 صلى الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الصلاة والسلام على أنبياء الله جميعا وعلى سيدهم وخاتمهم حبيب إله العالمين بالقاسم المصطفى رحمت لا على حبيتها طيبين الطاهرين المقصومين الذين أدهروا عنهم قدسة وقرحواهم تطغيرا لبس الرسلام أثواب السوادي يوم أرض المرتضى سيف الموادي ليلة ما أصبحت إلا وقد غلب الغي على أمر الرشاء والصلاح خفبة على التعفع وعلام الفسادي سلب عيني الدجاه الجفة من بكن وسل الأنجمه الأبصر نه ليلة مفتج عن فوق الأسادي والصبحها الشاهده مل من نوح مديب للفؤاد رشه الله في حجة الله على كل العباد وببيت الله قجد له ساجدا ينشج من خوف المعادي محيت فيك على رغم الهدى في فضلها الذكر في فبكام متو الله هد متو الله أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تلك الدعا ولون في الأرض ولا فسادا ولعا قيبته للمتقين أراتي أمان اليوم أراتي أمان أن أمان أن أمان أن أمان أن أمان أن أمان أول أخيه أمان الله The Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول about him حق وعلي إن إيمان وبضغه كفر ونفا and all transmitters of hadith وحدثون They unanimously agree that the Prophet said about this man يا علي لا يحبك إلا مؤمن ولا يبضغه كإلا منافر Why Ma'am Ali is important to us Why this man who is the product of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم A man who was in the custody of the Prophet since he was only 6 years old he was nurtured by the Prophet he was taught, he was fed he was trained he was prepared and groomed by the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Why he is important to us because he is a source of inspiration because sometimes religion is written somewhere is written in a book Revelation This book is called sometimes Quran sometimes Bible sometimes Torah Divine Scriptures and sometimes religion is practiced by people is a practice materializes through people's manners people's love people's deeds and therefore the Prophet says about Imam Ali something very important the Prophet says about Imam Ali علي ين هو القرآن الناطق We have Quranic sonnets This is a book that you read The Holy Book of Quran You read this book But this book is silent Imam Ali is the one who puts this book into practice And if we don't put that book into practice then we are not doing justice to Islam The day that the book is put into practice in all its aspects That day would be a great day Imam Ali with the help of his teacher and mentor and the leader of the Prophet was able to practice this book in every aspect of his life inside his house with his family with his children with his neighbors in the government with his subjects and with his enemies in the battlefield Imam Ali showed compassion even to his enemies On a numerous occasions In one battle Muawiyah cut off the supply of water from the army of Imam Ali He says I want them to die of thirst Imam Ali said to his army have no choice either to really die of thirst or you have to attack move forward so they moved forward they were able to retake that location the access to the Euphrates on the border of Iraq and Syria today so some of his friends they said to him we have to retell it we have to do the same to Muawiyah and his army don't give them water Imam Ali said no this is not my Akhla this is not what the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم thought we don't cut the water supply even from our enemies In another battle Imam Ali was fighting with his sword someone from the opposite camp he says I want Oh Ali I want your sword give it to me Imam Ali stops the fighting and he toss the sword to him and the man says now where you are in the middle of fighting you give me your sword Imam said yes you asked me for something you asked me to get the sword and I cannot say no to you even if I'm in the middle of fighting these are the manners of someone who was groomed and nurtured by prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم our name in public is شيع شيع means شيعة أهل البيت شيعة علي يبن أبيطالك شيعة رسول الله the friends the followers of the prophet and his family and obviously we take pride in this but we have to be true followers only titles and only names does not work to consider myself to be the shia of the prophet and Imam Ali and the family of the prophet without following their path their example does not work and does not help it would not help us but true shia is the one who annulates the akhlaq of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ولكم في رسول الله أسوة حسن لمن كان يرجو الله واليوم الآخر today the whole world is watching us is watching the Muslims and we have enough enemies outsiders Peter King the republican congressman from New York he says 90% of the Muslims are anti-americans he says the majority of the Muslims they don't like America and they support terrorist acts against this country it's up to us to prove him that he's wrong through our manners not through only our slogans not through shouting and yelling through our manners we have to prove to him that he's wrong and we have to tell the american people european people canadian muslims and non-muslims that we follow the akhlaq the manners of our prophet where Allah says about him in the holy Quran you stand on the highest levels of temperament of manners of akhlaq we have to show the people that we are the followers of Ali two followers of Ali the Shi'a of Ali when it comes to our family relationships fathers have a big responsibility mothers have a bigger responsibility children have a big responsibility of keeping the family together today our families are in danger and Ali while he was very busy outside the house Imam Ali was the defense he was the defense minister he was the defense minister he would be summoned by the prophet almost on every occasion the prophet would dispatch sometimes with the prophet would go with the prophet to all these battles and he would exhibit bravery and selflessness i said last night Imam Ali did something that nobody else did on the night when the prophet was leaving his hometown integrating to Medina night of Hijrah Imam Ali said i volunteered to stay in your bed so Quraysh would not realize that you are leaving this city and he volunteered and the holy Quran celebrates this incident ومن الناس من يشر نفسه ابتغى والله هو افضل رحمت ومن الناس من الناس هو one who gives himself sometimes we donate money we donate food we donate medicine Imam Ali donates his life is a blood for the sake of defending Islam this is sacrifice in many battles Imam Ali would stand there fighting this is not a fairy tale story this is here in the heart of this book the holy Quran Surah Al-Imran Al-Imran says they left the prophet alone in this book Surah Al-Imran they left him alone in the battle of Uhud the prophet was almost killed on that day almost killed he was heavily wounded and he was bleeding and Allah says about people who were around him اذا تصعدون ولا تلون على احد والرسول يدعوكم في اخرى ورسول your captain your leader your messenger you left him behind you only seven people stayed with the prophet and the leader of those seven were Imam Ali his bravery was unique so we have to follow him in these examples first and foremost his relationship with God Imam Ali was the best father the best husband the best son the best neighbor the best student the best teacher the best cousin the best son in law to his father in law one day the prophet said to him يا Ali you got two things that I myself I did not get you have the best wife in this universe God has given you and the best father in law they have the best father in law Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم but all these relations his friendship and his relationship with God was number one in his life it comes first and that is the secret of his success so if we want to be successful let's keep this relationship safe let's keep this relationship strong I have a friend very close friend of mine sitting here brother Yasir Barakat from Masjid Mission Gear he lost his young wife three weeks ago we buried her Dr. Lani Barakat she died of cancer battling the cancer for eight years I said to him he knows his wife since they were at elementary school elementary school when she was six years old they had a crush on her but I said to him you have Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم yes we lose sometimes our partners we lose our children they are very dear and near to us it's a tragedy we give condolences to him I am also heart broken I am thinking of him I am keeping him and his beautiful son and a beautiful daughter in my prayers all the time I am praying for his wife and definitely she is with God she is in a much much better place in paradise Insha'Allah and I ask you to pray for her however one day one day we would leave people or people would leave us but if we have God then we have everything God always fills the gap so the heart does not remain empty and he is telling me he is always telling me he keeps telling me that I prepared myself for this tragedy Allah has given me sorrow and patience yes if you are with him Allah has a special prescription it's not found in the pharmacies neither in the hospitals that prescription is called problem problem إلا الذين قالوا ربنا الله ثم استقانوا تتلزلوا عليهم الملايكة لا تخافوا don't fear ولا تحزنوا neither grieve الله gives patience so let's keep this relationship Ali had the best relationship after Prophet Muhammad he had the best relationship with God لذلك يقول لهم ، يا علي ، لا أعرف الله إلا أنا و أنت ، لا أعرف الله إلا أنا و أنت فقط فقط في هذه المجموعة ، يتعرف الله حقاً و يجب أن يقوم بشكل جيد معه هو أنت و أنا ، هذا هو الحديث ، الحديث الثاني من رفت محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم و يجب أن يضع الله before everything else every single night despite him being busy when he was in Medina and when he was the caliph in Kufa he would spend some nights in communion and privacy with his Lord because these hours they energize them they give him energy they give him hope they give him reason to stay in this life to survive if we get disconnected from him then there is no reason for us to stay people who commit suicide they reach a point that there is no point in living but if you know God God will give you the reason and the hope and the most severe circumstances he gives you hope that tomorrow would be better than today that is the result of connection with God so the one who teaches us to read and monotheism and relationship with God is Ali Yubna Arabi Parlim alaihi sallatu wa sallam Ali was also sincere everything he did was not for himself I mentioned this last night Ali was a hard working person Ali was not a lazy person Ali was very hard working he defended the prophet on every occasion but then he dedicated his work for Allah SWT for Allah not for himself not for a title not to carry a title on his shoulder he didn't care about title he would serve people without people knowing him many people did not even know him I told you the capturing the story of that Christian who converted to Islam not because Imam Ali was giving him lecture on Prophet Muhammad and Jesus no no no it wasn't like that he met Imam Ali in the desert outside Kufa in the desert I mentioned this story here many times but it's very capturing