 بسم الله الرحمن الرهيم وبهي نستعين والصلاة والسلام على خير الخلق وخاتم والنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا الأولين والآخرين شفي المضنبين رحمة للعالمين وحبيب إله العالمين ولا حبيب إلا هو وأحلو على الذي ثمع في السماء بأحمد وفي العربي بأب القاس محمد الله و الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ثم صلاة والسلام وعلى بيتها طيبين الطاهرين المأثومين المذلومين المنتجبين قار الله العظيم في محكم كتابه الكريم والقول كالحق ولا استقل القائمين أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم أنا أقبد الله واتقوا واتيعون يخفل لكم من بنوبكم ويؤخركم إلى أجلمه سمه إنا أجر الله إذا جاء لا يؤخر لو كنتم تعلمون قال ربي إني دعوت قومي ليلا ونهارا فلم يزدهم دعائي إلا فرارا وإني كل ما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جعلوا عصابهم في عضانهم واستغشوا فيابهم وأسروا واستكبروا استكبارا ثم إني دعوتهم جحارا ثم إني أعلنت لهم أسررت لهم مسرارا أمننا بالله صدق الله العلي العظيم وصل اللهم على محمد وعالي محمد عندما يأخذون الله سبحانه و تعالى يأتيون إلى محاولةهم قبل أن يقومون بمسجل الله سبحانه و تعالى قبل أن يأتيون و يقومون بمسجلهم ويأتيون من الله يجب أن يقومون بعمل أفرادهم لكي يكونون رسالة للمسجل وعالي الله سبحانه و تعالى يقومون بعمل القرآن بأفف الأميين رسولا منهم يتبوا عليهم عياته ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة والحكمة الله سبحانه و تعالى يقومون بعمل القرآن ويقومون بعمل هذه القرآن بمسجلهم أولا is that he reminds you of the signs he teaches you the signs of Allah he makes you reflect he says look at the sun and look at the moon and look at the stars and look at the ocean and look at the trees all of these things are the creation of Allah when you see them you should be reminded of God immediately ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة the second step is that he makes his best effort to purify the hearts of the people these individuals during the time of the Holy Prophet فالله علي وادة for instance as we know they lived during this period of Jahl they were extremely backward their hearts were like stone they were unable to become receptive to the teachings of the Prophet فالله علي وادة but slowly after being witnessed to the mercy and to the glory and due to the etiquette and the ethics of the Messenger of Allah their hearts became soft and individuals like Ammar individuals like Abu Dhar individuals like Salman they demonstrated their absolute submissive nature toward the Holy Prophet ويزكيهم after he gets their hearts to be receptive ويعلمهم الكتابة then he comes to them then he comes to his community and preaches toward them the Holy Quran but only when their hearts have become purified then they're able to be receptive toward the teachings of the Holy Quran as he mentioned on the first of the month of Ramadan that the steps that we need to take in order to become amongst those who contemplate the Holy Quran and be receptive to that which is the Holy Quran and differentiate ourselves from reciders of the Holy Quran like Ibn-Muljim like Shema like the Khawaraj is to make sure that we purify our hearts toward the teachings and at that moment after our hearts have been purified and cleansed then we are able to understand the Quranic teachings and commands in continuing our discussion from last night and over the next couple of nights we are discussing Chapter 71 of the Holy Quran Surat Nuh and when we see that Prophet Nuh عليه السلام he goes toward the community but they failed to be receptive to everything that he presents toward them even though he preaches for 950 years generations after generations fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers of same families he would preach toward them but they failed to be receptive to everything that he had to say but there was a reason why it's because their hearts had not been purified to being able to be receptive toward the teachings of the messenger of their time we go ahead and we see that Allah SWT comes forth and continues this conversation that Prophet Nuh عليه السلام has with this community let us go ahead and continue our discussion for those of you who are following with verse number 3 of Chapter 71 of the Holy Quran Allah SWT and he quotes Nuh عليه السلام in verse number 2 and I have certain advices that I want to give to you he states in verse number 3 he says oh my community I want to instruct you to do 3 things number 1 worship Allah pray the way that I instruct you to pray makes application the way that I instruct you to make supplication perform all of the rituals that I advise you in the way that I have presented toward you Nuh عليه السلام gives 3 instructions step number 1 is to make sure that you perform the rituals you pray and you fast and you go for Hajj this is number 1 number 2 meaning not only can you perform the أأمان physically but you have to have it in your heart when we come toward this term تقوى we see that it's mentioned several times within the Holy Quran probably since we're very young we hear this term تقوى that we need to have تقوى and so on and so forth but what exactly does it mean to have تقوى in the Arabic language unfortunately there's no proper translation for this particular term but often times it's translated as piety or God weariness to constantly be an understanding and recognize the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى before you perform an action while you're performing an action after you're performing an action every moment of your life you see or you feel the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى around you so that any moment before you are about to commit any act of sin or any act of vice you hold your step you hold your step back and you say wait a minute Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the guardian of the heavens and the earth and there's no way that I can come forth and pursue this particular action what is تقوى let's take a look at this example amongst the great ألماء of the school of أهل البيت عليهم سلام we have the example of a man or a man by the name of شريف الربي and شريف المرتضة شريف الربي many of you know is the compiler of نحج البلاغة of أميل المؤمنين عليه سرات والسرام and شريف المرتضة is his brother who is amongst the تفقها and the school of أهل البيت many of those many of you who have gone to visit كادمية أمام موسى بن جافر أمام الجواد you know that these two ألماء are buried not far from their blessed shrine in بغداد in the كادمية district it is said that these two individuals had reached an extremely high level of تقوى of Allah سبحانه وتعالى it is said that after their father passed away their father had a massive library and himself was a big scholar and he stated that you know he divided up the portion of this library that the right side for instance of this library is for شريف المرتضة and the left side is for شريف رضي my other son son excellent son it is said that when their father passed away after all of the rituals had become completed they entered into that library of their father and they began to take their possessions from their inheritance it is said that at this moment they are separating all of the books and taking them for themselves and you know that when someone is a scholar when someone loves to read when someone is a student books are more important to them than any sort of wealth than any sort of property it is said that شريف المرتضة and شريف رضي they notice that in the middle of that line which they cut to divide this particular library there is one book half of it is on one side the other half is on the other side and they begin to wonder if we cut the book in half it doesn't have any value anymore but so شريف المرتضة he looks towards شريف الرضي and he says oh رضي let me tell you something the one who never committed a sin in his life he gets to keep that book meaning شريف المرتضة never committed a sin in his life imagine how many sins we committed today while we are fasting on the third day of the month of Ramadan while we are fasting how many sins did we commit how many times did we do غيبة how many times did we backbite how many times did we lie how many times did we be abusive toward our children toward our spouses how many times did we refuse to say وعليكم السلام because we don't like someone in the mosque how many times did we commit sin in the last 15 minutes in the last half an hour how many negative thoughts entered into our mind شريف المرتضة he tells his brother شريف الرضي that this book is for the individual who never committed a sin in his life what is شريف الرضي and he says شريف الرضي he looks toward his brother and he says this book is for the individual who never thought about committing a sin in his life who never thought about committing a sin in his life how many thoughts do we have in our life about committing sin how many times do we think about abusing someone else how many times do we have a negative thought when we see something how many times do we think or ponder about committing a sin يجب أن نتوقع نفسنا و نتوقع نفسنا شريف راضي يقول أن هذا البلد هو لأحد who never thought about committing a sin في هذا الوقت شريف المرطضة يجب أن نخطيه و يقول أنه يجب أن تأخذ البلد لا أريد أن يكون لديه أي شيء لتفعل معه هذا هو ما يعني أن يكون لديه دقوة من الله سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن يحاولون و يجب أن يجب أن يكون لديه أفضل لتأكيد أن نحاول أن نفكر even about transgressing the boundaries of Allah سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول رفض نوح عليه السلام يجب أن ينقذه لنا الناس ثلاثة مقابلات أنأبد الله يجب أن يترك الله مع your physical body و التقوة يجب أن يترك with your heart to recognize the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى هافتقوة و أتيون ثلاثة مقابلات ثلاثة مقابلات must trust you obey me أس Anal Let people that people that had no problem worshiping Allah سبحانه وتعالى that had no problem following the instructions of the whole of Koran that one of the holy prophetишь mistake what's your evidence when he says follow communicate I mean, they have a problem with that because their not ready to follow people their not ready to follow their own which is why many people they used to go toward their Keith الله سبحانه وتعالى و سيقول ايضا الله سأقوم بسرعة اجل من الهواء و سنقوم بفعلهم ولكنك لا نريد أن نقوم بفعلك يذهبون في المنزل و يأتون like الناس و يتحدثون مع أخرين يقومون بشيء مع الناس ولكنهم لم تحبون ذلك. لقد قمنا بأن نريد الناس و نريد الانجل من الهواء نريد الذين كانوا مختلفين مننا ولكن بل اذا الله سبحانه وتعالى اقوم بسرعة اجل من الهواء و قمنا باقل امانات يتبعون هذه الانجل ما نفعلن؟ نحن نحن نجح الآخر أن they're unlike us,How can I follow them? لديهمWhen we are of different nature, our different creation, we are different us ان다 لديهم are full of excuses the human being is full of excuses because we hate responsibility نحن نالنيه و نرى أنهم يكونون معاهم عملا على الأيضاء و يكونون para excuses toward نوح لمين أنهم لم تريدوا أن يتبعه؟ أما يشتقى أكثر أنما كانوا بسرعة آخر انا امضوا الله وتقوم وأتهت عنه واله يطلب توافق الجميع في مجال جديد من هذا الجميع في رقم No. 4 في بخير 71 انه يُخُركم إلى عجل المسمى إن عجر الله إذا جاء الله يُخُر لو كنتم تعلمون نه عليه سلام وخلالك هذه الألحان أن تعافي الله على تقوى الله و ان تفاعلني الله سبحانه وتعالى يمكنه أن يرسيب ركيب ذلك ويقدم لك أفضل ماذا هؤلاء هذه أفضل؟ رقم 1 ويغفر لكم ذنوبكم الله سبحانه وتعالى يريد أن يساعدك يريد أن يساعدك تقرأ بشكل جيد من أحد الأمام من أهل البيت أمام الباقر عليه الصلاة والأمام الصادق عليه مفضل الصلاة والصلاة يتكلم أن الله سبحانه وتعالى يريد من الهواتف بشخص رقم 1 الله يريد أن تكون لهم خلاله عندما يرسل بحصنية لكي يمكننا ي 먹을دها عندما تكون في قصر حلوث جدت الله لذلك الله سبحانه وتعالى يمكنك الأمر والأخير من الشيء (*ال Careful of Allah is from us*) هو أنك يقول أنه أسف بالألوان عندما تأمي لكم في عدد لكي يمكنك أن تساعدك الله سبحانه وتعالى يريد must نحبا أن تساعدك ولكننا them who don't want to repent to Allāh نوه is telling his followers his companions Do these هفتق وإن الله الهوانش Follow me listen to my instruction So that he can forgive your sins يخفل لكم من ضنوبكم ويأخركم إلى أجل مسما And the second reason why I'm instructing you for this Is because I have come to you as we mentioned yesterday I have come toward you To warn you of a punishment A punishment is going to strike from the heavens What is that punishment? نحن نعلم أن نوه عليسلام يجب أن يقوم بإمكانه ويجب أن يدفع ويجب أن يدفع كمونه ويجب أن يدفع نوه عليسلام يقول أني أحاول لك لإنسطرك أن تأكد أن هذا المجموعة لا تأتي ويأتي فالله سبحانه وتعالى إذا تتبقى معي سوف تبقى هذا المجموعة ونسأل هذا المجموعة سنعود إلى مجموعة من ذنوبكم ويأخركم إلى أجل مسماء أو perhaps according to another interpretation of this particular verse is that for those of us who seek forgiveness from Allah who follow the prophets of Allah who do good deeds who fulfill our rituals and our responsibilities toward Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah سبحانه وتعالى will increase our lifespan but for those of us who are constantly transgressing in the boundaries of Allah Allah سبحانه وتعالى will decrease our lifespan we know for instance narrations of Ahl al Bayt they state for the one who makes relations with his family members performed he hasn't spoken to a cousin on the other side of the world for 3-4 years if you pick up the phone you send an email you send a text saying how is it going this little bit of reaching out toward your family according to a narration of Ahl al Bayt it could increase your lifespan between 3 and 30 years this by saying Salam to a family member on the other side of the world how many brothers of ours have we not spoken to cousins over a fight over a dispute that took place years ago in this community how many times people have come to me Shaykh we have this problem with our family my brother, my sister, my aunt, my uncle they don't talk to me because I did this and I did that do these little bit of actions that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will increase their lifespan how many of us we pray for a long life on the flip side and we see that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will decrease the lifespan for cutting off these relationships between our family members between 3 and 30 years according to narrations of Ahl al Bayt perhaps one act of performing استخفار to Allah سبحانه وتعالى it will increase their life one day of reciting Salatul Layt Allah سبحانه وتعالى will state that this individual because of this devotion that he had to me in the middle of the night to perform Salatul Layt in the middle of the month of Shah Ramadhan Allah سبحانه وتعالى will provide us bounties that include the increasing of our lives we go back toward the verse Allah سبحانه وتعالى he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes he quotes وطالة ، لديهم هذا الشباب لهم ، عندما يأتي لنا ، لا matter how many times do we go toward people within the community until they come to the mosque, start praying, start fasting, and there's no paying heed by that individual. إفنش we give up, we say forget about it, go to hell, we don't care about you anymore, we're done with you, right? But the prophets of Allah's وطالة ، we need to walk in their footsteps because they're constantly giving that effort. They're constantly demonstrating the خجة to Allah's وطالة ، that look at least have made an effort toward these individuals, trying to get them to come. But what happened? They would constantly reject the prophet and the messenger of Allah's وطالة. And at this moment, now we come toward that conversation between نوح and Allah's وطال. He gave up. He gave up. He says he's presented so many opportunities to his community, but now he has no one else to go to but Allah's وطال. They marginalized him, they neglected him, they put him to the side, they mocked him, no one spoke to him, they boycotted him completely. نوح عليه سلام says I cannot go to anyone else except for Allah's وطال. Similarly us, when we go through difficulties in our life, when we realize that there's no other way, there's no one to help us, we have to know that Allah's وطالة ، He hears our complains. No matter how many times or no matter how large the difficulty or the trial, the tribulation that we're dealing with, no matter how difficult that moment is in, forget about everyone else. Turn back to Allah's وطالة. So نوح عليه سلام, he reverts back to his home. He raises his hands to Allah or he goes in the state of prostration and he begins to recite these lines. ربي اني دعوة قومي ليلا ونهارة فلم يزيدهم دعائي إلا ثرارة واني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جألوا أسابئهم في آبانهم واستغشوا وثيابهم واصروا واستكبروا استكبارة. He goes and he begins to complain to Allah سبحانه وطالة. One by one, let's take a look at these verses. In verse number five نوح عليه سلام says ربي اني دعوت قومي ليلا ونهارة. He says الله I've called them and I've invited them in the night and in the day. I've invited my قومي ليلا ونهارة. Again, we mentioned yesterday that in the first two verses of سرط نوح, الله سبحانه وطالة mentions that Prophet نوح is going toward قوم. He's going toward his community. And oftentimes in the midst of the context of these verses Prophet نوح عليه سلام always calls them my community. When people have rejected you time and time again. When you have a family member who no longer you get along with, you say that this individual, this brother, this cousin of mine, he's not even part of my family anymore. Prophet نوح preaches for 950 years, man. 950 years and he still says that they're my community. It doesn't give up. They're still my community. No matter how many times they neglect me and no matter how many times I grow up frustration of them. They're still my community. I have to go back. Oh, Allah guide them. It doesn't give up. It doesn't condemn them. It doesn't curse them. ربي إني دعوة قومي ليلة ونهارة. I invited them in the night and in the day. He says the night first and in the day. And when we come to the verse of the whole of the Quran, there is no coincidence. There is no coincidence. Every single word, every single حركة, every single presentation made by Allah سبحانه وطاله is for a purpose. And we have to be amongst those who contemplate and find why exactly that Allah سبحانه وطاله presented this way. إني دعوة قومي ليلة ونهارة. I invited them. I invited my community toward you. Oh Allah in the night and in the day. Why does Allah say night before day? Why does he say night before day? Perhaps because he's making this دعوة الله سبحانه وطاله in the middle of the night. And he's saying Oh Allah even in the night when people sleep, when I should be sleeping, I didn't sleep. I would go out in the middle of the night and I would beg people to come. I would go toward their homes. I would go toward the ماركد places. During the month of Ramadan all the young people they go to Patterson, they're smoking Sheeshah. I would go there and I would try to invite them to come. But they weren't receptive toward me. He's making every single effort trying to present to Allah سبحانه وطاله that in the middle of the night I would even go. In the daytime I would go and people were working. I would go to their workplace and I would say look this is the message of Allah. Listen to this instruction. And in the nighttime when they would be coming home I would go toward them. Young people who are hanging out at night I would go toward them trying to get them to listen to what I have to say. For the elderly who would wake up early in the morning, go for walks in the streets of Kufa I would go toward them and I would instruct them as well. As he mentioned Prophet Nuh. عليه السلام. He preaches his message in Kufa. رب قال ربي اني دعو تقومي ليلا ونهارا. In the night in the day I made every single effort to get these people to come. رب قال ربي اني دعو تقومي ليلا ونهارا. فلم يزيدهم دعي إلا فرارا. But unfortunately oh Allah every time I call them toward your religion they used to run away from me. You know sometimes when we have become witness toward the truth. When we're young our mothers our fathers they tell us don't do this. If you do this you're gonna get in trouble and we say don't worry we're gonna do it. We do it we get in trouble and they throw it in our face right away. I told you not to do it. What do we say? No no no it didn't happen like that. We present all these excuses because we don't want to submit to the fact that we are wrong. In spite or continuously defend our decision even though we're wrong. What happens to these individuals? 950 years as we mentioned. Generation after generation right? Narrations they come forth and they tell us that fathers they would take their sons to Prophet Nuh. And they would say oh my son when you grow older this man is still gonna be walking in the streets begging you to come to the religion. Stay away from him. He's a crazy guy. Back off from him. He's gone delirious. He's an he's out of his mind. Don't listen to any of his instruction. Right? So Prophet Nuh. He had to deal with this type of animosity. He had to deal with this type of struggle with the people who are surrounding him. Right? He says oh Allah every single time I made an attempt they would run away from me. I tried to beg them toward coming. They refused. Even though some people they began to realize that there's a little bit of you know there's a little bit of wisdom. There's a little bit of knowledge in terms of what this man is saying. In spite of that they said you know what our fathers our grandfathers. I've rejected him a million times you know. There's no way I can now admit that I was wrong all of these years and submit toward the religion. Right? There should be no shame to do that. When we see the truth we should be willing to submit toward the truth. But Prophet Nuh never had that opportunity. Very few people as we mentioned they were willing to submit toward the religion of Allah فلم يزيد دعائي إلا ثرارة. Every time I would increase my invitation toward them they would increase in their running away from me. الله سبحانه وتعالى continues. In verse number seven واني كلما دعوتهم لتغثر لهم جعلوا عصابئهم في عظانهم واستخشوا وطيابهم واصروا واستكبروا استكبروا. نوه عليه السلام يقوم بتكلمة الله سبحانه وتعالى. He says oh Allah and every time I went toward them and I said oh people الله سبحانه وتعالى wants to forgive you. What is he calling you toward? He's not giving him any sort of legislation at this moment. If Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we were living during that time and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم from the very first day said start praying five times a day. You have to go for Hajj. You have to fast during the month of Ramadan. We'd be like come on bro. Back off. We're not interested in all of this. Right? What would we do? We'd run away from him but that's not what the Prophet did. The Prophet's day went and they began to tell him people about the mercy of Allah. They want to go and tell him about the rewards of paradise. They want to go and tell him about how good they're going to feel if they submitted toward Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Positivity first yeah and then legislation. نوه عليه السلام he goes toward his community and he tells him واني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم. The only thing that I'm trying to tell them is that you're going to forgive all of their sins but they don't want to have anything to do with it. What do they do? واني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جعلوا أصابئهم في آبانهم واستغشوا في آبهم. Every time I told them that look Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants to forgive your sins they took their fingers and they put it into their ears. Interestingly enough Allah سبحانه وتعالى or Prophet نوه عليه السلام doesn't state oh Allah they put their fingertips in their ears like we do. You put your finger. Can we really put our entire finger on our ear? It's not going to work right unless we have something wrong right. Allah سبحانه وتعالى نوه عليه السلام is complaining to Allah says they're putting their entire fingers in their ears meaning they wouldn't have absolutely nothing to do with this. Every single time I say come to listen to me they say they put their fingers in their ears. The narrations they come and they said that نوه عليه السلام walk in the streets. He would walk in the marketplace. The minute that he would walk through just put their fingers in their ears saying get away from us we don't have anything to do with you. Don't talk right. And just get out of our faces. Like children do when they don't want to listen to what their parents have to say right. Of course all of us kids we listen very attentively and very well so we don't have this problem. واني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جعلوا عصابئهم في آبانهم واستخشوا في آبهم. And the minute that he used to walk into any of their gatherings if they were wearing hoods they used to put it on their hood. They used to put it on their head. They used to take their cloths and cover it on their faces. Oh God نوه again. Do we really have to deal with this guy again right. In order to demonstrate their animosity toward him. In order to demonstrate the fact that you know they don't want to talk to this guy. In a couple of moments after we're time to break our fast. We go downstairs for a talk. There are some people I want to talk to them because I haven't seen them in the mosque for a long time. Say brother السلام عليكم what's going on long time. Right before I try to go and say سلام to him. He turns around. Says our شيخ is coming. I don't want to talk to him. Let me go and make sure I sit in the corners out of this is what they used to do to the prophet of الله. Right. He wants to come and invite them and they want to you know. Put their cloth on their faces. Put on their hoods. Walk away. Put on their headphones. We can't hear you. We don't want anything to do with you. Right. This was the custom of the people that نوه علي سلام. Had to deal with. واني كلما دعوتهم لتغفر لهم جعلوا عسابئهم في عبانهم واستخشوا ثيابهم واصروا واستكبروا استكبروا. Oh God. And every time I even made the slightest effort. They would demonstrate their arrogance in front of me. They would walk away. They would ignore me. They would boycott me. They wouldn't talk to me. I would talk to them. And they would nod their heads and then just walk away. They would do everything rude in order to demonstrate that they wanted absolutely nothing to do with me. He continues his complaining. To Allah سبحانه وتعالى. ثم اني دعوتهم جهارا ثم اني عقلانت لهم واصرارتوا لهم اسرارا. He says oh Allah. Then I went and I began to invite them in their public gatherings. I began to invite them loudly. According to some of the مفصلين. This means that نوه علي سلام would go to their public gathering whenever they would have a festival. Whenever they would have a public holiday. He would go and try to get the microphone and say hey listen to what I have to say. And everyone would start dispersing. They wouldn't listen to anything that he had to do. Another group of the مفصلين they استate that نوه علي سلام had become so neglected. He felt so neglected and felt so marginalized from the community because there was a time 900 years is a long time that the group of people within that community they began to completely ignore him by not saying one word to him. They would listen to him but they would not say one word to him. So نوه علي سلام. We tried to get up in their faces. Anyway we started screaming at them. Please talk to me. Please listen to me. Listen to my instruction. But they would just walk away. We break the heart of نوه علي سلام. That every one of these individuals would not be receptive to the slightest word that he had to say. He would go toward their public gatherings. Speak to them loudly. Make public service announcements. Do everything that he could to get these people to fall in line. To listen to his instruction. To at least get one heart. To get one soul to be receptive to what he had to say. But it was very very difficult. He continues in verse number nine. ثم إني أعلنت لهم وأسرارلت لهم إسرام. When I realized that this public portrayal of preaching the message was not working very well. What did I do? I began to reach out to people individually. I started going to individuals homes. نوه علي سلام. In the middle of the night would knock doors of people. And he would try to get a gathering with them. Imagine what it would be. To get a gathering with the messenger of الله سبحانه وتعالى. What would they do? They would shut the door on his face. They would shut the door on his face. But oftentimes we see that نوه علي سلام would be in those gatherings. He would be preaching toward the people. Loudly in those public gatherings of theirs. And sometimes he would see one person, two people. And he would see that their tears would begin to roll down from their eyes. Because maybe they had a potential to be receptive. Or they had a little bit of sympathy for the messenger of Allah. So what would he do? He would go to those individuals homes. With the hope that those individuals would be able to convert the rest of their family at least. نوه علي سلام would get these gatherings. He would sit with those families. He would begin to teach them. He would begin to preach toward them. He would give a خطب. He would recite a medj for them. Whatever it was. Sometimes they would be receptive. But then they were embarrassed in front of their family members. Everyone else is neglecting this seemingly crazy man who was an elder. He was an elder of the community. Right? 950 years preaching. As he mentioned the narration said that he lives 2500 years. They didn't care the fact that he was, you know, the elder statesman of the community. They didn't care. He had family relations with people in that society. They didn't care. Right? So نوه علي سلام would go toward these individuals. Some of them would be receptive for a moment. And Allah سبحانه وتعالى had mentioned them disbursed. That he even went toward them in secret and said, look, even if you submit toward the religion, even if you believe in God, it's between you and I. You don't have to tell anyone. I don't am not seeking anything from you. All I'm asking is that you believe in God. That you leave your idols. You leave this life that you had been living. Follow my instruction. Listen to my instruction. But what happened? The majority of the people in that society, they neglected him. They marginalized him. They kept him to the side. They had nothing. They wanted nothing to do with what he had to say. He would make these du'as. He would complain to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Realizing and recognizing that the only individual or the only power to hear him is Allah سبحانه وتعالى. And we go and we see my dear brothers and sisters that this is a custom of all of the 124,000 prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Every one of them would go toward preaching toward their community. But no one had the least effort to demonstrate their love or their loyalty to what their prophets had to say. The holy prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم. He preaches the religion of Islam for 23 years. The revelation of the Holy Quran. This is a رصول الله. He asked him to do one thing. He gave them one instruction when it was all said and done. He said make sure that after me you take care of my family. Make sure that after me you respect my daughter. Make sure that after me you follow عليه ابن أبطالك. Make sure that after that you recognize that the doors to paradise are الحسن والحسين عليه وسلم. Imam الحسين عليه وسلم. On the day of Ashura he is standing in the plains of Karbara. And what does he do? How many sermons does he give on the day of Ashura? Inviting them to come toward الله سبحانه وتعالى. For those of us we've read the Maqtala of Imam الحسين عليه السلام. Basically the entire day of the day of Ashura is Imam الحسين advising those to make sure that they don't follow into the trap and enter into the fires of Halal on their own. But rather they have the ability to just walk in the footsteps of Sayyid شباب أحل الجنة. Imam الحسين عليه السرات والسرام. Imam الحسين عليه السرام in those last moments of his life. He looks toward those the army of أمر بن سات. And he says according to one of the narrations he looks toward the enemy camp in his last moments after every one of his family members have passed away. When he himself has his blessed body lying on the plains of Karbara. And he says I ask you in the name of my grandfather رسول الله to give me a sip of water because I am thirsty. Imam الحسين عليه السرام this is begging for water. My dear brother and sisters we're fasting during these days of the month of Ramadhan. When we're hungry when we're thirsty remember that Imam الحسين عليه السرام he was hungry on the day of Ashura. Remember that Imam الحسين عليه السرام he was thirsty on the day of Ashura. On the night of the 11th of Muharram Lady زيناب عليه السرام she begins to gather all of the children she begins to gather all of the orphans. She begins to gather all of the widows when she realizes that there is one child from this gathering that is missing. It is said that Lady زيناب عليه السرام she tells ام كلفوم to make sure that all of the children all of the women they remain in the tent while she goes and begins to walk around for this one child. Who is this child? This child is the daughter of Imam الحسين عليه السرام رقية سكانة. It is said that at this moment Lady زيناب عليه السرام she begins to walk on the plains of Karbara. When from a distance she sees that small daughter three four years old and where is she? She is sleeping on the chest of Imam الحسين عليه السرام but how did she know that that was the chest of Imam الحسين because the body of Imam الحسين had no head on the day of Ashura. It is said that Lady زيناب عليه السرام she goes toward her niece she picks up the daughter and she begins to take her back and she says oh my daughter how did you know that that was the body of your blessed you know that that was the blessed body of your father Imam الحسين عليه السرام. She says and she responds that when I was walking and when I was calling out from my father I heard a call coming out from the jugular vein. that whenever you are drinking a sip of water then remember my thirst and whenever you hear the call of the of the oppressed one then weep over me and remember me to hasten the reappearance of our Imam Imam حجت ابن الحسن المحدي we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make us amongst those who are able to reflect and contemplate upon the Holy Qur'an we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to accept our abal during this holy منطب المضاد pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to continue to give us a to perform his and to get closer to him so that we are able to reach him on the day of judgment with the purified heart والحمد لله رب العالمين وصل اللهم على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعاله الطاهرين ورحم الله من قرأ صورة المباركة الفاتحة