 On that day, every soul is paid for what it earned, and none shall be unjustly treated. No, God is swift to reckon. Abu Qasim Muhammad And his family are the good and the pure And his companions are the righteous All praise is due to Allah who made us from the righteous By the will of the master and by the will of Ali ibn Abi Talib All praise is due to Allah who guided us to this And we were not guided if Allah did not guide us But after Allah in His Noble Book In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful I say, I ask you a reward except for the matter in the near First of all, I am the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, peace be upon him Peace be upon him The second in honor of Amir al-Mu'mineen, Ali ibn Abi Talib The third with your loudest voices In honor of the Imam of Awatani, Imam Sahib al-Asri al-Zaman Allahumma sallallahu alayhi Respected scholars, brothers and sisters, peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah Imam Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi, peace be upon him He was born in the year 214 after Hijrah And died in the year 254 after Hijrah at the age of 40 A man from whose life many a lesson may be learnt And many a principle may be derived And indeed a man who is recognized for his extraordinary knowledge Bravery, passion and sacrifice You find that when you examine Imam Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi There are many lessons to learn about the political environment Which face the Imams of Ahl al-Bayt Proceeding the advent of the Mehdi from Al-Muhammad Salawat Allah, peace be upon him When we dissect this biography we begin to realize The meaning of the words house arrest And why there was so much political pressure On the final of the Imams Of the 12th of the Imams of Ahl al-Bayt Unfortunately Imam Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi's life has not been studied in depth His life has a historical base But a contemporary significance In that it was only a few years ago That we witnessed the bombings of his shrine And the shrine of his son Imam al-Asker peace be upon him You would think that many people would have been affected By the bombings of those shrines That many would have gone on to study his life To study his biography When they saw those shrines in Samara bombed Unfortunately that bombing did not have an effect on people Except emotionally There were many who were emotionally affected by Samara But not intellectually If you were to ask many people When they heard that Samara was bombed Did it affect them emotionally? Yes Did it affect them to go and read a book on Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asker? Not really There are many until today who do not know much about Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asker Whereas what we do not realize is that the beginning Of the political pressure On the Imams Because of recognition of Imam al-Mahdi coming Began with Imam al-Hadi As in you have for example If you study the Zaydi text Al-Radh Al-Rafidah By Al-Qasim Ibn Ibrahim Al-Rassi Who was a Zaydi living in the time of the 10th Imam He was a Zaydi And you know Zaydi stop at Imam Zayn Al-Abideen Then they continue with the line of Zaid You would talk about the fact that Imam al-Hadi Was seen as the 10th of the Imam of the Rafidah In other words people knew that Rasul Allah had hadith That there will be 12 Khalifahs after me All of them are from Quraish This person was mentioning that Al-Hadi Was the 10th of the Imam of the Rafidah Which would indicate that the Abbasid Khulafa Knew that the Mahdi is now about to be born So when we study the life of Imam al-Hadi We are approaching that final part But now where there is going to be Major surveillance of the houses of the imams of Ahl al-Bayt Let's dissect this life and see what we can learn from it As I said Imam al-Hadi was born In the 214th year after Hijrah His mother was called Somana al-Maghribiyah Maghrib in today's language is what? Morocco In other words his mother again Was a lady from North Africa How many imams now do we have There are a number of imams now Whose mothers are all from North Africa You begin to notice that there isn't any movement Of going back to ladies from Medina Or a lady from Mecca It is all ladies now from North African descent And once again the reasoning what is it On the first level the reasoning is To remove any racism in Islam Never should a Muslim community Not allow their sons to get married To a lady who is from the followers of Ahl al-Bayt Just because of our race You look at our communities today It seems that that went and was swept away From our communities What the imams tried to build was swept away The imams were marrying women And that's why when even you read about Imam al-Hadi Or Imam al-Jawad it says that their skin Was a bit darker than the Arab skin Naturally if they're marrying women from North Africa Then their sons aren't going to have The more light Arab complexion It would have been a bit of a darker complexion That they had And notice therefore that this Sumana from Al-Maghrib The narration say was one of the Most pious women in Arabia That this lady was a devout woman A lady of the Quran A lady of the narrations of the Prophet Imam al-Jawad as we know Was married to Umm Al-Fadl The daughter of Al-Ma'mun Umm Al-Fadl did not give him any children He married Sumana Sumana gave him Imam al-Hadi Imam al-Hadi at the beginning of his life Was more difficult than even Imam al-Jawad Why? Imam al-Jawad was 8 years old When they tested him on his imama If Imam al-Hadi was born in the year 214 And Imam al-Jawad died in the year 220 So Imam al-Hadi was how old When he was announcing his imama 6 And that's why when we come to Imam Zaman What are we going to see? When we come to Imam Zaman We're going to notice that Imam Zaman is 5 Some people when they hear Imam Zaman is 5 They say how a 5 year old Well we had just told you about a 6 year old And before that an 8 year old You notice that now begins a trend Where you have imams at a very young age Imagine Imam al-Jawad passes away Imam al-Hadi is 6 Mu'tasim the caliph now makes an announcement What does Mu'tasim say? Mu'tasim calls his companion Omar ibn al-Faraj He says Omar you know al-Jawad was 8 When he became an imam do you remember? He said yes He said do you believe his knowledge was truly from God? Or do you think maybe he had a private tuition When he was young which affected his knowledge? You see sometimes Allah can show you all the light But you still don't believe True You can be shown all the light in the world But you still don't believe He said to him do you think that it came from God? That knowledge about the ehram The pilgrim who hunted What's the kafara? Is that from God? Omar ibn al-Faraj said it doesn't matter It might not be from God It might be from a private tutor He said very well Now that al-Jawad is dead His son al-Hadi is 6 Maybe if we get to al-Hadi at this age He will not have the knowledge al-Jawad had Subhanallah You see where the mind is 6, 8, these are all from the lines of Ahlul Bayt These are all people who inherit knowledge one from another So do you know what they did? They got a private tutor called Abaidullah al-Junaidi Abaidullah al-Junaidi was a master of law Master of Quran Master of Hadith Master of ethics Master of Arabic grammar He had mastered absolutely everything He came to al-Mu'tasim Al-Mu'tasim looked at him Al-Mu'tasim said to him listen You know that 6 year old there? He said which 6 year old? He said no one there He said al-Ali? Salam Muhammad? He said yes He said we want you to be his tutor from now So when Umar ibn al-Faraj then interrupted and said Do you know why we want him to be his tutor? He said why? He said we want you to get to his mind Before another person gets to his mind So he said what do you want me to install in his mind? Instill in him the hatred towards the religion of Islam Abaidullah al-Junaidi said but I'm of the scholars of Islam He said okay install in him the hatred of this idea Of family of the Prophet Let him believe in something else Abaidullah al-Junaidi said leave this to me I'm a man of age This is a 6 year old His father was 8 Maybe he had a private tutor 6 years old leave it to me Abaidullah al-Junaidi went in The next day someone saw him Abaidullah how's your servant doing from Bani Hashem? He said which servant? He said you know the kid the 6 year old How's he doing? He said don't call him a servant This is one of the scholars of al-Muhammad He said what do you mean? He said when I entered upon the house I said to the kid I said to him child Recite for me a surah from the Quran So the child looked at me and said You name the surah I'll continue reciting So as soon as I named the surah I picked the longest surah in the Quran This child began and began And continued and continued reciting And his voice was the equivalent of the voice Of Prophet Dawood alayhi salam His voice I have never heard a voice like this That when the Quran says Dawood's voice was amazing I guarantee you his voice was like Dawood And then he said but you know something more extraordinary Which tells me that these have got knowledge from God Not from a private shooter He said to him what is it? He said every verse of the Quran I ask him about He tells me when it was revealed Where it was revealed And about who it was revealed He said can you tell me how a 6 year old Can know all of this already? He said don't leave me with this child Because it's not me who's disciplining him He's disciplining me It's better that I walk away When al-Mu'tasim heard this Al-Mu'tasim thought Yes I know they have knowledge But surely there is someone who could question them Do you know who al-Mu'tasim called again? Sometimes you don't learn from your mistakes do you? He called Yahya bin Aqsa again Yahya bin Aqsa had already gone through the most embarrassing day of his life With Imam al-Jawad Now Yahya comes back again Al-Mu'tasim says to him Yahya I want you to ask this young man questions He said you mean the one who's the son of the one I asked for Ma'moon He said yes He said do we have to go through this again He said yes Yahya ask him He said but you know these people their knowledge is different These people aren't chosen by man There is someone else who choose them and that is Allah subhanu wa ta'ala He said to him do not talk like that to me Ask I did not see what al-Ma'moon saw For all I know it is not real You know sometimes people can tell you you don't listen So Yahya bin Aqsa said we ask Ali al-Hadi He said yes ask Ali al-Hadi He came to Imam Ali al-Hadi he said to him Ali I have some questions to ask you Ali al-Hadi said about what? He said I have questions to ask you about Prophet Adam And about Prophet Sulaiman And about Prophet Yusuf And about Imam Ali And about the Quran Ali al-Hadi how old is he? Still before he even reaches 12 or 13 years old Don't ever let anyone make you doubt your Imam Your Imam's knowledge is miles ahead of anyone who surrounded them Have pride when you say Ali al-Hadi If it's the willada of Imam al-Hadi Or the shahada of Imam al-Hadi Don't let anyone tell you this is a small shahada Don't let the mosques be empty These are the beacons of knowledge from Ahlul Bayt Come and honor their knowledge Yahya looks at him he says First question I want to ask is about Prophet Adam The tree that he had from What was it originally known as? He said it was originally known as the tree of envy He said yes you are right Muattasim are you happy? He said no ask him another question That was too easy He said to him Prophet Suleyman said who can bring me the queen of Sheba's throne And the queen of Sheba's throne was in one part of the world Prophet Suleyman said I wanted in front of me now So Prophet Suleyman one of the jinn said I can bring it And then Asif bin Barqiya said I'll bring it without the blinking of the eye And the throne came straight away He said Prophet Suleyman or Ali al-Hadi could not have done it himself Why does he need to ask? Ali al-Hadi looked at him and he said oh no he could do it himself But he wanted to make clear to the people who is the successor after he dies Muattasim said ask again He said to him in Sujood prostration Aren't we only meant to do Sujood to Allah? Ali al-Hadi said why? He said how comes Yaqub does Sujood to Yusuf In the Quran Imam Ali al-Hadi looked at him and he said In Sujood we have two types of prostrations in Islam We have a prostration for Allah and a prostration which is obedience to Allah He said to Mojimin He said when Allah asked the angels to prostrate to Adam Can we prostrate to Adam? Can we prostrate to a human? No But it wasn't the prostration of worship it was the prostration of obedience Likewise when Yusuf Yaqub did prostration to him It wasn't the prostration of worship It was the prostration of obedience He said to him thank you He said let me ask you another question Ali ibn Abi Talib when people fought him at Jamal He let them escape after the battle But those at Safin he never let them escape Why? He said those who are now this imagine I want you to imagine this that this is a young man And he's talking about something that happened 250 years before him For example or 200 years or whatever the date is 180 you find that he said to him Imam Ali let the people of Jamal escape Because those people once the war had finished Were not intent on instigating a further fight They surrendered and the narrations within the Quran say Bring peace between the people Whereas those that Safin wanted to continue fighting And however many times they were given a chance They would pick up a weapon again and come back and fight Those at Jamal by the time Jamal finished were still believers Whereas those in Safin had become infidels He said to him ok Ask him your question about Surah 31 verse 27 Mu'tasim looked at Yahya He said if he answers this question That will be enough for me I'll let the man go So he said to him in Surah 31 verse 27 It says if all the trees were pens And the seas And the seven seas were all ink They would not be able to exhaust the words of Allah Name me the seas and name me the words Mu'tasim looked and he said If he can answer this I will let him go Imam Al-Hadi only 7, 8 years old Looks at Mu'tasim And he looks at Yahya bin Akhtam The seven seas is the sea in Yemen And the sea of Tabariya And the sea of Qibrit And the sea of Bahrain And the sea of Barhut And the sea of Lisan And the sea of Saylan He said to him ok And what are the words of Allah He said the words of Allah are as-sal-muhammad That if you got all the trees and they were pens And that you got seven seas and they were ink All of them if they came together Would not be able to exhaust the virtues of Muhammad He looked at him He said you've answered my question now I will let you go Mu'tasim when he was Khalifa after this incident Sent to Imam Ali Al-Hadi He said very well you could teach in Madinah After Mu'tasim died Wathik became the Khalifa In that period Imam Ali Al-Hadi Allowed him to teach There wasn't much oppression for the Imam Where would he teach? He teach in the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah Imam Ali Al-Hadi would have lessons In the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah On a couple of areas The first of them He would have a lesson on the Sahifa Of Ali ibn Abi Talib Someone says what do you mean Sahifa of Ali ibn Abi Talib What's that? Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib would sit under Rasul Allah Rasul Allah would give lessons Imam Ali would write the lesson Imam Ali kept the lessons You know when you go to university You write lecture notes Imam Ali kept all Rasul Allah's lecture notes He then gave them to Imam Hasan To Imam Al-Hussein To Imam Zain Al-Abideen Until they reached Imam Al-Hadi Imam Al-Hadi would have the Sahifa Of Imam Ali He'd sit in the mosque of Rasul Allah And he would say Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib heard Rasul Allah say For example one of the Hadiths he had a lecture on was That faith Is in the heart And it is supported By your deans And they are unified By your faith as well In the heart But the heart is not enough Sometimes you get Muslims who say Sayid Ammar, our heart is good Isn't that enough? That my heart is good But I don't pray and I don't fast What will happen to me on the day of judgement? Allah will take your heart and you put it in Jannah And the rest you put in Jannah What's the point of just having a good heart? What's the point? Allah will say heart Come here, go to Jannah The idea is that the heart Is where faith is And it's supported with action There's no point in my heart I love Hussein, I love Hussein But my behavior is exactly the opposite of Hussein Those who believe And do good deeds Not just those who believe In the Muslim world today We have so many who believe But there's no good deeds Imam says in the Sahifa Of Imam Ali And this Sahifa is with Imam Right now The original words of Rasulallah Which were transmitted through Imam Ali When he would take lessons from Rasulallah Because you know, didn't Rasulallah say And Ali, is it great? You found the Imam would give lessons Number one on this issue Number two, then the Imam After Imam Zain Al-Aabideen No Imam Of the Imams of Al-Muhammad Has left us as many du'as As Imam Ali Al-Hadi, a.s People would say He's the second Zain Al-Aabideen Imam Ali Al-Hadi in my own research Maybe Imam Zain Al-Aabideen Who are of greater knowledge than I am Will find more In my own research I found 43 du'as Of Imam Ali Al-Hadi And Imam Zain Al-Aabideen 51 43 du'as Of Imam Ali Al-Hadi And do you know what most of Imam Ali Al-Hadi's Du'as focus on? The whispering of shaitanya Allah do not let it affect me Because many times You see in community or at home It's always because Of the whispers of shaitan, isn't it Imam Ali Al-Hadi Many times his du'as would focus on The whispering of shaitan He'd sit and his students would sit In front of him in the mosque in Medina And Imam Al-Hadi would say to them Listen to the following du'a There is even now Alhamdulillah Website called du'as.org On that website Go to Imam Al-Hadi's du'as The most beautiful du'as After Imam Zain Al-Aabideen Imam Ali Al-Hadi's du'as And arguably after that After teaching du'a He taught them a ziyarah Which after ziyarah Is arguably the most powerful ziyarah In the religion of Islam Ziyarah Al-Jami'ah Ziyarah Al-Jami'ah Is the ziyarah of Imam Ali Al-Hadi That ziyarah Many of the scholars say The meaning of the position of the imams Read ziyarah Al-Jami'ah Tonight Everybody try and go on the internet Or open up a du'a book Read ziyarah Al-Jami'ah And Imam Al-Hadi Look at the power of the words of Imam Al-Aadi And that ziyarah He talks about the role of the imam The meaning of the imams Of Imam Ziyarah Al-Jami'ah In other words In the time of Muhtasan Al-Aadi had a relatively peaceful time But then after they died He had to face One of the worst Khulafa in Islamic history Al-Mutawakil Al-Mutawakil 47 times Tried to destroy the grave of Imam Al-Hussein In Karbala How many times? 47 times Al-Mutawakil Tried to destroy the grave Of Imam Al-Hussein in Karbala 47 In other words, virtually every month In his time as Khalifa Al-Mutawakil Would try and cause the destruction Of the grave of Ababa Abdullah And I tell you were it not for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala That grave would not be there today Al-Mutawakil When he became Khalifa Al-Mutawakil was where The narrations mentioned that later on He would be in Samarra Imam Al-Hadi was where In Medina But this Ali Al-Hadi Muhtassim and Wathik gave him an easy ride If I give him an easy ride Then this person will End up taking the masses And then number 2 Al-Mutawakil knew that Mehdi Would be coming very soon And Al-Mutawakil New that Mehdi would be from the line of Fatima And that Ali Al-Hadi Is from the line of Fatima So Al-Mutawakil told His advisor, Yahya bin Harzama He said, Yahya I want you to go to Medina Please listen to this story I want you to go to Medina With 300 of your soldiers I tell you brothers and sisters No Khalifa Put an Imam on the house Arrest like Al-Mutawakil From this day onwards Imam Ali Al-Hadi was on the house Arrest Can you imagine from your youth From your youth From the house Arrest Al-Mutawakil what did he do Al-Mutawakil told Yahya Take 300 soldiers Go to Medina Yahya said why He said in Medina Ali Ibn Muhammad Al-Hadi lives there I do not want him to stay there Tell him we are in Samara He has to come and live in Samara Do you know why The Abbasids were living in Samara The Abbasids were worried about The Turks The Turks were now more powerful Than the Abbasids Abbasids Samara is where Samara is north of Iraq Isn't it Samara Is north of Iraq You're going towards Tikrit And that area You go north And that's why Samara Many say it's dangerous because you're going in the area Which is more dangerous than any other area They put their capital in Samara He said to him go to Ali Al-Hadi With 300 soldiers And I want you to get Ali Al-Hadi And you bring him to Samara And he has to leave Medina And come and live here Yahya Ibn Harthama says At the time I didn't really believe Ali Al-Hadi was An Imam who was worth following He said on our way to Medina I had a soldier Who was from the Khawarij You know the people who ate Imam Ali And I had a soldier From the Shia of Ali Al-Hadi Sometimes you may be a soldier But you're working for the government still He said on our way to Medina These two Had a debate The Khawarijite looked at the Shia And he said Ali ibn Abi Talib has some hadiths Which don't make any sense How do you follow this man So the Shia said Which hadith He said you have a hadith That Ali ibn Abi Talib says Every earth Every part of the earth Will be a grave For a human one day How can every part of the earth Be a grave for a human one day The Shia said If Ali ibn Abi Talib says This Ali ibn Abi Talib must be right Ali ibn Abi Talib will not say something out of his own So anyway they debate on this issue In the part of the journey to Medina He says we got to Medina We found where the house of Ali Al-Hadi is And we were ready to tell him Pack up, you've got to go and live in Samara We got to the house of Ali Al-Hadi As soon as we got to the house of Ali Al-Hadi What happened As soon as we got to the house We entered, we saw people who were knitting People who were stitching People who were making saddles People who were making large coats I looked at this man And I thought this is the man they called Their Imam This man doesn't have any common sense What so ever Why because it was the summer Iraq in the summer Is one of the hottest places on earth Isn't it He said Ali Al-Hadi is asking people To do what He is asking people to knit In the summer So anyway I told him Ali You have to leave He said Al-Mutawakil wants you in Samara He said why He said Al-Mutawakil says You have to be on the house arrest in Samara You are not allowed to practice your life Or your teachings freely in Medina Ali Al-Hadi looked at me And said you see our people who are knitting And stitching Do you mind they're going to finish tomorrow And we'll leave on the third day Yahya said I said Okay on the third day we'll leave Why people are knitting I don't know why people are stitching It's hot What do you need knitwear for He said we left on the third day We're taking the desert back towards Samara We reached the place Where the Kharegite Debated the Shia When we reached that place Ali Al-Hadi said keep this knitwear with you And also the armor Keep it next to you He said just keep it All of a sudden We saw from far away A blizzard coming Like we had never seen the like of He said when this blizzard came Ali Al-Hadi said to us Quickly wear what I gave you Some of us wore Some of us didn't The blizzard came A few minutes later when the blizzard left us We got up He said I had 300 soldiers in the beginning of the journey 80 of them had now died Ali Al-Hadi looked at me And he said Ali ibn Abi Taalib was right when he said Every part of the earth Will one day be a grave for a human being He said I looked at him And I thought how did he know What we discussed on the way here Where did he have the knowledge That we were here and we discussed this issue He said that's when I believed In the Imamate of Imam Al-Hadi A.S We got to Samara Brothers and sisters When you return home tonight I beg of you one thing Please all listen to me Go down in Sujood And thank Allah that you can enter your house Without being harassed When Imam Ali Al-Hadi reached Samara As soon as he reached Samara He went inside his house And he sat down Now it was the beginning of his house arrest And Imam Ali Al-Hadi Entered his house Mutawakil did not even come out to meet him They put him in a small house In Samara And I tell you They may have put him in a small house In Samara but the hearts of his followers Is where his house is now You find that They put him in that house Small house in Samara Do you know what the narration says Mutawakil said let the man stay in that house He will not leave his house Let us watch his every move A couple of days later Mutawakil fell ill When he fell ill He had eaten something which had been poisoned Someone came to the house Of Imam Al-Hadi Who was it? Mutawakil's mother Mutawakil's mother Came to the house of Imam Al-Hadi She said to him I am sorry about the way My son has treated you Do you mind Coming to his house He is on his deathbed I beg of you look after him Say something tell us what we should do An Imam of Al-Muhammad Could have easily been someone Who turned around and said no Your son is a man who has hurt me But Al-Muhammad The hearts of generosity He said to our mother Mutawakil let him Eat a part of lamb And let him also have Some rose water And insha Allah God willing He will be cured She went back She sat next to her son Her son who tried to destroy the grave Of Imam Al-Hadi's grandfather 47 times She gave him a part of the lamb He ate it She gave him some rose water to drink Mutawakil had made another A vow That if I survive this A lot A great amount of wealth He managed to survive His mother secretly came back to Imam Al-Hadi She said to him I thank you very much My son has survived Here is 10,000 dinar in a bag Someone was watching her come to Imam Al-Hadi's house That person was called Abu Al-Hasan Al-Bat'ai This Abu Al-Hasan when he saw her come He went to Al-Mutawakil He said Mutawakil Ali Al-Hadi I think Is trying to raise people against you Mutawakil said how? He said I saw your mother go to his house And she gave him a bag Al-Mutawakil said very well This Ali Al-Hadi Is of no good to us Mutawakil doesn't know if it wasn't for his advice He wouldn't be alive He said this Ali Al-Hadi Is Sa'eed in the middle of his house I don't care if his family is awake Or he is asleep Wake him up And find out what he has in his house Sa'eed narrates I went to the house of Imam Al-Hadi In the middle of the night Brothers and sisters tonight when you sleep When you sleep 10 hours in the night 8 hours, 6 hours You know nobody is going to walk in and wake you up Sa'eed narrates I went into the house All of a sudden I heard a voice Sa'eed wait I'll give you a candle It was Imam Al-Hadi telling him Imam Al-Hadi got up He said Sa'eed what is it He said Ali we need to search your house Because we think you are getting money To fight us What is this 10,000 He said it's the bag from Mutawakil's mother Mutawakil was dying I told her what Mutawakil should eat What is this He said it's a mattress What's that it's a jug What's that a prayer mat He said you have nothing else in this house He said I swear I have nothing else This is all we live on He said very well I still do not accept this Come with me outside the house We are going to walk to the king's palace They have to walk in the middle of the night Imam Al-Hadi reached there Mutawakil looked at him He said what's happening Imam Al-Hadi said why don't you ask your friend Sa'eed what does he have in his house He said he has a bag 10,000 dinar He said what's that 10,000 He said your mother gave it to me Why did my mother give you 10,000 dinar Because when you were dying And you were being poisoned It was me who told your mother what you should eat And that's why you are alive now He said forgive me Let the man walk back in the house Do you know they would do this to him every week Every week in the middle of the night They enter his house and pull him out Why to try and hurt him Every week in the middle of the night They open the door with Imam Al-Hadi Get out what have I done wrong What am I doing you tell me Am I doing something wrong No the king wants to see you The king looked at him One time they bought Imam Al-Hadi And Mutawakil was drinking alcohol And he told Imam Al-Hadi why don't you have a drink of this as well Imam Al-Hadi looked at him He said to him I don't want any drink of this Mutawakil looked at him and he said Ali ibn Muhammad Recite some poetry for me Imam said we are not people of poetry He said recite is it all I remember Is poetry from my father Amir al-Mu'mineen And he recited those lines where he told him That there will be a day where are the crowns Where are the decorations Where is the glory At the end all you will be Will be a human being with worms Eating your body under the ground But they would pull him out Today in our life One thing goes wrong we say ya Allah why us Ali ibn Al-Hadi Every week they take him out of his house And that's why when Mutawakil When he made the vow if I become Well then I will give Maal kathir When Mutawakil became well Mutawakil said I wonder I said Maal kathir Kathir means a lot How much should I give So they went to one of the gods Of Mutawakil How much he said one thousand dinar They went to one of the ulama How much is kathir One hundred thousand dinar He said no no no none of you are right Get me Ali ibn Al-Hadi I want to see what he thinks They pull Imam Al-Hadi out of his house In the middle of the night They wouldn't do it in the morning No we won't let him sleep in the night I tell you these imams What did they go through in their life What did they go through Imagine every week a man comes to wake you up Get out Mutawakil sitting He said I made a vow Imam Al-Hadi said what was it He said I made a vow if I became well I would give Maal kathir Maal is money kathir is a lot But now I don't know what a lot is What is kathir Imam said 83 dinar you should give He said sorry He said 83 dinar He said 83 He said yes only 83 He said why He said because of the verse in the Quran He said which verse He said Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Walakannasalakum Allah fi mawatan kathirah Allah has given you victory In mawatan kathirah He said you want the word kathir in the Quran This is the verse where the word kathir is used He said well what does the verse mean He said Allah gave the prophet 83 victories in his life Therefore you should pay 83 dinar on this issue Mu'tawakkin looked at him He then said only you people have knowledge like this He let him go He take him back on another occasion In the middle of the night Imam Al-Hadi is asleep The children are asleep They enter the house Everyone wake up wake up These grand children of Fatima to Zahra Will not get a week of sleep Which was proper Wake up And Imam Ali Al-Hadi would get up What is it? Come to the castle of Mu'tawakkil I'm sleeping Can't I have just some sleep No Get up He goes to Mu'tawakkil's castle There is a Christian man standing there Ali ibn Muhammad This Christian man committed zina With a Muslim woman adultery I have asked that He said Of course we know He said This Christian man committed zina With a Muslim And we're about to punish him But the Christian man has now read the Shahada So he said That the Christian man Should be forgiven Because when you read your Shahada All before is forgiven And this alim says No, he should be whipped What's your opinion? Imam Al-Hadi could easily turn around And say you ask me in the middle of the night For an opinion But this is how they treat Imam Al-Hadi Imam Al-Hadi said No, the person has to be whipped until he dies He said In the Quran When they see our punishment That is when they say we believe in Allah He said That when you're about to give him the punishment That he now says I'll become a Muslim No There is a verse which says When they see our punishment That's when they say we believe And the punishment was matted out Week after week Imam Al-Hadi would go through this And that's why his she'a found it difficult to reach him At the beginning His she'a was just about Meeting outside his house Yunus Naqash Others of his followers would say We just about to meet him Yunus Naqash narrates I came to Imam Al-Hadi secretly one day I said Imam Imam said Yunus, what is it? He said one of the Abbasids has told me To engrave something on a gem On a gemstone I was meant to engrave something Imam Awala was engraving The gemstone fell and broke into half Imam said to him Yunus do not worry Tomorrow you'll receive good news Imam, what do you mean? This Abbasid Khalifa I have broken the gem of his daughter You think he's going to forget me? Imam said do not worry Tomorrow you'll wake up you'll receive good news Yunus left Imam Al-Hadi has told me this But surely this Abbasids are going to kill me He said the next day The Abbasid Khalifa called me He said where is the gemstone He said now I know I'm going to die He said I looked at him and I said What do you mean? He said can you do me a favor? He said what is it? He said my two daughters Have had an argument about the gemstone Can you split it in half? Allah Allah Sometimes you need a leader Whose connection is from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala You find that he came back to the Imam He said oh Imam He said that his daughters had an argument And he wanted it cut in half And I looked at him and I said I'll think about it He said he doesn't know inside I virtually had a heart attack and died But I said I'll think about it And I'm now designing my own way Another man by the name of Isa He said we used to never get access to Imam Al-Hadi The moment we'd get any access to Imam Al-Hadi What would happen? He said I saw in my dream Rasool Allah one day Rasool Allah gave me 30 days When I woke up I thought to myself those 30 days It must mean that I'm going to live for 30 years He said I was walking I saw Ali Al-Hadi sitting on the ground He was giving out dates Then he gave me 30 dates I looked at him and I said oh Imam Al-Hadi Why don't you give me more dates He looked at me and he said If my grandfather Rasool Allah had given you more I would have given you more as well Subhan Allah And that's why Mu'tawakil one day was in trouble Mu'tawakil one day A case was brought to him Which he made Imam Al-Hadi Wake up in the middle of the night to answer A lady came Mu'tawakil they caught her Mu'tawakil said who is this lady They said Zaynab Zaynab daughter of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Mu'tawakil said sorry Zaynab daughter of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Ibn Abi Talib 20 years ago And Zaynab died after him He said to the lady Lady explain yourself She looked at him and she said yes I am Zaynab daughter of Ali sister of Hussein Mu'tawakil said Listen I drink a lot But today I haven't drunk I'm in my senses today And I'm looking at you And I know I'm not drunk You Zaynab daughter of Ali Now she said Because every night in my dream Rasulallah touches me So I get my youth back Mu'tawakil looked and he said This is confusing Go wake him up Go to Imam Al-Hadi's house that night Imam Al-Hadi sound asleep After having done his Salat al-Layl Having done his Fajr Wake him up come out Imam Al-Hadi Imam Al-Hadi comes Mu'tawakil looks at him He said what is it? He said this lady And I'm not drunk This lady Say she is Zaynab daughter of Ali Imam Al-Hadi looked at him and he said which Ali She said Ali son of Abu Talib He said you mean my great grandfather And you who sorry Oh I'm Zaynab Which Zaynab Zaynab daughter of Ali sister of Hussein You mean Hussein my great grandfather And Zaynab you are meant to be my auntie He said yes that's me He said to her how did you get your youth back She said oh every night I see your grandfather Rasool Allah touches me On my shoulder I get my youth back He said to her very well Mu'tawakil said how are we going to resolve this Imam Al-Hadi said simple Mu'tawakil you still have your lions in a cage Mu'tawakil used to keep lions in his cage Mu'tawakil said yes my lions are there They are sitting and they are happy He said if she is truly Zaynab daughter of Ali Let her enter a cage of lions I tell you none of the lions will come near her You know what she did She said well if you're Ali And you're truly the grandson of Muhammad Then you go in a cage of lions She turned it around on him Imam Al-Hadi said very well Mu'tawakil allow me to enter The cage of your lions He opens the cage of lions Imam Al-Hadi goes and sits in there The hadith narrated in our books And the books of our brothers in other schools Islam says When Imam Al-Hadi sat in the cage Every lion came and sat next to Imam Al-Hadi Alayhi salam He then turned around and he said Now why are you Zaynab She said no no I promise I'm not Zaynab anymore I'm not going in and she walked away You found there for Imam Al-Hadi He was harassed constantly And that's why Imam Al-Hadi Because his Shi'a could not come to him The first email System of Shi'a today Leeda began with Imam Al-Hadi Alayhi salam Someone said Ammar email wasn't there at that time No no I don't mean email I mean that the Shi'a From that time because there was No access to the Imam That's when letters began To Imam Al-Hadi Alayhi salam There is a book Available in the Tabligh library The biography of Imam Al-Hadi In it there's a whole chapter About all the fiqh Masa'il All the jurisprudence Masa'il All the law legal issues Which were written as letters to Imam Al-Hadi And Imam Al-Hadi's answers Because today someone says Say the Sistani may Allah lengthens life Say the Ali Khamenei may Allah lengthens life People say how do these people answer questions How? Where do they get their knowledge from Do you know a lot of their knowledge Imam Ali Al-Hadi Someone says what do you mean Imam Al-Hadi because the Shi'a Could not get access to him Because he was on the house arrest Many of them would write Fiqh letters to Imam Al-Hadi Those fiqh letters were preserved By Imam Al-Asqari And they continued Those fiqh letters remain with us until today And the great companions of Imam Al-Hadi Would make sure those letters would reach People like Shah Abdul-Azim Al-Hassani Have you been to Shah Abdul-Azim? How many of you have been to Fahran To visit Shah Abdul-Azim? Companion of Imam Al-Jawal And Imam Al-Hadi People like Ali bin Mahziyar Companion of Imam People like Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Isa People like Ayyub bin Nuh People of that caliber That particular generation Of renowned scholars Hassan bin Rashad These people would make sure the letters Would reach the Imam And until today those letters are preserved And until today if you study to become a Mujtahid you need to study The letters of Imam Al-Hadi And his answers to those questions Go and study them Many of our fiqh masa'il Come from Imam Al-Baqir Imam Al-Sadiq And Imam Al-Hadi alaihi salam For example they wrote a letter Oh Imam When we do ghusul of a body And the murji'a are present The murji'a are a sect Of Islam Who used to say What is important is not your actions It is your heart So today I'm drinking alcohol Doesn't matter my heart is good The alcohol no problem No murji'a They wrote the Imam Al-Hadi There was no access for the shia Imam Al-Asqari tomorrow Imam Zaman the day after Now is the beginning of the shia Getting used to a lack of Relation with their Imam But with letters they would reach him Oh Imam can we do ghusul Can a murji'a Be in our presence When we are doing ghusul Do we have to do it in the way of the murji'a Or the way which you the imams have taught us The murji'a for example Wouldn't use the palm branch You know how we use the palm branch and so on They wouldn't use Imam said no do it in our way But try to secretly put the palm Branch without them seeing Another letter Oh Imam I am a shia Who lives far away from you I live in an area Where I know it is haram It is forbidden For me to wear a belt Which is made from the Leather or from the fur Of an animal who it is haram To eat Or from an area Where it is haram because of the slaughter Oh Imam But the problem is all the animals here Are slaughtered in the haram way Oh Imam is there any animal Which we are allowed to use The fur of in this situation The Imam replied The beaver is an animal You are allowed to use the fur of In the situation you are living in Another letter says Oh Imam If someone walks past me in Salah in my area Is my Salah invalid Or does my Salah remain Imam says your Salah does not become invalid By someone walking past you Another letter Oh Imam My wife is breastfeeding In the month of Ramadan Imam would reply Your wife is not obliged If she is breastfeeding She is not obliged so fast In the whole month of Ramadan Thousands of letters Would be written to Imam Al-Hadi Which are preserved until today On the Masa'il of Taq And that's why when Mu'tawakil Mu'tawakil was killed by his son You know why? Mu'tawakil hurt Imam Al-Hadi He began a comedy stage show Where he would get An effeminate man I don't need to use other language You know what I mean by effeminate man Who would play Ali ibn Abi Talib The man would Put a cushion under his dress And he would make himself look bold And he'd say I am Ali ibn Abi Talib Mu'tawakil came And he despised The way his dad behaved He said to Imam Al-Hadi What is the ruling on someone Who cursed his father Imam said that person is to be killed It is not allowed in Islam He said what happens if that is Someone's father Imam said that will be the end of His son's life His son will die shortly afterwards Because he has broken Salat al-Bahim Mu'tawakil said while I am alive My father will not do this Mu'tawakil went and killed his own father When Mu'tasr himself died One Khalifa after another died Until Mu'taz came into power When Mu'taz found out Imam Al-Hadi had that much following Mu'taz decided I will do what Mu'tawakil didn't do What Mu'tasr didn't do What Mu'tasr didn't do What Wathak didn't do What Musta'een didn't do I will put poison in the food of Imam Ali Al-Hadi And you know Imam Ali Al-Hadi While he was dying He would say to them do me one favor The poison has affected my body He would write to them and he'd say I beg of you go to one grave They would say to him where He say to them go to the grave in Karbala Go near that holy man Who lies in the ground in Karbala They would write back By saying to him o Imam But that man aren't you his grandson Don't you have the same Effect with Allah He said nobody has a role In my relationship Like my grandfather And that's why he would echo The words of Imam Al-Sadaq And Imam Al-Sadaq and the visit Of Imam Al-Hussein would say Oh Allah have mercy on those cheeks That rub themselves On the grave of Imam Al-Hussein We pray to Allah To raise us With Imam Al-Hadi Alayhi salam Allow us to be amongst those Who follow his message in this world In the hereafter Insha'Allah tomorrow we will continue With the life of Imam Al-Asqari To be followed by the life of Imam Al-Hujja Al-JalAllah Faraj Al-Sharif And then to be concluded With the life of Imam Al-Hussein On his Wulata We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala For those who are ill in the world In the name of the one ill in Karbala Imam Al-Zayn Al-Abideen In the name of Allah Imam Al-Hussein We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala For those who are ill in the world In the name of the one ill in Karbala Imam Al-Hussein We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala For those who are ill in the world In the name of the one ill in Karbala Imam Al-Hussein We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala For those who are ill in the world In the name of the one ill in Karbala Imam Al-Hussein We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala