 أحب this worldly life is no more than a pastime and pleasures made the final hope that's life for sure with their knowledge this much attain وصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وعظيمنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أب القاس محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين وأصحابه الغر الميامين الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتمسكين بولاية سيد وولاية علي ابن أبي طالب الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتد يا لو لا انهدان الله أما بعد يقول الله في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل لا أسألكم عليه أجرا لله المودة في القرباء بفاس طفع وصلواتا أنا برسول الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ورحمة الله و بركاتك وصلاة والسلام وعلى أهل بيته طالب وعلى أحبكم actually وعلى أحبكم إمام علي إبنى بيطالب صلوات الله وسلامه عليه وزبون on the 13th of Rajab in the year 600 and died on the 21st of Ramadan in the 40th year after Hijrah He occupies a prominent position within the religion of Islam as being revered as one of the greatest leaders in Islamic history A man from whose life many extraordinary lessons may be learnt and many examples may be derived And a man who was seen as the embodiment of knowledge, generosity, valour and bravery as well as dedication towards the religion of Islam As we stated the Imam was born on Friday the 13th of Rajab His parents Abu Talib and Fatima bint Assad were both followers of the Abrahamic monotheistic way There was a group of believers who were living in Mecca in the early days who were followers of the message of Prophet Ibrahim What they would be classified with the word Hanifs they would be following the way of Ibrahim and all the messengers who came after Ibrahim This could be seen in the fact that when Abu Talib read the marriage ceremony of the Prophet to Khadija He mentioned very clearly within the wording that I am the follower of one God and the follower of the prophets of God Especially the prophets who descended from the line of Prophet Ibrahim Therefore you had Abu Talib and Ali's mother Fatima bint Assad were both Abrahamic in terms of their belief And you found that this would be seen in the words of Fatima bint Assad on that particular period when she used to circumambulate the Ka'bah Because you had two types of people who may have circumambulated the Ka'bah at that time You had those who believed in one God but started making images for that God known as idols Or you had a group who believed in one God and would not put any images to that God Fatima bint Assad upon her sangramilation of the Ka'bah recited a simplification that is with us until today She said oh Allah in the name of your majesty and the name of your power And in the name of the prophets who descended from the line of Ibrahim Help me in this period with the pangs of labor and the pangs of childbirth and make it easy for me The narrations are clear both in the books of the Imamis and in other schools in Islam For example, if you want to study the work of Imam Al-Haqim Al-Nisaapuri Al-Haqim Al-Nisaapuri has the book Al-Mustadrak Al-Sahihain Or if you went to the work of Imam Al-Mas'udi in the book Muruj Al-Bahab You will find all of them narrates that when she said these words near the Ka'bah The Ka'bah opened up for her and she entered the Ka'bah And she stayed within the Ka'bah for three days And on her in Islamic history only reserved for Ali ibn Abi Talib That he is the only man in Islamic history to be born in the Ka'bah You will find that there are some other historical references to other people being born in the Ka'bah But this was a group of people who tried to diminish from the prestige of Ali ibn Abi Talib The only man in history to be born in the Ka'bah To be born in that black cube that you find in Mecca was Ali And that's what you find when his mother emerged from the Ka'bah on the fourth day The first person to welcome her was the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم The Prophet welcomed her, he took Ali from her hands And the Imam himself would narrate that from that day throughout his childhood The Prophet would embrace Ali He chewed the food before he placed the food in the mouth of Ali And even he would say I would follow the Prophet in those early days Like the child of a sheik amal would follow its mother A sheik amal, wherever it works its child would follow it Its child would never leave it Ali says that in those early days I would follow the Prophet Like a child of a sheik amal would follow its mother I used to see the light of revelation and I would hear the words of Prophethood When the religion was only three It was me Khadija who was always alongside the Prophet In other words from the early age you saw that Abu Talib Gave away his sons and his children towards the religion of Islam Because Imam Ali had three elder brothers His eldest brother was Talib Hence Abu Talib Talib died at the age of 55 Then the second eldest brother was Aqeel Aqeel died at the age of 93 Then the third eldest brother was Jaafar Who died at the age of 40 And then it was the Imam And you had two sisters One was called Fakhita And the other was called Jomana Abu Talib and Fakhita How many children they have in their life They had six children You found that Abu Talib Because of the extreme amount of difficulty That many of the Arabs were facing at that time The Prophet came up to him The Prophet was how old was when Imam Ali was born The Prophet was 30 There was a 30-year age gap Between the Prophet and the Imam The Prophet came to the Abu Talib And he said to him Abu Talib Let me and my uncle Hamza And my uncle Abbas Take responsibility for your children Abu Talib said to him Who do you want to take responsibility of He said let me bring up Ali In other words, from a young age رسول الله The Prophet wanted to bring up Ali In the way Abu Talib bought him up He wanted to take the responsibility Of bringing up the young Imam And that's why it was only 10 years later At the age of 10 When Imam Ali was 10 That the Prophet announced his Prophethood In those early days There was only a few reverts And there was only a few people Like Ammar ibn Yasir Like Bilal And like another companion Who came towards Islam In those early days Because of Ali And through the Prophet In which way Abu Dar al-Ghafari Used to belong to Bani Ghafari Abu Dar al-Ghafari His tribe used to worship idols But Abu Dar rationally Whenever he would reflect And we said that half of religion is reflection Abu Dar when he would reflect He'd ask himself How can I worship an idol Which can neither benefit me nor harm me As in many of us would say Those were the days of ignorance I tell you 1,400 years later You may have a professor with 3 PhDs And he still bows down Before something made out of a rock Don't be surprised You find that in those days Abu Dar what did he used to say Abu Dar would say That I do not believe in this idea That we worship an idol Surely an idol That cannot protect itself How can I worship it So he decided That he was certain of this When one day He went towards the idol That his tribe Bani Ghafari Bani Ghafari What were they known for Bani Ghafari were highway thieves Nobody would mess about with them In our language today They are known as gangsters Bani Ghafari Abu Dar came to Mecca one day To worship the idol Although he never bowed down before it One day he saw One of Bani Ghafari Brings some milk to the idol When he saw the milk Being moored to the idol As he was about to leave He said Wait wait Let me actually think Like a human should think He looked at the idol And he saw the milk Then he saw this Folks come towards the milk When he saw the folks Come towards the milk The folks came Had a nice sip of the milk And then left And what does the folks Normally do after it's had a good drink And let's sit all back out Abu Dar al Ghafari said If my idol that I worship Cannot protect itself From the urine of a fox Then how is it Gonna protect Abu Dar al Ghafari What did Abu Dar al Ghafari do He said I'm gonna go and look for this man By the name of Muhammad But how do I find him And remember When Islam began When the Prophet began Imam Ali was only 10 In those first 3 years The message was to be Sent out secretly Abu Dar was Combinating around the Ka'bah He's trying to look for this man Who is known as A Sadaq Al-Ameer But he doesn't want to tell anyone That he was looking for him Because the people had begun to hear Rumors that Muhammad Bring a new religion He saw this young man In front of him This young man at the time Was about 12-13 years of age The young man looked at him And he said You look confused Who are you looking for Abu Dar said I don't think you know Who he is Don't worry The young man said No no don't worry Tell me And I might know him He said I'm looking for Muhammad The son of Abdullah He looked at him And he said I think I know him Let me lead you to him He said What's your name He said I am Ali Son of Abu Talib And I might know The man you're looking for So he walked with Abu Dar They entered upon Rasool Allah Within a few moments Abu Dar became a Muslim As soon as he heard The intellect of Rasool Allah He became a Muslim Rasool Allah Said to Abu Dar He said Abu Dar I plead with you Don't go and tell the people About Islam I know that you Benny Ghafari Is your passionate people Keep it quiet Abu Dar said Don't worry I'll keep it as quiet As I can A few minutes later Abu Dar and Ghafari I know people Those of you Have not heard of Islam Let me tell you There is only one God And that Muhammad Is the messenger of God The people straight away Went and started attacking him Abbas The uncle of Rasool Allah Intervened Abu Dar reached Rasool Allah Rasool Allah Said Abu Dar I told you Don't tell anybody He said Ya Rasool Allah I'm sorry But you know The passion was inside me I won't be that loud again Rasool Allah Said very well Go ahead There is another announcement On the Kaaba Oh people If you didn't hear me properly before Then know That I am Abu Dar And Ghafari And that there is only one God And that Muhammad Is his messenger Again Then they came to attack him Abbas The uncle knew That the only way to solve this situation Was to come in the middle He told the people He whispered them The ears of one of the people Oh people You know who this man is They said Yes Abu Dar They said They said Benny Ghafar The highway thieves Said yes Benny Ghafar The gangsters Yes Benny Ghafar The ones who block your caravans As soon as the Arab knows His money is getting lost That's it He has no more principles They let Abu Dar go But the point was what A young Ali bought Abu Dar Towards Rasool Allah From a young age Therefore Ali ibn Abi Talib Had the maturity To be able to carry The message of the religion And that's why When Da'wat Al-Ashira happened When Allah Revealed the birth In Sura 26 Verse 214 واندر عشرةك الأخضبين Invite And warn your nearest relatives Rasool Allah طول the young Ali He said You are 13 years of age I want you to do something for me He said What is it He said I want you to prepare A meal for me He said يا رسول الله Which meal He said Get a sheep for me And get One kilo of wheat And three kilos of yogurt And I want you to make a feast And I want you to invite Your uncles and my uncles as well Because of course Ali's uncles are Muhammad's uncles Abu Lahab Abu Talib Abu Hamza Abu Abbas These are all the uncles Of the two of them When they came that day A momentous incident occurred Which was vital In studying the biography Of Ali ibn Abi Talib What was it That when they came that day The Prophet had said to them On the first occasion Welcome to my house I have glad tidings to give you About the message of the religion Abu Lahab did not accept But on the second time that they came They listened to him The Prophet said to them You know that I am truthful And you know that I am trustworthy And you know that I have not lied to any of you I have come to bring you a message of goodness To worship only one God And not to put partners to God And that there is the day of judgment Where you will be accountable for all your acts And that there is no difference between Male and female All between black and white Abu Lahab looked and he said Muhammad what is this sorcery That you are trying to be with us with The Prophet then said Whoever amongst you Accepts me As his Prophet Will be my caliph And the successor after me There is a point here That from a young age Ali was already instructed With that message To be the successor Because Ali at the age of 13 Raised his hands And he said Oh Prophet of God I will listen to your message And I am the first to accept your words Abu Lahab turned around To Abu Talib He said to him Abu Talib It looks like one day Your son is going to have to lead you He tried to mock him And that's why Our brothers have an interesting Narration in their books In the books of our brothers What does it say It says that Abu Talib In their books It says Abu Talib came to Ali And he said to him Ali Are you sure you want to accept This message Are you ready for it Ali replied that that young age Full of maturity By saying oh my father Allah did not ask me When he created me Therefore I don't need to ask anyone When I am submitting back To Allah And that's in the books of our brothers That Ali at that young age Had the maturity to understand The message of the Prophet Not only of the maturity But the Prophet mentioned from that day Whoever accepts this Is my successor And the caliph after me In other words Those who would go to Ghadir Later on To prove That Ali was the successor As the caliph On the country Dawat العشيرة Ali was a young age Already There was the sign of Ali And that's why at that young age The Prophet Would constantly give him duties In order to allow him to mature Into the development within the religion Notice Ali at the age of 24 When the whole of Mecca Has decided to combat The message of the Prophet The Prophet At that age Ali was 23-24 years of age The Prophet comes to Ali He says to him Ali They have decided That they want to kill me But Ali They have decided That they want to kill me But not one of them No A number of them Are going to come together And kill me So would you do a task For me Ali said to him O Prophet of God What is the task He said to him The task is That I want you to sleep On my bed Are you ready to sacrifice Your soul For the message Of the religion of Islam Do you know what the reply is? The reply is a reply Ali 23 And he meant to reply He looked at him And he said يا رسول الله Will you be safe? He replied to him Yes I will He said Then my soul Is dedicated to your soul And my spirit Is dedicated to your spirit And then He went back Into his room Into prostration And three times Said شكرا لله شكرا لله شكرا لله شكرا لله شكرا لله شكرا لله شكرا لله شكرا لله Because he said This is a night Which God has honored me Where he has allowed me To sacrifice my soul For the religion of Islam That night When they came They tried to attack They saw Ali Sleeping in the bed of his Prophet After that The Prophet said to him Ali the next day I want you to perform a task He said What is it? He said There are a number Who have deposited Their trust with me I find No one better In this religion But you To return the trust Back to them That's why I remember Hamdala The son of Abu Sufyan Heard that Ali Had remained behind And was giving everyone Their trust back Hamdala The son of Abu Sufyan Came to Omar bin Wa'il Hamdala said to Omar He said Hamdala Omar I'll give you My mother hints necklace If you walk up to Ali And say to him That we deposited 100 مثق of gold With Muhammad Omar said But we didn't He said Ali is not going to know He's only 23 years of age All Muhammad told him is Anyone who demand something from you Give it back to him And if you do this I'll give you my mother hints necklace Omar said very well Omar came towards Ali That day after Ali He slept in the bed of Rasulallah He said to him Ali you owe us Something from Muhammad He said what is it He said you owe us 100 مثق of gold Ali looked at his list So what's your name Said Omar bin Wa'il And who else do I owe Hamdala bin Abu Sufyan He said so Abu Sufyan Deposited something With Rasulallah He said yes He said so you want 100 مثق of gold from me He said yes You're the one Muhammad has chosen That you got to return the deposit He said very well Do you have any witnesses He said yes He said who He said Abu Sufyan Abu Lahab Abu Jahal and Walid Mashallah The best list of witnesses You can have Ali left him And he said I'll go and ask each one of them Let them give me the time Of when exactly it was That they had deposited So he went to Abu Sufyan Said Abu Sufyan Had you deposited 100 مثق of gold With Muhammad Abu Sufyan said No I don't remember anything He said Abu Jahal Did you see 100 مثق of gold Being deposited He said yes I saw it It was in the morning Abu Lahab Did you see 100 مثق of gold He said yes of course He said when was it He said in the evening The fourth person When was it He said it's clear It was at sunrise All four of them Gave different answers Ali he said very clearly You are lying towards me But the point was Ali was given that responsibility Rasulallah had already left And he had gone towards Medina When he had left Ali had a responsibility Number 3 After sleeping in the bed After returning the trusts He had to take the Fatimahs To Medina with him Who did he take He took Fatima the lady of light The daughter of the Prophet He took his mother Fatima the asset He took Fatima the daughter of Hamza His uncle And they went towards Medina And I tell you something Many people do not acknowledge How unsafe the journey was For Ali ibn Abi Talib Many people think Rasulallah and Abu Bakr Had an unsafe journey They do not realize That when they couldn't catch up with Rasulallah They put their eyes on Ali And it was that journey When they realized That they had a warrior On their hands Who none of them will ever face in war Because Ali ibn Abi Talib On his way to Medina Do you know when he reached Medina He met Rasulallah For Medina at Masjid Qiba Those of you who have been to Hajj Will know about Masjid Qiba All of you have to visit Masjid Qiba At that period Masjid Qiba Rasulallah was at Qiba He was going to go to Medina They said to me Rasulallah Why don't you leave for Medina He said how can I leave Without the son of Abu Talib Alongside me I am going to wait here Until Ali reaches me Do you know when Ali ibn Abi Talib Reached his whole body Was full of blood They had ambushed him They themselves stood up For the Fatimas Do you think Fatima Tezahra Would marry any man She saw Ali ibn Abi Talib Defend her so valiantly Even before he had married her His body was full of blood And it was during that journey That he made it clear I do not mind me alone Fighting all of you Because I know I will come out victorious And that's why As soon as he reached Medina Rasulallah did two things For him to honor his position The first thing Rasulallah Did He made a brotherhood Between the Ansar And the Muhajireen The Muhajireen Where the migrants Who left Mecca To go to Medina The Ansar Where the people of Medina Rasulallah didn't want Any tension between The two of them So he bought The two of them together And he gave Each of the Muhajireen An Ansari partner It was known as The Pact of Brotherhood For the Muhajireen For example Abu Bakr He gave Khareja Bin Zuhair Al-Khazraj Omar He gave Aitan Bin Malik Osman He gave Al-Ausab Bin Thabit The people asked Rasulallah Who is your partner Who is your brother He said For me only Ali Ibn Abi Talib He said Ali is to me Like Aaron Was to Moses Except That there is no Private after me Then number two There were many of the Companions whose houses Were in Mecca Or in Medina All their doors Would open to the mosque Allah ordered That every one of those doors Is to be closed Except the door of Ali And Fatima In other words There was a distinction Given to Ali And you find The son of Abu Talib From a young age In his first battle For the religion of Islam Of the age of 24 In the battle of Badr Then the battle of Uhud Then the battle of Khanda Then the battle of Khaybar Show the distinction Like none others On the battlefield I tell you In Islamic history They tried to give you Many names For great warriors There is not a single warrior In Islamic history Who came near The dust of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Ali Ibn Abi Talib On the battlefield Had a distinction Someone will say What's the distinction? At Badr Half of the opposition Were destroyed By Ali Ibn Abi Talib At Uhud Rasool Allah Was alone on the mountain It was Ali Meqdad Ammar Abu Dujan Al-Ansari And the lady Called Al-Harfiya Who helped him And on that day On Uhud When the famous cry came There is no youth But Ali And no sword But Al-Fiqan But at Khandaq and Khaybar He displayed a spiritual side to him Which made him The complete human being What do I mean? I mean a warrior Is normally reckless Aren't they? Warriors are reckless And not only are they reckless They tend to be arrogant As well, isn't it? These combinations Are normally the combinations Of a warrior They're either reckless Or arrogant You hardly find any ethics In warriors It's very rare to find any Spirituality in warriors You know when he finished Khandaq and Khaybar He did two things After those battles Which showed Rumi's famous lines When Rumi said In bravery You are the lion Of your Lord But in generosity Who knows who you are Rumi Says about Ali In bravery You are the lion Of your Lord But in generosity Who knows who you are At Khandaq Amr ibn Awid Kept on telling them Who's gonna come out And fight me? What's wrong with you people? Mohammed promises you heaven If I kill you You go to heaven If you kill me You will go to heaven Why don't you fight? Ali came out To fight him When he introduced himself He said What's your name? He said I am Ali Son of Abu Talib He said to me I will not kill you Your dad was a good friend of mine You can go The Imam replied But I will kill you Because you're an enemy of Allah When they began the war Hamr ibn Awid knew that he'd win Hamr ibn Awid was known For wrestling with the lions Midway through the war The people noticed That dust had gathered Between the two in combat Ali walks away Pauses Then comes back in and strikes And emerges and says God is great The people are confused When the people were confused They asked Ali upon his return What was that moment that you posed There is a moment in Ali ibn Abi Talib Which is a lesson for all of us If man angers you Remain patient Only get angry When Allah's message is angered Because when Ali came back They said to him Why did you walk away He said As I was about to strike Hamr ibn Awid He spat at me If I struck him Then I would have struck him For my own ego But I never strike a human Because of my ego So I walked away I returned back into the battle And I struck him Because he angered the message of God Further than this In the opposition army Hamr ibn Awid's sister was sitting She was having a meal She thought her brother would come back victorious Someone came back to her And said to her That we have some sad news for you She said what is it She replied by saying They replied to her by saying Your brother has been killed She said My brother has been killed My brother who kills the lions Which lion killed my brother They said to a young man Known as Ali ibn Abi Talib She said Do you mind if I go and see my brother's body And I will then tell you What I think of Ali ibn Abi Talib She went towards the brother's body She was crying and crying and crying She came near her brother's body The narration stayed She sat by the brother's body She then suddenly got up And she smiled And she called out to everyone I am honored The son of Abi Talib killed my brother Why? She said My brother before he begins a war Asks the person he's fighting I beg of you If you're a sincere human If you do kill me Don't take my shield Because it belongs to my great-grandfathers Let it at least stay with my family She said I look at my brother's body And I see his shield is still on his body And it makes me understand That the son of Abi Talib Fight for no one but his lord Because if the son of Abi Talib Was fighting for his ego Then he would have been like The rest of Muhammad's army Who would have stolen my brother's shield But the son of Abi Talib Is different to the rest of them Then at Khaybar He lifts a gate which none can lift I'm not concerned with what he lifted What I'm concerned is What allows you to be so powerful Because you know after Khaybar He comes back from the battle He begins to cry They come to him They say Oh son of Abi Talib Why do you cry? You've just lifted a gate Others can't lift He replies by saying I can't bear to see The Jewish soldiers With a rope around their hands Loosen the rope Are they not human beings? Then he returns home His wife Fatima is next to him She offers him some bread He was known for his piety That he would only eat dry bread Not soft bread Because he would say How can I eat soft bread When there are poor in the Muslim world He tries to break the bread But the bread doesn't break They say Oh son of Abi Talib You lifted a gate Which 40 couldn't lift And you can't break a piece of bread He said The gate I lifted for Allah And the bread I'm trying to break Is for Ali And then he said I lifted the gate of Khaybar Not with physical strength But with the strength of my soul If I could understand my soul Then I can understand my Lord And the moment I understand my Lord Everything is easy before me And even after that Not for Ali Staying behind this religion Would have been destroyed The greatest performance of Ali And I ask all of you to read up on it Was at Khunein Not at Badr Not at Khaybar Not at Khendak Imam Zain Al-Abideen in Sham Says I am the son of the one Who fought at Badr and Khunein Because Ali at Khunein Was left alone Against the opposition And finished them And that's why you find That Ali Ibn Abi Talib When Rasool Allah died Just before the Prophet died The Prophet was 63 Ali was 33 The Prophet had told the people This is my successor Look after him Be loyal to him Don't deceive him Don't be cunning towards him Don't attack him He is not just my son in law He is appointed by Allah To look after my message The people ended up taking away The leadership of Ali Ibn