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The Final Era before Qiyamah · After Maghrib 🌙

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Smila Rahmad Raheem Assalam Alaikum and welcome back to
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another episode here on the aftermath of podcast.
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Brothers and sisters, I ask Allah Subhanawatahallah to
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accept all your fasts, your Amal and your Ibadi, your worship
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during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Now there are two things I want to mention.
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Firstly, over the last few days, we have been all commemorating
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the martyrdom of Imam Ali Ali, his Salaam.
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And it's important that we don't just commemorate his martyrdom,
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rather we live by him, we do right by him, we learn from him
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and we implement some of the values and the principles that
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he had, especially in today's world when it comes to hack and
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all our day-to-day lives. Another thing I want to mention
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is that brothers and sisters ourselves here, the aftermath of
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team, just like you, we've faced heavy nights over the last few
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weeks. Our brothers and sisters in Iran
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are facing constant aggression and bombardment as well as our
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brothers and sisters in Lubnan and of course not forgetting
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Reza. And these are holy nights.
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We ask, We humbly ask for you to raise your hands and extend it
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to Allah. Subhanahu at Allah and pray for
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the mummanin who are facing oppression all around the world.
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Don't lose this opportunity to worship Allah and ask for his
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intercession and ask for his divine intervention to grant the
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brothers and sisters victory and share Allah.
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Now I can't have these conversations alone.
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Of course, I'm joined by not a special guest, a special
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brother. And that's none other than the
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amazing, the wonderful, the humble, the eloquent.
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Ahmed Gokul Assalam. Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali.
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How are you? I'm OK bro, how has your shot on
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the bomb been? Straight to the point, huh?
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It's been different this year. It's been, I think like
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especially, really especially over the last two weeks.
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It's one where it's not just spirituality.
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No, it's trying to build the connection, not just with God,
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but with my Imam, with my living Imam, my breathing Imam.
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Because we look around the world today and we see what's
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happening and we hear the stories of what happened before
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us and now we live by it. We see it happening day-to-day,
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lives with us on our social media, whether we watch the
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television. And it makes you wonder, are we
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where we need to be? And these are things and
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thoughts I'm having myself, to be honest.
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What about you? Where to begin?
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Said, I think everything you've mentioned and your introduction
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was spot on and exactly how I'm feeling and I think how a lot of
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more meaning and I'm feeling at the moment.
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The last time we filmed Run Sisters, it was my dear brother
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Muhammad Ali. Our guests are like Armani and
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myself and Hamdullah. We had the opportunity to talk
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about Imam Ali Mehdi proving his existence rationally,
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academically, Islamically, as well as his involvement and his
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key role in the nice of Qatar, which of course we are.
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You know, we finished kind of with the three holy nights.
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And of course, there are traditions about the 27th holy
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night as well. But I would encourage everyone
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to go back and watch that. That episode was filmed, filmed
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prior to the martyrdom of Said Ali Khamenei, who of course, the
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Supreme leader, leader of Iran, Damaja Taqlid, who we, you know,
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we recorded this episode a couple of days before his
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passing. It has been a heavy moment for,
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I think, for a lot of Mont Minion.
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It's been raising alarm bells, I think, for a lot of us.
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Of course, this was the first day in terms of the attacks on
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Iran, on Lebanon. And of course, as you mentioned,
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Gaza continues to be operating as an apartheid state and
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occupied state. So without trying to get into
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the politics of things, and these are not politics, in all
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honesty, these are human lives, human, human rights, but
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ultimately the world we live in, the society we live in looks at
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it as a through a political lens.
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We look at it also through a theological lens.
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And I think that's what differentiates us as Shia from
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from others, because we believe that these are signs of the
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whole, if not directly, then at least indirectly, if not the the
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kind of necessary signs, then perhaps the rare signs, the non
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necessary signs or perhaps the the signs which may indicate
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towards the whole of the Holy Imam.
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So I think today, hopefully what we can do is talk about this.
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I want to just quickly give a tribute to all of the lives that
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we've lost, all of the lives, all of the innocent human lives
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that have been lost, the blood that has been spilled.
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We're sick of it, honestly, for thousands of years.
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Our last panel to Allah has tested the human race through
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opportunities and also through persecution and punishment.
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He's given us a step by step chronological build up towards
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the final tech leaf, which is of course the the rabe, the rabe to
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cobra. And with each of these steps,
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we've had messengers, we've had scriptures, we've had kind of
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indicators towards al Haqq, you know, Dina Las Palota Allah and
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that now is complete. But we're still seeing history
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repeat itself. We're seeing young girls bombed
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and killed. You know, Rasul Allah, Muhammad,
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he came with a core message. And this was at a point where
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mankind was at its worst. You know, he came.
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And of course, we know one of the core things he advocated
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against was the killing of innocent young girls, the
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spilling of blood and the burying of young baby girls.
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And yet today, 1400 years later, we're still seeing this, those
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people who live in Jahiliya who are attacking, targeting
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innocent young children. And we've seen this then, and
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we're continuing to see this today.
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So I think it just goes to show that these people don't know who
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we are as Muslims, not just as Muslims, Inshallah as Mutt
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Mineen, as Muttakin, if we ever reached that stage, that we are
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those who believe wholeheartedly in that Allah, Allah, Muhammad,
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Rasul, Allah, Ali and Willi Allah.
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We believe in the values that Ahlakh, that our Nabi taught us.
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We are those who are raised upon Willaite and Miramat Manin
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through his willaire, his Imama, his Khalifa, his Khalafa.
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All of these things teach us about the values that the Al
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debate, Alayhi and Salaam taught us.
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And then of course, it goes without saying, we hear about
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Imam Hussein. We've been born and brought up
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wearing black, shedding tears, hitting our chest.
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And now we prepare for the methi I'd Allah to Allah Sharif.
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And in the last few weeks, I think now more than ever, people
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are talking about Imam and Methi.
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I really believe it. Like I was on Twitter earlier
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today and I was just seeing random tweets, people from
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different parts of the world who are calling out for some form of
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justice. Like people are looking for
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some, some, some solution, you know, they're looking for some
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resolve. And this comes back to the point
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which we know as MO Manin that the world will be filled with
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oppression. Muslim Muhammad says, he says
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himself the Mehdi will bring justice and fill the world just
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as it had been filled with oppression prior.
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And this is something we understand, right?
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So I feel like our job now as Shia is to unify that call, to
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rally that call. So people are calling for it.
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They see oppression within themselves, the, the, the, the
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volume they're doing to themselves as well as the volume
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around them and they're calling for this.
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So I feel like it's, it's really important for me personally,
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this month, I've really connected with our weight to
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demand. I've tried to, I think I can
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always do more. I believe I should do more.
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And I feel like our community is also working more towards that
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and Sharp Law. That's very beautiful, man.
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Thank you for mentioning that because only just like on self
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reflection, just to even say if we are preparing the ground for
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the return of our awaited saviour Imam and Matthew Allah
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hasten his reappearance. It's not just what we see in
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front of us. This wasn't right.
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And if, for example, we, we can be calling for the hastening of
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the reappearance, but our heart, bro, our heart can be full of, I
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don't know. So I don't want to use the wrong
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words, but we may be oppressing people ourselves.
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And here we are calling out oppression that's happening
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around the world, but maybe we're oppressing our own
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families, our own. Said we may even be of the
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pressing our own selves Lemton FC, you understand like this is
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one of the biggest things. I was sorry to interrupt you
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have you. I was speaking to a friend of
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mine a couple of days ago. It's part and he was saying, but
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we are not going through the same oppressions that our
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brothers and sisters are. And of course I agree with this.
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You know, it's quite obvious, you know what they're going
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through. We have comfort, you know, we
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have shoes, we have clothes, we have roofs, we have food is
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there's no question of it. However, I feel like there is
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still an oppression. Allah has tested everyone,
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right? And the test we have for
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ourselves is, is the oppression we do to ourselves and we don't
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kind of recognise it. We don't even have knowledge and
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understanding as to what oppression I'm doing to upon
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myself. Yeah.
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So I agree with you. Yeah, for sure.
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La Habiba sense. That's why I said it's a
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beautiful reminder, because it's a reflection.
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As you were saying it, I was thinking about it as well.
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But just on the point of you mentioned people are, you know,
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speaking about Imam and Mehdi on a global level now.
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Yeah. And I see online is just like
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who is this Mehdi? Yeah, yeah.
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Who is Imam and Mehdi? Is it just for Shia?
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The all Muslims believe in the Imam and things like that.
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So there's, there's, I think, beautiful conversations
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happening online where people are not speaking about the imam
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like they previously used to, where they mock him, rather they
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want to understand him. And that's, that's the beautiful
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difference that's happening today.
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And just just to mention something as well as that you
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mentioned, for example, the the lives of the innocent children
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that unfortunately and sadly horrifically have been affected
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by this recent war. Is that just on this matter of,
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for example, if I can talk about on the first day when the US
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Israeli strikes hit Iran, they targeted the school over 160
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little girls? Yeah, that's what I was
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preferring. And I have two daughters.
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Well, that that all my heart, Ahmed, because I start imagining
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because the following a few hours later, I saw a video of a
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father going to where the the strike took place.
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And he was going through the backpack bags of school and he
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was trying to find like, for example, his daughter's
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belongings and things. And then he found her bag and he
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took out a Tasbi, took out her turbi, took out the Quran.
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Like these are little girls. These are beautiful little the
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most beautiful. Yeah.
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And I start thinking, voila, I was like, I do, I do something
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very similar in the morning. I prepare my girls to go school,
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I get the backpack ready, I make sure they have the water bottle,
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I make sure they have their test textbooks.
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You still have the bag and you assist them to wear it and you
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send them off to school, right? And who sends their kids to
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school and don't know if they're going to come back or not?
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I guess it's something to really reflect on that we are not in
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that position. And we ask our last soprano,
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Wata Allah to, you know, alleviate all of this, all of
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this from all the. Elections they're facing and
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all, of all of the crises they're facing and yet they, a
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lot of the motminin, I say all of the Motminin, you know, they,
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they're still showing Yafiq and they're still showing complete
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yakin. They have conviction, conviction
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in the promise of Allah. You know, this is Mihad, this is
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Allah's promise that there will be justice and it's coming.
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You know, sooner or later we know that this is coming.
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And I think this is what I want to talk about.
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You can learn a lot about the chronology of the Alamata, the
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whole signs of the reappearance, the talker art, the letters or
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Imam Mehdi, the comparative examples of the Messiah and the
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awaited one in the different Abrahamic religions here, which
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is so important. And these are things which are
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bread and butter for us, like it should be caught.
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For us it has to be caught, otherwise we're slacking.
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You know, we have Willy Allah right now.
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We say, oh, we'll, we'll, I, we love will, I will bro, you've
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got Willy Allah here. How much do we know about Willy
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Allah at the moment? You know, we grew up hearing
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stories. I was talking to you before the
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podcast about the labour that we've seen in previous examples.
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Imam, Imam Hussain Salawat Ali on the night of Ashura, when he
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took out the candle, he gave his companions a chance.
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He said now I'm in labour, I'm here but you can't see me.
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You can leave, you have free will, you can go and do your
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thing. I will even accept you as
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someone who came with me on this journey and you'll still reap
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the rewards of it. Choose to go if you want.
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And they remained. We see in the Holy Quran sort of
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that off while last point Allah talks about Nabi Moussa, Ali,
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Salam, going to the mountain. And initially Allah spent Allah
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told him 30 days. And then of course, through
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Bada, we know extended that to 40 days.
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But there was a period where the Messenger of Allah was present
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but not apparent. Yeah, yeah.
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We've seen many examples of this throughout history.
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So now we're in that critical point of the Reba.
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So our responsibility now is to understand what is happening,
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what's coming, how do I interact with what I have at the moment
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and how do I prepare for what's due to come.
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Once we understand the circumstances, we have a formula
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for how I act individually, then on a family and then on a
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communal level. I can then look at the global
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level because it's very easy to say the world.
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We have to prepare the world of bro, relax first.
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Our last is not called aren't. You can't change the condition
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of society until you change yourself.
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Work on ourselves, work on our families, our children, our
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spouses, our parents, our siblings, and then work around
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us. Build infrastructures within our
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smaller communities, then start to build infrastructures in our
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wider societies. These are things that are
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necessary. You want to prepare the grounds
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for the Imam, work on it. Now.
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We hear all the time about Shout out Muhammad Ali.
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Jamar Knight's series on this was amazing.
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I remember when we filmed it, he talked about the three scenarios
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in terms of the final, the final occurrences, let's say of
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Allah's mission and Allah's, Allah's message to mankind.
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The first scenario being Al Qadir, you know, Qadir home.
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When Sulaim Hamad declared a Miramar Manin as the Willi, the
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Willi, so on and so forth, the people had the chance to accept
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it. We would have lived a great day,
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you know, we, the world would have been a different society at
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the moment. What could have been, the people
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rejected it. Now we're in the second scenario
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currently, which is Al Qurban, named after Seyde Zainab.
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When she speaks to Allah about the sacrifice of Mahmoud
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Hussein, she says please accept this korban that we've given for
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you. The sacrifice.
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What could have been is now led to where we are.
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Should we choose to reject this, where we are now, should we
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choose to delay where we are now, then that leads to the last
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scenario, which is called the Last day.
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And I would advise everyone to go and check out the Jumma
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Knight series. And that's fantastic.
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It was really good, but we should not be amongst those
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people who have the potential to hasten the hasten the whole of
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the Holy Imam, but instead delay it.
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Yeah, what a tragedy that would be.
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Wonder what a tragedy that would be?
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No, with you're right, you're absolutely right.
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And yeah, shout out to Muhammad Ali brother Muhammad Ali for his
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amazing 50 plus episodes on. Oh wow, well gangster.
