 فاطمين عو بالله من الشيطان العين الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على أشف الأنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا ونبينا أب القاسم المصطفى الأمين وألأ أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المأسومين المبلومين ولعنا طلع لدائهم أجمعين من الآن إلى قيام يوم الدين آمين يا رب العالمين أسوأ والأسواء ونبياتين ومن أبوه والأسواء ونبياته أهل السلوات ونبياتهم ونبياتهم ونبياتهم ونبياتهم أحب أن أرد منكم أكثر إلى هذا الأبوث في هذه الأسرائية very short عن المتحدة من الأسرائيات إلى المشاكلة المتحدة في العام يجب أن نكون بشكل أخيرا ، بلانا ، المارتردن ، من أبو محمد صلى الله عليه و آله فاعتمت الزهرة عليه السلام ، بالطبع ، هذه always a sensitive period of the year ومثلاً ، ومثلاً ، ومثلاً ، ومثلاً ، ومثلاً ، ومثلاً ، ومثلاً always center around this blessed lady, this lady who was the wife of Amir al-Mu'mineen the daughter of a prophet صلى الله عليه و آله and is of course renowned for numerous vail, numerous merits which those of you from the Shi'i audience are no stranger to indeed فاعتمت الزهرة عليه السلام is one of the 14 infallibles of this Ummah recognized by the Shi'a and what that means is we have definitely given her for respect and honor that one would expect us to give to someone who belongs to such an immaculate and perfect collection of human beings she is of course a hudja of Allah upon the earth and in discussing these topics we need to remember that we would want to behave in a way which we hope that فاعتمت الزهرة عليه السلام would want for us to behave we need to behave in a way which is befitting all فاعتمت الزهرة عليه السلام and I think one of the major aspects which we find befitting all فاعتما is a level of maturity we hope for the guidance of humanity and for ourselves in these blessed nights and we seek closeness to Allah as our جل in commemorating the life of someone so truly magnificent as فاعتمت someone whose life is shrouded in mystery someone who has been described in the reports as the hijab of Allah now of course when we say such things they are to be taken in light of the محكم reports when we say that someone is the word of Allah we don't actually mean that Allah as the وجل speaks an isa as His word in the sense that the Christian missionary would like to assume in the same way when we say that the كعبة is the bait of Allah we don't believe Allah as the وجل resides within the كعبة this is what we call in the Arabic language نسبة تشريفية the attribution of تشريف to make something elevated to make something great so when it comes to فاعتمت الزهراء tonight I wish to discuss possibly a following up conversation from the previous two episodes and that is to say namely what is the approach of وشير ألماء in regards to this event what do I mean by that we discussed in the previous nights about ديلماء which is all too common in which friends of ours quite often from the most sincere brothers quite often from the most pious brothers and quite often from the most dedicated brothers in terms of خدمة to this religion we find that such brothers often when in private gatherings they might ask ourselves is this report of a martyr the مفاتمة الزهراء I know that there are some of you out there there are some who are watching this right now and they may very well be thinking well there's a plural of reasons for why they think it's unreliable there's contradictions in the narrative and what have you well to be quite frank with you I personally believe that many of the brothers who asked this question have rarely read an account of a martyr the مفاتمة in the same way that many of the viewers who are watching this have rarely read the accounts of a martyr the مفاتمة rather they would have heard it from the ممبر they would have heard it from the pulpit they would have heard it from our speakers can our speakers sometimes contradict themselves can they contradict themselves in a way where they fail to actually point out the resolved area of conflict where there is an apparent contradiction where a contradiction doesn't even exist of course we're all human after all but what is it that actually makes these brothers doubt the account often it's not because they've heard contradictions on the ممبر often it's because they might follow a particular تهيار a particular خط a particular لائن of علماء who for reasons of perhaps political expediency or numerous other reasons may downplay the nature and scope of this event and yet we say to such individuals my brother my sister don't worry come and ask the questions that you have for surely these questions can be resolved and part of the nature of the job of علماء the job of مبالغين is to clarify and to give clarity to these areas where darkness happens to have fallen upon you see many of us we have an emotional attachment to the أهل البيت is that wrong? absolutely not religion is nothing other than love and hate and yet we need to make sure that we are befitting the bill the description the attributes that the أهل البيت may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them would have wanted from their شئ namely we need to have a dedication and dedicate ourselves to their sciences we need to dedicate ourselves to understanding the world view of علماء and of course in order to claim that we love علماء we need to understand more about their lives and of course the circumstances of their deaths there are some who may hear this particularly some well-minded brothers well-minded sisters who either belong to the أهل السنة والجماعة maybe have been influenced by the أهل السنة والجماعة even those who are influenced by the predominant world view of the west liberalism who are thinking to themselves well why do I even need to know about the lives of the أهل البيت it's not part of religion they came to bring us religion and religion's not about them well my brother and my sister I'd say to you that in the same way that those who love the Holy Prophet from all sects of the Muslims study the life and seer of the Holy Prophet and they come to learn about the smallest of wounds that were dealt to him during the skirmishes they come to learn about his habits they come to learn about the tiniest of details from his life in order to detract and subtract from such things inspiration we ourselves would likewise like to do the same thing when it comes to we would like to do this when it comes to all of the 14 infallibles and indeed we even derive lessons from the companions of all of the infallibles be it from the prophets, companions or the companions of the imams may Allah be pleased with the righteous companions of course I would like to launch into tonight's topic namely is this position amongst the sheer a shahd position is it an isolated position to believe that Fatima was attacked to put it quite frankly with all the rhetoric that's floating around the Muslim world today with all the rhetoric that we find on the internet let's ask the question in a formula or phrased in a particular way which is more befitting to that which is actually within hearts and minds of many of the believers watching this show tonight is the event of the attack on the door is the murder of Fatima a Safavid concoction is this something that later generations came forward to concoct, to fabricate or is this something which is part and parcel of the beliefs of mainstream to Shayo the Imam this is the question I wish to deal with tonight before I move on to the first quote I would like to introduce the personality and the biography of his eminence شيخ محمد ابن حسن اتوسي known as the sheikh of the Taifa the sheikh of the sect no dwarf when it comes to the realm of the transmitted sciences indeed in the field of elmar rujal two of the major sources are directly written by شيخ اتوسي وفهرست and the third of those major primary sources of elmar rujal is compiled by شيخ اتوسي himself namely في اختار في معرفة الرجال of شيخ القشي شيخ الكشي I believe I just pronounced it with a qafa first as opposed to a kef شيخ الكشي his biography of rujal not biography but his collection of biographical reports of rujal is one of the most important books we have today and yet this book was saved and compiled by شيخ اتوسي so شيخ اتوسي is not someone alien indeed two of the four major books of reports is also covered by شيخ اتوسي namely شيخ اتوسي in his famous work which is called تلكيس الشافي تلكيس الشافي is a summarized condensed version of an earlier book written by one of the great scholars of the إمامية namely شريف المرتضة who is شريف المرتضة شريف المرتضة is the brother of شريف الراوي the compiler of ناجل بلاغة a famous book which is upon the shelves of many of the إمامية translated into a plethora of different languages unfortunately an English translation remains the available English translations remain lacking sadly but this work which is so well known compiled by شريف الراوي unfortunately there's many mu'minina out there who believe it's actually written and compiled by إمام علي this is a mistake these sermons attributed to إمام علي known for their eloquence and compiled by one of our great scholars شريف الراوي the brother of شريف المرتضة شريف المرتضة's book الشافي في الإمامة it's a very famous opus work in the field of الملكلام refuting the arguments and shabahat of the معتزلة and particularly one of the معتزل known as qavi abdel jabbar who wrote his book المغني and has two volumes on the area of إمامة شريف المرتضة wrote a refutation of that book and this refutation is called الشافي في الإمامة of course it's a very excellent book and the introduction of the newly annotated edition is written by none other than his eminence سيد فابل الميلاعني one of ألماه here in London شيخة توسي why have I selected شيخة توسي because being no stranger to في أخبار شيخة توسي is someone who inherited from the intellectual line of his two teachers شيخ المفيد and شريف المرتضة yet شيخ المفيد and شريف المرتضة were known for showing a diligence when it came to the reports of ألمحمد due to the amounts of fabrications which had reached a time of شريف and particularly his teacher شيخ المفيد they argued for taking only those reports which were متواتر when we say متواتر we don't mean متواتر by the استلاحي term found in ألوم الحديث rather we mean in terms of not being خبر الأحد not being isolated in its reports we find that شيخة توسي is following in his تلخيس الشافي one of their offenses which were held in contempt was their beating فاطمة عليه الصلاة it is narrated that she was whipped and without any contention among the Shi'as is that أمر hit her on the stomach so she miscarried محسن such a narrative is quite famous among them Add to this their attempt to burn her house when some people sought shelter in it refusing to swear the oath of allegiance to him Nobody in their eyes this narrative at all because we have proven how such a narrative is transmitted by way of the Awam by the Sunnis via البلاوري and others and the narratives transmitted by the Shi'as are numerous that is to say it's مصطفيف and there are no contradictions in them Nobody has the right to say that if this were true it would not be a serious charge because an Imam has the right to threaten those who refuse to swear fealty to him unlike other Muslims this is not true because there is no excuse whatsoever for anyone to burn the house of Fatima and of the commander of the faithful and of Hassan and of Al-Hussein how can a heinous action such as this actually be justified I'm quoting the words of rather one will be acting contrary to the consensus of the Muslims had such consensus been fixed and proven it is accurate and fixed when the commander of the faithful and those who refuse to swear the oath of allegiance from amongst those who sought shelter at Fatima's house entering into it and not getting out of it what consensus is this while the commander of the faithful refuse to endorse it let alone others who refuse to swear the oath of allegiance to him anyone such as and others who says clearly demonstrates his animosity and fanaticism because the incident of the burning took place prior to the forced swearing of allegiance by the commander of the faithful and the group of men who were in in his house who were likewise forced to swear it they claimed such consensus after such swearing is when voles refuse to swear did indeed swear it of all against their wish what we have rejected is surely contemptible this is found in the summary of of likewise we find that the compiler of the original the non summarized version has likewise approved of the same event but just to continue I'd like to quote what Tulsi says further بلاذري quoting المضائن from from from says requiring him to swear the oath of allegiance to him but he refused and also refused with him a number of others he died and said to him are you really going to burn my house down my house door rather he said yes and this is stronger than what your father had brought Ali went and swore it the same incident is narrated by Shias from many avenues it is interesting that it is also narrated by the mentor of Sony narrators of Hadif but they used to narrate what would safeguard them they may be alert to some of what they narrate so they stop their narration thereof yet what choice can one really have when he sees his house door set to fire so that he would be forced to swear filthy this is found in volume 3 page 76 شريف المرتلة شريف المرتلة the brother of شريف الراوي the compiler of ناشر بداغة and شريف المرتلة is the compiler of الشافي في الإمامة in addition to numerous other missiles pertaining to Hadith and the Arabic language and what have you شريف المرتلة states we have made it quite clear that the narrative regarding such burning has been narrated by non-shias who cannot be charged the excuse which he used regarding this burning if true is quite interesting how can anyone seek an excuse for someone who wanted to burn the house of a commander of the faithful and of Fatala now I want to make quite clear here that I'm not in a position today where I am justifying the argumentation utilized by شريف المرتلة in fact the argumentation is of very little use for tonight's show I've quoted it in order to give a full context tonight's show is about one thing and one thing alone whether or not this opinion is a shahd isolated opinion amongst the autad the pillars of the Imamia interestingly enough we also have شريف المرتلة statements in refutation of عبدالجبار عبدالجبار المعتظلي for those of you who are curious to know more about this particular event I urge you I urge you all to refer back to the رصائل of الجاهز the famous معتظلي someone who is known to be an expert in Arabic grammar the famous offer of كتاب الحيوان الجاهز جاهز in his defense of the attack of the door which of course has been quoted by secondary sources as his original work no longer survives but secondary sources which do not always suffer from a Shi'i Imam obtained in theology and therefore we have no reason to believe they are lying present several defenses for why he thinks the attack on the door was justified this is interesting because it provides an account of those who believe in this and yet are of the proponents of the camp which attacked the house of Fatima so we see that historically there is much evidence pertaining to this but let me go quickly to one more scholar who I believe is considered to be someone of the utmost importance when looking at this particular event because he belongs to a camp which is normally affiliated with a slightly watered down slightly more sunified version of Shi'ism from the classical scholars his name is عبد الجلال القزويني and for anyone that is famous with his work I myself have not read it because I do not know the Farsi language they would find that this work one of the earliest works we have written in the Farsi language from the Shi'a scholars and this is from the year 560 after Hijri a book entitled نقد and نقد is written in response to another book called Some Raffa Lee Scandals عبد الجلال القزويني has said the following they claim that عمر hit Fatima in the stomach of her womb whom the messenger of Allah had called The answer to this is this is true Shi'a and Sunnis have recorded it in their respective books but it has been narrated about the chosen one namely المصطفة that he had said actions are judged according to intentions if عمر's purpose was to secure the oath of allegiance from Ali and he did not intend to cause any miscarriage and perhaps عمر did not know that Fatima was behind the door his killing of her fetus will be by mistake unintentionally even if he had killed him deliberately he was not an infallible man Allah is the one who will judge him not we and nothing more can be said Allah knows best about his servants actions inward thoughts and what they hide and they say and ofman prohibited Fatima from weeping upon her father et cetera these passages from a Naqt of Abdul Jalal Al-Qazween show a man eager to exonerate and free from the accusation some of the actions reported about عمر المخطأ again tonight I'm not in the maqam of discussing these accusations whether or not they're found in reliable reports or not I'm quoting only what she and scholars have had to say and we find that they seem to be unanimous upon the general event of an attack on the door likewise we find أبو صلاح الحلبي the leader of the Halab Hausa and the writer of the famous work الكافي في الفق the great فقي and gifted orator may Allah have mercy on him has said the following they harmed Ali because he did not go along with what they wanted him to do and they were rough when they spoke to him and exaggerated in their threats to him they brought firewood to burn his house and assault it with men without his permission they brought him tied up first forcing his wife daughters women and kingsfolk from Bani Hashim and others to go out of their homes they surrounded him with their unshift swords and promised to kill him if he refused to swear fealty to them this is found in the book تقريب المعارف now of course this is not merely a report this is a commentary from أبو صلاح الحلبي showing that he believes in the event all these quotes that I've quoted tonight have been for one and one reason alone to demonstrate that the belief in the attack upon the house of Fatima is not a shahd position amongst the ulama thank you dear viewers and please join me again for more episodes in this series I believe there is one more والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته