This lecture continues the series on the path to Imam Mahdi, emphasizing that moral testing and spiritual resilience are core components of religious life. The speaker discusses why God permits trials and terrorism, contrasting the destructive paths of extremists with the sacrificial examples of Imam Hussein and Sayyidah Zainab. Ultimately, the speaker highlights that true followers must actively oppose evil, uphold moral values like hijab, and connect deeply with the Ahl al-Bayt to prepare for the return of Imam Mahdi.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله بيته الطيبين الطاهرين. اللهم صل على محمد وال محمد. In our lectures, we're speaking about the road to Imam Mahdi (AS). The first five lectures we spoke about the Anbiya. How how they end their stories? How they teach us? How what is the exact lesson they gave us to reach Imam Mahdi (AS)? Because every one of those Anbiya are they are the pictures, the small pictures of Rasoolullah (SAWA) in general.
We spoke very deeply about their morals, moralities. The road to Imam Mahdi basically mainly built on moralities. After 1,400 years now, even Imam Hussein (AS) we reflect so much about what exactly he did in Karbala, but till this moment we really we really miss the main point why Allah (SWT) did this to Imam Hussein. Can couldn't he save him? Couldn't he make Yazid surrender to Imam Hussein? And then all the all all the Muminin, the believers, they will be with Imam Hussein and then we immediately we establish the government that Allah (SWT) wants.
But in reality, Allah (SWT) is showing us something we always miss. Many times we see we see many people around us, they pretend to be Mumin. And when you test them, you always find the weakness inside them. That's the main reason why Imam Mahdi till this moment did not appear. Many people they claim that they cry for Imam Mahdi to come. Even us, even ourselves. And when we ask Allah (SWT) to show us why what is the point of our weakness, immediately Allah (SWT) he will show us.
He will show us we are very weak. Even someone who is very truthful with himself, if he asks Allah (SWT), what is my weak point? Why why I am like this? And then suddenly Allah (SWT) he will put you under a test. This test might be physical, this test might be something with money, something with power. And then we will immediately be lost. Now, even we live the history where all the picture come together and from the internet.
There's a lot of information. We seek like information from World War I, World War II. We see what what is exactly the reason why all this happened? And then we don't learn from them from from our perspective. For example, if there's something bad in a community, we keep talking about it. We keep saying, oh, look all those people are bad. Look all those women are bad inside the community. The ladies now are very bad, the men are very bad.
But I always ask myself if I'm going to keep talking like this. For sure, I want to be one of them because I am part of this community. I am part of this country. I cannot always keep speaking about how women are bad and not including my mom or my sister or my everyone around me because they are built inside this community. So if it's always going to look at it in a from a bad perspective, it's going to be bad because I am like this too.
But if I am good inside me, I want to try to be good, I always focus on a good things because every one of us, he may we are not infallible, we make mistakes. And at the same time, we always ask Allah (SWT) the forgiveness. Nobody nobody can claim that nobody did anything. I cannot tell you I am infallible. I woke up suddenly, I felt like given lecture and then immediately came in here. I I went a true long process. One day the Iblis, he played with me and so on and I have to fight it back and then I have to oh win over this point, but I always have to expect that he's always going to give games, those games that we should that will take me to the road of Imam Mahdi (AS).
One of the biggest things now we are facing is terrorism. And one of the more the most danger thing about the terrorism is not just hijacking the religion is the religious people themselves are losing hope of Allah (SWT). Lately I've been hearing more and more people saying, why Allah (SWT) is allowing this to do? Those people they're doing whatever they're doing under his name. For example, recently we saw this this man in in Syria, he sent his two daughter, one of them is six years old and seven years old, and the other one is maybe four or five years old.
He sent them and they blew themselves up as a suicide bombers. And then when he presented all what he presented, he presented by the name of Allah (SWT). And people even us, even we are sick and tired from saying this is not religion, this is not religion. But from inside at least is working inside us and saying, why do you think your God is allowing this to happen if it is not your religion? Why he is allowing this to happen?
And now you you see see many people are going through this phase where they lost hope with Allah Azzawajal. How Allah Azzawajal permitted? He permit something, he's permitting something bad. Why? He does not interfere with stopping this massacre. For example, with Ibrahim alayhi salam, we see sometime Allah Azzawajal, he's interfering where he's taking the the good things toward this this good way. But why at this at that point he's not interfering?
Why he allowed those two women to go blow up the blow themselves up? So the more we study about religion and the fitnah of Iblis, we the more we know that we are under a big test. The more we know now all the tests that all Allah Azzawajal spoke about in the Quran, especially this century, is happening. Now this century is happening. For example, in the Quran, if you you study 50 years ago, the only fitnah maybe was the fitnah of women maybe.
previously the fitnah of money, previously the fitnah of power. But now this this time, we have all the fitnas together. Why? Because we have something between our hand, the technology is bringing everything together very hard that many people are losing sight. Like, for example, I I read a report, scientific report saying like if we if we were we used to live in 1800, every 10 years will be very slow in in technology and so on.
Now every one year equal to 15 years from the old age, every one year. So let's say if you stay away from reading articles, from not knowing what happened for six months, it will equal to eight years of the other centuries away from from life. So you you won't be surprised that if you look at someone who doesn't read and write, he live in completely different universe. He has his own ideas that it's already very old and nobody understands what he's thinking about exactly.
Why? Because things are processing fast. Same thing with religion. If we don't keep track the right track on religion, ask Imam Mahdi alayhi salam to be in this road, we'll we'll lose it. The same way that those people are losing it now. So, I'm going to speak about this this matter. Why those why Allah Azzawajal is allowing this to happen from both perspective? From the classical perspective, because it's important even to spoke from the classical perspective from the Ayat al Quran al Kareem because I want to put the evidence that I'm not bringing something from my head.
Allah Azzawajal, he he spoke about all those things from the Holy Quran, and he he gave us insight why he's allowing this to happen. In the Holy Quran, we we see in the Surah al Baqarah, he will say, I will read it in Arabic and then in English, as you know. "فَهَزَمُوهُم بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُودُ جَالُوتَ وَآتَاهُ اللَّهُ الْمُلْكَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُ مِمَّا يَشَاءُ ۗ وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ اللَّهِ النَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّفَسَدَتِ الْأَرْضُ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى الْعَالَمِينَ".
In this ayah, he say Allah Azzawajal he allowed Dawud to kill Jalut. And as we know, in this in this battle, Dawud was from the 313. So, he is speaking about something is going to happen. And if Allah Azzawajal he's teaching us through Dawud, what is what is the first thing Allah Azzawajal will look at for for you to accept you from the 313? If he's going to accept you from the 313, you have to have something very important.
What is it? The science, the hikmah, the wisdom and and knowing around you what is going on. For example, all what I hear about, for example, I tell you now, we have bad we always when we open the TV, specifically the Middle Eastern TV where where we should be oriental, people wearing hijab, people they have faith on Allah Azzawajal. We open it, we suddenly we see a songs and then you open you flip the second channel, you see uh women they're like selling themselves.
You flip the channel, all their channel only oriented and in a physical part. They're not giving you anymore, and nothing anymore for you to be advanced. Only they want you all the time having those physical feeling. And then there's too much corruption. There's too much corruption with man, there's too much corruption with woman where it's it's it's now very sick. Like, if you open it now, you feel how sick it is. So, some people they say, how do we treat this? How do we stop this?
We turn off the TV, that's it. It's it's it's finished. They think it's finished. They think now they're protecting themselves, they're protecting their kids. In reality, if we don't raise the voice to say no stop those shows, stop these teaching our kids, those things, those qualities, those bad qualities, the devil quality, it's going to affect it's going to affect them. We cannot protect just our kids and then we sit home,
we sit home and we feel safe if we don't start with ourselves, and then we teach everyone around us to ask those TVs to stop making those commercials, or to stop making those shows. We have to make something about it. We cannot just say, I turn off the TV and everything going to be all right. The first quality of the 313, they have to care about others. Allah Azza wa Jall through Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
"A true Muslim is where he care about everyone around him. If you see someone killed in Iraq, you will feel sorry for them. You will cry for them, not just because nothing happened to your family, you're fine. Many Mumin now, they say, oh, I turned off the TV, I don't care about what happened outside. My wife, she's Mumin, she's wearing Chador, yani, Abaya. My kids are going to best school, I'm teaching them Arabic, I'm teaching them Quran, and that's it.
This is my life, no. The first quality of the 313, they have to care about other, like Dawood did. Because when, if you study about what happened between Jalut and Talut, only 313 from a big army, when they passed their river, I want you to read about it. I don't want to reflect too much about it. There were maybe 70,000, some some narration said there were 40,000. There is different number, but only 313 from those people
the Prophet told them, "Do not drink from this river except a little bit. If you drink more, you will you will go down, you cannot move anymore." The river of life is the Shahawat. Now we live in with that. So, Dawood, what he did? With 313, they did drink just a little bit, and then they continue the fight. And then over there, Dawood killed Dawood. They killed him with what? They killed him with wisdom, they killed him with science,
because how you're going to face the devil if you don't have those ones? Do you think the devil is dumb? Many people think the devil now is is is dumb, is just like someone something nobody can see. In reality, he watch us very closely. He study us, he has specific college. I told you before, like a big university, has a research. He done many researches on our body. Many, many amrad, many bad things, many even flu, like you see those bad things happened to us, it come from the devil itself, himself.
Why? Because he he always want to harm us. He want us to lose hope with Allah Azza wa Jall. So he study us very closely. So, first thing to be in that with Imam Mahdi, you have to be like Dawood Alaihi Salam. Dawood Alaihi Salam, the good thing, the beautiful thing inside his name, he has two Dal. Same thing like Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He said he had the first Dal in Ahmad, and the second Dal is with Muhammad.
He carried both knowledge, knowledge of Awwalin, and knowledge of Akhirin. Inside his his name. See how beautiful is that. So, he is telling us if you want to be with the army of Imam Mahdi, you have to be with that. I'll continue to go to the main subject. But look how it is connected to Imam Mahdi. Look how this is connecting to Imam Mahdi. "And then he said," "Walawla daf'u Allah al-nassa ba'danhum bi ba'd la fassadmat al-ard." And then after here and he said Allah Azza wa Jall, "If Allah Azza wa Jall is pushing some people to some people, if he didn't do that, the the the bad things will rise inside the communities."
I will give you example. Many people said, like let's say the when Palestine was occupied in 1948. All many bad people came in under occupation. They came in to occupy a country. They killed many people, the the people of this country, they kick them out, they took over their houses, they took over their farms, they took over their money, and then they claim this is their land. Why Allah Azza wa Jall allowed that? Let's ask, why he allowed that?
He did not allow that that for for a sake of of he want to do that. No, the people want to do that, but Allah Azza wa Jall with this bala, look how many people, they rose up to this. Now, many people Alhamdulillah after that, we have a revolution in Iran, where where all the religion was restored. We have many people, many Momineen around the world are getting conscious of how the devil is working. Many people arose up for that, many people are training inside how to fight the the evil.
And not just that, it's getting more deeper where those people, the Yahud outside the Zist, from the outside, the Zist, now they're spreading the Zionism inside the Ummah. And many people now they're rising against that. When you rose against that, you become more advanced to to fight the devil or to fight the evil. So Allah Azza wa Jall with this ayah, he's showing us that the bala itself, it will turn very good for you if you understand.
understand how it doesn't work. The bala itself. Allah Azza wa Jall, he is pushing the devil, the evil against us for us to rouse against it back. This is the only way we fight back. The only way us we we are built like this. You have to have a reason to live. For example, if you don't fight yourself every single day, Allah Azza wa Jall will not Allah Azza wa Jall will not allow you to excel. You have to always fight yourself to do something.
For example, now if we don't have anything to struggle for, what's going to happen? Nothing. We we were we're just going to sit and we're just going to pray regularly and then after like one year, there's no more challenges to do, then we we we don't care anymore about their prayers. Everything's working fine. We barely say Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin. But because if there's no ibtila, it's going this is going to happen to us.
But when the ibtila comes, it always bring you closer to Allah. If you learn how to always be with Allah Azza wa Jall and you always thank him, and you always say Astagfirullah and Alhamdulillah and all those things and you always want to know him more, believe me, he will take the away from you. He will take it away because he know now you are always with him. But with ibtila for a moment, even though if he want to raise you higher, he will do that ibtila for you even if you thank him or so on.
But we always have to ask for forgiveness and the Rahma of Allah Azza wa Jall. If we do that, it's going to come out bring us near. And then we have in Surah al-Haj something something with the same concept. Say bismillahirrahmanirrahim. The people who were kicked out from their land. Now we can take this meaning from their physical land and or from the inside and then the Manawiyah. Iblis sometimes the devil play with us to kick us from our identity.
We don't know who we are anymore. "الَّذِينَ أُخْرِجُوا مِن دِيَارِهِم بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ إِلَّا أَن يَقُولُوا رَبُّنَا اللَّهُ ۗ وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ اللَّهِ النَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَعٌ وَصَلَوَاتٌ وَمَسَاجِدُ". If Allah Azza wa Jall he did not push people and people same the same concept, many masajid will be destroyed. A place for thikr will be will be done. Nobody will go anymore. Why? Because the ibtila always will bring us harder together and together.
And the big the biggest ibtila, if you see now, if you ask all the, what is the main ibtila that all the people come to? What is the main ibtila? The main ibtila is Karbala. If you see all year, all the masajid are empty except during time of Karbala or Ashura, that those 10 days. You see all the people they're filling the masjid. Why? Because it is it is amazing how Allah Azza wa Jall what he done with this ibtila to bring us all together.
But with this with with thinking more about this ibtila, we see why Allah Azza wa Jall he allowed Imam Hussein to be martyred. Many many many of you they they we will say 70 people they were martyred at that time. And why only why only 70 people they were martyred and then we always have to keep commemorating those the the martyr to them. Now if our new generation they will ask us why only those 70 for 1,400 years? Why we you keep commemorating their their their event?
Why you keep crying for them? My Imam Hussein he went to heaven and all those martyres they went to heaven. So why you want to keep crying for them? We keep we cry for them because it is Imam Hussein Allah Azza wa Jall he presented he presented Imam Hussein for us. And in Arabic I will say, Imam Hussein. He gave us Imam Hussein where we gave Allah Azza wa Jall our life to reach this ibtila. If you if you understand it this way, let let me tell you something.
Always the Christians they focus in something that your savior is Jesus Alayhi Salam. He died for your sin. Why? Because Allah, God, he wanted him to die for your sin. In reality, this idea mainly was captured from from us mainly. Why? Because we don't claim that Imam Hussein died for your sins. No. We claim that Allah Azza wa Jall, he allowed this to happen for his Awliya because one day some people, they're going to say why those people are are taking your religion, taking your name and then killing people with it?
Can you can you do you can you time it together? Can you tie those? I mean, if you look at the beginning, I mean, when you when you when you present this idea, many people they feel like those two subjects are very far away. But if you see that Allah Azza wa Jall, he allowed one of the biggest Awliya, one of the closest Awliya to be killed under his name for us to feel, yani, to feel to feel that if this has happened to us, then Allah Azza wa Jalla, he already presented it.
He already showed us before that killing Imam Hussein, one of the closest people to Allah Azza wa Jalla, for the sake of religion, by the people who hijacked a religion, is not something fine with Allah, but you allowed it to happen. Like during Imam Hussein's time, there was 40,000 people followed, followed him. When he left Medina, 40 40,000 people left, they left with him. And then Imam Hussein, he rose and he spoke, he made like a speech.
He said, anyone of you is not ready for this fight, not ready for what we're going to happen, you can go back. You can you can go back later. You go back to your parents, to your kids, and then later you can follow us. And those people, when they left, they started crying. They know they're not coming back anymore. They know that Imam Hussein is going to martyr, to be a martyr, because many times, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam spoke about that.
He spoke about how people they're going to leave him away. Leave him, go away. They speak how people are now worshipping their interest. So they left him. The first time, the second time, the third time, from 40,000, now 10,000, 5,000. So he he sleep in this area, and then he woke up in the morning, he'll find like maybe 2,000, they run away. They even they run away that that nobody saw them. So that's why we understand when he's sat down with his 70 companion, he said, now this is the night, you can go away, nobody will tell you anything.
Why? Because it it happened with Imam Hussein many time. But those people stole with him. They don't want to leave him anymore. So if Allah Azza wa Jalla, he's given his Awliya for you, for us, for for us to wake up, not to to to make those people hijack the religion, hijack what exactly they're using the religion for? What exactly the the destruction of religion coming from or for? We understand over here that point why Allah Azza wa Jalla is is he is giving us.
Let's let's look about something from the outside perspective. What what kind of perspective? Let's say for example, this this lady, she's 60 or this woman or this kid, she's six years old and her sister, she's seven years old or maybe eight years old and her father, their father, he he put bombs around them, and then he throw them in those place where they where they where they're killed themselves, where they commit suicide.
Many people they said, what kind of God allowing this? Let's look at the perspective of Allah Azza wa Jalla. We go back, let's go back. Let's look at the whole picture. The good thing about Islam is looking all the picture from the way of Allah Azza wa Jalla, not just around only this point. If you look at this the outside picture, first, if their father decide to do that, those two people, even they committed suicide by bombing themselves, those two kids, Allah Azza wa Jalla will not put them to to hell.
For sure, 100% they will go to heaven because they have no power of what happened, because they're not conscious of what was happening. Second thing, they did not they they did not go away. Like, for example, when we die, the problem with us, we're stuck, we're stuck to life. We love life so much that we don't see any be anything beyond that. We don't see that after life, there is another life. Actually, life when we die, it is the beginning of the real life.
So when those two kids they're die, they're not going to feel they're dead anyway, because Allah Azza wa Jalla immediately will take their soul before this is happened. And those two people, they didn't kill anyone anyway. Subhanallah, something happened. If you see what kind of a story happened, I'm not focusing on the story, but I want to show you where Allah Azza wa Jalla is interfering. When they went inside this police station, one of those two uh kid, they want to they wanted to go to the restroom.
Look how innocent they are. They went both to the restroom and then they they they they it came up. The explosion came up. So they didn't kill anybody. Maybe they said one, maybe, or maybe they didn't kill anybody. So Allah Azza wa Jalla, even he protected all the people around them. Plus, not just that, he interfered where those two ladies they will go to heaven 100% because they didn't die. They died only on earth, but Allah Azza wa Jalla, he took them to heaven.
So anyway, anyway, we're going to die over here. It's it's going to end one day. Yani, for even for us, it's going to end one day. Some people they will think this logic is ridiculous. Whatever I'm talking about is Then why they're not going to live their life? You see, this life is temporary. It is full of disaster. It is full of moral exam. Allah is always going to test us and so on. And their test, Allah is testing different people with those two people, with those two ladies, with those two kids.
And who is testing? He's testing all the people who want all the kids to be blowing up themselves. And Subhanallah, for for for almost almost 1,500 years, all the history was faked. The Islamic history was faked. Let me tell you something. The Christians, all of them with all their sectarian sectors, with all their sectors, they commit those kind of acts with all of them. And if you study all the history, you will see them committing this all of them.
Nobody is innocent. Nobody. If you see the Jewish, all their sectors are committing they used to commit those things. If you see all the Buddhists, they're committing the same thing. Even Buddhist now in Burma with Muslims over there, they're committing they're killing Muslim left and right. If you see the pictures now, nobody talk about it because the Burman people they don't have oil. Nobody care about them. If they had oil, they had gold, they have you see even our country United States, they they will they will talk about the democracy there.
But since they don't have anything, nobody will speak about them. If you spoke, if you see, if you see different different sectors, you will see all of them committing the same thing. But Subhanallah, the only sector even even different if even Muslims, mesela, today, couple days ago, a Muslim, I follow a Muslim, and he's my he's a brother from different mazhab. He said from the Sunni mazhab, let me be specific, give you the main specification.
He said, O dear Muhammad, please don't talk about the Sahaba. Please don't anymore. Those things are are old. Let's begin new page. I inside inside my heart, I said, who am I to just not talk about them or to talk about them? They are talking about themselves. Whatever you built, Islam from 1400 years ago, it was like empty land. Many people they put the seeds. Those, for example, the Shia put the seeds, the Sunni put the seeds, the Christian put the seeds, and so on and so on.
And the water came down. And then what what kind of fruit you will eat after that? The fruit of the Sahaba are are ISIS. It is inescapable anymore. We cannot escape it anymore. You cannot say, oh, because oh, it's why we're speaking the the unity of Muslims. We are talking about the unity of Muslims. But can you not face it anymore? Many Ulama from Lebanon, Sunnis in their mosques, on many YouTube lectures, they're saying there's no saying we cannot escape it anymore.
All this is coming from the narrations. ISIS is not built by people, by the by by intelligence, by CIA or FBI or it's not just built by that. It's built by a system where uh uh you can bring a woman from Ireland where she was having fun, you know, like in a meaning of Western fun. She's used to drink so much, she used to dream about whatever it is, and then suddenly she talk with someone on Facebook, he's from ISIS, he convinced her about this logic, and she traveled from her country to Syria to go be killed there.
And she's 18, 19 years old. What made this woman go from that place to this place? And then she was convinced with that. It is something very deep. It is systematic. And not just the devil, it is something with inside the Sahaba story. You cannot escape it anymore. And now we say always it is bad to speak about that, but it's like we cannot escape it. And when it's come to that, when some people saying, why you Muslim do that?
I say I'm not like I don't follow this sector anymore. We are very proud of something after Allah, he made a he gave us all the tests for all the sectors. We are very proud that we are the only sector with the true religion, Islam, that did not commit any massacre through the timeline. We did not commit any massacre. Even we had a country that was not just a country, a Khilafa that called Dawlat al-Fatimiya. Dawlat al-Fatimiya, Fatimies in Egypt, they ruled in Egypt.
They were the only people that they have a library where they were teaching all the sectors of Muslims. They were teaching the sector of they were teaching the Christianity they had peace with all the religions, even though we Shia ourselves, we say Fatimias did not represent 100% Shia. They were only for their interest, they were using the name of Ahl al-Bayt for their interest, even though they're still the best rulers ever came to Islam after Ahl al-Bayt Salamullah Alayh.
So, from this perspective, we are very proud that none of the Shia ever kill them, he made a massacre under the name of Islam. We are very proud that all this happening to show the reality of what is the following of Ahl al-Bayt mean. We cannot escape anymore saying this didn't happen. Why? Because Allah Azza wa Jall from the ruler of the Shia, the son of Imam Amir al-Mu'minin Salamullah Alayh, Imam Hussein Salamullah Alayh, he showed us that Allah Azza wa Jall, he sacrificed him for us.
Imam Hussein with his 70 companions, they were martyred because none of the Shia will be like ISIS today. Because we have this concept of forbidding evil. We don't want it. We are the only people who are fighting for the freedom now in Lebanon. We are the only people who are fighting for the freedom in Syria. We are the only people under pressure 1,400 years. If you study the history, we are not happy. We will not happy at all.
People they used to follow us and they were used to kill us all the time. But did we rebel back? Now look how the forces we have. Did we rebel? Did we kill them? No. We are the only people who is protecting the Sunni now in Syria. We are the only people who is protecting the Sunni now in Palestine. And even the Palestinians now, they are depending on the Shia. If there is no Shia, believe me, there is no Palestine from long time ago.
And this is very clear, it's unescapable. So, how what they're doing now to destroy us? They're telling the Shia, they're making us mini sectors, don't follow the Maraja. Maraja are bad. This is what now they're spreading those rumors. Don't follow this person. All your Ulama are bad. For example, now, we have many status on Facebook, they're talking about bad Ulama. You see, like wandering from the Alam is equal to, I don't know how many millions of dollars that will build many houses and so on.
Like why they're given gold shrines for the Imam Ali shrine? Actually, those gold, they've been there for maybe, I don't know how many hundreds of years, and people when they take them out, they melt them, they renew them, and then they pull them back. So those, for example, five, six kilos of gold, they're not going to solve any problem. 5, 6 kilos are equal to 100,000, 200,000. If you want to solve their 5 million orphans in Iraq is not going to be solved from those gold.
They're going to be solved from destroying the built of the devil, which is ISIS. The built of what those throw as seeds. This is their seeds. So if you want to give the food for those people, destroy this first, and then all these things will coming to the good thing. So, Allah Azza wa Jall, he will look at us from he's looking at us from this perspective. He's looking at us from how much we are connecting with him.
He is we should be always be connected. Believe me, all these things are test, and many people, even Ulama, are failing with these tests. For example, I read one time that, one of the Ulama, some person came into him and he said, how God is allowing this to happen with those two kids, you know, destroying themselves, and you know, bombing themselves and then killing many Muslims under the name of him? Why he's not interfering?
Why he's not having something to stop it? Do you send something to stop it? And then what he did, the Alam, he said in his article, he said, I couldn't do anything except look at the floor and not speaking. Why? Because he doesn't know what to say. Why? Because he's convinced inside him that this is true. Allah Azza wa Jall he's not interfering anymore. Well, let me tell you something, you did not understand the sacrifice of Imam Hussein.
You did not understand why he was sacrificed, why Allah Azza wa Jall in the Holy Quran, when he ordered Ibrahim Alaihis-salam to give him his son, I told you before, Ibrahim Abu al-Anbiya, the father of Anbiya, Abu Ibrahim. And I showed you why Ibrahim was named Ibrahim. Because inside his name, we have a father, Ab. Inside his name, we had a om mother. Inside his name, if you bring up his letter, ab and um will come in.
Inside his name, Baraa will come in. Inside his name, like many, many words that is connected to religion. So when Allah Azza wa Jall, he is ordering him to sacrifice his son, what does it mean sacrificing his son? Then Ibrahim is Abul Bashar, Abul Anbiya, and his son is Ibnul Insan. What does it mean Ibnul Insan? The son of the human being, right? So Allah Azza wa Jall, he said in the Holy Quran, what? He said "وفديناه بذبح عظيم".
When the kabs came in, "وفديناه بذبح عظيم". Bi zabhin azeem, I'm sorry. Bi zabhin azeem, and then it came in as a kabs. Kabs mean like a, yeah. So the kabs over here and the ba'an batin is Imam Hussein Salamullah Alayh. So who turned to be Ibnul Insan over here? The son of Insan. And Imam Hussein Salamullah Alayh. And Imam Hussein Salamullah Alayh. Because what does it mean Ibnul Insan mean? As someone who is sacrificed for you.
So when Allah Azza wa Jall sacrificed them for you, not for you to do anything and then he will forgive your sin. So when Allah Azzawajal sacrificed them for you, not for you to do anything and then he will forgive your sin. But from the perspective of you cannot do the sins that those people are doing anymore. When you connect with Sayyida Zainab Salamullah Alayh, for sure you want to be convinced that the hijab is wajib.
We are the only now, the only sect now that we are embracing hijab, like not like all the sects. For example, the Sunni sect now, even in Egypt, they have Ulama from al-Azhar, they're saying hijab is not wajib anymore. For example, the Sunni sect now, even in Egypt, they have Ulama from al-Azhar, they're saying hijab is not wajib anymore. Many people we know from Egypt now, they're taking off their hijab. Why? Because there are saying is not important.
But us, if you come to the Shia, you tell them hijab wajib, immediately, can you tell them the verse saying so and so and so and so, no, you tell them, is Sayyida Zainab wearing hijab or not? But us, if you come to the Shia, you tell them hijab wajib, immediately, can you tell them the verse saying so and so and so and so, no, you tell them, is Sayeda Zainab was was wearing hijab or not? You say okay, it is. It is, you should all the women is wearing hijab because Allah Azza wa Jall he want us to be like the Zainabiyyat.
There's something very important about Sayyida Zainab connecting with Sayyida Zahra Salamullah Alayh. Sayyida Zahra used to be Al-Hawraa Al-Insiyah. Hawraa mean from the Hoor of Imam Ali Salamullah Alayh, that Allah Azza wa Jall put all the life inside it. The life, remember when I explained the hoot, the meaning of the whale and how he put it inside Sayyida Zahra. The connection between the hoot and the humanity is Sayyida Zainab Salamullah Alayh.
So anything connecting with human like to us as a human, it has to be going through Sayyida Zainab. So if Sayyida Zainab was wearing hijab, then we have to wear hijab. So if Sayeda Zainab was wearing hijab, then we have to wear hijab. Look how important is that. When Amir al-Mu'minin Salamullah Alayh, he used to, you know, inside the tent before, and then later they moved to a house. He used to Amir al-Mu'minin lower the lamp because he doesn't want anyone from the outside the house to see her shadow.
He used to Amir al-Mu'minin lower the length, the lamp because he doesn't want anyone from the outside the house to see the her her shadow. What Amir al-Mu'minin exactly telling us, telling us Zainab Salamullah Alayh, where she connect the hoot, the hayat to humanity. What Amir al-Mu'minin exactly telling us, telling us Zainab Salamullah Alayh, where she connect the hoot the hoot, the hayat to humanity. He does not want anyone to see her shadow.
I told you before shadow in the Holy Quran mean the highest form of science. The highest, inshallah, the lecture about this is coming. I'm preparing, believe me, preparing for the science of shadow is one of the biggest signs I ever presented before. I'm preparing, believe me, preparing for the science of shadow is one of the biggest signs I ever presented before. I thought before it's going to be just one lecture and then we're going to skip it.
No. Actually, studying the shadow, what is it exactly? It is one of the biggest science ever with someone can present. Why? Because if you're going to talk a shadow, you're going to talk about a body that is presented by the sun, where the sun is giving it their knowledge, the fight is hitting the body and then the shadow is coming up. So the shadow is reflecting what type of body is you're looking for. If the the sun is hitting a glass, what kind of shadow are we going to have?
If the sun is going to hit, for example, Musa alayhis salam, I'm just giving you fast example. When he went with those two that the daughter of the prophet, when he went there and he helping out helping them to to to drink the water for their sheep, what did he said in the in the Holy Quran? Then he went to the shadow. What does it mean he went to the shadow? The sun was strong and then he went to the shadow. No. Over here, Allah Azzawajal
he's speaking about a deep secret, where Musa Alaihis-Salam is connecting with something very deep with Ahl al-Bayt Salam Allah Alaihi. Later inshallah we'll speak about that. So when Amir al-Mu'minin Salam Allah Alaihi, he is he is hardly pushing on the shadow of Sayyida Zainab Salam Allah Alaihi. Who is the shadow of Zainab? When he said no one he doesn't want anybody from the outside to see the shadow of Zainab. Who is the shadow of Zainab?
When when Sayyida Zainab with with al-Hussein Salam Allah Alaihi al-Hussein al-Hussein when Amir al-Mu'minin died, and then al-Hassan Alaihis-Salam died, Imam Hussein became the son. Where is Sayyida Zainab standing there? And then the son standing there. So the shadow of Sayyida Zainab, who will be? The people who is representing Sayyida Zainab through history. Who is representing Sayyida Zainab through history? Our women.
You are the shadow of Sayyida Zainab. That's why Amir al-Mu'minin Salam Allah Alaihi he was so jealous that sad, that I don't want anyone from the outside see the shadow of Zainab. He was not speaking physically about her shadow, just physically about her shadow. He was speaking about us, about you, about the woman, about the Shia, the follower of Ahl al-Bayt, the Muslim in general, the woman the humanity in general.
As Sayyida Zainab, he represented us, she represented all that. Speaking about Sayyida Zainab and the shadow is very deep, is touching too. So, with them, with their sect, now they're taking after hijab. With us, Alhamdulillah, we'll see. With us, people Alhamdulillah, are are going more to hijab. Why? Because we are given her the example of Sayyida Zainab. We cannot give an example for Sayyida Zahra. Why? Because Sayyida Zahra is unreachable.
Nobody said let's be Zahra'iyun. We have a we have a station Zahra'iyun for one of the ulama. But can we reach to be Zahra'iyun? No. We have to be Zainabiyun, Zainabiyat. Zainabiyat is the shadow of Sayyida Zainab through the noor of Imam Hussein Salam Allah Alaihi. Look how is this connecting together. This is how important for our women always to stick to hijab. This is how important to our men to stick to Imam Hussein Salam Allah Alaihi, because he is the only savior.
He is the only Ibn al-Insan. And then since Imam Mahdi always cry for Imam Hussein. He always cry for him. What why what does it mean crying for Imam Hussein? I told you before when ulama keep mentioning, he is crying blood. Blood has two meaning. He is crying blood. Literally when he go there he cry blood, literally he's doing that. The best form of dam'ah, what does it mean dam'ah before? Dam'ah is is is is is the connection, the water connecting with with the blood, right?
Inside in if you see if you study the the the characteristic between what is the blood and what is the blood? I mean the blood and the dam'ah outside? The connection between those two will bring us that the dam'ah that Imam Mahdi when he cry, he only cry dam'ah, that mean he give the best tasbih for the sake of Imam Hussein Salam Allah. I made the whole lecture specifically for that. So this is mean even Imam Mahdi if he cry regularly, he will cry as a blood.
And because he is so sincere about what he is crying about, and he only cry for the sake of Imam Hussein. Why? Because Imam Mahdi when he always say ya litarat al-Hussein, he doesn't physically, just physically, he doesn't just physically mean he want to go kill Shimmer and go kill Yazid, because Yazid and Shimmer are now where in hell. We don't care about them anymore. But we have many Shimmer and Yazid now here. We don't care they are already in hell, they are already suffering.
But when he say ya litarat al-Hussein, mean that he is also Ibn al-Insan. He is taken over what his Allah Azza Wajall sacrificed him for. I know I I spoke about this very fast. Maybe you will feel that there is no connection between what I said and what those people are claiming about Islam. But if you know, if you if you just reflect a little bit, if you see why Allah Azza Wajall sacrificing the Auliya, if you see why sacrificing like, many people they ask, why you always speak about Muhammad and Ahl al-Bayt? Why you always speak about them?
Because these they are the only people that will let you know Allah Azza Wajall. And with those only people that you let you know Allah Azza Wajall, and are the best people Allah Azza Wajall created and he created us from them, he let them be martyred by those people. Look how big is that. It is very deep if you think about it, it's very deep. It's not just speaking nice vocabulary to make you feel bad. No, if you if you really
understand how depth the depth of Ashura the depth because it is what's saving us from become ISIS. Really, if you see the only thing that blocking us from becoming like ISIS is Ashura itself, is Karbala itself, is Imam Hussein itself. It's what saving our women now from the, they're saying hijab is not good, is Sayyida Zainab itself. It's becoming something essential for us to exist. While the other sects, they don't have Imam Hussein.
Even Imam Hussein, he died for their sake. But because they don't want to be convinced that he died for their sake, they they they're becoming like that. So, connecting with Imam Hussein, connecting with Imam Mahdi, connecting with Sayyida Zainab, connecting with all those perspective will bring us closer to Imam Mahdi. So, with this form that with this form that every time we see terrorism, we see there are the seeds of those Sahaba.
Every time we see those good people, our good women, our alhamdulillah look how the the faith is is going around with Shia, they're praying so much for Imam Mahdi. We see the the seeds that Imam Hussein threw and then all this flowers that they came in from his blood, from his own blood. And then I have one more questions that it's connecting to this subject. Many many, for example, we have something in Islam that called called al-Qisas.
For example, if someone steal, his hand has to be cut. For example, if a woman commit adultery, she has to be stoned. If someone asked, do you guys have a Shia? Those, those ahkam, do they exist in Shia? Yes, they do exist. But in what form? Let me tell you the story and then you'll understand what form. I spoke about it this about it before, but I'll I'll repeated it just for some people that understand how the how Allah azza wajal, the justice of Allah azza wajal work.
During Imam Ali's time, there's a woman, she committed adultery, and then she was pregnant, pregnant from that. She came into Imam Ali, she said, "O Imam Ali, I committed adultery. Can you stone me? Can you kill me because I I want to go clean to Allah?" He look at her, he said, "Are you pregnant?" She said, "Yes." He said, "He told her, 'Go, deliver your baby, and then come back." And then she went there. She went like a year, a year and a half, and then she came back.
She said, "O Imam Ali, I already delivered my son. Can you now stone me? I want to be clean." And then he looked at her, he said, "Does your kid has anybody that can feed him?" She said, "No." He said, "Go, feed your your your kid like three, four years. Just make him and the and he's not depending too much on you, and then come back." She went actually four years. She fed her her kid. She gave him whatever he wanted.
And when he was almost five years, she came back. And then she said, "O Imam Ali, now he's five years old. Can you stone me now?" And look, Imam Ali, look at her, he said, "Does your kid have anybody in life that can take care of him after you die?" She said, "No. I mean, I'm his mother and his father, you know. He is the son of Zina, like, nobody can take care of him." He said, "Go, stay with him till he's بالغ سن البلوغ يعني 12 years old, and then come back."
She went, he's 12 years old, and then she came back. At that moment, Omar was khalifa of Muslims at that point at that time. And then when he heard her story from the Sahaba that she came many times and Imam Ali, he kept rejecting her, saying, "Go, take care of your son, come back." A few times and now after 12 years, Omar said, "O Ali, why do you keep doing this with the sharia of Allah azza wajal? Why are you doing this to this woman?
This woman should be stoned immediately. Immediately after she said she did the adultery, you should kill her immediately. Why are you doing this? Are you playing with the sharia of Allah?" So Imam Ali, he became angry. He said, "What do you mean sharia of Allah?" He said, "Now, go to you know, put the woman just we want to stone her. Look, he's teaching us a lesson. You know, he's giving us the ahkam of stoning, what does it mean?"
When everyone was standing around this woman, and everyone like Omar and all those Sahaba, they started grabbing stones, they want to kill her. Imam Ali said, "One of the first ahkam of stoning, look, is you cannot as someone he's going to stone her, he didn't make any sin in his life." Nothing, no sins. So, he said, "What do you mean Amir al-Mu'minin? You know, what do you mean Ali? What do you mean, nobody can stone her because we made sins?"
He said, "If you want to do the ahkam of stoning, nobody can do it if he ever made a sin in his life. He has to be what? Infallible." So, all the Sahaba threw the stones on the floor. Nobody was able. Why? Because the first ahkam of stoning, look how hard it is to do it. Look how hard it is. Why? Because Allah Azza Wajall, if he brings someone stealing and he orders him to cut his hand, he has to be under Islamic government where everything has to be 100% just.
Nobody can cut your hand, because your ahkam have to be 100% just. You have to have a welfare system, you have to have a system where you work, you have to have a system that treats you, teaches you, and then allows you to go work. Now, in an Islamic place, there's nothing like that. Everyone is poor, everyone. So if they steal, do we cut their hand? No. No, we don't cut their hand because it is the fault of the system, not the fault of Islam itself.
So, even committing adultery is not it's bad now to stone a woman. That's why even in Iran and you see some pictures about stoning a woman, it is a fake. It is a fake because we don't allow during the ghaibat of Imam Mahdi stoning, cutting hands, or so on, because it has to be under a 100% just system. And it doesn't exist at this moment. This is regarding the ahkam. So, it has to be from an infallible Imam, and Imams, they never did this except to this woman.
Except to this woman and during Imam Ali's time, they got their hand cut a few times and Imam Ali, by the power of Allah Azza Wajall, was able to put their hand back because they said we and they're changing. They don't want to do stealing anymore. So, these ahkam are extreme, but only exist during the Imam's time because they have to be 100% just. So, this is the only difference between us and the other sect. صلوا على محمد وال محمد.
اللهم صل على محمد وال محمد. So, I'll conclude the only road to Imam Mahdi has to be through the road of Sayyidah Zainab, through the road of Imam Hussein. We have to reflect more, we have to always be sure about the justice of Allah Azza Wajall. We have to be just of why Allah Azza Wajall is allowing those people to take his name, to hijack the religion, just because he wants to bring the best inside us. He wants to test us at the same time, but inshallah we will never fail the test because we are fighting back those people.
We are fighting back the bad people and we are protecting all the Muslims by the will of Allah Azza Wajall. Any more questions? Yes. So, when you said you're not sure that ibnnsan, yeah, it reminded me of something you said earlier and that you're not sure which was how the prophets say that Jesus is the son of man, yes. So, if Imam the same I guess my question is, could you explain more about ibnnsan because in the Bible, there's like, I think 73 times where Jesus, he calls himself the son of man, son of man. Even it's so, if like is there sort of a funny thing that he's saying in the Bible like that, ibnnsan? Yeah.
You see that this subject about ibnnsan, it can be a whole lecture. But just very fast, I told you before his middle name is Yasin and his corner Ali. So when he's speaking about ibnnsan as himself, he's speaking directly between Muhammad and Ali. And let me tell you something from, you know, I'm taking from a different lecture now, some information. The connection between Imam Ali and Imam Hussein is Imam Ali and Rasulullah is Hasan and Hussein.
That's why always Rasulullah, he was mentioning Hasan, I'm sorry, he was mentioning Hussein, always, Hussein, Hussein from me and I am from Hussein. And he's always speaking about Nuh as a Hussein because he is the ship where all the people should be. Imam Ali was the batin of Rasulullah and he was the inside of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Hasan was the batin of Hussein, you know, the only way you reach Imam Hussein is through Imam Hasan, because he is the only guy that prepared for the revolution of Imam Hussein.
You see? So those two connections mean when we said Imam Hussein is ibnnsan, then the batin of Imam Hussein is who? Is Imam Hasan. And since Imam Hussein, he was martyred for that, and the only person that he will take the al-Hussain, all the Imams, they used to speak about at the end of time, Imam Mahdi is going to come and he's going to take revenge for his father. And they kept speaking about this so many times. Why? Because they want to teach us something very important later.
What is it? That Imam Mahdi is the son of man. That Isa Al-Masih was referring to, Jesus was referring to that. So all the time he was speaking about it and his batin in this time is Imam Hussein. You know, the shams is Imam Hussein, the body is and the reflection is us. We are ibnnsan, he is ibnnsan because we are the reflection of Imam Hussein, Imam Mahdi. We are in this time. You see this is it comes to deep deep insight, but I hope you understand it more to grasp. Yeah, it needs a big lecture actually because your talk is speaking very deep in irfan.
This lecture now is preparation for what's coming in the future. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الإنسان لفي خسر إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصوا بالحق وتواصوا بالصبر والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته.
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