 عود بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السلات والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء وسيد المرسلين حبيبنا ونبينا وشفيع نفوسنا أب القاسم محمد المصطفى صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين الغر الميامين المظلومين ولعنة الله على عدائهم أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ما بي love it brothers and sisters and respected viewers welcome to yet another t3 teach talk and thrive إن شاء الله as always your host for tonight علي البرجي and we are blessed and honored to have with us سيد شبير كرماني from the united states of america السلام عليكم سيدنا وعليكم السلامة how are you inshallah everything's all right الحمد لله وشكرا i'm actually quite excited today we will be discussing a topic of leadership very crucial important topic now with regards to leadership how important is it in development بسم الله leadership it's extremely important in development a leadership and a leader has to basically get people tell people their vision inspire them and bring them all together to move towards a common goal and that goal could be either in a business and success towards that front that could be in an educational institution or university or a college or something of that like that could be on a personal level even within a family structure and indeed that could be at the level of a religion a global religion such as the one that was established by our holy prophet رسول الله himself and it requires a tremendous amount of strength of will it requires a lot of a lot of good communication and also clarification of vision رسول الله was someone who had a tremendous amount of influence on the world and if there's any one word that can probably define what is leadership it's actually the ability to influence now people can be good leaders or bad leaders it really depends on them meaning that somebody can use their skills and their talents of being a leader for negative or they can use it for positive of course أهلبي تعلي مسلام always use it for the best of intentions but if we look at books like for example 100 the most influential people in history that was written by michael h heart in which he listed the most influential people that he thought in history existed in the top five he puts confucius bouda jesus christ he's be upon him isaac newton and also at number one he puts the holy prophet رسول الله at number one he says there's been no person in history that's been as influential as the holy prophet in the global scheme of the world the global global system of the world and they asked him why you know he himself says that you know people would be really surprised as to my decision of choosing Muhammad is the most influential person now influence as i mentioned can be positive or negative and we take on board that رسول الله had a tremendous amount of influence michael h heart says everyone else on the list brought either a secular system or a spiritual system one or the other so for example confucius is known for his spiritual system or bouda is known for his spiritual system jesus christ peace be upon him is known for the spiritual system that he brought isaac newton interestingly is known for the secular system that he brought an interesting side note of isaac newton is that although isaac newton is known for his contributions to physics and mathematics and science in general he actually wrote extensively on god in particular on monotheism newton newton was an adamant monotheist meaning he rejected the trinity to the point that he was affiliated and associated with cambridge university not too far away from here and he had the lukezian chair of mathematics the lukezian chair was also the chair that was held afterwards by individuals like steven hawking in any event he at that time the church relationship with cambridge university was very strong to the point that you needed to for example تدخل ايزاك newton لا تعتقد في هذا to the extent that he went and got special exemption to not have to do this because he had to be a priest ordained as a priest to be able to be a professor and he said i don't believe in the trinity i only believe in that one god because jesus himself never said that he was that there was a trinity this happened after various things that happened in the history of of christianity and we need to be mindful that anyways isaac newton wrote a lot about religion but was known for his secular contributions and number one is that contradicting though sorry to interrupt sure what what do you mean for example secularism secularism basically removes the law of god and allows man to place his own laws so if you're a believer in monotheism how can you then go and write um the secular system or contribute well in in this context when we say secular we mean not having directly to do with religion it doesn't necessarily mean anti-religion secular just in the sense that you know he's known for his science and mathematics now someone who's involved in science and mathematics they can be either religious or not religious up to them that's so we mean in the sense that secular meaning in this context not relating to a religion but not anti-religion at the same time so number he said number two was newton and the man the author may be a little bit biased because he was a he was in his he's an historian and a astrophysicist that's his day job his primary job is astrophysicist anyways number one on the list the most important person he said the most influential person he said was the holy prophet was muhammad according to him and he said the reason for this is he's the only individual on my list who brought a spiritual system and a secular system and had influence in both of them الله مصلى الله عليه وسلم and now having said that some person may critique and respond and say you know but this person says the use of the word influence influence can be good and bad and i'm saying that from the beginning that i accept this notion that influence can be good and bad and maybe this person did not have the same spiritual relationship with the prophet but that's okay well we'll leave it at that now at least he recognized him as an intellectual and for the achievement what he achieved during his era some people may try to dismiss dismissal صلى الله عليه وسلم by say he was god forbid god forbid a warmonger and things allegations that have been made on on him over time and over history and anyone who's studied the man in depth صلى الله عليه وسلم would realize that he is far from that and he was someone who could actually lead the modern world and i'm not the one to say this this is people like جورد برناد شا who said محمد i've read the man and i believe that had europe taken over his was the leadership was of europe was taken over by this man it would succeed and thrive and things like this what i'm saying is رسول الله had it was a leader of the highest caliber the holy prophet was a leader of the highest caliber and the notion of leadership was exemplified by by رسول الله رسول الله you know and to go a little bit more extensively on that what system should lead the world today you know we talk about democracy and democracy is there but what were ancient philosophers saying about democracy was democracy and is democracy the best form of government well play dough didn't think so in his republic he argued otherwise uh and and other philosophers said the same thing even modern leaders have said the same thing we're told that Winston Churchill has said this as well that you know democracy is the worst form of government except that everything else has been tried so what is the right form of government according to play dough in his republic the right form of government is where you have a philosopher king where he said the world will not see justice until all philosophers become kings and all kings become philosophers now philosopher was a place holder for an intellectual intelligent person a person who was well read literate and someone who used their mind and rationale this is important to note because over time philosophy branched out into different fields and became science and history and different fields and political science and economics and the likes but philosophy was just knowledge at that time and so he said the world will not see peace and justice until all philosophers become kings and all kings become philosophers and he said that means that those people who are in power they must also be intellectually enlightened and those who are intellectually enlightened need to be in power unfortunately that's not the case because what's the problem with modern democracy what's the problem with democracy today well there's a voting system and the goal and of and the achievement of the democracy in the voting system it seems to be good but it has injustice embedded in it how and this is what play dough argued he said that in the in the democracy system that we have you have a person who is not an expert in a field voting on a particular matter that they may not have knowledge about exactly so meaning that you may be a medical doctor you may be a physician for example and i'm having you make a decision and voting on economic policy that's not even your field of interest that's not even your field of expertise how do you make that decision exactly and vice versa you may be an economist a phd economist and i'm asking you a decision on medical systems and how it should be done and operated and how society should deal with it it's unfair and unjust and therefore he said that democracy everywhere is mob rule you have these gangs who basically form in these clusters and they begin to rule so what is the solution how do you get proper leadership that is successful he said you need a philosopher king a philosopher king who is able to take complex ideas simplify them explain them to the masses and then take action by himself meaning in the sense he has total power but he is the he is just and fair and equitable that he does not abuse his power in any way this was the view of plato and then Aristotle after socrates plato Aristotle this line and Aristotle was in in in our books of philosophy or Islamic philosophy Aristotle is known as معلم الأول the first teacher many years after Aristotle came a man by the name of farabi or al farabi who is known as a معلم الثاني the second teacher he came forward and said that this philosopher king that was being spoken by Aristotle for example and Aristotle came from that line of thinking from socrates then plato then Aristotle Aristotle was talking about this philosopher king and the likes al farabi says معلم الثاني he says that this person that was being talked about by the former the greek philosophers was none other personified in the life of the holy prophet he says he was that philosopher king that the greeks were talking about that's what i was going to tell you that through their intellect and logic they came to the conclusion because what what you described is the attributes of an infallible leader because only an infallible leader who always act righteously justly and never basically have any faults absolutely absolutely and this is exactly what resoula did he took the complex notions the divine inspirations the thoughts of allah subhanu wa ta'ala simplified them for humanity expressed them to the world and then he took action on them the problem is every other time in history besides two instances what then those two instances being very particular everyone who has gotten absolute power has abused has abused that absolute power the only exceptions are رسول العظم and امير المؤمنين علي ابنة بيطارد these are the only two individuals that when they were given power they did it acutably fairly justly and established the system that the whole world could actually follow it's unfortunate that the world was not able to take advantage unfortunately however this is what يهل البيت علي مسلام exemplified in terms of leadership being fair just equitable with the people telling them this is what this is what we are going to do explaining it in a way that they understood it and then taking action on it and actually mobilizing a movement to implement it it's not easy to do what رسولة did in a span of 23 years to change the face of the world it takes leadership of the highest caliber to be able to achieve what he achieved and then followed by امير مؤمنين this level of leadership the world has never seen where امير مؤمنين is ruling over كوفا he's moved his capital to to كوفا four and a half years can you imagine a leadership and a governorship that there was not a single person who would go hungry under the state of امير مؤمنين can we say that in a modern world today can we say that we can't say that today there are many people many people in many places in america in the uk people going hungry in our backyards in this modern developed world how and that's really what يهل البيت علي مسلام they try to decrease the economic divide bring people together maybe the people who are living luxury although many of them were living very well maybe they weren't living as extravagant and as luxurious as they may have wanted to but at the same time there was no person going to sleep hungry without food in their stomach this is the the the miracle of the leadership of the اهل البيت علي مسلام and at the end of the day we pray every day مام الحجر الله تعالى حجر شري to come back and inshallah re-establish that system and that's the only third time that the world will ever see that's the third time and the only last time the world will see true absolute justice because what happens is humanity or people who become leaders sometimes the ego gets in the place sometimes other things happen that they're not able to see the good of the people at large and they begin it begins to become about the eye as opposed to the weak the problem with us normal human beings power it's like a curse it does it does affect us it messes with our minds and then you have the whispering of shaitan as well is is for us it's illogical irrational to have a leader without being infallible because having a leader like one of us then it's a recipe for disaster it's meant to have is a time bomb that's why the only possible way for us going forward is having an infallible leader and inshallah one day will happen inshallah with regards to leadership if i were to try and identify one what traits would i be looking for very good question in terms of the traits of leadership many of them are actually exemplified by the أهل البيت better than anyone else and this is substantiated by much research in the model modern world the first trait that the أهل البيت عليمة سلام taught us about leadership is the leader themselves must have a certain level of credibility in terms of their character they must have integrity in this character this is the same way رسول العظم himself established as we mentioned previously in episodes this character of being صادق and عمين being someone who's honest and trustworthy he established this and he this was 40 years though his lifetime before announcement of profit he established this character and people trusted him and believed in him the same with أمير المؤمنين علي ابنى بيطالب سوات الله وسلام وعلي people knew that this علي ابنى بيطالب i had the highest position after رسول الله that رسول الله they knew that امير المؤمنين was exalted to such a level that there was no comparison that even Muslims throughout the world شعا عا نان شعا doesn't matter whenever the name of علي ابنى بيطالب would come up they would say علي ابنى بيطالب كرم الله وجه may Allah illuminate his face may Allah brighten his face why because this was that person who never once in his life bowed down before an idol at any moment in time and he was the first of the first with رسول الله in the battlefield in every war and every time whenever Islam needed assistance علي ابنى بيطالب was there from the beginning to the end of his life from one house of Allah to the other this was the life of علي ابنى بيطالب he sacrificed his entire life for Islam and there was no companion greater than علي ابنى بيطالب that رسول الله himself says that علي ابنى بيطالب whoever whoever is مولا i am علي ابنى بيطالب is his مولا فان كنته مولا فهذا علي مولا this مولا it means master that is the definition of the term contextually so this is رسول الله's leadership reflected in the leadership of علي ابنى بيطالب they mirrored each other علي ابنى بيطالب did not learn from any teacher except رسول الله himself so the greatest معلم the greatest teachers رسول الله and his greatest students is علي ابنى بيطالب and in terms of those traits so number one they had character number two humility you'd say how a humility علي ابنى بيطالب and رسول الله had the highest level of humility a leader must be humble now رسول الله could have had the ability to be very arrogant he is much above these terms but what i'm saying is رسول الله could say that i am divinely appointed prophet of god you must listen to me and if you wanted he could have descended the worst of calamities on people but this was the prophet who when he would go to طايف for تبلغ to give the mission to propagate the message they would pelt him with stones to the point that he would become bloodied and فاعتمت الزهراء his blessed daughter would would clean off the wounds but رسول الله even in that circumstance when people were pelting him with stones and five he would raise his hands and would say يا الله oh my lord forgive them for they do not know who i am they do not know my position this was the رسول الله this was the humility and this this was the level that they went to to protect their people the same with امير المؤمنين and this is how they operated امير المؤمنين امير المؤمنين is too high امير المؤمنين's deputies let's go to امير المؤمنين's deputies his commander his right hand command مالك الاشتر we're told that he is walking in the streets one day when somebody a young youth begins to harass him and bother him he was wearing the cloak over his shoulders we're told and he began to he wanted to pull it off as as an insult and he pulled it away and when he pulled it away someone addressed him he said do you know what you just did and who do you just did that to he says i don't care he's like do you know who it is he says he says that's مالك that's i leave him with us commander and chief he can have you finished in one second he became very shaken he followed مالك to the point that he went to he went to the mosque and when he got there he noticed that he began to pray and when he noticed he was waiting for the prayer to end when he finished the salah he was reciting salah separate went for the salah finished he went up to him and he said that i i beg your pardon please forgive me i'm the one who pulled your cloak i'm the one who troubled you i'm the one who bothered you forgive me please i didn't know who you are he said الله is my witness god is my witness the only reason i came to the mosque at this time was to recite to raka'a salah that الله سبحانه وتعالى forgives you for your action this was the level of this was the level of humility of the deputies of amir further humility رسول الله in the battle of خندق he's giving a lesson to the muslims on leadership he says does anyone have any ideas or strategy for to protect us from the enemy for example he's asking all the people one person speaks up salman he says يا رسول الله where i come from in persia or he says we dig a trench around us to protect us so that no enemy can come does رسول الله not know this of course رسول الله knows this he's saying and he's giving a message that when you come for strategy military strategy or other strategy business strategy take advice take an advisor on board so even while he was the leader he was teaching us how to lead so what did they do all the muslims they began to they began to dig a ditch to protect themselves against the other side this was the level of humility that existed in رسول الله and this is the level of humility that exists in amir al-mumine and his deputies and this is how the أهل البيت عالم السلام operated number one character number two they had the utmost of humility the other was in terms of explaining they they understood human psychology better than anyone else they understood how the mind operates they understood how people actually be able to function and how they think and they would explain things that sometimes are the most difficult of things in the most simple ways on the level of the people i remember a story that comes to my mind about رسول الله and how he tackled some of the most difficult issues those of youth were told who once came to رسول الله and he had a sincere difficult issue and a difficult scenario and the companions are surrounded and sitting there and that moment this this this young man comes he says he says you have a problem can you help me now islam is a religion that says there's there's no shyness or shame in religion in the mattress of dine that the the principles must be laid out as an individual i must have shame and modesty and integrity of male or female doesn't matter we must have modesty and and shame and hayaa but islam must lay out the rules in the foundations this young man comes to رسول الله we're told he says yeah رسول الله i have a vice i have a problem and in my heart i want to commit adultery at that moment all the companions get very upset they said this is رسول الله you're talking like this what's wrong with you رسول الله says hold on i'd like رسول الله the leader the demeanor of a leader to not jump to rash decisions very calm very cool very collected okay let's go for a walk you tell us come on you stay here let me go with a walk with this young man let's go for a walk so you go for a walk do you go separate away from the people we're told that you say this is my issue he says let me ask you something what do you accept that someone would do this with your sister I said no never so would you accept that someone would do this with your mother like this is what we're told this is no never he said then why would you want why would you accept yourself to do this with someone else isn't that someone else's daughter isn't that someone else's mother couldn't that be someone else's mother in هل لم يكن هناك شخص أخرى؟ هذا حقاً لذلك إنه قلت في نظاره أنت بخير ولكن الآخرين يريدون أن يساعدوه يريدون أن يقتلهم يريدون أن ينقذهم ويكونوا جيداً رسول الله مع الأدب والأخلاق من رسول الله كانت ذلك تستطيع أن يكون able to calm the hearts at such a level هذا هو ما يهل البيت عليهم السلام لقد كانت محاولة لهم لقد فعلت معهم ويخبرونهم بهم على أمورهم أذكرت أن هناك أمور who came to رسول الله and said يا رسول الله my son he eats too many dates can you speak to him can you tell him not to eat so many dates رسول الله says come the next day he said okay he came the next day رسول الله said don't eat too many dates he said يا رسول الله you could have told me this yesterday why did I have to go back and why did I have to come again رسول الله said because when you asked me yesterday I had just eaten some dates myself and I didn't want to tell him something that I myself am not practicing the level of integrity and they inspire us to have in our lives to implement that in our lives every single day أميل المؤمنين did he not implement this أميل المؤمنين on his dinner table while he's ruling he's ruling an empire the Muslim empire that would spread over maybe 57 countries today and he is ruling and what is he eating he's eating some bread and some salt some dry barley bread and some salt and they ask him يا علي why such a simple food you're the ruler of this entire entire governorship this entire kingdom the Muslim empire is under your rule you're eating so simple he says that I have a wish I have a desire and that desire علي ابنة بيطالي that desire of mine is to meet my lord in a state in which I am hungry further he أميل المؤمنين says I do not want that in my entire regime that I am ruling over from the north to the south from the east to the west I don't want a single dinner table to be spread tonight that is simpler than mine there should be no one eating in this entire kingdom or this entire empire or this entire Muslim state or this empire that is eating food that is simpler than mine if I am ruling I must eat the simplest food I must live the simplest life I must be the simplest leader to the extent that أميل المؤمنين's own shoes he would patch them up to the point that he would say bear witness that I have not forsaken this shoe but it has no more repair left for me to give it this was أميل المؤمنين this is how they are in the house of peace operated yet they question us how can we love أميل المؤمنين to that to such an extent yet they do not know Allah is great it is beyond comprehension أميل المؤمنين was such an individual that just as followed أميل المؤمنين not the other way around truth followed أميل المؤمنين not the other way around that Ali ibn Abi Talib was the essence of truth رسول الله Himself said if you want to see truth see Ali ibn Abi Talib that's where truth is doesn't matter what people say we have traditions they are very clear in this regard that Ali ibn Abi Talib status as a leader as a status as the representative and the vice-gerent of رسول الله is there is nothing to come against it there is nothing to oppose it it's absolutely clear do more traditions tell us this to the extent we're told that there is a tradition that أميل المؤمنين is present one day in the vicinity of رسول الله and أبو بكر enters upon them and عايشة is there as well عايشة is narrating this in the tradition and رسول الله is there present and Ali ibn Abi Talib is there at that moment عايشة says I saw my father was staring towards the face of Ali ibn Abi Talib and grilling his face in a state that his face was frozen on the face of Ali ibn Abi Talib after أميل المؤمنين after Ali left عايشة says I asked my father oh father why were you staring at the face of Ali ibn Abi Talib in such a state that you were not looking away he says my daughter have you not heard from رسول الله نظرو إلى وجه Ali ibn Abi Talib عبادة that to look towards the face of Ali ibn Abi Talib is worship these are clear narrations that tell us the position of Ali ibn Abi Talib beyond the shadow of any doubt to the extent that رسول الله says أنا مدينة العلم وعليه بابها that I am the city of knowledge and Ali is his gate Ali is his door if you want to enter into the city you go through the door بعد ذلك ، بعض الناس ، وهي جميلًا أثنانًا من أخرين أسكولرين من أسكولات نانشعة الذين أثنانًا ، أن هؤلاء هؤلاء تصميمون وإضافة كثيرًا أنهم يقولون أن شخصًا هو فاودي وشخصًا هو دور وشخصًا هو فاودي الألوك هل تعلمون ما هو المشاكل؟ ويأتي إلى أسكولر من أحل السنة لم يكن لديه شياس كولر who said do you know what the problem with this tradition is that where they add on and they say so and so is the foundation you know what the problem is that is the problem with that is that when you say that someone is the foundation of knowledge the foundation is primary over the building so you're saying that person has a higher position than Rasool Allah himself that person whoever wrote this did not have a clear understanding of how a building works and did not have a clear understanding of how the world works to the extent that this person wrote an individual wrote that the lock on the door is Muawiyah this is the extent that people have gone to try to lower the position of Ali ibn Abi Talib for 90 years Ali ibn Abi Talib was cursed in the friday's ceremony why such animosity why such hatred towards the personality of Ali ibn Abi Talib why such hatred towards his children people must wake up and ask these questions the reality of the matter is people understood that they could not aspire and rise to the level of Ali ibn Abi Talib therefore they tried to bring him down envy drove them mad envy drives a person mad and this is the tragedy of the world in which we live human nature throughout times has caused people to do some of the worst of things Ali ibn Abi Talib yet Ali ibn Abi Talib strived and hoped for the best for everyone that went on the 19th of Ramadan when he struck on his head Amir al-Mu'mineen in the masjid in the state of Sujood with that sword that has been soaked in poison over time Ali ibn Abi Talib when he sees the person who struck him Abdulrahman ibn Muljam and he sees him in that state and they bring some water or they bring some milk for Ali ibn Abi Talib for Amir al-Mu'mineen he says give it to him give it to the one who struck him on his head I can't stand to see him in this state Allahu akbar Amir al-Mu'mineen Amir al-Mu'mineen is not a light title Amir al-Mu'mineen is only for Ali ibn Abi Talib because he exemplified leadership at the highest level Allah سبحانه وتعالى chooses his leaders and no one selects leaders better than Allah سبحانه وتعالى أحسنت إنديد أحسنت وحضلا رب العالمين أم بيت سبيت لس to be honest with you after listening to a beautiful speech on one of the best leaders this planet has ever seen and that may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless us with the leadership of Imam Al-Hujja and I truly wholeheartedly hope that that time will not take too long to come because we've been for too long orphans we've been for too long orphans from Ahl al-Bayt and I hope that your words have pierced through the heart of every believer as done to myself especially tonight will be and it's the night where Amir al-Mu'mineen was struck in the masjid by Ibn Mu'l Jamal and I hope this incident will help us contemplate and reflect upon the life of Amir al-Mu'mineen this personality as you could not have explained better and insha'Allah I hope that I hope our brothers and sisters throughout the world can use this inspiration Amir al-Mu'mineen to bring that fire, to reignite the fire the love of Ahl al-Bayt and reignite the fire of willaya in the hearts and also use it to penetrate through the destruction of the world insha'Allah so we can eventually built that foundation that is required for their mom's return with that being said unfortunately we've come to an end of this program I would like to thank you all for being with us insha'Allah I hope this show has been as beneficial to yourselves as it has been to us with that being said I would like to wish you all a splendid and joyful and this night if you start with family and friends and remember us all in your du'az and most importantly Imam al-Zaman عجل الله تعالى خرج الشريف please do pray for the hasting of his reappearance and insha'Allah we'll see you next Saturday with that being said thank you all so much for being with us and Alhamdulillah رب العالمين واصل الله على محمد وقاله طيبين الطاهي