Ali Ataie – Can A Sunni Muslim Commemorate the Martyrdom of Imam Hussein (RA)

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A speaker discusses the importance of requiring people to praisably acknowledge the presence of the MACshillim, the god of death, during the upcoming election. They argue that people should be praised for their actions, even if they are not from Iran, and that there are different ways to obtain this. The speaker also mentions that people may be taken advantage of in a media campaign to obtain their political status.

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			So his question is, I'm a new Muslim.
		
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			My question is why don't we commemorate the
		
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			martyrdom of of Hussein alaihis salam? As Sunnis,
		
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			shouldn't we be concerned
		
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			that within 50 years of the prophets of
		
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			death, his grandson was murdered. It seems like
		
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			we should commemorate
		
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			his martyrdom too. Yes. We should. I I
		
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			agree. We should commemorate his martyrdom.
		
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			We should remember him.
		
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			We should constantly
		
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			be praising
		
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			the. And, of course, Imam al Hussein
		
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			is, as the questioner said, a grandson of
		
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			the prophet
		
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			not only that, he's a he's a companion
		
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			of the prophet
		
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			So a lot of the times I think,
		
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			people get caught up in emotion. They get
		
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			caught up in, again, this kind of divisive
		
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			rhetoric.
		
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			So there are people who I mean, I've
		
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			I've quoted
		
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			I've quoted hadith in our books
		
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			during the chutba
		
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			praising.
		
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			And people will come up to me and
		
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			say, are you a are you a shiri?
		
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			And they don't know I'm from Iran because
		
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			of the that would be mean, if they
		
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			knew I was an Iranian, they would
		
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			assume yours. But they don't know anything about
		
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			me. Right?
		
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			So are you I said, why do you
		
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			think I'm a Shi'i? You could you said
		
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			this about Imam Hassan. I said that this
		
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			hadith is an. This hadith is a. This
		
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			hadith is a. This had what are you
		
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			talking about? Oh, I've never heard this hadith.
		
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			You know, that's that's a shame.
		
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			You know? So I think people for the
		
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			sake of not
		
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			being labeled a certain thing are not being
		
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			true to their tradition.
		
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			You know? And that's that's unfortunate.
		
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			You know?
		
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			But that we should we should definitely, you
		
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			know, when you say commemorate his martyrdom,
		
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			you
		
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			know, there there's certain practices that our Shia
		
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			brethren do to commemorate the the martyrdom that
		
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			are not acceptable according to
		
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			the Sunni urdama.
		
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			Okay. So there's different ways. As as I
		
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			said in my lecture, there's different ways in
		
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			which we commemorate Athan Beit.
		
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			There's different ways in which in which different
		
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			sunnis,
		
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			commemorate the molid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam. Everyone believes in the molid of the
		
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			prophet. Molid means he was born. Right? Everyone
		
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			believed. You have to believe that. And everyone
		
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			has to show joy. They have to have
		
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			joy in their hearts that the prophet was
		
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			born. You have to.
		
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			But it doesn't mean you have to go
		
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			to a gathering
		
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			and listen to poetry about the policy. You
		
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			can if you want. You don't have to.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			we commemorate Imam Hussain in different ways.
		
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			The Dean is
		
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			vast.
		
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			Right?