 and welcome to, actually, let's just skip the intro. You guys already know what it is. My hands are tired from, you know, keep on rubbing for 83 episodes. And you know, I'm tired from saying, look at the clock behind me, it's 10.30. You guys know what it is. It's time for hashtag LNT, episode 83. Now, you know, if you're wondering, you know, what this says right here, you just gotta read, E-I-D-G-H-A-D-I-R. I had to look to remember the word, but yes, we are celebrating tonight. And what a celebration it is. The guys actually, you know, Masha'Allah, put in effort and some time to decorate the studio. So shout out to Bashir Assadi and all of them who, and Mustafa Nazir and, of course, Ali Meitham. It is the biggest day of the year. So I'd like to give a quick shout out to everyone participating in tonight's episode from Hassan Asadid Salmad al-Hussaini to Hassan Hadi, a.k.a. Sota V, to Ali Jassim. And of course, I gotta give a shout out to myself as well. Ali Meitham, I already gave him a shout out, a.k.a. Al-Lush Al-Hazine. Yes, we are celebrating tonight, but let's go take a quick break, come back, talk about what's ready in a few seconds. Once again, once again, we welcome everyone who's joining us tonight. As I mentioned, the studio looks fresh. I look fresh. The crew looks fresh. Everyone's having a good time tonight. And we're trying to kick it out, or kick it out with what's trending. Now, if you're infiltrated with history and historical antiquities, dating back to special wars in history, then look no further. If you're specifically in World War II, all you gotta do is go to Jersey, containing Radio Tower, that was previously a former Second World War fortress, and is now a vacation rental. Full screen, that looks amazing. One of the best views you can get. Now, this was built by the Nazis, Nazi forces in occupied Jersey during the Second World War. Those who actually go there, get to see a 360 view of both the land and the water together. So it's an amazing view. If you're thinking of a honeymoon, why not go for an antique from World War II? Your marriage can become very healthy after that. I'm just kidding. But no, really, if you guys need a job, I mean, try to go and apply it to become a pilot. Why? Because the Asian Pacific will now need the greatest number of pilots, technicians, and cabin crew for over the next two decades. How much do they need exactly? They need 240,000 pilots because their economic growth, it's so high, and it's skyrocketing. By 2037, they're gonna need 240 pilots, 317,000 cabin crew. That's a huge number, huge number. But if you guys don't know how to fly, just buy a kite, fly it, you know, in Iraq and probably find that during Ramadan especially, fly it, and then you know how to fly an airplane. I'm just kidding. Let's just jump into tonight's topic really quickly. Once again, we do welcome everyone joining us tonight if you're wondering why the lights, why everything is looking so fresh, why I look so fresh, give me a close up of myself on Aid Al Ghadir. I mean, come on guys. Tonight is something amazing. Although we do, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Once again, we do welcome everyone joining us tonight. Now, as everyone knows, there are many wonderful and joyous celebrations around the world. Some cultures and religions commemorate each or a specific day and mark it as a day of celebration, giving gifts, celebrating in it, having family, over going to family, visiting parents, buying some sweets, looking fresh, you know, have some nice decorations, so on and so forth. Now for examples, Christians, they have Christmas and the Christmas sales are amazing, subhanallah. But for Christmas, I just, you know, do I really have to say what Christmas is? It's the birth of Jesus Christ. But if we move on to Judaism, the Jewish have Hanukkah festival of the lights where they celebrate the redundant of the dedication of the second temple later on in Jerusalem. But if we were to come to last, but not least, Islam. Now for all those watching us and everyone out there, we know that within Islam, there are several aides. The first is being aid al-Fatah. Aid al-Fatah means I say, you know, Ramadan is done. Alhamdulillah fasting is done, although, you know, for the pious, like individuals like myself, we always fast, so alhamdulillah, I mean, this keeps us on the path. And then after comes aid al-Fatah, which we just had a week ago. I know a lot of this sort about it, about a week ago. And then, you know, it's the festival of sacrifice. But there's one specific aid that really hasn't gotten has gotten a lot of media attention, but not to the extent where everybody knows about it as much as the other do. Although it's more important, but we're trying to find out tonight what that aid is. So tonight, with all the decorations around me, I mean, look, confreshing the crew, being 100%. We're trying to ask the question to you guys, and the question's popping up in three, two, one, why is aid al-Ghadeel the greatest aid? That's a very simple question. Why is aid al-Ghadeel the greatest aid? Very simple and informative. The number you call us is plus 964-774-067-1836 and let us know what you guys think via that question right there that we just showed you. You can call us via a WhatsApp message, a phone call, and you can show us a voice message regarding tonight's topic, very simple. Why is aid al-Ghadeel the greatest aid? Let's take a quick break. Come back to you guys very short. Now, we do remind everyone of the question what we're talking about tonight. We're talking about aid al-Ghadeel, the best celebration out there. The celebration where she, I just go wild, now I'm just kidding. You know, she has celebrated, they try to have fun, you know, and everything's good. Now, for those who are, you know, asking the questions, what? There's another aid, there's aid al-Ghadeel, yabra, another one. We have another aid called aid al-Ghadeel. Now, so what exactly is aid al-Ghadeel? Why do Shi'a and Muslims celebrate it? Now, it's a very, very important question to discuss tonight, although it has been discussed by many, but it's good to open up the discussion for tonight as we're about to dive deep into what aid al-Ghadeel represents. Now, today around the world, Shi'as, a.k.a. Ahmad Ali, they're celebrating, and hashtag in here, are celebrating aid al-Ghadeel, and there are various facts and various narrations regarding this very, very important aid. Now, it's where the Shi'as get to celebrate the day where the cousin of Rasulullah, not only that, but his son-in-law, where he becomes his successor, the Prophet's successor. An amazing day where over 100,000 individuals, present on one day, on one occasion, in one place, and the Prophet is addressing them. Now, when and where did this happen? Now, as you know, today is 18th of the al-Hajjah, or night of the 18th of the al-Hajjah. 10 years after Hijjala, after the Prophet's migration to Medina, the Prophet goes to Hajj. After his return from Hajj, there's one specific area where everyone, every tribe that comes, or whoever comes to celebrate, or sorry, of whoever goes to Hajj on their way back to their home, they have to pass through this area called Khom. There's a small pond in that area. It's like with hills and stuff. If you check out the picture and on the map, you can probably see, but in that area, it's hills, there's a pond called Ghadir, where Prophet stood and gave the sermon of Ghadir Khom. Modern day Juhfa in Saudi Arabia. Now, this area right there, Ghadir Khom. Now, this area specifically, as I mentioned, is the area where all the tribes, whoever went to Hajj on their way back, they pass through here. So it's like a transit for them. They pass through there, greet each other, and then everyone goes to their own separate ways. However, Prophet Muhammad chose this area for this significant, because it's significant. Everyone is just gathered there. Over 100,000 individuals on that specific day. And trust me when I say, 100,000 isn't something small. It's huge. Now, on the 18th of the Hajj, 10th year after Hijrah, the Prophet stops in that area and stops everyone. Over there in the front stops in the back, over there in the back stops in the front. Everyone stops and listens to what the Prophet is about to say. And, you know, let's just keep in mind, this is the first and last Hajj of Prophet Muhammad. His official Hajj, first and last Hajj to Mecca. So everyone stops in this area called Khom, Ghadir Khom. Now, as soon as they stop, or the reason why they stop, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sends Jubra'il to Prophet Muhammad and he says this exact verse in Al-Ma'ida, verse 67. He says, oh, Apostle, deliver what has been sent to you from your Lord and if you did not, then you have not delivered his message and Allah will protect you from the people. I mean, you know, the Prophet Muhammad, if you guys have them, I mean, Prophet Muhammad, 23 years spent preaching Islam, preaching the proper message, showing everyone what Islam is really is, you know, good manners, don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't do this and this, be a pious individual, be a good individual. 23 years of hardship, his companions going through almost hell because of what Quraysh did to them. The Prophet going through miseries, 23 years just to preach Islam, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala comes on this day and tells Prophet Muhammad, doesn't come, but sends Jubra'il, tells Prophet Muhammad, oh, Apostle of God, deliver or convey what has been sent down to you from your Lord and if you do not convey it, then it's like you haven't done anything. These 23 years are meaningless if you don't convey this specific message. Prophet Muhammad was, you know, it's hard, you know, a lot of people, when they analyze this, you can probably find this in lectures or on articles online. They have tried to use the word threatened, God threatens Prophet Muhammad, absolutely not. But it's in a way where an individual, you know, for example, if you're trying to build a house and one specific area where the house is built on is not set right, then that whole house is broken apart. Yes, Prophet Muhammad, 23 years of hardships, 23 years of misery and trying to bring everyone together to 100,000 on Ghadir Khom, the Prophet is trying to tell everyone that at the peak of Islam, at that time, at that era, he wants to let everyone know of what happened or what is going to happen on this specific day and why it's so special. So realize how Allah SWT says this announcement, this specific message that he has, the last message that he has to convey to everyone. Now, the sermon of Prophet Muhammad, as everyone knows on this day is pretty long, it's pretty lengthy. But I don't wanna keep on reading the whole thing and letting you guys, you guys can probably go read that in various books. But tonight, I wanna focus on the part where it's most important where Prophet Muhammad announces this message. What is that message? It's, oh, Allah bear witness, oh, people, Allah is my Lord and I am his guardian upon you and the guardian of the believers. I am worthy of the believers than themselves, of whoms ever. Then he raised the hand of Ali Mubalib and he says, whoever I was their Mola, I was their guardian, I was their leader, then Ali is the exact same in that specific picture right there. Raises his hand, he says, oh, people, whoever I was the leader of, whoever I was the Mola, the guardian of, then Ali is the exact same, then Ali is his master, is his Mola. Oh, Allah, be the supporter of those who support him, aka Ali, and an enemy of those who oppose him, aka Ali Nabi Talib. So it's important to keep that in mind when we're talking about this. Now all the schools of thought, you know, if you were to analyze what actually happened on that day and who was present on that day, the great historians, great Islamic historians were present at that time. Those who have narrated the books are present on that time, historians present on that time. And as some say, historians approximately over 300 historians were present on that day. So 300 times that narration is mentioned, over the 300 times that narration is mentioned. Now according to Phukah, jurisprudence, according to the scale as to how you should rate a narration, Mu'tawater is something that everyone's agreed on. Everyone has agreed on that. They call it the Mu'tawater, something that a lot of people have mentioned and a lot of people have agreed upon. Ghadir Khom, the sermon, the event, everything about it is agreed on. However, the split comes when we're trying to interpret the word Wali. You know, see, hence we get Ali and Wali Allah, Wali, Ali, Wali Allah in the Adhan. A lot of people try to use the fact that you know what? Wali simply means a spiritual leader, a friend of Prophet Muhammad, blood related to Prophet Muhammad. Not really focusing on the fact that Wali, if you were to go actually interpret it, within Arabic, within Arabic, you'll find it meaning a successor. And plus, when Prophet Muhammad wants to say whoever I was his Mawla, what Mawla means blood related, so 100,000 people, the Prophet wasn't related to 100,000 people. He wasn't, he was a friend, but he wasn't related to 100,000 people. So whoever I was their Wali, then Ali is their Wali, or Subhan Allah, so whoever the Prophet is related to, then Ali is really that, that's common sense. When someone actually tries to come and give this kind of proof, and give this kind of evidence to such an argument, then they have to rethink of it. Rethink of what to say and how to say it. Now, this is where the split happens. A lot of people say that, you know what, Ali Al-Talib is a spiritual leader, and she as believed, the Twelvers, the Ethna, Ashuris, the Jafaris, they believe that no, Wali means that he is the successor, he is the leader, and he is the one that comes after Prophet Muhammad, righteously. Some things did happen, and history won't be kind, but yes, things happened, and Ali wasn't the successor, was wrong. We don't want to get into that, today is what we're trying to celebrate. So what we're trying to say is that the word Wali is what split the two being as a Sunni narration and as a Shi'a narration. Now, Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wasallam says, O Allah, be the supporter, be the supporter of whoever supports Ali and the enemy whoever opposes Ali. This is where they get their conclusion from, that the Prophet is saying, yes, support Ali, and they say we do support him, but he's not our Wali. It's way deeper than as we mentioned earlier on. Then if we were to go and continue the discussion, but up to now, everything should be clear of why Eid al-Ghadeer is the greatest Eid. You know, yes, sometimes you do think about it, you know, Eid al-Fatr, Eid al-Fatr is a great Eid. You know, it finishes a month of fasting, a month of obedience, a month of discipline, self-discipline, a month, while Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, says that within that month, there's layat al-Qadr, which is greater than a thousand months. And within that, the Quran was revealed. So at the end of that month, Eid comes, shouldn't that be the greatest Eid? Let's hold that thought for a second. The second Eid we have, we have Eid al-Adha, sacrifice, Prophet Abraham, and his trying, him trying to sacrifice, his son for Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and then that ritual just passed down to Islam and how everyone now sacrifices on that day, they call it the Eid al-Adha. Isn't that the greatest Eid? Where an individual sacrifices to Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, goes to Hajj, one of the most, you know, important things within Islam, one of the pillars of Islam is Hajj. You go to Hajj, yes, these two are great. Eid al-Futr is great, Ramadan is great. But let's focus on the ayah that Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, revealed in Al-Ma'idah, verses 67. He says, oh, Prophet, yes, Hajj, prayer, Khoms, Zaka, fasting, whatever, sacrifice to Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, Eid al-Adha. All of those that he's done within these 23 years, all the battles, the Eids that he had to go through Eid al-Futr and Eid al-Adha, yes, they're great. But if you don't convey the specific message on that day, then everything is worthless. Then it's like you haven't even conveyed the message of Islam. And what was that message making clear to everyone that was accompanying him on his last Hajj, making it clear to everyone that you know what, on this specific day is the day where I announced publicly to everyone that Ali is my successor. Narrations do mention that, you know what, before Prophet Muhammad did mention why is it so great, Prophet Muhammad, when he was in Medina, yes, he mentioned to his companions to everyone that every time Ali sat, Prophet Muhammad would stand up, greet him and say, this is my successor. Even if we were to go a bit further back to those who do use that argument, even if you go just a few years back in Al-Mab'at at the number one, the Prophet first began his mission. He asked everyone, everyone had the chance to be the successor of Prophet Muhammad when he says, who is brave enough to be my Wali, to be my successor, to be my close one that wherever I go, he goes. No one stood up. People thought he was crazy. Ali Al-Talib stood up the first time. Prophet Muhammad said, he was 13 or 12. Then Prophet repeated it, he stood up. Repeated it again, stood up. And then at the end, he said, this is my successor. So yes, Prophet Muhammad did mention it way before Ghadir. When he first started Islam, he mentioned that this is going to be, he is going to be my successor, Ali Al-Talib. So why is Ghadir so great? Ghadir is so great because at the time, Muslims were a minority. At that time, Muslims were in the tens. After the migration, they became in the hundreds when they entered Medina. But now they're in thousands. Some narrations say 70, some narrations say 100,000. People were present on that day. So imagine the importance of such a place in such an event where Prophet Muhammad utilizes that time and that place to deliver this sermon. Now it's pretty clear that Eid al-Ghadir is one of the greatest Eids because the axis of Islam really lies on there. And that's where Islam balances out. It balances out on Ghadir. Now if we were just to go and look at some hadiths, try to clear the water up. Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, peace and blessings be upon him, and his beloved progeny has said the day of Ghadir is the best Eid for my nation. It's the day on which God the Almighty ordered me to preach the appointment of my brother, Ali Al-Talib, as the flag and principle of my nation. So people shall be guided by him after me. And this is the day in which God has completed the religion and perfected the bounties on my nation and the day on which he was pleased with Islam as their religion. This is actually another verse. Al-Yomu Aqman Tilakum Deenakum Wa Atanakum Ya'amati Wa Adilakum Islam Adina. This is another verse within the Qur'an and a tradition as well. So if we were just to keep that in mind, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling Prophet Muhammad that today he has perfected the religion of Islam. So let's just comprehend that. On that day, Islam was perfected and Allah chose that religion for the over 100,000 of people who were present on that day. So imagine the greatness of this day and the importance it holds. Now another narration by Imam Sadaq peace and blessings be upon him. He says it is the greatest festival of Allah. Allah has not sent any prophet but that he celebrated this day as Eid and was aware of its sanctity. It is known in the heavens as the day of the famous covenants. You might think that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the Almighty and the majestic has created a day more sacred than that. No by Allah, no by Allah, no by Allah. It's clear that Imam Sadaq and both Prophet Muhammad were telling us that Allah has not created a better day than Ghadeed because Islam was perfected and Prophet Muhammad and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chose Islam to be the religion. This hadith can be found in Tadheeb al-Ahkam by Sheikh Atusi Volume 3, verse 143. Just be knowledgeable like me and I'm just kidding. But therefore, as we Muslims, we should never forget the words of Prophet Muhammad. You know, yes, we go on our daily lives, we do whatever we try to have fun. Yes, have fun, but within Islamic boundaries. But, you know, try to always remember these words and it's important to keep in mind to always tune into hashtag Elinti because we have the freshest episodes with the freshest people. I'll see you for tonight. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.