 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله I'll start the live lecture in two minutes first quran recitation أعود بالله من الشيطان في رجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ألم نشرح لك صوادرك ووضعنا عنك وزرك الذي قد ظهرك ورفعنا لك ذكرك نما العسري جسراء نما العسري جسراء فإذا فرغت فنصب وإلى ربك فرغب أمنت بالله وصلق الله لعليج العظيم أعود بالله من الشيطان في رجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وبهي نستعين والصلاة والسلام وعلى خير خلق الله المصطفام وحمد وعلى هلبيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعسومين أما بعد فقط قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتابه الكريم أعود بالله من الشيطان في رجيم ثم لا تسألنا يوم إذن عن النعيم الله مصلي على محمد المقالي محمد My dear brothers and sisters in Aberdeen, Scotland and all other places around the world who are watching live السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته This is going to be the second and the last lecture of this short series titled When God Opens Closed Doors Yesterday's lecture was mainly about how God opens closed doors When it comes to closed doors it often happens that we are so occupied so zoomed in on the closed doors that often we cannot see the doors that are open we do not appreciate the doors that are open we cannot see them The topic for today's lecture is seeing the open doors So what you are going to learn in the next 50 or so minutes is the following First of all I'll give a quick summary of yesterday's lecture so that we can connect from there And after that I'll discuss what do I mean by open doors The open doors are the blessings that we do have So first I'll discuss what are the open doors, the blessings and what does it entail to see and appreciate the blessings that we have from Allah SWT And then in the second part of the lecture I will give a few examples on how practically we can appreciate the blessings And I'll spend some good time on explaining that And then in the third and the final part of the lecture I will speak about a great blessing of Allah SWT The greatest blessing of all And that is when I'll start to wrap up this lecture And in doing so I will also speak about the فبايل of our مولا Imam al-Sajjad, peace be upon him And the بابل حواج أباس ابنعلي, peace be upon him And also discuss how we could pay tribute to these great personalities And how we could celebrate the birth anniversaries of our مولا Imam al-Sajjad and Abbas, peace be upon him But before I proceed, wherever you are From the bottom of your heart Please recite a full of love صلوات على محمد وقال محمد Yesterday we discussed that Allah SWT is the الفطاح And it was based on verse number 2 of Surah Fater in which Allah SWT says that when Allah opens doors When Allah grants from his mercy Then no one can withhold it And when Allah withholds something from his mercy Then no one can grant it And Allah is العزيز and الحكيم And we also discussed that Allah SWT Is above all causes and effects Allah is the cause of all causes And nothing has effect in the existence But Allah SWT Because And when he opens the doors Then no one can close them Because he is العزيز The mighty one And also الحكيم And العليم And الفطاح Means the one who opens all the doors All the closed doors Because الفطاح Is the one who removes all the pains All the tribulations All the confusions And opens all the locks That was a summary of The key point from yesterday's lecture Now today In the beginning I recited last verse of Surah Taka'athuri In which Allah SWT says ثم لتسألنا يوم إذنه عن النعيم Then surely that day You will be questioned about the blessings The blessings are the doors That are open The open doors in our lives Yes, we do have some closed doors Opportunities that are lost Chances that are missed But at the same time We do have many things That we should appreciate That we should cherish That we should thank Allah SWT But it often happens that We do not even see those doors As I said Because we are zoomed in On the closed doors So what I'm going to do In this first part As I said What does it entail To appreciate the open doors What does it entail To thank Allah SWT To be grateful For all the blessings He has given to us Allah SWT says In the holy book If you count Allah's blessings If you try to count them You cannot count them You cannot count them There are so many blessings So in this lecture We cannot discuss many blessings But the purpose of this lecture Is to learn How to become aware of those blessings All those positive things That we have in our lives Allah SWT Explains That what it entails To be grateful for our blessing He says That there are three elements of شغر Three elements of being grateful For the blessing Number one Recognizing the blessing First we have to recognize Become aware of the open doors In our lives Recognize the blessing After that Recognize the one Who has given the blessing to you And we all Recognize Allah SWT We all know And we all believe That all the blessings Are from Allah SWT So it is just a reminder And then the third element That Allah SWT explains Is that To be grateful for our blessing Is to use that blessing The way He wants you to use Who has given that blessing to you But the first step Is to recognize The blessings Recognize those doors That are open But we take them For granted And do not cherish them When it comes To the blessings Of Allah SWT To start from the very basic When it comes to the blessings The first and the foremost Blessing of Allah SWT Is The blessing of existence Yeah Existence And I want to ask you a question Do you exist? Someone might say What's our question A strange question Yeah, I exist But how often have you Thought about your existence How often And I'm not talking about Your existence As a human being As a man Or as a woman With all these features Existence Being present Being You see Everything that exists Is a sign Of Allah SWT Things that do not exist And cannot exist Just cannot exist Because They do not exist In the knowledge Of Allah SWT And please bear with me Please pay attention And those who Have been listening to me They know that usually The first part Very first part Of my lecture Is relatively more academic And after that It becomes relatively Easy And more practical But this lays the foundations For the rest of the lecture So please bear with me We have this live session And live session Has its own challenges So I'll try my best And pray to Allah SWT That he makes me Convey what I intend to convey We Exist because We are In the knowledge Of Allah SWT In the knowledge Of Allah SWT Therefore Everything that exists Is his sign Is his Is worthy to be existing Is worthy to exist Otherwise It would not have existed This is a great blessing We should be proud Of ourselves That we do exist Because Allah Made us worthy Of existing In that sense Everything is Aya Of the Creator أمير المؤمنين عليها العسرام He said that All praises Due to Allah Who manifests For his creation Through his creation تجلال خلقه بخلقه He manifests His attributes His name For us For the creation Through the creation So if we look at ourselves We ourselves Are a sign of the Creator But some signs Are not just signs They are the greater signs As in دعال افتطاح This دعال Refers to the أمير المؤمنين as آيات القبراء The greatest sign The greatest sign Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى The infallible ones His representatives The fourteen infallibles Are the آيات القبراء Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى But we are also his signs Everything is his signs And this is a blessing To be his sign And when he has brought us Into existence Then We need to think Where were we before? Allah سبحانه وتعالى In the holy book هل أتا حين من الدهري لم يكن هل أتا على الإنسان حين من الدهري لم يكن شيئ مذقورا Hasn't there been a time on man When he was nothing worthy of being mentioned Not worthy of being mentioned When you do not exist You are not worthy to be mentioned But then he brought us into existence And when he brought us into existence As a human being Then what did he do? سميعا بصيرا He gave us the hearing And he gave us the sight With the help of hearing With the help of sight We do what? We analyze the information we receive And that's why He has put the light within us أل أقل The intellect Which is a great blessing With the help of this intellect With the help of information do we have We analyze the information And we take decisions in our lives And he has also given us The إرادة The will With the help of the أقل And the إرادة We perform actions We perform things We say things We write things We take actions From أقل comes the وهم وهم is an idea before the idea Then وهم From وهم comes الخيال خيال is a little bit more refined idea And after that It turns into an action Into speech These are all blessings of Allah We have to think about it We have to reflect on it And then how can we be grateful For this blessing Of خيال Of إرادة To create beautiful thoughts To create beautiful إرادة To have good intentions Not the intentions to hurt others Not the indecent sort of Fantasies and thoughts When Allah سبحانه وتعالى Has made us to exist In the form of human beings And has given us أقل And the إرادة And the hearing And the sight Then he says that I've also shown him the way إِنَّا هَدَيْنَهُ السَّبِيلِ إِمَّا شَاكِرٌ وَإِمَّا كَفُورًا Now I have shown him the way Whether to be grateful Or be ungrateful So then it comes to the point Whether be grateful Or ungrateful It is up to us Whether we