 الأول about the Lord of the Salawat in honor of the greatest man to walk this earth الحبيب المصطفى محمد أخر in honor of the greatest lady to walk this earth الحورا والبتولة فاطمة and the third in honor of our Imam Imam صاحب العصري والزمان with your loudest voices مصل على حماد وآلي محمد now the verse in question we chose to look into in this tragic night and it's the night of the 10th of the calamity of Karbala in order to look at the position of Imam صاحب العصري والزمان on this night and the importance that this figure has on each and every one of our lives that's number one number two we'd like to look at this particular verse in an instance where we look at the actual concept of a person crying teas instead of blood for mourning now in order to look at the significance of this aspect we're going to look at a couple of steps where we can firstly look at the importance of the Prophet then we're going to look at the importance of أمير المؤمنين we want to see the relevance firstly the prophets that came throughout time our prophets where his position is in reference to the others then we'd look at did the Prophet of Islam did the Prophet of Islam stay there and then or did he carry this message did his knowledge pass on towards the imams to safeguard the message of إسلام or didn't his message and his characteristics and his knowledge passed down towards the imams and if it did pass down to the imams what importance does this have on us so we're going to ask we're going to answer one question that many of the brothers have repeatedly asked and that question is did the skies really bleed for Imam Hussein on the 10th of Muharram that's the main question we're going to answer tonight then we'll take it into the context which is to do with إمام صاحب العصر والزمان in that particular line in زيارة ناحية now as we know زيارة ناحية the complete name is زيارة من ناحية المقدس meaning we've attained this particular دعاء which is very mustahab to recite on each night in محرم for the first the graphic content now أغل when you take a piece of دعاء and you recite it when we looked at it yesterday there's a certain aspect of humbleness that we feel there's a certain aspect in which we can look at ourselves reflect try to humble ourselves look at the greatness of the creator try to replenish ourselves ask Allah for forgiveness when we get to زيارة ناحية the first thing you will look at is apart from the aspect in which إمام صاحب العصر والزمان is the one that's actually narrating this there's a very graphic content that we have to look at very graphic content now if anyone's come and insha'Allah all of us have recited or read or listened to زيارة ناحية we'll find the actual graphics that the Imam tries to إلي to us in the illustration that he put in زيارة ناحية now this particular verse that we want to look at the way we're going to look at it is looking at the importance of the prophets our prophets the imams until the final messenger مسايا the final imam which is prescribed in each and every religion one way or another to bring justice and eradicate tyranny now insha'Allah to start the topic for tonight please assist me in reciting a salawat على محمد وقال محمد our prophets on many occasions have been given a significant role a significant status just looking at the fact that الله سبحانه وتعالى named him to be the خاتم the final prophet that brought for the complete religion is in itself enough to say that he was the greatest man to ever live other aspects that we've discussed during these series of lectures was that he was the only prophet to be the prophet for both jinn and ins knowing and having knowledge of both their شريع and he attained such a rank in which even جبرايل when he was taking him and he ascended in معراج there was a place that even the angels couldn't go when جبرايل comes and says i can't go further than this particular place because i will burn alive only you or prophet of islam can take these steps and that's when we read he was closer than two arrowheads to the mercy of الله سبحانه وتعالى that's one instance the second instance we read on many occasions حديث الكساء when الله tells his angels he says i will not have created firstly this sky nor will i have created the earth nor will i've created the universe plural universes he says or the planets or the stars or these rivers or these trees and he says if it was not for these people that are under الكساء and then they ask him who is it that's under that particular كساء and the reply comes from الله سبحانه وتعالى other narrations that come forth and state if it wasn't for you or prophet of islam i would not have created the الولايات or the galaxies if you want to look at it in the correct translation and if it wasn't for you i wouldn't have created if it wasn't for ali i wouldn't have created you and it wasn't for فاعتامة الزهراء look at the status i would not have created either one of you now on the first instance we could look at the importance of the prophet and we acknowledged that he is the final messenger the greatest man to walk this earth with the height of morality the height of knowledge the height of status anything you want to have a reference point the prophet of islam now the question arises did he or did he not pass that knowledge down to عالي ابنة ابطالب did he or did he not pass that which الله taught him to save god the message to the safe keepers of the message after him the imams let's look at it in a context when ali ابنة ابطالب is asked on many occasions and we have to remember in the school of in the in the school of thought of اهل البيت it's never a good thing to always comparing contrast comparing contrast infallibles was this prophet greater was this prophet greater was this imam greater than this imam was this imam greater than this imam but there's many narrations that elude to particular factors and i'm going to mention some of those narrations tonight to see that how it eludes to us did or didn't the messenger of islam teach or give his knowledge towards المؤمنين and on the second level did amir المؤمنين apply that knowledge or not let's look at it so we're comparing ali ابنة ابطالب with the prophet of islam let's look at it let's look at the people that we look at at an important level the father of creation let's say adam let's compare him towards ali ابنة ابطالب and many occasions ali is asked amir المؤمنين is asked are you greater or is this prophet are you great or is this prophet and when he's asked about adam look at his reply he says adam ate from a tree that he was advised not to go near he says except for ali ابنة ابطالب that which Allah has prescribed for me to be lawful i stay away from so aim i may train myself first comparison adam ali ابنة ابطالب second comparison نبي الله نوح he says نوح after preaching towards his qum after preaching he took an instance where he says that's enough i've had enough they will never come towards the message oh Allah shower your punishment now ali ابنة ابطالب says except for ali ابنة ابطالب no matter how long i live for i will never stop and say it's enough of preaching they will never come to نوح ali ابنة ابطالب three ibrahim ibrahim what's the comparison he says in reference to ibrahim he asked Allah and focus on this point he says he asked Allah to show him how he resurrects the dead not because he doesn't believe but to increase he's يقين he's certainty three levels of certainty we have to remember side notes three levels of certainty ألم عين حق المليقين meaning the knowledge of certainty i may have knowledge of death first level of certainty then there's عين وليقين when you see that particular act with your own eyes you increase in a level of certainty when you see someone die you've increased in a level of certainty because you've seen it you had knowledge now you've seen it third level of certainty is what is when you go through it حق اليقين isn't it the essence of certainty when you die yourself your first hand perspective of what death is that's the final level of certainty so ibrahim had knowledge that Allah can resurrect the dead so he asks Allah can you show me so that i may increase in a level of certainty عليم مطالب says that's what he asked Allah he says if it was for me if Allah removes the veils i would not increase nor would i decrease in certainty that i have look at the level that عليم مطالب has reached because of what the prophet has thought him i think we need to pray i think in every instance that we remember we look at the status it's beautiful to recite that dua when we send our blessings to the prophet that is progeny now on the next instance we look at mousa we're looking at the great prophets here in comparison to عليم مطالب mousa what's the comparison he says mousa he killed one person he was he was afraid to go back he told Allah i've already killed the person i'm afraid to go back عليم مطالب says when chapter nine of the holy quran was revealed and the prophet said go and reveal this to qoraysh he says i knew very well that there wasn't a household except was mourning a death of someone that i killed in the battles but i never hesitated for a second to go back to qoraysh to reveal this verse from the holy quran mousa عيسا look at this beautiful tradition he says عيسا mind you he never says in any instance that i'm greater he's letting out minds think for themselves عيسا always wanted us to think to contemplate to understand they don't spoon feed us everything no but even the things that they spoon feed us we often don't even take from them that's not the topic for tonight the topic for tonight to look at the greatness of our Imam صاحب العصر was زمان now عيسا what's the comparison he says look at his mother look at my mother he says when عيسب المريم was born الله gave the message of the sign to his mother مريم to go outside the holy land to give birth to عيسا isn't it he says but look how الله has honored me he opened his house the كعبة and told my mother give birth to عيبن أبي طالب inside now when he gives us a comparison with the prophet of islam what does he say he says انا عبد من عبيد محمد therefore there is an instance that there is a comparison when we look at the prophet of islam the person that followed in his footsteps every single footsteps he followed in was عيبن أبي طالب that's why we follow him because no one followed the prophet like عيبن أبي طالب that's why when we hold on to عيبن أبي طالب it's holding on to the prophet of islam isn't it now that's