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Topic: True Faith Speaker: Sayed Fadel El-Sayed Program: Night 15 of the 2026 MYC Ramadan Program Location: Islamic Institute of America - Dearborn Heights, MI, USA #islam #shia #muslim #sunni #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak #hijab #lecture #shahrramadan #eid #qazwini #prophetmuhammad #devil #sins #deeds #quarantine #myc #mycmedia #levels #shiavssunni #islamicfigure #hijab #porphetmuhammad #muhammad #fast #fasting #ethics #venting #complaining #mentalhealth #abuhamza #dua #duaabuhamza #friends #children #kids #namingkids #kidsnames #raisingkids #quran #readingquran #quranrecitation #dayofjudgement #Allah #allahswt #judgement #death #soul #identity #liberation

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[0:00]Amen.

[0:08]Amen.

[0:40]Alhamdulillah.

[0:42]forch.

[1:28]Amen.

[1:38]>> [sighs] >> Brothers and sisters, this verse in which I read

[1:51]is from Toba.

[1:49]And as you know, the last several days that we've been discussing

[1:55]verses from the Quran that start off with, oh you who believe.

[2:03]In this particular verse, God says that's have this tawa this God

[2:12]consciousness and be with those who are truthful.

[2:16]And today, even though as you are aware of what's going on

[2:22]in the world, unfortunately, especially the oppression that's befallen upon many of

[2:29]our loved ones and many people that of great innocence and even

[2:36]though it's a vicious occasion of the birth of Imam Hassan Musham,

[2:41]his life itself will show you that like the imam because honestly

[2:49]when you think about look at all the imams in total and

[2:51]the oppression that that befell upon them my personal opinion and I'm

[3:00]nothing compared to many of you here that are much better in

[3:04]knowledge than me that after the oppression of Imam Hussein the most

[3:08]oppressed Imam would have to be Imam Hassan al- Mushta and and

[3:16]in similarities ities to his life.

[3:17]You will see that at one point those who call themselves Shia,

[3:26]those who call themselves moin and followers of B doubted the Imam

[3:31]in his decision making in his stance to the point where some

[3:39]of the companions called him, oh that one that has disgraced the

[3:47]believers.

[3:46]This is the point that the Imam had to put up with.

[3:51]But when you look at this and the life of the Imam,

[3:57]you will see something very very important here that those who actually

[4:01]stood with the Imam and it was very few that stood with

[4:09]Hassam.

[4:07]They had true faith.

[4:10]They are the ones that no matter what befell upon them, they

[4:15]knew the meaning.

[4:16]When Im Hassan and IM Hussein were young child or children and

[4:23]the prophet would tell the people Hassan Hussein or that they are

[4:31]these beloved grandchildren of mine or my sons, they are imams whether

[4:38]they stand up fighting.

[4:38]Huh?

[4:39]like Imm Hussein or they stay pretty much in this way of

[4:47]treaty like IM Hassa.

[4:48]The fact is the only reason I'm speaking to you here is

[4:55]because Hassan Mushta people don't realize this because immedi has two narrations.

[5:02]He says, "Lola, what what what what im Hassam did is better

[5:06]than what the sun shines on on on a daily base." And

[5:11]then the Imam goes on to say that what I im Hassan

[5:15]Al Mushta did was better was the was the foundation that the

[5:22]Shia remained alive today.

[5:23]And subhan Allah, as you know, like with the imams, whenever the

[5:29]heat came, like there is now in the Middle East, people are

[5:32]doubting people, God forbid, even within our own community, why is this

[5:36]happening to us?

[5:39]Well, basically, that's another point that's only God knows.

[5:44]If you look at through history, do you think by following the

[5:49]truth, following the paths of the NB, following the paths of the

[5:53]imams, following the paths of the companions, do you think it was

[6:00]just a stroll in the park?

[5:59]The Quran says is do you think it's just that you want

[6:08]to enter heaven, you're not going to be tried like the people

[6:11]from before?

[6:15]All this fell upon them and they were shaken.

[6:19]But in the end they said matter.

[6:25]They said to the holy the holy prophet matter yes they have

[6:30]technology.

[6:30]They might have advanced more technology but we have Allah subhanahu wa

[6:36]ta'ala.

[6:35]We have there's an Imam that's watching us here now that we

[6:40]should turn to our connection to the Imam on a daily basis

[6:42]is very important.

