 مرحباً بجزء أعيني وابسلام عليكم زايدنا مرحباً قبل أن نبدأ فقط أن نعطينا مرحباً كتشفاتك في المدينة الكربلاء إذا لم تفهم مرحباً السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته لأسفاتنا الذين مرحباً في المدينة الكربلاء المدينة الكربلاء is increasingly increasing day by day if I can say so by the early hours of the morning if you leave your place of residence and start navigating through the streets of Karbala starting from the street of Karbala street of Karbala of Imam Hussain moving on towards Bain Al-Haramain and going to the shrine of Abdul-Fad Al-Abbas the street of Al-Abbas you will be able to see the more the more what they call takyat where each group of people have organized their own area and they've lit with candles and with the colorful lighting and they spend the day in the Mawaqib from the early morning until the evening where they will each area starts in their own precision and come to the shrine of Abiy Abdullah Al-Hussain to conclude their day and during the day you see the the processions of of Zanjir hitting the back with the chains and the lamentation crying Majalis so it's one huge Majalis if I can say Karbala turns into one big major Majalis I think what's amazing is comparing I think a lot of viewers have been granted the opportunity to visit Karbala during the 40th of Imam Hussain in Al-Bain as we know there are many narrations that encourage us to come during Al-Bain but when I compare the taste of Al-Bain to Muharram the one thing that I feel is the best way to describe it is that Al-Bain is when the world comes to Karbala but Muharram is when Karbala itself is in mourning so you see all the as you said the Mulkibs which are the local groups of mourning processions from all over the city designated by the areas of the city that they reside in whether it be by a certain shrine or street Karbala was surrounded by walls with gates so each gate has and each Mulkib is designated to that area and you see throughout the day as you said they're coming in and pledging their allegiance to Imam Hussain and lamenting Imam Hussain and it's something really it's got a very special taste to it something very beautiful about seeing the people who live in the Holy City of Karbala who live and breathe the shrine of Imam Hussain and the shrine of Abbas making it having these 10 days as their opportunity to mourn obviously there maybe you crept me for a moment while I understand is if you would like to live I said that it is important for you to recommend to serve the visitors of Imam Hussain yes so these are people who dedicate their lives to serving the visitors of Imam Hussain but during these 10 days while they still do that they also dedicate a lot of time to lamenting Imam Hussain himself and going inside the shrine and doing those possessions which I think it's something very very beautiful and you can see so much history and so many generations of love just in these groups that go inside of course in these shows exactly the story of Imam Hussain in regards to his journey from Medina to Calibla and just trying to understand more about Imam Hussain and what we can take from his lessons into our lives and in the show today we shall be discussing deviate and how far one can deviate and SubhanAllah when you think about someone like Yazid or Imam Hussain or people who fought against Imam Hussain the first thing we often jump to think is how can anyone even dare to do that how can someone dare to be head Imam Hussain how can that even happen and the first thing we say is oh if I was there I would be the first person standing there to defend Imam Hussain but when you read the story of Calibla when you look at exactly what happened the enemies who were against Imam Hussain were telling this and our hearts are with you but our swords are against you you know they were dare I say the common Muslim at the time the same way we are the common Muslims but they couldn't bring themselves to go the extra step and serve Imam Hussain and it shows you just how far someone can fall and just how scary is to start getting into sin and start getting into injustice you know you slip up once twice three four times and any of us can become you know an enemy of Imam Hussain and I think that's what's scary and I'd like to quote one of my favorite poets is a suddenly a Sufi brother he talks about the Prophet Muhammad's story and we can use that parallel for the Ahl al-Bait he talks about the movie The Lion King so he comes right we were all in The Lion King and he says The Lion King is about what The Lion King is all about The Simba it's about the story of Simba so the movie studio everyone who came together the thousands of dollars millions of dollars they poured into that movie were all there to facilitate the story of Simba the characters his father whoever else there in the film is there to facilitate the story of Simba and the enemy of the film Scar is there to show us what a villain