the first instance someone may come and say i need more evidence stating that the prophet taught عيبن أبي طالب now we have a narration stating by عيبن أبي طالب عيبن أبي طالب in another tradition it was a sheikh narrated to us a few nights ago from every door opens a thousand thousand doors so thousand doors each one opens a million you have the calculations with you knowledge from the prophet passed down we want more say it i'll bring more let's look at the particular verse from the holy quran when we looked at the jinn in the time of suleyman suleyman asks who can bring me the throne of بالقيس jinn gets up i'll bring it before you sit down then what does the holy quran state he said the quran states look at the beauty and the perfection of quran look at the perfection the quran states that a person that had knowledge from the book علمون من الكتاب knowledge from not knowledge of the book from the book he could bring a throne on the other side of the world before suleyman blinks knowledge from the book صورة الرعاد 13th chapter in the holy quran the last ayah ayah 43 states that oh رسول الله it's enough that Allah is a witness and the one that has knowledge of the book who has knowledge of the book someone that has knowledge from the book brings the throne of بالقيس from the other side of the world in a blink of an eye what power does a person or what knowledge and what has Allah given at the disposal of the person that has knowledge of the book let's look at the traditions the person and we know there's something called Allah's greatest name which is comprised of 73 letters 70 how much 73 letters is consisting of Allah's greatest name the person that had knowledge from the book had one letter one letter let's look at our prophets in our traditions ibrahim had eight letters eight letters eight letters of Allah's greatest name was with ibrahim موسى 3 ايسا 2 the prophet of islam you ask him about how many of Allah's greatest names or the letters of Allah's greatest name did the prophet of islam have out of the 73 the prophet of islam and this shows you the significance of our prophets 72 out of the 73 letters of Allah's greatest name was with the prophet of islam now when the when عليك طالب comes and says means that if he has 72 names of Allah or 72 letters of the greatest name of الله امام الباقر states that those letters were taught to علي ابطالب now when the first Khalifa goes to the prophet of islam and asks him who in the Quran has knowledge from the book and who in the Quran has knowledge of the book he says the person that has knowledge from the book one letter of Allah's greatest name was the وصيه of سليمان آسف بن بخيه the person on the tongue of the prophet that had the knowledge of the book 72 out of the 73 letters of Allah's greatest name was none other than امير المؤمنين علي ابن ابي طالب so you can't come and say well let's rank علي ابن ابي طالب here with this particular person that sat on the pulpit or this person that's you compare علي with prophets not خليفهs messengers people that Allah has hand picked not people that sat in a circle and picked them for themselves and that's why we find a person which is not from our school of thought saying and he's narrating a story he says once a second خليفه walked past a person which cursed him he had him prosecuted and whipped and whipped and he says علي ابن ابي طالب goes past pulpits which do لعنة to him the pulpits of معاوية and he turns around and says may Allah guide them he says that's a difference between Allah has chosen man and a man chosen by me mortals that's the difference morality knowledge application now where does this take us in the aspect where we can look at the greatness of the prophets of the imams of Imam صاحب العصري والزمان and the tragedy of Karbala where does this all link did or didn't disguise we blood was it a metaphorical level meaning did it just rain meaning its teas or did it actually rain blood it's an interesting question and it's a question that's always asked is it true is it not true is it true is it not true معامل عسكري is a tradition beautiful tradition معامل عسكري once there was a fitna at the time he was under house arrest by the عباصة خليفه of the time under house arrest there was a fitna when there was a drought at the time of معامل عسكري absolute drought so the muslims came together and they said you know what just like Imam رضا's time people came out to perform صلاة الاستسقاء we prayed to Allah to rain to bless us with the rain we'll do it likewise but we won't use the Imam of that time we want to show people how we can do it without Imam how foolish can you be they go out the muslims with the عباصة خليفه at the time and they all gather together and they pray towards Allah Subhanahu و تعالى let it rain oh Allah let it rain oh Allah let it rain doesn't rain then a christian man comes he says if i pray and i make it rain you have to come towards christianity if we prayed it doesn't rain how can a christian come forth and he prays it becomes a fitna doesn't it even though if we don't believe that's the aspect that people say that it's two different aspects christianity judaism all the religions that had a book are part of islam if you don't believe in asa you're not a muslim but when we're looking at these perspectives that we're talking about people that didn't believe in the prophet of islam even though the bible says there will be a last messenger which is الحبيب المصطفة محمد now christian comes forth he raises his hands and he says i ask Allah and i ask god in honor of jesus to let it rain raises his hands the skies begin to rain everyone's looking at the khalifa of the time oh عباصة خليفة what's going on the muslims are praying no rain christian man comes and it's pouring he says i have no answer he says where can we go where's the answer this is a great fitna it's a calamity so he says well we'll have to utilize the imam about time you can go anywhere you'll come back imam صادق says there is not a rock that you lift except you'll find our knowledge under it you have to come back towards اهل البيت one way or another all the knowledge we have now كنستري سيانسيس لنغوس anything روط was the الهل البيت the root was الله سبحانه وتعالى his messengers and we can derive little bits here and there and we think ourselves to be knowledgeable so they go towards the imam of the time امام العسكري they told him of the situation he says it's very simple they're like hold on how is it simple how's it simple he says i'll tell you he says that christian man next time he lifts his hand tell him to do it again next time he lifts his hand i want you to grab his arm inside you'll find a bone remove that bone and cover it make sure it's not unveiled under the sky that's a strange request but we'll do it so they brought the christian again they said we'll believe in you if you can redo that miracle that you did this is not a problem muslims come the christians come muslims pray no rain so they're watching the christian man the christian man's lifting his hands grab his hands so the christian man lifts his hand they grab his hands and truthfully enough they find a bone quickly they grab the bone and cover it with some cloth so it's not unveiled under the sky and they tell him pray now so the person's praying is praying is praying no rain so they go back and look at the beauty of this narration and the impact it has with tonight's topic let's look at the beauty of this narration they go back towards imam العسكري and they ask him how is it that you knew that this bone would allow the skies to cry look at what he says look at the reference with which we have did or didn't the skies weep blood so he says it's very simple this bone i need everyone to pay very close attention to this point he says this bone is the bone of a prophet now he says when a bone of a prophet is unveiled under the skies it begins to rain the question i ask is if a bone of a normal prophet when unveiled under the skies allows it to rain how about the bone the blood and the flesh of the greatest prophet lying on the planes of karmela that's the question i need you all to contemplate over when we have the example of the bone of the normal prophet unveiled at christ imam حسين in the state that he was in would or within the skies weep blood let's look at traditions we're not taking any from our books tonight no tradition from our books every reference i'm going to say tonight and it's recorded you go overlook at it whenever you want to use this first there is a tradition from it's a long tradition it has many aspects from page 116 to page 192 the first tradition it states that the the redness in the sky look at what the tradition says you see it maghrib time whenever the sky goes whenever the sun goes down you find there's a redness in the sky isn't it so وعق المحرق states that redness in the sky was never known towards the muslims before the tragedy of karmela one two three traditions the first again so وعق المحرق page 116 to 192 that second is the تفسير of ابن كثير vol 9 page 162 then we have تذكرت الخواس page 284 all stating one aspect on the day of the tragedy of كربلا there was not a rock that was lifted except that they found blood underneath not from our traditions from other schools of thought now someone comes and says well this is at the end of the day historical books they're from muslim sources if you want to call it that can you bring me someone that's not muslim that has nothing to do with nothing to do with Imam Hussein and give me a reference that i can tell people outside the school of islam go open a book historical book a person doesn't know about islam altogether he's in britain a historian he writes a book and he names it the anglo saxon chronicles the anglo saxon chronicles in it every year he writes the significant aspect that happened now 61 after hijrah is when Imam Hussein was was murdered now when 61 after hijrah when we related to ad after death in the other calendar it goes hand in hand with 685 ad 61 after hijrah 685 ad let's look at the only point that he mentions in that she that was significant all the other years as many things mentioned that he one significant thing was mentioned britain not iraq britain historian not muslim he says the only thing the people remember from that year is that the skies rained blood and all the milk and the dairy products such as butter turned into blood now i want to ask you where is any person going to come forth from the shea school of thought and write it into that book and the reason that there's no connection whatsoever i haven't mentioned any references from our books sunni books sunni historical books and a historical book about someone that doesn't have anything to do with islam whatsoever when someone asks did the skies we blood on the tenth of muharram or did they not this is the answer that you must answer these are the references that you have now the topic tonight what relevance does it have to imam because when we look at imam صاحب أصلي زمان stating that i will cry for you instead of tea's blood someone says metaphorical level no it's not the metaphorical level when someone when you look at the actual physiology i don't get to too much detail about the names of each gland and what produces what but the main aspect is blood is the main reason or it has an effect in which it will allow a gland to produce your teas if this is overused it may be damaged if it's damaged it doesn't take the cycle in which it changes that way you will begin to cry blood and there's many aspects and many things that they try to name diseases whatever you want to call it that people actually cry blood and they don't know the reason behind it and it's so damaging that it may allow you to lose your eyesight and we know from the example in the Quran when the father of yusuf keeps crying and they're crying and crying he loses his eyesight doesn't he it's very damaging now when the imam comes and says that it's such a significant calamity that i put my eyesight in danger remember the imam which is now why the earth is still rotating of look at حديث الكساء all the messages that Allah has produced that has come forth which is إسلام all come down to this one man that will bring justice and eradicate tyranny now if this man cries of blood instead of teas what do we have to commemorate when he puts everything on the line how much do we offer from our time to pray and follow in his footsteps from our time to learn about this great man from our time from محرم to محرم how much will we change to follow in the footsteps of his companions to learn from them to become of the companions of إمام صاحب العصر والزمان we look at extremes the blood of the imam has those 72 letters of Allah's greatest name embedded into it and it cries for أبا عبد الله the skies cry for أبا عبد الله the rocks cry for أبا عبد الله metaphorically no literally let's and this night take it upon ourselves to cry teas to what to purify ourselves let's take this opportunity from tonight being the final night and tomorrow being the tragedy purify ourselves make a covenant with إمام صاحب العصر والزمان that next year i want to be at such a better position in your eyes that you may consider me to be of your companions let's create that connection with our إمام brothers and sisters and because this is the final night and we look at the importance and the position of the إمام imagine what he's going through right now imagine what he'll be going through tomorrow on the day of the calamity of كربله let's try to commemorate this tragedy alongside إمام صاحب العصر والزمان let's try to commemorate this calamity with سيد أفاطم and when we commemorate with someone when we want to be hand in hand with someone we don't want to be saying one thing and following in one foot step and from the other angle we're backstabbing them because one of us we can come forth and say that we are with you oh إمام turn your face away from the حسينية and look at our أعمال we want to be in one grounds the غرآن states there is no two hearts in the one body we can't love the إمام do that which he loves and in the same manner we do that which the إمام hates and his enemies love that's what we have to remember brothers and sisters so we prayed to الله on this occasion on the last night that الله سبحانه وتعالى allows us to understand the position of the إمام allows us to become closer with our إمام allows us to understand what he's going through in order that we can help him in his morning and allow him to come quicker by allowing ourselves to become better and be a part of his army and i've been requested brothers and sisters we have to pray for the مؤمنين and the مؤمنات and i've been told there was a brother yesterday that's out of nowhere suffered a stroke and he was requested on many occasions that we recite the آية in which we can ask الله سبحانه وتعالى with his majesty to allow this person to have better health and to regain his consciousness and inshallah our voices will be raised to the skies and will be accepted inshallah brothers and sisters for everyone the مؤمنين the مؤمنات the person that we just mentioned inshallah we can we can pray all together امان يجيب المصطر إذا دعا أمان إذا دعا أمان يجيب المصطر إذا دعا ويكشف السوء يكشف عن نسوء والبلاعية الله إن شاء الله if there's anything that i've said that's wrong it's from me and if anything that's i've said that's right it's from Allah and the teachings of so please forgive me if i've said anything that has hurt any one of you and inshallah we can help each other become elevated in the eyes of Allah and inshallah we can end with the صورة المباركة الفاتحة but before three of your loudest salawat على محمد وآلي محمد