What Kind of Knowledge Should We Seek?

33 المشاهدات· 24/03/25

Sayed Mahdi Modarresi
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أظهر المزيد

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[0:00]sciences are divided into various categories in terms of how useful they

[0:10]are you have for example certain types of knowledge that is utterly

[0:20]useless it doesn't grant you anything of value any benefit in this

[0:28]world or the next as having said god's messenger once went to

[0:56]the mosque when he entered the masjid he noticed a group of

[1:03]people that had gathered around an individual someone who was from out

[1:06]of town the prophet didn't ask who is that person he said

[1:16]what is this what's this about what's going on that person is

[1:26]in today's vernacular if we were going to use lingo that is

[1:30]familiar to us in this day and age we'd say that person

[1:35]is a doctor that person is a professor in other words the

[1:41]highest accolade the highest title you could grant someone in the prophet

[1:48]said what does he know that grants him this incredible fame and

[1:57]attraction and brings everyone around him this person's knowledge revolves around the

[2:07]science of genealogy in other words he knows people's family trees if

[2:13]you introduce yourself to him and say that my uncle was such

[2:18]and such my father is such and such by identifying key individuals

[2:23]in your family he's able to trace your family tree back to

[2:28]the original tribes for example or the geographic location from which you

[2:36]came whether you're originally from yemen or iraq or persia or the

[2:44]roman empire or whatever the case may be number one this person

[2:56]is very well versed in poetry he's well versed in the stories

[3:01]of the people in the pre-islamic pagan era masha allah in other

[3:09]words he's a wikipedia in and of himself he carries such great

[3:15]wealth of knowledge how does the prophet respond to that again we

[3:20]need to be able before i tell you the actual prophetic statement

[3:25]regarding this we need to reach a level of appreciation for true

[3:35]authentic knowledge and the level of maturity so that we're able to

[3:44]distinguish these kinds of sciences or what i like to call pseudosciences

[3:47]from real authentic useful sciences i talked about this last night when

[3:55]i said that ultimately we as individuals have a limited amount of

[4:04]resources that have been made available to us whether it is our

[4:08]time notice how many people how many organizations how many corporations how

[4:13]many governments how many entities out there are all vying to get

[4:21]your attention in fact in the media business when they talk about

[4:23]ratings for a tv show when they talk about the number of

[4:27]people that have watched the pilot for a series for example which

[4:30]is a key determining factor for the media executives to decide whether

[4:36]or not the series should be renewed for another season right when

[4:39]they talk about the views the statistics the viewership they talk about

[4:47]eyeballs i mean what does that tell you about the way the

[4:52]media looks at individuals you are not a person to them you're

[4:56]just a set of eyeballs you are just someone who is there

[5:03]to consume their content if that content has purely commercial value in

[5:08]their eyes then that's all they care about it's to try and

[5:12]get as many people to tune in as many people to watch

[5:15]this show and if that means infusing the show with all kinds

[5:21]of garbage and i'm not just talking about the fictitious aspect of

[5:27]it i'm not talking about how fantastical the storyline the plot line

[5:31]happens to be i'm talking about actually putting the stuff that they

[5:34]know will attract more eyeballs they know will attract more people into

[5:38]watching the show isn't it pathetic subhanallah i didn't want to say

[5:45]this but we're on the subject and we have this is a

[5:47]pertinent problem this is a cancer and metastasis this is a disease

[5:54]that needs to be addressed isn't it pathetic that we as a

[5:59]nation comprised of no less than four to five hundred million people

[6:04]all over the world the followers of the bait were such a

[6:13]strong community spread out across the entire planet from as far away

[6:20]as barbados which is a country that i'll be the first to

[6:24]admit i cannot identify on a map i do know that it's

[6:28]in the approximate region in south america the caribbean islands but exactly

[6:33]where it is i have no idea but i do know and

[6:36]i got to know an individual who's a shia of the herbert

[6:40]who lives in barbados and he told me that he actually attends

[6:43]one of our classes online he said there's only four of us

[6:47]on this island from as far away as that place all the

[6:50]way down to the small island archipelago of fiji the first country

[7:00]on which the sun rises you have the shia of the bay

[7:02]spread out across the entire planet such a strong presence we're powerful

[7:07]in terms of our numbers we're powerful in terms of our wealth

[7:10]and our resources we have all of this and yet it would

[7:15]take a fatwa from america to say whether you can watch a

[7:20]certain streaming service online or not and then the entire world is

[7:27]an uproar the entire community is so super confused say it i'm

[7:31]getting messages i'm getting phone calls should we cancel our subscriptions should

[7:34]we not cancel our subscriptions what exactly does this say you're talking

[7:38]about i'm not listen calm down you should be able to tell

[7:44]for yourself whether or not this is detrimental to your faith and

[7:47]to your values it shouldn't take a manager to tell you that

[7:52]this is morally repugnant that this is there's something wrong deep within

[7:57]this the structure that there is an agenda behind every movie every

[8:04]series every single show that they produce you know that i know

[8:09]that why is it that we'd have to be so immature and

[8:16]so they look at you as a set of eyeballs how many

[8:20]can we get to tune in how can we make sure that

[8:25]more people watch the show by adding elements which merely put the

[8:33]show in a different age bracket so it goes from being suitable

[8:40]for teenagers for example or suitable for children it just gets bumped

[8:45]up one category into mature audiences because of all the filth and

[8:53]immorality that gets spewed inside these programs and we just fall right

[8:57]into it of course it gets normalized before of course it gets

[9:03]more and more mundane we become desensitized to it did you know

[9:09]that this word that i just used desensitization is actually in their

[9:15]manifesto we live in a world where you can't even speak up

[9:24]openly you can't even express yourself even from a purely religious perspective

[9:29]but that's why people like me and people in my position would

[9:35]have to rely on you we'd have to rely on your intelligence

[9:39]on your do care about your own faith and your own values

[9:47]to not be naive about these things to sober up and wake

[9:53]up and smell the coffee says if you're sleeping if you've got

[10:06]your head stuck in the sand if you're the boiling frog which

[10:12]is one of my favorite metaphors and i've spoken so much about

[10:18]it i won't even explain it i'll have you google it if

[10:19]we happen to be the boiling frog in that pot of water

[10:24]that's increasing in its temperature so gradually and so slowly that we

[10:30]have no idea what's going on and that we're being cooked right

[10:34]before our two eyes the enemy is wide awake you may be

[10:44]asleep you may be thinking it's all hunky-dory that ah this is

[10:49]just a harmless show it's a harmless program it's a harmless website

[10:52]it's a harmless phone it's a harmless computer it's a harmless world

[10:55]it's a harmless everything but your enemy is wide awake your enemy

[11:00]is plotting against you i'm not one of those paranoid types i'm

[11:04]not a conspiracy theorist these are the words of emil i'm relating

[11:09]to you the enemy is awake 24 7 plotting and scheming and

[11:18]creating an agenda for the next 50 years one of my favorite

[11:24]quotes is if you remember i don't want to get into the

[11:29]details but there was an incident so it involved the catholic church

[11:34]and the child abuse scandal a few years back and one of

[11:40]the people who spoke on behalf of the church who was trying

[11:43]to sort of sweep things under the carpet and make sure that

[11:49]there are no repercussions as far as the church was concerned he

[11:52]came out and said the catholic church thinks in centuries while you

[12:00]and i are too busy in our own little pathetic fights with

[12:08]our friends and family while you and i are busy creating enmities

[12:13]and antagonisms over which you follow and so on and so forth

[12:20]the other side thinks in centuries as in what are we going

[12:25]to do in the 22nd century how will we implement this agenda

[12:37]is presented with a man who's a professor doctor what does he

[12:43]know he knows poetry he knows genealogy he knows a lot of

[12:46]stories masha allah he's very well spoken he's extremely articulate he would

[12:52]make the perfect speaker what does rasulullah say in response he said

[13:05]the prophet immediately opens a new category of science and he says

[13:12]this knowledge that this person has fits into this category what is

[13:18]it he said if you don't know this then you've lost nothing

[13:23]so what if you don't happen to be an expert on let's

[13:30]say medieval war armor if you're not an expert in how a

[13:37]microphone is built who cares so what there's plenty of other people

[13:41]who are experts in this field if you happen to need it

[13:44]there are others you can consult them and if you do possess

[13:55]it you don't get anything out of it now that is not

[14:01]to say that if you possess this knowledge you couldn't monetize it

[14:05]because we live in a world where you can pretty much monetize

[14:11]any garbage we live in a world where you could get well

[14:14]not you someone could get together with their friends and do the

[14:19]stupidest things to each other post that on youtube end up making

[14:25]thousands and thousands of dollars so you can monetize whatever you want

[14:29]that's not what the prophet is talking about money is not a

[14:35]value here wealth is not a value how much you can make

[14:41]out of it is not the criteria he says this is useless

[14:45]in other words at its essence it's useless at its essence it's

[14:52]valueless in other words this kind of knowledge doesn't make you a

[15:00]better person that's kind of what i'm trying to say in a

[15:04]nutshell possessing this doesn't make you any better than someone who lacks

[15:10]this knowledge now you might be thinking well what about all the

[15:13]professions what about all the trades all the skills that so many

[15:16]people have if i learn the skill and the profession of plumbing

[15:22]for example or if i was into becoming a mechanic or if

[15:25]i wanted to be a teacher or if i wanted to be

[15:27]a tailor and so on and so forth do those sciences also

[15:33]fall into the same category the answer is that those sciences in

[15:39]and of themselves don't have any inherent value but they do become

[15:46]valuable from a secondary perspective in other words because learning the ins

[15:51]and outs of a car's engine allows me to become a mechanic

[15:57]and therefore work and earn an honest living therefore it's good but

[16:02]in and of itself imagine if somebody has a habit of knowing

[16:07]all the details about a car's engine you would say to them

[16:11]come on man i'm sure there's better things you can do with

[16:14]your life you see what i mean so if this science is

[16:18]something that allows you to work and earn an honest and legitimate

[16:27]living provide for yourself your family then it makes it good otherwise

[16:30]by itself it doesn't have any inherent value which is why if

[16:37]you look at the fatihan in the section that deals with we

[16:49]have this dua narrated it's beautiful and it also helps shed light

[16:56]on this point that we've been talking about you say allah refuge

[17:06]in you in other words this is such a demon such a

[17:12]dangerous state of mind that you have no recourse you have no

[17:15]option but to seek refuge in allah subhanahu wa ta'ala i'm not

[17:23]sure if i'm conveying the depth of the matter here a refugee

[17:27]is someone who runs from what from a threat to their lives

[17:32]in this case you are seeking refugee status and you're seeking asylum

[17:37]with who with god over what over these things number one minefield

[17:46]from a soul that has an insatiable desire that is never content

[17:57]whatever i get there's more than i want to and from a

[18:09]heart that never bows down a heart that lacks fear from allah

[18:14]subhanahu wa a heart that never breaks and therefore an eye that

[18:23]never tears up number and i seek refuge in you from a

[18:35]knowledge a science that has no benefit that provides me with no

[18:43]value it's just something i know a lot of our hobbies fall

[18:49]into that am i saying that you can't have a hobby am

[18:51]i saying that you can't be interested in something outside of work

[18:54]i'm not saying that what i am saying is given the limitations

[18:59]imposed on our resources on our time on our energy given the

[19:04]fact that we ultimately have to spend a minimum of what six

[19:09]seven hours to sleep that's what they're saying nowadays anyway if you

[19:12]ask a doctor what is a healthy amount of sleep they'll say

[19:17]seven hours right i have my own theory about that but that's

[19:20]another issue the hadith says a person who oversleeps person who sleeps

[19:30]too much will come on the day of judgment and he will

[19:34]be a beggar imagine like everybody has something everybody's built they've invested

[19:40]their time and their effort that they they have things that they've

[19:44]received in the form of remuneration on the day of judgment but

[19:47]i will be the one running from person the person begging them

[19:51]to give me give me some of their rewards give me something

[19:55]i'll be the beggar but anyway given the limitations imposed on our

[20:01]time and resources how much time can we allocate to these hobbies

[20:06]how much time should we allocate to watching tv series and movies

[20:13]and so on sure we all need a little time to let

[20:19]some steam off sure we need time to engage in you know

[20:24]things that bring us pleasure that are within the confines of what

[20:30]is halal we need these things but ultimately as our traditions stipulate

[20:34]you need to please yourself you need to seek pleasure so that

[20:38]you can refuel you can re-energize and then put all that energy

[20:44]you've just accumulated back into what into the service of allah subhanahu

[20:47]ta'ala in other words your primary subhanallah i sometimes come across people

