 And the religion of Islam, according to the fitnah among a community and within society, spreading problems and causing conspiracies to take place within society. And we see that fitnah, it causes two people to break their friendship and start fighting with one another. It causes two families to fight with one another. It causes two cities, two communities to fight with one another. And sometimes we see that it even causes a civil war. It causes countries and nations to fight with one another. This is fitnah. A group of people, they cause problems to allow more fighting and more bloodshed to take place. And the fitnah is a main contributor to the extremism that we are witnessing in society. A main contributor to any type of extremism, whether it's here in the west or it's the type of extremism that we are witnessing in the Middle East and in the Muslim countries. Allah says in one verse, And fitnah, causing fitnah, causing conspiracies and problems between groups of people. This is worse than murder because murder, you might murder one person and that's it. You just killed one person. But when someone causes fitnah, this person is legislating and allowing a whole nation to die, allowing a whole community to break apart. And this is why the Qur'an refers to fitnah, conspiring and conspiracies worse than murder. And Allah says in the Qur'an, Be aware of the fitnah, be aware of the conspiracies and the problems within your communities, within yourselves, within your society. The problem with fitnah is that it destroys everything. It doesn't just destroy the one who is the oppressor. It doesn't just destroy the life of one person. It destroys the life of the whole community. And we've seen this happen. Today you look in some countries in the Middle East, you see that now the whole country is destroyed. There's nothing left from that country because one group of people decided to cause fitnah. Or you see within a family, within family relationships, within social relationships, sometimes one problem, it could cause the whole family to break apart. And many people do not talk to one another. Many people cannot tolerate one another. At any level, fitnah is worse than murder because it breaks apart the community and it breaks apart the society. And when we look at the Islamic history, when we look at the Muslim situation today, we see that we are living in a time of great fitnah. We are living in a time where there is a great conspiracy going on amongst the Muslims. And it's destroyed the lives of many people. Today you look at these refugees. Where did they come from? Millions of refugees. They all have to leave their country and they have to go and live somewhere else. They have to leave their homes, their family, their children. They have to leave their schools and their whole life just to go somewhere else. Who caused this? This is a fitnah. It's given the religion of Islam a bad name. Yesterday we spoke about Sharia law. Today we want to talk about the reasons. Why do people resort to extremism? Why is there extremism within the Muslim land and within the Muslim community? Why is there fanaticism? It's destroyed many lives. You see even some women, they have become slaves. Muslims using the Quran and using the name of Rasulullah, using the religion of Islam, they have enslaved other people. You see the ways that they kill, the ways that they butcher other people. You don't even know where they think of this, where they get these ideas from. One time you see them, they're drowning someone to death. Another time you see them, they're burning someone alive. Another time they attach explosives to someone's body and they blow it up. Where do they get these from? And worst of all, it's in the name of the religion of Islam. And this is the biggest fitnah that we are living in today. This is the biggest conspiracy, the biggest problem that we as Muslims and as a whole society has to deal with today. And yesterday I mentioned how their acts are all un-Islamic. It has nothing to do with the religion of Islam. But today someone might ask how, how have some groups of Muslims reached that level, reached that level of extremism? Where they use the religion, they use the Quran, they use the Hadith of Rasulullah to carry out violent crimes against humanity and against society. How does that happen? The Quran is a peaceful book. You compare the Quran with the other books, you see that it is the most peaceful books. You compare the life of Rasulullah, look at the life of Rasulullah, see how peaceful he was. He was sent as a mercy to mankind. How is it that there are people in the name of the religion of Islam carrying out these violent, cruel acts? There are reasons for this. One of the most important and one of the main reasons for extremism in society for this fitnah that we are seeing is ignorance. And I've spoken about this many times, but the Quran has also spoken about this. The Quran, the first thing it came, it told people to educate yourself. Learn, Rasulullah, many times he told people to educate themselves. But you see today, there is a big group of ignorant people within society. And unfortunately, the ignorant people, they are very easily exploited. Anyone can come and fool an ignorant person, but if someone is educated, if someone truly knows their religion, if someone truly knows the life of Rasulullah, they're not going to be fooled easily. But when someone is ignorant, anyone can come, sit on a mambar and say, this is what Rasulullah said, this is what the Quran says, this is what the Quran refers to, and they go and they fool people. And this is what leads to conspiracies and this is what leads to extremism. So ignorance, and you know what's worse than ignorance? It's when someone is ignorant, yet they think that they are knowledgeable. They think that they know. When someone is ignorant, but they do not know that they're ignorant. And this is the problem that we are dealing with. Many people, they think they're on the haqq. They think they're on the right path and they have closed all doors. They don't even look at anyone else. They don't even want to listen to anyone else, just like the people of Prophet Noah. When he used to speak to them, they used to close their ears so that they don't listen to the haqq. Today, the days of Muharram, you find their speakers, they tell people, don't listen to the majadis of Ashura. Don't allow yourself. Don't listen to any lecture regarding Imam Hussein, regarding Ashura, regarding what happened to the family of Rasulullah. So this is to keep people in the state of ignorance. And unfortunately, it's caused many people who are ignorant. They're treated as sheep. You go and you see in many countries, they listen to anything that the speaker is saying without questioning the person. Is this the religion of Islam that Rasulullah brought for us? Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi brought a religion that is logical so that we question it, so that we come to reason. With reason, we come to faith and believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But you see that there are groups of people who are treated just like sheep. And that's it. You tell them, go this way, they go that way. Go this way, do this, they do that. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about these people in the Qur'an. Allah says, There is a lot of jinn and humans. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has gifted them with a heart. The heart is not just the physical heart. The heart is the ability to make decisions. Choose to see what is right. The heart here refers to the soul. It refers to the feelings and the emotions. They have eyes, but they do not see with those eyes. They have ears as well. Their ears, they work very well. But they do not listen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has not given them the ability to choose. Those are the ones who are living in a life of ghaflah, not realizing what's going on. Easily fooled. And unfortunately when we look at the Muslim community, we see there are many people that fall into this category. Many people, we know. Imam Hussain, the grandson of Rasulullah, was killed on the land of Karbala. But then you have one speaker, he goes and he says, Hussain, he was killed by the sword of his grandfather. Meaning that Yazid, he had the right to kill Imam Hussain. And then you find people not complaining, not saying anything, not objecting. Those are the ones who are living in a state of ghaflah. They're not realizing that they're being fooled. They're not using that intellect that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given them. And you see that many speakers, many so-called scholars, they use the Quran, they use the hadith of Rasulullah in order to fool people. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, أَفَلَا يَتَدَبْرُونَ الْقُرْآنَ أَمْعَلَا قُلُوبٍ أَكْفَلُهَا Do they not ponder? Do they not realize? Is the Quran just so I read it without understanding? Without actually using the teachings of the Quran in my life? And we see one of the main reasons for extremism within these groups is that they are taking the literal meaning of the Quran. The literal meaning of the Quran, they are taking it. Without having anyone do Tafseer of the Quran for them. Allah says, Allah says clearly in the Quran that there are two categories of verses. There is the verse that is محكم that is very clear. Anyone understands this. You bring a child, you tell him قُلْهُ أَلْلٰهُ أَحَدْ أَلْلٰهُ الصَّمْ It's very clear. It doesn't require too much thinking. محكم. And then there's another group of verses, these are متشابة. These verses are not so clear. فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ فِي غُلُوبِهَمْ زَيْغٌ The one to have diseases in their hearts. Spiritual diseases. فَيَتَّبِعُونَ مَا تَشَابَهَ مِنْ اِبْتِغَاءَ اَنْ فِتْنَهُ وَبْتِغَاءَ تَعْوِيلَةَ They use the verses that are ambiguous. The verses that are not so clear in order to cause fitna. In order to mislead other people. In order to divide the ummah. In order to cause problems within the ummah. And this is exactly what we are witnessing today. The Qur'an. Now someone might come and ask why does Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala bring the Qur'an that is confusing? Why does Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala not just make the Qur'an all of it muhkem? All of it very clear. There are many answers to this. One of them is that this is what makes the Qur'an a miracle. If it was clear, it would have been like a newspaper. I get it, I read it, and then I throw it. I'm not going to pick it up anymore. The Qur'an. There are some verses that are mutashaabah. Some verses that are muhkem so that I continue going back to the Qur'an. And then a second reason. A very important reason is so that we go back to the experts of the Qur'an. So that we go back to the ones who Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says they are the ones who have the right to bring the Tafsir of the Qur'an. They are the ones who Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has given them the knowledge of the Tafsir of the Qur'an. And those are the Ahlul Bayt, a.s. Sada'a ala Muhammad wa ala Muhammad. Sada'a ala Muhammad. However, there is a group of people they don't want to go back to the experts. They say we're just going to take the literal meaning of the Qur'an. We get out of it. And that's it. We don't need experts. I could be an expert regarding the Qur'an. Anyone could be an expert regarding the Qur'an. But you see that this causes a problem. Taking the literal meaning and we will come and see what kind of problems are caused because of this. However, this literal meaning, the literal meaning of the Qur'an right now it's being used by the Sadafi thinking. They come and they take the literal meaning and they say they follow exactly what the literal meaning says. But did that start with the Sadafis? No. That did not start with the Sadafis. You see that that act of neglecting the Ahlul Bayt and neglecting anyone who can come and explain the Qur'an, this took place on the deathbed of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi. When Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi told the Muslims he told the Muslims bring me a pen and a paper, a pencil and a paper so that I write for you, so that I tell you something that you will never be misled after me. There was a man amongst them. He said, the man referring to Rasulullah is hallucinating. Rasulullah is hallucinating. He's mad. He's gone mad. That means that even if he says anything we're not going to listen to it because right now he's in a state of hallucination. You see the disrespect towards Rasulullah. And then he said something. He said, The Book of Allah is enough for us. Hasbuna Kitabullah. We don't need anything else. You see that that was the first step that neglected anyone and did not allow anyone to come and explain the Qur'an. And that's what led Muslims to take the literal meaning of the Qur'an because they closed the door in front of the Ahlul Bayt. They closed the door in front of Amir al-Mu'mineen in front of the Ahlul Bayt where the Qur'an came down in their homes. They were the ones that have the knowledge of the Qur'an. They were the ones who understand the Qur'an. Amir al-Mu'mineen This is the Hadith of Rasulullah that all of the Muslims accept. I am the gate, I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate. Why did you close that gate? Why did you not allow the Muslims to have the knowledge and take the knowledge from Amir al-Mu'mineen? Because he said, The Book of Allah is enough for us. We don't need anything else. This is what caused the extremism and the problems to take place. That day, Abdullah ibn Abbas, he came out crying. He came out of the room crying. He says, He says our disaster and our downfall is what stopped Rasulullah from writing. Writing. Let me tell you something that you will never be misled after me. But someone tells him we don't need to know that. You are hallucinating. This is one of the reasons of the fitnah and you see that this ban there was an official ban on writing Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Someone might say, why? What was wrong for someone, who came after the death of Rasulullah to say, I heard Rasulullah say this, this person would be beat up. And this person would not be allowed to narrate the Hadith of Rasulullah. And this law was enacted by the first Khalifa and the second and the third, until Umar ibn Abdul Aziz until Umar ibn Abdul Aziz he came and he allowed the writing of the Hadith. Thadween al-Hadith. No one looked this up. This took place during the time after the death of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. No one was allowed to come and say, Rasulullah said this and Rasulullah said that. That's why you come and you look at the books of the Muslims and the Sunni school of thought, you see that the books, they came many years after Rasulullah. We don't have a book that came immediately after the death of Rasulullah. You come and you look at Bukhari and you look at Muslim, you look at Ahmad ibn