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Imam Hussain Inherited Every Prophet - ft. Sayed Mahdi al-Modaressi · After Maghrib 🌙

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All the Billaha regime, Smillah Rahman, Rahim Abdullah,
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Abdullahi Hussain, Salah Ali, respected brothers and sisters,
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Salaam Alaikum. Firstly and foremostly, I'd like
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to begin by extending our condolences, our heartfelt
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condolences to the Imam of our time.
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Imam Sahib Alasi was Zaman Ajal Allahu Alafajah Sharif on the
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death anniversary of his grandfather, ABI Abdullah
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Hussein Salawatu Waiyu Salam Alaid, who was slain alongside
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his noble and purified family and companions on these nights
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in the year 61 after Hijra run Sisters.
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If you're new to the aftermath of the podcast, you'll quickly
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learn that this season of Muharram for Us is a flagship
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not just for the podcast, but for the wider Muslim Ummah and
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specifically for the Shia. The Shia who identify themselves
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to be those who follow the message, the learnings, the
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legacy, the teachings from Imam Hussein Ali Salaam.
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What we find in Karbala, we believe preserved and protected
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Islam from transgression, from immorality, from the peak of
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Jahiliya and ignorance, and ultimately preserved Islam to be
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what it is today. And Inshallah will allow us to
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understand its true potential and work towards creating that
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potential. Bran Sisters for five years
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after Maghrib has been able to create content for this season,
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for the Muharram season. And I'd also like to ask you at
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stay with us throughout this journey.
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These next few weeks will be a learning experience, not just to
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understand the Battle of Karbala, but to also understand
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events before, during and after the battle.
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And not just from a historical perspective, but also from a
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contemporary significance, how it affects us today, our
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communities, our Majalis, our centres and inshallah be able to
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learn as we move forward in the world around us.
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It wouldn't be a muhalaam season if I wasn't joined alongside by
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my brother, said Ali and other. We Salaam alaikum sein
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alaikum Salah alaikum Salah alaikum Salah.
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Alaikum Salah, how are you Al? Hamdallah, Hamdallah.
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We are of course down into the first week of the holy month.
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These first few days I feel are hard hitting because all of us
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recognize that we really needed to re establish our relationship
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with Imam Hussein Ali Salaam Musbah Al Huddah Wasafina
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Tanaja, our arc of salvation, our beacon of guidance who every
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year pulls us back towards the cause of our last Pantala.
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We always talk about the godliness of the Imam and the
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goodness that the Imam showed and inshallah we can move
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forward and and benefit as much as possible on these blessing
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nights. That's very well put and it's a
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reminder to myself that this is an opportunity.
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Haram is a time where we don't just go to warn about Abdullah.
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I think that's the bare minimum, but to gain lessons from him and
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inshallah try to live the way he lived and try to please the Imam
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of our time, try to please his mother.
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Fatima Zahra Alayhissala will ultimately serve about Abdullah
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Al Passain. And over the last two nights
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that we've attended Majalis, I've looked around and I've seen
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like true Muslim manin, dedicated, sincere servants who
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truly want to serve about Abdullah Al Hussein.
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And it inspires me at all today by the way, that I can see
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people, they give their wealth, they don't care about their
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health, they don't care if they're sleeping.
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They take time away from work, from the family just to serve
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about Abdullah. And all we ask is that we can
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have this blessing year in, year out.
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Every year we talk about this and then Hamdallah, I think
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every year we've also been joined by our esteemed guest,
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our esteemed scholar who's been a big part of our learning
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journey, not just on the podcast, but also for us from a
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young age as well, none other than the respected, said Matthew
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Modalis Islam. What Ali Kum said now.
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Ali Kumar Salaam or Ahmed Allah increase our rewards for the
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grief that we have and display towards the tragedy of Imam Al
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Hussein, Alayhi Saddam. And as you both said, there's no
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question that this is a blessing like no other.
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Imam al Hussein grounds us, Imam al Hussein guides us.
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Imam al Hussein inspires us. Imam Al Hussein is the reason
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why we're believers today and so it's something that we can never
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express sufficient appreciation for except to say Alhamdulillah
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Al Ladi Hadan Ali Hada praised me to Allah who guided us
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towards the doorstep of Abaq Dilahi Hussein.
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So, and it's a beautiful reminder where you just
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mentioned as well. I just I just remembered
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something saying that is that you know, no matter what we lose
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in this life and I know you recently lost your answer to my
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Allah embrace on his Rahman Sha Allah and elevator rings.
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And your. Desire is Muhammad Muhammad and
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it just it just reminds us that any this is what life is serving
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about Abdullah serving the albeit and living a true
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Husseini lifestyle. And this is something I'm sort
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of trying to understand better. And maybe there's a question I
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have for you outside after the podcast, share Allah.
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One that affects me and maybe I can use and share with the
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viewers and listeners in future conversations is that you you
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have inspired so many listeners around the world.
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And I must say something how it's as if, you know, it's
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become fruition where we have you here year in, year out and
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Muharram. And I was telling my daughter
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earlier on today that we were attending a majlis.
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We saw you there tonight. And then I told her I said, say
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Mehdi Madarasi. He's he's been integral part of
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my upbringing with the Hussein your vibes, if I can call it,
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from the Majlis, from how you carry yourself, how you deliver
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the message of Islam, how you remember the tragedies of Ethyl
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debate. And so I showed her a clip of
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after Madrid from Season 1, season 2, Season 3, and then she
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saw you in person and then you spoke with her briefly.
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And then she told me, she said Baba, she she said it reminded
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me, but she said it reminded me of my her grandfather, which is
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my late father and everything. And then she was like, did he
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speak like him? And I was like, yeah, very
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similar. So I just thought I'd share this
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now. It was a very wholesome moment.
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Plus her home protect you or I say.
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That he may love less your, your father, who was an incredible
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human being, someone I had the privilege of, of knowing many,
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many years ago, and a servant of ABBA Abdullah Hussein.
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So much so that Imam Hussein rewarded him by the fact that he
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passed away after listening to the Maktal on the day of Ashura.
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And imagine, imagine dying from, from grief for ABBA Abdullah.
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Honestly, as, as you're saying, Sayid now, if there's anything
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worth living for in this life, it's Hussein and his
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remembrance. If there's anything worth crying
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for, it is Imam al Hussein. There's anything worth dying
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for, it's Imam al Hussein, Salaam Alayhi.
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And so we can only hope that we are able to maintain this
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connection to the Imam with an ever increasing level of
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intensity and connection and gnosis such that the end happens
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in a way that's linked to Imam and Hussein Alayhi Salaam.
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I always say that I wish and I've been around people who have
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had to endure excruciating moments prior to their death.
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And there was one individual in particular, may Allah bless his
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soul, who, who left a very big impact on me in terms of just
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watching him wither away with, with a mind numbing level of
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pain. And so I remember at the time
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saying to, to my, you know, relatives and friends that you
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know what, having seen what I just saw, I wish to die on the
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way to Karbala. I I I want to receive some kind
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of divine Providence that allows me to spend the last moments of
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my life as I'm walking towards the shrine of Imam and Hussein.
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However, I lost panel to Allah chooses for that to happen, but
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I wanted to be linked with Obama Hussein.
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All the opportunity said with your permission, we'll we'll
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kick off. We we said Ali actually have to
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give him credit, thought of this topic and, and I really liked
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it. Of course, we're born and
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brought up in the community and we hear of course, Al Ziyarat,
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our idea and of course Yarata Wadeth as one of our key staples
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in Al Majalis is something we hear a lot of.
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And we always hear about this concept of wadeth al Ambiyah
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Alayhi Salam, the inheritor of the prophets of Islam.
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This is kind of, I think to understand the true Makam of the
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Imam, Ali Salam and his rank from both a worldly and
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spiritual perspective. It's something we wanted to
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delve into when we hear about the Imam being the inheritor of
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the prophets. I don't know Ibrahim Walsa Isa
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and of course, Nabi Allah Muhammad sallallahu.
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Where does this come from? And specifically speaking, is
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there perhaps a Quranic backing for it, or Quranic significance
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which indicates that inheritance can come from the prophets of
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Islam? Sullah Rahman Rahim Allah
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Muhammadi Ali Muhammadi Wajal Farajo Ziyarat Warith is a text
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that's dedicated to the visitation of Imam Hussein Ali
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Salaam, which has multiple sources.
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It has been reported by Evan Wood Way, the teacher and mentor
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of a Shekhar Muffid in his magnum opus Kamala Ziyarat.
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In fact, even in Kamala Ziyarat, there are multiple versions of
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Ziyarat. What if there's a short 1A more
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succinct version and then you have the longer version.
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It's also being reported by some of our other great scholars like
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Sheikh Pousi and others. And I'm talking about the
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earliest traces of the Ziana. So there are about 3 or 4
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different versions of it. But the bit that we're
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discussing is, is the the common denominator amongst all of these
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different devotional texts. And so in terms of authenticity,
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in terms of credibility, the Ziara is solid.
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Then you come to the very beginning of the Ziara and its
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namesake essentially is that initial segment where we address
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Imam Hussein of all of the different titles that Imam
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Hussein has. By the way, my younger brother
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Zaman Esseid Hussein with that I see has a book that's about 500
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pages. The title is Asma Ouasafat E
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Imam al Hussain Ali Hassanam. Imagine 500 pages worth of
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different names and different titles that have been used to
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refer to Imam Al Hussain in our hadith corpus.
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And I think he mentions about 370 different names.
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So of all of those different names for Ziata Taarif to begin
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by addressing Imam al Hussein as the what if the inheritor, the
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heir, That tells you something. Interestingly, I recently met a
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group of people inside the shrine in the courtyard of Imam
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al Hussein Ali Salaam, or or maybe it was the courtyard of
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Abu al Fabal Abbas, I don't remember.
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And they approached me and said Salaam.
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Then they said that we've brought our Christian friend to
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come and do Ziara. So the first thing that came to
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my mind was, you know, when we visit Imam Al Hussein, we
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address him as the successor and the heir to Jesus.
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And so there is a, a, a, a link between Imam Al Hussein and
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Prophet Isaiah Salaam that is unbreakable.
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And you, you need to learn about Imam Al Hussein in order to
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learn about ASA, because the, the image that's depicted in
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Christianity for ASA is so distorted that the only way you
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can restore it, you can fix it, is by getting to know Imam
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Hussein. And that's a much easier task
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given all the literature and all the, you know, historical record
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and accounts and whatnot, and the statements and the sayings
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and the sermons and the saga of Asura itself.
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So what we know about Imam Hussein is quite extensive
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compared to what Christians know about Jesus.
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And so many years ago, I wrote a book called the The Lost
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Testament. And the subtitle was What
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Christians Don't Know about Christ.
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Because there's a lot. And, and perhaps we'll, we'll
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touch on that later on. But the point is that we refer
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to Imam Hussein as a Salam Alaika.
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Peace be upon you. Now notice one thing or or a
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number of different points here to be made.
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Number one, in the Sierra we refer to Imam Hussein as the
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heir to the five and beyond known as Ulhasm plus.
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So 5 + 1 right? Adam being the 6th Prophet.
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Then you have the Holy Prophet, our messenger, Sallallahu alaihi
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Waleh and mural Mumminin fata Matsu Zara.
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So Imam Al Hussein is the heir not just to those six prophets,
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but also the Messenger of God, the greatest of God's creation,
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his masterpiece, plus Amural Mumminin, plus Fatima Matsu
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Zara. And that's number one, Number
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two, Another point to be made is that with every one of those
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prophets, they are given a title.
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And that title might be the most famous one, but it's one among
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many, many. And so the question is why those
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titles? Surely this factors into the
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comparison that we're trying to make.
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So it begins by saying, assalamu alaikum, you are the successor.
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Peace be upon you, O successor or heir to Adam, the chosen one,
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Right? Then we speak about Nour Nabi
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being Nabi Allah, the Prophet of God, even though they're all
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prophets of God. But why is Nour referred to as,
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you know, Nabi Allah exclusively?
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Then we get to Prophet Ibrahim and so on and so forth.
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So that's something to to, to think about in the context of
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understanding why Imam Hussein is the heir.
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As for whether there is a Quranic basis for this,
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absolutely. For instance, a Los Pano Ta'ala
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says Film a Rothnell Kitabe le Dina stafina menai badina.
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A Los Pano Ta'ala doesn't say that we reveal the book to those
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whom we have chosen among our servants.
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He says we inherited the book, which means that the inheritance
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that happens from one prophet to another is very much a possible
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and even a plausible thing that occurs in in the world of
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prophethood. In fact, we have a hadith in
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which I believe it was Imam Asad Ali Salam who says that the
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prophets of God, when Allah speaks about one prophet
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inheriting another, a loss. Not saying that they inherited
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money or property or any kind of financial estate from them,
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right? Profits would depart from this
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world having nothing. These aren't people that you
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would imagine, you know, trying to accumulate wealth in any
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shape or form, but rather what they inherited to each other is
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knowledge, right? So there is again, when you
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think of inheritance, you think either money and and property
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and so on, which is the legalistic understanding of
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inheritance. Then you have inheritance of
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virtues and morals and knowledge and you know other immaterial
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things, right? So are immaterial things like
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knowledge and so forth inherited according to the Quran?
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Absolutely. So Ziadat Wadat is very much in
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accordance with with the Quran. Interesting.
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Do you think say that you mentioned earlier about the
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specific names of the prophets? Which I mentioned and of course
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the specific titles. This is something I want to
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learn more and understand more about, specifically themes that
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we see in the. Lives of each of the holy
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prophets. So for example, Nabi adim alai
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Salaam his repentance. Nabi Noor, his perseverance.
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Or the concept of salvation. Nabi Ibrahim, the sacrifice.
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Nabi Isa again the the the sacrifice.
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And, and the concept of salvation that you see with him
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and then of course with the Holy Prophet and Nabi Musa as well,
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and the concept of standing up to tyranny and being vocal
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against oppression. And of course, the mercy in the
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rahma from Salah Muhammad sallallallahu alaihi.
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Do we see? I know that there's a we hear a
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lot about all of these characteristics being
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personified in Karbala, all of these incredible virtues from a
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personal and a spiritual perspective that the Imam had
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and these characteristics he carried with him.
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Is that just a nice symbolic thing or is there actually some
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meat on the bones? Is there any hadith which backed
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this up or anything for example? Absolutely no question.
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Before we get to the actual hadith, let's try and understand
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exactly what Imam and Hussein inherited from the previous
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messengers and apostles. The 1st and most obvious thing
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is knowledge. Yeah.
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And we have multiple hadiths. In fact, we have entire chapters
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in books like the Blessed Al Kafi and others that deal with
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this issue that the Imams of the Arabite Halihu Salaam are the
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heirs to the Holy Prophet and the Prophet had the collective
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knowledge of every single previous messenger of God.
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In fact, there's this one really interesting hadith where I
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believe it's Imam and Baker Ali Salaam who addresses somebody in
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his audience and he says to them, Tomasuna Thummad. 1 way
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it's been translated is the tiny amount of moisture that is on a
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rock that sits by the riverbank, right?
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It's got a little bit of water, a little bit of, you know, mud.
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The Imam is saying you're thirsty and in order to quench
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your thirst, you take this rock and you suck on it in order to
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absorb the moisture that sits on the surface of the rock, while
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you have an entire river raging right there in front of you.
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So the man says to the Imam, what are you referring to?
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O son of the Messenger of Allah? The Imam said to him, alas, Pano
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Ta'ala sent all the prophets, 124,000 of them.
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Of these 124,000 prophets, 313 were messengers.
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They were Rosalie. They were sent to their people.
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Of the 313, you've got 5 who are distinct, distinguished by the
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title of the ones mentioned in Zahra Twarif.
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And what sets these prophets apart is that each one of them
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had their own jurisprudence, their own Sharia, their own way.
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By the way, most people assume that what makes what Al Azim
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special is the fact that they were sent to all of mankind.
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They were sent to the entire world.
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I actually have evidence to suggest that no other prophet
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before our own messenger was sent to the entire world.
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The the first prophet to be sent to all of humanity and for all
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of you know the time that we have until the day of judgement
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is Rasul Allah Muhammad sallallahu alaihi.
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But regardless you have these prophets who stand out from all
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of the other prophets, which is why if you think about it in
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Ziad Twarath we should have mentioned 20 prophets, 30
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prophets. But the reason these prophets
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were picked was because they were the cream of the crop.
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They were above and beyond all of the other messengers and
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apostles of Allah. Span of Todd.
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So Imam al Baker says to that man, he says to him that Allah
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sent all of these prophets. Then all of their knowledge was
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collected and handed over to the Holy Messenger of Allah.
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Then that messenger, the Prophet Muhammad, gave all of his
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knowledge to Amir al Mormani and Ahmadine.
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I am the city of knowledge and Ali as its gate.
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Parenthetically, I'll mention something rather humorous.
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Even Tamia discusses this hadith in his men Hadja's Sunnah and he
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says this hadith is most definitely false.
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It's a fabrication that's been attributed and concocted and and
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attributed to Rasulullah. Why?
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Not because the chain is unsound, not because the
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transmission had any, you know, sort of disconnections or
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anything like that, he says. Because if you claim that
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Alibnet Abu Talib is the only door to the city of Knowledge,
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where does that leave all of the other companions?
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And I'm like, that's the whole point.
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The whole point is that the other companions are not
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conduits to Rasulullah. They may have heard the Prophet
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speak. They may have interacted with
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him. They were companions and
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whatnot. And depending on their level of
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reliability, then, you know, we could, we could perhaps hear
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them out. But Emiro Monin is the only
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righteous, truthful, 100% reliable conduit to Rasul Allah.
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And that's what the Prophet is trying to tell you.
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And you're like, no, this doesn't make sense because what
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about all the other companions anyway?
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So Imam Al Baker says to him, he says that Emir Al Muminen has
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all of that knowledge. The person listening says to the
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Imam, he says, so does that mean that Ali AB Nabi Talib is better
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than all of the other prophets? Or are there prophets better
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than Ali AB Nabi Talib? The Imam looks at the other
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people in his audience. He says, listen to what this man
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is saying. I'm telling him that Ali AB Nabi
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Talib is the raging river and that everybody else at most
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could have a tiny bit of moisture, right.
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And you've left this for that. And he's still asking me whether
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Ali is better than the other prophets.
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Of course he is, because he has the knowledge of the collective
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knowledge of all of the prophets that was given to Rasulullah
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sallallahu Alaihi. And so to, to go back to, to
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your question, each of these prophets had a, a, a unique set
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of characteristics that are worthy of examination and to,
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you know, to to study them. However, the Ziara picks one for
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each of the prophets for a reason.
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When the Ziara says Adama Safwat Allah, you mentioned Isa Ali
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Assalam, his perseverance, his patience, his, you know, being
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the, the, the means of salvation for his people.
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All of those things are true. He had the ability to cure the
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leper and to raise the dead and you know, all those things.
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But the ziata refers to a very specific characteristic of Aisa
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Alayhi Salaam, which is him being ruhollah.
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And so we need to find out why that is.
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Where's the connection between Aisa Ruhollah and Imam Al
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Hussein Alayhi Salaam which which obviously we can discuss?
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That's a very beautifully said and very eloquently.
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I think it answers a lot of questions I had in my mind.
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And there is a hadith I want to speak and bring up.
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Say it. And you mentioned the hadith of
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Mintemi and Hajj Sinner where he doubts Imam Ali being the gate,
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the door to the city of knowledge.
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But there is one hadith that no school of thought can deny is
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whereas Allah said Hussein and Minni and Hussein.
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Now the way we understand that is that of course biologically
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Imam Hussain as part of Rasoolallah sallallahu alaihi
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wasallam. But what does it, what does
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Rasoolallah mean when he said and Hussain is from me?
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Is there an inheritance linked to this one's Rasoolallah trying
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to say? When you said I am from Hussein,
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you mean yeah? So the part about.
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When the prophet says Prophet said I am from Hussein, Sorry,
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yeah. So look, I think we have to
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acknowledge one thing which is that a lot of these concepts,
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especially those dealing with the nature of Rasul Allah,
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essence of Imam Al Hussein and so on, I think we, we have to
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admit that we lack the capacity to understand the extent with
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which Rasul Allah is, is describing himself in Imam Al
28:05
Hussein. So the first thing I would do is
28:08
say, look, I don't know, I have no clue, but maybe I can try and
28:13
scratch the surface of this. And so recently I, I wrote an
28:18
article which I published online about the the nature of the
28:24
imams, the essence of Rasulullah and the Arabite Ali Musalam.
28:28
And I have this hypothesis which I sort of try to elucidate on
28:35
and provide backing and evidence for, which I don't want to get
28:39
into now because it could confuse people.
28:42
But suffice to say that for me to try and completely grasp,
28:48
excuse me, the notion of what it means for the Prophet to be from
28:54
Imam Hussein. The reverse of that is as you
28:57
said, you know, it's kind of easily understood by, you know,
29:03
looking at the biological sort of connection between the
29:06
Prophet and Imam Hussein. But the, the, the, the common
29:11
sort of explanation that's been provided by some of our scholars
29:16
is that Rasulullah says that I am from Hussein in that without
29:20
Hussein and his sacrifice and his revolution and his, you
29:25
know, whatever you want to call it with, without the actions of
29:28
Imam Al Hussain Ali Salaam Rasool, Allah's legacy would
29:31
have long been forgotten. And that's a fact.
29:35
That is something that, you know, it was easily sensed at
29:42
the time of Imam Al Hussein. There's a reason why Imam Ali
29:45
Hussein rose up against Yazid but not Muharui as evil and
29:50
tyrannical and vicious and two faced and hypocritical as
29:54
Morawia was. At least he pretended to be a
29:58
Muslim, then suddenly comes along his illegitimate child and
30:03
says that I represent the Prophet.
30:06
But I'm turning the tables around and I, I'll do whatever I
30:10
want. I'll drink wine, I'll get drunk
30:12
on the pulpit. I will play with my pet monkey.
30:15
I will kill, I will maim. I will, you know, do whatever my
30:19
heart desires, right? And you all have to accept that.
30:23
You all have to submit to me. And so Imam Al Hussein rises at
30:27
a time when the religion of Islam was on the brink of utter
30:33
and complete annihilation. So Imam Hussein does something.
30:38
I remember many, many years ago, I used this example in one of
30:41
the lectures. I said, imagine there's a train
30:44
and the train is moving at 150 K's an hour and suddenly there
30:50
is a disconnect in the railway. There's a bridge that's been
30:54
blown up or something, and the train is moving at that
30:59
incredible speed. When it reaches the end of the
31:03
line and it starts to freefall towards the valley, the
31:11
acceleration of the train itself, then you've got the
31:15
fall, which keeps on adding to the speed of the train.
31:21
And the reason I use the example of a train is because it is so
31:26
heavy and massive, and you've got all these, you know,
31:31
different parts. And now imagine when the train
31:35
gets to about a meters distance from the ground.
31:38
What kind of force do you need to not only stop the train from
31:44
impact, but also push it all the way back and put it on the
31:49
track? The force would be phenomenal.
31:53
It would have to be incredibly high in order for it to reverse
31:59
the trajectory of the train. That's what Imam Al Hussein did.
32:03
In this example. The train is Islam.
32:07
It was on a freefall. It was moments away from impact
32:12
and complete destruction. Then Imam Al Hussein comes, but
32:16
the, the, the sheer amount of force required was so great
32:23
that, and I want you to think about this, that it wasn't even
32:27
sufficient for Imam al Hussein's blood to be shed.
32:31
It had to be the six month old infant.
32:34
It had to be the captivity of the women and the children.
32:39
It had to be Al Qassim, it had to be the companions of Imam
32:44
Hussein. So this is what Imam al Hussein
32:47
did. And so is it then strange to say
32:51
Rasulullah would acknowledge this and say, well, Ahmed
32:55
Hussein. So I think, you know, that's
33:00
that's sort of like a common way of, of describing it.
33:02
But I think there are there are deeper, deeper layers that we
33:06
can get into it, it it they have to do with the moment of
33:10
creation. They have to do with this the
33:12
world of spirits, where they have to do with the essence of
33:15
the Prophet in Imam Al Hussain, which those things I'll be
33:18
honest or beyond my own comprehension.
33:20
Yeah, no, those esoterical dimensions and layers we'll
33:24
never be able to uncover, but it.
33:26
Even though, even though a lot of people are interested, a lot
33:28
of people aren't content with this explanation, which should
33:33
give us enough material to to keep us engaged intellectually
33:38
and emotionally for centuries. But you have those people who
33:41
are like, no, I want that. I want the special stuff.
33:43
I want the secret things, you know what I mean?
33:46
Which I think people should avoid.
33:47
Yeah, yeah. No, of course, but and that
33:50
knowing that in and of itself itself is, is special because
33:54
you know that there is there's a special place that Imam Hussein
33:59
holds and and the Holy Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi who
34:03
knew of what was to happen to his grandson.
34:05
And of course we hear about the forecasting and Salaam Alayhi
34:09
and we knew about the interaction with Umm Salimah and
34:14
all of these different things. These events that took place
34:16
prior to the battle of Karbala just goes to show that the Holy
34:20
Prophet himself knew what Makami Imam Ali Salaam would hold.
34:24
Said. I had a specific question in
34:27
terms of from kind of like a theological perspective.
34:30
If you imagine that the battle of Karbala in some way, shape or
34:36
form is the maybe the completion of the message of the prophets
34:42
through the inheritance of these characteristics and, and the
34:46
specific titles or Sephart or whatever we want to call them of
34:50
the, the prophets mentioned in Ziad to Adith.
34:53
Where does that then leave us when it comes to the concept of
34:56
the Raja? So specifically in terms of as
35:00
we know from our hadith and Muhammad Hussein, Aleh Salaam
35:03
will return after Imam and Mehdi, he will be the focal
35:06
point of the of that Raja. And of course the prophets, Aleh
35:10
Salaam will be there as well, of which at that point we know they
35:13
will complete their mission as well.
35:16
How do we kind of reconcile these two notions of the
35:20
missions of the prophets during their lifetimes, Karbala, and
35:24
then of course, what is due to come in terms of the Raja?
35:27
First of all, I think we need to understand the the the notion of
35:36
inheritance, I think, is a multidimensional, multifaceted
35:43
kind of idea. Imam Al Hussein was the heir to
35:49
those prophets in terms of their knowledge.
35:53
As we explained, Imam Al Hussein was also the heir to those
35:58
prophets in terms of his personal character traits.
36:04
In fact, to provide evidence for this point, we have many
36:09
different narrations reported by a variety of different Sunni
36:13
scholars in which the Prophet in one particular hadith, he would
36:22
get up on a pedestal or a pulpit or something to make himself
36:28
visible. And then he would ask everybody
36:31
to lower themselves, which I found interesting.
36:34
He would ask everyone to just, you know, that hang their head
36:37
down or something. Then he would say to them men,
36:41
Arad and Yanvora, Ella Adamafeel.
36:46
What ella no hen fee alme? What Ella Ibrahim?
36:56
So the Prophet was would mention these prophets and say that
37:00
whoever wants to look at them and see them with these
37:05
particular character traits, as I said, look it up.
37:12
Multiple Sunni sources have reported this.
37:16
So what that means is Imam Al Hussein inherited not just their
37:20
knowledge, but also the one character trait that they were
37:25
known for, the thing that made them shine, the thing that made
37:28
them unique and special, right? So for instance, in this hadith,
37:36
the the Prophet says what Elam Musafi, but she right?
37:41
So for example, Adam's knowledge is unique.
37:47
The Quran speaks about that. And even though some people
37:54
might assume that Allah taught Adam the names of objects, this
37:59
does not make any sense because it doesn't make him any special.
38:03
It doesn't make him superior to the angels.
38:05
What Allah was trying to illustrate to the angels that
38:07
hey, this is something worthy of you prostrating before.
38:13
And so Asma here is something much deeper than just, you know,
38:20
names and, and adjectives and and verbs and whatnot.
38:24
He's not just teaching him the language, he's giving him the
38:28
the keys to the world of the unseen, right names with which
38:34
perhaps a lost pan of Ta'ala would create things.
38:38
Right? Allah is teaching Adam some
38:41
truly special knowledge. So the Prophet would say whoever
38:47
wants to see Adam in his manifested in his knowledge
38:52
should take a look at Ali ABBA Ali Ali Salaam for instance, in
38:57
his Ibadah. Ali Salaam was known for his
39:03
worship. Interestingly, this is a a a
39:06
debate that's raged over the centuries over Isa and his
39:12
divinity which conflicts and contradicts the idea that he
39:15
would worship God. And even the Bible says that Isa
39:18
used to worship God and beautifully Imam Ali Salam in
39:22
his debate with the Jathiliq, who was the the the most senior
39:27
Christian scholar of his day, the Imam speaks about Prophet,
39:32
ASA speaks about the Injeel, you know, the Bible and whatnot.
39:37
A really, really interesting exchange happens.
39:40
And Imam Al Bhavan says to him, you know what, we really love
39:44
ASA Al Salam just like you do. But we do have one major
39:48
criticism, which is that he was Khalil Al Haibad.
39:52
He didn't worship sufficiently. So the the Christian man is
39:57
enraged and he says to him, what are you talking about?
39:59
Aisha used to worship God all the time.
40:03
So then the Imam says to him, well who did he worship if he
40:06
was a God, if he was a member of the triune divine entity and who
40:13
did he worship? You only worship if you're a
40:16
slave and a creation and you worship your creator.
40:20
So it's it's interesting that the Prophet mentions Aisha and
40:24
his Abad. And says you want to see what he
40:26
says Ibadah was like. And so when it comes to these
40:31
characteristics that are mentioned, specifically cited in
40:36
Ziara Tuarev. Let's take a look.
40:38
Look at them very quickly, if we, if I shall #1 Adam Salaam
40:45
Alayka saffa means to be picked right, to be selected from among
40:53
a group. Now, some have said that perhaps
40:57
this is a reference to the, the the pre sort of human creatures
41:05
that existed prior to Adam Ali Salaam, what some hadith
41:11
referred to as Nasnas, right. And we, we have no qualms or
41:16
anything against saying, saying that there was something prior
41:20
to Adam. They just weren't humans.
41:22
The first human in our sort of common modern understanding of
41:27
what a human is. If you like to use the word homo
41:32
sapien, perhaps. I don't know or care, but Adam
41:36
was selected. Either that or Allah selected
41:41
him in terms of being the first sentient creation of Allah.
41:49
So he was selected of all the potential other, you know,
41:54
individuals that have that could have been selected.
41:56
Allah selected him. Imam Al Hussein is the heir to
42:00
the one who was selected. Imam Al Hussein was selected in
42:05
the sense that the greatest act of sacrifice, the greatest and
42:10
most, you know, powerful primordial battle between good
42:14
and evil in all of human history was that of Ashura.
42:19
And a lost panel to Allah selected him for that.
42:22
Not Imam al Hassan, not Emir al Munini, not Imam Zel Abadi, not
42:26
Imam al Bahar, but Imam al Hussein, right?
42:29
So he was preselected, he was preordained, he was chosen by a
42:33
lost panel to Allah for this one critical role that only one
42:37
person could have fulfilled, and it had to be Imam al Hussein.
42:41
So that is starting to make sense, the link between him and
42:44
Prophet Adam Ali. Then we get to know as Salaam
42:48
Allah, what is Nourhan Nabi Allah.
42:54
Why is Nour referred to as Nabi? Because who else spent 950 years
43:00
being a Nabi doing what a Nabi does?
43:04
And I think one of the great things about the Art Wire is
43:07
that it's an invitation to learn about these prophets.
43:11
To really recognize Imam Al Hussein, you have to, you have
43:14
to go back in history and find out what these prophets did
43:17
before you can appreciate what Imam Al Hussein did.
43:21
Prophet Noor would go to somebody's house.
43:24
The Quran even speaks about this, that he used to preach
43:27
Serlan Wajahar. He used to preach in secret, he
43:31
used to preach in public. He used to go to individuals.
43:33
He would deliver public servants.
43:35
He would go to somebody's house. He would sit down with him all
43:38
night long preaching, guiding, addressing misconceptions and
43:41
whatnot. They would believe, only to then
43:44
go back in the morning and say, you know what?
43:46
That doesn't make sense for US. 950 years of exerting every
43:52
effort, sparing nothing, leaving no stone unturned, trying to
43:58
guide them out of a desire for them not to go to hell and to
44:02
end up in paradise. Imam Al Hussein did.
44:04
Exactly. If you think about just what
44:07
Imam Al Hussein had to go through, just just take this one
44:11
thing. Imam Al Hussein asked the enemy
44:14
to spare him that one night until the next morning, right?
44:20
And I, I've talked about this many times, perhaps on this
44:22
podcast as well. Imam Al Hussein had every reason
44:26
for the war to begin at night. The weather was much better.
44:30
It was easier to hide and to protect yourself.
44:35
You know, there were less enemy combatants that had that had
44:39
joined the ranks of Omar al-Assad, right?
44:43
There were multiple reasons why Imam Al Hussein.
44:46
They had more water, perhaps more food.
44:49
They weren't as tired. They weren't as hungry.
44:51
They weren't under the scorching heat of the sun.
44:53
What does Imam Al Hussein say? Spare the night, he says to
44:57
them, because I want to pray. I love Salat and I love dua.
45:01
And that's absolutely true. But perhaps one of the other
45:04
reasons was that Imam Al Hussein was trying to be as visible as
45:09
possible, as laudable as possible, so that the next day
45:13
Mohammed Hussein could perhaps invite more souls into his camp.
45:17
Maybe it could guide a few more people, Right.
45:20
The length to which Obama Hussein went in order to guide
45:23
people that is so powerful, so exemplary that you could
45:28
connected directly back to Noah. Noah spent 950 years doing this,
45:33
enduring humiliation, attacks, character assassinations, all
45:38
those things. But Imam Hussein went through
45:40
all of that and then some within a matter of just one day.
45:45
What he went through is indescribable.
45:47
It's incomparable. And again, you could take every
45:50
other profit with that specific character trait that I, that I
45:55
mentioned, and it starts to make sense.
45:58
To go back to something I was saying earlier, if I may.
46:00
And I know you have a lot, a lot more questions to ask, but I
46:03
think this is critical. So we said that inheritance
46:06
comes in the form of knowledge. It comes in the form of
46:08
character traits. It comes in the form of relics
46:12
of previous prophets and messengers, including their
46:15
scriptures. Now, why is this important?
46:19
Because most Muslims assume that the Christian Bible is the
46:25
originally revealed book of Allah.
46:29
Span out Allah to his prophet Isaiah Salaam with some
46:33
tampering here and there. The reality however, is that as
46:39
as far as I can tell, the existing Bible has no semblance,
46:45
no connection, no similarity to the Bible that was revealed to
46:50
Isaiah. So it's a whole complete
46:53
different book. Yeah.
46:55
The majority of it are letters and a peaceful, as they call
46:59
them, of Paul. They call them Paul the Apostle
47:04
and Paul the imposter, but they call them the apostle.
47:09
And that's the majority of the Bible.
47:11
So about 60%. Then you've got the other 40%.
47:15
The Gospels make up a big proportion of that.
47:19
And the Gospels are really written by individuals who are
47:22
students of Paul and influenced by him and his worldview and his
47:27
theology. And they're just a bunch of
47:29
stories, contradictory. So many inconsistencies, so many
47:35
problems. One story is here, but it's
47:37
missing from there. One major detail is here, but
47:41
you don't find it elsewhere. And it changes the whole
47:43
narrative. So where is the Bible?
47:47
And we have many traditions that the scriptures of previous
47:51
messengers and their relics. So the tablets of Musa, the
47:55
Cain, the staff of Musa, the the Bible of ASA, all of these and
48:02
sometimes personal artifacts from previous prophets, the ring
48:05
of Suleiman, the taboot of Beni Israel, all of these things were
48:12
handed down from 1 righteous divinely appointed prophet and
48:17
messenger to to the next. And until it came down to Imam
48:22
Al Hussein al Salam. Now there's one hadith where
48:25
somebody asks Imam al Baker, I believe Salam, and he says to
48:29
them, well, what happened to those relics?
48:32
And he says that when they reached Imam al Hussein and Imam
48:35
al Hussein was about to leave for Karbala, he entrusted them
48:39
with who Om om Salam. So they were all given Salam
48:44
Allah Alam Salam. They were handed over to Om
48:48
Salamat to look after while Imam Hussein went because they were
48:52
afraid that they would be looted, they would be stolen.
48:56
Imagine like these are these are the divine relics of messengers.
49:01
Civilized. Right with one tiny thing that
49:04
belonged to any of these prophets, like in the hadith of
49:06
Imam Al Abedin and the young man.
49:08
I don't know if you've heard it, I won't mention it where he he
49:12
would simply reveal a portion of the bone of a prophet.
49:17
I believe it was Prophet Yusuf Ali Asalam.
49:19
And this the, the, the sky would start pouring down rains in a
49:25
season of drought, right? So these are things that could
49:28
do miraculous things. So the Imam says to him that
49:31
they were entrusted to Omsalem. Omsalem, then when Imam al
49:34
Abidine went back to my father, he says when he went back to
49:38
Medina, she handed them over to my father and then my father
49:42
handed them over to me. So that's another thing that
49:45
Imam al Hussein inherits from them.
49:47
As far as the Scriptures are concerned, knowing that the
49:51
Bible that the, the genuine Psalms of David, the Torah of
49:56
Musa Ali Salam, these books were in the possession of Imam Ali
50:00
Hussein and Imam Hussein was the protector of these relics and
50:05
these scriptures. You know, I, I, I've been
50:08
preparing for a course on Christianity and so upon law,
50:13
the things you see, they're, they're heart wrenching.
50:19
The, for example, the, the role that Paul played in the
50:25
distortion of the, of the Christian religion.
50:29
And you know how he had people who were opposed to him, right?
50:34
They, they talk about James. They say James the brother of
50:37
Jesus, Right. And this was something really
50:41
interesting which I, I don't want to get into, but who
50:43
exactly is James? We know according to our hadith,
50:46
that the successor of Jesus was Simon.
50:49
Yeah, right. The they call him the the
50:53
apostle Peter, right? So, so, so Peter the apostle or
50:59
Simon was the successor of So who's James?
51:04
And why is it that now Christians are saying that you
51:07
have the Jamesian Christianity and you have the Pauline
51:10
Christianity? Well, who was James and why was
51:13
Paul so opposed to him? Why is it that Paul writes to
51:17
the, I believe the Corinthians or the Galatians?
51:20
And he says to them, don't take the Bible from James and, and,
51:25
and he even calls the people that James had sent, He says,
51:28
don't take your, your, the, the Gospels from those dogs.
51:33
Imagine Paul, this imposter, this false prophet attacks
51:38
James. And I was like, who is James?
51:40
Do we have any reference to James in our own scriptures?
51:44
And sure enough, I found a reference where the Imam says
51:47
that this isn't Qamaruddin or Qamaruddin.
51:51
He says that James, who in in Hebrew is Yaakov, which means in
51:58
Arabic it's Yaqoob. Well, who was Yaqoob?
52:01
Among the disciples of Jesus? We have, I think two or three
52:04
people called Yaqoob. They call him James.
52:06
The just right in our scriptures, in our hadith
52:09
corpus, we call him James, the son of Simon, right?
52:14
Yacobub Nishamon, which means that Simon was the successor of
52:19
ASA. Then you have James and James
52:22
became the head of the church in Jerusalem and he was the force
52:26
behind trying to discredit Paul and saying that he doesn't
52:30
represent us. And then there were splinter
52:32
groups that were created. One is called the Ibianites and
52:36
the other is called the Nazareans.
52:38
And these people were, were were very much opposed to the idea
52:42
that Jesus is divine. Jesus was the son of God.
52:44
They were Unitarian Christians. So my point in all of this, and
52:48
it's a whole lengthy discussion, is that Imam Hussein inherited
52:52
these scriptures from those prophets, the truth and, and
52:57
protected the the truth from being distorted, from being
53:00
completely erased. Imam Hussein had them.
53:03
But to your point, and I'll conclude with this, really, if
53:07
Imam Al Hussein had none of those things, the fact that he
53:11
made that stand stands on the day of Ayushura, resurrected all
53:16
of these prophets. He saved their legacy from being
53:21
completely crushed and dismantled and destroyed.
53:26
It was Imam Al Hussein praying on the dead corpse of his six
53:30
month old infant and saying Allah Akbar with which he
53:35
resurrected Adam and, and you know, Noor and Ibrahim and
53:41
Moussa and Aissa, because we know that all of these prophets,
53:46
there's a chain of succession. There's a thread that connects
53:50
every single one of them all the way down to our holy Messenger
53:55
and Imam Hussein. By preserving the unicity of
53:59
Allah, Spano to Allah, servitude of Allah, Spano to Allah, the
54:03
religion of Allah, Spano to Allah.
54:05
He protected and saved and resurrected all of those
54:08
prophets, which is why they're all indebted to him.
54:13
If Rasul Allah says what Anaman was saying, imagine all of the
54:17
other prophets, which explains why every Thursday night every
54:21
single one of those prophets visits the shrine.
54:24
Everyone was saying to say think.
54:27
Sallallahu alaikum truly, honestly, Ali it's it's it's
54:32
mesmerizing to think about all the links of about Abdullah
54:35
Hussain to these to these prophets.
54:37
And you know, it reminds me of where we say Salaam alaikum.
54:42
We are beta Nabua and they are they are not just the household
54:47
of us all Allah, the other household of all Prophet
54:49
Prophet. Think about that.
54:52
The link of the aliabet, Ali Wasallam, Asabel Kisar and the
54:56
entire prophethood only for people to stand against them and
54:59
to fire arrows against their camp and to kill family members
55:03
of Roswell. That makes you think like what
55:05
kind of individuals were they and how bloodthirsty, how evil,
55:10
tyrannical. There's so much was only used
55:14
like it's not suitable for this podcast at the moment, but there
55:17
is something I think I want to end with on say it's.
55:19
Not just that, if I may add one more point.
55:22
Imam Hussein, being the heir to all of these prophets, tells you
55:27
that when they, when they surrounded him and they
55:33
prevented him from leaving the cut off water supply, when they
55:39
attacked him, when they injured him, when they wounded him and
55:43
eventually killed him, they were killing the one remnant of all
55:50
of these prophets. So that the one individual who
55:54
represented every single one of those messengers on the plains
55:58
of Karbala, they were killing him.
56:00
Which to your point tells you just what kind of savage,
56:06
brutal, merciless monsters who were if, if God could manifest
56:15
in physical reality to them, they would try and kill him,
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right? Not that that would ever happen.
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My point is that they they had they had the audacity to kill
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not just Imam Al Hussein. Which is why Imam Al Hussein
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told them multiple times that if you look around the earth trying
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to search for someone who is the son of the daughter of the last
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mess, any messenger in fact, you would find no one else but me.
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And the fact that you're killing me, the Imam says, means that
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after me you will kill anybody. Because killing me is the thing
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that will anger God the most. Nothing you will do after this
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will be as bad as this. But did they?
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I mean again, I don't want to start a new podcast, but didn't
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they, they knew this like Walid in Akbar in Mecca mentioned this
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himself and when Marwan was advising him and Marwan said
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kill him now, now's your chance. Walid said I can't kill him now.
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What will I say in the Achara to kill the grandson of the Holy
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Prophet Walid himself, you know, the nephew of Ali, Ali, the
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cousin of Yazid to for him to say it just shows.
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And then of course, for them to pray behind the Imam.
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When Hod, of course, was leading the army against the Imam, there
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was a recognition of his status, surely.
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And you know the Imam on multiple occasions alluded to
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not just his societal status nor his status as the one who was
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rightfully the Caliph. Of course, as we know when we
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look at the sole of Imam Al Hassan Aleh Salaam and he said
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if I was to die first should go to my brother Hussein.
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If Mahari was to die first, it would return to me.
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Even from the creedal perspective of the non Shia,
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they believe that OK, if the Imam was not divinely appointed
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and should not be the caliph from a divine perspective, at
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least from a constitutional perspective or a contractual
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perspective is due to be the caliph of the time for then them
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still to, you know, pursue the Imam in the way they did.
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It just blows my mind. And this is something for me on
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a personal level, these first two or three nights of the holy
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month that I'm trying to wrap my head around.
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How can someone so purified, so holy, who's received so much
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love and adornment of praise through the Quran and the hadith
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or Sunnah of Rasoolallah Muhammad Salallahu Alayhi, still
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at that point be given the treatment that he and his family
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and his companions were given not just before or during, but
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even after the battle of Karbala.
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Said a final point, because I appreciate it's late and we've
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taken a lot of your time. Said What would your advice be
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to young believers around the world who are listening to this
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podcast and who have made it this far in and want to make the
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most, especially of the coming week?
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You know we have a week left until the day of Oshawa.
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You know, this is one of those, one of those seasons where no
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matter what you do, there's, there's room to do more, but
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everything that you do is amplified and blessed and
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multiplied. So if all you do in these ten
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nights is attend the majlis and do Aza, then kudos to you.
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May Allah bless you, right? You've you've entered the tent
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of Imam Hussein and that's wonderful.
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But it would be a shame if all we did was attend the Majlis,
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right? You, you want to capitalize on
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this. It's like, it's like seeing
1:00:11
them. Stock market rallying, right,
1:00:15
because of a, you know, a deal that was struck between two
1:00:19
warring factions and you see prices going up all the stocks,
1:00:23
oil, commodities, you know, cryptos and what not.
1:00:27
If you, if you only buy one thing, then fine, you'll make a
1:00:31
profit. But what do you want to do is
1:00:33
really invest all in, go all in, right?
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Maximize the benefit. So what I would say is the bare
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minimum is to attend a good beneficial Hosseini centric
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matchless and to do Aza and to offer your condolences through
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your actions to the prophet, to the Imam of the time.
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And and that would be the bare minimum.
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That's what's really that's the glue that's kept the entire Shia
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community alive for the last 14 centuries and saved us from
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extinction. But you should do more.
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And I know that your listeners are the type of people who want
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to do more, right? Al Hamdulillah, hence listening
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to to this podcast. The other thing I would
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recommend is recite Ziadat Aishwara if you don't already do
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this on a daily basis. I've met so many people who do
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it. I'm usually surprised when they
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say that we recite Ziadat Aishwara every single day, often
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times with 100 Lana and 100 Salam.
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So the way it's been prescribed, it's it's absolutely wonderful
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and beautiful. And if you don't usually do
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this, then now is the time, even if you, if your intention is to
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do it until urbane. So do it for 40 days, right?
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You can stop afterwards if you want, or you could maybe do away
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with 100 Lana and 100 Salaam. The whole thing takes about an
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hour and 10 minutes anyway. You could do it while driving,
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could do it well, just sitting down and and resting.
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So Ziata Ashura to really think about the contents of this.
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Ziata, I, I applaud you for picking this topic.
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It's not the most controversial topic.
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It's not the most interesting in, in people's imagination.
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I'm sure if if you gave people something, you know, a little
1:02:18
more controversial, they, they would jump at the opportunity to
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listen. But you picked a topic that is
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truly meaningful. And I think what's beautiful
1:02:27
about it is that. We wanted to achieve.
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It increases our knowledge of Imam Al Hussein.
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It connects us to Imam Al Hussein.
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I often see, and I don't want to go on a tangent here, but I
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often see that some lectures during Muharram really have
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nothing to do with Imam Hussein. They might be relevant, they
1:02:48
might be interesting, they might actually be beneficial.
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But are we really going to use the 10 days of Muharram to talk
1:02:53
about something? Recycling.
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Recycling or you know whatever. So crypto investing, you know,
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these things have their have their time and they have their
1:03:04
place. But not in Muharram.
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In Muharram, get to know Imam Hussein, connect with him and so
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1 great way to do that is to read a a different ziara every
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day or every three days, or dedicate the Fridays for example
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to read a different ziara Muhammad Hussein.
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In Mafatihal Janani you've got about 7 different ziara.
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Read a different one. Read the translation if you
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don't understand the Arabic and try and really think about what
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you're reading. The Imams used it, especially
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imams in Aberdeen and the later imams, they use the Ziara to
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increase our knowledge of God and to heed and Nabuwa and Imam
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and Adlam Mahad. So to to really spend time and
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contemplate these, these yarat I think would be critical.
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Other than that, just try to to behave in a manner that would be
1:04:01
more pleasing to Imam Al Hussein Alayhi Salaam or relationship,
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marital relationships have ups and downs, for instance.
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And you know, at least for the for the 40 days from the
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beginning of Muharram to until out of Bahrain, let's try and
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put all the problems on pause. Let's try and, you know, live
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more amicably in a manner that will please Imam and Zaman.
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So just really think of Ashura and Muharram and Safar more like
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the month of Ramadan, right Where where we, we, we kind of
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take a step backwards and say, let's just do things a little
1:04:36
differently. Let's try and please the the
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Imam of the time. So that's what I would say that.
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Sounds so beautiful. Reading a muktel?
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Somebody actually once said to me that I'm interested in
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reading muktel. So I gave him a list of muktel
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meaning the passion narrative of Imam Al Hussein al Sanam and
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about a year later he saw me and he said I've read 4 different
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muktel so far. And Subhan Allah, his his
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knowledge and his comprehension of the events of Ashura and even
1:05:05
his gnosis of Imam Hussein Ali Salaam had exponentially been
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increased. So maybe pick up a maktil, pick
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up Allah Hoof by Esseid von Paus.
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Pick up for instance the maktil of Sheikh Abbas al Qami.
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I wrote a maktil which is granted quite short and
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succinct, but my point is read any muktel to give you an
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overall view of what happens. Said last year on the day of
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Ashura, I was at home and I woke up super early by myself and I
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was, I was sitting like away from the kids and everything.
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And I found a recitation that you did a muktel maybe 10-15
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years ago somewhere on YouTube, and I did the whole hour and a
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half and I cried my eyes out to the sound of your voice and the
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narrations that you read. And I still remember and of
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course, the profound effect that your transmission of the moqtal
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had on me. May Allah bless you and give you
1:06:09
more Balaka and Tofiq and allow you the opportunity to continue
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decades of service for Mohammed Hussein ABI Abdullah Hussein Ali
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Salaam and your progeny, your lineage and Shah Alam.
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They all continue to be able to serve as your own ancestors did
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and your grandfather Imam Hussein Al Islam.
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Always be proud of you Inshallah and allow us to go closer to him
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and to represent his cause faithfully in Charlotte and.
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Both of you and all of our listeners as well.
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Thank you so much. Thank you for being.
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Here as always, thank you. It was a pleasure, as always.
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Thank you. And Brunsisters at home again,
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thank you for tuning into Aftermarket.
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It's been an incredible discussion.
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We're very grateful to say Mehdi for for being here.
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I encourage you all to tune into his lectures.
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They will be live and they have been live on the Harakal
1:06:59
Hosseinia YouTube channel and the team.
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They are doing incredible work as well.
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Say any thoughts? Closing remarks.
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Said everything and I echo everything Ahmed mentioned here
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and inshallah you take the gems and the advice and the wisdom
1:07:13
that was shared on this episode and share it with your friends,
1:07:16
with your family so that they can benefit as well.
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Inshallah we'll see you again inshallah, same time next week.
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Labeke Hussain. What's Salaam alaikum?