 هذا اليوم سيكون مجموعة في سياراتهم يجب أن يكون مجموعة مع سياراتهم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وعظيمنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أب القاس محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين واصحابه الغر الميامين الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتمسكين بولاية سيدي ومولاية علي بن أبي طالب الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنحتدي لو لا أن هدانا الله أما بعد يقول الله في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بولا أسألكم عليه أجرا إلا المودة في القرباء بولاية سيدي ومولاية علي بالثلال وعلى إيقان الدميرة المؤمنين علي بنا بيت طالب علي إيقان الدميرة المؤمنين أين أمم لك أتائق من غيرك عشة و الزمان أرى أنه يطبخوه ورحمة الله السلام عليكم إمام علي ابن موسى الرضا صلوات الله وسلامه عليه was born on the 11th of the qaeda in the 148th year after hijra and died according to varying reports on the 23rd of the qaeda in the 230th year after hijra a man from whose life extraordinary lessons may be learned and many principles may be derived especially principles concerning politics and society within which we live everyday lives you find that unfortunately his life has been very much understudied there is not enough value being given to the status of Imam علي ابن موسى in the idea that there may be many who admire him but do not necessarily have enough knowledge about his biography and indeed you find the period within which he was living in was one of the most turbulent times for any of the imams of al-Muhammad in the idea that the abbasid empire had established itself and therefore he had to find his position within the empire and until today unfortunately many people ask the question how could Imam علي ابن موسى take a position under a tyrannical leader that question I'd like to look at through this examination of this biography in order that we are able to appreciate the legacy of the Imam as we said the Imam was born on the 11th of the qaeda in the 148th year after hijra he was one of 37 children Imam موسى ابن جعفر had 37 children 19 daughters and 18 sons which is even more extraordinary when you read that Imam موسى ابن جعفر spent some part of his life in prison and that's why today you'll find the legacy of موسى ابن جعفر is so great that most of the Saadat are moussawi myself for example I am a moussawi there are many other Saadat who are moussawi who are from the lineage of Imam موسى ابن جعفر if you go to Lebanon there are moussawis if you go to Iran there are moussawis if you go to Pakistan there are moussawis moussawis all of them came because of the fact that Imam موسى ابن جعفر had that many children and these children of course when they get married and so on that lineage would continue to spread therefore you found that Imam عليبنا موسى was one of the 37 children of Imam موسى ابن جعفر of course 37 children came from varying wives for Imam موسى ابن جعفر but you find that Imam عليبنا موسى was from the wife which was from North Africa therefore the second of the wives of the imams of أهل البيت from North Africa you find that according to certain reports her name was Arwa some narrations mentioned has been called Najma I've read the narration which also mentions her with the name Tuktam possibly if you wanted to bring all of these together some maybe names, some maybe titles but you find she was of North African descent in the same way Imam موسى ابن جعفر's mother was North African Imam عليبنا موسى's mother was North African someone asked the question again why would the imams of أهل البيت marry from North Africa as in you are imams from مدينة why don't you stick to your city why marry someone of North African descent we answered yesterday by saying the first reason is that Islam wanted to break all the racial boundaries Islam wanted to come as a religion everybody is welcome not just a certain race a religion which only caters for a certain race is a racist religion and do not be surprised if that type of religion exist until today where it is very difficult for you to convert to that religion our religion is a religion from day one where our prophet and through the imams would always focus that everybody is equal all of you came from Adam and Adam came from Allah سبحانه و تعالى before you find on the first level to remove racism on the second level the imams wanted to show something else when Islam has gone and colonized or conquered Africa do not see yourself a second class citizens because we've conquered you you are as much part of our religion as we are you see when imam marries someone from North Africa the imam was showing that if I am an Arab and the caliphs conquered Africa then the Africans who have come to Islam are as much part of our religion as we are the Muslims today try and tell people who have only recently converted to Islam that you came late while we were there early whereas our eighth imam his mother when the seventh imam married her wanted to say she is from Africa but she is just as much part of this religion as I am number three and an important reason sometimes the traits and attributes of a different culture may be different from mine my Arab culture may be known for its generosity but the African culture may be known for its humility if we marry each other then those beautiful attributes can come together if I as an Arab am generous and I marry another Arab then we've got two generous people in the house if I as an Arab am generous and I marry someone from Africa and their trait is humility then we have generosity and humility in one house you therefore found that the imam his mother was from North Africa and they straight away decided to name him Ali someone asks why are there of the 12 imams four of them called Ali the reason was because from the time of Bani Umayyan till Bani Abbas they kept on trying to erase the name Ali Ahlul Bait kept on bringing it back you have imam Ali ibn Abi Talib imam Ali Zain Al-Abideen imam Ali Al-Raza and imam Ali Al-Hadi the reason Al-Muhammad was stressing on Ali was because in every generation of an Islamic empire they always tried to terminate or execute people with the name of Ali Muawiyah once looked at ibn Abbas he said I heard you've got good news ibn Abbas said yes Muawiyah said I hear you've got a newborn baby ibn Abbas said yes he said what did you decide to name him he said Ali Muawiyah said what's the title you're giving him you know the Arabs have a title Abel something he said I'm going to title him Abel Hassan Muawiyah said so you're putting both of them on the child Ali and Abel Hassan so he said yes he said ibn Abbas pick one of them not the two if you want to survive in my community pick one you pick Ali there's no Abel Hassan you pick Abel Hassan there's no Ali I'm not allowing for both and that's why حجاج بالنسبة عيد الأضحة would say what do the people slaughter they'd say sheep he said very well then we should slaughter anyone called Ali Hassan and Hussein when the people of the house named Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha with the name Ali the aim was that we don't ever want this name to be erased because the hatred against Ali ibn Abi Talib moved from one generation to another therefore at a young age you found that the Imam faced very difficult circumstances why imagine when you were born in this world you asked where's my father he's in prison in Basra 5 years later where's my father he's in prison in Baghdad 5 years later where's my father he's in prison here in prison there Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha faced the most difficult trial at the beginning of his life that he could hardly see Imam Musa ibn Ja'far from one prison to another they were moving Imam Musa ibn Ja'far and therefore there was an added responsibility on Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha's shoulders why because the followers of Ahl al Bayt number one could not reveal that they were followers number two if they could they couldn't go to the Imam of their time so they ended up going to Imam Ali ibn Musa Imam Ali ibn Musa his life is divided into two the first 35 years was while his father was alive but in prison the next 20 years when he became an Imam in those first 35 years when Imam Musa ibn Ja'far was in prison Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha decided there's no way I could speak out against Banyu Abbas many of our Shi'a are performing Taqia we can't do anything in this period so it's better that I sit in the mosque of Rasool Allah in Medina and I give lessons on how to build a Muslim community this is something fascinating Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha many people when they read his biography only know about Meshhad or Toos isn't it but Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha for the first 35 years of his life Imam Al-Kardem was alive so what was Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha doing for the first 35 years of his life he'd sit in the middle of the Prophet's mosque in Medina Ahl al Bayt used to love the land of Medina that was their home and Imam Ali ibn Al-Khuzai would say houses for Hamza and houses for Ja'far and houses for the rest of Al-Muhammad in Medina Imam would sit in the middle of the mosque in Medina he knew that the Muslim community had forgotten the meaning of the word community Banyu Abbas were leading and Banyu Umayyah were leading in small part of the world and there were different schools and segments there wasn't a united community he wanted to build the community where people began to realize what was their role within the community they lived in and there were four key lessons which he taught about how you build a Muslim community at a young age the first lecture he gave was a lecture about cleanliness a lecture where he said keep yourself clean for it is one of the for it is the manners of the prophets of Allah a community can never survive if there is no cleanliness if now in this community over here someone for example is smoking outside in our community someone is smoking if we say they are smoking outside our community on the main road and the cigarette but they just throw it on the ground I asked them would you do the same thing at home as in in your house do you smoke your cigarettes and just throw them in your front yard or at the front of your house or do you make sure that you actually look after the area number two when someone comes to the community you find it's normal for them if they finish with something to throw it on the ground that's it there's no problem do you know how many Muslim mosques there are in the world today where in those mosques you see a banana skin on the ground you see rice on the carpet you wish you had never done such a job on that carpet you smell on that carpet uncleanliness no one has looked after the place you find Imam Ali ibn Musa what did he used to say his first lecture on building a community when he was at a young age was make sure you keep yourself clean for cleanliness is the manners of the prophet because his great grandfather the holy prophet Muhammad has a famous line when he says that cleanliness is part of faith cleanliness نظافة من الإيمان what does it mean it means cleanliness do not say you are a mu'min and you have no cleanliness sometimes I get surprised when I come to modern day Muslim communities and you look around you and you see the trash that survives on the ground and you ask what's this they say oh there are cleanness they'll come later you are not a clean out of Allah's earth you have no respect for Allah's environment of your own mosque someone says it's cleanliness only about that no cleanliness is also in our personal hygiene how many of you have been to Ziyara and seen the state of some of our public lavatories you know when you want to go and do with all how many of you have been there and you look at the state and you are like are we all followers of Ali ibn Musa because you go in there and you see people without hygiene how many times have you come to the mosque and the person sitting next to you it's as if they have not had a bath for years you look at the person you are like is there no aftershave at home there's no perfume, there's no atar there's no deodorant when you come to the house of Allah you go to a wedding you store up your whole body with aftershave when you come to the house of Allah you come smelling like that it's normal they say it's religious for us as modest people religiosity comes where when you come in a state of cleanliness Imam's first lecture cleanliness another lecture when he was younger he says he talks about a muslim who is dishonest with another muslim is not one of us sometimes you find in our community someone sitting down reciting Salawat 24-7 and he has been dishonest with the whole community he has lied to people he has stolen people's money he does Qibah 24-7 about the whole community Imam says the community can never be built if people are dishonest to one another then number 3 Imam's third lecture on community the worst of you in the community is one whose existence is of no use to the community do you know what type of people these are? they'll come for a lecture and they'll leave and they'll complain they'll come for a program and they'll leave and they'll complain they sit outside and all they do is complain if you can do a better job Bismillah come let's see you do a better job know we're too busy Imam says the worst of people Imam Ali ibn Musa was a community built the worst of people is the one whose existence is of no use you say to him can you serve I'm busy can you help I'm busy then when you say to them what do you think is the problem in the community the community has so many problems what are you doing to solve them nothing else all they do is complain Imam Ali ibn Musa the third hadith about community third lecture the one of make sure that you are not someone who has no existence or use in the community and that's why then he would you would see him give a fourth lecture about to employ people in your community in which way you find Imam Ali ibn Musa all this period in Medina before he announced his Imam when Imam Musa ibn Ja'far was in prison Imam would walk past the field one day with his companion he'd look in the field he'll be like who's that over there his companion would say oh that's a worker he just started working today Imam said how much are we paying him his companion said at the end of the day Imam will pay him the companion said I saw Ali ibn Musa's Ali ibn Musa's his face become red he looked at me he said what did you say I said to him Imam at the end of the day we'll fix this wage he said how many times have I told you before someone works in the community fix their wage do not leave it until after they finished because they may be expecting an amount and then you give them less than that amount in our communities today when someone works for us we say at the end at the end we'll give you something the problem with at the end is that you don't know if the amount you're giving that person for cleaning the mosque for building the mosque you don't know if that person may be expecting more Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha said let's fix the wage then let them work and then never give them the wage you fix with them a sign of a follower of Al-Muhammad as he always gives a bit more than what he agreed you'll therefore find that in those early years Imam Ali ibn Musa Radha what would he do he'd be talking about building a community upliftment of his community then when Imam Musa was 35 years of age that's when he had to now come in the public for and I tell you Imam Ali ibn Musa came in the most difficult time shall I tell you why Benu Abbas were masters of the art of PR public relations Benu Abbas in public looked like the best leaders in Islamic history and the people could not see what was happening in private as if you look at many Muslim countries today many Muslim countries if you went to visit them in the Gulf you'll see the most grand mosques don't you and you'll see the most grand libraries and you'll see the most grand buildings if a non-Muslim saw that they'll say oh my god these Muslim empires magnificent look how modern it is they do not know about the corruption that exists deep down in that state do they? they don't they don't know the people who are being tortured they don't know about the people who are being hurt Imam Ali ibn Musa in his Imamate Benu Abbas were masters of public relations do you know what Benu Abbas were doing Benu Abbas began for example one of the best acts of public relations ever done they all began an institution called Bayt al-Hikma Bayt al-Hikma in English is the house of wisdom many non-Muslims praised Haroon al-Rashid and al-Ma'moon today they don't know about Imam Musa they don't know Imam Ali they see the outlier Ma'moon and Haroon al-Rashid began an institution called Bayt al-Hikma the house of wisdom that institution survived 400 years do you know what it was in that institution they would translate the works of the Persians into Arabic Persian literature Persian philosophy Persian astronomy Persian mathematics everything that the Persians had done they translated everything the Greeks had done they translated algebra where it came from Bayt al-Hikma the house of wisdom many Abbas this magnificent house which was a big translation library if you walked past that you'll be like may Allah bless Haroon al-Rashid may Allah bless al-Ma'moon why? because you're looking at al-Khawar ismi in there you're looking at algebra you're looking at the best of mathematics in astronomy people from the outside could not fault many Abbas but this is amazing they could not see what many Abbas were doing from the inside and Imam Ali ibn al-Mousar could see the inside and the outside you know what many Abbas what they were doing in the inside Haroon al-Rashid one day comes to his friend he says I want to ask you a question what are you willing to sacrifice for me he says I'll sacrifice my life for you he says he said I'll sacrifice my wealth for you he said I'll sacrifice even my religion Haroon said very well he said yes he said go in there with my jail warden open each door whoever you find in each door I want you to behead them لو جа لديهم حم Ed would go in declared prison of publicly magnificent behind the public killing of the sons of Ali he enters he enters first door opens 20 grand sons of beloved he comes with a sword 20 the next door 20 he comes out he says نحن نضع نفسهم ونضعها في محطة مرحلة ونضعها في محطة مرحلة هذا سيكون one incident another incident هارون رشيد سيكون في محطة هارون رشيد كانت مجردة مع يحيا بن عبد الله عبن الحسن كانوا يتعود مع بعضهم يساعدون لن يجدون لن يجدون أخر هارون رشيد ينقذون ينقذون بخداد ينقذون يجب أن تفهم الانتقال لأنه عندما يقولون لي لماذا عليبنا موسى الرضا يعملون مع المقموم يجب أن تفهم ماذا هو الانتقال جوجد بخداد ينقذون هارون رشيد يقول to him أنت تنقذون يقول yes يقول لماذا يقول أنني أساعدت بخداد مع يحيا بن عبد الله عبد الله عبن الحسن ولكن now I'm more powerful than him and I wish I hadn't signed that treaty so I could kill him you know what the chief judge did he put his hand down near his socks he took out a knife he said where's the contract he said here it is he said there's no more go do what you have to do the judges were in their pockets the palaces were in their pockets the prisons were in their pockets and do you know what then happened to the Imam as soon as the Imam announced his Imamate some of his own Shi'a decided that's not our Imam Imam موسى بن جعفر when he passed away had 67 witnesses that علي بن موسى الرضا is my successor yes how many witnesses 67 Imam had people Imam موسى بن جعفر had people who used to collect khums they'd go and collect khums for him amongst those people who collect khums and the khums collectors are always interesting people amongst those people who used to collect khums was زياد بن ماروان and علي بن أبي حمزة these people used to collect khums for Imam موسى بن جعفر these people collected lots of khums and sometimes when you collect a lot of khums you start forgetting Allah and you start thinking about yourself so what happened was زياد بن ماروان collected 70,000 Dina or gold coins and علي بن حمزة علي بن أبي حمزة collected how much 30,000 when Imam علي بن موسى announced his Imam he's already got an issue that بن عباس are in a position where they have swayed the public to believing in them on top of that now he's got an issue that زياد and علي come forward and said what they came forward because they had so much money يونس بن عبد الرحمن came up to them he said now علي بن موسى is the Imam the khums is to be given to him they said no يونس بن عبد الرحمن one of the great companions of the Imam with حسن بن محبوب يونس بن عبد الرحمن what did he say he said what are you doing this khums doesn't belong to you it belongs to the Imam they said listen يونس we are all khums collectors how much do you want us to give you so you remain quiet يونس بن عبد الرحمن said what are you talking about they said look at that amount of money we've collected from khums you really think we care about the Imam anymore way more concerned that the money is in our hands يونس بن عبد الرحمن said I will never go with a group of people like you they formed a Muslim sect which existed for a long time called الواقفية you know what الواقفية are the ones who done وقف وقف means you stop the ones who done وقف at Imam Musa بن جعفر they said Imam Musa بن جعفر was our Imam now he's gone into غيبة he is Imam Mehdi money isn't it when the money was in their hands the khums collectors they said why should we join علي ابن موسى علي ابن موسى الرضا the khums has to go back to him it's better that we make up a story that Imam موسى الكاظم went into غيبة and that one day he'll come back and we'll give the khums back to him do you see how difficult the circumstances were for Imam علي ابن موسى الرضا or no because sometimes people without knowing how difficult the circumstances are they question his judgment Imam علي ابن موسى الرضا بن عباس publicly look good his own Shi'a were not willing to come and follow him on top of that when Haroon el Rashid died then Haroon el Rashid sons had a bigger civil war with Imam علي ابن موسى الرضا is living at the time Haroon el Rashid had two sons one came from a wife the other came from a chess board sorry how does someone come from a chess board Imam narrates to us Haroon el Rashid had a wife you will know her Zubaydah Zubaydah and Haroon el Rashid used to enjoy playing chess this is masha Allah how great the Khulafa'wa they used to enjoy playing chess Haroon el Rashid when he's playing chess he tells Zubaydah Zubaydah if I win the chess match I'm going to dare you to do something when you do it she said yes and she said but if I win I'll dare you to do something he said yes the first chess game they had Haroon was victorious so he said to Zubaydah Zubaydah it's my day she said go ahead he said I want you to walk around the palace in the nude she said what they said in the nude walk around nude she said your soldiers are all around the palace and you know Haroon el Rashid only had about 11,000 servants in the house said walk around in the nude she said that's what you did yes everything off walk around come back sat in the chess game she started playing then she said I have now won I want to dare you to do something he said what is it she said do you know that cook we have in the kitchen he said which one she said he said the ugliest cook we have in the kitchen she said yes she said the one nobody even wants to look at her yes what do you want she said stay with her for one night so what do you mean one night so one night are you dead me and I did what you wanted me to do you do it one night from that one night المأمون was born which grandchildren of the man born in the Kaaba are in prison while the grandchildren of these matches are in kings Haroon el Rashid before he passes away says الأمين my son from my wife زوبيدة will be my successor المأمون can be governor of خراسان in Iran الأمين when Haroon el Rashid dies إمام علي ابن موسى رضا is around الأمين is around المأمون is around الأمين when he assumes power is meant to after him given to المأمون الأمين says I'm not giving it to المأمون المأمون came from a slave girl I came from an Arab mother so he said I'm going to give it to my son موسى المأمون heard this that was it and I tell you when two brothers don't like each other history has shown us they may be willing to kill each other حابيل طابيل يوسف his brothers أمين مأمون أمين said my son will succeed me not my brother المأمون launched a vicious attack under the command of طاهر ابن حسين they entered Baghdad they ransacked Baghdad he caught his brother and beheaded him المأمون now returns back to خراسان now he needs to cement his position it's not easy he wants to cement his position in power and he knows that what's just happened is not good for his rep so what does he say? he says I O people have come to lead you but I am more sincere than my brother الأمين بني عبس والله their language they can be so beautiful with their words and I am more sincere than my brother أمين and I'm going to make علي ابن موسى الرضا my success المأم علي ابن موسى الرضا is not in مشهد المأم علي ابن موسى الرضا is living happily where he is in مدينة المأمون who orders علي ابن موسى الرضا has to leave and has to come and has to be my success otherwise him and his tribe will all be beheaded امام علي ابن موسى الرضا leaves the land goes to do umrah after umrah to basra on his way to basra he stops at umrah and does the first ten nights Majalis for امام الحسين in umrah the first of the imams according to different narrations to have done ten nights for imam الحسين was imam علي ابن موسى الرضا and then from umrah he reached khurasan when he reached khurasan المأمون was sitting down he said welcome to my heir apparent welcome to my successor امام علي ابن موسى الرضا said I don't want to be your successor I'm not interested and it will not come to me anyway المأمون said no you are my successor I want to look after you امام علي ابن موسى الرضا said I don't want it he said why he said if Allah has chosen you to be the leader then it's not for you to give your shirt to someone else and if you've chosen yourself and if it doesn't belong to you then you're no one to give it to others if you say it doesn't belong to you then you're no one to give it to others المأمون said to the imam listen to me very clearly your grandfather علي ابن ابيط علي took part in a shura of six and umar said to them all six of them if you do not participate we'll behead you is my message loud and clear or no امام علي ابن موسى الرضا المأمون said الله has ordered us not to kill ourselves very well I will take up your position as what you call the heir apparent المأمون was delighted the coins he would put his stamp and the stamp in the name of امام علي ابن موسى الرضا on the coins the letters the poets all of them are to praise امام علي ابن موسى الرضا now some people ask the question how could امام الرضا take a position under المأمون how امام الرضا any respect for himself how could he take a position under someone like المأمون and do you know his own people came up to امام الرضا and said that someone came to امام الرضا and said to him how dare you claim to be the son of ابن علي and you take a position under المأمون see the arrogance of people you talk to an imam of اهل البيت like that and imams vision is wider than this he comes to me and he says that to him do you know what امام الرضا says امام says may I ask you a question who is greater a muslim or a mushrik the person says a muslim of course he says who is greater a prophet or a wasi the person says he says what if i tell you of a prophet who took a position under a mushrik what would you say he said who يوسف النقرآن he did not usif the quran he is a prophet of God and the leader of his country he was a mushrik did not useif take a position under a mushrik leader الشخص يقومون بإعلان أنه تراهب بالضحوة بيضبط مع المطاكب. او لا؟ كيف فعل الأمر؟ هل تعتقد أنني اريد ذلك؟ لا أريد أن أريد ولكن المشكلة تخبرونهم are rubber لنرى هذا. لماذا يجب أن ينادي him Рضا؟ بعض الناس قلت لأنهم يحببونهم ويحببونهم ويحببونهم معه العقبات لا؟ على الوقت يحببونهم ويحببونهم ويحببونهم معه العقبات لأنهم يتحدثونهم عن رضا لأنه كان يتحدث with whatever trial Allah has put him in that's why they call him a riba الراضي بالقدري والقبار he accepts whatever Allah has ordained you think it's easy for Ali ibn Musa to leave Madin and go and live alone with no family around him why do we in Ziyara say السلام عليك يا غريب الغرباء to you stranger of strangers in those days do you think there was anyone from Al-Muhammad living in Tawus in Mashhad and he has to leave Mashhad leave Imam ijawad when Imam ijawad was so young to go and live alone in Mashhad just to protect the school of Al-Bait and do you think he allowed Imam ijawad to get away with it no way Imam Ali ibn Musa رضا one day Imam ijawad says to him because now you are going to be my successor you have to lead Salat al-Aid Imam said you want me to lead Salat al-Aid he said yes he said the whole community will be out you have to lead Salat al-Aid Imam said but I am going to lead Salat al-Aid the way I lead it he said yes he said you got no problem you got no problem and the morning of Salat al-Aid the whole of Mahmoun's castle is waiting they are all wearing gold robes they are all wearing the best emeralds and diamonds on their fingers they are all waiting for Salat al-Aid to begin they are thinking where is Ali ibn Musa all of a sudden Imam Ali ibn Musa starts coming towards them Imam Ali ibn Musa was barefooted no shoes like رسول الله when he'd go to Salat al-Aid barefooted Salat al-Aid it's recommended to go barefooted to Salat al-Aid and when he'd walk barefooted he'll be like الله أكبر like رسول الله suddenly they say المأمون could not hear himself think because the whole of خراسان and shouting الله أكبر when the people would come to them they'd say can you give us a piece of advice this piece of advice was called the golden chain he said oh people do you want a piece of advice they said yes he said I heard from my father Imam Musa from his father from his father like the servants from his father Imam Hussein from his brother Imam Hassan from his father Ali ibn Talib from رسول الله from جبرايل from الله سبحانه وتعالى that la fortress whoever enters my fortress will be secure from my punishment they said to him is that it he said no he said I am one of the conditions of la ilaha illallah I am one of the conditions of la ilaha illallah you want to believe in la ilaha illallah I am one of the conditions of la ilaha illallah and that's why another narration someone comes up to him in front of him he says Ali ibn Musa there are two people come Imam Ar-Raza there are Ma'moons there they come they think Imam Ar-Raza is going to be silent because Ma'moon sitting there they come and they say Imam we have come from a long journey do we pray قصر أو قصر؟ إمام لُكسر بماني يقول أنه أنت who have you come for he says I've come to see you أنت who have you come for he said I've come to see a المأمون he said okay for the first one you have to pray قصر for the second one you might as well pray for because زيار of a man like مأمون why are you thinking about Islamic law you come and pray you come and talk to me pray قصر because you've come to do the زيار of علي ابن موسى رضا and that's why he himself says whoever does my زيار knowing that I'm a stranger I will intercede for him on the day of judgment you found therefore المأمون was getting frustrated علي ابن موسى I told the people I'm going to make him my successor now he's taking over everything so do you know what المأمون did? المأمون came and he said that I want to get the best scholars to finish علي ابن موسى رضا I'm going to get the Jewish rabbi and the Christian priest and the leader of the atheist community and the head of the other schools in Islam and I'm going to embarrass علي ابن موسى رضا once and for all so Imam علي ابن موسى رضا was told you have to come he said well he was told you have to come to المأمون's residence why the rabbi and the priest and the atheist and the leaders of other schools in Islam have come to debate you come to debate me why entire Muslim is in the Khalifa meant to be a Muslim why is a Muslim getting a Jewish rabbi and a Christian priest to debate me and why is the Khalifa getting an atheist but anyway let me go and try and answer the questions والله امام علي ابن موسى turn them around in circles in one day Christian priest you want to ask he said yes I hear you're a man of knowledge Imam رضا said go ahead feel free مأمون said to the priest priest finish him off show him he has no knowledge the priest says do you believe in Jesus Imam رضا said yes do you believe in Muhammad Imam رضا said yes he said what do you say about Jesus he says we say prophet Jesus prayed and fasted a lot the Christian priest said that's very very interesting and what do you say about Muhammad say we believe in the prophet Muhammad and we believe he prayed and he fasted more than the prophet Jesus he said we take the prophet Muhammad higher than the prophet Jesus because he prayed and fasted more than him the Christian priest said how dare you say that someone prayed more than our Lord Jesus to which Imam رضا replied if he is your Lord can you tell me who he was praying to that's the killer line if he is your Lord who is he praying to a Lord praying to a Lord how many Lords do we have the Christian priest said okay I think that's enough for me and he left Jewish Rabbi now look to the Christian priest he thought what am I going to do Jewish Rabbi said you believe in the prophets of God Imam رضا said yes of course we do Imam رضا said oh Jewish Rabbi do you believe in Prophet Musa عليه السلام he said yes he said why he said Prophet Musa عليه السلام he denied and the serpent which was a snake became a snake and the sea opened for him all of these miracles proof he was our prophet Imam رضا look to the me he said so anybody with these feats is a prophet he said no you just have to be close to Allah as well you have to be close to God so he said but do you believe in prophets other than Moses he said yes yes we do he said but did they do the same he said no they didn't do the same but they had miracles in their own time he said so your criteria is a prophet who has miracles which are different from the people of his time as a prophet he said yes he said so why did you reject Jesus son of Mary Jesus son of Mary walked on water and he raised their dead and make them alive and he cured the blind why don't you accept him as a prophet Jewish Rabbi said I think that's enough for me now the atheist came now the atheist was very arrogant so he came to Ali from Moses رضا and he said I don't want anyone to interrupt me I will finish this debate quickly he said Ali where and how is your God Imam رضا said why are you using the language of human to human with me he said what do you mean he said where and how are terms me and you use Allah is outside the dimension of time and space not be perceived by the senses the atheist replied if he can't be perceived by the senses that means we can never see him he said exactly the fact that you can never see him made you think he doesn't exist the fact that we could never see him made us understand how limited we were what a line Ali ابن موسى رضا and he went on and on and that's why I recommend all of you there is a book in تبليغ the biography of Imam رضا the debate is there Imam رضا and the Christians and the Jews and the Hindus and the atheists and the Zoroastrians not all the debate and you found that المأمون was embarrassed at that situation المأمون had no answer then المأمون what did المأمون do المأمون after that Imam رضا المأمون said this doctor and this doctor and this doctor one is a Hindu doctor the other is a Christian doctor they are all written about medicine Ali ابن موسى what do you have knowledge about medicine he wrote a thesis called the golden medical dissertation of عالمحمد do you know why it's called golden Imam رضا when he wrote it it was just called the medical dissertation المأمون and the doctors said we have never ever heard anyone talk about the anatomy of the human body with such precision المأمون said very well I don't want it written in ink I want it written in gold they wrote it in gold Imam Ali ابن موسى رضا therefore what did you find المأمون was seeing his popularity was on the rise المأمون knew he made a big mistake allowing Ali ابن موسى رضا to be announced as a successor now المأمون had to get rid of him and the way they get rid of these المأمون comes up to one of his companions and he says to him and I want you to hear this because Imam Ali ابن موسى رضا has many hadiths where he talks about Imam الحسين عليه السلام Imam Ali ابن موسى رضا do you know how they killed him المأمون asked someone listen to the disgusting mannerism of these people and what Imam رضا had to cope with you know what he says I went to Imam رضا and I saw the Imam and he was sad and he looked tired he said ابو السلط I miss Medina he said I miss the land of Medina I miss my family in Medina may Allah bless the soul of Imam الجوات Imam الجوات you find he says I miss Medina I miss my family I don't have anyone next to me and this man oppresses me but I am a river I am pleased with what Allah has given me pleased do you know what Imam أمون told his companion he said lengthen your fingernails his companion lengthen his fingernails for a couple of weeks when they got long enough he said now stick them in the pomegranate juice that pomegranate juice was full of poison and now take your fingernails out and put them in a different glass I will drink Imam الرضا will drink as soon as Imam الرضا drank he felt the pain go directly to his body they are juice so much poison in his food in that juice and you know what the narration say this narration hurt me so much when I read it about Imam الرضا every Imam of أل محمد every single one of them has one man in his mind and Imam الرضا the narration says that look after my ceremony shroud me you will see someone who will come and bury me Imam جواد would come and bury him and then Imam الرضا says to his companion remove all the carpets from my house and remove the mattress let me lie on the ground his companion wondered why remove the carpets why lie on the ground you have poison surrounding your body why lie on the mattress why Imam do you want to lie on this ground he said just for a few moments I want to feel what Aba عبد الله felt when he lay on the ground on the terms of محرام never forget the visit of Imam علي ابن مصرضا عليه السلام and know that say the cistan may Allah lengthen his life at a very young age became paralyzed and they took his body to the grave of Imam الرضا and it was there that he was cured by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that's why in our visit we say السلام عليك يا غريب الغرباء but we say الحمد لله today Imam الرضا is not a stranger رسول الله is a stranger Imam الحسن Imam زين العابدين Imam البقر Imam الصادق those of you who haven't been to Jannah البقية go to Jannah البقية go and stand there and say oh Imam زبال محمد I will never leave you let's raise our hands brothers and sisters we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to raise us with Imam علي ابن مصرضا to allow us to be amongst those who receive his intercession in this world and the hereafter tomorrow as you know is the night of the وفاة of Bibi خديجة عليها السلام we pray to Allah to allow us to honor her insha'Allah tomorrow we will be doing the biography of her daughter Bibi فاطم عليها السلام in honor of Bibi خديجة we will do the biography of Bibi فاطم tomorrow we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to allow us to receive the intercession بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم إنا نرغبوا إليك في دولة كريمة تعزوا بها الإسلام وأهله وتذلوا بها النفاق وأهله وتجعلنا فيها من الدعاة إلى طاعتك والقادة إلى سبيلك وترزقنا بها كرامة الدنيا والآخرة اللهم ما عرفتنا من الحق فحملنا وما قصرنا عنه في بلغنا أردت كل of you to recite الصورة فاتحة for all of our beloved مرحومين especially my uncle said محمد علي النخشواني who passed away this morning if you can recite الصورة فاتحة and recite a prayer for him as well as much as you can and for our brother from the جعفر family who is intensive care and for all of the people who are facing a difficult time at the moment with the following بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أما يجيب المثبار إذا دعاه ويكشف السوء أما يجيب المثبار إذا دعاه ويكشف السوء أما يجيب المثبار إذا دعاه ويكشف السوء أما يجيب المثبار إذا دعاه ويكشف السوء we ask all of you to recite الصورة الفاتحة but before it the loudest of your Salawat