[6:45]Yeah.

[6:46]This reminds me for most people to show you that we want

[6:52]to shine when it suits us.

[6:54]when everything is like this bright luminous day like Dorothy and the

[7:00]Wizard of Oz going with down with her on the yellow brick

[7:05]road think everything's nice and easily but it doesn't happen like that

[7:10]there's there's times where we have to go through this to show

[7:13]which one of us has really true faith there's more to your

[7:19]faith than something that was basically extrinsic this out outerly uh display

[7:25]of you.

[7:26]The intrinsic movement within your heart is what drives you to be

[7:31]a true faithful servant of God Almighty.

[7:34]And you understand this that when we connect especially to in this

[7:40]time to the imam of our time you know subhana I was

[7:43]asked once how can we know or how can we feel that

[7:47]connection with the imam of our time since we brought this up

[7:51]most of us know and then this really suits us sometimes that

[7:57]not every day is going to be a sunny day or bright

[8:01]day there's going to be loomy day luminous un luminous days dark

[8:06]days.

[8:05]But most of you are familiar with the sunflower and the special

[8:12]thing about the sunflower.

[8:12]I ask people, does a sunflower move when there's no sun?

[8:19]Anyone?

[8:21]No, it does move.

[8:24]It actually does move because it doesn't rely.

[8:27]Now, most people know most people will say no because it's called

[8:31]a sunflower.

[8:30]But you the the essence of a sunflower it it actually moves

[8:36]not on the brightness of the sun but the rays of sun.

[8:39]So something that we can't see.

[8:44]So part of this plant what it does of course as you

[8:48]know it waits for the sun to rise in the east with

[8:49]its face there and then it follows the sun.

[8:53]No matter if it's a sun day, a sunny day, or a

[8:57]gloomy day, it follows it all the way until the sun sets.

[9:01]And then the sunflower turns its face back to the east in

[9:06]anticipation.

[9:07]It knows that the sun's going to rise from that again.

[9:10]Now, what's that got to do with me and the connection of

[9:14]the Amarava time?

[9:14]everything you know from the mo from the day that or from

[9:19]the morning that I wake up for my morning prayers and connect

[9:25]before the sun comes up my connection to Allahha my connection to

[9:29]the imam is like this but during the day whether it be

[9:32]a sunny day whe it's a good day or when the sun

[9:39]is not shining I'm still I still have that connection to the

[9:44]sun or to me to Allah subhana tala.

[9:46]So no matter if it's gloomy and all through the day I'm

[9:52]connected to Allahh I'm thinking about the imam and when the end

[9:56]of the day comes and the sun sets again in anticipation I

[10:00]have that yearning for the sun to come up again or for

[10:04]me to have another chance to connect with the Imam of my

[10:07]time.

[10:07]So what this sunflower is teaching me that in sunny days and

[10:12]in good days I still have my connection.

[10:14]I still have this is what true faith is the the continuous

[10:18]connection that moves me on the inside.

[10:20]So you understand this that B like im Hassa like many of

[10:27]the imams they sacrificed so much for us and the reason that

[10:32]I can maintain my truth faith is because of everything that they

[10:36]have sacrificed everything that they gave us in order to move on

[10:40]in a world that they know there's tyranny there's know there's injustice

[10:43]there's know there's of course there's oppression.

[10:47]So you think about this, the greatest when the greatest creature on

[10:53]earth or the biggest creature on earth is about to die and

[10:58]that is of course the blue whale.

[10:59]What it does, it goes out and it leaves its family.

[11:04]It goes out into the middle of the ocean.

[11:06]It picks a place.

[11:08]It just senses it's going to die.

[11:10]And then when it dies, as you know, it starts to drop

[11:15]down to the bottom of the seafloor.

[11:17]as it's dying or as it's dead, it's eaten by sharks and

[11:21]eels and other creatures.

[11:25]But when it gets to the bottom of the floor, other parasites,

[11:28]worms, and these things called zombie worms, they eat the rest of

[11:33]the the whale.

[11:35]And then eventually, it takes close to about a hundred years for

[11:42]the whole whale to dissolve into the bed of the ocean.

[11:45]While it does that, in its process, it gives life to the

[11:49]plantation on the bottom of the ocean.

[11:54]It gives life to more than 43 species and over 12,000 organisms.

[11:58]Now, what's what's that got to do with the imam of our

[12:03]time or the imams?

[12:02]Pretty much like the whale, they died.

[12:06]But in their death, if this animal gave gives life to so

[12:11]many species and organisms and plantations, the imams did the same thing.

[12:17]Well, physically they're dead, but they gave us life.

[12:21]They told us what is the real meaning of our purpose on

[12:23]this earth.

[12:25]And just like the stars that sometimes even them themselves are clear

[12:34]meaning to us because some when we look into the stars at

[12:38]night do you know some of those stars they're already dead.

[12:41]They're thousands of light years away but they're dead but their light

[12:46]is still showing to us exactly how it is when it comes

[12:50]out our connection with.

[12:53]So when it comes to this process that Ahmed B has given

[13:00]us and told us emphasize on the and through the narration of

[13:04]course of the holy prophet of the Quran and of course their

[13:07]knowledge putting it together.

[13:10]They're your lifesaver in this world.

[13:13]They're the ones that hopefully will move that intrinsic movement within your

[13:17]heart, my brothers and sisters, that gives you true faith that you're

[13:22]able to tackle on the situations that you come across on a

[13:26]daily base and you don't have doubt.

[13:27]No matter if the whole of the world is against you, you

[13:34]know you you all have heard the saying that if you see

[13:37]all of mankind on or humanity on one side and you see

[13:42]for example the prophet said to to Abu Dar if you see

[13:44]Abu Talib by himself on that side know that he is with

[13:50]the truth.

[13:48]It's not about numbers.

[13:52]Look at your Quran.

[13:52]When has ever been about numbers?

[13:54]In fact, the Quran talks about that the majority are the oppressors.

[14:01]The majority are the hypocrites.

[14:03]The majority are the ones that are untruthful.

[14:05]But then he says, then it says, but hold on a sec

[14:14]that a small group that are truly connected to God Almighty will

[14:18]overcome that of a large group.

[14:21]This brings me to the story of Talut and Jalut.

[14:25]Most of you have probably read it in the Quran Saul or

[14:30]sometimes you sometimes we hear it in the English language David and

[14:36]Goliath.

[14:35]But to show you that sometimes how faith is tested in essence

[14:41]to see are you re are you really how is your connection

[14:48]closer to God or closer to the dunya.

[14:51]Each and every one of us knows our souls.

[14:54]Believe me, believe me, believe me.

[14:57]The only person that knows themselves better than than anyone else is

[15:02]you.

[15:03]If you're looking for the guilty one in terms of knowing the

[15:06]status of your faith or who you really are, look, all you

[15:08]need to do is look into a mirror.

[15:09]That's it.

[15:11]But in the story of Talut and Jal when first of all

[15:17]when God chooses a everyday farmer in God chose him.

[15:23]You know other people said but we have more wealth than him.

[15:26]You know like like the the world thinks now they have they

[15:28]have more money than us.

[15:31]They have more weapons than us.

[15:32]God chose him for a pro for a reason.

[15:35]He says that God I chose him.

[15:39]I gave him strength because we know the that's why we say

[15:43]strength is from God not from Benny Adam.

[15:48]So when he when we look at the story of Talut and

[15:54]Jalut when God picks Talut and they say to him that we

[15:59]have more money and you know we come from a more prestige

[16:01]family he says it doesn't matter there's something special about it anyway

[16:06]when they want to ben want to fight against Goliath to test

[16:14]him before they get to the main battle they come across cross

[16:21]a river or a pond.

[16:21]God tells tell the tell the people that whoever drinks from this

[16:29]water is not from us.

[16:33]Sorry.

[16:33]Whoever Yeah.

[16:35]Whoever drinks from this water is not from us.

[16:38]Whoever abstains himself from drinking the water is from us.

[16:41]And some people they might take a handful of water.

[16:45]And this handful of water is very important now to our story.

[16:49]So the ones that drank, you can imagine they're going to a

[16:53]war.

[16:54]They're in a desert, harsh conditions.

[16:56]They come across water.

[16:57]Water is halal.

[16:59]But that's not the point.

[16:59]God is saying at this point here, I don't want this halal

[17:02]thing.

[17:02]I don't want you to drink it.

[17:06]I want to test something within you.

[17:10]Are you focused on the greater goal?

[17:11]So what happens is the ones that drank basically were nearly more

[17:19]than half of the army they drank.

[17:21]Talut tells them to leave.

[17:26]That's it.

[17:24]Why?

[17:25]God has told me to.

[17:28]Others took a handful.

[17:30]As they went back to the as they go forth to the

[17:35]battlefield, they come this across this massive army of Jalut and he

[17:42]was big himself.

[17:44]He was like the mhab of that time.

[17:46]Everyone used to be scared and of course in the army was

[17:50]little little boy called Dood.

[17:51]And you know the story they eventually kills him with a slingshot.

[17:57]But before that, when those people that drank a handful of water,

[18:03]when they saw the army of Jalut, they panicked and they left.

[18:12]And the famous number that you're all familiar with remained with Talut.

[18:18]to 313 from 5,000 to 313 people remained with with and they

[18:28]said and their dua was oh God give us this patience and

[18:39]make us steadfast so we can beat the these people here.

[18:43]So why you're asking why did I emphasize on those people that

[18:49]had that bit of water?

[18:50]Because the connection to the dunya was still with them.

[18:54]That's why the whole purpose the filtration was God to see which

[19:01]one of you is still got that little bit of a connection

[19:03]you know to the worldly aspect of it.

[19:08]You're not willing yeah to give your life now no matter what

[19:13]no matter what comes in front of you.

[19:14]You're not you're you're willing to basically leave that personal things behind

[19:19]you and stand firm because they're a bigger cause.

[19:22]Not everyone is able to stand like this.

[19:25]It's very hard to detach himself from the ones that you love,

[19:31]the ones that you're connected with, and to stay firm after facing

[19:35]masses of, you know, of armies and enemies.

[19:40]But what happens is that you always in situation like this, the

[19:48]real inner person, the real inner being of you comes out.

[19:52]And as I started at the speech, when God says, If you

[19:59]look at this, it's a whole formula where God says, "Oh you

[20:05]who believe, have tawa, have this God conscience and be with those

[20:08]who are the of the truthful." Of course, if you look at

[20:12]the narrations of this, it's none other than it's none other than

[20:20]because they have always shown to us that no matter what force

[20:25]you are going to face or what uh difficulties that be with

[20:34]us, follow our footsteps.

[20:35]Know that God is with those who are with truthful.

[20:38]It's like sometimes those that are trying to cross a very dangerous

[20:46]you could say terrain is a very thin you say rope going

[20:53]from one place to another.

[20:54]You know there going across here you're going to be exposed to

[20:59]the wind conditions and other factors and the fear of falling.

[21:03]But that's how it is sometimes that when you go across this

[21:06]basically this rope of life there are instances where you can run

[21:14]across and instance you got to be very careful.

[21:15]You can look look at your conditions but because you're connected to

[21:21]something that is godly something that is divine you're able to have

[21:25]the confidence to get to the other end.

[21:27]And this brings me back to the question of tonight as well

[21:29]that true faith what true faith is because sometimes people this per

[21:36]kind of observation again that because I pray because I fast that

[21:44]I'm you know I'm pretty much on the road.

[21:47]Yes these are attributes of true faith but they're out outwardly factors

[21:52]because as the hadith says the the or the you know the

[22:02]obedience to God isn't abundance of prayers and fasting.

[22:07]He says but it is the fact the the abundance of to

[22:14]think of what God wants you to do in this place to

[22:18]connect to God Almighty.

[22:21]I remember a story to show you sometimes how faith works as

[22:28]well that it said that one of since I bought the the

[22:30]factor about crossing the rope.

[22:34]A person came to one of the towns and he was one

[22:39]of those people that the tight rope persons that do they go

[22:46]from one beetle to another when they put a rope there and

[22:48]they got their balancing stick and they go from one point to

[22:52]another and people are there watching in anticipation you know scared back

[22:57]then there's no nets.

[22:58]So he, this person went up and the town's watching him and

[23:03]he slowly slowly goes from one point to the other and he's

[23:05]balancing in times looks like he's going to fall.

[23:08]And then to make it more exciting, he calls a young child,

[23:14]you know, from the crowd.

[23:17]And before he tells him what's going on, he says to him,

[23:20]he looked at the crowd, you know, they're all happy.

[23:24]They're all cheering.

