 الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا وحبيبنا وشفي عنفوسنا أب القاسم محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لاسيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لترابي مقدمه الفداء أم أبعد رسبكت السكولرين أخواتي السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته أحب أن أرسل كل شخص في إشتراك هذا العالم من رمضان أحب أن أرسل كل شخص من رمضان مبارك إن شاء الله لنبدأ هذا العالم من this month of mercy this month of reward this month of blessings of Allah and which He has granted for us ونقول ذلك إن شاء الله سبحانه وتعالى today's speech and the upcoming speeches will be based on the preparation for this holy month of Ramadan إن شاء الله سبحانه وتعالى tonight especially I want to look at the mercy of Allah and the opportunity has given us in order to come towards the message of Ahlulbayt to come towards the message of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to go towards the door of repentance to the door of mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى إن شاء الله tonight in particular we want to focus on the idea of mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and three particular points or faculties that we want to look at the first and foremost we want to look at Allah's mercy in an aspect where we can give examples because we cannot comprehend Allah's mercy nor can we comprehend His Adalah but we can look into it from our particular perspective so we'd like to look at Allah's mercy in particular analogies then we want to look at it when we look at our Imams especially the Imam that will be martyred in this holy month of Ramadan Imam Ali ابن أبي طالب and the mercy that Allah سبحانه وتعالى had in this particular Hajj on this earth and see how we can relate this to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and his mirror images on earth and then in the final occasion in شاء الله and to wrap everything together and to prepare ourselves we'd like to look at how we can take this mercy and apply it in the holy month of Ramadan so please help me in starting the topic of the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى with one of your loudest salawat محمد وآلي محمد Allah's mercy is a very complex idea to come across because Allah سبحانه وتعالى has many levels of His mercy there's mercy in particular beings, there's mercy on particular acts there's mercy that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us in which we have a narration that says everything that you have now every mercy that Allah has blessed you with whether it be your eyesight whether it be your hands any senses, the gifts that Allah has given you the blessings you have around you is only 1% everything you have on earth the narration says it's 1% and he says he's left 99 for the day of judgment that there's another narration that says that even when Iblis sees how merciful Allah is on the day of judgment he begins to think to himself maybe Allah سبحانه وتعالى will forgive me that's how much mercy Allah will show on the day of judgment but let's look at Allah's mercy in particular analogies when the NBR are trying to be shown Allah's mercy there's an analogy that's given to show them in a very close perspective of how merciful Allah سبحانه وتعالى is and this is the example of the boy, his mother and an illegitimate relationship Allah tells his prophet he says to him you want to see my mercy he says yes he says go and look at what's about to happen the story goes is that a man was in blind love with a particular woman and the mother would not have them be married so he goes to the woman and he says what can I do to be with you and the woman look at what she replies and this is why lust for relationships is very devastating towards society the woman replies by saying go and kill your mother and I want your mother's beating heart brought to me only then will I be with you can you imagine the mercy of a mother when Allah سبحانه وتعالى tries to show us the mercy that he has in relation to a mother why because it's unconditional love when we look at the mother the mother is the embodiment of love the embodiment of mercy because the mother and we stated this when we looked at the right of the mother the mother has unconditional love in which she is prepared to be thirsty as long as you drink as long as you are quenched the mother is happy and sufficed to be hungry as long as you eat as long as the night as long as she sees you sleep she will remain bare as long as you are clothed and this is all from the right of Imam Zayn al-Abdina in which he says to the words the right of the mother trying to give you a closer analogy then we look that boy goes towards his mother he's in blind love he goes towards his mother he kills his mother he takes her heart and he goes towards on the way look at Allah سبحانه وتعالى on the way he trips he falls the heart falls out of his hand Allah gives the ability to the heart to speak what does the heart of the mother say he says my beloved oh my deez son are you okay the boys just killed his mother Allah has given the ability for the heart to speak and the heart what does it say are you hurt my son what to his prophet he says bear witness that's my mercy and my love towards my creation is greater than this love and mercy for this mother for her son how many folds there's a notion that says 70 times more there's a notion that says 100 times more but imagine the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in reference to his abad to me and you that's the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى when the prophet when the prophet he says when can I return back to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we can remember this because this is the month of mercy this is the month that Allah has given us the opportunity to return back to him he says when is it that we can repent and go towards you oh Allah and the prophet asked this the prophet was in his state he says you can return back to Allah he says one year before you die one year before you die if you repent Allah will accept your repentance and then he pauses because he knows the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى he pauses and he says no it's not one year he says it's one month he pauses again he says no not one month he says one week then he goes on to say one day he pauses for the last ones as it gets closer and closer to the idea of mercy of Allah he pauses and he says if it's one hour then he says if it's one minute then he goes on to say what he says if the angel of death is standing at your footsteps and you begin to see the gardens of heaven and the pits of hell he says then if you go towards Allah sincerely isn't it وإذا بلغت الحلقوم وإن تمحين إذن you begin to see the gardens of heaven and the pits of hellfire the prophet says then if you repent sincerely to Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah will forgive you and this is the mercy of Allah we see it in an everyday situation but we do not pay attention to it what's the greatest example of Allah's mercy is the faculty that is given us between sin and reward if we look at it in depth if we look at a sin how many does Allah right for us as a sin when we sin one sin isn't it when we sin it's one when we do an act of worship how many does Allah سبحانه وتعالى give us 10 rewards that in itself is Allah's mercy but we don't look at it it goes further than this Allah سبحانه وتعالى has told if you think about sinning if you think your intention is there to sin however or whether it be intentionally or unintentionally that you do not commit that sin remember you thought about it you didn't commit that sin what does Allah right that's the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he goes further he goes even when you do betray me even when you do commit the sin look at the mercy of Allah he says I have given authority on the right angel over the left angel what's the authority he says when you commit a sin he says I have given authority to the right angel to stop the left angel to write it straight away because when you do a reward when you do a good deed however when you sin the right angel tells the left angel he says wait one hour goes by he says wait another hour until seven hours go past he says if you repent within that seven hours he won't write it however after the seven hours the left angel will look at the right he says can I write it he says now you may write it so he gives us an opportunity to repent towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى this is all in a level that we know but we didn't look at in depth that Allah is mercy but it's something to look at it's something to analyze especially in the month of mercy in which Allah سبحانه وتعالى has multiplied the rewards has multiplied the recitation of the Quran has multiplied even your breathing even your sleeping in the month of Ramadan is عبادة imagine if you actually do عبادة imagine if you stay at the night imagine what reward you get on the day of القدر imagine what Allah has ready for you in this holy month only if you go out and take it because you are given the opportunity it's like this person that said he fell off a boat it's quite a funny analogy actually he falls off a boat and he says Allah سبحانه وتعالى will save me he's fall off the boat and he's waiting for Allah سبحانه وتعالى because he believed that he has faith in Allah سبحانه وتعالى so he falls off and he waits he says Allah سبحانه وتعالى will rescue me so the first boat comes by and he stops he says hop on you look like you're struggling he says no no no Allah سبحانه وتعالى will save me so that boat goes by the second boat comes he says hop on you're struggling he says no no no I don't need your boat Allah سبحانه وتعالى will save me he comes on the day of judgment and he says Allah سبحانه وتعالى he tells him well what happened I wanted you to save me and Allah says didn't I send three ships towards you in which you can hop on board now the idea is not that the person didn't believe in Allah but he did not read the signs of Allah when Allah gives us an opportunity you come one step towards him Allah will come ten steps you go one step away what do you think will happen if you forget from Allah سبحانه وتعالى if you forget Allah سبحانه وتعالى but if you remember him he will come towards you and the blessings will not even see as a revert one of the reverts that I've heard comes from a different religion we have Islam we're born into Islam we're given this beautiful beautiful message spoon fit to us imagine a revert that had to struggle to come towards this message this revert look at the way he came towards Islam look at the way he came towards Islam he says I believed in Islam completely he says I understood Islam I went and I read and I researched and I came to a complete state of salvation that yes this is the right path Islam is the right religion he says but I was looking for a sign I wanted something from Allah سبحانه وتعالى from his merciful grace to show me to lead me you know when sometimes we're down and we just want something to pick us up again something some kind of sign something from Allah سبحانه وتعالى this revert had the same idea as you and I he says for three nights in Ramadan he says in three nights in Ramadan he says I opened the Quran obviously he couldn't read Arabic at the time so he had the transliteration he says I wanted to read something I wanted something to start to come and submit towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says I created an atmosphere he says I let the lights off I opened the candles I opened the windows I was waiting for it he says the first night I was waiting for a sign from Allah he says nothing happened he says the second night I was waiting for a sign from Allah he says nothing happened he said the third night, I was waiting I was ready. he says everything was ready he said I was looking for the smallest of signs. he says a small sound the wind gushing و 많이 تجح these blinds moving He says nothing, nothing moved No sound was there It was completely silent I'm already submitted Let me start reading the Quran I believe it or not The verse, the verse he reads from the Holy Quran Is the repetitive verse In The Sura Kenyaa In in which he reads فبأي أهلاء ربكما، تكذباني، which of the signs of your Lord do you deny? He says which of the signs of your Lord do you deny? Now this person straight away he said I got the goosebumps I went straight towards the mosque He says I want to come towards a religion right now And in which he begins to recite the shahada and everyone comes around to him And imagine he says to himself I was so taken back from the amount of people that came towards me Little did he know that it was actually iftar at the mosque at that time But that's for another particular story Now in essence let's look at the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى We've understood that Allah is the most merciful That we cannot grasp the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى But in instance let's look at how Allah سبحانه وتعالى has manifested his mercy In which are the Ahlul Bayt Let's look at the person that will be martyred in the month of Ramadan The person that brought this religion and held this religion If it was not for his sword, if it not for his knowledge If it was not for his dances Whether it be in the battle field or in the court of law Or his silence for the خلافة This person is the manifestation of mercy And I say this was examples brothers and sisters When Ali ibn Abi Talib was struck in his sujood When Ali ibn Abi Talib was struck in his sujood We find that the person that struck Ali ibn Abi Talib What did Ali ibn Abi Talib do towards him For us if someone hurt us by a word Or looked at us in a wrong way It's the end of the world Ali ibn Abi Talib this person struck him with a poisonous sword He says bring him, do not hurt him Feed him, clothe him Tell me what kind of mercy did he show Ali ibn Abi Talib And look at what Ali ibn Abi Talib showed him in return We really need to have to think about this particular analogy We have to think about the stories that we hear from the Ahl al-Bait This is the manifestation of mercy This is the manifestation of Allah's mercy on earth When we find that a person by the name of Sauda Which used to write poems for the people To fight for Ali ibn Abi Talib and Safin When she goes towards Muawiyah She says such and such governor of yours Is not doing his job Is doing ABCD against religion Muawiyah just dismisses her He says why should I even listen to you You wrote the poems for Ali ibn Abi Talib So she begins to cry And she says where is Ali ibn Abi Talib Muawiyah straight away he looks at her He says why do you remember Ali He says I remember when I went to tell Ali ibn Abi Talib About a governor that used to just eat With the wealthy people In which Ali ibn Abi Talib straight away And he began to weep And asked for forgiveness from Allah And he says look at the difference between Ali and yourself He says look at this instance brothers and sisters And the companions at the time knew this When we had a young 5 year old Like the beautiful people we see nowadays 5 year old And the brothers I see in front of me A girl 5 years of age The daughter of Abu Aswad al-Du'ali One of the companions of Ali ibn Abi Talib After Ali ibn Abi Talib When Muawiyah's time When he used to try to get Ali ibn Abi Talib's people towards him He gave this household A bit of honey with saffron inside You can imagine the companions of Ali ibn Abi Talib They didn't have honey Because they were a state of famine at the time And they were following the honey that had the saffron inside So she did not know who it's from 5 years of age as the narration 5 or 6 years of age as the narration goes She picks it up She sees it at the door She opens it She begins to eat it Her father Abu Aswad al-Du'ali comes in And he asks her He says do you not know who that honey is for So she looks at her father And she says who's this honey for her father He says this honey is from Muawiyah's camp This is from Muawiyah And look at how this 5 year old acts I want the brothers especially to look at this 5 year old And how she acted In light of Ali ibn Abi Talib She goes The narration says She puts her hand in the back of her throat Until she regurgitates She vomits all that Which she just ate So all the honey and saffron Just comes out And she goes and points towards Syria at the time Or Damascus And she says Particular lines of poetry In which she begins to talk with Muawiyah And she says Do you try to take us away With some saffron flavored honey Take us away from Ali ibn Abi Talib He says no way will you be able to Get the closest companions away from such An amazing leader And she says this in lines of poetry Brothers and sisters At 5 years of age She begins to talk with Muawiyah In which she says What Join back to the idea of mercy Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى How does it apply nowadays How does it apply nowadays Because we have to grasp it And I made sure to talk about the aspect of mercy Before I begin to talk about Ramadhan In the upcoming nights Because first we have to prepare ourselves Physically, mentally, spiritually For the month that comes ahead of us We have to prepare ourselves In which Allah سبحانه وتعالى Has given us the opportunity To stay away from number one The food and the drink That may affect our thinking That may affect our way of life That may affect us in any particular way And give us a clear idea of thought He takes us away from that which is Halal And we have to stay from that which is Haram Whether it be backbiting Whether it be harming oneself Whether it be drinking or eating That which is Haram We are away from all of that And we have to behave ourselves As certain guidelines we have to abide by Allah is trying to teach us Allah is trying to put us onto this particular path Let's use this time But first we have to put ourselves Into the mindset of Islam We have to put ourselves in the mindset That is Ramadhan By first and foremost Having the idea of where we want to be At the end of Ramadhan And then step by step We'll begin to achieve it Step by step We'll say to ourselves That this is what we're going to achieve this day This is what we'll be achieved By half of Ramadhan This is what I will be Before it hits us And in which At the end of Ramadhan You will begin to say to yourself That yes I have done That which I wanted And insha'Allah Next Ramadhan I will be tenfold the person I am today I will learn tenfold Of what I know nowadays I'll be a better person In the eyes of Allah And we pray to Allah On this Closing line insha'Allah And insha'Allah In the upcoming nights We'd like to decipher And go into detail About The month of Ramadhan How did fasting come about What is the benefits of fasting From the imams From the scientific perspectives From طب الأئمة We'd like to look at it In a more detailed manner Not just in a stereotypical Very Kind of Surface level In which we usually look at it And go in depth And look at Ramadhan in its essence Ramadhan The month of mercy Ramadhan The opportunity That Allah has given us And how we can grasp That opportunity The best we can And insha'Allah We pray to Allah On this note That it gives us the opportunity To better ourselves During this month of Ramadhan To elevate Us In both knowledge Spirituality And closeness towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala We pray to Allah With the Surah المباركة الفاتح But before it Three of your loudest Salawat على محمد وقال محمد