Who are the eaters of Imam Husain's Flesh - Sayed Mahdi Modarresi | 5th night 2022 Muharram

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[0:05][Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] allah for the

[1:53]hastening of the reappearance of the master the savior the avenger god's

[1:58]proof muhammad received many individuals who advised him against going to iraq

[2:30]those included people like abdullah they included people like abdullah imam hussain's

[2:45]cousin and they also included people very close to the imam like

[2:50]his own brother muhammad among others who all said the same thing

[2:56]which is that we know the people of kufa to be treasonous

[3:02]and treacherous we know that they won't fulfill their obligations their commitments

[3:10]that they've made to you yes they've sent sixteen thousand letters back

[3:16]full of letters where they've invited the imam to come to kufa

[3:21]so that they could support him they could help him revolt against

[3:26]the government of yazidi but they won't keep their promise they won't

[3:33]stay true to their word they've all said this in one way

[3:39]or another to imam al-hussein the imam responded to each of them

[3:44]in his own way but then he made a declaration listen carefully

[3:49]tonight is a very special night we're getting closer and closer to

[3:55]the 11th hour to the day of ashura if any of us

[4:02]here tonight or watching this is lagging behind if we happen to

[4:11]feel this shake in our resolve if we're not serious then there's

[4:20]not much time left listen to what the imam said upon leaving

[4:25]the holy city of mecca towards kufa now also try and understand

[4:35]the context of the sermon of imam al-hussein because hajj which is

[4:39]one of the pillars of this faith is being broken imam al-hussein

[4:45]was meant as far as the pilgrims are concerned was meant to

[4:51]perform the pilgrimage to the house of allah wa ta'ala and yet

[4:57]imam al-hussein decides to stop the pilgrimage to leave the city of

[5:10]mecca in the middle of hajj but before he did that the

[5:16]imam gave the sermon in which he said and i quote he

[5:21]said death has been written for the children of adam the way

[5:40]a necklace surrounds the neck of a bachelorette what this means we

[5:48]might get a chance to discuss it in the upcoming nights because

[5:54]my focus is on on another part of the sermon of imam

[5:58]al-hussein why the imam describes death as a necklace that beautifies the

[6:06]neck of a young girl of all the different descriptions the imam

[6:11]could have provided he uses this we might get a chance to

[6:17]explain this later on inshaallah in the upcoming nights but then the

[6:22]imam says he says i have been given the choice of a

[6:33]final departure from this world i am going to die now why

[6:38]is the imam saying this because everybody was warning the imam about

[6:42]how he might get killed that he's putting himself in harm's way

[6:46]that he's risking his life so the imam is telling them i

[6:51]know better than all of you that death is coming that's why

[6:57]he begins this sermon by talking about death and then he says

[7:03]this isn't just about death in general i am going to face

[7:08]my death then he says he says and you should know that

[7:24]i am so eager to meet my predecessors my ancestors my grandfather

[7:28]my father my mother my brother the way yaakov yearned and long

[7:37]to meet his son yusuf that's how much i'm eager so don't

[7:40]try and scare me away with talks talking about death about how

[7:46]i'm putting myself in harm's way i couldn't be more eager than

[7:51]to meet my ancestors my predecessors then he says and this is

[7:58]the focus of my talk tonight he says bella [Music] he says

[8:24]i can see you know how when something's about to happen and

[8:31]you know exactly what's going to happen it's almost as though you

[8:35]can see it the imam says it's as if my limbs my

[8:41]joints my filaments will be torn up by the wolves of the

[8:48]desert is a reference to the joints that keep the skeleton together

[8:56]i can see how which is a reference to the beasts and

[9:07]wolves that dwell in the desert these are wild beasts these are

[9:12]vicious animals have you ever seen those wildlife videos where when these

[9:17]hyenas or these wolves they catch their prey how they bite on

[9:22]their prey and then they shake themselves so that they could take

[9:25]a bite off of their prey this is he says i can

[9:36]see how these wild beasts will tear apart my limbs my joints

[9:40]then he says and they will fill their stomachs their empty stomachs

[9:52]with my limbs is a reference to these bags that you would

[10:02]put for instance bread in them the imam describes these bags these

[10:09]vessels he describes them as hungry bags he says they will fill

[10:14]these bags and their stomachs with my limbs with my body parts

[10:22]then the imam says other things which i don't want to talk

[10:26]about tonight i want to focus on this description that the imam

[10:33]provides for his death and his martyrdom now the part about him

[10:41]being torn apart the part about him being dismembered may my life

[10:46]and everything i have be ransomed even for a single drop of

[10:51]his blessed blood that part we can kind of understand because they

[11:00]did to the sacred figure of abba abdullah hussain unspeakable things things

[11:05]i can't just mention casually in the middle of a modulus things

[11:11]that you could probably just give glimpses about during the maktal that's

[11:15]recited on the day of unspeakable heinous things that you might know

[11:23]just a tiny bit about that part we understand but the part

[11:30]about filling empty stomachs and hungry vessels with the joints and limbs

[11:38]and the body of imam al-hussein what's that all about despite the

[11:47]atrocious and heinous things they did to the sacred figure of the

[11:52]imam we know that no cannibalism was involved nobody actually took a

[12:02]bite off the body of the imam like hind the mother of

[12:07]muawiyah the grandmother of yazid did to the body of hamz that

[12:12]didn't happen on the day of so clearly what the imam is

[12:20]describing here is figurative it's a metaphor it's not literal so what

[12:28]is he talking about in arabic as well as other languages you

[12:39]might say that so-and-so that he left his home unprotected unguarded in

[12:54]iraq in afghanistan places where there is no rule of law he

[12:58]left his home when he came back he noticed that the house

[13:05]had been eaten by such and such again this is figurative it's

[13:10]not literal the house being eaten means what means it was stolen

[13:15]it means it was confiscated it means it was taken forcefully by

[13:22]someone sold off the money used to fund somebody's lifestyle right that's

[13:27]what we mean when we say this was eaten figuratively speaking so

[13:33]what is the imam talking about here his limbs his body parts

[13:40]being eaten stomachs being filled bags being filled what is he referring

[13:48]to let me give you a few examples to illustrate and to

[13:51]help understand so that we can avoid falling into this trap the

[13:58]trap of being among the manifestations of the people who eat the

[14:01]limbs and body of imam and hussein who cannibalize the sacred figure

[14:09]of the granddaughter of rasulullah what it actually means is when we

[14:18]compromise on the blood of imam al-hussein for personal gain that's basically

[14:26]what the imam is referring to but let's give some examples used

[14:34]to say [Music] um there was a time when in order for

[14:50]you to survive so that you wouldn't be killed you had to

[14:54]curse amir al-mu'manin you don't have to go all the way back

[15:03]to the era of muawiyah and the umayyads and the abbasids no

[15:07]five years ago six years ago seven years ago in iraq this

[15:13]was common practice they would put up a false checkpoint members of

[15:22]isis using military swag that was used by the iraqi army and

[15:29]they would wave cars to stop when the cars stopped they would

[15:35]go up to the bus or they'd go to the car and

[15:38]they would say we'd like to see identification papers they would pick

[15:43]out people based on their names if your name was hassan hussain

[15:49]jaffar abbas right they would immediately identify you as a shia they

[15:54]would pull you out and they would execute you by the side

[15:57]of the road this happened more times than we could count again

[16:04]this is in our lifetime and so this was something that was

[16:09]practiced from the time of the oppressive caliphs all the way to

[16:15]the 21st century and god knows whether there's ever going to be

[16:20]an end to this vitriol to this blind hatred towards the bait

[16:27]and by extension towards their followers we don't know it probably will

[16:33]never stop and so in order for you to survive you would

[16:39]be given the choice of either cursing emir al-mu'mineen or dying or

[16:47]getting killed again this happened in iraq over and over again so

[16:53]they would say here's a picture of the shrine of ali spit

[16:57]on this or curse the imam okay now amir gave a license

[17:06]to his followers such that in order for them to preserve their

[17:13]lives he said you can curse me if you find yourself in

[17:19]that situation i allow you to curse you might think to yourself

[17:26]i'd never do that i would die before i ever hurl an

[17:31]insult towards my master amir al-mu'min but you'd be wrong because the

[17:36]imam not only gave us a license to do that the bait

[17:41]have instructed us specifically to preserve our lives and practice what we

[17:48]refer to as dissimulation in other words i know we're kind of

[17:57]branching off a little bit but these are crucial subjects that we

[18:00]need to touch on imam says if someone does not practice takiyah

[18:12]he or she has no religion why because takiyah and dissimulation and

[18:17]the preservation of the lives of the shia even at the expense

[18:25]of cursing is my religion the imam says and the religion of

[18:30]my forefathers in other words sometimes it's not a choice that you

[18:35]get to make you must practice especially when the matter involves other

[18:43]believers especially when exposing the truth as it really is puts others

[18:49]in harm's way you have no choice here no i want to

[18:54]speak the truth you can't because speaking the truth spills shia blood

[18:59]speaking the truth here means that others will be killed or harmed

[19:05]or even if it's just insulted you have no right atta i

[19:14]can't just say oh but everybody now is speaking about their religion

[19:18]freely so i get to do the same thing no you go

[19:21]you don't no you don't everybody's making movies about their religion why

[19:26]is it that only the shia can't do that well because the

[19:30]shia have scholars they have imams they have leaders who have specifically

[19:34]told them to practice it's not up to you look at the

[19:42]practice of our mirage look at our ulama look at the jurists

[19:48]of this faith the jurists are who they're experts in the holy

[19:52]quran and the teachings of the prophet and the albeit they're the

[19:57]experts who tell you what's right and what's wrong what's haram that's

[20:02]why they're called fukaha you have to consult them just because i

[20:09]happen to be an overly zealous shia who wants to go out

[20:13]there and challenge the whole world it's not up to you i

[20:21]can get on the sit on the pulpit and say whatever i

[20:26]want no you don't it's not up to you especially when the

[20:32]only time you're actually doing that is when you're safe if i

[20:39]was in harm's way if my life was in danger i wouldn't

[20:42]do this i'll only say it when i can ensure my own

[20:46]safety and the safety of my family when i have the protection

[20:50]of some western government knowing that no one's going to do anything

[20:54]stupid in this part of the world that's when i feel safe

[21:00]enough to talk about this putting others in harm's way what hypocrisy

[21:04]is this if you're serious if you're brave enough go out there

[21:08]in kabul and say these things go out there in avamiya and

[21:15]baghdad and say these things and the imam here tells us you

[21:23]can even curse me imagine then he says and i'll get back

[21:28]to the question of tapia in a little bit um as for

[21:34]disassociating from me don't do that but you might say isn't cursing

[21:40]a form of disassociation of course it is right so what's the

[21:44]distinction between these two what's the difference when the imam says you

[21:49]can curse me but you can't disassociate what does that mean listen

[21:53]carefully again this applies to all of us you and i could

[21:57]very well fall into this trap this association is different from cursing

[22:03]in this way there were tyrants who would pull a shia aside

[22:09]and say curse if he cursed the imam they would let him

[22:13]go but there were tyrants like muhammad and they're not content with

[22:22]just hearing someone curse ali abner you see this is why someone

[22:25]like again this might be a question that pops in your head

[22:29]if tapia is so critical if we must observe the rules concerning

[22:35]the simulation for the preservation of shia life is so important what

[22:42]about methamphetamine what about what about kumalib nizhiyad what about all of

[22:51]these people shouldn't they have practiced taqiyya why did they do things

[22:55]so that they got killed or crucified or beheaded didn't they know

[23:02]about takiya because this is one of the tricks used by those

[23:04]who try to exploit tapia they tell you well we have these

[23:08]people and they're our heroes and look at them they abandoned tapia

[23:11]because that's how it's supposed to be the answer is very simple

[23:14]muawiyah and yazid and other tyrants like them they were way ahead

[23:21]of the curve they weren't naive enough to simply hear someone curse

[23:26]amir al-mu'manin and they'd be like okay thank you very much we

[23:29]accept your allegiance you're a good man from now on that's not

[23:32]how it worked they expected these individuals to disassociate from amir al-mu'man

[23:37]and this association in this case was to completely abandon an allegiance

[23:45]to him in your practical everyday wasn't just about a curse it

[23:52]was about making sure that we observe you 24 7 and see

[23:59]how you live your life and if there is the slightest connection

[24:03]to ali ibn's you're exposed they weren't content with just a curse

[24:08]an insult to amir al-mu'min you see the difference he says don't

[24:15]disassociate let me give you an example to illustrate did you know

[24:29]egypt was a shia country yes the fatimids who invaded egypt who

[24:36]led the fatimid government there for a lengthy period of time they

[24:42]were ismaili meaning they only believed in six imams up to imam

[24:48]assad and then they branched off they broke off but they were

[24:52]shira a type of shia and egypt was a shia country al-azhar

[24:56]was established by shia clergy what happened to egypt why is it

[25:04]a sunni country now why is it no longer shia the answer

[25:09]is disassociation you see when you take takiyah again as i said

[25:15]don't get me wrong is obligatory is part of our religion tapia

[25:23]must be practiced there are times when it becomes optional when it's

[25:26]your own life but if it involves other people it must be

[25:28]practice all these things i just talked about however when you take

[25:33]takiyah to an extreme it leads to disassociation in bara how you

[25:40]see somebody who lives in so-and-so country no need to mention names

[25:46]and you're like do you go to husainiyat in that country they're

[25:51]like no because you know it's not a shia country they've put

[25:54]a lot of restrictions on us they don't let us hold majalis

[25:58]in our homes they don't allow us to open hossein they don't

[26:02]permit us to have any public majalis of any kind if we

[26:07]hold private majalis then we have fear that they might there might

[26:10]actually be repercussions for that i might get fired i might get

[26:15]thrown out of the country my work permit might be cancelled my

[26:18]residency might be revoked and so you're like okay so you live

[26:22]in that country and you've been there for how long now five

[26:24]years ten years not a single mechanism like no we can't because

[26:28]you know and all and then you're like okay well what about

[26:33]your kids and they say well you know the kids you know

[26:36]they live with us and they're they're good people we try and

[26:40]do a good enough job to raise them okay what have you

[26:43]named your kids but you know we can't name them hassan hussain

[26:46]ali fatima and so we know we've given them neutral names right

[26:51]we call them again i don't want to mention names because we

[26:57]might call them khalid we might call them you know names of

[27:03]the sahaba and they'll look for that weird name that some imam's

[27:08]sister was named right like yeah yeah we're going to go with

[27:11]that because if it's like tu shia then we're going to have

[27:17]issues the kids at school they might ask them questions so you

[27:22]see what's happening here no access to religious education oh we got

[27:27]youtube as if youtube's gonna establish your religion for you we've delegated

[27:34]and outsourced the discipline the child rearing the upbringing of our children

[27:39]the next generation to youtube [Music] what an abysmal state is it

[27:46]that we're in when youtube is what we refer to when we're

[27:50]trying to gain religious knowledge with all the trash and the poison

[27:57]and the garbage that's in it even the religious stuff is poisoned

[28:02]let alone the non-religious stuff yeah we have youtube and so what

[28:09]happens is day after day after day year after year after year

[28:14]in five years in 10 years in 20 years you might still

[28:18]be a shia but certainly not your kids this is called taking

[28:23]tariyah to an extreme where it becomes this is disassociation from the

[28:31]other bait this is like not playing any role in your life

[28:33]whatsoever except that yeah we love him during the celebrations and commemorations

[28:43]there's nothing happening these kids have no clue wallahi brothers and sisters

[28:50]we can never be thankful to allah for the chance to be

[28:56]able to attend these majalis let's ask allah tonight in the name

[29:02]of the abbas that he never takes this gift from us this

[29:05]honor that we've been bestowed because those who are deprived of these

[29:09]majalis of these gatherings they are the ones who realize just what

[29:18]a big gigantic hole there is in their hearts there is spirituality

[29:24]here with every single one of you luminous faces getting together in

[29:30]honor and remembrance of imam al-hussein you charge the atmosphere the angels

[29:36]they add to that aura i'll mention this even though i didn't

[29:42]plan on saying it but i attended a gathering [Music] at a

[29:49]particular university in the united states and it was right after ashura

[29:56]so we had a meeting with all the university students who went

[29:59]to that university and they were talking about their experience in muharram

[30:04]and so there were a few people who came from a particular

[30:09]ethnicity i won't mention it and there were mostly women for some

[30:15]reason maybe one or two men as well who all complained about

[30:19]the majalis they all said yeah we went to these majalis but

[30:23]the speakers it's you know they can't connect with the youth and

[30:28]they were a little too aggressive and too emotional and we don't

[30:34]even know why we're crying and was it a different language our

[30:39]language is english their language is something else and yeah we kind

[30:41]of understand what they say because they weren't from the same ethnicity

[30:45]the same community but we'd rather have english lectures as opposed to

[30:49]those lectures in that language and so they all complained one after

[30:53]the other again it was like a a meeting to sort of

[30:57]get to know what they went through their experiences in muharram so

[31:00]they all finished talking criticizing the majalis then this lebanese sister got

[31:07]up and she said you know the closest modulus to my house

[31:10]is one where this language is spoken i don't speak a single

[31:18]word of this particular language it's completely foreign to me and yet

[31:22]every night myself my husband and my nine-month-old child we went to

[31:29]the medjlist because even though i don't understand a single word that

[31:33]the speaker is saying or that the eulogizer is saying i went

[31:39]there for the atmosphere i went there because the walls and the

[31:42]ceilings they all cried out ya hussain to me that's as close

[31:49]as i can get because the next specialist where they do speak

[31:52]arabic or english was too far from me and so that was

[31:56]the only option but i went there anyway may allah never deprive

[32:02]of this deprive us of this privilege now the people who live

[32:08]in these countries in their minds countries where the shia are persecuted

[32:12]and they're a minority in their minds they're like yeah you know

[32:16]it is what it is i have to practice tapia at the

[32:22]end of the day my business is here my job is here

[32:26]and little by little what they don't know is that that atmosphere

[32:31]where it lacks the remembrance of imam al-hussein and that connection a

[32:38]direct and clear connection to amir al-mait and the imam of the

[32:41]time it chips away at their soul at their beliefs and when

[32:47]the next generation comes it's all gone i said to somebody who

[32:54]lived in a country which banned hijab i said what the hell

[32:57]are you doing here i'm not saying that if you have absolutely

[33:01]nowhere else to go then you should just jump into the sea

[33:06]but if you have the option of moving migrating to another country

[33:13]go save your religion save your faith this is no longer about

[33:16]topia this is disassociation this is you showing ambivalence towards your values

[33:24]and your principles and the rules of your religion this is you

[33:30]showing indifference you don't care enough about it you care more about

[33:32]your business and about your job again i'm sorry i don't want

[33:39]to mention examples that would make some people uncomfortable but when i

[33:43]compromise on my religion by giving a weird neutral name to my

[33:49]child just so this child wouldn't be bullied at school or wouldn't

[33:51]have any issues getting a job down the line that compromise begets

[33:57]another compromise that compromise reflect is reflects and is expressive of a

[34:07]mentality the mentality of compromise is never confined to one thing i

[34:12]will compromise on other things and again with time the impact of

[34:19]that will become clear when you live in a free country like

[34:22]this take every advantage of every right that's been given to you

[34:29]you have the right to choose the names of the bait for

[34:34]your children take advantage of it you have the right to use

[34:40]combination names where people can tell that your son is a shia

[34:42]a mile away take advantage of it you have the right to

[34:48]pray wherever you want take advantage of it even if you can

[34:51]pray in the office in some corner room pray out there in

[34:54]public in the park take advantage of it be as visible as

[35:00]you can be proud of your faith be proud of your religion

[35:02]your values your leaders your imams i remember years ago somebody came

[35:07]to me and said my daughter is finishing high school this year

[35:12]she wants to go to university next year and now she feels

[35:15]really uncomfortable because it's university and there's a lot of pressure obviously

[35:19]she's going growing older as well and she wants to throw the

[35:22]hijab away should she do that or should she not go to

[35:29]university should i as a father pressure her to not go to

[35:31]university i said look i'm not going to be someone who encourages

[35:34]her to go to university because god knows what's going to happen

[35:37]there especially if she's not married and the same thing applies to

[35:40]men as well my suggestion to people is always get married then

[35:45]go to university at least try and immunize yourself from all the

[35:48]filth that you're gonna face in there right do what everybody else

[35:53]is doing i mean come on everybody has a boyfriend or a

[35:54]girlfriend at university you're the only one who suddenly can't make it

[36:00]work you're the only person who can't study and can't focus if

[36:03]you have a life partner someone who supports you someone who cares

[36:06]for you someone who cherishes you suddenly you're the only person everybody

[36:11]goes through the turmoil the ups and downs of breakups and relationships

[36:14]you're the only one who can't handle the pressure come on give

[36:17]me a break but i'm not gonna tell tell you to not

[36:22]send her you to university instead i will tell her to go

[36:27]to university wearing her hijab and being proud of it wallahi brothers

[36:31]and sisters we're living in an age where values are upside down

[36:35]where the most sinful act is a source of pride for some

[36:40]people and my hijab is a source of shame my beard is

[36:45]a source of shame my salat my remembrance of imam al-hussein is

[36:52]a source of shame why it shows that weakness inside of us

[36:55]which we talked about last night be proud cherish and honor these

[37:03]values that came to us on the back of rivers of blood

[37:10]not just that of the but their companions and their followers over

[37:17]a thousand years of massacre after massacre carnage after carnage that's why

[37:24]worship and now we're ashamed of it let's not take take to

[37:34]an extreme where it becomes disassociation that's one example and again there

[37:41]are many many others where you if you look hard enough you'll

[37:48]see compromises being made and imam al-hussein and his limbs and his

[37:57]blood becomes the price we pay we compromise on the joints of

[38:03]abba abdullah hussain so that i could live just a little bit

[38:05]more comfortably let's not be one of those people they fill their

[38:21]stomachs how do they fill their stomachs how why does the imam

[38:26]describe some people as benefiting from eating my body let me give

[38:32]you a couple of examples here as well comes to imam assad

[38:40]he says to him the companions of amir al-mu'min [Music] they were

[38:49]told by their imam imam salam tamar was one of these people

[38:58]the imam would tell him when he's going to die where he's

[39:03]going to die how he's going to die and under what circumstances

[39:08]when maithamu tamar was threatened by abba dillahi bin ziyad that he

[39:14]would be executed he said to him i know exactly what you're

[39:18]going to do because my imam has already told me that he

[39:21]even said i'm not going to get killed now because my imam

[39:25]said to me that the disk of the sun will be half

[39:28]covered by the horizon and so it's too soon now it'll be

[39:33]in half an hour's time for instance so amir al-mu'manin told methamphetamine

[39:39]and others and others all of these details about their death says

[39:48]why don't you teach us the same things you have the same

[39:53]knowledge of amir al-mu'min you are the heir you the inheritor of

[39:56]the knowledge of ali so why don't you tell us these things

[40:00]so that we can be prepared for our death so he has

[40:04]a very legitimate reason as well it's not just because it's interesting

[40:08]to know when i'm going to die no i want to get

[40:12]ready do you know what the imam said to him the imam

[40:14]said to him the difference between you lot and the companions of

[40:20]is that they had a lock on their mouths what does that

[40:30]mean we have a whole category of hadith again this is connected

[40:34]to the discussion on we have a category of hadith this is

[40:40]in sahih al-kafi in kafi the blessed book of al-qaeda and others

[40:44]which talk about how we should not be [Music] with you the

[40:54]meaning of media is a nowadays i guess most people uh can

[41:00]only relate with that when they're in their car it's a radio

[41:05]a transistor radio in arabic is called media the imams have told

[41:11]us to not be media why because media is something that broadcasts

[41:17]sound and our imams have told us that you shouldn't broadcast everything

[41:21]irrespective of who's listening meaning keep a secret learn to keep our

[41:33]secrets don't say anything to just about anybody and we have so

[41:37]many a hadith from the albeit about this subject why let me

[41:42]give you a couple of examples a sahih sajadee you're all familiar

[41:47]with it alhamdulillah try and read even if it's just a couple

[41:53]of lines a day from sahaifa the book is attributed to who

[41:58]imam is the name if you read and i encourage you to

[42:04]do this if you can when you go back home tonight read

[42:07]the introduction to sahih said which is really the story behind how

[42:15]we got a hold of the sahih in other words it's the

[42:19]is of the sahih it's the chain of transmission how did we

[42:23]access the sahih in a nutshell i'll just mention one portion of

[42:30]it the story goes something like this a man by the name

[42:32]of no a companion of imam assad he says that i met

[42:43]yahyab nazid who was he is the son of zaid who was

[42:59]zaid zaid was the revolutionary who rose against the umayyad dynasty but

[43:03]was eventually killed and crucified was martyred so mutawa kilip naharun on

[43:13]his way to horasan this is after zade had been killed his

[43:18]son yahya whose shrine is actually on the outskirts of meshed if

[43:21]you ever go to meshed try and visit his shrine he says

[43:24]i met him along the way i said to him where are

[43:27]you headed he said i'm headed towards khorasan he said where have

[43:33]you come from yahya asked where have you come from he said

[43:37]i just came from mecca he said did you meet my cousins

[43:41]meaning imam assad because they were cousins right he's the grandson of

[43:45]imam sadjad imam assad is also the grandson from imam hussain imam

[43:53]yes the son of imam as sajad so he says did you

[43:59]meet my cousin in mecca he said yes i did meet him

[44:03]he said how is he he said he is well meaning as

[44:06]well yahya said did he tell you anything about me he said

[44:11]yes he did but i'd rather not tell you he said look

[44:15]tell me i want to know if there is if there is

[44:20]a bad omen if there is something bad about to happen to

[44:22]me i'm not afraid of death it's okay you can talk to

[44:27]me he said well your cousin imam assad said that yahya ibn

[44:32]zaid will go to and he will be killed and he will

[44:36]be crucified just like his father was in other words the imam

[44:41]has foretold your future yes the imam knows what's going to happen

[44:51]to me and if he said i'm going to get killed because

[44:54]the intention wasn't to be killed the intention was to go and

[44:57]overthrow the regime but if he said that this is going to

[44:59]happen to me then it's going to happen to me now that

[45:04]i know i'm going to die yep nazi said i want to

[45:09]give you a secret that i want you to deliver to my

[45:14]cousins in mecca he said what's that he said it's a book

[45:18]of duas and supplications this is a reference to what to say

[45:24]listen carefully i want you to give i want to give you

[45:27]this book and i want you to promise that you're going to

[45:32]preserve it protect it and keep it as a secret until you

[45:37]hand it over to my cousins so then [Music] he took the

[45:45]book and went back gave it to imam assad and at that

[45:52]point had already been martyred here's a question to all of you

[45:55]why is sahiba said judy a secret think about it it's a

[46:02]book of supplications it's a book of dua's why should that be

[46:05]preserved and protected and not shown or exposed to others well there

[46:10]are many reasons for that especially at the time in the context

[46:15]of the time of yahweh this mattered a sahih idea is a

[46:21]book of supplications there is nothing controversial in it there is nobody

[46:26]being cursed in it so why should it be protected number one

[46:29]because there was a fear that if the umayyads got a hold

[46:37]of it they would destroy it and we would never receive it

[46:40]number one number two because they might attribute the beautiful gems of

[46:46]supplications and duas in this book in other words intellectual theft the

[46:56]stealing of intellectual property which is something that was done to the

[47:01]bait [Music] in the most shocking manner so many of the words

[47:10]of amir have been attributed to every tom dick and harry to

[47:13]people like sometimes they'd say some bedouin said such and such and

[47:19]it's one of the most incredible words of wisdom by amir al-mu'min

[47:23]but just so they don't mention his name they say a bedouin

[47:29]said such and such so the intellectual property rights of the bait

[47:34]were always violated the imams yep in this particular instance didn't want

[47:38]this book to be attributed to this and that so it had

[47:44]to be protected now unfortunately we don't have a lot of time

[47:48]there's so much to talk about this very specific subject because you

[47:53]might think to yourself what's that got to do with me what's

[47:56]the relevance to my life well the relevance is this the teachings

[48:00]of the albeit brothers and sisters are not a commodity for me

[48:05]to buy and sell flesh and blood and bones of abba abdullah

[48:09]hussain is not something for me to gain personally from at the

[48:18]expense of the imams it should be the other way around i

[48:22]should throw myself under the bus if the honor and the name

[48:28]and the reputation of the is at stake ahmad duhani story is

[48:35]famous somebody came to imam assad he said today i was in

[48:39]court and ammar duhani who was one of the followers of the

[48:45]bait he came before a judge known as ibn abi laila he's

[48:49]a judge that worked as part of the umayyad regime so the

[48:56]judge says to ahmad duhani said you know what you seem like

[49:00]a good man but your testimony cannot be accepted in my court

[49:03]he said why he said because you're a rafale you're a shia

[49:08]so your testimony can't be accepted it holds no value ahmad duhani

[49:14]broke down in tears who was called arafali he started crying so

[49:20]ibn abi leila said to him look no hard feelings man it's

[49:24]okay if you become one of us your testimony will be accepted

[49:29]why are you crying he said you fool you imbecile i'm not

[49:33]crying because you've insulted me because you called me out awfully i'm

[49:37]crying because for the first time in my life i thought to

[49:42]myself hang on a second people actually see me as a shia

[49:46]people attribute me to imam jaffar assad and all of my sins

[49:55]all of my shortcomings all of my flaws all of my crimes

[49:59]all of the hideous heinous things that i do they're also attributed

[50:04]to the shia of the albeit people see me with all of

[50:09]the problems that i bring to the table and they call me

[50:13]the reputation of imam assad is being damaged by me that's why

[50:19]i'm crying who am i to be a raphaeli why would you

[50:24]call me araphili this is an honor that's bestowed to the sorcerers

[50:29]of faraon who repented and were killed for their allegiance to musa

[50:37]for believing in allah they were the first to be called raphaelis

[50:40]who am i to be arafaili but nowadays it's a hashtag it's

[50:48]a tattoo right it's just a slogan raffali raffali ammar duhani breaks

[50:53]down in tears when this news reached imam assad the imam said

[50:59]if ammar had committed every sin under the sun allah will forgive

[51:05]his sins simply for saying this in other words simply for disassociating

[51:12]himself from us protecting our reputation our honor our name allah will

[51:19]forgive every single one of his sins for that and yet look

[51:26]at us the people who talk who mention the the the hadiths

[51:33]of just for clickbait merits and virtues of amir al-mu'min and that

[51:38]he himself has no clue what they mean right but he'll say

[51:44]it just so he gets a little bit of notoriety a little

[51:47]bit of recognition so that people cheer and clap and recite the

[51:50]salah so the people say oh masha allah how much he understands

[51:55]how much he knows how much he's memorized click bait that's all

[52:00]it is majalis lectures things that are said on this sacred member

[52:06]which is turned into awad as imam said remember on the one

[52:14]hand look at the compromise look look at how they take advantage

[52:19]of this sacred institution on the other hand look at how imam

[52:23]sajad alayhi salaam says you have devalued this institution when that speaker

[52:27]gets up in the presence of yazid and he cursed amir al-mu'manin

[52:33]and imam al-hasan and imam al-hussein and praised yazid and muawiyah what

[52:37]did the imam say to him the imam screamed in the presence

[52:45]of this tyrant pharaon yazidi you've just entered into a transaction right

[53:01]where you have purchased the wrath of god the creator in exchange

[53:08]for what for the happiness of the cree of the creature to

[53:13]make yazid happy with you look what you've done you've angered allah

[53:17]subhanahu wa ta'ala you can go ahead and pick your seat in

[53:24]the fires of hell right now you're done then the imam said

[53:30]to yazid he said give me permission to get up on these

[53:35]pieces of wood he doesn't call them a member pieces of wood

[53:40]chunks of wood that you put together because a member is a

[53:46]sacred institution a member is a place that only qualified scholars get

[53:49]to sit on or at least people who know what they're talking

[53:54]about at least people who know what to say and what not

[53:58]to say imagine you've all been to dentists i imagine or you've

[54:02]seen a dentist's office at some point have you seen their tools

[54:05]have you seen when they when they pull that table and you

[54:08]can see all of these different instruments that they have imagine you

[54:12]watching or me watching a couple of youtube videos and maybe reading

[54:16]a couple of manuals on how a tooth is taken out for

[54:23]instance or cleaned right now you go to that instrument table do

[54:27]you have a clue what you're supposed to do do you know

[54:31]what instrument to pick what not to pick when you're looking at

[54:35]the dentist doing his work you're like he's just picking random instruments

[54:41]here because we're not experts why is it that when it comes

[54:46]to religion any random person gets to express their views and talk

[54:52]about religious topics why why where have we gone as a community

[54:58]what are we doing you as a community you as audience members

[55:01]should be better you should scrutinize you should ask where did this

[55:07]person study who are his teachers which institution did he enroll in

[55:12]who gave him permission to sit on the pulpit where did this

[55:17]person come from just because he happens to be famous doesn't make

[55:21]him qualified because how can we tell the difference between a scholar

[55:26]and an actor an actor can play the role of a scholar

[55:29]better than the scholar himself that's what they do zucchini as the

[55:36]quran says that's what they're good at falsehood is best at manipulating

[55:40]you and deceiving you and fooling you and you might think oh

[55:45]no no i know i can tell the difference but you don't

[55:47]because you don't have the criteria by which to measure these individuals

[55:51]but at the very least which houses did they go to if

[55:56]they went to university that's not good enough because it's like someone

[56:01]saying i became a dentist by going to the hausa the house

[56:04]that teaches one thing university teaches something entirely different you're not going

[56:10]to learn you're not going to learn about your religion from a

[56:15]university you're going to learn how well to criticize religion how to

[56:20]manipulate religion how to analyze religion but not religion itself where did

[56:24]he study where did he go where is his garb does he

[56:31]actually practice what he preaches or is he all over the place

[56:34]and somehow we compartmentalize no no it's okay i know he's got

[56:38]issues there but it's interesting where are we where are we headed

[56:43]we've turned this into chunks of wood rasulullah says to salman he

[56:50]says there was going there is going to be a day when

[56:53]children sit on pulpits yes children not so much in terms of

[57:01]their age but in terms of their knowledge their qualification right let's

[57:09]not compromise on religion let's not sell our religion to cheap brothers

[57:14]and sisters let's ensure that our religion is always front and center

[57:18]that it's the top priority that we never lose connection to it

[57:25]because that's how they work that's how they operate they came to

[57:30]shore and they told him we're about to go to war with

[57:37]al hussein and we want you to do one thing we want

[57:40]you to come up with a religious justification from the very belly

[57:46]of islam that justifies the killing of hussein so that tomorrow on

[57:52]the day of ashura um he says riders of allah now you

[58:06]can head into the battle because you've been given glad tidings of

[58:11]paradise is saying this to his horsemen but in order for us

[58:16]to say this we need to sign off on it we need

[58:22]someone wearing a religious garb or having a religious title or holding

[58:25]a religious office to validate what we're about to do a lot

[58:31]of us are like that we need someone even remotely connected to

[58:34]religion just give me that validation give me that approval so i

[58:40]can do whatever i want in the name of religion these so-called

[58:45]muslim intellectuals today is academics that's exactly what they do what they

[58:51]do is they look at the world around them they find out

[58:57]what's trending right whatever happens to be trending whatever they're talking about

[59:01]at the united nations whatever they're talking about at the level of

[59:06]these human rights organizations right they look at them and they're focusing

[59:11]on like that one thing in islam and they'll be like leave

[59:16]it to me i'll give you all the justification from the very

[59:21]core of religion to explain to you how it's not what you

[59:24]think to completely manipulate god's law and they'll be like okay hijab

[59:35]yes hijab is a problem hijab is a challenge so hijab come

[59:38]on it's not what you think hijab was actually meant to protect

[59:42]the women it was meant to make them anonymous to hide their

[59:49]identity so that no harm would come to them and so today

[59:52]if a woman wears hijab the opposite happens she'll be singled out

[59:56]she'll stand out like a sore thumb and she might even be

[60:01]hurt right so hijab really is about modesty in the heart you

[60:04]have to dig deep down and pull out your inner buddha and

[60:09]sort of that that be in the zen mode and that's really

[60:13]what hijab is all about it's not something you wear because you

[60:16]can wear whatever you want and be whatever you want really it's

[60:21]about the cleanliness of the heart and they'll cite verses from the

[60:27]quran never mind all the verses that specifically mention the word hijab

[60:32]all these things actual articles of clothing but they'll say look quran

[60:37]was revealed for another time this whole thing about females having half

[60:44]the inheritance this was contextual dude it was about a different time

[60:48]when women weren't as independent they had the protection of the state

[60:55]and now it's a whole different world under the pretext of the

[61:00]times being changed they will destroy islam the times are different now

[61:06]never mind never mind that these are laws that don't change these

[61:18]are actual verses of the quran but they'll come up with a

[61:24]justification like that fool who came out and said that the quran

[61:29]is the beginning it's not the end and at first when you

[61:36]hear it you're like wow the quran is the beginning but what

[61:38]they're what they're actually trying to say is the quran is what

[61:44]we use to reform society now there were things the prophet couldn't

[61:48]reform so he just left it now we can reform them wow

[61:50]now we can scrap all of that because it's suppose it's all

[61:55]about reform it's all about reform brothers and sisters when you hear

[61:59]the word reform run in the opposite direction run because in the

[62:04]name of reform they want to snatch away your faith they will

[62:08]not stop until they destroy islam altogether they will throw imam hussein's

[62:14]body to the wolves because to them it's about appeasing others it's

[62:19]about what others say it's about my non-muslim colleagues at work and

[62:24]whether they're happy with my beliefs and my practices again that utter

[62:30]weakness that we talked about last night is exemplified in these individuals

[62:39]and then then there are those who use imam al-hussein to make

[62:46]a quick buck i mean that's gotta be really the worst of

[62:50]the worst so i can make a little bit of money sure

[62:53]it's not wrong to be given an honorarium to be honored and

[62:59]given a gift or something in exchange for your services there's nothing

[63:03]wrong with that but when it becomes a prerequisite when it becomes

[63:09]a precondition one it becomes a dollar figure right what it becomes

[63:14]i'll i won't do this unless i get paid that much and

[63:16]it's contracts and have to be signed and sent and lawyers checking

[63:20]them and stuff like that well not lawyers usually it's his wife

[63:23]or his brother or his cousin when it becomes about that you

[63:28]know there's something deeply wrong with this and again we can all

[63:33]get it doesn't need a rocket scientist says to the disciples he

[63:37]says listen to me put so beautifully as well he says money

[63:44]gold is the disease of religion and a scholar is the one

[63:57]who heals religion fixes it if there is any flaws if you

[64:03]ever see the scholar who is the healer the physician pulling the

[64:11]disease towards himself then you can accuse him in other words don't

[64:17]give him the benefit of the doubt don't say oh maybe this

[64:20]that no no no when you see this person's all about money

[64:23]all about making a quick buck then you know there's something wrong

[64:27]and then the imam says he will never be able to benefit

[64:29]anybody else if he's like that himself so let's scrutinize let's ensure

[64:37]we don't fall into this trap of people using the imams of

[64:40]the bait to their advantage don't compromise not on religion compromise on

[64:47]everything in your life just not on religion look at perhaps the

[64:54]most famous slogan on the day of is this one they severed

[65:00]his right hand what did he say he said if you haven't

[65:13]already memorized it memorize it by god you can cut my limbs

[65:37]off i will forever abadden i will forever defend my religion i

[65:43]will never compromise on my faith and i will continue to defend

[65:51]my master hussein his own brother he calls him imam my master

[65:57]my leader mustafa he's the grandson of rasulullah you can do whatever

[66:09]you want with me he's the one referred to by imam assad

[66:20]so many things have been said about the imam but perhaps perhaps

[66:25]the most indicative of the rank of abbas is what his own

[66:28]brother imam al-hussein said on the day of when he sent him

[66:34]to go and speak to the enemy camp the imam said to

[66:39]him may my soul be ransomed for you o i want to

[66:46]see you on the back of your horse i want to see

[66:52]you in your full glory i want you to ride on your

[66:56]horse and go to them and speak to them benefit and imam

[66:59]hussain says about abbas allahu akbar so much to say on the

[67:11]day of he came to abba abdullah before that he asked his

[67:19]brother to but brothers to head into the battlefield he said to

[67:25]them benefit may i be ransomed for you go i wish to

[67:30]see you die for hussain i wish to see you fulfill your

[67:36]destiny because we all know why our mother raised us she raised

[67:40]us so that we could honor her on this day so that

[67:44]we could do what she wanted us to do on this day

[67:48]go and fight i wish to see you die for abba abdullah

[67:53]hussain then he came to his brother he said my master he

[68:00]never called him brother not once until the very end he said

[68:06]so he said i can't handle i've had enough i can't see

[68:27]children bringing water can water vessels that are empty i can no

[68:32]longer hear the cries of the women and children saying allata give

[68:45]me permission to go and fight what did imam al-hussein say to

[68:51]him he said he always called him brother my little brother abbas

[69:02]you are my standard bearer you are the leader of my army

[69:08]at that point there was no longer an army abbas was a

[69:14]one-man army when imam al-hussein was speaking to abbas everyone had already

[69:20]been killed not a single person remained the imam is telling him

[69:23]even though it's only you but if you go i will no

[69:28]longer have an army what's going to happen to the women and

[69:30]the children they're all looking up to you they're all thinking as

[69:37]long as uncle abbas is alive our father is safe as long

[69:40]as abbas is here he's going to bring us some water back

[69:46]to the camp if you go what will i do if you

[69:49]die my enemy will rejoice if you're killed my entire camp will

[69:55]be dismantled abel abbas insisted he said let me go i have

[70:00]to fight i want to defend you i want to protect you

[70:05]eventually imam al-hussein gave him permission but how did he give him

[70:09]permission he said in kanawa buddhist if you must go my brother

[70:27]then go and bring water back to the cab bring water to

[70:36]these thirsty children again a bus heads into the battlefield i do

[71:00]not fear death when it comes to me my soul is ransomed

[71:06]for the soul of rasulullah meaning foreign he introduces himself he reminds

[71:30]them that he is abbas the son of amir but he said

[71:37]i am not here to fight you i'm only here to bring

[71:41]water back to the car he heads towards the river euphrates four

[71:49]thousand archers intercept his way he he forces them all to flee

[71:59]from him as it is a bus we're talking about and they

[72:02]all run away from him he makes it to the water along

[72:06]with he stretches his hand into the stream some say if our

[72:16]boss quenches his thirst we will all be killed if our boss

[72:23]is rejuvenated he will destroy all of us they're all watching observing

[72:29]waiting to see what he does suddenly they see him throwing the

[72:37]water back into the stream walking out and saying jose you're about

[73:09]to drink from this cool water when hussain is still thirsty when

[73:17]rook he throws the water out of his hand he fills the

[73:30]canteen he fills the container with water and heads back into the

[73:35]direction of the camp of imam they say ensure he doesn't take

[73:52]the water back if hussein's thirst is quenched he will destroy us

[74:00]abbas heads back they all surround him they throw arrows and spears

[74:09]in his direction one man here approaches him and cuts off his

[74:29]right hand another one cuts off his left hand at this point

[74:38]abbas has one mission to take the water back to above here

[74:45]they start shooting arrows at him the arrows descend on him like

[74:53]rainfall he didn't know what to do some have said he tried

[75:47]to pull the arrow out of his eye he lowered his head

[75:54]to hold the arrow with his knees that's when the helmet fell

[76:02]down for the they ran away from him like a flock of

[76:50]goats running from a raging lion imam hussain would scream where do

[77:02]you flee when you've killed my brother until he reached his brother

[77:09]of boss came close to him he what does this last line

[77:36]mean the imam said my enemy has rejoiced now because they gathered

[77:42]around hosea clapping and [Music] [Applause] is you worship to spare me

[78:14]until my brother comes to me so i could believe farewell he

[78:19]said this is [Laughter] imam hussain sat next to him he tried

[78:39]to pull his his brother's head and put it in his lap

[78:44]they say our boss would pull his head and put it back

[78:50]on the dirt imam jose said why are you doing this he

[78:53]said because now you're with me and you put my head in

[78:59]your lap but who's going to hold your head when you're dying

[79:03]imam hussain left his brother on boss and went back to the

[79:10]camp they say that when he reached the camp everyone came out

[79:14]where is our boss where is my uncle where is my brother

[79:18]brother you know you all know was about to head into the

[79:27]battlefield all the women gathered around they all bid him farewell but

[79:31]no one bid abbas farewell do you know why why because everyone

[79:37]said abbas if he promised to bring back water he's definitely coming

[79:42]back no one expected our boss to go and never come back

[79:46]when imam hussain came back all alone [Applause] he cried while wiping

[80:03]his tears with his sleeve he simply went to the tent of

[80:07]at boss he removed the pillar and the tent fell to the

[80:13]ground zaynab knew what had happened she said well after you imam

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