 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء وأعز المرسلين حبيبي إله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المنتجبين واللعن الدائم أجمعينا مللعان إلا قيام يوم الدين أمين رب العالمين في نام الله يشهد أمرسفه أعوذ بالكبر بيته الطيبين المنتجبين والدائمين ونبدأ في نامه ونقومن بقوم برحلنا بشكل محمد ويصبح ورحلنا برحلنا بشكل محمد ورحلنا بشكل محمد وصبح المحمد أمينا رب العالمين أمينا رب العالمين أبدأ بالنسبة to the greeting of Islam السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته وبركاته وبركاته كما نبدأ our journey during the nights of شهر رمضان المبارك the blessed month of شهر رمضان in our third episode in this series as we are discussing إن شاء الله the prophetic sermon that was delivered at the end of the month of شعبان marking the beginning of رمضان and marking the merits and the فضائل of رمضان in the previous episode we ended on a note and إن شاء الله we will continue in the previous episode we mentioned a lesson that we can learn which is the immortal message behind the immortal message of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعاله and his household peace and blessings be upon them and we made points we said how this خطبة is studied year after year and how the magnificence of this خطبة never ceases to amaze the listeners and the readers and we said the same way the Qur'an never ceases to amaze the listeners and the readers at it almost periodically no matter how much we read the Qur'an no matter how much we read the Ahadith there are lessons for us to be learned and we said this is an important note for us in our communities to take heed of this matter that in the bigger picture and the external picture our communities have neglected the Qur'an and the Ahadith and then in the picture within ourselves if we wish to call it that we have neglected the practice of writing and reading and comprehension and pondering when it comes to the Qur'an and when it comes to the Sunnah and we stated near the end as well we gave some some tips and tricks on how we should approach the month of Ramadan by taking a notebook writing verses of the Qur'an and taking in commentary of the Holy Qur'an and reasons behind the revelation of certain verses or merely opening a book of Hadith and taking from the Sunnah lessons and we said for example one can begin with the Kitab Al-Kafi as an example and read the narrations in the first chapter concerning the intellect you know and the intellect sorry the first chapter which deals with intellect and ignorance and so on and so forth before we begin and because we said there are two lessons that we wish to talk about or wish to to mention before we dive into the khutbah itself so the second lesson we did not mention yet and we will mention today in sha Allah but back to the first lesson there are some instances that I wish to narrate to you guys of course and that I did not that I was not able to to narrate and I did say for example and I wanted to prove some of this and prove the fact that the traditions that we have this Torah that we have the heritage that we have of Al-Muhammad عليه وسلم whether it may be the books of usul the books of manakib the books of law the books of history whatever it may be we mentioned that these these books were not handed to us with a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates the this literature was passed on to us through blood and blood was sought for and blood was was seeped because of this literature and because there are people who are the companions of the imams and the prophets for example and after that just in general those who lived even during the times since the last 200 to 400 years you'll find that the Shi'a and the scholars of the Shi'a the protectors of this grand grand faith the Shi'a Faith the Shi'a Creed have been dealt atrocities and have been dealt crimes beyond our beyond what you can imagine you know and of course we know the imams of course faced all of this as well is for a fact that the imams faced all of this it's the reason behind their death the reason behind their death and their mortridom which was because they did not stay silent in face of the tyrants and the oppressors and they spoke the truth even though it dealt to the sword or to the poisoning of their sacred self as an example right just to show you how grand these crimes that were committed by the so-called leaders of Islam which when we say خلافاء we generally mean the خلافاء however you may count them from the first خلافاء from the predecessors all the way until today خلافاء خلافاء we are using it in a general sense whereas الخلافاء الأصليين والخلافاء الراشدين والخلافاء المهديين الهاديين هم الأمة الإثناء عشر من آلي بيتي محمد The True Caliphs The True Rightly Guided Caliphs who are guided by الله سبحانه هو تعالى and who they themselves are guides are of course the 12 Imams from آلي محمد عليه وسلام starting with علي ابن أبي طالب and ending with المهدي المنتظر عجل الله تعالى فرجه الشريف These are the true Caliphs when I say خلافاء The True Caliph but of course when I mean الخلافاء You know دولة الخلافاء The government of بن العباس The government of بن أمي then you'll see truly the crimes that were committed the crimes that were committed against who against the writers and the transcribers of history and of those of those individuals were شيع it is it's almost agreed upon you can almost say that some one some or if not the first you know according to what say مرتضة الصحيح من سيرته النبي سيه جعفر مرتضة عملي حفظه الله ورعا reports generations that say that عبد الله بن أبي رافع The son of أبو رافع who was a مولا a servant of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ومن صول الله فريد in a very close campaign of رسول الله the family of أبو رافع were very close to the fam to رسول الله صلى الله المميين عليه السلام these are individuals from the صحابة that we do not focus on unfortunately individuals that are held in high magnitude individuals that are held in high regard who who are the protectors of the sunnah right орبت الله بن أبي رافع The son of أبو رافع as an example I'm saying this as an example I'm just want to show you I just want to bring that claim you know when I said that were crimes crimes committed against عندما يريدون أن يخبروا أصلاحة رسول الله في رسول الله . هذا الرسول الله ، بياغرفة رسول الله و رسول الله صلى الله عليه و و kidding his conquests and the wars that happened during that time of the prophets صلى الله عليه و و آله خبارنا تجد مجال جيد جيدا للمجال يتنقذ على جال بني أميه أو أي شيء that shows the truth , and whose high regard was disregarded which is an issue , ونرد الدتائة خ chiف ؟ but going back to Abdullabbi Abay-dallah من عبنه ابيرافر بل كما قلت إذاه الصحيح من صيرة النبي أسيجهافر مرتضة العاملين حفظ الله ورعى يكني رأيت الغالب . يكني تكني تكني و يكنيه يكني and he mentions all the sources by the way I'm quoting سبقه . يكني تكني أن محانب من محانب يمكن ساvor أن يكون الخاص بصرف سيرته . سيرة النبي. يعني الحصول للمعجب still. رسول الله عليها وعليها حساسا بسيره النبي . كل الأمور التي تفعلها في المدينة وحصولها في الإسلام في العالم. لأن رسول الله هو الإسلام. أول شخص يقوم بعمل سيرا أبو رافع. أبو رافع مباشرة ومعنى. وكانه كبطي. لأن أبو رافع كان كبطي. كانه كبطي. ثم يقول. ويقول. وإن الضريعة على تصانيف الشيعة. أغابرزك الطهراني رحمة الله عليه وبركات. ويقول. وكانه أول مسلم بقراءة في مغازي ونصير. كان هو الأول يقوم بعمل بقراءة عن مغازي ونصير رسول الله. يعني ماذا؟ انها據بسية وباياغرفة ونالطبائياغرفة وباياغرفة.. وقاسية رسول الله. So that just shows you. That somebody like Abu Rafiq had that knowledge of رسول الله's history and his conquest. و شخص like ابن عباس would come to him and seek knowledge of this now going back to this حديث that I want to narrate to you found in the book زبير ابن بكار زبير ابن بكار was a historian and he is a descendant of زبير ابن العوام and he is a scholar a sunni مخالف scholar who was also ثقة ادار قطني says he is ثقة and he lived in the time of ابن عباس so basically he was a scholar of the as we say he was a scholar of the the empire at the time of ابن عباس he has a book called الموافقات الموافقات and page 222 he reports the following incident he said سليمان ابن عبد الملك came to Medina for Hajj on the year 82 after hijrah he ordered ابان ابن عثمان to write the seerah of the prophet and his conquests ابان said to him I have transcribed it and I have authenticated it from someone who might trust from somebody who I trust سليمان then ordered 10 كتاب 10 individuals who know how to transcribe and copy books 10 writers to copy it and then they copied it on a parchment when he received it he began to read it see this is this is this is the part that's important he noticed in it that there was the accounts of the Ansar and the accounts of the اقباتين the two bayats the two pledges of allegiance in the عقبة and the accounts of بدر so he started reading it then he said never have I stated that these people have merits either my family held contempt towards them or that they did not have this merit he was angry about he was anger he was angered that there was this merit when it came to the Ansar and what else was in the books of history when he was reading it ابان responded he said يا امير او كماندر it does not hold us back it does not hold us back what they did we state the truth they are as I described in this book of ours this is the truth that I described in this book of ours in this book that I have that has been passed down to me سليمان then said what use do I have for this book until I mention it to امير المؤمنين he says and he might disprove of it and of course by امير المؤمنين here we mean عبد الملك ابن مروان he said he ordered it to be copied so he copied it and then he burnt it okay now we don't know why he burnt it yet but watch the hadith will show will tell us why he burnt it then he returned and informed his father عبد الملك ابن مروان about the book and his father was furious he said to him what is the use of you presenting a book that has no merit in it for us it will inform the people of شام of matters that we wish them not to know سليمان then said and it is for this reason that I ordered that this the books that were copied to be burnt so this is عبد الملك ابن مروان عبد الملك ابن مروان's principle is that if it has فضائل البن أمية then it is kept if it does not have فضائل البن أمية and it has the فضائل of others because he said he clearly says he says and really وما حاجتك أن تقدم بكتاب ليس لنا فيه فضل تعرف أهل الشام أمورا لا نريد أن يعرفها what's the point of having a book a book that the people of شام the residents of شام will then know stuff about us that we do not wish them to know because my dear brothers and sisters ignorance ignorance is our greatest enemy so you see the books that had the تاريخ النهيس توري النسيرة were burnt you know and this is just one example this is just one example you would have to go and look at the followers of the of the أهل البيت عليهم السلام and the books of رجال and we see the likes of of جابر ابن يترجع في for example and his and the way he was he was he had to run away from the صلطة and the companions of the Imam's for example and the books that they had and the books that were burnt and the books that were lost my dear brothers and sisters this سنة this سنة of رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله and the Quran and the we love the Quran the تفسير of the Quran this literature that we have this heritage that we have mind you about them sisters it is not to be taken for granted it is not to be swept aside you see for example the crime this is one example that I wish that I wanted to bring go back to the books of سيره go back to the books of رجال go back to the books of history go back to the books of the autobiographies the books of رجال and the books of history go back to this go back to تاريخ سيره and so on and so forth go back and you will witness this yourself you will witness the crimes that were committed you will see the اتحاد ضد أصحاب الأئمة عليهم السلام the austerity and the pain that they faced the affliction that they faced and yet still they stood with their heads up high and they delivered this literature through blood through blood and through their lives many lives were lost many lives were lost so my dear brothers and sisters and I think we're running very short we're running very close again to to the end of our discussion our third episode and we haven't yet touched upon the second line of wisdom that we ought to take from the خطبة yet subhanallah look we haven't even began speaking about the خطبة but then you'll see just from the حديث itself before even beginning the حديث there are so many lessons to take now imagine we haven't even begun because that's why I even feel that I want to be able to even go through the entire sermon by the end of the series and this سيكون سوف يستخدمه حتى على مستقبلاتي إن شاء الله 14 to 15 أبسوطs إن شاء الله فالله سبحانه وتعالى جزمي المقاومة والقاومة I'll be able to do more إن شاء الله for your benefit of course and for the benefit of all إن شاء الله so my dear brothers and sisters on that note إن شاء الله we wish to come close to the end of this segment episode 2 segment or now we are episode 3 look I'm even I'm losing it I think it's getting to all of us by the way being at home الحمد لله الله though there is almost a blessing you can say being at home maybe this this this being at home will give us more time to to focus on the Qur'an إن شاء الله will give us more time to focus on المحمد عليه will give us more time to focus on the أعمال that will come up إن شاء الله many أعمال many sacred أعمال that sometimes we are not able to do and now for example for those either that are working from home or those who are now laid off from work for example إن شاء الله you all be able to be bestowed upon by Allah sustenance and grace but as an example I used to take an hour from my time to just drive to work and come back and and I feel that I've saved an hour every day if you take that into the whole take the whole week into account that's five hours in one month I've saved an entire day day's worth of time and it's important that we do not let this time go to waste and the message behind the last two two episodes do not neglect the Qur'an and do not neglect the sunnah they are both weighty and they both hold weight and they both hold magnitude you need to read the Qur'an with the sunnah you need to take lessons from both in order that you succeed in life إن شاء الله أحاديثة في أهل محمد تلس that for you to be loved by Allah the حديث here says the حديث is from رسول الله peace be upon him and his family رسول الله says and execute the obligations of Allah and you will be from among the most pious أتق النس the one who has the most تقوى and تقوى my dear brothers and sisters is one of those levels that we all wish to attain تقوى is one of the levels of إيمان تقوى is one of the levels that you read through تقوى you attain more إيمان and more يقين and you rise and rise and rise تقوى and الله doesn't necessarily mean fear of Allah تقوى is pious and devout and sincere worship of الله out of love and once you begin to love the Creator and once you begin to execute the obligations laid out by the Creator from the fast from the prayer that means that even you yourself not just your spirit but yourself your everyday actions change because this is all reflected in your إخلاق and that is also another important matter إخلاق is very important أن عابد has إخلاق and one who has إخلاق as well has عباد they work hand in hand my dear brothers and sisters focus and do not neglect the quran and the sunnah in our next episode insha'Allah we will speak about the sanctity of time because we also learned from this خطبة اللسن and that lesson is the importance of choosing the appropriate time and the importance of time itself so stay tuned insha'Allah as we discuss this in the next episode which we are right now episode four correct now sorry now we're three we're going to go to episode four insha'Allah and i ask you for forgiveness once more and i ask you that you pray for everybody out there and insha'Allah as well if you can you pray for my parents and my beloved deceased grandmother and grandfather and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless you all during these sacred nights of ramadan and i say والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته