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Imam Mahdi is Calling! 📞 (Ft. Sayed Ali Khalkhali) · After Maghrib 🌙

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  All the blah blah blah. James Milah Rahman Rahim slam
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  everyone, Welcome back to the aftermath of the podcast.
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  tune into the latest episodes. We've got a lot of content
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  coming up in the next few weeks in Charlotte as we approach
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  Shahramovan. Today is no different.
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  We have a very special episode with one of our favorite
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  favorite speakers, our favorite teachers and we're going to be
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  talking about Imam Al Mehdi Aslah.
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  The other followed your Sharif of course, as we know his
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  blessed Willadhat is in the next couple of days and we're going
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  to dedicate this entire episode to learning more about how to
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  connect with the Holy Imam in our day-to-day lives.
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  But this is not going to be one of those cliche majalis kind of
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  conversations. Inshallah.
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  This is a very deep and necessary conversation for us.
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  I have, but as always before we get into the discussion it gives
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  me great pride and honour to introduce my Co host.
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  Salaam alaikum.
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  Well, and I'm even better knowing that inshallah the
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  entire Muslim world or the Shia world in particular are
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  celebrating the auspicious birth of our living, breathing Imam
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  hastens reappearance. So how are you?
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  I'm OK at Hamdallah. It's it's a very joyous period,
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  isn't it? Last week at Hamdallah we had
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  the Shahaban molids of the heroes of Karaballah Alehim of
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  Salaam, and we are now in that phase where Shahramovan is
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  around the corner. We can smell the fragrance of
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  Ramadan. And it's it's it's I don't want
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  to say scary but it's like an intense yearning excitement.
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  But at the same time it's kind of like we need to fix up
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  because the day that that Shahramovan starts we need to
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  know that we're in the right place for the coming month in
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  sha Allah. So but you know we as we say we
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  sow the seeds for Ramadan in these weeks.
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  So Hamden Light, it's good. It's exciting time as well for
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  the community, but yeah, it feels like we've today's guest.
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  It feels like someone who we've been waiting since the beginning
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  of after to have on. We've been trying to coordinate
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  Hamdallah of last month that allows finally brought us
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  together at the right time, said Ali.
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  How you keeping safe? Al Hamdallah, thank you very
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  much and it's an honour to be here with you all.
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  So thank you for having us. I'm very concerned and happy
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  now. I'm telling the say just before
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  we start recording like this is like two years in the making.
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  Yeah, and I really wanted this conversation to happen.
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  So I'm excited for two reasons. Firstly, Noor and Alanor.
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  So say which number can turn of the lights on top of our heads.
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  But the main thing say that I wanna take this opportunity to
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  apologize to you from when I was a very, very young boy and you
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  were a teacher in Arabic school and a madrasah and I think I
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  gave you so many headaches this so do forgive me there, honey.
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  I've learned so much from you and you've continued to always
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  be part of my life journey. Spiritually.
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  It's Al Handala. It's an honor to have a great
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  student like I, said Andy Rather.
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  We had them of the added bait. And for me to be a teacher was
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  an honor. And I have many cherished
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  memories of those years that we were teaching in Albate School,
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  Al Hamdala. We have many young women who
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  were there. I can see the seeds, the fruits,
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  the great blessings of those gatherings and sessions.
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  There's nothing to afford so. I'm sure, I'm sure you've, I'm
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  sure you've got some good stories as well to tell us, to
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  share with the listeners. What happens in?
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  They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?
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  What? Happens in the classroom.
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  Stays in the classroom, I said. This is of course such an
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  auspicious, monumental, exciting occasion for us all.
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  You know, we we always talk about the Holy Imam in all of
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  our episodes and all of our conversations, and I think his
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  presence in our day-to-day life is unmatched.
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  Really. Of course.
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  But before we get deep into the conversation, we have a kind of
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  something we like to do an activity, which is whenever we
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  have a special guest who joins us on the podcast, said Ali.
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  And I like to get to know them away from the off the member as
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  or you know kind of away from the topic.
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  Now said Ali and I have thought of a question so I'm going to
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  hand it over to Sayed Allahu Akbar to take over.
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  No, no, Sayed this is yours. You do it way, but you set the
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  scene better than. That Allahu Akbar.
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  So the question is, it's like 2. They're linked together.
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  Saying that and I, and I think I'll, I'll try to word it as
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  simple as possible, is that what is your greatest fear, whether
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  you are a young man or until this age here today, what could
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  be your greatest fear? And if you can have one
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  superpower, what would it be and why?
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  Our greatest fear is at the end of the day that we're not on the
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  team of that little bait and not with him or Mehdi so but that's
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  was a man the day we were born so that our last days we want to
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  really be with him. That's our greatest fear that
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  the day when it's the decision making day and choices are made.
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  Which team you're in, you know like a captain when they choose
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  and they're like keep on selecting.
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  You're in my team, you're on my team and you keep on waiting.
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  Which team am I on? And if my Mehdi doesn't choose
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  us and me particular on his team, it's my greatest fear on
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  that day. The greatest superpower?
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  A great. Power you'd love to have and
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  why? Great power I'd like to have is
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  to meet my Imam Allah, to meet Him Allah, Allah, and to be with
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  Him and to remain attached to Him.
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  Honestly, that should be our all, all our hope, every single
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  one of us, to truly day in, day out, feel the Imam's presence
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  within us. And that Imam should be within
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  my heart, within my day, to their actions to show my love
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  towards him, express my love towards him.
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  He's not my Imam, he's not your Imam, he's all of us and he's
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  the one we're really waiting for.
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  How am I showing my eagerness for him?
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  And that's my super. I just want that moment that we
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  can really say that I have the Imam's presence amongst me, but
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  more important than seeing him and having the ability to see
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  him used to have the matter of thought of my Imam because there
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  were many who saw the Imam in front of their eyes.
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  But as the other say, it's not just about seeing physically the
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  two eyes seeing the Imam, because some saw the Imam and
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  they fought against the Imam. But having the matter of thought
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  of the Imam, having the recognition of the Imam, having
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  the ability to stand by your Imam, to show your love towards
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  him, that should be for us all. That we wake up in the morning
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  remembering our Imam before we sleep.
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  We remember Imam. Whatever we do in our lives,
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  he's part and parcel and he's the priority in my life today.
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  Alhamdulillah, this blessing. We see this now in our
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  majorities in our gatherings that we're reciting Dua
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  Allahumma, Kuli Aliq and Hajjat Abdul Hassan.
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  If you remember years and years ago, maybe people were not
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  reciting as much. We need to reinstate it from the
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  very young to the very old that always remember the imam of your
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  time in your duas and prayers. So inshallah, we hope that we
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  have this ability. Inshallah.
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  Usefully said. I think that leads us on quite
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  nicely as well to to the conversation today saying so of
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  course we are two or three days away from the 15th of Shahaban.
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  What goes through your mind on that day?
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  Is it a day of yearning or I don't want to say sadness, but
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  to an extent there is sadness because it's another year where
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  the Imam is not with us and we are not with the Holy Imam, and
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  it's another year where we recognize that the Imam is still
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  waiting for us to be ready to receive him.
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  So how do you approach that day? Is it one of of joy and
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  happiness or how? What goes through your heart and
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  mind? Of course, the month of Shaban
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  in itself is a month of joy and happiness in terms of
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  remembering the Willadat and the Milad events of the Abbad
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  Karbala. Of the heroes of Karbala and
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  3rd, 4th of Shaban and 5th of Shaban Abel Fad Abbas in between
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  Imam Hussain, third of Shaban Imams in Aberdeen on the 5th of
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  Shabba. This leads on to the one who we
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  recite in our where is the one who's going to avenge the events
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  that took place in Karbala? And day by day, as we're
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  approaching the 15th of Shaban, of course it's a day of joy and
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  happiness, remembering the one who shall return justice and
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  peace in the world that's been filled with tyranny and
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  injustice, filled with oppression and injustice Also,
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  before we enter the 15th of Shaban, Remember the night of
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  the 15th of Shaban? It's the second holiest night in
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  the Islamic calendar. After the night of the 15th of
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  Shaban, there are many Ahmad and Duas to recite, prayers to
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  recite from Macrib till dawn. One should spend the night in
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  Ibadah, spend the night in remembrance of a loss of hand
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  with other and itself. It's what it's a recall that
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  rebuild your connection to Allah, subhan Allah and rebuild
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  your connection to the Imam of your time.
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  When it comes to the 15th of Shaban it's a day of joy and
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  happiness but of course at the same time it's a day of
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  remembrance. Yes, maybe it's a day.
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  We should re pledge our allegiance a day to say what
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  have I done from last year, 15th of Shaban to this year to step
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  to take a few steps to take a few moments closer to my imam.
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  Many times when we go to Majalis and when it's really quite
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  packed, you find the the the chairperson would say Mohammed,
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  Mohammed for example, and say take a few steps closer or
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  they'll say please take two steps closer to the member so
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  there's space for others. One day a man done this, he said
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  please Momini take two steps closer to the member so the
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  majors can begin and there's space for others.
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  When the Qatri were on the member after his introduction,
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  he said all my lecture can be summarized in what the
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  chairperson said. Take two steps closer to the
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  Imam of your time and it's a remembrance for us. 15th of
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  Shaban How many steps have I taken closer to my imam?
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  Sometimes you know these apps give us a remembrance physical
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  steps you've taken. How much have you been walking,
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  exercising your heart? Screen time.
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  Maybe we should also screen time the the weakest screen time.
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  Maybe we should have an app for those who are app developers
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  there. How many times have I remembered
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  my Imam of my time? Beautiful.
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  How many times have I recited the Dua al Hajja?
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  How many times have I told others about my beloved Imam and
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  15th of Shaman Should be a moment of recollection
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  recognition. One of the moments that we do
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  remember is on 15th Shaban when we write the Arisa Arila Arila
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  and we send it as a letter between you and your Imam.
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  This is something beautiful. Let everyone speak to their
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  Imam. Call out to the Imam from their
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  heart to the Imam. That's why when it comes to the
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  15th of Shaban, I should remember that my Imam is aware
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  of my actions. How much have I done to please
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  him? How much from last year to this
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  year have I done to please him? And also, let's be positive, how
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  much am I going to do this year to gain nearness to my Imam, to
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  gain steps closer to my Imam, to show my love towards my Imam.
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  Because it's true, when we say waiting, it's a waiting game,
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  Imam is waiting for us, Imam is is waiting for us.
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  Many times when we go to some gatherings, majoris, maybe we
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  have one hour lecture about signs of the reappearance we
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  hear about. For example the events of the
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  15th of Shaban. What's going to happen when the
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  Imam reappears? But what have we done to prepare
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  ourselves for the Imam? I remember for example once we
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  were going to images and the Radu, the Mullah said, look if
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  the Imam was to appear now in this hall and was to ask you ask
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  me for your mobile, said Ali. Here's your mobile, here's your
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  phone. How many of us I sent you?
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  I said how many of us already say here it is?
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  Well, how many of us have to go to one side and say, let me
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  clear the history, let me delete the photos And then after a few
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  moments presented to him, how many of us already and like you
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  know, hands hands on our head say I'm ready for you, I'm
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  prepared. I'll give everything from my
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  Imam, one of the great companions of the Holy Prophet
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  that we all remember. Salman Al Muhammadi.
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  Salman was from Persia. It's interesting.
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  Imam Mossadeb Ali Abdullah Salat was Salaam used to constantly
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  remember Salman. Yeah.
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  So others who came to the 6th Imam said why do you constantly
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  remember Salman Al Muhammadi companion of the prophet?
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  He gave a number of characteristics and this is a
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  reminder for us who wish to be the followers companions as Har
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  Ansar of our Imam today. Because how was Salman a true
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  companion of his Imam of his prophet He said one of his the
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  first characters. He said he said Arthur, Arthur,
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  Arthur. He don't want self sacrifice, it
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  was altruistic. But how he sacrificed his own
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  neffs desire. How a neffs Lihawa Amir al Mumin
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  lihawa rasoolallah. He done what he done.
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  Self sacrifice of his own personal desires for his own
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  personal neffs. What he wanted for the what for
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  what his Imam wished for what his prophet wished.
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  And that shows he gave everything away for the love of
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  Allah, in honor of his Prophet, in honor of his Imam.
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  So how can my imam Remember Me today on the 15th of Shaban?
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  How is my imam remembering me? What did I do to keep away those
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  things, to bring myself closer to my Imam?
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  I think it's a huge, huge day of recognition.
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  I think it's, you know, those days that you're going to
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  remember yourself. Let everyone give a moment a
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  time, an allocated time on the 15th of shaban between
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  themselves and the Imam between the Mullah.
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  Santo, it's a great deal of significance.
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  Yeah. You know, say you know, you've
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  been speaking so much and I'm just, I keep thinking of so much
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  scenarios. And hey, you're mentioning
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  Salaman and Muhammadi. And it reminded me of a
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  conversation I had with Ahmed a few weeks ago here on the
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  podcast, in fact. And we were speaking about the
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  likes of Amar, of Nayasir, Nathan and Tamar.
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  And we were like, you know what made them them?
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  They truly strived to become a model in yourself.
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  They truly strived to become Nathan and Tamar and Charlotte
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  is something we can all try and aspire to be working ourselves,
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  change our daily habits, improve on.
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  Ourselves. You know what they had sorry to
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  interrupt you what they had which said Ali mentioned because
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  they had they knew the Imam of their time and they didn't die
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  the death of. That's a keyword.
