0 00:00:01,08 --> 00:00:04,10 Importance of the Ghadir Day. 1 00:00:06,02 --> 00:00:09,10 In a speech of Grand Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani 2 00:00:10,05 --> 00:00:11,07 Saturday 5-12-2009 AD, 17-12-1430 Hijri 3 00:00:11,23 --> 00:00:14,22 In the name of Allah the beneficent the Merciful 4 00:00:16,11 --> 00:00:58,09 Praise be to Allah, and May Allah bless our master Muhammad and his immaculate Progeny, in particular the Reserve of Allah (Baqiyatollah) on Earth, and curse be to their enemies till the Day of Judgment 5 00:00:58,24 --> 00:01:09,06 Tomorrow is the day of appointment of the leader of believers 6 00:01:09,23 --> 00:01:21,22 The reality of Ghadir and that what was this event 7 00:01:22,24 --> 00:01:44,13 The event itself, the origin of this matter and its ending are recondite issues. 8 00:01:47,09 --> 00:01:55,05 There has been a lot of discussion on Ghadir, 9 00:01:56,17 --> 00:02:20,15 but that great fact and that main secret has yet not been revealed - as it should have been. 10 00:02:23,16 --> 00:02:30,18 The secret is that the meanings are different. 11 00:02:35,08 --> 00:02:47,23 Every perception is not according to the percept. 12 00:02:54,11 --> 00:02:59,23 Tomorrow is the appointment, 13 00:03:01,00 --> 00:03:18,14 but the reality of this matter depends on the understanding of two "Who", two "What". 14 00:03:24,02 --> 00:03:35,14 Because the appointment is one of the relative/attached matters. 15 00:03:37,05 --> 00:04:02,01 Understanding of the relative matters is dependent on the understanding of the relativity itself and the sides of relativity. 16 00:04:05,09 --> 00:04:12,06 The appointment is a relative/attached matter. 17 00:04:13,03 --> 00:04:23,05 The understanding of this appointment is achieved when 18 00:04:23,16 --> 00:04:38,08 the brain of a sage, jurisprudent, not every sage or jurisprudent [but] 19 00:04:39,04 --> 00:04:48,21 those who have reached to the depth of jurisprudence and wisdom, 20 00:04:49,12 --> 00:04:54,18 analyze this appointment. 21 00:04:55,04 --> 00:05:05,11 In this appointment there are some matters: 22 00:05:05,22 --> 00:05:10,09 Who is appointed? 23 00:05:10,19 --> 00:05:15,22 What is the office? 24 00:05:19,01 --> 00:05:21,17 What is the appointment? 25 00:05:21,18 --> 00:05:24,12 Who is the appointer? 26 00:05:25,08 --> 00:05:37,05 These four things are related to the appointment itself. 27 00:05:39,15 --> 00:05:46,07 Then reaches the turn of the source of this appointment, 28 00:05:52,16 --> 00:05:59,01 and that is an extended story. 29 00:05:59,18 --> 00:06:08,00 Then it’s the turn of the ending of this appointment. 30 00:06:08,14 --> 00:06:16,04 What is this Good Tree (Shajerah-e-Tayabah)? 31 00:06:16,07 --> 00:06:24,00 What are its roots? What is its fruit? 32 00:06:25,16 --> 00:06:31,04 The Ghadir is then understood. 33 00:06:36,18 --> 00:06:49,18 Currently, we enter in this deep discussion, to a possible extent. 34 00:06:50,06 --> 00:06:59,05 The problem has two terms: 35 00:06:59,18 --> 00:07:05,23 One: the possible level, 36 00:07:06,03 --> 00:07:15,02 and the other: level of our own perception, 37 00:07:15,07 --> 00:07:23,00 Not to the level of perception of the matter itself. 38 00:07:27,19 --> 00:07:37,22 First, it should be understood that who was appointed. 39 00:07:38,15 --> 00:07:45,14 This is my first question. 40 00:07:49,04 --> 00:07:57,12 Next comes the turn that what the position was. 41 00:07:58,01 --> 00:08:10,19 The position for which the appointed one was chosen 42 00:08:17,04 --> 00:08:30,22 The Leader of Believers (Ali) is the absolute sage of the universe 43 00:08:31,08 --> 00:08:42,19 his right must also be based on wisdom. 44 00:08:43,04 --> 00:08:53,24 The wisdom is also dependent on the Book (Quran) and the Tradition (Sunnah), 45 00:08:56,10 --> 00:09:09,11 because these two have the guarantee of infallibility. 46 00:09:09,19 --> 00:09:25,15 Apart from these two everything is subject to error and gaffe. 47 00:09:25,21 --> 00:09:39,08 Authentic reference should be the wisdom and the infallibility. 48 00:09:46,18 --> 00:10:06,01 The Appointed should be known through Allah and through the Prophet of Allah. 49 00:10:09,11 --> 00:10:23,10 This talk, related to a religious matter, is not non-religious. 50 00:10:23,13 --> 00:10:32,22 Everyone (who) is bounded to three principles: 51 00:10:33,22 --> 00:10:41,13 Wisdom, the Books, the Traditions, 52 00:10:41,19 --> 00:10:51,23 should think on what is said today. 53 00:10:52,03 --> 00:11:04,09 Those who listen to say and follow the best 54 00:11:07,19 --> 00:11:14,07 Invite to the way of thy Lord with wisdom. 55 00:11:16,14 --> 00:11:29,12 To know the appointed and the person who was appointed tomorrow, 56 00:11:31,21 --> 00:11:38,03 the criterion is the definite Tradition. 57 00:11:42,08 --> 00:11:50,24 Now the narration that is the source of this debate, 58 00:11:51,03 --> 00:12:02,08 is such a narration that if Bukhari come out of his grave, he will accept it. 59 00:12:02,14 --> 00:12:17,10 Moslem, the son of Hajjaj Neyshaboori and all his followers accept it, 60 00:12:17,17 --> 00:12:36,08 None of the specialists of interpretation - general or particular - have power to reject it, 61 00:12:36,14 --> 00:12:58,10 The pillars of the narrators of Hadith from the Ahl-e-Sunnah, such as Bukhari, that also in three chapters [from the chapters of the book 'Saheeh'] 62 00:12:58,23 --> 00:13:05,18 From particulars like sheikh mufeed, 63 00:13:09,01 --> 00:13:20,17 From the generals like Fakhr-e-Razi, like Hakim Neshabouri, 64 00:13:26,24 --> 00:13:37,05 From the particulars like the Sheikh Tusi, like Sheikh Saduq. 65 00:13:39,07 --> 00:13:46,01 A hadith to such an extent of accuracy and power, 66 00:13:46,06 --> 00:13:53,00 This hadith must be understood 67 00:13:53,09 --> 00:14:01,02 So that it become clear that who was appointed tomorrow, 68 00:14:01,06 --> 00:14:11,05 Then the word “Fasl” (Gap) should be ascertained in the world. 69 00:14:11,08 --> 00:14:15,05 This hadith is ... 70 00:14:19,12 --> 00:14:30,17 The text that the pillars of the general narrators of hadith, 71 00:14:31,01 --> 00:14:38,07 the major general commentators, 72 00:14:40,11 --> 00:14:47,06 the major general historians, 73 00:14:47,11 --> 00:14:57,23 All three classes are unanimous on this quote 74 00:14:58,01 --> 00:15:09,16 The Prophet said to Ali Mortaza: 75 00:15:10,13 --> 00:15:17,12 You are from me and I am from you" 76 00:15:17,19 --> 00:15:28,12 These are two sentences but it is an ocean. 77 00:15:28,18 --> 00:15:38,23 You're from me, I'm from you. 78 00:15:51,08 --> 00:15:53,20 What am I? 79 00:15:54,00 --> 00:16:01,23 First one should know me, then one will know you 80 00:16:02,07 --> 00:16:09,08 What’s I? What's you? 81 00:16:10,03 --> 00:16:19,10 Then it should be understood that what type of I is that I and what sort of You is that You. 82 00:16:19,15 --> 00:16:27,23 Firstly: I am not the one who is in my cloak. 83 00:16:28,02 --> 00:16:33,15 Me, [pointing to head] I'm not this, 84 00:16:33,19 --> 00:16:36,19 [pointing to hand] I'm not this, 85 00:16:36,22 --> 00:16:40,22 From head to toe is not me 86 00:16:40,24 --> 00:16:48,05 This is my head, not me 87 00:16:48,09 --> 00:16:53,01 This is my hand, not me 88 00:16:53,03 --> 00:16:58,17 This is my eye, not me 89 00:16:58,19 --> 00:17:03,21 This is my heart, not me 90 00:17:03,24 --> 00:17:08,23 This is my brain, not me 91 00:17:09,01 --> 00:17:17,04 What is it I? What is that essence? 92 00:17:20,06 --> 00:17:23,05 Are you the same (who is here)?. 93 00:17:23,09 --> 00:17:29,11 The one sitting here is not you, 94 00:17:29,14 --> 00:17:34,22 This is your body, not you. 95 00:17:35,01 --> 00:17:43,15 The possessor is other than the possessive. 96 00:17:46,11 --> 00:18:02,06 That essence, the fact that is the motif of human creation, 97 00:18:02,10 --> 00:18:09,12 and that is what cannot be modified. 98 00:18:13,14 --> 00:18:16,13 This is body, 99 00:18:21,16 --> 00:18:29,04 One day it is small, the other day it is large. 100 00:18:29,08 --> 00:18:34,06 Components are analyzed 101 00:18:39,08 --> 00:18:44,15 One replaces the other 102 00:18:47,20 --> 00:18:56,07 But it is “I” who remains from the beginning to end. 103 00:18:56,11 --> 00:19:02,08 All of these components are decomposable. 104 00:19:02,10 --> 00:19:09,18 The thing to which they decompose (food), replaces them 105 00:19:09,22 --> 00:19:12,24 But it is “Me” 106 00:19:13,02 --> 00:19:21,14 Thirty years ago it was me who said like this (“I”), 107 00:19:21,16 --> 00:19:27,06 Now, also, it’s me who say like this, 108 00:19:27,10 --> 00:19:38,13 Tomorrow, also, this body will break down under the soil, 109 00:19:38,17 --> 00:19:42,19 [But] it is the “I” that never destroys. 110 00:19:42,23 --> 00:19:57,14 Now, that reality - my reality, your reality- also varies. 111 00:19:57,19 --> 00:20:11,17 The essence of anyone is affiliated with something from which he was made. 112 00:20:11,20 --> 00:20:37,18 Then if that motif finds the essence of intellectual, scientific and ethical development, 113 00:20:37,22 --> 00:20:51,09 it is the “I” which grows with knowledge and spiritual excellences/nobleness 114 00:20:51,13 --> 00:21:00,17 Its development is with knowledge and meekness. 115 00:21:03,23 --> 00:21:11,14 Its strength is based on wisdom. 116 00:21:11,19 --> 00:21:27,06 that reality of the essence varies in people with this difference. 117 00:21:27,20 --> 00:21:34,07 After that it reached to the scientific perfection, 118 00:21:36,01 --> 00:21:40,07 has completed theoretically, 119 00:21:40,23 --> 00:21:44,10 has completed practically. 120 00:21:44,17 --> 00:21:54,22 When the worldly miffs have been treated, 121 00:21:55,05 --> 00:22:09,24 it would then develop the ability to make relation with the unseen existence, 122 00:22:10,05 --> 00:22:16,08 Otherwise all are in the material world (mulk). 123 00:22:16,12 --> 00:22:23,20 The class that is the elite one of the human beings 124 00:22:24,02 --> 00:22:35,12 reaches to the borderline between the unseen and witnesses, between material and divine world. 125 00:22:35,17 --> 00:22:41,18 When someone reaches here, achieves the prophecy. 126 00:22:45,22 --> 00:23:04,00 After that, that “I” is completed with the scientific and practical perfection, 127 00:23:04,05 --> 00:23:09,22 and is reformed from the miffs, 128 00:23:10,00 --> 00:23:20,17 then it deserves to connect to the light of existence, 129 00:23:20,24 --> 00:23:25,19 it becomes the authority of revelation and prophecy. 130 00:23:25,23 --> 00:23:37,09 Then how much should one go further up! 131 00:23:38,01 --> 00:23:48,07 And to which extent should this essence be completed 132 00:23:48,16 --> 00:23:52,19 So that it reach to a level that 133 00:23:53,02 --> 00:24:05,12 from a position of “taking” it reaches to a position of “giving”, 134 00:24:08,00 --> 00:24:17,04 And from a phase of being graced it reaches to a position of bestowing 135 00:24:17,11 --> 00:24:23,24 After that it reaches to this level, becomes a Messenger. 136 00:24:24,02 --> 00:24:34,01 Then how much this essence, 137 00:24:34,22 --> 00:24:49,05 after this phase and phases of scientific and practical perfection and prophecy and . . ., 138 00:24:49,11 --> 00:25:00,14 he reaches to a position that it is able to take the book, 139 00:25:00,19 --> 00:25:05,14 That time, He becomes a Book Holder. 140 00:25:06,13 --> 00:25:18,05 After this stage, how much should he progress? 141 00:25:18,11 --> 00:25:29,09 When he reaches to a position which is beyond words, 142 00:25:29,14 --> 00:25:40,11 As a result of this, his determination reaches to such an extent that 143 00:25:40,15 --> 00:25:46,07 he overpasses everything other than Allah, 144 00:25:46,11 --> 00:25:51,04 At that time, he becomes Ulul-Azm (resolute). 145 00:25:51,08 --> 00:25:57,00 After that he becomes Ulul-Azm (resolute) 146 00:25:59,19 --> 00:26:05,24 here is the place where human brain is lame, 147 00:26:06,03 --> 00:26:13,15 [And] expression of every expresser stammers. 148 00:26:13,18 --> 00:26:23,00 How one should pass from this stage 149 00:26:23,05 --> 00:26:36,10 so that one becomes the cream of all the world's scientific and practical perfections. 150 00:26:37,06 --> 00:26:42,12 When one reaches to this stage, 151 00:26:42,15 --> 00:26:50,05 we can interpret it as this: 152 00:26:50,08 --> 00:26:58,03 Total human and the whole of humanity, 153 00:26:58,05 --> 00:27:04,07 total wisdom and the whole of wisdom, 154 00:27:04,10 --> 00:27:09,16 total knowledge and the whole of knowledge. 155 00:27:09,20 --> 00:27:15,16 When he reaches to this stage, becomes the “Seal” (Khaatam). 156 00:27:15,18 --> 00:27:22,17 Muhammad is not father of anyone of your men 157 00:27:22,21 --> 00:27:29,23 but he is the messenger of Allah and the Seal of prophets . 158 00:27:30,02 --> 00:27:35,19 Then it ends. What's does it mean? 159 00:27:35,22 --> 00:27:46,24 The creation, critiques, all comes to the final fruitfulness. 160 00:27:47,08 --> 00:27:54,04 A single point becomes the endpoint of existence, 161 00:27:54,08 --> 00:27:56,24 and that point becomes the “Seal” (Khaatam). 162 00:27:57,02 --> 00:28:02,22 Imam of the Guiding Imams, 163 00:28:03,01 --> 00:28:09,11 The prophet of the prophets and messengers, 164 00:28:10,07 --> 00:28:19,10 he is prophet, but the prophet of 124 thousand prophets. 165 00:28:19,13 --> 00:28:27,18 He is imam, but the imam of the firsts and the lasts. 166 00:28:27,22 --> 00:28:35,23 This is the reality of that “I” which is in this narration 167 00:28:35,24 --> 00:28:39,13 Ali you are from me. 168 00:28:39,15 --> 00:28:47,23 He did not say you are from my body, rather said you are from me. 169 00:28:48,02 --> 00:28:56,24 Bukhari wrote this narration three times, have you understood? 170 00:28:59,04 --> 00:29:10,24 O Fakhr-e-Razi, you have drudge so much in eastern philosophy 171 00:29:11,03 --> 00:29:15,22 When you wrote this narration, 172 00:29:16,02 --> 00:29:23,18 did you understand what it meant by “O Ali you are from me”? 173 00:29:23,22 --> 00:29:28,07 What is the meaning of these words? 174 00:29:28,11 --> 00:29:33,18 Is the meaning of these words other than this that 175 00:29:33,22 --> 00:29:44,22 Essence of you and me is one fact, but our bodies are two. 176 00:29:45,02 --> 00:29:48,04 You're from me. 177 00:29:54,09 --> 00:30:03,13 Those who have reached the high levels of gnostic expirience 178 00:30:03,18 --> 00:30:15,14 and have seen the reality of “I” apart from the hands and legs, apart from the head and body 179 00:30:15,16 --> 00:30:29,02 they understand what it means by that “I”, and what does it mean by “you're from me”. 180 00:30:29,04 --> 00:30:34,21 The meaning of these words is this: 181 00:30:35,17 --> 00:30:44,11 That knowledge.... fully concentrate on these words: 182 00:30:44,13 --> 00:30:56,12 Theoretically, All the perfections lead to a single word, 183 00:30:56,16 --> 00:31:13,03 and that is knowledge, which can be technically interpreted as theoretical wisdom. 184 00:31:14,00 --> 00:31:28,21 All the practical perfection also lead to a perfection of character. 185 00:31:28,24 --> 00:31:37,03 Then where is the final point of scholarly perfection? 186 00:31:37,07 --> 00:31:44,19 We taught you that what you didn’t know 187 00:31:44,22 --> 00:31:51,05 and Allah’s grace on you is very great. 188 00:31:51,09 --> 00:31:54,22 What type of knowledge is this? 189 00:31:55,03 --> 00:31:59,00 What type of knowledge is this that: 190 00:31:59,03 --> 00:32:07,01 The eminent and great Allah says to his prophet: 191 00:32:07,03 --> 00:32:09,14 Your knowledge is great? 192 00:32:09,17 --> 00:32:13,17 The greatness of this knowledge... 193 00:32:16,20 --> 00:32:25,23 This knowledge and this greatness; neither it is the knowledge of Moses, nor that of Abraham; 194 00:32:26,02 --> 00:32:31,21 we taught you what you did not know. 195 00:32:31,23 --> 00:32:35,11 This is the explicit meaning of the word of Allah. 196 00:32:35,12 --> 00:32:42,09 And the Allah’s grace on you is great. 197 00:32:42,12 --> 00:32:54,03 This is with respect to his theoretical wisdom and intellectual perfection. 198 00:32:54,05 --> 00:32:58,14 Whereas with respect to his practical wisdom: 199 00:32:58,17 --> 00:33:03,03 Where did he reach? 200 00:33:03,06 --> 00:33:08,19 And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality. 201 00:33:08,21 --> 00:33:13,18 This is with respect to his practical wisdom. 202 00:33:13,22 --> 00:33:23,00 Then, Ali is a piece of this knowledge and sight 203 00:33:23,04 --> 00:33:26,15 and is a piece of this temperament and act. 204 00:33:26,18 --> 00:33:30,21 the meaning of this hadith is that: 205 00:33:30,23 --> 00:33:37,13 That total knowledge, that total wisdom, that whole of wisdom, 206 00:33:37,16 --> 00:33:42,10 The total morality, the whole of morality, 207 00:33:42,12 --> 00:33:49,13 Those scholarly excellences, and those practical accomplishments, which 208 00:33:49,16 --> 00:33:59,02 Moses, Jesus, Abraham all are overshadowed by it, 209 00:33:59,08 --> 00:34:02,19 They all are divided into two sections: 210 00:34:02,22 --> 00:34:07,09 One part is Muhammad, the other part is Ali. 211 00:34:07,10 --> 00:34:12,06 This is the meaning of this word. 212 00:34:12,24 --> 00:34:17,17 Then, it is the turn of that “I am from you”, 213 00:34:18,06 --> 00:34:22,19 Then, the description of this story is long. 214 00:34:22,23 --> 00:34:28,09 If the world has any value, then it must answer. 215 00:34:28,13 --> 00:34:40,11 When the text of this Hadith is correct, if you deny, then you deny the traditional. 216 00:34:40,15 --> 00:34:45,06 [And] one who denies the tradition, denies the Quran: 217 00:34:45,10 --> 00:34:49,23 Whatever the Prophet gives you take it. 218 00:34:49,24 --> 00:34:52,21 This is Allah's command; 219 00:34:52,23 --> 00:35:00,06 and this is a traditional which has definitely come from him. 220 00:35:00,09 --> 00:35:05,13 When the explicit meaning of his words is this, that 221 00:35:05,15 --> 00:35:09,23 you’re from me, and I am from you, 222 00:35:10,02 --> 00:35:18,08 then what does the distance between him and Ali, by a stranger, means? 223 00:35:18,13 --> 00:35:24,01 This is the argument of Ali’s without break caliphate. 224 00:35:24,03 --> 00:35:31,15 If it has any ability, then the whole of Al-Azhar of Egypt answer. 225 00:35:31,19 --> 00:35:36,04 The problem is not a fun. 226 00:35:36,06 --> 00:35:38,21 This is the appointed, 227 00:35:39,02 --> 00:35:47,06 the one who is appointed, is an essence, which 228 00:35:47,10 --> 00:35:52,09 divided into two parts: 229 00:35:52,12 --> 00:35:58,15 one part became Ahmad 230 00:35:58,19 --> 00:36:04,11 one part became Haider 231 00:36:04,15 --> 00:36:10,00 "You are from me and I am from you." 232 00:36:10,03 --> 00:36:18,06 O Bukhari, you wrote this, did you understand what the Prophet said? 233 00:36:18,11 --> 00:36:30,06 The difference between a person and himself is according to which logic? 234 00:36:30,10 --> 00:36:38,09 This is the wisdom. This is the book. This is the tradition. 235 00:36:39,12 --> 00:36:48,11 If he is from the Prophet, if the last Prophet is from him, 236 00:36:49,08 --> 00:36:57,18 If such a unity exists between these two, 237 00:36:57,23 --> 00:37:05,04 Setting someone in place of the Prophet, 238 00:37:05,09 --> 00:37:14,12 and putting a distance of three persons between the Last Prophet and him, 239 00:37:14,17 --> 00:37:26,16 Isn’t it the favoring of the non-preferred over the preferred, and precedence of the non-superior over superior? 240 00:37:26,21 --> 00:37:34,02 If so, then it is rejected according to the judgment of the wisdom, the book and the tradition, 241 00:37:34,06 --> 00:37:45,10 so the pen of cancellation has been drawn against the dissenter of Ali’s without break caliphate.