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So if he's smashed it, he hasn't seen so much work.
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On that, please go in, check them out.
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There's a lot to benefit from. There's a lot we have benefited
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from and I've used that material here in the in our podcast as
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well. So that's amazing.
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You know, a lot of bless him. But just on that part where you
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said, you know, what benefit is there and all that, I think
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we're missing the point here. And that is OK.
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We can know who the Imam is. We can know his signs, we can
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know what's expected of us. But what if we can't recognise
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him even though he's here? So that Maratha is not just
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reading textbooks or opening up literature or learning about the
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science and everything you know, It goes back to what you said
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earlier, comes back to preparing ourselves, our Nefs, our, our,
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you know, our, our, our very connection, our Maratha with the
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Iman, may Allah hasten his reappearance.
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And I know it sounds cheesy sometimes, but the other time we
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had say Ali Khali here, and I've always heard this from the
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pulpis everything. And he he said this so
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beautifully and so eloquently when he was like, if you if the
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imam comes and open up opens up your phone, will he be pleased
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with what's on your phone? And till now I think about that.
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You know, it's like your. Tourist because.
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Your phone is something personal, right?
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What you do on it, how you interact with it, who you speak
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with, the content you consume and you are they are all of
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that. That's so important to of our
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heart is going to accept the Imam when he's here and we pray
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every day. We say Allah, Angelou Alik al
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Faraj. We were just in Majalis the
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other day where we're we're we were remembering Imam Sahab
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Zaman and asking a loss of Hannah was Alex Vason's
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reappearance. But are we ready for that
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reappearance? That's that's that's the thing.
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I don't think we think about. No, we don't.
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We don't. It's we we're just saying it
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like it's parrots, like a tongue exercise, you know, boar
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breeding Dua al Faraj and things like that.
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But what, what is Dua al Faraj? What are we saying when we're
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saying Allahu akali, walaikal hazan salawat kaalihala ABBA?
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If you have this, all of these things, do we know what we are
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saying? Because if we don't, I'm sorry
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to say, when the Imam is here, we may reject him.
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Yeah, of course. We may say OK, we know you are
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Imam and Mehdi, but I'm not ready.
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Now go back, come back another time and imagine we we find the
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situation where we say that to our Imam, we say what Hosseini,
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we say we are Shia, we say we are Murali in a little bit are
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we loyal to your Amen. Of course, yeah.
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Are we? And The thing is this, like you
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said, some of us have fear that the Imam will not be someone we
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recognise, our real fear. Of course, this is great.
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You know, it's good to know that I need to recognise my Imam.
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A bigger fright should be for us that we recognise the Imam and
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we still reject it. So it is Bakala, our last point.
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Allah talks about the people at the time of Salah Muhammad.
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Allah talks about the Jews and the Christians.
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He talks about how they waited for the scripture, the the
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mission, the message. The messenger recognized him and
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still rejected him. And we see in our books of our
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hadith that the time of the Imam will come.
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And they, as we've said in the previous podcast, they will see
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the Imam and they'll say go back with son of Fatima.
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They recognize the Imam, they still reject him.
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This should be our great fear. And you mentioned something
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important, which is knowing the signs, knowing the chronology,
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all of these things, yes, they're important, but we have
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to have inner recognition. You know, we have to have in in
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our hearts. Allah has to put that Iman.
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We have to search for that Iman, that belief.
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You know, we always hear, I heard today it was so silly on
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TikTok. You know, TikTok is like flooded
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with false methy content, flooded with false methy
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content. I saw something today.
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A lady in Leicester came to a. Abu Tamiya thing and she's like
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I'm the Mehdi, I'm the Mehdi. And then I scroll to the next
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video. I see the beanie guys.
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They're saying yeah, this is a client bro relax man.
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You scroll to the next video, you see a Zakir Naik fit to come
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on man. Where are the Shia and these
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things, right? Where is our PR?
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Where is our publicity of the true message of Imam and Mehdi?
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OK, but let's let's kind of rewind.
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I had a friend the other day he said to me and he opened up to
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me and this was that an iffal he goes to me like Ahmed I he's
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like 35 May Allah bless him. Great brother, very involved in
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the community. He goes, I've been brought up
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called Ani Namazi. That's what he told me.
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Yeah. So I don't know nothing about
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him. I don't know any science.
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I was like, OK, well, the bro, we have to this has to be a
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focus. Of course it has to be a focus.
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So let's go through a couple science said let's go through a
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basic chronology since everyone in the world is talking about
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it. What are some of the basic
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science? What will the world look like
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before the the science of the reappearance?
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Yeah. And firstly, before we talk
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about the signs of the reappearance, we have to be in
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Akhara Zaman and which is the end of times for the Imam to
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return soya. And the fact that Imam is born,
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that means we are. We are already in Afghanistan.
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Zaman So that's that's something I think we have to we have to
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recognise and believe in and there are many signs prior to
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that, there's about 5 first being there will be a widespread
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of global injustice. There will be the rise of the
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Sufiani. There will be.
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Help me with this one the chronology.
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The chronology like the conditions of society, there
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will be global injustice, turmoil across the world,
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economic, military, social, spiritual, injustice in All in
21:45
all forms. Then we have a regional war,
21:48
which happens in modern day Middle East, of course, as we
21:50
call it, as well West Asia, right in that region.
21:55
Then we'll see the rising of two figures.
21:58
One is Al Yamani, who of course we hear carries the ray of Imami
22:03
Mehdi. The Yamani comes from Yemen and
22:06
the Sufiani. The Sufiani of course comes from
22:09
the region of current modern day Syria or Sham.
22:11
OK, these are two of the five Hadami signs, the definite signs
22:18
that if these signs happen, all the necessary signs, if all five
22:20
of these signs happen, the Imam will reappear.
22:23
But all 5 do not have to happen for Allah to choose to send the
22:26
Holy Imam. So these are the 1st 2.
22:28
The third one is the spilling of the blood of Nephs.
22:32
Ezekiel. Yeah, the the the, the purified
22:34
soul in the kind of premises of the Kaaba, he will someone will
22:40
lose their life. The 4th of course is the Seha,
22:44
the call which of course we know is in these days of
22:47
Shaharamaban, you hear 2 calls. You hear one call during the
22:50
night that call towards Imam and Mehdi and another called after,
22:53
which is a false call. We talked about this last year
22:55
with the same Muhammad Bakar. And the 5th sign of the
22:59
reappearance of the Holy Imam is a hustle beta, the swallowing of
23:03
the earth, where the army of the Sufyani, who are at that point
23:06
marching towards Mecca, will be swallowed by the earth.
23:09
So after that, there's a few more things that happen at that
23:13
point. Imam al Methi will emerge,
23:15
emerge. That's key point.
23:18
Imam Methi's here. He doesn't.
23:21
He doesn't. What's the word I'm looking for?
23:23
He doesn't exist at that point. He emerges at that point, the
23:26
whole of the Imam, he rises. He rises.
23:28
Yeah, yeah, he's visible. He's there.
23:30
He's present at the Kaaba with 313 alongside him.
23:35
These 313 companions will pledge the the allegiance.
23:39
Then the uprising against tyrants will begin.
23:42
Imam will rise against the tyrants in the from the East and
23:45
the West and then begins his global mission of justice and
23:49
and equity. This is super important.
23:51
He will fill the world with justice the way injustice was
23:54
filling the world prior to his emergence.
23:57
So this is kind of the important things for us to understand
24:00
just. Just from the point of the Sai
24:01
you mentioned, I remember I was speaking literally, Ahmed, three
24:05
or four days ago. Remember we were discussing like
24:07
recent events of what we're seeing around the world, the war
24:10
in the Middle East and things like this.
24:11
Remember, I was selling this individual.
24:13
Do you know about the Saha? What if you had the Saha?
24:15
I already know what the Saha has and they were confused or like,
24:18
what's the Saha? I was confused that they were
24:20
confused because this is something we should all be aware
24:24
of, right? And and then he asked me a
24:26
question. I remember and he was like, So
24:28
what is the Saha? There's a scream.
24:30
What is it? Is it like, correct me if I'm
24:33
wrong, Ahmed, this is, it's more like a call from the sky or we
24:38
have, I think other interpretations where they
24:41
allude to it being it could be via technology, It could be, you
24:44
never know, you get notifications on your phone.
24:46
It could be via radio, it could be on television.
24:49
And the beautiful thing about the site has that everyone will
24:51
understand it in their own language.
24:54
So no one will be confused and but we just need to be wary of
24:58
the fake. Player, it says the call from
25:00
will come from the sky. Yeah, Allahu Alam, whether that
25:02
means like say Mahabharata said last year, whether that's
25:06
something quite literally like, you know, calls from Malakut or
25:09
something we don't know or whether it's something through
25:12
technology, we don't know. The main thing is we're not, we
25:14
need to familiarize ourselves, ourselves with what's to come.
25:17
And then imagine Imam and Mehdi's here, like you said, he
25:20
checks your phone, he knocks on your door.
25:22
Do you recognise and not even do you recognise, you recognise and
25:25
accommodate and, and, and welcome him, whether it's at
25:28
your home or whether it's in front of you, you, you're,
25:30
you're going to spend time with our awaiting Imam.
25:33
Another thing to know is I think for us is that this is something
25:37
which, you know, I I'm thankful to Arthur Mugabe for like shout
25:41
out after Mugabe subscribe yeah, yeah finally after 400 episodes
25:46
shout out after them guys are gangsters.
25:48
No Hamdullah no one thing like bro books of literature so
25:52
important so important there's Of course our classical texts
25:56
are really important in these cases.
25:58
A lot of our texts focus on key things.
26:01
OK, and Muhammad Ali's done like some analysis of different
26:06
literature in in the five part series in Jamaa Knights, but
26:09
Kitabi Kay Bashek on Armani. I have to chat more Ali for that
26:12
because he introduced me to that.
26:13
I loved it bro it's like 460 Hadi if you can I recently.
26:17
Purchased it at home. Oh really?
26:18
You can get it online free of charge bro.
26:20
Read the video. I like the physical puppy.
26:22
Yeah, it's good. It's good.
26:24
And Kitabi Kay Bashek Tulsi is good.
26:26
Kamaluddin, Tamama, Nermashekhar, Sadok.
26:29
And of course there are chapters.
26:30
Some of these are books dedicated towards Imam and
26:32
Mehdi, some have barbs or chapters within it for this, you
26:35
know Kamala Dean has it, Al Kafi has it, Bahar al Anwar, Allama
26:39
Majlisi has it. Like there are different
26:42
elements bits. Familiarisation of the
26:44
philosophy of Reba needs to be understood.
26:47
And Speaking of philosophy of Reba again, Shahraman Damani,
26:52
Muhammad Ali did the show called the philosophies of Reba on the
26:54
off model channel. Go and watch that guys if you
26:57
haven't already bro. Next level, We've done so many
27:01
episodes, I think we need to like create categories and
27:04
subcategories. We should.
27:05
Go and look for it in it go and look for it.
27:08
You'll find something that you like.
27:09
Yeah, yeah. YouTube search.
27:11
No, it's important. It's.
27:12
Important. You know, in addition to all of
27:15
this, like speaking about the imam and trying to build Maratha
27:18
and trying to understand the signs and trying to make sense
27:22
of the world around us, is that we need to know who we are.
27:26
Like really, I'm I'm so I'm not just talking about ourself and
27:28
our Nefs, no, our identity, our Shi identity.
27:32
And we are lucky Al Hamdulillah to be on ulaya that we can
27:35
understand these things with clarity.
27:39
And that's the beautiful thing about it.
27:40
Is that just like I remember, like the other day, you know,
27:45
Muhammad Hijab he was speaking to, was it a.
27:47
Sneaky. Was it a?
27:48
Sneaky. And he was Sneaky was asking him
27:51
about Imam and Mehdi. And then he was like, yeah,
27:53
there's like. He was baffled.
27:54
He's #12 after you know the old from Croatian things like Bob
27:58
just come to the hell and base like we got it all like like
28:01
don't go left and right and he come come back to the very
28:05
people of Allah. Sallallahu alaihi Wali wasallam
28:08
told us to hold on to what we have.
28:10
They have all the answers. Ali Ali Ali al Quran will Quran
28:17
bro the ahlal baits have every single answer for every
28:21
situation and there's clarity for any confusion.
28:24
If you don't know where you look for Imam and Mehdi, come to the
28:28
school of Ahlalbait. Everything is there.
28:30
You don't know how to worship Allah, to supplicate to Allah,
28:33
Come to the school of Ahlalba, everything Islam.
28:37
The keys are with this muscle. Do you?
28:39
Know what? It's crazy as well.
28:40
Subhanallah, Shahraman is the perfect time.
28:42
Yes, there's there's so many other area that I've really,
28:47
really enjoyed the Shala Mulan because I'm looking at it
28:50
specifically my my personal goal to Shala Mulan is to connect to
28:53
the Alwaleima more. And now I'm trying to think of
28:55
it through that lens. Of course, we know Dua Lifteda
28:58
has all of this Dua. I had like a lot of them, the
29:02
mainstream like all of these do. I have.
29:07
I love that. Yeah.
29:07
It's beautiful, isn't it? It's beautiful.
29:09
Alifani version. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:11
It's the spot. It's the spot.
29:13
It's the spot hits the spot. When you need it.
29:16
It hits the spot. Mashallah.
29:18
It's like having a cold glass of water after a hot day of
29:21
fasting, for example. It it soothes your soul.
29:24
And you know, that's something beautiful as well.
29:26
Yeah. I really think that like having
29:32
a glass as a believer is when you know you're at peace with
29:36
what you're hearing or listening to.
29:38
So for example, when you hear the AAS, the akhameil dua, aftta
29:43
TA dot AAM ajir, whatever the other ear is, you're listening
29:47
to whichever saw. Like, in the same way when you
29:49
read the Quran, you, like, you know, your heart's at peace with
29:52
what's being said or written. The same thing with these.
29:54
These are not from ordinary Tom Dex and Harry.
29:57
Oh, as Wilson Sadek said last week, the average Jawad.
30:03
It's not from the average Jawad. This is from the, the, the
30:06
progeny of the prophet of Islam. You know, and even at times like
30:12
this, you, you read, for example, Dua Ahil Thogur, you
30:16
know, the DA for the front lines found in Sahifa Sajadiya.
30:20
Yeah, bro, I read it a couple of nights ago and I locked in when
30:24
I was reading it. Bro, this is crazy.
30:27
Do I have to go? There's a really Mashallah like
30:30
it's very graphic and it's very clear cut what's being asked.
30:36
There's no ambiguity with it, but there's a do ah for
30:39
everything, like you've said, everything, you know.
30:43
So I think it's something for us to ponder on bro.
30:45
The last few nights for Shahramabaan bro with 3/4
30:48
through it. 3/4 these last few nights.
30:51
I think we just need to lock in honestly.
30:53
No, we do. Spend spend a bit more time on
30:55
the prayer mat. Be nice to your kids.
30:58
Lower your gaze. Resist temptation.
31:01
You know, you know how hard it is sometimes to focus at work.
31:05
I don't know if you have this as well.
31:06
So. Yeah, it's.
31:08
Impossible at times. You know, I don't know.
31:10
In the last few days I've been very slow at work.
31:13
Yeah, same. So.
31:14
I've, I've had more, more opportunities to, to sit down,
31:17
reflect and focus outside the work a little when it comes to,
31:21
for example, going over a hadith, trying to understand our
31:25
spirituality and our marathon things.
31:27
And the the the most beautiful thing like, like you mentioned
31:31
the Helen Bates, you know, the do ours and the supplications is
31:35
I'm trying to do like commentary, self commentary to
31:38
myself a lot about Dwar Joshen and Kabil, because it's Wallah
31:43
Al Adin. For those who have not opened,
31:45
who have not even recited Dwar Joshen.
31:48
I know there's Mashallah. We have ample of other idea we
31:50
can do during the nights of other things, but this one in
31:53
particular for me, it's like, bro, it's, it's just something.
31:56
It's just me and God. Yeah, yeah.
31:58
Back when I'm reciting the lines of of the supplication, I'm
32:02
like, I remember, OK, you know, there's I'll recite a few.
32:06
I've got some lines here. For example, we say Yahir al
32:14
Rafarin, yahir al fataheen, Yahir al Nasarin, Yahir al
32:18
Hakimin like these are reminders of who got this and who we are.
32:23
We are nothing without a loss upon what's Allah.
32:26
And the more you read the more you understand.
32:28
Even like bro, do I come in when you recite, do I'll come in?
32:32
Yeah. Minaj Imam Ali Ali has to sell.
32:35
Yourself, compared to a lie, you're nothing.
32:37
Like you read we are nothing we are nothing one now we are
32:42
nothing and and when the Ehel Bates speak like this to God, it
32:49
shows you the difference of who these individuals.
32:52
Are it puts things into perspective.
32:53
Puts things into perspectives, it gives you clarity us, and it
32:56
makes you fall in love with God. Is sometimes you just want to
32:58
put everything, especially this is the beautiful thing about
33:00
this month. You want to put everything aside
33:04
and focus on what matters. You know, like you, you want to
33:07
help. You want to be just in full
33:09
servitude to Allah's mission and in mom's mission.
33:14
And you get that inspiration from these nights.
33:17
Yeah, man, we're tired 3 / 3 weeks in now.
33:20
We're tired. Like my brain is foggy at work.
33:22
I can't think straight. And maybe more temperament, more
33:25
temperamental. My kids find it harder to focus.
33:29
But at the same time, it's like, this is the final stretch.
33:32
Yeah, Allah knows best whether I will be here next year.
33:35
And if I'm not, please brothers and sisters, forgive me and pray
33:38
for me and pray for Saeed Ali and forgive us all.
33:42
But Allah knows whether we'll be here next year.
33:45
All we can do now is just pray that our Qatar is set for the
33:49
best possibility we can achieve. You know, last few days man,
33:55
last few days now it's it's we have this make or break for us.
33:58
Or is is the last few days and I think we should approach these
34:01
last few days with sincerity, not just exercise stick box and
34:07
get through day-to-day supplications and worship.
34:10
No, like like right, Sorry, you were talking.
34:12
I was just going over some other lines.
34:14
Like look at this line. You're a dirty understood that
34:18
you are Ajayi and the museeberty you are Munisi and the Washati.
34:22
But these are lines. Well, like bro, like you can be
34:26
in the worst moment of your life.
34:28
God will take you out of it. Just turn to him.
34:32
Well, now just just turn to a last.
34:34
Atar in daft atar there's a line where, and I don't know the
34:39
Arabic off the top of my head, where where we ask our last one
34:42
to other. I'm paraphrasing where we say,
34:45
Oh, you who has no end like you have eternal abundance, eternal
34:50
abundance of blessing and and possession.
34:53
Please give to me because from you giving to me it doesn't give
34:57
you shortcoming. If anything it proves more of
35:00
your generosity and your merciful mercifulness.
35:03
Like when we ask from Allah, we recognise that for Allah to give
35:08
us does not reduce His stockpiles of mercy and
35:12
possession. If anything, it further proves
35:14
that Allah possesses all, creates all, sustains all, and
35:19
it further proves to us, His slaves on earth that we are, we
35:23
are worth nothing. We are in complete dependency of
35:26
the last palm of Da Allah. We are contingent on Him for
35:29
everything we have in this day and age.
35:32
So we can only understand this mindset for like you're saying,
35:35
from these to us. So you know, it's, it's
35:37
beautiful man, it really is beautiful.
35:39
These are the values we have to teach ourselves and our
35:41
children. Our children.
35:42
Honestly, ourselves and our children like how to thank, who
35:46
to thank, what to thank and you know, just recognition that
35:50
everything comes from Allah and to Allah everything will return.
35:53
This is how it is whether we're talking about whether we're
35:56
talking about our scholars who have lost their lives for the
35:59
cause of Allah span to Allah who have given their blood.
36:02
You know, we read in sort of like Sheikh Ibrahim mentioned a
36:05
couple of days ago about giving your hopeful jewel or Nassim and
36:10
Amwal or enforced him or Samarat or Bashar or Sabarin.
36:14
Like everything we give in the cause of our last plan to Allah,
36:18
but everything is for Allah and to Allah we come from and we
36:21
will return. So it's just this it's a mindset
36:24
shift. Yeah, we have to make bro stop
36:26
thinking about your TikTok likes and what font you use on your
36:29
stories and you know how many views you get and your WhatsApp
36:32
DP, like I've gone in this thing said say tell the minute, tell
36:35
the minute. The sun behind the clouds.
36:37
The sun behind, the trees behind.
36:39
The tree I change, Why they keep changing?
36:41
Your No, no, I changed my display picture once earlier
36:44
this month. Yeah, it's always been the same,
36:45
more or less the same picture. Yeah.
36:47
And what's up? I changed my display picture
36:49
because I'm like, I don't want to.
36:50
I don't want to feel vain. I have this tendency, bro.
36:52
I was extremely vain and perhaps I still amped a degree, but as a
36:57
young guy, we grew up in a BBM age, Facebook age.
37:00
You know Bro I. Would change my BBM picture
37:03
every day but. Good on my.
37:04
Face yeah, my Facebook picture. Honestly, I was extremely
37:09
self-conscious and. And I had nothing to be vain
37:13
about, but I was conscious, right.
37:16
And the other day I was like, you know what?
37:17
I have so many friends there. What's that picture?
37:19
So I just rambled, take a picture of the floor.
37:21
They'll put us there. What's that picture?
37:23
And I was thinking what? How, why?
37:25
And these guys will have their picture the same for years.
37:27
You know, I had a friend of mine, so funny.
37:30
Shout out, my brother Sajjad. Sajad, one of my friends.
37:33
Yeah. In 2020 he travelled and he was
37:38
going through Heathrow Airport and the queues were all empty
37:41
because of COVID, right? So they said arrivals and it's
37:46
completely empty. It's like 10 rows.
37:48
The guy took a picture of all of these rows empty, and he put it
37:52
as his WhatsApp picture. And it was beat his WhatsApp
37:55
picture for four years. Like, imagine in 2024, you're
38:00
looking at this picture. Like, what is this?
38:02
He's like, yeah, I don't care. Like, I don't care about my face
38:04
being there or something. Like, wow.
38:06
So I recently did this thing where I found a picture of a
38:08
tree and I put it as my WhatsApp picture.
38:11
And these guys are rinsing me like I'm gonna change it.
38:13
We're not used to it. But yeah, yeah, a lot of good
38:16
talking about WhatsApp. I don't think I've changed my
38:19
profile picture since. I like your WhatsApp picture.
38:21
2020 when was COVID? It was after that said. 20.
38:28
Yeah, 2020 was COVID 2020, yeah. No, but you've changed it after,
38:31
I thought. No, no, because I was one of
38:34
the. I can imagine it like your
38:36
blazer, your distascia, the one kafir, the member.
38:40
Showed me one of the eulogy is always doing.
38:43
I was I done for Muharram and I made it my DP and estate ever
38:48
since so 2026 now. Bro, check out said I need
38:52
another YouTube channel. Yeah, and look at the picture
38:55
there. You're you're wearing your suit.
38:56
You probably were 18. Probably the same one.
38:58
Same picture from there bro. Probably take it in 2008 and
39:01
you've left it there. Yeah, so I I did change my
39:04
Instagram display picture about a month ago.
39:06
Yeah, that was nice. And and I, and I as well, I
39:09
think that one as well was during COVID.
39:11
I had one during COVID as well. It's been years.
39:13
I don't even know. But yeah.
39:15
Anyhow, I don't know why I mentioned that, but yeah, the
39:18
good old days, actually. It's a man though.
39:20
You know why? I think COVID like grounded us.
39:24
Yeah. Bring us into reality.
39:25
What a throwback. We had a lot of time.
39:27
We wish you. Had podcast during COVID.
39:29
I think we would have smashed. It yeah, it would have been
39:32
sick. I had so much free time.
39:34
Would have been sick. We would have filmed the podcast
39:36
today 6 meters apart 2. Point O Oh yeah Social 6. 6
39:42
Meters Apart podcast. You know what's crazy?
39:46
Like COVID, It's been what, 5-6 years now?
39:49
That's how fast time flies. When I talk about it, it's like
39:52
yesterday. But now thinking about it, it's
39:54
been years. And that's a lot of time, you
39:58
know, shaved from our lifespan, how we're spending our lives.
40:02
You know, a friend of mine was telling me he was like, in
40:06
COVID, my son was 4 turning 5, and my daughter was 3.
40:11
And now the daughter just now started wearing hijab like a
40:14
couple of weeks ago. And the son is 1011 years old
40:18
now. Yeah.
40:18
Or whatever, 10 years old or something.
40:21
And I saw them. Yes.
40:23
They may not protect them. The most amazing kids.
40:25
Yeah. And I'm thinking, wow, my
40:27
children are those ages now. And that felt like yesterday
40:31
COVID. So before I know it, Charla,
40:34
they're going to be grown. Time, time flies, time flies.
40:40
Children have to make the most of it.
40:41
Our children, our parents, may Allah bless and protect them,
40:44
preserve them for us. You know, like This is why I say
40:47
Shahramavan, you never know who comes and goes, you know, and
40:51
forget even in Ramadan, but throughout the year, these
40:54
Knights of Qdo, these are the last 10 hours.
40:56
Shahramavan are the Knights of of destiny, you know.
41:00
So pray because you never know, right?
41:03
People who will inevitably leave.
41:05
Our friends, our community members, our family members.
41:09
If this has been their last Shahramadhan, then pray.
41:12
Our hijats should be that it's accepted for them or for us.
41:15
If it's ours, there will be people we know who don't make it
41:20
to next year. You know a matter of fact, this
41:23
is their last Shahramadhan. You might see them in the mosque
41:25
for the last time. You never know.
41:27
Allahu Alam, it's it's very emotional.
41:30
It's really, really emotional. I always think back about
41:32
certain model Khomein friends, parents of my friends who I
41:37
remember growing up and seeing them in the mosque in the same
41:40
place every Shahramadhan. And then, you know, you life
41:43
moves on. But, you know, these people are
41:47
like, you know, we can't let their legacy leave nothing.
41:50
You know, we have to keep their legacy.
41:51
Ask you a question. Yeah.
41:52
Go on. May Allah firstly prolong your
41:54
life. Thank you.
41:57
Allow your children to see, you know, live a long time with you
42:00
and shut Allah. But if you were to die, Ahmed,
42:04
if you were to die, let's say, God forbid, tomorrow, tomorrow,
42:11
what do you think you left behind?
42:14
I don't know. It's a mad question, isn't?
42:17
It, yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
42:20
The thing is that when it comes to being remembered.
42:23
Sorry, I'll probably ask you another.
42:24
Question No, no, because we think that we should think about
42:26
this a lot, right? And I'm sure you do as well.
42:29
You just want to be remembered. You don't want to be remembered
42:32
for your like for me, I wouldn't want to be remembered for the
42:35
podcast in terms of its growth, if I'm honest, it's nice, for
42:39
example, if it's benefited people handed lot, you know,
42:42
it's rich people and so on. But at the end of the day, it's
42:45
me and my brother speaking, sharing our thoughts, our
42:47
feelings with amazing guests. I'm more concerned about my my
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family, my lineage. You know, Allah has entrusted me
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to continue a line of what meaning have I done enough to
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keep that line going for my children to hold onto a liar and
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for them to give it to their children and so on.
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Inshallah. That's the main thing.
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I always say I come, you come from Mashallah, the line of
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prophet is I come from a line of reverse.
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You know our community come from a line of reverse.
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Why you shy say we're? All from.
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We're all son of a prophet eventually.
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Yeah. No.
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But you know what I mean. In it like you're, you're, you
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know. So for me, it's.
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I think about that a lot, man. I hope.
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Yeah, I hope I've done people proud.
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How about you? Are you asking me that same
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question? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And if I were to die tomorrow? If I were to die tomorrow and if
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I, if I, if I think about it, if there's anything that I will
43:51
leave behind, I think it's for something very similar to our
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children. Why have we taught them?
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Why have we raised them upon what?
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What good have we showed them in this world?
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You know, did we allow them to understand Allah the way he's
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supposed to be worshipped? Spano wata Allah did, we did,
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did, did I teach my children about Imam and Mehdi?
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Did I prepare them for Imam and Mehdi like these?
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These are things I need to think about now.
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Seriously. I yeah, man, yeah, man.
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These are, these are powerful nice.
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These are powerful nice. These are the nice to plan and
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to prepare. But just by just aside to all of
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those which, which are critical things, I, I, and I think
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something that goes side by side with all of this is that how are
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we with our, our family? How are we with you know, have
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have we taken away people's rights?
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Have we oppressed anyone? Do we need to seek forgiveness
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from anybody? Like these are things we need to
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really think about man Islam upon It's all about forgiveness.
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If we've if we've upset anyone, let anyone down, hurt anyone.
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Tell Giba about someone What? Listen to Giba about some
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Whoever is, we should go seek forgiveness.
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Of course, serious, of course. It's just, it's just frightening
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when you realise like maybe how many times you've done it and
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not even remembered, you remember probably a drop in the
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ocean of how much a favor you've engaged in or heard or how many
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times you've done something wrong and forgotten.
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And there's been times where I go into that mode and I think
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about it and I get really, I become like, I crawl into
45:21
myself, you know, I mean, I feel very small and I'm like, what do
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I even do? So and then in those cases, your
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self esteem becomes so small, you know, you feel worthless.
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And I know we're taught the mentality we're taught is not to
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feel like that return to Allah. Allah is your refuge.
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Allah will will shelter you, you'll protect, you'll conceal
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your sins and it's he who forgives you.
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And of course there's hack that the people have hook over you
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like in the sense of they have to have a you know, they have
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the right to forgive you or not and so on.
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But it does. It hits.
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It hits you hard when you think about it.
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You know why? Because like, I don't know how
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far we are on the when the conversation on terms of the
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duration of the episode. That's like I remember now
46:04
thinking of God, I hope no one abuse abuses their wives or
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something. Yeah, I remember thinking if
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let's say someone is the worst of the worst, but he fully
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repents and everything, right? Allah span of wata Allah shala
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forgives him and everything. And this was a very prominent
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scholar. He was referencing this.
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He was like, this was Sedhadi Madarasi by the way, and he was
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talking about Rahman, forgiveness of Allah, span of
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Wata Allah. He was saying like Allah can
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forgive everything, but if you oppress someone, that person
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needs to forgive you to the extent where he said that if you
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extend your hand on your wife, God forbid.
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I, I really hope we don't have men in our communities to do
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this. If you extend your hand on your
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wife, yeah, yeah. On the day of judgement for
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Allah it gives you is going to enter you paradise Inshallah.
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He's going to 1st put your hands in the Hellfire for what you've
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done to your wife. Then Inshallah I'll take you to
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paradise. But you will feel the the
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repercussions, the actions of what you've done.
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Basically you'll be held accountable to it.
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So seek forgiveness. It's just, I don't know, it just
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came to my mind right now. I'm just trying to think.
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But there are certain things where we can.
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There's so many things we can wrong people.
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And there's things where. And we've wronged Allah.
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We seek forgiveness for what we've done.
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But if we've wronged individuals and they haven't forgiven us or
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we haven't seeked their forgiveness, that's a problem.
47:26
And there's things where, like I said, where earlier when we
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talked about wronging yourself, the oppression on yourself,
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that's what I mean, like you've, you've done something.
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And we believe and we talked about again with Sheikh Ibrahim
47:39
that you are not what minion can return to their prior essence.
47:43
You know, even if they've done a grave sin, there's a minority
47:46
opinion that you can't, for example, you do a grave sin, you
47:48
can never be the same person again.
47:50
We believe theologically you can, you can become the same.
47:52
Allah is all forgiving, all merciful.
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There's never a door which Allah will not open for you should you
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seek it. However, saying that, it's also
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about being able to do psychological rehabilitation on
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yourself, right? So for example, there's cases
48:08
where you don't need to seek forgiveness from a person.
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Let's say you're on social media, you're consuming content
48:15
which is illicit or you are wasting time, or you're reading
48:21
gossip online. You know how sometimes every few
48:23
weeks these scandals pop up about something that happened or
48:28
a public, public thing which has happened and you engage in it,
48:31
you feed it, you like it, you share it, and you can't go and
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seek forgiveness for that. Do you see what I mean?
48:37
However, in those cases, it's about recognition.
48:40
At the bare minimum. I shouldn't have said that I
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shouldn't have fanned the flames of this case or I shouldn't have
48:46
engaged in this content or I did something which I shouldn't have
48:48
done. I said or committed or or viewed
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or listened to something I shouldn't have.
48:53
And in those cases, the biggest, the biggest violin is yourself.
48:59
And you need to not just recognize that you've wronged
49:03
yourself, you also need to forgive yourself because when
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you've wronged yourself, you can't ask forgiveness of someone
49:08
else. You ask that you seek
49:09
forgiveness from yourself so that Ahmed I forgive you on the
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condition that you don't do this again and seek forgiveness from
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Allah ultimately. And you ask Allah for the
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opportunity to allow you to seek not just forgiveness, but also
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the strength to rehabilitate and you know, to, to not fall back
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into these sins. This is so important.
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You know, what are we here for, man?
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Allah can take our lives like that.
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You know, when I was listening to, I was listening to something
49:36
recently about Allah's will, bada and in again.
49:44
So Allah talks about omali kitab and he talks about Allah being
49:48
able to confirm something or to remove something according to
49:52
his will. And this is one of our proofs in
49:55
our school of thought about Allah's will and bada.
49:58
I thought about it. I was like Subhanallah, So if
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Allah elongated the labour of of Nabi Musa Ali Salaam by 10 days,
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in those ten days whatever happened, good or bad was the
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reaction or the consequences of what happened in the 30 days.
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You understand, from day 31 to 40, whatever have has happened
50:17
in the absence, the apparent absence of the Nabi at that time
50:22
was because from zero to 30, someone did something or the
50:25
community did something, so that in those ten days you're
50:29
basically it's your fault. Yeah.
50:31
If good or bad happens, that's on you, right?
50:34
In the same way, if we, for example, elongate the Raba, this
50:38
is going to sound crazy. We elongate the Raba children
50:41
that are born in that time or whatever lives that are lost in
50:44
that time. We're just MPC's in, in the eyes
50:47
of God, literally speaking, right?
50:49
We're we're literally people roaming on this earth.
50:51
We think we are conscious and emotionally, Yeah, we do.
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Of course. What I'm trying to say is, is
50:55
that we might be doing a dam damage to our future generations
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by wronging ourselves and the people around us today.
51:04
So that people tomorrow not just are born into this world where
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there is oppression, they may end up doing oppression on
51:11
themselves because of the oppression we've done on
51:13
ourselves today. Does that make sense?
51:15
So my point being is ultimately, we don't want to be not just
51:19
that fault for wronging ourselves, no wronging the
51:21
people around us, but for wronging those who aren't even
51:24
here yet. They are born into a society
51:27
where crime is is, you know, present and immorality and all
51:31
of these kind of things. Vices are so apparent and
51:34
obvious. And that is a result of our
51:37
collective inaction today. Do you get me?
51:41
So I feel like it's just something we need to ponder
51:43
upon. Sometimes this these small
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Nuggets of reflection end up being worth more than 70 years
51:49
of worship. Honestly, like just realizing
51:51
these small things, it's so valuable to us, bro, because you
51:55
know, we've got a big, big duty. Well, I can take you like that.
51:58
Like it means nothing to him. No sense.
52:01
There is definitely a duty and a collective responsibility what
52:04
we do now. Scraped off work.
52:06
Will affect the future in our community and our children, our
52:09
future generation. So inshallah we we make do with
52:14
what lost panel what's our expects?
52:16
Of us in the show, I mean. That's the final point for me
52:20
just on this whole children, because we mentioned children
52:23
numerous times and just in regards to what we, what we've
52:28
been seeing around the world recently, especially over the
52:31
last few years when it comes to like the Middle East, Iran and
52:36
all of this. I remember my daughter Haneen
52:41
she she asked me a question and I was like, she asked me a
52:49
question, but basically she said what's happening?
52:51
Who's who's, who's at war with Iran Nirmba.
52:54
I was thinking to myself, OK, how do I answer it?
52:57
How do I explain this to her? How do I say it in a way where
53:01
she understands which is age appropriate to her and things
53:05
like that. I was like, you know what,
53:06
hopefully even get why am I going to even try and muddy the
53:09
waters or even confuse her? I said that as is because at
53:13
that moment I told myself if I don't tell her, how can this she
53:18
May, God forbid, grow up and mix hack with falsehoods and I and.
53:24
That's on us. And and that's my fault.
53:26
I'm bringing this, I'm bringing this point up because of what
53:29
you just said previously, right? So I remember I told her XYZ
53:34
this happening and we have one side who you know is, is on the
53:39
Shalom of the path of Haq, on the path of ulaya, on the path
53:42
of all of this. And we have enemies of Allah.
53:44
We have people who want to destroy the faith, people who
53:47
want to mock our religion, people who want to bring us
53:49
down, bring Muslims down and things like that.
53:52
So I saw through, I used this as an opportunity to explain Hakan
53:56
battle to her. And then that reminded me of
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like, even if we feel like we're going through so many things, we
54:04
see so many things that are Shia, we never waver with hack
54:10
ever, never, never, ever. And it's important we always
54:13
call it out. It's always important we
54:15
recognize the falsehood when people claim to be on hack.
54:18
And if we look at, for example, one example, I know I'm going on
54:23
too long here. One example, if we use the
54:25
United States of America, for example, what what are they
54:28
champion? What they're saying right now
54:30
we're trying to get rid of X, trying to do Y for the better of
54:34
the world. No, we're you're destroying the
54:36
world. And they they use, Yeah, I've
54:42
gone on too much, haven't I? I've been told it's the end of
54:44
the episode. Be careful says be careful.
54:48
No, I, I agree. I know where you're coming from
54:50
and I agree with what you're saying.
54:52
You know, we have to be mindful of as especially what we teach
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our children. And for our listeners, a lot of
54:57
us who don't have children first, you may allow grant your
54:59
children if you're up, if you're ready and you're, you have the
55:01
opportunity, you're married and you're awaiting children may
55:04
allow give you that butter car. It's difficult, but in Charlotte
55:06
when the time comes, it will be worth it.
55:08
And for those who are not there yet and Charlotte may allow
55:10
grant that that that lahma to you.
55:13
And I think a final thing from from me is look like you said at
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the beginning so eloquently adore for all those who are
55:22
oppressed, all the Muslim mean around the world, all those who
55:24
are suffering, all of those mothers and fathers who have
55:28
lost children, children who have lost mothers and fathers, all
55:31
our ulama, all our mushdahidin. May Allah protect them, preserve
55:35
them and those who've given their lives in the cause.
55:37
May Allah elevate their station and shut Allah.
55:40
And finally, may Allah grant victory to the Mutt Minin and
55:43
grant US a hastened reappearance for the awaited Imam Ajalallahu
55:47
to Alef al Sharif. So when he comes, we pray not
55:49
just to recognize him, to have manifold of him, but also to be
55:52
wanted to be alongside him, by him.
55:54
We want him to want us there. We want him to want us to be
55:57
present, to call for him to rally for him to represent him,
56:01
to be ambassadors, for him to be people who have the name of our
56:05
Imam in our hearts and on our flags so that when we disperse
56:09
across the walls, we are carrying his vision visibly and
56:13
as well with our tongues and in our hearts.
56:15
And if we can do this, we can represent the Imam in every
56:18
single way possible. Then Inshallah we have achieved
56:20
what Allah has given us. But on what that will debate,
56:23
these are the two things which we have to champion and and
56:26
advocate for today such that the mission the to cleave of Allah
56:30
can be achieved. And in sha Allah, if we can do
56:33
that, we have surely succeeded. Well, sisters, thank you so
56:42
much. We're going to be back next week
56:44
in sha Allah for the final podcast.
56:46
In sha Allah, we have an amazing guest.
56:49
I I want to also say we did have a special guest who's due to be
56:54
on this podcast. Unfortunately, he's been stuck
56:56
in Najaf Sheikh, who means a lot to us.
56:59
And then Charlotte, I don't want to say his name, but I do want
57:01
to say that hopefully he'll be back in the UK and when we see
57:05
him, they all protect him and all the money in in the region.
57:08
But we hope to have them have them here soon so you guys can
57:12
benefit. And of course us ourselves next
57:15
week we'll a big, big, big discussion coming with someone
57:19
who we we've been waiting for, for a long time.
57:21
And Charlotte, that works out. We're looking forward to
57:23
recording it. But yeah, guys, keep supporting
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And we have a lot of plans and share Allah and forgive us as
57:35
well on these holy nights. Yeah.