 This world relives no more than a pastime in pleasure's name The final hope that's life for sure With their knowledge this much attained بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نالك يوم التينية من الصراطة المستقيم الصراطة اللي بينار عمت عليهم بينار المهبوم عليهم والله بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وعظيمنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفسنا أب القاسم محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين واصحابه الغر الميامين الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتمسكين بولاية سيد مولاي علي ابن أبي طالب اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنحتد يا لولا أن هدان الله أما بعد يقونا الله في كتامه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فلا أسألكم عليه يجرن إلا المودة في القربة بفاست بعوى صلواته أنا برسول الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم بالسكن أنا بمير المؤمنين علي ابنة بيطالب بالثان with your loudest voices and honor the Imam of our time Imam صاحب العصر والزمان respected scholars brothers and sisters سلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إمام الحسين صلوات الله وسلامه عليه was born on the 3rd of شعبان and the 4th year after Hijra and died on the 10th of محرم in the 61st year after Hijra at the age of 57 he is revered by many as the greatest martyr in Islamic history as well as seen by many as an exemplar in terms of his leadership his generosity, his bravery and his humility a man from whose life many a lesson may be learnt and many a principle may be derived and a man whose acts in his life and standpoint have affected both Muslims and non-Muslims until today unfortunately however this personality has been understudied and the idea that when you look at the majority of our knowledge concerning his life the majority of our knowledge or much of our knowledge concerning his life relates to the last year of his life if you were to ask many people about the first 56 years of the life of Imam al-Hussain you'll find many who will not be able to come up with many anecdotes regarding the first 56 years of his life most people know about his life in the last few months when he left Medina to go to Mecca when he left Mecca to go towards Kufa and he stopped at an area called Karbala that is about as much knowledge as most people have of this personality's life and this is somewhat shameful on our part that a person who the Prophet described as the master of the youth of paradise and who the Prophet would say حسين is from me and I am from حسين Allah loves the one who loves حسين it is sad that we only know about the last days of his life if you were to ask yourself how many narrations do you know from the mouth of Imam al-Hussain as in how many hadiths can you narrate or if you were to ask yourself the question how many stories do you know about Imam al-Hussain you'll find many who will come forward and say that barring the tenth of Muharram our knowledge of Imam al-Hussain is quite limited that's why tonight let's have an examination of Imam al-Hussain from the day he was born until the day he was martyred in order to see the number of important lessons that we can learn from his life not only in understanding his relationships but also in understanding the principles that affected non-muslims as much as it affected Muslims today as we said he was born on the third of Sha'ban in the fourth year after Hijrah he was the second of the four children of arguably one of the most beautiful marriages within the religion of Islam as we know Imam Amir al-Mu'mineen when he was married and in that marriage they had four children they had a fifth child who was a miscarried child by the name of Muhsin but the four children was of course Imam al-Hussain Sayyeda Zainab and Um Kulthum and you find that Lady Fatima had conceived Imam al-Hussain and had known that she was pregnant with Imam al-Hussain 52 days after she gave birth to Imam al-Hussain 52 days later she knew that she was pregnant again and the narrations tell us that when it came to the time of the birth of the Imam the narrations tell us that there were mixed feelings surrounding his birth normally when you have a child who's about to be born in the family normally there is a sense of pride and a sense of joy surrounding the whole family as in it's very rare to see a grandfather who's quite sad or a grandfather who feels some sort of sadness or a grandmother or a father or a mother yet Imam al-Hussain many of the reports indicate that surrounding his birth there was a sense of a feeling that this child will have an ending that is one full of sadness the first to comment on this was Um al-Fadal the wife of Abbas the uncle of the Prophet Um al-Fadal came to the Prophet رسول الله I saw a strange dream last night he said to her what did you see she said I saw a piece of your flesh in my lap and I wondered what is this to which the Prophet said to her glad tidings Fatima will give birth and the boy will be in your hands