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“Ashura is not just a date; it is a reminder of the values we must uphold in our lives.”
Do not be ashamed of prayers. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. Peace and blessings be upon you, O Messenger of Allah. Peace and blessings be upon you, my master, my lord, my reliance, and my hope in my hereafter and my worldly life. O Abu Abdullah, peace be upon al-Husayn and upon Ali ibn al-Husayn and upon the children of al-Husayn and upon the supporters of al-Husayn. Peace be upon you, O beloved of al-Husayn and beloved of the hearts of the Shia of al-Husayn. O beloved son of Mazahir, are you beloved to al-Husayn? Whoever is beloved to al-Husayn is beloved to the Shia of al-Husayn. Are you beloved to the beloved? You are beloved to al-Husayn. If there is no lineage, then you are related. A question, O Abu al-Qasim, O bearer of the banner of al-Husayn, how did we defeat the appointed ones? You defeated a group in the arena of Karbala. What group? Soldiers, assembled armies, mobilized troops, with soldiers in al-Taff, the first and the last of them connected to Sham. Supplies and military units are still coming to fight al-Husayn. You defeated a group in the arena of Karbala and you were defeated and the victor is defeated Oh, oh, every time I ask my mother, " Where is my father?" [ Singing] She says, "He's traveling, may God bring him back." Oh God, have mercy on every orphan. Oh God, oh, every time I ask my mother, "Where is my father?" If someone dies and they bring their children, young children, to kiss him at the washing place, then remember Qasim ibn Habib, how he bowed over a head without a body. Oh, oh, every time I ask my mother, " Where is my father?" She says, "He's traveling, may God bring him back." Oh, oh, every time I ask my mother, she says, " Quickly." Your father is away on business, buying and going. He will come to you, my dear, with a sail. A question, oh my father, we found your head, but where is your body, oh my father? Habib answered, and his eyes welled up with tears. This is the kind of business I've never seen in all my days. We sold and bought, we sold and bought with my heart, in my love for the sons of Qasim. We are all, oh light of my eyes, a cure for kisses. May my mother and father be sacrificed for you, Abu Abdullah. And if, oh my son, you cannot bear the state of orphanhood, then by God, look closely and see the orphans of Hussein and the children, and see. The one who is dragged among the enemies His shackles and bridle were bound to his chest, his legs tied My son, your father was slaughtered, my son, and his body remained on the ground [ shouting] After the slaughter, he didn't get anything like the pampered one of Zahra. I didn't see anything, my son. The orphans who saw, the orphans who witnessed. After the slaughter, he didn't get anything like the pampered one of Zahra. The horse was satisfied, and his body was trampled by Shimr. And Hussein, and Sayyid, and the oppressed one. But the return is to God, and there is no power nor strength except with God. My son, do not tell your brothers about your vision, lest they plot against you. Blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. O God, bless and grant peace to Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. O God, bless and grant peace to Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. O God, bless and grant peace to Muhammad and the family of Muhammad. They plot. What is plotting? Plotting is continuous enmity and hatred. May God protect us and you. What is it resulting from? It is resulting from an affliction that has befallen the son of Adam since the creation of creation. God revealed it to us. God showed it to us. What is it when Cain envied his brother Abel and killed him? This is the nature of man. This is the nature of man. This is his nature. Envy is a trait of the soul. If you see someone chaste, perhaps they don't envy a person whose nature is fragile. Yes, brothers, brothers from one father, one mother, from a mother and father. This is the way of life. This world is a test, this world is a trial. After all, I'll spend my whole life, until I die, carrying this resentment in my heart towards my brothers because, for example, they did this or that. If it didn't come from your brothers, or your colleagues at work, or your neighbors, it will come from someone who lives in a different country than you. This is the way of life. Forgive me, forgive me. If it stays in your heart for two, three, ten days, then remove it from your heart. This is a sickness. Stay with your wife. Your reward is with God. He says, "No blame will there be upon you today." Joseph says it like us: "No blame will there be upon you today." Whose brothers are these? They are brothers from different mothers. He and Benjamin, the youngest of them, died at birth. This is the source they say is a source of martyrdom. So, there were no wars, and a person loses their reward. The testimony, they say, is that God Almighty creates things that become sources of testimony, such as someone who dies in a fire (may God protect us and you), or drowns, or a woman in childbirth. Because, O Messenger of God, how great is the departure of the soul from the body! It is a difficult situation. They take it for Hajj, carrying it on their backs. This is what we see in pictures circulating: someone carrying their father, their mother, on their back. Now, thank God, for example, the government has provided things to transport them to the circumambulation and the Sa'i. This didn't exist before. Have I fulfilled my duty, O Messenger of God? I performed Hajj on my back, God willing. Have I fulfilled my duty? He said, "Not even a single shot," meaning a cry. Oh, how great is the departure of the soul from the body! He said, "The soul departs, and they die." Signs of nobility are evident in them. The elder of them is distinguished by his nobility because of his connection to Heaven. God Almighty informed us that this is your guardian on Earth. Even though I am a prophet, my son will become a guardian. Why shouldn't he be a guardian? May God have mercy on Abu Talib, when the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said, " Who will support me in this matter and be my guardian and successor?" Thus, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, did so after the advent of Islam. They said to Abu Talib, "Your son has become your guardian." Meaning, my son has become the guardian of Joseph. He is the guardian of Jacob, his father. Meaning, something new has come about. Meaning, the father must be superior to the son. Meaning, the son is a doctor, so the father must be a doctor. The son is rich, so the father must be rich. The son is a sultan, meaning he has a position of power, so the father must have a position of power. This is the way of life. So he said, "Why don't you tell this? I know this. He didn't actually commit, but that poor woman went and spoke to his brothers, even though he had taken oaths from her. That's how Jacob was, but she was poor. And if the Prophet insisted on telling some of his wives after this, she would n't want them to know about it. Tell her, but don't worry, it will spread like wildfire. But revealing a secret is not good. It's a secret that enters into the being of a man or a woman. It's a trust. One day, Muslim ibn Aqil said, "I want to keep it a secret." He brought the will, a secret, and then Umar ibn Saad spoke. Why do they say that? Muslim ibn Aqil wanted to reveal it to the people. This is Umar ibn Saad. The one who commands an army to fight Hussein cannot be trusted even with a secret. You see, even with a secret, he cannot be relied upon. So, on the bones, because the vision is a little. Oh, my father, I saw eleven stars, the sun, and the moon. I saw them prostrating to me. Of course, prostration here means submission. One might ask, " How are they prostrating?" Prostration here means submission. Bowing means submission. When they say, "So-and-so, do not bow to so-and-so," it means do not submit to him. "Do not prostrate to so-and-so," it means do not prostrate to him. This prostration, which is on the seven limbs, is only for God. If prostration were for other than God, I would have ordered the wife to prostrate to her husband. This is called submission. What does the poet say? Do not humiliate the poor, perhaps you will submit one day. What brought it up? You will bow one day. Do not humiliate the poor, perhaps you will bow one day, and time has raised him. This is the poor man whom you expelled, whom you distanced from your door, whom you humiliated. Perhaps you will become in his place. He who made him poor will make him rich, and you are the poor one. Didn't the stocks go down that year? You lost everything. What a blink of an eye if he looked The screen is gone, and they say about me, "bowing," meaning submission. This is why Al-Alusi exploited this verse: "Do not humiliate the poor, for perhaps you will one day bow down, and time has raised him up." He said, " What did he say? It's not from the verses of Wilayah for the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him. It's from Ghadir. O Messenger, deliver it. There are others. What is it? 'Your only guardians are Allah, His Messenger, and those who believe, who establish prayer and give zakat while they are bowing down.' He said, 'No, what do they mean by bowing down?' It means Ali gave charity with the ring while he was bowing down. This bowing means the intended submission, and everyone can do this. This is not from the verses of the Commander of the Faithful for Ali, knowing that you find it in another context, in another context, regarding his virtues. But the matter of him being a guardian of Allah, that he is the Commander of the Faithful, this is not among his virtues. For example, the one who brought him close, his birth in the Kaaba, he does not deny it and says, and he brings the famous verse to cite it. He is not a poet; he takes the verses of poets. Did n't the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, destroy the idols?" During the conquest of Mecca, when he mounted the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, he smashed the idols on the roof of the Kaaba. A poet stood up and said, "This is a reward and thanks to God, for He caused his mother to give birth to him inside the Kaaba." He composed a very eloquent verse: "When God called you before to be born in the House, you answered Him. People don't just say 'Here I am, O God, here I am' and go perform Hajj and circumambulate. You called Him, and when He called you, you answered Him. How did you answer Him? By being born inside the House. When God called you before to be born in the House, you answered Him. You rewarded Him among the Quraysh by purifying His House from their idols. You made the House pure from these idols, these divining arrows, and these statues. This is close to Him, but a sign of His authority distances them. Anyway, this bowing and prostration— I saw one of the stars, the sun, and the moon—I saw them prostrating to me, meaning submitting, because prostration is not done for anyone other than God. He told me, 'Don't speak to anyone, don't speak to your brothers, for they will plot against you, envy you, be hostile to you, and harm you.' But they heard from his aunt and became confused." I spoke and what happened, happened, and what happened, happened. Why did he tell me not to speak? Because his father knew that this man would attain his position and status with God before he attained his position. Perhaps the position and status belonged to the king and the sultan, perhaps God did not reveal it to him, but He revealed his position and status with God. He saw that everyone would submit to him and to God's religion, and God would be pleased with him, and they would obey his commands and refrain from what he forbade, and God would favor him over others, and he would become the leader of the earth in his time. And the visions of the prophets are true. That is why they say that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, saw the vision of this accursed tree on earth. Peace be upon Imam Abu Muhammad al-Hasan. When the peace treaty was made, and people who loved and were loyal to him stood against him, they said, "This cannot be, Abu Muhammad." They did not know what was in the best interest of him. Some of them explained it to them, some justified it to them, some gave various explanations. They said, "It is like al-Khidr when he damaged the ship and killed the boy," and so on. And he became more knowledgeable than God, which you do not know. There are people to whom he brought this. The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said, "He saw it in a vision, and the visions of the prophets are true." It was the Umayyads. He jumped onto his pulpit like a monkey, and he woke up startled. He saw their faces—faces, I mean, he saw when God, the Exalted, transformed the Sabbath-breakers into monkeys and pigs. How did they recognize each other? God gave them signs so they could recognize them by their families, their lineage, their appearance. They knew who was who by their eyes. He saw them—these were the Umayyads—going up and down, jumping onto his pulpit like a monkey. So God, the Exalted, reminded him of this and revealed Surah Al- Qadr: “ The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months.” Count the days after Imam Hassan, peace be upon him, and count the days of the Umayyad dynasty. They found it to be 1000 months, no more and no less. You see, generally speaking, a person in life should n't be a chatterbox. He should talk about everything he hears, send everything he receives, and so on. This is what we're going through now. We send whatever we receive, without knowing if it's true or not. We've even had an Imam Ali who isn't the real Imam Ali. He brings broken poetry and says, “ Imam Ali said,” and he brings wisdom that has no basis and says, “Imam Ali said.” Ali and his poor Imam Ali, his followers wronged him by attributing lies to him today, in this time, just as his enemies wronged him yesterday. He throws accusations and says, "Don't tell him this isn't true," and he gets angry, blocks you on WhatsApp, and leaves the group you're in. "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, this is advice, but he won't accept it, he won't accept it." So, in general, sometimes a person needs to remain silent. It's better for him. Don't bring him enemies. Don't bring him enemies. He hasn't told his brothers, his colleagues, people, or even those closest to God, not even his own children. He doesn't want to tell them. Sometimes a person is forced to hide these things. It's strange how a person hides them. A person hides his joy and his sadness. He can't show his joy. If someone sees him happy, it's obvious. If someone sees him sad, it's obvious. May God have mercy on Sahl ibn Saeed al-Shahrazuri. He had something to do in Damascus. He went and got it. When someone came back from a journey in the year 61 AH, people went out onto the road, there was decoration, there were flutes, there were drums, there were flags. And the flags, they don't congratulate each other. May God bless your days. This one says, "What is this? Is this a national holiday? I mean, is this Ali al- Shami's holiday? We don't know it." He asks, " Here's one with tears on his cheek, sobbing and crying and bursting into tears. He's gone, he's gone." He's afraid. Look, he started hiding his crying, hiding his crying. He started wiping away his tears. " Yes," he said to him, "I saw you crying." He said, "No, I'm not crying,, I'm not crying." He said, "I see you crying." He said, "No, I'm not crying. Why are you accusing me?" The poor man is afraid for his life. He walked, walked, turned around, started crying again. He came back to me and said, "I see you crying." He said to me, "You're not from here, you're not from this country. You're asking me, a stranger." He said to me, "I'm from the people of Medina. I'm Sahl ibn Saeed al-Shahrazuri. I'm one of those who carried the Hadith. I'm one of those who narrated from us." He said to him, "What are you saying?" He said to him, "Yes." He said to him, "And you don't know what happened and what befell the House of the Message?" He said to me, "No." He said to me, "You don't know what happened?" He said to me, "I don't know what happened." He said to me, "He was killed." Hussein killed the family of the Messenger of God, his children were taken captive The heads were brought on the tips of spears The daughters of the message were brought on the backs of mounts, they entered with them through this gate. God, God, how insignificant this world is to God! Yes, by God, how insignificant this world is to God! The daughters of the message were shown to the people, the head of the master of the youth of Paradise was shown to the people. Sometimes this concealment is necessary, and concealment is a matter of execution. This is carried out, it is carried out, one of the greatest operations must be done in secret. The people of the house said to me, "We heard a letter came to you from Hussein, written from Hussein." What does he say to them? This is Habib, this is Habib, this is one of those who carried the banner of death and calamities. This is one of those who were with Imam Ali, this is his companion, the companion of Hassan after him, the supporter of Hussein, rather the sheikh of the Ansar. This is with Hussein, then with Zainab. What is with Zainab? This is with Zainab, without the companions of Hussein. This is my nephew Ali, convey my greetings to Habib, convey my greetings to him. This is if he wants to respond. I want you to know what this is. God, God, this is with Abbas, what is Abbas? The commander of Hussein's army, peace be upon him, went out himself to receive him when he came to support Hussein. The standard-bearer has come, my brother Abu al-Fadl. He went out to receive him and went out with the cubs of Hashim to receive him. This is what al-Akbar said to me, "Uncle, my aunt Zainab sends you greetings." Uncle said to him, "When you visit al- Akbar, peace be upon you, O friend of God and son of His friend." He said to him, "Uncle, at the Imam Zain al-Abidin's." If he wanted to know his position with the Imams, what is his position to this day? What did Imam Zain al-Abidin do? He buried all the supporters in one grave, just as he buried the Banu Hashim in one grave. Distinguish Habib, this is Ibn Mazahir al-Asadi, as an expression of support. You enter and say, "Peace be upon you, O supporter of Hussein, O Habib Ibn Mazahir al-Asadi." You visit Hussein and you go out, "Peace be upon you, O supporter of Hussein, O Habib Ibn Mazahir al-Asadi." You see this Habib? This is Habib. They say to him, "A letter has come to you." We heard, "A letter has come to you." He said, "What do we have to do with interfering with rulers?" And it came to the ascetic scholar, to the righteous servant, Habib Ibn Mazahir al-Asadi. The time of your martyrdom has come. He even hid it from his wife. His wife, his wife, he hid it from her. The day they went out, she said, "Oh, Habib, Abu al-Qasim, Abu al-Qasim, you mean you're abandoning al-Husayn when he brings you a letter summoning you, asking for your support, and you leave him, saying, 'We have no business interfering between rulers.'" He said, "I fear poverty for you, I fear poverty for you." She said, "Let us eat dust in poverty rather than abandon al- Husayn, oh Habib, son of the Virgin, don't abandon him in Karbala. They say he pitched the tents with his family and his tribe in Karbala. They say the grandson of the Chosen One pitched the tents. I have no supporter, oh Habib, and he has children, and it's forbidden. Oh God, oh God. And whoever arrives, there is only the Takbir. There is no joy, joy, joy. And al-Husayn is bound by that army, surrounded by that army. Then, on the day Habib ibn Muzahir al- Asadi arrived on the eighth of Muharram in the year 61, there was the Takbir, there was the Tahlil. And my nephew, Zaynab says, 'My nephew, what's his business?' He said, 'This is my uncle, Habib ibn Muzahir al-Asadi, he has come to support my father, al-Husayn. A knight for us, oh aunt, he will support al-Husayn. I don't know, oh aunt, where I came from, from the land of Mecca, or, oh aunt, from Medina, or from...'" The land of Mecca, oh aunt, from the desert, oh land of Tayyiba, the land of our ancestor, the Guide, his hand on his head and tears in his eyes, and he says to me, oh son of the best of prophets. She said, "This is my father's companion, convey my greetings to him." "Tell my aunt to convey my greetings to you." He put his hand on his head and sat on the ground. "Who am I that you should greet me, Zaynab, my master, Abu Abdullah? May I go and return her greeting?" He said, "Here are the tents for you. You are the people of this place." He came and stood by the tents. " Peace be upon you, people of the house of the Prophet, the place of the message, and the place where angels descend." She said, "And upon you be peace, uncle, oh beloved." He remembered what happened to her. He sat on the ground, sobbing and crying. He remembered what the Commander of the Faithful told him about the captivity, about the fasting. He drove her, a snarl, striking her back, and Shimr drove her because of her father. Habib came to the tents, greeted him, and said, "Oh you to whom the angels submit." He put his hand on his head, placing it in a gesture of respect. " I am Habib, I passed by the best of the Prophet, and my excuse is, oh Zaynab, yesterday I was not present, and you know me. I am counted in the war. Today is my day, and I am promised this day. Come out and see what I do with the water of the streams. And welcome to the son of the appearances." The male of the enemy carried the burden of the days of the Camel, and that stallion began to reap their heads, and the enemy fled from afar. Welcome, son of the virtuous, on the day he appeared above Maymuna over the enemy. [ Shouting] O people of Sham, O people of the bloodshed, do not think today that whoever pledged allegiance to Yazid, we pledged allegiance to the guardian and son of the Virgin, the lion cub of Haydar, Abu Ali, the grandson of the Messenger, and we are the supporters of the slain one, the people of the stallions. If we taste death today from whoever pledged allegiance to Yazid, hover, hover above, and by the right of him whose blood flowed in Ramadan, Abu al-Hasan Haydar Ali, the exalted in status, the Battle of Nahrawan and the Battle of the Camel will return on this day, and our Saffinity will return anew. Hover, hover above the banners of disbelief. How many a hero remained among the heroes, how many a brave man was brought down from above the mountain, if fate had given him after an hour. The caller said, Do you know whom you are fighting? You are fighting the heroes of Egypt, the supporters of Ali ibn Abi Talib. Woe to you! Attack him and charge him with the charge of one man. So the army turned on Habib, and he was a man who had passed eighty, and thousands surrounded him, and the ranks turned around him, and the swords clashed against him. He raised The sword struck him down on his head. Habib fell to the ground, slain. My master, Abu Abdullah, peace be upon you from me. Al-Hussein mounted his horse and came to Habib. He stood by him, lamenting, "May God have mercy on you, Habib." He stood on the day of my beloved's martyrdom. "Your martyrdom, Habib, has broken my back. The envious rejoiced, and many were scorned. O Habib, O Habib, they are burning our tents. O Habib, they have taken our women captive. O Habib, they are beating our children . And Hussein and my master, God
