The Problem of Evil 2: Problem-free life Means God Loves Me? - Night 6 - Sayed Ahmad Qazwini

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[2:15]enlighten your hearts and illuminate your majalis with a loud muhammad respected

[2:28]brothers and sisters we spoke about the problem of evil last night

[2:38]and we said that if there is a kind loving and merciful

[2:43]god then why does he permit all the suffering and pain that

[2:47]exists in the world and we said that this problem has become

[2:52]the leading factor to atheism in this world today that many people

[2:57]simply because they cannot understand how a merciful god can allow all

[3:02]this evil and all this suffering to exist then they decide to

[3:06]disbelieve in god and that's why a reply is necessary to this

[3:12]problem and we spoke about the first answer the first reply last

[3:17]night we said that the notion of evil is relative many times

[3:21]we label something as evil just because it's bad for me even

[3:26]though it may be good for humanity and thus allah subhanahu wa

[3:30]ta'ala many times he permits certain things that we perceive as evil

[3:34]because they're good for other human beings because they're good for humanity

[3:38]as a whole allah subhanahu wa ta'ala looks at the bigger picture

[3:42]so this we spoke about last night and from that point that

[3:46]leads us to the second question that we posed last night why

[3:50]did allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bring us to this world earth because

[3:56]as you know we human beings we pass by many stages many

[4:00]lives for example the first life that's mentioned in the quran is

[4:04]before we even were born before this world there was a world

[4:08]called and then comes our life in our mother's womb and then

[4:14]this life and then our lives in the grave and then after

[4:17]that the hereafter jannah and naar hell and heaven and whatever happens

[4:21]after that and each one of these stages has a purpose we

[4:25]have a job we have a role in each one of these

[4:27]stages what's our job in this stage in this life earth why

[4:31]did allah bring us the holy quran clearly tells us what our

[4:35]goal is in this world allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the

[4:38]holy quran allah says i created life and death this world why

[4:47]why didn't allah just make it one phase just create us in

[4:50]heaven and that's it allah says i created this world and i

[4:54]created life and death so that i test you i know who's

[5:03]good and who's evil so that can make two groups one group

[5:06]is those that are good that they deserve a reward and the

[5:10]second group is the group of those that are evil and they

[5:13]deserve punishment so brothers and sisters this life that we live in

[5:17]is a huge exam hall and as you know every test every

[5:22]exam has its difficulties it has right answers and it has what

[5:28]wrong answers it has good and it has evil in them take

[5:32]for example the normal tests that you take in schools if we

[5:38]if you've been to school and all of you have been to

[5:40]school here ever since first grade up to twelfth grade and then

[5:44]in in college and universities we have to take hundreds of tests

[5:47]throughout our lives and take the example of a multiple choice test

[5:52]anytime you have a multiple choice test the question has usually four

[5:57]answers and only one of them is right three of them are

[6:01]wrong now if i don't know if you've thought about the wrong

[6:04]answers do you know what's the essence of the wrong answers the

[6:07]wrong answers in a multiple choice test are nothing but evil do

[6:12]you know why what happens if on a test you choose the

[6:16]wrong answer the multiple choice let's say there's 20 questions and each

[6:21]question you choose the wrong answer what happens you fail what happens

[6:25]if you fail two or three tests you be you flunk the

[6:28]class what happens if you flunk the class you don't graduate what

[6:31]happens if you don't graduate you don't get a degree what happens

[6:34]if you don't get a degree you can't get a good job

[6:36]you can't provide for your family you live a life of poverty

[6:40]once i live a life of poverty and i'm not successful i

[6:43]say what i label this as evil what was the source of

[6:46]this evil why did it begin it's because of those wrong answers

[6:49]correct it wasn't for those wrong answers i would have never been

[6:52]in this situation so those wrong answers are evil because they destroy

[6:57]my life they destroy my career who put those wrong answers in

[7:02]the test the devil or the professor the teacher obviously the professor

[7:12]the teacher himself put those wrong answers in the test and he

[7:15]tries to make them hard you see there are some tests they're

[7:18]very difficult it says a b and then c is both a

[7:21]and b and then d is none of the above and those

[7:24]are the most difficult they make it very difficult you have to

[7:28]have studied real well in order to know what's the right answer

[7:31]why do they do that why does the professor do that if

[7:33]you go to your professor your teacher you ask him why did

[7:36]you put the wrong answers what kind of a merciful and loving

[7:39]and good professor are you don't you claim that you're a good

[7:42]professor why do you put all these evil answers well he'll what

[7:45]will he tell you he will tell you yes at the same

[7:48]time that i'm merciful i'm wise the point is you're taking this

[7:52]class to learn why do you come to school to learn right

[7:55]and the only way for you to learn is to study and

[7:58]if there are no wrong answers in the test you're not gonna

[8:01]study if they give you a test with 20 questions each question

[8:05]has four multiple choice answers and each one of the answers is

[8:08]right is there any way to flunk is there any way to

[8:12]fail no will you study for that test or will you not

[8:15]study for that test probably 99% of people they're never gonna study

[8:19]for that test why because they have nothing to fear so it's

[8:23]those wrong answers that what that forces me to go and study

[8:28]or else i'll be lazy i study i get an education i

[8:32]become a learning man so if it wasn't for those wrong answers

[8:36]i would have never studied so you see the point of the

[8:38]wrong answers even though they are evil but their presence is necessary

[8:42]because without them we're never gonna study we won't receive an education

[8:46]and the same thing brothers and sisters applies to allah subhanahu wa

[8:49]ta'ala and that's why you see many people they say why doesn't

[8:53]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala intervene when there is evil in this world

[8:58]why doesn't allah stop all the suffering and the tyranny and the

[9:03]evil this question my friends is as naive as saying why doesn't

[9:09]the professor stop the student from choosing the wrong answer every time

[9:13]the student wants to choose the wrong answer wait wait wait don't

[9:15]do that this might ruin your career would this be a good

[9:19]professor if he does that of course not because the student will

[9:22]never learn anything because he knows anytime that he will make a

[9:26]mistake the professor is right there for him so he's never gonna

[9:29]take the effort to learn so if i say why doesn't allah

[9:32]intervene every time it's the same thing the same reasoning brothers and

[9:38]sisters applies to tests and that's why you find the third question

[9:43]that we posed yesterday that some people they assume that since god

[9:48]is merciful he should get rid of all evil and all suffering

[9:53]of this world this assumption is not necessarily correct where do we

[9:57]get this from what's the basis of this assumption if god is

[10:01]merciful that means there should be no suffering in this world what

[10:04]are we basing this assumption on this is wrong and the easiest

[10:08]way to disprove this assumption is how the easiest way to show

[10:12]that this assumption is wrong is just look at how we human

[10:15]beings raise our children if any of you here are parents then

[10:21]you'll understand this if you're not you will be one day and

[10:24]you'll understand parents brothers and sisters there are times in which a

[10:30]father and mother realize that suffering is inevitable for their child that

[10:36]child will have to suffer for example if the child becomes sick

[10:41]we have to take that child to the doctor and that doctor

[10:45]may afflict that child with some suffering for example vaccination for example

[10:50]a shot because he has a cold or a fever and that

[10:54]shot is a form of suffering because it's painful and sometimes the

[10:57]child after certain vaccines they get fevers for two days they can't

[11:02]sleep they can't eat and they cry the entire night that child

[11:05]has to suffer and i just sit and watch does that mean

[11:10]that i'm not a merciful father does that mean that i'm a

[11:13]bad wicked father or a bad mother because i let this suffering

[11:16]of yes it's a small form of suffering but at the end

[11:19]of the day it's a form of suffering just because i afflict

[11:21]that child with some suffering doesn't mean that i'm evil there is

[11:24]a greater good that's why i allow it likewise there are certain

[11:29]times in which we take away good things from our children if

[11:33]i want to discipline my child and he's misbehaving what do i

[11:35]do i ground them for example or i take away their toys

[11:40]or their belongings i take away their iphone i take away their

[11:45]ipad you know some people when they lose their smartphones in these

[11:49]days they go crazy you've noticed sometimes they're sitting in a gathering

[11:53]and all of a sudden some guy goes crazy he goes like

[11:55]this feel like some something crazy has happened in his life what

[11:59]happened where's my iphone he goes running chasing after his iphone until

[12:02]he finds it so sometimes the worst form of suffering for our

[12:08]children and even some of us adults is if we take away

[12:11]some of our belongings just the iphone the ipad sometimes my son

[12:14]when i take his ipad away i need him to sleep or

[12:17]he's been misbehaving he considers this as the worst form of suffering

[12:22]when i take away his games his ipad and he begins to

[12:25]call me an evil father he thinks that i am the most

[12:28]evil and wicked father just because i take his ipad but is

[12:32]this good for him or is it bad for him twenty years

[12:34]after thirty years after once he grows he'll realize that this was

[12:38]good for him that i was only doing this for his own

[12:41]good brothers and sisters this is exactly how we are with allah

[12:45]subhanahu wa ta'ala don't we love our children but yet we have

[12:48]to discipline them allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does the same thing with

[12:54]us let me tell you this beautiful hadith that one of our

[12:58]imams speaks about but first in the same way that we parents

[13:07]love our children and the most thing that we love in our

[13:10]lives our children the hadith says that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells

[13:15]prophet musa one day what does he tell him he tells him

[13:19]the hadith says that god himself he says that out of everything

[13:30]that i have created do you know what allah loves the most

[13:34]out of everything that he created he creates so many things what's

[13:37]the thing that he loves the most the hadith says that god

[13:40]tells musa the most thing i love is a faithful believer like

[13:46]you brothers and sisters that's the most thing that allah subhanahu wa

[13:50]ta'ala loves a believing mumin and then the hadith says after that

[13:56]and that's why if i give anything to the believer to that

[14:03]faithful slave or servant of mine if i give him anything it's

[14:07]for his own good so if allah gives me any wealth or

[14:10]gives me health or gives me children or any other benefaction of

[14:13]allah it's for my own good it's because he loves me but

[14:17]then comes the second part of the question comes the second part

[14:21]but wait a minute there is many times in which allah subhanahu

[14:24]wa ta'ala takes away certain things from us and many of us

[14:27]say god hates me god doesn't love me he took away something

[14:31]from me but the hadith says i give him because i love

[14:34]i love him and then allah says but when i take away

[14:40]something from him when he has a rough time in his life

[14:43]when he comes across a problem i do it because i love

[14:48]him the hadith is clearly saying that allah takes certain things away

[14:53]from us because he loves us subhanallah you say how but when

[14:57]allah takes something away from me i say why did allah do

[15:01]that you see the same way in which our children react to

[15:05]our upbringing and our and how we discipline them we do the

[15:08]same thing with allah when a child says my father or my

[15:12]mother is evil because they forced me to sleep early because i

[15:15]can't eat junk food because they take away my games they're disciplining

[15:18]him they consider this as bad we do the same thing with

[15:21]allah when allah takes something away from me it's because it's better

[15:25]for me how is it better for me i don't understand in

[15:28]the same way the child doesn't understand how taking these things away

[15:31]from our good we don't understand how allah wants this for my

[15:35]better but the same immature mentality that kids have with us we

[15:40]have with allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that's why brothers and sisters

[15:44]the hadith listen carefully the hadith the beautiful hadith of imam ali

[15:49]ibn abi talib alaihi salam says he says never say this this

[15:56]is something that we should never say if you remember two nights

[15:59]ago when i spoke about tawbah repentance i mentioned one thing that

[16:03]according to the hadith we should never think of or say what

[16:07]was it never say god won't forgive me because this itself will

[16:11]be a sin that was the first thing that we should never

[16:14]say this is the second thing that we should never say the

[16:17]hadith of the imam says never say never say this the imam

[16:26]says never say oh allah i seek refuge in you from problems

[16:31]from being tested don't say you allah don't test me never say

[16:35]you allah i want a problem free life never say that why

[16:42]because we already mentioned the whole purpose of this life was to

[16:45]be tested and tests are gonna be difficult so when you say

[16:48]you allah i don't wanna be tested that means you're asking allah

[16:50]to take you out of this world because this entire world is

[16:53]a test but then the imam says what a beautiful hadith he

[17:05]says if you want to do a dua say it in this

[17:08]way he teaches us how to pray to allah he says don't

[17:11]say allah you allah i want a problem free life because as

[17:14]they say it's an oxymoron this life means there's gonna be problems

[17:18]so don't say i want a problem free life doesn't make sense

[17:20]so what's the correct dua that i have to do the imam

[17:23]says if you want to do a dua say this allah i

[17:31]seek refuge in you from problems that weaken my faith a problem

[17:38]that takes me away from allah seek refuge in allah from that

[17:42]tell allah you allah please i know there's gonna be difficulties in

[17:45]my life i know you're gonna try me there's gonna be hardships

[17:48]but please don't try me in a way in which it will

[17:51]affect affect my iman my faith and subhanallah this topic that we're

[17:55]speaking about you find many of these atheists the reason why they

[17:58]become atheists is why is because there was a tragedy in his

[18:02]life look at their lives you'll find when he was young he

[18:05]was orphaned or she was orphaned or a family member died when

[18:08]they were older or they had a very very difficult disease and

[18:11]they say if there is a merciful god then why did he

[18:14]allow this to happen to me subhanallah the imam says this is

[18:17]what you have to seek refuge in that when allah tries you

[18:20]instead of being stronger and thanking allah subhanallah and being patient you

[18:24]drift away from allah subhanallah you say there is no god because

[18:27]there is evil in this world so this is a dua that

[18:30]we have to always read you allah do not try me in

[18:33]a way in which i will go far from you do not

[18:37]try me in a way in which my iman will become weak

[18:41]and that's why brothers and sisters like i mentioned the hadith allah

[18:44]says that there is nothing that i love more than abdiyyah al

[18:47]mu'min when i give him something it's for his own good when

[18:50]i take away something it's for his own good but when allah

[18:53]gives us we see that's good when he takes away something we

[18:56]see it right away we say we assume that allah hates us

[18:59]how many people you've seen communities that when they see someone that's

[19:04]wealthy they say oh this man allah subhanahu wa ta'ala must love

[19:08]him and when we see someone who's not so successful when we

[19:12]see someone who has a disease and may god forbid a fatal

[19:14]disease we say allah doesn't love him and that's why it's typical

[19:18]for a human being that when he suffers from a problem what

[19:21]does he say you allah why me so he has the assumption

[19:25]that god hates him this is bad and then he asks why

[19:28]me but when you come to the hadith of al al bayt

[19:31]you find it's exactly the opposite and let me read you the

[19:35]hadith of al al bayt the hadith of al al al bayt

[19:39]he says in this beautiful hadith when allah loves someone do you

[19:53]know what he does to that person when i love my child

[19:55]what do i do there are certain ways in which i i

[19:57]i express my love towards the child when allah loves me what

[20:01]does he do showers me with his mercy yes of course but

[20:04]how that means gives me money that means give me ease no

[20:07]problems no the hadith says that when allah loves someone allah will

[20:14]test him in a difficult way allah will add problems in his

[20:18]life and another hadith the holy prophet he was asked one day

[20:22]who are the people that suffer the most in this world do

[20:26]you know what the imam said in this hadith he said the

[20:29]people that suffer most in this world are the prophets and ironically

[20:34]the prophets are the people that allah loves most they're the closest

[20:38]people to allah but they suffer the most and then the prophet

[20:42]says and then the best of the best so the prophet says

[20:48]the more iman you have the more allah will test you the

[20:51]more difficult the test will be that's why if you have a

[20:54]problem in your life don't see it as if allah doesn't love

[20:56]you the hadith tells us it's exactly the opposite allah loves the

[21:01]prophet much more than me but look at the history of the

[21:03]prophet the prophet suffered so much in his life brothers and sisters

[21:05]does that mean allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not love him of

[21:09]course not so allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when my i'm having problems

[21:13]and adversaries in my life adversities in my life that means allah

[21:17]subhanahu wa ta'ala may love me that's why he's doing it to

[21:19]me and in fact on the other hand when we see someone

[21:24]who has no problems in his life or he has less problems

[21:27]in his life we say allah loves this person this person is

[21:30]lucky the hadith tells us it's exactly the opposite listen to the

[21:33]story the narration says that one day rasulullah he goes to the

[21:41]house of someone because he's invited for lunch so as he enters

[21:45]the house he's in the front yard there is a wall it's

[21:47]a very thin wall and on top of the wall there was

[21:52]no roof it's a it's a courtyard so on top of the

[21:55]wall was very thin there was a chicken and that chicken as

[22:00]soon as rasulullah went it gave an egg it brought an egg

[22:04]now that egg was a very thin wall so that egg it

[22:07]toppled off the wall there was a nail that nail was sticking

[22:11]out of the wall so a nail is very very thin that

[22:15]egg fell on the nail and it landed perfectly on it and

[22:19]it stopped can you imagine so usually an egg you just you

[22:23]know throw it a couple of centimeters it'll break but it fell

[22:26]from the wall on the nail and it stayed standing on the

[22:29]on on the nail so rasulullah was amazed you know that's something

[22:32]very awkward very weird so the man he looked at rasulullah the

[22:36]man of the house you know the the invitation he looked at

[22:39]rasulullah tells me rasulullah are you surprised don't be surprised i'm a

[22:42]very lucky man i've seen so many such things in my life

[22:45]i'm a very lucky man even that egg won't break my luck

[22:49]is that good and then he says some words that rasulullah was

[22:54]very disturbed you know what he says he says you rasulullah i'm

[22:57]so lucky that i have never had a problem in my life

[23:01]do you know what rasulullah does he was eating the hadith says

[23:04]he was eating from the food of that man it was lunchtime

[23:06]rasulullah stopped eating he got up and he left but before he

[23:10]left you know what he said he said if allah has never

[23:13]tried you in your life if you have absolutely no problems in

[23:17]your life that doesn't mean you're lucky that means there's something wrong

[23:20]with you because if allah loves someone that means he showers him

[23:25]with problems so if you say that allah has never tried me

[23:29]in my life and i have absolutely no problems you should reassess

[23:32]your life you should reassess your relationship with allah because there's something

[23:37]wrong with you but we have the complete opposite perception that if

[23:43]allah gives me and gives me and gives me i'm good but

[23:46]if allah takes away from that means allah hates me that means

[23:48]i'm unlucky allah is showing us that it's exactly the opposite but

[23:53]the question is here how why why is it that when allah

[23:58]loves someone he tries him more and more he sends more problems

[24:03]in his life his life becomes more and more difficult it doesn't

[24:07]make sense why and this is where we have to go back

[24:10]to the fourth question that we raised yesterday brothers and sisters what

[24:14]are the benefits of suffering you see we human beings do not

[24:18]like suffering we hate suffering we hate pain but the unfortunate fact

[24:22]is that suffering is important for us suffering is very beneficial for

[24:27]the human being and that's why tonight i'll quickly mention four there

[24:31]are four main benefits that the human being can get from suffering

[24:38]the first benefit of suffering and this is why allah he allows

[24:42]human beings to suffer and the more allah loves me the more

[24:45]i may suffer because of these benefits number one suffering and pain

[24:50]brothers and sisters it helps the human being to develop it builds

[24:56]the character of the human being and makes him very strong you

[25:00]see i'm sure many of you especially the guys here many of

[25:02]you have been to the gym and you work out and you

[25:07]try to build those muscles but if you think about it when

[25:11]you're working out what are you doing what are you really doing

[25:14]when you're working out all you're doing is suffering isn't it is

[25:21]it fun to work out now maybe it's fun because you know

[25:24]that you're gonna have that six pack but it's not meanwhile it's

[25:28]not fun it's pain and that's why you find so many people

[25:31]they have problems with obesity why because it's not easy to lose

[25:35]that weight it's not easy to build those muscles if it was

[25:37]easy we had no fat people in this world so it's difficult

[25:40]it's difficult in essence what you're doing is you're applying pressure to

[25:44]your muscles the more pressure the more difficulty the greater the muscles

[25:49]will be right the stronger you the stronger you become now i

[25:54]do it over and over and over again until i have strong

[25:58]muscles if there is no pain they say there's no gain now

[26:02]this is with the body we have a body brothers and sisters

[26:06]and likewise we have a soul the souls of many of us

[26:09]brothers and sisters are very weak and there is no better way

[26:14]i tell you there is no better way to strengthen the soul

[26:18]than through suffering than through the hardships than through the difficulties of

[26:22]life because that's the best way that i can develop my nefs

[26:27]i can develop my soul i can develop my soul in the

[26:31]same way i have to build my body i have to build

[26:35]my nefs and that's why brothers and sisters you find look at

[26:39]the lives of the great individuals that lived in this world so

[26:42]many great people great leaders great philosophers great thinkers what you will

[26:47]find in common between most of them is what is that if

[26:50]you read their biographies you'll find that all of them or most

[26:54]of them they went through a phase in their lives which was

[26:58]very very rough and difficult either they were orphans their mother their

[27:03]father was killed or died when they were young or they faced

[27:07]a very difficult disease or they were abused when they were young

[27:11]or for example they were imprisoned when they were young and it

[27:15]was through those difficulties that they were able to build their character

[27:19]and be so strong a leader a philosopher or whatever i remember

[27:23]i had a a teacher when i went to the seminary in

[27:27]iran and i sat with that teacher one day and he was

[27:30]giving us some advice on how to build our character and become

[27:33]strong and how to lead and he said some words that truly

[27:37]affected me and i never forget them he said that when i

[27:42]was in iraq when i was young i was studying i was

[27:44]amongst the people that saddam he arrested me and put me in

[27:48]prison for no reason i had absolutely committed no crime he said

[27:52]i was in prison for one year and he so i asked

[27:55]him i told him it must have been the worst year of

[27:57]your of your life do you know what he told me he

[27:59]said that year was the best year in my life he said

[28:02]not that i enjoyed it he said i suffered in that prison

[28:06]he said it was difficult but he said there was nothing that

[28:10]built my character and made me strong like that one year in

[28:13]the prison when i came out i felt so strong if i

[28:17]was able to endure that prison of saddam there's nothing that can

[28:20]stand in my way and that's why he says that's his view

[28:23]he says i believe that anyone that wants to become a leader

[28:26]and be strong he has to be in prison at least one

[28:28]year it's only in that way can he strengthen his nafs his

[28:32]soul build his character so this is number one suffering develops us

[28:40]brothers and sisters it makes us stronger that's number one number two

[28:45]you find that suffering many times it changes the human being to

[28:49]the better you see many of us were indulged in the materialistic

[28:55]world all we think about is our desires and our fun and

[28:59]our entertainment and we're so preoccupied with our desires and meanwhile we

[29:05]commit so many sins a sin here a sin there like i

[29:08]mentioned two nights ago until we see a huge mountain of sins

[29:12]we're drowning we're completely asleep in this dunya we forget about our

[29:15]goal that this is only a short life and we have a

[29:18]job sometimes allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he tries me he sends me

[29:23]a problem in order to what in order to wake me up

[29:26]there's there is brothers and sisters moves the human being like a

[29:30]tragedy and that's why you see there's many people that they start

[29:34]working for you know they become activists and advocates for disease victims

[29:40]you find most of them the reason the drive behind you know

[29:44]this this sympathy that they have for those victims is what is

[29:47]because they themselves were a victim one day so the greatest and

[29:52]most effective thing that will move the human being to change is

[29:57]what is a tragedy allah sends so many messages to us my

[30:02]dear servant you're so far away from me he sent the quran

[30:06]dua centers islamic centers lectures internet there's so many beautiful lectures but

[30:11]we're busy in our lives we're sleeping allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sees

[30:14]that sometimes the only thing that will change me and wake me

[30:17]up is if he takes away something valuable from me only then

[30:20]do i remember only then am i reminded only then do i

[30:23]wake up and realize what's going on let me share this story

[30:27]with you i went to a community one year to give lectures

[30:32]and one night a mother she comes and she says i have

[30:37]a personal matter with you so she comes to the side and

[30:40]she starts crying she says my son has given me such a

[30:44]headache what's wrong he's such an ungrateful son he's so bad he

[30:48]does drugs girlfriends alcohol all the haram i tried to tell him

[30:53]come listen to the lecture pray nothing he's so far away from

[30:55]religion from allah complained so much about her son so i told

[30:59]her to bring him one day let me speak to him she

[31:01]had to force him she had to drag him to the madness

[31:03]one night because he wouldn't want to come he wanted to watch

[31:06]some certain games i don't know what was the the playoffs or

[31:08]something so she had to force him to come to the masjid

[31:12]when he came i started to speak with him you know encouraging

[31:15]him admonish him but i saw there's no use he left the

[31:20]next year i came mothers and sisters and to my surprise i

[31:24]noticed that this young man is the first person that comes to

[31:28]the lecture every night you see some people they come in the

[31:30]beginning some people they come at the end of the lecture this

[31:34]person was amongst those that was there even before i went he

[31:38]was the first one at the masjid and the last one to

[31:41]leave he would read the quran he would read the duas he

[31:44]would cry in the middle of the duas i saw this young

[31:46]man it's impossible he's the same man that his mother was complaining

[31:50]about last year he had completely transformed so i was surprised so

[31:55]one night the end of the at the end of the ten

[31:58]days that i was there i tell him can i speak to

[32:00]you he comes and i tell him remember last year your mother

[32:03]had to force you and she's you're so bad and you're giving

[32:05]her such a hard time this year you've changed what happened and

[32:09]when i told him a tear came down from his eye and

[32:12]he says sayed i have a very sad story that happened in

[32:17]my life what happened he said yes i was on my devious

[32:22]way until a few months ago a few months ago me and

[32:27]my friend were driving and we're listening to music and laughing and

[32:33]i'm driving and my friend is in the passenger seat and i

[32:36]start to speed crazily and all of a sudden there's a huge

[32:40]accident the car is totaled me nothing really happened to me i

[32:45]just had a broken arm or a broken foot but my friend

[32:49]he went into a coma he went into a coma and for

[32:52]one month he was in that coma and then he died he

[32:55]says sayyid this friend of mine was my best friend ever since

[32:58]we were little children i grew up with him we went to

[33:01]the same school i do everything with him i cannot live without

[33:04]him and i saw that just like that he died and what

[33:08]makes it worse he says is that i see that it's my

[33:10]fault because i was the one that was driving and and and

[33:13]and the way that we died we were so reckless listening to

[33:16]music laughing speeding in that way subhanallah i remember last year i

[33:20]saw a clip on instagram a fifteen second clip which all clips

[33:24]by the way are fifteen seconds on instagram so he says that

[33:27]i saw a clip i'm sorry i saw a clip that you

[33:31]know it was news some some you know some guy puts news

[33:34]every day of someone who's speeding on the highway he's going very

[33:40]fast and he's listening to music and laughing subhanahu every time i

[33:43]remember this story remember that clip he's speeding and all of a

[33:46]sudden and he's recording too i don't know why he's just recording

[33:49]the road so he's speeding and you could hear the obnoxious music

[33:52]all of a sudden the truck in front of him it takes

[33:54]a left turn he crashes into that turn and the you know

[33:57]the camera just the car topples and the camera stops and then

[34:01]it's it says that this was the last seconds of this young

[34:04]man can you imagine what a sad death you have that the

[34:07]last seconds of your life you spend it disobeying allah that when

[34:11]the angel of death comes to take my soul he sees this

[34:13]guy who's listening to music never prayed so this young man he

[34:17]says ever since that day sayyid i transformed i saw that death

[34:22]was so close to me i could have died as well my

[34:25]friend who i never imagined would die so young he died right

[34:29]in front of me and it was my fault so i realized

[34:32]how close death is to me just one accident everything could add

[34:35]brothers and sisters it doesn't require too much i don't have to

[34:39]god doesn't have to wait six months one year in a disease

[34:41]no he could take everything in a split second and you have

[34:45]i'm sure you've heard of hundreds of stories like this so after

[34:49]he told me this story i i thought subhanallah how sad i

[34:52]thought that it required in order for this young man to become

[34:56]religious in order for him to wake up and return to allah

[35:00]subhanahu wa ta'ala his poor friend had to die die do you

[35:04]see sometimes we give such a such a a great we we

[35:10]pay such a a big price in order for allah subhanahu ta'ala

[35:13]to to pay us don't wait till that day brother and sisters

[35:16]don't wait until allah sends that tragedy and only then i wake

[35:20]up only then i say oh my god i was so lost

[35:23]so this is number two and that's why you find the hadith

[35:27]of rasulullah he says it's such a beautiful hadith he says he

[35:40]says if it was not for three things the human being would

[35:43]never bring his head down he would always be so arrogant he

[35:47]would never be humble if it wasn't for three things what are

[35:50]those three things the prophet says number one sickness why did allah

[35:56]create sickness isn't it evil think about it maybe allah made the

[36:00]system in a way in which there is sickness so that i

[36:04]the human being am constantly remembered that i am in need of

[36:07]allah don't be arrogant you could a fatal disease can come and

[36:10]kill you in a couple of days so he says number one

[36:13]marav if it wasn't for sickness the human being would be so

[36:16]arrogant but sickness it forces the human being see there are certain

[36:20]sicknesses just go to the hospital and see that they are so

[36:24]disturbing and the the prophet says if it wasn't for this sickness

[36:30]the human being would be so arrogant that's number one number two

[36:33]he says al faqar poverty you see sometimes the human being you

[36:36]see him he's in in such a bad condition and he's so

[36:40]poor that he can't even find food to eat you say subhanallah

[36:43]this poor human can't even can't even nourish himself so this is

[36:47]number two and number three he says death if it wasn't for

[36:52]death human beings would be so arrogant but we know that even

[36:56]if i am the most ruthless and arrogant dictator in a few

[36:59]days me and that poor peasant will be equal both of us

[37:04]will be placed six feet under and then the prophet says he

[37:13]says all of these three things allah has placed allah has plagued

[37:17]the human being with and here you find the human being is

[37:19]still so arrogant the human being is plagued with sickness with death

[37:23]and with poverty and yet you see some human beings they're so

[37:26]arrogant he's 80 years old he's it's as if he owns the

[37:28]entire world he thinks he can buy everyone else he thinks he

[37:32]owns everything imam ali ibn abi talib alaihi salam he says in

[37:41]a beautiful hadith he says he says the human being is so

[37:47]poor you know he says i feel so bad for the human

[37:51]being why he says look look at how weak the human being

[37:55]is he says to he says a small fly a mosquito can

[38:00]drive the human being crazy it's this small it can drive the

[38:05]human being completely crazy and that's why they say that one day

[38:08]in one hadith it says that imam al saddiq was sitting in

[38:13]the majlis of the caliph of that time the king of that

[38:16]time al mansur and all of a sudden mansur is the king

[38:19]he's so powerful he has a huge kingdom a fly enters the

[38:22]majdahs it begins to bother al mansur he tries to kill it

[38:27]he can't you see how sometimes flies we try to kill them

[38:30]and without those you know those things that kill the flies you

[38:32]can never kill that fly it's just too fast for us so

[38:36]he wants to kill it he can he's so irritated then he

[38:39]looks at imam saddiq and he says why did allah subhanahu wa

[38:42]ta'ala create the fly to begin with it's so annoying look at

[38:45]the answer of imam saddiq he says he says allah created the

[38:50]fly to humiliate dictators like you you're so powerful you have such

[38:56]a huge kingdom and then a small fly comes and ruins your

[38:59]day allah shows you you're nothing don't be arrogant so the imam

[39:03]says and then he says do you know how easily the human

[39:11]being can die if he drinks water and he chokes the human

[39:14]being could easily die how many people you you find that they

[39:17]died because they choked on water not too many but it could

[39:19]happen sometimes when we're drinking we begin to suffocate we choke we're

[39:23]about to die so one drop of water can kill me and

[39:26]then he says just one drop of sweat can make the human

[39:32]being stink in the worst way if you've thought about it brothers

[39:36]and sisters the human being is nothing but a filth producing machine

[39:42]it's a machine that produces filth just try it one week don't

[39:46]take a shower but please if you try it don't come to

[39:48]the majdahs place stay home one week if the human being doesn't

[39:53]take a shower what's gonna happen he'll be the most disgusting thing

[39:56]in the world just one week and nothing's happening to him he's

[39:59]just not taking a shower so it's not like we're taking filth

[40:02]and placing it on him he produces the filth so many types

[40:06]of filth so he says look at the human being he's so

[40:08]filthy he's so weak but yet he comes out there's certain people

[40:13]that say i am god for example nammroud you see namrud he

[40:16]was the dictator during the time of ibrahim he used to say

[40:19]i am god do you know how namrud died they say a

[40:24]fly that same fly that annoyed probably al mansur later or one

[40:29]of the descendants of that fly a fly went into his nose

[40:33]one day it went up up into his nose or probably it

[40:36]was a either a fly or a mosquito or something of that

[40:38]nature it went into his nose it went so up he wanted

[40:41]to take it out he couldn't and it was annoying him so

[40:44]he brought the best doctors they couldn't back then this was two

[40:47]thousand three thousand years ago they couldn't take it out they said

[40:50]it's gone too far there's no way we can take it out

[40:52]so what happens he notices that if he hits himself on the

[40:55]head it becomes much better so he slaps his head on the

[40:59]face it's like a pain killer so he begins just to slap

[41:03]himself on the face every day until his hands are tired so

[41:07]he tells his minister he tells one of his advisors hit me

[41:10]on the head so his adviser comes and he slaps him on

[41:13]the head his adviser is tired his all the other advisers whoever's

[41:16]in the palace they're all tired so they make a public announcement

[41:19]whoever wants a reward all they have to do come and hit

[41:22]namrud the king on the head people pile up it's their you

[41:25]know it's the best day of their lives that they're being paid

[41:28]to hit the dictator so they stand in lines and each one

[41:32]slaps him probably swears at him in in in in in his

[41:35]heart so until they say one of them those people he was

[41:39]standing in line he was supposed to slap him with his hand

[41:42]he took out a hammer he hit him on his head and

[41:44]he died this was the end of a man an arrogant man

[41:47]that said i am god and he challenged the god of ibrahim

[41:51]so you see many times allah subhanahu wa ta'ala places these sufferings

[41:54]and these problems so that we are always reminded allah subhanahu wa

[41:59]ta'ala is the only god allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one

[42:02]that we need and there is no one besides him that can

[42:05]help us so this is number two number three i'm running out

[42:08]of time a little so i'll quickly mention this number three allah

[42:12]subhanahu wa ta'ala sometimes he afflicts us and he lets suffering happen

[42:16]to purify us why because many of us all of us we're

[42:20]not infallible we commit sins we commit haram we commit so many

[42:24]so much injustice allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says this person deserves the

[42:28]fires of hell because of all this injustice but yet because of

[42:31]allah's mercy he says what instead of punishing him in the next

[42:36]life in the akhirah in the hells in the fires of hell

[42:38]which are so severe let me purify him in this dunya through

[42:42]what through poverty through sickness there are so many ahadith that tell

[42:46]us that allah when he wants to show mercy to someone what

[42:49]does he do he gives them a problem free life no he

[42:53]tries him with sickness with poverty with fear and so many other

[42:58]so many other forms of suffering why so this burns away our

[43:02]sins so that we become pure and that's why you see imam

[43:06]ali ibn abid so beautifully he says in dua in dua kumail

[43:11]he speaks about this how the adab of the next life is

[43:14]so much more severe than the adab of this life that's why

[43:17]allah says let me punish you here because it's much easier than

[43:20]if i punish you in the next life imam amir al mumineen

[43:23]he says says you allah you know how weak i am i

[43:46]cannot bear the sufferings of this world even though the sufferings of

[43:50]this world are so short and they're not so severe then the

[43:54]imam says if i cannot bear the sufferings of this world you

[44:07]think i will bear the sufferings of the next life never the

[44:10]next life is much more severe and permanent than this world so

[44:13]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala some of the suffering that we face is

[44:17]to burn away those sins that we have accumulated on our backs

[44:20]that's number three and number four brothers and sisters the reward that

[44:24]that allah has promised for any individual that suffers is unimaginable and

[44:32]i'll read just few hadith one hadith the imam says it's so

[44:36]beautiful it says if the mu'min knew how much allah will give

[44:49]him reward for the problems and the sufferings that he faces in

[44:54]this world he would have wished that he was cut into pieces

[44:58]in this world because the reward is just too much it's worth

[45:02]it and in another hadith the prophet says and that's the imam

[45:06]says if allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes you suffer if you suffer

[45:19]in this world but you have patience you don't complain you say

[45:22]what type of lord is this why me have patience allah will

[45:26]write you the ajar of how of what 1,000 shaheed 1,000 martyrs

[45:31]that go and give their lives for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala think

[45:34]about it something as small as a sickness there's tawab for it

[45:37]if you have patience the imam says sahar laylamin maraf avghal min

[45:41]ibadat sunnah just one night if allah afflicts me with a cold

[45:46]just a cold or a fever the imam says the reward of

[45:50]that that suffering is greater than worshiping allah for one year so

[45:56]don't think this is just going you know for no reason allah

[46:00]is there and he's looking out for our interest and you'll find

[46:04]there is no one that suffered more than in this world you

[46:08]find they are the best creation of allah but they suffered the

[46:14]most and that's why you see the imams the hadith says the

[46:19]imam says every single one of us imams was was either killed

[46:23]by the sword or by poison the imams you think they had

[46:27]an easy life the imams were insulted they were imprisoned some of

[46:30]them lived lives of poverty the imams had all the problems that

[46:34]we have and much much more but yet they never complained because

[46:38]they knew this is what makes them great if i have patience

[46:41]and i face all these calamities and tragedies with patience this is

[46:46]when i become great this is when i become a leader for

[46:49]others they knew that they will inspire others their patience will inspire

[46:54]others for centuries upon centuries and you see ashura the day of

[46:58]ashura was the climax of tragedies like i mentioned in the previous

[47:03]lectures there is no tragedy worse than the day of ashura and

[47:08]who did those tragedies fall upon they fell upon imam al hussein

[47:12]how can one man bear all these tragedies brothers and sisters you

[47:17]see but like i mentioned the more that the calamities used to

[47:20]pile up the more patient the imam would be can you imagine

[47:24]how patient the imam was the imam takes his little baby to

[47:28]the enemies he wants water instead they have to slay his little

[47:31]baby in his hands and imam al hussain this is the man

[47:34]that has the softest heart this is the man that would cry

[47:38]for his enemies he gave water to his enemies he had to

[47:41]see his own baby die and and be killed in his hands

[47:44]can you imagine how difficult it was for imam hussain but the

[47:48]imam was patient and that's why the imam inspired millions of people

[47:52]after him you see that the imam on the day of ashura

[47:55]he had to see his beautiful companions one by one one after

[47:59]the other they went to the battlefield but they never returned the

[48:03]night of ashura history tells us that imam al hussein he gathered

[48:07]his companions and he told them look the enemies they want me

[48:12]they don't want you so if anyone of you feels that they

[48:15]are burdened because of me if anyone of you wants to leave

[48:18]you're free and in order for you subhanallah look at how soft

[48:21]his heart he doesn't even want them to feel ashamed about it

[48:24]he says if anyone of you wants to leave but you're ashamed

[48:27]we'll turn off the candle so nobody sees you so they turn

[48:30]off the candles imam al hussein a few minutes after he tells

[48:34]them turn the candles on he looks he sees none of them

[48:37]have moved he tells them you're gonna stay my dear companions they

[48:41]tell him we will never leave you zuhayr ibn al qa'im this

[48:45]loyal companion of hussain look at his answer he tells him you

[48:49]hussain wallahi if i was killed for you and my body was

[48:53]to be cut a thousand times and then it was burnt and

[48:56]then my ashes my body were to be dispersed in the air

[49:00]and then i would be revived and that would be done to

[49:02]me 1,000 times wallahi i would never leave you do you see

[49:07]the loyalty of the companions of imam al hussein and that's why

[49:11]they were so dear to his heart imam al hussein says i

[49:18]have never seen or heard of companions that are more loyal than

[49:22]my companions look at how they speak to their imam if 1,000

[49:26]times i'm killed for you i will not move yahusayn and on

[49:29]the day of ashura one after the other they went in the

[49:32]battlefield and they were killed you see muslim ibn al sajjad this

[49:36]other companion of the imam he goes to the battlefield and after

[49:41]he is struck he's on the floor at habib ibn mubahir he

[49:44]comes with imam al hussein habib ibn mubahir he tells him you

[49:48]muslim do you have any final wishes do you have anything i

[49:52]you want you want me to do for you look at muslim

[49:54]ibn asaja look at his high level of imam look at his

[49:57]loyalty to imam al hussain he looks at aba abdullah al hussain

[50:01]and he tells him all i have to tell you is protect

[50:08]aba abdullah al hussain as long as you're alive don't let anyone

[50:13]lay a finger on hussein he's dying he's in his blood but

[50:16]all he's thinking is hussein this these were the loyal companions of

[50:20]hussein habib ibn muldahir he came late imam al hussein was expecting

[50:24]him all of a sudden he arrives to karabbalah once he arrives

[50:28]to karabbalah as soon as he comes down from his horse he

[50:31]goes and he begins to kiss the feet of abba abdullah and

[50:35]he tells him my dear master hussein may my life be sacrificed

[50:38]for you and then sayyidah zaynab she hears that habib has come

[50:42]she asks who is it they tell her it's habib she tells

[50:45]them tell habib that zaynab sends her salam they tell habib zaynab

[50:51]says salam to you he says who am i that zaynab says

[50:54]salam to me i am not worthy to receive the salam of

[50:58]zaynab do you see the companions of hussein that's why everyone that

[51:02]would go and kill imam al hussein he was very very disturbed

[51:06]and saddened with that on the day of ashura they all go

[51:09]to the battlefield until none of them remain imam al hussein begins

[51:17]to feel lonely between the enemies he notices that there are no

[51:22]more or any of the companions lying at he goes on a

[51:28]hill all he could see from his companions is their bloody mutilated

[51:34]bodies on the land of karbala he begins to call their names

[51:40]one after the other my loyal companions where are you i need

[51:51]you now between the enemies why is it that i call you

[52:05]but you do not answer me are you asleep is this why

[52:13]you do not answer your imam didn't you say 1,000 times we

[52:17]will be killed for you i need you now says rise my

[52:36]loyal companions rise from your death and please protect the woman of

[52:40]rasulullah protect your imam he is all alone between the enemies the

[52:45]hadith of imam al baqirah says that when the imam said those

[52:48]words the bodies of the companions began to shake if there was

[52:52]one breath left in them they would have all came to support

[52:55]tabah abdullah and then the imam began to yell is there no

[53:07]one to protect the grandson of rasulullah is there no one that

[53:11]wants to protect the woman of rasulullah brothers and sisters let us

[54:28]all raise our hands and supplicate to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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