 جداده جداده جداده جداده والإتكرامي سيد الأخواني هو المناب رب عظيم هدان الله الحمد لله على نعمة الإسلامي وكفى بها نعمة الحمد لله على منة الولاية وكفى بها منة وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وشهده لا شريك له وأشهد أن سيدنا وعظيمنا وحبيبي قلوبنا النبي المؤيد والرسول المسدد والمصطفة الأمجد والمحمود الأحمد حبيبي إله العالمين أب القاسم محمد صلوات الله وسلامه عليه وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين سفن النجاة العلام الركبة سفينتهم نجاة ومن تخلف عنها سفينة أرجوك أصدقائيين وخاتفين السلام عليكم جميعا ورحبة الله وبركات نحن نبقى من مكان الذي نترك من yesterday and I would like to shed some light on the حدث that I started my talk about or medway and I left you in limbo because I mentioned two parts of it and I forgot the third one I actually didn't forget the third one but I wanted to see all these beautiful faces جميل جداً لذلك أخبرني أخر one لذلك يمكنني أن أرى لك اليوم إن شاء الله المحديث أخبرني أو أخبرني هو that the Prophet ﷺ has said that I love from your world three things number one perfume which Muslims should really visit very often okay secondly woman and this is something I think we spoke about at length and today also in the women section or in the women lecture we spoke also at length and I've been advised that don't talk to the woman anymore speak to the men from now on so that they can also handle themselves in a way that is acceptable and accommodating to women in the sense that it is not always the woman that has to always beautify herself for her husband but the husband should also reciprocate and ornament himself for his wife in order for that love to grow on for that you know you know chemistry or that affinity to keep going so that this the spark between the two couples will never go dry or will never go out or be extinguished in fact we are told that the Prophet ﷺ when he used to go in a battle and he would come back or in a journey whatever the case maybe he would never come back home after the battle he would first go to the mosque he would sit in the mosque and if it was nighttime he will sleep over in the mosque in the morning he will take a bath he will apply perfume he will put new clothes on he will comb his hair he will trim his bead and then he will go and knock at the door of his so that they will not see him in a way that they are not familiar with so that they will not see the injuries and the suffering of the travels because they are not used to seeing him in that way but in our case someone who's a mechanic who comes home with his greasy clothes and he says to his wife give me a hug how in god's name how is that possible in your greasy smelling clothes you want to give your wife a hug or a kiss it is not it is insanity for this to happen because we often complain that when i want to come home i don't want to see my wife in her oniony or garlicky dress that she spent the entire day in the kitchen wearing and then she receives me at home with that kind of dress so it is a matter of reciprocal respect for the dignity and the emotions of the two parties involved in fact we are told by historians that the Prophet ﷺ used to keep a comb under his pillow so that he would comb his bead and hair when he wakes up in the morning so when his wife comes to see him she will see him in the best possible countenance that he can be in and not you know someone he says sheikh do you use gel i said i use every sort of gel for my wife of course i do what do you think we are living in in mars we are living on earth and Allah has placed okay don't take it too much to heart that i use gel all right i'm just so but i'm saying if it helps promote that sense of affinity and love between husband and wife then we should do it and we should always go ahead of our time in order to be in a position where we can accommodate one another 60% of divorce cases among the youth are due in our community are due to the fact that the men do not ornament themselves to their wives and the wives do not beautify themselves for their husband we are talking about challenges that are facing our youth on a daily basis and our men in general you know when they live in a society that is plagued with the billboard syndrome of semi-naked women and indecent dressed females this man when he comes home and he finds his wife in a pj he is not going to get his mind off these billboard pictures in the streets and in the road because you will never see a billboard with a woman covered you will see a billboard with a woman uncovered our رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم said whenever a man sees a woman and he desires her let him go to his wife so that this thinking of desire will be eliminated in a halal methodology and way so this is as far as woman is concerned and men is concerned the third point that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم talk about and which is often neglected in our midst and not enough attention is given to that concept that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said and the joy of my eyes is in prayers prayers brothers and sisters which is the link between you and الله سبحانه و تعالى إمام عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه says if people knew how much blessings descends on them while they are in prayer they would not have left their forehead from sajdah they will remain in sajdah for so long because the prophet taught and said أقرب ما يكون العبد من ربه وهو ساجد the closest a person can be to his creator when he is in the post of frustration right because iblis and shaitan does not wish to see you in that position because when Allah ordained for mankind or for people at large or for the angels beg your pardon to prostrate before adam it was only a gliss who rejected so when he sees you prostrating he cannot bear it and that's why shaitan tries his level best to take you away from the medium of prayer and he will tell you that prayer is nothing yet prayer is the only obligation in islam that was not revealed on earth when Allah wanted to tell his prophet about rosa he brought jibrael down to earth when he wanted to talk to him about the conditions of fighting he brought jibrael to earth when he wanted to talk to him about women's issues he brought jibrael to earth every other when he wanted to speak about charity he brought jibrael to earth but when he wanted to speak about prayer he brought muhammad to heaven right and when رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم was in heaven it was then that Allah said to him i'm giving you a gift which is prayer and that is prayer that is why we call prayer the ascension ladder of a mu'min معراج المؤمن from which you can grow towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى and there is no medium on earth can bring you closer to Allah than the medium of prayers الله على محمد وعلي محمد هل يجب أن اقوم بعمل for صلى الله عليه وسلم نحن قمنا برسول الله وعليه وعليه وسلم أنه عندما أنت في حالة محاولة you must always exercise your prudence and your محاولة to feel the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so much so that Imam Ali felt the presence of الله to such an extent that he said himself by God if the curtain between us and Allah was to unveil my certitude and belief in Allah will not increase an inch سبحان الله why because Allah was always part and parcel of Imam Ali's existence wherever he went he felt Allah whenever he spoke he felt Allah whenever he spoke he spoke about Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that is all through the medium of prayers it is جميل when someone wants to understand the prayer of Ali ibn Abi Talib or the prayer of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعليه وسلم in the case of Amirul Mu'mineen صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه we are told that when that beggar came into the mosque and asked the mu'mineen and muslim of the time to help him because he was a poor person and he could not sustain himself in يساعدing his need for food and drink and we are told that it was only Amirul Mu'mineen Ali ibn Abi Talib who extended his hand to indicate to that poor person that take my ring and sell it so that you can gain some benefit from it and feed yourself one of our younger communities came and asked me and he said sheikh this hadith makes no sense to me i said why is it because you always tell us and all the maulanas tell us and all maraja at taqlid tell us that Amirul Mu'mineen when he's in prayer he does not hear what's happening around him i said amazing point you are such a clever human being who does not just accept anything that is said from the member right but rather we should analyze everything that is being said from the member and not take everything for face value i'm glad that people write me emails and say you said in خطبه number one or خطبه number two or lecture number three or lecture number four one two three four can you please verify what you are telling us this is intelligence and this is not taking people's intelligence for granted or messing with people's intelligence no we must be at a level to think with our scholars and to think with our lecturers and to think with those who always come to teach us and not to let them think for us enough is enough where you find yourself sitting in a in a in a gathering and you only there to be told what to do or to be told how to behave rather than being part and parcel of the exercise of having an interactive session where also people on the other end of the table can learn from your experiences can learn from your thoughts can learn from what you have read and analyzed so that we can both grow together in this evolvement of spirituality as always tells us this surely the one who asks people or consults people he will add part of their intelligence to his intelligence and how beautiful to be able to exchange our intelligence rather than to put our intelligence on the shelf and let every other being think on our behalf and that should not be the case in the case of that youngster i said yes in fact علي ابن أبي طالب لم تحصل على مقبوة من ذلك مفرق على الأرض لأن المقبوة علي ابن أبي طالب لم يكن على الأرض عندما اصبحه لأنه رسول الله قال لي that صلاة is the ارسل لدى of a مؤمن يعني عندما هو في صالحه جاء حياته على الله سبحانه وطاعم عندما يحدث للمقبوة عن ذلك من that beggar that beggar تظهر عندما يردت لله سبحانه وتعالى و عندما يردت لله because the soul of Ali was in needness to the divine mercy of Allah Ali ibn Abi Talib was able to hear the call of the beggar in heaven and that's why he extended his hand on earth He did not hear the call here brothers and sisters because Ali ibn Abi Talib's mind was not downstairs it was way way way upstairs And that's how we should be when we approach Allah سبحانه وتعالى How is it possible that you are with Allah and you can think about the Nikai and the Nasdaq How can you be with Allah and think about the wife or the children or what's happening in the country No, when you are with Allah you are with Allah, full stop And you don't need to be here and there Yes, it takes time to concentrate Yes, it takes time to learn how to be focused in our prayers and in our concentration But the minute you get that concentration even if it was for a minute And that's what the Prophet says Who so ever prays two rakat namaz without thinking about anything in this world Jannah is guaranteed for him That is a merciful God That allows you to enter Jannah where everyone is fighting for it If you pray two sincere rakat for you And God gives you 83 years the average lifespan of a human being To what to achieve these two rakat namaz Wallah, shame on us if we can't achieve two rakat namaz in 83 years What do we tell to Allah سبحانه وتعالى then That we were not able to concentrate in our prayers How meticulous are we when we are counting our millions and thousands Do we ever make a mistake? We go Is it one or two pieces of a hundred dollar note? No, it's one Okay, go for the next Go for the third Even if it's going to take me all night long I will keep counting meticulously the notes And I can hear them tick one after another But when it comes to the medium of prayer I don't know how to concentrate I have a problem concentrating Do you know why you have a problem concentrating Because prayer was never never To most of us Something that we worry about But we do it at a fee Because we have been told If you don't Then God help you with fishari qadr Right We've never approached Salah Because I want to love the God that loves me back I don't want to be involved in prayer Because I know Allah سبحانه وتعالى Wants to be involved with me No, I do it rather on the basis of fee If you want to do it on the basis of fee Allah سبحانه وتعالى says There is no benefit in it What benefits you is if you are focused with me On the basis of what makes you close to me وقرة عيني في الصلاة When Bilal used to wait Waiting for the time of Adhan to happen Rasulullah would be seated in his mosque While Bilal is standing on one of the pillars of the mosque Or one of the walls of the mosque And he would say Rasulullah would say to Bilal Hasn't the time for prayer commenced And Bilal said No Ya Rasulullah Two minutes later Rasulullah would ask Hasn't the time for prayer has commenced And Bilal said No Ya Rasulullah He said Ya Bilal please give us relief So we can enter into the medium of Salah Let us call for prayer So that we can be in the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Train your children to love Salah For the sake of being with Allah Not for the sake of being afraid Of what will happen as a result Of neglecting Salah Part No. 5 of our speech for today About religion That religion The reason why we need religion Is that it is a sanction And it fights against discrimination And let me say this And please accept it from me There is no one as discriminant As the Muslims in the world We are the most discriminating Waste under the sun Especially when it comes To Muslims among themselves Especially when it comes To Muslims among themselves This is مقلد of مرجع سوء And this is مقلد of مرجع سوء And your تقليد What's it to you of his تقليد What's it to you Who he follows in terms of his تقليد And تقليد When was تقليد of a مرجع When was it that a community Or an individual Can judge another community Or another individual on Let the person if he's content And he arrives at certitude In following a particular مرجع And he satisfies His edicts of religious practices And in his mindset He is convinced That his تقليد will be satisfactory Before Allah Then his تقليد is acceptable Before Allah Don't judge him And don't say My مرجع is better than your مرجع While the مرجع themselves Never said that among themselves There is no مرجع That says to another مرجع I'm better than you Why is it we find it in ourselves That we bring these debates Among ourselves No Let people be convinced In whom they follow Discrimination is something That Islam does not entertain Or allow Religion strongly opposes Any form of discrimination Based on color Race or class Because it regards all human being As God's creatures And every country As God's country That is why When he was asked Which is the best of countries Which is the best of countries Is it the country I was born in Is it the country that my parents were born in Is it the country that I spent all my life in And Amir al-Mu'minin comes to change The mindset of Muslims He says to them The best of countries Are the countries that carries you And allows you To feel and experience Your humanity الله Akbar So if I'm in a country that I was born in And I can't feel a sense of my humanity Even if I was born in this country This is not my country My country is the country that provides me with services My country is the country that respects my humanity The country is the country that respects my rights This is the country that I belong to That is why wherever you go It is Allah's land It is no one's land It is the land of Allah And interestingly enough That all مراجع of تقليد Are of the opinion That if you migrate to a country You must abide and respect The laws of that country So you go to the west Look at some of the questions I used to get through emails Shaykhona I live in a western country Okay And the people we live with Are kafir Look at the word They are kafir Can we lie to get social security benefits How could you ask this question How could you even say Can I lie to get social benefits Just because they are kafirs Are they less of a human being than you That you can scheme and plot against the system Simply because they are not Muslims And who said That in the law of Allah You can discriminate against anyone Simply because he is not a Muslim Who said In what books In what Quran In the tradition of the Prophet Do we find the need to say That because he is not a Muslim That he has a certain set of laws I was in a court case once And a brother by the name of Mustafa came And now I'm telling you the truth This is not a joke When I want to tell you a joke I will tell you it's a joke This is the truth I am interpreting to this guy What did this guy do In a rainy day He walked out of his back door Went to the fence towards his neighbor Jumped the fence Took the DVD of his neighbor And came back home So the police caught up with him Because fingerprints His footprints Because the guy was such a genius He had to steal the DVD on a rainy day Right? And he came back home The police caught hold of him They charged him with what we call In the West Goods in custody And he stolen goods They are not yours So I am asking him I said brother between me and you I am a Muslim and you are a Muslim like me In all honesty Did you steal that DVD? He said in fact Yes I did He said yes He said on what basis He said he is a kafir He is a kafir He said you had the audacity To go into his house I said you know what When they call your name now I kiss your hand When the judge says Is Mustafa in court Don't say yes Say Michael is in court Don't say Mustafa In honor of the name Of the Prophet Don't take the name of the Prophet You are humiliating Islam With your actions He said if I get charged now Tomorrow I will go and steal it again You know why? Because these people are giving fatwas By very high ranking authorities Among some I don't know Lunatic Moulanas That tells them That the money and the property Of a non-Muslim is halal To you And all of our Marraja of Taklit Say what? They say when you are in a country You must always respect The law of that country And رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم You know what he says ليس لا يؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر من لم يأمن جاره بواقا No one will believe In Allah and the day of judgment If his neighbor Is not safe from his action You are not a believer In Allah and the day of judgment If your neighbor is not safe with you If your neighbor cannot Feel the security By being next to you And it is so unfortunate That life is being wasted 38 year old A professional lawyer Gets gun down For what reason Why is the blood of Muslims Among themselves Is so cheap When Allah says Whoever revives one soul It is as if He has revived and given life To the entire human race And the one who kills one soul It is as if He has killed the entire human race Subhanallah And we still Are at each other's throat رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم Was so kind and generous To his neighbors Even when they went against him And they actually tried To be A best friend neighbors to him And they tried To mistreat him And ill-treat him But he never reciprocated The ill-treatment back to them Because he was a model Of human standards When it came to ethics So Islam says You must always respect What about your neighbor Let alone If that neighbor happens to be what Your relative The first thing you must Honor about your neighbor Is his dignity Meaning what Don't look at his wife Don't wait for him To leave the home And go on the veranda Good morning You are so beautiful today So beautiful You think Allah is not watching You think Allah doesn't know What you're doing to other people's Wives And Allah and the prophet promise The prophet promise And he says whoever misses With someone else's wife In a haram way By paying a thousand of dollars Allah will make people miss With his wife without the dollar Without the dollar So protect your own Households By keeping away from Other people's household Don't go near them On the country respect them Honor them Protect them See how you can protect them And others in the process So that Allah can protect you And your families And your children And your wives in the process Number two To protect his wealth Not like One neighbor came to his neighbor This is a joke One neighbor came to his neighbor He wanted to go to Hajj He said Brother Hajj Whatever Hajj X I'm going to Hajj So I have two kilos of gold I want to entrust you with Can you please look after us Of course With my eyes on top of my head But you know what Because we may Not live We may die Let me get my son Who's also a Hajj To actually witness The transaction of you Giving me the two kilos of gold Wow The neighbor felt so good How honest is this Hajj So the young Hajj The young X Hajj comes He said Baba this our neighbor Abu Muhammad Father of Muhammad He's going to Hajj So he's giving me these two kilos of gold To entrust it for him So be a witness That when he comes back If I die You give him that Two kilos back And I went with a blind fault خلاص His money is secure Gone to Hajj came back He came to his neighbor سلام عليكم و عليكم سلام مبارك your Hajj مبارك my Hajj Where is my two kilos of gold He said What gold He said The gold I gave you Before I went He said I don't know any gold He said You brought your son To be a witness So the father called He said X come Do you know this guy He said I'll bring him in my life That الله أكبر الله أكبر When we are You know the Prophet said About this time There will come a time About There will come a time In my nation's time Towards the end of time Where I trust Becomes a spoil of war You know what You think that This trust is now yours And the Rasool Allah عليه وسلم When he left Medina When he left to Medina Before he left to Medina And for 30 years Consequently What was the Prophet called الصادق أل أمين The truthful The trust with It's amazing That when the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Left to Medina Who did he leave behind علي ابن عبطال Right Why did he live علي ابن عبطال Behind Historians record Three reasons We know that علي ابن عبطال Stayed back Only for one reason Right And that is to do what To sleep in the bed of the Prophet That's one reason Reason number two Is to bring All the ladies whose names Was Fatima Fatima bint Assad Fatima bint Muhammad Fatima bint Zubair Fatima this All the Fatimas From the household Of the Prophet It was the task Of أمير المؤمنين To bring them Task number three Is to give back The property of Non-Muslims That were kept In the house of the Prophet Back to their rightful Owners So much so That history tells us That when the Prophet Left Abu Jahl Seize the opportunity To go to the Sacred Mosque And cry out loudly This is Muhammad That you used to call The trustworthy He has left Makkah And took all your properties With him Immediately At the same time Imam Ali He's the call of Abu Jahl He enters the door of Salam And he says Whosoever Has left a trust With Muhammad Let him come And claim it from me This is Islam Brothers and sisters Although According to The Geneva Convention When people Persecute you And expel you Out of your country Take whatever you can With you Because you are being Oppressed According to The Geneva Convention It says When you come back To a country And the people And the citizens Of this country Has acted In a treason way By expeling People unjustly You have the right To persecute them Yet when the prophet Came to Makkah What did he do With the people of Makkah He pardoned them He said Go you are free For the sake of Allah Right This is what we can learn From the prophet When it comes to the question Of entry discrimination According to this All enjoy God's love And kindness equally And as such All are equal Before Allah According to The teachings of Islam No man Can be superior To another man On the basis Of his color Race Descent Language Or class Islam recognizes Only piety As the touchstone Of superiority Allah Told us In Surah In verse 13 O mankind We have created you From a male And a female And made you Into nations And tribes So that you may get to know One another Surely the most Honorable of you In the sight of Allah Is he who is most Biased Not is he Who is most Muslim Not is he Who is most Shi'a Not is he Who is most Sunni Not is he Who is most Bahori No He who is most Righteous In as much as You benefit people In the world You live in You become the most And the closest To Allah On the basis Of your faith Thus The role of religion In the world Is that it has not Unfortunately Thus The role of religion In a world That has not yet Been able even To solve The color problem Is quite clear Those who talk about Civilization Those who talk about Being Pioneers In Civilization Up until the 1960s We're not allowing People who were black To ride in the same Bus As white people Right And then They come and tell us That Islam Is a religion Of discrimination No If some of Its members discriminate The religion of Islam Does not discriminate So don't judge The Islam That you see today On the basis Of what Muslim practice But judge The Islam On the core principle Of the teaching Of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And the teaching Of the Quran Number 6 Religion And individual freedom This is something We need to understand And specially Our youngsters Today One of our Very bright students Asked me a question She said Why do parents Not give us Our space Good You want your space Space That you are calling for Has to be earned It cannot be Simply given To you on a silver platter Right So how do parents Give us our space When your parents Trust you with something On other trust When your parents Or you tell your parents I'm going to my cousin Don't go to your lover Go to your cousin I'm being very blunt There is no reason To hide behind our pillars Because if we keep denying The fact that we have a problem With our youth In terms of alcohol In terms of sex I'm going to extremely open tonight Then we are not facing realities And we know That our children Are facing And being engrossed In alcohol Illicit drugs Illegal sex And we are turning a blind eyes And we are saying Muslim children will never be affected by that Because we have an immunity From Allah SWT Immunity can only be granted On the basis of self restraint On the basis of me Holding back From what is Haram And practicing what is Halal Only then I will be in a position From my parents to trust me And from my parents to give me that space Because now I'm no longer responsible For my parents I'm no longer responsible To the society I'm living in I'm no longer responsible to my peace I'm no longer responsible to authority I am only responsible To Allah SWT And when we train our kids To be responsible to Allah First and foremost Then the question of trust Will fall in place The question of trust Will come a non-issue To our parents And their relationship with their kids So if our teenagers Want that space Then earn that space So that when your parents Give you that space you don't flip And when you slip the first time They will forgive you You slip the next time They will forgive you You slip the third time You forgive you You slip the fourth time You have overstepped your space Right Whether you are a teenager Or you are an adult In that regard Because no one is above the law Everyone is under the law Of Allah SWT Whether parent Or child in that regard Some people think That religion restricts Individual freedom And this allows The fulfillment of some desires Whereas in fact The aim of religious teaching Is not at all to put an end To logical freedom Its aim is only To stop wastage Of human energies And assets To prevent the flow Into improper And worthless channels For example If religion forbids The use of intoxicants Gambling And improper indulgence In sex Thus so For the safety of the body And the soul Of the individual And for the maintenance Of social order This moral control Is in keeping with The real spirit of freedom For freedom means That a man or a woman Should be able to take Full advantage of his Assets of existence To help in the evolution Of the individual And the society at large It does not at all mean Squandering of God Given energies And indulging in Immoderation and libertinism Religious support Or religion support Every kind of freedom There is man forward towards evolution Towards what is best In various fields of his existence Only this is what freedom In the real sense means Anything else is libertinism That is why religion allows Man to use all good things In life To wear any reasonable dress To relish any good food And to take part in Any healthy pastime In short It has allowed the use Of all comforts And conveniences of life And does not ask anyone To give up on any such things الله سبحانه وتعالى Said what Eat and drink But do not squander يعني Don't go to access Imam Ali when he was asked What is the best balanced way To live in life He quoted that ayah Eat and drink And do not squander Live a life of balance Take as much as you want And don't encroach On other people's personal Assets Or personal wealth Or personal dignities Or personal honors The Quran also further explains When Allah says Who has forbidden The beautiful things of Allah Which he has produced For his servants And the pure food That he has made Available to them Moreover Our religion calls upon us To never forget the exigencies And requirements of time And to keep ourselves Well informed About the latest developments In medicine, technology And industry Imam Al-Sadaq Say what He who knows his time And its requirements Shall not be taken Unaware By the dark events of life Don't be indifferent To what's happening to the world today Be involved In as far as the political movement Of this world The social movement Of this world Even the fashion movement Of this world Even the food movement Of this world Even the evolution movement Of this world Even the environmental movement Of this world Because you're a Muslim And you should be aware Of all the events of your time You are God's vice-gerent On earth What sort of a vice-gerent On earth That does not know His own time Does not know His own time Finally Let us see what the Quran says And how he advises us That when we are told something How we should relate to it Allah says Give glad tidings To my servant Who listened to what is said And followed the best They are those Whom God has truly guided الذين يستمعون القول يتبعون أحسنة Those, when they listen to anything That is being said They will only take the best out of it And put it into practice I have gone way over my time Thank you for your attentiveness Thank you for your patience with me Thank you for being tolerant Of what I said every now and then Thank you for being also patient With my outcries And my loud voice That I lost my voice eventually Thank you for being so accommodating And generous Thank you for your smiles Thank you for your dohars Thank you for your consideration And thank you for being A brilliant and amazing Accommodating community That I have ever had the honour To be their humble servant Before I leave my podium I have to mention two things Because if I don't Then I would not have done my duty Before Allah Whom the Prophet had told us He who does not see it in himself To thank the creatures Then he cannot see it in himself To thank the Creator Allah سبحانه و تعالى I cannot list everyone I have come across But I have come across Each and every one of you And each and every one of you I felt was Either a brother A sister Or a mother But not a wife Okay Okay All of you were amazing human beings And I respect each and every one of you For your generosity and accommodation But I have to thank my host Who indeed And I know He doesn't want me to say this He doesn't even know That I'm saying this And he'll probably go and hide somewhere No, no, don't go brother Who has been phenomenal And I say it in all honesty That I felt That I was the host And he was the guest That the house I was in I was at liberty To do anything I want Although I didn't do anything Out of the quorum I think so, right? So I ask you all With the loudest of Salawat To pray for our brother Hassan And to show that And to his family And to his amazing wife Who was in the past three days Acting like she was my mom Make sure you take this medicine Make sure before you sleep You eat this bread Make sure you eat your rusk Because it's good for your stomach Make sure you take draw baits Make sure I said mom I got it And she was phenomenal In going and sending Every time they can hurry To pick up this food from here Or this medicine from here Or this And I don't want to talk about How my host was extremely Accommodating with my shopping sprees May Allah bless you brother Hassan May Allah bless your families Both from Faisal side And Hassan side And I must also Take my hat in respect To a phenomenal member of your committee For by Allah I love him like a guru And I take him as a role model To me personally as a father And there is no one else Other than Jameel uncle May Allah bless you May Allah سبحانه وتعالى Protect you May Allah give you more and more To be a shining star Of the Kodja community In this community To always make Our brothers and sisters In this community Feel proud that we have people Of your calaba And others who are so philanthropic And so giving in this community May Allah سبحانه وتعالى Honor each and every one of you And simply And I truly say this With the sincerity of my heart I cannot afford to go To the day of judgment With anyone holding grudges against me If I have hurt anyone If I have said anything to anyone That may have caused them To grieve, to be rave Or if I have offended anyone Please come and take your right From me now Because my Visa card Does not work My American Express Will not be of benefit to me On the day of judgment The only thing that will work For me Is if you forgive me For anything I have offended You with May Allah سبحانه وتعالى Forever make us brothers And forever make us A mirror image of one another والسلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته So, I appreciate Me too, Kani We'll start with the Q&A If anybody has any questions First we'll start with the paper questions And after that put them on My question About discrimination About? Distinuation Not discrimination With anyone Yes The other day I relayed the question About Having moved from the window And other things like that And you said To refer to the market Yes Now Does that mean that You personally That people haven't Or I do Or not discriminate against them too I personally do not discriminate Against anyone that Allah has created In this world My Marja of Taklit Is on the opinion And if you want to discuss this matter With me further You can discuss it in private But I will tell you My Marja of Taklit says That on the basis of Quran Where Allah سبحانه وتعالى says وَلَقَدْ كَرْرَمْنَا بَنِيْ عَدَمْ We have honored The son of Adam And the son of Adam Is every human That Allah has created On the face of earth Based on this ayah Right He argues That every human being Is richly Tahir As far as his عقيدة is concerned That is between him And his Lord Allah can judge him In as far as What he thinks The situation is Those who argue in fairness To those who Do Taklit of other Respected Marja of Taklit Who don't hold the same opinion They quote the ayah That says إنما المشركون نجس The polyests Are impure So they should not Exercise the ability To enter into the sacred mosque again Right Upon careful examination of this ayah And I'm not here To give my personal inclination Towards the opinion of any Marja Over another That is a personal belief system That you have a right to believe And in accordance to what you think Is right On the basis of the Marja of Taklit That you do Taklit with They argue that When that ayah was revealed To the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Right The Mushrikeen did not leave Mecca They were still in Mecca So if that ayah meant That they were richly Physically impure Then the Prophet should have been Without any hesitation To expel all the Mushrikeen Out of Mecca But he didn't Right So what happened There was a phasing out Of the Mushrikeen From Mecca Not on the basis That they are nudges On the fact That they are physically nudges Or impure But on the basis That Allah was trying to determine At that crucial time In the life of Muslims The Muslim state As opposed to a non-Muslim state So it was a division At that time Who was a Muslim And who was not a Muslim It is not on the basis That their najasa Is that that relates To their physical entity Right Because that ayah That says We have given Every son of Adam an honour That honour belongs To his physical entity And that's why This merger Or that merger Or more than one merger Are of the opinion today That people are not Richly nudges Okay I don't want to go more into that It is up to the That you follow To identify What your merger Say in that regard Salam What is the logic behind The numerical division Of Tasbih What is the logical The numerical division Of Tasbih Why 34 Allahu Akbar Why 33 Alhamdulillah And why 33 Subhanallah Simply I don't have a clue I don't have a clue Why And you know what It doesn't concern me to know If the prophet Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam Said To Fatima Zahra When she was asking For someone To come and help her With the household chores And he said Let me give you Something better Than the world And what's in it That every After every prayer You sit you and Ali And you do 34 Allahu Akbar 33 Alhamdulillah And 33 Subhanallah The Malaika Will not be able To count the reward That is accrued On behalf of that prayer So that is What concerns me In that regard But if The person who is asking you For asking me With a very smiling face May Allah place him Because he put a smiling face At the end If you come To an understanding Why Is it divided In that I will be forever indebted To you To let me know In regard to that issue On Jumaatul Wada We offer four Rakat prayers Entitled Qaza-i Omri Prayer To eradicate Life Gone That's an easy way To get out of it It is said that This prayer has the power To eradicate Qaza prayers For 700 years And I'm telling you From this member Even if my turban Is going to be thrown Off my head There is no such prayers Okay And those who invented This prayer Wants to take The easy way out Right Don't escape Your debts Brothers and sisters Because imagine Someone you've lent him 700,000 Dollars And he says How about If I pay it back With four Nak'anamaz How about If I pay my debt Back to you With 400 dollars Don't take God for a mockery There is no such thing As this prayer Of Qaza-i Omri Because it does not exist And those people who have invented This particular prayer Has no Corroboration for it From an Imam Or a Prophet Salawatullahi Wasalamu alayhim أجمعي سلام عليكم السلام I think I have seen The Prophet And other members Of Ahlul Bayt In my dreams How do I know There are true dreams Well the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Has told us That shaitan Cannot Replicate the Prophet In a dream So if you see The Prophet in a dream It means You have already Seen the Prophet In the dream Right اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وآلي محمد As far as the imams Are concerned I believe the same thing Applying If you see the imams In your dream It is not that someone else Is Trying to take Their Place Or to Imulate Their place سلام Can you please Elaborate On ayah Surah Yasin Eight and nine Why has Allah سبحانه وتعالى بط يوكس Around I don't know Next Of people And Poor walls in front And behind them So they can't be guided No It's not in that regard وجعلنا من بين اي دي ام سدن ومن خلف ام سدن فأغشيناهم فهم لا يبصرون It does not mean That God Literally has placed These walls Of misguidance To people So that Because Allah does not Want to guide them No After people Have exercised Their own Willpower Not to take Guidance As a root To reach to Allah Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says By virtue of them Doing so They've already placed These walls In front of them And behind them So that now Whatever you tell them They don't hear Right How many times Have you come across someone When you tell him Day and night Salah Be good Gift charity This is I don't have to Right Do I blame Allah for that Do I blame Allah سبحانه وتعالى That Allah did not guide him What is our concept Of guidance brothers and sisters I said that from day one If our concept Of guidance Is along the lines That I wait For Allah To bring down A battalion Of Malaika With AK-47s To put it to my head And say Get up and pray Otherwise We're going to finish The whole magazine In your head Then this is not guidance Right Guidance Is for Allah To give you free will Then to send Messages From within And from without And people That come During your lifespan To show you How to be guided And then On the basis Of your own free will You decide not to be guided For example Imagine if someone Comes to me now And he says Let's go to the wall What's the name Of the sea area Here you have Where is it See view See view Someone knocks At your door At five o'clock in the morning And he says Let's go to Defense Imam Barga For prayer You look at the clock He says At five in the morning Are you out of your mind Don't you have Something else to do Go to Batman Okay That man leaves you To defense Imam Barga To offer his prayer Five minutes later Another one comes He says You know what I have already packed My What do you call it Fishing lines To go to see view For fishing It's 5.25 in the morning And you say Let's chill mate Let's go mate What an opportunity Now you tell me This is from Allah And this is from Shaytan You made that decision It is not Allah who told you Don't go to defense Imam Barga You made that decision Yourself Not to go And when the other guidance Of going to see view Came your way You made that decision Why Because one appeals To your desires And the other does not appeal To your desires So it is you Who can curb Your desires And go to the Imam Barga And it is you Who can go with your desires And end up at see view Fishing for comfort I don't know what Then this is your Derogative in the matter Nowadays women seem to be The bread earners Men have become lazy It is exhausting for a woman To be able to do both Walls Man and woman Run the household And also earn How to handle this Prena You know what prena is Prena It's a bad time The community grows And starts drawing Prenaps I know people don't like What I say I know But I'm not bringing Things from my own closet I'm not Bringing the concept Of our prenapp Is a western concept I want you to go And examine A Tafsir of Quran By the name of Tafsir Al-Ayashi Okay Very famous Shia Tafsir of the Quran I want to go And dwell into details Go and see Did Imam Ali And Fatima Al-Zahra Draw prenapp against One another Or not Okay In Tafsir Al-Ayashi And then Let's argue the point Or rather I don't like The word argue I would rather use The word dialogue Among one another Is prenapp An Islamic concept Or a western concept And we will see How we can preserve The dignity of both Men and women If we understand Our reciprocative Role On the basis of Drawing Prenaps Not in order To make our life Difficult But in order To bring Some sort of synchronization And harmony In our respective Roles Towards one another By Allah It's not going to take The manhood of a man That when he sees his wife Toiling around the house And laboring around the house While he's sitting down Bring this And take this Bring the masala Who take the masala Bring the tea And take the tea Bring the pakoras And take the pakoras Bring the chicken tikka And take the chicken tikka While the wife Is Toiling And laboring In the house Get up brother Because in the eyes Of Allah You'll be honored Because the wife Is your wife And the house Is your house So if you help Inside the house You are helping Because it is your house And if you help Your wife You are helping Because she Is your wife It's not going to take Anything from you If you stand up And wash your plate It's not going to take Much of you If you iron your shirt No This is not This is below me To some men Yet the Prophet Was inquired About his behavior at home How was the Prophet At home His wife answered He used to be In the service Of his family Until the call Until the call For prayer Would come Meaning What in the service Of his family He's not sitting down And saying I want a glass of water I feel like some I feel like some I feel like some I feel like some I feel like some I feel like some I feel like some Nine wives The Prophet had But he was Going from One place To another Telling each wife Is there anything You want me to With So much so That his wife's reports The Prophet used to Sit by the door Of the house And he will take A needle And thread And he used to mend His shoes And his abaya And when we used To tell him يا رسول الله نحن نكريك يا رسول الله We will take over He says No I prefer to do things In my own way Subhanallah If a button Is missing In my shirt I see it In my own mindset That it is deserving To humiliate My wife Like there is No other day Under the sun For a button That is missing How much Would a button Take from you To mend it Yourself To do it Yourself When your Prophet Used to mend His own shoes He used to mend His own abaya He used to fetch Water for his wives And his family He used to sweep The house of Fátima سلام الله Once he goes to The house of Fátima And Fátima is grinding wheat And holding al-Hasan And she is about to sweep the flow Because the broom Was standing next to her When Amir al-Mu'mineen And the Prophet Arrived at the house رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم Looked at Amir al-Mu'mineen And he said What? Mashallah Fátima is a good house We have made Let us chill on some tija Would the Prophet do that? صلى الله عليه وسلم You know what he said To Imam Ali Choose one of the three tasks Choose one of them Amir al-Mu'mineen says I will choose to grind the wheat Fátima said I will take care of Hasan In one Rewire And in another Rewire The Prophet said Then I will sweep The house of Fátima This is manhood Not manhood Someone who sits And gives orders Because we have a saying In Arabic Or it is a universal saying That goes along the lines of what سيد القوم خادمهم The master of any community Is the one that serves them If you want to be a master You want to be a leader You have to be someone that serves You cannot be a leader If you do not serve And specially When you serve within your family You are serving no one but yourself Do we become What Or do we become a warm Food when we die Why are you concerned about your body Be concerned about your soul Who cares what happens to the body As long as your soul is intact When your soul leaves your body After the last moment When you are asked Who is your lord Who is your prophet Who is your Imam Who cares about the body What happens to it after It decomposes It warts It becomes eaten But you know There is a eyebrow in that There is a lesson in that Where Allah SWT says See this body You've been feeding And looking after for 50, 60, 70 years That's what's going to happen to it It's going to decompose Though when you want to invest Invest in something useful Don't invest in the body Don't invest in the soul Invest in the soul دي مولانا وعليكم الدير Can you please share your email address with us It is forbidden to wear black Apart from the days of Arbaeen Well black in general Is not a recommended dress to be worn Right It's not a recommended dress To be worn in a general sense In the days of mourning For Abiy Abdullah Al-Hussein Salawat Allah My email address is S-H-E-I-K-H J-E-H-A-D At Hotman.com Please feel free to write it Please shed some light On why we Shi'a Muslims Please shed some light On the prohibition of verbal abuse That women face at home And the importance of respect That husbands should hold for their wives I said no man has the right To abuse his wife And no wife has the right To abuse her husband Where in the history Of our Prophet and the imams Have we ever seen the Prophet abuse His wife Or the imams abuse their wife What is more do you want to know Than the fact that جدع or جعدة Poisoned Imam Al-Hasan His wife And he did not divorce her Do you know that When he sipped the poison جعدة or جعدة Was still under The Imam Hassan's marriage contract He did not even divorce her صلى الله عليه وسلم Let alone to abuse her He did not even say a word to her And reproach Imam Ali's killer Came in front of him What did the Imam say to him He said was I a bad Imam to you That I deserve to be hit by you The way you hit me That's all he did He didn't curse He didn't say anything When did Imam Ali ever Abuse any of his wives صلى الله عليه وسلم When did any of the imams Abuse their wives Nowhere So why are we getting this abuse from It is what we need to look introspectively Within ourselves To read ourselves of this habit Now shed some light on why we Do not say that Because according to Bukhari و مسلم و ابن ماجه و ترمذي و تاريخ الزهبي و القرطبي و السرخسي و ابن تيمية و محمد ابن عبد الوهاب أكثر مفتاح هل تريدون؟ هل تريدون؟ هل تريدون؟ أن المفتاح خلال هذه المفتاحات من سنن يقول أن المفتاح ترواويح only once و ثم يأتي في المنزل الأخرى في رمضان و يقرأ صلاة و مفتاح من مغرب و العشاء و مفتاح المسلم يسأل يا رسول الله لماذا لا تقرأ المفتاح في المفتاح يقول لذلك لن أصدق من my nation لذلك they would think it is an obligation upon them just like what's happening today that even among our Sunni school of thought that if a Sunni does not pray ترواويح he's looked down upon right or wrong why? because it has become such a very important prayer in the Sunni school of thought that anyone who does not do it is looked upon in a bad way and that's exactly what the prophet did not want right? then during the time okay do our Sunni brothers honor and love Abu Bakr or not yes he was the companion of the prophet and they consider him to be the first Khalifa right? I want one source that tells me that Salatu الترويح was prayed during the whole خلافة of Abu Bakr right? none then during the second half part of the خلافة of Omar right? also ترويح was not prayed until Omar one day came out to the mosque and he saw fit to appoint an Imam so that people will pray behind him nafila prayers the Shia school of thought simply say if a prophet stops an act no one else can reintroduce that act unless from permission from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and we respectfully say that since the prophet did not reintroduce the act of ترويح in جماعة that means we are not obligated to pray it in جماعة however can we pray it separately not under the the naming system of ترويح but to pray as much prayers as you want in the month of Ramadan I don't know what I've read and what I haven't okay this one nowadays women seem to be the bread earners we talked about this kindly tell us what is the significance the significance of saying الله أكبر سرايس after نماز when our imams and the prophet taught us that when the prayer begins with تكبير it ends with تكبير when the prayer begins with تكبير it ends with تكبير and it is recommended in fact that when you begin your prayer you don't say تكبير once but you say it up to what seven times when you want to start your prayer out of glorification to الله سبحانه وتعالى that you prepare yourself by saying الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر and then the seventh one should be the تكبير and then the seventh one should be the تكبير of إحرام it should be the one that commences your prayer so that practice is also carried towards the end of the prayer so that there will be synchronization with what you begin your prayer and what you end your prayer with can you elaborate on the religious standing of محرم processions if the محرم processions will enhance scientifically intellectually, academically the school of أهل البيت let it be but if any محرم processions will raise question mark and these are not my words these are not my words these are the words of مراجع التقليد that any act in محرم that make توهيل to the مذهب what does توهيل means under minds and questions the مذهب and the teachings of أهل البيت should not be practiced in an open way these are not my words and I'm willing to discuss the issue with anyone if an act of procession and I will tell you one of these things what happened in India around the 60's there was a مراجع of تقليد in نجف by the name of آيط الله محمد حسين آل كاشف الغطى he was contemporary to آيط الله محسن الحكيم but he was senior to آيط الله محسن الحكيم and he was the most prominent مراجع of his time and he was a Shi'a Indian Muslims at that time were predominantly under his تقليد they invited him to go to India so they took out a procession they told him مولانا all we want you to do is that when the procession comes out we want you to place your blessed hand on the forehead of دول جنح who said who is دول جنح what dool جنح are you talking about they said we take out a horse during محرم which represent شبيه of دول جنح he said sorry according to my مراجعية this is not allowed he said I'm not saying this alright don't go tomorrow on YouTube and Facebook and misquote شيخ جهاد and said this is the opinion of شيخ جهاد I don't have an opinion when there is an opinion of a مرجع let me say it very clear and loud when there is a مرجع opinion I don't have an opinion in the matter okay so he said what according to my مرجعية this is not allowed do you know what happened to this مرجع he received death threat that if he does not take out to the procession and bless دول جنح he will be killed he was smuggled in the middle of night back to نجاف I say if we want to appoint ourselves on top of the مرجع of تقليد then don't talk to me about تقليد right don't talk to me about تقليد if because I practice a certain ritual and my مرجع of تقليد says be careful that if this particular ritual will undermine the مدهب in any way shape or form you must preserve the name of the مدهب and give it its due respect because because ولا تكون شينا علينا be a sign of ornament and don't be a sign of what of misinformation because if people look at your practices and they see something good they will say these are جعفري these three wires from إمام جعفر these people will say these are جعفري and when people are happy at the practices of our followers this will make جعفر صادق happy but when people point their fingers at you and they say these are the followers of ألول بيت then will this associate our self from your practices so let us grow a little bit intellectually brothers and I'm not saying or I'm against precessions don't misunderstand but I'm saying when you won't take a precession out take it with the intention of educating the masses والله brothers and sisters our Sunni school of thought do not know why we do what we do it is our duty to inform them to educate them to tell them in academic way what is the message of Hussein I feel so bereaved that Gandhi understands Hussein when he reads about Hussein in the purest form of what constitute Hussein and us Muslims among ourselves don't appreciate and understand who Hussein is due to certain practices here and there you know your community better I'm not here to tell you what to do I'm here to relate to you what our مراجع say in regard to these issues السلام عليكم most scholars say that non Muslims will not go to Jannah please comment at face value we are told that if you do not ascribe to certain standards that we know at hand yes from our perspective you may not enter Jannah but what is with Allah I have no rights over number one number two Allah in the Quran says وما كنا معذبين حتى نبعث رسول we will not cause people to hellfire unless and until we send to them what a messenger that messenger is he the prophet because a messenger here according to the Arabic terminology and the context of this ayah means everyone that must have and engage in propagating the message of Islam يعني if someone is sitting in the Amazon who doesn't know Islam based on this ayah and the justice of Allah where is he going to go Jannah he's never heard the name Muhammad in his life he doesn't know or if the religion reach him in a way that was not clear now tell me in America or London based on facts news who say in the end you think Islam is reaching those people in a pure way in a pure version you think these academics in this part of the world anything about the reality of Islam unless we educate them and we tell them and we invite them and we dialogue with them and we sit with them and we debate with them and we discuss with them and if we don't Allah says وما كنا معذبين حتى نبعتها رسولة my advice to all my brothers and sisters let me be concerned first and find out am I going to Jannah first before I worry about everyone else whether they are going to Jannah or not when you read Salawat on the name of Muhammad you have to read it again because the name of the because of the name of the prophet is in Salawat also so what do you do what is that supposed to mean what is that اللهم صلى على محمد وعالي محمد I already mentioned Muhammad so Allahumma صلى على محمد وعالي محمد then Allahumma صلى على محمد وعالي محمد until when اللهم صلى على محمد وعالي محمد when the name is mentioned say Allahumma صلى على محمد وعالي محمد and that's the end of the story it's not a never ending story we're not about a a Hollywood movie here or an Indian movie that we have to keep going it's good to always send Salawat on the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and if you can, fine but let me be concerned first because I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know and if you can, fine but let me assure you there is not a single moment on this earth that passed without someone saying Salawat on Muhammad وعالي محمد Allahumma صلى على محمد وعالي regarding hijab for men and women what part of each should be covered for men and women we don't know until now والله العظيم then next Ramadan I will talk about it if we miss any prayers can we read qaza or we have missed you have to read qaza if once you miss a prayer رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says what whenever you miss a prayer then repeat it whenever you remember it whenever you remember I miss a prayer straight away or whatever prayer that you have missed you should do السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته