 لاهر رحمان الرحيم والحمد لله رب العالمين باري الخلائق أجمعين باعث الأنبياء والمرسلين ثم الصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء وسيد المرسلين حبيب إله العالمين المصطفاء بالقاسم محمد وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المنتجبين الذين أذهب الله عنهم الرجسة وطهرهم تطهيرا صل الله عليك يا سيدتي ويا مولات يا زهرة صل الله عليك يا بنت رسول الله أيتها الشهيدة المظلومة رزقنا الله في الدنيا زيارتكم أهل البيت وشفاعتكم في الدنيا والأهر لو لا سقوط جنين فاطمة لما أودى لها كربلا وبكسر ذاض العرض وكذا بنجادة فله علي بالوثاقري وكما لفانته من خلفه لبناتها خلف العلي بزجرها طيق نفذ وشحايا قامك يبو البتش عليك من عاني يسو اكسر وظلعي يبو يوسجطوا زجرها طيق نفذ وشحايا بطف من زجر له نما حمل رؤوس علي القناة ايوه اماما ايوه حسينا لكنما حمل رؤوس علي القناة وان سبقت به صفي ايوه ايوه ايوه لنكتاب الله لكن هذا صامطن وهذا ناطقو ينشى لينشى الخويا انا قرب جرح جرح ما بعد ينشى يالحس شفدهر يحسين ينشى لينشى يالرأسك فوق رأس الرموح ينشى العجب وجدتك فوق الوطي يا عجب وجدتك فوق يا الوطي انه لله وانه ليه راجعون اما بعد فقط قال الله تبارك وتعالى في كتابه المجيد وقرآنه الحميد وقوله الحق اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يريدون ليطفئونوا عن الله بأفواههم والله متم ولوك بها الكافر صدق الله العلي العظيم صلوا على محمد وآله محمد وانه يسمى المخلوق كانت في بعض المدينة where they have some children that are troublemakers these children every now and then they are sent to the principal's office so they are at the principal's office the principal that sounds familiar with you guys I hope you are not that those children I hope when the child goes to the principal's office often what happens the principal talks to the child tell them for example you cannot do this etc or maybe give him a suspension in severe cases the child comes back goes to class what happens anything changes no not much changes because the environment is still the same the dynamics are still the same so what he did is he went to these schools took these kids out he put them in a different school or different schools where there is more discipline in these environments eventually he saw that those same students who are the troublemakers their behavior changes slowly why because the environment the dynamics of the group has changed now and therefore slowly those individuals started to change so these were among the experiments that he conducted so here is an advice to your brothers if these guys are troublemakers you know what to do now إن شاء الله just change the dynamics of the group إن شاء الله everything will be good I'm sure you're not those ones are you you're the good ones right yeah that's right yeah you're the disciplined ones that's right so that initiated the group dynamics theory now interestingly when I was reading this this ayah came to my mind where Allah SWT says إن الله لا يغيروا ما بقوما حتى يغيروا ما بأنفسها الله knows best of course but maybe one of the interpretations of this ayah and Allah knows best of course I'm not here to interpret the Quran based on my theories and opinions God forbid but possibly as the hadith says قرآن has a zahir and a batin has a clear message and a hidden message and this hidden message is subdivided to further 70 hidden messages وَلِ الْبَاطِنِ سَبْعِينِ بَاطِنِ maybe one of the hidden messages of the Quran in this particular ayah could be that Allah is referring to this group the dynamics that when these groups slowly change as a group they have a better facilitation to change better dynamics to change so that's as a group what about an individual can one person change a group can you have one person influence a society, a community is that possible now we come to another American psychologist his name is Abraham Maslow Abraham Maslow started studying usually psychologists study people who are sick ill people trying to figure out why are they ill to treat them Maslow went the other way he did not study ill people in fact he studied healthy people not just any healthy people very successful healthy people people like Einstein what makes Einstein and Einstein why can't everyone become an Einstein why do certain people in the society become so successful that they can influence their society their community and so on and so forth so he was intrigued by this so he started studying this are you changing the group dynamics here are you changing the group dynamics here putting it in action صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم I guess we need to also change the group dynamics they say anyone who is part illegally will be ticketed by the way you got to change your group dynamics by the way going back to the point please we have Abraham Maslow so he started studying healthy people successful people like Einstein he developed then what he called a pyramid a pyramid he said yes you can have one individual changing communities changing societies you can look at Einstein for example his theories certain people their theories they have influenced history for ages now however you need to provide them with certain basics certain things in order for them to succeed for example he says at the base of the pyramid you must give what he called physiological needs every person needs food water air to breathe etc. the basics of needs if someone is dying of hunger will this person have an opportunity to learn in fact research shows here in Canada research in Canada shows that children who have breakfast in the morning they usually score better in the exams and test results than those who don't have breakfast they've shown this in the research that's why some schools in Canada when they have a special exam a standardized exam a provincial exam or something like this happening the school itself goes to the children the school at its own expense because they want to raise the average of the school so when a person is hungry it is difficult to think to function he says you must provide the basic physiological needs that's one two after you gave the basics that's the base of the pyramid now you go up you need to provide what he calls security security some of you may be familiar with areas in the world today unfortunately where they are suffering from lack of peace lack of security you might call some of your relatives and they'll tell you you know what we're so afraid to go outside the house and when I go outside I don't know if I'm going to come back alive or not in such fear how can you accomplish anything you're constantly living in fear it is difficult he says you cannot do this you have to provide peace security now interestingly those first two the Quran gives some reference indirectly to them as well as necessities in Surat Quraish do you guys memorize Surat Quraish لإيلاف قوريشن إيلافهم رحلة الشتاء والصيف and then what فليعبدوا ربه هذا البيت الذي what I can't hear you أطعمهم من جوعين وآمنهم من خاوف الله is saying to Quraish I fed you and I provided you with peace and security and hence Quraish thrived Quraish among Arabia was thriving because Quraish did not have to fear any attacks it was in peace especially after what happened to Abraham after the attack on the Kaaba by Abraham as we read in Surat Al-Feeel and the destruction of Abraham and his forces the Arabian Peninsula those tribes they did not dare anymore to get anywhere near the Kaaba or Quraish to attack them so that incident gave Quraish a further pride further arrogance that you cannot touch you cannot mess with us so Allah gave them that peace and they gave them the food so Allah refers to those two things interestingly food and security and that's what Maslal is also referring he says you need to give food and security then Maslal says those two are not enough you need something else he says you must give what he calls the family the support someone must have some supporters helpers family members then the fourth stage he says is what he calls esteem esteem means you're encouraged encouragement people are motivating you they tell you this is really good keep it up well done so you're encouraged to continue further once you're provided with those four things what did we say first of all was what physiological needs second is what security third is what family or the love and fourth is esteem or that encouragement once you have those four then you can reach the peak of the pyramid the peak which he calls self-actualization now you can really realize what are you good at what am I really good at I'm good at physics I'm good at arts I'm good at whatever engineering whatever it is I can really uncover my potential and thrive thrive so an Einstein can become an Einstein someone like for example Da Vinci can become a Da Vinci et cetera that's how they achieve it and hence they can really change societies now so we have Kurt Lewin that first psychologist he says as a group you can change the dynamics of the individual within a group that's one Abraham Maslow says an individual can change a group as well but you need to provide him with these basics he has to have this that's interesting so these are theories by the way out there and they're studied until this day and age I mean these theories are about 8 years old now give or take but they're heavily studied in psychology they're taught and these two people are very big names now in psychology now interestingly if we take a look at this these theories and then we come to أهل البيت عليهم السلام if you come to أهل البيت starting with رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله I may request you please to move forward as much as you can رسول الله و محمد و آله محمد ثانيا يرحمكم الله الله مصلى الله عليه و بحمد و آله ثالثة ثانية تعجيل فرجي مولانا صاحب العصر والزمان بأعلى أسواتكم رسول الله و محمد و آله when we come to رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله did he have much peace in Mecca not much peace he was thrown with stones they threw him with stones they tried to kill him so he had to leave Mecca حتى في مدينة ، هل يتركهم فقط؟ لا ، فهي فقط جانت إلى مدينة ، قرش يضغط أرمي ، وهم يقاتلون معه أول باتل الإسلام ، هل تعلمون ما هو أمام أول باتل الإسلام؟ أول باتل ، ما هو أمام؟ أمام باتل شخص أمام باتل أمام باتل ، so the next question I want everyone who's 10 and under to answer 10 and under, what is the second battle of Islam? شخص 10 and under? I see some Wi-Fi signals being passed down here. باتل أمام أول باتل ، then أحد, a year later, a couple years later الأحزاب الخندق and then so many other battles, so the Prophet was constantly attacked and that's something I want you to understand. all the battles that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله fought where in defense he was being attacked. باتل أفضل took place on the outskirts of Medina. باتل أفضل took place on the outskirts of Medina. so he was attacked. when he's attacked what do you do? you have to defend. باتل أول أحزاب الخندق took place in Medina, on outskirts of Medina. you're attacked, what do you do? you have to defend yourself. I mean every sovereign nation today reserves the right to defend itself when it's being attacked. in fact, some nations in the world today they travel thousands of miles because they say there's a threat, thousands of miles. there's a threat to our sovereignty, threat to our, for example, well-being. so we're going to go all the way there and fight over there. isn't that what we're seeing in the world today? so the Prophet had to defend himself. either he was attacked or there was a peace treaty between him and another group and they went against the terms of the treaty like what happened in the year six after Hijra the Prophet made a peace treaty with Quraish but they went against the peace treaty. they killed the Muslims. when the deal was not to touch the Muslims they killed them. so what did he do? he had to now defend. they went against the terms. so in the year eight after Hijra he marched to Mecca and that was as a consequence to them what happened? why did he go to Mecca? because they violated the terms of the treaty it was their fault. and when he went to Mecca did he kill anyone? and this is really a beautiful example that we can give to people who say Islam is a violent religion because the Prophet is a violent man we tell them show us one example in history one example of a leader, a conqueror who goes to his enemies these enemies fought against him for more than 20 years they shot him with stones they tried to kill him they fought against him they killed his dearest companions and relatives his cousin was killed in Badr his uncle was killed in Uhud such people who constantly fought against him now he has them all under siege not only that they all surrender they all put down their weapons lay down their weapons what does he do to them? you read history see what do some conquerors do to such people read history look at the Mughals for example when they went to Iraq what did they do? not only sometimes the conqueror would kill the people they come with so much rage animosity hatred that they would burn down an entire city I mean okay you might kill the people because they might go against you but why would you burn down the infrastructure? it's just the hatred there's so much rage they want to demolish everything that's how conquerors come usually the Prophet now comes as a conqueror victorious against people who fought against him for over 20 years there in this people amongst them is Abu Sufyan amongst them is Hind the one who cut off his own uncle into pieces she's right there standing right there now helpless powerless their weapons are laid down what does he do to them? he looks at them and he says today is a day of mercy رحمة and he says show me one example in history brothers and sisters when you study history inshallah one day give me one example one example of a leader who in such a case he's got the upper hand and he lets everyone goes free isn't this the absolute mercy? what better example do you want? so such examples where أهل البيت عليهم السلام nonetheless the Prophet صلى الله عليه و آله was living in times of difficulty then you come to أمير المؤمنين سلام الله علي إمام علي again what was the situation like? هما فاطمة الزهراء عليها السلام look how they attack the house as one Egyptian poet says Egyptian شاعر النيل يقول وقولة لعلي قالها فلان أكرم بسامعها أعظم بملقيها حرقت داركة ما أبقيت عليك بها إن لم تبايع وبنت المصطفى فيها ما كان سوى أبا فلان بقائلها أمام فارس عدنان وحاميها يعني يقول هذا بطل هذا رجل بطل واقعا يعني يقول هذا بطل لأن من يجرؤ أن يتكلم بهذا الكلام أمام فارس عدنان أمام علي بنبي طالب هذا هذا كانت له الجرأة بي الرجل يقول this poet is saying basically describing what happened between the second man and the house of Fatima سلام الله عليها that I'm going to burn your house down if you don't come to pledge your allegiance to the leadership leadership and the poet says this man the second man is such a hero he's a brave man because who dares to speak to Ali ibn Abi Talib in such a language he does look at how brave he is when interestingly if you read تاريخ الطبري تاريخ الطبري ابن جرير الطبري he writes in the event of the seventh year after Hijra the battle of Khaybar do me a favor go back home tonight and read the battle of Khaybar as written by ابن جرير الطبري when the second man became the leader and he came back he says ابن جرير يجبن القوم يجبنونه he came back he tells Rasool Allah you sent me with a bunch of cowards they say يا رسول الله he's the coward he's telling us we're cowards that's what they say about him now nonetheless and Imam Ali says I was all by myself I did not have any supporters no helpers as he says in خطبة الشققية فطفقت أرتأي بين أن أصول بيد جذا وحد ما عنديش أو أصبر على طخية عمياء يهرم فيها الكبير ويشيب فيها الصغير ويكدح فيها مؤمن حتى يلقى ربه فرأيت أن الصبر على هاتى أحجى فصبرت وفي العين قدى وفي الحلق شجا أرى تغاثى نهبى حتى مضى الأول وإلى سبيله فأدلى بها إلى فلانا بعده I was all alone he says in the third sermon of نهج البلاغة خطبة الشققية he says I did not have any supporters not only did we lack the security the house is being attacked not only do we lack the supporters who are not supporters and the same thing applies to the rest of the Imam look at what happened to Imam Al-Hussain what did they do to him Imam Al-Qadim how many years in imprisonment Imam Al-Azkariyayn in the city of military compound constant surveillance constant monitoring they are constantly being persecuted constantly being driven out of their countries yet despite all this we find them not obeying the laws as described by those psychologists they did not know how they managed to influence society not just a community generations until this day and age they are influencing them they are changing the world to the point where there is a Christian poet not a Muslim Christian Lebanese poet he says لا تقول شعة هوة علي إن في كل منصف شيعية جلجل الحق في المسيحي حتى قد عد من فرط حبه علوية فإن لم يكن علي النبي فلقد كان خلقه نبوية فيا سماء شهدي ويا أرض قرري وخشعي إن أحب علي اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم جزاكم الله خير عسنتهم جزاكم الله خير وقد لدينا ألو here in the steps جزاكم ألو here as well صلى الله عليه وسلم مادة. لذا كيف يحدث أنهم يفعلون الناس؟ again you have another Christian man George Jordak or George Daq he wrote a book about Imam Ali, the voice of a human justice it's available in English as well it's been translated my brothers and my sisters try to read this book it's an interesting book the perspective of someone who is not a follower of Ahlu al Baytah he gives you his own perspective of Ali ibn Abi Talib tells you how mesmerized he is with the greatness of Ali ibn Abi Talib as a leader and he says I am proud to be an Arab to belong to Arabs because Ali ibn Abi Talib is an Arab I'm proud to have such a leader that's what he says a Christian man another Christian man writes about Imam al-Hussain and Christian ideology Antoine Barra it's written in the book so you find them influencing societies communities for generations to come about a year ago I was invited to give a talk at a city hall in the city of Edmonton Alberta there were some dignitaries sitting down there some professors etc it was an interfaith kind of initiative among the things I said where I said that we as Muslims respect humanity at large this is the basics of our teachings and I told them one of our leaders Imam Ali عليه السلام who is the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and his son Allah and his divine successor he says to his governor in Egypt that be aware people in this world are of two types they are either your brothers and sisters in faith or your counterpart in humanity وعلم أن الناس الصنفان اما أخن لك في الدين أو نظير لك في الخلق so I said this after the lecture two people approached me one of them says I am a professor at the university here I was so moved by the statement of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Imam Ali that you quoted I'm going to teach it to my students and to my children then the second man comes and he says I am a Jewish poet a poet Jewish poet he says I'm inspired by these words that you quoted of Imam Ali that I'm going to use it as an inspiration for some of my poetry that made me think for a second I said subhan Allah if one sentence from نهج البلغة influence those people what happens if we introduce all of them what's going to change the world but unfortunately we're not doing the job unfortunately it's our fault we're not introducing نهج البلغة that's what Imam صادق عليه السلام says in a hadith tell people about us talk to them about us introduce them to us for if they were to recognize us they'll follow us but it's our fault how come why do these people اهلوا البيت عليهم السلام do not follow those observations made by these psychologists they don't follow how come they don't follow the norms Abraham Maslow says you need to have security you need to have esteem you need to have encouragement in order for you to excel well they don't have security they've been imprisoned they've been killed they've been persecuted they don't have supporters they don't have people امام الحسين on the day of Ashuraz calling هل مننا صغليا صرنا nobody nobody's out there سلام الله علي so they don't how come then they made it because of their اخلاس they believed in Allah they gave everything they have for the sake of Allah so Allah chose them those are known as عباد الله المخلصين not مخلصين مخلصين with the فتحة those who gave everything they have for the sake of Allah so Allah سبحانه وتعالى changed the laws for them they don't follow the norms that's what the ayah we recited earlier in surah as-saf verse number eight الله سبحانه وتعالى says يريدون ليطفئوا نور الله بأفواههم والله متم نوره ولو كره الكافرون نور الله they are نور الله their words are نور الله انوار كلامكم نور نور على نور ريطف سير البرهان with the ayah of النور in surah and نور see that a hadith he narrates from a صادق عليه السلام and the other امامs about how among the interpretation is that they are اهل البيت عليهم السلام they are the نور they are نور الله and Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives two examples in the قرآن well in fact sorry he gives several examples in the قرآن well just take a look quickly at two of them where we see when individuals they are sincere in their actions then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will choose them and will facilitate things to them one example is prophet يوسف عليه السلام are you familiar with surah yusuf in one of the verses towards the end Allah سبحانه وتعالى says كذلك كدنا ليوسف that's how we planned for yusuf انهم يكيدون كيدا واكيدوا كيدا Allah says in another صورة people plan but I also plan and usually the plan of Allah prevails الله says we allowed yusuf to have his brother to become the king that was our plan they planned the brothers planned but Allah had a plan now if we read surah yusuf brothers and sisters if we if it was not a surah in the quran the story of prophet yusuf if it were a novel if you pick up a novel and you read if it were not from the quran if hypothetically speaking then people would say you know this is impossible how could some a man a boy is thrown into the well then he's taken out of the well then he goes to the king or the king's palace then he's thrown into the prison and in the prison he had a companion and the companion leaves while he forgets to tell the king about yusuf the king sees a dream oh and the dream reminds him reminds that other companion that oh yeah there is a yusuf by the way I mean you think this is impossible but subhan Allah this is how Allah plans things which may seem to be difficult but to Allah they're not difficult Allah makes the king dream and that dream reminds the companion about yusuf then there is a drought now the brothers of yusuf come now that's how you see them if you put them all together subhan Allah it's amazing story but that's how Allah plans this does not follow the norms and Allah describes yusuf as مخلصين he's among the مخلصين those who are sincere those who give everything for the sake of Allah so Allah chooses them that's one example a second example is إبراهيم عليه السلام قلنا يا نار كوني بردن وسلام again that doesn't follow the norms إبراهيم was thrown to the fire the fire should have destroyed him what subhan Allah nothing happened the laws were changed just to give you an example here just to draw the picture closer here but again as they say in Arabic تضرب ولا تقاص you just give an example as an analogy about a century ago in the early 20th century scientists physicists discovered the atom or in the late 19th century early 20th century that's when they started to discover the atom those of you who study physics at the universities you're familiar with that when they discovered the atom they realized those physicists realized that the laws they have of physics are not good enough anymore what they had was what's known today as in Newtonian classical physics the Newtonian by Isaac Newton 400 years ago approximately these laws that were given of physics from 400 years ago classical physics they're not good enough anymore they need new language they have to come up with a whole new way because what they're dealing with is something that does not follow the classical system so they invented physicists then invented what's known as the quantum mechanics quantum mechanics what is quantum mechanics that's basically to deal a language to understand and deal with the atom they can deal with the atom and hence you had Schrödinger you had Heisenberg you had other people now starting to formulate these theories quantum mechanics and quantum theories if we apply the same analogy the classical language and the norms and the theories do not apply to أهل البيت عليهم السلام in fact do not apply to those who are sincere to Allah they have a completely new language completely new one because of their sincerity صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم now when you have people who are so great like أهل البيت عليهم السلام who are so influential who can really move people who are not even Muslims as we come across Christians are moved by them then the question comes why don't we implement them in our lives how come a lot of people in this day and age especially the youth they feel there is a disconnection from أهل البيت عليهم السلام they say that you know what okay I know you telling me the prophet أهل البيت they are great people great personalities absolutely but فاطمة الزهراء عليهم السلام she lived 1400 years ago in a different society today I live here in Ottawa Canada in the 21st century I have all these gadgets all this technology around me that was not there at that time today the fashion has changed today we have Gucci Versace Dochi Gapana Mymana Hadelana That was not there so how can you want me to relate to someone from 1400 years it doesn't apply that's where we feel a disconnection to answer this argument I'll give you two examples very briefly one is a general example have you guys heard of a person called Aristotle who was Aristotle Aristotle is a Greek philosopher very famous he lived more than 2000 years ago among the things he invented was something very important it's called logic logic I don't know if some of you have logic but anyways we'll work on that insha'Allah what is logic I'll give you a very simple example of logic very simple I'll give you two sentences based on these two sentences you give me the conclusion you can derive first sentence all horses have tails second sentence Jane is a horse therefore Jane has what oh masha'Allah you guys are psychic how did you figure that out that's called logic that's called logic that's a basic form of logic Aristotle is the father of it he invented this and a lot of people this was over 2000 years ago today if you go to any university in the world that gives a PhD a degree that's a PhD what is a PhD a doctor of what philosophy doctor of philosophy you're not considered to be a doctor of chemistry or a doctor of engineering you're a doctor of philosophy why because the scientists will examine you or the experts will examine you and they will say this individual has now reached the ability to examine the data the research that he does or she does and derive logical conclusions based on the data and that's why they grant you a PhD that's what it is doctor of philosophy so Aristotle is influencing our society 2000 years later not only in the universities in the Hausat the Islamic seminary one of the first early courses the students of Hausat study is a course called logic because they need it in the seminary to derive laws so can anyone says that Aristotle 2000 years ago who cares about him anymore that's a long time ago not at all he's still there he's influencing his ideologies his ideas are still being alive how does he compare to Fatima Salam nothing Fatima is much greater than Aristotle Salamullahi Alaa second Quran says لقد كان لكم في رسول الله أسوة حسنة in the example of the prophet is a role model that's happening until the day of judgment so Quran is saying the prophet is a role you cannot say that he was 1400 years ago Quran says no he's relevant in the 21st century he's relevant in the 30th century whatever it is he's still relevant how so society usually has problems society has problems every society there are financial problems social problems political problems etc how do we solve these problems we have to address them so people usually try to address these issues one of the ways in which we can address these issues is by studying the lives of people in the past and learning from them and implementing lessons I'll give you an example again when I was in my undergraduate degree studying my undergrad in the first year English we had to study a play a Shakespearean play starts with an H are you guys familiar with it Hamlet exactly this was not a tricky question Hamlet I don't know how many of you have read Hamlet have you read Hamlet this guy if you don't know Hamlet it's the to be or not to be guy if you're to be or not to be that is the question that's Hamlet back in those days when I was back in the Jurassic era when I was an undergraduate student talking about so many decades ago back in those days I was talking to my teacher one day and she said that as of today back in those days as of today there are about 3,000 research articles written about Hamlet 3,000 research articles by university students by scholarly articles academics written about Hamlet I told her 3,000 articles written about Hamlet I said yes I told her but why the guy is fiction he's not even real he's the creation of Shakespeare for God's sake I mean you write 3,000 articles about Shakespeare maybe okay I can understand that part at least he's real he was a genius he was a smart man he was a good poet etc but 3,000 articles about a creation of Hamlet she said no we have to why those of you who've read the story you realize Hamlet had some emotional problems he had some psychological issues as well she said we need to understand what caused these problems in Hamlet because then we can apply it to the society at large there are people in the society who have psychological problems have emotional problems so how can we deal with them do you see what I'm saying are you following me so by studying Hamlet we can then derive lessons that we can implement in the society at large are you with me Hamlet is fiction he's not even real but that's what they do this is scholarly that's a scholarly approach so then why not we use the same approach to they're the best of Allah's creation if the academia-academics accept that approach they accept it you can't study a fictional character not even a real character to derive lessons from his life fictional life that you can implement in the real world then why not study real people the best of Allah's creation to derive lessons we can do it the problem is do you know what us we feel the disconnection with them otherwise they're relevant to us even in this day and age look at Fátima this great lady this noble woman look at her hijab we'll take a look at this one aspect of hers so so far my brothers and sisters just to recap we say that scholars usually psychologists say that when you are among a group then you act differently from being an individual but as an individual can you influence a whole group a whole society and the answer is yes according to contemporary psychologists but you must have certain criteria there are certain things the things that we mentioned by mass law if you provide these things then you can أهل البيت عليهم السلام did not have these things did not have the security did not have the encouragement the support of the people yet they still managed how come because they are individuals who believed in Allah they had إخلاص and hence the laws that apply to them are different from the classical laws as we see in the Quran given example for example by Yusuf عليه السلام and Ibrahim where they did not follow the classical laws أهل البيت عليهم السلام are relevant in this day and age we can look at their lives study their lives and implement them in this day and age they are relevant because academics do so they study fictional characters that were written 400 years ago by some individuals and they try to derive lessons from them in this day and age so then why can't we do the same thing with أهل البيت سلام الله عليهم أجمعين plus when you have personalities such as Aristotle who can influence society until this day and age 2000 years later then why can't أهل البيت عليهم السلام influence societies until this day and age and one example we'll take a look at a way where we can derive lessons from أهل البيت and apply them in our lives is the حجاب of فاطمة الزهراء عليها السلام today there is a major social issue with the concept of حجاب in fact it's an issue not only with Muslims with non-Muslims as well what do I mean there are several research papers today published one of them is by a lady called Shelly Graeb G-R-A-B as in boy E Graeb Shelly Graeb in 2008 she published a paper in a journal called psychological bulletin in that paper in that paper she discussed the role of the media portrayal of women and its impact on women how the media portrays the women and how is that impacting women in that paper she says 50% of university girls and younger suffer from psychological emotional and physical distress because of the images they see of women being portrayed on television on the internet on the media and they look at themselves and they say you know we don't fit this image anymore so what happens they start suffering from psychological problems emotional problems physical problems andorexia where they stop eating anymore is among the problems they face and it starts listen to this one it starts as young as age 7 girls as young as age 7 they start looking at themselves and say I'm not beautiful anymore this is research this is not some Muslim writing this this is academic research written by an American but it's there it's in academia this is research another author another author writes he says communication theory suggest that continuous perception of media television internet makes us perceive what we see as the reality the reality what you see on television when you continuously see it when you observe it on the internet on television and the advertisements slowly what happens to you you start to think this is reality this is how it should be this is how things should run and this is causing a major social problems in the society today the complaining of it the way the women are being dressed the way they are being objectified made an object an object and there's another paper about that as well several papers books have been written about this issue the objectification of women how they're objectified in the media and how that reflects then on other women and girls so they are complaining this is a problem now a huge problem today it's causing psychological problems emotional problems physical problems فاطمة الزهراء عليها السلام comes to say put on your hijab and you don't have to worry about what the others think of you it's what you think of yourself that's why in a hadith which some people find it controversial but given in this context we can understand what she's talking about she says the best thing for a woman is that she never sees a man or a man sees her people say how is that possible how is that in this context now we understand what she means not to see her as an object but as a person as a person otherwise فاطمة الزهراء عليها السلام spoke to people she spoke to جابر بن عبدالله الانصاري who taught us دعاء or حديث الكساء who taught us if you read حديث الكساء what does it say عن جابر بن عبدالله الانصاري عن هو عن فاطمة الزهراء عليها السلام which means he listened to her she taught him but she taught him with the proper manners the boundaries of شريعة it wasn't that she was sitting down having coffee with him joking around or smoking شيشة with him والعياض بالله no professional environment teaching him she had conversations in the past with سلمان with وان الله تعالى عليه so she teaches absolutely no problem but don't make them feel that you are an object you have to be strong have a lot of self esteem and confidence you said the fashion because now some of our sisters they say I have to wear the hijab in this particular form tight clothings put the makeup on why? because this is the fashion I have to do this otherwise I'm perceived differently you said the fashion you said the tone you said it don't be lacking confidence in yourself you can make a difference if you believe in yourself and follow the path of Allah if you become sincere with Allah Allah will bless you I know a mu'min and this applies to the brothers as well the brothers as well few weeks ago I was talking to somebody who works in a major corporation major corporation in Canada these guys make billions of dollars a year major corporation this person told me when the company has a lunch or a social so those of you who work in some companies you know that sometimes around Christmas or certain times the company will throw in a social this person came and told me there are some muslim men who attend these socials and they drink alcohol and I would go tell them aren't you muslim he says yes I'm a muslim why are you drinking don't you know that's haram I know it's haram and I don't drink outside of work to be honest with you I only drink at work well why are you drinking at work because if I don't drink I'm not going to get promoted if I don't drink I don't get promoted did you see this man tell this is reality huh this is not serious who is the razaq who gives you the razaq Allah why do you compromise your faith your religion to get promoted who cares about the promotion and if you're good you will be promoted by the way if you're good you will be promoted because you're good I know a mu'min a brother he says I went for an interview to medical school you know how difficult it is to get into medical school in this country so difficult you have to have high GPA you have to write the MCAT or the test and then you go for an interview and so on and so forth he went to the interview stage so he made it to that stage the interview he said when I went to the interview there were five people three men two ladies they came at the beginning of the interview they wanted to shake my hand I shook the men's hand when it came to the ladies I told them you know what I'm sorry my religion doesn't allow me to shake hands so I'll just greet you this way he told me the story when he told me this I told him weren't you worried weren't you afraid I mean this is your interview for God's sake these guys will determine whether you get in or you don't get in weren't you afraid that if you shake if you don't shake the hands they won't let you in this is your career medical school you know what he answered he said no I'll do whatever Allah is pleased with I will not compromise my faith if Allah wants me to get in I'll get in if he doesn't خلاص he has something better planned for me then I don't need to get in I don't need to worry about it two months later he called me two months later he said I got my acceptance letter I'm in and today he's a practicing medical doctor today here in Canada why do you compromise why do you feel weak be strong this is my faith and I have nothing to be ashamed of I have nothing to be afraid of I'm confident what I'm following أهل البيتي عليهم السلام the best of Allah's creation I'm proud to have a leader such as Ali ibn Abi Talib who the Christian feels proud of being an Arab because Ali is an Arab a Christian man so why should I not be proud to follow Ali ibn Abi Talib peace be upon him why should I not be proud to follow Muhammad peace be upon him peace be upon him peace be upon him فاطمة الزهراء this great lady this personality who if we implement her teachings just about one aspect and that is the aspect of Hijab she can solve so many problems that people and academics are writing about today psychological problems because of the perception I have to objectify myself why would you objectify yourself you're not an object Allah has honored you و لقد كرمنا بني آدم الله says we honored the human the children of Adam you're honored don't lower yourself you say this is who I am with my Hijab and the proper Hijab I will look where the Hijab covering my whole body with the exception of the face and the hands up to the wrist no makeup the clothes are loose socially whether I'm online I will look at a woman with dignity and respect I will not objectify her because that's how Islam wants me to look at her I will be proud of following my faith when you do so believe me you live a good life a happy life I'm not saying you will live a trouble free life no you will have problems in your life no one lives احسب الناس اي يتركوا اي يقولوا امنا وهم لا يفتنون do people think that we will let them say that I am a mu'min without being tested we will test you you will be tested maybe one day you will lose your job maybe you might lose your job one day because of your hijab maybe or because of your maybe you might lose it but be proud you might experience problems in fact you will experience problems but you stay strong because remember you're obeying Allah and you're following اهل البيت so stay strong don't worry about it it's okay Allah will help me through it one of the علماء says I always pray to Allah for a hajj when I have a hajj I say Allah help me I want this issue for example he says if he gives it to me I'm happy if he doesn't I'm happier he asks him why? how come? he says because this hajj this thing I wanted I wanted this but Allah chose something else for me which means He will choose something even better and believe me I come across so many people I applied for this job and I've been looking for a job for six months for example or sometime I can't find the job and this was a really good job I missed it why? how come? why wouldn't Allah listen to me? believe me I've come across people like this and then a month later a month really a month later the same man comes to me he says you know what? Alhamdulillah I did not get that job that job it turned out that it involves a lot of traveling a lot of traveling so it means I had to spend a lot of time with my family my children now I got a better job in a better company and I don't have to travel I told him see you were complaining last month last month you were complaining why didn't I get this job I've been praying so on that's why Allah didn't give you this job because Allah knew what's better for you you did not know what's better for you so you will experience problems in life I'm not saying your life will be trouble free you had a smooth ride we will experience problems all of us but when we have أهل البيت with us then we'll be happy ألا بذكر الله تطمئنه قلوب you find them سلام الله عليهم أجمعين all of Ahlul-Bayt look at how many problems they had to face how many issues they had to go through and they are the best of Allah's creation the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم sits on the member towards the end of his life and says ما أوذي نبيون مثلي قط no prophet has been bothered and harassed like the way I've been bothered and harassed no one إمام علي سلام الله عليه look at his life towards the end of his life النهج البلاغة it is said a man asked إمام علي سلام الله عليه يا أمير المؤمنين لم لا تستخدم الخضاب why don't you die your beard why don't you die your beard what does he respond this is the end of his life قال الخضاب زينة الخضاب زينة وإنا في عزاء أول نحن في عزاء he says to die the beard is a sign of ornament like you know you die your beard you happy a little bit I'm in grief we are in grief الشريف رضي رون الله تعالى علي that one who combined he puts a comment he says this is the end of his life he says this is maybe the last of رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله you know 30 years later the prophet died in the year 11 after Hijra إمام أمير المؤمنين صلى الله عليه و آله was martyred in the year 40 after so almost 30 years later he's saying we're in عزاء another commentator says no it's not only رسول الله صفاطم because when he buried her صلى الله عليه و آله he says my grief is for eternity 30 years after burying he's still in pain he's in grief imagine this life how much difficulty they had to go through إمام الحسان إمام الحسين إمام السجل and all the way up to our إمام السلام how much difficulties they are going through really they are our role models why did they go through all these problems so that you and I can follow this religion and implement their lives in our lives so really aren't they worth for us to sacrifice a little bit make up and put on my hijab I should not listen to haram music I should implement their lives aren't they worth it believe me I mean you tell me what do you think after all they've given for us one of the علماء whenever he wanted to pray every day before Awajab Salat before he says الله أكبر he would say السلام عليك يا أبا عبد الله الحسين and then he would say الله أكبر they asked him one day why do you keep on saying this he says because if it weren't for the sacrifice of Imam الحسين I would not have the Salat I would not have Salat أشهد أنك قد أقمت Salat one of the meanings definitions of this word of this statement is that you established the Salat you maintained it the integrity of the Salat otherwise Salat there would be no Salat أقمت الصلاة أقمت الصلاة they went through a lot of problems a lot of difficulty فاطمة الزهراء سلام الله عليها this great lady and we're also these days commemorating the وفاة of أم البنين سلام الله عليها as well both of those ladies great personalities how much difficulties they experienced how much problems they went through فاطمة who's معصومة infallible after her father would take حسنة and حسين عليهم السلام would go and sit on the grave of رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آل she would take some of the sand and smell it today we can't even go near that grave anymore unfortunately but inshallah Allah will bring the victory again to Muslims inshallah and we will see the day inshallah when these shrines are built again inshallah she would sit on that grave take some of the sand and smell it and subhanallah it has such a beautiful fragrance subhanallah and she would talk to the grave she would talk to رسول الله this is her poetry this is not some poet she would say قل المغيب تحت أطباق الثرا إن كنت تسمع صرختي وانداء صبت علي ما صائب لو أن صبت علي الأيا مصرنا ليا ليا oh my father يا رسول الله the calamities I faced after you that tragedies I experienced them if you were to throw these calamities on the day it would change in tonight because it would not be able to bear them and on her final day she came to أميق المؤمنين صلاة الله عليا and said يا علي today I'll be joining my father رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يا علي يدفني ليلن إذا نامت العيون وهجعت لابصايا بري me in the middle of the night and don't let those people who attacked me who took my right away from me to attend my funeral and then hide and cover my grave for I don't want them to even know where am I buried the daughter of رسول الله at the age of 18 صبحان الله this young lady at the age of 18 look at the difficulties the calamities she witnessed and look how much she gave us imagine if she were allowed she were led to live how much we would have benefited from فاطمة سلام الله عليها she says bear me and cover and hide my grave and you know how Imam Ali responds he says نعم يا سيدتي he says yes my master علي ابن أبي طالب فاطمة يار my master although he was the Imam of her time after صلى الله عليه و آله look at the greatness of this lady and then she continues she says يا علي و عليك من بعد بالحسني والخسر فإنهما من بعد يتيما بالأمس فقداجتهم واليوم يفقدان أمهما يا علي اخذني من بعدي حسنان حسنان حسنان كان only a few days ago they lost their grandfather رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله today they will lose their mother فاطمة I say يا مولاة يا زهرة I wish you were there to see حسنان حسن حسن was fed the poison and his body was shot with arrows صلى الله عليه و آله أرحسين was killed into pieces in Karbala امام علي سد نعم يا سيدة yes يا فاطمة will take care of everything after finishing what she had to tell him امير المؤمني in love the house اسماء بنت عمي سقالت كنت مع فاطمة صلى الله عليه و آله I was with Fatima when she told me يا اسماء I will go rest for a little while after some time call me if I respond to you then it shall be so but if I don't respond then be aware I have joined my father رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله اسماء said I sat down after some time I called her يا مولاة يا زهراء تقول ما أجابتني never replied back to me I called her again يا سيدتي يا بنت رسول الله oh daughter of رسول الله she did not reply back to me I went to her room I removed the cover from her face I saw Fatima has joined her رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله يا شيع عظم الله لكم أجرب استشهد زهراء رحم الله المنادي أيها فاطمتا أيها شهيدتا أيها سيدتا اسماء سزدت محمد حسنان حسين كينباك انت ذها إمام الحسن عليه السلام اسمي يا اسماء أين أمنا فاطمة I didn't know what to tell him I said to him my master your mother has gone in a deep sleep he said يا اسماء ما هذا وقت نوم أمنا فاطمة this is not the time of sleep of our mother Fatima he ran to his mother's room he removed the cover from her face then he cried he shouted اخي حسين ان أمنا ميت فجاء الحسين إلى حجرة أمه رمى بنفسه على جسدها يقبل يديها وقدميها وينادي أمه أنا عزيزك الحسين أجيبني فجعل يبكيان ثم قاموا they started crying weeping then they got up running to the Masjid of Rasool Allah سلمان saw them he said what is the matter of children of Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وآله they said يا سلمان عجبا للسماء من طبقة على الأرض لقد ماتت أمنا فاطمة it is strange that the skies haven't yet collapsed on the earth our mother Fatima has died يا سلمان أمير المؤمنين then came back to the house crying إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون and the tragedies continued واستبرت المآسيم حتى رجع الناعي يوما ينادي يا أهل يا ثرب لا مقام لكم بغايا قتل الحسين فأدمعي مدرا الجسم منه بكرب لا أمضر جن ورأس منه على القناة يدار يقول جاءتني إمرأة تحمل على كتفها طفلا قلت من هذا قيل لي يا بشر عليك بها إنها أم والبنين إرفق بحالها جاءتني ما سألتني عن أولادها بل قالتني يا أبشر أخبرني عن ولدية الحسين هل رجع الحسين سالماء يقول ما دارت ما أقول لها لها قلت لها سيدتي أصغر أولاد قد قتل في كربلا قالت ما سألتك عنه أخبرني عن الحسين فجعلت أعدت لها مصائب أولادها حتى قلت لها حيا أم البنين عظم الله لك أجرب مصائب أب الفضل العبا يا أس يقول فرمت بالغلاء من علاكة فيها إلى الأرض قالت يا بشر لقد مزقتني أخبرني عن ولد الحسين كلهم فداء للحسين قلت لا يا أم البنين عظم الله لك لا يا أجرب بمصائب أبي عبد الله الحسين نادت أيوا ولدها أيوا حسينا أيوا شديد أنا لجعيد على درب الضعون وأنا شد ليرحون ويجون كلمة لها غياب يلفون أنا غايب باللحد مدفوم لا أتدعو أني ويكيب أم البنين تذكريني باليوث العريب كانت بنون ليأدعى برم واليوم أصبحت ولا من بنين يا آليت الشعري أكما أخبروا بأن عباسا قطيع اليمين إنا لله وإنا ليه راجعون وسيعلم الذين ظلمون أيام قلب ينقلبون والعاقبة للمتقين شخنة ولا تفضل بالدعاء شخنة شخنة لا فضل بالدعاء تفضل بالا شخنة عزيز فضل الشخنة فعوا يديكم بالدعاء إن شاء الله سوف تفضل هناك المجموعة من فاطمة الزهراء السلام عليها الكثير من المؤمنين طلبوا الدعاء خصوصا في العراق في البحرين في اليمن في بلدان التي تعاني من عدم الاستقرار وقعان يطلبون من الدعاء بعض المؤمنين المفتلين بأمراض نقفعوا يديكم نحن كلنا أصحاب حوائج أعود بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هما يجيب المضطر إذا دعاء ويكشف السوء هما هما يجيب المضطر إذا دعاء ويكشف السوء هما يجيب المضطر إذا دعاء ويكشف السوء هما اللهم إنا نسألك وندعوك باسمك العظيم الأعظم الأعزل أجل الأكرم 10 times together يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله إله بفاطمة وأبيها وبعليها وبنيها والسرغ المستودة إكشف عن السوء يا الله اللهم مقدح وائجة المؤمنين والمؤمنات شاف وعاف جميع مرضى المؤمنين والمؤمنات على الخصوص من أوصونا بالدعاء منهم اللهم مقدح وائجاهم شاف مرضاهم احفظهم في أوطانهم وديارهم بحفظك ورحمتك يا أرحم الرحمد اللهم نقسم عليك بالزهراء فاطمة إلا ما جعلتنا ودريةنا إلى يوم الدين من شيعة الزهراء المتقين يا الله ومن خدمتها المخلصين يا الله وارزقنا شفاعةها في الدنيا وفي القبر وفي الآخرة برحمتك يا أرحم الرحمين ربغ فرلي والوالديا ورحمه ما كما رب ياني صغيرا اجزه ما بالإحسان إحسانا وبالسيئات غفرانا ربج تجعلني مقيم الصلاة ومن ذرية ربنا وتقبل دعا اللهم عجل لي وليك الفراد وجعلنا من شيعته وأمصاري وأعواني والمستشهدين بين يديه اللهم كل وليك الحجة بن الحسان صلواتك علي وعلا في هادستا وفي كل ساعة وليا هو قايدا هو دليلا حتى تسكنه أربك طوى وتمتعه فيها طويلة برحمتك أرحمار اللهم أرنط طلعت الرشيد والغررة الحميد وكحو الأنظارنا بنظرة منها إلى لقضاء الحوائج وليشفاء المرضى وليكشف هذه الأم ولتعجيل فرجمو لنا صاحب العصر وزمان لا سيما إلى أرواح المؤمنين والمؤمنات حسناوي وبلا للحسناوي وإلها رواح جميع الجالسنا والحاضرين والمؤسسين والبادلين لا سيما إلى روح سيداتنا وموالينة فاطمة الزهرة وأم البنين سلام اللهم رحم الله من يقرأ السورة المباركة الفاتحة مع الصلوات