 We continue to receive the news that there are many of our family members and friends around the world who are very ill and particularly one lady in India. We also know of one very young girl who is also very ill. Please let us join each other in Da'a and sincerely ask Allah SWT for a very quick intercession for them and recovery to full health and for all of those people around the world who are in need. We ask Allah SWT for a very quick intercession for all of those people around the world who are in need. We ask Allah SWT for a very quick intercession for all of those people around the world who are in need. We ask Allah SWT for a very quick intercession for all of those who are in need. We ask Allah SWT for a very quick intercession for all of those who are in need. We continue our discussion where we left off yesterday upon the line which says All praise belongs to Allah who is the creator of all things that are created which comes to us from Da'a iftitah from the Imam of our time Imam al-Mahdi, Yesterday we stated that because the Da'a is split into two sections. The first half is a praise to Allah SWT and the second half is a praise to the Divine Leaders that this particular section or this particular line of the first half of the Da'a is arguably the most important line in the first half of the Da'a because if we are able to correctly understand this part of the Da'a in theory we should understand everything because it pertains to our own existence. Hence yesterday we started the discussion however we left many things that we need to build upon. Hence this evening inshallah we will continue to discuss this angle as to the philosophical reason for our own existence. Yesterday we brought several issues and mentioned several aspects of our cognition and therefore it is worthy for us to spend five minutes just recapping what we said and then building upon these and asking more pertinent questions having already built this particular platform. We stated yesterday that when it comes to the question of my own existence this should be the most fundamental question because if I understand my role within existence I will successfully be able to circumnavigate any particular issues in my existence I should be able in theory to come to the conclusion of my existence in a worthy manner and as such this question is a question that is asked by all of us whether I be young or whether I be old whether I be Shi'a or non-Shi'a Muslim or non-Muslim and indeed atheists are probably amongst the group that would ask this question the most because if you believe in a creator and sustainer you normally bring your question and answer back towards him whereas if you are not a believer in God it is a most difficult question to answer Why am I existing? Why am I on this earth? What is my role within these 70 years that I have been given? And as such we started by asking these questions on a very personal basis Why am I me? Why am I not you? Why am I born into the era that I am born into? Why was I not born 1400 years ago as a companion of the Fifth Imam for example? Why was I not born in Canada? Why was I not born in Malaysia? What is the reason I am born into my own community my own circumstance and indeed my own family? We posed the question in context by saying is this coincidental? Is this haphazard by Allah SWT that it was just a random measure that you became you and I became me? Is that a befitting comment to place to Allah SWT that he is not aware, not in control does not have a balance for everything in existence and all of this was just a haphazard Coincidental means for me to be born as me The fact that I cannot label this accusation at Allah SWT negates the potential I cannot say that it is randomized I cannot say that it is coincidental By virtue of me negating this potential I must affirm the outcome that he has a plan for me as an individual and everything is geared towards my own existence as the individual that I am We stated that there is a verse of Quran that expresses the beauty of this Allah SWT says وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتَنَّشْأَتُ الْأُولَا فَلَوْلَا تَذَكْكُرُونَ And certainly you are aware of your first period of existence will you not then bring to mind This first period of existence is the one in the womb And this period in the womb we find that this fetus has a unidirectional purpose Unidirectional means it's going in one trend It's going in one way There is no changing this way that the fetus is made to develop We find that the universe is unidirectional This universe started from a small seed It expanded and expanded It grew and it grew until it had all that existed within it which exists today We stated that universe is unidirectional We stated that religion is also unidirectional From the time of Nabi Allah A.S. he was able to clothe religion in accordance with how people of his time understood