 then salatu wa salamu ala ashraf al-anbiya'i Muhammadan wa alahi al-tayyibina al-tahireen Allahumma salli ala Muhammadan wa ala Muhammadan, dear viewers As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh We thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that has bestowed us with this blessing to discuss verses of the Holy Quran and the narrations of Ahl al Bayt al-Aliyum as-salam and asking him to bless us more, to be able to put these teachings into our daily lives and to practice them So insha'Allah we can revolutionize our life and be firmly on the path of Muhammad and al-Muhammad We have discussed, we are discussing surat al-Hamd, we discussed Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Alhamdulillahi Rabb al-Alami Today insha'Allah we will discuss ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Is this verse a repetition to the beginning verse? So we read Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Then we read Alhamdulillahi Rabb al-Alami Again ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Is this a repetition? And number one Number two Does repetition suits eloquence? Because Quran we argue and we claim and by the teachings of Ahl al Bayt we have learned that Quran is the best and is the most eloquence language that exists and no one can beat that So this repetition is it normal? Is it okay? Because of As-Sireen and the commentators of the Holy Quran they argue that there is no repetition within the verses of Quran, within the Holy Quran None of the verses have been repeated What is this repetition means? Well first of all, repetition is it bad or good? For upbringing a child, repetition it's needed Repetition for nurturing and repetition for upbringing is needed When we are trying to educate, when we are trying to teach and inform someone, a kid For example, we are trying to teach them Surah Al Hamd, we are trying to teach them Dua Al Faraj, we are trying to teach them narrations of the Holy Prophet and Ahl al Bayt And the verses of Quran and Salah and so on and so forth We have to keep repeating and repeating for them to get it And also repetition is not bad When it comes, for example, every day sun rises, next day sun rises again Next day sun rises again We don't get tired of this repetition, we don't argue against this Okay, why you keep repeating it? If it has its own place, if it has its own purpose Different purpose, different meaning, different reason why it's been used Well, this repetition is allowed, this repetition is good It's not against eloquence and not being eloquence So there are, the repetition it's okay If there is a purpose behind it If there is a reason behind it and the structure has changed And the meaning has changed Maybe the words are the same thing But the structure and the meaning and the purpose why this verse came here again It completely is different, inshallah When we go through this, while we are going through this lecture Inshallah you will see how Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim The second Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim And the first Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim in Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim The structure is different The purpose is different The meaning is different Even though it's the same word Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim Because the meaning is different And the purpose and the structure is different In the beginning verse, it is about initiation When we started, as we give the action plan We start everything as we have been prescribed by the people of the house That everything that you initiate, everything that you start Make sure to start with Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim Anything So that's seeking aid from Allah Who is Ar-Rahman, who is Ar-Rahim We want his general blessings And specific blessings All beneficent, all merciful We need it from the beginning of our work Through our work And all the way until the end And after the end of what we are doing We need that blessings of Allah SWT Throughout what we are doing And some show higher capacity So no one is excluded for Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahman, as we mentioned Is a bigger umbrella that covers everybody When sun rises, everybody, a believer And a disbeliever, it's benefiting From this creation of Allah SWT By the name of sun They are getting blessings from it And so nobody is excluded from that If you are a disbeliever, Allah says Okay, you cannot take advantage of sun No, this is not right Ar-Rahman covers everybody Some people want more And some people show higher capacity And Allah specifically does something for them I'll give you an example For example, think of an army base A trainer, a discipliner It's training everybody But somebody is doing more Somebody is putting more effort There will be specific sessions for them Same thing at a class, for example If there are students or their teacher is teaching But somebody wants to learn more Somebody has more questions Somebody wants to really get into the detail Of the knowledge that the teacher was teaching The teacher will say, okay, after class See me and I will explain more to you And we can get into the deep detail Of the knowledge that we are discussing So that is the purpose and the meaning Of the first Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem We need Allah's Rahman and Allah's blessings And all blessings and all beneficence We need it from the beginning, initiation Middle, while, and all the way Until the end of what we are doing And the second time, the purpose has changed Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem Alhamdulillah, our Lord of the worlds And then Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem We are discussing why all praise belongs To Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala So we say, Alhamdulillah, our Lord of the worlds Because he is Ar-Rahman And he is Ar-Raheem All praise belongs to him Because he is all merciful All beneficent That is why he is Ar-Rahman And Ar-Raheem And we praise him What kind of upbringing is beneficial? Being Ar-Rahman and Ar-Raheem That's very important Where we can learn According to one of the commentators Of the Holy Quran While I was reading his book He was discussing that From Surat Al-Hamd alone He has been able to extract At least 35 to 50 elements And bullet points of Management, of leadership Of upbringing, of coaching other people Only from Surat Al-Hamd It is very, very important For this upbringing If anybody wants to upbringing anyone Anybody who wants to nurture anyone Anybody who wants to educate anyone They must have Rahmani Mercy within their mindset They should be merciful toward that person Which is very, very important That we keep this in mind The problem that some of the parents have With their kids Or some of the husbands And why they have that They are trying to educate one another Or the teacher and the student It's about the mindset That are they merciful Are they teaching with being merciful Are they upbringing While they are merciful Or are they teaching without being mercy Rab, the coach Al-Hamdulillah, Rab Al-Alamin This coach is Al-Rahman, Al-Rahim He is merciful Which we can see that this merciness Being merciful has a lot of impact On this process of upbringing This process of nurturing If the other side sees that And feels that you are mercy To them And you are showing mercy to them And the process is a process of mercy They will take it and they will attain more Of what you try to educate and teach them So this becomes an action plan For everyone who is trying to educate someone else For all the parents who are trying to have Better upbringing process For all the parents who are complaining That we have difficulties in Disciplining our kids It's this mercy that is missing If it's mercy there It will definitely have an impact It will definitely have an influence of the other person As we can see And this mercy We see Allah SWT The best creation of his That he sent He says we have sent you Wa Ma'a Ar-Sallanak Illa Rahmatan Al-Alamin This message of Allah SWT Where he wants to guide Mankind From his time All the way to the day of judgment This process This guidance needs a rahmah And we see that Ahl al-Bayt al-Alihum Al-Salam They are We read in Ziyara Jam'a Al-Kabira That becomes actually our second action plan for tonight Take a time and read Ziyara Jam'a Al-Kabira Plus the translation You can find it online Just with Ziyara Jam'a Al-Kabira If we want to find more And learn more about Ahl al-Bayt al-Alihum Al-Salam We must read Ziyara Jam'a Al-Kabira For the lack of better terms I say Ziyara Jam'a Al-Kabira Is the resume of Ahl al-Bayt al-Alihum Al-Salam If we want to really know We won't be able to understand their status But to get a good understanding Of who they are Reading Ziyara Jam'a Al-Kabira We read in it a segment As-salamu alaykum ya Ahl al-Bayt al-Nabuwa And we continue We say Wa Ma'a Al-Din Al-Rahmah You are the originator The mind of Allah's mercy We see that Them trying to up bring the community For them to guide the community The society The mankind They were merciful Where we see The manifestation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala All the characteristics Of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The 99 names And the attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Was manifested In the lives of Ahl al-Bayt al-Alihum al-Salam One of them being Al-Rahman and Al-Rahim For example A story of a person One day Rasulullah Muhammad Was sleeping under a tree A person comes A disbeliever He has a sword in his hand He comes on top of the chest of Rasulullah And he says Muhammad, get up Rasulullah wakes up He says, I'm here to kill you Who is there to save you From me Rasulullah looked at the heaven Looked at the sky He said Allah As soon as that disbeliever looked at the sky Rasulullah moved That person fell Rasulullah took his sword And he told him Who is going to save you from me He says Your mercy will save me Rasulullah gave him the sword back He said You are freed That was the time This person became a Muslim And he said I bear witness that there is no god but Allah And I bear witness that Muhammad is the Rasulullah By him Seeing the mercy of Rasulullah And we have these stories Tremendous amount Numerous narrations And stories of Ahlul Bayt How they showed mercy Even to their enemies To the person For example, we have the famous story Of Horwal We are within Karbala next to the shrine Of Aba Abdullah Al-Hussain That when Aziz Al-Riyahi came And approached Imam Hussain And he stopped Imam Hussain And basically When they got there They were thirsty Imam Hussain had water He gave 1,000 people water And even he gave water to their horses This is mercy We won't be able to find Anywhere else Allah's mercy Manifestation of Allah's mercy Other than the household Of Ahlul Bayt A.S So we bring This characteristics This demeaner Of Ahlul Bayt A.S Of being Rahma Wa Ma'a Rasannaka Allah we have not sent you But as mercy to mankind How much that mercy Has embedded into life Lives of us Muslims Unfortunately We see this day in age Because of the act Of some individuals And some governments People are unaware That Islam is the religion of mercy The messenger of Allah That Allah has sent for Islam To come Allah says again Wa Ma'a Rasannaka We have not sent you But as a mercy to mankind To mankind No to mankind All the worlds Not even to mankind only To the world According to one translation If we consider Alameen to be people Or no He's been sent Where we see Rasulullah Muhammad Within another story They were stoning him And stoning him And stoning him And he ran From the city that he was in He went out And he was bleeding And bleeding And he would pray for them That Allah guide these people They don't know They don't know the truth He's there To educate them And they stone him He comes out And while he's bleeding He prays for them And he never cursed his ummah He never cursed his society And his community So I ask as a Muslim Every day Ten times In the morning Salatu Subh First raka'a Surat Al Hamd Bismillah Al Rahman Al Raheem One time Alhamdulillah Rab Al Alameen Al Rahman Al Raheem Two times And then second raka'a Four times And we read this Al Rahman Al Raheem Al Rahman Al Raheem Al Rahman Al Raheem This should Shape our personality Characteristics To be rahma To be mercy To other people No matter where we are Starting from our own home Are we mercy to our family? Are we mercy to our relatives? Our friends? Our co-worker? Our society? Do they know us As a merciful person That we show mercy or not? If we don't show mercy Who should show mercy? We that read Every day So many times Alhamdulillah Rab Al Alameen Al Rahman Al Raheem We keep repeating And repeating This should shape us So action plan Will be That insha'Allah And Upringing We have to make sure The element of Being merciful is there If not We won't see an effect And If you want to learn more How to be merciful Let us read More from the Teachings of And the narrations And the stories of And learn How they were merciful Even to their enemies Even to the people Who insulted them I will conclude Insha'Allah With one more narration That one day A person comes To Imam al-Baqir Alayhi salam And he tells him You are Baqirah forgiveness of Allah Imam al-Baqir Baq Alif Qaf Ra He removes the alif And he calls him Baqirah In Arabic In English This is it This is how much He has mercy Toward other person He's the Imam Khareefatullah If he raises his hand And he does dua This person will vanish But Imam tells him Very nicely I am Baqirah Same thing We have Imam al-Hassan Al-Mustawab Alayhi salam These stories Must be read more And more And more often For us to learn Insha'Allah And to bring Being merciful Into insha'Allah Our lives We ask Allah Reciting Dua al-Faraj Which is the most important dua That we have been prescribed By Ahl al-Baita A.S. To read it more often And begging Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala To hasten the appearance Of our beloved mama Mahdi Ad-Dur Allah Faraj Al-Sharif Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem Allahumma kulli wali Ka al-Hujjat ibn al-Hassan Salawatou ka alayhi Wa ala aba'ih Fi hazeh sa'ata Wa fi kulli sa'a'ah Waliyan wa hafida Wa qa'idan wa nasirah Wa daliyan wa aina Hatta tusskina wa ardaka Taw'a wa tmatta'a Wa fiha tawila Brahmatika ya ar-Rahman r-Rahmeen