 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والصلاة وعلى أشرف الأنبياء وأعز المرسلين حبيبي إله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المنتجبين واللعن الدائم وعلى أعضائهم أجمعين من الآن إلى غيام يوم الدين أمين رب العالمين في نام الله أفضل من المرسف كل مرسفة سيكون لهم أفضل ومرسلين نحن في نامه نحن نقوم بسيطة ومرسلين على محمد ونقوم بسيطة في نهاية المرسفات المرسفة على الأنبياء المحمد ومحمد أمين رب العالمين my dear brothers and sisters السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته I begin by sending my peace and my blessings upon you and congratulate you on the arrival of month of Allah the month of Ramadan the month of forgiveness the month of mercy the month of prayer the month of repentance and may Allah SWT as mercy befall those who are not able to join us during these sacred nights my dear brothers and sisters thank you for joining me as we discuss insha'Allah during the next nights or the next couple of weeks insha'Allah the sermon of Rasool Allah وعليه وآله what she delivered in the final days of Sha'ban that marks the beginning marking the beginning of the month of Ramadan this sermon my dear brothers and sisters and I chose this because this sermon of Rasool Allah this khotba of Rasool Allah encompasses several and several merits of this sacred month I found it that it is very important that we focus on the merits and then focus in more detail on the specific lines and the specific words uttered by the Masjid of Allah and the main reason by the way somebody may ask me what is the reason behind this commentary behind this brief commentary I consider it a brief commentary all in all I won't be able to completely and holistically explain and go over the khotba of Rasool Allah understanding the words of Rasool Allah is not something that I am capable of even beginning to fathom and understand I am merely able to bring you insha'Allah me and myself myself first and foremost and you closer to the truth insha'Allah and the reason again the reason behind me doing this stems from a hadith of Imam Al-Sadiq you see medievalism sisters Imam Al-Sadiq من a hadith that has been narrated it is very well known he mentions and he says التدبر في حديث أفضل من عبادة ألف سنة تدبر by تدبر we mean contemplation by تدبر we mean to ponder to think to begin to look at the hadith not in a superficial understanding لا تقرأ الحديث بقراءة انسطحية as we say لا تقرأه بقراءة انسطحية do not read it don't look at the first layer the same way when it comes to the Quran الحكيم do not look at the Quran and do not read it the Quran as having one layer even the ahadith of the Rasool Allah are very deep as well the Quran tells us the prophet speaks out of revelation the prophet speaks out of guidance from the Almighty the prophet does not speak out of his own هو out of his own inclination towards the dunya and towards his love to the dunya or so on and so forth the prophet in fact has no love for the dunya the prophet is a messenger of Allah the prophet صلى الله عليه و آله has a connection with Allah صبحانه و تعالى 24-7 that is our belief in the prophet and the same way with the imams but they receive when they receive guidance from Allah صبحانه و تعالى the methodology is different one of them the prophet recedes it through Gabriel whereas our ahadith tell us that the imams receive it as a sound or as a revelation in their heart they hear a sound or they hear a sound in their ears or something in their heart moves and they are able to get answers from Allah صبحانه و تعالى at the end of the day this is the shia'a belief the shia'a belief is that the imams are divinely guided and divinely appointed so when it comes to the Quran when it comes to the sunnah the imam says the imam says to do Tadab or contemplation upon a hadith my dear brothers and sisters is better than a thousand years of worship why when you begin to comprehend and dive deeper into your own into your own beliefs for example and you establish a closer connection with Allah صبحانه و تعالى because of this journey your reward first and foremost will be multiplied and that thirst for knowledge and that pleasure will also increase think of it as somebody who gets up and goes to prayer for the sake of prayer he's doing his obligation he goes to pray for the sake of prayer whereas somebody who goes to prayer for the sake of his love and desire to be closer to Allah صبحانه و تعالى look at this scenario as well somebody who his love he has love towards his parents he's been taught to love his parents she has been taught to love her parents but another individual that loves his parents she loves her parents for example but the driving force behind this love it's out of compassion and love for Allah صبحانه و تعالى they have dove so deep and they've understood that in order to be a true متقي a true مخلص to devout and pious person that in order for me to reach that stage of piety and devoutness I have to reach a closer understanding of Allah صبحانه و تعالى and the same comes with the imams and for example you know the conditions of ziyara the conditions of ziyara inform us that if you wish to attain the reward of ziyara you have to have معرفة of the imam sometimes you have أدن المعرفة the least معرفة that you need but it doesn't mean that you cannot climb the ladder and attain more and more knowledge correct so it is from this Bab we say it is from this angle we thought you know what we chose the prophetic sermon of رسول الله the prophetic sermon which encompasses so many merits the month of Ramadan and from the hadith of the imam تدبر في الحديث I thought to myself we thought to ourselves the best way I can give back to the believers is I first of all work on myself and try to gather the resources and then present them to you I thought to myself what is the best way for people to connect in شهر رمضان and the hadith of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله or the hadith of أحمد but since the sermon of رسول الله encompasses so many teachings I thought to myself why not we just go through the sermon of رسول الله we go through it line by line and we analyze it line by line we give evidence towards it and so on and so forth all from the angle of تدبر في الحديث in order that we reach a closer understanding of some of these words and we'll also see how this sermon of رسول الله itself if you wished right now if you wish to sit down and dissect it you're able to find narrations in our books and in Quranic texts concerning every single part or every single merit which the Prophet mentioned this is very important for you to have always always read when you're reading always try to see has the Imam said this elsewhere can I find this in the Holy Quran or we'll see for example when the Prophet says why is he speaking to the people what does that mean the people is it the people of مدينة is it the people of مكة is it all the people around him or is that people أخطاب is that people an address to all of mankind we see this in the Quran and we'll talk about this إن شاء الله about the use and the use of رسول الله using the word oh people because he begins the Khutbah saying أيها الناس قد قبال إليكم the Prophet is talking to all of us and we'll see how why this is important إن شاء الله let us send the salawat upon محمدنا لي محمد الله المصلي على محمد محمد إن شاء الله الله مصلي على محمد واني محمد so we can inshallah begin we can take that as your introduction إن شاء الله that the backbone behind this discussion is the hadith of Imam صادق التدبر أفضل من عبادة ألف سنة contemplation in one hadith is better than a thousand years of worship now even this hadith itself if we wish to come sorry now come but if we wish to go into it in detail we will find why it's important and you also see in the Quran where Allah سبحانه و تعالى informs us that did they not do تدبر or is there upon their hearts أقفن it's very important and we'll see how important it is to just stop for a moment and ask yourself why was this said that's all it takes by the way all it takes is for you to take the Quran open the Quran and begin to say to yourself يا أيها الناس إن خلقناكم يا أيها الناس أعبد ربكم يا أيها الناس اتقل الله and so on you open the Quran and you see okay more than 15-20 times I said we'll talk about this إن شاء الله Allah سبحانه و تعالى is addressing the people through the tongue of the prophet you know why why is that the case for example you go to the ayah in the Quran which says إن أرسلناك رحمة لل عالمين we have sent you or محمد ابن عبد الله رسول الله on mercy to mankind then you'll see that Islam in its essence is in tune with humanity and with nature parallel with the human rights that everybody is equal everybody is created from one نفس من نفس واحدة and we are all equal in humanity and you learn this is how you begin to truly comprehend the magnitude that is Islam you truly comprehend the messages the رسائل of the prophets and messengers all 124.000 prophets and messengers and أوصيار so let us begin إن شاء الله we said this خطبة so a little bit background of the خطبة and this will be the this considers the introduction إن شاء الله in the following episode إن شاء الله we'll begin with the first line of the خطبة إن شاء الله the خطبة itself the خطبة itself my dear brothers and sisters the خطبة itself it's found narrated in the أمالي of شيخ الصدوق and as well it is found narrated as well in the عيون أخبار رضا of شيخ الصدوق and as well it's found narrated in many other publications in many other books and if you just go back to the books of حديث and go back to the books where the scholars for example have added the فضائل and the merits of شهر رمضان you will find this خطبة my dear brothers and sisters the خطبة is reported and let me read to you for the sake of this discussion so you have إن شاء الله I recommend of course that you try your best to take down whatever notes you find that are beneficial to you إن شاء الله the source of the حديث again found in شيخ الصدوق شيخ الصدوق is أمالي the أمالي of شيخ الصدوق unfortunately I forgot to actually write down the exact page number here but of course I'll give you another reference for the حديث إن شاء الله but to quickly read the senate of the حديث as well for the sake of our discussion it's important that we cover everything because we are doing this brief commentary on this حديث and it's important to go through the حديث holistically as best as we can شيخ الصدوق is reported from محمد ابن أبراهيم he says the حديث is from محمد ابن أبراهيم narrated to me from him from أحمد ابن محمد الحمداني from him from علي ابن الحسن ابن علي ابن فضال from his father meaning الحسن ابن علي ابن فضال from him from his father Nicholas怨ضا from him from his father строفر he posted a smaller report from him stops from his father al-Hussein al-Shaηeed عن حسين موت الأAD he says from his father al-Hussein from his father the Master of the Auducia of the Patrons the Commander of tasteful عليه ابن أبي طالب peace be upon him he said from Ameer al-Mumin, عليه السلام عليه ابن أبي طالب the Commander of the Faithful he said المام عليه الصلاة والسلام هو الشخص who reports to us as a servant of the Messenger of Allah and he says to us he says عن أمير المؤمنين علي ابن أبي طالب قال إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله خطبنا ذات يوم فقال he says and then one one day the Messenger of Allah peace and blessings be upon him the Messenger of Allah came and delivered to us the following sermon and he said and then of course the sermon at its entirety is narrated now going back to maybe somebody might want to ask okay then what is the grading of the hadith chain of transmission though it's important to understand my dear brothers and sisters that it's not always the chain of transmission but of course for the sake of the argument insha'Allah if you go back to the book الموسوعات أحاديث أهل البيت شخادي النجفي volume 4 page 269 شخادي النجفي says in conclusion this report is معتبر the report from a senate standpoint has no problem and again in volume 6 page 249 he reports it from عيون أخبار الرضا and he also says it's معتبر معتمر meaning the senate is reliable though at the end of the day here we will be focusing and we will see by the way we will see that not just that it's معتبر that every single line of رسول الله every single line of رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله can be proved from the أحاديث and from the Qur'an from the Qur'an from the sunnah which is why it's not always that we play this not play this game sorry it's probably the incorrect way of looking at it but we have this problem in our communities where people always say well what is this chain the chain is the chain is that's not how it works by the way are that's not how they deal with these with this how they discuss these matters especially when it comes to matters of belief for example matters of فضال there is a different approach for everything I suggest that before people jump to conclusions they either have a background or when they jump to conclusions they are jumping in order not jump to conclusions but on order for them if they wish to find the truth it's good to ask by the way but there are those people who are arrogant so no matter what they're asking for the sake of bickering the state of bickering the state of the for the sake of causing this unity between the Shi'a for example but if you're asking and you wish to learn then it's fine it's good to learn but don't have that mentality that's not how it works my dear brothers and sisters that's not how it works there are conditions of the hadith that is accepted I suggest that if you wish to learn these conditions and if you wish to know how this how how the science works you go study inshallah you know the books are there inshallah focus on the Arabic inshallah hone your Arabic skills and then go read the many there are many simple introductory books of رجال شيخ جعفر الصبحاني for example has a beautiful book on the introduction of رجال and I suggest all of you to go back if you have time of course and I believe this book itself is translated in English as well so I do recommend that if you have the time to review these matters but don't just come across something because your mind cannot comprehend it for example or you think it's too far fetched or right away you say oh this is weak you know and you will see the reason also one of the main reasons that we're discussing this خطب is to show you that the حديث is معتبر yes the حديث means the meaning that the sentence sorry the sentence the حديث is reliable but the sentence is not صحيح it's not authentic it's معتبر but you'll find that everything the رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم said in his sermon can be traced back to the Quran and to the Sunnah that is why it's very important when you read the حديث you have a more holistic reading into the مجامع الأحديثية into all the مجامع into the encyclopedia and into the many حديث if there's one thing I wished if there's one thing I wish for their brothers and sisters to take as a practice in شارر مضان is to go back to the books of حديث and read in شاء الله and then just try to energize yourself with the حديث of المحمد in شاء الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وعالي محمد from this of course we will end the first episode and hopefully we will continue the next episode in شاء الله but again to go back to the main points discussed here my dear brothers and sisters the angle and the foundation behind discussing the خطب of رسول الله all began with the حديث of محمد صادق عليه السلام and the Quran and the many narrations and the Quranic texts that inform us the importance of contemplation and the importance of seeking knowledge and the importance of not just reading everything in the superficial sense do not read the حديث my dear brothers and sisters do not read the Quran in a قراءة صطحية please know that with everything there is a button and that button has a button everything has a layer and that layer has a layer and in شاء الله we said of course that if you wish to go back to the حديث the حديث as well can be found translated in English in other languages as well if you just type on your Google search bar in شاء الله type the sermon of the Prophet delivered at the end of شعبان or the sermon of the Prophet delivered at the end of the month of Ramadhan or sorry in the beginning of the month of Ramadhan you'll find the sermon in شاء الله and I suggest that you keep the sermon with you so in شاء الله we'll discuss it because we will discuss line by line and we'll try our best to go I mean we're not into as much detail but just enough for you guys in شاء الله to have a more closer understanding of the words of the Prophet that first of all you'll have a more holistic understanding of the blessing that is the month of Ramadhan and second of all you'll find how the words of the Prophet are deeper they're deeper than how they look on just reading it on a piece of paper or on your laptop or in a book my dear bells and sisters with that in شاء الله we conclude our first episode and I ask for your forgiveness in شاء الله I'm trying my best here to deliver as best of content I can sometimes it's hard to do these recordings when there's no audience but I always when I'm doing this I'm thinking of all those in شاء الله that will benefit from this my dear bells and sisters I wish to thank you for taking this time it is because of you guys you out there my dear bells and sisters you make this possible and I thank you from the bottom of my heart and in شاء الله you will have a fruitful journey during the events of Ramadhan and I say ورحمة الله وبركاته