Hanbal, you see that they all came many years after Rasulullah because there was an official ban by the Ummawi government on the writing of the Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And you see that this is what caused many people to be in this life. Because many people, they don't know who the scholars are. They can't go to the scholars. The scholars meaning the imams of the Ahlul Bayt people began to resort to taking the literal meaning of the Qur'an or doing qiyas and other forms of reaching a conclusion. And we see that many problems emerged because of this reason. Many problems that we are witnessing today. And this is how you see extremism rise. There's a verse in the Qur'an Allah says, Nasara awliya O you people who believe do not take the Jews and the Christians as awliya. Now, you go and you open the Qur'an the English translation of the Qur'an by some of the prominent ones here. You come and you see it says, O you people who believe do not befriend the Jews and the Christians. Now, is this truly what Allah wants to say? No. But you see that because of the lack of knowledge they have reached this conclusion. And you see that the Muslims fell in this problem at least two times. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the prophet, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi in one occasion he raised the hands of Amir al-Mu'mineen on the day of Qadir and he said, man kuntu maulah they come and they say, Rasulullah he stopped all of these people just to tell them, Rasulullah Ali ibn Abi Barib is my friend. Did he truly mean friend here or did he mean leader here? Rasulullah meant leader. And here in this verse, it also means do not take the Jews and the Christians as leaders. As leaders do not take your faith from them. It doesn't mean do not take them as friends because this contradicts other verses of the Quran but you see that when one time you come and you change a meaning of a word, maulah it could either mean leader or it could also mean friend. But on the day of Qadir Rasulullah meant leader or else why would he stop over 100,000 Muslims in the heat of that day just to tell them Ali ibn Abi Talib is my friend. Is this all that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi No, he meant leader and in this verse it also means leader but you see that when there is lack of knowledge of the Quran mistakes will emerge. Allah SWT says in the verse Allah says Allah does not stop you from showing love and compassion towards non-Muslims as long as they are not kicking you. Allah says non-Muslims as long as they are not kicking you out of your homes as long as they are not fighting you there is nothing wrong with becoming a friend with a non-Muslim but you see that when someone has the lack of knowledge they don't know how to do Tafseer al Quran bin Quran they don't know how to bring two verses of the Quran together and it causes many problems so here Allah says do not take your religion as religious leaders as role models where you take your religion from them you have your own shari'ah you have Rasulullah you have the Quran you have the Sunnah of Rasulullah you don't need to go and take your religion from other groups of people and of course this is not only about the Christians and the Jews Allah even says this about your own family Allah says even your own family even your parents and your brothers and your siblings do not take them as awliya if they chose the kufr over iman if they chose blasphemy over iman do not take them as leaders do not take your religion and your faith from them this is all that the verse is saying but the problem is the problem is the problem is but the problem is when you come and you take the literal meaning of the Quran it will cause problems and these problems they lead to types of extremism that we are seeing today another example Allah says Allah says Allah says Allah says O you people who believe obey Allah and obey the prophet and obey the the ones who have command over you now here you see many groups of Muslims they say yes we will follow Allah and we will follow the prophet and we will also follow anyone who is sitting on the throne anyone who is a king anyone who claims to be a Khalifa anyone who is a president this person I have to follow this person and you see there are many ahadith many narrations that we do not accept they say follow anyone even if this person is a Fajr even if this person is a wicked person even if this person is a drunkard go ahead and follow this person that's why you see them saying Yazid he was a legitimate leader even though he was a drunkard all Muslims agree that he was a drunkard but they say he was a legitimate leader because he had the Amr and Muslims therefore had to follow him why do people reach this conclusion because they take the literal meaning of the Qur'an and they do not know how to bring verses of the Qur'an together Allah says in another verse in the Qur'an Allah says who the Mawla is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you think he just says anyone who comes anyone who comes and he is sitting on the throne anyone who considers themselves a king or a leader this person is truly a leader no Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not mean that because you come and you see other verses of the Qur'an other verses of the Qur'an they come and explicitly say who was the leader and Allah says in the Qur'an I am the one who chooses Allah says Allah says a man cannot take this position so is it anyone that just comes and assumes the position this person has a religious leadership no but that people reach that conclusion when they have the lack of knowledge of the Qur'an where anyone even if this person is a criminal even if this person kills and oppresses they say his leadership is shari one day Marwan he saw Abu Ayyub al-Amsari this great companion of Rasul Allah Abu Ayyub al-Amsari he was sitting over the grave of Rasul Allah Marwan he came and he began to kick him he told him get up you are speaking to the rock and you are speaking to the stone the same type of axe that we see carrying out today by the Wahhabis and the Salafis he tells him get up you are speaking to the stone Abu Ayyub al-Amsari he turns around and he looks at Marwan ibn al-Hakam and he tells him I am not my intention is not to turn to the stone my intention is Rasul Allah and then he said do not cry for Islam when the right person assumes and has the leadership but cry for Islam feel sorry for Islam when the wrong person a person like Marwan takes power a person like Muawiyah takes power a person like Yazid takes power this is when you have to cry for the religion of Islam when the right person assumes and has the leadership but cry for Islam you have to cry for the religion of Islam so a reason for extremism and problems is that people they take the literal meaning of the Quran and that causes extremism and more fitnah and more problems and same goes with the hadith when it comes to the narrations the narrations they should also not be taken to its literal meaning immediately sometimes there are different sets of narrations there are many narrations you have to come and bring them all together in order to reach a conclusion but sometimes you see some people they take one hadith and they rely on that hadith and they're going to kill other people and justify the killing and the oppression of other people because of one hadith that who knows if it's even right or wrong there's a hadith of Rasul Allah if we were to accept this hadith it says that whoever says the Shahada before he dies this person will go immediately to heaven anyone who says before he dies he will go to heaven now should this hadith be accepted with anyone anyone who someone who is a sinner someone who his whole life he's been living as a tyrant but before his death this hadith this person is going to go to heaven does this go with the justice of Allah and you see when Saddam was killed when Saddam was executed some people they said yes he's going straight to heaven because his last words were now does this make sense with the justice of Allah Allah says Allah says you think Allah swt is going to ignore this verse just because one person who was killing so many people he caused millions of people to die through his wars through his chemical weapons and killing people you think Allah swt is just going to take him to heaven so you have to come and bring all of the verses all of the hadith together in another verse Allah says you think Allah swt is going to ignore his justice one of our is the justice of Allah swt we believe that Allah is just Allah is not going to allow an oppressor a tyrant to go to have his oppression go unpunished but you see that these are the tactics that some use in order to fool people in order to create extremist thoughts today the person who is going and blowing himself up and killing innocent people he follows this hadith they say yes no matter what kind of a life I've been living I've been living a sinful lifestyle whatever I do but then before I blow myself up I'm going to yell and you see that this statement it's such a great statement but when you hear them saying it and when you hear them performing this evil act and saying Allah swt you feel sad and you feel sorry for this Allah swt this is what Rasulullah used to say this is what the imams used to say but you see someone who is a terrorist someone who is so filthy someone who is very far from the religion of Islam they say Allah swt and they go and they blow themselves up and kill other people or saying the Shahada no matter what kind of a lifestyle they are living this is extremism this is the reason for extremism because people are uneducated because people do not have the knowledge anyone that says the Shahada will immediately go to paradise no there are conditions there are conditions for our scholars they say that this is one of the conditions of entering paradise just like a for example a job application they'll tell you that you have many requirements that you need one of the requirements is to say the Shahada but there are other requirements as well and of course there is a very important requirement when you come in when you take this and you merge it with other hadith you see the hadith al muhkem the haditha is accepted the haditha has a strong chain of narrations it is accepted before a haditha does not have a strong chain of narrations and one of those narrations that have a strong chain of narrations is a hadith referred to as a Silsila Dahabiyah by Imam al-Ruza A.S he says I heard from my father who heard from his father who heard from his father you are the messenger of Allah you are the jibrail you are the Qalam from Allah the word La ilaha illa Allah hasni the saying La ilaha illa Allah is the sanctuary it is the fort it is a protection whoever enters that protection they will be saved from the punishment of Allah however the hadith is incomplete then the Imam al-Ruza A.S he told his companions the conditions and conditions La ilaha illa Allah it is easy to say however it has many conditions as many requirements it is easy to say but difficult to act upon he says it has conditions and one of the conditions is Imam al-Ruza A.S believing in the Imam believing in all of the Imams so this was the first reason the ignorance the second reason is Al-Alam Ida Fasad sometimes you see a community it could be misled it could go the wrong way because someone who considers himself a Al-Alam someone who considers himself a scholar but this person inside he is a Fasad he is corrupt wearing the clothes of Al-Alam yet this person is not Al-Alam this person has evil intentions wrong intentions he was asked what are the worst people what are the worst people he replied if they have gone wrong if they have gone wrong of course they are also the best of the people if they have not gone wrong but if an Al-Alam has gone wrong then that could cause disasters because there is many ignorant people and this person easily he could mislead many people bring people to the wrong path you look at our history it's filled with Ulama people that knew they know where the Haqq is and where the Ba'al is yet they decided to divert the Ummah they decided to mislead people the Khawaraj that stood against Amir al-Mu'mineen they knew Amir al-Mu'mineen was the rightful Imam but they began to accuse him of Khufr and they turned against the Imam of their time and history is full of examples of people who claim to be knowledgeable sometimes you see them they probably have the Quran memorized they know how to recite the Quran with a beautiful voice but then you see that this person has gone wrong and we see many examples of this you see these Muftis the Muftis and these governments in the Middle East and SubhanAllah I don't know why they're all blind every time you see one is talking they have to be blind the Ibn-Baz, Al-Shaykh anyone that you see them they're blind SubhanAllah maybe this is a sign that if he has a blind vision he also has a blind heart and he comes and he says and this is a few days ago every year in Ashurah he says this every year in Ashurah he says this the one from Al-Shaykh he said Hussain you should not cry for Imam in Hussain and Yazid was the rightful leader and Hussain was killed because he stood against the rightful leader of his time why would someone say something like that what would you answer Rasulullah on the day of judgement in front of Rasulullah when you say the day of they don't only say you should not cry they say the day of Ashurah is the day of Eid a day of holiday and this is why you see them on the day of Ashurah they're going to tell their followers and unfortunately there are many ignorant people they tell you you have to fast thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the blessings of the day of Ashurah this is when a scholar has gone wrong you see that this is what happens and the history is full of examples Imam Al-Hussain alayhi salam Imam Al-Hussain he was killed because there were some scholars there was a qadi he was a judge he issued a fatwa against Imam Al-Hussain alayhi salam just like you see them issuing fatwas today there were people who were assuming the betrayal of a leader that actually issued a fatwa against Imam Al-Hussain telling people go and fight Imam Al-Hussain Yazid is the rightful Imam history is full of examples there was a man who was a Sahaba of Rasulullah and many Muslims in Sham at that time they used to see anyone who was a Sahaba anyone who was a companion of Rasulullah we have to honor this person this man by the name of Samara Ibn Jundab this man he was a companion of Rasulullah he came to Sham Muawiya told him, oh Samara you're a companion of Rasulullah people will listen to you like the sheep they listen to their the one who is telling them go this way and that way the shepherd they will also listen to you he tells Samara oh Samara and stand on the number and tell people that this verse there is a group of people a person that causes fitnah and he just wants to cause facade and he wants to cause chaos and problems in society he tells him I want you to go out in front of the people and tell them that this verse came down referring to Ali Ibn Abi Talib that it was Ali Ibn Abi Talib who wanted to cause facade he was the one who wanted to cause he was the one who wanted to cause problems within society so Samara he told Muawiya how much are you going to pay me for this Muawiya told him I'll pay you 100,000 dirhams Samara replies he tells him no I'm going to be selling my afterlife by doing this I will not go to heaven because this is a lie I want more he tells him 200,000 dirhams 300,000 dirhams he takes 400,000 dirhams and then he goes out in the public and he tells people that this verse came down upon Ali Ibn Abi Talib someone who knows yet this person has gone astray and the third reason is when people neglect the Qura'an there is extremism and people have been misled and there is fanaticism is when people have left the Qura'an and left the interpreters of the Qura'an and those are the Ahlul Bayt those are the ones that explain the meanings of the Qura'an when you leave the Ahlul Bayt you're not going to find the leader that has the mercy and the compassion and the love and the knowledge and the understanding and the Iman that the Ahlul Bayt have you're going to find a leader that will mislead you a leader that will bring you away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and this is what leads to fitnah she went out in front of the Muslims after they decided to keep Ali Ibn Abi Talib in the house after they had given bay'ah to Ali Ibn Abi Talib just 70 days ago day of khadir and the martyrdom of Rasulullah there's 70 days in between they gave their bay'ah and then 70 days later they ignored and they neglected that bay'ah they told her we're trying to not cause fitnah we're trying to bring and appoint a leader so that we do not cause a fitnah amongst the community amongst the Muslims she tells them abtidaaran zaamtum khawf al fitnah fil fitnah tisaqatu wa inna jahannamala moheetatun bilkaafibin she tells them you tried to avoid fitnah but you brought the ummah in the fitnah and in this conspiracy and in this problem by leaving Ali Ibn Abi Talib of the ahlul bayt alayhum salam was always there to defend the religion of Islam and defend the imams and tonight as we remember the son of imam al-hasan al-qasim imam al-hasan he lost at least three of his sons they were killed on the day of ashura three of his sons but we remember imam al-hasan we remember al-qasim in honor of his father imam al-hasan today you see that al-qasim visitors but imam al-hasan does not have visitors al-qasim he has a shrine with imam al-hasan and with the companions millions of visitors they visit him and imam al-hasan every year imam al-hasan alayhi salam there is no dome over his grave let us cry for imam al-hasan and cry for al-qasim alayhi salam on the night of ashura the night of the tent of muharram imam al-hasan alayhi salam he told all of his companions if you stay with me you will be killed he tells them leave if you want to leave go ahead they all stayed but they came they were talking to the imam al-qasim he tells imam al-hasan al-qasim was 13 years old he had not been married yet he was 13 years old he was young he tells imam al-hasan oh my dear uncle will I also be killed tomorrow imam al-hasan alayhi salam he wanted to test the faith and test the thinking of al-qasim he tells him how do you see death how do you see death he tells him oh my dear uncle oh my dear uncle in your aid death is sweeter than honey imam al-hasan begins to cry and he tells him oh qasim you will be killed tomorrow and do you know who else will be killed my son the six month old alayhi al-hasan will also be killed tomorrow on the day of ashura al-qasim came to imam al-hasan alayhi salam he asked for permission to go and fight imam al-hasan refused it was very difficult for imam al-hasan to allow al-qasim to go and fight he tells him I took care of you after the death of my brother imam al-hasan how could I see you go like this al-qasim kept insisting until imam al-hasan allowed him to go and fight I mean the bin muslim one of the narrators he says we saw a young man come out his face was as bright as the moon he came he began to hug his uncle for permission he says I saw imam al-hasan saying his farewell imam al-hasan and al-qasim imam al-hasan tells qasim there is a minister in europe to himself the prophet of al-Mustafa the first of all was on hamed bin muslim says we saw a beautiful young man the strap broke he dug down to fix his sandal then run to the moon she was embarrassed to enter the tent because imam al-hasan was crying in there as imam al-hasan left the tent she came and She began to cry. Let us raise our hands and cry. Mas'alukha Allahumma wa nada'um. Bismiqal-Azim, Allah-Azam. Allah-Azzal-la-Jal-la-Lakram, Ya Allah. Mughallif al-Ghulub, Thabbit-Ghulubanah. Allahumma ghfir-lil-Mu'minina wal-Mu'minat. Al-Ahya'i min-um wal-amwat. Ta'be'u Allahumma baynana wa baynahum bil-khayrat. Inna ka-mujeeb al-da'waat, inna ka-ghafir ul-khadi'aat. Inna ka-ala kulli shay'in khadeer. Wa-sallallahu ala Muhammadin wa ha-