 فاتحة أوضى بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي هدان لهذا وما كنا لنا هدد لو لا هدان الله الحمد لله الذي أنزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيره صلاة والسلام على خير خلق ونور عرش أفضل الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبنا وسيدنا وسندنا وشفيعنا ومولانا أب القاسم محمد وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين المأسومين المظلومين أما بعد فقد قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيد وقوله الحق وهو أستقصادقين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم محمد الرسول الله والذين معوا شد دول الكفار رحماء بينهم تراهم ركعا سجدا يبتغون فضل من الله ورضوان سيماهم في وجوه من أثر السجود ذلك مثلهم في التورات ومثلهم في الإنجيل كزرع أخرج شطأه فأزروا فاستغلضا فاستواع على سوقه يعجب الزرع ليغيذ بهم الكفار وعض الله الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحة حياتي منهم مغفرة واجرا عظيمة صدق الله العلي العظيم صلاهات الله محمد وآله محمد I begin in Allah's Name the Benefits, the Merciful and All Praise belongs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى And I send my condolences to the human race for the tragic events that took place in the year 61 after Hijrah Okay. السلام عليكم ورحمة الله. السلام عليكمانكم ورحمة الله. كيف أهل أن في الحالة و to mix it with falsehood so the human race can go astray as Iblis promised Allah when he failed فبعزتك لأغوينه مجمعين إلا عبادك منهم المخلصين Iblis promised Allah that by your authority I will beguile this human race that has caused my downfall that has caused my downfall is parenthetical لأغوينه مجمعين I will fool them لأغوينه مجمعين accept your purified servants إلا عبادك منهم المخلصين So Shaytan agrees that the agents of God who Allah chooses He has no power over them but nonetheless he is there to cause harm destruction death but he cannot affect the agents of God even though a sword is put on them for they are indomitable as we say mankind that do not bargain for any price for the zikr of Allah and this happened as you know in a very momentous event in history we have tragedies that took place but nothing equals the tragedy of Karbala now people may say look more people have been massacred than in Karbala in Karbala the good ones were massacred a little over 100 and then of course they were enslaved some would argue that well some massacres were in the millions you know World War II 60 million people died you might say that sometimes a genocide Saddam used to kill tens of thousands of people so why is Karbala more important than that or why are they not equal the reality is that when people get massacred and those who massacre them are usually just after power and they find these people marginal position they want to abuse them they want to exercise their authority and therefore they kill them but those who are killed have a mixture of good and not so good they're innocent but they get killed but those who get killed on the innocent side are not the proponents of holding the flag and the banner of the ultimate truth so what we notice that in society when massacres do take place is that while the evil forces do punish the good forces the good are intrinsically in nature good and they are good people in the sense that they're not harming others but they're not the flag bearers of truth look at us as a community we as a community anywhere in the world holistically the people are good we may do some wrong some of our members indulge in drugs and in cheating and in lying but holistically as a community we're good all communities holistically are good it's the law of nature الله says indeed الله created all good kind for those to be really evil they have to work hard فرعون worked hard to maintain his hegemony over the people he worked hard to ensure that nobody challenged him he worked hard to eradicate any form of resistance there are few like that we have them at low levels within our own communities who exercise power but not to the level of فرعون of معاوية يزيد people like these are few but they cause a lot of damage the difference in Karbala was that the Umayyad empire was a contemporary of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and historically you will notice that they were actually part of the prophet's extended family Umayyad himself actually had a friction with Hashim as you know Hashim is the grandfather of the Holy Prophet hence they are known as Banu Hashim they are a unique family chosen by Allah to represent mankind to represent Allah to mankind so the Banu Hashim are a chosen people الله says in Allah أستفى آدمة ونوه وآل إبراهيم we have chosen certain group of people to be superior to others as leaders of society because the law of nature that God has created intrinsically demands leadership you will never find any society that produces fruitful results until and unless there is a sound leadership that represents it the kind of leadership that exercises equity balance, long term vision strength, fortitude as we say an intrepid individual who refuses to bow to any false principles and is willing to die for that such principles bring out the most values for humanity so you will notice that when Allah created mankind after this earth was incubated where it could sustain life then Allah says to His angels وإذ خال ربك للملائكة إني جاعل في الأرض خليفة and Allah declared to the angels that I will place on earth my representative why representative? because intelligent beings who are tested have a hierarchical structure by which to obey structure for we find that success is when things are structured when there is a hierarchy we are Muslims what is the shahadateen لا إلهي لله محمد الرسول الله why do we say that it's hierarchy we are bearing allegiance that nothing is superior to God and His messenger they are our guidelines the minute we bear witness to the shahadateen we are bearing allegiance to our hierarchy which means that should we go astray morally we will hold each other to task and say hey you bore allegiance to the hierarchy like in the United States you bear allegiance to the flag but you bear allegiance to the constitution for when push comes to shove and you end up in supreme court it's usually constitutional law that's going to dictate whether you're within the parameters of the law or you're outside of the law structure we have to have it if we don't have it it's chaos you take the finest basketball players all the best in the world today LeBron, Curry combine them all and there's no coach there's no leader the likelihood of them winning a game is low but they're all experts in their game but the cohesive nature of taking the genius of an individual collectively and directing it in a fruitful fashion requires good leadership I give a good example another one let's look at Steve Jobs who's gone from this world was passed away his company now is richer than the United States government worth over a trillion dollars it's the first company that crosses the trillion dollar mark this is insanity that's a thousand billion dollars it's insanity the numbers Apple is like that but if you examine him as a leader you will find that when he founded Apple Apple wasn't a positive trajectory he's a smart businessman knew the psyche of the humans and was playing with it to pull them of course he was a crude businessman ruthless in many ways but nonetheless a leader now such leadership is not what Islam promotes but just to give you an example of the necessity of leadership even though it's crude you find that a person like him when he was fired by John Scully Apple took a nosedive and was about to become bankrupt was about to go bankrupt Apple had lost its value because the leader was pushed aside the vision was pushed aside the force was pushed aside people say no we can manage this company and you notice Apple took a nosedive and they had no option but to bring him back and when he came back he took Apple to another dimension now let's argue for the moment and see I don't want to go too far into this tangent but I want to make a clear point on this so when we talk about Ahl al-Bayt when we talk about Imamat when we talk about Nubuwa when we talk about prophethood when we talk about leadership and when we talk about the tragedy of Karbala we will understand the gravity of why it's so important that this commemoration is no ritual it's not recycling religion some people say when it comes you don the black what's the point why do we keep rehashing this event that happened 14 centuries ago why is it important for me today why do you shed so many tears and why do you strike yourself to show your grief what is your point I don't understand when you understand this you will see the gravity of the satanic law that tries to remove the very essence of God's law through leadership by replacing the correct leadership with corrupt leadership that's all it takes it's like if I want to defeat an army replace the general with yours and you got the army they're dead you can have a million man army you replace one general who's at the head and you can cause chaos for the entire army to collapse that's the power of one individual Shaytan knows that and he's working on that and you and I our obligation is to recognize the divine leadership and to maintain it under no circumstance do we negotiate that matter not because we're closed minded not because we are indoctrinated no we insist on its gravity for if we were to replace it it is tantamount to dismantling the entire system it's like saying kill the captain and let's drill a hole in the ship you will sink now Steve Jobs dies but the vision is there the momentum is there now he's dead so you can't bring him back so everybody knows he's no longer sidelined and let's all just have his spirit and just remember him in Apple and just try to imagine how good he must have been and what his thought process must have been and let's just take Apple but without a CEO no investor will look at you in the right way and say you're crazy you're out of your mind but we got the spirit the product is here it's been here for decades we understand it this is the same analogy people use that we have a Rasoolillah he came 1400 years ago we don't need a living Imam we don't need a living leader today there's no need we have a template it's already there let's just follow that template notice how absurd it is that in our day-to-day operations none of us can function on the day-to-day function until and unless we at least recognize that there exists a leader most people who own an iPhone have never met the new CEO Apple we don't care we know there's one out there managing so when people say why do you believe in Imam صاحب الزمان صاعة على فرجك صين gemeinsاع يعيو اللدينا ا آمنوا يعيو اللدينا ا آمنوا يعيو اللدينا ا آمنوا الله عنك يقogen في answer to text تع—ا تي relate وارسول classy وقة من memory it's present now it's always present because Allah says without leadership كيف يجب أن تقوم بعمل المسيحين؟ لا يمكن أن تقوم بعمل المسيحين look at the corporate level at the sports level you always need a captain you always need a coach you always one gets fired not one gets replaced you always ask or this one got fired who replaced him what if the leader the owner of the team they said no we don't need any more captains no more coaches you'd be scratching your heads or what impossible no they're all pros these guys know how to throw a ball with their eyes closed they got it no you don't have it that combination by which to traverse complicated matters on a daily basis requires hekma wisdom connections human natures precarious one day we wake up from the wrong side of the bed and we're in a bad mood and now we're bashing everybody on the other side you've got a pleasant person forgiving everybody and then you got this a heat exchange that two people got off on the wrong side of the bed and chaos is ensuing you've got to stop it because if you don't it can spread like a cancer who's there to lead it well there's a hierarchy this is why the shahada of Imam Hussein is so important when Allah says خلق السماوات والأرض بالحق we created the universe in truth and the essence of truth must be practiced through practical applications so Allah says إني جائل في الأرض خليفة we are the only school among the Abrahamic faiths that believes that Adam was not only the first human being but the first prophet of God when people say Islam started 1400 years ago correct them please and tell them no I beg to differ Islam started for the human beings with Adam صلى الله عليه وسلم when we talk about how Imam dealt all are imams particularly Imam Hussein عليه السلام let's pay attention that he's our leader he continues to be our leader though he has become شهيد الله say لا تقولوا لما يقتلوا في سبيل الله بل أحياء ولكن لا تشعرون don't say those who die in the way of God are dead, they are alive but you cannot see them he is our leader how? on many fronts first and foremost understand that within our school of thought the Ja'afari school of thought we are the only school of thought among all religions in the world that insists that the divine leadership started with Adam and will continue as the last human being on this earth and there will never be a time when the leader of God is not present on this earth we are the only school we are the only religion on earth there are thousands of religion we are the only one who insists on that now if you dissect it you will see that rationally and logically this is an essential piece of the equation if you and I are to submit to the purpose and vision of why God created us otherwise we might as well become deistic for those who say God created us but he is no longer involved in us and we are free to do what we want and then one day he'll collect us and then he'll just decide to do something with us now we were created for a purpose ربنا ما خلقتها ده باطلا سبحانه سبحانه فقنا عذاب النار ف๋لجه You did not currency Youet us들이ب كقوا كم فعيلان كلتم ذو إنصating and loose Just a few sizaning but it took somebody who whisper an idea in our ears when I do approaches to try it and the next thing we are going astray were now indulgent and something only a few seconds you might think no no no it's a protracted problem it takes a long time to go astray absolutely not it takes a few seconds so it's only prudent for us to believe that divine leadership and guidance and prudency at the level of constant god consciousness not in a myopic way where we are close minded extremists but ones who are conscious that no you're suggesting something wrong to me i'm being cautious no say no to haram say no to indecency say no to suggestive ideas for all it takes is one wrong move and you could be trapped in it for life even prophets they achieve the highest standards in this world they were tested upon tested upon tested and they never failed yet even they used to pray use of say use of achieve the highest status after trial upon trial upon trial and he never left الله he never condemned الله he never became an atheist he never doubted he was not an agnostic he struggled and struggled and struggled never questioned the integrity of the trial he never questioned the wisdom and the mercy of god for he's a prophet of god being taken into slavery away from his beloved father for decades enslaved given extreme beauty to be trapped by a woman who's powerful and rich and who wants him to degrade his moral components even then when the king of the time recognized his greatness and offered him the treasury of Egypt he did not lose a law he did not become drunk with power he did not say oh now i'm rich and powerful so i don't need god anymore many of us when we become rich and powerful we say what god i don't need god my mighty dollar saves me and you see the arrogance when people become rich and powerful they exercise it with impunity kill him destroy him just pick up the phone and backbite somebody and because i'm so great and i'm so rich and i'm so powerful no one was more powerful at that time than use of alaysalaam he says i cry when i read this verse that my prophet is touching me and telling me do you understand i'm your leader i'm your leader we're all one hundred and twenty four thousand of us we're all one in the same our message is the same which one do you want take any one of us we're all the same but don't forget your living one but that's the one who will be a witness and judgment there's a lot say yo manadoo كل أناس بإمامهم on that day everybody will be raised with their إمام with their leader who did you follow as your leader was it donald trump did you follow such a leader so the question is where do you follow and الله will raise us like birds with the same feathers who flock together that we pray to god that when he raises us he raises us among the finest the foremost of the foremost they will enter paradise and they will remain in it without any questions that's the group you and i want to be with this commemoration is the reflection of how to be in that group see زوهير بن قين إمام عليه سلام ميتسيم on his way to kufa and زوهير was not a follower of أهل البيت he was actually an othmani he believed othman was the caliph he was fooled in leadership so he meets إمام حسين عليه السلام and they meet in a tent no one knows what transpired the only thing we know was زوهير was a wealthy man he had his spouses there his children were there he meets the إمام in the tent and إمام tells him his mission and زوهير is so touched by that mission he understands why he exists he knew what he needed to do to seal his destiny to be among the صابقون الصابقون he had to make a choice so he comes out of the tent and he tells his family i free all of you go i am going to go with حسين ابن علي and i know that our destiny is that we will be massacred but i am ready to do that for this great purpose that i'm going to go for sacrificially for my love of god is so supreme that it is an eternal movement and i will be foolish to bargain anything else how many of us can be like that how many of us we should ask ourselves who are the إمام to meet us on a pathway where we were busy planning our homes and our vacations and our futures and how much wealth we were going to invest all over the world including offshore and suddenly somebody meets you and says hey there's a purpose in life and you look at him in the eye and you know this is the agent of god who's pulling you telling you come with me you have a choice you can go there or you can go here which one do you want says no no i want this one join me it's a choice الله says we guided you to the path whether you're grateful or ungrateful which path do you want so leadership tonight we talk about إمام حسين عليه السلام his blessed family we talk about his cousin مسلم ابن أقيل tonight actually last night technically was the first night of محرم as you know soon after when the إمام was invited he was told come to kufa معاوي has just died we are with you many many of the people of kufa wrote thousands of letters to the إمام inviting him to come for they said it is time to establish the real leadership that god conferred upon your father you know الله says يا يه الرسول بلغ ما انزل إليك من ربك وإن لم تفعل فما بلغت رسالة والله يأسمك من الناس all messenger of god deliver what has been commanded of you to deliver بلغ ما انزل إليك من ربك what your lord has revealed to you and if you don't do it وإن لم تفعل then you have not delivered the message of god this came in the last year of the prophet's life when salah was established fasting was established حج was established the rules of islam were established it was completes completes notice the gravity of leadership that not only does the religion of god hinge that the entire religion begin with leadership but it also ends with leadership that's how important leadership is look at the chaos in our societies and the apathy in religion within our societies and see where the problem really lies you will notice from the top down is a leadership problem and the conclusion of such leadership is flawed where we have leaders who are selling themselves for cheap leading societies to go astray and therefore we are losing iman and our children aren't even praying our sisters are questioning the integrity of hijab we'll talk about that the battle of decency for our children don't even know what is decency they think this headscarf is a burden they think being modest is a burden when you tell our brothers don't chase girls oh it's a burden don't date freely it's a burden where's my freedom where's my happiness why can't i indulge in it today our children are addicted to smartphones where depression has risen so much that 30% rise in the united states since 2012 in suicide you don't need to be killed anymore we're killing ourselves that level of depression comes when there's no zikr of allah when there's no tadaabur when there's no tafakkur when there's no tazakkur when there's no pondering thinking reflecting we're just voracious creatures running towards the flashing lights for what is my friend thinking fortnight our children play fortnight they're addicted to fortnight now it may be a good game but i'll tell you what's really driving it all my friends are playing it i asked was why did you cannot play it mom it's haram if i don't play it you're denying me my freedom my power to destroy my power to waste my brain my power to become a couch potato and then you're 60 years of age you know an eye of quran no what happened i've been busy killing in cyber world gaming they turned the lights off they turned on the blue light and they're so good even their computers are lit oh yeah the keyboards have to be lit then they live in this cyber world then of course you got virtual reality what's even better thank you what's even better is augmented reality now i don't know if to leave my house i can transpose myself into somebody else صلاة الله محمد والمحمد one more why do we have this problem parents come to me please for you you know research shows anything over two hours of use of this smartphone leads to depression anti-social they don't know how to say even صلام عليكهم they don't even know how to give you eye contact they don't even know how to shake hands yeah we're becoming zombies so the system is we now need to take this cellphone and smash it burn it melt it put acid in it really that's not where the problem is there are plenty of knives in the kitchen بلان تي that's not where the problem is it's you and i lacking understanding we're depressed we want to get depressed we're looking for something we're looking for some kind of an excitement and shaitan says oh come come come i promise god i'm going to do this to you come on come on and they say you know shaitan says on judgment day i just looked at you and you ran towards me فلاتا لوموني لومان فزاكوب don't blame me blame yourselves i just suggested you followed me now children what wrong did children do to get into that you know why children go there they're innocent when children get into these you know elusive games that destroys them from the inner you can't really blame them they're not evil parents are not evil but there's a disconnection we haven't valued what god has warned us about and Allah is warning us ألا محادي لكم يا بني آدمة لا تعبدوا الشيطان إنه لكم عدوه مبين oh god stop please you keep telling me this ah religion i don't want religion صالح like religion just causes wars and killing is what you hear religion oh let me define religion religion is a way of life nobody is not religious everybody has a religion everybody has a dean but there is the true religion where you are disciplined where you know how to press the right buttons and bring the right results or you will be pressing the wrong buttons the mere fact of not pressing any buttons is also a wrong religion so when you say i'm religious what do you mean by that oh you talk about god i said that you how much do you know god i met an atheist who says i don't believe in god i said why just i haven't seen him so true there are many things you and i haven't seen but how did you conclude he's not there maybe he's there he just looked at me says well i haven't thought about them i said wow that was quick so you just jumped to this conclusion you didn't ponder see that's the danger my friend told me there is no god god doesn't work i prayed it wasn't answered we have a transaction with god you see we go do business with god i'll pray to you god but you gotta give me something and if you don't give me something i don't need you anymore thank you very much i don't like you anymore people are like that we're transactional ignorant jahil foolish when prayer is not meant for that prayer is it is meant for gratitude it's meant for recognition it's meant to be a discipline in a salata it's good it's the best thing you will do but we don't articulate it properly so we see it as a burden and then we compare it to our non-muslim friends who seem to be just as good and having such a good time but they don't pray so why should i pray those of us who pray those of us who believe in god those of us who believe in allah in the quran as muslims i'm telling you this with no compunction as we'd say i have no reservations we are a selected elite who have been granted special knowledge in society we're like born in a family of scientists we have access to the secrets of life that the average population doesn't have and we are bashing science whereas we need to indulge in what we've been blessed so that we lead societies الله says who وجتباكم وما جعل عليكم في الدين من حرج ملة أبيكم إبراهيم هو سماك المسلمين من قبل وفي هذا why so the prophet is a witness over you and you are a witness over the people you are a witness over the people الله says i've chosen you we're bashing dean we're bashing modesty we're bashing religion the net results our children are falling into crevices and we're becoming part of the normal statistics where suicide rates are increasing drug abuses increasing apathy is increasing family feuds are increasing divorces are increasing all kinds of problems is it because it's a law of nature no it's the law of nature if you and i ignore our responsibilities it's like you don't brush your teeth every day you will have problems with your teeth because the law of nature stipulates if you don't maintain cleanliness if you don't maintain a hygienic lifestyle then there will be pathogens that will cause you to become سكر same with dean if dean is not maintained then you become sick how do we understand all this path leaders knowing the value so our children are going astray our families are going astray because we've taken religion as a lip service our leaders are just a lip service we cry for imamo saying as a lip service do we ever ponder to say that i want me and my children to grow up in the footsteps of to follow in the footsteps of zaynab to follow the footsteps of do we think this way no that happened 1400 years ago it's all the history we are modern today you see we need to be with the times and our imams were archaic our imams are not archaic they're not the principle of goodness never changes forever a million years ago to a million years from today it never changes that trajectory continues to flow so leadership who is what kind of leadership you and i every one of us in this room has a role model i can sit with atheists and they will quote who they look up to they will quote their leaders you go to christians they will quote their leaders you go to jews they will quote their leaders you go to atheists agnostics they will quote their leaders none of us can escape a role model that affects us somehow that we look up to as our point of goal and there's nothing wrong with that but i advise us all that while we have these leaders if they do not align with the master leader of allah and the prophet and his ahlulbayt then you and i are most likely being taken astray it's just the law of god so this commemoration is not to recycle religion it is to understand the gravity of this leadership that inshallah after these 10 nights when we reach the ultimate 10th night of محرم when imam sayn alaih salam bids farewell to his family bids farewell to imams and al-abideen you and i have that image of this imam who's choosing to go forward he has an option of bowing to yazid he has an option of giving it all up and being free and living comfortably in this transient world he has an option but he says never الله says mankind that does not bargain they maintain their prayers they maintain their charity they maintain the dignity of law says and they are afraid of that day when god will hold them liable for god says i have chosen you so much i have gifted you with so much what have you done with it did you use it properly i think that positive fear is how you and i should live that we are too chosen we are too gifted we are too blasts when Allah says to me you know what that means الله says سط الحج verse number 78 struggle in the way of your lord the way he deserves it how much do you deserve يا الله how much sacrifice should i give for you when we say my prayer my sacrifice my life my death all of it يا الله for you الله says the whole gamut says yes god has purchased from some believers their souls purchased how do you purchase when you own it الله says they have sold it to me from the perspective that they do nothing but for me الله says i chose them and we didn't make religion difficult this commemoration is where power comes from it's where justice is going to come today the message of karbala is the most powerful media instrument on earth nobody in history has been able to maintain the consistency and the growth of the message of imam hussain where now it has penetrated mass media on all the main stations and they're talking about karbala and they're talking about imam hussain where hundreds of millions of people are talking about it and the media of imam hussain continues to grow at the core level of where shaitan is actually working to destroy mankind through superpower hegemony entering our muslim lands to kill us to destroy us to remove our dean they tried it with the ormons and they went to the turks and told them this quran is in arabic get rid of the arabic this is how the enemy works the enemy comes and takes our culture from us takes our lingo from us takes our name from us you know they used to call us muhammadans we muslims in history never called ourselves muhammadans but they called us muhammadans why because they're working hard to strip us of the gift of god when god says i've chosen you and i want they said they read arabic when Allah says indeed we reveal this quran in arabic so you know and it's deep and it's powerful and it is so amazing that nobody has messed with it for 14 centuries all five madaheb all five schools of thought unanimously agree that this is calam allah this is the word of god and the enemy tries to adulterate it take one fatta out take one kasra out take one letter out so that we can fool them the way we've been fooled and it's not happening it's not happening الله promises it is our desire to make you the oppressed the inheritors this is even in the bible the meek shall inherit the earth how leadership you and i would not have any understanding of this conversation i see myself as a muslim today when i ponder and i reflect and i read the quran and i remember the hadith and i remember the ahlul bayt and there's a guidance and i reflect on it i said what sacrifice did you make o prophets or imams what sacrifices did you make that i am such a beneficiary 14 centuries later that i have meaning to my life that i can avoid these distractions that i can avoid going into depression so that i can indulge in the hope of god and i can fulfill what god has created before when he says that i have chosen you what a blessing the imam says we had to give our necks we had to give our families we had to spill our blood and we were taken as slaves city to city to keep your faith alive how important is that message tell me humans will try to keep their messages alive when their families are massacred but it dies in time this one continues to grow this one has become the source of power for resistance in today's middle east where the enemy is invading lands and the ones who have the love of husayn ibn al-alayhi salam understand the value and their rise with antiquated armaments whereas the other side has the most sophisticated weapons and they cannot penetrate because the iman is stronger than anything in the universe صلاة الله محمد وعال محمد إمام السلام tonight within the short time and my time is up i'd like to reflect on his وصية he leaves a وصية to his brother محمد من حنفية i'm going to introduce it tonight briefly briefly talk about muslim ibn akil within few minutes the sacrifice of muslim ibn akil who's called as you know to kufa people join him they support him and they're all excited that he's coming but then one ibn ziyad single man rides in his with his horse covered with his face you know covered on his face he enters and people think it's him i'm going to say one man they covered they covered that muslim ibn akil is praying by the time he's done with صلاة he looks behind and everybody's gone i ask us you and i how many of us will run away when muslim ibn akil comes how many of us will run away when imamsa abou zaman al-alayhi salam come but we give lip service to dean but he takes guts to stand up and fight he takes guts to be فرم ibn akil is leaving this message he says he writes his letter to his brother يشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأن محمد عبده ورسوله جاء بالحق من عنده وأن الجنة حق والنار حق والصاعة تيته لا ريب فيها وأن الله يبعث من في القبو look how imam is studying his will he's leaving madina to go to makkah and he knows he's never coming back he bids goodbye to his family he leaves he leaves محمد عيبان حنفيه he's that brother he lives in behind and says this is the will i'm leaving for you for mankind to know why am i going on this revolution because he will be accused that he wants power that he wants authority he's hungry none of the above and الله says in the quran كنتم خير أمة وخرجت للناس تأمرون بالمعروف وتنهون عن المنكة وتؤمنون بالله you're the best in the umma you promote good you forbid evil you believe in god imam says that's why i'm here i'm your leader for that he says because i'll translate this he says by the way when the imam starts he establishes usul he says one الحسين he says i bear witness there is no god but الله and that the prophet is his messenger usul you and i anything you and i do in business in transactions when we have children when we get married say yallah i bear witness you oh my god and i bear witness Muhammad you are my messenger and i am held liable by your guidance and now i want to get married i want to have children and i want generations to be soldiers for you but my foundation is because of you imam is leaving وصية when الله says تواصل بالحق تواصل بالصبر imam is bearing allegiance he says وانا محمد and عبده ورسول جاء بالحق من عنده وانا الجنة حق والنار حق paradise is true hell is true the day of judgment is true and i have no doubt in it and that we will subtly come back alive we will be raised from our grace when we die he lives this he says he says واني لم أخرج أشرا ولا بطرا ولا مفسدا ولا ظالما وإنما خرجت لطلب للسلاحي في أمة جدي صلى الله عليه وآله أريد أن أمر بالمعروف وأنها عن المنكر وأصير بسيرة جدي وأبي علي ابنى بطالب فمن قبلني لقبولي لقبول الحق فالله أو لا بالحق ومن رد عليه هذا أصبر حتى يقضي الله بيني وبين القوم وخير الحاكمين تراني إمام سينا عليه السلام says this movement of mine is not because of stubbornness rebellion worldly passions or instigation by shaytan it is also not my object to create trouble or to oppress anyone the only thing which invites me to this great movement is that I should reform the affairs of the followers of my grandfather eradicate corruption undertake enjoining to do good and restraining from evil and follow the tradition of my grandfather the prophet of allah and my father علي he says I've come out to reform the followers of my grandfather if the people respond to my call and accept the truth from me well and good and if they don't accept it I shall observe patience and I'm not afraid of unpleasant events subhanallah look at the firm resolution you accept it no problem you don't accept it I don't negotiate it it's okay he leaves me this was here he leaves you and me this was here how important is is there as you know he had two sons and after he was killed his two sons wondered being chased because ibn ziyad wanted to kill them they're little boys and both were killed and their heads were thrown in the river muslim knew this would happen he didn't care the family with the cousins of imam sayn عليه السلام gave the most lives in karbala they were not afraid so muslim as you know came to invite to prepare the people for the imam the imam was leaving makkah to go towards kufa because he was invited for us that meets him on the way as he's leaving makkah he says the people's tongues are towards you and their swords are towards your neck imam says I know he says the more you're going he says I'm going to my destiny I'm going to establish something and you know when you have an infant with you and you're traveling this long distance in the desert and premonition gives you that this child will become shahid your women will be taken as slaves they will be dragged city to city how many of us can leave our comfort zone how many I end with this here's that imna ziaad has entered imna ziaad comes to kufa actually he was the governor of basra ibn ziaad known as ibn marjana obey the law ibn ziaad was a tyrant he was a horrible human being of his time he was known as the butcher of arabia and muawiya liked him they were related due to their illicit mothers evil mothers the roots were ugly ibn ziaad was already the governor of basra historically in islam there was never a governor who governed two cities but surjun who was a Byzantium christian who was an advisor to muawiya suggests that kufa is the seat of ali ibn abitalin the seat of the shia of ali if there is one city that will rise against you it is kufa the shia of ali will rise against you when they do send ibn ziaad to crush them so ibn ziaad is sent and he enters kufa alone brothers and sisters alone with a small group of people alone in the sense small band of people the community could have in a heartbeat jumped on him arrested him imprisoned him but rather they were paralyzed so muslim is leading salam hani ibn arwa is behind him حبيب ibn madahir is behind him that he's leading prayers big crowd they're all bearing allegiance to him i'm just saying and they hear rumors ibn ziaad is here and he has put a bounty that whoever supports muslim ibn akil their whole family will be butchered so run ibn muslim ibn akil is finishing salah in prayer he looks behind he notices a handful of people behind they all loved him he's now alone so he's wandering the city of kufa nobody wants to open the door yesterday they welcomed him with the red carpet today nobody cares for him this is the world we live in today the world where الله says put trust in me what the what color allah not the human being these humans will call you they will turn their faces in a heartbeat and muslim is wandering house to house to house finally a woman invites him he's sitting by the her door and she says why are you here she says i am thirsty just come inside she was a good woman she gives him water but her husband was an evil man when he comes home muslim was hiding and he tells his wife that i am looking for muslim there's a bounty on muslim's head and i want that bounty she was silent but muslim was moving in the room and his hiding spot was discovered and therefore muslim runs and now he begins to fight from early morning till evening muslim is fighting alone one man he cornered himself in a narrow street and the enemy was attacking him from one side and they couldn't touch him and they saved the enemies they said we will fight these agents of god and they will kill all of us one by one because الله says my soldiers are so powerful when they believe in me single-handedly they'll fight you today we see the happening the spirit of our people who are resisting the enemies they're making the enemies with the most powerful weapons collapse because they're touching the spirit of muslim ibn akir they're touching the spirit of hussein ibn akir finally they dig a moat and they said we will drop him in there for that's the only way to stop him and muslim finally is subdued and he falls into the moat and in the process they pelted him with stones till his tooth broke and he was bleeding and then he was arrested brought into the palace of the governor and ibn ziyad was pontificating on the throne and he looks at him and he passes the judgment that he should be beheaded and thrown off the tall building i saw that in syria recently when the enemies were killing they were beheading and throwing bodies off the tall buildings and i remember siallah they did that to muslim it hasn't stopped 1400 years later but before muslim was slaughtered ibn ziyad says you have a last will he said yes i have a small debt help me pay it off look at this when he returns the amana he says i have a debt i want to pay that debt one he says send this letter to my brother hussein ibn ali my cousin and warn him not to come to kufa for danger lies here ibn ziyad was stunned he said you don't have a wish for yourself for your family for your own safety you don't want to beg from me he says we don't beg but my master hussein his life i will give a thousand times my life to save his life so warn him please that he doesn't come to kufa for their looms danger for him that's the concern here and as you know muslim عقيل was beheaded and his head was put on a spear at the gates of kufa اذين ظلموا اي منفل من ينفلموا السلام عليك يا بعا عبد الناس رساق with me please وعلى الارواح التي حلات بفناك عليكم مني السلام الله ابدا ما بقيت وبقية الليل والناس ولا جعل الله واخر الاحدي مني رزيارتك السلام علي الحسين وعلى علي ابنى الحسين وعلى ولاد الحسين وعلى صحاب الحسين وصوص صيدي ومولايا بالفضل عباس اختك زيناب وبانتك يا رقيا جميع شوديك اربلا ورحمة الله وبركاته لا لا لا نطلق على الخوم الغليمين وسيعلموا الذين اذلموا اي من قلبين ينقلبون السلام عليكم جميعا وحمد الله وبركاته لدينا شوط نطميات 2 منتظر لدينا 2 منتظر وانشاء الله سنكون قلبي الله وبركاتك عظم الله وجورنا وجوركم إن شاء الله لدينا رفشمين also بعد هذا