[20:54]in this hussaini as well as others and you look at this

[20:57]person they're not the kind of people that are goofing off or

[21:02]being dull bludgers as they say they're not the kind of people

[21:08]that have put all of their uh responsibilities onto the shoulders of

[21:12]other people they're not living off of other people's work they also

[21:15]have a job they also have a family they also have responsibilities

[21:19]but when you look at them you realize that their primary concern

[21:25]in life is the service and it takes a special kind of

[21:30]person to be that special kind of mindset to put you in

[21:34]that position obviously tawfiq has to be there god has to give

[21:40]you the backing to be placed in the right position at the

[21:42]right time at the right place so that you could be at

[21:46]the service of the imam of your time but you you have

[21:50]to in the law because you have to start there you have

[21:57]to start in your outlook the way you see life the way

[21:59]you prioritize your time and your energy and your effort so the

[22:06]prophet said this science it doesn't hurt anyone if they don't have

[22:09]it it doesn't benefit anyone if they do then the prophet elaborated

[22:18]further he said sciences come in three categories imma you learn the

[22:31]quran you try and solidify your understanding of the quran you take

[22:35]out those verses that are ambiguous how many of us find that

[22:41]when we open the quran to read there are so many things

[22:46]there that just don't make sense to us not that they contradict

[22:51]logic we just don't understand what allah is talking about and that

[22:56]is a testament of our ignorance it shows that this was never

[23:01]a priority for us for me to learn what the quran has

[23:03]to say is not exactly something that i feel i should do

[23:09]before i start to get into other sciences and hobbies and use

[23:13]useless skills right so number one the holy prophet says if there

[23:21]are ambiguous verses if there are things in the quran that don't

[23:24]make sense to you learn understand ask the exegests refer to the

[23:30]commentary figure out what it has to say your maraja today are

[23:35]available basically 24 7.

[23:36]you could write to them you could email them you could inquire

[23:40]back in the day people had to really suffer the amount of

[23:46]effort that had to be put in to learn to acquire these

[23:49]books i don't want to even get into that but i think

[23:50]you know what i'm talking about nowadays it's available it's at your

[23:53]fingertips you can basically ask whatever you want and be informed of

[24:01]the answers of all your questions number one number two the prophet

[24:07]says and shariat what is halal what is haram what is what

[24:13]is forbidden all these things that we call these jurors prudential matters

[24:21]the vast majority or the bulk of which are printed in the

[24:27]form of amelia by whoever your merchant happens to be how many

[24:31]have actually picked up that book and read through it how many

[24:33]have had classes where they learn all these things again the prophet

[24:37]says number one it's the quran number two it's what your obligation

[24:40]is in this life what you're supposed to do and what you're

[24:44]supposed to avoid when you want to learn how to drive what

[24:46]do you do the first thing you do is you sit for

[24:50]a knowledge test but before that you have to read an entire

[24:54]book a manual that tells you what you can and cannot do

[24:56]as a driver in this country there are particular rules that don't

[24:59]apply in other countries you have to understand what the yellow light

[25:03]means what the amber light means and so on and so you

[25:07]have to learn whether you can cross these lanes you can't all

[25:09]these things you have to you have to learn them you have

[25:13]to ask if you think about it the amount of energy the

[25:14]amount of hours you have to put in just to be able

[25:18]to sit behind the wheel in this country is just mind-boggling and

[25:22]yet we do it why because we feel there's always this sense

[25:26]in our minds that oh we associate driving with freedom if i'm

[25:31]able to drive then i can have my own car i can

[25:35]look super cool and i can go wherever i want whenever i

[25:37]want of course the reality is not that we all know that

[25:40]once you get your license it's just another thing it's just another

[25:44]piece of paper or plastic but in our mind that's what society's

[25:47]conditioned us to think that oh yeah if you're able to drive

[25:53]all your problems are over your problems problems are just about to

[25:57]start they're about to begin now you have to think about getting

[26:03]a car and you have to think about all the plethora of

[26:05]problems that come with owning your own car then the prophet said

[26:13]was [Music] meaning etiquettes so either the quran or the wajabat or

[26:22]the etiquettes of life what is good what is moral what is

[26:27]less than moral then the prophet said anything other than these three

[26:35]types of sciences is an extra and if it benefits you in

[26:42]the sense that it allows you to earn a living then it's

[26:45]good if it doesn't then it's useless now there are some sciences

[26:53]which are not just useless but detrimental and dangerous for example sorcery

[27:06]magic i'm talking about black magic not little magical tricks that you

[27:10]do in kids birthday parties by the way these things are haram

[27:14]to acquire these sciences is forbidden in islam is there value in

[27:22]it there may be are people actually able to manipulate others into

[27:25]loving them and to hating each other into doing this and to

[27:29]doing that maybe is it allowed no it's not so we have

[27:35]to go back to the knowledge of the prophets what did the

[27:41]prophets come to teach again we spoke a little bit about this

[27:45]last night i just want to go on to in a different

[27:48]direction tonight the prophets came to teach us things that were above

[27:56]and beyond listen carefully i'm choosing my words very meticulously the prophets

[28:02]didn't just come to reveal reality allow me to elaborate some philosophers

[28:20]have objected on the question of why we need prophets and messengers

[28:26]and apostles which is a question that's been around for as long

[28:31]as people have lived on this earth why do we need a

[28:33]prophet it's a very fundamental question why couldn't god just reveal a

[28:41]book and the book would have the major primary instructions that god

[28:48]has sent and that would be the end of the story you

[28:54]want to follow this you can if you don't want to follow

[28:57]it well you'll face the consequences why prophets what did prophets bring

[29:03]us that was so valuable so some philosophers have said if the

[29:07]prophets came to reveal reality in other words they came to tell

[29:14]us things that we don't presently know then they're not doing much

[29:24]are they because with further scientific endeavor and exploration at some point

[29:29]will get to what the prophets came to teach us and in

[29:34]fact this is something that i've heard even muslim philosophers say unfortunately

[29:39]the connotation here the suggestion behind this statement is that human beings

[29:52]are on a an upward trajectory humans are developing little by little

[29:59]year after year century after century humanity is progressing right and i

[30:05]think this is what most of you think as well are human

[30:09]beings progressing or are they regressing are they moving forward or are

[30:15]they going backwards a smart person including all of you here would

[30:18]ask the question well it depends on your definition of forward and

[30:21]backward it depends on what you mean by progress versus regress if

[30:27]you're talking about humanity being able to come up with a with

[30:31]a newer better more advanced version of smartphones year after year then

[30:37]yeah sure we're moving forward but if it comes to morality if

[30:43]we're talking about humanity then humanity is not moving forward and i

[30:49]can bring you a thousand different pieces of evidence to back this

[30:54]point but i think you're intelligent enough to figure that out on

[30:56]your own are we actually moving forward i was sent between the

[31:20]two epics of ignorance when i say i think you can all

[31:25]relate this notion back to the most macabre and grotesque stories of

[31:36]barbarity that we associate with the pagan era before the revelation of

[31:41]islam you'll automatically think of how little beautiful girls would be buried

[31:50]alive because in that society it was seen as shameful to have

[31:54]a girl grow up and become an adult woman right we're talking

[31:59]about being the worst savages that humanity's ever heard of we're talking

[32:04]about the worst of the worst the scum of the earth right

[32:07]rasulullah says i was sent between two epics of jahiliyyah between two

[32:16]eras of ignorance and the second is worse than the first so

[32:20]are we moving forward now this is why when it comes to

[32:31]picking what we're supposed to learn we have to be extra extra

[32:37]careful i take you back to the question i asked earlier do

[32:40]prophets simply reveal reality no because if it was just a matter

[32:46]of revealing reality to us if it was just a matter of

[32:50]oh don't kill your girls and that's it then yeah humanity should

[32:53]be progressing forward not regressing backwards so that's not it in fact

[32:59]look at how the quran describes this allah says we have sent

[33:08]this messenger listen very carefully these prophets came to teach you things

[33:17]now unfortunately i'm not a very big fan of translations of the

[33:23]quran because over and over again when i refer back to translations

[33:26]i see mistake after mistake sometimes intentional mistakes sometimes unintentional mistakes in

[33:32]this case i looked up one of the translations and i think

[33:35]they pretty much say the same thing is translated as to teach

[33:42]you the things that you did not know but that's not what

[33:46]the quran is saying anyone familiar with the arabic language knows that

[33:49]the quran is saying something else which means the things that you

[33:56]would never have learned on your own it's not a matter of

[34:04]time it's a matter of impossibility that's what the prophets came to

[34:08]teach you see there are things in the quran which you can

[34:10]explore on your own and figure out for example go travel on

[34:19]the earth and learn about the people that lived before you and

[34:25]what happened to them the rejecters the liars the imposters i was

[34:30]reading through uh some of the archaeological finds about the people of

[34:36]sodom and gomorrah and it's really quite fascinating to learn the way

[34:45]the quran describes the punishment that was sent on the people of

[34:48]saddam which by the way you've probably never heard this before but

[34:51]there's a hadith that says allah subhanahu wa punished the people of

[34:58]sodom and he destroyed them when in fact he has never destroyed

[35:02]another nation for the sin of adultery in other words as evil

[35:08]and as immoral as adultery happens to be what the people of

[35:13]sodom did was much worse so this is in case you will

[35:18]you know inevitably you'll come across people who tell you so what

[35:22]no i mean you know there is sin and then again there

[35:26]is another sin and we're all sinners at the end of the

[35:31]day the hadith says no there are different kinds of sins there

[35:33]are sins that are unforgivable there are sins that are punishable not

[35:37]just in the afterlife but in this world allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[35:45]completely the people of sodom allah says when our command came when

[36:03]the time was right we turned that entire city over on its

[36:07]head upside down and we started to reign upon them burned clay

[36:15]now the archaeological finds because the quran says go look where are

[36:20]the people of sodom the actual city of sodom and gomorrah there

[36:24]is a difference of opinion as to exactly where it is the

[36:27]precise location that is but i think most archaeologists agree that it

[36:32]sits on the banks of the dead sea in other words it's

[36:37]between jordan and palestine and christian evangelical archaeologists have gone in and

[36:45]they've explored the land and it's absolutely mesmerizing it's terrifying but it's

[36:51]mesmerizing on the other hand because you look at this and you

[36:57]see almost like a city that's like a really ancient city this

[36:59]is what it looks like anyway that's covered with layers upon layers

[37:05]of ash and in fact that's what the archaeologists say they say

[37:08]there's a lot of ash in it there's sand of course but

[37:11]on top of the sand where did the ash come from right

[37:15]they say this ash could only and and the thing that amazes

[37:22]them is that the only way you could get ash is if

[37:25]you burn something right so something must have burned here what burnt

[37:28]how did it happen they in fact say that there are relics

[37:32]of up to a million people there in this stretch of desert

[37:37]and you have all these structures and the structures look like massive

[37:41]mansions and palaces and whatnot but in fact you know they just

[37:45]you know look like these old buildings with a lot of ash

[37:50]on them and the amazing thing is they have brimstone brimstone by

[37:54]the way is the old word used for sulfur and if you

[37:58]know anything about sulfur it's a highly flammable substance in other words

[38:03]you can literally just light it up and you get this deep

[38:08]dark blue fire coming out of it like i've never seen anything

[38:10]like it you can't light up a piece of rock but when

[38:14]it comes to sulfur or what the bible calls brimstone in the

[38:17]old language and you see this scattered all across sodom in in

[38:24]what resembles a ball that's that's white and again is very very

[38:31]highly flammable go look what happened to them so that's one kind

[38:36]of knowledge that you find in the quran then again you have

[38:40]another kind that as i said earlier we have no access to

[38:42]without the prophets there's no way you can learn about these things

[38:45]for example what is the spirit what is the soul the soul

[38:56]is something that no one can understand no scientist no one is

[39:01]able to figure out exactly what it is unless you have access

[39:04]to the world of the unseen you have access to metaphysical sciences

[39:08]which is what the prophets had right number two um how could

[39:16]you learn about the day of judgment how could you learn about

[39:19]the afterlife without having access to knowledge of the unseen that doesn't

[39:24]come from empirical science it doesn't come from experimental sciences you have

[39:30]to go and refer to the prophets and messengers and so on

[39:34]and so forth all of these things are exclusive to prophets they're

[39:37]exclusive to the quran they're exclusive to the bait who are the

[39:44]successors of all of the prophets now this is i think again

[39:54]i've made my case that we need to learn we really need

[39:56]to pick up books and find suitable teachers we need to enroll

[40:04]in courses something we did quite recently some of you might actually

[40:08]know about this is a seminary course under the beautiful title of

[40:13]uh if i may say so john the martyr academic seminary named

[40:18]after john the slave of abba abdullah hussain who was killed on

[40:26]the day of it's a free course it is i think combines

[40:30]in it things that were unimaginable just 10 years ago 10 years

[40:34]ago i travel the world and i visit different communities and i

[40:38]lecture all over the place it's one of the perks one of

[40:42]the privileges of what i do and so many people at the

[40:47]end of every series approach me and say how do we learn

[40:50]more how do we i mean we've barely scratched the surface how

[40:54]can we enroll in the islamic seminary how could we go back

[41:00]and learn the teachings and traditions of and my response to them

[41:03]was almost universally listen you can pack up and go to the

[41:09]holy city of hom karbala elsewhere you can do that but at

[41:12]the end of the day there's going to be so many challenges

[41:15]so many obstacles in your way your families your community your job

[41:19]prospects your all these your studies all these things will present a

[41:25]challenge and so my advice to anyone who asked that question would

[41:27]be look you're pretty much on your own you have to go

[41:32]find the sources consult but ultimately you have to do your own

[41:35]learning now things are different now you have all of those sciences

[41:40]customized for a western audience being presented to you from the comfort

[41:46]of your own living room or bedroom online for free by qualified

[41:52]scholars by teachers that have spent decades in the islamic seminary what

[41:55]more could you want right of course alhamdulillah we have a lot

[41:59]of people that have enrolled but this is something that i definitely

[42:02]encourage you to sign up on just look it up online john

[42:06]the martyr seminary or academic seminary because once you do that then

[42:13]you qualify for an incredibly lofty position and i'll just mention this

[42:20]hadith and wrap up in sha allah at tabar says in his

[42:26]book incredible book highly recommended he quotes imam al-hassan as quoting his

[42:41]father imam al-hadi who quoted his father who quoted his father all

[42:44]the way back to rasulullah he said we have two kinds of

[43:00]orphans number one is an orphan who doesn't have one or both

[43:03]of their parents this orphan deserves the utmost care and compassion this

[43:16]orphan whoever sponsors them whoever looks after them orphans are so special

[43:22]the traditions tell us that if you so much as wipe your

[43:23]hands on their heads it softens your heart you acquire hoshua that's

[43:31]how blessed these children are rasulullah said you've all heard this hadith

[43:40]kaha and whoever sponsors an orphan meaning takes care of them not

[43:47]just pays a monthly fee but actually takes them under their wing

[43:51]so to speak and our cafeteria and the prophet put both of

[43:56]his index fingers against each other and the prophet in another hadith

[44:01]says and i'm not saying not like these two fingers right the

[44:04]middle and the index finger where one is slightly taller than the

[44:09]other no no like these two in other words will you will

[44:13]be with me on the day of judgment in the same position

[44:19]so it's incredibly special but he says whoever looks after who are

[44:44]not just disconnected from their parents but they are disconnected from their

[44:49]imam menin the prophet says number one this person has to be

[45:02]yata'allamur you have to have you have to acquire the sciences of

[45:10]the imams of the aruba you have to become learned by yourself

[45:14]but once you do that you take a group of people who

[45:19]have been severed from their imam who have been disconnected from their

[45:23]master the imam of the time and you also teach them you

[45:28]also impart upon them the things that you have learned in this

[45:34]country as well as the united states and many other countries there's

[45:36]an organization called big brother big sister program have you heard about

[45:42]that essentially what this is it's a mentorship program and this is

[45:47]something that i've been quite passionate about over the last couple of

[45:50]years and i wanna talk about it in an open forum like

[45:55]this so that it becomes a substance for conversation a topic of

[46:00]conversation with the hope of us actually implementing this in the near

[46:07]future essentially what they do is every single adult who fits and

[46:13]ticks a certain number of boxes fits a certain number of criteria

[46:18]they do a background check they you know find out their marital

[46:22]status their financial status and so on then they say that as

[46:26]an adult who is well-rounded who is relatively successful and so forth

[46:33]you should take one or two younger members of the audience and

[46:38]bring them under your wing look after them the imam in fact

[46:43]in this prophetic hadith he uses this term he says that they

[46:49]are our orphans who are in your care if this is how

[46:53]we looked at other people especially people who were younger than us

[46:56]imagine the beauty of the society that we can build the prophet

[47:01]says that if you acquire knowledge number one and number two you

[47:07]become a big brother to at least one person one individual who's

[47:11]potentially a lost soul we have people like that in our own

[47:15]families unfortunately brothers and sisters we've have we've created a society for

[47:20]ourselves where we outsource everything to someone else there's this mentality that

[47:26]if i want my kids to know about islam i send them

[47:30]to saturday school right but as far as me learning and then

[47:33]teaching my own children that's not something we're we're going to invest

[47:39]in this is exactly what rasulullah is suggesting that we do is

[47:41]commanding us to do he says number one learn number two take

[47:48]one or two three four whatever number of people you can take

[47:52]under your wing teach them guide them help them you don't need

[47:57]to be a scholar to do that you don't need to be

[48:01]a senior alim to do that yes you have to know the

[48:04]basics yes you have to have a good understanding of of the

[48:07]fundamental tenets of this religion which is by the way what this

[48:10]course teaches the one that i talked about john the martyr academy

[48:15]there's a course on theology which i did over a period of

[48:17]i think about three months there's a course on eschatology highly popular

[48:22]course that deals with questions about the afterlife death the previous worlds

[48:27]we've been through the worlds we will go into after this one

[48:30]our journey throughout the cosmos right there's a course on jurisprudence all

[48:35]kinds of courses again all available for free all you have to

[48:39]do is enroll commit and sit down and watch and learn there's

[48:42]all kinds of other material that have been made available each lecture

[48:47]is prepared and then you have the summary gets sent over you

[48:51]online you get to see you get to sit for tests you

[48:52]can do essays and so on and so forth learn and then

[48:57]take other people under your wing teach them this person will be

[49:15]so elevated and such highly regarded because you have taught you have

[49:19]taken care of the orphans of the elderly the lost souls the

[49:24]ones that needed guidance allah will glorify you and the amount of

[49:29]reward that you will get far outweighs what you would get by

[49:34]simply sponsoring an actual orphan because an actual orphan belongs to their

[49:41]parents that have passed whereas here you're dealing with the orphans of

[49:48]rasulullah didn't in a conversation with the holy prophet the prophet said

[49:52]to him you and i are the fathers of this nation anyway

[50:01]let's go to a place that broke the heart of the bait

[50:11]even more than karbala when they asked imam ali where did you

[50:18]suffer the most what was the hardest place for you to be

[50:24]in the imam responded by saying asham [Music] only god knows what

[50:31]is buried deep into these sighs that are emerging from the blessed

[50:38]tongue of imam with every utterance of the name only allah knows

[50:48]what the imam is referring to what they saw what they experienced

[50:56]when they first arrived to the main gate of the city of

[51:05]sham yazid ordered the caravan to stop some have said for 24

[51:10]hours others have said for three full days they just simply stopped

[51:18]them outside on the main gate why for two reasons the first

[51:21]reason was that they wanted to get ready they had to put

[51:26]up the festivities they were throwing the biggest party the city had

[51:30]ever seen and they needed time to do all of that they

[51:34]needed to bring out the musical instruments they needed to bring out

[51:38]the drums they needed to bring out the flutes that was the

[51:44]first reason the second reason is that the caravan of the sacred

[51:48]severed heads had yet to arrive because the caravan carrying the heads

[51:54]of the martyrs took a different route than the one taken by

[51:59]the captives the women the children and that's why many of them

[52:03]hadn't seen the sacred head since the day of one wicked man

[52:10]approached and when he got to the main gate as they were

[52:15]about to merge these two caravans were about to meet each other

[52:18]he screamed here we are bringing you the women and the children

[52:42]and the heads of the wicked worms of the liars people started

[53:00]pelting them with stones they threw garbage over the heads of the

[53:07]family of rasulullah from the rooftop this elderly man while everyone was

[53:21]busy he came and approached imam zayn the imam looked at this

[53:45]man he must have seen something in this man's heart he said

[53:54]have you read have you read the verse in which allah says

[54:15]he said yes i have read that verse he said let me

[54:20]ask you about another one have you read the verse where allah

[54:35]what's that got to do we are the prophet's children we are

[55:05]the prophet's family the old man started to cry he said but

[55:33]before [Music] [Music] [Applause] whatever yes

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