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Top 3 Sahabah of the Prophet Muhammad (saww) · After Maghrib 🌙

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Is it true that the shares love or hate the companions of the
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Sallallahu Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi.
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How does the last Pantala talk about the companions on the
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whole of Quran? How do we hear about them in the
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hadith? This is a really important
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discussion to talk about brother sisters, so we'll see where it
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conversation saying I. Love how you doing?
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I'm better now. Known that I'm your companion.
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What sort of companion are you? I'm joking, I'm.
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Joking sha Allah won that we go agenda together.
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And sha Allah, how's how's things?
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How's your week? Hamdallah has is, is.
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It's been good #1 because it's been holidays, holiday season,
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so, you know, spending more time with the family.
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Yeah, yeah, Being able to sit back a little, but still working
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here and there. Yeah, yeah.
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But how? How was your break?
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Yeah, it's good Hamdallah. We had Majalis of last few days
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for the Waffart of Melbourne and yeah it was amazing.
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Well, Daniel Buchbara Sheikh Hussam Altar, who is a friend of
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the podcast, he sends his alarm as well.
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Right. He's a big friend.
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Yeah, he's a big friend. Most about you.
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You spoke to him, right? Yeah, he was interested in
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coming. His schedule was packed out.
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So he said next time in Charlotte, well, sad, sadly.
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We would have loved to have him on.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I know he's also been recommended.
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You know, sometimes we release a question.
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Who would you like to see on the podcast?
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His his name, Marshall has popped up a number of times.
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And in Charlotte he did say he did promise us that whenever
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he's in town next time in Charlotte, he'll make time for.
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US, Charlotte and Charlotte and Charlotte.
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New Year's coming up. It is, it is.
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I'm not sure if we should be looking forward to the New Year.
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Why? Huh.
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Why? I don't know.
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Maybe next year we die. Allahu Alam.
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Allahu Alam. Are we ready to die?
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You know, there's so much questions we need to ask.
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We've asked the right questions. You're right.
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Yeah. But I have AI have a serious
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question here as well. And I've seen not one, not two,
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but three Dulfa cars on you today.
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What's your favorite moments of the year?
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My two favorite moments of the year.
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It's a bit scary. Yeah.
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My two favorite moments is, well, one of my favorite moments
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is when I come here on the podcast, if I'm honest, because
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there's because there's so much to learn and whatnot.
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We've been blessed with so much amazing guests that I can go
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home and be happy and satisfied. I learn something new because
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it's very rare that you spend your day-to-day life without
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learning something new. It's always, you know, recycled
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conversations. While Hamdullah has been very
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beneficial, the second one, I'll leave it to myself.
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That's fine. Yeah.
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I'm not going to mention it. Yeah.
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OK, All right. Because I'm scared if I say the
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wrong thing, someone might get upset.
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So I hope you don't meet me. Yeah, that's good, man.
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It's been a busier. It's been a good year.
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We've grown now Hamdal, we're at 5000 subscribers on YouTube.
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So thank you everyone. I think we're on a couple
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thousand on Spotify, which is cool.
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Yeah, we're growing much. All our communities growing next
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year, our target by the end of next year.
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I told I know. I told you and you said whoa and
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most balls like it should be more.
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I think it's a big target, but you know they're going to make
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it happen in Charlotte. Do you remember what we said?
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I'm going to go back to my question.
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Yeah, go on. I don't see one, not two, but
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three though, four cars on you. What is happening?
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2/3 What's going on? This is a hoodie, of course,
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that was gifted to us by farkala.co.uk, who of course are
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friends of the podcast and who worked with us before.
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And yeah, I got this Dufaqara a few days ago, which we're
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talking about. Where's yours usually wet one?
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I usually wear one at my teenage years.
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I I haven't rocked one if I can say for many, many years.
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I just feel I don't. I'm not going to say it's not my
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fashion or something. Who wouldn't want to rock the
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Fakar on the neck, you know? But I think my one is engraved
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in the heart. I don't need to show it.
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It's there and he knows it and I love it.
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Now. Leave it out.
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Leave it out. It makes Noor.
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On top of Noor. Turn off the lights.
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You know, this is the thing. Yeah.
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When we talk about the car, yeah, you know people like you
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don't say that Ali Abdir Balib, Ali Salaam is the companion of
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Assault Allah. It kind of like makes me feel a
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bit uneasy, edgy in my heart. Because, you know, he's more
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than just a companion. He's not a companion.
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That's the thing. He's not calling him a companion
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is like and it's being a companion.
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A true companion is a respect, high level states.
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But calling Ali Ali Salaam just a companion is disrespectful to
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him. His status, his stature, the
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what he did in the past and what he continues to do today is
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disrespectful. And we're talking about in, in
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my opinion, the well, not just in my opinion, this is the
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opinion of of of of Allah, Alamar, all the Ahmed basically
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Hussam and of of Salah Muhammad Sallahu Alaihi Ali is #2.
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He's the second most knowledgeable human being that
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alas, Manthalah created. You know, so it's something we
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say a lot. When you say #2, my heart
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dropped you. Know.
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Because we're used to hearing he's number.
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One he's number one and he'll always be one.
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Well solallah is the most knowledgeable the most Habib
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Allah you know I mean minin is is of course willi Allah like
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you know this we have Habib Allah and then you have
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Williallah Assadallah yadullah ainallah nor Allah like.
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If you go on. People say he's just a
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companion. He's not just a companion.
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He's more, he's more and I and I and I.
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And I think the question we should ask today is, you know,
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here you are speaking about Imam Ali Ali Salaam saying he's more
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than just a companion. And I echo everything that
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you've said here, but does that mean we disrespect other
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companions? Because I think, I think the
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real question should be here is do Shia love or hate the
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companions of Rasul Allah, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasalam. Let's start there.
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You start. No, you start.
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You go. You go.
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You go. The people who say, let me get
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this straight, OK, the people who say that Shia disrespect the
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companions, yes, people actually say Shia disrespect the
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companions. They do.
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I hear it all the time. Where are you getting this
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information? But let's let's take it, OK,
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let's, let's, let's come from, let's roll with it for a minute,
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OK? The Shia treat the companions of
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Osullah Muhammad Sallahu Alaih in the same way you treat any
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group of people, right? So if, for example, you were to
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talk about any demographic, any population, you were to say all
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people who earn below a certain wage or all people who are over
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a certain age, for example, are good people or they are blessed
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people or they are bad people, that that doesn't make sense,
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right? Because you're grouping hundreds
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of thousands, especially when it comes to companions.
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Yeah, into one opinion, one narrative that does not work
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logically speaking for the Shia or for that the Sunnah.
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Right. So the Shia, we view the
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companions in three categories and these are categories defined
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by Las Pantal and we can go into them inshallah later.
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The first category are those of which who gave their all for the
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sake of Islam. They believed in La Ilaha Al
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Allah, not just believed in it, they enabled that belief into
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their day-to-day life. So those their, their, their
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belief translated into action. You know the second group of
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those are those who were Muslim but maybe in times lacks
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sincerity or maybe for example had questionable actions they
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may have done something which was disproved of by the Holy
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Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Ali, Ali.
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And the third group of those who are so-called Companions are
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those who joined Islam either for personal or political
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reasons, to infiltrate their religion for their own gain or
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those who are prostated after Holy Prophet passed away.
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OK, so those who joined Islam and the Left after the Prophet
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died, or those who joined Islam but never actually joined, we
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see the likes of Yazidim, Maharia, Maharia, Ibn Ibn ABI
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Sufian. These are classic examples of
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those. And there's hadith.
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You know, in the books of our brothers, we can go into them
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are those who joined religion and the left, or joined religion
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by by tongue lip service but never actually believed it in
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their hearts. So do the Shias hate the
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Companions? No.
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Come on I challenge anyone tell me who loves the the companions
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to the to the degree where the true shell of companions you
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know Abu Dhabi, Kafari Solimano Mohammadi, Bilal Nokdad.
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Amar Hajar Salman. You know there's this list goes
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on on and on and on we can go for days talking about these
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companions. So no, I I find that
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disingenuous as a statement for. This.
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I love that clarification. It's amazing and it's one that
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resonates not just with me but with every lover of Imam.
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Because well before I even get into the conversation, let me
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just say someone might be listening what as a companion.
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You know they can get confused. What's an imam?
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What's a companion? Sometimes they even get confused
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between the Imam and the Imam of a Masjid for example.
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But a companion is someone who is close to Rasul, Allah,
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Muhammad, Sallallahu Aliwali, Salem in the context of this
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conversation. But in general, a companion is
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always considered either a friend or let's say, a disciple
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or a comrade of one of Allah's messengers.
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So we had, for example, Aisa Ali Salaam, He had disciples, Musa
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Ali Salaam, He had companions. That's all.
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Allah Muhammad has the best of companions.
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Allahu Ali Ali Wasalam. So I think the conversation here
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today is, do we do we respect them?
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Do we not respect them? We're going to find out and
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we're going to start it this way.
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Yeah, let's take it on both. So how?
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How do other? So, for example, you said the
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opinion of how we define companions.
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What is the general consensus? OK, sure Fiani from From what I
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understand and I can be corrected.
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Let me know in the comments. The way we see companionship
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from the school of the Ethel based Ani Matala Salati of
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Salaam. As you mentioned there were
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three categories, one of them being is that they believe in
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Allah. Subhanahu Wataila and his
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oneness full toe hate. There's no shirk involved
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whatsoever, #2 They believe in Muhammad, Rasulullah Sallallahu
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aliwali, Salem as the final messenger and he comes with the
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message of Allah. But the number 3 is what makes
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us different. This is where the difference
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come is that did they spend their lives for the sake of
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Allah, rasulallah and Islam until the very final moments or
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did their hearts waver? Did they change later on or did
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they become a companion starting as a monarch from day one just
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as tongue as you mentioned and not truly in the heart.
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The belief wasn't there. See, this is where we differ
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with our brothers. And then listen to know what you
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want in the Sunni school of thought.
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And I think in all the schools of thought when it comes to like
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Shafi, humbly Maliki, all these people, they believe anyone that
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SAT, walked, talked, ate with the prophet is considered a
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companion. It's considered righteous, it's
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considered, you know, it's a no go zone.
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You cannot dissect them. You cannot read into them.
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You cannot question them. You cannot say, for example, was
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this wrong, was this right? Whatever they said, it's like
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Hodja, do you understand? So there's like they call it, I
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think Adalat of Sahaba. That's the right terminology
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where they are just in every sense.
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You can't question them. We say no because some of them,
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they can deviate from the path. That's.
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Very true. Some of them can later on become
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hypocrites. Some of them later on can change
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the son of Muhammad Sallallallahu alayhi alayhi
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wasallam. So there is a clear difference
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between how we see sahaba and how they see sahaba.
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Generically. It can be the same.
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I don't speak on their behalf, but the way they do it, I don't
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think it's the right way because you can use.
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If we use that in a different scenario, that means everything
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is right and there's nothing wrong I understand.
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So there's like some differences here and there.
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Yeah, I mean, like, I I wouldn't be surprised.
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I kind of get it. If you're to say anyone that
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interact with the Holy Prophet Muhammad is blessed, Of course,
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bro. You're blessed to be amongst
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those who interact with the Prophet, AIDS spokes at walk,
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talked with the prophet, fought alongside him, you know, these
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are you. It's not difficult to believe
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that people would say anyone who falls within that category
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should be considered a companion.
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I get it. But yeah, at the same time,
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these are fallible human beings and they're not pro.
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They are prone to error like all other human beings, those who
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are not the hodja of Allah's Montallah on earth.
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And even in the Holy Quran Allah's montallahs swirl to al
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fat. Verse #29.
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It's a long verse, but I'll just read the beginning.
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Bismillah Rahmah Rahim Muhammad is the messenger of Allah and
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those who are with him are strong against the unbelievers,
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but they are compassionate amongst each other.
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You will see them and how they prostate themselves within
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prayer, grace from Allah and His good pleasure.
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On their faces are their marks being the traces of their
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prostration, their sujood. This is their similitude in the
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Torah. And then it goes on to talk
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about the Injeel and so on and so forth.
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Towards the end of the verse Allah says Allah has promised
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those amongst them who believe and do righteous deeds.
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Forgiveness and a great reward question here.
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So Allah is pointing out that the companions have a lofty
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status. They're saying that in the face
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of the the disbelievers they have strength.
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They're strong against the disbelievers but amongst
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themselves they're soft hearted, they're compassionate.
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But at the end of the Ayah Allah spandah, Allah talks about how
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Allah has promised those amongst them who believe and who do
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righteous deeds forgiveness and a great reward.
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Why did Allah spandah Allah not just say Allah promises those
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companions forgiveness and a great award?
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Why did he say those who believe righteous and do righteous deeds
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forgiveness and a great award? It's because Allah is singling
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out those who do believe and do righteous deeds and those who
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don't. Because there's a clear
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distinction here to be made that not all of the companions
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logically speaking, could have never made us in.
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If we're talking about the event of Ghadira, which we talk about
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all the time, some narration say between 100 to 120,000 people
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gathered after the last Hajj of Rasulullah and was present at
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the event of Ghadirahim. Now, you know, how can we say
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that 120,000 people are are infallible or you know, not
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prone to error. So yeah, it it just makes sense.
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I just with your permission say I just want to talk about the
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the other two groups of the companions as well for just a
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couple of minutes. We talked about the first group
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earlier, which are those and you mentioned as well those who
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believe in Allah, Allah, Allah, Muhammad, Al, Allah.
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The second group are those who are Muslim but not entirely
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sincere. OK, so there's a couple of eyes
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in the Holy Quran, for example Suratul Muhammad verse #38.
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If you turn your back from the path, Allah will substitute you
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in place for another group of people and they won't be like
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you. They won't make the same
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mistakes you did. Another example, Holy Quran
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verse #4, chapter 49, verse number 20.
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You who believe, do not raise your voices above the voice of
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the Holy Prophet, lest your deeds become null when you do
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not perceive there were so many incidents where the companions
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would go against the will of the solar.
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Calamity of Thursday. Calamity of Thursday.
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At the time of Battle of Butter there was the issue of Fidia, of
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the ransom money of the captives the Holy Prophet said to to free
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them in in, in and reciprocation of the Fidia and they said no.
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The Battle of Taboog. When the Prophet told them to
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slaughter the camels to save lives, the same people went
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against it. The Treaty of Hudaibiya, when
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the Holy Prophet said we want to make peace with the people of
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Makkah and the same companions went against it.
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They even cast doubt on the prophethood of the Holy Prophet.
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And then of course the calamity of the Thursday when who is it?
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Osama bin Zayed, the 18 year old.
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Of course we know who's told by the Sullah to lead the army in
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his last. I think, if I'm not mistaken, in
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the last chapter or the last year of the 100 Prophet's life,
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he nominated an 18 year old Osama bin Zaid to lead the army.
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They still went against it and this.
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There seems to be a commonality here between the second group of
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people this. Is where he ordered all of them
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to join the army of Osama, right?
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Yeah, Amira Mamanian stayed behind, if I'm not mistaken.
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And then of course you've got the third group of people this,
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this group of people are in the pits of hell.
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The pits of hell, you know they are the lowest of the lowest of
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the low. Those who call who.
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There are people in the world, unfortunately, who are named
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Maria. You know, one of my favorite
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footballers, Zinedine Zidan. Have you heard of him?
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I have the French football. You know his middle name is
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Yazid no Zinedine Yazid. Zidan A.
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Lot of excellent. You know, like I'm thinking,
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bro, that's just put like a a blemish on him.
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They censored the middle name. Yes, censored the middle name.
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But for example, if you talk about Yazid, he was a cat when
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he was Khalifa, he said. Banu Hashim played with the
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throne. But no revelation was revealed.
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There was no true message. This is in Thabani.
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This is in Tatkirata and Hawas. These are all major books, Abu
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Sufyan said Yabani Omaya. Now that this kingdom's come to
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you, play with it as if you're a child playing with a football.
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Pass it from one to another between your clan.
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We're not even sure whether there is a paradise or hell.
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But what we do know is this Kingdom is reality.
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Al ist al Isti AB by Ibn Abdul Bar.
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These are all like, you know, major works of of Ala Sunna.
