 والله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والسلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا ونبينا وحبيب القلوبنا وشافعي أنفوصنا أبل قاسم محمد وأهل أهل بيته التيبين الطاهرين المعسومين المفلومين والعنة الله على دعهم أجمعين من الآن إلى كيام يوم الدين آمين يا رب العالمين هل يجب أن تقوم بأمام الله بأمام فاطمة أمام أمامها أمامها أمامها وأمامها يا رب العالمين رب العالمين في الإسلام وإن أي رب العالمين who may be tuning in from from a non-Muslim background أردت أن أرغبكم في هذا الأسلح of your show from the laws of Zahra عليه السلام is obviously a title which is selected due to the name of a book published by one of the greatest of the 20th century who passed away in the year 2001 namely the great مرجة تقليد الإمام محمد الحسيني الشرازي whilst we have not as of yet entered into the substance of the book and inshallah within the next few we will be leading shortly up towards the introduction of the great scholar محمد الحسيني الشرازي in his work as it is originally entitled in the Arabic language we have managed to introduce several important discussions and preliminary introductions which are necessary to understand the great need and necessity of studying and indeed having such a book such as منفق الزحرا published, explained and available in public within the English language one of the very crucial important details of such a work is that it brings us to an understanding of what the religion is all about and also helps us to crush several of the misconceptions that are present amongst the non-Muslim world or indeed should I say within non-Muslim mindsets where indeed you have some Muslims you have some non-Muslims living within the Muslim world itself who misunderstand the religion of Islam and indeed it helps bring the Muslims be they of whatever strand they might be out there and in core understanding of what the basic foundational teachings of the message of Islam are as was mentioned in the first حلقة or the first episode of this series we discussed the great life of the writer and scholar and master of the Islamic sciences the great Mujahid Muhammad and we discussed how he wished to make clear how he wished to announce to the non-Muslim world and before it even the Islamic world that the religion of Islam is a religion which is in line with human nature it is a religion which wishes to bring the human being out from the slavery of idolatry be that idol worship of the self money or any of the other deviant corrupt ideologies has shaped in order to justify his wretched lifestyle or even some of the noble intended ideas and methodologies and ideologies which people have shaped in order to attempt to break the nasty cycle of human suffering Imam Muhammad الشرازي رحمة الله عليه was of the opinion that Islam is a complete way of life and that Islam has the keys to all problems within the human world and indeed the world at large including the rights of animals the rights of the environment and all such things one of the great works which he wrote was the workman فق زهرا in the previous episodes I have discussed why it is necessary for us to engage in this historical discussion pertaining to something which is somewhat of a sour spot for some of the Muslims because it deals with an issue of history which has become contentious between both the Sunni and Shia Muslims and we find that there are disagreements in regards to this reading interpretation and details of such historical events more importantly we find that in a world today which is surrounded and filled with people committing terrorist acts acts of violence acts of oppression leading people into suffering under the name of the religion of Islam it is particularly of the utmost importance to clarify what the foundational and core message of Islam was and is and it brings me back to the question which I have raised in the past two or three episodes namely did Allah when he gave us the religion of Islam as Muslims all submit that the holy prophet was the final messenger given to humanity when he gave us that final messenger did guidance cease there we know according to Islamic theology and according to history itself that the previous revealed religions the previously revealed covenants were to some degree perverted and the followers of the original messengers of Allah were taken out of the light and into darkness by corrupt hypocrites and evil minded people who sought to corrupt these religions that is not to say that we are talking about any religion in particular but for those who are familiar with the fact that we have a plethora of world religions today the logical principle of non-contradiction namely that something cannot be true and false at the same time dictates that some of these religions are false and that some of them are either true allow me to rephrase that either one of these religions is true or all of them are false and if they are all false then they all contradict each other and if one of them is true then it contradicts some of the other religions this is not to offend some religious groups this is merely what logic dictates of us to understand the question we raised was the question did Allah Azawajal through the Holy Prophet ﷺ leave us with a self-preservation mechanism I don't wish to repeat the entire discussion which occurred on the previous episodes of this show however to summarize what we would say is that Allah Azawajal through the Holy Prophet ﷺ did indeed give us self-preservation mechanisms in order to determine what is correctly Islamic and what is un-Islamic we listed some of these things one of the things that was done was the Prophet ﷺ giving us the hadith of ثقلين when he said that I am leaving behind two weighty things the book of Allah and my progeny my أحل البيت and these two things shall never separate showing us and highlighting that there are a party of individuals who are known as the أحل البيت who are somehow related to the Prophet ﷺ and indeed these individuals contain and hold the same attributes that we Muslims attribute to the Quran itself namely guidance uncorruptibility and a light for all Muslims now I don't wish to go into أحل البيت it is well known who I believe the أحل البيت are the Holy Prophet ﷺ and the Twelve Imams who we believe in starting from and coming all the way down to our occulted Imam whom we pray Allah will hasten the reappearance of namely حسن المحدي however coming back to the real crux of the discussion we came on to the personality of who was one of the self preservation mechanisms left by the Holy Prophet ﷺ to preserve and keep the religion intact in case of corrupt plots which would occur in order to usurp the very reins of the religion of Islam and we have stated that this has happened insha'Allah and in the next few episodes we will discuss how this happened but how did the Holy Prophet ﷺ emphasize that was somehow a means we could rely upon in order to ensure that Islam would be preserved with her for some people might come forward and say yes she is the Prophet's daughter and peace be upon her however how do we know that just because she is the Prophet's daughter she holds a sacred status in the religion of Islam they might come forward and tell you in the Quran you have the son of Nua'a and we seek refuge of Allah from the accursed whisperings of such an analogy however it is fair for them to ask this question we have already said that an agreed upon tradition between the Muslims is the tradition is a part of me as was stated by the Holy Prophet it goes on forever to state whoever offends her whoever hurts her whoever angers her whoever disturbs her has angered, offended, disturbed and hurt myself and we came to the conclusion that logically because he did not restrict the statement to only certain means of angering her or in certain occasions that he must mean in general in entirety whoever angers her has angered him that such a person who is anger who is anger is the Messenger of Allah whom we know but Allah is angered by his anger must be infallible we went through some of the narrations and merits of the Holy Lady of Islam, Sayyeda Fatima Ta-Zahra and we mentioned however was an attempt to distort some of these narrations and attribute them to other people for example this great tradition this tradition which states Fatima is a part of me whoever angers her has also angered me coming from the Holy Prophet we find that they attribute this statement to Sayyeda Fatima Ta-Zahra being angered by Amir Mu'mineen and we seek refuge from the shaitanic whisperings which might lead any of us to believe that for indeed it is proven to us through clear cut textual evidence that Amir Mu'mineen was likewise infallible and hence could never be someone who angered Sayyeda Fatima Ta-Zahra we stated that such attempts to cast doubt upon the Ahl al-Bayt were one of the only methods through which such a statement could be preserved for we find immediately after the death of the Prophet there was an attempt to ban the narrations of the Prophet to censor them somewhat of a state censorship on narrating traditions somehow we could link this to a dictatorship's attempt to prevent news from being spread accurate news and indeed we found that books were burnt for merely carrying narrations of the Holy Prophet so within this time there was a great conspiracy to deny the rights of the Ahl al-Bayt through being spread now I don't wish to restrict this as having occurred within a particular timeframe but all Muslims agree that there was indeed a malicious attempt to prevent the merits of the Ahl al-Bayt from being spread and we gave some examples of how occasionally these things are done coming back to the example we gave before the end of the last episode where we cut short and were unable to continue we mentioned that the narration which is found within the vast majority of Sunni works is as follows narrated from Ebna Abbas the messenger of Allah drew four lines on the ground and then said is they replied Allah and his messenger no best when the messenger of Allah said the greatest of all women of paradise are baby Khadija namely Sayda Khadija the mother of Fatima Sayda Fatima the daughter of the Holy Prophet Sayda Asya the wife of Fer'aun and Mariam the daughter of Imran the son of Islam join me after the short break in which we will come back to how this tradition has been distorted in some works Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Shirazi was the religious authority merged to millions of Shi'a Muslim around the global the charismatic leader who is known for his high moral values modesty and spirituality he is a mentor and source of aspiration to the millions and the means of access to knowledge and teachings of Islam he has made extensive contributions in fields of learning ranging from jurisprudence and theology to politics, economics law and sociology Sayed Muhammad Shirazi was born in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq in 1374 after Hijra 1927 AD he belongs to a distinguished family deeply rooted in Islamic science literature and virtue his followers are found in many countries in the global Grand Ayatollah Shirazi was distinguished for his intellectual ability and holistic vision he was recognized for his clear ideas and realistic solutions to issues of concern to mankind he has written various specialized studies that are concerned to be among the most important references in the Islamic sciences of beliefs and doctrine, ethics, politics economics, sociology law, human rights etc he has enriched the world with his staggering contributions of some 1300 books treaties and studies on various branches of learning his works range from simple introductory books for the young generations to literary and scientific masterpieces deeply rooted in the holy Quran and the teachings of the prophet of Islam his visions and theories covers areas as politics economics, government management, sociology theology, philosophy history and Islamic law his work on Islamic jurisprudence for example, contributes 150 volumes which run into more than 55,000 pages through his original thoughts and ideas he has championed the causes of issues such as the family human rights, freedom of expression political pluralism non-violence and shura or consultative system of leadership grand Ayatollah Shirazi believes in the fundamental and elementary nature of freedom in mankind he calls for freedom of expressions, political plurality debate and discussion tolerance and forgiveness he strongly believes in the consultative system of leadership and calls for the establishment of the leadership council of religious authorities he calls for the establishment of the universal Islamic government to encampus all the Muslim countries السلام عليكم ورحمة الله dear viewers, thank you for injuring patiently with that short break prior to the break we were recording or recalling a tradition which is fairly widespread within the books of the Ahl al-Sinom al-Jama'a in which one of the key merits of Saydaa Fatima al-Zahra is mentioned we mentioned that within this key tradition the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه و آله had informed his companions that from amongst the four chief ladies of paradise we have Saydaa Khadija عليه السلام the mother of Saydaa Fatima al-Zahra we have Saydaa Fatima al-Zahra عليه السلام and indeed we have two other women who were mentioned in the Qur'an namely أسيا and Maryam we told her of Imran and the mother of Aisa some might wonder how such a tradition could be distorted is it merely a distortion of adding a name to it or how would they distort it would they remove the name of Saydaa Fatima al-Zahra allow us to investigate and witness how the traditions of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و آله have been tampered with in order to suit the agenda of people who wish to demean the Ahlul Bayt and raise the status of their opponent you find it is mentioned in البخاريز بوك الصحيح that is narrated by أشأري who states the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه و آله said many men reached the level of perfection but no woman reached such a level except Saydaa Maryam daughter of Imran Saydaa Aisa the wife of Pharaoh then he goes on to say and the superiority of Aisha the wife of the holy prophet is like the superiority of Thareed which is of course an Arab dish in which bread is soaked up in the cooked water of the dish two other meals we find that such tradition in its origin with exactly the same chain of transmission is narrated in the work of a Tabari namely a Tabari's تفسير and within that tradition we find that the tradition reads as such the messenger of Allah peace and blessings be upon him has said many men reached the level of perfection but no woman reached such a level except Saydaa Maryam Saydaa Aasia peace be upon him Khadija and Saydaa Fatima the daughter of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him one has to ask how is it the traditionists who were familiar and unlike us today were memorizers of thousands hundreds of thousands of traditions and so on would not be able to distinguish between that tradition and the clumsily fabricated one in which we have not only the name of Saydaa Fatima but we have the name of Khadija the mother of Saydaa Fatima and an important member of the Prophet's household removed from the tradition we find that such actions such games were played with the Prophet's traditions may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him in order to confuse the Muslims in order to detract from the status of the real possessors of authority the real possessors of merits and to give these merits to people who did not deserve them now I understand that my words here may seem hurtful they mean same harmful to some people who can understand the implications of what I am saying here and indeed just to remind all viewers it is not my intention to be offensive it is not my intention to demean anyone however the Ahl al-Bayt or are people who cannot be compared to anyone else and just because someone is righteous does not mean they should be considered people likewise when we look at the tradition itself which has been fabricated where it states that very few women have reached perfection aside from Mariam and Arsia and that the superiority of Aisha over other women is like the superiority of this Arabic thread over other meals this is a strange tradition it's a tradition which very few of us can come to understand why is it that Thoreed has been highlighted as a particularly special dish more importantly when we look at the prophet's traditions we find that often the well-known established ones make sense he says things like oh Ali you are to me Haroun was to Musa or for example he might make the comparison of someone else and another tradition we have in our books he compares Ali to Yushor the successor of Musa never before have I come across such a tradition in which the holy prophet subjectively compares a woman to a dish which can only be described as subjectively favored by certain people I'm sure there's many people out there in the world who don't even like Thoreed and of course in the previous episode I did mention I'm from amongst them I don't know if that's a result of this tradition or not but indeed that's a separate topic more importantly when we come to look at how is we should be analyzing traditions not only according to the classical methods of analyzing the train of transmission but according to other methods in which we are given a particular key to understand traditions what do I mean by this as we will see when we come to enter the discussion of the work of Imam Muhammad and Hussein Shirazi رحمة الله عليه and his work from the laws of Zahra we will see that one of the things say the Fatima of Zahra and her sermon in which she rebuked the oppressors was the fact that if a tradition is in contradiction to the narration if a tradition is in contradiction to the verses of the Holy Quran then we must throw that tradition against the wall so allow us to ask Quranically is there any justification for the fabrication of this رواية in which we are told that very few women have reached perfection and they are Asya, Mariam and particularly Aisha the wife of the Prophet I'm sure we would all agree that in order for someone to reach perfection nothing should have been in their path which could serve as an obstacle very few of us would claim perfection for ourselves even by the end of our lives and very few of us who have made major mistakes in our lives could ever claim perfection ever within this limited world in fact I don't believe we claim perfection for anyone who is known to make mistakes we find Allah in Surah Tahrim Surah number 66 of the Holy Quran in the United States Allah sets forth an example for those who disbelieve the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot they were under two of our righteous servants but they both betrayed them and so they availed them not against Allah and it is said enter the fire along with those who enter is found in Surah 66 Surah Tahrim ayah 10 the question here which must be asked is who did Allah revealed this ayah all the Mufassireen all the exegetes all the commentators of the Holy Quran have agreed upon this fact be they Sunni or Shia they agree upon the fact that this ayah was revealed upon the personality of two of the wives of the Prophet Aisha and Hafsa to such a degree that according to narrations found from أمر ابن الخطاب the second ruler of the Saqeef a government in Sahih Muslim and an authority for all Sunni Muslims we are told that had it not been for his intervention according to this narration the Prophet would have divorced Hafsa and no doubt given that she shared in the same degree of crime with her partner Aisha he would have divorced her too now we need to ask the question how is it that someone who the Prophet صلى الله عليه و آله was close to divorcing and indeed Allah عز و جل threatens in the Holy Quran with a defense of all the angels something he has never threatened in any other case in history in the Quran in all the battles we were given a specific number 70,000 the entirety of angels as being given as a force against a party this woman is described as someone who all the angels will back رسول الله up against can be compared to the best of women of Paradise now that is not for me to offend anyone and indeed my intention has not been to offend anyone tonight but I wish that the Muslims would open their minds open their hearts and the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و آله has given a special status to Fatima and that status is something which we can never remove from her nor can we accept fabricated traditions which attempt to remove that status from her شاء الله تعالى within the next episode of the show as we have ran out of time we will be discussing how Fatima تزعار played a major part in the self-preservation of Islam and entered a crisis and was doomed to become obliterated a time in which many people turned their backs on the religion of Islam those who were from the companions of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و آله and I pray that you will join me for that show thank you all for tuning into this show and please do not forget us in your duas السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته