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Ashura Special 🏴 Muharram & Imam Hussain (as) · After Maghrib 🌙

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Bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim us. Allah who is saved in a
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mohammedan elevated by you being a ball hitting other Millar.
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June. And I were joking, baby.
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Sobbing about Abdullah Hussein salawats Allah.
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He was the lamb who I'll a deer's respected brothers and
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sisters salam alaikum. Warahmatullahi wabarakatu on
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behalf of a debate TV and the off the marketing podcast team.
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We would like to offer condolences first and foremost
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to the awaited Savior, the Imam of our time in mom.
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So I belong was the man And of course to yourself the entire
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Muslim ummah on the demise the anniversary of Ashura the tragic
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day. The Monumental day where by
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Abdullah were saying salawatu like he was not who I lay Lost
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His Life, along with his family and his companions.
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Welcome to the optimal. Her podcast.
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My name is Ahmed her boss. And joining me, say that I live
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all the way. How are you hamdulillah
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yourself? Al hamdulillah.
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Al hamdulillah said, it's been a very emotional couple of weeks
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Abdullah. We have just finished with our
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sugar our couple of days ago and now we are recovering, I'd say,
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from from a lot of it and also kind of processing emotions over
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the last couple of weeks. For me, this Muharram Muhammad
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has been a bit different in the last few years.
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You know, the last few years we've been I think limited and
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restricted choose to covid-19. MMM.
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So we were shall. I say I can speak on behalf of
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many in the community, yearning to be attending, the modulus of
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a bobble are saying, alehsalaam, but why I say is being different
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for me, because this year, I've been going to my children.
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Hmm. And one thing that I can say,
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The has changed the way I think about the tragedy of Imam.
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Husain alehissalaam was having two little girls in particular.
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On the second night. Muharram, I was a magician.
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I remember hearing the lecturer. Reciting the most labor off
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fought Malala. I think some of them call her
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fat Missoura from the mistaken, and this was the orphan of Imam,
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Hussain Ali Salam. And for me, having two girls who
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were literally sitting with me during the Messiah up and
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hearing it. Just touch me in a way.
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It's never touched me before. So, that was one thing.
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And another thing I was saying to myself, before we've been
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attending my journalist, you know, it's actually difficult
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taking the kids with me, was you, it's been very difficult.
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I'm honest. And also for another thing.
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Mom was saying, took everyone with him to come along and I was
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like a, he didn't find it difficult to reach what Allah
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subhanahu wa'ta'ala distant for him.
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Who am I to say? It's the We'll make up excuses,
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not to bring them. So, for me, it's been a bit
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different from that perspective, but Muharram has been in general
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quite emotional and hearing the Messiah be year after year.
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It just really use that connection that we have with the
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message of our shorter. Honestly say that I couldn't
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agree more this this Muharram as well.
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I think I'm in the same position as you.
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I have a baby boy had the luck Marshall and Being able to take
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him to modulus of hazrat Ali Asghar.
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Abdullah Ali is It's hit me in a way, which I've never felt
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before my life, and to be honest, you know, it's not just
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for his story, but also I said to, I said to my wife a few days
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ago, I said to her that having a child.
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Now subhanallah, you see the whole perspective of Our Salon,
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a Different Light, you know, like the age groups, for
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example, of, of the, of the shahada from Ali, Asghar as a
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young child owner, Mohammad ahsan, then Ali Akbar, sajjad, I
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bought the various kind of transitions in ages and you
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think well like at the age we are now and the ages of young
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children, we have how much would it destroy us to lose our
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Children, you know, like it's the most frightening thought a
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human being can have. But what about the latter were
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saying, when through it's, it's very, very, very hard to
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understand the process but I think you're right.
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I'm delighted has been it has been hard, taking taking the
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kids to modulus but at the same time it's been an eye-opener.
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Hmm, upon Allah and it's made me very grateful.
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I'm the love that we have access to much less and we have access
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to Two centers. We are spoiled for Choice as
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well. And it's been ten nights of
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grief, but inshallah 10 nights of change.
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There's no change in sha Allah. This is change that we take, not
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just in the night of Muharram inshallah throughout the entire
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year and for the rest of our entire lives and there's no
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point going to a modulus. Yeah let's be honest.
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There's no point going to modulus morning crying serving
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learning something new going back home.
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Oshawa is over. No, we're back to square one.
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So it's very important that we learn who are saying is and why
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he went to California and why everything happened?
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Any moment Hussein to know the whole goal.
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I think I've mentioned this in a previous podcast, the whole
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point. I went to karbala was people
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think he went to battle, didn't go to battle.
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He went to revive the teachings of rasulallah, salallahu alaihe,
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Salam and cultural Hub. Incredible happened.
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So the sole purpose of us Thing with Imam Husain.
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So he gave us Islam. What's our duty as Muslims?
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We carry on that message. Mmm.
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Well, the moment are saying stood on the plains of got a
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bloody side helping us and Indians from the message they
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are mom was giving us is for today.
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It's not just solely for the people of that day in that place
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at that time. It's for us today and for us to
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go these ten nights and maybe not to reflect on that message
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is a shame Allah. I mean there's an opportunity
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here I think for us as a community as a Vigils and as a
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collective to come together and think we'll, what change can I
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make in my own life? And what change can I make to
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the people around me? Because we're not lost one.
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Tyler says in the Holy Quran I will not change the condition of
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the society until you change your so yourself.
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And we know of course that you know to not allow a spanner too.
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I like you need to know yourself a minimum in a little arm says
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man enough enough. So fuck that Alpha Rubble that
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if you know your Neffs, your soul.
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You Not lost one or two and I do find that stuff like that.
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If I do. Yes.
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Yes, my Arabic is a No-No. I was incorrect in Arabic,
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always, sorry. I was just remembering.
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Yes, it's a pub this before, it's a beautiful hadees and it's
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something I think for us to reflect on them.
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If we've, if we truly process the last 10 nights, whether or
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not, you've been to the modulus whether or not you've been at
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home whether or not you've connected, you know?
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But the idea being is that if we have felt anything in our
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hearts, we can act on that. You know, and we can try and
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understand ourselves Where We Are.
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As a position and and maybe where we can strive to be but
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you know, the goal is inshallah, not to lose the momentum that we
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have developed over the last ten nights, and to find a way to
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keep that progress going. Why is it important to not lose
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momentum? I think it's important.
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I think it's there's so many approaches to it, but habit
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formation is a very important thing for us.
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And for us to realize our potential, you know, Imam
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Hussein. In my opinion was The epitome
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and look the most, the peak, the Pinnacle of reaching one's
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potential, the way the Imam reached, the, the potential of
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endurance and the peak of endurance is an example for us
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and the resistance, he had the strength and the courage he
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showed, and that is something for us to learn from in every
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aspect of our lives. So inshallah we can try and do
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that, but it's it is important not to lose the momentum and it
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shall we, you know, we can act on the lessons, the various As
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we've learned that shot, you know, you're touching it my
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lessons here. You know, I'm sure you've been
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in every single night attending the modulus, no doubt handle,
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and who may be the views even the listeners?
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They can even contribute towards the question.
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I'm going to ask brother Hamid. Here is, what is one lesson that
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you can take from the majority of attended and you can apply
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your life today? So beautiful question.
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Honestly speaking I'm do life had the the the opportunity to
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attend probably four or five different modulus this year in
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terms of different communities different stages and it's been
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eye-opening. I'm the lucky one thing that we
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have to remember is that are shorter and the 10 days that we
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commemorate about the like I said at the start of Muharram is
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an opportunity for us to learn about the Imam of our time.
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Because if we're not taking away a lesson from about Delilah
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saying and understanding that there is a karbala today, there
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is a fight a resistance today and there isn't a mom who's
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waiting for us, who's looking for support is the same way
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about the letter saying did. Then unfortunately have not
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understood the message of Imam. Hussain the Imam fought with a
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minority against the majority. The Imam fought against the tide
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of Oppression that unfortunately we use we We'll see today.
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So for me personally, speaking, I think that's something I've
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thought about a lot mmm, over the last couple of weeks that
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the Imam of our time is, is waiting for us.
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We always call him. The awaited Savior?
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Yes, and he is indeed, but of course maybe he, it's us who he
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is waiting for as opposed to us, waiting for him.
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She saw him. So maybe I you know, inshaallah
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does something. I can, I can learn more about
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and inshallah look into more and yeah, it's a line is that's
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nice. How you actually mentioned the
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amount of our time, a license reappearance, because one of the
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lectures that I was listening listening to fry these tonight's
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was having connection with their mom of your time.
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Any, we always I'm not going to say we forget I'm not speaking
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on behalf of anyone else. We forget that he is a living
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Aman. We know we exist.
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We know he's there but I don't think we actually think he's
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alive and he's if he had a physical presence in letter, for
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example. Yeah, wouldn't we?
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A flock to see him, no doubts, no, but the fact that he's not
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physically, there doesn't mean he's less existent and that make
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sense and the beauty, the beauty of it is that you can talk to
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him directly and he's listening. And that's something we forget
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any. We is good that we always call
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out. For example, we want to build a
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connection with Mom saying, alehsalaam want to built, you
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know, our passion and our pride of a ammonia.
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Not even a dollar, for example, but let's not forget him up.
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So he'll ask me was the one is very similar, shall I say?
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You know, to the companions of Muhammad Husain, when they gave
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their life and their loyalty is everything, we should be doing
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the same with the mobs are possible.
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The mud and something interesting is just speaking
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about the companions, is I learned the other day, the
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meaning of something that we've always recited in the article
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actually and support, where is talking about the Companions?
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And it says, at lovina by the law.
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Well, how'd you home? Donal Hussein alehsalaam and I
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didn't actually know what that meaning was And is that they
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gave everything to you? Want my personality Salam, And
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that everything is like one dots in the heart, which means
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everything. So I can't explain it as well.
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I know, you mean, as a lecturer was saying this, that is when I
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understood they gave everything to Mom and her sane man was
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saying everything to Allah and in return Allah gave millions of
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Hearts so you want to sit speaking of the companions as
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well? Just to add to that.
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You know, what occurred to me as well subhanallah.
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And I like the fact that we're sharing these Reflections
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members. We don't We learn from each
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other and from the views as well, but the companions were
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not much so mean. No, they weren't muscle mean.
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They were people like you and I fallible human beings who made
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the right choice at the right time.
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You see what I mean? We go about our lives, not
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knowing. When our last decision will be
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made, should I pray now? Should I pray later?
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Oh, should I listen to music? Maybe I shouldn't.
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But these decisions that we make on a Day-to-day basis, we never
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know what decision may be our last.
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But subhanallah that decision these decisions that these
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companions made was the right decision at the right time and
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they surely they knew what was to come.
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They knew that the whole world would be against them in a
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Quantified sense by last time to Allah would be with them in the
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Arca to come in sha Allah and that Muhammad Hussein is their
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leader. And if there's something for us
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to remember, is that these nights of of Muharram, is there
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for us to reflect on the lessons and stories that we hear every
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night. Is there for us to grieve and do
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lots of them and wear black and make it ritualised but they're
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actually in fact to allow us to find a path and Avenue to become
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close to loss pain to Allah. And that is the ultimate goal in
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sha Allah. So, but I think that that what
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you mentioned about the companions is so beautiful, so
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panel lined. And if anything, I'm the one
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more thing, I think which I've been thinking about a lot this,
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these 10 nights is the companions because we know, Imam
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Hussein lost his family and we hear about the family every
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single Muharram, infect their stories, We know the best yeah
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but the companion subhanallah you know they are unbelievable.
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They are they are real life superheroes.
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That's not the Hamid. I think the points you touched
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all right now is beneficial for everyone and even me being on
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the podcast with you I promise you whenever you speak I'm
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learning something new. Honey.
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It's I'm being truthful here. Best since we are speaking about
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Ashura. I want to know.
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You know, the tragedy of karbala is, everyone has some sort of
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personal connection with maybe could be a father.
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It could be, for example, the companions.
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It could be lady. Zainab Salam, ala, Ali.
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Help. Everyone has that one.
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Soft spot from one person that took place in our sharat.
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Mmm, what is yours? It's it's a hard question to
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answer because every story incredible our touches you in a
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different way. Hmm.
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And I think there's one element to each story which gets you and
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breaks you down. And for me, personally, the
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story of the father is one which, which tells me tears me
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apart and I think it for me it's because he He understandably was
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angry on the day of karbala on the day of Ashura and he
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channeled that anger into something positive for his
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family. He knew his purpose, in life was
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to serve his master, but after that was Saints, local lawyer.
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And he knew that from birth, his goal, his mission was to be
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there as the backbone of his brother, mmm, and when he was
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there, They're on the plains of karbala he sought permission
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from but love. Same to go and fight.
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No, go and fight. No, you're not allowed to not
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allowed. You must be here as my flag
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bearer, but when he went out, he went out with the purpose to
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defend, not to attack. He went out with a purpose to
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to, to, to serve his family. To serve the young girls.
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The women folk of his camps wants for the cause of up Ash to
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answer the calls of akbash and that is something for me
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personally that I learned from Of course, there's so many other
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stories as well. The story of Muslim even ugly,
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something II love the first Martyrs of karbala we know him
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as the other category, the the word I'm looking for the
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messenger, The Trusted messenger Ambassador for Bob delaughter,
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Hussein is a story. I think I also relates to me.
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But how about you said, you only for me personally it's you know,
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you talked to our father. World and I think everyone has
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this connection with him because I'm a father is not your average
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brother. He's the most loyal brother
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you'll find and we see that karbala but for me if I can
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actually talk about the father, yeah, this is just a bit, you
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know, the other day I was listening to my side and
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something I hear every year, however, this year was narrated
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a little different and it was the moment where, you know,
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Upper father will fall off his horse. and what hit me the most
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of him falling off the horse is that the lecturer was saying
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when someone falls off from his horse, he has his hands to
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protect him. But when a father fell from the
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horse had no hands. So he felt straight onto his
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face and there's so so many. You know, I can never stop
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talking about the lab was best. For me, personally, I think is
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the story of horror, where, you know, horror was one of the main
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reasons that a mom and her saying ended up being denied
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water and he feels this guilt when he comes back to his, you
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know, to Mom, if I saying with his head bowed down and he sees
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his forgiveness, any man who says straight away Forgive him.
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Hmm. Knowing that he is the cause of
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the a flash in the camp knowing all of this by sulfur gives him.
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And it reminds me that no matter how sinful we can be as human
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beings. The door of repentance is always
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open. That's one reason why I connect
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with that is because we're all all sinful was thoughtful and
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every time we had the story of whore it just reminds me of the
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mercy of Allah if Imam Husain is this merciful how much Vulcan a
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Lobby pollen. And another thing that I can
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always relate to is a sacrifice Imam Husain gave which I think
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was as big a sacrifice as ideological because he was the
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last one. Before Mom saying gave away his
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life to go on when he arrays are to the sky and he said the
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Robbie hope at atharva. Lord.
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Take everything he wants. Actually, what pleased with me,
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and he gave his full life to one.
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Last one was Alan and I don't go too much into the Messiah but we
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all know what took place. But these are two things that
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always connect with me, no matter how much times I can hear
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them, no matter how much times and the beauty of these Messiah,
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a We can relive them through poetry.
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Mmm, we hear, you know, even more detailed and things that
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even can touch you even more and get you closer to the tragedy of
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karbala and transfer. Poetry, do you have anything you
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can recite for us? Especially in English because I
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would probably not reciting English.
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I did write something few days ago.
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It wasn't completely finished since draft stage best.
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I wouldn't mind sharing inshallah.
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Habibi. Yalla
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be giving Salam. Thank you for asking me to
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recite. No, no benefited.
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And I've for years, I've cried listen to your voice.
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I think the first time your voice really touched me.
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I think was probably 2015. So, for nearly eight years on.
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Allah, you have you have been pivotal to me and it's an honor
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to be here with you and to be here with you every week, not
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I'm the law. That's very kind of you David,
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but thanks to mobile hosting. Yeah, thanks a lot for the same
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time. There's a short, short, long
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short, no ha. I would like to assign all do.
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Which of course, I think is not in English.
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Which, of course, I know we prefer to recite in but
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inshallah is accepted and something very small.
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And the concept of it is Talking about the absence of the Ghazi
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or the warrior, which of course, we talk about our father, La
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bars and Salam. And the the moment where the
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laid out the veil was was taken from the heads of the womenfolk
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of the camp of Abdullah Hussein and them asking Hazard a boss.
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Where were you when we needed you?
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Where were you to protect us to guard us?
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So that Allah, Muhammad rasul, Allah, Muhammad loves.
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Muhammad warning, mama. Djibouti
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Mohammed, Al Mohammed, salawat. That was beautiful.
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She's talking to the what I'm honest, as I felt the emotion
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and the passion and the connection of the porch with a
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bottle. Hmm.
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Now I felt my reward, you table enticing, likewise And then
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Charlotte, we pray in Charlotte. A last month other that this
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this discussion and inshallah. All of the discussions that
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we've been having throughout the holy month of been beneficial to
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you all at home and inshallah. We can continue to strive to be
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on the path of about, Delilah are saying flow, what levels are
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morally. As that is our goal to follow in
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his footsteps to reach a large Plant.
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Other anything to add. No, in fact, I want to speak
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directly to the listeners and the viewers watching wherever
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you. I'll be on YouTube channel,
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Apple podcast, if you have a story back and change someone's
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life, you know, we spoke about our own personal lessons but I
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want to hear their lessons. What they've learned this mops
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that what changes they're going to make in their lives.
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And in Charlotte, this can benefit everyone.
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So please do engage with the podcast less work together and
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making a better Muharram Point. Yeah.