looks like he said in the same way this whole universe everything that is created in the story of the Prophet Muhammad and by extension we can say everything that is here in this world is here to facilitate the story of Muhammad and we have to ask ourselves who are we in this story are we the enemies or are we the good guys and Subhan Allah Allah has allowed for people like Yazid people like Omar bin Sa'ad and Simba to come about to show us what an enemy of Muhammad looks like and again show us how far someone can fall so tell us how did people like Yazid and the enemies of Muhammad saying how did they fall so far to be trying to kill the grandson of the Prophet just a mere 50 years after his death I said well if you allow me and give me permission in one or two minutes I quickly summarized just for the benefits of the brothers and sisters who are joining us these nights the first night we spoke about the importance of the position of the land of Karbala and what it means for the monies of Abiyab Abdullah Al-Hussain to be in Karbala the second night we spoke about the the figure this whole emotional atmosphere is rotating about and tonight we want to know the enemies who stood against Abiyab Abdullah Al-Hussain and their characteristics and what caused their deviation and what were the results Insha'Allah we will start with a short verse of the Holy Quran and we will continue describing the causes of deviation and the results الله سبحانه وتعالى in Surah in Surah Al-Israa in chapter Al-Israa verse number 60 there is a portion of this ayah where it says والشجرة الملعونة في القرآن there is a tree which is cursed in the Holy Quran if you go back to the tafasi and the books of the Mufassireen in the commentary especially نور of the Qalain for example in chapter book number 3 if I'm not mistaken page number 179 the author comes and explains this portion of this verse والشجرة الملعونة في القرآن he says إمام الباكر says this tree which is being cursed by Allah in the Holy Quran refers to the clan of Bani Umayyah the family tree of Bani Umayyah so when إمام الباكر comes and says that there is a family by the name of the Umayyids which have been cursed in the Holy Quran we have to go and investigate why does Allah سبحانه وتعالى at times speaks positively about an individual or a family or a group and at times Allah curses a group of people and Allah سبحانه وتعالى no doubt has a reason behind everything and the reason for Allah to come and curse باني Umayyya may Allah bring down his punishment upon them is because of their deviation from the path of Islam and when we say Islam we say the religion that came as a result of the propagation of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the message of the Holy Prophet these 23 years that Rasulullah spent pulling and dragging and accommodating all of those Arabs amongst all of the problems and the the wars and the battles that they had between themselves the tribes and the clans رسول الله سكرافاست everything so he he saves those Arabs and imagine during the 23 years what the Holy Prophet had to go through from people abusing the Holy Prophet neglecting his rights disrespecting him his family torturing him depriving him of his privacy depriving him of his of livelihood living in a comfortable place with his family honor, dignity, respect here some of those that participated in abusing the Holy Prophet was Abu Sufyan and his wife Hind Abu Sufyan and Hind were the clan were from the clan of Bani Umayyah Umayyah being the the great grandfather and Abu Sufyan being the father of Muawiyah and Muawiyah the father of Yazid so it comes down in the lineage the grandfather abused the Holy Prophet the mother the grandmother ate the the liver of Hamza in the battle of Uhud seeking revenge for the death of her father and brother and family members and that ran in the blood of Bani Umayyah those characteristics they took from Abu Sufyan and Hind so the son and the grandson did the same thing with the grandchildren of the Holy Prophet after 50 or 60 years we shouldn't be surprised when we come and read about individuals like Muawiyah and Yazid and when we speak about these historical figures unfortunately this is a misconception that some of the followers of the other schools of thought they as soon as they hear the Shi'a mentioning the name of individual like Muawiyah or Yazid they say these people the Shi'a those who love Ahlulbayt they say we love Ahlulbayt they are against the Sahaba they are against the companions of the Holy Prophet whilst this is not the case we highly respect the noble companions of the Holy Prophet whilst there were people who sacrificed their lives for the Islam and for the Holy Prophet and for the name of Allahu Akbar there were other companions who were busy diving and swimming against the tides trying to accumulate wealth in the name of Islam looking for power in the name of Islam so و الشجرة الملعونة في القرآن is the family of Bani Umayyah so what are the the characteristics of this family when we search the books of history we see like individuals like Abu Sufyan and Muawiyah they did not enter Islam as everyone else did everyone else came heard the message of the Holy Prophet sat down next to the Holy Prophet they received admonishment they received advice they received the beautiful sermons of the Holy Prophet and they willingly they willingly out of their own choice they made the decision to leave the worshipping of the idols or whatever they were worshipping and to join Islam but this is not the case with the clan of Bani Umayyah Bani Hashim and Bani Umayyah they are cousins they are relatives because if you go back and search in their ancestry you will see that the great great grandfather was brothers with the great grandfather of Bani Hashim Hashim himself so صخر and Hashim they were related so hence there is this grudge from the side of Bani Umayyah against Ahlul Bayt عليهم السلام because Ahlul Bayt they were always received well received well behaved and helped and I think subhanAllah even today we have people that tell us why do you have certain families of others and Allah himself has preferred certain families of others in the Holy Quran we see all the prophets many of them related by blood you see Ibrahim and his sons Dawood even Moses and Haroon and so many other prophets are related and it shows us that certain families certain lineages in Islam that are blessed by Allah SWT and of course when people see that it brings about jealousy in them because they can't understand or have the faith to appreciate that some families will be more blessed than others Brother Noody what you're saying is very beautiful and just reminding me that Allah SWT as human beings has given us the brains the intellect and we're not blindfolded our eyes are not closed we can read we can investigate Allah has given us the brains we can read the books of history and find that Allah has said I've given you the choice I've given you the brains and you can decide for yourself who would you choose would you choose someone who gives you a rose or would you choose someone who wants to attack you with a knife of course you're going to go with the one that has noble akhlaq noble morals smiling in the face of others calling people towards Islam with the wise words with the smile with the good behavior but this is not the case I swear to you we don't have any problem with those Sahaba on a personal level we haven't seen them and they haven't seen us they haven't done anything to us personally but it's because we read the books of history and we read we investigate the books that have been accumulated and written by the other schools of thought and they mention in their books things about these characters that doesn't fit the akhlaq because against the Holy Qur'an exactly when we say akhlaq we mean the Holy Qur'an the sayings of the Holy Prophet and the the wise way of thinking of the normal people so many Ummayahs characteristics carried infidelity kufr they were individuals Abu Sufyan himself on many occasions when he used to sit down with his family members he used to ask in the last stages of his life he turned blind he couldn't see so he used to ask his family members is there anyone sitting amongst us who is not from Bani Ummayah and there were times where people were sitting like the Holy Prophet Amirul Mu'mineen other Bani Hashi but Bani Ummayah couldn't come and say yes there is or there isn't so they used to stay quiet and then Abu Sufyan used to make that statement تلقفوها يا Bani Ummayah كاتون تلقوها يعني The power the leadership because leadership was in the house of Bani Hashem تلقفوها تأقف الكره take it as you take a ball فهما جاء به what he says Muhammad صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم the message the Islam is not true فلا جنة ولا نعرف فالذي يحلف به أبو سفياً the thing that I believe in and I swear to which he means the idols هبل وعزة علاد he says فلا جنة ولا نار there was no message and there is no hereafter which means that I Abu Sufyan I don't believe in the message that Muhammad came with I think it's just a quick side note two things that you can take from that is number one someone even at the end of his age his days are coming to an end there is nothing left for him in this world can be so arrogant to continue holding on to that belief of anti-monotheism number one and number two it reminds me of a quote that someone said about the Ba'afi regime in today's context they said if someone rules over you of power 20, 30 years and you take away his power he will never be happy with sitting in a house he will never be he will support anyone that will help him get in back to power even if it's ISIS or terrorism or whatever and you see that again with Abu Sufyan who was in power taking out the power by Rasool Allah and could not bear to think about the fact that his lineage would