This is someone whose existence is dissolving in Allah .

And so you see the contrast between two letters that the Imam wrote to Bani Hashim.

The first letter he wrote in one of the early stations after leaving Mecca.

The second letter that the Imam wrote, almost near Karbala.

In the first letter, what did the Imam say? If you come, you will be shaheed.

If you don't come, you're missing out on the spiritual journey.

How long did the killers of Karbala live after the 10th of Muharram? The overwhelming majority of them, four, five, six years.

Imagine you killed the grandson of the messenger of Allah for what? Five, six years of your life.

This is what shaitan does.

Interestingly, the most evil of them, Yazid, died before

everybody else.

Before Ubaidullah was killed, and before Khuli was killed, and before Harmala was killed, and before all of these, Yazid was the first one to die.

الحمد لله الذي لا يبلغ مدحته القائلون الحمد لله الذي لا يبلغ مدحته القائلون ولا يحصي نعماءه العادون ولا يؤدي حقه المجتهدون الذي لا يدركه بعد الهمم وَلَا يَنَالُهُ غَوْصُ الْفِطَنِ الَّذِي لَيْسَ لِصِفَتِهِ حَدٌّ مَحْدُودٌ وَلَا نَعْتٌ مَوْجُودٌ وَلَا وَقْتٌ مَعْدُودٌ وَلَا أَجَلٌ مَمْدُودٌ أَمَّا بَعَدْ فَقَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ الْحَكِيمُ فِي مُحْكَمِ كِتَابِهِ الْكَرِيمِ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ وَيَا آدَمُ اسْكُنْ أَنتَ وَزَوْجُكَ الْجَنَّةِ فَكُلَا مِنْ حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَا وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هَذِهِ الشَّجَرَةِ فَتَكُونَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ فَوَسْوَسَ لَهُمَا الشَّيْطَانُ لِيُبْدِيَ لَهُمَا مَا وُورِيَ عَنْهُمَا مِنْ سَوْآتِهِمَا وَقَالَ مَا نَهَاكُمَا رَبُّكُمَا عَنْ هَذِهِ الشَّجَرَةِ إِلَّا أَنْ تَكُونَ مَلِكَيْنَ أَوْ تَكُونَ مِنَ الْخَالِدِينَ وَقَاسَمَهُمَا إِنِّي لَكُمَا لَمِنَ النَّارِ

For the love of our beloved prophet and his beloved progeny, a second loud salawat.

for the hastening and the return of our beloved 12th Imam, a third final loud salawat.

Tonight's topic is entitled, The Lessons That We Can Learn From The Fates Of The Killers Of The Third Imam.

The reality is, every year when we gather during the month of Muharram and during the month of Safar, there are many majalis put together to speak of the praises and the fada'il of the Ahlulbayt.

And this is no doubt part of the teachings of the Ahl al-Bayt.

They wanted us to gather in order to remember them, remember their status, and remember their sacrifice.

When that happens,

For the love of our beloved Prophet and his beloved progeny, a second loud salawat.

for the hastening and the return of our beloved 12th Imam, a third final loud salawat.

The topic we'll be discussing tonight, inshallah, is the topic of the rights of the believer.

When we look at the message that the Messenger of Allah brought forth for the Muslim Ummah, you find in it a term that comes up in the words of the Messenger of Allah, and then later in the words of the Imams of the Ahlulbayt very frequently.

And that is a term that carries a lot of weight, carries a lot of significance.

That is the term of the believer, al-mu'min.

And so you will find in our books of hadith from the earliest of sources that we have available at our disposal, like a book as significant as Al-Kafi, you will find large portions of the book dedicated to chapters called Kitab al-Iman.

Don't take that and

A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem الحمد لله الذي لا يبلغ مدحته القائلون الحمد لله الذي لا يبلغ مدحته القائلون ولا يحصي نعماءه العادون ولا يؤدي حقه المجتهدون الذي لا يدركه بعد الهمم وَلَا يَنَالُهُ غَوْصُ الْفِطَنِ الَّذِي لَيْسَ لِصِفَتِهِ حَدٌّ مَحْدُودٌ وَلَا نَعْتٌ مَوْجُودٌ وَلَا وَقْتٌ مَحْدُودٌ وَلَا أَجَلٌ مَمْدُودٌ أَمَّا بَعَدْ فَقَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ الْحَكِيمُ فِي مُحْكَمِ كِتَابِهِ الْكَرِيمِ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ قَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلًا لَّتِي تُجَادِلُكَ فِي زَوْجِهَا وَتَشْتَكِي إِلَى اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ يَسْمَعُ تَحَاوُرَكُمَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ الَّذِينَ يُضَاهِرُونَ مِنْكُمْ مِنْ نِسَائِهِمْ مَا هُنَّ أُمَّهَاتُهُمْ إِنْ أُمَّهَاتُهُمْ إِلَّا اللَّاءِ وَلَدْنَهُمْ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَيَقُولُونَ مُنْكَرًا مِّنَ الْقَوْلِ وَزُورًا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَعَفُوٌ غَفُورٌ وَالَّذِينَ يُضَاهِرُونَ مِنْ نِسَائِهِمْ ثُمَّ يَعُودُونَ لِمَا قَالُوا فَتَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَن يَتَمَاسَ ذَلِكُمْ تُوْعَذُونَ بِهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِمَا وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ الْعَلِيُّ الْعَظِيمُ صَلَوَاتُ

اللَّهُمَّ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهُمَّ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهُمَّ صَلَوَاتُ for the hastening in the return of our beloved 12th Imam, a third final loud salawat.

The topic we'll be discussing tonight, insha'Allah, is entitled Muslim influencers.

The emergence of social media is something that we truly cannot deny at this point, even though it emerged in a very, very quick manner.

A lot of times, if you ask people how long social media has been around, you will be surprised.

They will tell you really, really long numbers, high numbers, 15 years, 20 years, 30 years.

Quite often because when this person was born, social media was already a thing.

This is a nuanced issue.

الحمد لله الذي لا يبلغ مدحته القائلون ولا يحصي نعماءه العادون ولا يؤدي حقه المجتهدون الذي لا يدركه بعد الهمم ولا يناله غوص الفطن الذي ليس لصفته حد محدود ولا نعت موجود ولا وقت محدود ولا أجل ممدود أما بعد فقد قال الله الحكيم في محكم كتابه الكريم أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم قال يا أيها الملأ أيكم يأتيني بعرشها قبل أن يأتوني مسلمين قال عفريت من الجن أنا آتيك به قبل أن تقوم من مقامك وإني عليه لقوي أمين قال الذي عنده علم من الكتاب أنا آتيك به قبل أن يرتد إليك طرفك فلما رآه مستقرا عنده قال هذا من فضل ربي قال هذا من فضل ربي ليبلوني أأشكر أم أكفر ومن شكر فإنما يشكر لنفسه ومن كفر فإن ربي غني كريم صدق الله العلي العظيم صلوات الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

لحب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وآله وآله وآله وآله وآله وآله وآله وآله الموضوع الذي سوف نتحدث عنه اليوم إن شاء الله هو المنظر القرآني على هذا المخلوق الذي سمعناه جميعاً يسمى الجن.

الحقيقة هي أنه عندما يأتي الموضوع مثل هذا، يوجد الكثير من الأشياء التي يجب أن نتحدث عنه.

بشكل كبير بسبب طبيعة هذا المخلوق الذي صنعه الله سبحانه وتعالى لذلك هناك الكثير من المحتوى وكثير من الوقت الذي نستطيع أن نقضيه على هذا الموضوع لكن اليوم إن شاء الله لأن يوم محرم مهم جداً لنا قررت أن أخذ وقتك على يوم مثل هذا لتتحدث عن هذا الموضوع بشكل خاص من نظرية القرآن وهذا لا يعني أن التعليقات على هذا الموضوع لا تحتوي على قيمة أو أنها ليست مهمة.

بل عندما نأتي إلى القرآن ، فإنها ستعطينا نظرة عامة كاملة على كيف يجب أن نتواجد هذا الموضوع.

لماذا أعطى الله سبحانه وتعالى هذا الموضوع؟ عندما تنظر إلى الآثار في القرآن ، ستجد شيئًا سريعًا وقريبًا.

هو أن الله سبحانه وتعالى في الآثار في القرآن أكثر مهتمًا مع الأشياء التي نهتم بها عندما نتحدث عن موضوع الجن إذا ذهبت إلى الغرفة اليوم وتسأل الناس ما هي أهدافك في موضوع الجن؟ سيقولون يا شيخ أنا أريد أن أتأكد عندما أذهب إلى الغرفة المظلمة التي لدينا في أعلى منزلنا بعض الجن لا ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أن ينبغي أفكار الجن أن يتحكم أحداً، أفكار الجن أن يتحكم أحداً هؤلاء هي عادة الأخطاء التي نحن لدينا عندما نتحدث عن أمر الجن والحقيقة هي أن الحقيقة في هذه الأمور أو الخطوة خلفها هي مناقشة طويلة لمدة مرة أخرى عندما تأتي إلى القرآن على الرغم من ذلك، تجد أن نقطة القرآنية ليست على هذه الأمور أرسل الله سبحانه وتعالى جميع سورة القرآن التي اختار المسلمين اسمها الجن وليس هناك أي دراسة عن وجود جن يظهر لشخص في حالة مختلفة this doesn't mean this doesn't happen or it's impossible it just means that the quran was not mainly concerned about those things that we are concerned about when it comes to the topic of jinn and this is natural because the very nature of jinn is a novel idea and so we are drawn to it and you might hear stories and you might hear narrations about this topic عندما تأتي الى القرآن يوجد مجموعة مختلفة من المشاكل التي تفكرها الله سبحانه وتعالى وهي لماذا الله سبحانه وتعالى أخذ الوقت للشرح هذا الموضوع لنا عندما يأتي الى القرآن هناك مئات من المواضيع التي يمكن الله سبحانه وتعالى أن يتحدث عنها لماذا في الكثير من الآثار من القرآن يأتي الموضوع عن الجن مجدداً مجدداً هذا الموضوع لا يأتي مرة أو مرة أخرى في عدد من الكلمات ، فإن الله سبحانه وتعالى يتحدث عن موضوع الجن.

يرى أن هذه الوظائف مخطئة،

[salawat]

[foreign language] Let us begin from here, inshallah.

The first of those mistakes that you will see happens quite often, and sometimes this happens because the person who is looking to get married is a little bit younger.

They may not have as much experience in life, and that is marrying someone who is a project.

What does that mean? That means this person that I am going to marry, this person who I am thinking of, this person who I have in mind, out of 10, 15 different qualities that I have in mind for this person, they might have 10, 12, 13.

There's just one or two qualities that happen to be fundamental qualities that this person is missing.

And so quite often you will find people, they will entertain this type of a connection, this type of a marriage, especially if the marriage is a love marriage.

[laughs]

Khadija was neither that wife who was incapable, she had no idea what was going on in the world, she was powerless, her plan for life was, let me just get married and then the rest will take care of itself.

Neither was Khadija that woman.

Nor was Khadija, and now this is becoming a trend, that's why I'm highlighting it, nor was Khadija that career-focused lady who was willing to sacrifice everything else in her life for the cause of her business and her wealth.

Khadija was neither of these two ladies.

And today, depending on which group in the Muslim community you speak to, they will define Khadija based off of one of these two extremes.

A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.

No. الحمد لله الذي لا يبلغ مدحته القائلون الحمد لله الذي لا يبلغ مدحته القائلون ولا يحصيه نعماءه العادون ولا يؤدي حقه المجتهدون الَّذِي لَا يُدْرِكُهُ بُعْدُ الْهِمَمِ وَلَا يَنَالُهُ غَوْصُ الْفِطَنِ الَّذِي لَيْسَ لِصِفَتِهِ حَدٌّ مَحْدُودٌ وَلَا نَعْتٌ مَوْجُودٌ وَلَا وَقْتٌ مَحْدُودٌ وَلَا أَجَلٌ مَمْدُودٌ أَمَّا بَعَدْ فَقَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ الْحَكِيمُ فِي مُحْكَمِ كِتَابِهِ الْكَرِيمِ أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم يَا بَنِي آدَمَ قَدْ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ لِبَاسًا يُوَارِي سَوْآتِكُمْ وَرِيشًا وَلِبَاسُ التَّقْوَى ذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ ذَلِكَ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ يَا بَنِي آدَمَ لَا يَفْتِنَنَّكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ كَمَا أَخْرَجَ أَبَوَيْكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ يَنزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيُرْيَهُمَا سَوْآتِهِمَا إِنَّهُ يَرَاكُمْ هُوَ وَقَبِيلُهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا تَرَوْنَهُمْ إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا الشَّيَاطِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ صدق الله العلي العظيم صلوات

For the love of our beloved prophet and his beloved progeny, a second loud salawat.

For the hastening in the return of our beloved 12th Imam, a third final loud salawat.

Last night we began our discussion on the topic of Islamic femininity.

And we mentioned that this is a concept that both in secular societies as well as in Muslim societies is something that is developing and evolving as you go through the years and through the generations.

And so we touched on some of those developments within secular societies that might come to our attention a bit less.

The idea that women would have a right to vote, the idea that women would have the right to inherit, the idea that women would have the right to own property, and the idea that some of the top-level schools in North America would allow women to have an attendance All of these, to varying degrees, were developments that were quite late.

No. No.

You can never point to someone, say, this one's not going to make it.

How do you know? Because you don't know the story of this person.

You don't know their backgrounds.

You don't know if they came from an abusive relationship.

where they, for days and months and years, they were worried about their own well-being and the well-being of their two-year-old and their five-year-old in that house? You don't know that? You don't know if this person had put all of their trust in some religious authority, some scholar, some representative, only to have that trust ruined and betrayed? You don't know if this person grew up in a household Where they constantly told him that, listen, you slip up once, hellfire, they're going to burn you so hard.

When you go in the grave, it's going to squeeze you so hard that everything that you ever consumed is going to leave your body.

Take both.

All right.

See, this is normally when we would, we would use the salawats.

Allahumma salli.

For these pauses is when we use the [laughs] the out loud salat.

All right.

So we don't understand this, uh, comprehensive approval from the verses of the Quran.

That's where we disagree.