are grateful to him Or not But everybody will be asked On the day of judgement ثم لا تُسألُنَّ يَوْمَ إِذِنَ عَنِ النَّعِيمَ Then surely that day Everybody will be crescent About the blessings All those doors that are Open in our lives But we do not focus on those doors We do not look at those doors We do not appreciate those things that we have Rather we focus on the closed doors On the missed opportunities So the purpose of this lecture Is to become more aware About those things that we do have And what do we have Most of us Most of us Allah SWT has blessed with Is health Usually if people And may Allah May Allah grant all of you good health And keep you safe If you are healthy Then you should be Very very grateful to Allah SWT Because if one does not have health Then wealth and career And all those things do not help much One cannot Cannot cherish those things Cannot cherish career and wealth And other comforts And one does not have health Health is a great blessing And we should pray for all our brothers and sisters Regardless of ethnicity And background and religion And culture Who are struggling for their lives At this moment Who are victims of COVID-19 We should pray that May Allah grant them speedy recovery May Allah remove the pains from them And when it comes to health When it comes to health There is a story in the Quran That is very relevant And I want to tell you about that And discuss that And you all have heard that Quranic story And this is the story of Prophet Ayyub Peace be upon him No one has suffered In the history When it comes to ailments And sicknesses And diseases And other troubles As Prophet Ayyub Peace be upon him What is the story of Prophet Ayyub Peace be upon him It is said that he was a very healthy man And he had many children And he had many gardens And he had a lot of wealth And he was all the time Thanking Allah SWT He was constantly in gratitude He lived in gratitude He thanked Allah SWT constantly That was his test Because Allah SWT Test people With both by giving And also by taking it away Allah SWT says in the holy book That we will test you with And both So Allah SWT Tested him by giving him so many blessings Health, wealth Children, gardens Land, fields And he was thankful to Allah SWT And then Allah SWT Tested him by taking them away First took away all his wealth And then took away all the gardens The fields The land The agriculture The fruit Then the children But he was in gratitude He thanked Allah SWT He thanked his lord And then Allah SWT Made him sick He kept thanking Allah SWT It is written that He became so ill that everybody deserted him Only three men and his wife They were beside him All the people left him He was left all alone No one wanted to be near him Because he was so ill And people also thought He is not a prophet Because if he were a prophet Why would Allah punish him so severely And he kept thanking Allah SWT He kept thanking Just imagine It is easier said than done It is easier said than done It takes the belief of a Yub Peace be upon him To keep thanking Allah SWT Under such circumstances So what happened next Only three men Were left beside him And who did believe That he was a prophet Despite everything One day They also left him And they thought No, he could not have been Really a prophet Because if he were a prophet Why would Allah punish him With so many diseases It is said that Only his heart was beating And his tongue And with that tongue He could thank Allah SWT And that's it He kept thanking him He kept thanking him He kept thanking And what is his دعا أني مصن يضر وانت أرحم الراحمين Indeed Affliction has befallen me And you are أرحم الراحمين He did not even say to Allah SWT I am in so much pain Remove my pain He did not even say that أنت أرحم الراحمين That's it You know You are the most Beneficent The most merciful No one can be merciful Like you So you know my condition And then Allah SWT Cured him Miraculously Through a fountain of water There is a great lesson for us If we have health We should be grateful To Allah SWT Jobs come and jobs go Careers come and careers go But health we should cherish We should take care of ourselves And whatever we have In whatever circumstances we are We should be thankful To Allah SWT So my dear brothers and sisters Take care of yourselves In these days Try to do some exercise Some physical activities Eat healthy Eat more vegetables and fruit Well the thing is that Many of our traditional cuisine Especially the ones from Pakistan And India And also Iraqi And Iranian and Turkish cuisine They are very oily And they are very tasty The thing is that Most things that taste so good They are not that healthy And this Reminds me of a A story A true story A friend of mine told me About a gentleman Who was from the Northern areas of Pakistan From the Korakorum Area In the Beltestan area And this gentleman Was quite old And he had developed several sicknesses So One day his doctor said That You know you have to stop Eating Unhealthy food You have to stop Eating oily food You have to stop eating Spicy food And you also have to stop Eating sugary foods And also You have to stop smoking And by the way Smoking is bad I'm telling you Smoking is bad I should tell right away So he told him All these things The old man said Okay if I smoke And if I eat sugary foods And if I eat oily foods What will happen to me And the doctor said You will die The man said If I cannot do All of these things Then I better die What would I live for Now This was just a story The point is that We have to take care of Our health Take care of our The blessing of health And our body That Allah SWT Has given to us And then When it comes to Allah's blessings When it comes to Our existence in this world There are so many blessings That are around us The blessings that are Around us That we have been Taking for granted What are those blessings For example The nature The climate The oceans All those things That exist around us Human beings in general Have not been Doing justice To those things We see that Now as a result Of COVID-19 What has happened recently You must have seen the news Like there is 40% Less use of coal In China The local environment Has started to improve The world's carbon footprint Is going down Even the canals in Venice Have become cleaner They are talking about These things as the benefits Of the lockdown Of course These things cannot offset All those pains That many families Are going through All those problems That the mankind In general Is going through Because of this disease But the point is That we have been treating Nature so badly Human beings have been treating Nature so badly That it has started to react It has Perhaps this is a way Of nature to correct itself I was speaking to One of my teachers Who is a philosopher And also An expert in In Rome And he said to me That this Nature has reacted Could be a way Of correcting Correcting itself As a reaction To all those things That we have been doing To it Those people Who spearhead the campaign To mitigate climate change For example Or to work For the environment Usually those people Are seen as Those who are non-believers People who are agnostics Or atheists But as a matter of fact Our religion lays Anthesis On sustainable living On green living Our prophet The holy prophet Peace be upon him Told us Over 14 centuries ago Than planting a tree Is a sustainable charity So the pahdariah And that time People could not Really understand The benefit of trees For example And the role in Local environment And the absorption of CO2 And all those things But the holy prophet Peace be upon him Of course knew those things But he talked According to their intellect And said It's pahdariah So have we thought about it Have we told the world About the beauty Of our religion When it comes to Green living And sustainable living But we can only do that If we are aware Of those things ourselves How green are we How green are our Islamic centers Our lifestyles How sustainable is Our Hajj How sustainable is Our Arbaeen Do we leave Hapes of plastics Behind You might be thinking What I'm talking about This is a blessing Nature Earth Environment This is a blessing From Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala If we had to live In an environment In which there were Temperatures were very high And the air was not clean It would become Very difficult for us to live So we have to cherish This nature This environment The earth That is a blessing Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala It is said that by 2050 There is going to be more Plastic in oceans Than seafood And I'm not talking About the Shia seafood Because Shia seafood Would make food Would make it Even more difficult There will be much more Plastic in proportion To this Shia seafood Because we are Very strict And then if we talk About the Jewish seafood Which is even stricter Because they cannot even Eat shrimps And for them Fish has to have Scales as well as Bones It would be even worse But general seafood There is going to be More plastic Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala In the holy book Allahر الفساد في البري والبحري بما كسبت أيدي الناس فساد appeared In the lands And oceans Because of the deeds Of human beings فساد اللامة رحمة الله عليه Says فساد is everything That is And detrimental to mankind That is That brings destruction Whether it is Manmade Or it is from the nature So perhaps One way of looking At this verse Is that Maybe we have ruined Our land We have ruined Our oceans Human beings So what we can do As believers What we can do We can also play our part إن شاء الله The times will Become better The doors will open This disease will go away And then What we can do Maybe we can start campaigns To educate people Within our own communities And then afterwards On community level On county level On borough level And we talk about The Islamic perspective Of sustainability And green living A teacher of mine Told me a hadith Recently And I do not have The reference to that hadith I could not find the reference So I would tell it right away But he is An environmental engineer Turned theologian And he told me this hadith He said that The holy prophet Peace be upon him Is reported to have said That to me Breaking a branch Of a tree Is like Breaking the angels' wings Breaking the wings Of an angel Now Wings Angels These are metaphors We are not getting there Insha'Allah If I go to Taufiq I will talk about What once someday I will speak about What are angels And what does it mean Their wings And all that But the severity Of the language So I would not speak More about it Because some of you Know that Before I formally Started to study theology I used to work In climate change Metigation Area For several years And so I don't Want to get carried away Before it becomes So boring for everyone The point is We have to Cherish The open doors We have to cherish All the blessings That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given to us And those blessings Are not only material They're not only physical They are also Spiritual blessings And one important And spiritual blessing That we take For granted And we are not Being Just to that blessing Now I'm going To talk about that But before I do that Please Recite From the bottom Of your heart A full of love Salawat Ala Muhammad Wa Ali Muhammad Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Has given us A great blessing In the form Of His Final Message The Word Of God The Holy Quran Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Says In The Holy Book That on The Day of Judgment The Holy Prophet Peace Be Upon Him Will Complain To Him In The Qawm To Take This Quran Mahjura Mahjura My Lord My People Had Taken This Quran As Mahjur Mahjur I Deliberately Did Not Translate The Word Mahjur Into English Its English Translation Is Abandoned Something Abandoned But Actually It Is Routed In The Word Hijra Hijra Means Something Useless Worthless Something That Is Of No Use Of No Benefit You Know When We See Some Manual When We In The Rear A New Gadget A Phone A New Car Anything That We Find Useful Then We Look At Its Manual And We Want To Read It When You Find Some Piece Of Paper Of Significance Of Importance We Read It Carefully And We Understand What It Says And If We Do Not Find It Of Any Use We Just Put It As Hijra Mahjur It Is Just And Many Things In Your House I'm Sure Because I Also Have Which We Never Even Look At Mahjur Now If We Never Look At The Quran Which Means That We Have Also Taken It As Something Mahjur Abandoned There Can Be Different Forms Of Abandonment Of The Quran The Worst Form Of Abandonment Of The Quran Is If Someone Open The Quran No One None Of The Believers Is Like That But Then There Is Another Type Of Abandonment Of The Quran Which Is When We Recited We Parroted I Used To Parrot Quran For Years I Used To Parrot It I Would Just Recite It Without Understanding It Never Had Recited It And Read It And Try To Understand It I Wouldn'T Have Made Certain Mistakes That I Did Make In My Life My Life Would Have Been Much Better This Is Another Form Of Abandonment Another Form Of Abandonment The Third Form Of Abandonment Is That You Read The Quran You Recite The The Quran And You Never Act Upon Those Things And You Don'T Go Deep And Try To Understand The Depths And The Beauties Of The Quran This Is Being Ungrateful To This Message And Then The Final Abandonment Type Of Abandonment Of The Quran Is When You Read The Quran You Recite The Abandon Yourself And Just Tell Others And This Is More True For People Like Me We Try To Teach A Commentary On The Quran But Do Not Act Upon It Themselves So How Can We Be Grateful To Allah For This Blessing You See This Is A Comunication He Has Said Everything He Had To Say Now He Will Speak On The Day Of Judgment And If We Never Listen To His Words In This Life Then God Forbid He Might Say On The Day Of Judgment You Never Paid Attention To My Words In You Not Speak With You God Forbid This Is The Final Comunication So My Brothers And Sisters What Is Important For Us In These Days Especially When We Sit At Home And Spend More Time At Home That We Develop The Habit Of Reciting The Quran First Of All Please Do That Now Please Try To Start And If You Are Not Reciting It Every Day Try To Start Reciting It Every Day Start Reading It Every Day And Read The Translation Of The Quran And Try To Understand What Allah Is Telling Us This Will Open The Doors Of Your Heart This Will Bring Peace To Your Hearts That Makes You Understand The Laws Affairs To A Certain Degree The Imam Says It Is Not The Abundance Of Salat And Sound That Is The Ibadah But Ibadah Worship Is A Reflection On The Affairs Of Allah When We Start To Read The Quran And Understand Start To Understand The Fundamental Principles Upon Which Allah's Scheme And Allah's Affairs Are Based And Then Many Doors Will Open For Us Many Spiritual Doors Will Open For Us Now The Quran Is A Very Broad Topic And A Deep Topic And We Have Already Spent About The운�وا window Where When Okay So For Our One And You Dare When Ever We Get Some Whatever Okay So A Day Instead You Get A رب is the one who nurtures, who gives all sort of blessings to his creatures Therefore, in the Holy Quran, whenever some نعمة, some blessing is mentioned then the name رب appears next to it Please pay attention next time you recite the Quran Pay attention whenever the word and the name رب appears it is in connection with some نعمة For example فبأي جي آلائي رب كما تكذبان Famous verse that we all have heard Which of the blessings of Allah you will deny رب كما شور الله you will deny رب is there And then الحمد لله رب العالمين You look at different verses wherever the word رب appears It is in connection with some blessings some نعمة And then I'm going to talk about one particular blessing That is the greatest blessing of all That is the blessing Which appears in the That reference to that blessing appears in the Holy Quran In one particular verse that also uses the word The name رب There was time when Allah سبحانه وتعالى said to the Holy Prophet يا أيها الرسول بلغ ما أنزل إليك من ربك Oh messenger بلغ Make it known, announce to the people ما أنزل إليك من ربك What has been descended upon you from your رب From your Lord, from your رب The one who gives all the blessings And if you did not do that It is as if you did not do any of the work of the Prophet What a severe tone Announce that And if you did not do that Then you haven't done anything Any work of the Prophet Apparently the whole work of the Prophet The whole message hinges upon The announcement of that blessing And if it is so Then that blessing must be the best blessing The most important blessing The greatest blessing of all And that is when the Holy Prophet Announced in غلير ما أن كنت مولاه فهذا علي جن مولاه If whoever takes me as his Mola This Ali is his Mola This is the blessing of willaya The greatest blessing of willaya And why it is the greatest blessing Why is it so? First of all الله سبحانه وتعالى Says if you did not announce it It is as if you did not do any work Of the Prophethood Because the Wali after you Is going to defend the religion To protect the religion To protect the sharia To protect to be the guardian Of the affairs of Muslims Not only that This willaya is the greatest blessing Of all because it takes us Straight to Allah That is why one of the names When the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Is When the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Says that ask me Then he says that ask me I know the ways in the skies Better than the ways in the earth Perhaps he means to say It's not the galaxies It is not the ordinary ways in the sky Because even NASA can know those things Even the servants of the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Can know those ways Perhaps the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Want to say yes I know those ways About the galaxies About the moon About the stars But I also know about the ways That lead to Allah SWT Straight to Allah SWT God knows what kind of ways He was talking about But this willaya Takes us straight to Allah SWT That is why this is the greatest Blessing of all But there were people who Recognized this blessing And yet they rejected it There were people Who knew who the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Was They had seen him in Zul'ashira In Badr In Ohad In Khandaq In Haibar In Mubahila And then in Ghadir And yet they rejected it They recognized the blessing of Allah Then they rejected This is the worst of the Quran According to the Hadith based About those people who rejected The Amir Al-Mu'mineen They knew who he was And yet they refused to Accept him Accept his willaya But we We do not do that We recognize this blessing But are we grateful for this blessing What does it mean to be grateful For this blessing of willaya Allah SWT says in the holy book إعملوا آلذا ودا شكرا And children of David Do something إعملوا واق To be grateful شكرا When it comes to being grateful When it comes to being To do شكر One has to do something Allah SWT did not say تلفلوا شكرا إعملوا آلذا ودا شكرا And interestingly in Persian they say شكر كن In Urdu they say شكر كرو In Syraiki, Punjabi شكر كار شكر كرو Maybe in Turkish and other languages as well It is always كن كار كرو It's never just speak شكر شكر You always have to do something To be grateful to Allah SWT So how can we be grateful To this blessing The blessing of willaya You and Mashallah in Aberdeen Have built this mosque And many other places Have also believers Built Islamic centers and mosques And this is one way of being Grateful to Allah SWT For the blessing of the willaya So that in those centers We can learn about the Quran We can learn Hadith We can learn about the Ahlul Bayt About their lives This is a way to be grateful الحمد لله But more needs to be done More needs to be done Because just recognizing them Is not sufficient Just saying that We recognize them Is not enough There were people Who recognized them There is another true story That I'm going to tell you about There was a man Who had met one of the Imam And recognized and was convinced That he was the Imam And yet he rejected him It is in the kafi It is narrated that There was a man Ali bin Muhammad And he belonged To the Waqfiyah sect Waqfiyah sect Was a sect in the history And they believed that Imam Musa Al-Qasim Peace be upon him Was the Imam Al-Laghhaib And he was in occultation And he would return one day So they rejected all the Imam After that Imam Reza Peace be upon him Imam Taqi Imam Naqi Peace be upon them all Imam Asqari Peace be upon them all So they rejected them And he belonged to that sect And he narrates that The narrator tells that This man told him That we were very poor So one day My father who was apparently Mainstream Sheer He said Let's go to that man Which man Imam Hassan Al-Asqari Peace be upon him Let's go to him He might help us So this man says I said Okay let's go to him But does he know you Have you met him Do you recognize him My father said No I've never met him I do not recognize him But you know We need 500 Dirhams So I hope He can give me 500 Out of which 200 I'll use to pay back loans 200 I can use To buy clothes And 100 To buy food items And stuff And this man says that I thought okay I'll go with my father To this man Hassan Al-Asqari And I thought And I thought Well I also need 300 At least Of which I can pay My debts For 100 100 I can use on clothes And 100 I can use to buy a donkey And go to the mountainous regions Of Kurdistan And that's what he thought He said that We both went to The house of Hassan Al-Asqari And then as soon as We approached his house A servant came out of the house And he said Muhammad and his son Ali Should come in And we were surprised That he already knew Who we were And what our names were So he says that We went in And we met Hassan Al-Asqari And he asked my father At this time What brings you here And somehow His father was shy To ask the Imam What he wanted The man says That we left The house of Hassan Al-Asqari And we had gone a little further And in fact The servant of Hassan Al-Asqari Came running after us And he gave 500 To my father And said 200 for paying back the loan 200 to buy clothes 104 food items He says I was surprised That he knew that And I thought Okay But what were my 300 And as I thought The servant said And here are 300 for you And use 100 To buy food items And 100 To buy a donkey But do not Go to the mountains Of Kurdistan Instead go to the city Of Surah Such a detail The man says That I acted upon those Advices I went to Surah And I got married To a woman there And I started business And now I earn 1,000 Therein 1,000 Therein A month Then the narrator said What more do you need To know That He is the Imam He says Yes, you are right But I cannot help it Now the work of fear Has diffused Into me What a classic example Of someone Who had seen the Imam Recognized the Imam Had seen the miracle And was convinced That he was the Imam But the wrong sect Had diffused Into him So he could not leave that sect So my brothers and sisters We are not like that We are not like that man But Do we Truly appreciate What we have got from What the kind of treasures We have The treasures That our Imams Have left for us Have we thought about those things Have we thought about Sahifa to Sajadiah The treasure of supplications And prayers It is easy to Set up Have programs And cut cakes And eat sweets And recite beautiful poetry And have happy occasions To celebrate The birthday anniversaries Of the Imams And to pay tributes to them But when it comes to To do shukr For this wilaya Then it requires something from us Quran As I said Quran we should recite But Quran alone is