 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله للرب العالمين الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا ومالكنا للحتدي لو لأن هدانا الضار الحمد لله على نعمة الإسلامي وكفى بها نعمر الحمد لله على منة الملايط وكفى بها مننا واشدوا أن لا إله إلا الله وحدب لا شريك لها واشدوا أن سيدنا وعظيمنا وحبيب ملوبنا النبي المؤيد ورسول المستداد واستفد أمجات والمحمود الأحمد فبيبي إله العالمين أبن قاسمي محمد واتالله بسلامه عليه وعلى هادي بيته الطيبين والطابرين وصحبه الملتجبين ومن سامع على هديهم وتمسكا بهم إلى عيام يوم الدين ثم أما بعد بسكت للألغاس أخادي أخادي السلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي أخادي ورحمة الله وبركاته تصحب حلواتنا ورحمة الله وبركاته ومؤيدات ربطية ومُضحّطة ورحمة الله وبركاته أبواح بسرعة yesterday we were talking about how scientific evidence has come to that negligence of the soul does not make it go away it does not simply disappear it comes to haunt us in different ways and in particular to come to haunt us in addiction loss of meaning crime and so on and so forth and I stopped just short of continuing my discourse on the actual factual evidence that are available to us, the data, the information that is available to us after so many studies that have been performed in the West in particular in regard to this particular fact Allow me to continue what I had to speak about yesterday but we were caught up by time and I will continue our talk in regard to the subject matter at hand Herbert Benson is a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and a chief of behavioral medicine at the Cornus Medical Center in Boston he had this to say in regard to the absence of spirituality or in regard to the neglectful aspect of spirituality but these are professionals these are not your average Tom and Dick Harry doctor who practices around some sort of a corner or in a grocery shop these are top medical experts in the field of human anatomy and psychology and when they come forward and they say these things it is not befitting for us to dismiss their findings simply because I may as a layman see otherwise or think otherwise now we know from an intellectual point of view if you want to dismiss an argument or falsify an argument you must falsify or dismiss an argument by another valid fact it is not befitting for an intellectual human being to dismiss an argument on the basis of his own opinion because if you do so or if I do so then I become egoistic on the part of my own ego centrum basis of what I think is right it is something that is totally condemned in the Quran like when Allah سبحانه وتعالى speaks about Pharaoh Pharaoh says what to his people you are not allowed to think I will think for you وما أريكم إلا ما أرى وما أهديكم إلا سبيل الله شاءه you know Pharaoh said you should not think I will think for you and I will lead you on to the straight path how is that possible we need a caliber of leaders in our communities and societies inclusive of you know our local mosque leaders to our local organizational leaders all the way to our respected Maraji that says what that says come and think with me don't let me think for you it is enough brothers and sisters that we allow others to think for us we must think with them because this is our God given right not to allow our intellectual ability to be dismissed by anyone except when there is an order from Allah and the Prophet that's a different story all together because Allah says in the Quran ما أطل ورسول فخذو وما أهديكم عنه فانتر whatever God gives you whatever the Prophet gives you take it whatever He prevents you from taking then leave it then Allah says in another verse in the Quran namely in Surat Al-Ahzab بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وما كان لمؤمن ولا مؤمنة إذا قض الله ورسوله وأمران أن يكون لهم الخيرات من أمرهم وما يعسل الله ورسوله فقد ظل ظلالا مبينة الله says in Surat Al-Ahzab it is not befitting for a believing man or a believing woman when Allah and His apostles decrease the matter that they should have a say in the matter and whosoever disobeys Allah and His Prophet then surely has been misguided a great deal of misguidance well when it comes to Allah and the Prophet we surrender we surrender but when it comes to anyone else who is a human being as much as I am a human being I will not allow him to think on my own I must share my thinking with him full of intellectuality and standard of knowledge where he is able to extrapolate knowledge on the basis of the Quran and on the basis of the intellect and on the basis of the traditions of the Prophet and the Imam and on the basis of consensus and he is qualified to do so when he gives his Eden his Eden becomes low but when it comes to any other issue where an opinion is being expressed I am as intellectual as anyone else and I must employ my intellectuality in that regard and I encourage our younger generation to probe into their intellect and to ask questions and not to fee being ostracized in asking questions in order to strengthen their basis of faith when it comes to their religion no in Islam we do not have a mental intellectual quarantine i.e. we do not have something that is called you cannot think and ask on the contrary in Islam it is perhaps the only religion that had kept its doors wide open to ask any question and in Islam also there is no such thing as a question that is called stupid trivial or unworthy question if it is a question it deserves to be answered full stop regardless whether the question amounts to the denial of God or not we have to ask it in order to be able to be in a position to fend our faith on a very solid basis when we are being challenged in colleges or universities or when we go abroad and we meet a professor who sits in his class and says how do you know that the Quran is not the word or the work of Muhammad and what happens to us when a professor comes and tells us this we collapse we start questioning our own faith we start to say to ourselves yeah maybe, how do I know why? because I do not have a strong basis to rebound such a lame argument and we have always said and we will continue to say that if you believe whether you are a professor or a PhD holder or a master's degree honours wherever you are and you teach in any college or university and you want to challenge us on our Quran bring Terry Jones with you and the father of Terry Jones who cares about all this you can bring them right? I don't know whether you heard about Terry Jones or not okay Terry Jones who wanted to burn the Quran in the state of Michigan you know the argument of a layman the argument of a defeated person is that he does not come and debate you intellectually he debates you on the basis of his muscles right? learning the Quran is not going to take the Quran away from the hearts of Muslims right? in fact one of your British old parliamentarian when a Pakistan was not yet divided or the division from India he stood in the Indian parliament and said the only way you can part the Muslims away from their faith is if you take this away from them and he held a copy of the Quran so the junior parliamentarian got up to the stage to the podium took the Quran and start tripping it he said that is not what I meant you stupid what I meant you mistake the faith of people in that book from their hearts if you read its pages the pages of the Quran are already inscribed in their hearts and minds it's not about paper it's about the knowledge that this Quran holds in the minds of people it's the knowledge the faith that is inscripted in the hearts of these people bucket do you want to falsify the Quran? come and falsify on the basis of its data Quran leaves certain data in its information system and falsification is a standard law in any science for example if I claim now in front of you that water is made of H2O4 you can easily falsify it why? take it to the lab break it down you will find that water is made of H2O or 2 hydrogen atom 1 oxygen atom right or wrong that's the constituents of water but if I come now and say no water is made from H4H2O3 you look at me say this is easily falsified I tell you here's the Quran take it put it under any lab of intellectual mind and goes through its data and if you are able to falsify it you might need it now now now how to change it if I am giving you that challenge that means I am so sure of my faith in that book and that is what I want my students my brothers my sisters when they go to colleges not to be frightened or taken by surprises when a professor comes and says to them how do you know that your Quran is not made by Muhammad I'll say easily I'll tell you it's not made by Muhammad but on the basis of the information and the data that is contained in the Quran for example Allah says that the more you go into heaven the more you would be out of breath right disprove that fact now if you can't disprove it here comes the challenge no one knew that the more you go up in heaven or in you know in the in the sky or in the space will cause you to lose your oxygen that was known in the 20s or the 30s or even the 50s no one knew that before no one had access to knowledge at the time of the prophet at all until they put the first man in space that if you go up there is no oxygen no one knew that speaks of that fact for good hundred reasons here comes the challenge who told Muhammad to write it who told him to write this piece of information that the more you go up in space the more you will be out of breath now you would think this is an easy fact for 1400 years another established fact Allah mentions 4 stages of the embryo growth in the womb of a mother science comes to corroborate each and every stage now who told Muhammad to list in immaculate terms the 4 embryological growth of stages in the womb of a mother who told him no one knew they only knew recently like in the late 80s or early 80s that there are 4 separate stages of growth and not only that the Quran comes and gives you description he says the first stage when the Alham meets the sperm then they go into the womb they form the first stage Alham linking or the clinging of that smoking to the inside womb of a mother Allah mentions its Alham science comes it says what car science comes it says this embryo in its first stage it attaches itself to the wall of the womb Allah says yes it attaches itself to the wall of the womb who told Muhammad when Muhammad had ultrasound they didn't have ultrasound they didn't have a and to start recording information the Greeks knew that I will challenge you if the Greeks knew that this is a myth know what you imagine then it goes into a different stage then it goes into a stage of mudra what is mudra a true light animal or stage a true light animal mudra is if you take a chewing gum and you actually chew it and then you throw it out it will give the shape of the next stage of embryo the stage in the womb of a mother these are precise details but it's insistence no one knew about it mudra Alham then Allah says then we cover then the bones then we cover the bones with flesh who knew this that after the mudra then the alaqa then the bones then the flesh then Allah says one then that formation turns into a completely different embryo now it develops a real sense of light so that if you go under the microscope or under ultrasound you see a full grown baby with limbs and hearts and eyes and ears and what have you right and then comes also the most fascinating information but not in the book in the Quran although it is part of the Quran because when the prophet speaks it is as if Allah is giving that knowledge to the prophet because Allah said in the Quran this prophet does not speak of his own glory he speaks of what has been revealed to him alright it is recommended by mothers in the early stages of embryology the embryological growth that the mother should sit down and speak to her baby subhan Allah gynecologists and embryological experts and psychologists all are unanimous brothers and sisters that at the early stage of 3 months to 4 months of pregnancy the first the first faculty that a child develops in his growth inside his mother's womb is the faculty of what of Lee's name subhan Allah the prophet says it's good to sit and speak to your child it's good to come and have that affinity with the child talk to him and that's why sometimes in the west you see a dad coming close to his wife and he's talking to his child at the age of 3 months in the pregnancy of his wife and he said that develops an affinity between the dad and that embryo so that when that embryo comes out he is familiar with the sound of his mom and dad subhan Allah so moms don't listen to Amy Winehouse because the child is going to come out and think that Amy Winehouse is his mom okay don't put Michael Jackson or Lady Gaga وما أدراك مع Lady Gaga or pink tomorrow we'll get purple after tomorrow we'll get I don't know what orange or bananas or what have you think is a singer we listen to these things and then when our children become corrupt what do we do we go to ritual Islam what is ritual Islam we come to Maulana Maulana can you do Taouh he's over his head but you're already corrupted the hell out of him what is Taouh he's going to do to this guy after that nothing we'll do what will help that particular child is the training from his early growth from his early growth from the early seven years to the next seven years to the last seven years right this is what we're going to maintain your child in a level of understanding and growth that will be in correspondence with these needs in these three different stages of growth where in the first seven years the prophetess let him live like a prince you know just like we are told in history Imam Hassan comes and climbs on the back of Rasulullah Imam as he comes on the back of Rasulullah Rasulullah is in Sejda huh this is practical Islam not ritual Islam brother this is Rasulullah is in Sejda leaving the Muslims in a public forum in Salat Al-Jama'a in congregational prayer Imam Hassan comes and jumps on his back the prophet prolongs his Sejda you know one of the people who is narrating the Hadith he says the prophet took long so I lifted my head and his Salah has gone bust by the way yeah because he cannot lift his head in the Salah and then go back to Sejda his Salah is gone but he says I lifted my head to see what's going on I see that little grandson of the prophet on his back and the prophet is just in total submission to Allah then eventually Imam Hassan goes down at his own we don't go like this bash the hell out of him we don't tell the wife God help me God help me when I married you the first day I knew you were full of trouble how many times I told you I don't want to see myself rolling on my Masala on my what do you call it the the namaz thing we have we create a major fight with our wives because my son came and he sat on my Masala or he came and took my Mohor whole world world 3 will be declared in the house because my Mohor has gone رسول الله stays in Sejda then he was asked يا رسول الله why did you promote your Sejda he said my darling my grandson Imam Hassan came and jumped on my back so it is not be fitting for me to disturb his fun يا رسول الله you are in communication with Allah you are worried about the fun of your grandson he said yes it is part of my communication with Allah to part away my love to my younger generation and then he says ليس من نام اللهم يرخم صميرنا ويواقبوا كميرنا he is not among us who does not show mercy to the youngsters and does not have respect to the elders this is practical Islam this is Islam that we want to impart to others where we show our mercy to all the young respect to all the young and not dismiss their entity even from a younger age because if you show respect to that young person he will reciprocate the same respect later on in my life but if you demand respect without giving respect you will not get respect in return because respect is earned respect is never given or offered that's why we see our communities are in total chaos in total chaos you go to Tariq I'm sorry about this everyone is pumping everyone everyone is mocking everyone there is not a word of sorry there is not a word of excuse me there is not a word of I encrouch