 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القول مني في جميع الأشياء قول والي محمد عليهم السلام فيما أسر وما أعلن وفيما بلغني عنهم وما لم يبلغني الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أفطل الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبي الله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى آلي بيته الطيبين الطاهرين الذي أذهب عنهم الرجسة وطهرهم تطهيرا واللعن الدائم وعلى أعدائهم أجمعين من الألعان إلى قيام يوم الدين أمين رب العالمين My dear brothers and sisters I begin in the name of Allah the most beneficent and the most merciful all praise be to Him and I send my peace and blessings upon Muhammad and his holy progeny in my eternal damnation and my curses upon their enemies from today until the day of judgment من رب العالمين My dear brothers and sisters I want to welcome you welcome you to the holy sacred site of my two imams الحسن العسكري and his father Imam Al-Hadi peace be upon them we are now directly behind us lies the beautiful transcendent dome this beautiful new dome of Al-Hadi that was finally installed this year since the attack on the dome of Al-Hadi peace be upon them in the year 2006 till today meaning the year 2015 the believers in the Shi'a of Al-Hadi Al-Hadi did not have a dome to come to did not have the shrine the sacred sanctuary itself was mostly ruins and right now if you are sitting where I'm sitting as you look at the beautiful city of Samara most of it is abandoned homes and ruined houses of course that is because of the enemies of the Ahl al-Bait peace be upon them that continue till today they try to distinguish this light but Allah سبحانه وتعالى says والله متم نوره ولو كريه الكافرون أو المشركون Allah سبحانه وتعالى that this light that the unbelievers the kuffar that wish to distinguish Allah سبحانه وتعالى says this light will continue and continue to shine and continue to be burning even if this believers do not like that even if the kuffar or the مشركين find it that they don't like this matter that this light continues and of course this light is nothing but Ahl al-Bait peace be upon him and like Sayyid al-Zaynab peace be upon him said and now we repeated this in various different programs but as she said والله يزيد لم تم حو ذكرنا أهل البيت you will never erase our dhikr our remembrance because our remembrance it lives in the heart and as you can see behind me right now we're sitting in the secret site of my master Imam al-Azkariya alaihi salam and my master Imam al-Hadiya alaihi salam and as well you have the pure body and the pure grave of our Sayyida الصديقة الطاهرة السيدة نرجس the mother of Imam al-Mahdi alaihi salam and you also have the aunt of Imam al-Azkariya alaihi salam السيدة حكيمة and also you have Hussein who is the brother of al-Azkariya alaihi salam and the brother of Sayyid Muhammad who is also buried in this beautiful location and on top of all that you have صرداب الغيبة the basement in which Imam al-Mahdi عجل الله تعالى فرجو الشريف وروحه للفداء was the last location in which Imam al-Mahdi alaihi was seen before he went into of course his minor agitation and then after he was seen again by the pious scholars and then of course right now we are in the period of the major occultation but this area or these lands that we are standing on these are very precious land they are very sacred lands especially that this used to be the house of Imam al-Hadiya alaihi salam one one the wall of Abbasid and all the Abbasids of course when they tried to move their seat of government to wear the Samara because they thought they have Baghdad already but why not why not prepare a new seat of government and let's go to Samara when the Abbasid ruler at the time what did he call for Imam al-Hadiya alaihi salam Imam al-Hadiya alaihi salam came with the son and the soldier alaihi salam two Samara the hadith tell us that the Imam alaihi salam had purchased this land I think the amount was approximately 10,000 dirhams or dinars from a Christian pastor from a Christian man that used to live in these areas meaning these imams are the only imams that are buried in their own houses and of course not excluding that of the Rasool Allah the Rasool Allah was also born in his own house and his own house is also his masjid but that's why there is a special sanctity that surrounds this place that you won't find anywhere else because the other locations where the imams are buried technically yes they were bought beforehand but they are not a house per se and we read in the Quran سبحانه وتعالى tells the believers in general that do not enter the houses of the prophets and the messengers unless he gives you that permission our علماء by the way just so people can know this especially the pioneers from them for example الشيخ الموفيد الشيخ المشهدين المزار الكبير الشيخ الصدوق and I might be mistaken but some of these علماء the pioneers some of these علماء from us like I said توسي الموفيد if you read for example the مسبحة في شيخ التوسي or you read the مزار of الشيخ الموفيد I think or الشيخ المشهدي you will discover that when they speak about the زيارة of the يوامل حسن العسكي يوامل هادي peace be upon them and they begin to narrate the زيارة itself you read that it says when وصلت تأذي وصلت تأذي وصلت تأذي باب الإمام فزره من بعض that means do not enter the house of the Imam but in fact visit him from behind the hijab from behind the limits of the house of course the فقهاء now have changed his opinion so right now you see the Shi'a entering and leaving the shrine but why did the فقهاء make it مباح make it make it lawful for us to enter the shrine of the Imam but in our presence for us to be to tell him يا مولاي can you please give me permission to come into your house of course there are hadith from the أهل البيت عليهم السلام that I've stated that Imam صادق I think it was the narrator and one of the hadith or one of the imams were in the hadith states that ولقد أباح ولقد أباحنا or we made مباح for our شياع من حقوقنا that from our rights that we have our assets that are made it lawful for our شياع and of course we also have the أحاديث found in the books of مزار in the books of زيارة that speak of or that narrate for example if you open فاتحة جنان of المحدة القومي عليها الرحمة ورضوان you discover that there are specific sections of the زيارة wherein the محدة القومي has narrated وإذا أردت زيارة خبر الحسين وأردت زيارة العسكري فقف عند الباب وعند الحائر وقرى الإذن للدخول that when you arrive to the شراين of الحسين عليه السلام وشراين of العسكري عين that when you reach the door recite the شراين for example that oh Allah do you grant me permission oh Muhammad do you grant me permission oh Hussein do you grant permission and then of course then it says that after you complete this technically you have been given that permission to enter the house so that is just a side note because the topic that I would like to really speak about today since I am in this sacred divine shrine where my Imam شريف was last seen and I thought that it would be very appropriate to take this time or whatever time I have especially that I am in this beautiful location and the sacred site and the beautiful scenery of Samarra the city of Samarra honestly the atmosphere in Samarra is something that is unexplainable 40 has atmosphere Karbala has an atmosphere but knowing that Samarra has this atmosphere from all over the local cities come and you see that Samarra is approximately only 60 to 70 kilometers away from اتكريت or other districts and other cities that were known to be districts and cities that support terrorism that supports رحاب they support these extremist groups that have no religion whatsoever these extremist groups that do what that kill the Shia that kill the Shia for no apparent reason that kill the Shia because why because they say that we love Ali Ibn Abi Talib but to see that Samarra after this تشهد of Imam الحسن العسكري the Shia in Samarra from all over they flocked towards Samarra and the Samarra that the Abbasid that the Muhtasim wanted to build fell apart and now if you look at the map of Samarra you will discover that the beginning of Samarra began where at the shrine of the العسكريين and as if the homes and the homes surrounding the shrine after a long period of time expanded to the city we see today and then if you see the city limits for example for example the ملوية which is one of those structures that was built during the time of the Abbasids which was in a helixical shape structure a structure that was used for Idan if you look at the maps the old maps you will find that this structure is located outside the the area where the imams are so you would see the imams you would see cities covering the imam and then you would see a gate then you would see the ملوية this location where in Idan was resided during the time of the Abbasids because the Samarra that they wanted to build fell apart the Samarra that lives today is the Samarra of the Samarra that during the time of the Al-Nirza Muhammad Hassan Al-Shirazi and Mujedid he made this location into what a beautiful house first of its kind all of these houses you see around me by the imam behind the imam in front of the imam right and left to the imam they were all students of the house the Mujedid Al-Shirazi wanted to come and place a footstep in history and open the house of Al-Hasan Al-Askel and Imam Al-Hadi now to go to the topic at hand which is the topic that of the divine nomination the divine nomination of imama now imama is something so holy imama is something very sacred and what I want to the reason that I want to speak about imama today is I want to I want to try try my best of course and of course I will never reach that that point where I will be able to truly understand what imama is and what willaya is but we want to give you my dear viewers the weight of imama how heavy is imama is imama something simplified or is imama something heavy and we will look at the Qur'an الكريم and insha'Allah we will try to connect that with imama المهدي about Islam in the Qur'an what does the Qur'an say about the ظهور about the appearance about المهدي المنتظر عجر الله فرجو الشريف now let's say one thing imama is divine imama comes from Allah willaya is nothing but that that comes from Allah and willaya and imama is not something that is inherited from father to son father to son why what do we look we look at imama عليه السلام then we look at حسين زرية after حسين who was حسين أسجد عليه السلام was أسجد the oldest of the son of حسين عليه السلام no عدي الأكبر was the oldest so these lessons that we find in the in the lineage of the the 12 imams you see that it was not always the oldest son that gained imama in the in the terms of imam الحسن العسكري عليه السلام the oldest son was sayid muhammad sayid muhammad سبع الدجيل was born in the year 291 after Hijrah اللي بأبو محمد العسكري was born in the year 231 or 232 after Hijrah the hadith here there is a hadith that is narrated let me read the hadith this nas here this explicit nomination is narrated by شيخ الصفار محمد حسن الصفار in his book بصائر درجات on the authority أفعالي ابن عبدالله ابن مروان الأنباري he said I was present when أبو جعفر is the cunea محمد the son of al-hadi peace be upon him passed away my master أبو الحسن الحادي brought forth a chair and sat on it while أبو محمد العسكري عليه السلام was standing at his side meaning مام الحسن العسكري when أبو الحسن completed the funeral processions of his son أبو جعفر he looked at his son أبو محمد and son and son give thanks to Allah for what he has decreed for he made this important matter rest upon you now there is another hadith here that is narrated by أحمد ابن عيسة العلوي who is from the progeny of علي ابن جعفر and the truth عليه السلام he says we entered upon أبو الحسن in Samarra and greeted him as we completed our greetings we noticed that أبو جعفر and أبو محمد الحسن العسكري عليه السلام had entered behind us we rose from our seats in order to greet أبو جعفر thinking that أبو جعفر will be the imam because أبو جعفر had such high qualities and such nobility that people actually thought he was the imam to the point that there is a sect called المحمدية but of course a sect can no longer be found in history today or of course in our era today that actually fell to the imama of سيد محمد سبع الدجيل عليه السلام and then of course here أبو الحسن الهادي said he is not your divine leader your patron in this matter for go toward the divine authority then he pointed towards his son أبو محمد العسكري عليه السلام so you see that willaya this authority this divine covenant that this individual who was the recipient of the divine سبريم covenant of Allah سبحانه وتعالى this is not inherited but in fact الله سبحانه وتعالى is the one who has organized everything what do we do in زيادة عشرة حادو كنت زيادة عشرة زيادة عشرة says الذين أزالك أزالكم عن مراتبكم التي رتبكم الله فيها من الله من الله's damnation and curses be upon those who altered this divine command of الله سبحانه وتعالى who moved you from the locations in which you are supposed to be situated in who put you Ali as fourth when you are Ali our first of course we believe as a Shi'a that whatever this fourth being Ali بطالب عليه السلام this is just on the حكم الظاهري بنما in the حكم الباطن the inner governance and the inner will-i the divine will-i not the will-i of this world no the will-i of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is in fact Ali المطالب عليه السلام and the proof of will-i lies in the Quran now we want to look at the the verses in the Quran concerning will-i so before we do that Insha'Allah and then Insha'Allah we will continue and we have approximately 2 to 3 verses that speak about will-i so Insha'Allah please stay tuned with us السلام عليكم