 هذا وما كنا لنهتد لولان هدان الله الحمد لله الذي انزل الفرخان على عبده ليكون لعالمين نذيره والصوات والسلام على خير خلق ونور عرشه أفضل الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبنا وسيدنا وسندنا وشفيعنا ومولانا أب القاسم محمد وعلى آله التيبين الطاهرين المعسمين المظلومين أما بعد فقد قل الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيد وقوله الحق وهو أستق الصادقين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إنما المؤمنين الذين آمنوا بالله ورسولي ثم لم يرتابوا وجاهدوا بأموالين وأنفسهم في سبيل الله أولئك هم الصادقون صدق الله العلي العديم سلوات أنا محمد وآل محمد أولئك يبقى بالله سبحانه وتعالى وانأ شكرا لك لنا هذه الحياة and this ability to recognize his greatness and to be able to participate in it and to be able to sustain the onslaught of trials and tribulations that come towards us due to the ignorance and foolishness of mankind and of course we seek refuge with Allah from our own foolishness and our own ignorance for many a times we've done things that we shouldn't have done and we cause other people harm and we seek protection and forgiveness for that at the same time we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to protect us from interactions that may lead to all kinds of problems in life as you know people who are going through divorces in child custodies and so on it's a very painful experience and I was just meeting different people having such problems and you listen to the stories of what's causing these destructions and you realize it's so stupid it's so dumb there's such benign issues that on a grander scheme of things it's so childish but unfortunately that's the reality that we live in and we have to deal with it and of course we have to ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make us wiser and to make us more patient as Luqman says to his son be patient you know with what will come towards you and it is a difficult task this world is short lived and while we have children and we have future and our generations we wonder what our responsibilities are Allah سبحانه وتعالى reckons everything and he will bring everything to equity and give reward beyond a measure for those who struggle and those who suffer as you know tonight my respected sisters and brothers is my last lecture here I'm going to miss you all it's been a wonderful electric Ramadan for the last two weeks and I would like to sincerely thank our respected شيخ بحريني and his family and the community for all the kindness and of course my respected brother مسلحات was been a wonderful host in ensuring that we're comfortable with my parents here living in the house next door and it's such a blessing and we appreciate that we appreciate your kind words you appreciate your patience with us and we appreciate your diligence and your good spirits it's nothing but a blessing but that's a testament for while this world is a difficult place to live the consolation and the you know the the pleasantries of life meeting good people gives everything good hope in the future and it also enables us to stand upright and do what we do in tonight's lecture I'd like to and as you know by the way just a quick note tomorrow is the ولاد of إمام حسن ابن علي عليه صلاة والسلام صلاة الله محمد والمحمد and I would insha'Allah tomorrow somebody else will be presenting but in the sense of celebration in this blessed month of ramadan and as you know on the 17th of ramadan is when the famous battle of bather took place which was the first battle fought by the holy prophet against the mckens who came to destroy the prophet but the prophet succeeded in defeating the mckens and the ratio was three times the army size versus the holy prophets was one-third but Allah is showing us that when you are resolute and then you have a firm belief you will destroy the enemy even though they are larger and the verse that I started with tonight which is is also in حجرات الله the previous verse as I mentioned yesterday in قالة العراب أمنه ولم تؤمنه ولكن قولوا أسلمنا ولم يدخل الإيمان في قلوبكم here الله سبحانه وتعالى says وإن تطيع الله ورسوله لا يلتكم من أعمالكم شيئاً إن الله غفور الرحيم the desert dwellers say that they believe قالة العراب now the desert dwellers they were quite ignorant in many ways and they were rough on the edges but nonetheless they had become believers and they claimed that they believe and Allah is telling us that the religion of islam is a verb more than a noun although it is a noun it is a verb it's a transactional religion it's a religion where the value of an individual's faith is based on what they do so I can declare my islam I can claim to be a muslim but if I'm not a proactive muslim if I do not promote good and demote evil then I'm not a good muslim now sadly nifaq which is hypocrisy comes within islam if we were to address islam is the true religion then those who don't practice it within it and who are actually destructive in promoting good and and demoting evil meaning they're promoting evil and demoting good then such people are known as منافقين in fidelity in islam in its highest form is not christians jews atheists in fidelity in islam in its highest form are the hypocrites they are the most dangerous they are the biggest infidels ever while those who attack islam from outside as christians jews if they attack being christian being jew jewish being hindu being buddhist being an atheist being an agnostic is not an attack on islam please understand that there's a big difference when somebody proclaims a different faith but they don't attack you islam does not consider them to be infidels infidelity is are those who attack the religion of allah especially within islam when they fabricate ideologies that were not brought by god when they fabricate hadith that is untrue when they take the quran and mistranslate it in order to suit their whimsical notions those are the people who are in infidels according to islam here allah in the quran he says do not say you believe rather say we submit because the religion of allah is action based when we teach our children we not only tell them you're a muslim but you're muslim based on action the more action you do the better the muslim you are and inshallah if you continue to be good and inshallah if you continue to purify yourselves then you will be considered among the god conscious the pious ones the chosen the the zahid you know the متقي right and of course شوهداء and one needs not die to become a shahid you can be alive and become shahid that's a very very high level of existence when you're a shahid when you're alive you would think that you're a shahid meaning you're a martyr when you're killed no martyrdom is also when you're alive because now you've given totality of submission to god صلاة الله محمد وعالي محمد so allah gives us a condition that say you submit وإن تطيئ الله ورسوله and if you obey allah and his messenger then your deeds are intact now we as a muslim population need to encourage each other as allah in sot al-asr says بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الانسان لفيخصر you know by time mankind is at a loss by time meaning we have finite time on this earth and we're quickly getting older and if we do not move towards a positive lifestyle then time will have eaten away this gift of god so god is saying well asr إن الانسان لفيخصر by time mankind is at a loss except I mean there's an exception and one quick footnote and I always mentioned this when the Quran gives a negation followed by an exception it's a very powerful verse it's a wake-up call whenever god negates followed by an exception it's a powerful call لا إله إلا الله is a powerful call there is no god but Allah it's negation followed by an exception it's powerful meaning pay attention and if you look at the logic of such a sentence what Allah is doing is he's cancelling all possibilities and focusing on the reality hence the cancellation when the Quran cancels something followed by an exception it's putting focus قل لا أسألكم عليه أجرا say I want no reward from you إلا المودة في القربة except that I want you to have mutual love with my near ones meaning the إمة and the family of the prophet that was chosen to represent after the prophet it's powerful so the Quran is saying focus on that that's important okay you find وما أسألكم عليه من أجرا you know when prophet say we want no reward from you our reward is from Allah but you'll find the negation followed by an exception is powerful so here Allah says by time man is at a loss it's a negation except إلا الذين أامنوا وعملوا الصالحات وطواصه بالحق وطواصه بالصب so the conditions are who will not be a failure one who believes one who does good promotes justice and promotes patience so our obligation is proactivity you cannot just claim to be a muslim now let me make a quick point here as a side note because it's important you will notice that when we become muslims and do شهاده تين it's a blessing but to think that because we put a stamp on ourselves by doing شهاده تين i've become a muslim or muslim meaning now i'm exonerated i am immunized for any further scrutiny is the furthest from the truth what we end up doing is if we think that the religion of islam is a noun it causes a paralysis in us we feel i've become a member of this club i've been given the id card i'm now stamped muslim that's it i don't have to do anything and that's why the quran is saying they stamped it god says no no no no faith has not entered you when does faith enter us when we do transactions when we pray faith may not have entered but it's amazing when you pray sometimes you feel the presence of god and that's a transaction it connects you when you give charity sometimes we give it because others are doing it but then it touches you and faith starts to enter you when you start doing good deeds faith starts to enter what ends up happening is when faith starts to increase الله says it is who puts tranquility into the hearts of believers he increases their faith upon their faith pay attention to this increasing of faith upon faith but many of us say no i already have faith i did my share of the time i'm muslim notice the quran is challenging that if i already have faith then how is god increasing my faith upon my faith if faith is a zero sum argument where you cross the red line and it's a noun and i've become muslim then why should god increase my faith upon my faith know that what allah implies is that iman is transaction based it's a verb it's action based it's constant where you're constantly looking to do good deeds you're constantly looking to eradicate evil that transaction is where iman is built on now here's what ends up happening as a result and some of you may not like it but it's the truth and i stand to be challenged on this matter is we have a habit if it's a noun i'm muslim therefore whoever's not done shahadateen is none muslim and we name them kaffir generally oh they're kaffireen قليا يول كافرين you know قليا يول كافرون قليا يول كافرون لا عبدوا ما تعبدوا i don't worship that mature this i قليا يول كافرون الله سبحانه وتعالى is addressing those who are attacking islam those who had animosity to islam kaffir has many forms i want to introduce it briefly tonight for us to understand our muslim obligation first and foremost islam as a religion has been named appropriately it's not named after a person or an object christianity is named after a person جودا يزم is named after a person as you know christians are named after christ and the word christ is actually a greek word christos so when you're a christian it means you're a follower of christ when you are a jew you are a follower of juda the son of jacob juda ism when you're a buddhist when you're a buddhist you're following buddha now following a person is not wrong but notice the nomenclature the naming convention in islam would you not say then logically we should be muhammadans right well we're not we're not muhammadans we're muslims الله says اليوم اكملت لكم دينكم و اتممتوا عليكم نعمتي و رضيت لكم الاسلام الدينة today i perfected for you your religion and completed my favor and i call it the religion islam الله says سماكم المسلمين من قبل و في هذا we named you muslims before and we name you muslims now you say you follow this religion islam but الاسلام while it's a noun in its proper form its action is all verb so i advise us all let us not be quick in drawing a red line that i'm muslim therefore you're not muslim and because you're christian you're jew you are a non-believer and suddenly now we plaster them with condemnations and the sad thing on the reverse is that we've got criminals in islam and we protect them with all the crimes and sometimes we say رضي الله أن they burn the kaba رضي الله أن they kill the prophet's family رضي الله أن they cheated the prophet رضي الله أن they disobeyed the prophet رضي الله أن يجب أن نعتقد أن الاسلام is a noun and we give entitlement to each other and therefore even if you become a horrible muslim it's better than an honest just non-muslim this is not the religion of god sadly even in indonesia you find we have this myopic idea that when you have a christian governor but he's just and he's fighting corruption but because he's not muslim we cannot follow him because we've entitled each other but we'd rather have a corrupt muslim a thief a liar a cheater you look in pakistan you've got leaders that have amassed the majority of the wealth of pakistan they're muslim leaders corrupt to the core but it's okay go to the umayyad history and see how corrupt the umayyads were see how corrupt the abbasids were they were the most corrupt people on earth but does anyone condemn them people revere haroun al-rashid when he was a murderer he was a genocidal killer why he's muslim he did shahadatein let's protect him but he's a murderer he's a thief he's a liar he's a cheater yeah but immunity immunity let's be vigilant about it and let's go condemn the other non-muslims this is why the sickness of society has come because we haven't seen what the quran is telling us quran is saying you have hijacked this religion this is not the religion of allah you have given yourselves entitlement and it's not only within islam christians do it jews do it buddhists do it hindus do it they all have the same disease where they entitle themselves and condemn the other side whereas allah says كل حز من بما لديهم فارحون every army fights for its own cause but who allowed us such ideology this is beyond me and i look around us and i see why we as a human race have gone so astray because we want to protect our own interests and use the name of god as validation صلاة الله محمد والمحمد how do we gauge society i have christians friend christian friends jewish friends eighties friends i gauge them on that achlaq but do i say it's okay you don't believe in god no we encourage them to believe in god when i go to christians i don't condemn them because they believe in christ as a son of god i encourage them to come to the oneness of god oh people of the book do not say three come let's have a dialogue no condemnation but i've seen christians who are more honest more giving more loving more caring i've seen jews who've stood in front of caripillars and gotten killed because of the occupation in palestine there are jewish people you might say all jews are bad no anybody who says all anything it's suspect it's a stereotypical broad brush that has nothing to do with truth you should never say that it's conditional what is the achlaq what is the behavior now now quran addresses people of the book addresses christians and says there are among them you give them a heap of gold they will return it to you now why is the quran staying there why does Allah says indeed the believers the jews the christians the sabians provided you believe in one god in the day of judgment and you do good deeds don't worry for you there's a good place for you you would say this is bold for god to tell me this should i not be promoting islam exactly that is islam when we look at each other with the eyes of grace and we look at people of other faiths and when we talk to them and someone says i don't believe in god it's okay let's talk about it how can i convince you am i going to hell i said i'm not the master of the judgment atheists asked me that sunain am i going to hell i said listen i'm not the day of i'm not the master of the day of judgment god is but i'll tell you he loves you because he created you and he sustains you and he feeds you whether you reject him or accept him it's irrelevant he's too merciful now it's up to you to accept you on destiny you don't want to accept it don't there is no compulsion in religion and you will answer your lord on judgment day but my obligation is to invite you the way my lord said invite them to the way of your lord with kind exhortation and wisdom wisdom and kind exhortation kind words come talk here when we have christians coming in our community they were serving us two days ago some of them are leaders who run multiple churches they were not arrogant walking around i'm a big shot they were wearing gloves in the kitchen toiling and sweating and serving they felt empowered in the eyes of allah what is that character versus those who are claiming to be muslims holding guns today and only because you love ali ابنابي طالب they're going to behead you and they're going to shoot you and allahu akbar and they shoot you tell me افا من كان مؤمنا كما كان فاصقا لا يستون you cannot compare but when you look at such people and say subhanallah this is what humanity needs we need to uprise at this level where we look at humanity at a different level but many of us can't handle that diversity of opinion because we ourselves don't know what our religion is we're afraid to talk about islam because we're afraid to expose our اجنرنس we don't want to talk about it we change our names even we just want to assimilate we want to hide i advise us all don't be afraid of truth fear me i'm the one who gave you all this grace stand up for the truth be unafraid and welcome people why is it and i ask this question all the time there are almost eight billion people on earth majority of the world has been outside of the fold of islam in terms of its name why honestly why is it الله's design is it the design that Allah has dictated that the minority should be believers no that defies the mercy of Allah the reason the minority okay is because if you look at us as a minority we have not reached out to the majority often we're silent or when we do there are forces of minorities that silence us but never stop reaching out الله سبحانه وتعالى on judgment day will hold us libel and says i made you representatives on this earth as you know in سوت الحج الله سبحانه وتعالى verse 78 says so that the messenger is a witness over you and you are a witness over the people therefore uphold prayer you see and give charity because that's your obligation prayer all of these factors islam is a wonderful gift given to humanity but you know istala fasting what we do in ramadan حج these are transactional basis that give us a template of what we should be doing we think that when we pray we have done god's work now we should act what we say in prayer otherwise the prayer is little meaning it's like giving oath to something and then when you're done giving oath you go back to your satanic ways الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول you just give an oath when we say صرات المستقيم صرات الذين انا امت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الله ليم you say that you ask god okay then follow the ones who god has chosen are you are you following their path this is islam to me honestly with all due respect i find our muslim communities and christian communities jewish communities everybody in general feels entitled to be in their religion but if we come out of this cocoon and say come to the common platform let us find the truth what do we need to do do we foster wars do we foster bigotry do we foster misogynism do we foster crazy ideologies that cause harm to societies and الله says that's islam if you look at the essence of islam it is to promote justice and peace in this world one quick transactional point i want to make the messenger says افضل العبادة this is in consonants with this conversation افضل العبادة انتظار المهدي one of the best forms of عبادة is to have the انتظار meaning to have a desire for the مهدي for the imam of the time الله says in quran and sot isra يوم ندعو كل اناس بإمامهم فمن اوتي كتابه بيميني here allamata whatabai describes يوم ندعو on that day the day of judgment everybody will be raised with their imam كل اناس بإمامهم here by the way you will notice that the imam is a practical present individual because كرانيكلي you will see when Allah in verse 59 says the two we know Allah in the prophet who are the ones vested with authority the quran says today that verse stands as it stood then meaning there is somebody among us who has vested authority over us because it's a present tense منكم so Allah declares that leadership is an essential component to humanity whether you know them or not and i give some quick examples you notice even corporations founders of corporations people like steve jobs who founded apple when he died no one says well we've got enough of a vision of steve you know steve jobs we understand his mission it's all encoded his work is already prevalent in all the ipads and the iphone so we don't need a ceo thank you will just live on the spirit of steve jobs everybody will tell you you're out of your mind in fact the whole stock will take a nose dive so i say why not well because you always need a living ceo not a dead one so you find although our prophets and imams are not dead none of them are dead do not say those who died in the way of god are dead nay they are alive but you do not see them but a living representative of earth is a command of Allah from the time adam was put on this earth we understand that so the prophet has said that the Imam of the time will be your witness even if you don't see him same when the prophet was the prophet in مكر مدينة there were people in china who didn't see him but he was still their witness because he was spreading the message so Allah swt has laid out imam as the living representative this انتظار is very profound i haven't seen the imam a person says i haven't seen the imam how should i follow him i said look at his essence his principles and understand that god has a talk about him he's not some fictitious person he has come history has it but reflect on such personalities you have a collection of them meaning all the 12 imams are the holy prophet they are just reflections of the holy prophet they don't bring new laws انتظار is very psychological if our children if we have انتظار of imam we have انتظار of رسول الله who is the center of all who is the leader of all you have انتظار of imam حسن امام حسين فاتمه عليه السلام زيناب عليه انتظار meaning you will now want to be like them it's like a friend i have a desire to be with this friend today our children have desires to be with the superstars of hollywood and sports industries because they are very good in doing whatever they do but on a moral platform on a holistic platform no one is better than the prophets in the imams انتظار so انتظار المحدي so الله has put our imam in hiding so ask why is the imam in hiding why couldn't god just keep him among us as you know he's about 1184 years old in lunar years 1184 lunar years since he was born so how old is he over a thousand years old why is he around us how can he be around us who can be alive for a thousand years scientists will tell you that the human body can live for thousands of years just our arteries and our the flexibility that lies within us is capable of very long life it's the carcinogens and the poisons that we take and the stress and all of these other attacks that we get in our environments that age us but otherwise our bodies are unique even those manufactured heart transplants and arteries and veins that are replaced in any form or fashion cannot compete with the natural ones natural has a long term capability very very flexible in its own ways so to argue how can الله says you didn't exist they're asking the question you know how will god bring us back once we turn to dust and the argument of law says in the Quran you didn't exist before you were nothing i made you something isn't that a bigger deal so don't worry about that so to ask the question how can an imam live for a thousand years or 15 this is a moot question let's put it on the side second question to ask is why did Allah put him in hiding now there are many reasons as you know our communities we would call prophets we would call imams and Quran states that you would pray for me to send you help and then when we send them you kill them you torture them you imprison them you ignore them historical every prophet that has come has had their nemesis in society karbala is a great example they call imam saying to kufa then they're the same ones who hold a sword to kill imam saying in karbala same scenario what happens is there comes a time when humanity has been given enough information enough substance by transaction by design by example that imams and prophets have had enough of a lesson for us the Quran is filled with examples of prophets on what they did how did yusuf behave how did ibrahim behave how did mousa alaihi salam behave how did you know khidr how did يقوب how did uh iyoub every prophet in the Quran الله calls him as ذكر ذكر رحمة ربك عبده وذكر في الكتاب have ذكر وذكر في الكتاب مريم remember mary how great she was Quran says when you remember prophets is ذكر so examples are plenty Quran is filled with them by any standard and their successes have been shown without any hesitation beyond any doubt we have religion if you and i just do a little تدبور we do a little اتهاد within ourselves and we refer to the scholars and we refer to the books and we refer to the imams and the prophets what they have left us there's enough guidance in this world today الله has taken the imam among us by the way he's on earth he's among us he transacts with us but we just don't know who he is الله has put him in that state of hidden state now you might say what function does he form well let's give quick answers before time it's in a way this conversation you find that hiding the imam among us forces us to think deeper it's like you're alone your mom and dad always took care of you now you're alone now you have to figure things out you have to be independent you have to stand on your two feet so you take what was given to you as a model so you stand on your feet if the imams were constantly present they would eclipse اتهاد we would all be looking at one answer whereas now you have مراج who differ on different issues and they have different rulings on same issues and we wonder why are they so different it's proof اتهاد is alive they're coming from different angles understanding the Quran and the sunnah of رسول الله and the حديث and they're coming to conclusions based on their understanding and examples and experience i think that's very healthy difference of opinion is healthy it's proof اتهاد is alive الله will not punish us because we're different الله will punish us if we are complacent if we are reticent if we're silent we don't move to find the truth if we're lazy he will punish us but if we're proactive he will reward us even if it's wrong even if it's wrong if the only thing we know think about it 500 years ago spontaneous generation was a scientific theory that life spontaneously generates Louis Pasteur recently disproved it that in fact we have bacteria and all kinds of organisms floating in the air that cause what happens when you know life pops out out of meat that's rotting we thought that he just spontaneously generates would you say that the scientists 500 years ago were wrong we would say yes based on the evidence now they were wrong but you would you say that they were liars no what they had that's a cliff لا يكليف الله و نفسه what they knew at that time is what they did but we have been given enough knowledge today to be able to understand the foundation of the dean which is what's going to be judged on judgment day there's no arguments in that you and i can never go astray though the imam is in hiding because the foundation of the religion has been established when the prophet says ان تاركن فيكم اثقالين كتاب الله و اترتي عهل البيت i leave you two heavy things my book and my أهل البيت these two shall not separate forever forever and they will meet me at the pool of calther meaning they are one and the same they're two dimensions one is the written the other is the transactional follow them and you will never go astray did the prophet say no tomorrow you know when your imam is in hiding you'll almost no no but here's a simple example if we're muslims and we doubt the hidden nature of the imam that every muslim believes that shaytan iblis the devil fools us الله says انا محادي ليكم يا بني آدما لا تعبو الشيطان إنه لكم عدو ون مبين have we not warned you that do not follow shaytan he's your great enemy we all agree with that i would like to ask the whole human race how many of you have seen shaytan we all believe in the devil oh the devil made me do that you know there's this devil who's whispering in my ears have you seen him how does he look what's his shape we haven't seen it but we have no problem believing it he's hidden but yet he affects us negatively so why can something hidden and not affect us positively it's silly this argument doesn't hold any water number one so the idea that the imam is hidden and therefore he has no effect on me is a moot idea once again because if that which is hidden can also affect us let me conclude what is the function of the imam today he guides i believe what's happening in the world today and especially what's happening in the middle east today and that force that's rising today that's causing even presidents not to have sleep at night and president and and the leaders in israel who can't sleep at night the imam is doing his work don't be fooled trust me the trajectory of humanity is filled with evil but what's coming out of it due to the the transactions of the the indomitable people who understand the message of الله who have understood the message of أهل البيت and they stand firm though the enemy is at the border lines and they don't lose and they kick them out and they are afraid and they don't know what to do and they start to make smarter bombs and they start to make smarter guns but none of that will work because nothing is smarter than the heart nothing is smarter than faith when you rise with faith nothing can touch you this is why it's so important in this month of ramadan let's strengthen our faith do not lose hope in الله oh no الله guarantees i guarantee you victory الله says to the prophet you've signed this agreement of khudabia don't worry get you are guaranteed victory you will they will do and don't worry you signed this agreement i promise you we promise you it is the desire of god that you shall be the inheritors or you have been oppressed even biblically it says the meek shall inherit the earth this is nothing new i conclude tonight in transaction our Imam is among us he's a witness and he is moving the world the question is what side are we are i end with this story right or wrong doesn't matter the essence of the story is deep رجب ليخيات in his book elixir of love makes a beautiful point and i want to point that he says there was a man who wants to meet him i'm aahdi he says i want to go meet him i've heard the حديث that if you go to masjid the Sahla you read 40 nights you know there's many rewayat not true i mean not untrue it's true even if you read sure when israel for 40 nights but how you will meet الله because he's in غayba the Imam is in hiding you find what is interesting is he goes he does 40 nights on the 40th night he gets a dream so you want to meet the Imam okay go to this city it was in iran he gets on the bus it was a very place wasn't nearby he travels for a whole day tired he gets there doesn't know what to do suddenly some another premonition says to him okay now go to the bazar go to the trading place and go to a locksmith and wait there you want to meet the Imam you can meet him there's a moral to this story and i think it seals the deal in my opinion on everything we talk about we as a community it'd be cognizant of transactions our our deals الله says the last part of the verse of is god sees what you do and god does not disconnect us he's always guiding us always so he's sitting at this he arrives he goes into the locksmith and then there was a handsome young person sitting on the opposite side he doesn't realize who is this maybe maybe now an old woman walks in with a lock and she's selling the lock she goes to the locksmith and says i want to sell this i want some money for it how much will he give me and according to رجبالي خيات he says he offers her i think six or seven تمان at that time seven تمان was a lot of money says i gave you seven تمان she says all day i've been trying to sell this no one wants to give me more than four تمان you're giving me almost double how is that possible the man looks at her and says lady with all due respect this lock is what seven تمان if i give you four i'd be cheating you and i can't do that she takes the seven تمان and leaves and that young man looks at him he says you don't need to go too much to the salah to do 40 nights of zikr to see the Imam you need to be like him and the Imam visits him meaning that man was the Imam and he says you don't have to zikr is good but the greatest zikr is action transaction be honest be trustworthy be giving be caring be sharing be forgiving if you do that the Imam says we visit you so tonight i end that i ask الله سبحانه وتعالى in the in the knowledge of this great Imam that he brings justice and equity and he gives us the توفيق he gives us the strength to be wise to be upright not to be whimsical and foolish and to be patient that while injustice is so prevalent so many people today are being killed as we speak so many people are being butchered children are being made into orphans as we speak hunger is incredibly high while there's a disparity where people who are obese has even risen in society because there's a there's a there's a mixture here of confusion in society we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to make us wise to solve the problems for ourselves and those around us to make us good leaders to make us patient individuals loving and caring and to open up these doors there are billions of people out there who have not who don't even know what islam is until you and i welcome them talk to them الحمدلله today with the geopolitics that karbala imams shia is mentioned sunna is mentioned islam is being mentioned الحمدلله on the global front and of course post 9 11 no book was more read on earth than the holy quran the rewired says the holy prophet says before my grandson who will have my name محمد when he comes the whole world will have read the quran صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد والمحمد let's recite together this دعا في مام صاحب الزمان اجل الله تعالى فرجك that we ask him we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to make his reappearance soon while he's among us to guide us to take this darkness away from us and to bring good leadership among us so that we bring peace equity and to prevent all this carnage and the war that's taking place the bombings the indiscriminate bombing that's taking place even in yemen and in syria and in all these other places may Allah you know remove this inshallah اللهم صلى على محمد وقال محمد let's recite together وعينها حتى تسكنه وردك توعى وتمتعوا فيها طويلة برحمتك يا أرحم الراحمين وسلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وقال الطيبين الطاهرين صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وقال محمد