 So I was asked to speak about the significance of ashura and alhamdulillah. It's a blessed day and There's a number of things that I would like to cover about this day both From the time of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and before his time as well as some of the historical events That happened on this day of ashura after his time, which was the martyrdom of Hussain radiallahu anhu so I Want to start with the original understanding of where why is it that this day is important for us as Muslims? Where do we get that? Why does this day have significance over other days? Well, we know in general that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has made certain days certain months certain weeks More sacred than other times. So we already know that their Ramadan is better than any of the other months We also know that there's four sacred months and even the Arabs of Jahaliya They used to recognize those four sacred months, which were Dhul-Hijjad, Dhul-Qaeda, and Muharram those three together So this is the third of those three and then Rajab and they would prohibit fighting wars So even in their Jahaliya even in their shirk their polytheism Associating partners with Allah with their worshiping idols. They had this recognition that there were certain times that were sacred They also Fasted on this day So the Arabs of Jahaliya would actually fast on this day and the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam before he was Scent as a prophet he would also fast on this day because he recognized of course He didn't he did not take part in the practices of the Arabs of Jahaliya that were repulsive He did he Allah preserved him from all of those things He preserved everything that you can read about the Arabs of Jahaliya and what they did the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Even before he was sent as a prophet stayed away from those things To the point that one time he was out in the as a as a young boy Early teenager he was out in the hills behind Mecca, you know Mecca surrounded by all these mountains and he was up in the mountains him and two other young boys from Quraish and they were tending to the animals and being Tending to the animals was like you would go out with the animals and camp out there. You would spend a lot of time so They they decided let's go to one of these weddings And so the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as a young teenager young boy and these two other people They decided to go and they made a deal of who would watch the sheep or the goats the animals while the others went to the To the wedding and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam of course as a young boy He went to attend this wedding and then along the way became sleepy and fell asleep And he said he didn't wake up until the the heat of the Sun of the next morning was warming his face So he Allah sent a sleep and made him sleep throughout the whole night So that he would not attend that wedding and in the Jahali of Arab So even before he was sent as a prophet Allah had protected him from practicing any of the the the Any practices that would go against what Allah was preparing him for for this for this prophethood With that said the practice of fasting on this day of ashura he would do so he recognized There's something special about this day even before he was a prophet He knew that this there was something special about this day later on when he When he came to Medina he found the Jewish people of Medina fasting on this day And he asked them according to a sahih hadith He asked them why are you fasting on this day? And they said that this is a day that Allah saved Musa alaihi sallam from Pharaoh So we know the story of exodus where Musa alaihi sallam and his people were oppressed under the The Pharaoh they were enslaved by his people then Allah sent messages and sent Musa to To call for on sent him with miracles and then eventually told Musa alaihi sallam to leave during the night And we know the story of the parting of the sea and the drowning of the Pharaoh and his army that happened on this day And so the Jewish people of Medina in to celebrate that and to commemorate that they would fast and This is the this is the the the path of the people of Allah that our celebrations We can have cultural celebrations Family celebrations where we make up new ways to celebrate that that are customary or cultural That's fine. There's nothing as long as it there's nothing wrong with that of course as long as it doesn't go against the sharia But the primary way that we as Muslims celebrate things is through worship is through Ibadah And so by those who observe the fast of this day or intend to fast it next year or Are doing something to make this day different through through any form of Ibadah Maybe it's extra dhikr extra Quran extra reflection whatever it might be Making this day special through Ibadah. That is our way as believers According to Imam al-Ghazali in his book Moukashafat al-Qulub Umar ibn al-Khattab was asked about this day and why was it special, right? Why was it something that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? He he recognized it as special before he was a prophet even after he was a prophet He he used to fast during this month of Muharram This was this was what he did and what his Sahaba did before Ramadan So that's also something for us to think about that the Muslims before Ramadan became the traditional month that everybody knew about fasting Muharram was was was was treated especially by fasting during this month, especially the day of Ashura, oh and of course one thing to mention about the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's response to the Jewish people when they said This was a day that Musa alaihi wa sallam was saved. He said and I have more of a right to Musa than you and This means this is a reminder to us that even if there's a group of people that claim that they follow Musa alaihi wa sallam There's a group of people that claim that they follow Isa alaihi wa sallam We follow the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and by default all of the other prophets And so Musa is our prophet before he's the prophet of the Jewish people in other words We we are following Musa alaihi wa sallam the way Musa would want to be followed We are following Isa alaihi wa sallam the way he would want to be followed if he were to walk into this room right now and Well, Isa alaihi wa sallam might walk in in the end of time It's a pot it's possible if he were to see if they were to see the three groups if Musa alaihi wa sallam were to see the Jewish people and Isa were to see the Christian people and the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam his umma is following him They both of those prophets we can say with 100% surety. They would say the umma of Muhammad you You're the ones following me You you're the ones following me Isa. You're the ones following me Musa alaihi wa sallam. We are preserving Their their their traditions. We're preserving their their names. We're preserving their stories We're also we're preserving their their their dignity and their honor No Muslim would accept for any prophet to be spoken of in a in a derogatory way Unfortunately the comedians the story writers the book writers the movie writers. They'll poke fun. They'll make fun of Musa alaihi wa sallam They'll make fun of Isa alaihi wa sallam People are very careful with the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam But the Muslims not only of course the prophet is is at the highest rank And our respect of him is at the highest rank But we don't want people to even joke about Isa alaihi wa sallam or about musa alaihi wa sallam So that's part of us fulfilling the tradition of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he said I have more of a right to be following musa now one interesting thing to note Is that even though this was a practice to fast the day of ashura and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Once he learned that the jewish people had this practice to commemorate the exodus and the Saving of musa alaihi wa sallam. He did something different with ashura. What is that? What is that? What was it that he did to make the fast of ashura different? To fast the day before and afterwards And he did that specifically to make sure that his community and their practice Was distinguished from the practice of the jewish people in other words not saying not coming and saying okay muslims We had this practice of saying of fasting ashura the jewish people are doing it So we can't do it anymore. No we can do it and we can even do it better because we have more of a right to follow And celebrate musa alaihi sallam, but we're going to put a twist on it. We're going to make something different We're going to fast a day before and a day Afterwards so that when people see the muslims fasting and the jewish people fasting They don't think that they're doing the exact same thing And this is a there's a deep lesson in this for us that the that the muslims should always Make sure that their actions And their traditions and the things they do have the mark of a muslim It has the mark of a muslim the signature of a muslim whatever it is Writing books creating organizations making a business doing a school whatever it might be We have something we should put something to say We're different As an example the Arabs the Arabs of jahlia used to keep long hair They all did so when we read about the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam keeping long hair It wasn't just that he did it All of the Arabs did it to the point that in one of the the pre islamic Age of jahlia There was a war between two tribes And they said we need something to distinguish each side from the other So we avoid friendly fire because if we both look the same as Arabs in our clothing in our dress In our hairstyle where somebody might mistake one of his comrades for the enemy So they decided that one tribe would shave their heads And that was to that that was to distinguish them so that tribe said okay We're going to shave our heads in other words. They all had long hair One of the people he loved his long hair so much. He said, you know, even though i'm from the shaved head tribe I want to keep my head long I'm just going to be careful and it ended up he ended up getting killed by friendly fire Because his own people thought that he was from the enemy I mentioned that story just to help us picture Arab society. Arab society Is not Saudi Arabia of today. It's not Egypt of today. It's not Morocco. It's not Sudan. It's not Oman, it's not any of the current Arab Arab nations So it's really important for us to to to understand the context of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam To go back and say okay. What was the original Arab society like like as an example What was the average? What did the average man in Arabia wear? Um, what did he wear? What was the garments? Isar a lungi So you see the Yemenis they kept that tradition And in the subcontinent they have that tradition Do any Arabs of today aside from the Yemenis and maybe the Omanis and the Emirates to a certain extent That lower Arabian Gulf. Do any of the Arabs wear Isars as part of their tradition? No, what did the Arabs wear the men around their shoulders? Arida, you know the the like the the shoulder cloth that the people put over their clothes They would actually that would be their cloth that would be their clothing like they would take it and like wrap it around their So maybe close to the way Scottish people, you know, like if they have like kilts and like a a woolen wrap That's very close to the way the Arab men and sandals Um So so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he kept his hair long. He did something different with it What did he do? He parted it down the middle And he parted it down the middle because the the Quraishi Arabs the mushrikine They they would not part it down the middle. And so he's going to keep his long hair Which is also the tradition of the Arabs and many of the mushrikine, but he's showing he says I want to do something different The Arabs wore turbans The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam wore a turban. How did he make his turban different? anybody He put a kufi under it. That's one way another way He wore a tail to the turban So when you when you tie the turban, you see a lot of people with with tails That is that's that's a that's a um a fashion That the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Established to to make his turban different than the mushrikine. Do you see what was happening here? He's saying i'm not going to completely go against to show that i'm different I'm not going to go completely against my people and their culture and their traditions. They have long hair I have long hair, but i'll part it They have turbans. I have turbans, but i'll wear a cap underneath or i'll have a tail or i'll do both So that when somebody sees him, you know at first glance You might not you you wouldn't be able to see the difference, but i'll give you an example in a funny story So when you see a muslim turban as opposed to a seek turban, you can all tell the difference right away, right? Can people who are not muslim were not seek can they tell the difference? No, so what happened after 9 11? There were people who Seek people like in texas and other places who actually were were shot and sometimes killed Because people thought that they were muslim because they had a turban So they can't from the outside they just see a turban. They can't see it's a very subtle difference We understand it because it's part of our culture. We we know that's so The funny story is i was going into 7 11 There was a lady She was coming out or going into the store and i saw her car was full of like pillows and luggage So i could tell she's a traveler and in any case whether or not she was a traveler I'm going to be nice and i held open the door and so she was like, oh, thank you because you know Some common courtesies now people don't do anymore. So sometimes people are a little bit shocked So she could see me. I had my my kids. They were getting into the van and she said, oh, oh, yeah Yeah, you're you're muslim I could tell you're muslim now listen how she can tell i muslim these are the signs that she knows that I muslim she said um, you're muslim because not only do you have a beard, but you also have a mustache And you do that so that you can be different than the Sikh people who don't keep mustaches I said, okay, all of us. This is I guess islam explaining This would like she's telling me about it's like no, that's not actually looking but she was sure about it And then she looked at my daughter and my daughter was in the back of the van She said, oh, yeah, and that's your wife in the back of the van In other words, yeah, you're muslim you put your wife in the back seat. I was like no a that's my daughter and b That's not that's not our tradition There was another time I was at a Whole Foods and I was checking like an ingredient on the bottom of something and a lady saw me And she's like, oh, what are you looking for? I was like, I explained to her the ingredients show forces said that's not a problem I said, oh, thank you. Uh, but uh In other words in a nice way. I can't remember exactly what I said, but I said thanks Or no, you know, but but uh, but no thanks Then I walked, you know, I was in the other part of the store and then here she comes again He's seeking missiles. She wants to tell me about islam and she said, you know I lived in a muslim country for so many years And nobody ever said that that ingredient was an issue and you're wrong about it And so then at that point I said, you know, I've studied this religion for about 10 years at that point It was about 10 years seriously like regular Studies and I know that this is you know, here's the issue and I started breaking that I gave her a fick lesson in the Hall in the isle way of Whole Foods But then I got away as quick as I could because then she was like, oh, yeah But you know, even it was something about an ingredient with alcohol And she said, well, you know, even in orange juice, there's some alcohol and so that's not an issue and so I said, okay I can't we're not really having a discussion when you're just Uh, it's slam-splaining to me So okay, so I use those stories to say that there's people on the outside when they see things They're they're not going to notice those subtleties But amongst the arab people when they would see a turban They know what their turbans look like so what a Sikh person when they see a muslim's turban Would they know that's not that's not a turban from our tradition. They know it So the mushriqeen of the Arabs when they would see a muslim with that signature tail style with the uh, with the uh, The the the kufi underneath or a cap underneath they would tell this is different So there's a powerful lesson there from the Sunnah of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam That we need to stand out. It doesn't have to be blatant stand out But we can put a subtle twist onto things So, uh, Imam al-Ghazali mentions in his book Mokasheft al-Qulub that Umar ibn al-Khattab was asked about Ashura And why it's so noble? And so he listed a few things Now one thing to note is that some of the significance of ashura We get directly from hadith and some of the hadith are sound. They're sahih hadith Some of them are weakened narrations and i'll mention one of those and what it is And then some of them are statements of the sahaba Like umar like this statement and then some of the statements are later people of who have given explanations of the Quran Now, where are they getting these stories? So if it's not from the hadith if the sahaba aren't learning it from the prophet who's telling them And they're talking about whatever subject it might be Where would the sahaba be getting information about previous times and scriptural knowledge? Where would they be getting this? Maybe my question wasn't clear If we have like on ashura, we only have a few hadith where the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is talking about ashura But then we have in the tafsir, we have all of these other narrations and we have umar making statements and umar How would umar know some of these pre prophetic things? How would he know that one of two ways? Either he heard it from the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And he's narrating it without saying the prophet said taught me this but usually that's not the case Or the sahaba would learn from the jewish scholars at the time and the christian scholars at the time like ka'b al ahbar Who was a jewish scholar who became muslim now when he became muslim He didn't completely give up all of his scriptural knowledge. He just said okay. This is islam It helps me know what's wrong from my scriptural knowledge But here's a lot of other things that I have And here you go and so the muslims had this tradition of taking what's called the israeli The stories of bani israel the christians and the jews and then passing them along and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us That we can preserve those stories We just don't necessarily have to believe it or reject it as long as it's not in clear contradiction of our dean and i'll give you some examples so um Two examples actually and this goes into i'm not going to this is not a discussion about evolution But these are interesting things that were mentioned by ibn abbas who must have learned who could have learned them from ka'b al ahbar and other jewish scholars But he says that that there are seven. We know that there are seven earths Just as there are seven heavens And so ibn abbas said that in each of the seven earths There is an adam like your adam And there is a musa like your musa and there is a isa like your isa and there is a muhammad like your muhammad Wow It's pretty interesting right what is what's going on there Now this is something that Various scholars had to contend with what's going on here One of my teachers murabat al hajj our main teacher He actually has a book where he talks about ambiguous hadith and eyes from the quran in other words Eyes and eyes and and a hadith that are not exactly clear like what is does that seem like a clear hadith? Doesn't like what's going on there? So he has his explanation and other scholars have given others could be a multiverse maybe maybe it's other planets Maybe it's other dimensions whatever it might be something's going on here. Now It's a statement which hadith means statement. It's a hadith of ibn abbas But did ibn abbas said qala rasulullah that the messenger of Allah said that no he didn't so He's taken from other from other people I'm not going to go too much into it But I think you get the idea that there's traditions that were collected and that we don't necessarily have to have to Have to reject and I mentioned this because some people might say When we're talking about ashura, let's stick to the sahih hadith. Well, okay, what about the da'if hadith? What about the weak hadith and I'll mention one of those. No, we should we should mention it Well, what about the isra iliyat? Can we mention those as well? Even if we don't have the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam telling us this But if the sahabah collected this from the jewish scholars and it was important enough for them to pass it along Well, there's something to be mentioned about that And so umar radi allahu anhu was asked about this day What's the significance of ashura and he said on this day? Allah created the skies and the earth and the preserved tablet on the loa This was the day that he created that on this day. He created the angel jibreel alaihi wasallam On this day, he created adam and hawwa alaihi wasallam on this day. He created jannah On this day, he enabled adam to be able to live in jannah alaihi wasallam And on this day the first rain on earth was on ashura So Allah is making certain days that are special And the the Allah told musa alaihi wasallam And of course this by extension all of the prophets to tell his people Remind them of the days of Allah those days that Allah has made special We don't know why but it is special and so we should know about that. We also know That that on this day according to another hadith That nooh alaihi wasallam after Being in the flooded earth in in the ark when the water started to recede and his mount and his ship Settled on uh, judi the mount judi. It was on this day This was the day that that happened in another narration The punishment that was supposed that was aimed at the people of yunus alaihi wasallam We know in that story Yunus alaihi wasallam was sent as a prophet jona to his people yunus ibn matta He was sent as a prophet to his people And he called his people and he called his people and then once he realized There's no hope. They are refusing my message. What did yunus alaihi wasallam do? He left But he skipped a step the step was what was the step that he skipped As a prophet You call your people You bring them glad tidings of jannah you warn them of a punishment not only in the akhira But that if you refuse my message you will be punished in this world and But then the prophet has to wait and he has to wait for permission from Allah to leave that place before the adab Before the punishment settles down on but yunus alaihi wasallam could see everything He could see their arrogance and they're rejecting of the message. He's called them. He's given them the warning He's telling the adab is here and he left and he left before Allah told him to leave Before he gave him permission to leave and so that's the way that's one of the reasons why when he was on the ship And the the the storms started happening the captain of the ship said wait a minute There's no storms of that nature in this season And so they said what is it? They said there is a runaway slave on our ship There's a runaway slave on our ship So yunus alaihi wasallam realized that and so the the tradition at that time is that If you if a storm comes out of nowhere And you have a runaway slave you throw the runaway slave into the into the ocean And so then yunus alaihi wasallam he realized it at that point. He said i'm the runaway slave I shouldn't have left the city before Allah gave me the permission because that was the order of things Now yunus alaihi wasallam did not do anything haram and the prophets don't do anything haram They can they cannot disobey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but when they do something that is lesser in status So basically if there's two good things And they do the lesser things then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could give them tadeeb. He's going to gently Remind them of what they should have done and so the story of swallowing being swallowed by the whale happens to yunus alaihi wasallam When yunus alaihi wasallam had left the city Soon after he left the city his people realized oh We need we need to accept the message now. We realize we got it but by that time yunus had left They actually left the city searching for yunus alaihi wasallam to tell him we now accept They could see the adab they could see the punishment on the horizon Like they could see the winds and the clouds whatever it was they could see the punishment on the horizon But it had stopped and normally once the the the sunnah of Allah that the the the the What happens normally Once the adab comes down. There's no turning back. There's no stopping it When the angels were sent to destroy the people of lute for their actions And that's very important for us to understand especially in this day and age When they were sent to destroy the people of lute alaihi wasallam and those angels came And they visited ibrahim alaihi wasallam to give him the good news about having a child ibrahim alaihi wasallam tried to plead with the angels to not destroy the people And that's where Allah says in the quran about ibrahim that he's halim. He's forbearing. He's very nice. He's gentle That's why he wanted those people to not to not be punished But that was it once the once the angels were sent That's it. There's no turning back a similar tradition of this is that once a prophet Once a prophet of Allah Dons his armor puts on his armor to go fi sabirullah. He does not take it off until he is engaged in battle And this is why there was a time one of the battles that the sahaba engaged in the prophets sallallahu alaihi wasallam sought their counsel. They decided war He went inside and put on his armor He came out and by that time the sahaba said well, maybe we should negotiate and he said that can't be the way Because the tradition of all of the prophets is once they put on their armor to go fi sabirullah They cannot take off their armor until they have engaged the enemy And so there are certain things certain sunan practices traditions that once they're once they're set in motion There's no turning back and that's what happens when the adab of Allah comes down on a people It will not be turned back. The only exception Is the people of yunus alaihi salam Because they they made an effort they recognized we need to go get him now We believe we'll go get him and that adab was on the horizon stayed and then left And that's the only time of all of the people the parish nations That adab was sent the people of ad and thamud and all of the others once the adab goes down It's no turning back The removal of that adab from the people of yunus Happened on ashura on this day According to the people of tefsir. So we can see once again. There's there's there's things that are happening on this day The the ship of nooh alaihi salam settles on the mount judi on this day And there's other there's many other things that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepted the forgiveness of adham alaihi salam on this day And according to a hadith and this is an amazing hadith when we hear it That adham alaihi salam when he asked for forgiveness He said to Allah. I ask you by the rank of muhammad Salallahu alaihi salam. He said I ask you by the rank of muhammad Now this is not shirk, of course. This is a messenger of Allah. They don't do any any shirk or any actions Um, this is this is this is just like if a person comes to do Um Intermediate bring somebody in like in the Arabs. They call it wasta, right? You need to have some bureaucracy pushed through the system bring somebody who's known You you're just bringing somebody who's known So he said I ask you by the rank of muhammad and Allah revealed to adham alaihi salam And he said how do you know the name of muhammad and I have not created him yet He said I looked onto the leaves in jannah And I saw written on every single leaf in jannah And I knew that you would only put the most beloved name to you after your name And so for that reason I ask you by the rank of muhammad to forgive me for my mistake And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgave him and according To some narrations that forgiveness happened on this day Ibrahim alaihi salam in the story where He was sent into the fire That that fire was is extinguished on this day Ayub alaihi salam Tribulated with all of the sicknesses his Relief from all of those illnesses happened on this day The vast kingdom of sulayman alaihi salam I mean imagine his kingdom not only does he have humans He also has shayateen as his servants that can help build his castles and go into the oceans and go into the mountains He can speak to the birds. They're in the army That happened on this day Yunus alaihi salam was taken out of The belly of the whale and forgiven on this day and is alaihi salam was raised to the heavens on this day as a Just to take a little break ibn abbas Rabi allahu anhu during his during his lessons He would sometimes take a break and he said bring in the poets We need to take a break with the poet. So one of my sheikhs he used to always joke He would always tell us jokes and so he told us a joke about the hood hood of sulayman alaihi salam So the joke is that um And allahu alam where this came from where this story came from But it was mentioned in the books that the hood hood the little bird Have you ever seen the it's in English is spelled h o o p o e if you've never seen a hood hood Type it in you know google look at the the picture of a hood hood because that bird is mentioned in the quran so the hood hood that little bird which is not much bigger than maybe a mockingbird or A robin even smaller than a robin Size-wise he invited the army of sulayman alaihi salam to dinner To food. He said you'll be my guest and the imagined this vast army Doesn't know how this little hood hood's gonna feed them all so he said meet me at the side of the ocean He went there. He took a locust Like a which is a big grasshopper looking thing in his beak and he dropped it into the ocean And he said man fatuhu lacham fal yashrab al maraq whoever doesn't get any of the meat go ahead and drink some of the soup Okay, so those are those are the many things that happen on this day. And so we know The the the special significance. There's many things that we can say about the special significance of this day if nothing else Then we can say that the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam used to fast it and we have sahih hadith That that that confirmed this there's other practices that have been accepted by the muslims about this day And they're established by some a hadith which are weak in narration And this is important for us to know. There's three types of hadith Sahih hadith sound hadiths lesser at a lesser level is hasan hadiths and then da'if hadith weak hadith There's a fourth type which is not a hadith, but it's a fabricated hadith So sometimes people would make up statements and say the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam said this That's a fabrication But those first three types he said it And in the the hadith da'if he most likely said it. It's just the strength of that hadith We we we're not going to take rulings akham except from sahih sound hadiths or hasan Again, I don't want to go into a a deep lesson But it is important because of something that relates to this day There is a hadith Narrated in the musnad of imam ahmad that the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi salam said that on this day you should do tosi'a To your family You should do extra things like, you know, normally if your budget your budget of spending. Oh, baba mama Can we buy this? Can we no? No? No, we gotta, you know, not but on this day You should be open arms. That's what's like go ahead and something extra doesn't it doesn't mention specifically what? But it's it's something that you just do That you do so do extra for your family And so for whatever you do for your family to do something special for them on this day is considered Something that can be done. Now some people might say, well, it's a hadith da'if. It's a weak hadith So we shouldn't be doing making a practice upon it Imam and know we who's one of the most the foremost scholars of of hadith He says by ijmaa by consensus of this umma You can take a weak hadith and do an extra action as long as we know. We're not going to Give extra importance to this. It's just an extra fadila that we're going to do Feefa da'il al amal and so that's that's permissible to do so if you if you choose to do that If you don't that's that's also allowed but if we see people doing the tradition of tosi'a and On ashura because of that hadith then we should not do inkar as if it's a fabrication Now On the topic of fabrication I want to segue into a historical event a very tragic and sad historical event that happened on this day And a discussion about ashura cannot be complete unless we have that Discussion and it is the martyrdom of hussain radiallahu anhu when hussain and Members of his family and his group were were killed by the by by yazid and his um and and and his army The reason why I mentioned fabrication to segue is that there are people within the muslim umma Who believe that all you see you see all of this that we said about ashura the hadith and all of those things We can see that it there's something special about this day Well, there's certain people that said oh all of that that you're talking about the fast of the prophet and the that the Arabs used to fast it in jahiliya and nooh alaihi salam ship and all of that stuff. You guys made it up That's what they say you made it up And you turned this into a day of fasting and celebration and like if you go to some countries like in egypt They have specific dishes right in any other countries where they have ashura dishes where they actually call ashura They have a specific specific dish that they make they give greetings like it's eid But they said you made all of this up to cover up the tragic event that happened to hussain And that could there's nothing that could be further from the truth than that because we know as the people of sunnah and the jama'a We know How our tradition is preserved and there's too much going on for all of those people to have made it up When we have people like oma confirming it and they've been abbas confirming it and then later scholars like imam ashafi and others confirming. Yes, there's something that happened on ashura previous to the the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam and we're going to Recognize it now with that said hussain radiallahu anhu Was martyred on this day I'm not going to go into it too much, but it is important for us to understand What happened on that day and who hussain was to the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam. It's enough to say That was his grandson That was hussain that when he would see him he would pick him up And sniff him as if the as if he was the sweetest fragrance and he was to him He said this is my rayhan of the dunya Like we all have something some people like the smell of roses some people like certain otor certain perfumes Everybody's got a a preferred scent that they love in this world That just I love that scent whatever it might be for some people it might be lavender some people Maybe it's green tea whatever it is everybody if I asked everybody you have two or three or four things that you It's really therapeutic When you when you smell it and you can't get enough of it For the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi salam that fragrance was hussain and hussain And we anybody whose parents you know when you pick up kids, especially young kids They have a certain scent And the sheikh say that's because of their their their distance from sins and from the noob um And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam used to used to pick them up and and and love them and kiss them And put them on his shoulders and and get on the ground and let them ride on his back and the Umar radiallahu anhu one time saw hussain and hussain riding on the the back of the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam And he said what a great riding animal they have So he loves them. He's he's you could imagine the the epitome of a grandfather and grandchildren and that love that they had between them And he said the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam about about hussain that hussain will Make a he will resolve a conflict between two great parties of the muslims He foretold this of what happened. This is important for us to know He also told us he could also you could also see in a lot of hadith the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam stressing to the umma Love my family Take care of my family in the quran it says the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam says i don't ask any edger from you nothing I don't want any money from you meaning in conveying this message in carrying that message that would have crushed the mountains If we sent this mountain down Upon a mountain it would have crushed it. He carried that message and he conveyed it to us He was patient with his people when they threw garbage on his back He was patient with the people of taif when they ran him out of his city throwing stones at him And earlier we mentioned about yunus ibn matta on the way back from taif while his Feet were his blessed feet were sticking to the sandals because the blood was drying from his feet And he stopped under the shade of a tree and two Arabs in a garden They could see him and they had compassion for him in his state Could you imagine being beaten and stones thrown and chased out of a city by the children and the insane people To add insult to injury. That's who they made them do they sent out their children To do that so they took compassion on him and they sent their slave Over to where he was And he with a plate of grapes And so the young servant put the grapes down and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam picked it up But before he ate one, what did he say? bismillah And the young man looked up and he said what is that you said I have never heard that Imagine he's amongst the mushrikine of the Arabs And he said he said, um, uh, what is your name? Addas, I think it is he said addas He where are you from from, um, uh Nin away He said you're from the city of my brother, you know, Sibnu matta. He said, how do you know you know Sibnu matta? You see the connection that's happening there He was a believer this young servant that had been taken in as a slave by the by the by the polytheist Arabs And he could see them never mentioning the name of Allah over their food like what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did with those grapes And so at that time, I mean if you it's a it's an amazing story to read the story of addas And read it when you have time and by yourself and just to reflect on the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in that state Coming back from taif He carried that message And he was there at bedr And he was there at uhud when they knocked out his when they knocked out his teeth And when his when his helmet was hit so hard that it stuck to his skull and one of the sahaba had to pull it out And use his teeth and and lost some of his teeth pulling him out it out He was there in mecca when benny hasham had the the the embargo placed on them for three years He did all of that to convey the message and he said la as alakum alaihi ajra I don't I don't want anything No no payment for me conveying the message except Except what one thing He asked for one thing Love my family Love my family. That's it All of what he did for us sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He doesn't want anything from us except that we love his family Now when we look at it, some people might say Okay, we understand it the family some other people might say well, we don't want to create a dynasty in islam or Uh, uh aristocracy in islam. What is this? What is this love of ahlul bait that's going on well? We know first and foremost if the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is guiding us to this There's something important about it if he tells us eddibu oladakum ala thalati khisaal Raise your children give them eddib have them have manners on three things Love of your prophet We'll have the alibi to he and love of his family and recitation of the quran as an interesting If you want to look at like the philosophy like Philosophy of education. There was a man a great alam sheikh salih al-ja'fari Who was from sudan? And his grandfather was from egypt, but he was a few generations into sudan and he was born in sudan in a small city Sheikh salih al-ja'fari Was known to be a righteous man from the time he was a young child Even as a young child As a young boy, he wanted his mom and dad to have a mushaf right next to him So if he ever woke up in the middle of the night, he wants to grab the mushaf and read from the mushaf Now we might put a phone next to our kids. Oh just if you wake up just, you know, watch something Listen to something listen to something or something Salih al-ja'fari sheikh salih al-ja'fari wanted to have a mushaf next to him He said and we can believe him to be truthful in what he said that every time I close my eyes and sleep I saw the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam I saw the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam He studied in sudan. He memorized the quran. He began his early studies there. Then he went to azhar And when he was in azhar He studied with a number of scholars one of the scholars that he created a close connection with was sheikh sheikh habibullah Wild mayaba One of the one of the mayaba one of the the children of mayaba It was a family of 12 scholars men and women who left moritania when the french invaded Because they were of the opinion that once the kufar are in control of a land you have to make hijra And so they left And so they left and they went to mecca and madina and then some of them Settled back habibullah sheikh habibullah settled in egypt as a scholar of hadith His brother muhammad al khadr settled as the mufti of the malikiya in madina And then he left with the hashemi family into jordan and he became the first hashemi Qadi in the hashemi kingdom of jordan a little short history there my dad's from jordan I was born in jordan. So I have to put that in there Sheikh habibullah wild mayaba was teaching hadith in in azhar and sheikh salih al ja'fari was his student But sheikh salih al ja'fari was so Such a special soul. He didn't like to see other people disobey Allah He didn't like to see maasiyah And so he came to his sheikh sheikh habibullah and he said I can't finish my studies in azhar because Cairo is too big of a city. There's too many people that are disobeying I want to go back to my small village in sudan so that I can be away from people who are disobeying Allah so sheikh habibullah said go to the um Go to the market and and bias a roasted was Duck or would it be goose? Goose a roasted goose. How big is that animal going to be so we can eat it together He brought it sheikh salih al ja'fari brought it back And he set it down and so he thought he and the sheikh are going to both eat from this meal The sheikh sheikh uh muhammad habibullah the moritanian sheikh who's the hadith scholar in in azhar He said no I already ate go ahead and eat by yourself And so now he has to eat this entire goose By himself and he ate and he ate and he ate until he was like super full He couldn't eat anymore then sheikh habibullah said now it's time for dessert He said sheikh after I've eaten all of this. I don't have any room for dessert He said salih you have filled your heart with obedience of Allah You don't have room for disobedience Don't worry. The people of this area in kairu will not affect you You will not be affected just like you're not going to be tempted by that dessert after you've You've satiated your hunger from that roasted goose. You have no more room for for sweets You're not going to have room for for disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And so with that nasiha from his sheikh sheikh salih al ja'fari completed his education in azhar Became one of the foremost hadith scholars even as a student if sheikh habibullah imagine you're teaching hadith in azhar What does that mean? And when habibullah would not be able to take the the the the dars sheikh salih al ja'fari Would would would substitute for him and then he went on you can see his you can see his picture I encourage you to look up his picture. You can see some of his durus that he gave What's interesting about sheikh salih al ja'fari is that he had an immense impact on people And people later asked him what what is it that guides you in your Speeches and in your lessons to people. He said I focused on three things I want people to love the prophet I want people to love his family And I want people to read the Quran And if you look at all of his lectures and his books and his works You can see that's what he's guiding us towards and so just go home on youtube tonight and type in salih Al ja'fari and listen to some of those nashid specifically about love of the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And I guarantee you if you listen to it with an open heart You will not finish that without tears running down your your face And you will increase in your love and your respect for the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam So he's taking that sheikh salih is from that hadith I'm saying this to say that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is preparing his umma for something By teaching them love my family. Why? Because if you're connected to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that's a blessing And normally what happens when people have blessings other people become jealous of it Yusuf alaihi wa sallam had a blessing his family became jealous of it adam alaihi wa sallam had a blessing Iblis became jealous of it. And so the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is preparing his umma for this because what happened throughout history There were atrocities There were massacres By the governments against the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam it happened It happened so much that at the time of umar ibn abdu l-aziz. He instituted a new tradition In the khutbas That was not stated before he said this ayah needs to be mentioned in every single khutba Inna Allah abdu l-adli wa l-ihsan Wa ita idil qurba Verily Allah commands to justice adin and ihsan goodness and give to your family He wanted that from the members of the umma if you how many of you have gone to a khutba and you hear the last khutba end with that That's from umar ibn abdu l-aziz and that's to send a message to the umma Taking care of relatives is part of our deen and so if taking care of your own relatives is part of your deen What do you think about taking care of the relatives of the rasul alaihi sallatu sallam? He wanted that message to go out there to get people to stop in their tracks Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who didn't like this We have to stop at 815 right so in seven minutes. I'm not going to go into all of the details I'm also recognizing the the age levels of the crowd for the older people It's important to understand what happened for the younger I would say for parents and family members Focus let your children know about the family of the rasul alaihi sallatu sallam Do we know the names of his aunts and uncles? Do we know the names of his wives? Do we know the names of his children? Do we know the names of his grandchildren? Do we know the names of the of the those are the ahlul bait the early ahlul bait at that at that time? That's something that that we need to do and we can do it as a method Of following the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Additionally, we want to know some of the history Ali radiallahu anhu was assassinated there was turmoil afterwards There was a split between two groups and hasan radiallahu anhu. He should have been the rightful khalifa afterwards But he gave up his haq his right to avoid a civil war And that affirms what the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said about hasan that he will resolve a conflict between two great armies of the muslims, but the the the The the understanding was that once that khalifa passes away. It'll go back to hasan hasan died mysteriously some said by poisoning And even his children and his children's children Kept getting attempts as of assassination onto them to where his grandson hasan's grandson fled and ended up where? in morocco idris moray idris And he established the city of fas His idris is kabeer. He married a a a berber woman by the name of kinza And that started fas the amazing history of fas was started by a great great great great grandson of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam fleeing political persecution his son idris the the second built out the rest of Fas and there's an amazing story about that many generations later There was actually an attempt. Well, I don't want to go into all of it too much But there's a history that history continues and fleeing to the point that there was so much Atrocities against the al el bait, especially the adarisa that some of them changed their last names So there's families like the rumari family that are actually adarisa But they took on the name rumari so that they would cloak that they're adarisa because they were literally being hunted down And some of them traveled back to the east and so then now you get adarisa all the way in in yemen and And and and beyond and into iraq What happened hussain radi allahu anhu he recognized that he had a right to be the khalifa the son of muawiyah yazeed Was was the was had the rulership at the time a group in the people of of baqdad Asked said if you come to us, uh, we'll we'll we'll we'll um We'll follow you. I don't want to go into all of the history. We don't have the time in in short Hussain had some people who accepted he said let's let's let's go Let's trust the people others even some of the great sahaba tried to convince him not to go And they convinced him even as he was he went from medina to mecca and from medec mecca Some of the great sahaba with tears in their eyes were saying don't go don't go they're going to they're going to um They're they're tricking you don't believe that he had hope that they would recognize him to be the the the The rightful ruler but in the place of karbala Which some of his group said once the once the atrocity began They said how ironic it is that the place that this is happening This atrocity is happening is in a place that in arabic means karb and bala karb means um Very sad event Like not even not even sad event something worse like a karb like a like a devastating event What's that a tragic yeah karb means a tragic devastating event bala means tribulation And so that's where the meeting of the two armies happened They had no the azid's army had no rahmah for the people of hussein and they it ended in a massacre It ended plus with the decapitation of hussein and his head being taken back to yazid And the head being taken eventually to where it's now reported to be in Cairo in a masjid where it's in a mazalim there and it's recognized as the as the as the place of where And of the the the two grandchildren He was the one who looked most like the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam So you can imagine like how evil That person had to have been to to get to that point So we don't we don't actually have time to go into it more But it is a sad event you could see when the first part when i'm talking about the significance of ashura It's it's a happy feeling we get into the tragedy We see it's going down. That's who we are the people of sunnah and the jama'a We can recognize two things at the same time. We can recognize there were many blessed things that happened on this day And there was a tragic thing that happened on this day as well We just make sure that our our even our mourning For for that tragedy that happened and we can still mourn for it We can still be saddened and we should be saddened when we read about that But we don't rip our clothes because the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that when some of you passes away Don't rip your clothes. Don't slap your cheeks And so we know that from the sunnah of the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that we can That we can mourn but we do so in accordance with his sunnah. I had wanted to leave time for four questions I know this is Five minutes, maybe five minutes quick questions. Yes. Yeah, so the question was we we mentioned about the The the narration of umar radi allahu anhu and the significance of this day And we also know that the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that the friday is the best of of days And is it safe to assume that this is almost like a double blessing? And yes, we can say that we can say when there's a convergence It's just like when when when juma, uh, when juma and arafah happened on the same day Or when juma and aid happened on the same day or when juma and ashura happened on the same day We can say that yes, this is a this is an extra blessing for it to happen And even if we even if you know aside from just uh, like you said you take those two narrations You put them together and you get like a result you can feel it Can't you feel it? Who can feel it just with a knot of the head like today today's ashura is a little different because it falls on juma So that's also another thing, you know that we we don't base our sharia on feelings But we also recognize as human beings. Yes, we can have that, you know, we can have that recognition any other questions Yes What's that the jews I don't know, um, I did a little cursory Kind of search to because as I I believe is it yom kapoor that is the day of of exodus Right And so, um, I don't know if they fast does anybody know if the the jewish people have a tradition of fasting I don't know. Yeah Oh, they fast on a sunday. Okay. Do they have maybe that's homework? We can all do a crowd source it I don't know. I just did some search online yom kapoor, which is yom kabir big day Um happens. I think their calendar is different. So it's it's it's in september this year So I don't know that would be interesting. I actually personally don't know So if anybody digs into that the history of how did the jewish people in medina Fast on that day is ashura and it coincided with the arab calendar of ashura And how does that reflect today? I don't know That has anybody looked into it at a deep level? Great question though Maybe one or two more questions Yes Oh, great question. I had mentioned about the great great grandchildren. Are there any books or resources? There are in arabic There are some that have been translated into english. It is one section of literature that needs to have more Written about it. There are some translation of sheikh salih al jafari's books. So if you type in Salih al jafari, there are more poems about the family To know their names There is a website that has even charts that you can print out with like the families and the lineage and where they are One place where they do have a lot of recognition actually two countries where they have a lot of recognition I would say maybe even three Egypt Any egyptians in here? You can go to there's there's a mazar you can go some of the the one of the aunts of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Sayyidina fisa is there and so there's there's some some information But it's mostly in arabic maraco also has a has a big tradition of recognizing that um And to a certain extent in iraq and i'm speaking specifically about the sunnis of iraq because I'm speaking completely from a sunni tradition in terms of our recognition in respect of ahlul bait Um, there's nothing that I does anybody know if there's anything in english? okay, um Yeah, I'm not I'm not aware unfortunately, so what what you can do though is you can you can you can you can find it from different websites So you can like just uh research it and you'd have to create your own Maybe one final question. All right. Barak Allah. Thank you. May Allah bless you And i'm uh honored to to be able to to to speak here and please forgive me if I've misspoke and on anything