we are in the month of muharram this is a sacred month this is a month in which we should remember the struggles of the family of the prophet salallahu sallam because they were in his footsteps the struggles of the atheros is extremely important for us this is something that is foundational in our religion and i think it's a great unifying factor a great unifying force of all muslims his judgment on jiddal being al-awam that polemical discourse or debate amongst lay muslims amongst the laity he said is haram and you go into certain masajid or msas you see people students who have no requisite knowledge debating in a polemical style type of way making tuck fear of each other about ash and sunni and salafi and wahhabi according to imam malik this is haram this type of discourse now does that mean that we can't have dialogue and we should have dialogue right something like this should take place in a masjid right this is tasawolf the soweth is just a technical term for isan right say to worship allah as though you see him and if and if you don't see him then no be cognizant that indeed he sees you to worship allah as if raptured in the beatific vision of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this is the prophetic way of worship this is how the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam used to worship allah subhanahu wa to allah as if he was standing in front of allah imagine the scene on the yom al-qayama when the jahannam is brought near and we're going to see it with according to the quran how would you stand in front of allah subhanahu wa on that day this is the prophetic worship this is the worship the ibaadah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to have this type of vote imam qazali talks about it he calls it though to taste the faith and he criticized the formalists who are changing definitions even at his time he says they're changing definitions the word fik has a different definition at his time than it did with the salaf the word fit at the time of imam khazali just meant how to make and how to make hajj and things like that what does fick mean fic means the essence of the religion it's the essence in this sense all of the sahaba were fukaha in this sense there's different types obviously there's a jurisprudential aspect of and that's very important but fit literally means a deep understanding of the religion to taste the essence of the religion to have taken actualize the religion like hansila came to abu bakr sadiq and he said i've become a monafied why do you say this about yourself and he said because when i am when i sit in the medjlist of the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi sallam i have i have voke i taste my faith to paraphrase what he said i have a strong spirituality he talks about janna and nar and i have this really strong spirituality then i leave his presence and it starts to wane and i go back to how i was i've become a munafik this is what he said and abu bakr sadiq said that happens to me too let's go ask the messenger salallahu sallam and the prophet salallahu said no you haven't become a monafiq if you were to remain in that state as you are in my presence then you'll be shaking hands with angels in the street right but we should have a dialogue about these things he said that of islamic spiritualism islamic mysticism he said our knowledge is nothing more than knowledge that is tied to the book of allah subhanahu wa to allah and the sunnah of his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam it's not coming out of nowhere it's not it's not taken from christianity it's not taken from hinduism right there were things that were borrowed there's no doubt about it as far as practices go but the apida from a standpoint of creed this is based firmly in the quran and sunnah of the messenger so to begin allah says this is an imperative command say to them no reward do i ask of you for this except that you love the korba who is according to the vast majority of exegetes of the quran this is a reference to the bait of the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam we are commanded in the quran to love the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi in a famous line of poetry by abu muhammad a great scholar oh family of the messenger of god your love is obligatory incumbent upon us from allah based in the kitab based in the quran whoever doesn't send benedictions upon you in the prayer there is no prayer for him imam shafir considered it a pillar of the salah that you sent benedictions of peace upon the prophet salallahu and his family or else your prayer doesn't count of benedictions upon the prophet salallahu that this is something that allah subhanahu wa to allah who is allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the one who created everything is engaged in this activity sending blessings of peace upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the angels also are sending blessings of peace upon the prophet salallahu yet there are some muslims who say don't over praise the prophet salallahu sallam is it possible to over praise we talked about this last night is it even possible right as one of the scholars said one of the poets said you saw will cause allah praises him what