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The Significance of Ghadir - Sayed Saleh Qazwini
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[0:00]foreign foreign foreign foreign my dear brothers and sisters I congratulate you
[2:16]all on the greatest of all of the AIDS and that is
[2:21]the day of hadir is considered to be Akbar the greatest of
[2:28]all of the ayad and this is because on the day of
[2:34]rasulullah in front of over 100 000 Muslims appointed Salam to be
[2:44]the leader after him and rasulullah was very clear after the verse
[2:51]was revealed o messenger deliver that which your lord has commanded you
[3:06]to deliver and if you don't it's as if you have not
[3:10]delivered the message rasulullah stopped over one hundred thousand Muslims coming back
[3:18]from the Hajj and he delivered a sermon and he tells them
[3:22]in that sermon yushak and my time is coming near and I
[3:30]will be leaving you but I have several important messages several important
[3:35]things that I need to share with you and he mentions Hadith
[3:42]this Hadith that is accepted by all Muslims I am leaving behind
[3:54]the two weighty things the book of Allah and my elbait and
[3:58]then he says they shall never separate from one another until they
[4:02]reach me at the pond of kothar in paradise and then he
[4:11]tells them Allah as a prophet do I not have priority over
[4:15]yourselves because the Quran is very clear if I'm a man if
[4:20]I'm a Believer I have to put the prophets ahead of myself
[4:28]so he tells them Allah they all agreed that rasulullah he of
[4:40]the Believers and then he calls and he raises the hands and
[4:48]he says then the Muslims they all gave allegiance to amironment they
[5:10]waited for a couple days according to narrations giving Baya the man
[5:16]and the woman giving the woman the man they used to come
[5:22]and shake their hands and in numerous Hadith in numerous books of
[5:27]Hadith some of the first who came and gave were those who
[5:32]first took the Khalifa from they come to him and they tell
[5:38]him this is the statement you are my maula and you are
[5:48]the mola of all of the Believers and then they gave and
[5:53]the woman the woman they used to put they put a a
[5:57]bowl of water a container of water and they used to put
[6:00]their hands in the water and put his hands in the water
[6:04]this was a gesture of bay a gesture of giving Allegiance and
[6:11]then the verse also in Surah which is one of the final
[6:17]one of the last surahs to be revealed in the Quran today
[6:25]your Deen is complete and the Nama is also complete is now
[6:32]Islam is a full religion now it's a full package now my
[6:38]dear brothers and sisters there are several very important points to share
[6:42]last night we had a celebration here I shared some points regarding
[6:46]gradir tonight today I want to talk about several other points that
[6:53]are very important one is that Divine leadership Divine representation who has
[7:00]the right to represent God who has the right to speak on
[7:06]behalf of God can any person come and say I'm I'm I
[7:08]speak on behalf of God of course not I could we could
[7:15]all gather here in this room we could elect someone who represents
[7:18]us and this is the shura that the religion of Islam talks
[7:25]about and this is democracy in Islam their matters their matters are
[7:34]a matter of Surah amongst themselves and this is where we see
[7:38]Islam and democracy they go hand in hand there's nothing wrong with
[7:43]that if we want someone to represent us to speak on our
[7:46]behalf we could elect someone and this person will represent us but
[7:50]what about someone who speaks on behalf of God what about someone
[7:57]who teaches us the details and intricacies of the Quran someone who
[8:02]will give us the tafsir of the Quran someone who will be
[8:05]clear in clarifying the laws of Allah because we know for a
[8:11]fact that Muslims are divided over these issues today some Muslims they
[8:14]fold their hands and they pray some Muslims they have their hands
[8:16]down some Muslims they accept some verses in the Quran in one
[8:21]way other verses they accept it in another way the Quran is
[8:23]the message of God to us and the prophet is the one
[8:28]who delivered and the prophet is and there needs to be someone
[8:32]else that clarifies the Quran that interprets the laws of Allah and
[8:40]here this is an issue of divine representation meaning no one could
[8:45]speak on behalf of God this is why when Allah talks about
[8:49]the prophets Allah says I chose Adam the word Jal is used
[9:04]means divine appointment it means I am making you my Khalifa I
[9:08]am making you the representative of God on Earth and this is
[9:14]an issue where there's a disagreement some people they come and they
[9:18]say no any person who comes and leads the prayer any person
[9:22]who comes and stands up amongst the Muslims then this person will
[9:25]be the Khalifa of rasulullah how is that possible How can any
[9:28]person that just comes forward word whether they come forward in a
[9:31]reasonable way or in a in a way of causing Bloodshed and
[9:37]then they become the representative of God can a criminal can a
[9:40]tyrant can a terrorist be the representative of God a few a
[9:45]few years ago Dash Isis emerged they came and they said there's
[9:51]a Khalifa they have a Khalifa Abu Bakr al-baghdadi he called himself
[9:56]the Khalifa of God he used the same the same system that
[9:59]was used against that was the very same system what was different
[10:03]a group of people they came and they said he is the
[10:09]leader it wasn't God appointing we we say that Allah is the
[10:13]one who appoints second the leader must have specific qualities can any
[10:18]person assume the position of leadership here we also see a very
[10:24]big difference today we the followers of the Albert we say that
[10:27]the leadership must be someone who comes with with specific qualities not
[10:32]any person could be leader even we cannot go and pray behind
[10:38]any person you cannot go and just follow any person make this
[10:41]person your leader no whereas in unfortunately due to the change of
[10:46]the system there are a Hadith there were narrations that were inserted
[10:53]in the books of Hadith that say according to rasulullah supposedly go
[11:01]and pray behind any person meaning this person is a righteous or
[11:07]this person is a sinner go and pray behind this person supposedly
[11:17]said my sahaba they are like the stars whichever one you follow
[11:23]you will be guided we don't accept this we know that during
[11:28]the time of rasulullah there was a whole Surah in the Quran
[11:30]that was brought down that was called Surah talking about the hypocrites
[11:38]there were individuals that just joined the religion of Islam the last
[11:43]months of the life of the prophet and there were individuals like
[11:45]who was the first to join the religion of Islam there were
[11:48]individuals who ran away in the battles and there was stood defending
[11:56]day and night in the battle in all times was there it's
[12:02]not fair to come and look at everyone as the same and
[12:07]yes history is very clear that they are not the same the
[12:09]leader the one who God chooses is the one who has to
[12:16]have the infallibility the Asma the leader must have the knowledge and
[12:21]you see that these apply to no one other than you see
[12:33]that the imams of the advantage we don't just follow them because
[12:39]of blind love no because they had the qualifications they had the
[12:43]features that made them qualified leaders that represent the Quran and represent
[12:50]rasulullah my dear brothers and sisters another very important point the day
[12:58]of gadir is referred to as the day of Baya the day
[13:01]of Allegiance and it is in fact the day of Allegiance this
[13:06]is why until today we celebrate the Day of gadir why because
[13:11]one thing that we have to renew we renew our vows you
[13:13]know have you seen married couple after 10 years 20 years they
[13:18]come and they renew their vows while we need to as Muslims
[13:21]as Believers we need to renew our vow with God every day
[13:27]when we say the shahada in fact always always renew that oath
[13:32]because you never know when you're going to die and you need
[13:37]to always die on always make sure that you are on the
[13:42]haq on the right path renew that Testament of Faith say the
[13:45]shahada every day say the names of the imams every day remind
[13:48]yourself of this and also on the day of hadir renew your
[13:54]oath of Allegiance between yourself these are my imams this is who
[14:01]I follow after rasulullah so the day of choice you make the
[14:07]choice leadership just like believing in God it cannot be forced upon
[14:12]anyone you need to make the choice when you make the choice
[14:17]to believe in God your faith and God will carry more value
[14:20]when you make the choice to believe in rasulullah your love for
[14:24]Allah will carry more value and when you make the choice to
[14:29]follow the Imam after rasulullah then that will carry much more value
[14:34]than as opposed to you being born in a Muslim family born
[14:37]in a share a family there were individuals he gave the Muslims
[14:44]the opportunity you make the choice and there were individuals that rejected
[14:52]several Scholars from the non-shearing school of thoughts one of them in
[15:03]his book he says that in this Hadith of this verse the
[15:12]tafsir of this verse the first the first few verses a man
[15:29]after the event of hadir he comes to rasulullah by the name
[15:34]of this man comes you came to us with news from the
[15:48]heavens and we accepted you we believe in God we believe in
[15:53]the Salah we believe in everything and then he says and then
[15:57]he says and then he says and then he says he asked
[16:08]the prophets he tells him you told us to believe in God
[16:10]you told us to let go of our Idols you told us
[16:13]to do this and this and we did everything now you bring
[16:18]your your cousin and your Point him as out from you or
[16:21]is this from God this is from God this is not from
[16:29]me this is not from me and then the man walked away
[16:33]and he said oh Allah if this was from you then bring
[16:36]on us from the sky bring on us something to show us
[16:43]a sign he walks and a rock from the sky comes and
[16:46]it falls on him and it kills him and the verse was
[16:50]revealed so my dear brothers and sisters is a choice you can
[17:05]choose whether to accept Ali or not except however the acceptance is
[17:12]a great father it is a great Merit that Allah will only
[17:19]give those who Allah defines as a full movement the one who
[17:24]fully accepts the message of rasulullah in a beautiful Hadith from Imam
[17:30]the sixth Imam of he says he says my Willa me the
[17:48]fact that I follow this Imam is saying this this is more
[17:52]beloved to me than the fact that I am his grandson I
[17:58]I love the fact that I'm a sheer a follower of more
[18:02]than I am from the descendants of why he says he says
[18:18]because the love and the obedience upon me this is something that
[18:24]I have to do but the being born from the lineage this
[18:31]is Father this is Grace this is something good but this is
[18:38]the the farthe accepting to choose as the leader this is the
[18:42]choice that will make me a movement this is the choice that
[18:48]will complete my Iman so my dear brothers and sisters we have
[18:51]to thank Allah for this blessing and we have to make the
[18:56]choice of accepting I will end here to con to go on
[19:02]to the next Salalah is he why you have them Allah foreign
[20:10]Allah foreign foreign on the day of judgment one of the most
[21:34]important questions that every person will ask will be asked is regarding
[21:38]your Imam regarding your leader who did you choose as role models
[21:48]who did you choose to take your values and your principles from
[21:51]in this life and this is a question that is very important
[21:55]and very relevant to our today today who I look at as
[22:02]a role model determines what kind of a person I am the
[22:04]one I look at as a role model determines the clothing that
[22:10]I wear the music or what I listen to the things that
[22:13]I like to do this is why it's very important to surround
[22:20]ourselves with individuals that can be individuals that make us a better
[22:27]person today some people they come and they you know they turn
[22:29]on the TV and they listen to whoever it may be or
[22:34]just because someone is for example an athlete someone is a Hollywood
[22:39]star and they come and they idolize this person in a way
[22:42]where this person becomes the one who determines how they live their
[22:49]life your clothes that your clothing that you wear the things that
[22:52]you say the places that you want to go who you want
[22:55]to hang around with this is dangerous my dear brothers and sisters
[22:58]just because someone is famous just because someone is a athlete a
[23:03]known athlete or someone is known does this mean that this person
[23:10]should be idolized that I should follow this person whatever they're saying
[23:14]and whatever they're doing no and Allah is very clear in the
[23:20]Quran on the day of judgment people will stand behind those who
[23:29]they chose as Leaders when it comes to leaders in this life
[23:32]leaders and politics and leaders of who I take my religion from
[23:38]who do I take my religion from who do I take how
[23:42]to pray from My fasting my zakat my Hajj everything that I
[23:48]follow in My Religion who is my leader who do I look
[23:49]up to this is very important on the day of judgment the
[23:54]Quran is very clear people will stand behind those who they took
[23:57]As Leaders everyone will have to stand behind their Imam this is
[24:06]why the role of Imam and the role of leadership is very
[24:12]important some people they come and they say why do you guys
[24:14]make such a big deal about this you guys keep saying Imam
[24:17]and all these things this is stuff in the past no it's
[24:22]not in the past these are things that affect us right now
[24:24]it affects how I pray affects how I interact with people it
[24:32]affects everything in my life and in a Hadith is one of
[24:36]the companions of Imam al-baqar and one of the companions of imamentions
[24:49]there are five foundations to Islam there are five foundations to religion
[24:57]what are they Allah the First Foundation of Salah a person who
[25:04]doesn't pray or a person who rejects the prayer it's really hard
[25:08]to come and say this person is a Muslim because one of
[25:13]the first things that defines you as a Muslim is your relationship
[25:17]with God so Salah is very important was zakat giving charity accepting
[25:26]the Hajj was so and fasting during the month of Ramadan and
[25:35]the fifth the Imam he says accepting the leadership after Allah because
[25:41]today you have 1.6 billion Muslims 1.6 1.7 billion Muslims they all
[25:47]accept rasulullah they all say but they're very divided they're very different
[25:52]what is the differentiating factor it is it is who you choose
[26:00]as a leader after rasulallah says he says what is the best
[26:15]out of these five Salah and he tells him leadership is the
[26:24]greatest is the key to a correct Hajj it is the key
[26:37]to a correct Salah it is the key to correct fasting it
[26:41]is the key to getting closer to Allah and then he says
[26:47]the leader he is the dalil he's the one who guides you
[26:49]he's like the pilot that is guiding you an airplane without a
[26:55]pilot is not going to go anywhere a ship without a captain
[26:57]is not going to go anywhere it needs someone to show you
[26:59]the way it needs someone to navigate and guide you through the
[27:05]darkness through the difficult issues that we run into in life now
[27:11]my dear brothers and sisters on the day of Hadith he said
[27:16]the statement and this statement is recorded by all Muslims no one
[27:23]denies the event of no one even IBN teimiya a man who
[27:26]tried to deny all of the Talib you can't deny the Hadith
[27:53]love those who followed and be an enemy be an enemy of
[28:04]the one who's an enemy and let down whoever disappoints and lets
[28:10]down and this is clear if you are with God if you
[28:15]are with the truth if you defend the prophets and if you
[28:19]defend the truth God will be with you Allah says in the
[28:21]Quran if you stand stand steadfast with God God will defend you
[28:30]but if you let go then you will begin to see the
[28:35]miseries and you will begin to see the trials my dear brothers
[28:37]and sisters the history of Islam is clear to the neglect and
[28:45]the letting down of that took place in history and today when
[28:49]we see Muslims are divided when we see Muslims are suffering when
[28:54]we see all of the calamities that fell upon the Muslims and
[28:56]Muslims can't defend themselves one of the reasons is because they let
[29:00]down some of the first calamities that fell down were the day
[29:08]of Ashura which we will commemorate in a couple of days the
[29:11]day of Ashura the martyrdom of Imam and Hussain and Imam after
[29:16]an Imam was killed and today you see the state of Muslims
[29:22]two events took place during this last week that I wanted to
[29:26]shed light on before we conclude the first is the burning of
[29:30]the Quran in Sweden you see in Europe every few years or
[29:35]every few months when they want to flex their muscles and show
[29:39]that they have freedom of speech what do they do what's the
[29:41]first thing they do they go to the Quran and they say
[29:46]okay we allowed the burning of the Quran they go to Muslims
[29:50]and they make laws that marginalize and ostracize Muslims in fact this
[29:55]is not freedom of speech this is hate speech and in Europe
[30:02]precisely in Europe there are many laws that limit free speech just
[30:06]one example right now in 16 European countries and Canada it is
[30:12]illegal to deny the Holocaust it's illegal to come and say or
[30:18]question the Holocaust it's illegal go look at this up but then
[30:21]when it comes to burning the Quran no no this is freedom
[30:25]of speech you have to have freedom of speech how's the society
[30:27]going to flourish without freedom of speech why is it that you
[30:30]limit other types of speech but when it comes to the Quran
[30:35]this is the time you want to flex your muscles and say
[30:36]there's freedom of speech this is not freedom of speech this is
[30:42]marginalizing over 1.6 billion Muslims and burning the Quran is not a
[30:51]symbol of free speech because it is the Quran that gives us
[30:54]and it is God who gives us the rights Islam came before
[31:01]the Europeans and before the Constitution and before anything else Islam is
[31:05]what gave us human rights Islam is what gave us the rights
[31:08]to to speak so burning the Quran is actually an insult to
[31:15]free speech it is an insult to Christianity and all of the
[31:18]Christian beliefs it is an insult to Judaism and all of the
[31:23]Jewish beliefs and it is an insult to all of the prophets
[31:26]including rasulullah and there is an insult to humanity so burning the
[31:32]Quran is not something that shows freedom of speech and advancement no
[31:37]it is actually going backwards another very important point I wanted to
[31:42]just finally shed light on is the recent attack on Janine in
[31:49]Palestine and this is also an atrocity this shows the weakness of
[31:54]the Muslims right now these homes you all probably saw in the
[31:58]media how they come with the bulldozers and they're just demolishing homes
[32:04]one after the other homes that people live in where are these
[32:07]people going to go they're already living in a refugee camp now
[32:10]inside the refugee camp they have nowhere to go and the the
[32:17]sad part is that the U.S Congress and the American government which
[32:22]is sending every few days you hear of billions and millions of
[32:26]dollars being sent to Ukraine to continue fueling the war over there
[32:30]here when Israel is is demolishing homes and every day innocent lives
[32:37]are being taken U.S Congress and American politicians are quiet they're not
[32:43]saying anything Here My Dear brothers and sisters the least thing we
[32:46]could do is we have to speak out and we have to
[32:50]try to raise awareness to this atrocity that is taking place my
[32:54]dear brothers and sisters inshallah not this coming Tuesday but next Tuesday
[32:57]we will begin the Ashura program inshallah on July 18th and we
[33:05]will carry on to July 29th inshallah there will be a lecture
[33:08]in Arabic at 8 15 pm and the English lecture will be
[33:14]right after Salat inshallah at 10 pm Insha'Allah we look forward to
[33:20]seeing you all and this Saturday the Saturday tomorrow inshallah at 7
[33:26]pm we will be having our final snack and chat before before
[33:29]uh Muharram begins uh Heritage Park inshallah we look forward to seeing
[33:35]you all and your families and once again foreign foreign
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