[23:26]And they said to him, he said to them, "Do you think

[23:31]I can bring this child on my shoulders and bring him across

[23:34]this rope?" They said after we saw you, yeah, we have confidence.

[23:38]He said, let you know as well that this child is my

[23:45]son.

[23:44]That's how much confidence I have.

[23:46]Said, wow, your son, you're willing to put your son at risk?

[23:49]Said, yeah.

[23:51]Anyway, he goes across the rope slowly, slowly with his son on

[23:56]his shoulders.

[23:56]And then he gets to finally gets to the other side.

[24:00]The crowd's cheering, the crowd's happy.

[24:02]Now he comes down and he said to him, "After you saw

[24:08]me cross it once, after you saw me cross it with my

[24:09]child, will you will you be willing to give me one of

[24:18]your children to do the same?" And the the whole crowd went

[24:26]silence.

[24:24]The whole crowd went silence.

[24:27]And I said, "What's this got to do with true faith?

[24:30]You'll see that there were people in this world especially like the

[24:34]imams and the and the prophets they treaded across this difficult situation

[24:41]from their life to their martyrdom in most cases and in most

[24:47]cases it was sometimes by themselves and other times they had their

[24:51]children and family with them and we believed in this didn't we

[24:57]not without even seeing them without even like having this physical conction

[25:00]ction.

[25:00]We believed in it.

[25:02]We heard the stories of the sacrifices of what they did.

[25:04]Yet when it when it came to our faith now, when we're

[25:09]told to put in the same situation, we say it doesn't fit

[25:11]me.

[25:13]Hhabib, you said that you were on faith.

[25:15]You believed it.

[25:18]You said that.

[25:19]So how is it that you you connect to individuals of this

[25:24]yet you still have this you know doubt where where the the

[25:29]Quran says but I am not shocked about these people because the

[25:33]Quran says there are people that worship God as if they're walking

[25:40]on an edge when everything is going their own way.

[25:43]They're happy.

[25:45]Then when God puts them through a fitna and you know the

[25:52]word fitna where it comes from don't you fat basically it's the

[25:56]when you I think I might have mentioned before just since I

[25:58]bring it up it's basically when you get gold and you heat

[26:03]it up and the and the purity of the gold stays and

[26:08]then the impur the impurities are of the above and they're removed.

[26:11]So when God says when I put them through a fitna they

[26:14]fall flat on their face and this is the greatest of so

[26:22]when we look at this when we look at the life of

[26:26]Hassam in order to program ourselves to that of true faith my

[26:33]brothers and sisters God has given us something out of his mercy

[26:39]and it's called the hakal the intellect.

[26:43]And why I chose this because the hadith says that God has

[26:51]not been worshiped with something greater than the and to show you

[26:58]the greatness of Hass.

[26:59]Listen to this.

[27:02]After I told you this narration, the holy prophet has said If

[27:14]the hak was in fact a person in human manifestation, it would

[27:20]be none other than Im Hassan Mushta.

[27:22]Do you know why he said this?

[27:26]Because it's like it's like the prophet was telling people, I know

[27:29]what's going to be about IM Hassan.

[27:31]I know there are people in the that say that they follow

[27:33]Imam Hassan in the future.

[27:36]They're going to doubt his decision.

[27:38]Habibi the does not make mistakes.

[27:43]True because the imaff was asked about the hakal and he said

[27:47]the hakal is what god is attained with what true faith is

[27:54]attained with through the hakal and what paradise is is is basically

[27:56]gifted to.

[27:58]So one person jumps up jumps up and said then what did

[28:01]mahawya have?

[28:04]He says this was cunniness and evenness.

[28:07]He says it's a resemblance of the but it's not because true

[28:17]intellect true intellect forget about you know all the other stuff that

[28:22]you go into your minds that true intellect was given to you

[28:26]by by God Almighty to differentiate between what is huck and what

[28:30]is b.

[28:31]God gave you two gave two types of proof.

[28:34]He gave you that of the outside proofs, the anat the imams

[28:36]and he gave you the inner proof and that is your haken.

[28:41]And God himself said that when he created the hak he told

[28:47]it to come forward it came forward.

[28:51]He told to go back it gave back.

[28:51]Then God says And then God saying that there's in my all

[29:06]my greatness and power I've not created something more powerful than the

[29:10]hak and more beloved to me than the hak.

[29:13]And then all of a sudden you got the prophet say that

[29:17]if there's anyone that's going to repres represent the hakal in this

[29:21]world it's the hassan.

[29:23]So what if you link everything together you'll find that god almighty

[29:27]is saying that the most beloved thing to me that I've created

[29:30]is the hakal and the representative of this hakal is none other

[29:34]than hassan ibali.

[29:35]So every decision he makes, he's the walk in Hak when people

[29:41]doubted him that he made the treaty with the cursed Mahawia.

[29:46]These people didn't understand who Hassan was.

[29:50]Yeah, it's it's it's funny that the not funny in when we

[29:55]look back in history that when it was okay for the holy

[29:57]prophet to do a the with but then when Imam Hassan makes

[30:07]a treaty with so-called Muslims pretending Muslims then everyone you know pretty

[30:11]there's an uproar.

[30:13]This is someone that was created from the light of God Almighty

[30:18]on this day when we remember his birth.

[30:20]Do you know when when God created the is because there that

[30:29]light is the purity of pure truthfulness pure faith in purity in

[30:34]all its essence because the actual light came straight from God.

[30:39]When God, the holy prophet has a narration when he told Ferris

[30:43]how everything was created and we we mention Hassan Mush in this

[30:46]one he says when God took his light the God the light

[30:52]of God and then he split it.

[30:54]So and he goes he created me and from my light the

[31:01]prophet says he created the harsh.

[31:02]So the the throne of God almighty is from the light of

[31:07]the holy prophet and the light of the holy prophet is from

[31:10]the light of God.

[31:13]And then he says the holy prophet is greater than the harsh.

[31:16]Then he says the holy prophet said then he took the light

[31:22]of my brother and he split it from the light of god

[31:26]and he created the angels.

[31:30]So the angels are from the light of Abalib is from the

[31:35]light of God and of is great.

[31:45]Then he took the light of Fatima Zahar and that's why one

[31:52]of the narrations says that she's known as the Zahar, the illuminous

[31:54]one and from her light he created the heavens and the earth.

[32:00]So the heavens and the earth are from the light of Fatima

[32:06]and the Fatima is from the light of God and Fatima is

[32:09]then he took the light of our beloved Hassan Im Hassa and

[32:15]he created the sun and the moon.

[32:18]So in IM Hassan Alisam's the light of Imam Hassan is what

[32:24]created the sun and the moon and from the sun and the

[32:29]moon.

[32:26]The the light is from God.

[32:31]Imam Hassan Alisam's light is from the light of God and im

[32:33]Hassan is greater than the sun and the moon.

[32:35]And then of course since we brought this up then he took

[32:40]the light of Im Hussein and he created the heaven and and

[32:45]I im Hussein of course said they're from the light of im

[32:51]Hussein.

[32:52]Im Hussein is from the light of God and im Hussein Abdal

[32:54]then greater than the heavens and Huri.

[32:57]But I'm saying that this im Hassa before he even to show

[33:03]you the greatness of who he was and the connection to the

[33:05]heavens even when one of the companions sees that that the holy

[33:11]prophet is playing with Al Hassan Hussein and he says to him

[33:17]do you love himoolah he goes I've love him these are my

[33:21]my my children and the children of my beloved daughter and the

[33:24]children of my was and my naps and my leader and my

[33:28]khalif And he tells him, he goes, "Do you know the greatness

[33:29]of who these people are?" And the prophet says, "Let me explain

[33:33]to you a story now." He goes when I was taken to

[33:35]the al maharaj I was taken to a certain the one one

[33:42]of the highest levels in heaven where it I can't tell you

[33:45]because as you know no eye has ever seen no ears have

[33:50]ever hear no no nose will ever smell the greatness of how

[33:53]much you can ponder or reflect on the greatness of what the

[34:00]what heaven waits for anyway he goes once he goes to heaven

[34:02]And he goes, "Jiba took me to a place and I saw

[34:07]this beautiful looking tree.

[34:07]Just the the picture like the what was in front of me

[34:12]fascinated.

[34:13]I was mesmerized by it.

[34:14]What captured me was its smell." And then Juba goes, "You think

[34:17]if you think it smell is good, go and eat from its

[34:21]fruit." So the prophet goes, I ate from the fruit.

[34:24]He goes, I was so surprised.

[34:26]Like it never in my life I've tasted like this.

[34:29]Then he took him to another tree that was similar to it.

[34:32]same in appearance and the same fruit.

[34:36]So then Gibbra tells the prophet, "Do you know what these two

[34:43]trees are?" And the holy prophet says, "No." He says, "The first

[34:46]one you ate from is called the tree of Al Hassan and

[34:52]the second one is the tree of Al Hussein." And then so

[34:54]then he then he tells him because we have the narrations that

[34:58]you eat this and you go to Khadijah and then the the

[35:01]story of how was was created.

[35:09]But then why we hear the narrations sometimes als the this beautiful

[35:21]fragrance flowers of the holy prophet because tells him that when they

[35:27]were born he goes every time you oh every time you yearn

[35:32]for those two trees in heaven go and smell Hassan and go

[35:35]and smell Hussein.

[35:37]This is the beauty of who we follow.

[35:39]This is the beauty of the B.

[35:43]They said that when we look at this beautiful imam that's born

[35:48]on a pretty much similar day like this on the 15th of

[35:54]Ramadan in the third year ah of Alhra.

[35:57]You know the the the first delight and the first offspring of

[36:02]the holy prophet delighted to see such a grandson that he knew

[36:08]that will be have the uphold resemblance and the hadith says that

[36:12]Imam Hassan al- Mushta was the greatest in appearance to the holy

[36:16]prophet and then we look at the way I im hassa lived

[36:21]and in this short period of time I can't cover everything but

[36:26]I'm saying that when we think about Hassa the first thing we

[36:29]comes to our mind is yes he was generous but on top

[36:36]of all this IM Hassa was also at that stage the bravest

[36:41]of B after his holy prophet after holy prophet and after of

[36:45]course his father IM Ali Alisam you know the famous story in

[36:48]the battle of Jamal when it was just basically to the point

[36:53]where no one could advance even Even Muhammad Hanafi couldn't go forward

[36:58]because the amount of people that were protecting you know the general

[37:03]that was on the camel and then of course im Ali calls

[37:10]Al Hassan Al Hassan like his father you know when I alam

[37:16]describes Hassan he says to him he goes I saw saw part

[37:28]of you but in fact I saw all of you.

[37:31]So when we look at Muhammad, so he he tells him he

[37:45]tells imam goes I don't see part of you I see all

[37:49]of you oh Hassan.

[37:50]So when we look at this you'll find that im Hassam yes

[37:55]but he was also the strongest and the most willing and the

[38:03]most beneficial IM after IM because you know that when it comes

[38:05]to Im there's no age limit and even to show you the

[38:11]greatness of IM Hassa on the day of Kbalah even though this

[38:14]is a a happy occasion even though what's going on in the

[38:23]world when IM Hussein stands there he says he says im Hussein

[38:28]is telling the people when he when he's introducing his lineage he's

[38:32]saying that is Hassan Im Hassan is is greater than me and

[38:40]you got to remember from 40 ah to about about the 10

[38:45]years that Im Hassan was the Imam Imam Hussein would sit like

[38:51]you see here in the crowd and listen to Imam Hassan.

[38:55]He would not even lift up his voice over Imam Hassan.

[38:57]That was his Imam even though he was his brother to show

[39:04]you the greatness of who I hass.

[39:05]So when you look at this when the holy prophet go back

[39:10]into that narration what I said that means everything that im Hass

[39:20]did is through the intellect IM says in another hadith you can't

[39:29]have and your ego is joined together one has to rule the

[39:34]other and that that's that's That's the difference.

[39:36]What makes true faith in your body?

[39:40]You have this always this power that's that's fighting the of the

[39:46]power of the the power of the the you know your desires

[39:50]and the power and the these these are all fighting.

[39:54]When the when the hakal rules over everything then you can get

[39:58]to the stage of true im.

[39:58]Then you don't do what pleases you.

[40:01]You do what pleases God Almighty.

[40:04]You can't mix oil and water.

[40:09]It's impossible.

[40:07]Purity and the oil doesn't mix.

[40:10]The the oil stays on top.

[40:15]It covers what the purity is on top on the bottom.

[40:16]And this is how a person thinks when he comes that everything

[40:21]he does, he does it through his intellect.

[40:24]And I said to you, we were using the the saying before,

[40:27]you know, fools rash where angels fear the everything that you do

[40:31]is through your and to imp program the god has to what

[40:40]finishes the formula.

[40:39]He say how do you program your you go back to they

[40:48]program they're truthful they're showing you how to use this intellect.

[40:52]So to finish this speech off to show you how sometimes a

[40:57]person sometimes you got to sit back and think like when you

[41:05]when you sit down and you think then you can see clearly

[41:09]of how I'm going.

[41:09]Am I doing it for the sake of God almighty?

[41:12]Am I doing it for my naps?

[41:13]You know it was said that once back then when they still

[41:20]do they cut trees down with axes.

[41:22]There was two friends that used to go on a daily base

[41:28]to cut the trees down.

[41:30]And when they would cut the trees down, the first friend of

[41:38]his would cut cut and then basically cut let's say 10 trees

[41:43]in that day.

[41:47]His other friend would cut pretty much say 15 trees there.

[41:50]But yet at the same time while the while he was cutting

[41:54]he wouldn't the other person would not would take a break.

[41:57]The other person would go away for about 20 30 minutes or

[41:59]so and come back.

[42:02]Say he went away.

[42:04]He thought this guy's going to eat to rest.

[42:07]I'll cut in that time.

[42:07]I can cut down a few more trees.

[42:09]Anyway, he comes back.

[42:13]He finds his friend is tired and he goes back to work

[42:17]and he he cuts more trees than the other person.

[42:19]the first day, the second day, the third day, the he's the

[42:21]other person, he the amount of trees that he's cutting is becoming

[42:25]less and less and less.

[42:26]The other ones becoming more and more and more.

[42:29]He goes, "I don't understand this.

[42:31]You take breaks.

[42:31]You go away for a while and you come back and you're

[42:36]still cutting more trees than I am." How is that?

[42:39]So, so the person, his friend goes to him, looks at him,

[42:43]he says, "When's the last time you sharpened your axe?

[42:48]He said, then he goes, you're you're you're basically trying to cut

[42:54]a tree with a blunt axe.

[42:55]I go away.

[42:57]I think I use my huck.

[42:58]I know that this is God's given me the ka, but also

[43:02]he's given me the ability to think of the of the way

[43:06]I should approach something in a smart way, in a logical way.

[43:09]And that's what happens to us when the person his iman becomes

[43:12]higher.

[43:12]This is how he thinks before he goes to do every action.

[43:17]or why he's doing action how can I do this better and

[43:20]that's why when the hakal rules your body that basically it controls

[43:31]everything so when we look at this im the have said in

[43:38]that verse be with the truthful look at the lives of Hassa

[43:43]look at what they went through many times times they were left

[43:49]alone.

[43:47]But I know if I have true faith of what God has

[43:51]given me and through the stories of what befell upon the prophets

[43:57]and what I gave you today, then that is hope hopefully enough

[44:00]uh to always take you from that sense of doubt to the

[44:04]sense of y and that is the final chapter of what we

[44:09]are trying to get to because all of us alhamdulillah we're Muslims

[44:12]but then the hadith says Islam which we've been talking about last

[44:19]couple of days is tawa and tawa is certainty.

[44:25]So it's a stepbystep process and the only way you do this

[44:29]is by learning from the stories of by attending centers by attending

[44:37]the mosques by by speaking to people that activate this of yours

[44:40]to show you that it's worth something.

[44:44]It's something that's God has said that it's this great weapon that

[44:48]I've given to you that when Aub was tested when Aub was

[44:52]tested the last point sorry the was you know when Aub was

[44:56]tested and you all know the story of prophet Aub when he

[44:58]was tested his family was taken away the his wealth was taken

[45:05]away God said or God said to the devil because the devil

[45:08]wanted power over everything he has I'll give you power over everything

[45:10]to Aub except two the leis his tongue and his hak because

[45:18]if I give you power over the hak the true hak then

[45:23]that's that's injustice to benny Adam that's his last resort of basically

[45:31]fighting or knowing this is what what what how powerful it is

[45:36]when it comes to that of the we ask Allahh firstly to

[45:41]hasten for repentance of Hisam.

[45:42]We ask Allahh that he does not take us out of this

[45:47]world except that he's pleased with us.

[45:48]We ask Allahh to give mercy upon our loved ones that passed

[45:52]away to look after and to give a man to the of

[45:58]the Shia of this world and give inshallah we ask Allahh they

[46:03]give Alhamdulillah.

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