 It's an honor to be amongst you discussing the holy verses of the Qur'an and the blessing narrations of Ahl al Bayt. We have reached, if you have followed us, the last verse of Surat Al-Hamd, Surat Al-Ladhina An'amta Alayhim Ghayri Al-Maghdoubi Alayhim Waladaddeen. O Allah, guide me to the right path, the path of those people that you have blessed, not those who have your wrath encored your wrath nor have been astray. We discussed about Ladhina, where Allah brought examples, where Allah didn't say sarat. And then also we discussed about An'amta, and who are those people who Allah swt has blessed. We discussed about chapter 4 verse 69 where Allah says that those who we have blessed are anyone who obeys Allah and His Rasul, whoever obeys Allah and the Apostle, they are with those whom Allah have blessed including, so people who we want to be on their path are those people who Allah have blessed. Who are those people? They are including the prophets, the truthful, the witnesses, and the righteous. And excellent companions are they. So we discussed about the prophets, and then we are talking about the truth. But before continuing with the truthful, what is this na'amah that we are talking about? When was, is there a place that we talk about, Allah has mentioned na'amah? Yes. Chapter 5 verse 3. Where Allah swt says, Today I have perfected your religion for you, and I have completed my blessing upon you. What is this complete blessing? Nothing but the religion of Islam taking to be completed by the willaya and guardianship of the commander of the faithful, Ameer al-Mu'mineen, Ali ibn Abi Talab, alaihi salam, where Allah swt, on the Day of Ghadir, both Shi'a and non-Shi'a agree that this verse revealed to the holy prophet on the Day of Ghadir after he appointed the commander of the faithful, Ameer al-Mu'mineen, Ali ibn Abi Talab, alaihi salam, as his vice-chairman, as his successor, as his Khalifa, when this was done, Allah says that today I have perfected your religion. And today I have completed my blessing upon you. So what is this blessing that Allah has blessed us with? And those four people is the guardianship of willaya and the willaya of Ameer al-Mu'mineen, Ali ibn Abi Talab, alaihi salam. There's a lot of discussion into this. We want to go back to our Nabiyeena, Sadiqeen, al-Shuhada, al-Sala'i. So we say Sadiqeen are those people who are truthful, internally and out. Their action matches and syncs completely and 100% with their belief and their belief completely syncs and matches their action. We believe, we see, unfortunately, some people say, O Sheikh, I don't have to wear hijab. O Sheikh, I don't have to pray. O Sheikh, I don't have to practice all of our furu'a-deen and all of our wajabat. It's not about the action. That much is about your internal belief, internal intention. You should love Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. You should be pure internally. The physical body doesn't have that much value. We read it in the Holy Quran. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem wal-as by dawn. Inna al-insana lafi khos that indeed man is at last, except illa alladina amanu. So believe is the first part. Wa amelu s'alihad. It both has to come together. Believe and action. They both have to sync. They both have to match one another for us to be amongst sadiqeen. Not that I do something outward in front of people, but internally, I'm completely the opposite. How do, how will I know this when I go home at the end of the night, when I calculate my own deeds that we are really recommended on a daily basis, hourly basis, for us to calculate our own deeds. Let me see how much good deeds I gained and how much sin I gained and I lost from my good deeds, which let me put these two actions, two action of minds on a scale, to see which one is more heavier, my good deeds or my bad deeds. So at the end, I will be able to judge myself. And Amir al-Mummini, the commander of the Faithful, Ali ibn Abi Talib, has said, Haasibu an fosakum qabli an tuhaasibu. Judge yourself, calculate your own deeds, challenge yourself to see before you are judged on the Day of Qiyamah. Wa zinuha, put it on the scale, see which one is heavier, the good deeds or the bad deeds. Are you truthful in action and belief, both of them together, or you just do something out externally in front of a people, but when you are by yourself, you are not who you say who you are. That's sadiqeen. Again, we can discuss more about it, but we try to be brief and giving you hints and clues and ideas for you to keep researching and reading and analyzing and diagnosing your personality to see where do we fit. What's shuhada? Who are these witnesses? Shuhada, some people have translated as the martyrs. Shuhada, Shahid, the one who fights defending the religion of Islam, defending the properties and the land of Muslims. But shuhada in here doesn't mean, doesn't translate to martyrs. Rather, it translates into the witnesses. They are not the martyrs, they are the witnesses. Shahid, witness, where we get this translation? Chapter 16, verse 89. وَيَوْمَنَا بَعَثُوا فِيْكُلْ أُمَّةٍ شَهِيدًا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَجِئْنَا بِكَ شَهِيدًا عَلَا هَأُولًا Allah is addressing the Holy Prophet, where he says, the day we raise in every nation a witness against them from amongst themselves. We shall bring you, O Holy Prophet, as a witness against all of the witnesses. So for example, the nation of Prophet Musa A.A., the witness is Prophet Musa. The nation of Prophet Isa A.A., the witness is Prophet Isa A.A. Every amount of our time, the time of Imam Hassan al-Mushtaba, A.A., he's the witness. The time of Imam Hussein A.A., every Imam is witness of his people, of his time of the Imam. Rasulullah becomes the witness above all of these witnesses. Those who are killed for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, they're not called Shaheed within the text of Qur'an and the words of Qur'an. Rather, they are who've been killed by the sake of Allah. So that's a witness. So we believe that every action of ours, everything that we do, as present, Allah sees it, Rasulullah sees it, and the Imam of our time, Imam Mehdi Mahdi, he's the reappearance, he sees it, and these two angels also, they are witnessing. Again, we can discuss a lot about this, about the witness and what we need to do, how careful we have to be. A lot of action plans can be driven. One thing that's actually one good action plan mentioned in the time goes very fast, it's that everything we do, let me think, one second, before everything I do, this act of mine is presented to Allah, Rasulullah, Imam Mehdi, he's the reappearance, am I not going to be embarrassed if I did this task? If I did it, I shouldn't do it. That gives us good tools, good equipments to fight our ego, to fight our internal shaitan that deviates us to the right path, to the wrong path. So we have to be very careful. If this act of mine is presented to Rasulullah, am I happy with this act of mine, or am I going to be embarrassed and my head is going to be loaded and I don't know what to say? Everything that we do, it's presented to them. So let us remind ourselves on a daily basis. Allah sees, Rasulullah sees, the Imam of our time sees, and the angels see what we do. So who are these righteous people? Who are those who have inner and outer righteousness that we have sadiqeen? Who are these sadiqeen? None, but Ahl al-Bayt, a.s. Where Allah has purified them, where we read chapter 33, verse 33, Indeed, Allah desires to repel all impurity from you, O people of the household, and purify you with a thorough purification. These are sadiqeen. Ahl al-Bayt, a.s. That are the path. So they are the right path. Do we see anyone within the history that was able to attain that highest level and to be very close to Ahl al-Bayt, a.s. Or we have also people say, Imam said that he is from us. Yes, we do have examples. We have Salmanun minna ahl al-Bayt. Salman al-Muhammadi. Some people say Salman al-Farsi. Imam Sada al-Salam has said, say Salman al-Muhammadi. And the Imam of Ahl al-Bayt, a.s. And Rasulullah said, he is from us. He's not infallible, but he wanted, if we want, if we place the goal that we want to become like Salman to get closer to Ahl al-Bayt, a.s. And we fight our inner shaitan and our shaitan. We can achieve it, insha'Allah. And it's possible. Other people have done it. We can do it also. So, sarata al-Ladina an'amta a.s. We discussed. O Allah, we want to be on the path of those people who have bestowed your mercy, you have bestowed your mercy upon them. Who are those people? Prophets, Sadiqeen, Shuhadaa, and we have Salaheen, and the righteous. So, we talked about the prophets. Sadiqeen, the truthful, and the witnesses, and the Salaheen, the righteous, which we say they are Ahl al-Bayt, a.s. We continue. We don't want to be from those people who are, who have your wrath upon them, nor are astray. So, there are three groups of people. Number one, those who are on the right path. Number two, those who have, so, they saw the right path, and they followed it. Sarata al-Ladina an'amta a.s. One sarata, they found it, they saw it, Allah showed them, and they followed it. The second group are those people who see the path, who have been educated and informed with the right path, but unfortunately, they go 180 degrees opposite, stubbornly, they go the opposite of the right path. They have been introduced, they are aware of the right path, they know what is right and what is wrong. They have been shown the clear signs, but they deny, they stubbornly deny. Read about them within the holy verses of the Quran, where Allah says, فَلَمَّا جَاءَتُمْ آيَاتُنَا مُبْصِرَةٌ مُبْصِرَةً قَالُواْ هَذَا سِحْرٌ مُبِينَ But when our signs came to them as eye-openers, they said, this is plain magic. Are we amongst those people? Or not? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not only showing signs to some group of people, and not showing signs to other group of people. Allah will show His signs, the signs of the truth, the signs of the right path to everybody. It's up to us to follow it or not. This is the free will that we have. Are we going to walk on this right path, or are we stubbornly going to reject it, even though after we have seen clear signs and eye-opener signs of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we reject. What do I mean? I mean, a little bit elaborate. Some people attend many Majalices. They listen to many lectures. They read books. Clearly, for example, I come to the sisters and I come to the brothers also. They have been given clear ideas, such as, I mean, proofs from the holy verses of Quran, from the narrations of Ahl al-Bayt, alaykumussalam, about the importance of hijab. Hijab, hijab, hijab, hijab. They have been given. The signs have been given. The proofs have been given. The concept is very vivid, clear, is nothing confusing about it. Nothing confuse about it, but they reject because of their personal preferences or they have their own excuses why I prefer not to wear hijab. Allah has shown. Brothers, don't do this haram. For example, music is haram, looking at the opposite gender with lost and desires haram, and anything that is haram that we have, many reasons have been given. Salah on time, brothers and sisters, khoms, zakat, hajj, everything that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants from us. The reasons and the explanation is all out there. If we want to, if we want to find the truth within them, we can find it. Brother, why do you delay your Salah? Why don't you pray? Sheikh, Salah, this day and age, I'm at work, at school, excuses. I cannot pray on time. I come home at the end of the night. I pray all my prayers together. Well, Allah says, after we have shown them our signs, Allah says, وَجَحَدُوا بِحَا وَاستَيْقَنَتْحَا أنفُسَهُمْ أنفُسُهُمْ ضُلْمَنْ وَعُلُوبَنْ فَنْضُرُوا كَيْفَكَانَ عَقِبَةُ الْمُفسِدِيمِ And they denied them. What did they deny? They denied the signs of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, which was an eye-opener signs. And they denied them and just leave. And proudly, while their souls had been convinced of them, consider, then how was the end of this mischief-makers? They see the signs. Allah shows us the sign. We cannot just sit and discuss about other people. Oh, those people were deviated after the time of the Prophet, after Rasulullah, the part of this world. People were deviated. They didn't follow the path of Ahlul Bayt, a.s. They didn't hold on to the path of Ahlul Bayt, a.s. Well, are we holding on to the path of Ahlul Bayt, a.s. Are we truthful to them? Are we applying their teachings after we have been educated and we have been lectured, we have attended seminars, we have attended conferences, we have read books? Do we have any excuse? Am I on the path of those people who Allah has bestowed His mercy? Or am I on the path of those people who Allah has wrath? So, action plan before we conclude. Action plan will be everything that I get to, I get, I hear from the wajibat and muharramat, things that are obligatory acts and those these acts that I need to not participate and I need to abstain myself away, abstain myself. Let me find, as soon as I read the reasons and why it's wajib that I need to do it and why it's haram I should not do it, I see the signs. My shaitan says no, I will. If I see the signs which Allah will show everybody the signs, everybody, not one sign, not five signs, not 10 signs, not 100 signs, hundreds and hundreds and thousands of signs Allah will show us for us to be on the right path, for us to be holding to the path of Ahlul Bayt, a.s. Allah will educate us, Allah will inform us. But if I decide my ego and my internal shaitan is stronger and the shaitan outside, I have listened to him so much that they are stronger, they deviate me and I make decision to go 180 degrees away from their religion, well I will have Allah's wrath upon me. There's a little more left to this discussion, insha'Allah, we will leave it to the next episode. We'll conclude our episode by reciting Dua'il Faraj, asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to hasten the reappearance of our beloved Imam Mahdi, adhul Allah, adhul shaleem. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Allahumma kulli wadi'ika al-Hujjat ibn al-Hasan. Salawat uqa alayhi wa ala aba'eh fi hazeh al-sa'at wa fi kulli sa'ah. Waliyan wa hafidah wa qa'idah wa nasirah wa dalilah wa aina hatta tuskinahu wa ardaka taw'a wa tumatta'a wa fiha taweela. Bi rahmatika ya arham ar-Rahmeen.