 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي يجيبني حين أناديه ويستر علي كل عورة وانا عصيه والصلاة والسلام على أنبياء الله جميعا وعلى سيدهم وخاتمهم حبيب إله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين وعلى سيدنا ومولانا الإمام أمير المؤمنين وقائد الغر المحجلين علي يبن أبي طالب عليه الصلاة والسلام اللهم كل وليك الحجة ابن الحسن صلواتك عليه وعلى آبائه في هذه الساعة وفي كل ساعة وليا وحافظا وقائدا وناصرا ودليلا وعينا حتى تسكنه أرضك طوعا وتمتعه فيها طويلا واجعنا اللهم من أنصاره وعوانه قال تعالى في كتابه الكريم عوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ومن أراد الآخرة وسعى لها سعيها وهو مؤمن فأولئك كان سعيهم مشكورا كلن نمد هؤلاء وهؤلاء من عطاء ربك وما كان عطاء ربك محضورا صدق الله العلي العظيم ونصر هؤلاء هؤلاء are momentous critical vital extremely important هؤلاء هؤلاء are decisive in our life they are faithful our future from now on is going to be determined during these nights God is going to make decisions for us in partnership with us about our fate and our destiny and our destination and our direction in this life our happiness in the next 365 days depends on our deeds and our intentions during these nights the nights of qadr the nights of power the nights of destiny and the nights of communication with the Lord so please do not waste your time during these nights do not engage in gossip do not engage in hurting yourself and hurting others if you want to discuss something discuss your own fate discuss your own destination let's not discuss the situation of the people today we have to be more concerned about our own selves before being concerned about our friends and our neighbors tonight waste no time in remembering God in strengthening your relationship with God because it is only God that you need in this life we are surrounded by family members by good friends community members many of them are loyal to us many of them are very good to us but a time would come that your husband would not be able to help you your wife would not be able to help you your attorney and your neighbor and your cousin and your cousin would not be able to help you only God would be able to help you so please let's faster good relationship with God during these nights let's not waste these upcoming nights from tonight until the end of the month the last ten the last ten nights of the holy month of Ramadan let's spend these nights in adoration let's spend these nights in good deeds try tonight from tonight until the end of the month not to hurt anyone around you neither verbal nor physical do not hurt people do not offend them neither hurt yourself anything that comes out of your mouth and during these last ten nights should be good and pleasant and wholesome avoid backbiting avoid slandering people avoid speaking behind them avoid accusation avoid being rude try to be kind these are the recipients for success these items God wants to see in your behavior, in your life during these nights God is extremely generous and God his resources never end it has no end they are unlimited but then God would not give something for someone who does not deserve he doesn't give this night is called the night of Taqdeer we have three nights of Qadr they are divided into three categories this night the eve of the 19th is called the night of Taqdeer Taqdeer in Arabic means assessment evaluation God is going to evaluate our conditions he is going to evaluate our manners how much we are worth in the market today are we worth a lot because of our good deeds and good intentions or we worth nothing because we only hurt people it depends on you you can give the answer it depends on where you stand from God how far you stand from God how far you stand from your community and your family how far you stand from your values and principles it all depends these things are being considered by God he looks at your heart first he looks at your intentions he looks at your deeds he looks at your relationships with your parents with your family members with your neighbors with your coworkers he considered these things he considered them he is degrading us God tonight is degrading us from a scale of 1 to 10 to see where we stand how much value we carry how much merits and worth we have nothing is a free God says I am not going to give even one inch of paradise to someone who does not deserve it you must deserve that you must work hard for it إنما تتزونا ما كنتم تعملون in Surat Yassin you get what you work for what you strive for what you struggle for so let's not waste our time and our energy let's really focus many people they seek change and change does not come free we have to work hard to change ourselves we have to have will we have to have a strong will without strong will we cannot succeed without sacrificing for the sake of transformation we cannot succeed we need to sacrifice we need to give up on something or on a few things that are bad we are doing it we are practicing it we must stop them if we continue to do these bad things carry bad thoughts bad heart bad intentions bad relationships God is not going to find us worthy of His blessings and His bounties and His gifts and His forgiveness we must begin the first step we must take the initiative and believe me when God looks at you being serious being honest being hard working trying to change yourself with full seriousness He will help you and He will guide you and He will embrace you because this God is the God of mercy you know God is different from us we do not decide our destiny God is the one who decides our destiny but in partnership with us not in isolation from us God is going to decide how much I am going to receive how much I am going to get what will happen to me what will happen to my health what will happen to my future what will happen to my job to my family when I am going to die these things He decides them for us but out of wisdom not arbitration وما ننزله إلا بقدر whenever we give we give with strict strict and wise measurement قدر not arbitration not discrimination when God gives what you deserve however God nobody decides His destiny for Him He is the only one He is the sovereign nobody can decide for God what to do but God says one thing I made it incumbent upon me mandatory upon me to bestow mercy bestow my mercy on the people كتب ربكم على نفسه الوحمة God is free nobody can force Him to do anything God is independent from any force from any influence but He said me who is completely independent I myself I made it mandatory upon you I can't get away with that to bestow mercy on my people on mankind كتب ربكم على نفسه الوحمة so when you do good He must reward you He must reward you He says I made it must upon me to reward you so don't lose this opportunity these nights I have a friend American friend who said these nights I said there are two meanings in these ليل القدر the nights of destiny the nights of fate the night of destination destination one meaning we get closer to God because definitely we want to be happy we don't want to be miserable we want something we do not want something bad and terrible to happen and our children and our family members we seek happiness we seek prosperity this is number one so we need to get close to Him and the closer you get to Him the more tolerant patient and happy you become even if you lose something you would not freak out that is the difference between a believer and an unbeliever some people think that when you start practicing religion nothing will happen to you your car is going to be fine your house is going to be fine your health is going to be fine your children are going to be fine no because the prophets and messengers and the good people every tragedy happened in their life every tragedy so what is the difference between a believer and a nonbeliever the believer has a power to observe a power to withstand these tragedies a power an energy to take them and tolerate them not to collapse therefore God says the true believers when something happens to them what do they say the first thing they say الذين إذا أصابتهم مصيبة قالوا إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون this is this is the statement that we say we say that I come from God and definitely I have to go back to Him there is a small escape this is how they counsel and console themselves this is how they bring peace to their life so they don't collapse while the nonbeliever they collapse they take out their life they kill themselves they kill their family members but believers they have hope in God in His mercy they say whatever He chooses for us we accept because we know this God is the God of mercy and love He is not the God of revenge and punishment what He intends for me is good for me even if I look at it from my narrow window narrow angle that this is bad but He looks at it from all angles from all windows and He says this is good for you this night is the night of assessment tomorrow on Thursday after tomorrow it's the night of Ibrahim Ibrahim is ratification Ibrahim is confirmation whatever God is going to assess for us tonight is going to be confirmed in two nights and then after that another two nights after that on Saturday which is the grand night of Qadr Saturday the eve of the 23rd it's the night of endorsement it's night of the sign and the seal the night of Imba the signature final signature of God is going to be put on your destiny on your life on your file on that night but these nights are vital in preparation for the signature you have to work harder you have to make good intention you have to do good deeds you have to purify your intention your knee you have as you said as you heard earlier يا أيها الذين آمنوا تقوا الله وكونوا مع الصادقين it is not a coincidence that Ali ibn Abi Talib is martyred during these nights this is a signal from God a signal an indication from God he wants you to be pure in these nights he wants you to be honest he wants you to speak the truth he wants you to be an integrated person so if you sometimes get confused and say who should I follow my father is not the best my uncle is not the best I know that my husband is not the best my wife is not the best my brother is not the best so you get confused God says I'll provide you with the best example that example is Ali ibn Abi Talib and Ali is the best because he is the servant the servant of Prophet Muhammad this is how we look at Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali is a great because he was a good student a good follower a good disciple of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger of God he was the closest to him he was his right arm he was his first defender and whatever I say about Ali is not enough I said many times when I prepare a lecture to speak about Ali when I get confused where should I start where? what aspect of his life I'm enchanted with this man I'm crazy about Ali ibn Abi Talib and you know Ali his community they did not do justice to him they did not appreciate him neither they understood him neither they valued him his community abused him they misunderstood Ali they didn't give him what he deserves so Ali was مضلوم Ali was abused and even today many Muslims do not know Ali ibn Abi Talib they don't know his value they don't know his contribution they don't know if there is a mask today anywhere on this earth it is due to the bravery and the sacrifice of Imam أمير المؤمنين Ali ibn Abi Talib صلى الله عليه وسلم and this is why the first equality of Ali I'll speak about three qualities briefly the first quality is تضحية sacrifice تضحية and sacrifice when he was young 12 years old he decided out of conscious and out of choice and out of understanding to go with his cousin first cousin Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم into the dangerous streets of Mecca the streets of Mecca were hostile to the prophet were dangerous they attacked the prophet they insulted the prophet and Ali was a child 12 years old his mother did not say to him listen boy come here sit at home this is not your work no neither his mother said this to him his father already passed away when they were in Mecca and he knew that this is his duty even if these territories and these neighborhoods are dangerous I must go and defend my cousin not because Muhammad is my cousin but because Muhammad is Rasool Allah the messenger of God so he decided to go into the streets of Mecca do you know of some cities some neighborhoods that are very dangerous we have in this nation we have some neighborhoods that are very dangerous Mecca to the prophet at that time was very dangerous he had no friend the environment were very hostile while because the prophet was defying and challenging there are principles principles that is based on materialism based on falsehood based on aggression on aggression I'll give you an example of the Meccans the Meccans were ready to do anything and everything just to stay in power to be the leaders of the society just like some countries today they signed contract $500 billion with some countries to purchase weapons just to stay in power just to maintain their seat the story is repeating itself 1400 years ago we have the same story they were fighting the prophet not because the prophet was a bad man the prophet was inviting them to be good to be good children good husbands, good wives, good neighbors good citizens but because the prophet was stripping them of their influence of their aggression of their dominance they wanted to dominate the region with their aggression, with their theft with their robbery they wanted to keep this gap between them who were extremely rich and the rest of the society which was poor this is why they did not like the prophet they did not respond to his invitation they called him liar they called him deceiving they called him a sorcerer the only one who said I'm going to defend you despite my young age but I have big heart don't look at my hands my bodies are small look at my heart and my will he was with the prophet like a shadow no day the prophet leaves his house but Ali is next to him next to him defending him chasing those kids the kids who throw stones at the prophet would run after them to defend his cousin Ali was a symbol of sacrifice Ali is the only man of course he learned that from the prophet and the rest of the imams learned that from their grandfather the prophet was a man who did not work for himself today we and when I say we we all leaders lay person others religious leaders political leaders we work the majority of us we work for ourselves we put ourselves before our societies Ali did not work for himself from day one Ali never worked for himself never worked for his fame for his wealth for his position for his influence he put the society first he always says people before me even the day he accepted leadership the khilafah in the year 60 in the year 35 hijri even that year when he accepted the khilafah he accepted it to help the people and save them and guide them because the muslim ummah was in disarray the muslim ummah was completely dismantled in the history of Islam year 35 was a disastrous year in the history of Islam after the murder of the third khilaf of man the muslim ummah was in disarray Ali got elected put pressure on him by the people they came to him they said there is no one to save this ummah but you he accepted that just to save the ummah the community not himself didn't need to be a leader Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal one of the greatest sunni scholars in Islam the leader of the Hanbali sect Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal says and the khilafah did not give him a credit he was the one who gave it a credit he was the one who gave the khilafah value sometimes someone gets to the office nobody knows him once he gets to the office he becomes popular he becomes influential he becomes wealthy Ali was already influential in the eyes of god Ali was popular in the hearts of the angels in the eyes of the angels he became popular Ali became poorer when he became khilafah before he became khilafah he had some money he could spend some money on himself and his family the day he became khilafah he confined himself he restricted himself to life to life of poverty and when he was asked why the house of a treasury is full of money full of gold and jewelry why you deprive yourself from food why do you deprive yourself from clothing why you deprive yourself from clothing why you deprive yourself from a nice house he said because I have to be equal to the least in my community to the least people in my community I can't eat food I can't enjoy food Ali was a person who would not enjoy food when there is someone even far away ولا علف الحجاز أو اليمامة and he was in kufa between him and hijaz 1500 miles between him and yaman another probably 1200 miles he would say I would not enjoy my meal if I eat a meal fresh meal healthy meal while someone a family a child a widow an orphan is starving thousands of miles away from me I would not enjoy that take it away even tonight tonight on the eve of 19th in about a few hours from now in about 4 or 5 hours he is going to be struck by the sword of even muljam that night his stomach was empty although he was fasting the whole day the stomach was empty when he was about to break his fast his daughter says I brought him a meal he said remove the meal he took only one loaf of barley bread nana jo خبز الشعير barley bread only that was the meal of the greatest man in the nation the caliph who had the bayt ul maal treasury at his disposal but he didn't touch it and he would say to the money he would look at money bayt ul maal would get filled with taxation and money and he looks at the money and he says يا دنيا غري غيري أو دنيا أو material أو money or gold and silver deceived someone else you cannot deceive me I'm not going to be deceived when I look at gold and silver this is Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib had a loss earnestness and oftentimes I say people during his time abused him and we are also abusing him now do you know how we abuse Ali we abuse him when we claim we are the Shi'a of Ali but we do not represent his values we do not follow his example we claim that we love him we adore him we mention him we name our children after him we do not follow his example Ali says I'm not asking you to withdraw yourself from this life use this life but do not let this life uses you Ali says do not let this life controls you the difference between someone who is wealthy and a believer and someone who is a wealthy but non-believer the difference is not one of them practices a prayer the other does not practice neither the difference is one of them does fast the second doesn't fast no that is not the measurement of religiousity some people think if someone prays he is religious if he doesn't pray he is not religious no this is wrong the difference is that someone who is wealthy and religious does not let his wealth control him while the one who is religious while someone who is wealthy and non-religious he gives in to the temptation of his wealth he allows his wealth to control him rather him controlling wealth and this is mentioned in this book in the Quran God says the real religious person is the one who detaches himself or herself from this dunya the one who shares even without you tell him he knows his responsibility he comes forward I know some people in the community when the month of Ramadan comes they come to the mosque they say you search for someone who is needy give him this assistance give him this money and there are other people who come to the mosque they pray they fast 30 days they never give one penny there is a difference in this night we have to reflect on these ideals we have to reflect it's the night of self-examination and self-reflection on our life where do we stand where do I stand let me ask myself am I really religious am I really following Ali ibn Abi Talib am I really following this book I don't have someone to answer me I can answer myself I am in myself and answer myself look at yourself where you stand when there is a worthy cause are you there to help or you turn your face and you run away you can answer that question Ali was the one wherever there is a need is the first one to be there Ali exhausted himself Ali Khilafa was not a privilege for him the only man who became caliph the calafa was a burden on him was Ali ibn Abi Talib because during the calafa he lost his health he lost his rest he would not rest he would not eat he would work 24 hours a day he would feel the sense of responsibility while others before him and after him they didn't live up to that responsibility people who came after him they wasted they plundered the wealth of the nation they created the gap economic disparity they created an atmosphere of hate rather than unifying the community the ummah they created hate and a grudge in the hearts of men and women and Islam lost its value Islam was the community was Muslim by name not by character there are many communities today many communities are Muslims just by the name tag they carry a name tag I am a Muslim but the character is something else we learn from Ali and also we learn from him sympathy in this month of Ramadan if we don't have sympathy with others there is something wrong with our fasting believe me believe me believe me if you don't have sense of sympathy an understanding and compassion for the needy, for the orphans for people in your community and outside your community for those who are suffering then your fasting has a problem it's not running well this is not the fasting that God loves our Imam says for many reasons one of them so you get hungry so you feel the pain of those who go the whole year without food this is one reason why we fast because throughout the year the cup of coffee is next to me I take two meals three meals, five meals pastry fruits and we don't feel the hunger God wants you now to be hungry for a few hours 16 hours in some countries 18 hours so you feel how others feel so you sympathize with them and this is embedded in our book sympathy is in this book sympathy is a cornerstone of this Holy Quran you would not be religious and pious and righteous unless you give from what you love you give it from the bottom of your heart when you give you have to say to that who receives tell him thank you for accepting my donation you tell him thank you this is giving with love and this is a model that Ali and his wife I mentioned this story some time ago here they raised you think Imam Hussein just gave his life because he came from vacuum he just like was he was like other kids in the community running with them and all of a sudden he decided I give my life for the sake of God no his parents were working on him day and night preparing him for this task they were nurturing him they were nurturing in him in him the spirit of sacrifice the spirit of giving the spirit of generosity the spirit of sympathy they prepared him and I mentioned this story the day that they were fasting and you know now in Ramadan when you fast how you feel at 5pm and 6pm and 7pm and if you have kids at home fasting with you kids who are 10 years old sometimes less than 10 years old Hassan and Hussein they were 4, 5, 6, 7 years old Hassan was 7 Hussein was 6 Zainab was 5 their parents were fasting and they were about to bring them the food and all of a sudden at the time were they about to eat and what sort of food was only a loaf of bread for every person no more than that not a 3-course meal a loaf of bread someone knocks at the door God is training them God is doing this in purpose God is creating in them sense of giving and sacrifice when they are kids Hussein could not be able to give his life and his blood at the age of 58 if he had not given his loaf of bread at the age of 6 to the poor and the needy someone knocks at the door and the mother comes and takes all the bread and she says there is someone hungry out there let's give them the food and they agree the kids they are not upset of course we give it to someone else and this this incident takes place in 3 days 3 consecutive days 3 days my friends until their life was in danger those kids they were about to die they passed out the prophet came and noticed what happened and Allah sends a whole chapter in this event when you have time read this chapter chapter 76 سورة what is it الإنسان and God names this chapter الإنسان this is a humanity he calls this event humanity this is real humanity الإنسان ويطعمون الطعام على حبه مسكينا ويتيما واسيرة لا نريد منكم جزاءا ولا شكورا لا نريد منكم جزاءا ولا شكورا that incident prompted the day of ashura where hussain stands and gives his blood and the blood of his children and family members and companions we have to prepare our children we have to instill in them the spirit of giving the spirit of generosity when someone is mean and he does not give he is doing double tragedies not just he is hurting himself he becomes a bad example for his family too for his children too not only he is hurting himself he is going to hurt his children too because he is giving them bad example when a father or a mother tells her son her daughter don't give don't don't eat she is or he is not only hurting himself but he is hurting his children while if a father tells his son masha Allah my son I am proud of you I am proud of you you are donating, you are helping you are feeding, you are sacrificing you are working you are giving your food to others you are giving shelter to others I am proud of you that person is going to reap the benefit and also his family and his children he is preparing them for the future he is preparing them every father wants to build a good house for his children isn't it that don't you want to have a good house for your children I advise you one thing not only build them a good house in this life try to build a good house for them in the hereafter too by instilling good values in them preparing them to succeed into the next chapter of their life which is the real life الحياة الآخر the hereafter tonight امير المؤمنين would spend the nights of Ramadan after the death of his wife at a young age he was remarried of course but he would spend time with his children too he would not leave his children behind so he decided to spend nights of Ramadan every night he would go to one of the houses of his children one night at the house of Imam Hassan he would break and the house at that time was a room a room not a mansion أحل البيت were satisfied with the small homes here because they knew that these small homes are going to lead into bigger homes there they were not enchanted with this life they knew that they are travelers in this life they are temporary residents in this life so they saved what they had their energy they did not put all their energy and all their attention and all their concern on this life we the people are consumed with this life we put all our energy on this house here how to fix it on my car on my clothing on my parties on my diners أحل البيت we put 2% of their energy here 98% on the after and they made good investment and this is why after Imam Ali was killed in the year 40th Hijri this year is 1438 so how many years ago 1398 and 98 years ago 1398 years ago you come here to commemorate his martyrdom would you do this to your own grandfather if your father dies would you gather after 10 years after his death would you gather after 5 years after your father's death your mother's death you don't do that but you do this to Ali because Ali is your real father and the prophet said me and you are the real spiritual fathers of this umma the community they treated the community with the sense of fatherhood with the sense of compassion and mercy tonight was the turn of his fourth child so he decided to go to her house to break his fast he was the guest of his daughter at the time of sunset she brought him food she put it on the table he said when did you find your father you've been his daughter for so many years did you find me being enchanted with food variety of food you put variety of food in front of me I don't like this do you want me to have a long standing before God on the day of judgment take the food she took the food and only one loaf of barley bread was there with some salt so Imam ate that one he broke his fast and he never wasted any minute tonight on the 9th of the 19th of the eve of the 19th never he spent the night in adoration because he knew he received a signal a signal ishara from his beloved prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم 38 years before 38 years before 38 years before this night when Ali was only 25 years old the prophet turns to him and he says ya Ali I feel sorry for you Ali says why you feel sorry for me I'm happy he said I know you are happy now but during this month of Ramadan during the month of Ramadan while you are standing in your sanctuary in your محراب offering your lord some units of prayers a wicked person strikes you on the head and he drenches you with your blood and he kills you so Ali rather than freaking out and saying why this happens to me he said he smiled he said ya Rasoolallah بسلامة مديني my faith is intact my faith is strong the prophet says وذلك في سلامة مدينيك your faith is the strongest at the time of your martyrdom don't worry about your faith from that day 38 years before his martyrdom Ali would always say متى يبعثوا أشقار ليخضب لحيتي من دمي رأسي when does that man comes to drench my beard from the blood of my my head he was waiting for that moment of departure the moment of Shahada Ali was never afraid of death Ali was the one who was very young at the age of 22 he sleeps in the bed of the prophet no one was afraid of death Ali was never afraid of death he sleeps in the bed of the prophet knowing that Quraish are going to attack the house and the bed and murder the prophet that night and this is recorded in the second chapter in this book ومن الناس من يشري نفسه ابتغاء مرضات الله والله رأوفهم بالعباد he wasn't he was not afraid of death he welcomed death because death for Ali is salvation for Ali يبنو أبي طالب death is لقاء الله going back to his lord يا أييتها النفس المطمئن ترجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية فتخلي في عبادي وتخلي جنة I love you يا أمير المؤمنين I love you يا علي ابنه you are a man that we did not do justice to you we still cannot comprehend you we still cannot appreciate what you did for us it is because of your bravery we are worshiping God today because you defended Islam when Islam was a stranger alone when the prophet was alone you were with him defending him because you Ali you were the one who took our hands and you showed us the way to God how to reach God how to be noble how to work for us how to work for our Akhirah how to carry the spirit of selflessness selflessness how to put others before our souls and tonight you are going back to your lord يا علي tonight is the night of the fatal injury of Ali ابنه بطالب where inside Masjid Al-Kufa his journey started from a Masjid and ended in another Masjid Ali was born inside the Ka'bah the Grand Masjid the house of God in Makkah and tonight his life ends in another house of God in the city of Kufa tonight look at the design of God Ali spent the night in dua in prayers in Istighfar and once in a while he goes outside and he looks at the stars and he comes back and he says it is the night certainly this is the night that I have been promised by my sweet heart the Prophet ﷺ this is the night of my departure I can tell I could never dip I never lied in my life neither my sweet heart the Prophet lied to me it is the night this is the night of my departure so he spent the night in Ibadah before Fajr before dawn Ali ابنه بطالب stood and between his house and the Masjid maybe 20 steps no more for those of you who have been to Kufa and there is a path that takes him right from his house right into the Masjid maybe 20 steps 30 steps no more than that he got prepared and he was putting his dress on and he was speaking to himself wrap your waistband prepare put on the dress and go go for the reception of the death because death is coming to you do not worry do not be afraid of death when death lands into your courtyard because in death there is salvation there is victory for Ali كما أضحكك الدهر كذاك الدهر يبكيكا وكذاك دهره every night Hasan and Hussein they surround their dad to go to the Masjid but tonight look at the design of God God wants Ali to be alone tonight without anybody God without his sons nobody with him he goes alone to the Masjid because the design the work of God is in progress come back to him tonight so he goes to the Masjid the Masjid is empty before Fajr Masjid al-Kufa still people have not arrived but there was a man laying on his belly and that was even muljam and Ali knew that this is his arch enemy Ali knew that this is his murderer because the prophet told him who is going to kill you on that night of the month of Ramadan Ali came to him with a nice stone in a very gentle way he said to him do not do not sleep on your belly this is the way that satans sleep this is not good why he was sleeping on his belly because he was hiding the sword that he wanted to kill Imam Ali with it so Imam Ali never said to him he just said to him nicely do not sleep this way this is not good and Imam Ali went into his محراب to offer the nafila of Fajr before salat al-Fajr there are the prayers of nafila before the adhan he was standing in his محراب and once Ali goes into his prayers he pays attention to nothing but his Lord he would put all his energy all his focus on remembering and speaking to his Lord when Imam Ali started before the prayers started the adhan that night Ali ibn Abi Talib himself he did the adhan although there is a mu'adhin in kufa a mu'adhin who raises the adhan but the design of God is for Ali to raise the adhan why so the people of kufa their beautiful voice of Ali ibn Abi Talib so he went to the pulpit the member and he raised his voice الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر أشهد الله إلا الله أشهد الله إلا الله the voice of Ali reverberated in the entire city of kufa the city of kufa is big jurist historian says there is no single house in the city of kufa and the surroundings but the voice of Ali penetrated that house and the entire population of kufa were able to hear the last adhan of their Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib and then when the adhan was concluded Ali comes down to his محراب يا مؤمنين he stands he says الله أكبر for his prayers he goes to ruku'a and when he goes to sujood ibn muljam who was hiding behind the column he raises his sword and he strikes at the head of amir al-mu'mineen عليه الصلاة والسلام when amir al-mu'mineen received the strike what did he say he said فزد ورب الكعباء فزد ورب الكعباء قتلني الرجول ثم سمعوا صارخا بين السماء والأرض an angel was crying between the heaven and earth ألا ألا تهدمت والله أركى أن الهداع تهدمت the foundations of faith has been dismantled now وان فاصامة العروة والوثقة the handle of faith is disconnected now قتل عليون المرتضة أقتله أشق الأشقية عليون المرتضة the cousin of the prophet has murdered he has been murdered by the most wicked حسن حسين they heard this voice they rushed to their father they found him in his محراب his face down he was in a pool of blood he drenched his blood they carried the father to the house فتهدمت والله أركان السماء اليوم ما أتل أمبياء جميع على حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم وسيعلم الذين ظلموا أيّ من قلب ينقلبون والعاقبة للمتقين صلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين