a letter to muaah to

[48:58]to to he tells him one day of torture for me will

[49:08]finish but the day of comfort for you will also finish until

[49:18]we will both go to a day that does not end that

[49:24]is the day that the ones who are on the wrong path

[49:28]they will be the losers this is why we say in the

[49:35]Z of [Music] IM [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] was [Music] [Applause] [Music]

[50:54]to [Music] [Music] what [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] what [Music]

[52:43][Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] the after the

[54:30]IM was poisoned the The Prisoner he brings some of the Shia

[54:37]so that they see the IM he tells them see the IM

[54:39]there's nothing wrong with him the Imam he tells them he tells

[54:46]the sh you will meet me on the bridge of bdad on

[54:49]Friday the Shia they were all ready to see the Imam they

[54:55]thought that they will see the IM coming out of the prison

[54:57]suddenly on that day that they met they saw that the body

[55:03]of IM M was carried by four workers four men four h

[55:10]They Carried the body of IM M ja and they placed it

[55:17]on the bridge of Bagdad and the the oppressor he came out

[55:24]and he announced this is the IM of the this is the

[55:34]Shia they came out and they carried the body of IM M

[55:41]ja and they buried him in the cemetery of qur in Bagdad

[55:44]where until today he is visited by millions and millions of people

[55:52]we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant us the Zara of

[55:55][Music] IM in this life and hisa in the afterlife [Applause] [Music]

[56:16]alhamdulillah

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