so the man introduces himself to Imam Ali Imam Ali immediately realizes that he is one of the big Christian tribes in Kufa there were Christians at that time but somehow the man did not ask Imam Ali's name so they were walking together and then he said to him where is your destination Imam Ali said I'm going to Kufa he asked the guy where is your destination he said I'm going to Basra so they reached the intersection so the guy was going into the direction of Basra with this man the man said you said to me you're going to Kufa he said yes I'm going to Kufa but this is not the direction of Kufa this is Basra Imam Ali says this look at the beauty look at the beauty Imam Ali says look at the beauty listen Muslims listen to your prophet Imam Ali said to him our dear teacher the prophet taught us instructed us that when we become friends with someone we walk with them if he's going to his car if he's leaving the house 40 steps as a gesture of respect paying them attention the man said but I'm not your friend Imam Ali said yes you are not my childhood friend but you are a friend of mine in this trip short trip you became my friend the man said tell me what's your name I'm interested in knowing your name Imam Ali simply said without any titles he said the man said you are the king of Imam Ali said he called me king of he said these are the manners of prophets I'm standing before someone who is a prophet of God you are not an ordinary person people we have an opportunity we have an opportunity in America Allah brought us thousands of miles from our homes back home in the Middle East some of us from Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq Egypt, Syria, Lebanon North Africa, Egypt Allah wants you to do something here my design it puts you here to invite to be an ambassador ambassador at large ambassador to the American nation to invite them to Islam through your أخلاق through your manners through your forgiveness through your tolerance today the Muslim umba is not in a good shape I will say more about that on Thursday after tomorrow the grand night of Qadr on Thursday we are not in a good shape we retreat we leave Islam alone we say Islam has a law has a God and the God will take care of it God says you have to take care of it I'll speak about this my speech on Thursday will be about this ayah إن الله لا يغير وما بقر من حتى يغير ما بأنفسه God would not change our circumstances unless we change our conditions and our hearts and our intentions and our behavior we should change that Islam is in danger today Islam in the Middle East is in danger I'm telling you there is so much war and hatred and a bloodshed even during the month of Ramadan as I speak to you now there are some Muslims now in many parts of the Middle East being murdered right now what should we do we have a responsibility I'll speak about that so Imam Ali his his recognition of God was outstanding his relationship with God his worshiping of God was outstanding his خلاص to God his earnestness with God was outstanding his صدق and his أمان his honesty and integrity was also outstanding Imam Ali did not believe in cheating he never lied he is the product of Muhammad for those of you who understand Arabic I want you to enjoy نهج البلاد وضعني رسول الله في حجره وعن وليد يضمني إلى صدره ويشمني عرفه فمار وجدني كتبة تنفيق قولن ولا خطة تنفيف المفهوم يساعدني حتى sometimes he puts the food in his mouth and then he takes it out of his mouth he puts it in my mouth to feed me to feed me then as a result of that he never found me to lie never to have a simple mistake فمار وجدني كتبة تنفيق قولن I never lied ولا خطة تنفيف so we should learn this for Imam Ali shouldn't we my friends don't you love him definitely all the Muslims they love him Imam Ali we should learn this we should not lie we should be honest and honesty here with Muslims we are believers and non believers we have to teach our children that ambassadors of Islam they are going to be ambassadors of Islam in this country each and every one of you is a spokesperson of Islam when you go to school people look at you as Muslim so you have a message to deliver don't spoil it don't spoil this chance you have a message to deliver to the American you represent Islam they don't come and search the Quran what is in the Quran neither they read the book they look at you if you do good then they say Islam is good but if we do bad then we should not expect them to say good about Islam they look at you they look at their neighbors they don't read books Aliun Ali Islam is the personification of a truth Aliun this is the words of the prophet Aliun مع الحق والحق مع علي دور معه رحيث و دار حق ربوز the prophet said to one of his companions after me there will be fitna among the Muslim community the sort of fitna that we see nowadays Muslims killing each other he says to him people are going to go into different directions you follow this man Ali whatever direction he goes you go after him don't leave him because Ali would not go wrong this is my product Ali is my product I love children I groomed him I made his character his personality is the product of prophet Muhammad and also Ali was forceful when it comes to justice he would not give concession today many political leaders give concessions because they want to stay in power they want to stay in power for the longest period of time they give concessions they don't stand for justice they don't stand for truth today politics is a dirty business the dirtiest business believe me it's politics but Imam Ali was a politician who followed this book who never diverted from this book this is why Allah says in this book about him be with those who are honest those who do not mislead you those who remain on the course of justice Imam Ali became Khalifa so many people came to him this one wants to be the governor of this city that one wants to be the mayor of that city he said hold on I'm not distributing posts here and positions I look at the qualification I don't care about who do you belong to what family, what name, what relationship I forget about all these things I look at your qualification if you are an honest capable you will be you will get at that position many people were angered they said to him no those who were before you they did not do this Imam Ali said I follow the sunnah of Rasulullah so imagine there were 3 wars Imam Ali ruled only for 4 years and 9 months no more in Kufr 3 devastating wars erupted in his face the first one the battle of al-jamil in Basel what are the casualties of that battle 25,000 people working and imagine if those people they had other weapons today's weapon it would be a million people but it's good that they only had the swords 25,000 people were killed because of Imam Ali refused to concede to give concession to some corrupt people he stood for the children another battle by mu'awiya the navy sofyan 75,000 casualties from both sides from Syria and Iraq 75,000 all of the muslims they came to Imam Ali they said listen mu'awiya get him on board let him stay in Syria as a governor so you can avoid his evil he said no listen to this sentence do you want me to seek justice through corruption justice is not sought through corruption justice is sought only through justice and firmness not through corruption I don't care who mu'awiya is I will fight him he is incompetent he does not represent the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم his manners, his deeds he does not represent the prophet mu'awiya killed so many of the Sahaba the companions of the prophet so many of them mu'awiya distorted this land so Imam Ali paid the price same thing with the Kharegites Kharegites are today's ISIS people who prayed people who memorizes the Quran but they have a twisted mentality twisted mentality they believe in violence they believe in bloodshed Imam Ali stood in their face in the third battle of Nahrawan and then he was murdered many people did not like him not because there was something wrong with his shape no many people did not like him because they did not like his justice his justice was unacceptable to them they could not bear his justice Imam Ali came to promote justice Imam Ali came to promote what this book tells us in Surat Al-Hadeed لقد أرصلنا وصلنا بالبينات وأنزلنا معهم الكتابة والميزان ليقوم الناس ليقوم الناس بالخس الله says I don't care how you live at the end of the day I want to see whether you live up to justice stand up to justice or not justice is important my friends Islam teaches us justice speed the truth be with those who are oppressed on this night the house of Ali is dark this is the eve of the 21st in a few hours time like this night Ali is going to leave this tomb and join this road the house is dark is subdual the family there are mixed feelings Ali is happy that he is standing before his Lord standing before his Lord but the family were sad for his departure because he is the patriarch he is the father he is the friend he is Abu Al-Aramili not only a father to his biological children he is the father to the communities in particular the orphans Imam Ali had a special interest in taking care of orphans Imam Ali says what brings pain and anguish to my heart is to see an orphan this who has been neglected I can't see this I can't tolerate this orphans they enjoyed his fatherhood they enjoyed his love his compassion tonight the orphans are going to Miss Ali the Muslim ummah is going to Miss Ali his family gathered around him gathered around his deathbed he says to them I will seek you I will seek you the first thing the first will the first advice is to strengthen your relationship with God the top one follow him all people are going to leave you one day the one who is not going to leave you is God all people are going to turn away from you one day the one who does not turn away from you is God you need them strengthen this relationship with him tonight is the one of the nights the last 10 days of Ramadan did you see how everyone is gone so fast tonight if you have something share it with God spend some hours with God tonight speak to your God speak to him he is waiting for you peace night of peace night of supplication night where the gates of forgiveness are open so Imam Ali says أرسيكم بتقوى الله ولزومي أمره وَاللَّى تَبْغَيَ الدُّنْيَا وَإِنْ بَغَدْكُمَا don't run after dunya don't be enchanted by the dunya dunya is good to certain extent to certain extent more than what you need is not good is a liability you have to pay the price the price after that وين بغتكما ولا تأسفا على شيء من هزو يعنكما if you miss someone don't grieve this is what Allah says in the Quran Allah says the foundations of satisfaction and happiness are two لكينا تأسو على ما فاتكم ولا تفلحو بما أتا ولا تفلحو بما أتا ولا تفلحو بما you have missed you missed a friend you missed your partner you missed your business you missed your money don't grieve don't do these things Allah can substitute for that ولا تفلحو بما you have now because you can lose it any minute don't put your trust in what you have now you can lose it put your trust in what God has saved for you put your trust in God don't put your trust in the material things that you have don't they might disappoint ولا تأسفا على شيء من هزو يعنكما وعملها بالحق وقولها بالحق وعملها للأخرة always speak the truth don't fear if you don't fear if you are courageous if you speak truth I am your attorney I am your defender I am your bodyguard Allah says Allah says speak the truth don't worry what will happen to you I will defend you وقولها بالحق وعملها للأخرة our work has to be for the after for the criminals to the corrupts to the dictators stand on their face don't be like the علماء in one of the countries that whenever the tyrants come they always pray even in Tawih Allah protect the king the guardian don't do that don't sell yourself cheap for someone who is going to perish soon sell yourself to the lord who does not perish sell yourself to the lord who is the source of sustenance for you and the source of giving for you وكونها للظالي بخصم ولي المضوم عاله and then he says الله الله بالصلاة فإنها عمود ودينكم listen sheeha sheeha muslims listen he says Allah Allah بالصلاة take care of your prayers religion without prayers is nothing فإنها عمود the foundation of religion is the prayers don't tell me that I love God God is in my heart I don't need to pray 5 times a day don't say this you have to pray yes God is in your heart but God wants you to pray because the prayers is a spiritual food spiritual knowledge do you see yourself when you fast what happens if you don't eat for 2-3 days you going to perish the same thing for the heart for the soul when you don't pray you don't connect to God you don't stand in humility before him the heart is going to die الله الله بالصلاة الله الله بالقرآن لا يسبقكم بالعمل به غيركم how many of us we read this book how many of us let me say this know how to read this book how many of you God does not say memorize this book by heart God says practice this book with your family I tell you what to do at home with your children I tell you in the marketplace I tell you here in the community I tell you what is good is mentioned here and what is bad is mentioned here too God says follow this book and it's not for me I am not going to benefit you are going to benefit الله الله بالجيران فإنهم وصية جدكم وصول الله سمه ورسله take care of your take care of your neighbors take care of your neighbors and if we live in America we have to take more care of our neighbors here neighbors are different than us their faith is different their culture could be different we have to show them the beauty of Islam don't show them the ugliness of our culture keep the noise down respect the neighborhood keep the neighborhood clean try to help the neighbors if they need help be the first one to rush to their home الله الله بالجيران الله الله بالايتام لا تغضوا أفواههم ولا يضيعوا بحضرتكم there are orphans in your community my friends there are orphans everywhere the number of widows and orphans is ever increasing in the Muslim world day by day and hour by hour in Yemen, in Syria in Iraq in Egypt in other countries take care of those orphans feel the responsibility say I will sponsor at least one orphan I will take care of this orphan the orphan lost his or her father the guardian the custodian I will bring them some smiles I will bring them some shelter الله الله بالايتام لا تغضوا أفواههم they should not be missed among you and then at the end he says he has a special وصية for his family he says I want you to be stronger I know you are strong you take care of the family after number one even Mujan who is being kept in a room in the same house imagine the one who murdered the Mamali they kept him in the room next door he says بحق عليك for the sake of my right the right of our father upon his son بحق عليك إلا ما طيبتم مطعمه ومشرب give him best food best drink do not torture this guy he made a mistake no torture and then he says to Hussein you have a known journey ahead of you a journey of sacrifice a journey of martyrdom a new Zainer the sister of Hussein you have a long journey of captivity you have a big responsibility you have to prove to the world that you are the grand daughter of Prophet Muhammad through your resilience through your commitment through your sacrifice I want you to be stronger Zainer and then he gives his وصية his advice to each and every member in the family and then he says I am going to leave you I want you to wash my body shroud me do the kafen the qusul for me and then you have to leave the salat and then carry my kafen to the place where you have to bury it and الله خليفة فيكم he turns to him and then he looks ahead of him he said he was greeting the angels who came to receive him and this is in the Quran that a mu'min, a believer at the time of his death angels are going to come to receive him and this is in the Quran that a mu'min, a believer at the time of his death angels are going to come to receive him to asher him to his final destination السلام عليكم يا ملائكة ربي لمذل هذا فليعمل العاملون for this day we have to be prepared for the moment of departure because in this moment nothing can help us no family, no wealth يوم لا ينف عمال يوم إلا من أت الله بقلب سليم than the last sentence he uttered before his death he said أشهدوا الله إلا الله وأشهدوا أن محمد الرسول الله أهل بيتي أستوجعكم الله I leave you with your Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى to protect you and then Imam Ali passed away إنا إليه راجعون فتظئجوا أن لاك السماء لموته اليوم ما أتل أنبياء جميعا إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون وسيعلموا الذين صلبوا أي من قلب ينقلبون والعاقبة لمتقين