it When Nabi Allah Nuh A.S. came he was able to break forth bring religion to a new pedestal When the next great Prophet Ibrahim A.S. came he again burst forth It was the same religion I am the same individual but I am bursting forth in exactly the same way Nabi Allah Adam Nabi Allah Nuh Ibrahim Musa Aisa until the Prophet of our time until the point of its perfection at the time of the commander of the faithful Here we see this unidirectional trend where when I reach a certain point in my existence the concept is to burst forth into the next stage of my existence Hence the womb is doing exactly the same thing The fetus is being closed by Allah It is now being given shape by Allah until at the end of its pregnancy it is ready to burst forth into the next stage of its own existence We are exactly the same I am a toddler I am a child I am a young person I am an adolescent Then I become a teen Then I become an adult Then I become a weak human being again I come back to this point where I am an elderly man Can I not see that I am continuously growing? I cannot stop this growth process I am bursting forth at every stage of my existence whether I like it or not I have no control over it It is unidirectional The only difference is that I am going to be given birth again into the next stage of existence The same way the fetus was tasked with becoming a complete baby a complete fetus in order to live properly within this world I am being tasked with becoming a complete human being in this world So when I am given birth to in the next lap of my next mother Allah SWT I am capable of beholding existence in the next realm of existence I am worthy of living in heaven rather than living somewhere which is not befitting of an existence like a human being Having understood this we mentioned two names yesterday We need to re-clarify and then build upon We stated yesterday about the story of Nabi Allah Musa A.S. and Nabi Allah Ibrahim A.S. We want to just go over this again so we can really understand this from Quran When it comes to the story of Nabi Allah Musa A.S. we stated that nothing was coincidental because Allah SWT is planning at every stage for the perfection of Musa A.S. He is planning for the perfection of Ibrahim A.S. He wants him to grow in accordance with his own challenges in accordance with his own time that he lives in When it comes to the childhood of Musa A.S. we see the incident where he is burnt on his tongue Was this a coincidence? Was this a haphazard incident? Was Allah SWT not aware of this incident? Did he not know this incident was going to take place? Of course not We cannot label this accusation as a mighty creator and sustainer He was indeed aware of Musa A.S. Why did this happen? Because later on in Musa A.S.'s existence this incident was going to come about again in order to present him at the very esteem and pinnacle of his own existence The fact that he had a tongue which was burnt meant that he wasn't as eloquent as another person His tongue stopped him in being able to be eloquent like maybe another person The result of this was when Allah SWT told him Go towards Firaun Present yourself Present my own religion and bring Firaun, his ministers, his magician, his followers and the whole of Banu Israel towards Islam You must do so with your own tongue I want you to speak to him and argue with him debate with him and disprove him that he is not the Almighty Allah When he says I am your Lord, he is not go ahead and disprove him I am Allah SWT Musa A.S. knowing his speech impediment knowing the physical defect that he had responds by saying I fear that Firaun will not be able to listen to me He will not take me seriously because of the speech impediment that I have Look at the state that Allah SWT is putting Musa into He is challenging him to the very core of the individual that he is I recognize that you have a weakness I recognize that there is a physical defect and impediment upon you Do not fear Bust forth, be confident in who you are Break forth from the shackles that are upon you spiritually, intellectually, whatever physically, emotionally that you and I have Break forth from the shackles that hold you as a human being In the same way, Musa A.S. is being challenged Break forth Do not concede to Firaun Even if you do have this speech impediment the response from Allah SWT Indeed, we are listening to you I have full confidence in you I don't care whether you have a speech impediment or not This defect should not stop you in becoming who you are It should not stop you in bringing about There is no reason as to why such an impediment should play on your mind You are Musa He is Firaun You are superior Go and give to him the message as is ordained to you Now here the problem is when we read these verses of Firaun unfortunately, we read them as parrots We know these stories We teach our children these stories We hear these stories from pulpit year after year after year But when I look at these stories there is an existential point about these stories There is a very basic fundamental aspect in that story is for me as an individual The Qur'an is for me And the Qur'an is for you The Qur'an is for everyone in existence Why? It's not a storybook It's not got pictures to it It's not going to be reprinted by another publisher The Qur'an is a lesson for me to take and understand If I put myself in Musa A.S. shoes Could I honestly stand in front of Firaun? Bring it to your own level When I see bullying in school At that point I am Musa And the bully is Firaun When I see bullying in university I become Musa in my own time And the bully in the university becomes Firaun When I see bullying in the world of work I again become Musa and the bully becomes Firaun Allah is telling me I am Musa in the Qur'an at this point Whatever impediment you have If you have a lack of confidence If you are scared to tell this individual No, do not bully Allah is saying Go and speak to the bully I am listening to you Have confidence in the next stage of your existence And it grows Look at the people in Qatif Look at the people in Saudi Arabia Look at the people in Bahrain They are Musa And they are fighting their own Firaun Of the 21st century They within themselves are being challenged To the core of who they are Bullets will fly Tanks will roll over your body But Umrab el-Ma'aruf and Nahil el-Munkah Comes first, nothing else I am Musa, you are Firaun It doesn't matter how scared I am I will stand in front of you And say to you That I will not allow a bully to be a bully I am Musa and you are Firaun When I read the Qur'an in this light I realize the story of Musa a.s. Is my story It is really about me growing It is really seeing how Musa a.s. Grew My God If Allah Can show us how a prophet of his Can grow into the next stage of his existence How can I not realize that I am Duty bound to grow into the next Stage of my own existence I am weak my lord I recognize my weaknesses You know my weaknesses None of this is coincidental in my life You have given me this life For the purpose of me breaking forth Into whom I can eventually become The same thing happens with Nabi Allah Ibrahim a.s. Think about this story For yourselves Imagine put yourself In the place of Nabi Allah Ibrahim He says my lord I want more yakin in you I want more certainty The Lord says do you not believe No I believe But I want an increase in my Certainty I want to know you better Are we not asking for the same thing In our lives My lord I want more certainty I want to understand why I want to understand who I want to understand when I want to understand what my role is I have 70 years to give you Give me more certainty There is this line of the a'a Rabbi Zidni Elma Rabbi Zidni yakinan Increase me in knowledge And increase me in certainty Ibrahim a.s. Ask for more certainty Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him more certainty How? He says to him Take those four birds Kill them Cut them Put them upon the four On the four mountains Stand in the middle of the mountains And call them You will see them rushing towards you The same way This bird These birds will come towards you On the day of judgment Everything in creation Will come towards me Every human being Will come towards me Once you've understood it And seen it for yourself Now you will understand How I will do it Now here the question is very simple Once Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Gave him that certainty Was this randomized? No What happens? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Gives to him a dream He sees that he is Slaughtering his own son Ismail The fact that I have Given you this certainty I am now going to test you By this very certainty That I have given to you According to one Ahadith The first day the dream Ibrahim A.S. revealed Received He ignored it He thought to himself How can I slaughter my own son? It doesn't make sense to me It can't have been a correct dream Next day again The same dream takes place Again he ignores it No I can't be slaughtering my unsan This doesn't make sense to me Third day again He is given this same dream Then he goes towards his son Ismail A.S. Oh Ismail Oh my dear son It is as if I see in a dream That I am slaughtering you What is your opinion on this matter? Oh my dear father Do as you have been commanded Insha'Allah He will find me of the patient once So He comes in blindfolds himself Another Mawiyah tells us That before he goes and cuts The throat of what he thinks is his son Iblis comes to him And gives him waswasa Oh Ibrahim How can you kill your own son? This must be Iblis Playing on your mind Look at this Iblis comes to Ibrahim And says Iblis must be playing on your mind Can you see how he is being Tested and challenged at every Core of the individual that he is If you were Ibrahim Could you slaughter your own son? And if all of your logic says to you Don't slaughter your own son You're being tested to your core And if someone comes to you And says to you don't slaughter Again there is a third level Which is testing you My Lord increase me in my certainty Fine I will increase you But once I increase you Don't think this is going to be the end of it I will test you with that very gift That I gave to you It is the same thing in our lives My Lord I am ill I have cancer Cure me of cancer Once he has cured me of the cancer Why did he cure me of that cancer? Why did he give me an extra Seven years in my life Was it to remain idle Or was it because I was supposed To implement something with those Final seven years of my life My Lord give me wealth No problem I will make you the best businessman Within Dar es Salaam Why will I give you this wealth So that you can do good by it My Lord give me family No problem I will give you family Why will I give you family So that you can make them servants Of Ahlul Bayt within the community Can you see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Is testing you with everything That he is giving you in accordance With my existence I have been given something Why was I given this So that I may break forth The shackles that were upon me And give and give And become the complete human being That I was supposed to become Here we need to now continue In this understanding What does it mean now To break forth in accordance With my own existence One And two what does it mean when we say Completion In very ambiguous terms When I say I'm in the womb And I'm going from stage to stage to stage I understand it And when I say in existence I'm going From adolescence to teen To this to this I understand it But here we are not limiting Our discussion to the physical We are saying physically We are growing in a unidirectional manner I cannot stop myself We are growing also in this very same Unidirectional manner What do I mean when I say I break forth in existence As existence is within myself Stage after stage And what do we mean when we say Completion What is the meaning of the complete human being Who he is When I look at my own existence I am now bound to ask More questions Once I have answered these Very fundamental questions as to Why have I been born into my family And not your family Why was I born into this era And not 500 years from now When I begin to answer those Questions I now go Stage further and ask new questions I now ask myself Well who am I Not why am I Who am I Because I've already developed 27 and a half years of existence Or 40 years of existence Or 70 years of existence So I'm already at the point of answering What existence I have completed within my life I now begin to ask the questions As who am I Fine I have a name My name is Ja'far I was given this name By my parents This is who I am But I am not me Because if you were to rename me Muhammad Or you were to rename me Ali I would still be the same individual that I am Does that make sense Whatever your name is If I was to rename you something You would still be the same you wouldn't you You would still have the same strengths that you have You would still have the same weaknesses That you have Therefore your name is not you Your identity is not you Who you are Is the character that you have built That you live That makes sense You are not you by name You are you by character Because if I was to rename you It doesn't matter what name I give you I can give you Tom Dick or Harry You would still be a good person If you are a good person And if you were an evil person You would still be an evil person If I was to call Yazid Bob Or if I was to call Yazid Ali Yazid would be Yazid Or if I was to call Hussein Baqir Hussein would be Hussein Because Hussein represents Hussein And Ibn Ali He is who he is at the very core Of this humanity This is why I love Hussein And this is why I have such enmity Towards Yazid and what he represents The name is not you So Who am I I am the character Well still that doesn't give me a befitting answer When we talk in terms of ourselves We normally Label ourselves pure And impure When I say something is pure I normally label it a color I say white, white represents a color Whereas black Will represent darkness of the soul As an example So if I was to estimate my own soul What color would I be Or let me put it to you in a different time When we normally talk about the soul We also say that there is the animal That represents If I am someone Who is a very Snakey human being We normally say that they are snake like Or If I am someone who just has no control Of my animalistic senses I am a pig I can't stop eating I'm just a gorge in myself I take on the pig form If I was an animal Which shape, which form would I take Would I be seen As a human being If you were to look at my soul Would I be seen as an angel If you were to look at my soul Or would I take on an animal shape Within my own form Remember that famous hadith Fourth Imam Peace be upon him Was performing Tawaf There was a blind man Who was performing Tawaf with him It appears that So many people coming to Hajj nowadays Masha Allah Imam Put saliva upon his face Lifts the veils from him And grants him vision Yabna Rasulillah How can this be There are so many animals Performing Tawaf around the Holy Kaaba I see snakes I see bulls I see pigs How can this be that we are allowing These animals to perform Tawaf He says no these are not animals These are human beings But their insides, their characteristics Is so dirty That when you see them now You see them as the animalistic form I am me But who am I I am not Jafar And you are not Muhammad You are you But when you analyze yourself Who am I What character, what shape What form do I take Let's go further Certain questions When I see unity and Tawheed The first thing I see is that Allah Ta'ala is one But he manifests himself Through different wonderful characteristics He is Al-Razaq He is Al-Rahman He is Al-Jawad He is Al-Kareem When I look at my existence Am I existing In accordance with Tawheed Or am I in existence In opposition to Tawheed What do I mean When I am with Mawlana Let us just pick Because he is our senior alim here Said Sheikh Al-Dina Let us just pick Sheikh Al-Dina Allah bless him, grant him long life If I am sitting with Sheikh Al-Dina What side Of the character that I have Do I present to him And when I'm with the boys What character do I present to them And when I'm with mum What characteristic do I present to her Am I in Tawheed When I'm presenting me As to who I am Or am I presenting the best side of me To Mawlana But the worst side of me To my friends Who am I Have I understood me For who I am Why is it that when I'm with Sheikh I will sit humbly And I will talk about good things And I will speak to him in this manner And I want to impress him with my characteristics So when he goes away he says Masha Allah But when I'm with the boys I talk all sorts of foul language I'm talking about all sorts of nonsense Is he more worthy or are they more worthy Is he the one who I should be impressing Or are they the ones I should be impressing Or should I be one in existence Should I be in the state of Tawheed Oneness in existence How I present myself to him Should be the same way I'm presenting myself to them Have I understood me Have I understood me When I say I am bursting forth In accordance with my own journey This is what it means I understand me for who I am In accordance with my stage of existence I am 27 years old This is what I have achieved in my life And this is where I'm going for the rest of my life Hadith says He who knows himself Knows his Lord When I have figured out who I am Why I am And how I have become to be Only then can I begin to traverse the path Of knowing his existence Commander of the faithful has a hadith where he says Live in this world The commander of the faithful has a hadith whereby he says Plan in this world As if you are going to live forever But live in this world As if you are going to die tomorrow Plan, have your plans I want to achieve this And I want to do that Because in this country I want to work with this orphanage I want to go and complete this book I want to go, brilliant Plan is if you are going to live forever But live in this world As if you are going to die tomorrow As if you only have one day to live And I have all these wonderful plans I wanted to fulfill Go and achieve them Why are you sitting in front of the TV Why are you wasting your time This is what it means The fourth is the individual that you are To break the shackles of laziness The shackles of weakness That have held me down For all of my existence I am 27 years old I have achieved this but I want to go and achieve so much more Go and do it, what are you waiting for This is what it means To burst forth from the existence To go and to make who you are And to change that person that you are Eventually becoming the person that you want to be What does it mean by the term completion We give a similitude I am like the butterfly I cocooned myself And after I have learned to be in the cocoon I burst forth as this beautiful butterfly That will flap its wings And go and seek everything that is in front of me What is completion So I understand the completion that is me I have my weaknesses as a human being We all have our weaknesses as a human being Once I have assessed myself And I see the journey that needs to be taken I now make the plan to achieve that journey So that when I die I can stand in front of my Lord And thank Him for the time that has been given to me Nothing is coincidental If I am given 40 years of existence And you are given 70 years of existence My 40 years I have been given Is because those 40 years I am capable of achieving my completion Within my 40 years I don't need 70 years I am capable of doing it in 40 years And if you have been given 70 years It is because those things which you are bound To achieve It is because the 70 years is worthy of your existence In order to complete your own existence Completion Completion as a human being Is to look at me And to remove all those weaknesses In order to become that human being That is perfect for me In accordance with my own time frame Let me give an example of a perfect human being I don't mean Isma I don't mean Ahl al-Bayt I don't mean Abu Thad Al-Abbas I don't mean Lady Um Kurthum Peace be upon her I mean you and I People who have achieved perfection within their own selves Non-Isma based individuals Ayatullah Al-Adama Shahid Muhammad Baqara Sadar Rahmatullahi Alayl This human being was given Less than 50 years to live in this world Before Saddam al-Takriti Murdered him ruthlessly And did what he did Shahid Baqara Sadar Spent his lifetime training his own soul It was not a day When he was not traversing That path towards completion Before Allah SWT And all of his actions Culminated in that completion Whereby when he was tested As a human being To the very core of who he was He could prove that he became The ultimate human being in front of God During his youth His youth he was a very poor individual Very very poor individual He used to buy books And once he'd finished reading the book He would sell the book back to the bookstore owner And with that money buy another book And with that book he would finish it Sell it back give it His mother used to give him lunch money So imagine he goes to school And of course he would need to buy some food for himself I can only imagine what it must be like As a youth to walk to school in the heat of Baghdad Come back in the afternoons in the heat of Baghdad As you know it can be very hot here as well It's not a simple upbringing It is a difficult trial and tribulation Shahid Baqara Sadar You know what he used to do with that money I'm talking about at the age of a young teenager I'm talking 13 years old This is how he built his character At 13 years old 15 years old when his mother used to give him lunch money He used to fast instead of taking that lunch money He would take the lunch money But he wouldn't tell his mother what he would do with it He would fast a fast during that day And with that lunch money he would go and give that money To the poor people on the streets One day because he was very thin at that young age And his parents noticed that he wasn't eating They asked him, we're giving you lunch money We're asking you to eat, why are you not eating? Listen to the response from Shahid Baqara Sadar He says, the reason why I fast during the day Is to practice how much hunger I can hold Because one day if ever I become so poor And I do not have any real money to feed myself with There will never come a time when I look to the sky And complain to Allah SWT about my poverty I am training myself at 13 years old That should I ever become so poor I never complain about my porness towards Allah SWT Look at how he was, how he would break himself The boundaries, the bonds, the shackles upon himself I will go hungry in order to train my own self If that's what it takes, that's why I will become Shahid Baqara Sadar There's a story about an incident just before he is martyred Keep in mind how he is bursting forth as an individual Towards his own completion One day his house was surrounded by the guards Guards wouldn't allow anyone to enter And people to exit There was one very close colleague of Shahid Sadar By the name of Sheikh al-Nu'mani Sheikh al-Nu'mani narrates this story in his book, in his biography He says, I was in the house with Shahid Baqara Sadar This house was dilapidated It used to leak in the house But he couldn't actually improve it Because he didn't have the money And the guards of Saddam al-Tikliti would not allow him to improve it So his children living in the house used to live in a dilapidated house Where it used to rain or the heat of it It would crumble, even rainwater would come And it would become flowing with water in the house The guards are surrounding this house Shahid al-Sadar is looking through a peephole You know why? Not just any peephole, bullet holes He's looking through a peephole that's been made through bullets He's looking, and what does he see? He sees the guards who are stopping people from coming to visit him Saddam's own guards He sees them wiping their brow Because they are so hot from the heat He sees them wiping their brow He sees how hot they are because of the heat Do you know what he says? اِنَّا لِلَّا وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ Shaykh al-Normani, come here I want you to go and get a jug of water And I want you to get a glass And I want you to go outside And I want you to give water to Saddam's own men And make sure that they are not thirsty Go and get a jug of water and feed Saddam's own troops And give them water Shaykh al-Normani responds and he says Sayyidna, forgive me And these are his words, I'm quoting them verbatim Sayyidna, forgive me Your children are being deprived Of even the basic things that children deserve Because of these guards You are housebound and arrested because of these guards People cannot come to visit you And you cannot leave because of these guards And you want me to give them water He responds by saying yes Indeed I do want you to give them water Oh Shaykh al-Normani When you wear the dress of an alem Now this isn't just any alem We're talking about any human being Don't just think because you're an amam Or you're an aba This is only about Shaykh al-Sadr This is every human being But he says Shaykh al-Normani When you, Shaykh al-Normani When you are an alem And you're in this dress There is such a high responsibility Upon your shoulders Have you not realized the completion Of your own journey? How can you say such a thing? They are human beings It doesn't matter whether they are their enemy Whether they are Saddam soldiers You have to give them the benefit Of the doubt, these are his words You have to give them the benefit Of the doubt Maybe they were born into a family Which did not give them good Human ethical principles Maybe they have been taught Things about us that are untrue And they genuinely think us to be the enemies Of God How do you know what kind of thinking They have in their mind? How can you say to me That we cannot give them water? You must give them the benefit of the doubt Go out and give them water Can you see the level of humanity The Shaykh al-Sadr has reached Your enemy He is giving him water And he is teaching the fundamental Aspects of growth You should realize by your age Shaykh al-Nu'mani You should realize by the knowledge That you have been gaining Shaykh al-Nu'mani That you can't think like this How can you still think in this way That they are the enemy Because they are surrounding us They are human beings that deserve To be treated as human beings Even the shackles upon your mind Go and give to them as they deserve To be given Shaykh al-Nu'mani goes out and gives them water He returns with a message By the captain The captain of that army Who was standing outside The words from the captain Of Saddam al-Tikriti's own men O Baqir al-Sadr May Allah bless you Keep up your struggle Because these people are fearing you They are scared of the revolution That is coming from your hands What revolution? The revolution by his characteristics Shaykh al-Sadr As the individual died 30 years ago Shaykh al-Sadr As the character lives on Shaykh al-Sadr As the human being passed away from this world Shaykh al-Sadr As the representative of God lives on Why? Because he wasn't Shaykh al-Baqir al-Sadr by his name Shaykh al-Sadr by the human being That he was When I say completion I mean completion of your humanity I am a Shia of Ahl al-Bayt I should act as a Shia of Ahl al-Bayt I am not a Shia of Muawiyah I shouldn't think like Muawiyah I am not a Shia of Yazid I am a Shia of Ali ibn Abi Talib When he saw someone hungry and thirsty along the road He stopped for them When he saw someone who was in need He gave to them When he went and realized that he couldn't sleep Because someone else was in need He couldn't sleep This is where we are trying to get to The goal of whom I am wanting to be I want to be a complete human being That at all times No matter what I am shaken with Even if it is Saddam's own gods I do not leave the characteristic That is befitting of a human being And that is who I am supposed to be There is so much more that we want to say On this topic But maybe we will have to cut it short here And maybe even pick it up for a third discussion tomorrow Before we move on If you want to see a human being Complete himself Look no further Than the 10th of Muharram I want to say to my younger brothers and sisters That the event of Karbala From the day In which Abi Abdullah was demanded Allegiance by Walid By Marwan From that day Until the end of Karbala When Ahlulbayt returned Back to the city of Medina After Arba'een The entire Karbala Is the university of Islam There is no facet of Islam That is not found within that first day To the last day The culmination of it Is the 10th of Muharram And the culmination of the 10th of Muharram Is the martyrdom of Abi Abdullah When we talk about someone Who is breaking forth At every level of humanity You may kill And slaughter my son In front of me But I will still ask you To come towards Islam Look at the sermon of Hussein As he enters the battlefield Salamullahi Alai Do you not know that I am the grandson Of Rasulullah Do you not know that I am the grandson Of Ali ibn Ali I am the son of Ali ibn Ali Qalib Do you not know that I am the son Of Fatima Do you not know that I am From the household of Hamza Do you not know that from my household Ja'far flies in heaven with wings Yes we do Then why do you kill me He is still calling them Towards Islam It's not for him He is not selfish O Hanawata Allah that matters It all points on that day On that day When he is being slaughtered When he has arrows Embedded into his chest He comes to the river Euphrates He comes down And instead of giving himself Water He turns towards his horse O horse of mine You are more thirsty than I Come and take this water The humanity of Hussain He is bursting forth It doesn't matter what trial And tribulation I have I will not shake I am the human being that I deserve to be And then comes the point Of his martyrdom Please understand his martyrdom What do our Ahadith tell us He is burdened With arrows To the extent that he has to pull one From his back To the front he has to pull it from the back One man throws a rock Upon the forehead of Abbi Abdullah They begin to encircle Hussain ibn Ali None of them can strike Hussain Why? Because they narrate The more we strike him The more beautiful his face Is becoming in front of us What does this mean This beauty of this face They say we cannot kill him One man says I swear by Allah I have never seen a person More bludgeoned to death More in a state where He's been cut to pieces Yet he is more beautiful I have never seen a person more beautiful Than Hussain ibn Ali Why? Because every trial And tribulation Hussain welcomed it with an open arms If it's for the sake of Allah And for the sake of my own existence In completion of my story That matter I will continue to shed Blood after blood after blood I became more beautiful The more I was being struck down It is the same with us The more we are being struck The more trial and tribulation The more I should be bursting forth The more nor that should be emanating From my own face This is the ultimate human being When it comes to completion And on the tent of Muharram That is why his face shone More and more strikes he took upon his head And then Shimmer comes and begins to take him Say it as Aina runs Into the battlefield Oh my dear brother Hussain What is it that I am seeing I am seeing the earth Shake at this very moment in time Oh Hussain How can I bear this trial after Oh Hussain If only the skies were to fall Upon you at this very moment in time There is a Hadith that says That as Sayyid Zaynah Was standing on Tilla Zaynabiyah As she was standing upon that mountain She cried out Oh mountain Raise me higher So I may see what is happening to my brother At the same time Hussain called out Oh Tilla Oh mountain Oh hillside Become smaller so that my sister does not have to see What is taking place to me Sakina Runs towards the battlefield The children are calling out Oh Hussain At this point in time As Shimmer is striking the blessed Neck of Hussain Who is there Who is there to see this momentous occasion In history Fatimata Zahra Extends her Oh beloved Hussain Drop your head into my arms If there is no other human being To hold you at this time Your mother Fatimah will not let you go At this time Please raise your hands Let us join each other in da'a We pray to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala For the hastening of the reappearance Of the awaited saviour We are such a desperately in need Of his coming hasten it Hasten it Ya Allah hasten it We ask we Allah To allow us to be alongside him at all times In our life and in our death If we are passing from this world Before he is to make his reappearance Raise us from our grave so that we can be alongside him To partake in his victory We ask we Allah There are many people around the world Who are in desperate need We are receiving reports today In the rest of Africa There are problems in Ethiopia There are problems in Nigeria We read that there are problems in Saudi We read there are problems in Yemen In Egypt In Afghanistan, in Iraq In Bahrain In Palestine, in Syria In Mexico Grant them safety, security Peace, education and medicine We ask we Allah To forgive our sins All those whom we love, all those that love us All of our marhumin, all of our ulama And all of our leaders We ask we Allah Help us to understand this Quran Help us to understand the purpose of our lives Help us to understand the month of Ramadhan And complete it as you have ordained We ask we Allah Help us to perform this Yarat al-Ahl al-Bayt Peace be upon them all We ask we Allah in the final moments of our life A shaitan comes to us And is tricking us And wants to give us water We ask you that it is Hussain ibn Ali That comes to us and quenches our thirst We ask we Allah For the opportunity to die in the love of Muhammad And Ali Muhammad Peace be upon you all May I ask you To bless this sitting With a loud salawat In honor of our third Imam Abu Abdullah Hussain Salah al-Shukr