not sufficient We also need the hadith We also need the Ahlul Bayt And the Quran tells us What Allah SWT Says to us Quran is the communication From Allah To us And Sahifa to Sajadiah Tells us How we should communicate To Allah SWT What we should say to him The Sahifa to Sajadiah Is full of love For Allah SWT Full of Tawheed For Allah SWT What do we get to hear About Imam Sajadiah Usually In our lectures And in our programs Usually We hear about Sahifa to Sajadiah And many speakers And scholars talk about it But there is also a tendency Among the public To think that He was only morning After Karbala And he cried a lot And he was Ill in Karbala And he is called The Bimar Imam The Maried Imam But instead of that Focusing on that We should try and understand What is in Sahifa Sajadiah What beauty Sahifa Sajadiah Is nothing but a commentary A Tafseer of the Quran If we start to look into it If we start to appreciate it It will open the doors for us Sahifa Sajadiah has Over 50 supplications Now what we can do today As I said I will speak about a way To celebrate And pay tribute To Imam Sajadiah Peace be upon him Please do this Please I ask you to do this You start looking at The 7 supplications That are for the 7 days Of the week For Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday If we recite one Supplication From Sahifa Sajadiah Everyday On Saturday We recite the dua For Saturday On Sunday The dua for Sunday Takes 2-3 minutes And we pay attention And we try to Understand the meanings Then I Guarantee you That the doors to your hearts Will open Because the Sahifa Sajadiah Is powerful It creates love It melts hearts And it teaches us How we should converse To Allah And when it comes to Opening of doors We are also celebrating The birth anniversary Of Abul Falil Abbas Who is called Babul Hawa'ij People used to go to Israel And ask Allah SWT For their wishes And they went to him And they used him As the wasila And their wishes would come true So many wishes So many people's wishes come true That his name became Babul Hawa'ij When all the doors are closed Then take Abbas As the wasila And then pray to Allah SWT The doors will open Why Abbas is so special Abbas is Abdu-Sualih What makes Abbas Peace be upon him That special That he has such a status Near Allah SWT He had absolutely Submitted to Allah SWT Through the submission To the Holy Prophet Through the submission To the Amirul Mu'mineen Through the submission To the Imam Hassan And Imam Hussein Peace be upon them both Imam Sadab Peace be upon him Has written the زيارة for Abul Falil Abbas Peace be upon him Abdu-Sualih المطيع لله ولي رسوله ولي Amirul Mu'mineen ولي Hassan ولي Hussein This was His strength This was What made him That special According to the Hadith On the Day of Judgement When Abbas Will appear Then all the Matters would think Oh Only if we could also Get that status His status is so high Compared to all other Matters So this باب الحوائج What we can learn from His life How we can pay tribute To Him Is that We accept We resort to تقوى We resort to إطاع Of Allah SWT Submission to Allah SWT And تقوى And also Submission to The Holy Prophet And the imams By trying to Understand What they have said What they have ordered Us to do And That way We seek nearness To Allah SWT So we pray To Allah SWT That yesterday's Lecture And today's lecture Whatever has been said He accepts it From us And we pray To Allah SWT That he makes it Easy For mankind That he opens All the closed doors And he also To appreciate The doors That are open In our lives The blessings He has given to us Oh Allah Oh Allah We cannot understand Your wisdom We have limited intellects We have superficial understanding Of Your scheme of things We have a superficial understanding Of Your mercy We cannot understand In how many different forms Your mercy manifests So Allah You show us What we perceive As Your mercy Nothing happens In Your kingdom But it is a manifestation Of Your رحمة It is a manifestation Of Your mercy So Allah Make it easy for us Allah Make it easy For the whole Mankind And eradicate This A disease This virus From the face Of the earth Sooner Than later So that the doors To the shrines Can open again Doors To the Islamic centers Can open again Doors To the mosques Can open again Doors To the businesses To schools To restaurants Cafes Small and medium enterprises All those people Whose livelihoods Are dependent on those businesses Which are closed They open soon again And lives Of people Your creatures Become Easier Again And give us the Tophik And give us the strength These times By being Grateful to you Grateful To you For the sake of Muhammad Ali Muhammad Allahumma sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Wassalamu alaikum ورحمة الله وبركاته