Abi Talib They took his leadership They attacked his wife And they killed her And he was left to look after Four orphans in a house He did Ali Ibn Abi Talib Allow his ego to get to him Because sometimes With ourselves and Muslim communities If someone takes our leadership We want to destroy the whole community Ali Ibn Abi Talib said The religion of Islam Is greater than me causing disunity I will remain someone When I see injustice I'll speak out against it Any form of injustice That exists Because some people say Ali Ibn Abi Talib When Rasool Allah died 33 And he became caliph The fourth caliph At the age of 58 Some people say In those 25 years Ali Ibn Abi Talib Did he do anything for Islam Or did he just go And earn a living And give food To the children of Fatima On the contrary Ali Ibn Abi Talib In those years Even though He wasn't the Khalifa Chosen at Saqeefa He was still the Khalifa For Ammar And Salman And Abu Dhar And Muhammad and so on Ali Ibn Abi Talib Therefore If he saw any injustice He would speak out He wouldn't just remain silent He taught us An ethical lesson Muslims When you see A volume of any type Be it big Be it small Never remain silent Against injustice That's why For example One day A lady came to Ammar Ibn Al-Khattab The second Khalifa She came to him She said I have committed adultery Ammar said Were there witnesses She said Yes There were witnesses And I'm willing to be punished Ammar said Very well Then punish her The reply was But do you mind If Ali Ibn Abi Talib Makes the decision He said to her Why She said Because I have a trust That Ali Ibn Abi Talib Is the most just human Living on this earth I know That he was Bought up in the lap Of Rasool Allah So Who else Can teach justice But Muhammad So he said Ali come and judge her When Ali came She said She said I committed adultery Ali said What was the circumstances She said I have no food For my children And I went to ask One of the rich men Of the area He said to me If you want food You have to commit adultery With me She said to Oh man I beg you Fear God Do not say such words Second time Third time She said I gave in Imam Ali said Very well You are free to leave Number three She said What do you mean Omar then looked at him And said What do you mean He said in chapter five Number three He says Those who are compelled To sin While they are In a state of hunger Allah forgives their sin This lady Was compelled to sin But she was In a state of hunger Allah forgives Those who are In a state of hunger Because it's the shame On the state Not the shame On the people The state Shouldn't allow That's when Omar would say Were it not for Ali Omar would be perished Because here Ali would come out very clearly If there is injustice Even Osman The third Khalifa When he appointed his family From Bani Umayyah Ali did not remain silent He would speak out And even Ali In those 25 years When he was not Khalifa He would come forward And say to the people Of people If you have any areas of knowledge Ask me Before you lose me I know the secrets of the heavens As well as the secrets of the earth That's why the non-Muslims Would come to Medina They'd ask Where is Ali ibn Abi Talib The people would say Why? They say because we hear That he is the successor To the Prophet We want to ask him questions Which none can answer And if he can answer them Then we follow him So they come to Ali ibn Abi Talib One Jewish man came To Ali ibn Abi Talib He said to him You claim to be the successor Of Muhammad Said yes He said I'm going to ask you A mathematical question Which no human can answer And only the successor Of Muhammad Can answer So we looked at him And he said to him Go ahead He said which number If you divide it By any number Between one and ten Remains a whole number Ali ibn Abi Talib Looked at him He said 2520 He said I'm sorry He said 2520 He said how did you get that He said the number of days In the week Multiply by the number Of days in the year The person looked at him And he said The person looked at him And he said Okay in the Arabian calendar There's 360 days in the year And there's 7 days in the week He said so multiply 360 by 7 What do you get? He said 2520 He said divide 2520 by 1 What do you get? He said 2520 By 2 1260 By 3 840 By 4 630 By 5 504 By 6 What do you get? 420 By 7 360 By 8 By 9 280 By 10 252 He said truly This is Ali ibn Abi Talib In front of him 2520 Divided by any number Between 1 and 10 Is the only number in the world That comes out whole And you found That people would come And ask for knowledge Until he became Khalifa And you know What the tragedy in this religion is We didn't choose Ali ibn Abi Talib Like we could have 4 years 3 civil wars 4 against him And I tell you In each of those civil wars Each one of them The dignity that he displayed Is a message for each Muslim In the world today That even when another Muslim Act rudely towards you If you're a follower Ali ibn Abi Talib Act tolerant Back towards them I know there are Muslims In the world today Who may look at the Imamis And be disrespectful towards us Who may call us The people of innovation Who may call us The people of shirk Don't reply back By falling to their level Maintain your dignity Like your Imam Maintain his dignity At Jamal He sees the lady Is leading him Is the wife of the Rasool Allah Others around him Are saying Show disrespect He says never When he came towards Malik Al-Ashtari He says Malik Do you see her She's sitting on the camel Malik said yes He said I want you to go and Cut the feet of the camel Then he told another companion When she falls I want you to hold her body Malik went He cut the feet of the camel As soon as she fell The other companion Held her body She turned around And she said How dare you touch The body of the wife Of Rasool Allah When you are not Mahram to me To which the reply To which the reply Was I am Muhammad The son of Abu Bakr Your brother holding you The only man In Ali's army Who's Mahram to her Ali could have Lowered his dignity In hers By sending anyone But no The son of Abu Talib Is above this The son of Abu Talib Is on a level Above all of this Low dignity And then He sent her back With respect He said This is the wife Of Rasool Allah She used to be respected On her way Back towards Medina There should be no one Who shows disrespect Towards her And she turned around to me And she said You're the killer of the loved ones He replied back to her If I'm the killer Of the loved ones Then people like Marwan And Abdullah Could have killed them right now But I don't want Disunity In the Muslim Ummah The school of Ahl al Bayt She never opened The door for disunity Then look at Safine First they fight Him as Khalifa and Jamal Then at Safine When they fight him Muawiyah Takes control of the water Imam looks at his soldiers He says Ask Muawiyah Let us drink water We're thirsty Muawiyah says I'll never give them any water Imam tells his soldiers Go and win the water back They win the water back It's down in the possessions Of Ali The reply now At this moment Is what Their soldiers Of Muawiyah are thirsty They come to the soldiers Of Ali And they say Please give us water Imam looks at his soldiers He says Do you think we should Give them water or no The soldiers say Give them They don't deserve They didn't give us Imam said No He said I can't bear to see a horse Thirsty Let alone a human being In Naharawan When his own soldiers From his army Come to fight him Bahawarich Come and fight him He is in one on one Combat with one of them Vul Fikar His sword The double pointed sword Has an ability To capture your sword So he captures his sword How he's got two swords That soldier looks at him And he says What are you going to do You're going to finish me Ali says What is it that you want The soldier says I hear Ali ibn Abi Talib Never rejects When a person asks him For something So he says Ask me He said I want the swords Ali said Take them The person looked at him And he said I want to join your path He said No Say I want to join The path of Allah's justice Don't look at me Every drop of my existence Is for Allah And that's why The اخلاق Of Ali ibn Abi Talib Is what makes a follower Of Ali ibn Abi Talib Because after He's walking He sees a lady He comes near her And sees her boiling Some water And stirring it He says Oh lady What's wrong I see you stirring Some water She says May God curse The son of Abu Talib He says Why do you say this She says That He took my brothers My sons And my husband He comes back alive And they come back dead May God curse him If I were to meet him one day I'll tell him how much I hate him He said Oh lady And how are you now She said Look at me I have orphan children No one to help You know what he did Every morning He'd go and carry the wheat And he'd come and bake the bread Would you reply like that To someone who curses you Honestly So we call ourselves Followers of Ali He would come Until one day Her daughter had returned When her daughter had returned Ali ibn Abi Talib The daughter had come in She saw Ali leaving Assalamu alaikum Assalam she was mesmerized She turned around And she looked at her mother She said Mom did you see who walked in Did you see who was here The mother says I don't know A very generous and humble man But I don't know his name She said That was Ali ibn Abi Talib She looked at her She said That's Ali She said yes She's not been cursing him Every morning In his face She ran back to him She said Oh son of Abu Talib Forgive me I did not know your true character He said Oh lady forgive me If I ever hurt you In the face of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala أخلاق of أمير المؤمنين Today When we have an issue With someone they curse us We keep that hatred With us forever Whereas Ali Would teach us No don't keep that And that's why While Khalifa Nobody But nobody Loved and respected Ali ibn Abi Talib Like non-Muslims His Muslims Were killing him Were fighting him Ali ibn Abi Talib The Christians And the Jews Loved him and mourned him Imagine That when Ali Has a famous line In his letter To Malik Al-Ashta Which Kofi Anan In the United Nations Said Is the greatest letter Of government Ever written by a human being Imam Ali's letter To Malik Al-Ashta Imam Ali Tells Malik Malik know that People are of two types They are either Your brothers In faith Or your equals In humanity And in another line He says And this line Should be cemented On the walls of our mosques No O Muslims Our enemy Is not the Christians Or the Jews Our enemies Our own ignorance When he walks Past the church His companion I wonder How much polar Theism is being done By the people of the church Imam says I wonder How much monotheism Is being worshipped One looked at the cup Half empty Ali would look at The cup half full When he'd walk in the street If there was a Christian Begging Ali would say Why is this man begging When he was young We'd look after him Because he was working for us Now he's old No one looks after him I will not move From my position Until one of you Promise to sponsor this Christian And that Jewish man Who cried for Ali When he heard he died They asked him why He said I was walking towards Kufa With a stranger And I was walking towards My home with this man Going towards Kufa This man was a stranger We started talking I told him I'm Jewish He said he is Muslim We kept on talking And talking Today Muslims As soon as they see Someone Jewish They generalize That all the Jewish people Are bad Whereas I tell you Sometimes you may find A Jewish person Has got more humility That some of our own people He says that I was talking with him I said I'm Jewish He's Muslim We're talking And talking And talking And I remembered In the beginning of the conversation He said I'm going to Kufa But now We had gone past Kufa Going towards my house So I turned around To him I said Oh man You said you're going to Kufa Why are you still Walking with me He said because in Islam We have been taught That the right of the person Who travels with us Is that we do not leave them Until they give us permission You never gave me permission So I kept on walking To your house He said go ahead I give you permission Today I have learned About your religion Through your morals The relation states That Jewish man As Ali left His Jewish friend came up to me He said How did you form a relationship With him He said what do you mean He said do you know Who that was He said no Muslims who live As part of the empire He said that's the head Of the empire He said Ali Ibn Abi Talib He said yes He said the caliph Of the whole Islamic state He said yes He said why did he Come near the Jewish air race He said would you believe He said to me The rights in Islam Of a traveler Is that you have to wait For their permission Before they let you go That morals Of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Would continue until The day he died And that's why After Ibn Muljam After Ibn Muljam Shruck him Tell me which human being Says give water to my killer He is thirsty Which human Says feed my killer What you're going to feed me Which human Says give shelter to my killer In the way you've Given shelter to me Ali Ibn Abi Talib The human being Is an example For each and every One of us in our life And that's why His legacy Can be seen where Malik died for Ali حجر بن عدي Died for Ali بحمد بن أبي بك Died for Ali قضر Died for Ali قليل Died for Ali ميثة من تمر Died for Ali عمر بن حمق الخزاع Died for Ali رشق There's not a single human Except رسول الله Who's so many humans Have given their lives Because of the human being That he was Ranjeev Gandhi would say I would never enter A cabinet meeting In my government Without a new minister Being given Ali's letter To Malik Al-Ashta Ranjeev Gandhi كوفي الان Would say That letter to Malik Al-Ashta Is the greatest letter Anyone has ever written Ralph Emerson The famous American Philosopher would say No human can understand The essence of humanity Like Ali Ibn Abi Talib How? He says Look at the mixture On one human being In one minute He's a warrior The next minute He's a leader The next minute He's a man of knowledge The next minute He's a man of philosophy Have you seen a human Being surrounded? He says Look at his words Which human says Oh mankind You came from a drop of semen And you leave as a piece of dust You don't know when you came And you don't know When you're going So why do you walk around Like you know everything He says Which human would say Mankind Know yourself Then you'll know your Lord Which human Would look at the peacock And say The peacock is the clearest sign Of an arrogant creation Which is insecure Because a peacock Makes you look at its feathers Because it's insecure About its skinny legs Which human being Is understood The essence of worship That he says God I do not worship you Because of my fear of hell Because that's the worship of a slave And I don't worship you Because of my love of heaven Because that's the worship Of a businessman And I don't worship you Because you are worthy of worship That's the worship of a free man Look at us Like Khomeil Like Mashloul From the tongue of Ali ibn Abi Talib And that's why a fitting line Is the line of the Sikh poet Kinor Singh Who says Oh Ali You belong to every faith Every age And all people We'll never let anyone Take your honor And we'll never let anyone Claim you as your own Because Ali ibn Abi Talib Belongs to every human being We pray to Allah To raise us with Ali ibn Abi Talib And to allow us to be amongst his companions And those who follow his message Allow us to receive his intercession In this world And the hereafter Insha'Allah Tomorrow We will continue the biography Of Imam Al-Hussain For as you know Imam Al-Hussain Will be on the last night Of the Majalis and his Wulada Tomorrow will be the biography Of Imam Al-Hussain Assalamu Alaikum ورحمة الله وبركاته ورحمة الله