not continue to be holding on to power I'm sure Ma'awi as he kept thinking you know what our grandfather was in power we have to be in power too because we can't live like normal people after having tasted power so when we come to the grandson of the Holy Prophet he comes and describes when we mentioned last night that they said to Abu Abdullah you have to pay allegiance and after saying that when we discussed last night he described himself and his lineage he comes and describes Yazid and his characteristics he says he is uninhabitable he is lewd he is engaged in obscene activities he is always drunk always has lost his mind لاعب القرادة والخنازير he wasted his time with playing with animals instead of engaging in curing and advising people and answering their questions متجاهر بالفسق which was the most dangerous thing that a leader, a ruler ruling people the so-called Islamic Ummah can openly be disobeying الله سبحانه وتعالى and he still says I am the leader of the Muslims متجاهر بالفسق وقاتل النفس المحترم these are the characteristics of this person there wasn't anything left for Yazid to do drunk all day bringing dances musicians organizing parties inviting his friends over these things if you think about today there are some people in some corners of the world engaging in these kind of activities all of these things they push us towards deviation if we practice these kind of things these are the things these are the characteristics that are encouraged these are the activities that are encouraged by the shaitan by the devil not by the Malai they were all in the Islamic leader of the Ummah at the time احسن for someone to come and assume leadership and take allegiance from important characters characters in Islam like أبي عبد الله الحسين and as books of history عبد الله ابن الزبير عبد الله ابن عمر who were characters looked at in Makkah and Medina for someone like that you come and say okay what do you carry what are your experiences how do you behave for me as someone living in this time and age to come and follow you are you someone who is a professor are you someone who has invested his time and his life to educating himself to researchers so he can benefit the humanity you come I asked our viewers today sit down and read about the history of Yazid so you understand what obscene things he used to do and why that resulted in his deviation by causing the death of أبي عبد الله الحسين in the tragic way in the land of Karbala Fisk Fujor درانتنس واستن time with playing games with animals he used to have a monkey called أبو قيس he used to sit him on a donkey and sit down and send that donkey racing around a place and that donkey once upon a time fell from the back of the donkey I know this is funny because it's so pathetic exactly this is so called the Imam the leader the representative of the Holy Prophet so he placed himself as a and you compare this with Imam Ali who was two caliphs earlier who was going out in the middle of the night feeding four people making sure no one was making sure no one was in his entire state exactly you compare the two you ask why people ask why I'm saying because he wanted to bring back the name of Islam and wanted to give back people the way they wanted to live not the way that Yazid wanted people to live ويزيد رجل فاسقون شارب وخمر قاتل النفس المحترم معلل بالفسق ومثلي someone like me أبي عبدالله الحسين with my characteristics and with my lineage ومثلي لا يبايع ومثله someone in my stature and my position which is the position of Imamate and leadership this responsibility which has been given to me by Allah سبحانه وتعالى which no authority on the face of this earth is able to deprive me of this position I am not going to pay allegiance to someone like Yazid who him he himself positioned himself there his father did the same and they forced people to believe in that way and anyone that disobeyed them and did not agree with the way they wanted to rule people and anyone that they believed that was the lover of Ali ابن أبي طالب they used to attack the house demolish the house upon its people we had the husband and take the family as captives and cut their financial means from baytulman which leader does these kind of things so you shouldn't be surprised to read the history of Karbala and to read about the tragedy of عشورا and أبي عبدالله الحسين and question who would come and do this kind of things only a deviated person would come and do this kind of thing سبحان الله it just boggles the mind and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to keep us safe from deviating because I feel like deviation it happens so so quickly there are plenty of stories how the most pious of people have fallen just by committing one sin and a second sin and a third sin then they came I remember there was one story which I'll just quickly very quickly mention I think it was about a scholar and I'm just paraphrasing the story I don't remember the exact details of it but there was a very pious scholar who ended up I think killing someone or something and he kept trying to cover up his tracks and Shaytan kept coming to him saying just do this and you'll be fine and it happened and it was going on right until the end where he was about to be hung and Shaytan said okay I'll save you if you prostrate to me right now and the scholar said okay I'll prostrate to you and then he was killed and that shows you he was one of the most pious scholars but because of his because of one sin a second sin a third sin kept going down that road he died in disbeliefs say it now of course you mentioned of course and as we know the battle of Karbala is one of tragedy and we see how how far someone like is he can fall to be able to do such tragedy things to anyone alone the house of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and we have about 12 minutes left so if you can please just take us on a journey into the Masaib of Karbala Insha'Allah just before I enter the realms of the Masaib and the tragedies of Karbala I just would like to end with a small insightful story just to give something to our dear viewers to go back and ponder and think about in the Holy Quran there are many stories and Allah سبحانه وتعالى uses these examples to show us that even if you live in the most ridiculous of times where everything around you pushes you towards sinning there always is a time or there is an opportunity for you to repent Asya the wife of Pharaoh she was living a life of luxury there wasn't anything that she didn't ask for and they would bring it for her she had power she had beauty she had wealth she had maids and servants serving she had everything everything one can think then she had the Pharaoh as her husband Pharaoh someone who used to say أن ربكم الأعلى I am your lord I am your creator whilst he was oppressing people whilst he was depriving them of their rights Asya was observing all of this but she wasn't saying anything whilst Prophet Musa عليه السلام was conveying the message of Allah سبحانه وتعالى she heard the call of Prophet Musa and then she sat down and thought with herself okay I the wife of Pharaoh in the palace of Pharaoh Pharaoh as a husband that says أن ربكم الأعلى with all the power and the wealth that I have I am the first lady in the government now I am between two roads either I stay as I am and neglect the call of Musa عليه السلام which is calling me to leave everything around me and it's very difficult if you're living in a high position you've got wealth you've got servants serving you there isn't anything you need which isn't provided for you and you make that split decision that you're going to leave everything for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى for the sake of that Nur that light that you've been looking for you take yourself out of darkness and you enter the light so here Asya decides and that decision was costing her her freedom and her life and eventually when she took that decision Pharaoh started torturing her torturing his own wife you see how deviated one can be the wife that the previous night you loved and you cherished and you took as a partner for you in your life the next day because she changes her ideology you want to kill her so here he started torturing he crucified her and he ordered his ministers and his army generals to torture her and then that didn't result in her coming back to what she was on before he ordered for a huge rock to be thrown on the body of Asya and Asya called الله سبحانه وتعالى oh Allah you see that I have left everything ابني لي بيتن عندك في الجنة I don't want this pretty world what I am looking for is the hereafter معاوية and Omar bin Sa'ad they were looking for pretty things in this world of course they didn't believe that there is a hereafter and Omar bin Sa'ad says if there is a hereafter and there is a judgment day إن شاء الله I will go to Hajj and repent within 2 years this is a story that we can learn from from the Holy Quran and there is another story narrated by علام النراقي in his book he says that there was a lady in Basra I called Sha'wana Sha'wana was a dancer and had a beautiful voice and she had a group of women around her helping her to organize parties and the wealthy people of Basra those who were engaged in parties and dancing at that time used to invite her this Sha'wana one day she was moving with her with her maids and staff going to a function during the way she heard a house noises coming from the house people crying and lamenting and shouting she sends one of her servants one of the maids she is going to investigate what is that sound what is the cause of it the first lady went she never came back Sha'wana sends another one until the third one goes and comes back and she says Sha'wana this is a majlis this is a religious function there is a speaker speaking to people admonishing them advising them asking them to repent telling them that there is a hair after make sure you fear Allah سبحانه وتعالى because Allah is going to judge you for everything Sha'wana says I wanted to investigate this myself so Sha'wana goes in she starts hearing that preacher advising people reminding them of the qiyamah and the adab and jannah and nahr Sha'wana starts crying heavily if someone wants to really repent and has the chance and takes that chance Allah will guide them the killers of Abiyab until the last moments of their life Abiyab gave them the chance even shimmer sitting on the chest of Abiyab Imam told him do not Imam was going to die because of the thirst because of the wounds Imam was going to die and Imam told him I am going to die but I don't want you to be the cause of my death and I will promise you that I will intercede for you on the day of judgment if you truly repent but shimmer did not he had that chance he didn't take it Sha'wana did Sha'wana started crying heavily and she spoke to that preacher and said oh preacher I have someone full of bad things I've done many sins many wrongdoings the preacher said Allah will forgive you even if you was Sha'wana and Sha'wana thought with herself will be upon me that I have become an example to other people of how sinful a person can be how deviated a person can be and she repented and she became one of the best worshippers of Allah SWT so deviation has devastating effects and that effect is that you will lose everything around you in this life and you will lose everything in the hereafter we'll say that we have about 5 minutes left so if you can take our souls to Karbala and take our souls to the story of Aijra Insha'Allah Insha'Allah tonight is the third night and I would want to invite you to the land of Karbala where today the caravan of Abdullah al-Hussain after leaving the city of Medina and leaving behind the little little ill daughter of Abdullah al-Hussain behind who stayed with Umm Al-Baneen the caravan of Abdullah al-Hussain arrived after months of traveling between Medina and Mecca and Mecca and Karbala on the second or third day of Muharram they entered the land of Karbala Abdullah al-Hussain upon reaching the outskirts of Karbala his horse stopped moving stopped traveling Imam noticed that there is something about this land Imam of course knew that this is the land of Karbala but he wanted to inform gradually inform his companions his sister Zaynab his brother Abbas his son Ali Al-Aqbar that we have reached our destination Abdullah al-Hussain asks his companions ما اسمه هذا الأرض my companions what is the name of this land they say سيد أبا عبدالله تسمى الغاذريات أبي عبدالله الحسين asks once again ما اسمه هذه الأرض they say أبا عبدالله they call this شاطئ والفراية أبي عبدالله calls again ما اسمه هذا الأرض it was then that one of his companions says أبا عبدالله هذه أرض Karbala أبي عبدالله upon hearing the name of Karbala سدئنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون ها هنا والله محل رحالنا بايا الله this is where we will base our camp ها هنا تقتل رجالنا this is where our men will be killed ها هنا أقتل أنا أتشانا وريبا this is the land that I will be killed in with a thirsty tank all alone لا نصر ولا معين Imam continues سيقها هنا تقتل وطفال ولا on this land they will kill my children and this is the statement that broke the heart of Abel فضل العباز الليدي زيناب it is when Abel says وها هنا تصبان وساءنا سيستر زيناب we have reached the land that you will be taken as captive from Abel says أخي عباز إذهب إلى أختنا الحورة زيناب because she has heard the name of Karbala Abel father comes to the camp of Lady Zaynab he says Lady Zaynab are you okay sister Lady Zaynab says أخي عباز is this truly the land of Karbala why sister Lady Zaynab says because I have heard things about Karbala يا يا يا Karbala لازل تكاربان وبلا ما لقي عندك آل المصطفاء كم على تور بكلام ما صرعو من دم إنسان ومن دم إنجراء أحسنتم سيدي الله نصلي على محمد محمد ومحمد السلام عليك يا با عبدالله وقد قمنا بسيطة بسيطة عليك وإن ده يوم أشرا يوم أشرا يوم يوم when our hearts will break and the day when our eyes shall weep أبناء بلا with إمام الحسين عيسلام ونقص كما يوم أشرا يوم يوم أشرا يوم يوم أشرا يوم يوم أشرا يوم ور Lars صلى الله عليه وسلم يوم它 would make these days days of change in our lives as I mentioned earlier it takes 40 days to change the habit, they say we have 40 today we have 40 days from the first of Muharram until the day of Durbaayn فب gün可能 في one day حتى نكون something we want to work on something need to improve on something that a habit or floor all is a floor all is firms something that we can work on إن شاء الله أتمنى أن أستطيع أن أقوم باستخدامنا وإن شاء الله أتمنى that my dear viewers alongside myself and my respected guests you too will pick something in your life that you can improve and do it in honor and in the service of Imam Hussain A.S. إن شاء الله I'll be joined by Said Ali al-Hakeem who will be reciting some eulogies after the break إن شاء الله we'll see you then السلام عليكم ورحمة الله