 Salamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. Welcome to the Facebook. I'm your host Masin Shah. We'd like to take this opportunity to send our condolences to the Imam of our time. For the past few days we have been commemorating the tragic death of Abab Dillal Hussein who was tragically and barbarically butchered on the plains of Karbala and we have been attending Majalis and we have been giving our blood, sweat and tears in the message of Abab Dillal and inshallah may all your Amal be accepted and inshallah all your Hajat as well be accepted inshallah. But even though Ashura has gone, the theme, the mood now continues as we direct ourselves towards Arba'een. Previously on the Facebook we have been discussing Haqqal Yaqeen, the book Haqqal Yaqeen by Sayyid Shabbar. We think we'd like to take this opportunity to now get involved with the whole of the Muharram theme and for the next few episodes concentrate on the Arba'een theme and the Arba'een commemorations and to discuss Hadith from the book Kamal Ziaara by Sheikh Ibn Qawlawi Qumi. Inshallah we'll be discussing this in the next few episodes with my teacher and my guest May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward us for our grief in regards to the martyrdom of Imam Al-Hussein and we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he may increase our grief for Imam Al-Hussein and may he bless us with the opportunity to uphold his commemoration and his service so long as we are alive. Insha Allah. Sheikhna, before we begin discussing the book, could you go a little bit through the title and also who the author is? I do believe it is available in English, this is an English copy. For those of you who want to get your hand and get your hold of this book, the ISBN number is 0978147812 you can get this in English. Sheikhna, a little on the title and also the author of the book. Ahsanthum, the book Kamilu Ziyarat in essence is an important text that has been authored by one of the pioneers of Tashayyua. The author being Sheikh Ja'afar Ibn Muhammad Ibn Qawlawi Al-Kummi and insha Allah we will have a small intro into his personality and into his credentials. However, this book Kamilu Ziyarat and if you don't mind, I may just add something between the brackets by Nal Qusayn before we go forward with our discussion and this book for the next couple of theories. The days of Muharram and the event of Ashourah is not only an event that we commemorate as Shia. Ashourah and the Karbala is a reality that we are supposed to live. It's not only something that we're supposed to commemorate, but it's something that we are supposed to live. Every drop of blood in our veins has to have some sort of tafa'ul, relates and upholds this memory and this commemoration and this message of Imam al-Husayn. Fa, you find that this is from the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala Muhammad where he says there is a burning heat within the hearts of the mu'minineen that can never be extinguished. There are two important points in regards to Istidlal and perhaps we have mentioned this before either in the channel or from the manabir. When the Rasulullah mentions or states indeed in regards to the killing of Imam al-Husayn there is a burning heat within the hearts of the mu'minineen that can never be extinguished. You find that the prophet goes on and stamps or endorses, he goes on to emphasize something at the end. Rasulullah could have said it's enough for him to say that the mu'min will always have this burning grief for Imam al-Husayn, but you find that Rasulullah Sayyid al-Balaga, the peak of eloquence Rasulullah, he emphasizes on this state of grief in regards to the killing of Imam al-Husayn by saying abada, abada means not restricted by time for infinity. This is a statement by Rasulullah that the shia, that the mu'min shall be in a state of grief for infinity. Infinity includes not only this dunya, infinity includes alama al-barzakh, infinity includes yawmul qiyamah, infinity includes jannah for the mu'min in this masirah, in this path, in this manhaj of weeping for Imam al-Husayn, eulogizing Imam al-Husayn is a journey of eternity, yawmul qiyamah there will be a majlis aza, yawmul qiyamah there will be a mu'min, barzakh there is majlis aza and mu'min, and so on so forth. This is istidlal, extracting meanings from the words of Rasulullah, grammatically what was the point of that word abada being established. This is one reality that you are able to extract. Number two you find that Rasulullah says, it is the burning heat in regards to the killing of Imam al-Husayn, there is a burning heat where? Within who? In the hearts, in the hearts of who? Mu'minin, yabbarak allabik. Ya'ani Rasulullah is saying in other words one of the sifat, one of the characteristics of a mu'min is that this rage and this burning heat in regards to the killing of Imam al-Husayn is within the hearts. Ya'ani so long as you have this burning heat in regards to the killing of Imam al-Husayn, enter your murtabed and you are part of the mu'minin because this is one of the sifat of the mu'minin. This is one of the manners in which a mu'min aslan is recognized from all the other signs that you have from within the Quran and the hadith. This is one of them. So sheikhna when it comes in regards to the hadith that you've mentioned and you know the burning sensation of the heart and that anger and that whole emotion, surely this links into what we say in Arabic, jaza' and also the way that we lament and we weep and cry and grieve and mourn over Aba Abdel al-Husayn. Of course, ya'ani the whole, see Habibi, the issue of jaza' in the regards particularly to Imam al-Husayn from a fiqh-i perspective, one thing. But on the other hand, you leave out the fiqh, for example, in addition to your kalam. Imam al-Husayn is a revolution, not two people can deny this, revolution, a revolution in every front or on every front conceivable, a revolution against oppression, revolution against injustice, revolution against discrimination, revolution against corruption, revolution against corruption within religion, revolution against corrupt leadership in the name of Islam or in the name of religion. Imam al-Husayn, Karbala represents a revolution against the nafs, against the nafs. Every revolution that you look at, you will not find any sane person who can come and deny the fundamental role of passion behind the success of a revolution. The execution of every revolution requires people who are passionate about the revolution. You look at every revolution that has happened in human history, a revolution that has come to bring about massive change that has rewritten the pages of history. You find that that revolution was led by men of steel, men who are passionate about the cause which they believed in, men who are passionate about the change that they wanted to introduce through the revolution. Bayani, this is Kalam Mantiki, this is a Kalam that is logical, no sane person can deny this and therefore if this is applicable to revolutions that have to do with the dunya carried out by fallible people, then what about this revolution that is eternal in its nature, one that existence aslan has not experienced a revolution as powerful as the revolution of Imam al-Husayn led by the master of the youth of paradise. How can it be void of passion and emotion and fervor? In every aspect, just as there has to be passion and jaza in regards to the commemoration and the latam and the azah, there also has to be passion in regards to our enthusiasm in implementing the message of Imam al-Husayn. You're absolutely right, the issue of jaza is something that is endorsed within the revolution of Imam al-Husayn and the emotion and the passion is something that is metlum not only in the commemoration but the manner in which the values of Imam al-Husayn alayhi salam are to be implemented. How can a person go and start to lay the foundation for eradicating social injustice when he himself is not even passionate about that subject to begin with? Of course, you find over here this Kalam main al-Kausayn that Ashura and the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn is not restricted to 10 days or to 12 days. No, this is a revolution that the Shi'a lives on a daily basis and particularly in these months of Shahrum Muharram and Shahrum Safar, where from the first day it is as if he is traveling with Imam al-Husayn until he comes to Karbala and it is as if he is reliving the moments of the Maktal of Imam al-Husayn and then it continues. It is as if in these days we are reliving the tragedy of Saida Zaynab al-Kubra and the women of Ahlul Bayt and it is as if every day we are living this tragedy and it is every day as if we are walking the deserts with Saida Zaynab al-Husayn from Kufa to Sham. As you know these were the days that Saida Zaynab al-Kubra al-Husayn together with the rest of the family of Ahlul Bayt as prisoners were traveling the deserts between Kufa to Sham on the first of Sham according to majority of the historians they reached the land on the first of Safar they reached the land of Sham and then we continue with this journey with Saida Zaynab al-Kubra until the day of Arba'een and we get to Karbala al-Mukaddas for these are days in which not only the Shia but every free soul and this is the keyword every free soul that has liberated itself from the shackles of the dunya follows and weeps and commemorates Imam al-Husayn alayhi salam. So this is just something Imam al-Kusayn I wanted to add to your opening statement. In regards to the book Kamil al-Ziyarat one of our classical and most reliable texts authored by one of the greatest pioneers of our faith pioneers of Tashayyuh by the name of Sheikh Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Kaulaway al-Kummi the author himself Sheikh Ja'far ibn Kaulaway passed away in the year 367 AH and from amongst his writings one of his writings was the famous book that you held up Kamil al-Ziyarat. Kamil al-Ziyarat now you can imagine the author has died in 367 AH which means that the textbook that you have in front of yourself this Kamil al-Ziyarat published and printed within the markets alhamdulillah in abundance is a text that dates back almost one thousand one hundred years ago. An important part of our heritage it is books like these that need to be preserved and need to be owned by every Shia. This needs to be a fundamental book that makes up a part of our library like the way we have the Na'aj like the way we have Sahifa Sajjadiyah and we have Kitab al-Kafi for example Kamil al-Ziyarat is one of them the likes of Kitab Sulaim ibn Qais al-Hilali for example. Kamil al-Ziyarat so you can imagine that the author died in the year 367 AH. Now let me just show you the importance of this book into Janabak or when the respected viewers when you open this book and you begin to study and you begin to learn about the issue of Imam al-Husayn and the commemoration of Imam al-Husayn. You find that this book the author has passed away in 367 AH. Ghaybat al-Sughra ended in 329 AH. So we have enough indication that the author lived during the time of Ghaybat al-Sughra and the early periods of Ghaybat al-Kubra. So look at the importance of the time in which the author has lived. Now this book Kamil al-Ziyarat was authored based on the requests from a number of Shi'a scholars at that time. You're talking when end of Ghaybat al-Sughra beginning of Ghaybat al-Kubra requests that were put forward to Sheikh ibn Qawlaway al-Kummi to author and all encompassing book in regards to the commemoration of the revolution of Imam al-Husayn. The Ziyara of Imam al-Husayn for example weeping over Imam al-Husayn commemorating the decor of Imam al-Husayn. And so the first point that you are able to take is from that time the end times of within Ghaybat al-Sughra in the beginning times of Ghaybat al-Kubra one of the greatest concerns of the ulama. The pioneers of Tashayyuh was to put together heritage which would then be used by not only the generation of that time but for generations to come in regards to upholding the commemoration of Imam al-Husayn. You look at the vision of the ulama during that time of Ghaybat al-Sughra in Kubra. Their concern was how can we keep alive the legacy of Imam al-Husayn so it is based on this that Sheikh ibn Qawlaway came forward and authored this book Kamil of Ziyarat. It has about 108 sections where he has compiled together a hadith in regards to the etiquette of the Ziyara of Imam al-Husayn, the benefits of visiting Imam al-Husayn, the etiquettes of weeping over Imam al-Husayn, the benefits and the thawab of weeping over Imam al-Husayn, the reality in regards to the commemoration of Imam al-Husayn sacrifice, how the Malaika weep for Imam al-Husayn, how the Malaika visit Imam al-Husayn and similarly we have in the importance of visiting Rasulullah the thawab of visiting the rest of the imam from the Ahlul Bayt, so an all-encompassing book in regards to commemorating the zikr of Imam al-Husayn and in essence this book Kamil of Ziyarat is a book in one of the contemporary ulama he describes Kamil of Ziyarat as a book in regards to the fiqh of the Sha'ir Hussainiyah, the fiqh and the jurisprudence behind the commemoration of the sacrifice of Imam al-Husayn, so this is a book which is a book Kitab, you are able to extract ahkam sharayi and widen the parameters of the manner in which Imam al-Husayn can be grieved with the passing of time this is one in regards to the importance of the book, in the regards to the author himself, the credibility of the author, you find that Ibn Kaulaway was one of those outstanding scholars who studied under other outstanding scholars, three of these scholars, number one he was the student of Sheikh al-Sadoogh's father, ibn Baabaway, the father of Sheikh al-Sadoogh, ibn Kaulaway was his student, number two he was the student of Sheikh al-Kulayni, author, ahsantum, the author of Kitab al-Kafi al-Sharif, so again binal kausayn, you see over here that Sheikh al-Kulayni rahmatullah was not only a pioneer of Tashayyo in that he compiled and put not only compiled, he authored Kitab al-Kafi the first of its likes in regards to hadith such that till today no marjad taklid can become a marjad taklid until and unless he has mastered Kitab al-Kafi, for the likes of Sheikh al-Kulayni, their responsibility as maraja, as ulama was not only to preserve the heritage and the literature of Ahlul Bayt, but they had a greater door and that was the tarbiyah of future ulama to come forward, which is why Salatan, when we hear these claims that Sheikh al-Kulayni, he was just a compiler of hadith put together, found hadith from here and there and put them together in one book, this is atohma and the Dhulmin regas to Sheikh al-Kulayni, he nourished other fukaha, ulama, pioneers of faith, i.e. the faces of Tashayyo, the likes of Ibn Qawlawayi and the last or one of the other teachers of Ibn Qawlawayi, before I believe we go to break, Muhammad Ibn Hassan al-Saffar, the author of the book Basair al-Darajat, who lived at the time of Imam Hassan al-Askari, and then you find that Ibn Qawlawayi himself not only did he study under grand scholars such as these, but he also raised other grand scholars, Sheikh al-Mufid, was a student of Ibn Qawlawayi, author of communist shaykhna, we're going to go to a break now and inshallah you can join us after the break as we'll continue to discuss inshallah a hadith from the book inshallah, see you after the break, Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah, welcome back to the faith book where we'll be discussing Qamil al-Ziyarat inshallah, Sheikhna can we please go through a hadith Ahsan Tum, so from the book Qamil al-Ziyarat from every hadith which is a hadith that is outstanding hadith the way we would say in slang baffling every hadith within this blessed book baffles you and how can it not when it emanates from the wedge or when it emanates from the blessed imams who are purified from every sort of najasa purified from every sort of imperfection najasa is even but they're not doesn't even come in the picture ahlul bait purified from every sort of imperfection including eras ahsan tum for we have a hadith over here in the regards to the importance of ziyara, ziyara of Imam al-Hussein and inshallah these are the days where our respected viewers she has from all across the world should be preparing for the ziyara of Imam al-Hussein ziyara arba'iniya the grand ziyara which is the greatest human gathering to her to be seen the only the greatest gathering human gathering on earth by all records you have over here the narration that goes back to abu basir he says kala sumiqtu aba abdillah or aba jaafar i heard from i heard this hadith either from aba abdillah yani imam al sadik or imam al barker somebody might come and say straight away stop at the sanad what do you mean i either heard it from imam sadik or imam al barker if you are not able to establish which imam this hadith came from then the hadith in itself has no credibility i would say hold on there is a reason why somebody like abu basir would attribute the hadith either to barker or sadik alaykum as-salam and there is a number of reasons but one of the reasons that we have over here is that we even have traditions from imam as-salam where he would say if you had a hadith from me attribute it to my father why because of the state of taqiyyah at that time where if the bani abbas were to know that these are the hadith that are emanating from imam al sadik they would step up the persecution against imam al sadik alaykum as-salam so imam al sadik sometimes will tell his companions whatever you hear from me attribute to my father imam al barker and of course every ilm that comes from sadik is from barker and older ilm is the ilm from rasulullah in essence so he says he says the one who loves that his position should be jannah that his eternal dwelling should be in jannah to paraphrase then he should not leave the ziyarah of the madlum of the oppressed person and now you find over here that the imam is beginning to describe the characters of imam al hushayn he didn't say go and visit hushayn in karbala alayhi as-salam directly he said ziyarat madlum the title of the oppressed one so straight away you understand over here that the ziyarah visitation of the oppressed yani the first thing you take from this hadith is that the ziyarah your visitation of the oppressed yani is your stance to stand up for the oppressed imam your ziyarah you walk towards karbala in itself your walk in itself your ziyarah towards karbala in itself number one is an indication of your stance against oppression and your stance in support of the oppressed so abu basir asks and who is this oppressed person who's ziyarah we're supposed to do he says call the imam alayhi as-salam al hushayn ibn ali sahib karbala hushayn ibn ali the one who is buried in karbala the imam goes on to say man atah shawkan ilayh number one he says the one who visits him yani imam al hushayn shawkan ilayh to have this shawk shawk yani this burning desire this when you when you are burning with desire and you take this initiative with so much fava with so much love this initiative because of this burning love it pushes you towards this initiative towards imam al hushayn i think in a way it's like you become obsessed and and you just you just can't get enough you become very enthusiastic a lot of energy comes towards you and it becomes some sort of you know hobby slash passion slash we didn't say hobby but what we say is this love drives you towards this initiative shawk you cannot wait to see him high level of anticipation and love but the point over here is this initiative out of love this is what we say you understand from here the niyah of ziyarah the imam says whoever goes to visit imam al hushayn out of his love for imam love for rasulullah love for amir al mu'mineen love of sayda fatima tazdahra then what is the end result the reward the imam says is that you will be rewarded by sitting at the same sofra with ahlul bayt with imam al hushayn rasulullah amir al mu'mineen so while the people are still in a state of accountability the people on the day of so we understand that this is not even your reward in janaya ahi the people are still being accounted for their actions in the dunya this yomul kiyama which is 50 000 years long a day single day of yomul kiyama which is equivalent to 50 000 years where people are going to be held accountable for every action and every deed and they shall be drenched and what do we know about the heat of the day of judgment the day when the father will run away from his children the parents will run away from the children and the spouses from each other and the brother from the brother like is mentioned in the quran at this time the zawar of imam al hushayn will be sitting in this maida and this sofra with amir al mu'mineen and the rasulullah himself so i was going to say that this really you know indicates to us and describes to us that the reward of doing ziyara i mean there are other amal and you would know better than i in regards to the rewards of salah the rewards of saum the rewards of hajj do we have anything in in terms of rewarding as as much as doing the ziyara of imam al hushayn the rewards of fasting and the rewards of saum see there is an entire philosophy of rewards and sometimes a person may get the idea i mean this is a misconception in the mind that oh because the rewards for this are higher then i don't need to recite salat or salat is not as important la salat from the furuddin and something that is established by la shak but your validity of your salah the validity of your salah willaya being a condition to the acceptability of amal including salah that willaya is built through actions such as ziyara and had it not been for this had it not been for the sacrifice of this then salat would not even exist today as an institution the values of salat the values that are supposed to be nurtured within us as a result of upholding the salah these values are learned from the revolution and from the ziyara of imam al hushayn salah in itself is not just the mojarra the actions of ruku and the karm and sajdah and the konot and it has to be done on time la salah has something greater in its meaning what is supposed to be reflected in your character through ruku this is what imam al hushayn stood for and this one in itself the philosophy of salat and how it is actualized to the revolution of imam al hushayn ya akhi is a series of lectures on its own but it shows us the high rewards for actions such as these show us the importance of the action in itself this is one thing you are able to take from this hadith like the way you rightly mentioned the other thing that you are able to take from this hadith is the niyah what is supposed to be my niyah for myself for yourself and all our blessed viewers who are going for ziyara inshallah inshallah to karbala or to sham what is supposed to be the niyah of the zair what is supposed to be your intention the imam points out towards the intention in this hadith man ataahu shawkan ilayh wahuban li rasulullah the one who comes out or performs ziyara out of love for rasulullah out of love for amir and say that in isaail aalameen this is supposed to be a fundamental part of my niyah when i come out of the house heading towards karbala the zone in which i need to be the mental frame mind frame that i need to be in it needs to be that i am embarking upon this journey out of my love for rasulullah amir and say that in isaail aalameen i am demonstrating my affiliation to rasulullah through this ziyara i am declaring my willi towards amir al mu'mineen through this ziyara i am declaring my allegiance towards sayyidah sayyidah through this ziyara when you come out for this ziyara it is a public declaration that you are against the du'lm that happened on sayyidah this is