"The Number 12" - Sayed Mohammed Baqer Qazwini | Night 2 - Muharram 2016

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MYC/IIA 2016 Ashuraa Program at Fordson High School in Dearborn, MI October 2nd -12th English Program: 7:45 pm - 8:45 pm EST Sayed Mohammed Baqir Qazwini Arabic Program: 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST Imam Sayed Hassan Qazwini Arabic Majlis: 10:00 pm - 10:15 pm EST Haj Ahmad Hamdan

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[0:04]I begin in the name of the almighty God the compassionate the

[0:08]merciful the one who has created everything in utmost Perfection and May

[0:16]the peace and blessings of the almighty God be upon his pure

[0:20]and beloved messenger the peak of humanity the best of his creation

[0:27]the holy prophet Muhammad s.

[0:33]muham and may God's peace and blessings be upon the pure Immaculate

[0:39]progy of the B peace be upon them especially the leader of

[0:43]our time the awaited Savior Al IM may God hasten his reappearance

[0:54]and make us all amongst his sincere and dedicated servants Allah subhanahu

[1:00]wa'ta'ala states in the Holy [Music] Quran in this Holy Verse Allah

[1:25]subhana wa ta'ala States the number of months with God is 12

[1:30]12 in the book of God decreed by God the day he

[1:37]created the heavens and the Earth four of these months are sacred

[1:41]months this is the true upright religion illuminate your heart and mind

[1:53]with a very loud salaat the number 12 indeed it is a

[2:07]very interesting number no matter how you look at it we have

[2:10]12 months throughout the year in most schools around the world you

[2:16]see there are 12 grades the number 12 has mathematical significance to

[2:22]it when you examine its mathematical significance it's an amazing number it's

[2:30]the smallest number with the most amount of practical applications when you

[2:37]examine the number 12 across all religions especially the Divine religions you

[2:42]find that it has some sort of significance examine Judaism the Holy

[2:50]Quran tells us that in Judaism with Prophet Musa God divided B

[2:58]is into 12 tribes we divided them into 12 tribes having them

[3:12]form communities and then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala instructed Prophet Musa when

[3:20]they asked their Prophet that they are thirsty they want some water

[3:26]Allah subhana wa taala instructs Prophet Musa be upon Him Allah says

[3:32]take your stick and strike it at the Rock what happened 12

[3:41]Springs started to flow miraculously from that rock then Prophet musam instructed

[3:48]his tribes to come and take from this water it holds great

[3:57]significance Prophet y peace be upon him we see that he has

[4:01]12 sons and his 12 sons are the progenitors of the tribes

[4:06]of B is Prophet Isam the Bible speaks about 12 princes who

[4:13]come from his progeny for example referred to the Bible the Book

[4:21]of Genesis chap 17: 15 to 20 what does the Bible say

[4:27]according to these verses in the Bible God is speaking to Abraham

[4:35]peace be upon him he tells him ask for ishma your son

[4:38]is I have heard you behold I have blessed him I will

[4:47]make him fruitful will bless him and give him blessings exceedingly I

[4:53]will give him a lot of numbers and then what does the

[4:59]Bible say he shall be 12 princes and I shall make him

[5:06]a great nation when you go to Christianity you see that Prophet

[5:09]Isa he had 12 disciples and they are well known when you

[5:17]examine even other religions such as Hinduism you see that they have

[5:21]12 holy shrines they call them the Jor lingas in India they're

[5:27]holy shrines that they've dedicated to their God Shiva for example but

[5:31]that number holds significance indeed it's an amazing number when you now

[5:38]come to the religion of Islam we see that this number is

[5:42]also a significant number you know there are those Scholars or people

[5:48]who are interested with letters and words and trying to make up

[5:52]mathematical equations even if you look at it that way it's amazing

[5:57]the number 12 for example they tell you that the phrase has

[6:02]how many letters 12 letters the phrase m in Arabic how many

[6:11]letters does it have it has 12 letters the word IM in

[6:13]the Holy Quran from its singular and its plural how many times

[6:19]has it been mentioned in the Holy Quran 12 times indeed you

[6:24]see this significance now the Bible speaks about 12 princes descending from

