 respected viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam, Assalamu Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to another episode of Life in Karbala with me and host Ahmad Ali. Before I would like to introduce tonight's episode, I would like to send my condolences as well as the condolences of the Imam Hussain TV channel team for the martyrdom of the peak of wisdom, the peak of eloquence. Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him. Tonight, inshallah, we will discuss one of the significant characters in history, if not the most significant character in history. The character that symbolizes justice, equity, eloquence, wisdom, devotion, and bravery through the characteristics and through these characteristics, we have done no justice in explaining Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib peace be upon him. However, tonight, inshallah, with our very special guest, let's welcome him, Sayyid Ja'far al-Qazweeni. One talking about the character of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, we're not talking about a specific person or just a regular person in history, we're talking about the most the bravest and the most courageous person history has ever witnessed and the most wise person One talking about the characteristics and what Imam Ali peace be upon him symbolizes, how do we and how could we understand the characteristics and what Ali Ibn Abi Talib symbolized? It was a beautiful introduction, dear brother that you made, about Imam Salawatullah peace be upon him and as you mentioned, indeed we could never be justice, as you could say, explaining Amir al-Mu'mineen or Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Salawatullah peace be upon him, his life. We can't really get to know him in detail and very close. If you look throughout his life, Salawatullah peace be upon him and after his death, if you look at his recommendations, his speeches that he gave, you could feel that it is the Prophet himself speaking, the Prophet himself was still, it's like you feel that the Prophet himself was alive until Amir al-Mu'mineen, Ali Ibn Abi Talib departed us and was murdered, Salawatullah peace be upon him. So many things that I have in mind and of course you, dear brother, have also in mind about the character of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Salawatullah peace be upon him. But we're just going to have an overlook at his history, Salawatullah peace be upon him. Since he was a child, if I may say, since he was 10 years old, 11 years old, when the Prophet peace be upon him, when Allah swt asked the Prophet to call his tribe and his family to the way of Allah, to Islam, from the very first day, the first Muslim, the first one that joined the Prophet, Salawatullah peace be upon him during his mission. And the narration and the history and the story is very well known at the day when the Prophet peace be upon him invited his tribe and his family for lunch and after that he told them that I have become a Prophet and this is this and that so and so and this is Islam, this is what I'm going to be doing, this is what this is my mission. So who's going to be helping me throughout and during my Prophethood years and I promise that he will be my brother and my brother and I assure him that he will be like my brother and my successor and my minister during my life and my successor after my departure. He said that three times and no one, every time Ali ibn Abi Talib, the 10 years old kid would be the first and last to jump up and raise his hand and be like I'm that one, the dear Prophet and after the third time and after the Prophet saw that the elder ones and his family are not accepting this and considering it a lie that the Prophet is bringing or whatever they were thinking on that day. After the third time he held Ali ibn Abi Talib from his neck and shoulders and he said that you all witness and be witnesses that this guy Ali ibn Abi Talib is my brother and my minister and he said that as well three times so Abu Jahl and others were there on that day so they started making fun and laughing at Abi Talib telling him that all the Prophet is saying and obeying him so Abu Jahl was telling Abu Talib that your cousin Muhammad is ordering you to obey your little kid and your little son making fun of him on that day so he became the Prophet's successor since the first day and after he grew up we saw nothing of Ali ibn Abi Talib but a brave soldier that was along with the Prophet in every single battle that the Prophet would have and for the sake of Islam and for the sake of rising Allah's word in the whole world he was the first to be with the Prophet he was never seen away from the Prophet before he gets married he slept on the Prophet's bed at the night when all the tribes agreed on killing and murdering and getting rid of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi our dear Prophet peace be upon him and his family he was on that night when the Prophet had to to run away in a very tragic way in a very dramatic way I mean at some point he was put in a bag and carried by Abi Talib in order for him to pass some of the soldiers that were keeping an eye on on on his on his room basically in his home no matter no matter because some people say that okay well if I was there back then I would have done the same I would have slept it's not an easy thing Allah wouldn't mention it in the holy Quran if it wasn't very important because Muawiyah had had a lot of many shots many tries like for example the the statement which are Sunni brothers used there in in their call of prayer especially in the in the morning call of prayer they would say what was khair al-amal it was it was the his his sleeping him sleeping in prophets bed that night that's what they meant when they said khair al-amal and then the the the bigger meaning the bigger idea of khair al-amal is is considering Ali ibn al-Baita al-Mu'min but when they first said it it was regarding his his that night that he slept on the prophets but so Muawiyah wanted to have people forget that just don't talk about it it wasn't such a big issue and he changed that verse to that that that verse to and throughout prophets history as I mentioned a bit earlier he was always the first soldier to be with the prophet except in Tabuk of course that the prophet peace be upon him ordered Amir Mu'minin to stay with the with the women and children and not join the fight and also on that day some of the companions came to Ali ibn al-Baita al-Mu'min making fun of him trying to laugh at him that hey the prophet wanted you to to stick to the ladies and and baby said them instead of being were mentioned be so he went to the prophet and told him that this is what the companions are saying to me and that was when the prophet said his very known statement and oh Ali you're to me like Aaron Haroon Prophet Haroon was from Musa Allah except that there's there would be no prophet after me a hundreds of narrations regarding Ali ibn al-Baita al-Baita al-Baita said by the prophet peace be upon him which says he who says nothing of his own desire in the mother Wahyuni Wahha a hundreds if not thousands of statements regarding Ali ibn al-Baita Ali is the most knowledgeable knowledgeable among you so listen to him and learn from him and do not teach him uh that's that's uh what the narration says Ali ibn al-Haqq the right the right rightness follows Ali ibn al-Baita al-Baita al-Baita he goes meaning that he could never be wrong uh Ali ibn al-Aqdakum Ali ibn al-Muqum and all those uh narrations that that's we heard uh during the battles the most brave the bravest among among all i say i personal say among all human beings uh during the battles and if someone doesn't believe that he could ask and uh he could he could be in the khanda he could be who picked up and and and pulled out that door and threw it meters away the door that that they needed 22 or in some historian other historians say 44 strong men to open and close it if some people don't believe his bravery they could ask and who divided him into two with a single strike of a sort we're talking about we're talking about uh and an extraordinary person here a superhero in the battles exactly if you will exactly if you will say a superhero in the battles and also the kindest with the believers and with the mu'minin as he was so so so as he was a horror to the kafir in during the battles he was he was such a kind friend and brother uh to the companions and to the mu'minin in general uh until until the prophet passes away departs us departs the companions on that day and in the in the previous episodes we mentioned uh some of the oppressions that were applied on alibna ibi talib after at the moment when the prophet passed away before even alibna ibi talib is finished from bearing the prophet peace be upon them they had already been in this aqifa and when he finished uh bearing the prophet they told him oh by the way it's finished it's gone and they started to oppress him and they started to oppress him he who the prophet he who the prophet gave his own daughter sayyidat nisa al alameen fatum adzahraa to him ahsant ahsant the um the most precious creature after the prophet peace be upon him his own daughter uh no one deserved deserved her but alibna ibi talib and no one deserved her but alibna ibi talib and no one deserved him but fatum adzahraa lady fatum as-salamu alaykum the oppressions started and the tragedy of thursday that we that we mentioned a couple of that we discussed uh episodes ago and all those oppressions and him uh being um at home sitting at home for for around for around 25 years as-salamu alaykum people didn't uh didn't want him uh didn't want him to to uh to be in charge they oppressed him and after that duration of time uh they they they all came to him begging him to accept being the leader uh after the third uh third one the third guy um died arthman did you want to mention something no i mean when when speaking about the bravery of alibna ibi talib um his bravery um as you know and as the the dear viewers as well know um it's mentioned way before he was even born i mean one marhab when they told him that uh you're going to fight yeah you're gonna be killed by someone yeah by someone called haidara and when he came to yeah when he when he came to to fight alibna ibi talib um he said that what's your name he said haidara and right away he wasn't shocked yeah because he knew and you know history you know in the bible he's he's mentioned in the Torah he's he's mentioned uh but uh when speaking we'll come back to the oppression of alibna ibi talib inshallah but when speaking about the eloquence and wisdom of alibna ibi talib um it's there's so many quotes that he has said um from alib talib quoted to say that one prophet muhammad was on his deathbed um he told me to come closer and as i did um he whispered in my ear 1000 chapters and from each door of wisdom of those 1000 those 1000 chapters in in those and you know when we hear that it just shows how significant alib talib was to prophet muhammad and how he was significant because he he he was the one to change islam prophet muhammad brought islam but he's the one that uh put islam on the right path we should not forget definitely that the prophet indeed loved alibna ibi talib at most it was his brother he was his brother he was like himself as the as the ayah as the holy verse mentions but we shall not forget as as shia as not shia as as well as sunnis as well that it wasn't only the love of prophet for alibna ibi talib that makes us hold on to him uh now the prophet had i mean it was the order of Allah Allah ordered his prophet to mention alibna ibi talib as his successor after him and who's gonna skip ahsan when lam taf al with that threatening as we mentioned earlier with that threatening tone to the prophet so it wasn't only the the feelings that that the prophet peace be upon man's family had for alibna ibi talib no it is the fact that alibna ibi talib is the successor of of the prophet of the establish of the of the of the religion of the faith after the after the establish of the of the faith and he was the one and and also during that time that he was oppressed during that time that he was sitting at home and going to the masjid and praying all along and coming back also during that time if we go back to history we find we find hundreds and hundreds of different so if not thousands of instance that that abibakrin wa umarin wa utman and the companions and the sahaba they knew even during the time that alibna ibi talib was was sitting at home they knew that if someone comes if a Jew comes with it comes up with a question they know that there would be no one but alibna ibi talib if they would find if they would find and some some some some weird stories or weird incidents of of a lady two ladies delivering at the same night with with color with the lights off no lights no no they know that no one could ma laha illa bil hasa ma laha illa ali la qan illa alam muadala tinde salaha bil hasam may Allah not keep me this is what Omar said may Allah keep not keep me for for a muadala how is the best way to say this for a problem for a problem for a problem that that alibna ibi talib wouldn't be there for it and also i would like to to speak about his salawatullah salamu alayh salawatullah salamu alayh about his justice about the way he ruled during during the time that he became the Khalifa which we're talking about around four years during that time he set us he set us so many examples so many examples of how a successful ruler a governor a political abum such a person should be he set us so many examples so many examples there's a story that during his khilafah he had he had a hamil he had an employer he had an employee uh named ali ibn rafa on the state's tragedy uh he was the the employee of amir muminin on the state tragedy uh treasury of one is a treasure right yeah sorry i said tragedy sorry so his own daughter umma kaltoum salawatullah salamu alayha one day she was passing by the place where they keep the money and the silver coins and the golds and stuff and the state a treasury she saw a very beautiful necklace and it was during ramadan in the in the in the end towards the end of the holy month and very close to maybe the eve of eid she saw a very beautiful necklace so she comes to ali ibn rafa which is the employee of the imam and she tells him that may i take this necklace she is the daughter of the ruler of the islamic world and she goes there and asks to borrow not to take the support to borrow that necklace for three days she said that i will borrow it and i guarantee that if anything happened to it that i would that i would um um um that i would refund it and um and i will bring it back after three days so the guy gave her the necklace amir muminin is home back home he sees that necklace and he's like i've seen that necklace somewhere and remembers that it was uh there that he saw it he he he ordered his his his daughter to give him back that necklace to him he went back to ali ibn rafa very angry telling him telling him that do you want to um um um that you're uh that um do you want to betrayed allah and his prophet and his successor after him he said why amir muminin what what did i do he said that the necklace why did you give it to my daughter he said that i mean it's your daughter and she wanted to borrow it only she would bring it back before the distribution of of the of the money among the among the people every every month so he didn't accept that for his own daughter he gave it back and told him to to not do that again he went back home he saw his daughter he thought that she might feel uh sad for for what happened so he asked her a question that are the daughters of the migrants and the companions or have the same necklace same precious necklace on their necks on the day of aid so my dear daughter don't uh don't um don't uh make money necklace jewelry the fact that your father is a ruler don't make it all that take you away from from the right path and because the last you you have to be uh because you're my daughter you have to be the last one who could wear a precious uh necklace and all the daughters of the of the of the immigrants and the companions have to have to have that before you a similar story to that is um the story and the famous story of the akil the brother i found that's so beautiful that if you would allow me after after you finish that uh i i i wrote down the the exact words of the amir mu'min sallallahu sallam because it's so beautiful because they're so beautiful as they are and i'd like to read it out for for for you dear brother and for dear viewers as well inshallah akil was the older brother of amir al-mu'mineen and he was in madina and amir al-mu'mineen sallallahu turned to uh he would he moved to to uh kufa uh during his leadership and during his uh ruling so he considered he came to alibna habi qaleb one day he came to to to kufa and he stayed at amir al-mu'mineen's uh home amir al-mu'mineen had his son his elder son and he told him to take care of his uncle good care of his uncle give him whatever he needs of garments and clothings and and stuff so after that amir al-mu'mineen came back and it was dinner time akil and because he was sitting with the ruler of the islamic world back then he thought that the dinner will be so extraordinary yeah so he was surprised uh seeing that uh the dinner is is is it was very ordinary yeah it was nothing so special about it or maybe less than ordinary yeah some dates some accent yogurt accent and some bread and that's all yeah i believe that because he had guessed he would have had something else on on that dinner table back back then on that day so akil he was he was kind of surprised and he saw that and he told his brother that come on you're the ruler you're the leadership of the islamic world and is this the uh the the dinner table of you he said that amir al-mu'mineen said what is wrong would it i mean don't we have to be uh grateful for allah for this and he said yeah of course we have to be but i expected this is akil he said that okay okay uh you know what i'm gonna have this dinner and i wanna tell you what i need at once so that i can go back to to to madina my dear brother i want you to know that i have a depth of 100 000 silver coins they mentioned that number uh so you as my dear brother and as the ruler uh and as the holder of state treasury please have them pay my debts as soon as possible and also please don't forget your brother because uh because uh i'm very short with with money i'm very poor and i got children so try to not forget your your your brother so amir al-mu'mineen sallatullahi wa sallam i told him that uh first of all 100 000 silver coins i will not be able to to i don't have that money to give you but as you mentioned you're my dear brother and my older brother and i know your situation and your children's situation so wait until the beginning of the month and where it was when it was uh you know the the the treasuries and the monies who used to be uh uh distributed so wait for that day and i will uh and i will withdraw uh what i get uh with you my dear brother so akril told him come on i mean how much you take from from state treasury so that you want to uh withdraw it with me and and cut it in half and keep half for yourself i'm telling you that i got a lot of debts and and it's gonna do no good for me so the mom told him he started debating and arguing akril with his brother that you should give me come on you're the ruler you're the and ma'mir al-mu'mineen would tell him that no no no i can't i can't have an handle that money it's not mine it's the muslim's money it's everyone else's money and i go i only got my own share yeah so and ma'mir um and also they mentioned that ali bin abu talib they were sitting at a roof so they could see the stores around the the house of amir al-mu'mineen around the the very humble home of amir al-mu'mineen uh so he told him that uh i will give you an idea how about we go to the stores after they close or they were closed maybe i will go now right now break into some stores and i'm sure they will have a lot of cash uh collected from their selling so how about we take that and you take that and i pay your debts so akril uh he knew that imam was was was making it yeah he was mocking him so he told him that now you want me to to steal from from from other muslims this poor guys that have that have worked all day to to feed their families you want me to to go and and extend in hand uh extend in hand uh on their uh money he told them that akril you're ordering me you want me to extend my hand on the whole islamic world's treasury and money i'm telling you to steal from one or two but you want me to steal from everyone so which one is is more which one is is more fair yeah it's also narrated that he heated up a medal and this is exactly yeah this was right after not right after that but this was during a speech that amir al-momeen sr was giving people so he mentioned this story of his brother and i chose a part of it and i'll read it out for you he said that i certainly i certainly saw akril fallen in this in uh in a distribution and he asked me a sa' which is almost three kilos of wheat of of of anything uh which is almost three kilos he asked me for a sa' of your share of wheat and saw and i personally saw his children with disheveled hair and dusty look due to starvation as though their faces had been blackened uh by and indigo by indigo he came to me several times asking me to to give you from there from from your money and he repeated that so many times for me he requests uh he repeated his request so many times so i heard him i heard him i give him an ear he thought so he thought that i would sell my faith to him because i'm hearing and listening to him and by the way akril was was blind uh on that time yeah he couldn't he couldn't uh he couldn't see then i just then i just heated just heated a small piece of iron and took it near his body so that he might take a lesson then he cried like someone in pain and in illness he was about to get burned with its branding then i said to him moaning women would may moan over you oh akril do you cry on a on account of this heated iron which has been made by a man for fun while you're driving me towards a fire that Allah swt the powerful has prepared for um as a as a punishment as a punishment his his wrath and the the bad doers should you cry uh from pain but i should not cry from the uh flames of of hell fire and the funny thing is that muawiyah after hearing this speech of alibna ibn al-qalib he called uh he called akil and he invited him to to to sham to syria he told him that i will send you a ride now send you company and i want you to accept my and we just want to talk so akil went to him on the day that he arrived muawiyah had prepared such a huge uh invitation and table of lunch or dinner or whatever time it was uh and he welcomed akil he told him what he want tell me what you want he'd say that okay well i told my brother that i have a hundred thousand silver coins uh debt and um and you know my children and uh and they're not they're not that that well so muawiyah gave him four hundred thousand silver coins you say that one hundred thousand for you for your debt and this is the double and that's a double of the double and take it from me and and consider it a gift and all i want from muawiyah he knows that akil wouldn't sell his brother to him he wouldn't sell out his brother uh but he said that all i want from muawiyah is to come out and and tell everyone that tell my people here in sham that i asked for alibna i betalef for three kilos of wheat what alibna i betalef says and during his speech he didn't give it to me and muawiyah is so kind and so generous with me and he gave me four hundred thousand silver coins so it's funny because akil came out and he had prepared muawiyah prepared a uh a stage a gathering for him and all that and i told him okay then you can tell people so akil stood up after taking that money and he said that oh people when i asked my brother my younger brother the ruler of the islamic world uh to give me um some that was not my right some that was over my right from your money from muslim's money he preferred his faith over me he didn't listen to me and he did this and this to me but when i asked muawiyah to help me with a hundred thousand silver coins he gave me four hundred thousand silver coins of his of of your money by the way and and know that muawiyah i asked him to sell his faith and he did so for me and this is the difference between between alibna i betalef and muawiyah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam these stories are just small portion yeah small portions of of of the righteous life of amir alamni sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi there's a similar story to that uh with the talha ends up where when they came to alibna betalef and they they wanted some political positions and the ruling of alibna betalef uh when they entered uh it's significant when they entered he extinguished one candle and he lit another so when they asked they were surprised like we come to you an important matter but uh you surprised us when you extinguished this candle and you look at this another one uh they wondered why he said you could you came to me on personal matters and the candle i was working on was purchased from the public treasury so i extinguished that because that's bought from there and i lit one that's bought from my own pocket i mean when we hear that it's it's it's unfortunate to see what what's going on in the world right now i'm not saying that our politicals should be exactly the same because they can't they can't they could never be like alibna betalef they couldn't they can't even get close to how he was definitely but but uh what i what i uh tell myself first of all and tell everyone else especially the politics nowadays uh is to learn from alibna betalef take some lessons from alibna betalef if we can take some lessons from alibna betalef because because he was he was the righteous he had the the most righteous life ever uh everyone knows that alibna betalef was right and anything else compared to him and his way of of of ruling it was was wrong basically definitely so take lessons that's that's what i want from myself first of all that's what i remind myself first of all and everyone else that we should take lessons uh small portions even if we can from from his life his justice his knowledge his wisdom as you mentioned dear brother uh how he used to treat his family how he used to treat his his uh his children his his friends his companions his enemies his enemies as well and and all that inshallah mama alib also mentions a very significant quote i mean um and this as you mentioned if they can if politicians can also can only work on this uh quote by alib i mean their government would be successful um he says um a politician or a person in a ruling position um should not rule over the people but should serve them i mean when hearing that i mean now we see um that you know even even if someone gets a small position he starts you know ordering people around pushing people you know or you're having you know 50 guards with them when walking we see that i mean i mean it's 150 if it's close to the back yeah yeah it reached 150 but if we read if we read his his letter salamu alayhi to to al-wulat al-kanal to to malik al-ashtar to ahsan to his ministers if we read his letter to salman al muhammadi allah al alayhi during his his leadership we find so much tips so we find a way of life we find a way we should it should be a rule it should be as you mentioned your brother he is basically a servant and if we also see his students not alibna bi taala i mean the guy is too high for me me i can i can follow the the footsteps of salman al muhammadi one of the best because because he was a good good student and that's why he said that he's because he knew that his father and his way is and path is wrong and that i mean so he stick to alibna bi taala and he was with him um most of his life as of alibna bi taala ascent ascent malik al-ashtar allah allah his bravery his way of justice his way of dealing with problems they're all set examples for us definitely amir al-mu'minin and those students of his are considered strong always alive samples that we could use in this our daily life in this in this in this very uh very day i mean it's not only a matter of of something some incidents that took place 1400 years ago no no they are they are like amir al-mu'minin salam allah salam allah is like Quran al kareem it's like Muhammad said so what he says remains useful and definitely for us and samples and for us until the day that we meet him yeah we can't just choose a part of religion and say that we're following that no we have to choose the whole religion and accept it and accept it but say that we're coming to a conclusion of the episode um and uh it's i would like to mention a quote by alibna bi taala regarding forgiveness and mercy he says be like a flower that gets its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it i mean alibna bi taala business so significant but this quote is is interesting if we ponder upon it because a flower you know even a person who crushes it you know would get the beautiful smell would get the smell of it he i mean i was telling us to be like the flower even if someone hurts us you know we can still shine and show him the bright side and show more our true ethics and morals of alibate so when he says alam allah his face hatery with kindness definitely definitely so if you'd like to add anything on salallahu alaikum ala mu'mineen thank you very dear my dear brother uh there isn't um i don't have much to add except prayers for our uh 12th imam sallallahu alayhi wasallam inshallah may allah has since his reappearance inshallah and and have us fight uh with him along with his army inshallah inshallah thank you thank you very much thank you very much dear brother inshallah tomorrow we'll continue discussion inshallah about the martyrdom of alam ala mu'mineen my heart felt condolences as well inshallah for the for the muslim world for this tragedy that the tragedy of the day that we lost the master of all believers inshallah thank you very much may allah keep us and consider us and count us with his companions and inshallah i mean just if not his companions maybe just the followers maybe followers inshallah so thank you very much and thank you very much respected viewers stay tuned inshallah for tomorrow's episode where we inshallah will discuss the oppression that alibate thought had faced during his lifetime as well as after his death i would like to request from the respected viewers not forget us um in your prayers especially on nights like al qadr and inshallah we will not forget you as well uh when we go to visit the holy shaykh zaman hussain abbas and alibni bi talib in najaf uh so stay tuned wassalaamu alaykum rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu alaykum as-salamu alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu