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The HIDDEN hadiths of Imam Ali (AS) - ft. Sheikh Mustafa Masood · After Maghrib 🌙

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Spillar Ahmad Rahim Assalamu alaikum Rahmatullahi Barakatu,
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brothers and sisters, wherever you are tuning in from around
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the world as Adama Yamana Wyamakum, congratulations to you
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all on the auspicious occasion of Aid Allah al Akbar, aid al
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Ghadir. And we say, as we say every
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year, Al Hamdulillahi Lehi jalana when al Muta masakin Abu
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Alayat Sayed the Omolai emir Aliye Ali has Salaam and Allah
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Muhammad Ali Muhammad. And it's a great day and it's a
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day of joy and a day of happiness.
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A day where we celebrate together as a family, as a
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community and inshallah as a ummah soon to come because Shiat
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Ali Mansour. And I'll leave it as there for
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now, as Salaam Alaikum Ahmed. How?
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Are you doing? I'm.
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Good. Bro how are you?
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I am happy because I'm. Good, bro, I'm happy.
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I'm, I'm, I'm yeah. Look, every year we have the
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same conversation. Why Are you sure?
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No, I'm not gonna. Why Are you sure you know what
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it is? Yeah, Hamdullah, it's, it's that
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time of year where we, we reaffirm our identity, where
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we're proud unapologetically, unashamedly of being Shia, being
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followers of Miramot Manin for following the man who Allah said
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that upon his pub, the publicisation of his status and
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his Mukam, Allah perfected the religion.
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And in and of itself, that status that Miramot Manin holds
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on this event of Ghadir is why we are are convinced and we have
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conviction that he was and he remains and he will forever be
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known as the man who was known as Nasser Rasul.
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And he is the brother of Rasul. And without him we would be
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nothing. So Omar would not be here.
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So inshallah, today we have an incredible episode.
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We're not only going to be talking about the mukham of
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Miramar Manin Ali Salaam, we're not only going to be talking
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about what he means to us, the identity we hold, the
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misconceptions around him, but we're also going to be talking
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about some more specific talking and learning points about his
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ziara, about ziara to middleman and Najaf specifically, also
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about Ziyaat Amin Allah alayhis Salaam.
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So Insha Allah, it gives us great pride and honour to
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welcome back a dear friend and the Deer scholar Shah, most
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famous old Salaam. Alaikum Salam.
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How you do? My workout it's amazing to be
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back after Maghribai new studios, but it's like I love
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the new studio Al Hamdullah. It's my this is my favorite
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podcast after Progeny but. Progeny is our favorite after,
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but this is. This is it's good to be on the
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other side and it's also good to always see you guys be with you.
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And obviously on this special day, the day of Radir, the day
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where, as you mentioned, the religion was not only completed
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but perfected with the Amir Al Mummini, Salam Ali Ali, thank
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you for having me. You.
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Know this conversation is special because Imam Ali means
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the world to all of us here today and what what's beautiful
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is that I know you behind the scenes as well and you have
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immense love for Amir Al Mummini and so get ready it's going to
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be a phenomenal inshallah and before we begin Aslam Shah, if I
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can ask you know before the conversation you were talking
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about people they go to Iraq and they go to Sierra and some don't
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visit Najaf. Should we discuss it a little?
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It's very. Rare, but I I have had I have
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heard from certain people. I just want to correct one thing
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by the way, for the sake of this discussion.
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I'm, I'm no scholar and this is not me being humble or anything.
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I mean it with all the I'm, I'm not even close to being a
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scholar. So, so, so, so please don't
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introduce me as that. I'm just inshallah I'm a student
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of, of Elm, that's all. But with your point, yeah, I've
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heard people land in the airport in Nejif, get a car straight to
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Karbala, aside Karbala or whatever city they're from.
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And then on the way back, if they make it to Ziara of Imam
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Ali Ali Sanam or, you know, if, if, if it happens to be that
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they have time, they'll visit. Otherwise, some people have it
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is, it is. And I, I, I have met people that
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and I feel that it's, it's quite disrespectful.
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It is. You're neglecting the right of
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the Imam. There's a beautiful hadith which
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one of the companions of Emiran, one of the companions of Imam
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Masada Alihi Sanam comes to visit him and when he visits the
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Imam, the Imam asks him where did you come from?
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He says I came from Iraq. So the Imam tells him did you
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visit my grandfather Amiran Mumminin?
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So he said no, I didn't. So the Imam tells him if you had
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not been one of our followers, I would not have even looked at
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you. The fact that you then the Imam
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and I paraphrase the words of the Holy Imam, he says how can
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you neglect the Ziara of the one that is visited by the angels of
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Allah where 70,000 angels visit him before visiting his son
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Sayid Shahada Abdullah Al Hussein, as in these angels that
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we're always here go to Salong Hadith.
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The Imam says actually they go to Rasulullah first, then they
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go to the Nephs as you mentioned of Rasulullah and then they go
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to Imam Hussein. And what's unique about the
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Ziyar of Imran Salamullah Ali unlike any other ziara.
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There's many Ziara's attributed to Imam Ali Ali Salah Rashallah
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will go through some of them. Is that when you visit Emir al
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Mumminin, you start by saying assalamu alikeya Rasul Allah.
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I mean Allah Allah, you start by saying your Salaam upon Rasul
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Allah even that's why one of the most famous ziaras of as in
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physical Ziara of Emir Al Maminin is on the 28th of suffer
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28th of suffer is the shahada of the Prophet, the passing away of
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the Holy Prophet. But we're told go and visit Imam
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Ali Ali here, Abdul Salati Wasalam, because he is what he
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is enough. So it shows again the love that
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the that the followers of the helbait help for Imam Ali.
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Furthermore, it shows the love we have for us Allah, that even
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when we visit Imam Ali, we say Salam to us Allah before we say
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Salam to. That's unfathomable.
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Like it's, it's blasphemous. And you can't even begin to
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imagine the fact that there are these.
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I can't even, how can you? How can you say?
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Very rare. Very.
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Rare, I mean. Yeah, very, very, very, very.
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Come on. Man these people because they
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should be disowned honestly. Like it's that's unfathomable.
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I can't get my head around. That and you know that we don't
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have much hadiths about Mehbit and Emma as in to sleep
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overnight, overnight next to except if I'm not mistaken, so
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they could accept it in Najaf. Yeah, there's Thawab and
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actually just sleeping in the holy city of Najaf.
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Yeah, beyond that as well. You look in our the Wyatt we
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have in Kamazi alert. We have so many a hadith about
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the the the sheer amount of bounties that I lost $1.00
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showers upon what Manin who visit him the one who visits
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Amira Montmanin Arfin Bhakti with knowledge of his status and
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with conviction of him has his past since forgiven is equal to
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Hajj and Omrath. Can I ask specifically, for
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example, let's say this Hajj and Omrath, because of course these
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also these last few weeks and you know, we're in that period
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as well where of of Hajj and people.
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Completing just hard stop. How do we compare that side by
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side? Is it quite literally a
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mathematical understanding in terms of the amount of fawab?
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How does it work when he understands the art of Middle
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Mamanine in comparison to? Hajj Well there's a hadith
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attributed to I think to soft one his companions of one in
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Jamaal if I'm not mistaken where the Imam mentions this hadith
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that the one who visits Sabir al Mamin Arafan Bahaka knows of his
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rights. Then Allah subhanahu wata Allah
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will forgive his past sins and was beautiful his future sins.
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Then he says to him Allah Subhanahu wata Allah will send
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70,000 angels or in another hadith just angels to accompany
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him when he goes home. Then the hadith continues to say
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that if he gets sick the angels will come to visit him and if he
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was to pass away after the ZR of Emiram, the angels will perform
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his rituals of janazah. They'll attend his Janazah and
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then obviously the hadith's about Hajj and Umrah.
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Hey, it's not saying that the, the I don't want people to
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misunderstand this hadith to say that the Shia as say, you know,
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the ZR is better than Hajj. Hajj Zawajib is an obligation.
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Even though we have hadiths to say that the ZR of the Helbet to
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a certain extent is what? But hey, it's literally the
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reward the, the edger of you performing ZR of Imam Ali Ali
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Ali is equal to Hajj or equal to Amra or in this specific hadith,
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so long hadith, by the way, the Emma mentions, although one of
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the things that he says, he says that he will get that edger, the
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thaw up of 1000 martyrs. This, you know, we're not
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talking about 1 martyr. And you, you know, when you look
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at the, the ruwayat about the, the, the shaheed and his status
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and his maqam, especially a shaheed that, that that dies on
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the battlefield, a shaheed like Saeed Shahada Hamza, why he was
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called Saeed Shahada? The fact that, you know, his
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body is not washed. He's buried in stained in his
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blood. Allah Subhanawat Ala will
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resurrect him with his blood and then he will avenge his blood.
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You know, not including the fact that he doesn't go through
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Hesab, the visit of Imam Ali Ali Salaam.
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You physically going to Siara of Imam Ali Ali Salaam, you get the
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reward of 1000 Shahid even that. And sometimes by the way, I've
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heard this and I want to mention it.
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Sometimes you see 70 shaheed or sometimes you read a hadith or
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say 70 umrah, the reward of 70 Hajj.
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And another hadith says 100 and another hadith says 1000.
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And then I heard from someone who was saying this is nonsense
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and they said why is it? Why is it nonsense?
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He goes, look, one Haji say 70, another says 11 says 101 says
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1000. There's a contradiction.
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So these must be fake. What he doesn't understand that
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one the Imam says 17. That number usually say
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sometimes you say bad no but no no I'll if sell him at sure in
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1000 years you won't see him. I'm not literally saying in 1000
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after 1001 you'll see him. It's literally symbolic to say
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it's the reward. With this hadith the reward is
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so high it's more than 70 and another had he says more than
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100. It's just to show the greatness
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of the reward. It's not that Imam is
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contradicting himself. I got a bit.
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It's the. Love.
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Yeah, that's beautiful, man. The roads, the roads.
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Inshallah for those who haven't been, get the opportunity to go
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to Ziara and yeah, because but it's crazy if you go Iraq and
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you don't do the Ziara. Story We've been to Najaf
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together. And have we?
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Yes. We haven't.
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Got you. You must have gone our bind.
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We didn't go. We didn't go.
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No, no, no. The the.
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Yeah, we saw each other. Najaf.
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Yeah. The shrine.
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Hamdallah. No, there's one year we didn't
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get a chance to to travel to Najaf at the same time together,
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but we did the previous year anyway.
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But Hamdallah, we all know for those of us who of us who have
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been, being in Najaf is special like your, your soul.
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At least for me. If I say it feels like a weapon,
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you know what I mean. You're in.
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The 1000 Heavens. Yeah, Hamdallah.
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But Sheikh, you live in Najaf, at least from the majority of
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the year. And obviously you made that move
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a few years ago for, for studies.
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How does it compare or how have you seen your spirituality, your
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ill and just generally your your your mentality change since
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being in Najaf compared to being next to the shrine?
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Yeah. Sadly, this year I didn't have
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the opportunity to go other than being there on the 13th of
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Rajab. And then after after Rajab, I
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performed Umrah. I was there actually till the
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15th of Shaaban. And then I performed Amla and I
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was aiming to be back after Shahar Ramadan.
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But because of the certain circumstances, sadly I haven't,
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I haven't had the opportunity this year to be there by Sha
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Allah. I'm hoping that after Arbine and
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Sha Allah I can be there. Najaf, I think is, is, is the
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centre of, of, of Shia Islam and Shia thought, no doubt, not just
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because of the Hauser, not because just of the Grand
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Margeria being there, the Olama being there, but the fact that
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it's the resting place of Emir and mummy in Salaam Ali.
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I've had the honour of being in Najaf on most the important
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occasions. So for example, other than the
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Ayesha of Muharram being there in Arbain, being there in
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Shaban, being there on the 13th of Rajab, I've had the
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opportunity. But no doubt that that the best
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time I would say to be in Najaf is around this time the Ghadir.
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And we all know the greatness of Ghadir.
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Even when you look at Ghadir from a Quranic perspective and
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the fact that you even mentioned it completed a perfected
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religion, the announcement of Emir al Mumnin Salaam Alayhi and
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even when Mufasiri. And I was looking earlier this
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week as I was preparing for some majalis for the day of Ghadir
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the the bus. Yeah, you.
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And I was trying to look at the importance of delivering the
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message because when you look at the Quran, and this is maybe
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looking at tafsir of the Quran from the Quran.
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So Ratil Bakaram, and it says Dalekal Kitabola Rabefihuddin,
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Lil muttaqrin. It says who the muttaqrin are,
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who are the IT gives us different features, a ladina,
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your Menuna Bill Gray or your Cremona salad or your tunnel
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zakat. Then it says well, ladina on
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Zillah Alaik, so there's few a few places you need to reach for
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you to become a muttappi. You believe in the unseen rape,
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you perform Salah, you give from what Allah has given you
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sustenance. And then it says those that
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believe with what with what was revealed on Zillah Alaik.
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Then when you look at the verse, yeah, you have rasul belle Mao
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UN Zillah alaikum Rabik. This verse mufasarin say that
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this is the only time where Allah subhanahu wata Allah uses
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the as in the imperative singular form to order the Holy
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Prophet to do something in this manner.
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No other verse does Beller come does you beleron eblag Beller
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but to in the as an order. This is the only verse, so much
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so that he says, if you don't deliver this message, it's as if
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you haven't conveyed this message.
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Because if I say to you, Ahmed said Ali, please deliver this.
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If you don't deliver it, it means you haven't delivered it.
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Well, what if I say to you deliver this?
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But if you don't deliver it, all your other things that I've
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asked you for, all of them become null, All of them come
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pointless. And that's why the the, the,
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the, the, the, the verse doesn't say yeah, Ayohan Nabi says yeah,
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Ayohar Rasool Rasool comes from what Rasallah that you're a
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messenger. And this message is so important
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that I'm going to do the Segatul Amber fell.
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Now, Bellek, not just say no, no, it must be in a way where
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it's clear, where it's complete, where it's full.
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A lot of Hanatali obviously in other verses of the Quran says
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wonder, warn, say what all, But he doesn't ask the Holy Prophet
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in this manner. And this is the only verse which
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shows you the importance of Radir when it comes to Ali.
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And why do I bring this? Just understanding that Allah
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Subhanahu water Allah gives this much attention to the leadership
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of Imam Ali Ali Salaam will make you understand the importance of
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the visitation of Imam Ali Ali Salam.
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Sounds beautiful, beautiful and it's nice we're speaking about
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this now because when you think about it, people always ask, you
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know, we, we make the status of Amir al Mumni is so high and
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it's just man made and it's just something within the Shia.
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I know we this is all Quranically backed and that's
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what's beautiful about Gadir and it shows the the the continuing
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relationship between prophethood and.
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Imama. So you have, for example, what's
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what's what's that first Islam Medina and it's and for those
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who don't understand, what does this verse mean?
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Haji Mustafa. And I asked this why?
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Because I come online and I read people every year they speak
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about idol Radir. She has make up their own 8.
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Or for example, you know, the Prophet was just saying, you
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know, Emir alumni, he's my friend, you'd be his friend as
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well. But there's a difference here.
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There's context, there's history, there's there's no
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denying that the event took place and you have 10s of
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thousands of sahaba. You have as it happened during
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the farewell Hajj of Rasunullah Alayhi.
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And on top of all of that, there was people who were giving their
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bear and it's there. And many prominent figures in
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Islamic history gave bayat to Emira Mumini Ali as Salam.
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But why do people deny it? Why do they say it's?
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It's nothing, something small. And but we say, well, Ola and
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teya Ali, lemurafel, lemurafel muna minbadi, where the Prophet
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tells Imam Ali, if it wasn't for you, O Ali, we would not be able
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to distinguish believers, Ali. We would not know who the Munin
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are. Yeah.
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And you are the source of understanding what a mutman is.
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That's why you know he is Emir al Mutmani.
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And that's why in another, you can never end with in another
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hadith, they say every verse that says, yeah, ayuh, ladina
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amanu. And there's close to 100 any
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verse that says, oh, you who believe.
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And then it says, oh, you who believe do such and such.
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Oh, you who believe have such and such characteristics, it
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gives you what the, because when it's saying, oh, you who
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believe, it's going to give you an order or to say you must have
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this characteristic to be a Mormon.
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There's a hadith that says Imam Ali not only has all the
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features in these verses, but he is the leader of everyone that
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has these features. That's the status of Imam Ali,
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Ali, Islam. And therefore for people to come
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forward and deny, I think obviously for political reasons,
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because of what happened after the martyrdom of Rasulullah
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sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and the fact that power had to be
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shifted away from the House of Hashem, That's the truth.
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And the way they did that was to literally try and deny Ghadir.
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And that's why I, if I'm not mistaken, there's a, there's a
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hadith attributed to our imams that says, you know, why is
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there an emphasis on Ashura? Why do Shias have an emphasis on
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Ashura? And the Imam responds, We
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emphasize Ashura so you don't forget it, just like you forgot
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Radir Allah. Wow.
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You forgot Radir, you neglected Radir.
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So now there's an extra emphasis on Ashura and they that's why
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they say how many the poems come forward.
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I've heard so many that say how many days before from the hand
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being risen to the head of the sun being risen on a spear and
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it literally 11th if we say 11th after Hydra or 10th after Hydra,
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the prophet raises the hand of Emir and what we need to say men
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Kuntu, Mullah, Fahad, Ali and Mullah.
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And then 50 years later it's the head of his son, the grandson of
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the prophet raised on a spear. And I think for those that doubt
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Radir, you literally have to look at the events leading up to
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Ashura and then go back through that timeline and ask why?
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Why did this happen? Radir is not something that is
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not mentioned in history books. The interpretation of Radir is
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going to be matching, just like today.
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The news will tell you what's happening.
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They're not making fake news. If you go to certain websites,
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they'll tell you this happened, this happened, this happened.
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But how they're interpreting the news, they've got different
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lenses on it. It's not objective, it's rather
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subjective and the same. No one can deny it.
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I saw, I don't know if it was a podcast or a little clip.
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I don't, I'm sure if you've seen it recently of someone was
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saying Imam Ali's the most knowledgeable, Imam Ali's this,
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Imam Ali's this. He's praising all the but you
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know, he couldn't be the successor.
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You know what he says? He says, He says he's the most
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righteous accent. He says, but just because you're
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the most righteous doesn't mean you have to be the leader.
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And try and explain to me what is the number one characteristic
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that you would want in a leader is righteousness.
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Righteousness implies Adam, it implies mercy, it implies
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justice, it implies, you know, qualification, it implies
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knowledge. Righteousness summarizes all of
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this. You're telling me a minimum of
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money is the most right. You accept it.
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OK, call us. And then just the guts to say
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it's confusing. It's confusing.
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Imagine having telling to tell your children matalin that
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you're the best one out of my children, but I'm going to pick
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someone else's son because just because you're the best, it
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doesn't mean I should pick Q2 for a certain role if I'm the
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best, why are you not picking me?
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It's. Counterproductive all that.
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Like there's we can go, so. What's the point of even he's?
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Saying he says, for example, he was the most spiritual.
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This is nothing you say this is the most spiritual or for
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example he has the highest level of Iman amongst all the
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companions which is of course unanimously accepted.
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Accepted like you said how you interpret it just.
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But just because you have Iman, doesn't that mean OK So who if
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not after the Sol Allah? So you have someone who's got
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medium level Iman or low level. How do you pick?
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Any what you know, if you're saying 1400 years later, for
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example, the Pakistani share living in the West 1400 years
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later can it's determined that this companion was number one in
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spirituality and righteousness. That means the people then knew
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it, the historians and the reporters knew it such that
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reached us today. And you're telling me that if
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Iman and righteousness is not what your criteria is, then what
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is because there's Allah determines succession by Shura,
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because you know, we we believe that this is not a man made
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religion, Therefore why should its succession be man made?
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It just it doesn't make sense. Amir Amir actually tells one of
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them, he says, if you're going to speak about Shura, if you've
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selected your leader as Shura, then why was I not part of the
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candidates? And if you, if this was your
23:32
case or if your case was about Orba, if your case is about
23:37
who's closer to the prophet Ferman Olamini, who's closer to
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the Holy Prophet than me? I read a beautiful hadith again,
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the, the, the, the, the for that I love Imam Ali.
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Don't finish where someone comes to.
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I believe I'll fix them up. And he says to him, Yebna
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Rasulullah Limada, why is your grandfather, the Holy Prophet,
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called Abel Qasim? So the Imam tells him he had a
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son who was called Qasim and he died.
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So he was called Abel Qasim, the companions, the Shia.
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He says, Yebna Rasulullah, do you see me as one of your
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followers? So the Imam Simal says yes.
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He says then give me a deeper answer.
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Don't give me a this answers for maybe someone else, I'm one of
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your followers, give me a deeper answer.
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Zidney AB not Rasulullah, give me more.
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He says well Imam tells him have you heard of the hadith that Ali
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that Muhammad sallallallahu alaihi wasalamu Ali, Abu Ali
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Hadihil Ummah are the fathers of this ummah.
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So the companion says yes, I've heard this.
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So the Imam tells him in the time of Rasulullah and Imam Ali,
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this fatherhood, this Abu, does it encompass Imam Ali as in
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Rasulullah? If he's the father, does it
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encompass Imam Ali as also his son?
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He says yes, of course he's also encompassed under that Abu of
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Rasulullah tells him Ali Qasim when NAR and therefore
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Rasulullah became abul Qasim, the one that divides and that's
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why it's called by the way, this hadith finishes here, but I wish
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this companion would have said Sydney.
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Yeah. So yeah, these these this by the
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way, most of these hadiths are are narrated by both schools,
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but it's just how they're interpreted.
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Can I ask you a question? Sorry, I've even said I wanted
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to ask. So look, you yomak mantodinukom,
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OK? We know that this is the primary
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verse with reference to Ida Lokhadil.
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Is it? And definitively, because there
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perhaps people watching who are researching, either they're
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Shiite or they want more conviction or they're not Shiite
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and they're doing research. Is it the most definitive
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argument Quranically in terms of proof of Qadir?
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And was it revealed at the point of Qadir?
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And how do we, for example, understand this verse in
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comparison to other Muslims? There's, there's obviously 2
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verses that are associated with Qadir and Surat al Maadiyah
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Allah. And there's obviously Aliyomu,
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Akmatullah kumti Nakum, these two verses Mufasarin, the
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majority, except those that have certain bold hatred of Imam Ali.
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You know, I've seen, and I was discussing this with a fellow
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student. I've seen in certain books, they
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say this verse was about Imam Ali Ali Salam.
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Yet my heart, the the, the scholarsies, my heart is not at
26:50
ease to praise Ali. Therefore I think it's not about
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Ali. So his reasoning to say that
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this verse is not about Ali, he doesn't give Allah because it
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was revealed about this companion or it was different
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time and he could give any other.
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He goes, my heart's not at ease. Mamerta, honey, I don't feel
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comfortable praising Ali. And for that reason, I'm going
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to say it's not about Imam Ali. So I think if someone really
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wants to go and, and and literally research into the
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event of Radir, then yes, definitely these two verses as
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well as the verse of Ulaya chapter 5, verse 55 in this
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verse is also combined together, I think.
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And the verse of the verse of we have even, you know, the verse
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Ammeta say Alun and in Naber al Adim, the Naber al Adim who I
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am, you know, there's there's narrations that say over 300
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verses were revealed about Imam Ali Ali Salaam, 300 verses
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directly, not maybe by name. Obviously there's 300 verses,
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the verse about Jairol Baria in the Ladino Aminos Alihad Udaicom
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Jairol Baria. So the 97 of the Quran Surat al
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Bayina, so I don't know the number Surat al Bayina, the last
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verse they they say when this verse was revealed and this is
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mentioned by Saudi Indora El Mentor which is a Sunni tafsir
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book. They say when this verse was
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revealed, Rasulullah called the mamali and said Jabrail just
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revealed a verse to me because we believe that every time
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Rasulullah revealed received revelation verses from the
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Quran, he would dictate it to Imam Ali and Imam Ali would
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learn it. That's why Imam Ali, Ali, Islam.
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There's another again, one story release to another.
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They say when he became the Wali of Kufa, Sallah Arbaena, Yeoman
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Salah Kalak, I think or or one of the verses, so I don't know
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which Surah, but he recited the same Surah in Salat al Fajr
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every day. He would recite Surat al Hamd
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and the Surat al Allah, Surat al Allah, Surat al Fatiha and Surat
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al Allah for 40 days every day the same sora.
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So the people in Kufa, they said Ali doesn't know the Quran
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because he's reading the same sora.
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Imagine someone reading the same sora.
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Imam Ali heard this. He got on the pulpit.
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He said, not only do I know the full Quran, I know about every
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single verse. Then he paused.
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He said no, no, no, I know about every single letter, when it was
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revealed, how it was revealed, about whom it was revealed and
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at what time it was revealed. Yeah, the location, the time,
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the error. Every letter asked me about it.
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Saluni, Saluni. That's how much I know the Quran
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and therefore when we look at the the this Hyrule barrier,
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they say Rasulullah said to Imam Ali.
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That's why some people come forward and say the word Shia
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came after Rasulullah. Again in this tafsir, if I'm not
29:59
mistaken, Tafsir Babari, he mentions Rasulullah sallallahu
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Ali. Ali Wasallam looked at Ali and
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said, yeah, Ali, the best of creation home and tawa Shia took
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the word Shia was used. You and your Shia are Khairul
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Baria. Jabrabna Abdullah Al Ansari has
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a comment commentary on this. He says after this verse was
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revealed, every time Imam Ali came into a gathering where we
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were sitting, we said ETA oja Akhairul Baria.
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It became one of his titles Khairul Baria.
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And therefore all these verses in the Quran.
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And then obviously it's just, I mean, we just fix your lungs on
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your glasses when you when you want to look at things, stop
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being subjective and just just a bit, just a bit be objective.
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So not too much, just a bit. And it's your research truth.
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You know, that's actually a mad. You know that story where people
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were denying that Ali knew the Quran?
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When? Yeah, yeah, because.
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They would hear from Rasulullah himself saying the Quran and the
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Quran is with Ali and you know, just before he spoke about that
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both again, Rasul Allah, what did he say?
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But that's a crazy word, yeah. Proper age is.
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It's specifically for these nawazud anywhere Rasul Allah, he
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says. You know that famous hadith.
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None will love you except a believer.
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None will hate you except a. Hippocrate or or son of a
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legitimate. One yeah, it goes to show the
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level. Only the time of Rasul Allah.
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Why would the Prophet mention it?
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There's hadith not in our books in other schools of thought.
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Let's say if the companions ever doubted that their children were
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illegitimate, they would take their children in front of Imam
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Ali and they would ask him, do you love that man or do you hate
31:47
him? If he, the child says I love
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him, then they know that he's not an illegitimate son.
31:53
If he says I hate him, they would start questioning the son
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of law. He's not in our books manner.
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Wow. Imagine the extent in the in his
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time. Lola Ali.
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And then you come and tell me that's this question marks over
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why you know he's the most righteous, the most spiritual.
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And then you question why it's not enough for him to be the
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successor of. Try to deep it.
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No, no, it's crazy. It's absolutely insane.
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And by the way, I think everything that we, we, we know
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about Imam Ali, I don't think we, we, we know the, we've had
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the, the real in depth knowledge of knowing Imam Ali.
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I believe it was Salman and Abadar, both of them looking at
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Imam Ali Ali Salaam in and the way of admiring him.
32:47
And the Prophet looked at Abadar and said, oh, about that.
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If you knew what was going through the mind of Salman about
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his admiration for Imam Ali, you think he's doing shirk?
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Imagine how Salman saw Imam Ali Ali Salam and what status he saw
33:07
Imam Ali Ali Salam. That's why I think it's
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important also to add that you mentioned as well to have matter
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of the Imam. And this is also I think goes
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back to knowing the the purpose of Ziara, knowing the meaning of
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Ziara. What does it because Ziara
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obviously means to visit, physically visit sometimes, to
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know the because we all know the rewards of the Siara.
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We're going towards the gateway of excellence.
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We're going towards the one that was the self of the Prophet, the
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one that was the son-in-law of the Prophet that married the
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daughter of the Holy Prophet, that became the father of the
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masters of the youth of Paradise.
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That became the one that was the gate to the city of knowledge,
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the doorway to the wisdom of Rasulullah, The one that Imam al
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Hassan. Again this is mentioned by
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Sheikh al Mufid. He says the one that when he
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entered the battlefield he had Jabrail and Mikhail standing by
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him. The one that was Karrad, the one
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that was Haider, The one that always came back to VV for
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Islam. The one that carried the door of
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Haibar. The one that Rasulullah
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sallallahu alaihi wasallam said Darbatu Aliyun Avalman Ebadita
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Kalein. The strike of Ali is worth more
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than the the the worship of all Thakalain, Hei, Kalein and Jin
34:19
from that day all the way till the day of judgement.
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How can one strike be what all of this the one that sacrificed
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everything, the one that only By the way, my favorite part I
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would say about the life of Imam Ali is that he never ever
34:35
claimed victory, never in his life after killing the 35 that
34:42
he killed in Bedder, 70 were killed in Bedder, 35 were killed
34:45
by him. So much so that Ibn AB al Hadid
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al Mortezidi, who writes a sharah of Nahjil Balaga says on
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the day of Beddar, 35 were killed by Imam Ali and the other
34:55
35 were probably killed by angels.
34:57
He doesn't even give credit to the Muslims.
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The one that protected the prophet and offered and to a
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certain extent that was victory for Islam because they wanted to
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kill Rasulullah, so he saved him.
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The one that was participating in the battle of of Khandak and
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killed Amar of Nateerud al Hamari, the one that carried the
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door of Khybar, He never ever after the victory said I've
35:19
claimed victory. Now when did Ali claim victory?
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For the moment of. Death.
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The only time this man ever claimed victory in his life was
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when he was struck and Salah, when he achieved Shihadeh.
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That's when he said fustu. That's the only time, he said
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now I'm victorious. Fustu.
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Arabicabe Not German, not Al Safin, not at Narawan.
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The only time he said I'm really now victorious first to and
35:46
that's why I've always said on the number show me a different
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path, just like Kumaili Binziad. Kumaili Binziad by the way would
35:54
asked by if I'm not mistaken he was killed by a had judge to
35:59
leave Imam Ali and Kumaili said you know what, yeah, I will, but
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on one condition. Show me a better path.
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I repeat the same words. Show me a better path than Ali
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and I'm willing to put my hands up.
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There is no better path than the path of Emir Al Muni Salam Ali.
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Shahna, I think a good opportunity to to kind of move
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the discussion further with your permission.
36:25
I will. Grab a copy.
36:27
I need 2 copies so I'll pass one to say Ali as well please if you
36:31
don't. Just as a whole in our hand we
36:34
are holding this book. Can I get a close up?
36:37
Thank you very much. This is a book the trustee of
36:40
Allah spiritual journey through Zyat.
36:42
I mean Allah by of course Aldea Sheikh Mustafali Musaud.
36:46
Grab a copy from Lujan Publications on Amazon on and
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they can contact Lujan through. There's, there's a link here,
36:54
there's a link I think that's up on the, on the, on their page as
36:56
well with the, with the book you can order.
36:59
Alhamdulillah, we, we, we have distributed quite a big number
37:04
of copies worldwide. The, these books in Hamdallah
37:07
have reached many of the centres that I've recited that in North
37:11
America. Al Hamdallah was also introduced
37:13
to Sheikh Mateen and Sheikh Saeed Kulini recently and I
37:17
shout out to their to their great initiative, Al Hamdulai.
37:20
We managed to get some books over to them to send to the
37:23
people that are needed. Need this type of book because
37:28
again, the, the the book, inshallah I won't speak too much
37:32
of it was I did start writing it when I was in Najaf and I wrote
37:39
it as a, as a series of lectures for Ramadan.
37:45
This is something that again, you brought up Najaf earlier.
37:48
This is something that I always miss and that was in every
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morning and most evenings. I had the honor and the
37:56
privilege of standing next to one of the doors of Imam Ali Ali
37:59
Salaam to the very hand. I'd pick the same do always.
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And I'd stand there and I'd take my phone out and I would read
38:07
the Sierra Salaam Alaika. I mean a live here the Salaam
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Alaika Amir. I would read the Siara.
38:47
Because the ziara is very unique, unlike ziaret, because
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you know, it's one of the most authentic ziareas we have.
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I would say from my very basic research, I, I spent maybe 2
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years writing this book and I, I decided once the notes started
39:02
getting more, I was like this, someone from my teachers
39:05
recommended that maybe why don't you think about writing a book?
39:08
Is there a book in English on ziaret?
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I mean Allah, I checked, there's nothing, there's not even an
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article on ziaret. I mean, Allah, there's just a
39:14
translation and even that I redone, I didn't depend on a
39:17
translation that was already online.
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I read on the translation of every word Hamdullah with, with
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with the team that I had editing the, the, the book.
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The Ziara of I mean, Allah is very unique because one, the
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narrator of the Ziara is who is Imam Zain al Habdi al Salam.
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So the the style of the Imam, which is style of what Saifa
39:37
Sajadiya is found in this Ziara because Ziara Tuare is also one,
39:45
if not first, second, yeah, in between, between Ziara Tuara and
39:48
Amin Allah, they'd be the most reliable.
39:51
Zarath Ashwara is a different style.
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This is I divided it shallow if you, if you and these copies are
39:58
for you. By the way, I divided it into 3
40:01
sections into Salaam supplication.
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Salaam supplication which I called the supplication the
40:08
building of a character. And then the munajat, so the the
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Salaam is obviously what I just recited.
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Just you speaking to the Imam Salaam Alayka.
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I mean, and then it turns into a dua, which is very every Sierra
40:24
has dua, even the art Asura Allah Muhammad Ali Muhammad as
40:29
well. And you know, the school of the
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Elbeit is so unique that we have supplications that not only are
40:37
our ziaras other than our duas, I'm talking about Ziaras
40:40
specifically. Not only are they salams to the
40:42
imams and showing you the greatness of the imam and the
40:45
merits of the Imam, they're also a way of to hate.
40:48
They're also a way of supplicating to Allah, subhanahu
40:51
to Allah. They're also a way to fixing
40:53
your mental state. Because the second part the dua
40:58
Allahu mafaja and nefsi mutman innatembekadaric
41:03
raviatambekadvaic Ek mohabbat al safwati auliya Ek mahboobatan fi
41:13
arduke wasama Ek saberatan Alan zuli Bala Ek Shah keratan le
41:19
fawad al Ek da kerat al Ek mushtaqatan, and so on and so
41:26
forth. The Imam, by the way, if I'm not
41:28
mistaken, he mentions 12 points in the second section.
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And Allah, I remember this, I would read and this is what
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really pushed me because I was like, wow, we have this.
41:40
And it's the it's the style of Ma'am Sajad where he says Allah
41:42
hum. Just this one line.
41:44
If we pause because I don't want to give, I want people to get
41:47
the book inshallah. Just this one line, Allah hum
41:50
Fajr and nefsi. And that was I, I this line,
41:59
this particular line, Voila, sometimes I would read it, that
42:05
same line. I would read it and read it
42:07
again to to a certain extent that I would realise that I'm
42:11
reading the same line for over 10 minutes.
42:14
Why? Because I kept telling myself
42:17
I'm saying to Allah, because it changes from from Salaam to now
42:21
Allah. And now I'm speaking to Allah,
42:23
Allah. And I would say, but I'm not.
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I had my family here, I was alone.
42:34
As much as it's amazing to live in Najaf, it's you face quite a
42:38
lot of hardship. Simple things that we're used to
42:41
in life. What do they call it?
42:43
Modern. No, no.
42:45
Modern world, Third world problem, Third world problem.
42:49
Simple things that I take for first world problems, First
42:52
world problem. Simple things that I would take
42:55
for granted, like drinking water.
42:57
That simple. Well, now I was there and I was,
43:00
I was struggling, especially the family part.
43:03
So I would read that 100 times and I would say, but I'm not,
43:08
I'm saying Allahu. Furthermore, not only do I want,
43:16
I want to be satisfied. And another line was like, so I
43:27
found every line so mesmerizing, yet I was like, I'm not at this
43:33
stage in my life. Why am I even reading this?
43:36
And that's why I would say sometimes I would repeat this
43:38
and then after this section which we you ask Allah for 12
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things, Mushtaqat and Allah farhati lekha Ek muteza widdit
43:46
and taqwa, so on and so forth until ushei musteneten bisuneni
43:51
olia Ek my son of life. I want it to be the same as your
43:54
Olia. I want to be mufarak from the of
44:01
your enemies mesh rule 10 and this Oh my God, measure rule 10
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Anil dunya not and I would say to myself, I say meshule 10 fid
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dunya. When I read this line at the
44:16
shrine of Imam Ali, I would say stop.
44:18
I'd speak to myself. I say no inter meshul fid dunya,
44:21
not anedunya. Don't lie to yourself.
44:24
Mejrule at an anedunya with what Behamdique, with an aaic, with
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your praise, with your gratitude.
44:33
After this part, it turns into the munajat part.
44:36
And munajat obviously comes from the word nedwar, where you
44:39
you're whispering. When do you whisper to someone?
44:42
You whisper to someone when you're so close to them, where
44:45
you don't have to shout, you don't have to raise your voice
44:47
because they're so close. You can whisper allahumma
44:49
ennakulubel mohmetina ileikawala wasubula raghabina ileika shara
44:55
Washington Alam El casadina ileikawala with EDA tila arafina
45:00
ileika faza was swatted daina ileika saida, which is the
45:05
longest part, by the way, the longest part, if you were to put
45:08
them in three sections, the longest part is the munajatpa.
45:11
And then at the end we like every Sierra.
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After all of this, it's as if Allah says what do you want?
45:19
What's what's, what's your aim? She treated that you say.
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And this is found in Zyarata Ashura Allahu Malik al Hamd
45:26
Hamdu Shah Karina Allah Musabi and also found in Zyarata Amin
45:30
Allah wajmah bini. All you're saying all I want.
45:34
After I've done the Salaam of Emir and mumminin, I've asked
45:36
for ultimate nan, I've asked for all of this, I've done the najwa
45:39
with you, Wajmah bini wabaina olia E.
45:43
That I think needs to be the aim of every Shia and maybe this
45:48
Radir, we can ask for this door. I want you to unite me with my
45:54
olia wajmabeni wabena oliai. So whether it's in this world
45:59
with the Imam of our time or whether it's in the hereafter.
46:04
But it doesn't finish there, says Tawasul is also on Bahati,
46:08
Muhammad or Fatima, while Hassani while Hussein.
46:14
And therefore I think I found the identity of a Shia in the
46:21
Sierra. And I, I, I, I, I, I speak about
46:25
it with passion because I realized what gave me the
46:29
strength, I think to maybe have that Atmanan and have that
46:34
tranquility and peace because no one's going to deny there's
46:39
always ups and downs. Before you came, Ahmed, you were
46:42
saying, you know, you sometimes it's one of those days you
46:45
always have those ups and downs. Because I think if you, if you
46:48
practice, not only trying to achieve at Manan, because there,
46:54
there will be days that where you'll say, you know what,
46:56
today's not a day where I feel at Manan, but if you just always
47:01
practice that and the prescription of practicing that
47:05
is found in these doors and these Yanas.
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And again, that's why I say I'm a Shia because of doors and
47:11
Sianas. If there's any other school that
47:13
can provide words like this, that can bring tranquility into
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my heart, where again Tohed Tohede is found is central.
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And you speak to Allah, son on that.
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On that notion of Dohede, I just want to read a passage from your
47:31
prologue for those at home. So for for you guys, you can get
47:34
an understanding as to what some of the inspiration behind this
47:38
was. Sheikh wrote Ioffer this book as
47:41
a companion for seekers who wish to draw nearer to the last one
47:44
or to Allah through the words of Zyat Amin Allah.
47:46
For me, Amira Mahmanin, Imam Ali Ali Salaam has long been more
47:50
than a distant exemplar. He's a living moral presence, a
47:53
guide and a father figure whose voice accompanies my days.
47:57
This is not only because I've made a habit of reciting Zyad
47:59
that mean a lot every day, but also because I return again and
48:03
again to his sermons, letters and sayings and natured Balaga
48:07
and the wider corpus of transmitted hadith works.
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In times of shadow, I have found that his words kindle light.
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In moments of failure, they rekindled resolve.
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I think that is beautiful as also extremes.
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It's so well written and for knowing you for so many years,
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you know, Mashallah, you know, I'm not surprised that you wrote
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just in this small passage, the amount of depth and substance
48:29
there is. I can't wait to to really get
48:30
stuck into it. And Shala, I'm looking forward
48:32
to it. I didn't want to ask a specific
48:34
question though. Onsiat I mean, Allah, do you
48:37
think that this is something which has the ability to
48:42
transform our understanding of Willaya?
48:45
And do you feel like our understanding of Willaya found
48:48
within the Western Shia world, specifically the way we perceive
48:52
a minimum money, the way we speak about him, the way he's
48:54
spoken about Ammanabel, and so on and so forth, can be
48:57
transformed through a great, great and deep understanding of
49:00
Zyat Amin Allah? Before I answer your question I
49:04
just want to mention that you know my love for Zyat Amin
49:08
Allah. I know I said it started in when
49:11
I started reciting it but really truly and I think everyone can
49:14
relate to this in one way or the other, was after every Salat
49:18
Maghrib and Bashar I saw, my grandmother saw my father's
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mother who is was born and raised in Najaf.
49:29
But she did not go to school, she couldn't she could not read
49:32
and write. Most the elderly generation were
49:37
like that, the elders. So her father would not let her
49:40
go to school. It wasn't that something that it
49:43
was bad cultural either way. After every Magar ban Asha, she
49:47
read Ziyarata Ashura and Ziyarata Amin Allah by memory,
49:52
by memory. And in some instances I hold
49:55
her. So I don't know, I don't
49:56
remember was she or not, she would hold the Sibha.
50:00
So I'm guessing, you know, there are parts in Ziyarata Ashura
50:02
where you had to do 100 times. She actually done them 100
50:05
times. And that's where I thought when
50:08
I came back to Ziyarata Amin Allah and I tried memorizing
50:10
yes, shall I memorize most of it?
50:13
I thought, wow, to do that and I'm sure and and that I think
50:19
played a huge role. Even though I was young, I was
50:22
listening and watching her do that.
50:24
It played a huge role for me to fall in love course 20 years
50:28
later for the Ziara and that now coming to answer your question,
50:33
I think to understand the the position of wilaya, definitely
50:39
this Ziara. It's just the first paragraph
50:42
which I says introduces Imam Ali as Amin of Allah, the trustee of
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Allah, which is the title of the book and the Hajjah of Allah.
50:51
So you you get unlike maybe Ziara tawarith where you say
50:55
Salaam alaikum, he doesn't introduce Imam Ali through
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someone else introduces Imam Ali directly through him.
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He's the Amin of Allah, he's the Hajj of Allah.
51:06
He's Emir al Mumminin Salaam alaikum.
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Then it goes into the steps of why he, in my opinion, why he is
51:13
this a shadow anaka jihad to fill a haka jihad.
51:17
You strived in the way. Again, this is not just striving
51:19
on the battlefield. Jihad is not just a battlefield.
51:24
Your work, your amel was according to what the Kitab of
51:27
Allah, what tabate sunenen nabiye and your ettaba was the
51:33
Sunnah of Rasulullah hatta da al Kallahu al Ajwar.
51:36
From that first moment you were born until your last one.
51:38
So on the in the first paragraph, yes, you understand
51:41
the position of Imam Ali, especially where if you go
51:45
through the book, I done a commentary of word by word.
51:48
So assalamu alaik. What does assalamu alaik mean?
51:51
What does mean? What does mean mean mean word by
51:57
word? I done just that first part.
51:59
I think you'll understand who Imam Ali is.
52:02
And then I think what's unique about the Ziara and it goes
52:06
maybe back to the Hadith of Maharafa Allahu, Maharafi Nefsek
52:09
and the Kingdom to Arab Nefsek, Namaraf, Nabiyek, Allahu,
52:12
Maharaf Nehra Sulekh and the Kingdom to Arab Neera Sulek, the
52:16
Maharaf Hajitek. It's all in connected, as you
52:19
mentioned, I think earlier that Nabua, Imamah, Tawheid, they're
52:24
all connected. It's like a puzzle where you're
52:26
putting together. And I think ziyarat, I mean
52:29
Allah as well as Ziyarat Ashura. Please pay for me that I'm
52:33
hoping maybe in the next few years.
52:36
I take the initiative of speaking about, of writing about
52:38
Ziyarat Ashura, even though I've started book #2 which is about
52:42
Ziyarat Zahra. But shall I'll go back to the,
52:47
the, the, the, the, the, the, the relationship.
52:49
I think of Toheid Nabuwe, Imam, spirituality.
52:53
Even you know, some people say Islam doesn't really speak about
52:56
mental health. Hi, this is Yara.
52:59
This is Yara is all mental health, mental state.
53:01
Islam doesn't speak about bellah.
53:04
This is Yara is about bellah. Islam doesn't speak about
53:06
gratitude. This is Yara Shah karat and
53:09
Lisawabi alike. Mushtaq qatan Allah farhati.
53:13
I know, I'm sorry, I'm racing these lines, but how can you be
53:17
Mushtaq? Let's be honest, I'm talking,
53:19
I'm going to talk about myself. How can you be Mushtaq?
53:24
Allah farhati? Who is ready to meet Allah?
53:29
No, no, no, no. He's not saying who's ready, who
53:34
is wishing and Mushtaq. He's missing the meeting with
53:37
Allah. He's yearning the meeting with
53:40
Allah, which is a would I, I mean the Ziara as you, you've
53:46
answered, I think your own question, the Ziara in itself,
53:48
if someone can try and understand it or even read the
53:52
words of the Ziara and just pick one line and keep reading it and
53:56
every line what's what's again, I've done every line.
53:59
I've tried to relate it to the Quran.
54:02
Yes, I've tried. I've tried.
54:06
So for example, I looked at the Quran.
54:11
Where does where is mentioned in the Quran?
54:23
The sign posts that you've placed towards you are clear,
54:27
Awaba. Then I looked at the Quran and
54:30
it spoke about the sign point. The sign points that Allah
54:32
places in the sky for those travellers and they are the
54:37
stars. They are there, the guides for
54:41
travellers and and I thought everything's intellect.
54:44
That's why Imam Zain al Abidin Ali of the Salatu Salaam.
54:49
I think we are blessed to have Saifa Sajadiya and some of us
54:54
don't know that the same author of Sahaifa Sadjadiya is the
54:58
author of I hope I've done it justice, even though I think I
55:04
haven't touched the surface of this.
55:06
It's it's it's a. Gem and we I think the community
55:11
is indebted to you and for the team who weren't watching this.
55:14
We're indebted to the albeit I don't think we've, we've done
55:16
enough to, to to to showcase the gems of the albeit in these
55:21
dohas and these applications. As a dear friend of mine
55:26
mentions that sometimes we have the prescription and the
55:30
medicine in our hands. We just don't know.
55:32
We don't take it. Yeah, or or we, or we just we,
55:35
we don't know how to take it. We don't know the usage.
55:39
We just we, we, we tick the boxes rather this has to be
55:41
done. So I don't want to get going to
55:44
this has to be done on this night only.
55:46
Who says again, this is not I don't who says do How come it
55:49
has to be done on Thursday? Why can't we do do Le Clark on
55:52
Thursday? Why don't we one week try to add
55:55
a toba on Thursday? Why don't we resort to JAMA on
55:58
Thursday? Why akunas?
56:00
Maybe there is sign. I'm not saying there is it
56:03
because you this this routine? Sometimes it's very nice.
56:07
It's very good. Taskir is good.
56:10
But if we change it up a bit, just how sometimes they say if
56:13
you change up your routine a bit, you'll have more energy to
56:16
do things. Or maybe the routine is still we
56:19
don't. Want to be too rigid?
56:21
This is the thing as a community and also be open to exploration
56:25
of ourselves and our souls. And in doing that, we'll gain
56:29
proximity to our last Pantala and you know, with, with a meal.
56:32
Mahmanin especially, there's so many like countless aspects,
56:37
elements of him to study. And you can't, you can't limit
56:40
yourself. For example, that is compassion
56:42
or his mercy or his justice or his strength or his fairness or
56:45
his spirituality or any element or characteristic of minimal
56:49
manin studying him in that he's the best in the field.
56:53
So then to understand him as a as a whole, you then you we, we
56:57
can't rely on on the fallible human being to do that.
57:00
We look towards that Emma Alima Saddam and and Salaam Hamsallah
57:04
Ali to describe it. Miramot Manin.
57:06
We know, of course, the hadith. Oh Ali, none know you like Allah
57:11
and I and of course the continuation of this none no I
57:14
and none not Allah. And this is where we look.
57:17
We look to the infallibles to describe the infallibles and the
57:20
works of the infallibles, which allow us to understand a glimpse
57:23
into way the infallibles or a last panel to I.
57:25
Said that's very key, I think. It's very important.
57:28
There's a fine line for us to draw and I think from an Al
57:32
Qaidi perspective as well, and a theological perspective, the
57:35
ziyada will allow us to understand the way to speak
57:38
about Allah's panel to Allah, because this is something, the
57:40
etiquette of speaking to Allah about Allah.
57:42
And from Allah we ask from Allah.
57:44
As well I sent. Sub panel to Allah so this is
57:47
it's allow us to train ourselves.
57:49
So may Allah grant you Mubaraka Sheikh now give you more risk
57:52
and more tofia to continue Shala.
57:54
We expect the the 2nd and then the 3rd and inshallah more
57:58
knowledge and continuation. Shall all the ziadas of all the
58:01
hilbe, That's the, that's the, that's the name, the ziadas of
58:04
the Hilbeit. And as you said, because there's
58:08
they, they give us the etiquette and the style of how to
58:11
understand the, the other imam. Because I know our minds are
58:14
limited to a certain extent. We'll understand that through
58:16
the and the etiquette of speaking to a loss of Hana and
58:20
what to ask from a loss of Hana. Have you ever I always get asked
58:24
this question Like when I go to the shrine my mind goes blank.
58:28
What do I even say? What?
58:29
Do I even say yeah? I say wow, pick up Ziara
58:31
Tashura. Let it do the work for you,
58:34
yeah? That's it.
58:35
Just pick up that Ziara and maybe as you're reading that
58:38
Ziara, if you read with understanding a bit and
58:43
contemplating on the words, then things will start popping up in
58:46
your head that you've you've wanted to ask for.
58:49
But through these lines you'll be able to ask.
58:51
For that's all it is. We just need to be sincere in
58:55
the way we do it, you know? The hardest thing, You make it
58:57
sound hard. Yeah, it's the hardest part.
59:00
You know, like you go like it's right.
59:01
I feel this as well. I'm sure you felt the same.
59:03
You go to the shrine, like now what do I say?
59:06
What do I say? What do I do?
59:07
Immediately I think this member of family, this friend, this guy
59:10
asked me to program this. That's how my mind works.
59:13
It feels like my my mind is a browser and I have 20 tabs.
59:15
On go checklist. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
59:17
Honestly, it's like you literally so you know.
59:20
Especially if you, if you're someone that's going and, and
59:23
you and you look at your mile and you ask yourself, you know,
59:27
do I deserve to be? Do I deserve the Imam even
59:30
looking at me or returning? Is the imam going to return
59:34
micellar? I think that's very that's
59:36
that's key in in in in doing hesab of yourself, putting
59:41
yourself under the microscope and saying now that I'm here,
59:45
even though I always say the Imam, whichever of our imams is
59:49
the most generous is the most kind.
59:52
If an Imam can can even say the Shohada can even quench the
59:57
thirst of someone he knew will deprive him of water.
1:00:02
Before Ashura, there's an enemy that he says, he says Imam
1:00:06
Hussain through the water container gave me water, but the
1:00:11
water wasn't coming out from the water container because there
1:00:15
was a bit left. So what the Imam did, he
1:00:18
squeezed the water container. Then with his hand, he put his
1:00:23
hand and I drank water from the hand of Sayidh Shuhada.
1:00:28
And I mean, either I struck the water, that same person, Imam
1:00:31
Hussein knows this person is going to be involved in his
1:00:34
killing. That same person deprived Imam
1:00:36
Hussein from drinking water. So if the Imam can do that with
1:00:39
his enemies, imagine how he looks at us inshallah, hopefully
1:00:42
as his. But I think just thinking about
1:00:46
that, we'll hopefully raise someone's spirituality and maybe
1:00:52
get him closer to a loss of Hannah Hotallah through that
1:00:55
little bit. Inshallah, I mean at Hamdallah
1:00:57
and chef, I mean Allah give you so fearful this because no doubt
1:01:00
many people will benefit from this myself, Ahmed, Inshallah,
1:01:04
those listening from around the world, they they get their hands
1:01:07
on the spirit because you're missing out if you don't open up
1:01:09
the ziadas of a Hilbe, the Rs and the supplications that we
1:01:12
have in the Hilbe. This is treasure, this is gem
1:01:14
that we're losing out if we don't come across them.
1:01:17
And I just want to mention one thing, Chair, you mentioned your
1:01:20
grandmother, may Allah bless her soul.
1:01:24
I have no doubt that she planted the seeds for this and this
1:01:27
blossomed. This is what came.
1:01:29
And we run behind. Let's recite Surat al Fatahana
1:01:32
and her honour and Shallah. For the Jimmy, for all Mahomeni,
1:01:46
including your father and all the Hadamat Ali Salaam.
1:01:49
And I think though you're right, sometimes something you can do,
1:01:55
it can plant a seed in the heart of your fellow Mormon or brother
1:01:59
or your son or your cousin. So everyone looks at, especially
1:02:03
maybe those like yourselves who are in the public domain who are
1:02:07
doing these shows. Everyone looks at your actions
1:02:10
and the way you speak and the way you do your Salah and the
1:02:12
way you do your siara and you can be a source of of influence
1:02:17
or a source of inspiration for someone.
1:02:20
Sounds beautiful, can I just share one thing When you were
1:02:24
mentioning that I was I went quiet by the way I I still
1:02:27
having memories and I was remembering when I was a kid.
1:02:30
My mother may a lot protect her for us she's reside every week's
1:02:34
yart. I mean Allah but I never knew it
1:02:35
was yart. I mean I was a kid by Rama.
1:02:38
What is this? What is this was this.
1:02:39
I came one day I asked her what is this?
1:02:40
This is yart. I mean, I mean Allah attributed
1:02:44
to Imam Ali, Ali Salaam and that's how I was introduced to
1:02:47
it, spirituality at home. And I think this is something we
1:02:50
can introduce you to how? I don't know, I don't know.
1:02:53
I think it's rare now, but you mentioned a lot of the families.
1:02:58
I'm sure you have them in your families.
1:02:59
They used to have memorized Ziaras.
1:03:01
Yeah, of course. I don't know.
1:03:03
Is it still common? Is it still found now?
1:03:05
It was. How it was because our elder
1:03:07
generations. They had time what they did
1:03:10
because they did have social media.
1:03:11
Why were they able? There was, there was, there was
1:03:13
like a ritualization of that teaching when they were young,
1:03:15
no screen time. Do you know what I mean?
1:03:17
And also lastly, because a lot of our families went through
1:03:20
persecution of some sort. And so they had to learn this, I
1:03:23
think, and, and they maintained that.
1:03:24
Like for example, in our community, I don't know how, I'm
1:03:28
sure you guys have seen this. When you go to Pakistan or Khoja
1:03:31
Centre, they point towards the Qibla.
1:03:33
Have you seen that? Yes, and this is.
1:03:35
Yeah, because, for example, that, you know, we had to do.
1:03:37
I don't know where, where, how that came from, but this the old
1:03:42
wives tell oh, because we didn't want people to know.
1:03:44
We're facing the qibla to do the.
1:03:46
Form of tape, yeah. Yeah, form of tape, yeah.
1:03:48
And it's kind of that passed down generationally, but you see
1:03:50
the elder generations have. They're still still.
1:03:53
I remember my grandmother as well, may Allah bless, protect
1:03:55
her. Same thing all the Ziara top of
1:03:58
her head from when we were young.
1:03:59
And I think we have to the terrible we have to do for our
1:04:02
children. Hamdullah we will have young
1:04:03
children and for those at home who don't, inshallah soon, but
1:04:07
that is so critical. So start us, I think, memorizing
1:04:10
and then passing it down. Yeah.
1:04:11
Well, do you know what I was? I was thinking about this.
1:04:14
I was driving to work today as a panel.
1:04:15
I was thinking about this as well.
1:04:17
I was like, I'm going to get to the point where my sons are
1:04:19
going to be like, Baba teach me something new along with the and
1:04:23
then I'm like, you know what, Ali Hadi, you learn it and I'll
1:04:27
learn it with you. That's.
1:04:28
What I'm doing now but. Yeah, you humble yourself and it
1:04:30
will do it together. But it's, you know, it's
1:04:32
motivation for us. And Charlotte.
1:04:34
Charlotte, thank you so much. Thank you for having me.
1:04:36
I'm always honored and privileged to be a guest here.
1:04:40
I love this show. I love the podcast wherever I
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go. They mentioned After Maghrib,
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you guys have done amazing. The beautiful thing is that the
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fact that you've made sure that it's fun and at the same time
1:04:55
it's educational, inspirational. I pray for your success
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I mean. Subscribe to After Maghrib.
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Thank you very. Much progeny doing big things.
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Say Ali. Any last words?
1:05:28
It's it's a day of celebration. So let's let's send on the high
1:05:33
note and Sha Allah. And for those of you who don't
1:05:35
have love for Amir al Mohmanino, new to Amir al Mohmanino,
1:05:38
learning about Shia Islam, start with Amir al Mamini Alayhi
1:05:42
Salaam. Don't, don't listen to, you
1:05:44
know, those who turn you. Don't talk to the Shia, don't
1:05:46
listen to the Shia, Don't read their books.
1:05:49
No, no, no, we have all the keys, Inshallah to the path of
1:05:53
Rasul Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
1:05:56
And on that note, I just can see every.
1:05:59
Time the piece has arrived in the door.
1:06:01
I can smell it. You'll have wrap up seed.
1:06:03
Come on. Every time we have a
1:06:05
conversation, checking on a mirror Normani, whether it's 13
1:06:09
Rajiv or whether it's idol Kadir or Leila Turkadir and you know,
1:06:13
things like I always have a question.
1:06:14
I ask why are you Shia? I'm not going to ask it this
1:06:17
time because I know we, we, we can go on the it's never ending.
1:06:21
Why are you Shia? It's never ending, but I just
1:06:24
want to say because there will be people listening for the
1:06:26
first time that are new to Shia Islam or perhaps are learning
1:06:31
about Shia Islam, why are they missing out by not having Imam
1:06:35
Ali part of their spirituality? And that's my final thing.
1:06:38
I know anything what's important.
1:06:40
They're missing out on on this. Yeah, they're missing.
1:06:43
I removed the microphone because I thought he's.
1:06:44
Going to. I was really cheating, you know,
1:06:46
I was like yellow. Let's do.
1:06:47
This. These are my favorite parts of
1:06:49
any. Conversation.
1:06:51
I think they're missing out on what you just said, Dunya and
1:06:55
Ahara, they're missing on a special taste that you can only
1:07:01
feel when you have a understanding of who Ali of the
1:07:07
Abu Talib Ali Salam is and that I think cannot be replaced by
1:07:12
anything. And Akhara of course, because he
1:07:15
is, as we mentioned, Kasimu Jenna Tuanar, and he is the one
1:07:19
that we believe will intercede for us insha'allah, because he
1:07:26
represented what Rasulullah wanted to be represented.
1:07:29
At the end of the day, when I say I am a Shia of Ali, really I
1:07:33
am a Shia of Muhammad sallallahu.
1:07:36
As much as we admire Ali Ali, Ali Ali Salaam and we mention
1:07:43
his father and we always have to remind ourselves that that same
1:07:46
admiration, if not greater, was what Ali had for his beloved
1:07:50
Muhammad sallallahu. So the true path of Islam really
1:07:57
is through Ali of Nabi al Talib to Muhammad sallallahu Ali or
1:08:02
sallam. So really, if you're, if you, if
1:08:04
you're not following, you're missing out on on.
1:08:09
Everything. And you're not following Ali,
1:08:11
you're not really following Muhammad.
1:08:12
But I'll leave it there. I open the.
1:08:15
So bro, sorry, sorry, sorry. All right guys, Inshallah we'll
1:08:18
see you next week. Thank you chef.
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