 أعوذ بالله من شر الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله عليه وسيدينا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لاسي ما بقيت الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لترابي مقدمه الفداء أما بعد رسبكتت سكولرز ألدز براثين سيسترز السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله بكوزة جانباكت نايت نايت as we celebrate the birth أمام الحسن عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله I won't take too much of your time to discuss the third part of the faculty of knowledge which we've been discussing over the course of the last two nights but إن شاء الله I'll have these few minutes to wrap it up from yesterday and the day before that just to get a holistic vision of the concept which is and that we have explored which is the concept of knowledge so إن شاء الله tonight we'll be talking about two particular aspects because we've talked about knowledge and its application now we look at actions that are reactions of particular knowledge إن شاء الله we can understand the effect of a particular person's action and his action in reference to knowledge we look at the first and foremost instance in which we look at the person and how he reacts and how it may affect his friends how it may affect his family and finally how it may affect himself إن شاء الله we'll conclude by looking at a Hadith by the Holy Imam إن شاء الله you can help me to start tonight's topic with a lot of salawat the effect of your actions because we looked at yesterday how much of a reward you will get when you have a thought process behind your particular actions if you have knowledge behind a particular act of worship when you have knowledge in anything that you do for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى and how Allah may multiply your particular act of worship by 70 if you have or contain a particular knowledge and you apply it in that specific area now let's look at the effect of person's action and we're talking about knowledge here we can see on the first level how knowledge and how actions may affect a direct family member as an example we said the idea of karma in which we have a story where an old man his son takes him towards the desert after taking care of him after clothing him bathing him it reached a stage in which he could not take care of his father he takes him under a palm tree he leaves him there then he goes back home on the way back he looks back at his father and he finds him smiling so he goes back and he asks him why he was smiling and the reply was of the father gives us the example of how the idea and the concept of karma may work in which the father smiled under the tree and when asked why he was smiling he says I've done the same thing to my father therefore I do not find it out of the ordinary that you do it to me therefore the person takes his father takes him home and says what he says I don't want my son to do what I have done towards my father so in the first idea is that we have the concept of how our actions may directly affect ourselves what we do to our parents will directly affect of how we will be treated by our children on the second we have a narration from the holy prophet in which he goes past a particular grave and he tells his companions make sure you don't go close towards that grave because that person has such a high level of sin that I'm afraid to go close towards that grave however when they went on a particular travel on the way back he comes back to the same grave and he recites a fataha in which his companions begin to ask him isn't this the same grave that you said stay away from and he says yes he says what's changed he says that person's son has now become a scholar and Allah has blessed him for bringing up that son therefore we see whatever you do let's say in this instance that you're with a scholar in this particular story that would mean directly that your father does what is affected in a positive manner because of your actions as a direct result of your actions we know our actions can affect us in the hereafter when we know if we recite a particular verse from the holy Quran it can embody as a beautiful figure with us in the barzakh that will get us through it will be our friend will be our companion specific acts that we do within our life will allow the grave to what to squash us so much so that it says that the milk that our mothers breastfed us will come out of our nose that's how much will be squashed actions will lead to that actions will give you a blessed barzakh a blessed hereafter direct relation effects that we can do nowadays actions can affect the longevity of our lives either we can increase in lifespan or decrease in lifespan based on what? something as simple as enjoying relations or breaking relations and we've discussed all these in detail and I don't want to go over them but to give you the example that effect of your actions whether it be small or be big something so small can have such great meaning in the eyes of Allah the greatest example we're given is a word that you may say Imam Zain Abideen has a beautiful statement what does he say? he says when you sin never look at the size of the sin because sometimes when we sin and it's very ironic I was looking at a clip it obviously wasn't from the school of Ahl al-Bayt from another school of thought a scholar who's wearing a turban his beads didn't even fit into the camera when they were recording but let's look at what he says the person says he was asked are we allowed to shake hands with the opposite gender and look at the reply look at the reply of this man scholar he's wearing his bead he says it's fine that you can not only shake their hands you can even embrace them what's his educational message to give us he says yeah well the men or the guys they have testosterone they're very active figures and yeah why not you can go and shake someone's hand you can go and embrace them but isn't it a sin I don't want to call that person a sheikh but that's what the person referred to him as he goes sheikh but isn't that haram look at the reply he says it's haram yeah but it's one of the small sins you can get away with it look at the difference Imam Zayn al-Abdin says never look at the size of the sin whether it be small whether it be the most magnanimous sin don't look at the size look at who you're sinning against when someone says whether it be something small or massive it's the whole idea behind it and then we referred to this particular concept of being in Karbala every day is Ashura every land is Karbala in that instance when we sin we have to judge ourselves if we were to be in Karbala and this is the instance nowadays if the Imam would come now based on our actions based on the choices we make will we be of his army of the people that go against him it's a very very valid question because I myself can't say on the 10th of Muharram now I know that what is right what is wrong at that time would I know what is right is what is wrong I can't have that on myself when we say that we wish that we were with you Oh Aba'a Abdullah يا لتنا كنا معك is it a victory in war or the victory of martyrdom so that your name is remembered within history that you are making the right choice you have made the right choice and Allah chose to honor these companions until the end of time that's the idea and concept you have to put into the question now I want to give you an example of an act something simple but you yourself can make it into something that's grand or you can make it into something that maybe look down upon I'll give you an example something that's مباح as you know we have something called حلالا حرام the two ends of the scales مكرو مستحابا مباح مباح doesn't necessarily give you a reward or a sin for doing it so let's take something as small as drinking water no rewards in drinking water and no sin in drinking water it's something that you do now let's put it into a context if for instance that water has something impure in it let's say you had blood in it or alcohol what does it become it becomes حرام if that water is the sole reason that you will survive and you have to have it what does it become becomes واجب on you to have isn't it if that water you don't know what's inside you're unsure it may have something that is of a bad instance let's say you might think it might have some substance that's bad that may be harmful becomes مكرو doesn't it that's something so small let's say you recite and what can we do to make this something that is giving us reward and we're giving the example if we say السلام عليك يا با عبدالله something مستحب but look at the reward that you'll have one Imam Sadaq says once a person comes to my house I was praying تورك عات تورك عات he was praying he comes out rushing after the تورك عات he sees one of his companions sitting down he asks him look at how magnanimous a word can be he asks the company he says what have you done whilst I was praying inside he says I've done nothing son of the prophet يا بن رسول الله I was just waiting for him and I drank water he says what happened this is nothing I drank water and I said السلام عليك يا با عبدالله look at the reply of the Imam Imam Sadaq he says will you trade that word for my تورك عات we know in our narrations if there's one Sujood that's accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى you'll go to heaven one Sujood Imam Sadaq is praying تورك عات which includes two Sujood one Sujood of a معصوم of a معصوم it wasn't a normal prayer it was a mustahab a higher level of reward a higher level of bounty in the eyes of Allah he says I'll swap all that for the words that you've just uttered for words remember the same concept that Imam Zayn عبدالله is trying to teach us do not look at the size of the sin look at who you're singing against on the same reference look at the size of the act of worship look at who is watching you which is Allah سبحانه وتعالى as we know charity something so tiny can save your life so many instances the Prophet of Islam he would tell his companions and he says to one of them he says this he says to a female he says your husband will die tomorrow in a journey the husband comes back from the journey she says what happened you've told me that my husband was about to die so I can ask him they go to the husband he says what have you done on this journey he says the only good thing that I've done is that I had two levels of bread I give one level of bread to a traveler he says that act of charity Allah سبحانه وتعالى saved your life he saved your life with an act of charity something so small in our eyes but great in the eyes of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so don't look at something so small that you do and that's in reference to all the smiling you say it's so simple Prophet what does he say to smile is an act of charity is an act of charity maybe someone is in a depressive mood as an example that smile may bring them towards you may make them in a cheerful mood may make their day you may think it's something small but it can be effective and something so small Allah has it in his eyes imagine you go out of your way imagine you go out of your way imagine you go into the bounties that Allah سبحانه وتعالى promised and that's having knowledge if we did not have knowledge we wouldn't have the application what did we say yesterday Islam comes down to your actions I'm going to repeat the hadith in case anyone missed it yesterday and Imam Ali عليه السلام says he says الإسلام هو التسليم الإسلام is submission التسليم هو التصديق to submit is to believe in Allah التصديق هو الأداء التصديق هو اليقين to submit is to acknowledge to acknowledge is to have certainty to have certainty is to adhere to act upon الأداء and after all that he says all that is encompassed in your actions العمل your actions is encompassed or is encompassing of everything prior to that الإسلام is in your actions when you talk to people the way you represent islam knowledge that's why we have to preach to ourselves especially to the sisters when you carry yourself you are the flag of islam you are carrying the name of you are carrying the name of sayyid azaynab make sure you carry it in the correct manner why? because it will have an effect both on muslims and non-muslims they are questioned they differentiate not only because you are muslim and non-muslim they will know that you are from this sect and you are not from this sect and I'll give you a short instance do you remember a couple of months ago maybe it was last year there was riots in the city who remembers the riots they go out and there was riots we found that they did it without any question without organizing with the police at the time they didn't have any information but with all that the police protected this parade a small group of people went towards the police a week after and they said we want to organize a parade and as soon as they came in they said you must be shia and we thought to ourselves we were thinking to ourselves hold on how does he differentiate he says do you remember the riots that happened last week? and we said yes of course that's why we are here we want to organize I know that's why you are here I know and this is not Muslims it says we know the difference between the people that are peaceful that represent peace the religion of peace Islam and we know the people that say that they represent Islam yet go against it straight away a person that's not Muslim that's in the police force he knew straight away by the way we acted and approached something that we were from a particular sect and that's the importance when we act in a particular manner and we want to tell the people that we are from the school of thought of Ahlul Bayt when Imam Hassan which we celebrate tonight teaches us the concept of morals and mannerisms when someone comes and it's a very famous story but we have to look at in the idea of education and knowledge because we know the way a person carries himself is in parallel relation to the knowledge that you have to the wisdom that you have that's why you find people of knowledge such as the Ahlul Bayt never spoke out of line and every word was specific wordings perfect wordings and exact what the people needed to hear a person comes towards Imam Hassan and curses him and his father what would we do let's put it into context if someone looks at us in a wrong manner yeah Habibi we have all the boys on speed dial don't we one word or you look at someone in a wrong manner everyone comes and after school Imam Hassan someone curses him and his father what does he do he waits for him to finish and then he says to the person he says maybe the air you seem like a traveler because maybe the air or the climate has affected you do you have a place to stay or would you like to have shelter in my house are you in need of food are you thirsty we will quench you we will feed you if you need clothes we will give you and clothe you what does a person do he is cursing he is an angry state imagine frustration anger all he wanted to do is to anger the Imam the Imam acts in this manner wisdom knowledge morals ethics the Imam says the person says to the Imam he says you are the household of the Prophet no other person would act in this manner صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم العجز والللم بداية لكي تعمل على ذلك التي تفعلها ونقلنا في أجل الله سبحانه وتعالى مع ذلك قلت أساعدني في تساعدة الصورة المباركة الفاتحة ولكن أجل ثلاثة من أجل صلواتك على محمد وآل محمد