Seek Knowledge from Cradle to Grave - Muharram Night 7

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[0:01][Music] Alhamdulillah.

[0:26]Amen.

[0:29]for [Music] for [Music] a second salawat in honor of our holy

[1:28]prophet.

[1:29]prophets and his blessed progeny.

[1:38]>> And the third with the loudest of your voices for the

[1:42]hastening of the relief and the reappearance of the Imam of our

[1:44]time.

[1:52][Music] Yeah, please come forward.

[2:03][Music] Dear brothers and sisters, Allah subhana wa ta'ala says in the

[2:17]verse that I recited, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in this verse,

[2:28]"Do the people, the ones that do know and the ones that

[2:34]don't know, are they comparable?

[2:34]Can we compare them?

[2:36]It's in a way we can understand that they're not equal.

[2:41]Allah subhana wa tala says are they equal?

[2:44]We say no.

[2:47]The people who know who have what we call and the ones

[2:50]who don't have Allah subhana wa ta'ala separates them.

[2:54]And as a result, we've spoken in the past few nights regarding

[2:57]how we need to find perfection.

[3:00]And I want to reiterate that because that's the core concept of

[3:05]all my lectures.

[3:05]At the end of the day, all of us want to align

[3:09]ourselves with the one who is the most perfect.

[3:12]We want to align our attributes to the one who has the

[3:15]best of attributes.

[3:16]And that attri and that person is >> Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[3:21]As a result, every single thing that we do and every goal

[3:24]that we have in mind, it should be in align with how

[3:28]we want to get close to Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[3:33]When I work, we need to have that level of laser to

[3:36]Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[3:38]When I study, I study to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa

[3:41]ta'ala.

[3:42]And today we're going to talk about the most one of the

[3:44]most important aspects.

[3:46]When I gain knowledge, I gain it for the sake of connecting

[3:49]myself with the person who is the source of knowledge.

[3:53]We said Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the source of all love.

[3:56]In the same manner, Allah is the source of all knowledge.

[4:00]He is knowledge.

[4:02]When we talk about Allah subhana wa ta'ala, we don't say that

[4:07]Allah has knowledge, right?

[4:08]You might have studied it in class.

[4:11]We talk about and means this.

[4:16]When I talk about Allah subhana wa ta'ala's attributes, I'm not saying

[4:20]Allah has it like we say that I have it just so

[4:24]because at that same time we can understand he might not have

[4:26]it.

[4:27]There might have been a time he didn't have it.

[4:31]No, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is knowledge.

[4:34]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is love.

[4:39]Allah subhanana wa ta'ala is these attributes.

[4:40]It's not different from that him.

[4:45]They are a part of him.

[4:45]So when I talk about knowledge, our goal Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[4:49]says is to gain all knowledge.

[4:54]We cannot be equal to those who don't know.

[4:54]So in our goal to seek perfections, we have to in our

[5:00]in our need to find spiritual refinement to find we need to

[5:04]make sure that we try to gain knowledge to get to that.

[5:09]Bakam he says in a verse in volume 1 page 33 he

[5:23]says whose knowledge benefits others it's better than what is that 70,000

[5:33]believers the is greater than him if he's able to benefit others

[5:38]with that knowledge So we can understand that our imams have always

[5:42]stressed on this point of knowledge and to gain knowledge.

[5:47]When someone worships and they don't understand what they worship then it's

[5:50]easier for them to fall into invoc to innovations or so when

[5:57]something comes into their belief and someone tells them that we should

[6:01]do this to worship Allah they'll fall into it.

[6:02]But an Alan for example he understands it.

[6:07]He discerners between what's and what's if if shaitan for example tries

[6:11]to bring an innovation towards him he will try to analyze it

[6:14]and as a result he'll be able to remove anything that is

[6:18]not part of Islam and he's able to take what is correct.

[6:24]So that's why we can understand that when we compare someone who

[6:27]is a worshipper who is just a worshipper and he doesn't reflect

[6:30]on it and he doesn't use his in that manner it's good

[6:36]he receives the salah but that salab is not comparable to someone

[6:40]who is knowledgeable who understands uh Allah subhana t who understands his

[6:45]actions and who understands the holy prophet Muhammad and his family.

[6:58]>> So we need to make sure that when we worship, it's

[7:02]not an empty type of worship.

[7:03]That's not what's going to find that's not what's going to help

[7:09]us find spiritual refinement.

[7:10]It has to be along with knowledge and then that worship we

[7:16]can say it tastes different.

[7:17]It's more sweeter to us.

[7:19]What's an example of worship that does not have any knowledge?

[7:25]The example of shaitan.

[7:24]When we look at shaitan, he was brought he was a jin

[7:29]that was brought to the levels of the angels because of his

[7:31]worship to Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[7:35]And in that moment that Allah subhana wa ta'ala told him to

[7:38]do sag to Adam in that moment because of his lack of

[7:42]intellect because of his lack of because of his lack of he

[7:48]decided to say no his arrogance overcame him in that moment.

[7:51]So we want to make sure that when we do something when

[7:55]we worship Allah subhana wa ta'ala it's not heedless worship it's not

[7:59]a worship that doesn't have any of our attention towards it.

[8:03]So this is why we need to seek mahat.

[8:07]And there's two types of knowledge.

[8:08]I want you guys to pay attention to this point.

[8:11]There's an outward knowledge and then there's an inward knowledge.

[8:14]And we discussed a lot of what's inward and what's outward previously

[8:17]when we talked about our and our soul.

[8:20]But the first type of knowledge is when you study it.

[8:24]There's certain things you go to the hadith, you study it.

[8:26]You read of other books of our you study it and then

[8:31]as a result you receive the second type of knowledge that is

[8:35]kh it's what you call self-rectification as a result our souls are

[8:42]affected by that knowledge and they're inter intertwined when we receive outward

[8:45]knowledge it should also help us realize that inward knowledge as well

[8:53]that kash that that self-reflection when we reflect on kind of text,

[8:58]that inward kind of uh rectification, self-rectification, we're able to get both.

[9:05]So many people, they might only get what's on the surface of

[9:08]what's knowledge.

[9:09]But when you don't reflect on it, when you don't allow it

[9:12]to change your soul, to have an impact on your soul, then

[9:15]you won't be able to gain as much knowledge as someone who

[9:18]is able to dive even deeper than that.

[9:20]I know we have a few brothers that are coming.

[9:22]So if I can ask everyone to just push a little forward

[9:24]with your salawat just try to make some space.

[9:31]I know there are a lot of brothers that are going to

[9:33]be coming here.

[9:34]So we just want to make sure that they're not stepping over

[9:37]anyone when they enter.

[9:47]So this that we talk about this knowledge it helps us to

[9:54]not fall into certain aspects that are haram for example and it's

[10:00]really interesting I wanted to tonight look at this important uh understanding

[10:07]from may in his life he says that there are a group

[10:10]of people that h comes to them they receive H they receive

[10:16]the truth but they reject it.

[10:18]They are of three types that reject the truth.

[10:22]Everyone wants to accept the truth.

[10:24]No.

[10:25]If you know it's h why would you not?

[10:28]Now here's why.

[10:27]Let's look at them.

[10:31]There's one group of people that the hack comes to them and

[10:33]then they reject it.

[10:36]These people are called they are the people who are very apathetic

[10:39]towards it.

[10:41]meaning they don't care about it whether it's h or whether it's

[10:44]not it's not important to me I'm too busy with my own

[10:48]life to find what's h and what's so it doesn't matter as

[10:53]a result because of the fact they're so apathetic towards that nature

[10:57]of h they are they are someone who's heedless someone who's who

[11:01]doesn't care and Allah subhana wa ta talks about him about them

[11:08]he says in surah 7 verse 179ah Indeed, we've destined many jin

[11:18]and humans for hell.

[11:24]They have hearts and they don't understand with those hearts.

[11:29]They have eyes, but they don't understand with those eyes.

[11:36]And then when with their ears they don't hear with it, eyes

[11:41]that they do not see with hearts that they do not connect

[11:45]understand with and ears that they do not hear with.

[11:50]Allah subhana wa ta says what they're like cattle.

[11:56]What difference are they with cattle for example?

[11:59]They don't listen.

[12:00]They don't reflect.

[12:02]They don't use their like we talked about animals when we don't

[12:06]use our when we don't try to reflect we become lower than

[12:12]those animals that's our level.

[12:13]So he says they're saying that these people that don't reflect, they

[12:18]don't think, they don't use their eyes, their hearts, and their ears.

[12:22]And then here's what they say, Allahhana wa ta says after that,

[12:30]in fact, they're even less guided than that.

[12:32]So they say they're like cattle, but then they say, then Allah

[12:37]says they're even more misguided than those cattle.

[12:40]And then this is those people are hateless.

[12:46]They're they do not care.

[12:48]They've come to a point where they're apathetic towards that nature.

[12:51]So these people they have that potential to reach that level.

[12:56]But because of the fact that they decided I don't care about

[13:00]what's happen what's they lose it this is the first group that

[13:05]talks about the second group is what they are those who are

[13:13]arrogant rejectors and this is obvious they see h they know what

[13:16]h is they see the value of the hap but due to

[13:20]their arrogance or due to their worldviews or they care about this

[13:23]world too much they won't accept it.

[13:26]Allah subhana wa ta'ala also refers to them in the holy Quran

[13:34]in verse surah 27:14.

[13:40][Music] And although their hearts were convinced that the signs were true,

[13:49]they still denied that it was correct.

[13:53]and see look at them what is their what is their end

[13:58]Allah subhana wa ta says these people they realize they understand it

[14:03]but they will reject it they will say that I have something

[14:06]that is within this world that matters more to me who is

[14:12]an example of this omarn he knew the h of IM he

[14:18]knew the h of the holy prophet and his family and he

[14:22]still he decided to reject it because what he had a letter

[14:25]from that said if you can go through with this we'll give

[14:31]you a position as the governor of or at that time as

[14:35]a result of his love for this world he decides to leave

[14:38]it he's the second type the first person is someone who is

[14:42]completely doesn't care the second is someone who as a result they

[14:48]know hap but they decide to leave hap because they want to

[14:52]they want something else.

[14:52]The third is someone who is genuinely confused as a result of

[14:59]misinformation or mental uh limitations or whatever it may be or due

[15:02]to upbringing that h they didn't get a chance to truly understand

[15:06]it.

[15:06]They were unable to discern what was right and wrong.

[15:10]For whatever reason they were unable to discern what's h and what's

[15:15]so they are the incapable.

[15:16]So these three groups were all found on the day of Ashur

[15:22]and Yazid's army.

[15:22]They're one of these three because either they did not know what

[15:26]was hak and they decided to just follow along what the mob

[15:32]mentality was in that time or maybe they had they knew what

[15:35]hak was.

[15:36]But because they were afraid of their life or because they wanted

[15:40]to get something from being in that army, they were in that

[15:43]army.

[15:44]Or of course we said those who they didn't care whether he's

[15:47]in hazm is Hussein's in it doesn't matter to me.

[15:52]All three of these people they were in that army and they

[15:57]were fighting against Im Hussein.

[15:59]Why else would they fight against the the grandson of the holy

[16:05]prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam?

[16:13]He writes a letter to his son Muhammad Hanafi uh before he

[16:20]leaves to Kbala and he sends it to him says I don't

[16:25]rise to seek ambition, pride, I don't seek corruption or injustice but

[16:30]I I rose up to reform the um of my grandfather.

[16:36]I wanted to enjoy good and forbid evil and follow the path

[16:41]of my grandfather and my father because Hussein went to Kabal to

[16:49]awaken these people.

[16:48]A lot of these people for those some people they knew what

[16:53]h was but they chose to not accept it but there were

[16:55]other people who were apathetic as we said or people who weren't

[16:58]able to discern it.

[17:00]So he said he had to at least go to do towards

[17:02]these people that maybe just maybe these people will turn towards the

[17:08]right path and they'll leave their uh positions.

[17:09]They'll leave this world to choose what's what the next world.

[17:15]And now when we look at these three groups of people a

[17:19]question then rises up.

[17:19]What causes someone to enter into these three groups?

[17:25]What causes someone to know h but decide not to accept it?

[17:28]What's their reason to do so?

[17:32]And then we have from our scholars a few different reasons that

[17:36]they decided to do so.

[17:36]The first is because their and their morality was ruined.

[17:42]Their souls were in a manner that they were completely arrogant.

[17:46]They were completely against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[17:48]They were unjust to themselves.

[17:51]We say I've done soul I've done injustice to my own self.

[17:57]These people did it on a higher level on a higher scope.

[18:03]So they were people just like shaitan.

[18:06]Shaitan as we said he had the opportunity to stay in heaven.

[18:09]He had an opportunity to accept that Adam was created by Allah

[18:12]and he had to prostrate towards him as a result of his

[18:17]arrogance.

[18:18]He decided no I'm not going to do so.

[18:21]I won't follow this.

[18:21]So there are people like that.

[18:23]people who they've ruined their souls as a result of ruining their

[18:30]souls.

[18:31]They were in the army of Yazid and that was the cause

[18:33]of many of them to fight against Im Hussein.

[18:37]What does Hussein say on that day of Ash?

[18:40]He says, "Oh you who are the group of the followers of

[18:48]the Sufy," he's saying, he says what?

[18:57]If you don't have a religion and you do not fear your

[19:03]hereafter, he says at least if you don't believe in religion.

[19:09]At least if you do not you're not afraid of the hellfire

[19:14]at then at least be free.

[19:18]Don't let Yazid control you.

[19:19]Be human.

[19:21]Look at that circumstances that we are in and understand humanity in

[19:26]this moment.

[19:26]Don't fall for these tricks of Yazid.

[19:31]He says this.

[19:30]Why is he saying that though?

[19:31]He says if you're not Muslim, was I Hussein fighting against people

[19:37]who were not Muslim, people who are mushik.

[19:41]No.

[19:42]Hussein was fighting against Muslim, right?

[19:46]It was Hussein against the Muslim army.

[19:49]They claim to be Muslim.

[19:54]So why does say so?

[19:55]Why does he say if you don't accept religion or you don't

[20:01]have a religion at least be free?

[20:02]These people they were hesit [Music] of the Quran.

[20:23]They remembered it by their hearts.

[20:24]But as we said, if that knowledge was on a outwardly level,

[20:29]it doesn't affect you.

[20:30]And it was because of that that these people they fell into

[20:33]that propaganda.

[20:34]They fell into that and some of them they even enforced that

[20:38]propaganda on others that they should follow the army of Yazid.

[20:43]So we have to make sure that we don't fall into that

[20:47]that our arrogance or our or our manners cause us to fall

[20:54]into that pitfall.

[21:03]A second group, a second cause as to why some of those

[21:09]people they fought against Imusam was why some of those people they

[21:15]constantly and persistently sinned to a point where it didn't matter to

[21:20]them at all anymore.

[21:23]Sin was normal.

[21:23]Remember how when I talked about sins before talked about the fact

[21:29]that we shouldn't make sin small when we feel that it's something

[21:32]small and we sin and we sin and we sin it's like

[21:36]a dot in your heart right it starts just one dot and

[21:38]then two you don't feel it until a point where your heart

[21:44]becomes completely dark and then in that point Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[21:48]will close that door to you not because we said Allah is

[21:49]not the fact that Allah subhana wa ta'ala that doesn't forgive your

[21:56]sins.

[21:54]No, we talked about this already.

[21:59]But these people turned to a point where they couldn't turn back

[22:03]where they got their hearts sealed.

[22:05]Allah subhana wa ta talks about him about these people says Allah

[22:08]seals their hearts and in that moment there's no returning for them.

[22:15]No matter how much rah that exists from Allah subhana wa ta'ala,

[22:19]they rejected it.

[22:19]So at that point there was nothing to enter into their hearts.

[22:24]They were these kind of people.

[22:25]So as a result of their sins they caused themselves to go

[22:29]away from this uh from h they rejected h.

[22:34]So this is a second example and we have another group another

[22:40]example here.

[22:41]They were in love of the dunya.

[22:43]They loved the dunya in a manner that they couldn't detach themselves

[22:48]from it.

[22:49]And we have an example in the Quran that explains this.

[22:55]Allah subhana wa ta'ala talks about people who are attached to the

[22:59]dunya.

[23:00]There's a man during the time of prophet Musam.

[23:05]His name is Bal was a man who was a very learned

[23:11]man.

[23:12]Allah subhana wa ta'ala gave him a gift and he was a

[23:16]scholar and he would teach other people and his story Allah subhana

[23:19]wa ta'ala alludes to him in the Quran he was teaching even

[23:24]scholars he was a great scholar himself and shaitan he whispered in

[23:28]his ear what does the Quran say about him inah verse 175

[23:41]and relate to them, oh prophet, the story of of the one

[23:46]to whom we gave our signs and he abandoned them.

[23:50]So Satan took a hold of him and he became a deviant.

[23:53]He continues in the next verse.

[23:58]Allah subhana t says, [Music] "If we had willed, we would have

[24:08]elevated him with our signs.

[24:11]But he clung to his life.

[24:13]He followed his evil desires.

[24:19]Allah subhana t says he would have been high above.

[24:23]He would have as a result of our science he would have

[24:26]reached a very high level like we said insan is in the

[24:28]highest of level but because he followed his heart he followed his

[24:35]worldly desires not his heart his nefs because he followed this material

[24:39]world he is like the of Allah subhana wa ta'ala refers to

[24:49]him as a dog what does he say after He says his

[24:55]he says if you chase it away it pants and if you

[25:00]leave it it still pants.

[25:03]It's like the people who have for example they have lied when

[25:09]we have come to when our example came to them they they

[25:13]denied our example and narrate them stories of the past so that

[25:20]they may think.

[25:22]So Allah even talks about this.

[25:24]The story was that the people wanted him wanted him to curse

[25:31]prophet Musa Alisam.

[25:31]Of course he said no.

[25:34]He was someone who had that level of understanding at first.

[25:36]He said why would I curse Prophet Mus Alam?

[25:39]He's from Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[25:40]So these people these people who were sinners they wanted him to

[25:48]curse him.

[25:46]So he did it.

[25:49]They decided okay there's another way we can get to him.

[25:51]If we give his wife a bunch of gifts and then we

[25:55]get her to tell him.

[25:59]So as a result they influence his wife.

[26:02]They give her gifts, expensive things and then as a result he

[26:06]receives those expensive things from her as well.

[26:11]And she she makes him make this curse and at the end

[26:13]he surrendered.

[26:15]He said okay I will make this dua to curse prophet Musa

[26:18]Alisam.

[26:19]when he made that curse to prophet Musa alaihi wasallam it didn't

[26:26]happen and then it not did it just not happen Allah subhanahu

[26:29]wa ta'ala stripped him from that spiritual gift that he had so

[26:33]that example of is a way for us to understand that just

[26:40]because sometimes we have a level of knowledge sometimes we fall into

[26:45]this world because of our worldly pleasures we decide to leave that

[26:49]and I'm not saying not to gain money, not to look for

[26:55]wealth.

[26:56]Of course, like I said, be the best in your field, make

[26:59]as much money, make millions.

[27:00]What's the problem?

[27:02]Islam says nothing about that.

[27:04]Islam doesn't say that you can't do that.

[27:06]But an excessive love of this world, a love that causes you

[27:09]to go away from Islam, that when Islam doesn't become your main

[27:14]point of focus, that wealth causes you to, it might be your

[27:18]pitfall.

[27:18]It might cause your downfall.

[27:19]And like we said, that's the example of it was said that

[27:27]on the night of Ash, his son, he relates it that he

[27:31]said that his father couldn't sleep.

[27:33]He was very restless.

[27:33]He looked at the sky.

[27:36]He was feeling that he was at a clash.

[27:39]His love of his dunya was clashing with what?

[27:41]His fear of the hellfire.

[27:42]So according to his son, he was talking to himself.

[27:45]He says, "How can I miss this opportunity?

[27:45]This is not an everyday opportunity.

[27:47]This is my dream.

[27:49]I wanted to be a governor.

[27:49]And they're now they're asking me to get this dream.

[27:54]I have to kill the grandson of the holy prophet.

[27:56]This was the internal battle that he had to feel.

[27:58]So what am I supposed to do?

[28:01]Am I able to get both of them?

[28:05]Can I also get this position and also get get my he

[28:10]thinks that he might be able to and because of that shaitan

[28:13]he's able to enter into his heartan tells him what he says

[28:19]that by his logic shaitan tells him this he says I'm going

[28:23]to commit this crime I'm going to kill Imusam but then I'm

[28:28]going to repent when I repent Allah subhana wa ta'ala is going

[28:31]to give me both this and is going to give me What

[28:34]do we say about repentance?

[28:37]You can't do repentance in that manner.

[28:39]You can't decide to have both the haram and then to get

[28:42]a reward after that.

[28:43]So he thought that he can he decided you know what this

[28:47]is a good way that I can do it.

[28:48]So he can get both of it.

[28:51]And we need to understand that that's not possible that we can

[28:55]still get this dunya to a certain extent.

[28:57]We can try hard in this world but not in that manner.

[28:59]when we leave our religion then we've lost our hereafter and we

[29:04]have a story then meets him and then he says what says

[29:11]to him woe to you do not fear Allah to whom yours

[29:16]is your return do not fear for your do you not fear

[29:17]the the flames of the hellfire you're fighting me while you know

[29:22]who my who I am you know what my hak is leave

[29:23]these people and join me I will grant you more than you'll

[29:27]receive as a governor of rage and to be the commander of

[29:30]that army.

[29:32]Omar Assad says, "What?

[29:32]Pay attention to this." Omar says, "I fear that my house is

[29:37]going to get destroyed and my property will be confiscated." The imam

[29:40]says, "I'll build you even a better one in the next life.

[29:43]I'll guarantee you'll receive the best." But then he says, "What?

[29:48]I fear that the going to destroy everything that I built up

[29:51]my whole life for because I worked so hard for this life

[29:54]to receive this.

[29:56]If I don't follow through with it, I'm going to lose everything

[29:59]that I work towards.

[30:00]And that's why we said that imam's famous saying the love of

[30:11]this world is the source of every sin of every mistake.

[30:15]The root of every sin is because of that love for this

[30:17]world.

[30:18]When we talk about the knowledge of Allah subhana wa ta'ala, it

[30:21]helps us like we said when we're able to find the both

[30:26]the outward knowledge and we receive the inward knowledge, it stops us

[30:31]from going astray.

[30:33]It stops us from going away from the way of Allah subhana

[30:36]t and falling into this world.

[30:38]So inshallah we don't recite with your recitation.

[30:49]So Allah subhana wa ta'ala says in surah 58:1 Allah says God

[31:01]will raise in decrees among you those who believe and those who

[31:06]have been given knowledge we get we receive certain position as a

[31:10]result of So I'm stressing I've been stressing so far the importance

[31:19]of that knowledge.

[31:19]Now you might ask me the question.

[31:22]Okay, I understand everyone wants wants to receive knowledge and I want

[31:26]to receive it as well accompanied with that.

[31:30]How do I do that?

[31:29]How do I receive and as well and then we have to

[31:34]with that we have to go ahead and understand how we can

[31:38]seek it.

[31:39]When we want to seek knowledge, we there's a very great article

[31:46]that I was reading that made me find that >> there was

[31:56]a there's a scholar that wrote this on Islam and I really

[31:59]liked it.

[32:00]I wanted to bring that forth in discussion because I think it

[32:03]really applies here.

[32:03]He call he he wrote it he wrote this on the alislamic

[32:06]assertion treaties of uh knowledge.

[32:08]So the treaties of knowledge he explains how we can start to

[32:16]seek knowledge and he brings a narration he narrates this uh he

[32:20]says he's speaking to his son in our narrations we have this

[32:24]he says what oh son choose between the gatherings that you see

[32:29]to sit in if you see a group of people who remember

[32:34]God then sit with them if you're knowledgeable then your knowledge will

[32:38]benefit you and if you're arrogant They're going to teach you.

[32:43]Perhaps God, Allah subhana wa ta'ala will shade them in his mercy

[32:47]and you'll be included amongst them.

[32:48]If you see a group that do not remember God, don't sit

[32:52]with them.

[32:52]If you're knowledgeable, your knowledge will doesn't affect them.

[32:56]It doesn't benefit you there.

[32:58]And if you're arrogant, they will if you're ignorant, they'll increase your

[33:03]ignorance.

[33:04]Perhaps God will cover them from their from his punishment and you

[33:07]will be included amongst them.

[33:09]With his punishment, he's going to punish them and you're going to

[33:12]fall into their group.

[33:14]So first of all, we have to surround ourselves with people of

[33:18]the first step is to really surround yourself with the people of

[33:25]knowledge.

[33:23]If there are other people, we can be in their group and

[33:27]if our knowledge we have that knowledge, we can benefit both them

[33:30]and ourselves.

[33:31]But if we don't we learn from these people.

[33:34]So as a result we have to sit with those certain groups

[33:39]of people and knowledge is like and uh he says in that

[33:42]in this article seeking knowledge is like swimming in an ocean.

[33:45]It takes time to you have to master the waves right it's

[33:48]not simple to be able to just jump in and be able

[33:52]to swim.

[33:53]It takes time.

[33:52]Then you have to realize how you have to swim.

[33:55]But then you find your way and you're able to find your

[33:59]way to master those waves.

[34:00]But at the same time, you won't be able to swim the

[34:02]whole ocean.

[34:03]It's impossible.

[34:05]You can't swim the whole ocean, but you can benefit from what

[34:08]you're able to do.

[34:09]You're able to swim and you're able to go underneath that ocean

[34:15]to get pearls.

[34:15]When you swim, you're able to get pearls because of your ability.

[34:21]You've learned this.

[34:20]Some people they will tell you that those are just rocks.

[34:25]Some people will tell you that inward knowledge, that swimming that you

[34:30]have and that ability because that you were able to go under

[34:32]that water and get pearls, they'll tell you it's just rocks.

[34:34]They won't understand what the value of those pearls.

[34:39]So don't feel jaded by those taunts.

[34:41]People will taunt you.

[34:42]The people of ignorance will taunt you because of that.

[34:45]But you know what that value is.

[34:47]So don't be satisfied with just that surf surface level.

[34:52]You have to make sure you dive deeper.

[34:55]Go inwards reflect on what you read upon and only then are

[34:57]you able to truly understand it.

[34:59]So because of that that's one way that we can understand how

[35:03]we can begin our journey to knowledge.

[35:05]And it's not a simple journey that's going to happen at one

[35:09]time.

[35:09]Your whole life is a journey towards knowledge.

[35:13]You have to focus on spending every day for the rest of

[35:19]your life to learn.

[35:19]You have to spend every day to seek that level of knowledge

[35:25]and to focus on writing.

[35:25]A lot of us we've lost this creative ability.

[35:30]We don't write about what we learn about.

[35:34]Right?

[35:33]Some of our they they always had for example notebooks in their

[35:38]pocket or so small notebooks and a pen and when they something

[35:41]came to them they decided to write about it they would write

[35:46]it and they would have abilities to flex that creative muscle to

[35:49]write about what you think about and sometimes it's not even a

[35:53]book sometimes you're just walking and you see Allah subhana wa ta'ala's

[35:57]beautiful creation it causes you to ponder it causes you to think

[36:04]and Because of that we need to try to reflect.

[36:07]We need to try to also flex our creative muscles.

[36:10]When you are thinking about something, write it down and you'll realize

[36:15]that you have so much more things that will come from that

[36:20]original idea.

[36:19]When you then decide to reflect a little bit, it'll cause you

[36:24]to think a bit more and more and more and then you're

[36:26]able to understand.

[36:28]You you have a very concrete thought.

[36:31]So that's something that we can do to gain knowledge.

[36:34]Later on in that article, he says something else.

[36:38]He says, "Don't disregard others opinions and the research unless you've given

[36:42]it a valid opportunity.

[36:44]Often times we have to be not humble in our knowledge.

[36:48]There are certain things that we might disregard.

[36:51]We'll say that it's not worth studying." Well, you have you can't

[36:55]just reject something unless you've properly understood it.

[36:58]You have to research it.

[36:59]You have to learn from it from those people that know and

[37:03]then you can have a strong view of a certain manner.

[37:08]What's the problem today?

[37:08]Many of us we hold strong views but we don't back it.

[37:12]We don't understand.

[37:12]Someone will say okay what about this?

[37:14]And we'll say no it's not right.

[37:16]I don't think that's how that's correct.

[37:18]Why is it that's so someone told me it's not correct.

[37:24]So it's not correct.

[37:24]When we try to understand something, we have to understand it properly.

[37:30]When you're rejecting something, you understand why you reject it.

[37:34]When someone asks you why, what did I say in the first

[37:36]night?

[37:36]I said our identity is at risk because there are other worldviews

[37:40]that challenge it.

[37:42]If you're not able to understand why you believe in something, what's

[37:48]the understanding of it?

[37:48]Your structure becomes shaky.

[37:50]When you reject something yourself, your is on rejecting a certain thing.

[37:58]Why is it so?

[37:57]We have to make sure we do so.

[38:01]We have to make sure we understand all points and only then

[38:03]do we get that knowledgehammed.

[38:08]>> Can I ask everyone to just come forward?

[38:12]Please just come forward with your recitation of a second salawat.

[38:24]And that's not to be obtuse, not to accept everything as as

[38:29]it is, right?

[38:30]You have to truly understand it properly.

[38:32]You have to if you reject it, understand why.

[38:36]I'm not saying accept everyone's opinions and everyone's views.

[38:39]Learn it.

[38:40]Once you learn it and understand why it's not correct, then it'll

[38:45]help you.

[38:45]So because of this when we want to learn and receive knowledge

[38:49]we have to understand that sometimes there are nuances in things there

[38:54]are different opinions in certain things and when you learn these things

[38:57]it helps you reflect on it helps you to think about it

[39:02]on in a very academic manner uh part he says take a

[39:06]lesson from everything no matter what it is like I said try

[39:08]to write everything try to take a lesson in anything you have

[39:14]any opportunity if you don't spend a day and A day is

[39:16]wasted without you learning something or reflecting on something.

[39:18]Then you don't grow.

[39:21]You're that same person that you were yesterday.

[39:24]Right?

[39:24]A very famous saying is every day you have to find changes

[39:27]within yourself for you to really grow.

[39:29]If you're the same person you were a year ago or yesterday

[39:31]or last week, then you haven't grown spiritually.

[39:35]We have to always make sure that we always worship Allah and

[39:41]have knowledge when we worship.

[39:43]And finally the most important part is don't forget Allah in your

[39:49]journey of knowledge.

[39:48]When you have knowledge remember to have to be very sincere to

[39:52]Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[39:54]Try to always keep Allah in the picture when you're learning something.

[39:58]What do we say?

[40:03][Music] I don't see anything except I see Allah before it, within

[40:12]it and after it.

[40:15]Only then do I see this certain picture.

[40:16]So in that manner we don't we shouldn't remove our spiritual aspect.

[40:23]Pray to Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[40:26]Pray those prayers and do those wajabat.

[40:27]And with those things sometimes even you'll find yourself reflecting on those

[40:32]manners.

[40:33]So because of that that's that journey of knowledge.

[40:34]That's why we say someone who has knowledge and someone who does

[40:39]not have knowledge they're not the same.

[40:39]They're not equal.

[40:41]Allah subhana t says in the Quran.

[40:44]So we have to try to inshallah with Allah in the picture

[40:49]with Allah being first and foremost go ahead and search towards that

[40:52]knowledge.

[40:53]And inshallah if you want to begin that journey with me reciteham

[41:06]>> and we move on tonight to the ma of his family.

[41:16]Yesterday we discussed the martyrdom of Ali.

[41:20]Tonight is the night of another child in someone who hasn't even

[41:29]turned 18 yet.

[41:29]It is none other the son of Hassan akas.

[41:34]And when you drink water in these nights, remember that from this

[41:41]day onwards, from the seventh day onwards until the day of Kabala,

[41:45]there was no water that was given to the tents of Musam.

[41:50]When you drink water, sometimes it's important, especially in these nights, to

[41:55]remember those children in the tents of in the tents of Hussein,

[42:02]the ones that were screaming al that day of he recited his

[42:13]and they began to recite to pray.

[42:17]And one by one, Imm Hussein's companions, they went onto that battlefield

[42:23]and they gave their lives for Islam they all became.

[42:28]And by that time, Im Hussein, he looks towards who he has

[42:36]left.

[42:37]He has only his family.

[42:36]He has and he has he has Ali and he has and

[42:43]the companions whilst they were still alive they didn't let Im Hussein's

[42:46]family to go and fight on that battlefield they did not allow

[42:52]it so because of that those companions they were they left this

[42:56]world for that a and there at that moment we have and

[43:00]Muhammad they were keen to help their uncle they went to that

[43:06]battlefield and they never returned turn.

[43:09]Now who's next?

[43:08]We see that Kasim is there is standing there in those tents

[43:14]and he takes his permission from his mother to fight and then

[43:17]he goes to his uncle.

[43:20]His mother gives him permission.

[43:22]Imagine being a mother in that moment giving permission for your child

[43:25]to go and be martyed in that path that you won't ever

[43:28]see them again.

[43:30]He goes to his uncle and he and he asks Im Hussein

[43:36]for permission to fight.

[43:36]How can I im Hussein give his nephew permission to fight?

[43:42]He looks just like I al hass he doesn't want to go

[43:46]to the he doesn't want him this young child to fight and

[43:48]die.

[43:49]He says what Kasim you are young you are the only child

[43:56]of your motherim you are my brother's son I have promised my

[44:00]brother that I will look after you so my dearim you're the

[44:06]image of my brother you remind me of I won't let you

[44:11]go I cannot allow you to die he's very disappointed he goes

[44:17]to his mother for her help his mother reminds reminds him of

[44:21]thisawis that he his father had tied to his arm.

[44:26]So opens this and he finds inside of it a letter for

[44:28]Hussein.

[44:29]He's pleased to see his letter and he takes it to Im

[44:35]Hussein.

[44:33]Hussein reads this letter from Im Hassan.

[44:36]Brother Hussein Hussein a day will come when Islam will be saved

[44:47]by sacrifice.

[44:46]I will not be alive for that day.

[44:49]However, my son will be there.

[44:53]It is my wish that would represent me on that day.

[44:57]And when he reads it and he says, "My dearim, how can

[45:03]I stop you now?

[45:07]Go." He took to Zab.

[45:07]He says, "Z, bring me and bring me his turban." Hussein dresses

[45:12]with Hassan's and his cloak and his servant.

[45:17]Zab look at doesn't he look handsome?

[45:20]He looks just like his brother Alass.

[45:26]Tears flow down from Hussein and Zab's eyes as they remember Al

[45:32]Hassan in that very moment.

[45:33]They remember their brother Hussein.

[45:35]Then he dresses him with his uniform and he gives him his

[45:41]weapons.

[45:42]a young child, a very young child who then he looks, he

[45:45]wears these big kind of armor on himself.

[45:48]He then rides into that battlefield.

[45:50]When he tries to mount his horse and Abbas's uncle, he helps

[45:55]him to mount that horse.

[45:56]He can't do it by himself.

[45:57]And this young fighter, he rides to the battlefield.

[46:00]A rider who can't even reach those parts where you have to

[46:04]put your legs on that horse, those stirrups, those footstraps.

[46:06]But he was still ready and keen to save Islam.

[46:09]the young son of Hassan, the grandson of Ali, the one who

[46:16]was trained by Abbas.

[46:17]So, he fights gallantly on that field.

[46:20]He fought a battle that history will never forget.

[46:23]And the enemy, they can't overpower him.

[46:26]So, one of Yazid's cowardly soldiers, they come from behind him and

[46:33]they hit his head with a sword.

[46:35]And he's covered in blood in this moment.

[46:37]This is thirsty for three days.

[46:39]He can't take it anymore.

[46:40]And in that moment falls out of his horse as he calls

[46:49]out to his uncle.

[46:49]Oh uncle, come quickly.

[46:50]Help me.

[46:52]Uncle Hussein and Abbas, they both rush to the battlefield.

[46:58]Dreadful events then take place.

[46:59]The enemies of Islam, they thought that Hussein and Abbas, they're coming

[47:02]to attack them.

[47:04]So they get very scared.

[47:05]And then there's this confusion in that moment.

[47:08]The horses they run from one side to another because they think

[47:14]that Al Hussein and Abbas are coming to fight.

[47:18]And because of that, the horses with those heavy feet, they run

[47:22]over the body of Alim.

[47:26]They run over and he lies mounted on the ground.

[47:31]He's been trampled on.

[47:35]Hussein as they search for my darling where are you?

[47:40]Yeah, speak to your uncle.

[47:41]Kasim, where are you my son?

[47:42]And Kim, he can't stop.

[47:46]He cannot reply.

[47:45]He stopped breathing in that moment.

[47:49]And the enemies, they withdraw.

[47:51]What does Hussein see?

[47:52]He was not in one piece.

[47:56]The horses when they trotted on his body, they torn his body

[47:59]to pieces.

[48:02]Imagine how Hussein feels in this moment.

[48:05]his brother, the image of his brother lying into pieces on those

[48:12]on that field of Allah.

[48:13]What shall Hain do now?

[48:16]What shall he do?

[48:15]He's been torn into pieces.

[48:19]His arms and his legs are there scattered on those sands of

[48:23]so he has only one thing he can do.

[48:28]He takes his abaya off.

[48:29]He spreads it on the ground and he takes Alasum's bars and

[48:32]he puts it and he places it in his he then ties

[48:37]his abaya into a bundle and atbas he helps Hussein to carry's

[48:41]trampled body and they reach out to the camp and they cry

[48:46]help us my heart is broken I cannot I don't have the

[48:53]strength any longer to carry this body to back to the tent

[48:58]Ask to help you take back to the tent.

[49:01]And the ladies when they cry, they see it.

[49:05]They cry.

[49:10]And [Music] [Music] With these tears, connect yourself to Allah subhana wa

[49:36]ta'ala in this moment and recite Ya Allah, Ya Allah, Ya Allah,

[49:47]Ya Allah, Ya Allah, Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya Allah, we ask you

[49:52]by the h of these sacred nights, ya Allah, we ask you

[49:56]to allow these nights to bring us closer to you.

[49:57]Ya Allah, we ask you to make us one near to the

[50:02]imam of our time and make his us one of his loyal

[50:06]companions.

[50:07]Ya Allah, we ask you to accept these malis for you for

[50:11]Im Hussein.

[50:11]Ya Allah, we ask you to forgive our sins and our shortcomings.

[50:16]Ya Allah, we ask you to make this ash an internal revolution

[50:19]on our souls.

[50:22]Ya Allah, we have those who have asked from us.

[50:24]Inshallah, whatever hij that they have that they've asked for us, those

[50:30]that are sick, those that are in difficult times, ya Allah, we

[50:34]ask you to, inshallah, help them in whatever duas and haj that

[50:38]they have.

[50:40]Ya Allah, we ask you to make our parents proud of us.

[50:44]Ya Allah, we ask you to guide us to the straight path.

[50:47]Ya Allah, we ask you to make our lives the lives of

[50:53]Husseini and our deaths the deaths of Alusi.

[50:54]Ya Allah, we ask you that whoever is no matter where they

[50:59]are in the earth, Ya Allah, inshallah, help them to be able

[51:02]to be rescued from that.

[51:06]Ya Allah, we ask you to hasten the appearance of the imam

[51:09]of our time with this recitation of Dwarman.

[51:16]Allah [Music] [Music] forsh.

[51:53][Music] Anybody know how Thank you so much.

[52:42]Sorry I took so long with the water.

[52:44]>> Yeah.

[52:45]No, no.

[52:45]I had the water.

[52:47]It's fine.

[52:46]Thank you so much.

[52:47]>> No, no, no, no, no, no.

[52:50]Thank you.

[52:50]I appreciate this one's cool.

[52:53]It's good.

[52:54]May Allah accept our tears, our duas.

[53:05]>> No, let's uh let's see if there's a Q&A.

[53:08]If not, let's go inside and sh

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