is our praise and comparison and the erlang might use the analogy of putting a needle into the ocean and extracting the needle and then comparing the water in the ocean with the water on the needle can you over praise the prophet um and the famous ode to the cloak the burde that there is no end to the praiseworthy attributes of the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam there is hadith regarding this came to the prophet salallahu how much of my daily benedictions should i should i spend on blessings upon you and he said a quarter of it the prophet salallahu said good that's good but more is better said half of it that's good but more is better three quarters of it that's good but more is better all of my is a s that's good this is what the prophet salallahu told him he didn't say asta for allah no no the prophet salallahu is teaching his sahabah if all of your ad car all of your ad car is that's good and there's no way you can overpraise the prophet salallahu sallam except if you say something that is categorically that is categorically rejected in the quran or in the hadith it's quoted by our brethren all the time don't flatter me like the christians have flattered islam come on the prophet salallahu the particle of comparison kama what does come out mean like they have done so what is rejected in the quran categorically rejected the christians say what about islam they say he's ibn allah we don't say that about the prophet salallahu they say he is this is what they say nobody is saying this about the prophet salallahu right so we have to understand when when he says don't do to me with the christians but their prophet what did the christians do to their prophet you have to understand what they did that's rejected in the in the quran and something that is but sending blessings of peace upon the prophet that's only a good thing the brother recited the hadith only for our benefit whoever sends blessings of peace upon me once allah subhanahu wa to allah sends blessings of peace upon him ten times ten times there is sound hadith hadith the prophet salallahu he's talking about his time in the grave in the bazaar that there is an angel seated at my head who conveys salams to me from my nation he's telling you so and so is making salaam to you you rasulullah an angel this is what he says sound hadith of al-bazar sound for us is powerful he's omnipotent if allah subhanahu wa allah wants to make his nebby salallahu your deeds are presented to me on friday does that mean the prophet salallahu judges our deeds no don't put words into his mouth sallallahu sallam this is haram denying what he said is also haram whatever he offers you you take it you don't deny it you take it this is what he said it's a hadith rigorously authenticated hadith that your deeds are presented to me on thursday if i see good i praise allah when what and if i see other than that i ask allah subhanahu wa to allah for forgiveness for you he's his life does not end at death death is not annihilation this is not hinduism death is not he's not it's not over at his passing from this dunya he continues to be continuous so a few hadith i want to mention here with regards to love of athlete the prophet salallahu discipline your children upon three things or teach your children three things the love of your prophet and the love of his family and the reading understanding of the quran he said in hadith love allah for his blessings upon you if we just contemplate one of the blessings of allah it will necessarily engender love for allah subhanahu wa you know someone sees us on the street a perfect stranger comes up to us and gives us a thousand dollars in cash imagine how appreciative you'd be here's a gift for you i don't even know you here's a thousand dollars your heart might actually incline towards that person you might have love for that person so a complete stranger who just gave you some cash you might actually love that person allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave you your life your your children your parents the air you breathe your grandchildren your your grandparents everything allah gave you just contemplate that it will engender necessarily love for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this is what the prophet saw allah is saying love allah for his blessings upon you and love me for the sake of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and love my family for my sake one of the companions asked the prophet salallahu sallam after the latter part of that verse was revealed in which allah says right how do we do that how do we send benedictions upon upon you how do we pray upon you and he said right send blessings of peace upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam and the family of the prophet sallallahu sallam so then the question arises who are they bait are the wives of the prophet salallahu meaning included in this difference of opinion the dominant opinion is that yes one of the wider meanings of athlete includes the mothers of the believers and there's a hadith of zaid ibn arkham which makes that very very clear because there are some people who say it only includes the wives of the prophet salallahu sallam all right so there's a hadith i want to show you or