Ali Ataie – Love for Household of Muhammad ()
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Says is Shukunabi'ikum,
the love of your Prophet.
Number 2, Shuku ahlipei tihim, the love of
his family,
Quran and the reading of the Quran.
So the Prophet
makes it very clear that love of his
family, of the Affiliates,
is followed upon every single Muslim.
Allah
says in the Quran in Surah number 42
verse number 23.
Say, I ask no reward for you from
you for this except that you love the
purbah
and the Mufasilir of the Quran are unanimous
that the purbah he referred to
is the Ahlul Bayt of the prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Maqshatri says in a
poem,
Oh family of the house, oh people of
the house of the messenger of God, your
love is incumbent upon all of us from
Allah
based on the book of Allah
And then he said, madam yusaliyaaraykumullah
sala sala. Whoever
does not
pray upon you or send benedictions upon you,
there's no prayer for him. So according to
the Imam Shafi'i
it's a rukun of the prayer. It's a
pillar of the prayer, the sun salawat upon
the prophet Muhammad
If you don't do that your prayer is
not valid according to the Jafri Matha. This
is why Imam Jafri because he was burning
with Allah of Ahlul Bayt. He was accused
by many ulama as being a rafiq, of
being a shiry
because he love Ahlul Bayt. Why why do
you have to be shiry? Because you love
Ahlul Bayt.
Love of Ahlul Bayt is found upon every
single Muslim, whether they're
Sunni or shayid. This is clear. The prophet
in another hadith in Tirmidid, he says
Love Allah
for his blessings upon you. Just contemplating that
Mi'am, the blessings of Allah
should engender love for him. We think about
what he gives us, and that should engender
love. So the perfect stranger, mom Zayed uses
the example, if a perfect stranger walks up
to you and gives you a $100100
in cash or a $1,000 in cash, You
don't even know the person. Your heart might
actually incline towards that person. You might actually
love that person. You don't even know who
it is. Think about Allah
who gave you your life, everything, your parents,
your wealth, everything, your existence.
And then He said,
and love me for the sake of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And love my family
for the sake of me.
When the latter part of this verse was
revealed
in Surat Al Aqzab, aye number 56, Allah
says,
There's 2
and then a imperative and then a
an absolute infinitive absolute at the end of
the verse, which is for stress. 2 imperatives
and stress
to send blessings of peace upon the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So one of the companions
came to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when
this verse was revealed and said,
How do we pray upon you? And the
prophet said,
say Allahu Musaliyahalay
Muhammad
wa'ala Ali Muhammad.
Send blessings
of peace upon Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
on the family of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. So now the question arises who
are the Ahlulbayt?
Right? Are the wives of the prophet
amongst Ahlul Bayt? So the dominant,
response here from the ulama of Ahlul Sunnah
of Jema'ah is that, yes, indeed the wives
of the prophet salawat alayhi sallam, the mumma'il
mumineen are from Ahlul Bayt, and this is
established in Quran and hadith. So the term
Ahlul Bayt is mentioned 3 times in the
Quran.
And in the immediate reference
in the immediate reference, it's referring to women.
So the So in one ayah, for example,
in Surah Hud,
right, we're told that the angels came to
the house of Ibrahim alayhis salam, and they
gave Ibrahim alayhis salam and Sarah
glad tidings of a son, Isha or Daghikat,
and she laughed because she said, you know,
I'm an an old woman. I'm an Aju's.
Hadaba'i Sheikha. My husband is a 100 years
old. Right? So she left Tahikat and they
named their son Ishaq,
which in Hebrew means laughter because she left.
Right? And then the angel said,
wander
at the command of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
Mercy and and blessings be upon you, oh
Ahlul Bayt. Right? The second occurrence of Ahlul
Bayt is in Surah Al of Tisas
in chapter 28 of the Quran,
which we are told that the sister of
Musa Alaihi Salam
is following
the baby Musa alayhi salaam to see where
he ends up through the river
and Asiya, the wife of Firaun, picks him
up, and he will not breastfeed from anyone,
and he's going to die. So she says,
shall I,
direct you towards an Ahlulbayt
that will nurse him? Right? Again, the references
to women, the immediate reference.
The last occurrence of Anil Bayt is in
Surat Al Azza in which Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says,
That Allah
only want only wants to remove
every type of stain
from you, oh Atenid faith, and to render
you pure and spotless.
Right? So if you look at this ayah,
what comes before, what comes after,
we have direct speech of Allah
to the wives of the prophet Muhammad
ala
wussalam.
Oh, wives of the prophet, you're not like
other women.
Which is for women. It's a it's a
it's an imperative command,
feminine, plural.
Obey Allah as messenger. Again,
a imperative command, feminine, plural. And then what
comes after this verse,
Everything is feminine plural, but in the middle
we have the statement
And this is an emasculine plural. Right? So
this is evidence that the wives of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam were also included in
Adi al Bayt. There's also
a hadith in Sahih Muslim,
where we're told this is also in in
included in Imam Nabi Israel al Salihim, Ali
1.
We are told that 2 Tabiris named one
named Hussein and one named Amor, they came
to Zayd ibn al-'aqam, and they asked him,
who are the Ahlidbayt?
Are the women of the wives of the
prophet
from Ahlul Bayt? And he said yes. And
he said also the sons of Aqil and
Jaffa and Abbas.
Radiallahu anhu and j'ma'een. So this is the
dominant opinion.
There are some who say that only the
wives of the prophet
are Ahlulbayt and this is regarded as a
heretical position.
It's not only the wives of the Prophet
Now within Ahlul Bayt, there's a group of
5 people that have a special distinction with
the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wasallam.
And these 5 were called
related by Uma Salamah, umur mumileen,
in which he says that the prophet was
sleeping on a kiss of Khaybari in my
quarters
on a
a mat from Khaybar. He was sleeping on
it. And Fatima Sahra alaihi sallam entered into
the room, and she had some sweets or
desserts with her or something.
The prophet salalahu alaihi salam wakes up and
he sees her and he says go call
your husband and your 2 sons.
So she goes and brings who?
Imam Ali alayhis salaam. And you can say
alayhis salaam for Abid Beit.
No problem. Imam Bukhari in a handwritten manuscript
a Sahih of Sahih Abu Hawi, and he
says Fatima
alayhi has salah. No problem. I say Salam
Alaikum to you all the time. Why can't
we say that a little bit? No problem
whatsoever.
Alright? So here comes Imam Ali and and
Hassanain.
Imam Hassan,
alayhis salaam. Imam al Hussain, alayhis salaam.
And he began eating a meal on this
Kisah Khaybari. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he takes this Kisah and he drags it
over his head
and over the head of Ali and Hassanay
and Fatima Zahra.
And this is the sub of the verse
recorded earlier. This is when that part of
the verse was revealed.
This is why it was revealed. And Uma
Salamah, she says and there's different briayat.
In one of them she says that I
tried to stick my head underneath the Giza.
Right? And the prophet stopped her and said,
auntie ila khair, you're okay. You're okay. Why
did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stop
her from doing that? There's a lot of
wisdom in that
because
these 5 are definitely from Ahlul Bayt. There's
no doubt about it. These 5 are from
Ahlul Bayt. Who are they? The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, obviously. Fatima Zahra, Ali, Imam Hassan,
Imam Hussain. There's a hadith of in the
Ahmad. That the prophet,
he took the hand for Imam Hassan and
Hussain.
And he
Whoever loves me
and these 2 and their mother and their
father will be with me at my station
on the day of judgement.
Loving these 5 at Alkiza.
There's another hadith, a very famous hadith,
which is called hadith at Saqqalayn.
Hadith at Saqqalayn.
This hadith is Mottawato.
It's related by many Muslim Ahmad Tirmidhi. A
mutawato hadith is a holistically attested hadith, which
according to the Urnava of Abu Luzun al
Jibara,
as the credal and legislative ways of the
Quranic
Ayah.
It's a factual statement.
Those who deny hadith or tawata, it is
as if they're not denying the Quran. It's
Dalil Qatari,
definitive proof. So it's kufur. To deny hadith
utuwathim
is kufur.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
this rewire is from Sahih Muslim, Zayid ibnu
Arkam
relates. He said on the way back from
Hajjatul Wada'a,
we stopped at a place called the Khaneerah
Khom,
which was a there was a pond and
there were some trees.
And he says, the prophet salam alayhi wasalam,
he turns and he addresses the entire congregation
and
he says I have left behind me 2
weighty things.
The book of Allah
which is a lifeline or a cable extension
from the heavens to the earth. The analogy
is like someone drowning in the ocean and
someone throws him alive.
And then he says,
and secondly,
my family,
the people
of my house.
There's another hadith where he says,
And some would say, well, this is a
contradiction. Now the first hadith is much stronger
than the second hadith. Eitsi lati is stronger
than sunnati. But is this really a contradiction?
We're going to explore that inshallah ta'ala.
And then he said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
These two things,
the kitabullah
and the itzra of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, Ahmed Bayt, they're never going to
separate. They're never going to deviate. They're never
going to contradict.
They're always going to be in alignment. You
cannot under in other words, you cannot understand
the Quran without Ahmed Beyit. You cannot understand
Adid Bayt. And
then the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam, he said
Am I not more important to the believers
than their own selves?
Which is a reference to the verse in
the Quran, Surat Al Azza, ayat number 6.
The Prophet is closer to the believers than
their own selves. In other words, the believers
prefer the life of the Prophet over their
own lives. And if you read the story
of Hazrat Mohammed, for example, that becomes very
very clear. And they said, Bella Bella. Yes.
Yes.
And then he took the hand of Ali,
and he said,
If I am your master,
then this Ali is your master.
Oh,
God,
befriend the one who befriends Ali
and antagonize the one who antagonizes
Ali
and give victory to the one who gives
him victory
and forsake the one who forsakes him.
Now
the Shia say this is a
very clear,
endorsement of the prophet that
Ali is the Khalifa.
Right?
The Sunnis, they put it more into context.
The sayin alai, he was in Yemen at
the time of the Hajj
and,
they were returning back and some of his
men, they took some spoils that they started
to wear, some linens and cloths from Yemen.
So Sayid Ali said you cannot divide the
spoils of Hanima without the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam.
So he said take everything off and put
on your old clothes, and this caused a
lot of anger amongst the men of Ali
and they started talking bad things about
Sayna Ali. So the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam
in the context of what's going on here
is exonerating
Ali from any type of wrongdoing.
Abu Bakr as Siddiqui Radi Latul Ahi Wu,
we're told that the prophet
in his final khutbah in the masjid, he
said to seal up all the doors of
the masjid except the door of Abu Bakr
as Siddiq.
And Imam Suyuti quoting from ibn Hajar al
Azkalani says this is a clear endorsement of
the caliphate of Abu Bakr as Siddiq.
So is there a contradiction
in these 2 hadith? One says Kitapala wa
sunnati, one says Kitapala wa sunnati. There's no
contradiction
Because the true and authentic
sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
The true and authentic sunnah of the prophet
has
always been,
invested
in the
applet page.
That's what the content values.
So
the Ulema say and the sunnah wajaba'a
that there's no contradiction unto hadith,
That the true authentic sunnah has always been
invested in the adlib Bayt, in its gahir,
and its bolt in aspects.
As long as the adlib Bayt, these descendants
of the prophet,
they implement the sharia, and obviously they have
imam. It's based on taqwa. That's the number
one thing. Imam al Haddad,
who was a great scholar of Tarim and
Hadar Amal, is Hussaini ad al Bayt. He
says in a poem,
He said by your life, a person is
only the son of his religion. So don't
forsake Taqwa and Meen on your lineage.
Taqwa is the most important thing. For verily
Islam did what? Exalted the Persian, Salman.
Right? He's not Adil Bayt, but the prophet
said what? Salman al Minna
Adil Bayt. Salman is an honorary member of
Adil Bayt.
And verily
Shirk debased
the high noble birth
of the person Abu Lahab, who's from Bani
Hashim, the the uncle of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi sallam.
Another hadith,
is from Ummah Salamah where she says, Ali
and the truth are inseparable.
Ali and the truth are inseparable.
Ali and the Quran
are inseparable. In Hadith Al Taburaani and Al
Haqim,
the prophet says,
o kamakkal. Ajeeb Hadid, a glance into the
face of Ali is an act of worship.
There's a hadith for hadith al Manzila
which the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam says to
Ali,
Are you not pleased that you are to
me as Harun is to Musa, alayhi salaam,
except there's no prophet after me? So what
is the relationship between Harun and Musa alaihi
salam? Harun was his brother, his supporter, his
friend,
his beloved, the preserver of spiritual secrets, of
sacred gnosis,
of ma'rifah.
Right?
Secret gnosis.
Now it's interesting because
the temporal successor of Musa alaihi salaam was
not Arun.
Who was it? It's Usha bin Noon. He's
the prophet Joshua.
So in this hadith, he's not indicating that
say the hadith is going to inherit the
temporal kingdom.
Abu Bakr al Sadith is the hadith of
the prophet salallahu alaihi sallam and he also
inherited
this
secret gnosis, spiritual,
secrets from the prophet salam alaihi salam. Highest
type of knowledge, Ma'arifah. That's why many of
the Torah
of the tesawwuf of the, mystical aspect or
Ihsan,
they go through Adi or a book of
a book of a Siddif of Adi Allah.
Another hadith of the prophet, say, salamam,
hadith of Safina. It's very interesting hadith. It's
in the Mustadar Tabal Hakim, Mustadu Ahmad. The
prophet
My, the similitude of my Ahlidbayt, my family,
is like the ship of Noah, of Noor
Hadayas salam. Whoever embarks upon it is saved.
Whoever does not
is ruined.
So these are just some hadith,
some Quranic ayat.
Now we begin
the story of the
blessed Imam al Hussain
alaihis salam. Imam al Hussain is the son
of Ali.
He is the son of Fatima,
The one about whom the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam said,
Fatima tu binaaatum minmi.
Fatima is a piece
of my flesh.
Whoever has angered her has angered me, and
whoever angers me has angered Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. So let's look at or analyze this
revolutionary
stance
against tyranny,
the stance of Imam Hussain, and what it
means for liberation theology.
The prophet
said,
Speak the truth even if it's bitter and
don't be afraid of those who find fault.
This epitomizes Imam Hussain.
The greatest type of jihad is a word
of truth on the face of an oppressor.
This epitomizes Imam Hussain
Alaihi Salam.
So Imam Hussain was born in 4 Ijari.
He's the second son of Adi and Fatima.
He, they say that Imam Hassan looked like
the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam from the neck
up, and Imam Hussain alayhi wasalam looked like
the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam from the neck
down. This is in their kharaf, in their
physical appearance. The prophet
also said in a hadith, which is an
amazing hadith of Al Fazza and Haagem at
Tabarani,
Hussein.
Hussein
is,
from me and I am from Hussain.
So we can understand if Hussain is from
me because Hussain is the grandson of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. But how do we
understand
Wa ana min Hussain and I am from
Hussain.
So the urhamah say that this indicates
that the khuluq of Hussain is also similar
to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam. That he
looks like the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam in
his physicality,
but also his comportment,
his character, his principles, his virtue
are aligned
with the character, the principles, and the virtues
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam as well.
Another interpretation of this meaning is that, Sayna
Hussain is the preserver
of the prophet's religion and legacy.
The Prophet had intense love for his grandchildren.
One time the Prophet was standing on the
minbaq ibn Khutbah for Jumah,
And Imam Hussain was a toddler and he
had wandered into the masjid
following the voice of his grandfather.
The prophet
he sees his grandson and he descends the
minbar
and he in the middle of the Khutbah
and he picks up his grandson
and he hugs him.
The same body he hugged that would be
trampled
by horse
at Karbala.
And then he kisses the face of Imam
Hussain,
The same face that's attached to the blessed
severed head that would be whipped by the
stick of ibn Ziyat and some say Yazid
himself.
The prophet
he reassends
the khotat, the minbar, and finishes his khotat
holding his grandson
in his arms. This is the kind of
love that the prophet had for his
grandchildren. He used to say, ibn ibn I
hadha about Imam Hussain.
Indeed, this
son of mine.
Indeed, this
son of mine.
Now as an adult, Imam Hussain lived during
a time of major tyranny and massive persecution
of Afen Beit.
So in Damascus at the time,
part of the Khutba liturgy
was something called the La'an Ali.
Right? And this was
state instituted. In other words, you can't give
a khutbah in,
the Umayyad polity unless you send la and
curses on Ali.
Like we have arkhan at the Khutbah. You
have to give hamdulllah, assra'aland nabi, ittapplaba. There's
a few things you have to say in
Arabic in every Khutbah for the Khutbah to
be valid according to the different madahim.
One of the things that you had to
do in Damascus at this time was send
la'ana on Sayna Ali alaihi salaam, his ajeeb.
And they used to say
May God darken his face. May Allah darken
his face. So the Abi sunnah started saying,
may God ennoble his face. And this happened
for 90 years in Damascus.
Dala'in Ali was instituted for 90 years. The
Umayyad authorities had secret
homeland security agents
all across the empire,
especially in Iraq,
especially in Kufa.
Why Kufa? Because when Sayyid Ali became kharifa
at 656 of the common era, he moved
the capital of Islam from Madinahul Munawwara to
Kufa in Iraq.
And this gave him a more central position
to deal with this growing problem coming out
of the north from the Bani Umayyah, Damascus,
and also put him in a good position
to deal with this menacing group
of puritanical Muslims who call themselves Al Kharaad,
who are called Al Kharaad.
These are people who believed
that they they were the only ones who
had the truth. They were exclusivists and everybody
else was a kafir. And it was a
man of Hawadis who eventually killed Imam Ali
alaihis salam. Imam Sayyidi says in his talikh
ul Turafa
that
the prophet said to Imam Ali, he said
2 people will have the most painful torment
in the inferno.
The the fair skinned man of the people
of Sadegh, the one who killed the Naboth
Allot, the she the she camel,
and the one who's going to strike you
here
and this, his beard, will be saturated with
blood. And this is what happened in Zayd
Na'ali as he left the Masjid according to
book 40 of Ikhya Arumadin,
Kitaboo Kitaboo Zikr al Mal Baqah. Imam Ghazali
says when imams when Imam Ali was coming
out the Masjid and Kufa, this man at
the Khawarij, Abdul Rahman,
ibn al Muradhi,
housed on him and cut and striped him
with his poison sore on his cranium. It
split his skull and immediately blood brushed down
his face and Ima Ali fell back and
said,
I have triumphed by the Lord of the
Kaaba. I have won by the Lord of
the Kaaba.
So another hadith of the prophet said he
said, yeah Ali, la yuhitbuqah
illa mumin
walayuqalidukah
illa hunafiq.
We used to be able to tell who's
a Monatek
in Medina because of their hatred
for Ali.
So the name Ali was very much stigmatized
during this time, and it carried with it
a
political
subversion.
Nobody would name their son Ali.
Right? Because Muawiya radhielahu had a difference of
opinion
with Imam Ali alaihi salaam.
And if you name your son Ali, it's
as if you're agreeing with Ali over Muawiya.
So this was dangerous for people to do.
It was seen as politically subversive.
It was stigmatized.
Imam Hussain, he names 4 of his sons
Adi.
4 of his sons, Adi Akbab, Adi Azkab,
Adi ibn Hussein, Khayyun al Harbin.
So any type of behavior that was even
remotely perceived as subversive by the Umayyad poverty
was harshly
dealt with. Unfortunately,
it was part of Umayyad foreign and domestic
policy at one point to hunt down and
kill
the descendants of the prophet Muhammad Subha radiusellam.
This is how pitiful it was.
There's a hadith,
the prophet says, inna ibnhaan al Sayyid
about Imam Hassan,
that this son of mine is a Sayyid.
Fada'allallaha
anusli habihi
beinafi attainment of muslimeen. Perhaps Allah will
cause
reconciliation
by means of him between 2 groups of
Muslims.
So Imam Tipperdi says in a hadith that
the that the righteous
caliphate
will last for 30 years. It's a sound
hadith. It'll last for 30 years. The prophet,
salam alhamdulillaham, he says,
Hold fast to my sunnah and the rightly
guided talifs.
Hold fast to it. Bite onto it with
your molar teeth.
Hold on to it. So if you add
up the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Herma,
Earthman and Adi, you get
29 years 6 months.
So Imam al Hassan
was kharifa for 6 months. We shouldn't forget
that. That's why Jalaluddin
Suyuti, he mentions in his book, Khalifa Khurafa,
that the 5th
Khalifa is Imam Hassan.
So
the prophet passed
on Rabihir Awwal 11 Hijri,
and Imam Hassan abdicated,
relinquished his aq to Muawiya
and Urvi wa'a'a41 41
Hijri. So Muawiyah was the governor of Syria
at the time
of Uthman's murder, and he wanted Ali
to immediately investigate because
Muawiyah and Uthman were kinsmen. They're both from
Badi Umayyah.
He wanted Ali to investigate
and find the culprits and to punish them.
Imam Ali thought it was prudent not to
do that. It's going to divide the empire.
In hindsight, Abu al Sunnah sides with Imam
Ali alaihis salam.
But then, Wawiya said, I'm not going to
give you Be'a then.
I'm not going to pledge my allegiance to
you And He did not, neither did Aisha,
neither did Zubair,
neither did Talha.
Azubair ibn Awa.
These are from Ashlanan Bubashireenibil
Jannah.
The prophet says, hadith mutawata.
These 2 men are in paradise.
I mean but, initially,
they did not give bayah
to Harid. This led to the first civil
war,
the battle
of the camel
in 656 of the common era. So Aisha
marches out against Adi. And her primary intention
was to make Islah bin al Muslimim. This
is our opinion
of this event.
But there were some Sabaites,
right, who had attacked the Hauddutch of Aisha.
They attacked her. These are proto Haudrich.
So the people
of Aisha had no choice but to defend
her. So a skirmish begins to send Aisha
back to
Qadiva tul Manawara
hosted by her brother, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr.
Now after this battle,
the shirt of Uthman
was hanging on the pulpit in Damascus, his
blood stained shirt.
And that was used as
a means by which people would
gain some sort of hamas
or this type of
zealotry.
So Bua'uiah was able to raise a huge
army.
And we have now in 657 of the
common era, the battle of Siffin,
which is against which is Adi against Muawiya.
Now this battle ended in an arbitration at
Jahim.
Right? And we won't go through all the
details of the battle,
but basically what happened is that
when Adi made arbitration,
a large group of his men rebelled against
him and said, you're the Khalifa. How dare
you make arbitration?
You have committed kufr, and you are kafir.
And these became the Kharij.
So 659,
Sayna Adi went to war with the Kharij
and Nahrawan. And there was 2 groups of
Kharij, the Azarabis and the Majdis.
And both of them were puritanical.
They believe that any Muslim who even committed
a minor sin,
had become a kafat or apostated, and it
was the duty of them to kill that
Muslim.
So Imam Hassan, he was bothered by Siffin.
Right? This this event where
Sahaba are fighting Sahaba.
He was bothered by it. So in 41
Hijri, he met with Abuawiya
and relinquished his haqq
to spare Muslim blood.
41 Hijri is known as
A'al Jaba'a,
the year of unity.
But there was a condition.
The condition was
that the caliphate would return back to him
when Muawiyah died. So Imam Hassan at this
time was about 40 years old. Muawiyah was
around 60.
So he says that when you die, it
should come back to me, and if not
me, then the Ahlulbayt. And Muawiyah agreed with
this.
Now Muawiyah died at 60 Hijri
when he was around 80 years old. And
before he had died, he'd chosen his son,
a fellow named Yazid,
who was 32 years old at the time,
to be the next Khalifa.
And Huawei had justified the decision
by saying that Syria had the strongest army
and its strength was proper for the caliphate
to re retain the power of the caliphate.
And besides, Hassan had already died by this
time.
So according to Imam Suyuti,
Yazid,
told one of the wives of Imam Hassan,
whose whose name was Ja'adah,
poison
Hassan.
Poison
him, and then I'll be caliph, and then
I'll marry you, and you can be the
wife of a caliph.
So that's what she did. Imam Hassan alaihis
salam passed away, and then Yazid did not
marry her, and he got rid of
Imam Hassan.
There's even some scholars of Akhosunna wa Jamaha,
just to mention this, that say that the
poisoning was instigated by Abu Hawiya.
Qadi Abu Bakr ibn Abi says no,
the evidence for that is,
lacking,
Now according to both Sunni and Shihri sources,
Muawiyah had stipulated in his final will
directed towards his son that if Imam Hussain
does not give
Yom Bayah,
you have to just let it go.
Don't pursue it. You have to overlook it.
Don't force the issue.
And the question is why?
And the and the and the answer is
because Muawiyah radhiwasalaihu
was a very astute politician, and he knew
that that was going to be difficult
to force Imam Hussain, a man of great
principle to make Baya to his son Yazid.
And also, he did not make Baya to
Ali.
So he's thinking,
I did not make Be'at his father. Why
do I expect Ali's son to make Be'at
to my son?
Right? So don't expect that from him.
That was Wahawiya's condition,
on Yazid.
But Yazid had some ego issues.
Right? Some would call him a despotic
tyrant. He is a pharaonic
archetype.
Many of the Amlil,
Amlil Sunnah or Jama'atirunama,
they make tafir of Yazid. They say he's
kathir.
That's
a valid opinion from Aghlus Sunnah wal Jama'at.
At least he was an open fasid.
When I say he's a Fir'aunic archetype, I'm
not I'm not saying that I'm making takfir
of him. I'm saying he has some attributes
of the Fir'aun.
Just like many of our despotic Muslim leaders
in the Middle East, they're still Muslim. They
claim to be Muslim. We can't say they're
not Muslim. But they have these attributes of
the Firaun.
Besides,
Yazid,
according to Mam Suyuti,
poisoned Imam Hassan.
After the battle of Karbala, he attacked Madinatul
Munawara.
He killed many Adlib Bayt and took their
women as,
slaves. He also attacked Mecca and
killed Abdalay bin Zubayr
and his group of men, and then he
catapulted stones into the Kaaba and destroyed the
Kaaba.
This is what he did.
So it's interesting when we read the description
of the pharaoh in the Quran,
and think of this description in terms
of Yazid
and Karbala and Imam Hussain alayhi salaam.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
He says,
that the Firaun has exalted himself in the
earth.
Wajaaalaaalahaashiya.
And he's made its people under his dominion
into different denominations
and sections.
Right? This is what the Firaun does. And
according to the tafsir, what he does is
he sends these agents
into the people to sow these seeds of
corruption and discord,
fitna.
Right? And then he gets them to fight
each other and then he sits back and
says, I didn't do anything. These people are
fighting each other. I'm innocent. Washes his hands
of it.
And then Allah says,
and then he takes a group, a fa'ifa,
of the people that he's oppressing.
And the tafsir says, the group that he
fears the most rebellion from with respect to
Firal is Bani Israel.
Because Bani Israel at the time, there were
traditions of a deliverer, a savior. Musa alayhi
salaam is going to come. He's gonna defeat
the pharaoh.
And pharaoh knows about this. He knows. He
understands the rhetoric.
So with respect to Yazid,
it's the adlibait of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam. He fears rebellion, losing his power.
And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us,
specifically how does he
oppress his taifa.
Yuzhatbihu
avana'al.
He kills their men.
He hunts them down and he kills their
men. Wa yastaghheeniza
a'um. And he leaves their women alive.
Alright? So now those women are dependent upon
the very system that murdered their men.
He is of those who seek corruption or
sow corruption
in the earth. So just as Musa alayhi
salam speaks truth to power,
Imam Hussain alaihi salam is going to speak
truth to power, and it's not real power.
There's no real power with Quran. There's no
real power with Yazid.
There's a story in the Quran in Surah
Baqah, which we are told that there's an
a a male believer from the Ali Thirao.
This is not Asiya, his wife. She was
a believer. There's no doubt about it. So
the Asharite theologians say she was even a
prophet.
The Quran says
a
a male from his close family that was
Muslim and he advises Firam.
Firaun.
This day
the Mulk, the Dominion is yours apparently
Apparently.
But in reality, bil haqibati,
all dominion.
Everything is for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So don't be deceived by
outward numbers and appearances.
Now getting back to the story.
At this point, a letter arrives in Medina
from Damascus,
and it's addressed,
to
the governor
of Medina
and his name is Al Walid bin Urqbah.
And Al Walid, he tells one of his
deputies
whose name is Marwan Al Hakam.
And Marwan
does not like Imam Ali at all, and
he actually
was going around Madinatul Manawwara cursing Imam Ali.
So this letter says it's coming from Damascus.
It's saying that Muawiyah has died
and Yazidis Khalifa.
And you need to force
4 men in in Medina to make Be'ah.
Now obviously,
everyone in the Ummah doesn't have to make
Be'ah for the caliphate to be legitimate.
Only high ranking people, famous people.
Right? So these 4, the letter says, you
have to make sure they give Be'at
to Yazid.
Alright? And you and how you're going to
do that? They're gonna give their hand to
Marwan,
and then through the hand of Marwan, it's
going to represent their Bayat Yezid.
So this format, it says 2 of them
are gonna give you a little bit of
issues.
Who are these 2? Abdullah ibn Abbas
and Abdullah ibn Umar.
And then there's other 2 that are gonna
give you a lot of issues.
Abdul Abin Zubair
and Al Hussain ibn Ali.
And it says with this last person, Hussain,
if he does not give you Be'a, then
bring his head to me.
Bring back his head to Damascus. So
they say, what do you think about that?
To Imam Hussain. And he says, give me
a delay. And they say, you have to
fudge your time.
And they say to Ibn Zubair, what do
you think about that? He says, give me
a delay. So you have to fudge
your time. So Imam Hussain, he gathers some
members of his family and his companions and
they prepare to leave Madinah tul Manawara.
And they go where? To Mecca.
Reverse Hijrah.
Reverse Hijrah. Right? And we're told by the
Huron Ahmed that the Mehdi will also flee
from Medina into Mecca as a fugitive.
So the future Mehdi.
So Imam Hussain
and Abdullah ibn Zubair, they go into Mecca
together.
Now
he stays in Mecca for 4 months,
seeking refuge in the house of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And during this time,
a flood of letters from all over the
Muslim world come into Mecca.
Because now they know that Imam Hussain has
left
Medina. He's in Mecca.
Especially from Iraq and especially from Kufa.
Letters come in to Imam Hussain from the
Kufans saying your father's capital was in Kufa.
We love your father.
Come be our leader. Come be our khalifa.
We'll begin a revolution.
Right? We'll stand up against the injustice and
the oppression and the tyranny of Yazid.
And they knew that Imam Hussain
would never pledge allegiance to an open facet.
Yazid
at least was an open facet. Again, many
of Akbar Sunnah make takfir of Yazid. They
say what he did was enough to say
that he he was not Muslim.
At least an open fasten. He used to
drink alcohol in public. Did some ajeeb al
hadith types of things. He had a pet
monkey that he would parade around on his
horse. His monkey died, he did janazah over
the monkey.
This type of a 32 year old man.
Yeah.
Very strange.
There's actually a hadith of the prophet SAWSALAW
with Shimon Nidu, he quotes a lot. He
says it's Sahih Hadith.
Where he says the prophet says
The first person to change my Ummah,
change my sunnah
is a man from Bani Umayyah.
And we're not saying that all of the
Bani Umayyah
are bad or evil. There's Awliya from them.
There's Salaheen from them, but this is the
Muslim polity at the time, the Bani Umayyah.
So we have to remember something. Again, the
reality
of the sunnah has always been invested
in the Ahmed Beykh. This is how we
this is how we,
reconcile those 2 hadith. He tabula law with
Itra and he tabula law with Sunnah. When
we talk about Sunnah, we're talking about Itra.
They're synonymous.
The prophet says
Whoever holds fast to my sunnah during the
time of the corruption of my Ummah will
have the reward of 100 martyrs.
So when he says sunnah, we have to
think of Itra because they're used interchangeably. This
is called tafsir
biriwaya.
Right?
The same word is used to explain the
other. And bukhari muslim manrahi ba'an sunnati falaysemindmi.
Whoever turns away from my sunnah is not
from me. Whoever turns away from my sunnah,
whoever turns away from my itzaah, yahlibbayt is
not from me. This is how we understand
the hadith.
Tasirbirwaya.
Just turning away from the sunnah. What about
those who and turning away from the itra?
What about those who have oppressed the itra?
The Adalbayd. What about those who hunt them
down and massacre them? The prophet says, falaisa
minni.
Hussain
Aliyun there's actually hadith. Aliyun min me. Waalamin
Waalamin Ali.
Another hadith, innatina badaahfaribah.
This religion started
strange.
This religion started strange and it will again
return to be something strange, so glad tidings
to the strangers.
Who are those? Those who repair
what people have corrupted from my sunnah. Again,
when we say sunnah, we have to think
of ijra of Ahmed Beit.
So it's very very important.
Now while in Mecca,
Imam Hussain,
he sends a deputy
who's his cousin
named Muslim bin Aqil
into Kufa to investigate.
Right? To investigate. So he wants to know,
go into Kufa but be very careful and
find out if what they're saying is true.
Is this a ruse? Is this a trick
of some sort?
Are they trying to,
frame me, entrap me? So he sends Muslim
Al Aqeel into Kufa. Now Muslims stayed in
the house of a man named Hani bin
Arwa.
He's in the house of a man named
Hani
bin Arwa.
And in the house of Hani, 18,000
men
18,000
men, they make Be'a to Hussain
through Busool B'aathir.
18,000 men pledged their allegiance to Imam Hussain.
Now,
at this point, Imam Hussain, he writes a
letter,
I'm sorry, Muslim bin Aqeel. He writes a
letter in correspondence
to Imam Hussain
saying, you should now come to Kufa.
What we heard was true. These people have
everything ready for you. They're going to welcome
you as their leader. We're gonna stand up
against the oppressor and so on and so
forth. Now, there's some Kufins
because they couldn't keep this under wraps. 18,000
people going to a house over a few
days. It cannot be kept a secret.
They learn what's going
on, some of the Kufans.
And they want nothing to do with it,
and it and it frightens them.
So they go to the governor of Kufa
whose name is Nur Rahman
bin Bashir.
And they say to Nur Rahman, you know
this man Musa bin Aqeen?
He came from Mecca. He was sent by
Imam Hussain.
He's here taking Be'a on behalf of Imam
Hussain.
18,000 men and then Be'a.
And if Yazid figures this out and if
the Umayyad authorities figure this out then we're
all dead. You need to do something about
this. This is what they tell, Nourmand bin
Bashir, the governor of Pufa. But Nurban does
nothing.
He does nothing
because he's afraid of Imam Hussain. The prophet
says,
Irubu
I'm sorry. Abu Bakr as Siddiq. He said
He says, be extremely vigilant
about Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam with respect to
his family.
Be extremely vigilant. Be very, very cautious.
So Nur Rahman and Bashir thinks it's prudent
to do nothing about the situation.
So the people of Pufa who have issues
with this, they write a letter to Yazid
in Damascus.
And
Yazid
learns about this, and he writes a letter
to the governor of Basra.
The governor of Basra was a ruthless man
named Urbayd Allah ibn Ziyad.
And he orders ibn Ziyad
to go to Kufa
to investigate.
So, Ibn Ziyad, he comes into Kufa, and
his face is completely wrapped.
And he comes into the city and somebody
sees him and says, Marhaban.
You Utna Rasulillah.
Marhaban.
You Abba Adillah.
So they thought this is Imam Hussain.
So ibn Ziyad says,
So they do expect Imam Hussain to come
into the city.
So he goes and he sets up in
this palace in Kufa.
And during this time as well, we should
mention,
Yazid from Syria, from Damascus,
he dispatches
secret agents into Mecca
to find Imam Hussain, to assassinate Imam Hussain.
Ibn Ziyad now in Kufa,
he pays one of his subjects 3,000 dinars
to go find out where is this house
of Behar?
Where are these people making Behar? These 18,000
people. Go investigate further.
He gives his men 3,000 dinars.
So this man, however, he does it. He
bribes the money, ask questions, he throws money
at people. However, he does it. He's able
to find the house and identify the man.
He said this is the house of Hanibid
Hurrah.
This is where people are making,
bayah.
So ibn Ziyad, he calls for Hani
into the palace, and he has him beaten
and tortured.
Now Musa bin Aqil,
he's at the house of Hani at this
point, and he is able to muster an
army of 5,000 men. And they lay siege
to the house to the palace
of Ibn Ziyad.
5,000 men,
where Hani is being tortured.
Ibn Ziyad at this point, he relates a
message down to the men on the floor
through his officers.
And he says to them
that a huge army from Syria is en
route right now from Yazid,
and all of you are dead.
Leave now, or you're dead.
So he intimidates them.
Also,
he bribes many of the men.
Right? So he says to them, you know,
ibn Ziyad is now the governor of Pufa.
This man, Yohman bin Bashir, is gone. He's
now the governor.
You want a a high position in his
cabinet?
Say yes. Here's some dinars. Now go away.
So they bribed many of the men as
well.
Musa bin Ahlil at Thubar time, he led
a congregation of 5,000 men. At Asar time,
it was 30 men.
And by Muhammad time, there was nobody left
with him.
Everyone had gone. So he flees, and he
quickly writes a letter to Imam Hussain,
who's in Mecca. And he says, basically, forget
it.
It's all bad.
Don't come into Kufa.
Right?
So now in Mecca, it's Hajj season,
and these agents of Yazid,
they come into Mecca.
They're wearing Ihram,
and they have weapons underneath their Ihram. They
have daggers underneath their Ihram.
People coming into Mecca
at the Kaaba to kill the grandson of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
The imam, he cuts his hatchet short
and he decides to leave Mecca.
And the question is why does he decide
to leave Mecca? He receives a letter. It's
all bad. Don't come to Kufa.
But he's leaving Mecca. The reason is because,
the Urnama say, the second taqal
cannot violate the first taqal.
The second wait
can never violate the first weight. The itra
can never violate the Quran. Takalayn.
Allah says,
Whoever enters the house is safe.
So in order to preserve the sanctity of
Mecca, the sanctity of the Kaaba, the imam
sets off into the desert
knowing his fate, sets off into the desert.
The date is 8 Dhruhija,
60 hijri.
And he takes women and children.
Why take women and children? He knows his
fate.
Why take women and children? They heard a
must say because the Ummah
was sleeping
and Imam Hussain wanted to wake it up
to shock the Ummah as it were out
of its ghrafna, out of its heedlessness
and complacency. The sunnah is being changed.
The Ahmed Bayt are being hunted down and
killed.
If he had only taken the men
if he had only taken the men
because the Umawi propaganda machine was very powerful.
If he'd only taken the men and went
out in the desert,
the men of Yazid would have slaughtered all
of the men, buried them, and they would
have said something like, yeah, it was unfortunate.
You know,
he he attacked us. We defended ourselves. There
was a skirmish. And unfortunately, Imam Hussain,
he got killed.
And, you know, it's it's very unfortunate.
They would have told the story.
Right? But you take women and children,
who were who were the ones that ultimately
told the story of Karbala?
To women and children.
They told the truth about
what actually happened. Like, a saydah tuzayna in
the court of Yazid in Damascus,
speaking truth to power.
Now, meanwhile,
in Kufa,
Muslam bin Aqir is eventually captured,
and he's also taken to the palace of
Ibn Ziyyah, and he's also tortured.
And Hani and Muslim bin Aqir are both
decapitated.
And their bodies are dragged through the streets.
And there's one report that says that
the body of Muslim was crucified upside down
headless.
This was a scare tactic
from Ibn Ziyad to the rest of the
people of Kufa.
Now, Ibn Ziyad,
he sends another man in Behar
ibn Yazid. This is a different ibn Yazid.
It's not Yazid or ibn,
Wawiya,
or the son of Wawiya.
Khur. He's called Khur ibn Yazid or Khur
at Tamimi.
So ibn Ziyad sends him with 1,000 soldiers
to go to Imam Hussain
and give him
the order that you are not allowed to
come into Kufa.
He says, just prevent him. He doesn't say
go kill him. Go master. He says, don't
let him come into Kufa. This is his
order. This is the order of ibn Ziyad
to Uhhur bin Yazid and his 1,000 men.
So Uhur goes out and he meets Imam
Hussain.
And he says to Imam Hussain,
who's already in Iraq, somewhere in Iraq. He's
left Mecca. He's in southern Iraq somewhere.
He says, Imam Hussain, you need to go
back to Mecca.
And Imam Hussain says, I'm not going back
to Mecca. So, no. You need to go
back to Mecca. These are the orders.
He says, I'm not going back to Mecca.
I'm not going to be slaughtered in the
house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I am
the son of Adi and Fatima, my grandfather
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
You're gonna order me to go back to
Mecca?
And then Imam Hussain loses his patience with
the man, and he says, may your mother
lose you, which is a way of saying,
what? Are you kidding me?
And then Hor is taken aback by this,
and he's thinking about it. And he says,
you know, if any other man said that
to me,
I would kill him on the spot. But
I'm thinking to myself, what can I say
about your mother?
What can I say about Fatima Zahra?
I can't say anything.
Suddenly, he changes a little bit.
There's a different demeanor to Hurom.
Right? And now it goes from commanding him
go back to Mecca
to pleading with him. Yeah, Imam.
Please, I beg you, go back to Mecca.
It's going to be all bad in Kufa.
Go back to Mecca. And Imam Hussain says,
no, I'm not going to go back to
Mecca.
So there's 70 kilometers from Kufa at this
point. And Imam Hussain says, what is this
place called?
And
Horus says, Karbala.
And he
says,
or Bada.
Means
disaster in Arabic.
Badah means tribulation.
Disaster in tribulation.
So eventually, now,
ibn Ziyad,
he sends
another 4,000
soldiers
into the desert.
And now the leader of this squadron is
a man named Irmar ibn Ziyad.
Umar ibn Dusad.
Who is Sad? He's the son of Sad
your arrows. May my father and mother be
your ransom. This is what the prophet said
to Sa'at
into Abu Waqqas.
Now his son, Omar, is leading a group
of 4,000 soldiers to guard against Imam Hussain.
So he meets Imam Hussain at Karbala.
And Imam Hussein,
they have negotiations.
And Imam Hussein says, okay.
I'll I'll give you 3 options.
He say what? He says, I'll go back
to Mecca. Number 1, he has no intention
of going back to Mecca. Number 2, I'll
go straight to Damascus and make Beit Haqiyozid.
He has no intention of doing that. Or
I'm going to go into one of these
neighboring provinces or townships
and fight Fisibilillah,
But I won't go to Kufa. You don't
want me to go to Kufa? I won't
go to Kufa.
So, Ibn Said is great. Beautiful.
So, he sends a correspondence back to Ibn
Ziyad and Kufa. And Ibn Ziyad says, that's
beautiful.
That's a great idea. We accomplished our plan.
But there's a hothead
in Kufa
who's from the advisors of Ibn Ziyad. And
his name is Shimo ibn Zubayr Shem.
And Shimo says,
what? Are you kidding me?
He's dictating to us.
He's a prisoner.
He's a he's a rebel.
This is what we have to do. Bring
him into Kufa and we'll decide what to
do with him. Don't give him this option.
How dare he dictate to us? Who does
he think he is?
Who does he think he is?
Hussain al Meni o Anamin are saying, who
is Shibril?
Man Shibril.
Gladly. Right?
So then Ibn Ziyad is convinced.
Oh, good. Great idea.
But he tells
Shimmer, you have to deliver this personally to
Ibn Sa'at in Karbala.
So he sends Shimmer into Karbala.
And Shimmer says to Ibn Sa'at, he says,
the deal is off. You have to bring
to Imam Hussain and all of his family
members and companions
as prisoners in Tukufa.
This is your only option. Ibn Said says,
no, he's not gonna agree to this, and
neither will I. Neither will I. So then
Shimmer said, Ibn Said also said, if you
don't agree with it, he's not going to
give you the governorship of Rey, of a
place called r a y y. Rey, a
beautiful place in Iraq. He's not gonna give
it to you. He's gonna give it to
me,
to Shumer.
Right? So Ibn Said, he said, no. I
I want to be the governor.
Okay. Fine.
So he goes to Imam Hussain.
And he says, yeah, Imam,
there's no deal here. We'll take you back
to Kufa as a prisoner.
And Imam Hussain says, prisoner.
You want you're gonna take me back to
Kufa with Adid Beit as a prisoner?
I'm the son of Ali. I'm the son
of Fatima.
I'm the grandson of the prophet
You're gonna take him back as a prisoner?
He says, no. There's no deal.
And the Ibn Said says, there's no other
option.
This is your final offer.
And Imam Hussain says, there's one other option.
Says, what is it? You're going to fight.
This is what's going to happen.
So suddenly And during this time,
these 5,000 men are amongst Imam Hussain and
his people. Imam Hussain is leading everyone in
prayer.
He's leading these men in prayer. These are
imam.
And when he says, no, but he'll do.
Suddenly,
the people start separating,
and they start separating.
And Hor, he goes to Ibn Saq, and
he says, wait. Are you kidding me?
There's 72 of them. There's 5,000 of us.
We're soldiers.
We're going to fight now. He says, yes.
He said, no. Just let him go to
a township. He said, no. We're not gonna
we can't. Even Ziyad said, we can't do
that. So Khurr says, I am not going
to attack Imam Hussain.
So he changes sides. And he goes over
to Imam Hussain, and he says, I pledge
my allegiance to you. Khuribnu
Yazid at Tamini
now becomes a person of
ibn Hanahas Hussein.
He says, Hussein is king. Hussein is emperor.
Hussein is religion.
Hussein is the hope of religion.
He did not give his hand into the
hand of Yazid. He gave his head. So
there are numerous hadith that are sound hadith
for the prophet, that
are prophesizing this event. There's one hadith in
the Mustadulaka ban Hakim, Sahih Hadith, Which Salamah
relates, the prophet was one time sleeping in
her quarters
and suddenly,
istai fala fajatan. He woke up suddenly and
he was very disturbed by something,
and then he went back to sleep and
then again he woke up went back to
sleep and then again
a third time and then she said,
He woke up again and in his hand
was some red soil.
This sound hadith in the mostatak of a
hakim. There's a red soil in his hand.
You ca Biluha, and he's kissing it.
So she says, what is this? And she
and he said, salam alayhi salna, I've received
disastrous
news.
This son of mine,
Hussein from Jibril alayhi salam, the son of
mine, Hussein, is going to be slaughtered at
a place called Karbala.
And Jibil alaihi salaam brought me some adi,
soil of the place, and I was kissing
it. It's a sound hadith.
Another hadith in the Muslim of Abu Ya'ala,
and there's different versions of in Ahmad and
Bazza,
that Abdullah ibn Nujay
heard from his father, Nujay, that he was
traveling with Imam Ali to Siffin
for the battle of Siffin.
And Imam Ali was passing by the banks
of the Euphrates River, and he started saying
loudly,
Safuram You Abba Aptillah.
Safuram
You Abba Aptillah. Imam Ali is saying this.
And then Nujay says, what does that mean?
What are you what are you talking about?
And then Ali says
that
when the prophet said, salam, was at Medina,
I once walked into his house, and I
saw him in the corner of the room
with tears streaming down his face.
And I said, what's wrong, o Messenger of
God?
And he said that Jibril alaihi salam
has descended upon me and said that this
son of mine,
Imam Hussain, is going to be slaughtered on
the banks of the Euphrates River.
So Imam Ali, as he's passing to go
to Siffin, he's passing by the banks of
the Euphrates River. He says, patience,
o father of Abdullah.
Patience, o Hussein.
This is what he's saying.
Another hadith of Tabarani
related by Abu Umaba,
which we are told that
the prophet
was informed by Jibril alaihi salaam
that this Ummah your Ummah will kill the
son of yours. And the prophet said, believing
in me?
And Jibil alayhi salaam said yes, and he
brought some soil to the prophet sallallahu alayhi
salaam from this place called Karbala.
Imam Ghazali relates in the Gihi alu Madin,
book 40,
that ibn Abbas,
will come from a dream and
said,
We are,
for God and to God is our return.
Verily, Hussein has been killed. And they asked
him, what does that mean? And he said,
I had a dream. The prophet came to
me. He's holding a vial of blood and
said, this is the blood of Husayn and
his companions at Karbala.
24 days later, Imam Hussain was killed at
Karbala.
Now back to the scene here in Karbala.
So for several days,
the army of Yazid tried to force an
allegiance from Hussain.
How did they try to do it? By
cutting off the water supply,
which is another tactic of the pharaoh's military
industrial complex.
In other words, if you don't agree with
us, you don't eat. If you don't agree
with us, you don't drink.
We're going to cripple your economy. This is
what the tyrant does because the tyrant fears
what? Alternative power models. This is what the
Quraysh did to the prophet in Mecca. The
mukhaka,
the boycott and sanctions against Bani Hashim,
Threw him out in the desert. Don't trade
with them. Don't marry from them.
Right? This type of torture or cruelty. But
they don't call it torture. They call it
sanctions.
Sounds better, doesn't it? These are sanctions.
It's not massacre, it's collateral damage.
Much better sounding. It's part of a shock
and awe campaign.
So the date is now 10th Muharram, 61
Ijali, Yom e Ashura.
Yom e Ashura
is tomorrow. It's be actually began already because
it began at moment of time, the 10th
of Muharram.
The prophet
when he went into Medina,
he noticed that Yavud, the Jews,
were fasting on Yomishura.
Said why are you fasting? And he said
this is a day to commemorate the Exodus
of Bani Israel from Bissar from Egypt.
And at that time, the Hebrew calendar, which
is also a lunar calendar,
354 days, was perfectly in line with the
Arab calendar.
Right? The Muslim calendar. But then over time,
the Jews started adding a leap
month every 3 or 4 years. That's why
Hanukkah never gets out of December. It should
fall back like Ramadan does, right, every year,
but it's always so far in December because
they had a leap month, and this is
forbidden in the Quran to do that. Don't
mess around the calendar.
So this day at the time of the
prophet,
right, the 10th of Muharram is the 10th
day of the 1st month. The 10th day
of the 1st month of the Hebrew calendar
is called Asarab I Tishari,
also known as Yom Kippur,
the Day of Atonement.
This is the holiest day in the Jewish
calendar, Yom Kippur,
the day of atonement.
So he said this is why we're fasting.
So on this day, there's many things
we don't have time to go into specifics,
and it's very painful to go into some
of these specifics.
But Adi Akbar, the son of Imam Hussain,
14 years old,
was martyred. Adi Asghar,
who was 6 months old.
Imam Hussain towards the end of the battle,
he presented his 6 month old child to
the army and said, because they were cutting
off the water supply, that this child of
mine is dying of thirst. Can you just
give some water to my child? When we
slaughter animals, we give them to drink. When
we slaughter animals, we give them to drink.
You haven't given us water? Give water to
this 6 month old child of mine. And
a man named Haramala at the behest of
ibn Sa'ed fired an arrow into the neck
of Ali Azadhan, 6 months old. Imam Hussain
buried him at Karbala.
Zayr al Abidine, also the son of Imam
Hussain, who was 20 years old, He survived
the massacre. He was sick. He was in
the tent of,
his aunt
Zainab.
He was sick. They spared him. All of
the Ala wisadas
come from Zain al Abidine. If there was
no if Zain al Abidine was killed, there's
no Imam al Haftad and Fraqi al Muqaddam,
Abu Bakr bin Salam, Habib Adi Jifri,
Habib Harmar bin Hafib. None of these would
have happened.
Right? This man, Zain al Abidine, was spared
from Tabitha. He was sick in his bed.
They spared him.
Abbas, who was the half brother of Imam
Hussain,
he made an attempt to get water from
the Euphrates.
Both of his arms were,
severed, and then finally he was killed as
well.
Khur at Tamimi, the man who turned
to Imam Hussain, he was martyred as well.
Abu Bakr bin Ali, a son of Ali.
Ali had a son named Abu Bakr. This
is really important because some would say there's
enmity between Sahaba.
Right? That Abu Bakr and Adi had enmity.
It was hatred. They didn't like each other
because one stole the Haqq of the other
one. This is what some people say.
Adi named one of his sons Abu Bakr.
He died at Karbala. Adi had another son
named Uthman
who died at Karbala.
The children of Muslim bin Aqir, Muslim who
was killed at Kufa,
3 of his children killed at Karbala.
Abu Bakr, the son of Hassan. Imam Hassan
had a son, Abu Bakr, he was killed
at Karbala. Ja'far, Imam Ali had a son
in Jaffa, he was killed at Karbala. The
children of Jaffa,
the women, Zaynab, Sukhayna, Fatima, etcetera, they were
all taken into custody.
As for Shiver, Shiver is the one who
dealt the blow to Imam Hussain hade alaihis
salam that killed him. The ulama say that
the Maharun Nar
Maharun Nar. What is Mahar mean? A dowry.
The dowry of * is the head of
Imam Hussain. This is what the ulama said.
The man who decapitated
Imam Hussain. There is a hadith in the
books of the shakeris,
which is of dubious nature, but it's an
interesting hadith that they quote,
which the prophet has reported
The killer of Hussain, the content of Hussain
is in a coffin in the fire. Upon
him is half of the punishment of all
of the people of Dunya. Imagine all the
people of the all the people that go
to Jahannam.
Half of all of that punishment is on
a single man,
Hazane.
The main point here
is that the Taizyah
or the
passion narrative, if you will, of Hussein
is metamorphic.
It's meta historical.
The Shia say everyday is Ashura and every
land is Kannada. Right? You probably heard this.
This is true. There's truth in this.
Liberation theologian, Hamid Tabashi, he says the army
of Yazid is a floating signifier.
Imam Hussain is anyone who says no to
tyranny and injustice,
and Shima and Yazid is any militant thug
who murders, rapes, tortures,
invades, and colonizes. So in this sense, Malcolm
x,
Radhiyatan Aghmu, is a Hussaini archetype, a man
who stood up against racism
and oppression during a time that was very
difficult to do so.
Martin Luther King, who's not Muslim, he's a
Hussaini archetype. He has the characteristics of Imam
Hussain, who stood up against,
this terrorism.
Birmingham, Alabama in the 19 sixties was known
as Bombingham.
Why? Because white people were bombing black people
all the time.
Bombingham, Alabama, the center of the white Al
Qaeda.
White terrorism,
Birmingham, Alabama.
1963,
the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed. 4
black girls in the basement incinerated, killed.
Rachel Corey, who stood in front of an
Israeli tank to protect a Palestinian home.
She is a Husseini archetype.
So Imam Hussain sacrificed his life to set
this trans historical example, not to vicariously
atone for our sins as in Christianity,
but rather to give us an example, a
virtuous example as to how to live our
lives. So it's just a few things about
the aftermath,
and then we'll stop inshallah.
So
the tents were all burned by the army
of Yazid.
The women of Athens, they all wore niqab.
The niqab was taken off and the hijab
was taken off ripped off the hijab.
The heads of all the men that were
slain were
taken off. The body of Ali Azar was
exhumed, 6 months old. His head was he
was decapitated.
The,
they put the heads on spears,
and they marched into Kufa and paraded around
the city of Kufa
in this big procession.
The women had no saddles on their camels,
and they had no shade to
to protect them from the heat. And as
Zaynab passed by the people of Kufa,
some of them were laughing,
and she said, you laugh now, but just
wait. Praise be to Allah
who has taken our men, Ashuhada.
Praise be to Allah
who has taken our men, Ashuhada.
And then on on a route to Damascus,
they would stop at every city and they
would do this procession, this parade. This is
what happens when you go against
Yazid.
And came into Damascus.
There are Sahaba in Damascus
that are completely horrified by this, obviously.
So a Sahabi named Sa'd ibn Bussa,
he sees this procession coming in. He sees
Zayd al Abidine, the only male survivor. He's
tied to a horse.
So he approaches him, and he says to
him, is there anything I can do for
you? And he says, do you have any
money?
And he says, yes. And Zayr Abidine says,
pay some of these soldiers so that the
women can wear their hijabs.
Just have them wear niqab, wear their hijabs.
Pay them off. Give them something, and that's
what he does.
Now stands at the
entrance of the Masjid,
and he's his hands are shackled. An old
man comes out of the Masjid.
Old man, oh, white beard.
He has a mark of Sanjdah on his
head. He sees Zain ul Abideen, and he
says, alhamdulillah
al ladi nasura
amir al mumineen Yazid alaykum You a yuhel
kawarij.
Says praise be to Allah
who gave victory to Amirul Hu Minin Yazid
over you. Oh, you seceders, you dissemblers,
you khararij.
This is what he says to Zain ul
Abidine.
And Zain ul Abidine says, madafi yadik, what
is in your hand?
He said Kitar Abu Ma is holding a
Mus'kah.
Kitar Abu
Ma. And Zayn Al Abideen says, have you
ever heard Allah say in his book, qudlaas
alrukhu alayajuran
il lalmuwat dafil kurbah?
Say no reward do I ask of you
for this except that you love the kurbah?
He says, nah. Of course, I've heard this.
He says, nahnu purbah. We are that purbah
that you're supposed to love.
And then he says, haven't you heard Allah
say?
We are
that.
They say, Imam, let eventually, Yazid, he sends,
Zaydul Abidim back to the dinah.
Right? And he lived
several more years, and he had these indentations
on his cheeks
Right here. These permanent indentations on his cheeks.
He was constantly weeping over what happened in
Karabala. So one of his servants said to
him,
isn't it about time for you to get
over what happened?
Right? He says, he's
trying to make you feel better. The intention
is good.
Isn't it about time to get over? He
said, you know, Yahub alaihi salam
thought he had lost Yusuf,
and he almost went blind.
He thought he had lost Yusuf. I saw
my father,
my cousins, my brothers
slaughtered in my presence, the women of the
Aben and Bay taken as prisoners. Should I
not weep till now?
Right?
So the blessed head was brought in the
sight of Yazid,
and Yazid, he says something very interesting.
He says, al harabustijal
adayomribadrin.
This isn't who said this. His grandfather, Abu
Sufyan did no haru Right after Hafazrat Mahud.
Abu Sufyan at that time was not Muslim.
He goes up to Jabal Uhud. The prophet
is perched on top of the mountain and
he says, anharabhusijjadhadayomlibadrin.
War is attrition. This day for Badr. You
won at Badr, we won now.
This is what Yazid says, and the head
is brought to Imam Hussain.
And then he takes a stick, and he
starts
hitting the lips of Imam Hussain with a
stick.
And Anas ibn Malik is in the majlis.
Anas ibn Malik,
and he cannot take it. He stands up
his
way. Woe unto you.
Says,
I saw the mouth of the messenger touch
that mouth, and now you're hitting it with
a stick.
Right?
So,
eventually,
like we said, Yazid would send everyone back.
There was pressure on him to send everyone
back. The last thing
I'll say is a statement from Ibrahim and
Nahari.
Ibrahim and Nahari was a great scholar of
Kufa who came a little bit later. He's
one of the teachers of Abu Hanifa.
Abu Hanifa was also from Kufa, born in
70 Hijri about 9 years after the massacre
at Karbala. Ibrahim al Nafai said
he said, if I
was one of those men
who killed Hussein at Karbala, and I and
I somehow made it to paradise
okay? If I was one of those men
who killed Hussein and I somehow made it
to paradise, I would avoid the prophet in
paradise.
I would avoid him. I would be too
ashamed to look at the prophet's in paradise.
So what do we learn from this story?
We learn many lessons.
Imam Hussain is a paragon
of courage,
of fortitude,
of temperance
that we have to speak the truth even
if it's bitter. We have to be principled
people to do what is right. And and
I've already spoken way too much. Thank you
for listening.
I mean, is there any comments or questions?
We can entertain them. I don't know what
time we're supposed to get out.
But if there's anything that's pressing,
we can do that now.
Yeah. Some of the other madu mentioned that
that those who were directly involved in his
murder,
were eventually
killed as well,
in
skirmishes between
some elements of and the.
So this is not this battle in no
way ended
the Bani Umayyad's persecution of the Akhid Bayt.
There's many many skirmishes, many would be revolutions
against them. Imam Zayd,
who's championed by the Zaydi shia. Right? So
these are,
this is the, the fiver shia.
Imam Zayd,
he was,
captured and killed by the Umayyads,
and,
he was his body was exhumed and then
crucified as well. And it was left up
for 4 months on a cross as an
example. So this type of, mentality
is just,
but, yeah, the the omen had mentioned things
like that. I have heard that as well.
That those who were directly involved in the
murder of Imam Hussain were also,
killed,
in the same type of way
in battle.
Yes? So,
the question is that where where did actually
the the Shia started? Where did the device
started?
Yeah.
Yeah. It's interesting.
There was a group in Kufa,
that called themselves JeSha Tawabin
after the massacre. Jeh Shep Tawabin means
the army of the repentant ones.
And they would start to wear black,
and they would start to to self mortify
themselves. They would start to whip themselves and
things like that because they were in a
state of repentance that they had forsaken Imam
Hussain, that they had made bayah,
and then they were paid off or they
were intimidated by ibn Ziyad.
So that that could be a possible starting
point, of them. The origins of the Shi'a
obviously
go back,
to the successorship of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
sallam.
During the time of Imam Ali, there was
a group called Shi'a Ali and Shi'a
Muawiya.
But this Shi'a Ali was a political faction.
We shouldn't confuse that with the present day,
Yitna Asharia,
and, you know, Twelver Shi'ism.
Twelver Shi'ism was not codified until much much
later.
Okay? So these were political distinctions.
Again, at the sunnah wal Jama'at today, most
the vast majority, if not all of the
ulama at the Surah Al Jama'a will say
that in retrospect, Shi'a Khali was right over
Shi'a Mu'awiya, but that doesn't mean we have
to become shia if not sharia shia.
Right?
And then there's problems with the Jabari school
of thought as well.
The the school was not preserved correctly according
to Ijma'a
of the fuqaha of Allah.
There's other theories as well. There's a theory
that states that a Jewish man from Yemen
named Abdullah ibn Saba, who's mentioned in Shia
and Sunni sources,
he,
during the time of
sayna Ali, he wanted to create some sedition
in the Muslim Ummah, so he started to
call Ali God. He said you are a
divine incarnation.
And, many followers began many of his people
were persuaded and started to deify
Seyda Halib, although that's certainly not mainstream
Shi'ism or Iftashariya Shi'ism. So even amongst the
Shi'a, there are many different groups. The 7
are Shi'a called Isma'iris,
and many of them believe in Harul, which
is divine incarnation.
The Adavishia in Syria,
this this guy in Syria
who's not going to leave because he likes
his power or something, he's an Adawite shia,
shiri, and they believe in Tanezov and Harul.
They believe in transmigration
of the soul, reincarnation,
and they also believe in divine incarnation, that
Adi is a divine incarnation.
Right? So the origins are a little bit
sketchy,
but,
so the other one mentioned these different things
that, the political faction eventually grew into a
religious distinction,
or Abdulay ibn Saba started this group that
and
then over time became the Shia.
Or the Jayshul Tawabin in Iraq
eventually,
evolved into the present day Shia,
but something like, you know, the country of
Iran,
was until 1501
a Sunni country.
Now bukhari, imam muslim. These are all from
iran.
Imam ghazali is from iran. She's abdulqadr jilani
is from iran, right?
1501 of the Safavid Empire,
took control of the country by force and
converted people to Itnaha Sharia, Shi'aism.
And
yeah.
Can you speak more about the historical significance
of the not supporting
at the time?
And what the historical significance of the
Well, yeah, the
the Zayn and Abidine surviving is extremely significant
because,
again, all of the Husseini
Sadat,
they can trace their lineage to
Imam Hussain, so that's extremely significant there. It
was the will of Allah
that he would survive the massacre.
And
I studied in Tareem,
and
the
the the Arawi, Sadat and and Tareem, they
trace their lineage to Zain ul Abidine. So
what happened is in Iraq in 9th century,
Isa al Muhajar,
he migrated from Iraq down into
Yemen, Arabia, Felix, because there was so much,
fitna in Iraq at the time.
And there were a group of kind of
pseudo Khawarij living in Yemen at the time
called Aribal Biyyah, and he converted them, and
the lineage grew in in Yemen.
So if you go to places like Yemen,
in in in Haber Al Ma'al, you'll find
a very large concentrated population of active bait.
Imam al Hadad is buried there, Sheikh Abu
Abu Abu Abu Abu Abu Abu bin Salam,
as we mentioned.
So during this time of massive persecution of
Adan Beit, the hands of Bani Umayyah,
many of the Adal Beit, they fled
from Medina
and from Iraq and went to places like
Yemen and also to India as well. A
lot of Saadak in India.
So I don't know how to spell that.
Comment? Yes, sir. I'll leave comment. First of
all,
Marshall, that beautiful,
made that,
the keyword for for all beautiful things that
you said.
The the the comment I have is is
on, so one of the why this is,
that's mentioned is,
again, the prophet Muhammad's revelation,
about Karbala and foretelling of Karbala.
So when baby Fatima Zahra got to know
about it, she started to cry and said,
well,
so who is going to actually mourn Hussein,
after he's gone? And then profit that, and
I love to create a community that will
mourn for,
let's see what's happening. So that's another,
you know, about, like, how Shia is motivated
or established. But the the the comment I
wanted to make was
about the Sunni and Shia device. And if
you look at now, it's for some reason,
Shia feel that they kind of own
Imam Hussain, so they are they have the
rightful onage,
if you will. Even though if you look
at if you look at everything we talk
about tonight,
the worst Shia or Sunni never came up
with its entire history.
And it's actually says in Surah Imran,
worst about 103
through 105,
It's to, you know, hold on tight to
the role of Allah and do not get
divided among yourself,
at *.
So there is a clear verse in the
Quran or verses in the Quran,
you know,
ordaining the Muslim man not to get divided.
So, again,
asking you where
did it really come from where there are
clear verses in the Quran and the Ummah
still get divided.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My
my personal policy is that I don't engage
in intraphaith
debate. It's good to have dialogue.
Right? That's obviously
and and, you know, I got a call
from a university,
Brother at MSA said, you know, the Shia
want to do a joint event with the
Sunni. Should we do it? I said, of
course, you should do it. Talk about things
that unite. You know, that we have a
a foundational principle that's a lot of bad
debate.
But for me, you know, this this is
an issue that the greatest scholars of Islam
that are
giants were dwarfed compared to them or not
even the shadow of them. They couldn't solve
it. The Urimah say, do not engage
in polemical discourse because Sunni issues.
Muhammad said it's haram
for Awam to engage in jidad and debate
polemical discourse. Haram.
Right? But if you go to, like, so
many MSAs and whatnot, or if you go
to, like, even the masjid, you have Muslims
that don't even know don't
don't know the fa'id, the wudu,
or don't remember it immediately.
And they're talking about debating Ash'adi, about judidi,
and the Wahabi salafi, and these types of
things. It's just a waste of time, and
it creates enmity, and according to Imam Malik,
it's haram. Even amongst Surah Al Ma'i, he
says.
Even amongst ulama sometimes, umama have to debate
and hammer out issues and things like that.
So he says sometimes it's necessary, but even
then it's bakrud to do that. Because even
then there's a there's a chance of enmity
between the ulama. So this issue of Sunni
Shia, we're never going to solve this issue.
We're never going to solve this issue. We
have to just accept it. It's a difference
of opinion.
The vast, vast majority of ulama'il sunabhu jama'ah
say the shia are our brethren.
Imam Ali did not make takfir of Khawarij,
people who are actively trying to kill him.
So as long as their faith is this
is what they believe, these are the articles
of faith, they believe in that. They have
a weird way of going about in the
methodology.
But he was asked, what do you think
about the Huarich?
He said, They are brothers
who have rebelled against us. But when the
Khwarej were asked about Imam Ali, one of
them was asked, what do you think about
Ali? He says, ma'abala laha the kuwafar.
How eloquent is this little kafar? Referring to
Imam Ali, aood billah.
Right? That's a firqa.
Walatafangrahu,
you quoted the verse.
Right? Walatafangrahu
means do not join
that recognizes there's other methodologies within the hoodoo
of what's permissible
according to the sacred law. So shajibi, madiki,
Hanbali,
Nakshbandi,
Qadri, Ba'alawi, these are
madahid.
Right? Within what's known as the hudud, the
parameters of sacred law. And they recognize there's
truth in all of these methodologies.
We're not talking about, you know, Muslim and
then Jew and then Christian. That's not what
I'm talking about. I'm talking about within Islam.
We're not perennialists.
Right? We believe Islam is din al Haqq.
No doubt about it.
But if you join a Filqah like the
Khwarez,
they say what? We have the truth, everyone
else is a kafir. It's haram to join
a firkah. The vast majority of the urlamah
of the shi'a, they say that the
Ahlus Sunnah are are brothers.
There's takfir going on by a minority group
on both sides. I've studied with
really conservative
who say these shia are worse than yahud
and nazar. They're more they're bigger in their
kufr than yahud and nazar. And I took
fit from them. I don't have to believe
in their aqidah. I'm a grown man. I
can make my own decisions.
Right?
And the again, the vast majority of the
shia, they say, Adasulah are brothers, but Adi
should have been the Hanifa.
Right? So,
and there's other issues that go into it.
You know, the cursing of Sahaba. Is it
is it kufo? Is it Bideha? What is
the the cursing of Aisha?
Right? It's really
a sad situation. Is there
a question for my sister, John?
Yeah. The word Ashura comes from Asharab, which
means 10 or 10.
Right? So
wahid is 9, talatha, arba'ah, hamza, sittah, sarah,
tamanya, tisa. Asharab means 10. So Ashura is
etymologically related to the word 10. In Hebrew,
it's called Asara be Tishri. Asara in Asara.
And Asura or exact cardmates.
So this just means the 10th day of
Muharram.
And, yes, it was coined before the birth
of the prophet
The Arabs, the pre Islamic Arabs, the Jahali
Arabs, it was almost a wajib in their
culture. Obviously, there's no Akkam and but amongst
the culture, it was almost a logic to
fast on Yom Yashua Rah. So they had
great significance even before
the prophet, he said, and these are,
you know, unleaded Arabs who don't know about
Jewish beliefs. They're not fasting on this day
because of the exodus of Musa, alaihi, salam.
There's other things that they were told in
Arab history
that have significance
with relation to Yom Yashurah.
Some of the unam must say that the,
the ark of Nuh Yashurah
docked on Yom Yashurah.
And, you know, Ibrahim was gonna sacrifice his
son. Allahu Adam, many of these things don't
have a strong senate.
Right? But there was great significance for the
pre Islamic Arabs for some reason or another
about Yomiyyah Ashura. They would fast on that
day even before the birth of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi sallam. It's not a logic in
the Sharia, the Muslims.
Although it's still a valid fast. But you
should differentiate the prophet
from yahoo by fasting on 9th also or
on 11th as, in in addition to the
10th day. Sunnatul Maqada.
Yeah.
Yazid did send them back.
They stayed in in,
in Damascus for some time, but then the
women and Zaynel Abidine were all sent back,
with a big,
procession
honoring them and so on and so forth.
It seems like,
this was something that his advisers had told
him to do because
it really bothered, as you can imagine,
vast majority of the that this had happened
to Imam Hussein at.
So he sent them back into Medina. Although
although Yezid did attack Medina shortly after Karbana
and killed many of the men at Medina
that were at bayt. As you said, he
also ibn Zubair remember we talked about ibn
Zubair, Abdullah ibn Zubair who had made Hijra
reverse Hijra with Imam Hussain from Medina to
Mecca? He stayed in Mecca.
Right?
And he was able to survive in Mecca,
and, he led somewhat of a rebellion against
the Bani al Umayyah as well, but he
was defeated in Mecca by Yazid,
who brought a huge army into Mecca and
eventually destroyed the Kaaba in the process.
But, yeah, the,
many of the Aruna Masaydah,
the direct descendants of Hussein,
even unto the 11th person,
was was poisoned, was martyred,
either by poisoning or or death in battle.
Definitely, the shia take that position.
And they say that the 12 imam is
the Mahdi. Right? This is a difference of
opinion amongst The Sunni, our lama, and the
Shia, our lama. They say that the 12th
imam so the 9 the 11th imam, his
name was,
Hassan Nasqiri,
and, his son is,
Muhammad, who, according to the shia, went into
a minor occultation,
Hilhaibah,
when he was 4 years old
in the year 8 73.
And
what that means is that only certain people,
his deputies, were allowed to speak to him,
and he would speak to the deputies and
and communicate to the followers of that debate.
This is according to Shia history,
and and theology.
And then
around 9:30 or so, he went into a
greater occultation.
What did they call it?
The the the
the cupra,
or something,
where,
the deputies were not even allowed to see
him.
So the shi'as say that towards the end
of time, he will come out of his
occultation,
and lead the, the armies against the Dijal
with Isa alayhis salaam.
The Sunni position is that the 12th imam
will be born sometime in the few or
the Mehdi, I should say, will be born
sometime in the future,
and that he'll be a descendant of the
prophet
Although the dominant opinion of Zaha al Sunnah
is that he's actually a descendant of of
Imam Hassan, not Imam Hussain.
And
there's many traditions about De Mahdi, and many
of them are weak.
But what we can tell from our reliable
sources is that he will come from from
Medina into Mecca as a fugitive,
and that he will have,
some of the physical features of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi sallam. It's interesting to hear about
this event that happened,
the first of Muharram in 1400 Hijri in
Mecca.
There was a seizure of the grand mosque
of Masjid al Haram,
by this man,
Juhaymanan
Urzbi or or Taibi or something like that.
These students from Medina University came down into
Mecca,
and claimed that they had found the Mehdi,
and it was Juhayman's brother-in-law, whose name was
Muhammad ibn Abdullah, which is the name of
the Mahdi.
And he he he looked like the prophet
He had he had a broad forehead, he
acolyne nose, very beautiful face.
He's around 40, 45 years old or so.
So what happened was right after prayer,
there were gunshots fired in the Haram. This
happened in 1979.
The first of the first of Muharram
in 1400 Hijri corresponds in 1979
November or something 1979.
And gunshots were fired,
and
and the, the microphone was pulled from the
imam who's leading the Masjid the the Suhat
al Fajr, whose name was Sheikh Mohammed al
Subayil.
And then this man, Juhi Man, he stands
up and says he starts talking about all
of this end of times, you know, apocalyptic
type of thing that's happening in the world.
And he starts quoting a lot of hadith
about the Mehdi and so on and so
forth. And he said, here is the Mehdi.
So he pointed to his brother-in-law, Mohammed ibn
Abdullah,
and he's also from Ghahtan. He's he's a
descendant of the ancient Arabs.
Right? I mean, he's a pure Arab. Right?
And he's a signid from Imam Hassan.
And they did all the research on this.
And he's standing now between the rukkah and
the door of the Kaaba. He's accepting bayah
from people, which is what the hadith says.
So the ulama in Saudi were
really confused about this. This was a big
fitna.
Many of them said this is Mehdi.
It fits all of the description. The other
said, how did he get to Mecca?
Is he got in the car and drove
here from Medina University?
The Mehdis gonna come to Mecca.
There's another hadith that says there's going to
be an army that's going to oppose the
Mehdi when he's in Mecca. This is a
sound hadith. And the earth will swallow that
army.
So many of the aramas said,
we're not going to send any forces against
them because they're probably to be swallowed by
the earth.
Now, eventually,
they decided that because there's also a hadith
that says
that when the Mahdi manifests itself,
you're going to hear of,
a group of Muslims coming out of Khorasan
that have,
black flags,
and they're gonna be going towards Jerusalem.
And the prophet
says, if you have to roll yourself over
ice to get there
to get to them, you should try to
do it. But they didn't hear anything like
that. They checked reports to see if there
is a group of men coming out of
Khorasan with these black flags. So they said,
no. This is this is,
this is a this is a false. So,
eventually, they had to hire
I think it was the French paramilitary
group to come and parachute into the Haram,
and they had to do, like, a fake
and
the helicopters. Oh, I should've done that. So
they can come
into the Haram. There was a war in
the shadow of the Kaaba. People were being
killed.
This so called Mehdi was killed in the
process.
Duheiman was taken prisoner
by the Saudis with many of the students
that helped him, and they were all executed
in public, beheaded in public
shortly thereafter.
So that that was a very interesting,
historical event. You can you can Google this,
by the way. It's the seizure of the
Grand Mosque in 1979.
But to make a long story short,
both of us, Sunni and Shia, believe in
the Mehdi.
Right? And there's a hadith that says, Isa
alaihi salaam will descend at a mosque with
a white pillar. And by each mark, does
the other
say, this is the Umayyad Masjid in Damascus.
When he will descend,
and your imam is leading the prayer, and
they say this imam is, imam Mehdi.
And Isa alaihi salaam will descend, at Fajr
time right after the iqamah,
and he's wearing green. His hair is wet
as he's usually described
in the hadith. He's leaning on 2 angels.
So there's no mistake. This is Risa Islam.
Right? There's no there's nobody can say, maybe
it's not him or so on and so
forth.
He's coming out of the sky. He's descending,
And,
the Mahdi will say that
you can lead our prayer. And then he
said, out of respect for,
he says, we will I will pray behind
you. The was called for you.
Alisa, alaihis salaam, he says in
this matter.
It's I think it's
Okay.
Thank you very much. Please keep us in
your duarch.