on your space I'm probably dreaming to ask for these things cars are going through one another in our case imagine if someone pumped it to you who are you in the standard of something right but in the standard of Allah in the standard of Allah closing harm to a movement is worse than actually bombing or throwing trash at the Ka'bah itself undermining the status of a movement is worse in the eyes of Allah than attacking the Ka'bah itself and this is not my statement this is the statement of Rasulullah Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم goes to the haram and then he leans his shoulder against the Ka'bah and then he talks to the Ka'bah he says by Allah I know your value in the eyes of my Lord by Allah I know how valuable your sanity is in the eyes of God but by Allah also the sanity and sacredness of a movement is higher in the eyes of Allah than you but we don't give any regard to the entity of a movement يعني the entity of a human being because Allah says what in the Quran وَلَقَتْ كَرْرَمْنَا بَنِيْ عَلَمْ surely we have honored the son of Adam that honor is not exclusive to a certain group of people because many Adam is many Adam brothers and sisters everyone Allah mentioned you know today someone asked me Shaykhuna on Facebook he sent the message is ghibat you call it ghibat right is ghibat only at haram against Muslims or against non-Muslims look to what level of thinking we think I said no brother ghibat is a crime against humanity because Allah says وَلَا يَرْتَبْ فَعْضُبُمْ بَعْضَرَمْ do not let or allow yourself the causes against one another and even if I am going to admit or accept the argument that says that the diva is only restricted against mu'min it's haram why wouldn't you extend your goodness to other fellow human beings on the basis of your own system of goodness why restricted to a limitation of a community that you live among why can't you encompass the entire community around the world within you so that you will always be in a state of goodness that your mind does not think about anything outside the parameters of goodness regardless of where you are whether you are with your family with your servants with your workers with your boss with your non-Muslim friend wherever you are you are always maintaining a state of goodness that state of goodness brothers and sisters cannot be achieved except and until we nourish our souls it cannot be developed on the basis of your physical existence because the physical existence plays no part in maintaining a paradigm of goodness within your existence it is your soul and intellectuality that maintains this part of you look at us Muslims for example we go to the west but this is what God heard from heard from, heard from very heard from I will challenge anyone I will give 1,000 Lakh now in rupees to anyone who can jump space or spot in a queue in a bank go to America who go into the any bank and there is a line go and jump queue jump it if you can you want why? because you know there is a certain what there is a certain standard that you have to keep we live in those environments for 20 years lining up we go to Hajj overnight we bash one another why? because it is not an inculcated system in our spirituality we become robots mechanically we follow the concept of lining up but it is not part of our conscious because if it was part of my conscious it becomes an automatic reaction to any place or space I find myself in whether it is in Haram in Medgar whether it is in the Haram or you know what you know what my argument is but I want to kiss the Hajj the black stone if I don't bash someone in front of me I'm not going to be able to reach it but you know what I would say you don't have to reach it if you can because bashing a Muslim is worse than kissing is better not bashing a Muslim is better than kissing the stone why? because kissing the stone is a mustahab habit right? it's a recommended habit your Hajj will not be affected however keeping the sanity and the grace of a movement becomes the function is a wajib habit see how we change rituals with practicality instead of keeping practical Islam now we're practicing ritual Islam because ritual Islam says what no you have to get to the black stone otherwise my Hajj is there's a problem with it who says there's a problem with your Hajj there's no problem with your Hajj Habibi just go and do your Hajj go around go around not thinking about the people let your soul be emotion with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala because that is the purpose of your Hajj you are saying اللهم اللهم اللهم to you or Allah I respond beating I relinquish myself my fantasies my desires my newest my everything so that I can swim in the space and in the ocean of Thy love or Allah I don't care about anything around me all I care about is to comply with your wishes so why I am here to comply with your wishes or Allah and then when I leave the sanctity of your mosque I do not carry the same sacredness and sanctity with me as a paradigm of goodness which Allah has envisaged for me to be when he made me a vice-chair on this earth and become a personification the commandments of Allah in every space I find myself why do I need to be in a particular environment in order to exercise such right around me I will make the environment so if I am in New York I will make New York a Hajj space if I am in Boston I will make Boston the haram of رسول الله if I am in Karachi Pakistan I will bring this entity of Imam Hussein shrine in my surrounding and I show the same respect to my environment in as much I show the same respect to that Imam that I reveal and that Imam I respect why? because Imam thought and died for principles not for rituals when he said لا أعطيكم لا أكروا لكم اقرار العبيض I shall never surrender to you like a slave does nor shall I give you the oath like a humiliated person for by Allah Allah is Prophet وحجورا طابت and the good laps that raised us يعني he is referring to his mother say the zahra and the good laps that raised us deny us the opportunity to give in that easy we don't give in easily on our principles we don't just surrender because I live in a particular environment no I learn about the environment and I model my level of interaction within that environment so that I can fit in without compromising my principles and my virtues yes I can why? because the Prophet told me to modify my existence when I live in different communities but not at the post of my faith he says مدارات الناس مسفودي what does that mean? to be sociable to be able to interact sociably within other cultures where you can fit in is half of one's religion half of one's religion I don't have to go to New York in the middle of Manhattan and whereas I am modifying my existence but not at the post of my faith why? because you know our children are being taught in madrasa that if you wear a tie you become a kafir this guy goes to New York he has to wear a tie before time he comes home with a tie he says to his dad am I a kafir now? you're not a kafir for wearing a tie you're not a kafir for wearing a suit you're not a kafir for wearing a pair of shoes as long as all this setup does not order as long as you are wearing it to fit in without compromising your principles without selling your virtues without what do we do with the hijab? here comes the bombshell you will take it off and say I have to fit in? I say no if you really want to understand the concept of hijab then listen to that Yemeni noble prize winner that went to New York and she was standing next to Hillary Clinton and that you know Karman her name Karman I don't know if you heard about her she's a journalist from Yemen who won the noble prize with full scarf she stood next to you know Hillary Clinton who wants to look like 40 which is 60 it doesn't matter that's her choice anyway with 17 shades of foundation who I don't know 3 different layers of lipstick who God knows what else and this Karman he's standing next to her a journalist wants to embarrass her he says you are a very progressive and modern Muslim yet you kept your scarf how do you feel the scarf fits in modern society today she keeps it the biggest slap on the face not literally intellectually she says to him listen carefully when humanity began it began undressed when humanity started to progress it started to flag itself with dress it reached its ultimate intellectual stage it was fully covered now humanity is going backward towards its early stage that's when they began to undress so if you want to be an intellectual human being the way you started undress yourself this is an answer not someone that comes and thinks hijab restricts you or hijab hinders your movement or hijab is good when the Quran is being recited comes the convertible hijab you know the convertible hijab the convertible hijab is the one that goes up and down according to occasions that's the convertible hijab no be proud of who you are and if you think hijab is a matter and I'm not attacking anyone hijab at the end of the day is something you need to believe in and wear it I'm not here to endorse my I'm saying what you can do with it how you can utilize it to your advantage how you can benefit from it and use it as a mean of empowering you not as a mean of taking your dignity away from you but as a mean of empowering your stand in the society and the community why do I say that? because when you are wearing your scarf of modesty and your dress of modesty sisters in particular and brothers also because brothers think they can wear anything by the way no you can't let me tell you from an Islamic point of view also that brothers who wear certain item of clothing which become an infatuation of the opposite gender are harm on their part to wear that kind of dress يعني someone who has a biceps like Arbaj Moshregar who goes and wears a singlet and comes to the mosque with it and he argues by Aura is covered لا حبيبي your Aura is not covered sorry you are exposing a kind of lure and attachment because it is not only men that feels in a sexual manner also women have certain inclinations in that department as well so why is it justifiable to us to dress in a particular form you know the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed is you go to a beach in Saudi Arabia or Dubai you see the guys in shorts and singlets and sometimes no singlets and you see those 4 women in 13 avayas you know going down to swimming and you say yeah this is Islam this is perfect Islam I say no perfect Islam is you know what is you create menless features and let women experience their femininity in the way they want to experience their femininity in the same way you are experiencing your masculinity and don't tell me it's okay for her to be glad in 13 layers of clothes at least I'm taking her to the beach if you want to feel what she's feeling you go and put a abaya on and go swimming and then you show me you can swim and don't use this to your advantage don't use it to your advantage she says the hijab the question of hijab why it empowers a woman it empowers a woman because when you go out in public in your dress of modesty you are telling every men out there when you want to mess with me come and mess with my intellect don't mess with me from here down you are in your business you want to mess with me mess from here up and I will put you in your spot the day you try or the moment you want to crack one word out of place then I will put you in your place because now we are poking at the same level of intellectuality then we know the meaning of being empowered then when that person knows not to mess with you but now you are an intellectual human being that knows her position not by virtue of being forced by virtue of being in a choice to be who she is and what she is that is really empowering of woman but the empowering of woman by undressing her to suit the fashion statements and the folks of Milan and Rome and New York where a sketch walks this is not liberation this is subjugation subjugation to a certain standard of clothes items you know and the funny thing is you go to a shop which markets fabrics like in Australia we have a shop called Spotlight that spotlight is like the size of a soccer field it only sells fabrics most of the items are fabric material you find a woman going inside to buy fabrics in a place that has fabrics the size of a soccer field and she says give me 75 centimeters excuse me 75 centimeters for what she says I want to make a skirt are you serious with 75 centimeters what for a Barbie or for you that is for me and then we say that this girl is liberated liberated yes she is liberated from every dress but she is not liberated from the basis of keeping her modesty in order that people can level at her in the basis of her intellectuality now if you come and speak to me about my knowledge that is what is lasting and brothers especially brothers I am telling you now sorry sisters you are all beautiful women don't invest in marriage on the basis of someone's beauty it becomes a liability it's not an asset it's a liability in every sense of the word because God help you when the Botox runs out and then you have to pump it again alright the fee is that and of course I am not saying all our women are like that but it seems we want the west the environment we are living in is scaring us towards thinking along those lines that if today's women are not 99.9 plastic then she does not think that environmental marriage I say that is not an investment this is a liability if you want to invest in marriage invest for someone that has dark that has morals that has dignity that is intellectual that can raise alongside you a generation that is able to become leaders later on in the world you and her not only you and her together then you know what Allah will give you the beauty as a bonus Allah will give you the beauty as a bonus but choose for the right reason not for the wrong reasons then you will be happy and you will need a light that is based on contentment I always stand into marriage I don't know why anyway let's continue what does this guy say that doctor that doctor says from the conus medical center in regard to the absence of the soul he says spiritual belief is a powerful force and doctors cannot afford to ignore it when 60 to 90% of patients visas are in the mind body realm majority of people who go to doctors are going for this right? just like I said last year I think in this community or in another community I said the problem is that they think it is bold and it is part of fashion to always declare in a setting that you feel depressed it's fashionable business it is so fashionable to say you know what guys especially college city I'm depressed it's bold it's part of our fashion statement today to say I'm depressed why do you want to be depressed why do you want to go through the volumes and volumes and what are you in your system just so that you know that you fit into the society and what others are suffering from even if the others are suffering from an illness I still feel the need to fit in I cannot even say I'm healthy really? in today's environment you have no stress no I don't something odd about you we ought if I'm content because the society dictates that the society I'm in dictates that and when the society dictates that then we follow and when we follow that is when we find ourselves trapped brothers and sisters trapped into a system that is dictating its terms against us whereby we are no longer able to stand on our feet our terms from our current situation that we find ourselves in and then we find ourselves in a total mess we find ourselves in a total mess صلى الله عليه وسلم وأدي محمد I've already been given the time up and the idea is 245 minutes anyway is a powerful force and doctors cannot afford to ignore it when 60 to 90% of patient visits are in the mind for the real and Allah knows better than anyone inside out has this to say and I conclude and whosoever abandons the remembrance of the most merciful indeed shall lead a miserable life depression confusion public city you don't know what you want to do and today today there was an item of news I didn't know about it yesterday I was speaking about Amy Winehouse today the news is speaking about her ex-husband I don't know if you heard them today what happened to the guy what happened to him he opened overdose of drugs and alcohol he went into a coma as a result of that he is not a mobile guy he is very famous I'll get you his name now I forgot his name but I wrote it down this is what happened to him brothers and sisters as a result of overdosing on his drugs and alcohol he could not be in control of himself sorry to disappoint you I am going to maybe offend your tastes but that is what the news says the reason why he went into a coma is that he swallowed his own tongue in the process he could not control himself anymore and then I go willingly with the bar to drink and I say what I say I want to have fun what fun what fun I am giving myself when this piece of news tells me you can as a result of pinging on alcohol and drugs swallow your own tongue in the process how the human mind can be reduced to such a small level of thinking when we willingly surrender our intelligibility to our desires and lewis to our desires and lewis in that regard anyway there was someone who committed to desires and lewis and that was none other than أمير المؤمنين I will not take much of your time but you know when Imam Ali was leaving his house observes S. Oakley in his famous work The History of the Sarsons he is a very famous writer look what he says about Imam Ali in his book he says when Imam Ali was leaving he closed the door to his last abode the birds in his house start to flap its wings and starts to rage their voices one of the servants of Imam Ali attempts to quieten them down this Oakley says this he says that Ali ibn Abi Talib said leave them alone for their cries are only lamentation for holding my death they are announcing my death leave them and this is not a bad thing leave them in the mindset of Ali ibn Abi Talib brothers and sisters this is not a bad thing it's moving from one stage into a cleaner stage a cleaner stage not a worse stage a cleaner stage so Imam on that day on that day he also tells Imam Hassan سبحانه وتعالى أعطي قراءة لك it's like in you صلاة الله but listen to what Imam Ali says towards the end of his life he's grieving his last صلاة الله this is what he says to Imam Hassan he says for Hassan and Hussein remain steadfast on the basis of your piety and resign yourself to the will of God never aspire to anything which is beyond your reach look below you don't look above you look below you you will be content but when you look above you you will never be content you will always think you are worse than people but when you start to look below you you will know that you are better than many many many people سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى always be truthful and merciful towards the open الله أكبر الله الله في الأيتام لا يضيع في حضرتكم ولا تغبوا أفواههم عليم عبدالله I make Allah your guardian over you in regard to the orphans let them not be wasted among you and let not your greed allow you to take away their sustenance in life make sure that this sustenance comes before your sustenance ولا تغبوا أفواههم يعني don't take their food away from their mouth and feed it to yourself help the poor and the needy and try to live in the world in a way which may help it to become better live in the world in a way where you will be the cause of helping this world to become a better world يعني you know the address of this statement يعني don't be the cause of this world going bad that is what Imam Ali is saying in reverse if you cannot be someone that the world will benefit from you don't be something else don't be something else in a way which may help it to become better stop the tyrant from his oppression assist the afflicted and act upon the commandment of God and do not be put off by any obstacles lastly I say to you I ask you to bury me in some place which is unknown to the public no less than 10,000 people have been killed have I killed by my own and on different occasions and I do not wish their relatives to find the sanctuary of my repose and expose my corpse to any dignity you know this is Ali Ibn Abi Talib although his grave was became known later on in the city of Nadia there is no denial of that but a fact is that Ali Ibn Abi Talib only enmity from others is that he fought for the sake of Allah not for the sake of peace إيه الله سبحانه وتعالى رفيد and less such a great human being called Ali Ibn Abi Talib upon which some unlearned person today on Facebook because I posted an article on Ali Ibn Abi Talib highlighting his closeness to Rasool Allah calls me a Catholic I say thank you thank you so much that for the love of Ali Ibn Abi Talib which Rasool Allah describes him as his own brother we are called Catholic I will speak on the subject of calling one another Catholic so we will see if someone calls us Catholic what should be our reactions about this system and how should we defend ourselves when we are being called may Allah SWT raised the rank of Ali Ibn Abi Talib the day he was born the day he was martyred and the day he will be resurrected on the day of judgment وصلى الله عليه وسلم I request you kindly to recite Surah Al-Wabarakat Al-Fatih for the love of those who have helped make this venue come true and for the departed souls of all those who are gathered here tonight preceded with Salawat Ala Muhammad وAli Muhammad