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But it's important to realize that there's no, there's no
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unique homogeneous approach to companions for the Sony or for
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the Shah. So those who say that Shah hate
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the companions or the Sony love all the companions.
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It's not the case because there are many brothers and sisters
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Ala Sunna which don't Revere such personalities like these.
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So we've got to be honest and fair with that.
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No, you're right, You're right. And I think it's also, again,
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let's reiterate that the Shias hold the Companions in the
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highest regards. You know, those righteous ones,
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the ones we always hear about, read about, learn from and wish
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to be like them. The way they were with Rasul
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Allah, the way they were with Emir al Munin and all the other
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imams of the elevate animal of the salaji was Salaam.
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So you can, you can't come and say we don't respect them, we
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don't Revere them. Look, let's be real.
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We can't, we can't consider every Tom, Dick and Harry as a
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true companion of Rasulullah Muhammad Sallallahu Ali Waisan
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Bro. Because some of these companions
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from the outside, Masha Allah, from the inside are the Allah
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they understand. So you really don't know there's
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true hypocrisy. And you mentioned some verses
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from the Quran. Bro, there's an entire chapter.
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There's even, there's even the verses in the Quran where Allah,
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he warns Rasul Allah of the hypocrisy that surrounds him.
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What's that saying? You tell him that Allah doesn't
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know this hypocrites around him. No, Allah wants us to know that
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there's like some barometer between what's hot and what's
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battled, what's true and what's false.
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What's you know? What's someone righteous?
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And what's someone who's a monastic?
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It doesn't make sense if you believe that the Prophets
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closest companions or the righteous, you know the
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companions generally around the Prophet war free from error.
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Explain the civil wars to me. Explain Stefan.
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Explain Jamal. These the Jamal is the worst it
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doesn't make. Sense you know why Jamal is the
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worst? Because you have Imam Ali on one
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side. Yeah you have the wife of the
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Prophet Arch on the other. What was aware and by the way
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bro, they were fighting for Islam from the very.
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Very beginning. It's one of the closest
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companions. So it shows you that you know,
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companions sometimes can deviate from the path, can go towards,
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you know, the the the side of Shaitaan and leave the Imam
20:09
completely And there's you know, I'm gonna get to Amar of Niyasr
20:13
a bit later on but Rasul Allah Salallahu Ali, Hawaii, Salem, he
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once told Amar of Niyasr. If you ever find the people
20:22
going towards one path, the entire nation going towards one
20:26
path, and you see Imam Ali, Emir and Maminian going towards
20:29
another path and he's alone, you take that path and that's what
20:33
he remembered that German. So I don't know the exact
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context of of the narration of this, but it just reminded me of
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you. Saying Muhammad Ibn ABI Baker,
20:41
yes, with Emir and Mahmanin fighting against his sister
20:44
Ayesha, even ABI Baker, Abid ABI Baker fighting against each
20:48
other. You had then, you know, families
20:52
within families, siblings fighting one another on opposing
20:54
sides. You're telling me that within
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the Ummah at Lodge, we're talking about the most powerful
20:58
religion, the most fast growing religion at the time.
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We're talking about the religion of the last pound to Allah.
21:03
That there's no, no, no hint of personal ambition there, of
21:09
yearning for glory, of hunger and greed for power.
21:13
Like these are things of course. Will exist, will have existed
21:16
then. Will have exist, will still
21:17
exist. Till today, you know, of course
21:19
you're right completely. There's no way that all the
21:22
companions can be unanimously on on one opinion and one approach
21:26
and and it'd be correct because that if that was the case, there
21:29
would have been no conflict, no aggression after the death of
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Harry. Prophet and you know the battle
21:34
of Jamil, since we're talking about it, I think it's one where
21:38
you truly see Haq for what is and battle for what it truly is.
21:43
Because if these are ones who spent time with Russell Allah
21:46
and Imam Ali, ones who were married with Russell Allah
21:49
Allah, Ali, Hawaii or Salem can take different paths towards the
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Imam of their time, which is Emir al Umunin and the Caliph of
21:56
their time. That raises so much questions.
21:59
And the problem we have with, I wouldn't say I have a problem
22:02
with the Sunni world. But the problem we have with the
22:04
Sunni world when it comes to how we Revere companions is this
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whole thing where you can brush them all together as being
22:14
righteous. You understand this is where it
22:17
gets dangerous because then you can no longer question and I
22:19
this is my opinion here now Yeah, the reason why they have
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this. We're going to say it.
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Yeah, I'll say it. The reason I think the reason
22:29
why they have this is that the moment you you can start to
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question them or look into them and see anything about them,
22:35
whether it be a good or bad, everything goes down the drain.
22:39
All the hard work of sakrifa just goes to waste.
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So there's there's a huge build up between Sakrifa to Jamel and
22:45
to where we see Islam today. There's a you know, one point I
22:49
want to mention as well which is very clear as well.
22:51
When Omar Abdul Khattab became Caliph, what happened to the
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hadith and the sayings and the narrations of Rasul Allah,
22:59
Muhammad, Sallallahu, Ali, Ali, What happened to them?
23:01
Do you know? No, he ordered them to be burnt.
23:04
He told all the people to bring any narration you have saying
23:08
from Rasul Allah bring it. And he burned all the all the
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sayings of Rasulallah. Why?
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Because he said the Quran's enough for us.
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I know, he said. The Quran's enough for us, yeah.
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And yeah, you know, you can have a case.
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For example, you mentioned Sakifa.
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For us this is a big disrespect. You are burning the words of
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Rasul Alam Mohammed, the one when he utters something is
23:27
coming revelation directly from last para Matala.
23:29
How can we reverse such an individual?
23:31
Anyhow, back to the. You meant you mentioned Sakifa.
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Sakifa is an interesting one. You have Josema bin Thabit, you
23:38
know, Khozema, one of his, one of the most underappreciated
23:43
undervalued companions of Salaam Mohammed.
23:45
A top G, Yeah. I don't know if we want to call
23:48
him that today. Now we'll call him that.
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He was. He was.
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He was a real 100% josema was. Many of us know he was called
23:58
Dulshaha detain his title. The Holy Prophet called him that
24:02
because he said you're worth Josema's worth.
24:05
He's worth not just two ordinary people, two pious people.
24:09
Joseima's witness is that worth of a witness of two ordinary
24:13
pious people. Amazing.
24:15
That if Joseima testifies to something.
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That means the word is gospel. What does that say about the way
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the Holy Prophet saw Joseima's integrity, his honesty and his
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piety for him to say that at the time of Sakifa, when Joseima
24:29
approached Abu Baker, Joseima said Yabi Baka, do you not
24:33
remember when Rasulallah called me Dulshahad attain?
24:36
He said yes, I remember he said. Then listen to me when I
24:39
testified that Ali is the true Caliph and not you when he was
24:43
elected. This is a very important thing
24:45
to remember because you've got two companions of rasulallah,
24:49
two people who spent years beside Rasulallah, one who
24:53
claimed Khalafa and one who said I'm not claiming Khalafa.
24:56
I'm telling you who this is deserving of Khalafa and Imamah
24:59
more broadly, and they have a different opinion, but they're
25:02
in the same place at the same time.
25:04
They would have fought 5 by side, by side.
25:05
They would have been beside each other in the courtrooms, They
25:08
would have negotiated with the enemies of Islam beside each
25:11
other. And then at the death of the
25:12
Holy Prophet Muhammad, they have a disagreement on this.
25:15
So it's important. Khozema is a is a great example
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of a companion that generally we don't talk about enough.
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You know what? There's I saw a wicked hadith
25:25
earlier today. If you don't mind, I'll just
25:26
pull it back. I'll pull it out about Khozema.
25:29
You know there's a hadith of Miramat Minin.
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We read it in Natur Balaga, where he says where are my
25:37
brethren who took the right path and trod rightness, Whereas
25:40
Ahmad was Imnathahihan, and whereas the UL Shahad detain?
25:45
And where are those amongst them?
25:47
From among their comrades who had pledged themselves
25:49
themselves to death and who'd severed heads were taken to the
25:52
wicked enemy. Miramat Mining talks about three
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people here, three people. Amara bin Yasir, but I know we
25:57
can talk about a bit more Ibn Tihan and Don Shahad detain
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meaning Hosseima bin Tabit. So you know the companions
26:04
generally we we have a responsibility on us and we want
26:07
to be companions of Imam Ali Mehti Ajalah to there's an
26:14
obligation on us to not just learn about them, not just
26:18
emulate them, but to be comparable to them to our Imam.
26:22
For the Imam to say you are equivalent to me as Hosseima
26:24
Westras Olava for example. Inshallah, that's our goal down
26:27
here. Inshallah inshallah.
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And I also want to mention Bilal khabashi.
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You know the very famous wedding that people only use when it
26:36
comes to African converts. Sadly there isn't much that they
26:40
know about his life but leading up towards the end of the life
26:43
of Rasulallah Muhammad Sallallahu alayh alayh Salem
26:46
After after Rasulallah left this vault he gave up to the Adam.
26:50
He was no longer the mohaddan for Muslims.
26:52
Why? Because of his willaya.
26:56
Because of his his willaya to Imam Ali because he heard what
27:01
Rasul Allah said that radio he knew how Rasul Allah treated Ali
27:05
of Nabi Talib. How he appointed him as his
27:07
wazir as his emir and all of these things.
27:10
Zion the fact the Khalafa, the genuine Khalafa didn't go to the
27:15
one appointed by Allah that really hurt and upset Khomein
27:20
upset Bilan For someone Bilal on that level to like give up on
27:24
society and see the Muslims in the way they they were at that
27:28
time after the death of Rasul Allah, someone on his level, a
27:31
companion of Rasul Allah, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
27:34
wasallam to give up on the Muslims.
27:36
That says a lot of things. So I think I think to make it
27:39
simple and clear, if you're going to ask us do we reveal the
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companions? I think we need to make it
27:45
simple our barometer as if you have love for Imam Ali Ali
27:50
Hassalam. Those are the best of
27:51
companions. They're the best of companions.
27:53
Because when Rasul Allah tells you for example, you know Ali is
27:58
with the truth and the truth is with Ali.
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Love for Ali is a sign of Iman belief.
28:05
Hate for Ali is a sign of hypocrisy.
28:09
Anna Medina, Tella and well I Leon Baba, I am the Rasul Allah
28:13
saying this, not me, not Ahmed, not you Rasul Allah.
28:16
He's saying I am the city of knowledge.
28:18
And Ali, Isidor, how do you enter a city through his gates,
28:22
right? But then he didn't go on to say,
28:24
for example, you know Tom is the window and I don't know Harry is
28:27
the padlock to the key of the gate.
28:28
But he made it clear is is B and it's Ali.
28:31
You stick with Ali and what did he say?
28:36
He made dua Sallallahu made a beautiful prayer for every lover
28:41
of Imam Aliyab Nabiatallah. He said Allahu mawali manwala
28:45
wadim and ada one surman Nasara. You know Allah, you know God be
28:52
close Wally. You know be like a companion to
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the one who takes Aliyab. Nabiatallah as a friend, as a
28:57
welly as a companion, right? Wadim and Adi B aid, protect and
29:06
stand by those who aid and protect and stand with Ali of
29:08
Ali. Why would we choose a different
29:11
barometer? For Rasolallah tells us this is
29:13
the criteria. I'm not going anywhere else.
29:15
I'm happy with what Rasolallah says.
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What's on Dick Canary? I said, I said, I said is
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everything. Everything the world imagine
29:24
being a companion of him. And there's many of these
29:27
companions who were who crossed over in the life of Amira, Mat
29:33
Minin and of Rasulullah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. We talk about, for example,
29:37
Jabir, you know Jabir bin Abdullah from the time of
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Rasulallah to our fifth holy Imam, Imam Muhammad al Baqarah
29:45
Ali Salaam. He met him.
29:47
We know of course the hadith where he was approaching.
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He was a blind man at that time and he was approaching and he
29:57
met Imam al Bakar al Islam. He didn't know who Imam al Bakar
30:00
was and Imam Al Bakar was speaking to him al Salaam and he
30:05
asked him a couple of questions and he suddenly started crying
30:09
and kissing his hand. He said your grandfather
30:12
Salallah told me about your existence.
30:14
I will meet you Subhan Allah. So he saw Salaam Ahmed.
30:19
So Imam Ali, Imam Hassen, Imam Hussain, Imam Sajad and Imam al
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Bakar 6 chosen Hajja of Alas Matala on the earth in one
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lifetime. And there's even those
30:28
companions who never met the Prophet on their visit to the
30:31
Prophet Owais al Karuni. Great example, Al Yamani, he
30:35
came from Yemen, you know, we know the story of Owais.
30:39
He he was told by his, if I'm not mistaken, his mother or his
30:42
grandmother to stay for a day and then to return he went.
30:45
He couldn't find the Holy Prophet.
30:47
His heart was broken. He would write letters to the
30:50
prophet. He was yearning to meet the
30:52
prophet. The prophet was awaiting him as
30:54
well. They never met face to face on
30:56
his return Prophet said, I smell a a hush but you say in Urdu
30:59
like a beautiful fragrance and that is the fragrance of a waste
31:02
of colony. Like this is an example of a
31:04
companion who never interacted. When he met went to meet the
31:08
Holy Prophet he never met him. And we can say that, you know,
31:11
there's ways to be those who give companionship to the Aimmar
31:15
Ali Musalaam today, for example, to Imam Mehdi without having to
31:19
meet him face to face or without having to sit with him, with
31:22
him, talk with him, with all the criteria we've ever mentioned.
31:25
You can have a connection, yeah, yeah, you.
31:26
Have a connection to the point where the Imam recognizes you
31:29
and he considers you one of the companions.
31:31
So yeah, we talked about Ahmar earlier.
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Ahmar. Ahmar is.
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I know he's one of one of your favorite companions.
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He is, he truly is. And he he, he is someone that I
31:43
really love. And that's because you know, he
31:48
spent his early years with Russell, Allah, Muhammad
31:50
Sallallahu, Ali Ali Salem and he ended it with the Imam Ali Ali
31:54
Salam. And he had the best of both
31:56
worlds, Subhan Allah. And he's very lucky in that
31:58
sense. But I I think let's let's talk
32:01
about about his life a little. You know, Ahmadab, Nayasir, I
32:05
think. Before I get into him, I have to
32:06
speak about his parents first, I think.
32:08
Yes, of course. So his father, Amar's father's
32:12
called Yasser, can understand by the name here.
32:16
They used to be in Yemen, and they used to travel city, city,
32:21
country to country, looking for work, employment, trading,
32:24
merging, all these things. And then one day they were three
32:27
brothers. So Yasser had three brothers.
32:32
One of the brothers decided to go to Mecca.
32:34
We go to Mecca to find work. I sense, yeah.
32:38
So time went past, You know, now is a big time gone through.
32:44
His brother's not back. Now all the brothers are
32:46
wondering where is he? Has he died?
32:49
Has he lost his ways back to Yemen?
32:52
And what's going on? So they decide, you know what,
32:54
let's go to Mecca, look for him. He's probably still there.
32:58
He's found work. Maybe we can join employment
33:00
with him. So he also decides which is the
33:04
father of Amar to go to Mecca and he does.
33:07
He goes there. He doesn't find his brother.
33:09
He decides to stay in Mecca. He sees an opportunity where he
33:13
can work, make some money, build a family and so he does.
33:18
So he works for a tribe called Benimazum and a a few years
33:25
later he gets with a servant that also worked at the tribe of
33:32
Benny Mazoom by the name of Somaya Somaya.
33:35
They get married time goes past. They have a child.
33:39
They have a son. They name him Amar and hence the
33:41
name Amar of Nayasar. Now I want you to imagine the
33:45
entire family you work for the stripe.
33:47
Benny Mazoom. Benny Mazoom bro.
33:48
They hate Quraysh. They hate Benny Hashim sorry.
33:51
And they they want to do any. They want you to stay far away
33:55
from Muhammad Rasul Allah and anything got to do with his
33:58
message or his magic as as they used to call it.
34:01
So from the very early ages of Ahmad of Niyasr, as he, as he
34:04
was growing up working for Benny Mazoom, seeing you know, all
34:08
like the Pagan rituals that's happening all around him, he's
34:11
used to always question, can we really worship idols as our
34:14
Lord? Are they truly God?
34:18
You know, So already his mind was like opening and thinking
34:22
something is not right, something's not right.
34:24
He has gone past. He realizes that there's a man
34:28
by the name of Muhammad, and he sees that this Muhammad is very
34:35
different. And he's from the tribe of Beni
34:39
Hashim Zion. He sees that Muhammad Sallallahu
34:42
alayhi wasallam before even announcing his prophethood.
34:45
He used to fight for people's justices.
34:49
He used to fight for the rights of women.
34:51
He used to even, you know, fight for something that has nothing
34:56
to do with Islam. You know, there's a dispute
34:58
between this merchant, There's a dispute between this seller and
35:01
this buyer. He would go and resolve the
35:02
problem. So Amaravani Asla was very
35:05
interested into knowing who this Muhammad is.
35:08
Zion he has got past one day Amar of Niyazar he'd find
35:17
himself leaning towards Asol Allah Muhammad sallallahu Ali
35:20
Wali sanam. They become great friends.
35:23
They become we can say this is where the companionship started
35:27
and where it stands from. And he would always listen to
35:30
Muhammad and what rasolallah used to warn him not to, you
35:33
know, relay what he's had from the gatherings he's in.
35:37
So Ahmadab Nayasr would go home and like have conversation with
35:41
his parents, but not tell them about Rasul Allah and not tell
35:45
them about the message of Allah. Subhanahu Watala.
35:47
At this point, we need to assume that Ahmad has accepted Islam
35:51
and Allah as his Lord. And you know, now at this point,
35:55
Ahmadab Nayasr is now going regularly to the House of Al
35:58
Arkham where there's a gathering with Rasulallah, Muhammad
36:00
Sallallahu and those who believed in Islam.
36:03
Very early on before Rasulallah made Islam public to to the to
36:07
the people. On that day, Amar Banyasa
36:11
decides to go back home. He goes back to his parents.
36:15
As he walks into the house, he sort of brushes or barges into
36:19
one of the idols that his family had in the house and it falls
36:23
down and it cracks, His father tells him, Amar, what have you
36:27
done? You have killed our Lord.
36:32
So now Amar for the first time tells him, my Lord is not your
36:35
idol. My Lord is Allah Subhanahu
36:37
Ta'ala. He tells him, you know son what
36:39
are you talking about? He tells him, I've been going
36:42
to, you know, sitting in the gathering of someone by the name
36:45
of Muhammad and he claims to be the messenger of Allah Subhanahu
36:48
Ta'ala. And his dad doesn't tell me
36:51
more. And then he goes on to say today
36:54
there was a there was a revelation that came down and I
36:57
in the Quran where Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala speaks about
37:03
the infant girl that when she gets buried alive she says, for
37:07
what reason was I killed? He sees his mother Somaya start
37:11
crying. He tells, you know, he tells his
37:14
mom, Somaya, why are you crying? What's going on?
37:17
She goes to him. There was a there was a point in
37:19
my early life when I found out why I'm alive and it comes to
37:23
this, to this Ayah. She goes to him.
37:26
Your grandfather, Somaya's father, here when he had his
37:30
first daughter, he buried her alive.
37:34
He then went on to have a second daughter.
37:37
He also went to bury her alive. But as he was burying her, the
37:42
arm, the hands, she was grabbing onto the the beards of your
37:47
grandfather. And this really hurt him and
37:49
upset him. And he promised himself if he
37:52
were to have a third child and if it were to be a girl, he
37:57
would ensure she remains alive. And that's the reason I am your
38:00
mother here today. So this really connected with
38:04
her. She saw, you know, Rasul, Allah
38:06
has, you know, rights for females.
38:08
You know Allah Subhanahu Watala, you know is on the side of the
38:12
innocent baby girl being buried alive.
38:14
So already now the hearts you know went towards the message of
38:18
Allah. Subhanahu watala.
38:21
So I'm going to cut a few years here now because the story about
38:26
Marvin they asked that is really, really, really huge.
38:29
And later on there was, you know, I was Sofyan and Abu Lahab
38:41
and all these people, they really hated Rasul Allah and the
38:44
message he was bringing to Mecca.
38:47
So they told everyone to every single tribe including the tribe
38:50
of Benimazum that if you have anyone who believes in Muhammad
38:55
or anyone who takes Allah as their Lord, you either have to
38:58
execute them or torture them until they believe in our idols.
39:05
So one day someone came to Abu Lahab and he was like, you know,
39:10
in your tribe there is Somoya, in your tribe there is Yasir.
39:17
And in your tribe also their son Ammar believes in Muhammad
39:21
Rasul, Allah. They believe in Allah as their
39:23
Lord. He got so angry, so furious he
39:28
went, he grabbed them and bring them to the centre of Mecca and
39:31
he tied them in ropes and he was like, is it true what you say?
39:36
Who's your Lord Sumaya will say Allah Subhanawatar.
39:41
He will ask Yasir who's your Lord who say you know Allahu
39:46
aahat there's only one got. He will ask who he will ask the
39:50
son as well. Amar who's your Lord?
39:52
He will say Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala.
39:54
He goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth and so
39:56
Allah will pass by. He will, He will, He will say to
39:58
the family of Amar. Abhinaya Sir, be patient for
40:01
your rewards agenda. Again they ask Sumaya who's your
40:06
Lord? She says Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala
40:09
the execute her. So how they execute her is very
40:12
brutal. When they cut out of the
40:13
stomach, they tie her to horses and they.
40:17
Separate her body from one side to the other.
40:20
Next they go to his father to Yasser.
40:21
Now Yasser says the sin Allah is my Lord.
40:25
They kill him as well. Now they come to Amar.
40:29
Amar, here. Now you know, I've seen my mom
40:32
die. I've seen my father die.
40:35
And now you're asking me who's my Lord?
40:37
My Lord is your idols, Amar of Nyasser says, says Now my Lord
40:42
is your idols. They untie him and they let him
40:46
go. What happens to him now?
40:51
He goes to Rasool Allah. Muhammad sallallahu alaihi was
40:53
selling, you know, Rasool Allah I saw before my own eyes my
40:58
mother got killed, my father got killed.
41:01
And here I am standing with you today because the reason they
41:05
died is because they believed in your message and your Lord.
41:10
The reason why I'm still alive, it's because I denounce Allah.
41:14
Subhanawat Allah and I said the idols are my Lord.
41:20
And he told them, Ammar, where is your heart?
41:25
Ammar replied. Then you know he told him, my
41:28
heart, Rasul, Allah is with you. My heart is with Allah.
41:31
Soprano Matala. And then he consults him and he
41:35
tells him, you know Ammar. And he asked her, Don't worry,
41:40
Allah. Soprano Matala has a reveal of a
41:42
verse in your favor where now we can go into the I can say if we
41:48
get into the conversation when it comes to Takaya for example
41:51
where he says for example you know those who believe in Islam
41:55
and leave Islam that's one group.
41:57
Then do you have another Group One who who who who denounced
42:03
Allah subhanahu atallah and Islam because they are compelled
42:09
resulting into them concealing their true intentions which is
42:13
believing in the La La la Muhammad rasul Allah.
42:14
So it's awesome don't you worry. So now hey Ammar you know sort
42:19
of he he he feels like he's back on track.
42:22
A loss of panel. Tarala will forgive.
42:24
And we understood. And I and I think this is where
42:25
we learn Tariya from because some sometimes people say you
42:28
know you shi'adu Tariya. No the biggest companion of
42:33
rasul Allah. Muhammad sallallahu waldy by the
42:37
eye and the revelation from the Quran.
42:39
And just to make it clear Tahrir is only in circumstances when
42:42
it's life or death and you've got a gun to your head.
42:45
You've got a sore to your neck. No.
42:46
You just come out whenever you feel like it.
42:48
Yeah. One day I believe in God.
42:49
One day I don't believe in God. No.
42:51
Allah is not a game. Only when your life is in
42:53
danger, only then can you conceal what you truly believe
42:56
in. Absent, absent.
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And Ahmad, of course, is towards the end of his life.
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He was told by us all alive. And Sahi Bukhari, we read that
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you will be killed by the aggressors, infidels, the
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infidels. Yes.
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You know? And how did he die?
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Well, you know, he was lucky enough to join Rasul Allah in
43:17
the Battle of Bedor. He was also lucky enough to
43:19
build a mosque with Rasul Allah Muhammad Sallallahu Ali who Ali
43:22
Wasalam. So years before, you know, he
43:24
met his, he met his martyrdom. Let me come to this point, since
43:29
I was speaking about companions. He was building a mosque
43:33
alongside Rasolallah, Muhammad, Sallallahu, Ali, Ali.
43:34
And we had all other companions there alongside them.
43:37
You know, everyone's lifting up bricks, putting the bricks
43:40
together. Amara Miyazar was known as the
43:41
only one who picked up two with one hand, right.
43:44
So everyone's picking one struggling versus Amar, my
43:46
friend, he had two bricks and one goal.
43:48
One of the companions didn't really like this, you know,
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Rasolallah saying look at him, Mashallah, you know, praising
43:54
him. This companion is called afma
43:57
manafan. So now there was a dispute.
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I'm better than you know, you're better than me.
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Imagine in front of Rasulullah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi.
44:05
Now rasulallah has to come and squash the beef between them.
44:09
And he says, he says to the companions all of them and they
44:11
all witnessed this. He said Amar of Nayasar is the
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one that takes you towards the path of Allah, subhan Allah.
44:18
And here you are trying to take speaking to the person he's
44:22
having beef with. Here you are trying to take him
44:24
towards the pits of Hellfire. Ahmad of Nayasr is close and
44:28
dear to me. He is closer to me than the
44:30
flesh between my nose and my eye.
44:32
Look how close it is Ahmad of this is coming from Rasul Allah,
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Muhammad Salallahu. And then he tells all the people
44:39
no that those who kill Ahmad of Nayasir are from the party of
44:45
infidels. And you know, Subhanallah, many
44:47
years down the line you see what happens to Ahmad Niyas he.
44:50
Killed a Safin. He comes to the battle of Safin
44:52
alongside Emir Al Romanin Ali Abdul Salati with Salaam where
44:57
eventually, sadly during the battle by the way he thought he
45:00
fought courageously, bravely and you know he made Rasul Allah
45:04
proud. He made Imam Ali Ali Salaam
45:07
proud. I told his very final moments
45:10
that when he died, when he was killed, they had to stop the
45:13
battle. Muslims came out and they were
45:16
like, you know what we just remembered?
45:18
Rasulullah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasalam, he said.
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Those that will kill Amar Abnayasir are infidels.
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We have killed Amar. Does that make us infidels?
45:30
Can you see the confusion? When we here we are talking
45:32
about companionship? You know who's right?
45:34
He is and who's not. We know.
45:35
Imagine being on the stage, yeah, yeah, They blamed Imam
45:38
Ali. They said Imam.
45:39
Ali took took Amar with him. Therefore he in essence killed
45:43
him. Yeah, so it's like, so Allah
45:44
taking Hamza to the battle. Yes, counter logical doesn't
45:49
make. Sense there's so much lesson.
45:51
This was like just a brief biography I think was fair.
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That I share. A few moments it you did an
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incredible service and justice to him but there's like you know
46:00
the amount of of of lessons to learn just in his life, in his
46:04
earlier life, earlier days of his life, the courage, the
46:08
willpower he's he he the critical thinking he had.
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To Allah, He gave a lifetime lifetime of striving towards the
46:17
last because he died at the age of 93.
46:20
And he was, you know, he was in Safine.
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I think he was given his hustle uh when he died by Joseima who
46:26
mentioned earlier, Joseima came, he did his Russell and then he
46:29
went out and he was martyred as well.
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So Subhanallah we see the brotherhood between the
46:34
companions was strong. Well he was so close with Rasul
46:37
Allah and he was so close to the Imam Ali.
46:39
Even Mahawya said that when Amaravani Asar died, he was like
46:42
now we cut off the wing of Ali of.
46:44
That's true. Yeah, it would be like.
46:46
Says a lot, says a lot. Charlotte.
46:48
We follow in his footsteps. I mean.
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I, I, I, I, I'm reminded of of one of our favorite companions
46:56
Mithama Tamar Allah. What do you know about Mithama
46:58
Tamar? What do you say about Mithama
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Tamar, the one who lived and died on the love of Rasoolallah
47:05
Muhammad and of Amirabad Benin And not only he lived and died
47:10
loving them, he was loved by them.
47:13
You know Om Salima wife Holy Prophet narrates on so many
47:17
occasions that the Holy Prophet would praise Mithama Tamar
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before his his interaction with a Miramotte mini cake.
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We know the story of Mithon. We always relate his love to a
47:26
Miramotte mini. Mithon was loved by the Prophet
47:29
but he was born the daughter of a slave of Bunny Assad and he
47:34
was considered a non Arab because of this.
47:36
OK, but he was born with the name Salim and Miramotte Mini
47:42
later in his life. I know where you're going.
47:45
Yeah, he said. Where did you.
47:47
Well, what? What is your name?
47:48
He said Salim. He said no, no, I want to call
47:50
you the name The Prophet called you Allah.
47:51
He said. I want to.
47:52
He said Mitham. OK, so he he took the name
47:55
Mitham. You call him at Tamar because he
47:57
was known to sell dates in the bazaar of Kufa.
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There's a lot to talk about with Mitham, but I'll summarise to
48:05
keep it short. A couple of things that we learn
48:07
about Mitham and Tamar. The first thing is his knowledge
48:11
was incomparable. He was one of the shorter Hamis,
48:15
the trusted loyalists, the the gods of Amir MOT Minin.
48:20
He was known as a God. He was loved by the Holy Prophet
48:23
and then Amir MOT Minin had the same love for him.
48:26
When he was a bit older he became closer to Amir MOT Minin.
48:29
When he was very young he was with the Holy Prophet and
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Sallallahu alaihi and Amir E Mat, the Tata wheel of the Holy
48:40
Qalan. The hidden meanings of the Holy
48:42
Qalan Ibn Abbas, who we know. Of course not cousin the Holy
48:45
Prophet narrates so many hadith for the Sunni.
48:47
And this year of course at times he shows his love for the island
48:51
Bethlehem of Salaam and at times he maybe has questionable
48:55
approaches towards it. So you know, he's a very neutral
48:58
character in that sense. Ibn Abbas approached Mitham and
49:02
he said tell me about the Tata wheel that you learnt from Ali
49:05
and he would share with him some of these.
49:07
Tell him make notes. What I'm telling you he'd make
49:09
those notes and then Nathan would say.
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My master Ali also told me. He told me about my death.
49:14
Let me tell you about these prophecies.
49:16
Even Abbas Sidiah told me. He told him this is how
49:18
Mammilian said I would die. Abbas think in disguise.
49:23
I don't know. I don't know if I can believe
49:24
him or not because he's telling me how.
49:26
Who's going to know how they're going to die?
49:28
So he said I'm going to destroy all the works that you've told
49:30
me about the time wheel of the Quran.
49:31
Maybe he said don't do it. Wait till I die.
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If my prophecy is fulfilled to keep the works, if I die in a
49:36
different way, you can throw it away.
49:38
So he was known to be someone who had that that knowledge.
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You know that that true love of religion love of and more than
49:46
just lip service. A lot of the time in our
49:48
communities we have proper like veniety vibes, you know, lots of
49:56
naras and not lots of moulded and clapping and all of that
50:00
stuff. But there's no point doing that
50:02
without knowledge or understanding of religion.
50:04
And Maitama Tamad is the classic example of that.
50:07
Just skip further. A few years he went to Makkah,
50:11
you know the time just before Maitama Tamad died only a couple
50:14
of weeks prior to Karbala battle of Karbala 61AH or 60AH at the
50:17
time. And in the Hajj he went to meet
50:21
Imam Hussain Ali Salaam. He was a companion, of course
50:24
from the holy person Muhammad to Imam Hassan to Imam Hussein. 4
50:30
of the At the time of Imam Hussein, he went to Mecca and he
50:35
was met by UM Salima. As we mentioned earlier, she had
50:39
a strong, a strong understanding of knowledge of Metham's
50:42
position and she she told him Mam Hussein's not here.
50:48
She's conveyed my Salaam to him, my love for him.
50:51
Tell him I will meet him in the in the hereafter in Akhara
50:54
because he knew what was to come for the Imam and for himself.
50:57
How do you know? Miramat Mini told him about
50:59
three or four separate occasions.
51:01
One about his own death, one about Imam Hussein's death, one
51:05
about Muqtada Takafi. What's going to happen?
51:08
Also the death of Maharia. These are four things that
51:10
Miramat Mini foretold. Meet him.
51:12
For those who know, of course he came back to Kufa prior to
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Karbala. He was hated by Yazid.
51:18
Yazid hated ammah aliyah. Both of them hated Methimah
51:22
Tamar. They would cuss him out like
51:25
they would do. However they could do any
51:27
occasion they'd have, They would any opportunity they'd have.
51:29
They would, they would, they would slander him because he was
51:32
a loyalist, I mean. So he was ordered by Yazid to
51:37
Ibn Ziyad to imprison Methimah Tamar.
51:40
Methim was imprisoned by Bin Ziyad or even Bajanah as we call
51:43
him. And when he was imprisoned, he
51:46
said he was smiling, Iman said. Why are you smiling?
51:50
He said. My master Ali told me how you're
51:52
going to kill me. He said, what did he tell you?
51:54
He said you are going to imprison me, then you are going
51:57
to hang me for three days, going to cut my arm and my leg.
52:01
On the third day you will cut my tongue and I will die as the sun
52:04
is setting. Ibn Marjana, Antola Ali said.
52:09
You know what just to prove you wrong?
52:12
That your master, Ali, is a liar.
52:13
I'm going to do everything you said but the last detail.
52:17
I'm purposely not going to do it.
52:18
I'm going to. I'm going to hang you for three
52:20
days. I'm going to cut your arm, cut
52:22
your leg, but I'm not going to cut your.
52:24
Tongue. And we'll see what happens,
52:27
Mathem said. OK, I trust my master, because
52:29
my master told me that I will die here by the state of by the
52:33
place of this tree, this palm tree.
52:36
Mathem had a close relationship with this palm tree.
52:38
And Mama Ali told him, he said this is where you will die.
52:41
Mathem would go there every day. He'd water the palm tree.
52:45
He would say you were made for me and I was made for you.
52:48
He would pray by that palm tree because he knew this is where
52:51
his fate would be determined. He was then hung by that palm
52:54
tree by Ibn Ziyad on the third day.
52:57
On the day one, day two and three, he was reciting the
53:00
thicker of Ali Abnibiat Ali. He was praising the Islam
53:02
Muhammad and he was cursing by the Omaya.
53:05
He was calling people towards the Ali Bait Ali Muslim, calling
53:09
them away, telling them to leave the Bani Omaya Ibn Ziad was
53:12
infuriated. What did he do?
53:15
He said cut his tongue off. Just summarize and it's the
53:19
variations. Say that he died with his with
53:22
his tongue being cut while he's reciting the thicket of Aliyeb
53:25
Nabiat Thalim and the last words he said as the spear was
53:30
thrusted into his chest, shouted Allahu Akbar and he left this
53:33
world to join his master. These are just examples of
53:36
Companions and Mathem's story. I just have to say it doesn't
53:39
end there. Mathem's story continues for
53:41
generations. Mathem's sons, his grandsons and
53:45
his great grandsons were all companions if I'm not mistaken,
53:48
up until the time of Imam with Kavan Salaam.
53:51
So he was critical in the foundations of early Islamic
53:56
history and of the foundations of Toshayo.
53:59
We're talking about the Companions and the son of
54:00
Companions who remained Companions.
54:02
You know these are these are are royal families.
54:05
If we can say that are are are true she heritage.
54:11
We talk about Metham, Tamar, Ahmad, Al bin Yasir, many of the
54:14
other Companions. We pray each other way along
54:17
among amongst them and alongside them Inshallah and the and the
54:19
Hereafter, and that we can be as they are to their Imams for the
54:23
same with our Imam Inshallah. I mean, I mean, you know, people
54:27
like Metham and Tamar, yeah, they're mesmerizing.
54:30
Yeah, man, honestly. And the way they lived,
54:33
breathed. Spend their time, you know, with
54:37
Russell Allah and the Ellen Bates and you know it's just
54:40
like truly, you are lucky to be in that stage.
54:43
But it took a lot of hard work for them to reach that status.
54:47
Yeah, it wasn't like they woke up one day and here I am.
54:51
No, definitely not. I'm the campaigning of Russell
54:53
Allah. I'm the.
54:54
Friends. I sat with him.
54:55
I ate with him of. Muhammad's Mollah and all these
54:58
things they understand like bro. They strived truly in the way of
55:01
a lot. There was a lot who there was a
55:03
lot who were on the path and they flopped it.
55:07
For example, Zabel Zabel was one of the seven who shaved their
55:10
heads when Ali said come tomorrow morning shaving ready
55:13
for he was there. Yeah.
55:14
Zabel was one of the shorter Hamis I mentioned the loyal
55:17
companions of Miramonin. He was there.
55:19
What happened? He turned his back.
55:21
You know, these are people who are are related to the I'm my
55:25
level Salaam related to the Holy Prophet at times, you know, or
55:29
if they're not, then they've grown up with Ali.
55:31
They've played Zubair, played football and not literally
55:33
played football, played games with their mum Ali from young,
55:36
you know, they grew up side by side.
55:38
They fought in wars together, they fought in battles and then
55:41
at the last moment you turn away and what is this, you know?
55:44
So there's there's double standards when it comes to the
55:46
companions. You can't say all of them are
55:48
revered or none of them are revered, she I do not say that
55:51
all companions are bad and Sunnis can't say we love all
55:54
companions. It just doesn't make sense.
55:55
Well, this, this Dunya's you know can deceive you.
55:58
Imagine your last final moment. You just stray away from the
56:02
puff. Yeah.
56:03
Well, well, it's not worth it. Yeah.
56:06
Yeah, well, what's the whole point, you know?
56:07
I mean, why even reach that level?
56:09
I know. I just want to come back to
56:10
Nathan with Tamar. We, Allah be pleased with
56:12
pleased with him. You know, someone may say, you
56:15
know how does he know about his death.
56:17
Yeah. You know someone generally may
56:21
ask maybe someone who's not Shia doesn't believe in this.
56:23
And listen like how can Mitham and Samar know about when he
56:26
will die, how he will die All of these things here the way I
56:29
remember it. Correct me if I'm wrong here
56:31
Ahmed, is that you know as you mentioned earlier on when Imam
56:36
Ali came to you know take Mitham under his wing, he had a
56:39
different name when he told him your name is Mitham and I call
56:45
you by the name Rasul. Allah calls you He was already
56:48
like in disbelief like no one, not anyone knows my name except
56:54
for my mother I. Said Yeah.
56:57
So already there's a connection where sort of Imam Ali tells
57:00
him, I know the secrets of this world, you understand.
57:04
And he goes on further and he shares so much secrets with
57:07
Maitham, Maitham and Tamar. Maitham finds Imam Ali Amirami
57:10
one day, you know, putting his fists into the sands, into the
57:13
grounds. And he tells him, you know Mola,
57:16
what's happening, what's going on?
57:17
He tells them, bro, you know mathem.
57:19
I know so much secrets of this wall.
57:21
The only you knew I will share with you.
57:23
But I can't. You know the it's really it's
57:26
really having an effect on me. So I have to dig my fist into
57:28
the ground so so that I can relax.
57:31
And mathem tells them tell me, and he shares some secrets with
57:34
it. They share everything.
57:35
But one of them was that he allowed him to know when people
57:38
would die, how they would die. Look, Allah can change any sort.
57:45
Of we hear in the Quran about the the knowledge of the unseen
57:50
and this is something that. And the law says I give
57:54
knowledge to those who I want to.
57:56
You understand? So you're telling me maitham
57:58
can't be from Olia Allah. Inshallah we can reach that
58:02
stage of becoming olia Allah. But the the the fact he knew
58:06
when he will die and how he will die bro.
58:08
I wish I knew that because if we did, will become ten times like,
58:13
right? And I think because he knew that
58:15
he strived to achieve it. He strived to make that prophecy
58:19
fulfill, you know, he said to Ibn Abbas, if it doesn't happen,
58:21
you're welcome to throw my stuff away because he knew that
58:24
there's a chance it may not happen.
58:25
You know, it's just mind blowing to think that he he had the
58:28
knowledge. I mean, I might mean he told him
58:29
this is what this will happen to you.
58:31
He still said, what if it doesn't?
58:32
What if I stray and my free will allows me to to to sway from the
58:36
from Huck. You know it's it's mind blowing.
58:39
There's so many hidden stories or very subtle underlying
58:43
messages of knowledge and truth and guidance that we can learn
58:45
from the lives of the companions.
58:47
I just want to mention as well that there are so many
58:48
companions of the Imam Salaam Salaam who.
58:52
You know, before you mentioned them?
58:53
Yeah, it just it just came to my head now.
58:55
Sorry. I know I'm adding so much.
58:56
No, no, no. The fact that he's a day Salah
59:00
and you know, he has love for Imam Ali Salaam, I think it's
59:05
nice to mention the story. There was a time where, you
59:07
know, Imam Ali and Nathan Samar were like best friends forever,
59:11
if we can say in today's language, yeah, they were truly
59:16
comrades, you know, side by side, ride or die, die together.
59:20
You know, for us is live like I, die like Jose.
59:22
But that's the level they were on CN.
59:25
So your mom and he tells them, you know what you're sending
59:27
these dates and the heat of the sun.
59:29
You're tired, you're sweating. Go get some rest.
59:32
Let me look after your stool. You know, your market stall
59:35
where you're selling your dates. Let me spend the next few hours,
59:38
you know, let me deal with the transactions.
59:40
Here you go. Rest and come back.
59:43
Nathan goes to rest, he comes back, he sees there's dates
59:48
missing. So he tells Imam Ali, huh, did
59:52
you make a sale? Did you make either way excited?
59:54
By the way, it was only three dates they sold, just so you
59:56
know, at that time it was big, like one day it's probably like,
1:00:00
I don't know, £50 note here in the UK.
1:00:01
I'm not sure. Yeah.
1:00:03
So he was very happy. Nathan was very, very happy.
1:00:06
Imam Ali handed him over the money.
1:00:07
And Nathan goes, you're a mirror.
1:00:12
You know the unseen. And you know the secrets of the
1:00:14
world. How can you not know that these
1:00:16
coins are forged? They're fake, The counterfeit
1:00:21
mom? Ali tells him.
1:00:22
Blah. But don't worry, relax, relax,
1:00:24
don't worry about this, Dunya. Don't worry about it.
1:00:27
You know, time was passed. The person who bought the dates
1:00:30
comes back and he goes saying, you know what, I want a refund.
1:00:36
I want to give you back the dates that I bought from you and
1:00:38
give me my money back. So Nathan tells him why it
1:00:43
doesn't. The days you told me, oh bitter.
1:00:46
The days that you sold me are bitter.
1:00:48
Gave him the money, put the dates back and they went Imam.
1:00:50
I told him. See.
1:00:51
What did I tell you bro? The sweetness of this world,
1:00:56
this is bitterness in the hereafter.
1:00:57
They understand. It's like you.
1:00:59
You can deceive someone. But bro, if Allah wants to make
1:01:02
what you put inside your body bitter, you're never ever going
1:01:05
to see the sweetness and the honey of Allah.
1:01:06
Sapana, West Island. So I think that was a nice story
1:01:08
to share it. Was very nice.
1:01:09
It's very. Nice a day, Salah.
1:01:11
There's a lot, there's a lot to talk about.
1:01:12
Yeah. Marshall, Allah, Allah, bless
1:01:14
him. We remember Sharon.
1:01:15
Maban's coming up. I was lucky, by the way, last
1:01:18
year to actually visit his. I went with Jaffer.
1:01:21
It was sorry, two years ago, Arbine, 2 years, two years ago.
1:01:24
And you know, I I took it all in and we were there with Shahrail
1:01:28
Rashid, you know, he brang his story to life and we had
1:01:31
Marshallah Sejal reciting his Munajat when it comes to me.
1:01:36
And we had an amazing poster by Zane.
1:01:38
I want Zane. I want.
1:01:39
Sorry. And one lot of Brang made them
1:01:41
as if he was there in front of me.
1:01:43
Yeah, I made them. As someone in Charlotte, we can
1:01:45
all connect. Charla, there's there's so many
1:01:48
companions. I was speaking to Muhammad Ali
1:01:50
to my night shout out my yes, I think we could mention.
1:01:55
Him my likes. More like Carol.
1:01:57
And yeah, yeah, we're. Mentioning him more than the
1:01:59
Amazon Fire Stick. Yeah, yeah, Shout Amazon Fire
1:02:01
Stick. That son.
1:02:05
Yeah. No, I was saying to him, I was
1:02:07
like, why do you think? I think it was him who mentioned
1:02:10
it to me or was it someone else? I remember it was like, why?
1:02:14
Why do we know so much about the earlier companions compared to
1:02:17
the, you know, the the native Imams or the the the companions
1:02:21
of the Imams after Imam AS Sajad for example, we have genuinely
1:02:24
less. Of course we have so many.
1:02:26
And the response that I was given or told, I'm not saying
1:02:31
this is the response, but it's it's an interesting perspective
1:02:34
is that these were the companions that helped establish
1:02:36
the religion, You know, they helped solidify Islam, you know,
1:02:40
for what it is today and what it became the beautiful a religion
1:02:44
of a last plan to Allah. So the respect that these
1:02:46
companions have is a different level.
1:02:49
You know, of course the jihad of the the later companions is
1:02:52
incomparable in many cases a very different struggle.
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But the struggle of the earlier companions is a a discussion we
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have to have. I'm just going to name drop a
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few of the companions which I really like in the later Imams
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that we wrap up and show up. So it's habilage mark.
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There's the people of consensus, the later imams.
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There are 18 of them. I'm just going to mention about
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3 or 4. From Imam Al Barker to Imam Al
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Salaam, Alaam, Salaam, Zorada. Of course we know Mahmal,
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Barker, Basir. We've talked about him before in
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the podcast. Mohammed bin Muslim, Imam Al
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Barker Companions, Imam Al Sadiq, Jamil bin Duraj.
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We've talked about him before. Aban bin Osman also I think
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Hashim Al Hakam, but he's not on this list.
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Companions of Mumbak, Yunus, Spin, Abdul Rahman.
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These are all some of the major companions of the later Imams,
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which of course deserve the same credit as all the others.
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So inshallah we can learn more about them.
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There's unfortunately not a lot of works in English.
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I know it's building, but islam.org is a great, great,
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great place to. Start.
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Great place for us, all of us. Wikishita is amazing.
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These are great sources for us to look into and at least get
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structural biographies, I guess, of these companions.
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We need to thank these companions.
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Yeah. Yeah, we do.
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We owe them our thanks. We're the my love and we we have
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to do justice them. We have to learn more.
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Yeah. I learned a lot, said.
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Thank you. I did likewise likewise I for
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for me it's been a discussion. I've never really had open air.
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It's mainly been always in the last.
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Week we talked about when I we need to talk about, and I'm so
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glad. I'm glad we did.
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Yeah. Happy with it.
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We've got an interesting hopefully couple of weeks coming
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up guys. So stay tuned.
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We're going to be in different universities in Charlotte in the
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coming weeks. We're going to be in SOAS in
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January, Charlotte in London, School of Oriental and African
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Studies in King's College in February in London as well.
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So stay tuned. If you are local, check out the
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ABSOC pages on Instagram and and just stay tuned because
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aftermarket will be there. And yeah, some more exciting
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updates to come. Definitely some really
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interesting guests to come. So, yeah, we have some, yeah, we
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have some international guests as well, which is coming up.
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Cool. We do lined up.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm excited. From the east and the West.
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So yeah, it would be nice. We'll leave it there, but I will
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say, you know what if if if you liked any of the stories by
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Ahmadab, Niasa Romita Matamar, let us know what you like most.
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Muslim, of Naqeen. You know he's got Jabbar bin
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Abdullah Ansari. Like all these amazing, unique
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