 and T episode 21 or the late night talk with Ahmed Ali coming to your life in the holy city of Karbala. Now the night of the 21st of Ramadan is among the nights of destiny where a person is recommended to go and supplicate, days of supplications and nights of supplications towards Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, but they are also days of morning and nights of morning. If you know why, keep on watching. If you don't know why, continue to watch as we go to check out what's trending and we'll be back very short. So do stay tuned. Welcome back dear viewers. Now yesterday was Apple's WWDC event in California where the CEO Tim Cook along with Apple executives previewed the new software for the iPhones, for the iPads, iMacs and the Apple Watch and the company announced its next generation mobile software iOS 12. It's packed with performance improvements, quick features and many many features so if you do have an iPhone like myself we got to go get that but you know they're saying it's a lot better than the ones before because honestly the 11 is sort of say it's garbage so we're trying to get the 12 to check what's what's good with that. But what else is trending? 150 year old dinosaur skeleton is under the hammer and it was sold for 2.36 million so that's approximately 2 million euros which is crazy. Now scientists can't really tell what kind of dinosaur it was but all they know is a carnivorous theropod which they're saying that dinosaur is from that kind of species but it's crazy. 2 million euros someone had that that would be crazy. It was sold in Paris at the first floor of the Eiffel Tower but that's it for what's trending let's go and check out what tonight's topic is all about because it's pretty nice. I like it. Welcome back dear viewers. Now the succession of the caliph after the demise of Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him and his holy progeny has been a topic that has been discussed for many decades now and have been discussed among the Islamic Ummas whatever denomination they be following. Now the different denominations of Islam argue that for each one there's a specific caliph and each one or there are two that believe there's one specific caliph that's supposed to become after the Prophet and there's others among the other denominations saying that there are different caliphs who took after Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him. Now tonight I'm not trying to raise up some differences between Sunnis and Shias but tonight it's a very simple question for you guys very simple very very simple we're trying to find out tonight on hashtag and T in three two one who is your caliph simple question let us know who your caliph is and you can share that and you can participate by picking up your phone opening WhatsApp you can dial that number shown right now plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six and you can let us know via WhatsApp free so you're not spending a dime everyone has data everyone has Wi-Fi so you can go check us out you can also check us out on Facebook we are live there as well so you can let us know at Imam Hussein 3 TV now whoever participates in tonight's episode or in the upcoming episodes by via call WhatsApp message WhatsApp call WhatsApp message a voice note voice message on WhatsApp or the comment on Facebook you're gonna get a ticket just like this one right here in the special envelope right here give me that shot this envelope is going towards you for a treat for a free trip to come to Karbala exclusive on our house wherever you are in the world if your name gets pulled out of this fishbowl right here no give me that camera out of this fishbowl right here to get your name to get this ticket to come to Karbala so we're giving you guys a chance an amazing chance to come to this holy city but let's go take a very short break and come back to discuss more about tonight's topic welcome back to viewers hope inshallah you're enjoying your night tonight you're spending your nights especially these nights in supplications and praying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala now in the Shi'a belief the caliphate is a divine order sent by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and examined by Prophet Muhammad and mentioned by Prophet Muhammad and specified one individual according to Sunni and Shi'a hadith including the hadith of the house the hadith of the Manzila Manzila meaning the position the hadith of Thaqalain which everyone knows the hadith of Ghadir as well as many many other narrations that mentioned there's one specific individual who should have got the caliphate right after Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is the caliph the original caliph to prove one thing that this individual was the most suitable person and his children the infallible children of this individual were the ones who should have succeeded as the caliphs after Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there are many narrations that explicit that provide explicit evidence for that this individual we're not mentioning that name yet hope you know who that person is now we'll go some through events and some Quranic verses to let you know who or to give you some hints on who that person is now the first one is mentioned in chapter 5 verse 55 while Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says verily your wali protector or helper is Allah has messengers and those who believe those who perform salat prayer and give zakat alams while they bow you know it's it's usual for someone to give or to pray you know it's for a Muslim to bow in prayer to prostrate in prayer prayer one of the mandatory things in Islam but to give zakat so that's something out of prayer but to include both of them together is a characteristic the only one person did and if you're guessing Ali Bipalib then you're guessing right because that's the person who should have received the caliphate after Prophet Muhammad and who should have been the caliph but the question for tonight you guys just to say it again who is your caliph if your caliph is other than Imam Ali let us know and let us know why he is your caliph the number shown below to call it to call us another verse which is mentioned in Ahzab verse 33 another characteristic that who the caliph should be now this is a very well known narration sorry well very well known verse among every single Islamic sect Al-Ahzab verse 33 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala states Allah surely wants to remove the impurities from you all people of the house now who are the people of the house who are the Ahlul Bayt you know for someone to lead the ummah if you were to look at any leader right now because a leader would be can be considered as a caliph but if you were to look at any leader in the war whether elected properly or not elected properly the main virtues and the main traits that a leader should possess are traits that are honorable traits that you know that he's brave that he knows what he's doing he knows how to run his country integrity is honest he's not lying to his nation are one of or many of the characteristics that a caliph should possess now if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is removing all impurities from the household which Ali the caliph is included in that household and as a part of that household then you can probably think of where I'm going at this moment now another event where really sheds light on the importance of the individual that we're commemorating today we're talking about tonight and the person to who you should consider well let's leave that I don't want to continue that but in al-mubahala the events of mubahala mentioned in chapter 3 verse 61 a group of Christians came to Prophet Muhammad they wanted him to prove his prophethood they rejected so he said let us go to a specific mountain valley sorry and try to do some kind of contest like a curse contest and see which one does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala curse so he said bring yourselves and I bring myself bring your family bring your woman I'll bring my woman bring your children and I'll bring my children and I will see which side does Allah curse everyone Mecca or everyone in Medina when they heard that they were like oh who is the prophet going to choose because he says bring yourselves and I'll bring myself bring your woman did not say bring one woman bring your woman and I'll bring my woman bring your children I'll bring my children everyone thought that the Prophet was going to choose you know randomly from the Muslim ummah when the Prophet showed up on that day just with Alibi Talib Fatim al-Zahra and he was carrying al-Hasan al-Hussain in his hands proved that the individuals that accompanied Prophet Muhammad during that event and during that mission were individuals not to mess with were individuals that were really chosen by God because even the Christians at that time when they saw Prophet Muhammad bringing out his own family risking his own family's life because a curse is not a joke a curse is death so risking his family's life for his mission was something serious that everyone should take seriously so that's one of the important things that really prove that Alibi Talib is among or should be the one that rightly succeeds Prophet Muhammad but let's take a very short quick break and come back very short welcome back dear viewers we do remind everyone for calling to call in tonight and let us know what you think the number is present at the bottom right there plus nine six four seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six we just received the message answering the question who is your caliph what did they say okay Fazzi moon again from Trinidad she says Imam Ali is my caliph and my Imam after my beloved Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him thank you very much Fazzi moon from Trinidad for joining us again in tonight's episode now yesterday at the end of the episode we gave a special shout out to those who joined us regularly in every episode so Fazzi moon's name was also on that shout out as well so you can guys if you want go check it out it's on YouTube and inshallah you can check your names out there as well now once again we do remind everyone to call in and join us tonight and answer the question who is your caliph who do you believe your caliph is is your caliph someone someone someone is your caliph present is your caliph in history is your caliph you know whoever whoever you think your caliph is give us a call and let us know why you've chosen him to be your caliph now many as I mentioned earlier there are a tremendous amount of narrations that really focus on how important the role of caliph is they break it down for us and they tell us exactly who that person is but for tonight I'm trying to give you guys some characteristics as to who your caliph should who your caliph should be now it's very important for tonight another narration which a lot of people and every single denomination takes into consideration is the narration of radir now if a person says you know you're the characteristic or the merits or the attributes of your leader should be honest he should be integrity and should be this and this that's good but if this individual already possesses these and he's not a caliph yet yet the leader of that nation who everybody accepted to be righteous who everybody accepted to be honest chooses the caliph after him then we're talking about Ghadir we're talking about the events where Prophet Muhammad on his last farewell pilgrimage after returning from Mecca he stopped at a place called Ghadir Khum long story short he told everyone to stop pulpit was made he got on the pulpit addressed everyone saying that this is my last day leader my last days with you guys and I'm you know I'm leaving this world so I leave behind two worthy things the Quran and the Ahlul Bayt we know what the Quran is and we know who the Ahlul Bayt are now he also does something else which is interesting he picks up the hand of Ali ibn Talib and says whoever I was their leader or whoever I was their their their wali their protector their helper their leader then Ali is in the same position as I am so technically Prophet Muhammad didn't mention who the caliph is now if you're thinking someone else is your caliph do let us know and let us know why we just received another text message from Esmat from India caliph a caliphate is a state under the little the title wow wow I'm sorry a caliphate is a state under the title of a caliph a person considered a religious successor to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and a lesser of the entire Muslim community so Imam Ali and Ali thank you very much Esmat I believe your name is already in the ball it isn't the ball so inshallah we'll give everyone the chance to participate and your name was also given in a shout out yesterday so you go check that out now we are receiving some Facebook comments so we'll get to read them very short inshallah but let's go and check what the expert has for us tonight because tonight's a very special episode and tonight we're trying to commemorate the mark of Imam Ali which is very important and to look at who is your caliph now let's go check out Sayyid Hussain Qazween and what he has to say about tonight's topic Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Alhamdulillah Rabbi Al-Alamin wa sallAllahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alia al-Tayyabina al-Tahireen so so who's your caliph is it someone who doing the days of Jahlia worshipped idols and perhaps worshipped an idol made out of dates and when he became hungry he would eat those dates is it someone who would drink alcohol and wine during the days of Jahlia and was a normal person during the days of Jahlia among the pagan ignorant Arab at the time was it someone who is immaculate someone who's sincere someone who's sinless someone who was born in the house of Allah and died in the house of Allah and spent his entire life serving Allah and serving the creation of Allah so who's your caliph the first or the second would anyone with their right mind being logical and not being emotional would abandon someone like Ali Ibn Abi Talib who lived a humble life a simple life never eating to the point that he would be full never sleeping an entire night never wasting an entire day never spending a day without the remembrance of Allah never coming across a creation of Allah that he ever oppressed Amir Mu'mineen alaihi s-salam he saw himself as an equal to all of Allah's creations the rich the poor the young the old Ali Ibn Abi Talib did not see himself as having a higher position than anywhere else than anyone else who's a humble human being that walked humbly that walked calmly on the piece of this planet yet did people know his value that the people realized that Ali Ibn Abi Talib is a special human being left by Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa ala no one knew the night the Rasulullah departed this life is so special that some believe Allah brought down one Quran and he took away another Quran some say that Amir Mu'mineen the night that he passed away the eve of the 21st it could be Laylat al-Qadr and Laylat al-Qadr is a night in which the Quran is revealed and it could be a night in which the Quran was taken away the verbal Quran the vocal Quran the living Quran was taken away the written Quran was brought down Allah took one Quran and he gave another Quran because people are in need of a Quran whether it's vocal or it's written whether it's the living Quran or the written Quran Amir Mu'mineen in his practices in his behavior in his relationships he resembled the Akhlaq of the Quran if you'd like to know the Akhlaq of Amir Mu'mineen and so to the Akhlaq of Rasulullah all you have to do is look at the Akhlaq of Rasulullah and you will know who is your Caliph Alhamdulillahi Rabbi Al-Alamin sallallahu ala Muhammadin wa ala Tahirin Thank you very much Sayyid al-Hassan al-Qazbini for joining us and very very important points he mentioned in his part right there where you know he actually made very crucial points you know he said who is your Caliph the one who worshipped idols before Islam and ate or you know the idols that he worshipped were made out of dates and when he was hungry he ate those dates or he was an alcoholic or drank alcohol before Islam after Islam he repented or the person who stayed on the line of Islam and was willing to sacrifice his life for Islam from day one when no one was trying to support the Prophet only Imam Ali stood up but he was like what 11 12 years old stood up and mentioned how he was willing to take the responsibility of a Caliph you know one interesting thing that not a lot of people understand Prophet Muhammad gave everyone the chance for them to actually coming forward and saying I want to be Caliph first in the Nabaat al-Nabawi al-Ba'atha he was sitting in the house of Abu Talib Shah of Abu Talib and he said who is willing to be my successor Abu Talib was there Fulanan Fulanan Fulanan Fulanan was there all of Bani Hashim all of the Muslims at that time were there Prophet Muhammad asked he said who wants to be my successor Imam Ali put his hand up he stood up he's like I'll be your successor Prophet Muhammad said sit down then he asked again who wants to be my successor Imam Ali got up again Prophet Muhammad said sit down and then the third time he took the hand of Imam Ali and he said this is mentioned in both Bukhari and Sunni sources and Shia sources took the hand of Ali and said this is my successor Abu Lahab making fun of Abu Talib he's like have fun taking orders from your son who is going to be your leader so that until you know it's it goes up to that degree where people were downing the Prophet but he gave everyone the chance to be the Caliph yet no one stood except for Ali the Talib so who's the Caliph we'll get to talk about later but let's read some of the Facebook comments that we got Aiman Zahra once again joining us in tonight's episode again my Imam is Imam Ali and he is the true successor and flag bearer of Holy Prophet Ali is Haqq and Haqq is Ali thank you very much Aiman Zahra for joining us tonight Mariam Rana she says I read this quote once and I really want to share it okay someone said who are your four Caliphs so maybe someone asked her and I replied Ali Ali Ali Ali okay so and she continues as Moses prayed to Allah that that may Karun my wazir he could have given him that position himself but he asked Allah to make him his wazir his Caliph his successor this prayer indicates that prophets religious personalities could not give someone succession but by themselves it is a divine order a divine power Allah made Adam the first Caliph but did not give him a throne nor a crown the message is long but thank you very much Mariam Rana for joining us tonight once again we just received a text message from a razi again from Norway she says my caliph is the one who whose hand was raised by the beloved Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam at Ghadir Khom by making Imam Ali his successor he completed his message thank you very much Razi from Norway I don't know why I'm tempted to write everyone's name that participates again and put it in the bow but you know it's I have to be honest with myself with the show as well so we can't do that but thank you very much for those who joined us again but going back to tonight's topic and how and how people should choose who their caliph is again we do remind everyone that we got few minutes left into the show if you think your caliph is someone else and your talib do let us know who and do let us know why you've chosen him so if we were to look at some of the characteristics and why Ali ibn Abi Talib was chosen to be a caliph well if we go to some of his characteristics who was raised who or who raised imam Ali was a Rasulullah peace and blessings be upon him who married the holiest woman imam Ali married Al-Zahra had the holiest children Hassan and Hussein mentioned in the Quran and in the hadith stuck while struck while performing the holiest act during the holiest nights during the holiest position in the holiest month on the holiest night now it should be clear who your caliph should be but we just received a call from Hussain from Iraq salamu alaykum Hussain welcome to Ajta i gel and see you in tonight's question who is your caliph hello hello okay some technical difficulties maybe you can hear me okay thank you very much Hussain for trying to contact us but when i mentioned these if you guys didn't hear me raised by prophet Muhammad married the holiest woman Al-Zahra had the holiest children i think Hussain's back on the line Hussain's back on the line okay salamu alaykum Hussain welcome to Ajta i gel and see you once again and your question for tonight who is your caliph i think but Imam Ali is the most loved because prophet Muhammad appointed him on gadi al-kum and also he is too unfair and wrong okay so Imam Ali is your caliph again he's the most worthy to be the caliph thank you very much Hussain for joining us tonight so basically there you have it everyone that called in everyone that participated said that Imam Ali is their caliph and right they chose but that's it for tonight we mentioned a lot of points for you guys to understand who your caliph should be and why he should be your caliph that's it for tonight and Muhammad Ali coming to you from hashtag gel and see you join us in the upcoming episodes 2am karbala time 12am london time 7 p.m. washington dc time that's it for tonight wa salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh