Ali Ataie – Our World Needs More Love & Mercy
AI: Summary ©
The speaker discusses the upcoming gathering for a gathering for children to benefit from. They also talk about the holy prophet's teachings and the importance of seeking out those who have been harmed. The speaker also talks about a young man's reaction to a recent talk and the importance of not pretending to be a brother to avoid offense.
AI: Summary ©
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.