 وصلاة وصلاة متحية والإكرام على النبي الأمي العربي القرشي المكي المدني الحاشمي صاحب قابق وصان محبوب رب المشرخان والمخربان جبد الحسن والحسن النبي الحرمان والإمام القبلتان والرسول الثقلان الذين سمي في السماء بأحمد وفي الأرض بأب القاسم محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المأسومين المظلومين المنتخبين المنتجبين لاسيما بخية الله في العردين وحجته على الخلاق أجمعين روح يواروح العالمين للتراب مقتمه الفدى واللعنة الدائمة الباقية على عدائهم ومنكر فضائلهم وغاصب حقوقهم أجمعين من يوم عداوتهم إلى قيام يوم الدين أما بعد فقد قال الله سبحانه وتبارك وتعالى في محكم كتابه ومتقن ختابه اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فسقالهما ثم تولى إذا إلى الظل فقال ربي إني لما أنزلت إليه من خير فقير سلاحة السلام وحمد والمحمدation for this evening is with regards to two great prophets of Allah and them meeting with one another the circumstances of how they met and the important lessons we derive from that particular storyogether with our stories for all the stories amongst you, I will quickly list the lessons that we will get from the stories insha'Allah when we go into detail into the story we'll be able to look at how we will get those lessons now first an important lesson that we get is related to what we spoke about yesterday and that is for a person to do whatever action that they do الله سبحانه وتعالى. وهذا السؤال يعطينا في المشاركة المملكة التي يعطينا المنطقة إلى ما يحدث ما يحدث في المشاركة when a person does something solely for Allah سبحانه وتعالى The second important lesson after that is with regards to trusting Allah سبحانه وتعالى in all your affairs in every single thing that I do and only do it for Allah سبحانه وتعالى but also trust Allah سبحانه وتعالى that whatever result he is going to bring for me in my life will be better for me even if at this moment in time I cannot see the wisdom and the benefit in it for me The third important lesson very important that is very relevant to our lives today that is derived from this particular story is that of the importance of Hayat, of Ghirah and of Hijab in general and the fourth is that when a person trusts Allah سبحانه وتعالى when a person does his action solely for Allah سبحانه وتعالى when a person observes these laws of Allah سبحانه وتعالى what a beautiful result and what a beautiful outcome he manages to achieve which is highlighted in this particular story those of you are familiar with the Holy Quran and may have guessed from the verse that I've recited and maybe the insights that I've given or the hints that I've given for the story will know that I'm talking about the story of the meeting of Mousa A.S. with Shuaib A.S and that the context of how it's mentioned the Holy Quran is that Mousa A.S. had come to the aid of one of his followers whom in the Holy Quran is called his Shi'a and as a result of defending his follower he had killed the person from the people of the Pharaoh and he was very scared, he was very afraid that he's killed one person from the people of the Pharaoh and now the Pharaoh is going to hunt him out and kill him so one of the people comes from the Pharaoh and says to him that I advise you that you leave this place and go far away so that the Pharaoh does not find you so Mousa A.S. leaves and he starts traveling of course we're talking about travel of at least 6000 years ago where there's no pit stops on the way and there's no service station, there's nothing once you're on a journey and you run out of supplies that's it so the Tafseer mentions that Mousa A.S. has been traveling for a long time having left his hometown and for at least 3 days he hasn't eaten at all he hasn't had any food at all he's been surviving on eating plants and leaves and whatever he can find on the way until he arrives in this place which is which the Quran refers to as Madian today it's in the Baghdad Protectorate of Iraq some 100 miles northwest of the capital so he arrives there and when he arrives in this place the Quran tells us he sees a well of course this well is important because he's been traveling for a long time hasn't eaten, hasn't had anything to drink and now he's discovered a well so this is particularly significant when he gets to this well he sees that there is a long queue of people there collecting water and getting water for there animal for their cattle as well and he also notices at the same time that there are 2 girls there on the side who also have their own cattle but they're waiting on the side they're not here in the queue with everybody else so he goes up to them and he asks them how come they're waiting there away from everybody else so they reply to him and they say to him that we have to wait until everybody is gone and the reason why we are here they offer the explanation is the reason why we are here is because our father is an old man and we're the only people who can do this for him so Musa عليه الصلاة والسلام what does he do? he helps to water their cattle it's mentioned in various the Fasir from the school of Ahl al-Bahd that the bucket that was in the well was so heavy that it required some narratives as 2 people, 7 people 40 people to lower it and bring it back up and Musa عليه الصلاة والسلام did this by himself he didn't take assistance from anybody else he went in near to the well and he said to the people who are feeding there and giving water to their cattle he said I will give water to your cattle and I need to give water to the cattle of these young girls as well so in any case he goes he takes the bucket down by himself and he brings it back up again himself and thus he completes the watering of all the animals there and of these 2 young girls as well so the first lesson from this particular part of the story is as we mentioned yesterday the greatest level of a person's action is to do the right thing regardless of whether they're going to get any there's any incentive in that action or not of course Musa عليه الصلاة has never met these girls in his life before he doesn't know who they are he doesn't ask them who they are either and he only does this because he believes it's the right thing to do he helps them water their flock because he believes this is the right thing to do when he does so and they leave when they arrive home now if you arrive home every day at 5 o'clock everybody is expecting you to come home at 5 o'clock if you come home early the first question when you ask is why did you come home early now this watering of the flock this was a regular occurrence used to do it every day and every day they would have to wait for all the groups of people who were watering their flocks to leave before they would start to water their own and therefore they would come back a later time today they'd come back early when they came back early شعب عليه الصلاة والسلام asked them why did you come back early what happened today that allowed you to come back early so one of them says that at the well we met a young man who assisted us who helped us in this matter and surely he is strong and he is trustworthy in the تفصيل this is obviously the ayat of the Qur'an old surat al qasas verse number 23 onwards in the تفصيل I mentioned from Imam Musa Al Qadim عليه الصلاة والسلام صلى الله عليه وسلم شعب عليه الصلاة asks his daughters or the one who had said this that I understand that you think that he is strong because he picked up this bucket that people were not able to pick up and he didn't buy himself but what makes you say that he is trustworthy what makes you say that he is ameen so she replies she says the reason why I said this is because when I so he sends her back he says go and bring him back when he when they come back then they have this conversation about strength and trustworthy so she asked she says why do you think he is trustworthy what is there about him that made you think this so she says when you send me back to bring him I was walking in front because I was leading the way but there was a gust of wind and he told me to stop and he said to me I will walk in front and you will walk behind me and wherever there is a turning you will throw a stone so that I will know where to turn he says why did he do that he says because we are not from a community where we observe the the women from behind so she says for this reason I considered him trustworthy because he took care of the hijab he took care of his own hijab any case so he comes when Musa'a al-salam arrives in the presence of Hazrat Shuaib he offers him food now when we have come back to the context Musa'a al-salam has been traveling for a long time and he hasn't eaten for many days when he is offered the food you give somebody hungry who is hungry for food I don't know the case with you guys he gives me food even if it's not good I'll say it's good because I'm hungry and at this moment in time this person has given me food that I needed Musa'a al-salam what did he do he says to Hazrat Shuaib he says that this good deed that I did I didn't do it for any kind of reward I did not do this good deed of helping your daughters I did some kind of reward for me Shuaib al-salam says that this feeding of this me feeding you is not a reward for what you did this me feeding you is my own generosity I want to feed you because you you did this you showed this act of kindness this is not a reward this is not a payment for what you did but particularly you have to come back to this point about about about because this is very important in this particular story and it's very relevant to our lives because the only reason that Musa'a al-salam comes into this position of presenting himself in front of Shuaib al-salam and then whatever transpires afterwards which we'll come to in a moment the only reason he gets into this position is because he's observed the laws of Allah in the way that he should for a person in today's society whenever they ask questions about this this particular area they say that I'm trying to do X Y Z I'm trying to achieve this kind of spirituality in my life where am I going wrong what do I need to do in order to become more spiritual the buzz word of today is becoming more spiritual what do I need to do in order to become more spiritual, more elevated what do I need to do in order to get closer to Allah the answer is very easy the answer is that I have to follow the laws that he set out if I want to increase my spirituality then the way to do so is to follow the sharia is to follow the commands of halal and haram and in doing so I will become more spiritual there's no magic formula, success ta'weez, dua'a that will make you spiritual if a person is not observing those halal and haram and this story highlights to us in the most magnificent way how just observing that wajib of the hijab that applies to men and women Musa A.S. has gone from this position where he is under threat of his own life to such a glorious position that he is going to achieve in just a moment that we will mention and this is particularly important in today's day and age because not only we have different kinds of interactions not only do we have this interaction the physical kind of interaction that we have with each other but also of course the greatest curse of our era is social media and our social media interaction and in our social media interaction sometimes we let the guard down and we think perhaps because it's not a physical interaction it's okay we can let the guard down no in order to observe that correct kind of it's important that on social media our guard should be up as well just as it would have been in person just as our guard would have been up he would have been observing those rules if we were physically meeting that person similarly on social media our conduct should be consistent with that and should not become inconsistent just because there's a computer or there's a phone in the middle no on the other side I remember when the internet was still new to people and people used to want to chat rooms and discuss with other people whom they didn't know the rules at the beginning when you used to sign up to the chat room they always used to remind you that don't forget on the other side there's a real person don't think for a moment that just because there's a computer or phone in between you that there isn't a real person on the other side and that reminder is obviously that reminder was for security reasons or safety reasons or reminder also for person who's a Muslim and wants to observe these rules that remember on the other side there's a real person and that means that observing those rules of hijab just as we would have observed them in person just as we would have observed them if that person was physically in front of them so Musa A.A. observes Hayab but also the daughters of Shuaib A.A. also observe Hayab and also observe them that they were observing Hayab by waiting and not interacting with the men there that they didn't know and that they were waiting patiently for the men to leave in order for them to water their flock so both sides demonstrated Hayab demonstrated their modesty demonstrated their commitment to the hijab and the second part of what Islam says من لا حياء لا لا دينة ويوغفر doesn't have Hayab has no religion that means that this is particularly particularly significant that when we have interaction with other people we know where to draw the line where to we know where to stop where to limit our interactions with different people whether it's people from the other gender or the people from our own same gender and just because something that we happen to be doing is Halal and it's the right thing we're not speaking about things which are Halam that which is Halam is obviously out of the picture that has already been told by Sharia to refrain from when somebody has done something Halal there are certain things that Hayab necessitates for us to keep personal it's not necessary for me to go out and share those details and share that information with other people and it would be contrary to the Hayab for me to go out and tell people about my Halal interactions as well and therefore it's imperative to remember that that is how significant Hayah is in the religion of Islam رسالة صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم so now when he comes first of all that he's safe in this land of Madean he's far away from far enough away from the Pharaoh that he's safe the Pharaoh will not reach that gives him an offer based on what his daughter had said to him his daughter said what? he said that give him a reward because he is strong and he is trustworthy so Sharia says that I want you to marry one of my daughters I want you to marry one of my daughters but the condition is that you will serve me for 8 years and if you want add 2 more years to those 8 to make it 10 I agree to your terms and after that day they got married this is another significant lesson from this particular story in our culture particularly in the east there is a stigma against a son son in law working for his father in law say Ghar Damad right but Musa is a great prophet and he's become Ghar Damad شعب you work for me and on that condition I will have you get married to you you can marry one of my daughters in the tafseer and clarify that it's the same daughter who had expressed the sentiments regarding him and it's the same daughter whom شعب had sent to get Musa to come towards him but also it shows us that if a person is doing something for Allah SWT if a person is doing this only for Allah SWT his trust in Allah SWT then Allah SWT will reward him magnificently Musa A.S. in his wildest dreams could not have imagined that he would have come to this stage and of course he had not done this action in order to receive any kind of reward or benefit but because his action was solely for Allah SWT rewards him in this in this way and then again the tafseer tells us that he works there for the whole 10 years once the 10 years are complete he leaves there presence of شعب AS and then he goes back towards towards his original hometown goes back towards Egypt on the way back towards Egypt now the Quran tells us on the way back towards Egypt he from the distance sees the fire when he sees the fire he tells his family to wait he says that let me go and get some heat from that fire because we are feeling calm when he goes towards that fire there Allah SWT addresses him and he is ordained with the prophethood when he is ordained with the prophethood of course then he comes back to his family and then he goes towards the Pharaoh in order to preach to him the message of Allah SWT so all of this he receives as a blessing for having acted in the most proper manner in order to in order to seek the pleasure of Allah SWT he did not have any vested interest in helping those those girls those daughters of and nor did he have any vested interest of getting any kind of reward but Allah SWT rewarded him on the basis of his intent of helping them now a few more lessons that we get from that from this particular incident is that شعب سلام had sent out his daughters because he was old so there's no objection from the religious from the shari point of view for women going out some people use the religion to try and justify people saying that the women shouldn't go out no شعب the prophet and he had sent out his daughters to do this work as long as the rules of are observed there's no objection from the religion of Islam for a person to go out as a man or a woman as long as the rules of are observed both موسى السلام observes this rule and so do the daughters of شعب but also particularly is that sometimes there's people who try and use the religion of موسى السلام to defend their own ideas which are not anything to do with Islam for example about six months ago even less than that there was a famous guy who preaches on TV who remain nameless said that Allah SWT hasn't mentioned any strange kind of argument that was presented but I remember when I was preparing for this lecture I thought to myself that here are two prophets of Allah SWT being introduced to us through their women we meet the daughters of شعب in this story before we meet شعب AS and موسى AS while he's being introduced he's being introduced to his mother before he's even born so these two great prophets are being introduced to us in the Quran through the women and if Allah SWT didn't like women for whatever reason why would this kind of introduction take place well finally we observe in this story the importance of not only doing things only for Allah SWT not only doing your trust only in Allah SWT but also always doing the right thing and that eventually a person Allah SWT would not abandon the person who does the right thing because it's the right thing and no other interest there's no interest of reward or any fear of punishment or anything like that موسى AS what state did he start off from and what state does he end it he started off from the state that he was fearful of his life and he ends in the state that he's received prophethood and the order to go back to that same place in order to preach the message of Allah SWT all of this as a result of one action but that action is so great that it was done only and solely for Allah SWT at this moment it's perhaps fitting to mention that on the final day of his life أميل المؤمين was visited بسعى سلوات بسعى أنار was visited by a very prominent companion of his سعسائب نسوهان نسوهان comes to the imam and he says ياميل المؤمين I want to ask you a question this is the day after he struck by on the 20th of the month of Ramadan Imam says ask me سعسائب نسوهان asks is a very long tradition asks him about his comparison with various prophets when he asks him the imam AS is a general principle قاعدة كلية and then he begins answering his question سعسائب نسوهان says to Imam تأريف المرق بذاته معيب for a person to praise themselves is not liked by Allah SWT Allah does not like a person to praise themselves because you've asked me this question and Allah SWT also says فأم بنعمة ربك فهدي this is to the Holy Prophet of Islam with regards to أميل المؤمين in this surah he says and about the نعمة of Allah SWT tell the people and when the imam was asked نعمة of Allah SWT the Prophet was ordered to tell people أميل المؤمين Imam says that because Allah SWT makes this command that when it comes to the نعمة of Allah SWT then tell people so I'm answering your question so he asks him about the comparison with Adam and Noah and Abraham and then he asks him about the comparison with Musa AS and أميل المؤمين is one of this particular incident in Musa AS he says we call in the Holy Quran that when Musa AS is ordained as a prophet and Allah SWT says to him go towards the Pharaoh and preach to him the message of Allah go towards the Pharaoh and preach to him the message of Allah أميل المؤمين says what to Allah he says oh Allah I'm scared because I killed one person from the people of the Pharaoh so send with me Haroon as my brother and my supporter and my aide in this matter I feel afraid to go alone in the course of the Pharaoh because I killed one person from there أميل المؤمين on the day of the announcement of the announcement of disassociation what happened in the ninth year of Hijra Allah SWT revealed Surah Al-Bara'a to the Holy Prophet of Islam to the ninth Surah of the Quran and the only one that begins without رحمة الله when it was revealed the Holy Prophet of Islam interested it to a particular person and told him to go and recite these verses while that person was still on the way towards Makkah جبرايل came down and said يا رسول الله Allah SWT commands that either you go and recite it or somebody from you منكم goes to recite so the Holy Prophet of Islam to recite the Surah when I went to recite that Surah in Makkah there was not a single household from which I had not killed at least one person in Makkah there was not a single household from which I had not killed at least one person but yet I went there by myself I was all alone and I recited those verses saying Allah and His messenger disassociate with from you do baraa from you and give you this order that you have 4 months to leave this because this is only for for Muslims he says I did that and I was all alone therefore I am greater than Mousa AS because Mousa AS had killed one person and he said I won't go to the Pharaoh alone yet I had killed at least one person from every household in Makkah and yet I went all alone to make this announcement in any case the greater lesson and to summarize our discussion from this particularly important story is reliance in Allah SWT on the outcome of our affairs is to act in accordance with what is the right thing without any incentive of reward or punishment and most importantly to observe Hayat to observe the correct hijab to observe the right laws of the religion of Islam within our lives in order to receive spiritual elevation and also worldly benefit what Mousa AS has achieved as a benefit was not only prophet Hudbar also a worldly benefit as well in terms of employment in terms of getting married and that the lesson from Mousa AS story here and his action is that people come and say I am struggling to find a job I am struggling to get married but make sure you come back reflect on your own self and reflect on myself and find out whether I am observing the laws of Allah SWT in the correct way or not whether my actions are sincerely for Allah SWT and if they are not they are not that is why I need to rectify in order to make sure that Allah SWT helps me in this pathway in my life but the greatest and significant most significant event of relying on Allah SWT of doing action solely for Allah SWT and for observing the laws of Allah SWT and making sure those laws are not violated is what Mousa AS yesterday we mentioned that he said I don't want the city of my grandfather being violated with my blood when he arrives in Makkah he learns of the news is obviously he has come to Makkah his intent of coming to Makkah is to perform the Hajj but when he comes to Makkah and he learns of the news that Yazid is planning to send people in Ahram to kill him while in the precincts of the Haram the grandson of the Holy Prophet of Islam says I will abandon the Hajj but I will not let the Haram be violated by the shedding of my blood and I always say this that can you imagine if the grandson of the Holy Prophet of Islam had been killed in the precincts of the Haram what would have happened to the day of judgment people would have been saying to each other how can we go to the house of God when the grandson of the Prophet went there and he was not safe Allah SWT says whoever enters into this has become safe Allah SWT says I want to make sure that that stays true I have abandoned the Hajj somebody should have said شريعت came from your house who knows better than you that once you've put on the Haram for Hajj you can't leave but he say no I have abandoned this Hajj until the day of judgment Hajj might stay alive I have abandoned one Hajj to make sure that until the day of judgment people can still go to Hajj the knowledge and the safety that their lives will not be violated that they will not be killed that they will really have sanctuary in the house of God because Hussein AS saved that bloodshed from happening and instead he says that remember I will write the course of history in such a way in such a way that historians would be forced to relate my narrative and not the narrative that they want to relate what is my narrative is that I will choose the place where I am killed my narrative is that I will choose the time and the day that I am killed my narrative is that even though I will be killed in the desert my story of my killing will reach the furthest places in the world it's mentioned that when the first of Muharram would come محمد AS says about his father he says that my father would be in a changed state he would wear black clothes and he would not be seen smiling anymore until the 10th day would come where he would remove his amma he would be barefooted he would be bareheaded and he would be so distressed on the day of Ashura about the killing of his grandfather another narrative states that in Medina the people of Medina used to say we wouldn't sight the moon of Muharram instead we would just wait for the sound of wailing to come from the house of Imam Sadiq and we would know that this moon of Muharram had been sighted the sound of wailing and the sound of crying would come and we would know that the moon of Muharram has been sighted we would know that the red flag has come down and the black flag has been raised we would know that the season for morning has arrived we would know that the memory is going to be