then you find when Fatima gave birth to the Imam on the 3rd of Sha'ban the narrations tell us that the Rasool Allah walked heavily to the house of Fatima when Imam al-Hussain was born you found that Rasool Allah brisk to the house of Fatima whereas Imam al-Hussain when he was born the narrations say that the Prophet walked heavily he took heavy steps to the house of Fatima he called Asma he said Asma where is my Hussain and she bought Hussain as soon as she bought Imam al-Hussain to him he took Imam al-Hussain and began to cry she said to him Imam al-Prophet of God why do you cry as in this is a newborn child surely it's meant to be joy he said this child will be slain by an unjust group of people and may Allah not grant them intercession for what they did but do not tell Fatima for Fatima has just come out of labor and I do not want her to hear this news you therefore find that from the beginning his grandfather had a major connection with him and highlighted to us a very important point a child learns as much from the grandfather as they do with the father if both are living in the same house some of us were honored and fortunate enough that we were brought up in a house where our grandfather is alive isn't that true as in some of us when we were young our grandfathers were in our lives some of us even when we got to our teenage years our grandfathers were alive generations tell us that the importance of the grandfathers like the father the child picks up from the grandfather as much as the child picks up from the father and that Rasool Allah the first thing he did in showing his affection to the child was what was that he performed a series of ceremonies which would become lessons for us when a child is born in our family the first thing he did when Hussein was in his lab was he recited أذان in his right ear and إقامة in his left sometimes people ask the question why is it when a child is born in Islam you recite أذان in the right and إقامة in the left the prophet himself said because this moves away the whispers of shaitan from the child we know very well in the Quran what do we say أعوذ برب الناس ملك الناس إله الناس من شرل وسواس الخناس يا الله I seek refuge from the whispering of shaitan when we recite أذان in the right ear and إقامة in the left the meaning is that we want to remove away the whispers of shaitan that's number one number two what did Rasool Allah then have seven days later he had the عقيقة ceremony today when a child is born you have the عقيقة people ask what is this عقيقة ceremony why do you do it because the prophet we learned he did it with إمام الحسين what did he do the prophet with إمام الحسين he came forward and he said that a sheep is to be slaughtered and that sheep is to be given away to the poor and further than this a leg of mutton is to be given away to the midwife because of what she helped us with in the pregnancy some of us when our child is born in the hospital forget about the midwife we are more concerned you find that the prophet of God what did he tell us he said this midwife has been a helper in that child's birth don't neglect her position at least in this day and age offer a box of chocolates offer her some flowers offer her something in that time Rasool Allah said where's the midwife bring her to me when they brought her he said give a leg of mutton towards this midwife after that when he shaved the hair of إمام الحسين the weight of it the silver was given out to the poor and that is a sunnah that remains with us until today after that what did he do he recited a dua which I recommend any future fathers to recite a supplication which is available in any book on إمام الحسين's life the dua was a dua where he prayed ya Allah remove the envy of the people from حسين like the way إبراهيم prayed for you to remove the envy from إسحاق and إسماعين because not everybody when you tell people I've got the news of a child don't think everybody is happy there are some people maybe they are childless and there might be the tangs of envy in them there may be others who have one child but you've had your second who may have two child the children but you have your third who may have three children but you have your fourth not everybody looks at you and says congratulations but inside they want to stab you straight away sometimes what you should do is do what the prophet did the prophet said recite the dua that when حسين is born he recited ya Allah protect حسين and حسين like إبراهيم asked you to protect إسحاق إسماعين when he came to the naming of إمام الحسين there are three reports about the naming these facts are vital there are three reports we reject to them and we accept one of them there is one report which said إمام أميل المؤمنين when حسين was born when إمام الحسين was born he wanted to name him حرب حرب what does it mean in English war what's a beautiful name to name your son war imagine you look at your son and you say سلام عليكم صور رسول الله came to him and he said to him very clearly that no علي changed his name from حرب to حسين then when إمام الحسين was born إمام علي said now I want to name him war رسول الله said changed his name from war to حسين then the narration says when محسين was born and رسول الله held him رسول الله named him حرب or إمام علي named him حرب رسول الله said no changed his name to محسين why do we reject this number one محسين was never born محسين was a miscarried child of فاطمة number two علي ابنة بطالب when رسول الله once tells him not to do anything he doesn't do it three times number three there's no better name for علي ابنة بطالب to name than war these are the names of جاهلية جاهلية they used to name their son شيطان and ظالم and names like this very pleasant names for you to give your children so in جاهلية because they used to name their son إمام علي had no other name but حرب we reject this then there's a second narration which says إمام علي wanted to name حسين he wanted to name him حمزة and he wanted to name حسين جعفر because two of them had been but that's رسول الله said no we don't accept any of these it was رسول الله who decided that his name will be حسين and that attachment between رسول الله and إمام was a wonderful attachment sometimes it's a role model for a child sometimes a grandfather can be the best role model for a child how many times do you see in some films which appear in the media that the grandfather is this drunkard old man who's swearing the whole day and asleep in the night you see that sometimes the grandfather's just sitting down the whole day grumpy angry doesn't want to talk to anyone swearing the whole time رسول الله taught us that you as a grandfather that child looks for your behavior if you're rude or angry or unpleasant or have a mannerism where you are someone who is always stubborn that child picks up on your mannerisms whereas if you are the embodiment of warmth and humility the child grows up a warm and humble child today in Muslim communities I tell you we have some grumpy grandparents you have grandparents who the whole day all they're doing is nagging where's the food where's the tea where's the food bring me this bring me that or the child look at this what is this angry machine we've created at home or is this a human being where's رسول الله what did he try and show رسول الله tried to show very clearly that look at me as the embodiment of warmth and the embodiment of manners and if I have this warmth and manners then Hussein will grow up with warmth and manners as well in which way you know the Arabs for example Hussein he'd lengthen his سجود if Imam al-Hussein was on his back he'd be on prostration he'd lengthen his prostration if Imam al-Hussein was on the back if Imam al-Hussein he swam he would hug him kiss him embrace him there was an Arab man by the name of Al-Aggra that means his mother named him the bold one Al-Aggra saw رسول الله one day embracing Imam al-Hussein he said to him محمد you actually kiss your children he said to him yes why he said I've got 10 kids I've never kissed any of them he said to him why he said because sign of masculinity what am I doing kissing and hugging people all look at me and say look at him he's not a man رسول الله replied he who does not show mercy to his children will not be shown mercy by Allah Subhanahu و-ta'ala mercy that warmth that was there and number 2 the manners of the manners he looks if this man humble or is he arrogant is he easy to talk to or is he heart hearted Imam al-Hussein at a young age would see his grandfather humble with everyone respectful وإنك لعلى خلق عظيم his morals would be the highest morals and that's why a young Imam al-Hussein stands next to his elder brother seeing a man perform with him they're seeing this man perform with him and the man is doing with him in completely the wrong way he is washing his hands first then he is washing his face then he does his feet then he goes back to bed you could easily come to him and say oh man are you stupid or something and you do not know how to do look how old you are some of our people they will do this our people today Muslims when they see someone not practicing his prayers properly then look at this guy it's 50 60 he can't even pray properly Imam al-Hussein sees his grandfather's mannerisms he comes to the man with Imam al-Hussein they say to him oh sheikh you are elder than us do you mind looking at our wudu and tell us which one of us is doing it right which one is doing it wrong the man says our grandsons of رسول الله it would be my honor go ahead perform the wudu when they perform the wudu at the end of the wudu he looked at them and he said it is not you who are performing it wrong it is I who is performing it wrong look at the manner in which they approach the maturity at a young age was why was because I am looking in my grandfather's behavior when my grandfather in our house lives with us when his أخلاق is the highest أخلاق then the grand children will come out in that way and that's why Imam al-Hussein was only 5 years of age when one of the greatest and most important events in Islamic history happened his grandfather trusted him and Hassan to come alongside him what was the event the event مباهلة would you take a 5 and a 6 year old to the ambassadors of a christian country you wouldn't one is 5 the other is 6 the christians of najran came to visit the prophet they had a dialogue which I will discuss further Insha'Allah later on in my analysis of Bibi Fatima you find that when these christians came they discussed with the prophet he gave them an argument they were not convinced by it the prophet said to them very well if you dispute with me over the knowledge that I've given you then we'll bring our sons you bring your sons we'll bring our women you bring your women we'll bring ourselves you bring yourselves the christian religion and its envoys there was no one under the age of 40 as their ambassadors all of them were elders رسول الله was asked take your sons your women and a man who is like yourself the man who was like himself was Amir al-Mu'mineen the woman Bibi Fatima the sons he took Hassan and Hussein when one was only 5 and the other was only 6 what was he showing us he was showing us number one youths have to be at the front of this religion not at the back when we go to meet other religions if our youths are mature then they will lead this religion forward if our youth has to wait to go to Hajj then get married then becomes religious that's when you know you've got a religion which is quite backward what did he do with Hassan and Hussein with Hassan and Hussein he put them at the front when these christians came they were amazed they were amazed that Muhammad had trust in a 5 and a 6 year old but what was رسول الله doing he was showing us if you give young men responsibility from a young age then they will blossom and mature earlier then if you do not trust them then they'll have an inferiority complex that they are not trustworthy individuals Hassan and Hussein took this experience in their life and you found therefore when the christians of Najran saw this 5 they came out with the lion that we will not enter on Mubahela with these 5 because the amount of light that shines from their faces if it took the mountain to move the mountain it would move from its position therefore what you find Hassan and Hussein in those early years Imam Hussein very close and attached to his grandfather and that's why even رسول الله when he's dying رسول الله while he's dying Imam Hussein comes and lies on his chest and when Imam أمير المؤمنين wants to remove him you find رسول الله say no their grandfather is dying let me have more of them and let them have more of me and I ask as the famous poet says if you couldn't take seeing Hussein on your chest how did you take seeing شمر on the chest of Hussein the point here therefore what when رسول الله died Imam Hussein was how old he was only 7 years of age at the time and then only a few months later his mother فاطمة passes away imagine the double blow that affects the young Hussein as a 7 year old his grandfather dies بي بفاطمة dies and that's why from that day he built an attachment with his father like no other attachment I tell you nobody was as close to أمير المؤمنين like Imam Hussein when Imam our fourth Imam was asked what's your name he said I am Ali Ibn Al-Hussein they said to him we see your dad used to name all his sons Ali to which Imam زين العبن replied if my dad was not his sons he'll name them all after his father إمام الحسين the attachment to his father was phenomenal everywhere his father would go because you can imagine his father was the father of four orphans and Hussein was seven wherever his father would go Hussein would be alongside him whatever sermon his father would give Hussein would listen whatever piece of knowledge his father would give Hussein would take in that's why arguably one of the most famous حديث in Islamic history one of the most famous دعاز in Islamic history was a دعاء إمام الحسين learned from Imam Ali which دعاء مشلول دعاء مشلول مشلول means what مشلول means the one who is paralyzed or who is stricken with a severe illness إمام الحسين says I was with my father we were doing طواف of the Ka'ba all of a sudden our father we laid our eyes on someone who was holding on to the Ka'ba and crying and crying and crying I said to my father my father I've never seen anyone cry like this my father said حسين my dear son go and see what he wants what is it what's wrong when Imam الحسين he says I went to this young man he was holding on to the Ka'ba I said to him young man what's wrong with you he said I was a person who was rude and disobedient to my father brothers and sisters there is nothing worse in this religion than a disobedient child towards his mother and father nothing worse do nothing your prayers and your fasts will make up for disobedience to your parents heaven lies under their feet never forget this issue أهل الديت on numerous occasions many of their examples were related to parents and obedience to parents Imam الحسين what did you do he said on many occasions I was rude to my father when my father would request something I rudely speak back to him and there was an occasion when I pushed my father away from me and do you think this is surprising I'm telling you in Muslim communities today there are people who have actually pushed their fathers and that person actually thinks his love of حسين will be enough for him you've not understood the equation حسين's whole meaning is obedience to Allah أهل الديت and then the parents he said what did you do he said I pushed and my father said I will never forgive you and I'm going to read a dua against you for what you've done he said from the day he recited the supplication against me I have been paralyzed you see me now my hands are holding a kaaba and my legs don't even move the lower part of my body has no movement I beg of you help me Imam الحسين says my father the leader of my life the person who I take the best of examples from I said to him oh my father أمير المؤمنين what shall we do he said حسين is the young man sincere he said yes my father I saw tears coming from his eyes if you've disobeyed your father and you want forgiveness the first step is regret the second step is let there be tears shed show your sincerity Imam أمير المؤمن said let him recite this dua Imam الحسين what's the name he said دعاء مشلول whenever a person is ill or in grief or in a bad situation let him recite دعاء مشلول افتصالات العشاء and you will see the illness will be removed Imam الحسين went to the person he said to him today افتصالات العشاء he recited the following dua he began to recite دعاء مشلول for him the person who recited دعاء مشلول the next day Imam الحسين I looked at him I said to him how comes you are walking he said والله in the name of the prophet who God chose as his final messenger who is your grandfather last night in my dream I saw Rasool Allah and he said to me come towards me young man as you have recited دعاء مشلول he touched me on the area where I was paralyzed as soon as I woke up that whole area had been cured imagine Imam أمير المؤمن therefore Imam الحسين latched onto his father because Imam الحسين how old was he when his father died Imam الحسين was 36 years of age when his father Imam Ali died and Imam الحسين's wives many of them he chose on the basis of his father Imam الحسين how many women did he marry 7 how many 7 Imam Ali how many women did he marry 9 Imam Ali who were his wives Imam Ali had married فاطمة الزهرة he had married أمامة بنيص فاطمة he married خولة بن جعفار he married فاطمة بن حزام الكلابية who was the doness أم البنين he married أسماء بن أميس he married ليلا he married أم سعيد الثقافية he married الصحباء and he married who محيات the daughter of أمرأ بن قيس Imam الحسين who did he marry Imam الحسين his marriages were all monumental he married ليلا the son of عروب بن مسعود الثقافية ليلا her grandfather from one side was عروب بن مسعود who the Ahlulbayt referred to as the mu'min of أالياسين in the time of رسول الله ليلا's grandfather from the other side was أبو صفيان because ليلا's mother ميمونة is the daughter of أبو صفيان so علي الأكبر's great grandfather on the 10th from محرم was who أبو صفيان that's why يزيد ordered his soldiers tell my cousin because ليلا's uncle is معاوية and her first cousin is يزيد ليلا Imam married her she gave him who علي الأكبر the eldest of إمام الحسين's sons the historians are unanimous the oldest son of إمام الحسين is علي الأكبر that's unanimous there are a couple who said علي الأكبر might be younger than زي العبدين in my own personal opinion and in the opinion of many of the great historians علي الأكبر is elder than زي العبدين that's number one number two he married رباب رباب's father was originally a Christian he converted إمام علي married رباب's elder sister محيات إمام الحسين married the next sister حيات إمام الحسين married رباب number two number three he married a lady called شاة زنان شاة زنان إن عربك her name من سيدة النساء إمام الحسين when he married her إمام أمير المؤمنين she changed her name let her be called شهربانو because there is only one سيدة النساء فاطمة شهربانو gave زين العبدين who I will look at tomorrow إن شاء الله then you had أم إسحاق بنطلحة أم إسحاق بنطلحة used to be the wife إمام الحسين when إمام الحسين died in his وصية إمام الحسين ماري my wife she is a good woman do not leave her as a widow with no one to protect her then there are two other wives who the history books differ over their names in this period إمام الحسين had different children he had seven sons and four daughters of his sons علي الأكبار was the eldest علي زين العبدين then he had a son by the name of علي الأزغر now I know in many traditions is seen as a six month old baby in my historical research I have never found one reference for him being a six month old baby the six month old baby is called عبد الله الرضي that's why if you go to the Iraqi or the Iranian or the Lebanese community our communities will say the six month old is عبد الله علي الأزغر is more of an window pack trend علي الأزغر in the books of narration is the son of إمام الحسين now there's no doubt but he was seven or either twelve on the 10th of Muharram عبد الله الرضي in the books is six month old baby I think what must have happened was that there must have been confusion in some of the books where علي الأزغر was given the age of عبد الله both are sons of إمام الحسين but there was a difference in the names of the daughters إمام الحسين and the four daughters رقية who died in Sham yes رقية whose grave is in Sham سكينة in my historical opinion is different from رقية and lived until an old age but there is a narration which says سكينة lived until an old age and she was a poet and she was a singer and so on we reject this سكينة that was سكينة بنتخالد زبارية is the only narrator of this incident where he says سكينة بنت الحسين became a singer and a poet later on we don't believe in this that was سكينة بنتخالد زبارية this is different and he had a daughter called فاطمة do you all know فاطمة that daughter would marry إمام الحسين سن حسن and that daughter إمام الحسين used to say no lady looks like my mother like my daughter فاطمة and then he had by the name of زيناب and therefore in this period before كربلا was the period of the marriages of إمام الحسين and you find that he had his children in that time and on top of that what you find it was a turbulent period many of the great companions of إمام الحسن of إمام أمير were killed in front of the eyes of إمام الحسين his brother إمام الحسن was poisoned حجر بن عدي was killed عمر بن حماق was killed رشادي الهجر was killed و في that period was difficult but I tell you something أبا عبد الله before كربلا had displayed every attribute before كربلا the difference on the 10th of محبرم as they all came together in one day before كربلا on كربلا we always say إمام الحسين was generous don't we on the 10th of محبرم إمام الحسين years before كربلا showed his generosity إسام إبن زيج when رسول الله was about to die he told the companions going under the leadership of 18 year old usama do you remember 18 year old usama leave madina with his army this usama بن زيج the companions didn't join him this usama بن زيج وزد غدير when he saw رسول الله say do you know after رسول الله died they had come to usama was maybe a palim chosen by رسول الله he said I don't want to get involved in these things at the battle of jamal they said to usama usama who's right علي or them I don't want to get involved I don't know I'm not sure at safeen usama who's right علي or معاوية I don't know maybe they're both good علي and معاوية are both good I don't know usama who's on the right for all of us when you see injustice don't say you know what I prefer not to get involved get involved and say who's the truth with because you may be the cause of dissension in history because of your silence at the end we don't remember the words of our enemies we remember the silence of our friends when this usama was dying he had a 60,000 dina debt on his shoulders do you know who the only person he could think of to pay it back for him was حسينة بن علي tell me if your father every time it was his hack you just want people to speak out for your father and you know how much he loved his father every time people abuse your father's right you see this person who saw your father was on the truth and remain silent and now usama says please bring حسين please bring حسين so إمام الحسين comes he sees usama lying on the bed he says to usama what's wrong he says حسين please forgive me your dad was chosen on the day of ghadir I saw in my own eyes and at jamel I knew he was right in my own heart I knew because I heard رسول الله say علي is with the truth and the truth is with علي and at صفين I said I don't know if علي or معاوية is right and I know علي is in the heavens where is معاوية is on the earth حسين I'm in trouble please he said what is it he said I have 60,000 dinar debt please help me عبع عبدي الله said usama do not worry you are remorseful over your stand I don't mind may Allah forgive you he turned around to the person next to me he said please come and pay 60,000 dinar for usama that generosity others will not display today if my father's heart is taken in the community I tell you I will keep it on my shoulder for the rest of my life they didn't allow my father to become president they didn't allow him to become chairman they didn't allow him to serve water they didn't allow him to carry I don't know some sort of instrument I will keep it on my shoulder for the rest of my life إمام الحسين was so generous he looked at usama he said usama don't worry you may not have stood with my father but I feel you are hurt I'll pay the 60,000 dinar for me generosity number two عثمان was alone in his house the muslims were attacking him who do you think it was who stood by the door of عثمان to protect him so that the muslims are not disunited who was it حسن and حسين they stood at the door of عثمان do you know what they close said عثمان mistreated أبو ذار عثمان mistreated عبدالله بالمسعود عثمان took our dad's leadership no we don't want disunity to occur between the muslims let us remove and be tolerant and they were the ones who stood at the door of عثمان they were the ones who gave water to عثمان while muslims were attacking him and do you know what the sad thing later on is they say عليبنا بيطالب is the cause of عثمان's death عليبنا بيطالب sent حسين to stand for عثمان to be there at the door even if I differ with عثمان politically at the end of the day muslims should not take it in their own hands to come and stab another human being there is a particular legal system and there is a particular courtroom that's number 2 number 3 his generosity when it came to his knowledge before كربلا do you know how many great hadiths we have from إمام الحسين I tell you ask any muslim tell me one hadith of إمام الحسين إمام الحسين says I heard from my grandfather رسول الله saying that the best quality of a muslim is that he speaks little about a topic that does not concern him how many of us have to get involved in every topic isn't it every topic people who concern us don't concern us we have to get involved حبيب is none of your business stay out stay out know I want to get involved رسول الله إمام الحسين said I heard رسول الله say that the best quality of a muslim is what is that he does not he speaks less about a topic that does not concern him then he says I heard my father أمير المؤمنين say please listen to this unbelievable narration I heard my father أمير المؤمنين say I am surprised that the human being who refrains from food due to fear of illness but does not refrain from sin even though he knows about al-fair we refrain from food because we're scared of illness but we don't refrain from sin because we're not scared of El I am surprised that the one who refrains from food due to fear of illness but does not refrain from sin even though he knows about al-fair you would find that he provides and that's why one example of إمام الحسين years before Karbala a young man comes up to إمام الحسين says إمام الحسين I can't stop sinning and I'm just going to have to continue what do I do give me some advice إمام الحسين said keep sinning he said sorry he said keep sinning he said إمام الحسين I came to you for advice you tell me keep sinning he said yes keep sinning but there are five conditions when you sin but the first condition is sin in the place where Allah cannot see you sin not sin in the place where Allah cannot see you condition number one he said Abdullah Allah can see me everywhere he said okay condition number two sin but don't sin on God's earth go and build your own earth and sin there number three سن but don't use Allah's رزق as their energy to sin number four سن but when the angel of death comes to take your soul away don't say it's not the time number five سن but when you're punished in the fire of hell don't say I shouldn't be here get me out if you've passed these five conditions continue sinning there's no problem the person said I'm never going to sin again after that because it's impossible to go through those conditions you had that generosity that came with him with his knowledge even you had the self-sacrifice of Imam Al-Hussain that arguably the greatest moment of self-sacrifice before Karbala was related to Karbala someone says how before Karbala in the battle of Nahrawan you find even before this there was a moment of generosity that when Imam Al-Hussain asked the teacher he said to the teacher called Abu Abdel Rahman Al-Salam teach my son how to recite قرآن when that teacher finished reciting teaching the kid how to recite قرآن Imam Al-Hussain saw his son saying بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Imam got so much pearls and clothes and he gave it to the teacher people came and said about Abdullah all this person did was teach your son how to recite بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم and you give him this much idea to which he replied what I give him is never enough because of the person who teaches my son how to mention الله's name it can never be enough that person taught بسم الله الرحمن الرحمن الرحيم whatever I give him is not enough then on top of that the great self-sacrifice when you see someone come to him when his father died imagine when your father's died and someone comes up to you from Syria he sees you he says what's your name he says حسين son of who he says may Allah curse you and curse your father Ali if someone talked like that to you how would you reply back to him may Allah curse you and your father the guy's name was أسعام بن مستلق Imam said is the wind of this area hurting you or maybe you've had a disagreement with your wife is there a shelter for you to stay in or has no one provided you with clothing please come and stay with my house if you are a stranger in this area والله that person began to cry he said أبا عبدالله I cursed your father in front of you and this is the way you reply back to me by making your house available for you he said this is the family of Rasool Allah and the way we treat people people may come and curse us but we come back with morals because our grandfather Rasool Allah came to perfect the morals of mankind and that's why I will never forget the greatest self-sacrifice before Karbala notice none of these stories are anything to do with Karbala before Karbala before Karbala I will tell you about Rahwan the soldiers who were caught by Ali ibn Abi Talib were standing there one of the soldiers you all know him very well he was fighting Ali ibn Abi Talib on that day he had some rope around his hands it wasn't too tight but it was around the hands Imam Al-Hussain was walking past he saw that soldier and the soldier looked at him and said حسين I beg you please remove this rope from around my hand because the rope is causing nervousness in me remove it and I'm asking you Imam Al-Hussain went back to his father he said oh my father I'd like a favor from you he said what is it he said this person over there do you see him he said yes I see him he said I'll put it right around his hand even though you will never put a tightrope but it seems to have been hurting him and he asked me to remove it oh my father do you allow me he looked at him and he said Aba Abdullah go ahead Aba Abdullah why do you want to answer this he said father when someone asks through me how can I reject I don't want the person to be embarrassed when you realize who this person is that's when you realize how magnanimous a man this man is he went back to the person he said give me your hands and he removed the ropes from the hands of tell me which mercy did he show to you when he sat on your chest on the afternoon in Karbala this man you remove a rope from his hand because when a person asks you you do not want to embarrass them and that is the same man who sits on your chest on the 10th of Muharram that's Hussein before Karbala not one mention in our lectures of Aba Abdullah before Karbala this is Aba Abdullah before Karbala and that's why the 10th of Muharram wasn't Imam Al-Hussein Imam Al-Hussein four years had displayed these attributes Karbala was when all of them came together on one day generosity with knowledge and forgiveness and humility and care and honor and dignity that that that who was a commander of the opposition who had blocked water from the children of Hussein and yet the forgiving heart of Aba Abdullah forgives him and that's why when you look at Islamic history not only Muslims but non-Muslims come and say and the way he was forgiven the horse which man is thirsty but before he drinks the water he says horse you drink I can't bear to see you thirsty today Muslim countries have no respect for animal rights whereas the master of Islam displayed respect to his animal which man gives away his six month old baby which man lies on the ground with his killer on his chest and he says to his killer if you give me water I will intercede for you on the day of judgment and that's why Imam Al-Hussein when you look at his biography it's not just Muslims who have been affected by this colossal figure no non-Muslims as well look at Gandhi when he went out on his salt march with 72 people and they said to him Gandhi why have you taken 72 he said because Hussein took 72 and Hussein 72 were eternal I want my 72 to be eternal I learned how to achieve victory while oppressed through Hussein that was Gandhi Charles Dickens when he said that there is no way a man who takes his family and his children has gone out for worldly desires if it's for worldly desires you'd never take your family and your children it dictates that Hussein's mission was but a mission for God and God alone مهرو when he said Hussein belongs to brotherhood Hussein belongs to humanity Hussein belongs to the path of righteousness Look further Antoine Barra the famous Christian Lebanese says no battle in history has evolved as much sympathy and compassion and from which as many lessons can be learned than the battle of Karbala and the life of Imam Al-Hussein Dickens, Gandhi, Nehru, Antoine Barra all of them show us that Hussein continues to live in the hearts of every human being and that's why the Imam says in the martyrdom of Imam Al-Hussein there is a heat that will never subside in the heart of the believer we pray to Allah SWT to raise us with Imam Al-Hussein and to allow us to receive his intercession in this world and the hereafter allow us to be amongst those who follow his message and honor his example we pray to Allah SWT for all the Muslims around the Islamic world tomorrow we will continue with the biography of Imam Zayn Al-Abideen والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته