 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وآله الطاق صلى الله عليك يا سيدي ورزقنا الله في الدنيا زيارتك وشفاعتكم في الدنيا والآب أما بعد فقد قال سيدنا ومولانا الإمام الباقر صلوات الله وسلامه من لم يجعل الله له من نفسه وان فإن مواعظ الناس لن تغني عنه شيء صدق مولانا الإمام الباقر صلوات الله وسلامه these days we commemorate two tragedies one on the fifth of the hijjah or around the fifth of the hijjah the loss of the great imam Muhammad الباقر صلوات الله وسلامه علي and shortly after although in a different year of course we also commemorate the tragedy of the loss and the martyrdom of muslim ابن عقيل صلوات الله وسلامه عليه and muslim a link that links them both together is the tragedy of karbala although muslim ابن عقيل died or was martyred before the tragedy of karbala and imam الباقر عليه السلام was martyred after many years in fact after the tragedy of karbala yet imam الباقر was present in karbala he was about three or four years old and so he witnessed the tragedy and muslim ابن عقيل is the ambassador of imam الحسين صلوات الله عليه تكوفه and he is a very great personality both of those if we take a look at their lives we can learn a lot of important lessons but let's take a look at the حديث of imam الباقر صلوات الله عليه that i started the session with today the حديث says the imam صلوات الله عليه says من لم يجعل الله له من نفسه واعضا the one who الله صبحانه وتعالى does not keep an admonisher someone who gives him admonishment from himself من نفسه واعضا فإنما واعضا الناس لن تغني عنه شيئا indeed such an individual who does not admonish himself no matter how much those people then admonish him it will not benefit him it will be useless what does admonish himself mean we have in the حديث the significance of تفكر spending time to reflect in fact the quran constantly praises those who do تفكر يتفكرون reflect and الله صبحانه وتعالى says الذين يذكرون الله قياما وقعودا وعلى جنوبهم ويتفكرون في خلق السماوات والأرض those who reflect in the creations of the heavens and the earth reflecting when people reflect from within themselves they think and they say i need to become a better person that kind of reflection is what we're thinking about and we're talking about the reflection where we question ourselves and our actions how can i become better if a person does not do this regularly regularly when he does غيبة he says to himself why did you do غيبة why did you back bite someone else what are you going to tell الله صبحانه وتعالى how did you slander someone else when someone plots to hurt a mu'min or has an agenda to hurt a community or a society or a nation or humanity one needs to think what am i going to do on the day of judgment when Allah asks me why did you do this and you think you can hide from Allah you think you can say no no no i meant this الله صبحانه وتعالى says he knows the unseen the hidden and the seen what you hide وما تخفص صدور and what the hearts hide a person may come in front of you say yes i love you i care about you i respect you behind your back stabs you comes to you says well done mashaAllah you do a great job the next day he goes and talks about you such people they don't really sit down and admonish themselves what are we doing in dunya when were we going to learn to love each other and respect one another such people no matter how much you speak to them it's like falling on deaf ears no matter how much you admonish them it won't help unfortunately that's why i tell my some of my youths my brothers and sisters how difficult is it to let go of haram music let go of it let go of it how difficult is it for our sisters to wear the hijab put it on how difficult is it to respect one another how difficult is it to pray salat on time but sometimes unfortunately because of all this because there is no self admonishment there is no self reflection there is no time spent where the human being starts thinking that how am i going to respond to Allah subhanahu و تعالى how am i going to face the akhira the consequences that will come Imam al-Sajjad sallamullahi alaih in du'a abu hamza thumali this beautiful du'a he describes the stages when the soul leaves the body he says sallamullahi alaih ايدي احبتي وتفضل عليها ممدودا على المغتسلي يقلبني صال حجيرتي وتحنا عليها محمولا قد تناول الأقرباء طراف جنازتي وجد علي من قولا قد نزلت بك وحيدا في حفرة ورحام في ذلك البيت الجديد غربتي he says oh Allah have mercy on me ورحمني صريعا على الفراش dying on my bed and my family is looking at me around me have grace grace me oh Allah when i am lying on the table being washed and my my friends and my relatives are turning me embrace me oh Allah with your mercy with your compassion as i am being carried by my loved ones help me oh Allah when i am alone in my new home this is the reality this is self-admonishment this is an example of self-admonishment when a person reflects and thinks how can i change myself self-admonishment is very important Imam الباقر عليه السلام emphasizes on it he says anyone whom Allah does not give him self-admonishment now why does Allah give him so someone will say well Allah didn't give it to me it's he does he gives it to you as a consequence of your action when you remember Allah he will remember you when you get closer to him he'll come closer to you فذكروني اذكركم you remember me and i will remember you واللذين جاهدوا فينا لنهدينهم سبولنا and those who struggle to find our path we will guide them to our path so there is that initial struggle that the human being has to go through and then Allah will guide you Allah will take care of you so when the person shows that attitude Allah will help him guide him and he will reflect and remember he will learn what is right and what is wrong what is true and what is false people used to come to Imam الباقر سلام الله عليه people who are not followers of the Imam سلام الله عليه they would sit in front of him trembling one of them says i sat in front of many علماء but he tells Imam الباقر i have never been shaken overwhelmed the way i am sitting in front of you the Imam tells him because do you know why because you're sitting in homes in places اذن الله ان يرفع و يذكر فيها اسمه في بيوتن اذن الله you're sitting in homes that are not just made of clay no these homes الله سبحانه وتعالى has given permission for them to be elevated of course not physically but in their spirituality you سبح له فيها بالغدوي والاصال there is constant remembrance of Allah and the echo of Allah in these homes these are the Imam سلام الله عليه those علماء sat down in front of these علماء in front of the Imam سلام الله عليه these so-called scholars but did they change did they become followers of the Imam no unfortunately you wonder how come سبحان الله when you see the truth is so clear here is the Imam سلام الله عليه ask him any question and he responds and they have no answer but subhanallah this is when a person does not really do self-admonishment self-reflection and this is not just about us and Allah but within the society about our interaction with the society it is said back in the old days there was a man by the name of حسن الخياط خياط means the tailor he lived in a particular city one day a visitor came to the city back in the old days people did not have banks did not have safes so when a traveler would travel bring for example some gold some money he would be worried to keeping it all for example in one place and for example the hotel or places of residence he'd be worried because there were so many thieves back then so what some people used to do is they would go around and they would ask people in the city is there a virtuous man a pious man in the city he was well known for his piety virtue and they would guide him to someone and he would give the money as a loan or basically as a safe as a trust with that individual a visitor came to the city he asked around about some virtuous man pious man they pointed him to some businessman he goes to the businessman indeed he looked like a virtuous man a good man a pious man he gave him some gold he said i have some gold i would like to leave it with you please he said sure no problem after some time he went back to this businessman told him can i have my gold back please he said what gold he said the gold i left with you i said i've never seen you it's my first time seeing you the man said please remember this is though i gave you some gold and he said no you know interestingly some people say look these are the people of religion because sometimes we hear this accusation look these are the religious people i mean what's the point of praying صلاة when people cheat and lie it's better not to pray and mean being like this at least i don't cheat and lie that's some people what's the point of wearing hijab when those people who wear hijab these ladies who wear hijab they're so much for example they hurt others they backbite they do this what's the point at least i don't wear hijab but i don't do these things we say first of all this is not a valid argument it's an invalid argument الله سبحانه وتعالى said do the صلاة so you have to do the صلاة because you're disobeying الله otherwise now if some person prays and steals for example or hurts people or a person wears hijab and backbites and hurts that does not mean we say the whole concept is bad the whole thing is bad this is the accusation against islam these days people see some muslims doing some things or people calling them muslims they're not even muslims they don't even understand a thing of islam they don't even understand a letter of the quran they see them doing something wrong and then they say look here is what islam is all about it's not islam it's not islam similarly this is not the way to practice we tell those people those who pray and for example steal we tell them you are praying to الله you have to understand the virtue of صلاة the virtue of صلاة means you have to stop doing these things that lady who is not who's wearing hijab and she's backbites and when عيادة بالله everyone hates her and does not like to speak to her because of her attitude and actions we tell her you are a مؤمنة you have good manners you need to have good manners you wearing the hijab this is the hijab of فاطمة سلام الله عليها that's the admonishment we say here imam we have a hadith from the imam he says imam صلاة الله عليها says the honest person did not steal from you did not cheat you did not betray you but you trusted that dishonest person you trusted that dishonest person the honest man would not cheat you a truly honest man honorable man a man with integrity even if you give him one dollar he'll find you and give it back to you if he can he'll give it back to you but at this honest no matter how much you give him it will not give it back to you even if he appears honest we have that unfortunately some people in the community so many cases we've seen of an older brother or a younger brother for example stealing the inheritance although he comes to mosque prays good مؤمن on the outside but he's stolen his brothers and his sisters inheritance or even sometimes worse they steal their nephews or nieces inheritance because they have orphans so they steal their inheritance والعياض بالله and they leave them like this and we've seen cases like that والعياض بالله such individual what islam is this what إيمان is this of course he's a muslim but we tell him go up the notch remember Allah and fear Allah and give give them money back so we try to admonish them we try to admonish them because Islam does not teach dishonesty going back to the story this man this businessman appeared to be as a pious man but he turned out to be a dishonest man this visitor became very depressed he said now what am i going to do who's going to believe me now if everyone in the city praises him thinks he's a good man he's a virtuous man a pious man who's going to believe me so he was walking there on the street depressed a man a local person saw him he said what is the matter stranger he said you know what this is my story but who's going to believe me this the local man told the stranger go see حسن الخياط حسن the tailor and he will be able to help you the man said are you serious he said yes the visitor said you know what well i've lost my money anyways so what's the point you know let's go see this حسن the tailor what works can happen i already lost my gold he walked around he asked where is حسن الخياط حسن الخياط he thought maybe حسن الخياط this حسن the tailor is a wealthy man an influential figure maybe he's got some authority some great person he comes he sees a man sitting against a wall and he's stitching he does not even have a shop so he paused for a second and he asked around he said is this حسن الخياط told him yeah that is حسن الخياط he thought to himself he said maybe that local man was you know fooling with me you know he was maybe making a joke with me telling me go see حسن الخياط but is this guy he can't even help himself you think he is going to help me so he started hesitating should i talk to him should i not and he said you know what forget it i don't think this guy can help me at all look at him he's so poor he doesn't even have a shop and he turned around and he wanted to go حسن الخياط looked at him noticed him he called him he said stranger he turned around he said were you looking for me the stranger you know couldn't say no at this stage he said yes he said what's your story he told him this is my story حسن الخياط told the stranger go back to that businessman tell him حسن الخياط حسن the tailor says give me back my gold or else he will go and do the this visitor is thinking again is this guy what is this city that local told me go see حسن الخياط حسن الخياط is a person who can't even help himself this poor tailor sitting doesn't even have a shop he stitches on the on the on the street and now he's telling me go tell that businessman who's he seems to be a wealthy man you know a rich person go tell him that حسن tells you give me back my gold or else i'm what is this not says you know are they fooling with me are they thinking i'm you know what حسن told him trust me go and say this and see what happens you know this man said you know what well i've got nothing to lose anyways he's already taken my gold so what else can happen if the visitor goes back to this businessman and he tells him i just came from حسن الخياط he says give me back my gold or else he will go and do the this man said حسن الخياط huh wait wait خلص خلص he goes and he brings the gold and says here you go this man was shocked سبحان الله i was with him the whole time telling him يا أخي you know give me back my money my gold you know i am a stranger here is this how we treat your visitors your guests and so on nothing works i mentioned the name of a poor tailor and him doing the ادان it really moves and shakes this guy so he came very curious he goes back to حسن الخياط this this visitor now that he's got his gold he tells him حسن what is your story man and what what is the story of this ادان of yours he says a while back one night after praying صلاة العشاء i was in the masjid i prayed صلاة العشاء and then i headed back home back in those days brothers and sisters people after صلاة العشاء used to sleep you know there was there were no lights for example there were no tvs internet things that entertainment people would do there's nothing to do at night so people used to sleep after عشاء and wake up for صلاة الليل pray then pray صلاة الفجر and stay up the whole day so at night it becomes dark and the city becomes dead after عشاء it becomes dead الله in this city of Edmonton mashaAllah it's also similar to this maybe they've taken some of the tradition you know and hence the name deadmonton you know nonetheless he said after صلاة العشاء i went back to my house i saw a man attacking a woman i looked carefully i noticed this is the chief of the police the head of the police he is attacking a woman and no one is around and he grabbed her attacked her and took her to her to his house and she was begging for help but no one is helping some people were afraid because he is the chief of police if they will but what can you do to the chief of police especially back in those days if you mess with him he will finish you and maybe even finish your whole family because he's got the power he's got the authority he's got the influence so people were scared and i sat down but i don't know what can i do i can't go help her i can't i can't go physically help her but that's where i sat down and reflecting and i thought to myself حسن how can you sit down doing nothing he had the self admonishment that is the what we call in sometimes it may be called as the conscious the conscious kicks in the self that starts making you feel guilty and that self Allah has that mechanism Allah has put it in every human being so that he would guide him to the right path he would feel guilty and repent and go back to Allah سبحانه وتعالى but some people choose not to so حسن says i sat down thinking i can't keep quiet like this someone is being harassed someone is being attacked and i'm doing nothing لا i can't be satisfied with myself so i don't know what to do what can i do i said then something came to my mind i went next to the sultan's palace the sultan's palace and i started doing adhan and so on and so forth at night the sultan got up the king got up he started shouting from the window who is this arrest this man i'm trying to sleep they arrested him said bring him here cut his head off حسن said wait wait you didn't ask me why i was doing this sultan said well why were you doing this he said this is what i saw i saw the chief of police attacking a woman and taking her to her to his house and she's begging for help and no one is able to help her and that's why i woke you up your majesty because you are just and you don't like oppression and justice must be served sultan told him he said we'll see if you're truthful he sent some guard with حسن he says go with حسن خياته that house of this chief of police they go and surely they do indeed find him with that lady and she's begging for help so they do arrest him they arrest him they bring him to justice at night the king before the king and he gets punished the chief of police the sultan then becomes impressed with حسن الخيات he tells him حسن you did such a wonderful job every time in the city you hear or you see someone being oppressed and injustice is being committed against somebody come and say the اذان immediately now you've gained my trust just say your words are enough now your testimony is enough that so and so has oppressed someone or someone so has been injustice against someone that's enough and hence people became scared of حسن الخياته this self-admonishment is very important because of someone does not really admonish himself does not think about the consequences of his actions his life then he will lose دنيا and آخره and this brings us to مسلم ابن عقيد that حديث is taught by إمام الباقر عليه السلام and he's teaching it to us the شيع my dear brothers and my dear sisters because he wants us to be the best weekend one day a group of شيع came to إمام الباقر عليه السلام they came to him and he was admonishing them he noticed they were not paying attention to him can you imagine sitting with إمام الباقر عليه السلام and he's admonishing you and you're playing around you're not paying attention that he became angry with them he said my words if they were to fall on a heart it would pierce that heart it means the words of wisdom the words of awakening the words that wake human being up on a heart he is referring to a heart that's alive a living heart a heart that can understand when you listen to the words of the إمام the words of admonishment indeed they pierce your heart pierce your heart they wake you up so إمام does not want us to be like these individuals they were also شيع الباقر عليه السلام and followers of the إمام they came to see him because they love him they respect him that's why brothers and sisters always always think about الله and think about your actions and ask yourself what am i doing in my life have i hurt someone have i taken stand with my brother or my sister against a poor lady or a poor man or a poor orphan because he is my brother or she is my sister i have hurt someone badly then what am i going to say to الله on the day of judgment have i taken someone's wealth have i attacked someone have i mistreated somebody do the self-admonishment when you do the self-admonishment then you'll find that when people admonish you there will be an impact impact مسلم ابن عقيل came to kufra people of kufra supported him initially stood with him but then when ابن زياد came he started spending money spreading fear into their hearts they did not think about their أخرى imagine if the people of kufra supported Imam Hussein ابن زياد would not have been able to even get power of it where would he get the power the support nobody they would have destroyed ابن زياد history would have changed but they became cowards the admonishments of مسلم ابن عقيل started falling on deaf ears deaf ears because those people did not realize that they're being imprisoned for eternity they're giving up their freedom they're becoming enslaved when they brought the head of Imam الحسين عليه السلام before عبيد الله ابن زياد a blind man called عبد الله ابن عفيف العزدي he lost one eye fighting with Imam Ali on صفين and the other one in جمل one in جمل one on صفين and he became blind true sheeha a lover of ahlul bayt when he saw abaid الله ابن زياد or when he heard him beating the head of Imam الحسين عليه السلام الله عليه he got up and he said remove your hands from the lips of abbi abdillah oh people of kufra may you be cursed for allowing him to become your leader indeed you have submitted to slavery you've enslaved yourselves indeed and then he was captured and killed صلام الله عليه this was a brave man it was a brave man this abdallah they captured him and he continued fighting until they captured him he said when i was always praying to Allah to give me شهاد i'm not for them but when i lost my eyes and i became blind i lost hope of شهاد but now i guess today Allah has accepted my dua and indeed Allah granted him شهاد if people had thought this way they would have supported Imam Hussein but sometimes we don't think about the consequences we think of today we don't think of tomorrow what will happen we don't have a vision we don't have self-admonishment time to reflect if i deviate some people in the community or in the society what are the consequences what will happen we don't think about this but rather we think of the wealth and the power that's what we think about if i stab someone in the back in the community what will happen what goes around comes around subhan Allah you heard someone today you heard someone today you badmouth someone today and you do it in the front of everyone tomorrow the same thing will be done to you wait and see Allah is just it may happen 20 years later 30 years later but it will happen people don't have the vision the time you know one day one of the sheikhs may Allah bless his soul he says i was at someone's house then we hear you know some fighting crying shouting we go out of the house i see an old man fighting with a young man the young man then slaps the old man and run away i asked what's going on they say this old man is the father the young man is the son والعيادة بالله he slapped his father والعيادة بالله i told the father he started crying i came to him the son that ran away everyone is looking at him he became embarrassed he ran away the father looked at the the sheikh the sheikh looked at the father and said yeah sheikh yeah yeah old man don't worry about him you know these are young men sometimes they don't take what they do they don't realize what they're doing so don't cry try to comfort the old man the sheikh may Allah bless his soul the sheikh the old man looked at the sheikh says sheikh i'm not crying because he hit me said because 40 years ago i hit my father same way he did الله has given it back to me now 40 years later i remembered what i did to my father that's why i'm crying what goes around comes around people don't realize this this is dunya justice will be served justice will be served when you hurt someone you will be hurt muslim ابن عقيل because of this people left him all alone they did not think he lost all his supporters and then one day he comes and he prays in the masjid looks behind no one is behind him praying nobody he walks out on the streets alone and old lady takes him in after she recognizes he is muslim ابن عقيل the ambassador of imam al-fusayn سلام الله عليه he spends the night at her place then unfortunately her son discovers that muslim is there he goes and he tells الله ابن زياد they send him the army the army comes in the morning and starts attacking muslim ابن عقيل he starts fighting bravely the army keeps on sending to obey الله ابن زياد send us more men and more men he fights them bravely and they keep on asking for more men to fight against him until obey الله ابن زياد said to them i sent you to capture one man i did not sent you to capture an army why do you need so many men they told him is this an ordinary man you told us to go capture this is muslim ابن عقيل this is one of the swords of bani hasham he comes from that noble family the bravery he is not an ordinary man send us more men they sent him about 1000 men just to fight one man and he fought against them bravely and they still could not capture him they still because truth is always brave and strong battle falsehood is always weak and shaken and hence it might take more than 1000 to capture one man one man he fought against them bravely until they dug a hole and he fell into the hole that's when they managed to capture him they took him to the palace of obey الله ابن زياد they had an exchange of words obey الله ابن زياد started calling him some names but muslim ابن عقيل with his integrity and honor said my master is abby عبد الله الخسي then obey الله ابن زياد tells him tells the people the guards to go take them take him up to the palace roof cut his head off and throw his body from the top of the palace those people who cut heads off today are the followers of such people like obey الله ابن زياد they learned from them رسول الله امي والمؤمنين اهل البيت never did this never never not a single example in history exists with them doing it it is these men who distorted the whole religion and those people are following their example when he takes him to the rooftop muslim ابن عقيل tells the guard give me few minutes let me pray to ركع الصلاة it means he was on the state of وضوء it's must have brothers and sisters always to be in the state of وضوء and to always remember الله سبحانه وتعالى he prayed to ركع الصلاة then he got up and turned towards مدينة towards مكة and he said السلام عليك يا ابا عبد الله this is your cousin muslim ابن عقيل او للون كوفا at that time إمام حسين had left مكة this was on عرفة they عرفة he had just left مكة it is said the narrator said إمام الحسين was sitting with a group of people he got up at that moment and he said و عليك السلام يا مسلم and peace be upon you brothers and sisters every time you say السلام و عليك يا ابا عبد الله wherever you are إمام الحسين will respond to you just like he responded to muslim so every day send your salam to ابي عبد الله send you how to كربلا for indeed he will remember you he will greet you back and then the enemy of الله struck muslim once on his neck nothing happened to him he hit him a second time his head separated from his body they threw the body of muslim on the streets and they started dragging him اعلم جدار جضا و شاعة اخبار رموه القوم من قصر الاما مسلم was all alone غريب in كوفا and so is our إمام الباقر عليه السلام although he was in his own city of مدينة when he was fed the poison but today he is indeed a stranger غريب in his own city of مدينة you look at his grave and the way it is people cannot even visit him people cannot even recite مصيبه next to his grave without being attacked and harassed and bothered and imprisoned and indeed سبحان الله in his will إمام الباقر's will to إمام الصادق عليه السلام he gives him money and he says my son you some of this money to hold عزا إمام الباقر gives money to إمام الصادق to have عزا just like you brothers and sisters مؤمنين and مؤمنات إمام الصادق إمام الباقر the imams love you to be here they love to see you here they will remember you spend money and invest on these majalis for our imams invested money on such majalis and then إمام الباقر told إمام الصادق and use some of the money to buy candles and light them on my grave it is as if إمام الباقر is telling the إمام الصادق عليه السلام and telling all of us one day will come when there will be no light in my grave when people can't come freely and do زيارة on my grave السلام عليك يا ابنى رسول الله السلام عليك يا ضاجا فور يا محمد الباقر ورحمة الله وبركاته إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون وسيعلم الذين ظلموا هي من قلبين قلبون والعاقبة للمتقين أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أم يجيب المطر어야 دعاه ويكشف السوء أم يجيب المضطر إذا دعاه ويكشف السوء أم يجيب المضطر إذا دعاه ويكشف السوء أما يجيب المضطر إذا دعان ويكشف السوء اللهم إنا نسألك وندعوك باسمك العظيم الأعظم الأعز الأجل الأكرم يا الله إلهي بفاطمة وأبيها وبعليها وبنيها والسرع المستودع فيها إكشف عن السوء يا الله اللهم اغفر ذنوبنا كفر عنا سياتنا وتوفنا مع الأبرار رب اغفر لي والوالد يا ورحموما كما رب يان صغيرا اجزه ما بالحساني حسانا وبالسيات غفرانا اللهم ارزقنا زيارة الإمام الباقري في الدنيا عاجلا يا الله وشفاعته في الدنيا وفي القبر وفي الآخرة يا الله اللهم عجل لي وليك الفراج وجعلنا من شيعة وأمصار وعواني والمستشهدين بين يديه اللهم كل وليك الحجة بن الحسام صلوانتك عليه وعلى آبائم في هذه السام وفي كل السام وليان وحافظا وقاعدا وناصرا ودليلا وعينا حتى تسكنه أربك طوعا وتماتعه فيها طويلا برحمتك يا رحم الرحمين اللهم ارنا الطلعة الرشيد والغروة الحميد وكحل الضارنا بنظرة مننا إليه اللهم نقسم عليك بالزهراء فاطمة سلام الله عليها إلا ما رزقتنا شفاعت الزهراء في الدنيا وفي القبر وفي الآخرة يا الله لقضاء الحوائنج والشفاء المرضى ولكشف هذا الغم عناذي لما ولتعجيلي فرجموا لنا صاحب العصر والزماء وإلى رواح المؤمنين والمؤمنات لسيما رواح موات الجالسين والحاضرين رحم الله من يقرأ السورة المباركة فاتحتي مع الصلوات