 أفلح من صلى على محمد وآل محمد أعوذ بالله من الشر الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب الشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمر وحلو العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لاسيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه للفداء the first of your loudest salawat in honor of the greatest man to walk this earth الحبيب المصطفى محمد the second in honor of the greatest lady to walk this earth الحورا أول بطول فاطمة and the third in your final salawat in honor of our Imam Imam صاحب العصري وزمان إن شاء الله just to recap on yesterday's topic إن شاء الله a continuation which will be tonight in which we look at the faculty of knowledge the idea and concept in which we have to increase ourselves in knowledge so that we prosper for our salvation for our growth and inshallah to the end means in which we can die in belief now yesterday we touched up on the specific introductory ideas in which we looked at the importance through the wordings and the hadith of the prophet of Islam in which we looked at where he mentions the importance of going and finding knowledge as far as going towards China giving us an idea also that we have to seek knowledge from the cradle towards the grave and we also looked at particular sides in which people that take knowledge and use it for the good people that take knowledge and misuse it now we find tonight inshallah would like to dissect in three particular proportions the first and foremost is to look at the concept in very brief the brain knowledge and application because there's one thing when we look at our brain and how we can use our brain the capacity of the brain the limitlessness of the brain then we can look at knowledge what kind of knowledge is acquired what kind of knowledge is given to us through our actions, through our spirituality through our closeness towards Allah SWT and on the final level application and how the joining of these three may elevate you and differentiating between these three and not having the joints relation between these three may destroy you now the first example we'd like to look at is when Allah SWT as a notion says he created the brain and he says to the brain go and the brain goes and he says come and the brain comes and he says in the narration that you are the greatest creation with you I will reward my people and my creations and go towards paradise and by you I will allow them to go or give them the choice in which they will sin and go towards health fire so it's a differentiating factor when we look at the idea of the brain and when we look at the brain even to the 21st century whoever studied medical science whoever studied medicine anything to do with the field of anatomy if you look at the brain and you will be able to analyze how hard it is to look at this great creation it's one of the most unknown in the field of science because you don't know if someone was to have let's say an injury to a specific part of the brain you don't know how, where how to fix it what it has an implication on the particular body if someone was to injure that specific one area they have no idea what's the cause of it if they have amnesia you look nowadays people lose their memory they have no idea how it happened why it happened a brain is a very distinct feature that up until now science has not even come close to identifying so the first faculty which is the brain is very hard to go into depth with in 20 minutes with reference to obviously religious scriptures the second is the important and the third is the most important the second is knowledge which we discussed yesterday the specific boundaries of knowledge which we can learn when Imam when Imam صادق he says he says the knowledge is of two types either الملأديان which is the knowledge of religion or the knowledge of the self when we look at Musa in reference to the knowledge of خضر when we look at Musa he had the knowledge of شريعة Musa was a prophet of الله سبحانه وتعالى Musa was one of the greatest prophets of الله سبحانه وتعالى with the miracles that he had with his life all within the Quran and giving us story upon story analogy upon analogy which we can apply to our lives now this prophet of الله سبحانه وتعالى gives us a beautiful insight into the world of knowledge when he asks Allah Allah I want you to increase my knowledge where does Allah send him he sends him to one of his servants by the name of خضر that we know nowadays he is alive until today and he will come with Imam صاحب العصر والزمان now the knowledge that Musa had was what the knowledge of شريعة this is Halal this is Haram I'm making it very brief but in essence these are the shari'a of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the commandments this is how you should live your life these are the aftermath of what you can do these are the bounties of that which you do which is good either you go towards heaven or you go towards hell now when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says you want to increase your knowledge go towards my servants by the name of خضر what did خضر teach him three things he taught him on this journey Musa didn't have the patience for the prophet of Allah did not have the patience to see that which he saw and you find that خضر what does he do to Musa he says make sure you do not question me and we refer to this a couple of nights ago he says make sure you do not question me because خضر had one source of knowledge Musa had another source of knowledge two religious greats however different types of knowledge both obviously in the eyes of Allah are grand people we can't say this particular person has this particular type of knowledge he's going to have salvation this particular person doesn't know this he won't get salvation look at the عمال and that's what we refer to at the end of tonight's lecture after we link it so there is a source of knowledge there is a source of knowledge the more you gain obviously the more you have but look at the application because we discussed yesterday and the day before when we looked at شمر we said شمر had knowledge didn't we two nights ago we said شمر had the knowledge when he goes and kills Imam Hussein and he starts to cry when he takes the head of Abba Abdullah towards the courtroom and he says I know that I have killed the greatest man when he goes to Imam Hussein moments before he commits that atrocity the greatest tragedy to ever before us that we remember year upon year he says to Imam Hussein he says I know I am killing the man with the greatest mother and the greatest father so the knowledge is there the armies the knowledge was there where was the application that's the question when you gain knowledge it's one not a problem but the application is different now we can talk about it in a normal context or in a religious context the normal context would be what and this holds and encompasses 90% of the population we have knowledge but we don't act upon it I'll give you an example and this is going to be very controversial however I just want to give you an idea of that we have knowledge but we don't apply it and I hope no one thinks bad of me for giving this example but we have knowledge let's say of smoking is bad smoking is harmful for us we have knowledge of that and we are certain that it's affecting us in a negative manner however do we act upon that knowledge or do we keep smoking we keep smoking or the majority keeps smoking now that's the example of what an idea that yes we have the knowledge we don't apply it and that's to normal daily circumstances that might not have an issue and I'm saying it in this reference that it might not have an issue on the whereabouts that we end up in our عقبة where we end up in the hereafter it's normal issues however when we take this concept of knowledge no application in the context which is religion which is the context of حلال and حرام when we are in a gathering and for example our friends or the people that we associate ourselves with are doing حرام we know what they are doing is حرام and we have fallen to this trap we know what they are doing is حرام we know that peer pressure is wrong and it may cause us to go towards that which Allah will be unpleased with however what because there is peer pressure because everyone is watching because you are urged you are dead do we look down upon if you don't do that particular action you still do it knowledge is there where is the application and that's when we have to pray to Allah that it gives us strength to do the right thing in that manner موسى again there is a beautiful story in which we can relate it tonight and if we don't take anything from tonight let's just take this specific idea and try to apply it to our lives موسى there is a story in which he talks to Allah سبحانه وتعالى موسى was كليم الله he talks with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he says to Allah these words and I want you to take this from tonight if you don't take anything just take this he says to Allah he says I'm having it very hard what's the matter he says my people they say very bad things about me they are untruthful they say that which is untrue they lie they deceit all that which is untrue unlawful that which I have not done however they say those things will you oh Allah not stop them look at the beauty of Allah's reply will you Allah not stop them look at what Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells his servant he says my servant I have not given myself that honor people say I do not exist I am your lord people say there are two of me there are majority people objectify me have I stopped them he says no he says why do you think you should have an honor that I do not don't worry about A B and C we usually say Tom Dick and Harry let's say حمود محمودة نحمد don't worry about these people worry about what Allah wants you to do worry what Allah sees you doing your action Ali ibn Abi Talib has a beautiful narration in this aspect and he simplifies Islam to its absolute essence he says Islam will be categorized he says الاسلام number one he says Islam is submission we all know that Islam is submission التسليم هو التصديق to believe to submit is to believe in Allah what's belief التصديق هو اليقين to have certainty breaks it down what does it mean to have certainty يقين هو الأداء certainty means application when you want to do something you carry it out to the very end and the final point he says what does all this Islam تسليم تصديق يقين أداء what does it all link down to he says all this links down to عمل your actions therefore Islam he narrows it down through these stages the last thing is what Islam is your actions your transactions how you act how you talk how you walk that's the important issue and when knowledge is concerned the more you know the better you will act when you want to become and this is very simple but very effective if you want to pray better if you increase your knowledge do you not think that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will have that prayer at a higher standard what do we know about someone that has knowledge in reference to a normal person when a normal person prays in reference to that person or that scholar that has knowledge when we equivillate it in the Hadith it says the person that has knowledge or prays the Torah that has knowledge in the smallest narrations it said that it's 70 times more than the person that doesn't have knowledge isn't it there's obviously a defining factor there's something that they think about let's say for the very simplified extent let's say that person of knowledge prays like it's his last prayer as the Hadith say pray like it's your last prayer every single time because we don't know that anyone and the sheikh stated it a couple of nights ago does anyone of us have a guarantee they can walk out of this majlis and go back towards their families and go out of this majlis no one has a guarantee the people in Kuwait a couple of days ago they went to pray very normally did they know they will be شهداء while they are fasting while they are in Ruku and Sujood we don't know that's why we have to do the best we can to achieve the result that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will be happy with us this is the figures that we have that concept of role models the people that we follow that's why we pride ourselves that being the موالين of محمد و آل محمد you go to any religion and you bring forth their figures their greats and you bring forth one of us one of our greats one of our imams one of our prophets the concept of our prophets our imams is much greater than whatever they bring towards us that's why we pride ourselves of أهل البيت the people of the true message the people that believe that our imams our guidance our role models are perfect in reference to the others that saying what that the role models that we have have faults in their books it says I can't even mention it on the pulpit because it's absolutely ridiculing our prophets والعياذ بالله but I'm going to leave you with the idea that's the people that opposed the religion that opposed the school of thought which holds on to the book of الله and the أهل البيت such as let's say do you know how Abu Jahl died the prophet of Islam says about his uncle he says Abu Jahl died a death worse than فرعون why he says فرعون when he died what happens he believed in Allah he believed in Allah in the last seconds he believed in the Lord of Musa what did Abu Jahl do he's fighting in the first battle of Islam he the prophet had a short person in his army he couldn't fight what he used to do is anyone on the ground he would go and finish them off Abu Jahl fell this person from the prophet's army comes towards him he's about to kill him what does Abu Jahl do he says no no no no you're definitely not killing me he says why you want them to say about Abu Jahl that a person of your height killed me I want a taller person to kill me that's the people that oppose this now now I can add so much prepared for tonight but it might take us to the next day inshallah talking about knowledge and the knowledge of our imams I wish I could tell you the stories that I had prepared but I'll give you one just to give you the knowledge that we follow just to give you the idea of the perfection the people that can decipher the Quran and give the guidance to us and this is something to think about especially the science students and I end on this and this is the last thing I'll say for tonight and I'll leave you in the capable hands of our beloved sheikh inshallah Ali ibn Abi Talib once was brought to the courtroom someone comes forth and so long story I'll give you the gist of it some two people came forth saying that they the son or the heir of a particular person that passed away I'll try to cut it as much as I can two people come forth they say this merchant was my father this merchant was my father and the courtroom says well we don't know let's go to Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib comes in the courtroom of the second Khalifa they say oh Ali can you how do you decipher who is right who is wrong it's a very it's a very jurisprudential issue in which you can dig up a grave Ali ibn Abi Talib sends one of his men to dig up the grave and take one of the bones of the feet of the father he brings it he takes the blood of both men in front of everyone he takes that bone he rubs it in one particular puddle of blood he washes it it's the same color it's white the other person he revolves it within it he takes it that bone became red Ali ibn Abi Talib looks at that man he says that's the son for that merchant now you tell me how can we explain that you tell me what science is that you tell me has anyone in the science field come to that conclusion that it has that particular effect or that relevance to the son to the father that's the knowledge of Ahlul Bayt 1400 years ago and look at the knowledge we have now that's our role models let's look at their role models what have they brought to the religion of Islam I end on this Insha'Allah brothers and sisters and we'll continue this topic Insha'Allah tomorrow to actually look at the effect of your actions and how it may affect your family your fathers your spouses your offsprings and Insha'Allah we pray to Allah that he increases in knowledge and application and Insha'Allah I've been asked to recite for a dua of someone that is in need so if I can get everyone to read the verses of the Holy Qur'an and if anyone else in the Majlis has any need may Allah grant them that particular need be barakat the Holy Verse and if everyone can recite it with me Insha'Allah أمان يجيب المصر إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء أمان يجيبوا أمان يجيبوا إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء أمان يجيبوا المصر إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء إكشفوا عن السوء والبلاء يا الله بباركة صورة المباركة الفاتحة تسبقى الصلاة على محمد وقال محمد