 أعوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنا احتادي لولان هدان الله الحمد لله الذي انزل فرقانا على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرة الصلاة والسلام على خير خلق ونور عرش أفضل الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبنا وسيدنا وسندنا وشفيعنا ومولانا أب القاسن رحمها وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين المأسمين المظلومين أما بعد فقد قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيب وقول له الحق وهو أستغل صادقين اسم الله رحمن الرحيم يا يولدنا آمن وكون قوامين لله الشهداء بالقص ولا يجري منكم شنان قوم على أن لا تعدلوا إعدلوه أقرب للتقوى واتقوا الله إن الله خبير لما تعملوا صدق الله العلي رحيم صلوات الله محمد وآله محمد الله جميعا سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى لا تعدلوا لا تعدلوا الناس أن تصدقوا لكي تصدقون إعدلو يعني بجواس هو أقرب للتقوى فهو أقرب في other words it is towards piety God consciousness واتقوا الله and be God conscious الله سبحانه وتعالى الله خبير بما تعملوا يعني الله سبحانه وتعالى يعني الله is observing our actions and he has placed us on this earth for a very short period of time and if there is one thing that is very detestable to us it's when there is injustice when you saw this beautiful young children come forward with banners and flags and you see free Palestine free Yemen free Kashmir and you're looking at the Muslim world in tatters it's being invaded every single minute every single hour our resources are being taken from us we're being vilified and if you fight for your land you're called a terrorist if you occupy land you're considered legitimate today if you fight for your freedom you're considered a terrorist if you're not on the side of shaytan you know when we talk about Karbala and we talk about the Banu Umayyah and when we examine how Muawiya and the Banu Umayyah were that anybody had even a slight inclination towards Amir al-Mu'maneena was arrested and killed حجر بن عدي ميث متمر قمر who was a servant of him every one of them حجاج بن يوسف ميث متمر اند boots Quraymbal حجج من ساعد warmth قمر حج seems it is precisely this fact the truth is, being whirled it is being obfuscated يجب أن يستطيع أن تقوم بإضافة الوصول إلى المساعدة يمكنك أن تأكيد من أجل أن يكون لديك لا يمكنك أن يكون لديك يمكنك أن يكون لديك يمكنك أن تقوم بإضافة الوصول ولكن هناك بعض الأشياء كريtical بحيث أن تكون لديك يجب أن يكون لديك إذا كنت تقول أي شيء عنهم أنك تقوم بعمل وكذلك كما تفعل كادي إذا كنت تقوم بعمل لديك إضافة الوصول إلى المساعدة فالنسبة إلى حقيقة وإذا كنت تقوم بعمل لديك تقوم بعمل لديك تنظيم بحيث أن يكون لديك يزيد ومعاوية اليوم they consider the powers of the world they consider the legitimate forces of the world and they consider that their value is so important that the life of the muslim is useless الله يدرس this in the Quran قليا يهلذينها هادو إن زعمتو منكم أولياء وللله من دون الناس أويو هادو you claim to be chosen people of God somehow the rest of the world is a scum of the earth with all due fairness جوز, كرسطين, مسلمين هندوز, بودس بلاك ويبرون يلو are all beautiful creations and they are all chosen people of God not one group is superior for you and I to believe that there is a God who leans on my side because he is in my pocket and that he has chosen me among all of you and when he created humanity he created the finest and then what was left over he created the rest of humanity is the furthest from truth it's the biggest lie ever perpetrated on earth الله يقول فتمنى الموت إن كنتم صادقين then invoke return to your Lord ولا يتمنونه أبدا بما قدمت أيديهم they will not do it because they are liars you see they fabricate and in today's world we see a country like Yemen the poorest country in the Middle East among a beautiful group of people peace loving who are being bombarded incessantly every single day tens of thousands of children being made and made into orphans millions of people in Yemen are starving starving to the point of no return is the world lifting a finger is anybody caring about it no because if you are not on the side of the master of the world then you deserve to be punished and killed this is why we commemorate Karbala if you see the people who are rising against this tyranny this form of tyranny that is taking the rights of humanity not only of the Muslims but even of the non-Muslims only because they feel it is their right to have hegemony and to control human beings as slaves you know we have more slaves on earth today than ever in the history of the human race the difference is before there were chains and shackles which you could see and today they are invisible human trafficking is unprecedented today evil forces are controlling the world in such heinous ways that when we resonate with Imam Hussein going towards Khufa which he was pushed towards Karbala this was his message that I am fighting to bring the religion of my grandfather the prophet upright for it has been ignored when Allah says كون قوامين لله maintain justice even if it is against your own liking you must love justice Imam Ali A.S. was exemplary in that matter that when his shield was taken a man of the Christian faith took it and Imam Ali A.S. was the Khalifa of the time he could have executed him with no questions asked and nobody would have battered an eye with regards to that and he says to the Christian man who was under the dominion of Imam Ali A.S. you and I as Muslims when we rule and there are Christians, Jews, Hindus, atheists under our tutelage we must respect them and honor them and their lives are as valuable and as precious as the life of a Muslim you find Imam Ali A.S. says to this Christian man that is my shield he said no it is mine Imam A.S. says then I must bring you to court look at the due process ولا يجري منكم شنان قوما على اللا تعدلوا Imam Ali A.S. exemplifies the ultimate justice that this is a man of Christian faith yet Imam A.S. does not look down on him and say he is a Christian he is a kafir and I can abuse him the world is doing that to the Muslims today you find the Rohingyas today are being exterminated from Burma only because they are Muslims you find in Bosnia they were killed only because they are Muslims where we are Muslims we are being marginalized and Allah is saying if you do not rise Allah says لا يغيروا ما بقومن حتى يغيروا ما بأنفسهم الله does not change the affairs of a community until the community changes themselves first it means that you and I have free will to practice limited but we have it and if we do not claim our right and we do not claim our honor and if we do not claim our justice then the world will not give it to us promise there are very few God conscious people on earth who have the audacity to stand up against tyranny by which to give to humanity their due justice if you unfold the seat of authority upon me I will not deny an insect the husk of a grain meaning I will be so just that even the insect will be given justice this is Islam مالذي يأخذ؟ يأخذ الشجاع الله says in the Quran وَاللَّذِينَ مَعْهُ أَشْدَّا وَلَ الْكُفْفَارِ رُحَمَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ تَرَاهُمْ رُكَّعَاً سُجَّدًا يَبْتَهُونَ فَضْلَ مِنَ اللَّهُ وَرِضُوَانَ سِيْمَاهُمْ في وجوههم من أثر السجود ذلك مثلهم في التورات ومثلهم في الإنجيل كذار هنا أخرجة شطعوا فأازروا فاستغلضا فاستوع على سوخي يُعجِب الزراء ليغيذ بهم الكفار look how elegant the verse of the Quran the last verse in Surat Al-Fatt the 40th Chapter محمد and those who are with him والذين أمعه أشداء على الكفار they affirm against rejection the troublemakers the evil doers the Mu'awiyahs the Yazeeds the Saddam the evil people of the world today أشداء على الكفار رحمه بينهم مرسف with each other we are brothers and sisters in the community brothers and sisters and I must say that before we go and condemn the enemy let us point a finger at ourselves that we as a Muslim community need to be united we need to honor each other we need to respect each other we need to stop backbiting each other we need to stop marginalizing each other even in business it is our duty الله says ولا تفرقوا maintain and hold on to the rope of Allah together and do not differentiate إنما المؤمنون أخوة indeed the believers are brethren فأصله بين أخويكم واتقوا الله العلاكم ترحمون أخوة رحمة لأننا محبوقنا بيننا المعارض سنهو الامر أي أجهزة أم استمرها أو أحبك السعود أنت تعرف أنك لا أحبت مضياتك وتأكد من نفسك أنت تعرف أنك لا أحب مضياتك ونمط you are a kafir أكافر أخذوا الاسلام لد us to do this سؤالنا أننا نحفظ الله يجب علينا أن نفعل هذه الأشياء في المساعدة ومساعدة أو أنه هو مجموعة من ذلك كيف نقول ذلك؟ عندما شهادتهم إنما المؤمنين الذين أعملوا بالله ورسولي ثم لم يرتابوا وجاهدوا بأموالهم وأنفسهم في سبيل الله ألايكهم الصادقون الذين يؤمنون بأموالهم ويؤمنون بأموالهم ثم لم يرتابوا وجاهدوا بأموالهم يؤمنون بأموالهم وأنفسهم بأموالهم ويؤمنون بأموالهم في سبيل الله هذه are the truthful ones عندما نظر at each other as a community it saddens me how much bickering backbiting fault finding is between us we have forgotten this it is easy for me to say the Zionists are the troublemakers we can say XYZ army are the troublemakers we can say XYZ army are the troublemakers yes they are but they are nothing they are like the house of a spider الله says it like the house of a spider weak إن أوهن البيوت لبيت العنكبوت the weakest of the houses is the house of a spider this is how they are but you know when they become strong when you and I become weak when you and I bicker صني شيع صني شيع he is kafir this one is kafir what did Allah allow this behavior tell me people say oh we are shia therefore صني is wrong we are sunni shia is a kafir who allowed us this إن الدينة عند الله الإسلام the religion to Allah is الإسلام the religion that Allah الله سبحانه وتعالى say يا يولدنا آمنوا أتيوا الله و أتيوا الرسول و أقول لنا مر منكم فإن تنازعتم في شيء فردوه إلى الله والرسول إن كنتم تؤمنون بالله والليوم الآخر الله يقوم بإعادة مرحلة أو أنت تؤمنون أباق الله و أباق المسجر والذين يجب أن يكونون أكثر منكم والأهل المت والأمام يساعدون لا يوجد أحد else أقول لنا مر منكم لا يوجد أحد else إذا كنتم أكثر من العرب إيطاعته قد يتكلم الثالث جرورة لا يوجد إيطاعته أتيوا الله و أتيوا الرسول و أقول لنا مر منكم الثالث جرورة إيطاعته يأتي from الله في المفتنة والله يأتي فيه أباق يقول فاين تنازعتهم في الشيين و إذا كنتم أخذت هذا فأنتم إيطاعته الله في المفتنة إذا كنتم أصدقاً في الله و في الشيين بسرعة ليست مجرد و أمام من يقوم بإمكانك تؤمنون إذا كنتم أمام الله أو كنتم أمام كتبات كل ما يجب أن أفعل هو أن أجد أسوأ بين أمامكم و أحصل و أصدقائك و أصدقائك و أصدقائك و أصدقائك و أصدقائك إذا كنتم أخذت أن يبها من يقومواه و تضعوننا و تضعوننا و تضعوننا و تضعوننا دوما دوما دوما دوما مما باقرة باقرة لقد كانوا الوصولين. لقد لم يقرأوا معاهم. لقد لم يقرأوا معاهم. لقد كانوا all towards Allah سبحانه و تعالى. لدينا أسلحة اليوم. عندما نتحدث عن عباس عليه السلام اليوم. قمر بنحاشم، العلمدار، والذي who carried the flag. عنده شجاعة، عنده أسلحة يأتي. لا يأتي فريلة، يأتي with unity، يأتي with submission، يأتي with vision، يأتي with love and grace. ويأتي في العالم كل في الملطقة لكي تجد من taste an inclusivity to Islam. وعلاسه، وعلاسه، وعلاسه، وعلاسه، وعلاسه، وعلاسه، وعلاسه. هماراتنا يقرأون. عندما نتحدث منكم، يحدثنا في معرفة معاهم. عندما نتحدث بغضء ألللجن، بخير. عندما يقولون أبداً، صحيح مالك هو خلفي. وكم تقريباً؟ ربما أن أعلم أنه يكون أفضل من أنك و أعلم أنك يبقى ذلك أعلم أنه أنه أصدقائي أقول إذا كنت أباً لأصدقائي ما أعتقد أنك ستفعله؟ أوه هو الحين هو كافب أقول لا تتكلم هذه القوة المساعدة هو ما يشارك في كل هذه الأسدقاء هل تتكلم أن هذه الأسدقائي يستخدمون كأسراء لتكلم على الأجهزة يجب أن تجدون أجلية تفعل شيء و يقوموا بأسراء أخرى And then other groups are condemning , ISIS is condemning the Jews are condemning the Christians are condemning Then all of this leads to people who now armed themselves like what happened in Christ church And the guy felt it was his right to go and kill And he does it like it's a show And he's got a body camera on him , while he is killing pe folk , worshiping God Manager imagine how absurd this world has become today You think these people لقد كانوا الناس عددين but they were misinطلت على هذه المدينة They read manifestos on how to eradicate different groups, manifestos like the one who killed people in Sweden You say manifesto indiscriminate killing a group of youth going for a camp and he goes and shoots them indiscriminately only because they were supporting diversity in their country Today you got Brexit these only argument is we don't want foreigners I say to them stop putting your cause in the land of the foreigners maybe they won't come and invade you Salawatallah Muhammad war Muhammad We don't want immigration You say where do you think these people are coming from You're the ones dropping bombs on them and they have no place to go so they have to escape their countries and when they come to your country you throw them in the sea This level of injustice is why we commemorate Karbala and you will see the spirit of Karbala is rising and you will see that the four most people who are rising to bring justice and equity not for the Shi'a for the human race When Allah says we made you into various tribes and nations يا ايها الناس انحلقناكم من ذكر وانثا وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائلة لتعارفوا إن أكرمكم من الله أتقاكم لتعارفوا لتعارفوا لقد قمنا بكم من who ever told you to go and eradicate the system of God ديفرسة is the religion of Allah You find that monolithic societies You find every group wants to create a monolithic society Let's eradicate everyone who is not like us so that we can live in peace The Hitler tried The Romans tried The Persians tried Never ever make a society monolithic It's not by design And don't play with the nature of God Honor diversity And agree to disagree agreeably Otherwise Allah will punish us on Judgement Day صلى الله عليه وسلم Passionate about this Because when I read the news every single day And I'm seeing this tyranny taking place Where good people are being branded as terrorists And today you even allude to the idea that you like them And these lectures are being heard And it's being written down Oh look what he's saying So what should we do? Cut our tongues off? Should we be silent When injustice is taking place Allah on Judgement Day will ask us I gave you this tongue اللهم نجع الله عينين وليسانهم وشفاتين You did not say anything You did not But I'll tell us More than complaining to the enemy's side I complained to us I complained to me We haven't established institutions To nurture our next generations Mashallah Here, Azahar College is doing something To raise children within the paradigm of Islam Little good work That's going to go a long way But we need to do a lot more We're very very shallow in the western societies Our next generations are being left In Michigan In 24 Three people overdosed and died Died You know what? Sad When you look at statistics How is it our children? We've got our sisters who are addicted Our sisters are now even addicted To even smoking Sisters With all due respect Brothers shouldn't even be touching it Sisters You're the mothers of our children You're our future This is where children come from This is why you're so sacred in Islam The job is for that reason That you are the source of our next generations Allah مهلي was asked you if generations are good They said our mothers are pure They maintain sanctity and dignity Hence their children come out good Not exposed in public freely To be used for media And to be used for the economic system In the capitalistic voracious society We wonder We shrug our shoulders Why? Why does Allah enjoin upon us بكل أزواجكة وبناتك ونسائل مؤمنين يدنينا عليهم من جلاب بهم ذلك أدنا أن يعرفنا فلا يديننا يسمعون للمسجر قل كل أزواجكة ويوائف وبناتك ودورك ونسائل مؤمنين ومؤمنين يدنينا عليهم من جلاب بهم لديهم مجمون لديهم مجمون ذلك أدنا أن يعرفنا This is superior So they are honored You know you are honored Means not only recognized But you are recognized with honor You are honored فلا يديننا Therefore you will not be bothered Today Societies want to take this away from us You can wear dresses upside down Backwards With nothing in it Cut it, burn it Do whatever It's cool You cover yourself You're uncool Something's wrong with you This is odd You would think that if the fashion industry wanted you to do as you want Then why are we being dissuaded for this And why are the legislations preventing our women From dressing modestly and decently Because they can't sell products Without exposing women If you ever see products being sold Usually men are good looking by the way But you know we're just not marketable You have a product You put a man next to it Nobody wants to buy it Put a woman next to it Everybody wants to buy it So with all due respect But our women are not objects of selling They are dignified They are beautiful They are a rahma of Allah They are the mothers of our children When I remember Zaynab A.S And I remember the women of Karbala I said wow They have taught me What is the value of womanhood That they can be intrepid They can stand in front of tyrants And speak with valor And be unafraid Like Fatima Tuzahra When she went to claim her right That was taken away from her She was valorous Dignified Full of wisdom And she spoke with equity This is the womanhood we are looking at Women who are leaders in our community Not second class citizens That the West is trying to present us as We are first class citizens On both sides And let us not allow this division Be even between genders Where one says Well my gender is better than the other Shaytan is waiting Good Or you don't like the women Good Or the women say Men are really bad You don't like men Good And it comes And it causes What we call disunity in us Whereas Male and female Are the wings of a bird I always say If you ever want to see a bird fly It needs two wings You can't take the left wing And put it on the right side Nor can you take the right wing And put it on the left side The bird will not fly And you cannot clip either side You clip one side The bird will go into a tailspin Equal And sometimes one wing Flaps stronger than the other And sometimes it's the man Who has to go and fight And sometimes it's the woman Who has to stay home And take charge of the family That differentiation is What gives freedom to the bird And gives it direction to fly As it is It is wrong for us To be clipping wings of each other This is not Islam Islam is a religion of justice It's the religion of equity To that level That Imam Ali Islam takes this man And says You have taken my shield He goes to court And when he enters the court The judge Addresses him Islam in an honorific way Because he was the Khalifa Allah Imam looks at the judge And says You have committed breach of justice By honoring me more Than the defendant For I am the plaintiff And you have honored me already When the judgment hasn't come out How can you do that Look at that kind of justice How many people do you And I know That when they can wield power And they can snap their fingers And kill somebody But they are so just That they tell the judge Don't give me any higher status Than the defendant For I have a case in court How many? Travel the world Go to seven continents And try to look for people like these You will find maybe one in a billion Very, very, very few Those who have power They are corrupt And they love it And they love to wield it And they love to destroy the world People who have power With God's consciousness Are very few Who know how to manage it Carefully The judge apologizes And then he asks Imam Ali Allah Who is your witness He said My son Hassan He says Then produce your witness Imam says My son is not present He is not here currently My Imam knew this But Imam is going through due process And he knows he is going to lose If the Imam really wanted to win He could have cornered this Christian man But he doesn't He said I don't have any more witnesses What will you say judge? Judge says Well, then in that case You lose the case The shield remains with the Christian man Subhanallah Would you and I allow that? You and I would say This is an insult You're insulting me With my authority And my power Do you ever see When we become leaders in our communities How we walk in hearty ways Like we're big shots Allah says إن الله لا يحب كل مختال فخور وقصد في مشيك وقلود من سوتي God doesn't like an arrogant show off I'm so powerful I'm something Even Imam Hussein Who was the ultimate power of his time Was humble, gentle Talking with wisdom This is the Islam we're talking about This is the Islam That you and I need to practice And the Christian man walks outside He says God truly knows where to put his leaders Think about this And Imam looks at him He says What do you mean? He said You know that this shield is yours And I know it's yours But my God I've never seen a man Who follows this kind of justice That you have gone through due process And you're willing to relinquish your right Because you've gone through justice He says Not only am I giving the shield back to you I want to bear witness And I want to be a Muslim And it is his Imam says Why do you want to do this? Are you coerced? Are you being pushed on this? He said No I am so touched by your justice That I know This is the religion of God And you are his authority And he did his Shahada And he became a Muslim صلاة الله بحمد وعالي بحمد Subhan Allah has blessed us With the power to rise And to be firm But if we do not bring Unity within ourselves And love for each other And stop backbiting It's amazing In Michigan Where I come from In other parts of the world You find people do business The minute somebody opens a business Across the street They want to challenge Or this one is going to open the business Just to put this other one out of business Like you couldn't find another spark No This guy drops one penny I'm going to drop two pennies It led to such arguments in Michigan That one of them got angry And took an actual shotgun And went and killed the other brother For the sake of a few pennies He made orphans This is exactly how Shaytan wants it For foolish little things You and I will argue For foolish little difference of opinion Or cultures that we come from And we paint broad brushes against people I give us an advice Never ever use a broad brush On negative issues When you're going to talk about a people Never use broad brushes Use broad brushes is an analogy Only for good things about people All Arab, all American All white And they say something good about it If you say something bad You have committed breach of justice Use a fine brush when you criticize And do it only to be Constructively critical Do not put down a human being I don't give that person Is your arch enemy Do not put them down Put down what they believe in But do not put them down Because when you put them down You are blocking them from ever becoming believers As I mentioned yesterday It's amazing the responsibility you and I have When Allah says يكون الرسول شهيدا عليكم وتكونوا الشهاداء على الناس You know why the majority of the world is not Muslim? Why? You think Allah doesn't want them to become followers? You know why? Because we who have been endowed To be the witnesses over the people Are not doing our jobs This is why the majority of the world Is not Muslim If you and I united And didn't allow the enemies to divide us And we remain firm In the way of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Guaranteed you and I Would be the most powerful army on earth For the promotion of good And the demotion of evil Is down It's logical But how many of us know the Quran? How many of us know Tawheed? And I put myself into this question Not only you We all have an obligation Every single day when I am in the university And I'm talking to students They come with a sincere heart Tell me what is A, what is B Why do you believe in this And I look at them and say wow These are rudimentary questions for me Maybe because I've done this And look at how thirsty they are to know You sit down and start talking They look at you I haven't heard of this When I debated Dan Barker the first time There was a woman from Columbia University Who was present An older woman And after the debate She looked very confused Dazed And my brother-in-law He goes and talks to her And says you look a bit confused Is everything okay She said all my life is an atheist I argued against Christianity And the God of the Christians And I knew that the God of the Christians Are wrong There is no way God can have a son Who dies on the cross For the sins of someone else There is no way God dies This doesn't make sense to me Even Dan Barker who I debated Said to a Christian Your God Who dies and comes back alive I can never believe in them Impossible But the God of the Muslims Maybe I can believe in it This is an atheist saying that That lady She said I have never heard of Torheed this way I never heard of the oneness of God This way I never knew that this God Is so merciful And he is so omnipotent And omniscient The way this has been described The one who is not vindictive The one who doesn't kill indiscriminately The one who does not look down On a community over the other I never knew this So my brother-in-law asked her Then what is your thought She says I'm going to go home And rethink For I have been misinformed And he put a smile on my face Knowing SubhanAllah That if a debate can take place Where an atheist Was ardently, consistently thinking That they are right And suddenly they hear The alternative idea That they changed their minds You know how powerful that is SubhanAllah When an atheist comes to The Holy Prophet Say's I don't believe in God The Prophet didn't say You are going to die Some of us He says Get rid of him He says Stop He is a human being He used to debate All the time And Imam never Never put him down He used to constantly look at him And said What do you think of this How about this And Imam was stunned By the wisdom of our 60 Imam That he never condemned him But always welcomed him So when an atheist is asking the question Reason with them But how often do we have the capacity To reason If we haven't taken into account Our own reason A father comes to me one day And says Can you please tell my son Atheism is wrong I said What's wrong with him He said No, he's become an atheist I said Okay I said Why don't you tell him He says Well Allah I don't know how I said No wonder your son is an atheist So what do you mean I said You're claiming to be a believer In God So he's confused That my own father is not sure And my own father cannot tell me What is our hate So why should I believe in him My scientist teacher They seem more rational than logical And all the what's on the web About their condemning Islam Seems more rational So I said to the father Can I give you an advice You're not too old yet Trust me Even if you're 2,000 years old You're not old Go learn something now Spend time And maybe this is a calling from God Through your son to you Then wake up And on judgment day Allah will ask you too Did you truly believe in it Or did you just propose it Because your father proposed it Now we're not saying you're wrong But what is your clarity in this matter So we need to spend some time Yesterday a few brothers came to me He said Which books should I read Put a smile on my face What do you like to read He says I like to read philosophy I want to know about religion I want to know about Islam I said I pray for you Here are the list of books you should read Start You feel important? Read it There are two kinds of Masmoo or Matboo You find Masmoo is the knowledge you hear And it goes out the other ear You heard it But you didn't understand it Then there's Matboo Matboo is the one you absorb The Holy Prophet said The knowledge which doesn't help you Is the one you hear The knowledge which helps you Is the one you absorb Absorption means You're going to practice it You're going to live it You're going to walk on it Just like yesterday I gave the example Of the Arab drullers Qalati العراب و آمنة Lib service No Absorb it Submit Follow Reflect Meditate People say quran is got 6,000 plus verses 6,236 verses Oh it's lots of verses difficult I said Take one Take one Ponder on it Reflect on it Reflect on it The verse that resonates with you About anything you like If you like justice There are verses of justice If you like love There are verses of love If you like worship If you love What do you like لا رتب ولا يابس إلا في كتاب Everything is in the quran Which one Take one Absorb it Learn it So the messenger is asking this atheist Why are you an atheist See now there's an absorption So the man says Well I didn't see him create So he doesn't exist See people there I didn't see God create Can you see God So the prophet with a smile asks him Since you didn't see God create Then who created Because you were nothing before هل أتعال الإنسان يحينه من الدهري لم يكن شيئا مذكورا Has mankind not taken an account There was a time They were not worthy of being mentioned شيئا مذكورا You and I Before we were born If we went to our parents And we said You know People went to my parents They said What do you think of Hassanin They would look at me Who doesn't exist Are you okay Are you feeling okay There is no such a thing as Hassanin It doesn't exist I didn't exist then It's absurd for my parents To be questioned But once I'm born It's a whole different world الله says Look you were not worthy of being mentioned Here's my daughter Not worthy of being mentioned Before she was born This daughter of mine When she was born The first thing she was in my hand I held her The first thought that came in my hand When I held her was Oh Allah I had nothing to do With the shape and the beauty of this child She grabbed my finger And I said How did you do this Tightly And the first thought that came in my mind was How can anyone not believe in God First thought I swear Second You're a father You're responsible And for the rest of your life Everything you do She will be affected by it So watch out For she is another chance for you For if you ever complain to Allah That I wish I could go back And fix myself Allah says I just gave you a new one Start again Isn't it amazing So the Prophet is now Talking logically to this individual And asking If you didn't see Allah Create Who did He says I don't know He says if you don't know Then how do you know That he didn't create And the man was stunned Look at the logic بالحكمة والمعدة الحسانة سبحان الله Believe me You listen to all the lectures in the world Attend the finest universities in the world You will not get this kind of conversations I'm not claiming to be an erudite In education But I have traveled I've been in academia for years And I read relatively Nothing equals this conversation Simple, sublime To the point succinct And it strikes it home So the man was stunned The Prophet looked at him and said You see atheism Is a blind leap of faith That's what it is Blind leap of faith No meaning So what you find is They attack us Oh you people don't believe You claim to believe in God You haven't seen That's blind No That's the blind Because lack of evidence Is never evidence for an argument To say I can't see God Therefore God doesn't exist Is the most absurd idea In logic and in law So what you find is The Prophet says to him It is wiser for you To be an agnostic And to suspend your faith To take a blind leap of faith To reject something This is Hekma that we have Among our leaders That the Imams were following So well that they became The role models for humanity And they changed the lives of people That when they heard One sentence of truth They said I was going to go In that direction In the wrong direction But you looked at me You asked me a very valuable question Which I did not ponder on before I absorbed it And my life changed And here I am today A much better person Thank you for that 30 seconds Of good advice You and I Have that responsibility So Allah says You are witnesses over the people So many of us think That when we praise Ahl al-Bayt We are out there In the Colosseum You know Hey there La Bayt Ya Rasool Allah Allah Akbar Nice Where are you Or I'm in the Colosseum On the You see On the seats Looking at the prophets In the Imams Fighting the devils No Wrong idea Wrong image You and I Are in the arena With the battle And you and I Are being monitored By the angels And Allah And they are cheering us When you and I Do something good That when you worship Allah And you do good The angels pray for you The Holy Prophet Said if you read Suratul Kahf He says a beam of light Penetrates your heart To the Kaaba To the Kaaba in the sky And in it Are angels Who do nothing But zikr in your name This Is the Islam We are talking about So I Say to us all Please We have an obligation We have got to start somewhere To say I am good in speech Or I am good in money Or I am good in business Or I am good in A Or B Or C Whatever Let's go help societies Let's go eradicate poverty Let's donate for the needy Let's take care of the orphans And the wayfarers يفون بالنظري و يخافون يوما كان الشدره مستطيرة و يتعيمون التعامة على حبي مسكينة و يتيما و أسيرة They gave For the love of Allah But you not only give that You give yourself And if time comes And you become a person like Ibn Sakit Where you are ready for Shahada And you realize this world has no meaning Until you rise to the occasion By which you You stand up And say If my death becomes a means To the good for society And it becomes a means By which I will promote justice And good For the sake of humanity And today the forces That are making the enemies tremble Who have become Shahada They have given their blood For the sake of justice and peace To put the tyrants Dead in their tracks Our honor to them God says لا تقولوا لمن يقتلوا في سبيل الله أموات بل أحياء ولكن لا تشعرون لا تقولوا لمن يقتلوا في سبيل الله They are alive But you can't see them Now you and I may think How did they become Shahada You know when you assess the value Of this world Children, mother, family Friends, scholars When you examine It's all transient المال والبنون زينة الحياة الدنيا I always wonder When I see these great sages Who went to Karbala Who gave their souls I always wonder What was the strength That drove you there Like you know Ibn Sikit I'll give you a quick example Ibn Sikit was a teacher Of a Abbasid king Mautasim And you find that He had two sons And he said to Ibn Sikit You teach my sons Remember the Banu Mayyad came What was their objective To suppress love of Ahl al-Bait There's only one objective they have Love of Ali ibn Abi Talib To them is haram He is one of their Khalifahs But they are so jealous of him They can't stand it As a result They created a very hostile environment Until today If your name is Ali Fatima, Zahra, Zainab Right If your names are any of these Or Hassan, Hussain Or you're dangerous What happens you find is Shaytan knows where the truth lies And he has focused on it Laser like Laser like You look at Middle Eastern politics You look at a country like Saudi Arabia That bombed the United States And brought two buildings down Where thousands of people died And 15 out of the 19 pilots Were from that country They weren't even scratched It's amazing Afghanistan was punished Iraq was punished But this country That had a hand in it Nothing Why? They're ours They're like us Journalists There's a ban Called Muslim ban In the United States But these countries are not banned So I wonder Are they Muslim? Because it's a Muslim ban And these are allowed to come in So America is dictating Who's a Muslim now Amazing Subhanallah So now you find If you examine carefully You will see the nations That rise for justice And you'll find their energy Comes from Ahl al-Bayt This is something profoundly Obvious And the enemies When Lawrence of Arabia Went to Hijaz And created this family Ibn Saud And put them there And Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab There was one objective Silence the love of Ahl al-Bayt Silence it Do not allow it to rise Honestly You studied You will see When you love Ahl al-Bayt They rise They look at you Imam Ali A.S. In the battle of Sifin When the Muawiya put the pages Of the Quran forward Imam says أنا النبي العظيم I am أما يتسعلون You ask about أنا النبي العظيم الذي هم فيه مختلفون You have a difference I am that أنا النبي العظيم Not on easy The day of judgment But I am also أنا النبي العظيم And you fear me Because I am The standard bearer As we say خرآن الناتق I'm the moving Walking Quran And Shaytan knows That as long as This one walks And this one Becomes the gate To the city of knowledge The one who represents The message of the prophet Then Shaytan's machinery Falls apart So if you look at The geopolitics Of the world today You will see Anytime you love أهل البيت You will be questioned Who? But you know what The irony is Subhan Allah In Washington Publicly I've heard it They say The Shia Who love أهل البيت Are the most peaceful People in the Middle East I've heard it In Washington Among the congressmen Who are stating That these people Are not terrorists They don't kill They are peace loving people Because our Imam And our prophets Have taught us To love humanity We don't indiscriminately Bomb ourselves We don't go Kill people We don't attack them Subhan Allah But the love of أهل البيت So Allah says Then stand firm That if they want To silence you And they want you Not to rise To the occasion Then rise I say to us all When we learn Let's be the best When we speak Let's be the finest When we dress Let's be elegant When our mannerisms Are brought forth Let's be impeccable In behavior When the world asks us Who are you How is it You have such clarity In your thought And that your adab Is so impeccable Smile And say I have been guided With the best of guidance You would be amazed How many people Will fall in love With us In society We are very, very Blessed And when we go to Karbala And we see Mam Hussein When he says هل من ناس ان ينصر We go to Abbas Tonight Being the eighth night We remember this What they call Qamar Ibn Hashim The story of Abbas You know When we listen to him And we reflect on him I wanted to absorb us مطبوب علم المطبوب Let it become part of our flesh Abbas Should become so real to us That our strength should rise That when an enemy Threatens us We just look at them And say I have Abbas As my leader I have Abbas Who taught me How to service Imam Hussein They say Abbas was About 11 years of age And in the Battle of Saffim He shows up Armored And fighting They say One of the horses Of Imam Hassan Was taken By the Balou Mayel And he chases it And brings the horse back They say Mu'awiya And his army Noticed This young boy But he was so armored They thought It's Amir al-Mu'mineen Ali ibn Abi Thali Because he was trained Personally By his father Imam Ali Alayhissalam We go back in history We see When Fatimud al-Zahra As-Salaamu Alayhi Alayha Passed away On the Musalla In grievance She was madluma She was abused And she smiled When the Prophet told her soon After my departure You will join me She smiled She first cried Knowing the Prophet Is leaving Then she smiled Knowing She will join the Prophet And she was A late teenager She holds the hand Of her husband She says After my departure Find a woman And find her To be the mother Of children for you For she will My son Hussein Will be needed in Karbala For he will need helpers And Numu al-Baniin Fatimu Alayhi Al-Salaam The mother of Abbas For four sons Abbas You find Abdullah Jaafar And Uthman Four sons All four of them Became martyrs In Karbala All four of them The mother of Abbas Was the cousin Of Shimr del-Jawshan The same arch enemy Of God They were cousins And they tried their best To remove Abbas From Imam Hussein's army When Shimr comes With the letter from Ibn Ziyad And Ibn Ziyad tells him Get the bay of Hussein Or kill him Before he does that letter He first comes to the camp Of Imam Hussein And calls out for Abbas They say Abbas Was standing there As you know By the way The strongest person in an army Is the flag bearer Don't forget that It's the one with the flag Who is the emotion of the army The longer the flag stands The more energy we have That we're winning We're winning When the flag falls That's when you start thinking Okay, we're losing That's why the flag bearer Was always the strongest They had no fear Ashidawal al-Kuffar Flag bearer Imam Ali alaihi salam In the battle of Jamal When Aisha was fighting him In Basra He says to Muhammad bin Hanafiyah He says Muhammad Take this flag And run towards the army Forward As you know There was a camel That the wife of the prophet was in He said run forward Muhammad bin Hanafiyah He says to his father The sky is black with arrows He hesitated He said I felt a breeze past me I want you to know Imam Ali alaihi salam I want you to understand this your job Hikmah But incredibly powerful Unafraid And he says I felt a breeze And the next thing The staff was gone The flag was gone And I see my father in the front Standing there Putting his banner forward Allah loves these people This is a man who had no fear When he came to justice Amr bin Abdul-Wood Was taunting the prophet's army In the first battle In the battle of Khandagh That's the first but the second He was taunting them And you find that The prophet said go This Amr Is the giant of Arabia And he is the leader of the kufar The ultimate polytheist And he jumped over the mountain With a horse And he's now poking into the tent Everybody's terrified Everybody's terrified You find that The prophet is asking Who will go fight Amr And nobody stood up Imam Ali stood up Said I Prophet said sit down Give them a chance All these companions of mine Give them a chance I tell you لا فتا إلا علي ولا سيفو الله صلى الله عليه وسلم There is no victory like Ali And there is no sword that fought Like Imam Ali عليه السلام Imam stands up And the prophet said now watch Watch the ultimate believer Moment Fight the ultimate kufar Imam Ali عليه السلام Looks at Amr And says Amr I give you three options Don't fight me Leave Become a Muslim And submit Or I kill you Amr starts to laugh Said you Get threatening me With three options Imam says I repeat This Allah says اشدا ولا الكفار Fearless This is the power I'm telling you They have smart bombs today They have laser guided missiles They have got All kinds of satellites watching us But this Imam Of Amr al-Mu'mineen Is the ultimate Imam Honestly It penetrates And it destroys them Imam Ali عليه السلام Looks at him And Amr strikes him They say he struck him so hard Imam blocks it Hits his forehead And cuts into Imam's forehead But all you heard In the cloud of dust Was الله أكبر And the next thing Amr is on the floor And he has no legs Allah أصدنيا شجار سرين It doesn't come for free It takes practice Imam Ali عليه السلام My entire strategy of fighting He would tell his companions You stand here You stand here You stand here Tighten your grip Do not slouch Your skin is sagging Tighten it For the sword will cut it He would touch He would tap into their Into their armor And say strengthen this link The enemy will strike you He was so strategic He said my strategy Was taught to me by the prophet I would follow him Like a she-camel Up the mountains And he would train me On how to fight It was the Holy Prophet Who taught Imam Ali عليه السلام How to fight And he taught Abbas But Imam Ali عليه السلام When he kills Amr bin Abd He does it with dignity That he doesn't even take his armor You know Amr's armor Had gems on it It had emeralds And diamonds on it Nobody goes to war with gems But they were taunting the enemy That I am so indomitable You can't touch me Look I have gems on my armor Imam Ali عليه السلام When he kills Amr He leaves the armor Doesn't take it He says because I didn't kill him For anybody but Allah When his sister came To collect his body She said I am very depressed That my brother was killed But I am so honored As to who is the person That killed him For the finest warrior That killed my brother This is Imam Ali عليه السلام Abbas عليه السلام Was taught by his father He was entrapid He was a flag bearer And he was up front Even in Medina When Walid bin Utbah Calls him Imam says to Abbas عليه السلام Stand outside He was of a tall stature He was extremely handsome They called him He was the moon of Bani Hashem He was with wisdom With dignity And they say even as a child Whenever Imam Hussein Would feel thirsty He would run to go bring water Imam would watch him This younger brother of his Was so obedient to Imam Hussein عليه السلام And Imam Hassan That he would run Like a little child Quickly to make sure That his brother Was always in the state Of approval This is Abbas We are talking about Who is in Karbala now This name Abbas Is so powerful In America I once met a young brother And I mentioned him many times In my lectures During these moments Who was a Christian Who was from the Christian faith And he meets me At one of the centers And we have a dialogue About Islam He was already Gravitating towards Islam He needed some more clarity We sat For about an hour We stood there We talked I laughed This is Ramadan Ashura I meet him I hug him I said George It's very nice to meet you He said I'm not George anymore My name is Abbas So I said to him Why Abbas He said I am that strength The way Abbas was With Imam Hussein This is a boy Who was a Christian Who became a Muslim The next day He said to me My name is Abbas now I love the strength And the valor of Islam That I am upright And I stand with valor The way my prophet And the Imam Stood up for justice Allah took him From this world To a young age He has passed away May Allah rest his soul But he's in my heart For this boy has chosen his destiny Allah says in Allah لا يغيروا ما بقومين We won't change your affairs Until you change it first I said what an honor Oh Abbas That you took that step towards Allah And you died a believer In the best of ways But the power of Abbas Continues to resonate Even among non-Muslims Who become believers Who take his name In Karbala He stood Historians say He managed the center flank Of Imam's army As you know Imam broke the army Into three parts The middle part Was his flank Abbas fought And fought And killed many Some people say he didn't fight No, he fought He was valiant He was actually technically The last person Before Imam was saying to die And Abbas comes back To Imam Hussein And he sees the children عتاش عتاش Were thirsty Their tongues Had become so dry And they could not even Swallow You know Imam Hussein Is to take his little infant Abdullah And he would take his tongue And give it a little witness For there was no water عتاش رقاية The daughter of Imam Hussein She was only four years of age She pulls on To the robe of Abbas Says I'm thirsty عباس نقصة And says I can't go and finish this Let me try To at least Sashit This thirst Of my family Before I leave For Allah has given me strength But Allah Not to come back Allah He seeks permission From Imam Hussein And Allah He seeks permission And he says Give me the permission To go as you know عباس by the way He had his sons There too Two sons passed Became شهيد In Karbala عباس عليه السلام Had two sons in Karbala Who became Shohadah He left one behind obeyed Allah With his mother عمو البنين And when I go To Medina And I go to جنة البخي The first place I do Is I make a left turn And I look at her grave And I said يا عمو البنين You are the mother Of all mothers For you have given Four beautiful sons With valor For the sake of justice I take refuge with you You are my role model Mother Role model teacher عباس عليه السلام Is seeking permission So let me go You know Before this happened By the way شمر comes with a letter And says You are my cousin I give you freedom Leave before we kill Hussein عباس takes the letter Rips it And steps on it This is how dare You offer me this Freedom When you are going to kill The grandson of the prophet Our living Imam You will kill him And you want me to have freedom Never We will never do this Why did شمر do this He wanted to Weaken By saying If I can get عباس to get out Then I will Weaken But عباس was not like that He was not for sale رجالون لا تلهم تجارة ولا بي ولا نذكر الله No So عباس عليه السلام يديره With his sword And the water كن He says للمن يجحل اذا يمكنني يديره This is important That the Imam saw this as his last He bid him goodbye And said عباس اعطا They say when عباس started to trot They saw They say You know He was called a lion Who lions feared هذا was the title of al-Bas when he came on the battlefield lions would fear him he approached the water the Euphrates and all the armies moved away they couldn't stand him he comes freely he descends from his horse takes his mishk and he puts it into the water now I want us to understand if there is one message of Sader and Iman Abbas A.S. was also extremely thirsty he was extremely thirsty but can you imagine the sight of water I remember in Ramadan one time I went to work out and I was so thirsty just touching that bottle was pleasure the wetness of the bottle was pleasurable while I was fasting and I thought of Imam Hussein I remember just that water I said my God I would love to touch this how did my mom feel when he was on the battlefield so Abbas says he is filling this cool water he says the dogs can drink it the animals can drink it or we can't drink it but he did not put one drop in his mouth he takes it covers it he says I will not drink it till my master drinks it first in his family he puts it around his neck and he ascends his horse Omar Ibn Saad sees this if these people get this water they will fight us longer water must not reach Hussein Ibn Ali and Abbas A.S. as he is leaving he is passing by a tree one of the palm trees they jump in front of him and cut one of his arms at the arm of Abbas he turns swings in the direction and another soldier comes Abbas is at the arm of so Abbas is both arms have fallen in that state of trotting Abbas is trying to hold that trying to reach that goal that little child is waiting for me to drink but the enemy said no and one of the enemies of Hussein he comes and hits Abbas with a mace on his head and he strikes him very hard and Abbas falls for him he is not able to defend himself and as he is falling he says but Imam Hussein from distance is watching but he can't leave the tent and Abbas falls and they take arrows and they shoot it right at the that water skin and all the water spills out and Abbas says I cannot bring this water and then he becomes يتونف سمط إرجع إلى ربي كراني يتونف سمط فدخلي في عبا هدي ودخلي جنة Imam Hussein يقول السلام عليك يا خي يا أمر فضل Abbas أو Abbas I said سلام to you me سلام الله there is nothing that Imam can do in Abbas until today is buried separately from there near the Euphrates as a symbol for his شجاعات to have to fight for the sake of justice على ألاعنة الله للقوم الظالمين وسيعلموا الذين ذلموا أي من قلب ينقلبون اسم الله رحبا دل رحي ربنا اخفر لنا ولخواننا الذين السبقون بالإيمان ولا تجعل في قلوبنا غلل الذين آمنوا ربنا إنك روفوا الراحي let's recite together five times أما يجيب المسبراة دعا ويكشفوا سو when we care for those who are sick in our communities say حاشمز you know needs our prayers there are brothers and sisters in our communities who need our prayers there are people outside of our communities who need prayers if we pray for them الله says فاذكروني اذكركم وشكروني ولا تكفرون remember me I will remember you let's pray sincerely with our hearts that Allah take this balaa away from Yemen from Iraq from Afghanistan from Kashmir from Palestine take this balaa away and give our community strength and justice insha'Allah Allah give us safety and wisdom and strength to rise for justice for humanity and give us strength to be learned and to be economically strong so that we can finance good structures and justice so on earth بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم together أما يجيبوا مضطر يكشفوا السوء أما يجيبوا مضطر يكشفوا السوء أما يكشفوا السوء one more time أما أحمتك يا let's recite the prayer for the return of your mom صحيح بالزمان أجل الله تعالى فرجك he says الله أم إنا نرغب إليك في دولة كريمة الله هنال حسان سلوات اسكنه وردك وتمتعوا في محمدك يا وصل الله على محمد وآالي الطيبين الطاحرين سلوات المحمد وآالي محمد وعليك ميم السلوات أسام رمز الجسكة بسكة ربوط للمأ