 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب الشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمر وحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصل الله على السيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محمد على البيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لا سيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه الفداق أما بعد رسبكتد سكولرز ألدز بردزا سيستز السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله as we commemorate the tragic tragic incident of the desecration of the shrines of our beloved imams that are located in the sacred lands of the بقية tonight we want to send our heartfelt condolences first and foremost to our Imam Imam صاحب الأصل والسمان as such a tragic tragic event إن شاء الله tonight we want to look into particular aspects relating إن شاء الله to the desecration of these holy shrines what may have led people to do so and why is it important to look into and defend the aspects which are upholding and elevating the shrines of the أهل البيت and the pious people إن شاء الله tonight we want to look at this topic and try to give this topic its essence in five particular stages first and foremost we want to look at the importance of such events secondly we want to take the Islamic perspective on two particular aspects number one is the time, the importance of time and إن شاء الله the importance of a place so that's three four we want to look at the توحيد of الله سبحانه وتعالى and how is it we can relate توحيد with elevating and upholding such shrines such places of worship and on the reverse angle how is it that it's kufr to go against such شعر now that's number five and finally إن شاء الله number five we want to look at a particular verse in the Holy Quran in which الله سبحانه وتعالى says in houses that Allah has instructed that they be elevated and his name remembered and that's from chapter 24 of the Holy Quran sign or ayah number 36 في بيوت إن أذن الله إن ترفع ويذكر فيه اسمه in houses Allah سبحانه وتعالى روط and prescribe that they are elevated and in it his name is remembered إن شاء الله we want to look at these particular aspects إن شاء الله please help me in starting tonight's topic and sending the reward of the salawat to our Imam صاحب العصر والزمان with three of your loudest salawat على محمد وآلي محمد الله مصلي على as we see within every single religion that may come forth from the time of Adam عليه أضل صلاة والسلام up until the final messenger up until nowadays there is an importance and a significance that we can see that every single religion that has come has in either the time frame or the places of worship as an example when we look at Judaism or if we look at Christianity there is a particular aspect and a significance towards their structures such as the churches such as the synagogues as in their certain ways in which you may enter certain days in which you may enter these premises certain ways you should conduct yourself in particular premises because why because this is a place of worship this is a place where Allah is remembered this is a place where it is sacred and is a sanctuary from the outside world now that's first and foremost we know that there is a significance and we know that everyone strives for that perfection that level of perfection and that's why we pride ourselves in being the followers and the people that hold on to the rope of Allah better than anyone else because as the final messenger came to complete the religion of Allah because we know the religion of Allah isn't any particular religion all the religions come down to one particular aspect which is الإسلام submission to Allah سبحانه وتعالى now with that all done and finalized we want to look at all these aspects we know that each and every one of them has a significance in time frames and particular aspects of structures and their locations now let's look at Islam look at what إسلام says in two aspects before we go on to look at first and foremost is a time frame in the Quran there's a significance given to time as we can see in the Quran it's mentioned that it's number one that means it's a time frame ليل means night particular aspect why is it when Allah puts a significance He puts a significance on the date in which your دع is accepted He puts a significance this night this holy night that has just passed in the holy month of Ramadan is worth that of a thousand months one night worth a thousand months is yes significant or isn't it significant it's significant therefore that's one another aspect even in Salat we may overlook it why is it that Allah puts an emphasis on particular time frames صبوح there's a particular time frame it becomes مستحب and then becomes قضاء doesn't it after a particular time frame time frames Allah says in a daily perspective not only in significant aspects دع توسول is a particular date on Tuesdays when you look at دع a particular night on Thursday دع you can read it every single day not a problem but the reward is there when in a particular time frame صلاة الليل can you pray it in the morning why everything has its secrets everything has its rewards الله سبحانه وتعالى put it for us and it's not it's not like we can't explain it there's explanations for it if you want to look into depth of why Allah سبحانه وتعالى has put and installed such attribute and such circles that we have to learn these particular aspects so first and foremost we find that there is a significance in time how can we apply it to the place مام حسين عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام because we know our imams their knowledge is divine is from Allah سبحانه وتعالى now when imam حسين عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام on the ninth of محرم the ninth of محرم we know he was martyred on the tenth isn't it on the ninth of محرم the enemy tries to attack imam حسين imam حسين sends أبا فطل عباس and عليه أكبر towards the opposition army why he says give us سواد هذه الليلة why because imam حسين knew there's a significance on dying on the tenth of محرم not dying on the ninth even we move on to the to the place imam حسين knew people came towards imam حسين عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام and they said what they said after you want to move from Mecca go towards Yemen that was the first suggestion for imam حسين go towards Yemen don't go towards Kufa he says why he says in an instant that's imam علي إبنه علي إبنه بطالب عليه أفضل صلاة والسلام was a judge there once upon a time so he has followers in Yemen he says no I'm not going to Yemen he says how about you go towards Egypt مصر why don't you go towards Egypt as in معالك الأشتر was supposed to go and govern there محمد أبا بكر used to go and govern there he has followers of علي إبنه بطالب he says I'm not going towards Egypt other places were given to imam حسين he says no I have a mission I know where I have to go there's a significance of the place he gets towards كربلا when he's stopped he asks one of his companions what does he say he says what is this land to show you there's a significance of the place and we want to relate it towards أعمة البقية and the significance of their place he says what's this land called he says he says is there another name for this land he says is there another name الغاضريات is there another name he says yes oh imam it's called he says this is the land this is the land that's promised this is the land that's important give us a significance إمام حسين عليه أفضل الصلاة والسلام that's land till tonight till this very instance to this very second if you have or if you pray on the طراب from that particular land significance of that land if you pray on it this particular aspect of when you pray this particular levels that you have to reach in order for your prayer to be accepted if you prostrate on that particular طرب of إمام حسين you have your knee and your salad's accepted a blind man comes towards إمام حسين's shrine to show you the significance of this particular haven on earth he comes towards it and he takes a bit of the sand and he smells it he says this is where إمام حسين's buried the person looks at him he says how do you know you're blind how do you know this is where إمام حسين's buried he says I've been working with fragrance my whole life he says I know after 20 years of working with fragrances this fragrance is not from this earth this fragrance is from the heavens صلى الله عليه وسلم therefore we find just in the instance just in the ideology and the story of إمام حسين عليه أفضل صلاة وسلام that there is a significance in particular places there is number one the significance in time I'm trying to cut it's really short inshallah within the timeframe that I have tonight but it's a very very elaborate topic if we want to go into depth but I'm trying to go over particular aspects in it to join it up and wanting to relate it towards إمام حسين and the importance of upholding such structures so there is a significance in time number one number two there is a significance in a place now someone may come forth and say well and we have been attacked saying well because you uphold such places because you uphold such shrines you are كفار I've been told tonight isn't it why it was desecrated because they say why because you go towards Allah through them you go and post straight to Allah through them you go and hold on to them and ask for Allah therefore you are doing كفر and therefore we will desecrate it I've been told tonight people still believe that ideology now I want to take this and I want to analyze it and I want to defend it and I want to look into the aspect of توهيد and I need everyone's وضع and it's very finest tonight look at this aspect الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us praying fasting reading Quran Haj عمر المعروف نهي عن المنكر إلى آخر yes we have all these aspects that Allah سبحانه وتعالى says you have to do now I want to ask you when you pray is the prayer الله سبحانه وتعالى or is the prayer a means towards Allah وسيلة إلى الله is that a question is praying الله or is praying a means to Allah when you pray you want to gain closeness towards Allah when you recite Quran you want to gain closeness towards Allah because he said you have to do this Allah says you have to pray therefore we pray Allah says you read Quran therefore we read Quran Allah says therefore we fast a month of Ramadan now the question here is what if all these are means towards Allah واصطة to Allah سبحانه وتعالى where is it that we can say when Allah in the Quran says hold on to my rope what's the rope of Allah I ask you is it the Salah is it the Siam is it the worship or when you look at the حادث Allah in the Quran says hold on to my rope that's rope that Allah says hold on to is محمد وآل محمد now if in one hand all these are means towards Allah how can you say that the rope of Allah which is the most important which without this rope no other worship is accepted isn't that an important means towards Allah when Allah says hold on to them remember them learn from them follow in their footsteps because they follow my message the best some people come forth and say well it's شرق I want you to go tell those people if you want to hold on to someone to go towards Allah I want to ask those people if they don't believe in such a thing as means towards Allah and there's a massive problem with this these people go and ask them when you're sick don't go towards the doctor and they say why tell them if you believe that Allah SWT is the cure don't go towards the doctor just pray to Allah and he will cure you don't go towards the doctor why is he going towards the doctor if you believe that Allah SWT hasn't given you a means that you should only go towards Allah by seeking Allah by making dua'at to Allah Allah has given us a brain and He has given us His means on earth if you want to get a cure for your disease Allah has given you a doctor to go towards to get cured who nowadays that's sitting here just says well I'm sick I'm not going towards the doctors his critical sickness he doesn't go towards the doctors everyone will go towards the doctors why because Allah SWT has made it that way that there are people that have this particular expertise these people that have this particular expertise the people of the house have all the expertise that's why we hold on to them that's why we remember them but the main aspect is not towards what towards the madhab it's in order to desecrate their shrines so we may not remember them so we may not go towards them and remember them instilling what the remembrance of Allah SWT it's all a chain it's all a chain it's a domino effect and they think if you destroy one you won't get towards Allah SWT they'll think if you desecrate their shrines their names will not be remembered but 1400 years ago that's what they thought and in 1221 when they first desecrated the baqiah after the AD they thought that was the case and again in 1925 when they desecrated it once again and they think what they will remove the remembrance of Allah's messages on earth of Allah SWT mirror images of his attribute personification of his message on earth they think they will desecrate it with them but how many people do we know from the start of time from Imam Hussein when they've tried to attack us and they've tried to kill us and bomb us and not allow us to go towards the iziara unless they cut off a limb back then did it stop look at this nowadays in the Guinness world records the biggest gathering in such a small space not one, two, three years running that's the message and the power of Allah SWT is above their hands the hand of God is above theirs they plan and Allah is the greatest of planners that's the aspect of Tawheed now we have people that think that they don't need Ahl al-Bayt when we talked about in Ramadhan a few weeks ago when we looked at the perfection of the acts of the Prophet of Islam what did we say we say even in his movements this perfection how he says when he talks about he says doesn't he and he points with two of his fingers that are not the same size one has extra one's missing something they're not the same size therefore we know that the Prophet when he says me and the person that sponsors and often are like these two in heaven there's obviously ranks the Prophet's not in the same position as that person because of not the same size of those fingers or the positions of those fingers but when the Prophet عليه وسلم وما ينطق عن الهوة he does not talk of his own accord he takes the two exact same fingers in the same positions in his hands and he says hold on to two and if you hold on to these two you will never go astray and he points with these two fingers the exact same and installing what that the two things that he's about to mention are mirror reflections of each other one is not greater than the other nor is one less than the other they're in equivalence and he says كتاب الله وعطرتي أهلبيتي صلى الله عليه وسلم he says the same too because if you don't hold on to them and their teachings and following their footsteps you'll have people like nowadays less than 10 years ago he passed away and he says every single person that doesn't believe that the earth is flat is a kafar we have nowadays till now people that say that if you don't believe that the earth's flat you're a kafar that's what happens when you don't believe in these two when you don't hold them side by side that's what happens when the Quran states about the earth and it uses the word the ha-ha what does it mean two movements number one if it's of all and it rotates within itself and it rotates in a movement or in an orbit one word one word of the Holy Quran the ha-ha one word it explains the entire circulation of the earth around the sun one word and that person thinks that he can do without the knowledge of Ahlulbayt and says the earth's flat that's the perfection of Ahlulbayt the perfection of their word the perfection of the word of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but less do they know that the people that can translate the Quran and the depth of the Quran the best and the only people that can are Muhammad and Ahlul Muhammad only people and that's why the people had knowledge of this that's why they desecrated their shrines that's why they tried to remove that which is Allah سبحانه وتعالى place of worship on earth when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says to Iblis because people nowadays they say no do not worship in such places do not worship Allah do not remember God in such places where people are buried do not remember it people nowadays they say that's why they desecrated their shrines I want to ask a question Allah سبحانه وتعالى there's a certain aspect between Tawheed and Kufr very fine line he says to the angels now think it with me he says to the angels in the Quran bow down to who who did he say bow down to Adam now nowadays if someone bows down in submission to someone is that Kufr or isn't it it's Kufr if you bow down to someone except for Allah سبحانه وتعالى but when Allah says bow down to that person it becomes Tawheed or not it becomes Tawheed Allah says to the angels bow to Adam and then everyone bows except Iblis Iblis what does he say I want to bow down to him I want to bow down to you oh Allah nowadays we have people don't worship Allah in these circles don't worship Allah where someone is buried worship Allah straight away don't hold on to the means towards Allah Iblis said that after 6000 years of worship Iblis said that was the first to say that it was taken down he says I want to worship Allah straight away the khawar says don't hold on to Ali Iblis just hold on to Allah you'll be fine Allah is telling you hold on like that person that was about to drown he fell off a boat as the analogy goes one ship comes past he says no Allah will save me another ship comes past says Allah will save me third ship come past Allah will save me they go out drowns he comes on the day of judgment says Allah I told you to save me I believed in you Allah says I've sent you three boats what else do you want that's what we have nowadays rather than systems Allah's given us so many signs so many signs to hold on to people don't understand the aspect which is the wasila to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as in you have to know who Allah is you have to know how Allah operates you have to know the attribute of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and when you know that you'll begin to understand when Allah says hold on to my rope the importance of that rope being the Ahlul Bayt being the people of the book وسألوا أهلا ذكر who is the ذكر ذكر is in the Quran is mentioned as who as the prophet of Islam the family of the prophet is Ahlul ذكر then who do we have to go and ask who do we have to go and learn from when Abadar is asked he's asking the prophet he says oh prophet of Islam he says how can we attain a greater rank amongst the companions I want to elevate ourselves don't we all want to elevate ourselves I want to become higher in the eyes of Allah the prophet says go outside and you'll see how you can elevate yourself he goes he says walking he sees سلمان الفارسي or سلمان المحمد walking after him he looks at سلمان السلام عليكم what's happening he says you're walking awkwardly علي ابنى ابطالب just passed he says yes he says what are you doing walking like that he says look on the floor look at the footprints of علي ابنى ابطالب he says I want to live my life in such a manner that wherever علي ابنى ابطالب puts his right foot I put my right foot wherever he puts his left foot I put my left foot that is the aspect in which the prophet says to Abadar to elevate yourself you have to do as سلمان that's what we have to take into our lives إن شاء الله I end by stating the verse in question verse from chapter 24 آي نمبه 36 in which Allah says in houses that Allah has instructed to be elevated and his name be remembered in there we look at particular narrations not from our books not from our books there's so many in our books let's look at the other schools of thought what did they say about this particular verse and who it is in reference to who is it in reference to one of the people is known as in his book he narrates in chapter 7 page 107 and it's being recorded you can go and look it up and look at that particular aspect in which this verse is looked into and translated that's one person of the many that you can look into his book and he says when the prophet is instructing this verse and he says the verse one man stands up that man says what he says who are these houses oh prophet of Islam بيوتن أذن الله and to be elevated to be erected so his name may be remembered he says who are these houses for the prophet replies by saying what he says these are the houses of the people of الله سبحانه وتعالى in which he says the prophets and the Awliya now look at this reference not from our books he says then Abu Bakr stands up the first Khalifa he looks at the prophet and then he points at a house which was the house of Ali and Fatima and he says oh prophet of Allah is that house one of them first aspect why didn't he say is my house one of them why didn't he say any other companions house one of them why did he point at the house of Ali and Fatima and say is that house one of them that's one aspect in which it's food for thought I'll let you think about it that one now the aspect is what the reply of the prophet he says yes not only is it one of those houses he says بالأفضلها صلى الله عليه وسلم شاء الله my time has come to a close but I want to in sha Allah just wrap up everything for tonight and I want to leave you for the wise words in sha Allah of the sheikh the aspect that we want to learn from tonight the main aspect is why was this Baqiyah and why were the shrines of the Baqiyah desecrated and we know now that they believe that this was cover they believe that in order to desecrate these shrines they think that they will lose the remembrance of the people buried in there little do they know that one of the people that were buried is the person that was the teacher of all four of their schools of thought little do they know that's one of the people that are buried in there is the person that the prophet of Islam says he is one of the youth of the guardians of the youth of paradise and and and we don't have time to go and mention each and everyone but each and everyone has a prominent position and a pulpit in which we we can learn if we only hold on to one of them it's suffice if we follow in there for steps only one of them and that's what they think that's why it's our job and it's our duty from tonight to remember them it's our duty to learn more about these people's lives because they have a مضلومية because they have a مضلومية why because they are not visited I undone one note شيخ جعفر كاشف الغطاء one of the greats and I end on this particular story and I apologize for taking too much of your time once he says to himself that's why is it that فاطمة الزهراء have three particular aspects in which he has buried three particular times that we remember فاطمة الزهراء he says I want to study to relate one particular time one particular date in which we can commemorate فاطمة الزهراء as martyrdom so he goes and he research and research and researches until he finds a particular time in which فاطمة الزهراء was martyrdom the date of فاطمة الزهراء is martyrdom and he's about to write the fatwa he's about to write this particular aspect his wife comes to him look at the beauty of this narration his wife comes to him he says she says to him oh my husband what's with you and فاطمة الزهراء he's looking at his wife he's seeing how does she know what I'm doing how does she know what I'm looking into he says he says why what did فاطمة الزهراء tell you she replies by saying فاطمة الزهراء told me to tell you do you think that it's too much that I'm remembered on three different occasions she says because I don't even have a grave where someone can come and visit me look at that narration brothers and sisters after that شيخ جحفر left that particular aspect in honor of فاطمة الزهراء he says yes let us remember فاطمة الزهراء in that aspect let us remember these imams that have brought us everything that we have today we want to remember them that's the aspect we have to take from tonight insha'Allah when we pray to Allah on that aspect and that note that Allah سبحانه وتعالى writes that the imam صاحب العصر والزمان can come so we can elevate these shrines again rebuild such shrines so we may go and visit our beloved imams that we crave to go and smell the dust that is laying there we pray to Allah with a fatih but before the three of your loudest salawat علام محمد وقال محمد