[6:32]the progeny of is what does Islam have to say about this

[6:38]refer to the book of bukari there is a Hadith in bukari

[6:43]narrated by jabb he says I heard the holy prophet peace be

[6:51]upon him say that after me there shall come 12 Amir 12

[6:57]princes the same word that the Bible uses Subhan Allah after me

[7:02]there shall come 12 princes all of them are from qu according

[7:09]to other versions from Beni Hashim specifically from the tribe of Beni

[7:14]Hashim we see for example in the book of Muslim he uses

[7:16]the word khif after me there shall come 12 cffs Ahmed he

[7:25]also has a Hadith in which he says the number number of

[7:31]the successors of the holy prophet peace be upon Him is the

[7:36]same number of what the those tribal leaders of bani is which

[7:41]are 12 the same number indeed this number is a significant number

[7:47]now do we find any references to this number in the Holy

[7:51]Quran is there anything in the Holy Quran that makes references to

[8:02]this number if you examine in verse 36 of of verse 36

[8:07]we see that Allah subhah wa ta'ala speaks about the number 12

[8:12]in this verse Allah subhah wa ta'ala States the number of months

[8:24]with Allah subhanahu wa taal is how many 12 in the book

[8:31]of Allah subhana wa tala as decreed by God the day that

[8:42]God created the heavens he created the Earth God fixed 12 months

[8:49]four of these months are sacred months we see there is a

[8:55]reference to this number 12 Allah subhana wa tala is pointing out

[8:57]that I have fixed 12 months for you oh Humanity I have

[9:04]decreed 12 months for you this verse is referring to the lunar

[9:09]calendar in the solar calendar we also have 12 months but the

[9:15]verse is specifically speaking about the lunar months Allah has assigned 12

[9:22]lunar months for Humanity and that's why you find that the Islamic

[9:27]calendar and our important event are based on what are they based

[9:31]on the solar calendar or the lunar calendar they're based on the

[9:37]lunar calendar now there are some people who come and object especially

[9:41]in the month of Ramadan why is it that Islam is based

[9:44]on the lunar calendar and God has fixed 12 months in the

[9:50]lunar calendar why because the the lunar calendar is unpredictable how do

[9:56]we know if tonight or tomorrow the moon can be cited couldn't

[10:01]God give us something that we could predict better something more accurate

[10:06]and every year in the month of Ramadan we have this chaos

[10:11]in our community about the sighting of the Moon and people are

[10:15]saying what's going on what's up with this calendar our technology is

[10:20]better than this calendar we could predict the month better why did

[10:24]God give us this lunar calendar when you examine the history of

[10:28]the lunar calendar Subhan Allah this is from the of Allah subhah

[10:32]wa ta'ala you'll find that there is no easier way and more

[10:41]practical way to track your month and keep count of your month

[10:45]than the lunar calendar imagine throughout history everyone for the city dweller

[10:51]for those Nomads in the desert for the young for the old

[10:55]for the literate for the illiterate for the sailors who are sailing

[10:58]in the midst of the the oceans if you want to know

[11:02]what day of the month it is all you had to do

[11:06]is what just look up to the sky and see the moon

[11:09]that's how easy it was if you had a full moon you

[11:12]knew you were in the middle of the month if you had

[11:14]a new moon you know that the month was over and a

[11:18]new month is starting this is how easy it is this is

[11:20]how practical it is you really didn't need to have a calendar

[11:27]and predict beforehand especially for those people who could not read and

[11:31]write all they had to do is look up to the sky

[11:37]and realize that the month is in its middle stages early stages

[11:40]what day of the month now because we're disconnected from this sometimes

[11:45]we have no clue when we look at the moon but those

[11:49]people they could tell you almost the exact date simply by looking

[11:52]at the moon so this is actually a practical method it's an

[11:56]amazing method that Allah subhanahu wa tala gave to humanity it's our

[12:01]technology that has complicated matters otherwise for 1,300 years people had no

[12:08]issue every Community every society they would look at the Moon if

[12:13]it was established they would start the beginning of the month if

[12:17]it was not established they wouldn't it was that simple but then

[12:22]with our technology and each astronomer says something you have different calculation

[12:26]methods that's where we get our differences from otherwise the system that

[12:31]Allah subhana wa ta'ala has given us is truly an amazing system

[12:36]and by the way the lunar calendar is also amazing because of

[12:42]the diversity that it delivers to you how so because it rotates

[12:46]throughout the seasons right imagine if Allah would say you have to

[12:49]fast the month of July it would be a tragedy for us

[12:55]in North America and people in Australia would get very happy because

[12:58]for them it's always WI and for us it's always summer but

[13:02]in the lunar calendar it rotates every 33 years you have a

[13:08]full rotation so that in 33 years you get to fast during

[13:11]the winter during the summer during the Spring during the Autumn and

[13:15]that's wonderful Allah subhana tala is actually giving us a diversity to

[13:24]our events to the month of Ramadan to other events that we

[13:28]see throughout the year so Allah subhah wa taala has fixed 12

[13:31]months for us then the Holy Quran says four of these months

[13:41]are sacred months what are these sacred months in the lunar calendar

[13:46]number one is what Raj the second month is what which is

[13:53]the 11th month in the lunar calendar the third one is the

[13:59]12th and the fourth one is mam which is the month that

[14:04]we're currently witnessing these are four sacred months now why is it

[14:09]that these four months are sacred in particular aith from he says

[14:15]Allah subhanahu wa taala wanted to honor his Kaa his house because

[14:20]of the pilgrimage because of the Hajj so God declared these four

[14:26]months as holy months in these three months usually the pilgrims are

[14:33]going to Mecca and returning back so in honor of the ha

[14:38]and in honor of the House of Allah subhah wa ta'ala God

[14:40]declared these four months sacred what about rajab what is it have

[14:46]to do with the Hajj the IM says because of the omra

[14:48]it's highly recommended for people to do the minor pilgrimage the omah

[14:54]in the month of rajab so Allah subhah wa ta'ala declared these

[14:57]four months as sacred and According to Islamic law these four months

[15:02]are different than other months for example when it comes to Warfare

[15:08]during these four sacred months war is to be stopped you have

[15:15]to drop your weapons even if there's an enemy and you have

[15:19]to fight that enemy Allah subhana tal says stop and this tradition

[15:23]came from Prophet ibraim these four months were declared as sacred months

[15:29]and he showed that to humanity so if there is war Allah

[15:36]subhana wa taala says even if it's a just War yes your

[15:41]enemies deserve to be attacked because of what they're doing but in

[15:44]these months stop it drop your weapons this brings you closer to

[15:48]reconciliation when there's a three month truth from truce from this actually

[15:58]encourages both sides to think about the war the consequences of the

[16:03]war the heat of the war subsides and this was an amazing

[16:10]way for the religion of Islam to break Wars because some Wars

[16:15]would last for decades in pre-islamic Arabia decades over Petty issues sometimes

[16:21]they would fight 100 years how do you break such Wars Allah

[16:24]subhana wa ta'ala imposed a truce these months stop fighting it's a

[16:31]huge sin to fight in these months and this was truly amazing

[16:35]for example the Arabs if someone had let's say killed your father

[16:40]if you find him in one of these months you would not

[16:43]seek retribution from him you would not kill him you would wait

[16:49]until these months would be over but when you wait 3 months

[16:53]four months that actually allows you to think about it maybe to

[16:56]have forgiveness Maybe to show some reconciliation and therefore we see that

[17:02]the religion of Islam has special laws when it comes to these

[17:08]months even we have narrations that tell us our Good Deeds are

[17:12]multiplied in the sacred months mam is a sacred month every good

[17:16]deed that you did today it has been multiplied by Allah subhana

[17:22]wa tala but on the other hand every sin we also commit

[17:25]is Multiplied in this month as well beware especially the muharam that

[17:31]we are experiencing now take advantage of this opportunity by Allah subhanahu

[17:36]wa taal the Arabs when it came to these sacred months before

[17:43]the religion of Islam they had this sinful tradition of playing around

[17:49]with the months the Holy Quran attacks them and rebukes them for

[17:52]that they used to commit What's called the Holy Quran says what

[18:00]would they do for example in one of those years at the

[18:05]Hajj this is before Islam one of those tribal leaders from Beni

[18:09]Canan in Mina he made an announcement he said oh people next

[18:14]month muharam is coming because the Hajj is in which month in

[18:20]one month before muharam next month muharam is coming I want you

[18:26]to know that I'm postponing the month of muharam we're going to

[18:31]skip muharam safur will come so we can resume our fighting and

[18:36]then we'll have muharam this is something that the Arabs would do

[18:40]the Holy Quran rebukes them this is an act of disbelief don't

[18:43]play around with the months these are sacred months and you have

[18:51]to treat them with sanctity with honor and with respect but unfortunately

[18:55]how did this umah treat the family of the holy prophet peace

[18:59]be upon him the man who enforced the sanctity of this month

[19:05]how did they treat his family they massacred his family in the

[19:09]month of muharam in this holy month which the Holy Quran is

[19:13]very clear that if there is any quarreling if there's any problems

[19:16]if there's any fighting stop it try to reconcile your differences then

[19:22]think about it later but if you're in the month of muharam

[19:25]stop but these evil people had no sanctity for the month of

[19:31]muharam so this verse 36 this is the T of the verse

[19:38]the apparent meaning now is there a deeper meaning to this verse

[19:43]yes the IMs of they speak about a deeper meaning to verse

[19:48]36 of Surah the apparent meaning is that we have 12 months

[19:54]but in the religion of Islam teach us that the the days

[20:01]and the months are blessed by them because they are the best

[20:05]of Allah's creation even the days of the week there is a

[20:09]man by the name of he says one day I wanted to

[20:16]visit he was under house arrest had imposed house arrest on him

[20:24]I went to visit the Imam in special circumstances with fear he

[20:29]says I asked him about a Hadith that all Muslims have narrated

[20:32]a Hadith from the holy prophet peace be upon him in this

[20:38]Hadith the holy prophet peace be upon Him says don't show enmity

[20:44]with the days don't fight the days because they'll fight you back

[20:48]he's asking the IM what does this Hadith mean how can you

[20:53]fight the days we don't understand it can you explain it to

[20:56]us the Imam says yes the days is a reference to us

[21:02]the peace be upon them because Allah subhana waala has assigned every

[21:06]day to one of us every day is blessed by us one

[21:11]of the members of a b so for example Saturday is the

[21:13]day of Who The Day of the holy prophet peace be upon

[21:17]him that's why when you read these daily duas some of you

[21:20]may have these apps in your smartphones there's a daily Dua that

[21:27]we read one of those daily duas are those prayers in which

[21:30]we address the peace be upon them in this Dua what do

[21:36]you read today is Saturday oh Prophet this day is your day

[21:45]and I'm your guest Saturdays belong to the prophet peace be upon

[21:51]it I'm your guest on this day therefore treat me well because

[21:54]I know that you're generous so this is Saturday what about Sunday

[21:58]Sunday is blessed by IM Monday by imass and Hussein Tuesday by

[22:08]IM how about Wednesday aladi and we have special prayers for each

[22:17]one of these days and this is a great way to connect

[22:21]with the imams ofate on a daily basis brothers and sisters read

[22:25]these duas they have blessings for us and then Thursday belongs to

[22:32]and Friday to who to that's why you find most of the

[22:42]duas such as du which address are to be recited on Friday

[22:46]because Friday is the day of Al IM Al M peace be

[22:50]upon him so we see that the days are blessed similarly the

[22:55]months of the year have a connection with the imams of a

[22:58]b the prophet peace be upon him in one Hadith he says

[23:03]that the number of my successors is the number of the months

[23:07]of the year and we have a from the that speak about

[23:11]this verse verse 36 ofah Allah is actually speaking and referring to

[23:19]the IMs of how so Scholars have pointed out and also the

[23:25]Hadith when you examine the verse and analyze it we see that

[23:29]the verse is speaking about something deeper than just the months of

[23:35]the year first of all the verse says the number of months

[23:41]with God Allah is speaking about something special with God not something

[23:46]that all people also have it 12 months look at all calendars

[23:49]around the world most of the calendars have the number 12 we

[23:53]have 12 months the Quran says this is a special stat with

[23:59]Allah subhanahu waala and then Allah says in my book Allah has

[24:11]decreed the number 12 the book of Allah is a reference to

[24:15]the of Allah subhanahu wa taala the knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala

[24:19]it's through his knowledge that he assigns successors doesn't Allah speak about

[24:30]assigning Prophet Adam as aifa on Earth and when the Angels objected

[24:34]what did he say to them I know what you do not

[24:42]know oh Angels so we see this special status relates to the

[24:46]knowledge of Allah subhah wa tala therefore the verse said in the

[24:51]book of Allah that's number two number three we see that the

[24:58]verse says the day God created the heavens and the Earth and

[25:03]this universe and this solar system Allah has fixed 12 months well

[25:09]what is time what is a week what is a month isn't

[25:13]it a result of the rotation of the Moon the revolution of

[25:16]the Moon around the earth well when God first created the universe

[25:22]before the moon took its shape did you have 12 of those

[25:29]revolutions it seems that the verse is talking about something even deeper

[25:34]than that that this is a reality since God created the universe

[25:37]on the first day of this creation Allah has fixed 12 months

[25:47]this also confirms that there's a deeper meaning that Allah subhana wa

[25:51]ta'ala is addressing over here and what was the first thing that

[25:59]God created according to Shia and Sunni examine our books what is

[26:05]the first thing that Allah T created before this universe we have

[26:09]narrations that say the first thing Allah subhana wa tala created was

[26:14]the light of muhamedi Muhammad muham muham for example you see that

[26:27]in his book a prominent scholar ahed in one of his books

[26:33]what does he say he says the prophet P be upon him

[26:37]said in one Hadith the first the first thing God created in

[26:47]his presence was my light and the light of Al way before

[26:53]God created Prophet Adam then when he created Prophet Adam God div

[26:58]divided the slight into two parts one part was for me and

[27:04]one part was for my brother Ali whoar this Hadith no not

[27:11]the sh Only ahed The prominent leader of this H school of

[27:15]thought he mentions this Hadith in his book he quotes the prophet

[27:18]peace be upon him therefore we see that the verse is speaking

[27:24]about a special status not just the months of the year and

[27:27]then the verse says what this is part of the true upright

[27:35]religion and we know that the imams of form one of the

[27:42]components of the pillars of faith Allah in this verse is referring

[27:45]to one of the pillars of faith that's why he says this

[27:51]is the True Religion the upright religion and the of peace be

[27:55]upon them is part of the UPR right religion it constitutes of

[28:03]Allah subhanahu waala now I know some people are wondering okay you're

[28:08]mentioning the 12 IMS ofah he objected to you know some might

[28:17]object what happened to the prophet peace be upon him the IMs

[28:20]of their numers 12 and this verse is a reference to to

[28:24]them how come you ditch the prophet J he says I objected

[28:30]to I asked him then what about the prophet where is he

[28:36]in this equation the IM beautifully answers him the Imam tells him

[28:40]we are the months of the year but the year itself is

[28:45]the year itself because we the IMs of are part of the

[28:54]holy prophet we are not we we are inseparable from the holy

[28:59]prophet peace be upon him we embody the teachings of the holy

[29:05]prophet peace be upon him see this beautiful expression from the IM

[29:12]doesn't the prophet peace be upon Him says Ali is from me

[29:16]and I am from Ali we are part of the same equation

[29:24]so the prophet is the year and the months of the year

[29:27]are the imams of wait peace be upon them this number 12

[29:33]that Allah subhana T has blessed us with you know there's a

[29:36]pastor by the name of saini streten some of you may have

[29:41]seen her or heard her speak she converted to the religion of

[29:44]Islam she says when I became Muslim and I read about the

[29:49]number of cffs I saw that Muslims say there are four cffs

[29:52]but I was puzzled because in Judaism and Christianity the number 12

[29:57]12 has significance Jesus had 12 disciples the other Jewish prophets they

[30:03]had 12 disciples how come when it comes to the religion of

[30:09]Islam it got reduced to four only she says this was puzzling

[30:12]my mind until I came across the followers of B and I

[30:19]read those Hadith that say that the successors to the holy prophet

[30:22]peace be upon him are 12 she says immediately I realized that

[30:28]this number holds significance this is the true school of thought because

[30:33]it's compatible with all the religions of God the previous religions it's

[30:38]compatible with the number of disciples that previous prophets had in Judaism

[30:45]in Christianity in the abrahamic faiths and religions now go and ask

[30:52]Muslims today doesn't bukari say that there are 12 leaders after the

[30:56]prophet peace be upon him are these 12 leaders it's not that

[31:02]we the followers of B have an obsession with this number or

[31:06]with the imams of it's because Allah subhah wa ta'ala teaches us

[31:11]in the Holy Quran that I am the one who assigns the

[31:16]Imam for you you don't have the right to choose this divinely

[31:20]guided leader because whenever Allah uses the word khif the word IM

[31:26]whatever it is in the Holy Quran Allah clearly states that I

[31:29]am the one who chooses for you oh David we have assigned

[31:37]you as aif oh IIM I have assigned you to become an

[31:47]Imam we have made them and assigned them to be imams look

[31:52]at the word IM and look at the word in the Holy

[31:56]Quran you see always Allah subhana tala speaking from his authority that

[32:04]I am the one who assigns this for you so ask Muslims

[32:06]who are these 12 what have you done with the successors of

[32:10]the holy prophet peace be upon him what is the role of

[32:15]these imams many of us unfortunately even us the followers of B

[32:19]we don't know what the role of our imams are how do

[32:25]we benefit from our imams of B what significance they have in

[32:29]our lives so what if there were 12 imams or there weren't

[32:34]12 imams does that change anything many of us have not absorbed

[32:38]this significant aspect of our belief system first of all the imams

[32:46]of B brothers and sisters they complete the religion for us they

[32:50]saved the religion because if you believe that the holy prophet peace

[32:54]be upon Him died without appointing anyone that means you believe essentially

[33:01]the prophet left the job unfinished how can he leave this um

[33:06]for them to fight amongst themselves and choose someone is that even

[33:11]possible when Allah subhana wa tala is the one who chooses these

[33:14]positions how can I believe that the prophet left without appointing anyone

[33:19]without assigning anyone that's why when you see the Holy Quran referring

[33:26]to the IM Allah subh makes it very clear to us that

[33:33]through IM I am completing religion go toah verse number three after

[33:38]the holy prophet peace be upon him in the event of he

[33:43]declared im as a successor what does Allah reveal in the Holy

[33:49]Quran today I have completed your religion now go to all schools

[33:56]of thought when was this verse revealed amongst the last verses of

[34:01]the Holy Quran to be revealed is this verse what happened on

[34:04]that day why is God saying today I have perfected your religion

[34:08]completed your religion why was there anything missing Hajj has been declared

[34:14]to people the Salah the prayer had been established the fasting all

[34:23]these Islamic obligations the prophet spoke about them the Holy Quran explained

[34:28]them what happened on that day such that God says today I

[34:31]have completed your religion and I have completed my favor upon you

[34:37]and today I've accepted Rel Islam as your religion think about this

[34:41]what happened towards the end of the prophet's life what significant event

[34:44]happened we need to ask ourselves these questions brothers and sisters it's

[34:52]the IMs of who completed the religion and IM Hussein is the

[34:56]one who saved the religion of Islam otherwise the omad would have

[35:03]obliterated this Faith that's why the Sunni scholar Al what does he

[35:07]say he says the religion of Islam owes its beginning to who

[35:15]the holy prophet peace be upon it but it owes its survival

[35:21]to who IM husin that's a significant Ro of the imams of

[35:32]B that they complete the faith for us number two the prophet

[35:37]peace be upon him did not have the opportunity to explain everything

[35:41]to the Muslim um remember for 13 years in Mecca he was

[35:47]either under house arrest there were embargos imposed against him he did

[35:51]not have the freedom to explain all the details of Islam and

[35:53]even in Medina there were so many challenges so many difficult so

[35:59]many wars and troubles the prophet peace be upon him in those

[36:02]10 years did not have the opportunity to explain all aspects of

[36:05]Islam yes he gave us the big idea he explained to us

[36:11]the important parts of Islam but as for the details the prophet

[36:14]did not have time and even if he did the society wasn't

[36:19]ready you think that early Society was ready to receive all the

[36:23]details of the religion of Islam the details of Islamic philosophy Theology

[36:28]of Islamic law people were not ready they just became Muslims yesterday

[36:35]now you bombard them with all these Islamic laws they're not going

[36:39]to absorb it who the one who explained these Islamic details and

[36:44]they and delivered to us these wonderful laws that we have the

[36:47]imams of and that's why you see the schools of thought all

[36:53]emerged one during the time of IM because they had nothing they

[36:57]had to benefit from the knowledge of the imams peace be upon

[37:04]them the imams of are our path to Allah subhanahu wa taala

[37:07]if you want knowledge you go to the imams of because they

[37:11]had all the knowledge from Allah subhana wa tala through the holy

[37:15]prophet peace be upon him one day the you know those enemies

[37:18]of Imam Ali the forefathers of Isis today the wanted to test

[37:24]imali they said he claims to be the Gate of knowledge let's

[37:29]put him to the test let's see if he's really knowledgeable so

[37:33]one of them stood up and he said let me ask you

[37:38]a question is knowledge better or is wealth better the Imam says

[37:43]no knowledge is better he says why explain to me he says

[37:45]because you have to protect your wealth whereas knowledge protects you so

[37:50]knowledge is better he went another one came to him oh Ali

[37:55]which is better knowledge or wealth he says no knowledge is better

[37:58]he said why he says because when you spend your wealth it

[38:04]decreases whereas when you spread your knowledge it increases so knowledge is

[38:08]better and then the Imam keeps giving 10 different answers to 10

[38:13]different people they were shocked anytime you ask alali is knowledge better

[38:18]or wealth better he'll give you a different answer explaining to you

[38:21]why knowledge is better then the Imam told them he says listen

[38:27]don't Tire yourselves if from now till the day of judgment you

[38:29]keep asking me this question I'll keep giving you different answers this

[38:33]is the knowledge of peace be upon them through their knowledge they

[38:37]saved the religion of Islam you know interestingly one day the Imam

[38:42]was about to say Allah there was a Jewish man he wanted

[38:46]to distract the IM he did not like IM he's like let

[38:52]me throw a question at him I'll distract him confuse him he's

[38:54]about to do a Salah and ruin his Salah he says oh

[39:00]can you tell me which of the animals they give birth and

[39:07]which of them they lay eggs imagine the silly question now he's

[39:09]like good I got him good I'll distract him now he has

[39:13]to list me hundreds of animals which one lays eggs which one

[39:17]gives birth the Imam in 5 seconds he told him in in

[39:23]giving him his response before saying allahar he says all those animals

[39:26]which have protruding ears they give birth and the others they lay

[39:30]eggs Subhan Allah modern science has confirmed this because all of the

[39:34]mammals they have protruding ears ears which are extending outside all of

[39:38]them they give birth and the others like the birds for example

[39:43]they lay eggs in 5 seconds this is the knowledge of the

[39:46]peace be upon them that's why IM he says ask me before

[39:56]you lose me but how did this umah treat them the imams

[40:02]embody the qualities of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you want God's knowledge

[40:06]seek it through the IM you want to see humbleness look at

[40:13]Al IM Hussein one day the Imam was passing by a group

[40:18]of homeless people a group of destitutes they had gathered to eat

[40:23]some crumbs of bread some crumbs that's all they had they send

[40:28]their salams to IM Hussein and they told him oh IM join

[40:33]us please now what would you do a bunch of homeless people

[40:36]eating crumbs of bread you know even if you wanted to be

[40:39]polite you would say no thank you inshah next time some other

[40:44]time look at the humbleness of ab abdah Hussein he accepted their

[40:48]invitation he said I'll accept your invitation I don't want to break

[40:51]your heart the Imam sat with them and that's how humble he

[40:57]was was he joined them and then the Imam says okay you've

[41:00]invited me now I would like to invite you he invited them

[41:04]to his own house and he gave them some food that he

[41:06]had this is the humbleness of IM Hussein IM look at the

[41:14]Forgiveness you want to see forgiveness read the life of this man

[41:17]IM peace be upon him what an amazing IM of peace be

[41:24]upon him there was a man from the progeny of this man

[41:28]would always be you know very tough with IM he would slander

[41:34]him he would attack IM Al until one day the companions of

[41:39]IM you know they could not take this anymore they said oh

[41:44]Imam please give us the permission let's give him a good beating

[41:47]let's beat him to death every single day he Slanders you and

[41:53]he cusses at you we cannot tolerate this the Imam says no

[41:55]I do not give give you the permission let me handle it

[42:00]let me take care of it what does he do the Imam

[42:04]goes to his Farmland he sees the Imam approaching he's like be

[42:08]careful don't destroy my crops Subhan Allah how's the Imam going to

[42:11]destroy your crops he's just walking in your Farmland the Imam goes

[42:14]to him he asks him he tells him I want to ask

[42:17]you a question the Imam was smiling with him a man who's

[42:21]cursing him and cursing at him every day in the mosque of

[42:23]the holy prophet peace be upon him he tells him I have

[42:29]a question for you how much did it cost you this year

[42:35]to grow these crops he says 100 he says how much do

[42:37]you expect to make this year he says I don't have I

[42:41]don't have the knowledge of the Unseen how do I know the

[42:44]Imam says take it easy I just asked you how much do

[42:47]you expect how much do you anticipate I didn't ask you if

[42:52]you have he says I anticipate 100 Dirhams so I break even

[42:56]I've spent 100 I'll make a 100 the Imam took out a

[43:02]bag which had 200 golden Dinars and he gave him to that

[43:05]enemy who was cursing him every day imagine what happened to this

[43:10]man he fell at the feet of the next day the IM

[43:16]was walking to the mosque this man came and he saluted IM

[43:19]and he says God knows whom he chooses to protect this Faith

[43:28]to defend this Faith the companions were shocked you know this man

[43:35]every day he's slandering you today he's he's changed 180 degrees the

[43:39]Imam looked at his companions like okay which one's better now you

[43:43]wanted to beat him to death or the way I handled it

[43:48]which one is better now this is the of the bit peace

[43:53]be upon them these are the imams of a bit peace be

[43:55]upon them we have to understand their important role especially the Imam

[44:01]of our time brothers and sisters how many of us know what

[44:04]is the significance of what's the significance of this IM how do

[44:12]we benefit from him during the time of the during the occultation

[44:18]the Imam peace be upon Him plays a very important role first

[44:25]of all he is the one who offers the complete to Allah

[44:27]tells us in the Holy Quran the whole reason why I've created

[44:33]you the whole reason why I've created the universe for that matter

[44:38]is what is to worship me who is the one who worships

[44:43]God 100% it's that's why in you see that the Imam is

[44:54]s is paying his salutations to the acts of Al IM everything

[44:57]that he [Music] does peace be upon you when you stand because

[45:05]the standing of Al IM is an act of worship peace be

[45:11]upon you when you sit peace be upon you when you pray

[45:17]and do peace be upon you when you read when you recite

[45:21]during the day during the night the IM actually he legitimizes the

[45:29]creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala why he ensures the survival of

[45:34]the creation of God the continuation of the creation of God why

[45:38]because God created us to worship him and he's the one who's

[45:43]worshiping Allah the way Allah wants that's why we have a Hadith

[45:49]that tell us the world continues by the blessings of Al IM

[45:52]almi peace be upon him we need to understand that through Al

[45:55]IM Al Allah subhah wa ta'ala saves us from so many types

[46:01]of punishments doesn't Allah subhanahu wa taala address the holy prophet peace

[46:05]be upon him and he tells him those Arabs at that time

[46:16]they committed acts of Injustice they deserved to be obliterated but Allah

[46:22]saved them because of the mere presence of the holy prophet in

[46:25]honor of the holy prophet I will not obliterate you we have

[46:30]a Hadith that tell us in honor of the IM of our

[46:32]time Allah subhana wa tala does not obliterate us look at the

[46:38]Injustice around the earth sometimes when you look at the acts of

[46:41]Injustice and the corruption and the Bloodshed and all the wars around

[46:44]the world you begin to wonder Subhan Allah don't we humanties deserve

[46:47]to be obliterated by God for what we're doing all the Bloodshed

[46:54]that we see around the world all the corruption it's with the

[46:58]blessings of the IM peace be upon him the IM who witnesses

[47:01]our actions you know there are some people who have an issue

[47:06]with this how do I benefit from the IM when I'm not

[47:08]seeing him let me ask you a question do you believe in

[47:12]the contents of the Holy Quran as a Muslim we believe that

[47:18]the devil exists right how many of you have seen the devil

[47:20]I'm sure some of you have seen the devil but not in

[47:24]this community alhamdulillah there are some Devil's walking on Earth I'm sure

[47:30]we've seen many of them but seriously Satan El how many of

[47:32]you have seen him do you believe in his existence but you

[47:38]haven't seen him oh but he whispers to us okay so he

[47:44]has this negative impact on you he can misguide you even though

[47:48]you haven't seen him so you've accepted the fact that there is

[47:52]a creation here on Earth whom you cannot see with your naked

[47:58]eye but it has an effect on you and it's difficult for

[48:00]you to believe that IM Al now Satan is the enemy of

[48:05]God and IM Ali is the friend of Allah subhana wa tala

[48:07]the representative of Allah even even if you don't see him with

[48:13]your own eyes does that mean you cannot benefit from his spiritual

[48:17]presence you cannot benefit from the guidance of the Im Just as

[48:21]Allah subhana wa taala has allowed the devil to whisper to you

[48:28]to misguide you Allah subhanahu waala has allowed to serve as the

[48:34]source of guidance for all believers but you have to find that

[48:37]path to the IM the more you open your heart to Al

[48:41]IM Ali the more you will benefit from his presence and that's

[48:47]truly amazing of course he Witnesses our actions when the devil is

[48:51]witnessing your your own actions and the devil is not only witnessing

[48:54]your own actions he can read your mind because if he does

[48:58]not know what your intention is then how can he whisper to

[49:00]you you want to donate the Shan says no no no don't

[49:04]donate you haven't said it to anyone it's just a thought in

[49:06]your mind you want to go to a good place the devil

[49:11]Whispers to you because the devil can read our minds can see

[49:14]our intentions if the enemy of God can see your intentions you

[49:19]don't think the representative of Allah subhana wa taala has been authorized

[49:23]by Allah subhana wa taala to see that offer your actions Allah

[49:35]subhanahu Waal sees your deeds and his messenger and who's the third

[49:39]one and the Believers who are the Believers it's the imams of

[49:44]B let us get closer to the imams of B let us

[49:49]understand what their important role is brothers and sisters they truly saved

[49:55]the religion for us this as commemoration that we experience every year

[50:02]you know who saved this for us it was IM this IM

[50:09]for 35 years he did something very unusual without IM Z know

[50:18]that there was no as no commemoration there was no Islam the

[50:23]OM Dynasty they had come to obliterate the religion of Islam it

[50:32]was IM who kept the fervor of alive in our hearts we're

[50:35]all indebted to him and on such a night thank IM for

[50:41]all of his contributions for Humanity for 35 years brothers and sisters

[50:49]Al imid would mix his food and he would mix his water

[50:53]with tears crying on his father Al IM Hussein the IM did

[51:05]not eat any food except that he would mix the food with

[51:09]his tears and this is what he would say how can I

[51:19]eat when the son of the messenger of God he was killed

[51:24]hungry how can I drink when the son of the messenger of

[51:33]God was killed thirsty he would cry for 35 years until one

[51:41]day one of his servants he told him oh IM you've taken

[51:46]this too far isn't it time for you to stop grieving so

[51:52]much on what happened to your father Hussein you're taking this too

[51:57]far you know what answered him he tells him the prophet he's

[52:13]a prophet he's infallible mentioned in the Quran he had 12 sons

[52:21]he was disconnected from one of his sons 11 of them were

[52:28]with with were with him only one of them was away from

[52:32]him and that was yfam for 40 years what happened to prophet

[52:43]he lost he almost lost his eyesight because of crying so much

[52:51]and his back became bent because of crying so much much and

[52:57]he became old his hair grew white because of all that pain

[53:00]pain and depression and his son Yousef was not even killed he

[53:05]was alive and he knew that his son was alive this is

[53:11]Prophet what about [Music] me and as for me I had to

[53:37]see my father my brother my uncle and 17 members of my

[53:39]family they were massacred around me you expect me to stop grieving

[53:46]Jacob was separated from his son and he had 12 sons for

[53:49]40 years he cried such that his eyes went out and you

[53:54]expect me to stop cry crying on my father Hussein when I

[53:57]saw his severed head I will never stop crying it's IM who

[54:04]kept this alive for us brothers and sisters on such a night

[54:11]the night of the second of muharam the Caravan of Al IM

[54:18]Hussein reaches the land ofala the Imam was on his way to

[54:22]kufa but they blocked him from reaching kufa the IM did not

[54:29]want to fight them the IM says I don't want any War

[54:33]any battle let me go back from where I came from let

[54:36]me go to Yemen they said no either you pay allegiance to

[54:40]yazid or we'll fight you there's no other way out so they

[54:46]forced the Imam to continue North until he reached a land over

[54:53]there the Imam realized that there's something about this land this is

[54:57]an unusual land it's not like any other land and the horse

[55:01]of the Imam refused to continue the Imam realized that something was

[55:06]going on he asked his companions my companions what is the name

[55:13]of this land some of them some of them said the name

[55:19]of this place is na the Imam says does it have another

[55:21]name someone else said yes Al someone else said but the IM

[55:30]was looking for a different word a word that he constantly had

[55:34]heard from his grandfather the kept the IM kept asking is there

[55:41]another name to this land when one of them said yesal yes

[55:52]there's a name to this land it's called carala upon hearing the

[55:58]word ofala the IM involuntarily his tears flowed down his face he

[56:03][Music] says because the word in Arabic is a combination of two

[56:14]words and Bal trials and tribulations oh Allah I seek refuge in

[56:19]you from trials and re and tribulations the Imam knew that the

[56:27]this was their final Destiny this is the place where they had

[56:30]to settle when he realized that he's inala he instructed his companions

[56:35]he told [Music] them my dear companions here we shall settle why

[56:45]oh AB abdah why shouldn't we continue why do you want us

[56:51]to settle here the Imam explains to them the IM tells them

[56:57]here in this land our men shall be slaughtered they shall be

[57:07]killed here in this land our children the babies the infants they

[57:14]shall be slaughtered here here in this land our woman shall be

[57:22]taken as prisoners of War everyone pay your salutations to Al IM

[57:30]Hussein everyone [Music] together m

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