Ali Ataie – Our World Needs More Love & Mercy

Allah,

has blessed this gathering indeed.

We have in our midst,

our teacher, Sheikh Yahia.

And we

like all of you, I came here to

benefit from him,

So we'll be hearing from him shortly.

Just to let you know, Stav Yahya,

a very young age after he became Muslim,

he went and sought out,

the lovers of Allah

He's met and studied with Sheikh Mohammed Al

Hajj,

who's a living

of God. He's a saint of God.

These people are real. This is a pre

modern man who's over a 100 years old.

Who's living today. Has

spent time with him, learned from his hand.

I went to Moritane just to catch a

gaze

from this man.

I

was able to catch one glance

from him. These people are

amazing.

We need to seek them out.

After which, studied Yahya,

traveled in different places

to the Levant.

Went to Yemen.

In Yemen,

there's probably the highest concentration

of Ahlulbayt

in the world.

These are

spiritual,

and physical descendants of the holy prophet Muhammad.

So Sheikh Yahya's house is literally 3 houses

down from

Saydi Habib or Ma'am Habib.

House across the street from that house belongs

the Habib Ali Jifri.

In between them, there's daughter Mustafa. This is

instead Yahya's neighborhood.

These people are descendants

of Imam Hussain alaihis salam.

The one about whom the prophet said,

Hussain.

Hussain is from me. I am from Hussain.

And Hussain is the son of Imam Ali

Karamalahu Wa Ta.

The one about whom the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam said,

If I am your master, this Ali is

your master.

And Imam Ali is the husband

of Fatima al Zahra alaihis salam. The one

about whom the prophet shalallahu alaihi wasallam said,

Fatima

Fatima is a piece of my flesh.

Whoever makes her angry has made me angry.

Whoever makes me angry has made Allah

angry.

And Fatima, of course, is the daughter of

the one about whom

Allah

said to him

directly,

We did not send thee as except as

a mercy

to all the worlds.

This is the legacy we have

with us tonight.

So we have to appreciate that. We really

have to thank Allah for

that. Because this is what the world needs

right now.

The world needs rahma.

I was at a junior college

a few months ago, and I gave this

talk,

kind of academic talk.

And, the lecture was entitled,

the true Islam revealed, not my choice of

title.

But that's what they wanted to call it.

No pressure.

So

after about an hour and a half or

so going back and forth with the audience,

I noticed there was this man in the

audience

who seemed to have a visceral reaction

to almost everything I was saying.

Like he was bothered by it. And at

one point, actually got up, like he was

going to storm out.

And then, I don't know, somebody came and

talked to him. He came and he sat

back down. I'm thinking to myself, what exactly

am I saying here? Right? What am I

saying wrong? I mean, I don't know what's

going on. It seemed like most people were

enjoying the talk.

Anyway, so then after the talk, we had

kind of set up on the stage. We

shared some halal KFC,

and this brother was there. He's an honest

one, dad.

And,

we're talking just kind of casually

and somebody asked me a question about the

mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I said,

yeah, you should never despair of the mercy

of Allah. So I've been passing.

I look over to this man and he

is in tears.

He's in tears.

And he said,

you know,

I was in the marines,

and,

I just have to tell you that I've

killed many of your brothers.

I've killed many of your brothers. And he

said, most of what you said tonight, I

don't agree with.

But when you quoted

when you said that last thing, just in

casual conversation,

Do not do not despair

of the mercy of Allah

He said, I lost it and I started

to weep.

And at that point,

I froze. But,

there was a young brother in the MSA,

19, 20 years old,

who said to him, you're our brother.

He said, I've killed many of your brothers.

He said, you're our brother.

Right?

And that's the attitude we need to have

with people.

This is the attitude of the best of

creation. This

type of mercy

that is,

unfathomable.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in the verse,

We did not send you except.

So this is an ifbat, bada nafiq. We

have an affirmation

after negation.

This is very strong emphasis in the Arabic

language.

We did not send you except as a

rahmatan.

And this is indefinite.

It's indefinite,

meaning that

the mercy of the prophet is

beyond our comprehension.

It's beyond our comprehension. We cannot even fathom

His mercy. He's the greatest manifestation of Allah's

mercy.