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  That's a big keyword. Yeah, and that that you know,
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  said Ali. Your your your point about
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  acknowledging the Holy Imam in our day-to-day just struck me
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  because it's like you know we we pass through our daily lives
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  sometimes so trivially. You know we we go through our
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  day-to-day lives we wake up for work and we I saw a tweet last
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  night which just struck me. I don't know if you saw the
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  idea. I shared it on on the after
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  market pages like you know we we how many of us set our alarms to
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  wake up on time for for work. You know to to seek provision
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  but we don't set our alarms to wake up to to seek from the
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  provider. Our last month for faja and you
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  know these kind of things in terms of daily reminders, daily
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  connections to our last month. Allah to our holy imam.
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  You know we we let them pass by and then only when it matters or
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  at times of remembrance do we then recall.
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  Oh yeah no I shouldn't. I shouldn't pick up.
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  But you know, maybe there are times where we should take
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  things a bit more seriously. I think for me, it's bridging
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  the gap between my life and my religion and tying them into one
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  my material, 21st century life as a father, as an employee, as
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  whatever it might be. And they're connecting that to
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  what my soul yearns for and what my my destiny is as a moment,
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  for example. And finding the bridge between
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  these two personalities, these two roles, responsibilities I
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  have, I find that hard. Do you agree?
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  Said. It is extremely hard because you
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  can get so distracted say it And sometimes we, because we're so
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  distracted by our worldly affairs, we have family, work,
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  whatever it is that sometimes we forget that there is akhara,
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  there is hesab, there is kitab and there is an imam waiting for
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  us to do something to improve on ourselves because as you
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  mentioned earlier, we waiting for him as he's waiting for us.
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  Yeah. And he it's it's it's a two way
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  relationship and we're sitting down every day saying Allah
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  Mahajan the Willie Kalfaraj about do we really mean that And
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  I think he goes back to that word Marfa that you mentioned
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  and and I think it's nice to take the conversation this way
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  said when it comes to Marfa, a lot of people are excited with
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  this number 313. That's a question I want to ask
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  because I see it everywhere. I see it on people's social
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  media BIOS. Sometimes we see people inking
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  themselves with tattoos with 313, like it has some meaning to
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  them. But how can we understand what
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  the significance of 313 is? Is it tied to companions?
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  What is like the entire thing behind this numeric number?
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  So 313 before the reappearance of our 12th Imam has a
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  significant number in itself. 313 Of the Companions who were
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  in the battle of Beddor, in the first Battle of Islam, against
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  the Valamin, against the Mushrikin, against those who
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  were enemies of the Holy Prophet of Islam, according to the
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  narrations of the 6th Imam and the Imams of the Ali Bait the
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  whole Las, the sincere early 1st special.
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  Muklasin. Muklasin companions, who would
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  be the first and the early ones to respond to the 12th Imam to
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  be the first ones would be 313. Number does that mean from all
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  the millions of Muslims only 313 will be with the 12th Imam and
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  the rest will no, no, because they find the narrations
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  continue, then thousands will join, will join.
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  So of course, if we wish to be with those 313, we need to be
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  like those Salman, those Amar the answer, Or if not knife
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  Salman or Amar closer to the Imam of our time, closer to
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  those who were Trudy of the companions at better companions
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  of who companions of Imam Al Hussein on Sunday, Salaam
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  companion those who are truly with their Imam.
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  Those who wish to respond to the Imams call the 12th Imams, call
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  the Imams, call from Makkal, Mukarama from the holy.
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  Kaaba will not be only for the people of Makkah, but Allah,
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  Allah, Allah, entire world, entire world.
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  Before we would think how would it be possible for the call of
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  the Imam to reach everywhere. Now we see very clearly, no
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  doubt there would be a call, there would be a response also.
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  Who would be of those who would respond and say this is what
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  I've been waiting for my life, This is the moment that I should
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  give away. And as I have given away
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  everything for my Imam, I will continue to do so.
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  Yes, the 313 is a significant number, but let's not be fixated
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  on 313. I think sometimes we find people
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  just fixated on numbers or try to join numbers 313 plus this
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  number plus this number. Let's look at the quality, the
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  quality of the 313, the quality of the woman who are with Imam
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  Zahmiz Imam, the quality of the men who are with the Imam, What
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  quality do they have? What characteristics do they
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  have that I need to look into, that I need to refine in my life
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  to be with the Imam. Those qualities that will make
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  the Imam pleased with me. Sometimes we need to remind
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  ourselves that Imam is not on a different planet.
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  Imam is roaming on earth, Imam is walking on earth.
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  We even have a narration that says that never disrespect or
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  hurt any human being. Any person less.
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  It may have been your Imam that you didn't recognize and you
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  saw. Just be careful that your
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  manners and morals should be the best with everyone.
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  And when it comes to remembrance of the three one, three of those
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  companions, what one of the characters that they have is
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  they've done everything to please their Imam, Imam Asada
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  Ali Abdullah Salah to someone they met.
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  One of his companions came to him.
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  This companion done a good deed that he felt and believed that
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  no one saw of it except Allah. And the recipient of that deed
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  when he met the Imam, Imam said to him, may Allah bless you for
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  that great good deed of Salat al Rahim that you performed
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  connecting with your relatives, family members are home.
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  And I looked at the Imam said you're not a sulla.
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  No one was aware except Allah. And the recipient Imam said
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  something. What we believe in and what we
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  should truly consider every day in our lives says, Are you not
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  aware that you're Sahefa to Ahmad?
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  Your Ahmad. Your actions are presented to
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  us. We are aware of your actions.
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  We are aware of what you do, how many of us.
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  When my deeds are presented to my Imam today, he can't truly
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  say that I'm pleased with you. Well done in London, in New
• 24:02
  York, in Washington, California and various parts of the world.
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  This is my true follower. When it comes to the Salah time,
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  he prays on time. When it comes to Akhlaq with his
• 24:15
  family, he has the best of Akhlaq when it comes to
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  remembrance of Allah. He remembers Allah, he remembers
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  of his family. Everything is Roman lillah.
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  To please Allah and to please. So this becomes your lifestyle.
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  You have to live in this way. It's nice because you've said
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  you've found you've given us a practical tool on how to you
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  know, remembering the Imam, thinking of the Imam, these are
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  all actions that we we may do. But in terms of me becoming
• 24:46
  closer to the Imam in proximity, what you mentioned in the way of
• 24:51
  understanding the qualities that the Imam would look for in us
• 24:54
  because the link to Badr or Karbala makes me think of the
• 24:58
  companions that these two battles for instance and the OR
• 25:02
  in which we think of these companions Mellah bless them and
• 25:05
  the sort of qualities they had. As you mentioned the self
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  sacrifice, the the the diligence to protect the Holy Imam knowing
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  that the IT has to be compassion at times and patience at times.
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  And these are all qualities that they had in the moment.
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  But even to get to the battlefield in itself was a
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  journey for them and for us to imagine that well the Holy Imam
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  for him to also have 313 to accompany him be it literal or
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  metaphorical means that we should be aspiring to reach the
• 25:37
  same qualities that these prior companions had.
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  That's that is a practical outline for how we can call
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  ourselves worthy of being followers in the Holy Imam or at
• 25:47
  least a journey for us to get there.
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  Because to be very honest with you saying that some of us may
• 25:53
  listen to this and think for me to write my out either or for me
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  to do the do al Faraj every morning, how much closer will it
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  get me to the Imam? How much of A better human being
• 26:03
  will I be? But you know the focus on
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  oneself, the Maha Siba that we do will insure a lot of work on
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  that. What I wanted to ask Sid is the
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  the, the, the thing you mentioned about justice, the
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  Holy Imam bringing justice, he will come and he will talk to
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  the people of Ireland, the people of the earth and he will
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  say, I am here, the people of the world right now are focused
• 26:27
  on eradicating injustice on one side or in other cases are
• 26:32
  fuelling the fire of injustice. And we're specifically, when we
• 26:35
  talk of Palestine and the atrocities the 10s of thousands
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  of people which are being slaughtered in Gaza.
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  We we have are seeing of course the the absolute indiscriminate
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  bombing of Rafa and the camp, the refugee camp where we are
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  seeing horrific, heart wrenching pictures, videos, accounts of
• 26:54
  people who are losing their lives, children, women and those
• 26:58
  who are not able to access basic needs, water, food, health,
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  necessities, mothers. I saw today a story of a mother
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  who had given birth 30 minutes later she was made to walk miles
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  towards safety because the area she was in was being attacked.
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  Say the world is looking at a situation like this and people
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  are calling out and praying for the Holy Imam.
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  At a time like this. Either your faith in the Imam
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  can increase or unfortunately perhaps for some it will
• 27:27
  shatter. How do we know that the Holy
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  Imam will will come and inshallah resolve situations
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  like this and it will be high on his priority list because it is
• 27:38
  hurting the hearts of people? Well, the primary aim of the
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  Imam of our time as promised by the Holy Prophet and the Last of
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  Hanat Allah has mentioned this in the Quran.
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  Of course, JAL Haq was Zak al Baat.
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  Yeah was Zak al Baat. That the truth shall arrive.
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  And that truth is the truth of justice, the truth of all the
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  prophets. Oh yeah, of Allah, those who
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  truly were on the path of Allah, Subhan Allah, to truly determine
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  the rule of war, of love, of peace, of justice.
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  And yes, these are challenging times.
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  These are difficult times. These are times of where we
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  should really increase in our matter of our of our Imam, in
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  our love, of our Imam and remembrance of our Imam, and
• 28:29
  truly remembered the oppression that's happening everywhere in
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  the world, the oppression that's occurring, the oppression that
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  is recurring. Also, it's not just this
• 28:39
  oppression that we remember in the last few months continuous
• 28:42
  this continuous oppression. The volume that we are seeing
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  going to narration that people would be suffering and going
• 28:49
  through so much difficulty that some would be yearning for death
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  and say saying yeah Imam return. We wish to only see the true
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  justice, the justice of the Imam Sahab al ASI was Imam.
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  So where we see this oppression and injustice, it's a it's a
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  moment for us to reconnect with our Imam.
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  It's a moment for us to truly pray for his reappearance.
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  It's a moment for us to yearn. Because any system, and we've
• 29:19
  seen it now, any system, any ideology, has not brought the
• 29:24
  justice. Very true.
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  It's corrupted. It's ascent except for the
• 29:28
  justice that the Imam will bring.
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  The justice of the last part, which is the justice of Prophet
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  Isa Ali Saddam, the justice of Jesus, which is the same call
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  Jesus peace be upon him. The prophets of Allah, they all
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  wish for a moment of Advent and by the way no one.
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  Sometimes we always pray and say I wish to be with the Imam
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  Imams. The previous Imams would say to
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  those who are here today that they wish to be in this time and
• 29:59
  age. You know, sometimes we think why
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  am I here in this time? Why was I not there at the time
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  of the Prophet at Beddu? Why was I not there in Karbala?
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  In fact, the Imams say those who are here in this time, the time
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  of challenges, the time of oppression that they see and
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  they remain firm on their faith. They remain holding onto their
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  faith like how difficult it is when they say that those who are
• 30:25
  holding onto a iron burning charcoal for example, and they
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  still remain faithful and they still remain firm on the faith.
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  This is the time that the Imams say, the people who are there at
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  that time and age, they're better than every other time and
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  age. They didn't see their Imam, but
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  they believed in him. They loved him, they remembered
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  him, they talked about him, they yearned for his arrival.
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  In fact, the six Imam and we are Jafari Shiatna Asharis, he would
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  say Lo a direct to whom? Lahadam Tutulah Hayati.
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  If I were there during his time, the 12th imam's time, I would
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  have served him. I would have become of him.
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  Not for a few hours, not a few days not for a few months
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  because some people say that look, I've done a few hours of
• 31:20
  hidden that's you know, Imam Asad al Islam says I would have
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  served him my entire life. This is what the Imam says about
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  his great, great grandson. How many of us are serving our
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  12th Imam? Serving him also during this
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  time whereby when there is oppression in front of me, I
• 31:43
  stand up against the oppressors. Stand up whether in any way or
• 31:47
  means I can, whether it's by a letter, whether it's by standing
• 31:54
  up in a protest that I can, Whether it's spreading the the
• 31:57
  true understanding, the true teachings.
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  Because that's the teachings of not only the 12th Imam of the
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  teachings of Rasulullah, the teachings of Amir al Muni, the
• 32:07
  teachings of the Ahlbeit, the teachings of the Prophet of
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  Allah, the teachings of all. Yeah, lost part other states to
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  eradicate injustice, to eradicate oppression.
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  Adalah is the first of those titles that we always remember.
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  Why? Because also the Dean Tauheid.
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  And then we say Adalah and then Amir al Munma say firmly, Kono
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  Lavani, me Kasma, take a firm stance against the oppressor and
• 32:40
  be an aid towards the oppressed. And this is our stance today.
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  And this should inshallah give us more hope that look, there is
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  no true justice without the justice, the system of justice
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  of our beloved Imam Al Anis Rafi Al Bir, the one who is truly
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  loving towards his followers, towards his lovers, the one
• 33:08
  who's like a father's love towards his son, like a mother's
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  love towards their children. That is the Imam of our time, a
• 33:15
  Rafi, that close companion, that friend of ours.
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  That's where we need to really be and remember today.
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  Yeah, it's only not thinking. You know the justice of Imam and
• 33:28
  Mehdi Allah Hassan's reappearance is technically the
• 33:30
  justice of Allah. The message on his advent,
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  inshallah is the same message of Rasul Allah.
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  And these are things that I think we have to factor in and
• 33:38
  remember that Al Mehdi is not coming back with something new
• 33:42
  and something different. Rather he's here to truly revive
• 33:44
  the same way Imam and Hussain on the plains of Karbala wanted to
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  revive the teachings of Rasulullah Muhammad Sallallahu
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  Alaihaiya Salem there are similarities and the reason why
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  I'm going to connect this here. You mentioned Imam and Hussain
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  very early on when we started this conversation and reminded
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  me of that saying we always hear every year during Muharram.
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  You know those who went against Imam Hussein, no, they wanted
• 34:07
  him, they loved him, they believed in him, they respected
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  him, Their hearts were with him, but their swords were against
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  him. And I and I think that's that's
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  eyes into our conversation here today.
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  As much as we're saying Allahu Mahajan, Luwalia Kalfaraj, are
• 34:20
  we ready for that return when he does come and shout a lot and
• 34:22
  this amazing Advent a lot of people are scared of because
• 34:25
  we've always grown up hearing you know, the signs of the end
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  of times. There's going to be wars.
• 34:30
  There's going to be like killing everything.
• 34:31
  That's not. I think it's a joyous return for
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  a moment. That believer is going to love
• 34:36
  that, that return of Unmeti ma Allah, Hastings reappearance.
• 34:39
  But one thing I do want to add to the points we were mentioning
• 34:42
  that the challenges are true. Saying that and it's not just
• 34:44
  oppression. The challenges are society, like
• 34:47
  society's, just going downhill. Morality is just going down the
• 34:50
  drain. The evil has become good and the
• 34:52
  bad has become something like legitimized and subhan Allah.
• 34:57
  The days we live here today, facts that we know as facts are
• 35:01
  being challenged. The the basic things such as
• 35:04
  biology. I mean if we're worried now, I
• 35:07
  don't know what it's going to be for years down the line for our
• 35:09
  children or possibly our grandchildren, how life can be.
• 35:11
  And for them it's going to be even more challenging and more
• 35:14
  dangerous. So what does it take saying that
• 35:16
  to be like steadfast on that path of, you know, I am ready
• 35:21
  whatever the cost, whatever the challenges, whatever may come my
• 35:25
  my way or for my children's way. How can we remain truth
• 35:29
  continuously? Because it's nice we're speaking
• 35:31
  here, our energy levels are up. It's the Knights of 15 Shaban.
• 35:35
  Of course we're going to speak about Imam Mehdi.
• 35:37
  How can we make that continuous throughout the year?
• 35:41
  It's like that relationship. As well, especially saying when
• 35:43
  we're in the like the the heat of of temptation.
• 35:47
  So you know you're tempted to do a sin, You're tempted to skip
• 35:52
  your Salah, you're tempted to listen to music, You're tempted
• 35:55
  to talk to the opposite gender. How do I build a a, a habit of
• 36:00
  remembering the Imam and the imam's wishes for me when I'm in
• 36:03
  my lowest of the low? Because right now I say that Ali
• 36:05
  mentioned we are in the peaks, have handled a lot of of
• 36:08
  spirituality and and energy, but there are times where we're not
• 36:11
  like that, especially in other times of the year.
• 36:14
  I speak to myself before I speak to any of you, because all of
• 36:17
  you are better in my eyes than a lot of times.
• 36:19
  Award you all the best. Oh, and fusa kamua.
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  Hello, oh and fusa Kamua. Last one says.
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  Save yourselves and your families.
• 36:29
  Save yourselves and your own ones, your close ones.
• 36:34
  This is the time that we really are challenging times, really
• 36:38
  testing times, and at the same time remember that Imam is
• 36:42
  praying for us, Imam is remembering for us.
• 36:46
  In fact, he wrote in a letter to Sheikh Al Mafid.
• 36:50
  And we're not absent, Imam says. We are not absent of what's
• 36:59
  going on in your affairs and we're not heedless of
• 37:05
  remembrance of you, of thinking of you, of praying for you.
• 37:09
  So he says, do everything that brings you closer and hub
• 37:16
  towards the Imam, towards Allah and Waliyetta, Jannab, Ammar,
• 37:23
  Yudney. And let inform Shah Mufid.
• 37:27
  Inform the followers, inform the people, let them stay away from
• 37:31
  all those things that the Imam dislikes.
• 37:36
  That the Imam gets upset that my follower, my beloved one, he
• 37:41
  performed this, he done this in his life.
• 37:44
  So I think if we can always keep that in our mind, the how much
• 37:51
  or how many steps in in that process that I'm doing, is it
• 37:56
  going to satisfy my Imam? Is it going to show love towards
• 38:00
  my Imam? Is my Imam going to be pleased
• 38:03
  with? And yes, there are going to be
• 38:06
  those temptations. Those temptations are a temporal
• 38:10
  satisfaction of myself. And that's why a true test of a
• 38:14
  human being is when he removes those satisfaction, those
• 38:18
  moments of satisfaction of the Nets.
• 38:21
  Why? For greater satisfaction, the
• 38:24
  satisfaction of the Imam of my time?
• 38:26
  Because that's a sign of a person who's truly waiting.
• 38:32
  Truly eager was waiting. Should be someone who's
• 38:37
  preparing. If I'm saying I'm waiting for
• 38:41
  Said, I need to come to my house.
• 38:46
  I should really be prepared. My home should be prepared.
• 38:49
  Everything. For the moment of his arrival, I
• 38:54
  said You said something interesting when he rings your
• 38:57
  doorbell. Are you ready?
• 38:59
  How many of us? If our Imam rings our doorbell?
• 39:02
  A great joyful occasion is sha Allah, how many of us would be
• 39:06
  like Yam al Hassan Tafaban? My Imam, I've been waiting for
• 39:11
  you for years and now I have the honor.
• 39:14
  See, I mean we are shahnor of this couple of weeks ago.
• 39:16
  I don't know if you had we are shahnor of this.
• 39:19
  What would you do if the Holy Imam came to your house?
• 39:22
  He was like, Oh my God, you know, mashallah he he.
• 39:26
  So my fear is my fear is myself, that some of us may or myself
• 39:34
  say I'm not. Am I actually ready?
• 39:36
  Am I prepared? We could possibly shut that door
• 39:38
  while. God forbid I remember a Sheikh
• 39:41
  who said this, he said. God forbid we ever see such a
• 39:44
  moment that the imam keeps on knocking on people's homes.
• 39:50
  And those who were saying, yeah, that Hassan were ready was
• 39:54
  actually, can you wait a bit? Wait outside?
• 39:57
  Why? Because I need to remove the.
• 39:58
  Said. We've seen stories like this
• 40:00
  with our previous imams. We've seen times where Miramotte
• 40:04
  Minin was shunned in the public. We've seen times where Imam and
• 40:07
  Hussain, Imam and Hassan were shunned from the public and
• 40:09
  times even where the representatives of the imams
• 40:12
  would go out to search for the people.
• 40:15
  We talk about how Hazrat Muslim and how he was door to door to
• 40:18
  door to door in the night in Kufa.
• 40:21
  That was playing through my head.
• 40:22
  Yeah, yeah, same same door to door.
• 40:24
  And it just makes you think that if if the time comes in history
• 40:28
  repeats itself, there there is no in my mind.
• 40:31
  I see as no coincidence that we talk about 313 and we talk about
• 40:37
  when the Holy Imam reappears. He makes these five statements
• 40:40
  in by the Kaaba, three of which relates to Imam and Hossein
• 40:44
  Islam that you know history will repeat itself.
• 40:47
  And if anything, a lost pantal says so many times on your Quran
• 40:51
  that I made you given you these stories for you to reflect on so
• 40:55
  shallow we can, you know, take them and take heed of them
• 41:00
  because it's very easy for us to see.
• 41:02
  I'm I, yeah, I'm, I'm, I pay my membership to the mosque.
• 41:06
  Or maybe in my case, I have very membership to the mosque, not
• 41:08
  every mosque. And, you know, I I visit the
• 41:11
  Majalis and I call my son Mehdi, and my father's called Ali.
• 41:14
  And I'm a Shia. Like, do you know what I mean by
• 41:17
  label? Perhaps, you know, by the app on
• 41:19
  my phone. The wallpaper on my phone may
• 41:21
  show I'm a Shia. What's the action?
• 41:23
  What's in my heart? Well, that's when they came to
• 41:27
  the Imams and they said this. I'm one of your Shia, OK?
• 41:31
  A man came to this, the 2nd Imam, because many of us use
• 41:35
  this term loosely. Yes, he said yeah, Abdullah if
• 41:41
  in Kuntalana, if towards our Awamir was Awajir Awa miRNA was
• 41:48
  Awajir. And if towards our commands and
• 41:51
  prohibitions to the Imams commands and prohibitions of
• 41:55
  course their their commands and prohibitions are the commands of
• 41:59
  Allah and few obedience fully obedient fully God and fully
• 42:08
  serving forgot so that then your truth or actually your a Shia
• 42:13
  Then the Imam said wait but if not then do not increase in your
• 42:19
  sins by claiming to be of a status was you're not.
• 42:25
  Well that's why when we say we're Shia inshallah we are
• 42:29
  Shia. We should look at the imams
• 42:31
  narrations of the characteristics of a Shia, the
• 42:37
  Shia of prophet Ibrahim Ali Saddam the Shia of the Holy
• 42:41
  Prophet Muhammad Sallallallahu Alaihi wasallam the Shia of Amir
• 42:45
  alumni. There are narrations that say
• 42:47
  was Shia to Aliyan. Narrations from the 11th Imam.
• 42:52
  If a person has these characteristics can truly be
• 42:55
  called she was Shia to Aliyah and the Shia of the 12th Imam
• 42:59
  Today what characteristics do I have today?
• 43:05
  The characteristics of a multman to show.
• 43:09
  Sometimes it's hard to show that I'm a true Shia.
• 43:12
  Some of us we show our love for other things more than our love
• 43:18
  towards our Imam. Simple example, the love of
• 43:23
  someone towards their football club jersey.
• 43:27
  The colour for example, the T-shirt, the cap they wear, the
• 43:32
  trainers even or sometimes even everything they show for the
• 43:38
  same colour I sent them But and they want to show it to others.
• 43:42
  Even when when you speak to them, they keep on going on and
• 43:45
  on. So have you.
• 43:46
  I understood you love the sea but he wants to show it.
• 43:49
  Man have the shape and Lahey Jebedique, one who loves
• 43:52
  something wants to constantly mention it.
• 43:54
  Where do we show our love towards our Imam?
• 43:58
  Where do we show we love him? This is the way we speak, the
• 44:02
  way we act, the way we conduct ourselves.
• 44:06
  In fact, someone said the quite interesting example, he said
• 44:09
  when you see some people, they're in love with something
• 44:11
  so much, see how they act when they lose that thing, even for a
• 44:17
  few days, he said. I saw someone who lost their
• 44:22
  pet, their cat, they went to the roads, the community, the local
• 44:30
  radio even pronouncing please, my cat has this sign, everything
• 44:36
  to show that look, this is something that I love, a pet
• 44:40
  that I've taken care of and I've lost it for this many.
• 44:44
  Days they couldn't bear the absence.
• 44:46
  Ascent. They felt the frock.
• 44:49
  And then when they find it, it's the happiest day in their life.
• 44:54
  Where do we show that? Lots of my Imam in my life
• 44:58
  today. Very, very true.
• 44:59
  Where do I show that his absence is hurtful?
• 45:03
  I'm suffocating in his absence? Or am I just living happily if
• 45:06
  you can? Because there are days where
• 45:08
  some of us will go by and we will not remember the holy Imam.
• 45:12
  We won't recite Dal faraj, we won't do his yada.
• 45:15
  And these kind of like small daily actions.
• 45:18
  They they become habitual for us and they embed in our soul and
• 45:22
  our personality for some of us. If you say where, if you went
• 45:25
  five days without doing the ziad or the Salaam to the only imam,
• 45:30
  does it affect you? Does it hurt you?
• 45:33
  You know, for some of us it doesn't matter.
• 45:35
  We may go a month without it. We may go many God knows how
• 45:38
  long before we bow our heads for the only mum like you know.
• 45:42
  For others it will hurt, it will yearn.
• 45:44
  And I was going to ask you this earlier but I think you've
• 45:47
  answered my question. I was about is there a litmus
• 45:49
  test like is there something which I can use to to filter out
• 45:53
  to know whether I am currently at a stage I need to be or not.
• 45:56
  I think everyone will say I'm I'm not and everyone will say
• 45:58
  I'm not I I can improve. I know my potential but you know
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  this. This is a good example.
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  If I had a few days away from the Holy Imam or without
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  remembering the Holy Imam, would it affect me?
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  Would I realize, You know, because many of us wouldn't even
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  realize, Perhaps you? See what I mean?
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  Even in sending it in our children and our young ones even
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  simple tasks that we do. Let them remember the Imam when
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  they want to give sadaqa say sadaqa and love of your Imam.
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  Once you when you want to give a gift them something say this is
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  a gift not just from your parents gift in honor of your
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  Imam Zaman on the days of Shaban for my son, for my daughter, let
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  that recollection of the Imam of their time be in their hearts
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  and minds that day. Even as a young, at a young age,
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  they always show their love, have their love towards their
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  Imam and that will increase in their hope in them and their
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  love towards the Imam. Like the companions of Imam and
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  Hussein, like the companions of the Imams, like the companions
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  of Rasulullah was that love grew within them, that love was
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  something that stayed and grew within them.
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  And of course, there is one more L We need to also mention love
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  and loyalty. The loyalty of those towards
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  Imam Hussein. The loyalty of those companions.
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  The loyalty of the true ones. How much am I loyal to my Imam?
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  How much am I BA Wafaa? Am I of those who have Wafi have
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  wafaa within them? How much am I really close to
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  him, attached to him? How much do my words and actions
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  show that I'm loyal towards my Imam?
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  This is a lesson we can learn from many other things in life.
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  A dog it's loyal towards, It's loyalty towards their master and
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  those who are loyal towards their loved ones.
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  How much of my loyalty wants my Imam?
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  Because love and loyalty need to go hand in hand in shelves I.
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  Really love these points. Say it because it makes me think
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  of there's so much like critical things that we need to consider
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  in our day-to-day lives to ensure like you know where our
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  heart is, the direction, like our end goal, our our aim like
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  where is it heading. And inshallah is is towards
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  inshallah working towards becoming closer to the Imam of
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  our time. But it makes me ask a question
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  because it reminds me of a hadith that I've always heard of
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  growing up and I've always read it numerous times as the one who
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  dies without knowing the Imam of this time will die of death.
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  One considered to be ignorance and that raises say a number of
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  questions for that hadith to be said all the time and to be read
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  all the time and mentioned all the time.
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  A lot of people struggle to understand the meaning behind
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  it. And I and I and I think from
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  what I've understood that means for us to truly know the Imam
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  Sahab al Asia was was the man which is the Yarman Mehdi who's
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  our Imam of our time is that there is a level of duty we must
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  act on and there is a number of responsibilities we have towards
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  the Imam of our time, especially during this time of labour.
• 49:05
  What are those duties and responsibilities that is
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  expected of us so that we can have that amount of that I
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  obtain that belief, that relationship and that connection
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  with Imam and Mahdi. So interestingly this hadith is
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  not only narrated from our Holy Prophet Salallahu honey what is
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  in which is unanimously agrees. We also have this hadith
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  mentioned by the Imams of the albeit as if reminder have
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  Maarif of your Imam and the 6th Imam to Zorara one of the great
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  companions. I would say Zorara there would
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  be a time that the Shia are Muslims would be away from their
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  Imam and Raba he'll be in Raba. That would be the most testing
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  time. That will be the trial and
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  tribulations of our true Momini Shia in that time and age.
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  Recite this to all related to Ma Arifa related to recognition.
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  Allahu ma Arafni Nefsek Allah Matter of first starts with
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  matter of Allah. If I have the matter of my Imam
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  of my time and I have no matter of Allah, what's the point?
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  There's a loose screw somewhere. What's going on now?
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  Yeah, I need to start with my marathon recognition of Allah
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  Allah marathon F SEC. And if I have no matter of
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  Allah, I have no matter of Allah, the Holy Prophet.
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  So the law I didn't want to say Allah my refnetting.
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  If I have no matter of the Prophet, I have no matter of the
• 50:39
  Hajj of Allah. Today I love Arif NI Hajetek
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  Fennekel to Arif NI Hajetek Wallal to and Dean.
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  I have gone astray from my Dean from my part.
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  So the first of many responsibilities and duties we
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  have is to increase in I'man 0. Maharifa is not just the
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  superficial. I know my Imam of my time, he's
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  the 12th, he was born on the 15th of Shabam 255AH.
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  He's the son of Imam Hassan. That is superficial, that is.
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  Very basic textbook. Maharifa is true understanding
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  and recognition. And when it comes to Maharifa, I
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  sometimes ask myself how many narrations do I know from my
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  Imam? How many times have I opened the
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  textbook and read the life of the 12th Imam, Sayings of the
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  12th Imam, Statements of the 12th Imam, verses of the Quran
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  which the Imams and the Prophet have said these are in relation
• 51:48
  to the 12th Imam. These are all ways of increasing
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  my my Arifa, of my Imam. Some some people they come
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  fixated. Also signs of the 12th imams
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  reappearance. Oh it's not too close of the
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  sign so I don't really know that's not true.
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  Marifa Marifa is recognition of your Imam.
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  It's very true awareness of your Imam, full depth knowledge of
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  your Imam. Maybe every single week day
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  increase the marif of your Imam. What step have I taken to
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  increase my matter of awareness of my Imam?
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  Simple task. When you leave your home every
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  day, direct yourself and say as Salaam that is one step of
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  marafa that what you've done is you've done a a recognition that
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  my Imam is alive today and I say Salaam to my Imam today.
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  That's when I wake up and when I go to sleep.
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  I know my imams here. I'm aware of him.
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  I have not left of him in my life.
• 52:55
  Today when I return home, I do everything in my home, preparing
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  ourselves, my family, my loved ones, my dear ones for my
• 53:08
  beloved Imam, everything in recognition of my Imam.
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  Even the other day I was during a conversation when someone said
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  that's have so much respect to other members of your beloved
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  community of your society. Because at the very least they
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  have love for their Imam and it's possible that their Matt
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  Arifa of their Imam is more than yours and they may be steps
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  closer to their Imam. So increase in your Matt Arifa
• 53:37
  of your Imam, your awareness of your Imam, your recognition of
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  your Imam. There are many of the duties and
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  responsibilities that we need to really be aware of rights of our
• 53:49
  Imam interval. Waiting for Imam truly waiting.
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  Active. Interval.
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  Active interval or Are you ready?
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  We see these slogans nowadays. Campaigns assign campaigns
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  awareness of the Imam. What else do our remembers of
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  the Imam in our duas and the dua should be #1, our Imam of our
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  time, priority in our lives, Precedence in our life should be
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  our Imam. Even simple simple recollection
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  of our Imam in our lives and where in moments that we even
• 54:28
  think that our connection to Allah but they're also.
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  You can also have that remembrance of your Imam.
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  For example, one of the great deeds of Salah and the best deed
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  of Salah is to perform at the time of favila.
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  Yes, when I'm performing at the time of favila.
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  Let me remember this is the time that my Imam also prays.
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  The Imam does not pray delayed to hear.
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  And what you'll pray at the time of favila?
• 54:57
  Yes, you'll pray at the earliest time.
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  That's my Imam. That's when he'll pray.
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  Would you pray in the last minutes just before it becomes
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  other? That's not a true true matter of
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  the Imam because a matter of the Imam says that the Imam will
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  prayer time the rights of Hajj when I go to Hajj Inshallah
• 55:17
  Allah Subhana Taala gives us that tall fear to go to Hajj.
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  Remember your imam's also performing Hajj and that may
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  also be a moment in our lives that's physically we are close
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  in distance from in Hajj. We may not have future my sins.
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  He had the opportunity to see him, but he is there, he's aware
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  of us. He's performing pawaf, he's an
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  Arafat, he's in MENA, he's in those tents.
• 55:45
  When we go to Ziara of Imam Al Hussein, the Imam is performing
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  the Ziara, the Ziara of the Al bait.
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  How much have I really had that Marifa that these steps I'm
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  taking walking towards Karbala? Inshallah, that's how many, How
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  many steps am I taking closer to my Imam?
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  And I really love some of those slogans that I've seen.
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  That's these steps that I'm taking are hadiya for my imam,
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  for law. Why?
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  That shows? Yeah, Santo beautiful.
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  That's steps that I'm taking for my Imam.
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  This reminds us, look how much of our deeds have we gifted it
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  to my Imam? What about you?
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  Not lie to Allah, he doesn't need my my deeds.
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  But it shows that I'm showing myself devotion, my accent, my
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  devotion and love. That this is everything in love
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  of Allah and love of my Imam. Imam of my time.
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  Simple dua on a Friday a Friday which is dua of our Imam the
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  zihar of my Imam Dua nutber. Many times you ask on what we
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  need. Brothers sisters, do I own nut
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  on a Friday day, a week by week basis.
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  Recite the dua nutber. If you can't enter enter the
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  center recite at home dua or nudba.
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  Recite between you and Allah remembers of your imam.
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  Recite the ziara of the 12th Imam on a Friday as Salaam
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  alaiki alaiki al sahaba ziman. Recite your Salaam.
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  Have presidents of your Imam in your day-to-day lives.
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  Everything priority is my Imam. There are two moments that are
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  difficult. Truly is difficult.
• 57:36
  That's the test. How much will it please my Imam?
• 57:40
  How much will it being closer to my Imam?
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  How much will it bring me closer to Allah, Muhammad to Allah
• 57:47
  after Maharib and before Maharib always remembering.
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  No pardon. Imam truly, I I mean I think we
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  we really, really need to increase our Muad Muhammad
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  towards my Imam. Inshallah because none of this,
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  none of our deeds would have a blessing.
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  You know that's sparking your life without our imam's
• 58:13
  blessing, without that signature I sent, without that topia,
• 58:17
  without that signature of that Imam.
• 58:19
  You know when you do all your good deeds and you work so hard,
• 58:23
  then you think, why didn't I get the certificate?
• 58:26
  If I don't get the certificate at the end of the day that you
• 58:29
  are a true fellow of the 12th Imam, then what have I done in
• 58:33
  my life? What's the worth?
• 58:37
  Santo said. You've given us a lot.
• 58:39
  Real have conversation, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 58:42
  Like I'm having an epiphany and also like an internal panic
• 58:47
  attack. What have I been doing my whole
• 58:49
  life now? Hamdulillah said that, thank you
• 58:50
  so much. I think you've you've given us
• 58:53
  both inspiration for look and hope for the future and also
• 58:58
  practical day-to-day tips which we all need.
• 59:01
  We all need to find a way to rebuild that connection with the
• 59:04
  Holy Imam and to understand that the Imam loves us as well.
• 59:08
  And you know he's yearning for us and he has a desire, a hope
• 59:11
  for us that the the the earlier Imams have foretold about us and
• 59:16
  our community in that they have looked at us with hope as well.
• 59:20
  So inshallah we can be amongst those who are destined for
• 59:23
  greatness beside the Holy Imam. I think that is probably the
• 59:27
  best gift that we can get. You know the best honour that we
• 59:32
  can ever receive insha'allah and we pray saying that we are
• 59:35
  beside the Holy Imam and also beside you.
• 59:38
  And you know inshallah, we continue to learn from your your
• 59:41
  wisdom and your knowledge. The knowledge that you've gifted
• 59:44
  to our community for for decades now have to learn in
• 59:46
  Charlemagne. Long may continue and we pray
• 59:49
  for our last Pantallah to always give you more Baraka risk and
• 59:52
  success. Insha'allah, I mean, I said.
• 59:54
  I didn't really find the words. I just want to generally, deep
• 59:57
  down from the heart, thank you Sid, because it's made me think,
• 1:00:00
  truly think quite deeply is like where I am currently at the
• 1:00:03
  stage of my life in terms of my relationship with the Imam of my
• 1:00:07
  time. So it's I think it's really
• 1:00:09
  going to help guide me inshallah to make that connection with my
• 1:00:13
  living Imam. I need to always remember he is
• 1:00:15
  alive and he's there, how to improve that, how to work on
• 1:00:18
  myself and better myself. And I know everyone listening
• 1:00:20
  and watching to this. Charlotte Podcast and
• 1:00:23
  conversation. They really benefited from this
• 1:00:25
  episode. And if and if you haven't, I
• 1:00:28
  really need you to check your hearts because I learned so.
• 1:00:30
  Today today. But when you in Charlotte if you
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  guys are listening on the the night it releases Thursday night
• 1:00:36
  of course you've done your darker mail and all of that
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  inshallah and we can prepare for tomorrow morning I said Ali
• 1:00:41
  mentioned the DA anudba and inshallah ahead of this weekend
• 1:00:45
  where we celebrate the the event of 15th shaaban.
• 1:00:47
  But we can begin to implement this from tonight and inshallah
• 1:00:51
  from tomorrow morning. You know, we are recording this
• 1:00:54
  on a Thursday night as well and you know, this is reminder,
• 1:00:58
  stock reminder for us to anudba do I I heard, do I Farage.
• 1:01:01
  Like these are all treasures that we have.
• 1:01:04
  So you know, these are like actual things we can begin to
• 1:01:07
  do. So I say thank you so much.
• 1:01:09
  Really, really appreciate everything.
• 1:01:10
  Thanks to a loss of Harutan, thanks to you wonderful gems.
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  Honestly you are bringing us all inshallah closer to the Imam of
• 1:01:19
  our time and may Allah reward you all best.
• 1:01:21
  Inshallah we can all be aspiring to be true followers of our
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  beloved the moment Charlotte. May Allah reward you all best.
• 1:01:28
  And Charlotte, if we are last moments in our life, we're not
• 1:01:33
  there at the moment of the reappearance.
• 1:01:36
  At least let's have this hope that the moment that we're
• 1:01:40
  placed six feet under, that the Imam is blessed and is pleased
• 1:01:46
  with us and you can say He is one of us, Inshallah.
• 1:01:50
  The moment in Munkar and Nikita asking questions inshallah can
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• 1:02:01
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• 1:02:04
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• 1:02:07
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• 1:02:10
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• 1:02:13
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