 أصدقائي وإسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته مرحبا بكم في another show of life from Karbala where we discussed in the previous two episodes the most discussed topics the most emphasized topics وذنهول القرآن we said حسين القزميني so let's welcome said حسين السلام عليكم or you said how are you finding the fasting during the first two days of Ramadan especially in Karbala I mean one of the whole these sites yes absolutely on earth it's been very wonderful very easy and we're the guests of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in this month إن شاء الله إن شاء الله خير so insha'Allah today in the third episode we insha'Allah discuss humility in the Quran is that correct Allah سبحانه وتعالى says نهول القرآن بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم the name of Allah the benefit the merciful and the servants of Allah are those who walk upon the earth with humility and one addressed by the arrogant and by the ignorant peace the words of peace so what is the meaning and the difference if you are between humility and arrogance بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله بالعالمين وصل الله على سيدنا محمد وعاله الطهرين we always say that humility is a good trait and arrogance is a bad trait being humble is a good quality and being proud is a bad quality but what is the meaning of humility and humbleness the way I see it when I picture the word well we don't want an exact definition of the word humility but let's try to imagine what humility and humbleness is when I think of the word humility when I hear the word humility I think of a person that lives with the people not above the people a person who sees himself an ordinary human being he doesn't see himself above others even though he might have qualities or she might have qualities that distinguish him or her from others for example knowledge lineage a special position yet he himself does not view himself as different from other human beings this is humility and this perception of course this is a perception when a person views himself equal to others when he has this view when he has his perception this perception and view will translate into actions of course who will not act above others for example his tone of voice his tone of voice is not condescending you should do this you should do that no none of this we we should do this we should do that you see this this person who feels humility and humble this person walks humbly meaning he doesn't walk as we say with his head up with his nose above others not saying salam to others one of the qualities of humble people and people that feel humility they say salam to everyone whether they are older than them or those that are younger than them if you like to test the humility of a person see if he says salam to little children that's a sign of humility another sign is that for example if this person were to go into a a gathering he wouldn't mind sitting at the end of the majlis as we would say or where the children sit or the last seat the smallest seat in the majlis this is a humble person he doesn't sit in the spotlight somewhere that you know people might not even notice him this person is humble this person is showing humility and the bigger this person is when he becomes humble this is more of a humility for him this is more of a humility for him this is more of an effort because if a regular person acts regular and normal that's not a big deal but let's say for example the prime minister or a minister or a a member of parliament or a top scholar an ayatollah or a top speaker sits with everyone else he doesn't have a special VIP room he sits with everyone he eats with everyone he walks with everyone without 200 guards behind him of course now when his life is in danger when your life is in danger that's another story but when your life is not in danger you're with your own people you come in between the two you don't need 200 guards when you have 200 guards walking behind you in front of you and all around this is not a sign of you this is not a sign of humility this is a sign of arrogance this is humility humility is a person who sees himself not above the people with the people a person with the people an ordinary human being an ordinary citizen an ordinary servant of Allah on the contrary a person who is arrogant he sees himself above others he sees everyone else who is here and he's over here why maybe because of his education maybe because of his PhD his PhD makes him a special human being that gives it he thinks it gives him the right to speak condescendingly to others it gives him the right to not live with the people but to live on his own to live in his own world always VIP whether it's during مجالس or in streets he takes the VIP road he feels like he always has to be recognized he always has to be recognized and if someone does not recognize him the world goes upside down yeah if he has a PhD people have to call him doctor if you don't call him a doctor that means you're stabbing him in the heart if he's a much-dehid he's reached the top you have to call him an ayatullah if you don't call him an ayatullah the world will go upside down if he's a doctor you have to call him doctor you can't call him hajj or you can't call him sayid if he's a sayid you know there's some that would prefer to be called doctor and not sayid this is arrogance arrogance is to is to live above is to feel recognized the need for recognition the need for titles the need for special seats if he's not given or she's not given a special seat in the majlis in the gathering in the invitation if he's given a bad seat they'll get up and leave this is arrogance this is humility and this is arrogance مرحبا علي السلام أكسبسي said about the topic we just mentioned an arrogant person is the one who sees himself above the people is like a person on a mountain who sees the people small but when they look up they seem smaller smaller that's so significant because it teaches us it's basic I mean there's no need for arrogance I mean we're all equal مرحبا علي السلام says there are two types of people in this world either a brother to you in religion or reflection in humanity so we're all equal but what's the emphasis of the Quran on humanity we see this is a recurring theme in the Quran the Quran emphasizes on humility we see several verses that talk about humility one is the verse that you recited in the beginning of this presentation بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صورة الفرقان وعباد الرحمن and the verse is talking about the qualities of the servants of the merciful the servants of Allah these are the qualities of the servants of Allah وعبادوا the first quality وعباد الرحمن الذين يمشون على الأرض هون the servants of Allah are those that when they walk they walk calmly humbly without raising raising their necks and heads without looking looking down at people no they walk with the people عباد الرحمن الذين يمشون على الأرض they sit humbly they live humbly when you talk to them they talk humbly with humility when they sit down they say it in a humble way they don't speak to the people they don't speak to the people from a higher position even though they could be at a higher position but when they speak they speak in the same position one of the qualities of the companions some of the righteous companions the Qur'an says Muhammad the Messenger of Allah the Messenger of Allah the Messenger of Allah the Messenger of Allah the Messenger of Allah و الذين معه أشداء أشداء على الكفار رحماء بينهم رحماء بينهم they're merciful with each other they're humble to one another they show humility to one another and another verse الله سبحانه وتعالى addresses the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم this is a direct order and advice to the Messenger of Allah وخفض جناحكل المؤمنين lower your wings lower your wings to the believers this is a metaphor it's a metaphoric expression of being humble in the coming nights when we speak about the kindness to parents in the Qur'an one of the verses is regarding parents وخفض لهم جناح الضل من الرحماء lower your wings of humility to your parents this is an expression when you lower your wings it's an expression of of humility in humbleness الله سبحانه وتعالى tells the Messenger of Allah lower your wings for the believers have you seen birds crows falcons or peacocks peacocks when they want to show off what do they do they raise their feathers and their wings to show their colors there's a sign of arrogance but when it's not showing off what does it do or lowers even birds when they want to show off they'll raise their wings out of arrogance no when they bring down their wings it shows them more humble وخفض جناحة كل المؤمنين الله tells the Messenger of Allah to be humble and show humility to the believers in Surat Luqman Luqman gives advice to his son he tells him ولا تصعر خدك للناس ولا تمشي في الأرض المرحة ولا تصعر خدك في الناس means don't turn your face away from people those who are arrogant they don't live with the people they turn their face someone poor someone who has a question or a family friend they speak to them they turn their face they don't give their face this is the sign of arrogance ولا تمشي في الأرض المرحن don't walk with pride you know walking it says a lot about a person that's why we see a lot of verses that stress on walking وعباد الرحمن الذين يمشون على الأرض هنا ولا تمشي في الأرض مرحن and another verse ولا تمشي this is in Surat Al-Israa ولا تمشي في الأرض مرحن إنك لن تخرق الأرض ولا تبلغ الجبال طولا it's so significant walk humbly because you will never reach the mountains some people they walk they raise their their backs their shoulders they raise their necks as if they're basketball players the Quran is saying you're not going to reach the mountains أنك لن تخرق الأرض ولا تبلغ الجبال طولا it doesn't matter how tall you stand you're still going to be a small person compared to the mountains a person is not about size it's not about how big you make yourself a person does not become big by being arrogant a person becomes big with his actions with his actions and another verse وقصد في مشيك when you walk walk moderately again this is a sign of humility don't walk I'm sure you've seen people the way they walk when you look at them you think who does this person think he is an emperor a king a president no one even knows this person thus the Quran is basically trying to say that you're not going to make yourself big by doing this you make yourself you let 200 people walk behind you as bodyguards or there's a terminology called حاشية it exists still today there are some people when they walk they want 20 people to walk with them not bodyguards friends workers employees make them walk walk behind you why because when you have 20 people 30 people walk behind you this makes them feel important this makes them look important Quran is trying to say that you don't need 20 people to walk behind you to be important you can become important with your actions with your deeds with your contributions how much have you contributed to society that will make you important even if you walk by yourself even if you walk wearing rags even if you don't own a car you walk that makes you important but if you have no actions no deeds no contributions but you make 20 people walk in front of you behind you bodyguards that doesn't change anything it doesn't change anything about who you are that's weird because معلينا بطالب he says when you're in a position of ruling it's not to rule to rule over the people but to serve the people and that's weird to see because we just we just hear the sayings of Adid Bait and not actually and not talking and not live them in our lives you know we're not talking about western societies we're talking about actually Islamic Shiite societies that when they actually come to Ziyarah the most safest place on earth as I consider it is Karbala between the two shrines I mean even if you die in this place you die a death of of honor you know but they still have as you mentioned 200 bodyguards and I see that it's not like something exaggerating this is an arrogance yeah we see that but Adid Bait and the Quran they always advise the believers to be humble but what's the connection between humbleness and respect see you might have known this in your life with your experiences and I'm sure that my dear viewers have known this too the people that are most humble and show the most amount of humility are the most respected people the most respected people when you see for example a doctor a physician yet in the mosque in the center at time of oftar when it's time to serve food he doesn't sit and wait for people to bring him food he gets up and serves even though he's a doctor he's a physician doesn't he grow in people's eyes doesn't this bring him respect even though serving food or maybe even collecting the trash after people eat it's not seen as something respectful but when someone becomes humble enough and shows humility and does it he gains what respect he grows in people's eyes or if you see a scholar big scholar yet he says salaam to young children not just the older older people and the elders even to children doesn't he grow in people's eyes definitely and you see now these are deeds that people don't do because they want respect I know some people they don't for example at the time of oftar at our centers at our Hussainias at our mosques they want to say it respectfully so that people respect them you don't want to get up and serve because in their eyes that's disrespectful for them while that brings respect that brings respect that brings love when they see a doctor a scholar someone who has weight in the society he comes and serves that brings respect this person grows in people's eyes we have a hadith by the Ahl al-Bait that says من تواوة علي الله رفعه الله he who shows humility for the sake of Allah Allah raises him Subhan Allah he lowers himself it's as if Allah says you lower yourself I will raise you but if you want to raise yourself then I will lower you Subhan Allah I will lower you leave it to me the more you lower yourself I will raise you let's look at our friends our family members our neighbors people that we know you and I know and others the ones that we love the most and respect the most are the ones that have the quality of humility and humbleness our teachers I'm pretty sure that we all have teachers that we won't forget from elementary school middle school high school college my favorite teachers were the most humble teachers the ones that that made me feel you know I'm worth something they would answer my questions they wouldn't brush me off they wouldn't ignore me I still remember those teachers I pray for them when I go perform Ziyara I say Ziyara on their behalf because they're the ones that made me feel special they showed humility and humbleness on the contrary those that are arrogant they are the most disrespected and disliked people in every society those that don't say salam to anyone they expect everyone else to say salam to them those who have no respect for others they expect respect from others those that expect people to put them in good seats in good positions no one respects them no one even likes them these people are dreaded in every society in every community thus we see a relationship between humility and respect the more you show humility the more respect you will get the more respect you'll earn there's a definitely there's a relationship when we think about this when you said saying salam and being humble when we think about the greatest person on earth the first person that comes to my thought is Prophet Muhammad he says by Allah no one has beaten me to saying salams first he always would even to children even old people you know such role models that we have in Islam yet we're I mean we still have that also Allah would always say salam to young children yeah and this is a this is a test if you wish to see if a person is humble or arrogant see if he says salam to children or not saying salam to elders that's not a big deal that's an obligation but to say salam to young children that shows a lot of humility and humbleness so you can say that humbleness is one of the significant characteristics of a believer of a follower even any person but when we discuss religious scholars I mean there's a very it even catches my eyes to see when you go into a mejlis where it's a gathering you see the scholar who is actually the most knowledgeable person in that gathering he's serving the people and stuff so if you can elaborate on that and how is that we are taught from day one from day one we are taught in classes of akhlaq that a scholar has to be humble a scholar has to show humility if you see what are scholars scholars are knowledgeable people those who have read those who have studied those who have done research those who have read so much to the point that they have lost their eyesight or they're on the verge of losing their eyesight those who have read and wrote they have knowledge thus it's very easy for them to feel arrogant it's very easy for them to feel arrogant that's why we have narrations that emphasize on scholars to be humble and to show humility a lot of narrations that emphasize to be knowledgeable but at the same time to be patient to be humble to show tolerance for others because what's the point of being knowledgeable but not showing humility to others people are going to be they're not going to be attracted to you they won't be attracted to you what's the point of studying if you don't allow people to come and benefit from your knowledge and not even putting your education into action into action scholars are expected to live with the people to show humility to open their doors for everyone for all categories of people not certain groups not from this nationality sometimes we hear stories inshallah they're not true that we visited such and such scholar but they didn't allow us but they allowed a different group from another country that speak in a specific language I hope this is not true our scholars their doors have to be open for everyone of all races all nationalities whether you're rich or you're poor you shouldn't be allowed because you're rich and if you're poor you're not allowed to meet the scholar or enter his home or be able to ask a question this is not right this is not the teachings of Ahle al-Bait thus a scholar the more he knows the more he has knowledge increases the more his humility must increase and the more his arrogance should decrease you know in Hausa they give us a beautiful example very beautiful example they say a scholar should be like a fruitful tree fruitful tree you see trees that don't have fruits in the winter they're tall but in the spring or in the summer when they carry fruits they come down they come down that's a great example because the fruits are heavy so they bring down the what do you call it the fruits the branches the branches the branches are forced to come down because of the heavy fruits the more it has fruits the more it will come down have you ever seen a very tall apple tree or a very tall orange tree no they're all down to earth down to earth for people to easily get get their fruits the scholar should be the same way the more their knowledge increases the more they should be down to earth so that people will benefit from them what's the point of a scholar that shows no humility and people don't benefit from his knowledge who wants to stand tall and live above the people and let me share this story with you there's a very well-known scholar there was a very well-known scholar by the name of سيد عبد الحسين شرف الدين رحمة الله عليه the author of كتاب المراجعات this very very distinguished book المراجعات which is several correspondences between him and شيخ الأزهر and at the end of the book at the end of the correspondences he makes him شيعي شيخ الأزهر becomes a follower of him and this book has been translated into English under the name of the right path the right path my father went to visit سيد عبد الحسين شرف الدين امصور اللبنان and this was in the 50s early 50s my father was in his early 20s he might have been maybe 22 23 years old he said I went to visit سيد عبد الحسين شرف الدين this top scholar he wasn't a مراجع but he was not less than مراجع his position his knowledge his books he was in the position of being a مراجع my father says I went to visit him انصور they opened the door I went to the سيد he said he was lying in his bed because he was ill so he said I saw him get up from his bed he said I rushed to him I rushed him to make sure that he doesn't get up but he was trying to get out of bed he said I went I tried to grab his hand to kiss his hand he said he pulled his hand he grabbed my hand and he kissed my hand he said I was only 22 years old I was still a student in the حوزة he said I wasn't famous no one knew me I wasn't a famous speaker no one had seen me on TV I was a regular student yet the سيد grabbed my hand and he kissed it he said I was so embarrassed that I wanted as we say in العراق I wanted the ground to to swallow me I wanted the ground to bear me this is humility this is humility I saw a picture of one of the مراجع in قوم one of the top مراجع one of the oldest مراجع in قوم now I saw a picture of him embracing the hand of an African student beautiful picture beautiful picture this top scholar he's in his 90s he's a merger yet he grabs the hand of an African student and he embraces it this is the school of this is what the Quran teaches this is وعباد الرحمن and you will only find this in the school of you will find this in the school of this is very significant because a story mentioned and narrated by about Prophet Muhammad when he was giving a sermon and a farmer went to shake a wealthy man's hand the wealthy man looked at his hand and saw it worn out because of holding and working so he didn't shake his hand he felt like he he's going to get some kind of disease I don't know what so Prophet Muhammad came down from his place and kissed the hand of the farmer I mean with such a humility رسول الله with time and time again kissed the hands of workers farmers gardeners and say يدون this is a hand that Allah loves because this is a hand that works to earn a respectful income a respectful salary this is the humility of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم I mean أهل البيت and especially رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم teach us the best lessons about humility what are the specific traits of the humility of أهل البيت we see the Qur'an describes رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم one of his qualities mentioned in the Qur'an says رحمة من الله لنت لهم عرف مرسي بالله you soft in for them you were soft with the believers رسول الله was soft soft meaning what with his أخلاق he wasn't harsh he didn't use harsh tones he spoke gently softly humbly with the people the Qur'an says وإنك العلا خلق عظيم you have great manners you have great manners you would sit with the people I've read narrations that in the Masjid of رسول الله رسول الله would give sermons he would sit in circles in circles why because in a circle there's no VIP section in a circle everyone's the same otherwise you've seen our Majadis our Majadis usually there's the endpoint and there's the beginning where the dignitaries and the important people sit this was not how رسول الله رسول الله would sit in circular fashion so that everyone's equal I had to say that he would give his companions equal amount of attention if you looked at this companion 20 seconds you would look at this companion also 20 seconds this one 20 seconds so on and so on he treated them equally this is humility and I am shocked when I see some that say this verse عبسة وتولة he frowned and he looked away when the blind man came to him some scholars say that this is رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم while we in the school of Talibah we stand against this how is this possible but رسول الله frowned and looked away because of a blind man how does this go together with وأنك العلا خلقين لقرآن كنجدكت itself this was another person if my dear viewers go and read about this person they will find out if they do the research this was someone else this was not رسول الله they tried to change facts they raised someone else at the cost of رسول الله at the cost of disrespecting رسول الله the greatest person on earth the greatest human being on earth when we read about Imam Ali عليه السلام one of his prominent qualities was humility ضرار بنظمرة he says regarding امير مؤمنين كان والله فينا كأحدنا by God he was one of us he was amongst us like one of us meaning he didn't act up we didn't feel that he was above us he lived with us امير مؤمنين عليه السلام امير مؤمنين yet امير مؤمنين loved امير مؤمنين so much to the point that امير مؤمنين would sit outside of the mosque and he would sell dates sometimes he would have to go home he would have to for example use the restroom he would ask Imam Ali to fill in his spot Imam Ali would come Imam Ali was the خليفة of the time recognized by all Muslims Imam Ali would sit on the corner he would sit on the sidewalk and sell dates on behalf of metham until metham goes and does what he has to do and they come back have you seen humility greater than this this is the teachings of the Quran this is the Living Quran that is why we say Imam Ali is the Living Quran the verbal Quran that's significant because اهدد البيت especially اهدد البيت when they sit in a meclis when they are gathering that's a very well known story about Imam Sadik at the end of the meclis near the door and someone shipped when he was walking by him not knowing that this was the Imam and later on when knowing he was surprised by the humbleness of the Imam I mean they teach us the most significant and manners and humbleness we are coming to the end of the episode so if you have anything to add on one of the qualities of Imam زين العبدين and I'll say this because this is the month of Ramadan and at the time of افطار some of us maybe we have workers at home bodyguards servants maids Imam زين العبدين at the time of افطار he would gather all of his servants and sit and eat with them he had maids he had servants he would gather them and eat with them he wouldn't send them food and eat by himself he would sit with the people these were our Imams this is the humility and humbleness that they showed الحمد لله رب العالمين إن شاء الله we learn from this lesson because we are in the month of Ramadan the month of forgiveness to some this may seem small because they would say if I say Astaghfirullah forgive me O Allah but especially in this month if a person does one good deed it's multiplied by hundreds so إن شاء الله we learn from the lessons of Ahl al-Bayt to be humble and to have good manners so respected viewers brothers and sisters in Islam if you didn't get the chance to view this episode or the full episode or the previous episodes you can go on to our youtube channel at محسينTV3 or if you want to discuss and join the discussion with say you can also go on to our social networking websites facebook twitter google plus instagram whatsapp there's a lot now you can check them out as well and join us with the discussion so stay tuned السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ورحمة الله وبركاته