quote to you very interesting hadith which shows the exalted status of advaith and identifies them very clearly it's called hadith this is in muslim and tabarani it is a sound hadith rigorously authenticated so we are told that it's related by um which he says of the prophet salallahu was in her quarters and he was sleeping on a kisa like a sack or a cloth and fatima azahara salaam she walks into the room and she has some sweets or some desserts or something right so the prophet salallahu tells her go get your husband and your children so she goes and gets imam ali alaihissalam and sunnah you can say alaihis imam bukhari says this is not nothing like that okay so go get imam ali so he comes with al hassanen hassan imam hussain alaihim assalam and they're sitting on this kisa this is a sababa nuzul this is the occasion of the revelation of the verse which allah says allah only wants to remove every kind of stain from you o people of the house and to render you pure and spotless the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam he takes the kisa and he puts it over his head and over the head of fatima and ali and al-hasan says right she wants to duck her head underneath the kisa as well and the prophet says you're okay right so the wider meaning of athlete according to their includes the wives and the sons of abbas and jaffa and so on and so forth but these five are definitely from ahlil bait who are the five the prophet salallahu [Music] this is important another hadith called hadith this is a very important hadith this hadith is means it is the strongest type of hadith possible multiply attested hadith the scholars of jama'a say that a hadith water is equal creedally and in its legislative capacity to a quranic ayah right denial in other words of a motowater hadith is tantamount to denial of an ayah of the quran and this is infidelity to deny multiply tested groups and groups of people report this hadith from multiple countries which would have made it impossible to fabricate the hadith a factual statement you find it in muslim so the transmission here is from sahih muslim this reward zaid ibn arkham he says on the way back from hajj it's right the final the final pilgrimage the farewell pilgrimage of the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said they stopped at a place called which there's a pond there are some trees there and the prophet sallallahu alaihi he turns to the people and he says i have left behind me two weighty things two weighty things what are they which is like your life line or your cable extension extending from the heavens down to the earth so the analogy is like you're in an ocean and you're drowning and someone throws you a lifeline and number two and number two my family the people of my house now there's another hadith that says is this a contradiction there's no contradiction there's no contradiction we'll talk about how to reconcile these two let's finish the rewa though in sahih muslim and then the prophet sallallahu s that these two things this they will never deviate from one another they'll never be separated they'll never contradict one another the bait will never go against the quran or deviate the quran you will not understand the quran without adhd you will not understand ahmed without the quran this is what it means according to the hadith sunni ulama and then he says am i not over the believers don't you prefer me over yourselves the prophet salallahu is saying there's a reference to the verse in the quran number six that the believers prefer the life of the prophet over their own life you just read about the men who surrounded the prophet sallallahu totally putting themselves in harm's way to defend the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam shooting arrows people firing arrows at the prophet short distance inside standing in front of them firing arrows back at them the prophet sallallahu alaihi said it throw your arrows assad may my father and mother be ransom for you this is what he said to sadibun imam ali going around the prophet sallam fighting off blades and arrows like a moth going around the flame that's all we have to read is some of these what of the prophet salallahu what that means the woman who stood in front of abdullah ibn kamiyah this man on a horse who wants to kill the prophet sallam who would have just killed musa abiba and now this woman nuseba bintu kap she stands in front of his horse and she's standing there with a sword in her hand she came to the the merica to give water to the mujahideen but then the prophet saw sentiment is under siege so she stands in front of this armed horseman and he won't kill her because he has the decency not to kill a woman which is more than i can say about you know current rules of warfare this man who just killed a sahabi and now he's intentioned he's resolved upon killing the messenger of allah will not kill a woman on the battlefield so he starts hitting her with his sword on her shoulder so get out of the way what are you doing here get out of the way and she won't budge she relates to the the hadith she said i wanted to run i but i turned around and the prophet sallam is under siege so i kept my ground and then he brings the sword down hard on her shoulder and fractures her clavicle and she falls down and then her son zade runs to her defense says oh me um me my mother and what does she say to him she says go protect the prophet don't worry about me protect the prophet he's angry with him why and enemies the believers prefer the life of the prophet of their own lives you're not a complete believer unless you love the prophet salallahu more than yourself more than your father your son and all of humanity all of humanity so this is what he says yes yes the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam he takes the hand of saying he's if i am your master then this ali is your master right and then he says allah befriend the one who befriends him antagonize the one who antagonizes him give victory to the one who gives him victory forsake the one who forsakes him right this is the exalted station of ah bait of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam right and this doesn't in any way take away from the from the greatness of satan um how much sacred knowledge was imparted to abu bakr al-sadiq the best friend of the prophet salallahu before islam this shows you the character of abu bakr as-siddiq that this was his companion that he chose the prophet sallallahu alaihi before the before the revelation came to the prophet here we're talking about the exalted status of athletic bait so is there a contradiction here kitab allah was like there's no contradiction because according to scholars of the true and authentic sunnah has always been invested in alibaba this is why we should seek them out have a connection to ah bait have connection with albeit because they are never going to be separated from the quran the prophet sallallahu says in a hadith called hadith [Music] is like the ship of noah what is the ship of noah this is an interesting wheel of the quran an esoteric interpretation right that you have the esoteric meaning that this was a historical event that happened with new hale islam in his home and he built a ship and there was a flood but the prophet sallam is comparing this to something that's going to happen in the future a typology a foreshadowing that my family is like the ship of noah now there's no there's no flood here but there really is there's no flood of waters but there's a flood of confusion of kufor of nifak of of of of right changing the sunnah it's all over the world what do we do in this situation how do we understand the quran you understand the quran by attaching yourself clinging yourself to the ship of the ahle bait this is what the allah says whoever rides upon it embarks upon it is saved whoever does not is destroyed nasa the true authentic sunnah has always been invested in the bait in its outward and inward aspects in the vahir and baltan aspects um says in a hadith ali and the truth are inseparable this hadith is inseparable for inseparable from the truth inseparable in another from the quran he's never going to deviate from the quran because there's two takalain quran and italati and the eternati is the preserver of the true sunnah of the messenger sallallahu sallam if you follow the sunnah you have to follow eternity they're synonymous they're the same thing the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the prophet salallahu said imam ali it's a says are you not pleased that you are to me as aaron was to moses as harun was to musa what was the relationship of harun to moses was his brother was his supporter his friend his beloved the preserver of spiritual secrets of sacred gnosis of marifa right this is the relationship but who was the the temporal successor of of musa alaihis it was not haroon it was yushabin noon you see so abu bakr as-siddiq is the temporal successor of the prophet salallahu sallam and also inherited many prophetic secrets that's why many of the uh turok of tisaw comes from who abu bakr is you go back 200 years ago we're just talking about this in the car dr ahmad you go back 200 years ago you'll be hard pressed to find a single scholar who did not follow a medhab of jurisprudence and a tariqa of tusawuf you will be hard-pressed to find one was in a tariqa it was murid the liberator of palestine abu qashi in baghdad he was a man of the south but he was akadi he was a fakie dina rumi was ekadi in konya we don't have this issue we don't have this dichotomy of spirit and law this is christian baggage we don't have this issue there is not an absolute dichotomy the sharia is a means by which we attain spirituality to allah subhanahu wa to allah this is very very important so i want to tell a little bit about the story of al-imam al-hussein he's the son of ali he is the son of fatima azahara the one about whom the prophet salallahu said fatima from fatima is a piece of my flesh fatima is a piece of my flesh whoever angers her has angered me whoever angers me angers allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this is the state of fatima zahara i mentioned the story the other day a few years ago i was in a masjid and i think it was later to us we just prayed and my daughter ran up to me and she jumped on me and i hugged her and another brother there said you know back in my country you would have been slapped on the top of your head for doing for for doing this for for showing affection to your daughter this is against our culture right so really yeah my dad would have scolded my father would have scolded you if he saw you do this so do you know anything about the prophet salallahu sallam that when the prophet saw was sitting in a modulus and fatima zahra who was a toddler would walk into the modulus he would stand up rasulullah stand for fatima and what kisser on the hands and on the forehead who's better than the prophet salallahu nobody this is his love for children this is how he manifested love for different people so let's look at some of these uh blessed uh um events in the life of imam al-hussein he is the epitome of the prophetic hadith speak the truth even if it's bitter and never be afraid of those who find fault don't be afraid of the opinions of men those are just human beings do what is right with allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that doesn't mean have bad adapt with people have bad compartment with people don't care about the feelings of people no that's against the sunnah right but don't be afraid to stand up for what is right imam al-hussein did not fear human beings imagine the unbelievable sacrifice imagine it did not fear human beings he did what was right for the sake of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala jihad the greatest jihad is a word of truth in the face of a tyrant he epitomizes this hadith imam al-hussein he was born in four hijri he is the second son of ali and fatima the ulamas say that from the neck up imam hasan looked like the prophet salallahu and from the neck down imam al-hussein looked like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and that's in their hulk the way they look physically the prophet sallam he makes this amazing ajib statement which is an al-bazar and hakim in a taparani says hussain on mini hussain we understand hussain on mini hussein is from me right because hussein is the grandson of the prophet sallallahu alaihi how do we understand hussain this is unbelievable subhanallah oh allah love those who love her saying to the lama say that this means that they are aligned in their character in their look he looks like the prophet sallam and it's khalq and he has similar character in his in his inward house in his inward aspect in his virtues in his principle he is similar or the same as the prophet they also mention it means that he is the preserver of the prophet's deen of his legacy and the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam had intense love for his children and for his grandchildren one time imam hassan he waited the prophet salaam was praying imam hasan was very young boy the prophet went down into sajdah imam hasan jumps on the back of the prophet i said that the prophet saws would not move until he was done he kept in sajdah right and then after the prayer he jumps on the process um again and took him as a conveyance you know kids jump on the father's back pretend it's a game you know take me somewhere so a man walked by and he said what a excellent conveyance you've taken oh little boy and the prophet salallahu how excellent is the writer according to imam hassan alaihissalam one time the prophet sallam was standing on the minbar delivering a khutbah on friday and imam hussain very young a toddler following the voice of his grandfather comes into the masjid right the prophet salallahu sees him and he descends the minbar during the khutbah descends the minmar and he picks up imam hussain and he hugs him and he hugs that body that would be eventually trampled upon by horses by the army of yazid and he kisses the face the face that's attached to the blessed severed head that is going to be smacked by yazid's sticks kisses his face he reassends the minbar and finishes the khudba with imam hussein in his arms this is the love that the prophet salallahu had for imam hussain he used to say inna ibnihada indeed this son of mine indeed this son of mine as an adult imam hussain lived during a time of major tyranny massive persecution of ahlil bait in damascus it was instituted as part of the khutba liturgy you know how we say there's a there's certain of the khutbah right right there's certain things you have to say in arabic during the khutba for legitimate one of the arkhan of the khutbah of the bani umayya in damascus and not all of the bani umayya many of them are awliya we don't generalize but this was the polity this was state instituted this is what you have to say in the khutbah or else you can't give khutbah you can't be khatib what else you have to say you have to send la'ana upon imam ali this happened for 90 years in damascus 90 years as part of the khutba liturgies ajib the nephew of the prophet salallahu sallam the one who preserves his lineage this is what they're saying about him this is the atmosphere in which imam hussain grew up the umayyad authorities also had these secret homeland security agents all around the empire especially in iraq especially in kufa why in kufa because imam ali alayhi salam when he became khalifa in 656 of the common era he moved the capital from madina to manawara to kufa and it was a brilliant move it gives them more of a central location to deal with growing problems in the north out of syria with umayyad and there was this menacing group of puritanical muslims called al-khawaraj who believed that anyone who didn't believe as they believed was a non-muslim and they could kill them and plunder them right puritanical fire and brimstone akida so eventually one of them accused imam ali of khufur this is unbelievable right and they made a pact in the haram in mecca in the haram in mecca three of them said i'm going to go kill ammar ibn al-ass i'm going to call muay ibn sufyan and you go kill ali in mecca they shook on it in mecca they go the other two were not successful but this one abdul rahman ibn rahman abdullah whatever his name is he went into the masjid and kufa instructs imam ali and killed him the prophet sallallahu alaihi says in a hadith that imam sayuti relates in the talib hadith he says to him that two individuals will have an extremely painful torment in the inferno in the in the hellfire this hadith of the prophet says two individuals will have the most painful torment the fair-skinned man of bani uh famous who hamstrung the nagato during the time of and the man he's talking to ali and the man who is going to strike you here and this will be saturated with blood so imam ali is walking out of the masjid according to kitab by muhammad al-hazari he's walking out of the masjid after praying sloth and fajr and this man abdul rahman al-muradi pounces on him strikes him on the top of the head and immediately his skull splits and blood pours down his face and saturates his beard and he falls down and he screams to i have triumphed i have won i have gained victory by the lord of the kaaba you you've gained victory you were killed by this man because he understands he's attained what he's had he's become a martyr so imam hussain is in this type of environment now there's also an interesting interesting hadith that's mentioned in imam sayuti as well that the prophet salallahu said to ali ali no one loves you except a believer and no one hates you except a hypocrite abuse used to say he said we used to be able to tell who is a munafik in medina because they had hatred for ali aversion to ali aversion to ali is a sign of nifak unfortunately in some places even today you mention the name ali and muslims have a visceral reaction muslims we have to be very very careful some of this vapor as sheikh muhammad and nidalee may allah preserve him from this vapor of those days has trickled down into our contemporary society regarding imam ali that you mention his name and people have a bad reaction to it so at that time you can imagine naming your son ali had political ramifications because he's been cursed on the minbar of bani umayya they didn't even name their sons ali imam hussain names four of his sons ali ali akbar ali ibn hussein four of the sons he names ali so any type of behavior that was even remotely perceived as as subversive by the umayyad polity was harshly dealt with it was umayyad foreign and domestic policy to hunt down and kill descendants of the prophet muhammed how pitiful this is their foreign policy hunt down the family the descendants of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam now interestingly according to the ulama when muawiyah radhial and who died we have a good opinion of all of the sahaba when he died in 60 hijri there was a difference of opinion between him and ali right and ali was on the right ultimately that's what we believe as allah sunnah right but we don't curse anyone that's from the ash of opinion based on each jihad when he died in sixty hijri his son yazid succeeded him and muawi is stipulated according to sunni and shiite tradition muawiyah stipulated in his final will speaking to yazid that if al-hasan ibn al-hussein ibn ali does not give you bay'ah let it go don't worry about it don't force the issue it'd be extremely imprudent of you to do that just let it go but yazid has ego issues like many despotic tyrants of today they they don't want to give up power like this man in syria he's not going to get it's lost he's not going to give it up he doesn't want to give it up right despotic tyranny so he's like a an archetype of the pharaoh of the firaoun right so listen to what allah listen to how allah subhanahu wa allah describes the firaoun and think of it in terms of bani umayya and yazid imam hussain alaihis that the pharaoh has exalted himself on the earth he thinks very highly of himself the pharaoh and he said i am your lord most high they must say that the pharaoh used to eat bananas all the time why because it makes you constipated because he didn't like to relieve himself because he thought he was god he thought it was beneath himself to re relieve himself and he turned his people into factions and denominations all right this is what he does the pharaonic methodology the theronic archetype people under his dominion the immediate references to the egyptians he divides them up into different denominations and then sends these shayateen and human form into the populace to sow seeds of corruption amongst the people this is what he does according to the tafsir right take attention away from him what he's doing no it's their fault fight amongst yourselves it has nothing to do with me right and then what does he do yesterday then he takes according to the tafsir he takes one taifa one group of the people under his dominion and he really oppresses them okay so with respect to the pharaoh this is who bani israel because money is talking about what there's going to be a savior a deliverer muslim is going to come he's going to drive us out of here he's going to defeat the firaoun so the pharaoh is afraid of losing his temporal power his kingdom his political authority right so he takes the one group that he fears most rebellion from with respect to yazid this is but then the quran is very specific as to how he oppresses them he kills their males he hunts the men and kills them and he leaves the women alive now the women are dependent upon the very system that slaughtered their husbands and sons in the middle of siddhi he is of those who sow corruption in the earth so it's just as musa alaihissalam spoke truth to power yes uh imam hussain is going to speak truth to power and when i say power i'm talking about temporal power perceived power we're told in the quran that from the ali firaoun there was a believer now we're not talking about asia that was his wife the quran says there was a man from amongst his family that believed in muslim and what does he say in the council says today or this day you have the mulk apparently apparently you have the dominion right to the fir but they're not the same foul things and pure things even if the the sheer numbers of the foul things should surprise you oh there's so much of it right think about imam hussain seventy or so people surrounded by thirty thousand thirty thousand armed soldiers of yazid truth is truth and falsehood is falsehood so at this time a letter arrives in medina from damascus addressed to the governor of madinah whose name is and he tells his deputy marwan al-haqam who is a notorious person that says you have to force ba'a from four men in medina force them to make ba'a and he said from two of them you're going to have a little bit of issue abdullah ibn abbas and from the other two you're going to have a lot of issues and he says with this last one if he doesn't doesn't give you bay'a then bring his head back to me imam hursein alaihissalam so imam hussain alaihissalam he asked for a delay and they say you have until fajr time so in the night he prepares to leave madinah gathers his things with his family and his companions and they leave they leave mecca they leave madina to go to mecca a reverse hijrah which is what the future mahdi will do according to the ulama of that he will be a refugee from medina into mecca mimiking the future mahdi so he stays in mecca for four months seeking refuge in the house of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and during this time a flood of letters come into mecca from all over the muslim world especially from iraq especially from kufa encouraging him to be our leader you stand against injustice and tyranny and oppression be our leader because they knew they knew that imam hussein would never ever pledge allegiance to open facil it's impossible he can't do that he doesn't go against the quran there's an interesting hadith that is created as sahih that is quoted a lot by contemporary urlama sheikh muhammad nirawi quotes it a lot interesting hadith in which it says the first one to change my sunnah is a man from bani umayya and remember the essence or the reality of the sunnah has always been preserved in ah albeit right so when we talk about the sunnah we're talking about ahmed they're inseparable that's how we reconcile our two hadith the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam said man to muslims whoever holds fast in my sunnah during the time of the corruption of my ummah will have the reward of 100 100 martyr witnesses holds faster my sunnah which is never detached from italy from the family of the prophet sallam they preserve the sunnah and bukhari and muslims whoever turns away from my sunnah is not from me again when we think about sunnah we have to think about ah bait whoever turns away from the athlete who is saying he's not from me subhanallah what a what an unbelievable statement from the prophet salallahu hussain is from me and i am from hussein so hajj season begins and many agents of yazid they come into mecca as hajjaj they're wearing ichram and they have weapons under the echram think about this coming into mecca with echram during hajj season to do what to kill the grandson of the prophet sallam it's really ajib and the imam alaihissalam he cuts short his hajj and decides to leave mecca and the question why leave mecca because according to the urlama the second thakal cannot violate the first takal the second weight the itra cannot violate the quran in nahuma they're never going to deviate from one another and allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says whoever enters the sacred precincts is safe so imam hussain alaihissalam in order to preserve the sanctity of mecca he sets off into the desert knowing his fate knowing what's going to happen to him and he took women and children with him and the question is why take women and children if you know you're going to be massacred why do that and they allah say the ummah was sleeping they needed to be shaken out of their what rafala heedlessness complacency the sunnah is being changed the family the family of the prophet saw is being hunted down and killed so imagine as say that he had only taken the men he only took the men [Music] then the yazidi propaganda right would have said what yeah he he came out and we had a flag of peace but he attacked us because they would have killed all the men and buried them and then make it make up a story about it very easy he attacked us and unfortunately he was killed in a skirmish it was friendly fire it's too bad right so imam hussain takes women and children because ultimately it was the women and children who would tell the truth about karbala it was them who would tell the truth about what happened on that day people like assai de zainab in the court of yazid speaking truth to power this type of shujaa this type of courage there's a poem here by muayino di nachisti the quatrain in farsi he says shah has hussein but the shah has tursein deen haste her saying dean panna has to say sardar nadas hussain is king hussain is emperor hussein is religion he is the hope of religion he gave his head not his hand into the hand of yazid ajib so approximately 70 kilometers from kufa they come to a desert called karbala and the immominus followers find themselves surrounded by the army of yazid now this is very interesting there is hadith that mentioned this event and these are hadith again all of the hadith i'm quoting to you is hadith and sometimes when i quote these hadith i have to make a faith convention confession you can say oh maybe this guy is a she or something right no i'm hanafi i'm these are hadith in our books this hadith and the mustadak of sound hadith rigorously authenticated hadith related by um the prophet saws was in her quarters and he was sleeping he's lying down and then he suddenly woke up and he was very bothered by something and then he went back to sleep and then again he woke up again went back to and this happened three times and she says on the third time she says he woke up a third time and in his hand with some red soil you cut biluha and he's kissing it and she said what is this and he said jibril alayhi salam told me some devastating news that this son of mine imam hussain alaihissalam will be slaughtered in a place called karbala and this is the dust from the place this is hadith another hadith of the muslim related by abdullah ibn he says that he heard from his father that he was walking with imam ali they were going to suffering on the banks of the euphrates river and imam ali was walking by the river and he started to shout sabran this is patronum of who imam hussain so new jay says what are you talking about and imam ali says that i walked into the room of the prophet salallahu and tears were strumming streaming down his face and i said what's wrong ya rasulallah and he said that jibir alayhi islam gave me the news that this son of mine hussain alaihissalam will be slaughtered on the banks of the euphrates river this hadith according to the books of our books so for several days i know i'm running out of time i think i'm already out of time am i out of time so conclude inshallah to allah for several days the army of yazid tried to force allegiance from hussein by cutting off their water supply which is a tactic of you know the military-industrial complex of yazid you know if you don't agree with us you're not going to eat you're not going to drink we're going to your economy they did this to the prophet salallahu right don't trade with them don't give them food go live in the desert right this torture and cruelty but today we call sanctions you don't agree with us you're not going to eat that's torture right no it's a much better sanctions right it's not massacre it's collateral damage shock and awe campaign right this type of thing so we don't go into specifics as to what actually happened on yomi ashura we know what happened to ali akbar and ali abedin al-abbas and and muslim in akhil before and zainab and sukhena and fatima we know about ibn ziad bin saad and all these things the main point is that the aziyah the passion narrative of imam hursein is metamorphic it's meta trans historical it's meta-historical in other words the army of yazid according to one of the liberation theologians is a floating signifier imam hussein represents anyone who says no to tyranny and injustice while shimmer and yazid represent any militant thug who rapes and murders and tortures and colonizes so we see a lot of husseini archetypes malcolm x for example think about this in the 1960s how racist people were in the 1960s people are still racist never gone away going on a television show surrounded by nothing but white americans grilling him on things that's a mujahid right standing up to the racism and oppression that's a hurseini archetype martin luther king husseini archetype rachel corey this woman who stand in front of an israeli bulldozer to protect a palestinian home and she was callously barbarically killed by this bulldozer hurseini archetypes anyone who says no imam hussain sacrificed his life to set a trans-historical example not to vicariously atone for the sins of humanity as in christianity no but rather to give us an example of virtue by which to live in this life and to have success in the next life inshallah to allah