Now, the Prophet (s) is a great sphere of divine light,
their household is divine, their daughter is divine.
Hassan and Hussain are divine.
Their progeny is divine.
And what was the decree for us Muslims?
'Afaman sharah Allahu sadrahoo lil Islami fahuwa noorin min Rabbihee'
'O Muslims!…’
How Must We Love the Prophet’s (s) Household?
The very first principle of Islam is
iqrarur bil lissan wa tasdeequn bil qalb (verbal proclamation and affirmation of the heart).
Now, let me explain something to you.
Now, one child of yours is not your biological child,
you are not his biological father, you have adopted him,
and the other child is your biological child.
So with whom shall you hold a stronger fatherly relationship?
Your biological child - you are father and son in reality.
Similarly, when shall you develop love for God and the Messenger after accepting Islam?
When the divine light of what you have vocalised also enters your spiritual heart.
Because there is a hadith of the Prophet (s)
which states, 'Ana min noor Allah wal momineen min noori'
'I am the light of God and the momineen are from my light’.
So, when we verbalised the Kalima and the divine energy of the Kalima also entered our hearts,
now that divine light is from God,
and the very same divine light is within Prophet Muhammad (s),
the very same divine light is in Maula Ali (a),
Bibi Fatima, Hassan and Hussain, and all of the Prophet’s progeny.
Now, the Prophet (s) is a great sphere of divine light,
their household is divine, their daughter is divine.
Hassan and Hussain are divine.
Their progeny is divine. Right?
And what was the decree for us Muslims?
'Afaman sharah Allahu sadrahoo lil Islami'
'O Muslims, if you wish to be upon Islam,
then expand your chest with the name of God',
and what shall happen then?
‘Fahuwa 'ala noorim mir Rabbih…’
Those that have expanded their chests,
‘...they shall then begin to receive divine light from their Lord'.
Then what happened?
Those that did not expand their chests,
the commemoration of God's name was upon their tongues
but divine light did not enter their hearts.
And those who expanded their chests and divine light entered them,
that divine light began to pull them towards those with divine light.
The divine light in your heart then automatically
makes you fall in love with Imam Hussain,
it makes you fall in love with Maula Ali (a) and all the saints,
it makes you fall in love with Data and Khawaja.
You will begin to love Lal Shahbaz Qalandar involuntarily.
Why? Because there is divine light here and also there; one source of divine light attracts another.
And those who did not expand their chests
and obtain divine light
are still wandering aimlessly, becoming Sunnis, Barelvis, Shias or Ahle Hadith.
They are still fighting each other.
They do not even feel love for the Prophet (s) or his progeny.
Why not?
Because the Kalima is only upon their tongue,
not their spiritual hearts.
This love for the Prophet (s)
and the Prophet’s (s) progeny and the Sacred Five, the love for saints and dervishes
would only be felt by the one who has an enlightened chest
because all these personalities are divine light.
So since both you and they possess divine light,
a relationship is automatically established.
But if there is divine light there but none in you,
then all you have is impiety and immorality.
Then [as Bulleh Shah said] ‘Your heart is engaged with the world while you prostrate in worship’.
That’s what it is, isn’t it?
It makes no difference which sect you belong to.
If you do not have divine light in you, whether you’re a Sunni, Shia, Wahhabi, Barelvi,
it’s just a claim, all sects are dark from within.
If there is a BMW, a Mercedes, a Toyota and a Honda,
but none of them has an engine…
Since none of the cars have an engine,
then what difference does it make whether it’s a Toyota Carina,
BMW or a Mercedes? They’re all equally useless.
They’ve all got great names - BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Honda…
but try sitting in them, all the engines have seized.
When all the engines have seized,
none of the cars are driveable so you could sit in any one of them and it would be useless.
So then you would sit in the car,
even if it’s a Toyota, that has a working engine, that starts,
because that car shall take you on the journey.
This is the point,
the tongue recites the Kalima and the heart does not.
And this is what Sultan Haq Bahoo said, 'Everyone vocalises the kalima,
but whose heart recites the kalima?
The divine lovers recite the kalima with their hearts, which the common people are heedless of'.
Allama Iqbal said, ‘What is the use of vocalising ‘’La Ilaha’’
if your heart is not a Muslim?'
All those Muslims, whose tongues vocalised Islam
but whose hearts did not affirm Islam,
became the enemies of Imam Hussain.
Those who stood with spears, arrows and swords in front of Imam Hussain
were also called ‘Muslim’.
When the progeny of the Prophet (s) came before them,
they were unaffected. Why?
Because if they had the divine light of the Kalima in their hearts,
Imam Hussain was the complete embodiment of the Prophet’s light,
they would never have been able to blaspheme him…
if they had the Prophet’s light in them
[but] they were empty.
Karbala took place back then because their hearts were void of divine energy,
and today your hearts are void of divine energy
and so Karbala takes place every day.
Muslims killed a hundred people in Hazara,
they killed people in Swat, there are bombings everywhere.
You bombed the mosques.
Despite being a Muslim, you bomb the mosques,
do you not know that the Holy Qur’an is there?
You bomb the mosques despite being a Muslim!
You are well aware there could be 50-100 Qur’ans there.
Even if you don’t value the worshippers,
the Qur’an is the Word of God, you should value that at least.
Whenever these bomb blasts happen, we see it on the news, the burning pages of the Qur’an.
Such sacrilege!
Where is your religiosity? Where is the sanctity of the religion?
Where is your faith?
Is this what you think faith is,
when you recite the Kalima in the hopes of 70 damsels and say you’re going on shahadah?
Do you even have faith in your religion?
You’re a lustful dog.
You’re bombing the mosques out of greed for 70 damsels.
Where is the faith?
Who were the people
that pulled off the cloaks of the Revered Women?
Our mothers and our sisters
and may our lives be sacrificed in their names.
Who were they?
The same wretched people who had the Kalima on their tongues and Satan in their hearts.
What will be their vengeance?
All those that oppose the esoteric doctrine shall join Dajjal,
and when they shall join Dajjal,
then Imam Mehdi (a) and Lord Jesus Christ
(whom Imam Mehdi shall make the chief of their army)
Then Jesus Christ shall wage war against the forces of Dajjal.
They shall not spare a single person.
Such precious pearls were martyred in Karbala.
The son of Imam e Aali Makam Imam Hussain, Muhammad Ali Akbar,
looking at him would make one feel as though it is the Prophet (s).
Both Imam Hussain and Imam Hassan,
it was the case with both of them, half resembled the Prophet (s), half did not.
The top half of Imam Hussain’s body resembled the Prophet (s)
while for Imam Hassan, it was the bottom half that resembled the Prophet (s)
However, Imam Hussain’s son, Hazrat Muhammad Ali Akbar
was a handsome young man and a carbon copy of Prophet Muhammad (s).
The image of the Prophet (s).
He was killed with spears.
Their passion was to such heights at that moment
that the sister of Imam Hussain, Zainab,
she thought all the other men from the household
are spilling their blood for Imam Hussain,
and I have two young sons, Aun and Muhammad…
So, she came with her two young sons and said, ‘Hussain,
I shall not stand back.
If my mother asks me on the Day of Judgement what have I sacrificed for my brother,
what will I say to her?
These two boys shall spill their blood for you’.
Imam Hussain tried to explain to her to protect the lives of the little children
but then again, whose sister was she?
She was adamant
and so, she sent forth her two children
and they were killed in seconds.
But such were their fervent emotions.
She was the daughter of Ali, who would she be afraid of?
In the evening, when they took them prisoner,
when they were crossing Kufa,
they cursed the people of Kufa who were crying.
Syeda Zainab said,
‘Why do you cry today, you deceitful people!
First, you called my brother here with 10,000 letters
and then you rejected and deceived us!
And I curse you!
May you cry like this till the Day of Judgement
and may God never accept your prayers’.
These words became part of history.
These words became idioms and proverbs.
For example, in Arabia, they say, ‘Kufi la yufi’
which means ‘the people of Kufa are disloyal’.
They were stamped.
She was an incredibly brave woman.
A great woman.
So, the martyrdom of Imam Hussain
was actually the price of Islam.
Otherwise, the religion would have ended there and then.
What would have remained?
Tell me, if Imam Hussain,
God forgive me,
I am only repeating the words, I do not intend them.
I’m only saying this as an example, to explain the point.
God forbid it but had Imam Hussain pledged to Yazid to save his life
then Islam would have finished.
Where was Islam?
This would have become a great example.
How so? Come on, think about it.
The Qur’an states, ‘O Messenger of God,
tell the Muslims:
I have given you this religion
and I do not ask for anything in return for this,
just love my progeny’
What a terrible burden upon the progeny,
their love became part of faith.
Then what happened?
God told the Prophet (s) to tell them,
‘Love my progeny as recompense for the religion’.
The Prophet (s) laid great emphasis on loving his progeny.
Now, we must love the Prophet’s progeny for it is God’s command,
and if the Prophet’s progeny had pledged to Yazid,
we would not be to blame.
We would all have become disbelievers and entered paradise.
Therefore, Hussain’s feet could not falter
for the entire nation and religion were at stake.
Because his love was part and parcel of faith and religion.
If he takes the wrong step, it destroys the entire religion.
This is why Khawaja Gharib Nawaz said,
‘Hussain is the ruler, Hussain is the emperor.
Hussain is the religion, Hussain is the protector of the religion.
Keeper of the truth is no one but Hussain’.