an open declaration that you are responding to the call of sayyidah that she made on the day of sakifah in that khutbah khutbah fadakiyah in masjidun nabawi and you find suddenly your entire understanding of ziyara changes and this is understood through these hadith that are compiled or that were gathered by ibn kawlaway over here so therefore for every zair we have to keep in mind that when i begin this journey and the niyah for the ziyara does not begin when i get to baqdad or when i get to najaaf or when i'm getting to karbala la niyah begins when i leave home rana rapasa needs to prepare himself even before he embarks on this journey how is it when we go for hajj you see when the people book their tickets to go for hajj and they book their trips they have seminars and they read the books to educate themselves and prepare themselves for this spiritual journey of hajj and the same thing needs to be implemented for ziyara what is my niyah when i go for ziyara what am i supposed to achieve from ziyara what are the etiquettes of ziyara just like the way you have the etiquettes in hajj until you just can't go in and out of the haram the way you like and how you like in whichever manner and fashion that you like baba there is adab and there is akhlaq and the niyah for every action that you perform from the tawaaf and so on so forth and the same is applicable to the ziyara of imam al-hushayn and therefore this period in particular as you know um our brothers from basra start the walk towards karbala al muqaddas from the first day of saffar first day of shahruz saffar and uh it is important between now and then and whenever the other groups that are leaving for ziyara be it from the united kingdom or africa or north america or anyway that we mentally prepare ourselves for ziyara what is expected from us what our mind frame needs to be in and it is books like kamilu ziyara that help us in fact just talking about um uh the brothers from basra starting on the first of saffar there are those who walk yani from outside of iraq as well if i'm not mistaken last year we had news that we had people walk from as far as india and they had taken months they had embarked upon this journey months on in order to reach imam al-hushayn walking on their feet showing their allegiance towards imam al-hushayn and you find mashallah alhamdulillah was shukr even a number of people from from the west uh who make it to najaf al-ashraf and then embark upon this journey on the highway of heaven between najaf and karbala the root which is ma'roof and you have millions of people who seek permission from amir al-mu'mineen after having pledged allegiance to him and the walk to imam al-hushayn and you find that this electric atmosphere this atmosphere of spirituality of ishq this atmosphere of humanity and of allegiance this is something that strengthens not only us as she are itna but strengthens the entire madhab and alhamdulillah you find that many people who have gone for the ziyarah of imam al-hushayn have come back transformed and reformed in one way or the other the people that you meet in the ziyarah of imam al-hushayn in regards to the extent that they will go to in order to show their love for imam al-hushayn the Rasulullah amir and Sayyidat al-Nisa al-Alamin and you may have seen and the mushahideen the viewers are witness to this perhaps majority of them disabled people people who are missing limbs of a person who has one leg you know walking in crutches towards karbala refuses to sit on the wheelchair and is insistent that he should walk on the single leg all the way to karbala have people who have no legs at all we have seen some of them literally walking on their hands this is a famous video of a young girl who was using just she had no legs just using her arms like this to go all the way from najaf to karbala ishq imam al-hushayn rules the heart of the mu'minim and this type of kingdom this sort of leadership this type of sultan cannot be removed from anybody imam al-hushayn you may be forced to denounce imam al-hushayn through your tongue you may be you may be stopped from visiting the imam physically through your body but no one can take the love of the imam away from your heart and this is what we see in arbaeen the love within the people and the zawar for imam al-hushayn may Allah give all of us the opportunity to visit imam al-hushayn in the dunya to be his servants in the dunya and may we be blessed with his shafa'ah in the akhira essential thank you very much for this discussion and thank you to all our views for joining us on this episode of the live facebook inshallah we'll be continuing different discussions from the book kamilot ziyarat inshallah during this season of arbaeen inshallah until next time salamu alaykum rahmatullahi wabarakatuh