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Allah (SWT) in Karbala (Ft. Sayed Mahdi Modarresi) · After Maghrib 🌙

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  Smila Rahman, Raheem, Salaam Alaikum and welcome back to the
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  Aftermath podcast. It's a brand new week and that
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  means we're having a brand new conversation.
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  And I'm sure you're noticing by now I'm not joined by my usual
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  weekly Co host brother Ahmed Gokul.
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  And that's sadly because a relative of his has passed away
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  in Karbala as of today. May Allah bless his soul and
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  inshallah we remember him and inshallah we remember all the
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  Marhameen around the world, in particular Al Hajj Aborad al
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  Salawi. Please remember him by reciting
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  Surat al Fatiha. However, I am joined by a
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  special brother of mine, someone who I have been, I would say
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  I've known for many, many years. And he always brings a brings
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  joy to my heart, brings a smile to my face.
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  And that's none other than brother Yasser and healthy
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  Salawat. I'm well, I'm better now that
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  you decide me. I lost saw you in the Magales
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  and I haven't seen you since, so it's good to see you once again.
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  Very nice to see, you said. As always, I'm blessed to be
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  sitting here today, blessed to be on the podcast and inshallah
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  some knowledge can be gained today.
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  Inshallah and if you don't know, back in season 2 we actually had
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  brother Yasser feature an episode of ours where we learned
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  so much about Oblis Shaitan arrogance and ego.
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  So do TuneIn and shot Allah. And we are joined by a special
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  guest, someone who's very there to us here after Maghrib.
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  And that's his Eminence, the respect to Sayed Sayed Mehdi and
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  Madarasi Sayed Salaam. Alaikum Salaam to both of you.
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  Great to be back here on the podcast.
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  I've been here a couple of times.
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  I think yes, it was just a that one time.
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  As in you've been here numerous times, but we've we've only had
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  one episode with you and this was Las Muharram.
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  That's right. This will make it the 2nd and
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  Inshallah at that time lucky. Well, inshallah it's it's great
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  to be back for sure. And especially given the
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  podcasts increasing popularity and even more important than the
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  popularity aspect, the benefit that it brings to so many
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  people. We were having a conversation
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  earlier about how you hear from people from far-flung places
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  across the globe who TuneIn they listen and they have benefited
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  from the content that you've you've been putting out.
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  So you're certainly doing a service to the Imam of the time
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  inshallah. And I hope you keep it up for
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  for a long, long time. And that's very kind of you
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  saying that, but that's what the blessings of the brothers here
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  behind the team are saying that Before we get into the
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  discussion, you were here in, well, not London, in Manchester,
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  here in the United Kingdom, and you were giving 10 nights
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  Majalis up north. How are you, Majalis?
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  Like. Compared to all the years you
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  see this year, different Manchester, different to London
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  like. Well, since I guess both
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  Londoners and Mancunians will be listening to this, I have to be
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  very careful what I say and how I draw comparisons between the
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  two cities. But I must say I really enjoy my
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  time up north. The community there is
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  incredibly passionate and devoted to Imam Hussein Ali
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  Salaam. So is the community in London,
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  don't get me wrong, but I, I definitely enjoyed my time.
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  It was a great experience. I've been there many times
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  before. No, that's why I keep going.
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  I, I really like it there and I like the community.
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  I like the fraternity, the sense of brotherhood and the devotion.
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  I mean, it's, it's so beautiful that, and I think you only get
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  to see this in Muharram that you see so many youth coming
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  together to serve, not just to engage and listen and to perform
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  the rituals, but you know, they just show up to serve.
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  And I have many stories of people who used to drive for
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  about an hour and a half just to come to the Med list and stand
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  there in the rain and help organize parking spaces and
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  things like that. And so it's very inspiring
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  really. And I tell them all the time, I
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  say, I, I, what I do is really easy compared to what you have
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  to endure in the sense that I just get to sit there in the
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  limelight and recite the medulist and give my speech,
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  whereas you have to put in all the hard work to make this
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  medulist happen. So obviously you have a lot of
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  parallels with that here in London.
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  I think the UK in general is a, is a, is a nation that has a lot
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  of potential. When you see the youth, when you
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  see their devotion and their sense of sincerity when it comes
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  to serving Hamid Hussein Aliyah Salaam.
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  I mean, the, the whole social fabric changes completely in
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  Muharram and it it's, it's something that's beautiful and
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  gives me a lot of inspiration. And I think a lot of other
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  countries could learn from that experience.
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  And so Mashallah, beautiful. It reminds me of normally in the
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  here in London, we have Magalis throughout the year, whether
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  it's Parthamiya or commemorating Gomal Benin.
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  And people actually fly in in the UK to experience the Magalis
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  and be a part of them. And the author is always working
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  behind the scenes with Magalis. You have a lot of inside.
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  It's a fall somebody actually, on that note, someone came to
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  the measures. I mean, they, they were coming
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  from different towns and cities, from the Greater Manchester
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  area. But one thing that stood out was
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  a was a brother who came with his wife.
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  And he said that we've, we've been here for the last, you
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  know, 5-6, seven nights or whatever it was.
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  And we came from Guernsey. I'm like, where's Guernsey?
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  And he said it's an island. Guernsey.
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  Yes, Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Is that how it's pronounced? Well, they said Guernsey, so I
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  think they know better. But anyway, no, no, because.
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  I'm not I'm not saying they're mispronouncing.
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  This is how this is how I. So, so they, they, they
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  literally flew in for the measureless and that's, that's
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  the, that's. The.
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  Magnetism of Imam Hossein isn't a lot that people find the
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  measureless. They can connect with the local
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  community and they'll go wherever the road takes them,
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  essentially just to just to be able to commemorate Imam and
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  Hussein Ali Hassanam. Yeah.
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  So where where did you fly in from?
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  I flew in from from Bein and Halloween from Bein and
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  Halloween. Now Harlem is a very important
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  time for me 100% in terms of I don't know.
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  I just count down the days because I see myself every more
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  Harlem. I get closer to Imam Hussain
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  Salaam Ali in terms of this Muharram.
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  I'll probably think, wow, I've reached the limit.
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  Like I love Imam Hussein Max. But then next year, I find, I
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  find that no, I love him even more now and my, my, my
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  motivation to serve grows. So Hamdullah, every Muharram I
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  try my hardest not to serve that one place, but at multiple
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  places so that I can get a, a piece of thawab in every
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  organization that serves the imam so that maybe, you know,
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  adds up and ranks. Up for you.
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  You know what I call that? I call that divine capitalism.
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  OK. The concept is if you ask any
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  financial advisor, let's say you have a sizeable saving of half a
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  million or $1,000,000 or whatever it is.
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  Thank you. Don't forget, tell you'll be
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  you'll be able to retire with a big fat bank account.
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  But if you ask any financial advisor how you should invest
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  your money, one of the most consistent pieces of advice is
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  you need to diversify your investments.
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  And so diversification within the realm of spiritual deeds and
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  services to the, I believe is a, is a great thing because some
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  people might think that they need to be more focused when it
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  comes to like, especially if you're an entrepreneur, you're a
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  businessman, you've got a lot of money and you donate to
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  different causes. They sometimes feel that they
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  need to focus their attention on one project or two projects.
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  I tell them, no, diversify because you don't know which one
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  of those investments is going to yield the highest returns and
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  you don't know which of those investments is going to be
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  accepted by Allah. So the Hadith famously says that
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  if people could see the number of deeds that are being rejected
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  by God, they would assume that none of their deeds is being
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  accepted. So, like, there could be small
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  missteps or, you know, perhaps problems with their intentions
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  and whatever it might be. And so diversify your
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  investments, diversify your services to Imam Hussein.
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  I'm all for that. Yeah, So Muharram's a very, very
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  special time for me because like you said, the youth come
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  together. So some people that I might not
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  see come together. And they're showing again their
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  love to their headed Bates. And the bit that gets me is that
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  I see a lot of people because of Muhammad, because of the
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  speakers like yourself, saying that they might now feel the
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  love to Imam Hussein that they once had, that they lost.
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  And now the the. Life got in the way and.
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  Yeah. Whatever got this rekindles the
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  yes, the love and relationship. And I love seeing that happen
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  because, again, it motivates me to work and serve more.
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  Yeah. So that more people like these
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  people that are coming back to Imam Khasin, coming back to
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  their head debate, more of them come back and more of them are
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  on the right path and shot a lot like what we're striving to be.
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  Beautiful. I love it.
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  I love it. So let's let's let's start with
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  the conversation. I.
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  I think let's begin here. Myself and Ahmed, we've been
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  trying a week prior to Muharram, we said throughout the months of
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  Muharram Musafar, we want to focus a little on the torhade of
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  Imam Hussein. Ali has Salaam because we don't
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  want the connection that we have with Imam Hussein as Shia as
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  just from an emotional aspect. We want to we want to also feel
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  that spirituality because Imam Hussein gave more than love and
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  emotion for us to connect with him.
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  And I and I think let's let's let me ask this question say we
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  know Imam Hussein. When he left Medina on his
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  journey towards cool fire, he embarked with the mission
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  statement of wishing to reform the Sunnah, the teachings, the
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  seer of his grandfather, Muhammad Haasan Allah Sallallahu
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  Ali Hawaii Wasallam. But part of that is the Torhid
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  of Allah. And as Muslims, our Soladin
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  starts with Torhid. What was Imam Al Hussein
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  fighting for when it comes to the Torhado of God?
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  What was he trying to re establish in the Omar Rasuma?
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  I think no one simplified the crux of the mission statement of
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  Imam Al Hussein better than he did.
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  He was once asked what the the disagreement was about between
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  Benny Hashem and Benny Omaha, and Imam Hussein put it
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  succinctly and simply when he said our disagreement is over
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  God. Then he elaborated a little bit
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  more. He said their claim is that God
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  has lied or that belief in God is a lie.
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  I mean, Yazid said it in the most blatant and shameless way
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  when the blessed and severed head of Imam Hussein was brought
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  to him in his court, when he recited this poem, saying, and
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  I'd hate to quote him, but again, this is a condemnation of
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  Yazid. By his own admission, He said
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  later, Ashiah, he'd be better than Shahidu Nazar al Hazar ajim
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  infarthal essal. I wish my forefathers, my
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  ancestors were here where they could witness my triumph, my
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  victory over the Bani Hashim, over the family of the Holy
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  Prophet Leahallu. Had they been here, Leahallu was
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  the hellu Farahan from Makalu Yazidu La Tushal.
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  They would have said, they would have celebrated and they would
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  have applauded me for what I've done and they would have said
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  good job. Then he said Lai bat Hashem obil
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  mulki fala khabaranja a wala wahiyan nazel.
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  He said Benny Hashem had been playing a football game in the
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  name of religion, but what they were really after was dominion
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  and government and wealth and power.
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  There was never any revelation. There's no hell, there's no
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  heaven. It's all a lie.
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  Yazid blatantly and shamelessly said this.
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  Obviously he was a little tipsy and drunk when he said it, which
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  makes sense. But he was drunk and
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  intoxicated, not just on alcohol and the beer that he was
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  consuming at the time, but also drunk on youth and drunk on
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  power and drunk on victory. And that's what I think pushed
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  him to to make this admission in the clearview of thousands of
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  people, including his own officials as well as foreign
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  delegations. So Imam Al Hussein is alluding
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  to this when he says ulna sadaq Allah.
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  Our main point of contention with Benny Omea is that they're
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  against God. They are, for lack of a better
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  term, are trying to undermine God, whereas what we're trying
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  to do is to establish the unicity of God, the oneness, the
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  existence and all the attributes of Allah, Sopano Ta'ala.
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  Our job is to teach it to people and help people reach this
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  conviction, whereas Benny or me are trying to do the exact
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  opposite of that. Now, why this is important is
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  because sometimes I feel people are too naive when it comes to
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  analyzing the motivations of Yazid and Mahuya and Abu Sufyan
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  and some of the other antagonists in this in this epic
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  saga. And so they will assume that
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  they did what they did to the Prophet and his family out of a
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  desire to to rule right, to live in luxurious palaces and to have
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  a massive circle of harems and women and whatnot.
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  But it wasn't that. It was again made clear by their
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  own statements. Moralea famously said to one of
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  his own friends and cohorts that when his friend came to him and
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  said, look, you're old, you're about to die and you might as
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  well do something good for your own relatives.
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  I mean, Benny Hashem, are your own blood relatives.
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  Your ancestry comes together at some point in the family tree.
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  So maybe you could help them out, maybe loosen the grip a
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  little bit and stop putting so much pressure on them, stop
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  persecuting them so that people then say that Mahalia was
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  generous, he was good to his own kin.
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  And Mahalia said, listen, people will never Remember Me for that.
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  And then he mentioned the first two caliphs.
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  He said the first one died, no one remembers him, no one cares
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  about him anymore. The second one died, no one
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  remembers him. The third one died, no one
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  remembers him. He said, I will not settle for
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  anything less than bringing down this name.
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  And as he was speaking, the avan was being recited and the
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  Mohaddin said Ashado Anna Muhammad.
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  So Mohawiya insulted the Holy Prophet.
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  I don't want to mention the expression that he used, that he
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  insulted the holy messenger and said that his name is still
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  being read out from the minarets.
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  La Allah, Allah Dafnah, dafnah. I will not rest until I bury
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  that name. And so they were resentful
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  towards God. They were resentful towards the
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  holy messenger. And so as you were saying, on
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  the other hand, the albeit and in particular, Imam Al Hussein,
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  Alayhi Salaam, his entire mission was to revive the cause
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  of God. And you see that?
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  I mean, it's not just something that we say because, you know,
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  Madam Hussein was a Muslim leader.
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  No, no, the Imam consistently, time after time and on so many
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  different occasions made this crystal clear by highlighting
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  the fact that my objective is to uphold the name of a loss of
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  Hanahu Attah, obviously, and we'll get to that later on.
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  But to reach a loss of Hano ET Allah, you need to do so through
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  the right set of leaders, right? And Imam Hussein was one of
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  them. But his intention was to please
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  Allah. I mean, why else would Imam and
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  Hussein at the very apex and zenith of tragedy as he's
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  holding his six month old infant who was slaughtered from ear to
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  ear from the jugular vein to the jugular vein.
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  And the Imam at that point when any person would have lost it,
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  any person would have fainted, perhaps would have died at the
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  severity of the tragedy. And yet Imam and Hussein says
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  how, when Aman Azalebi. And what makes this bearable for
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  me, barely bearable, is that God is watching.
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  It's about a loss upon even when Imam and Hussein, and there are
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  so many examples of this, but we obviously are restricted in
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  terms of time. But when Imam and Hussein is
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  asked why he doesn't just give his Pledge of Allegiance, save
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  his life and the life of his family and friends and children
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  and so on, what does the Imam respond with?
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  He says Yazid is an impious, vicious, tyrannical, despotic
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  animal and someone who is like Hussein.
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  The position that Imam Hussein had would prevent him from the
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  thought of giving in to Yazid's rule.
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  Then the imam says, yeah, Ballahu, the Ali Kalena.
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  He says God wouldn't want me to do this.
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  I can't do this in view of Allah and his Messenger, which means
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  that Imam Hussein at that point remembers his mother Fatimah,
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  even though Imam Hussein became an orphan at the age of five or
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  six years old. And yet he says my mother
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  wouldn't want me to do this. Fatimah Alayhissalam could would
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  be disappointed. My words, obviously she would be
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  disappointed if I ever did that. Why?
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  Because Yazid is the embodiment of evil and he is evil.
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  That is clear and apparent. It's not like Yazid Moralia, for
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  example, was still trying to play this game where, you know,
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  doing his thing and trying to undermine the the prophet's
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  religion. But doing so while pretending to
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  be kind of a Muslim, right? It fooled no one except maybe
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  the most naive and idiotic people at the time.
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  But while we was at least trying to pretend that he was still a
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  Muslim, Yazid stopped pretending altogether.
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  And so the Imam says someone like that, God would not want me
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  to give him any sense of loyalty or allegiance.
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  Also, and I think this is perhaps less discussed from from
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  the pulpit or, or something that needs to be studied and analyzed
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  by individuals after Muharram, because I mean, we, we always
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  talk about how after Ashura, how can we maintain a consistent
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  connection to Imam al Hussain Ali Salaam.
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  This is my advice to people who want to do that.
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  The duas of Imam Al Hussein on the day of Ashura, the prayers,
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  the supplications. Imam Al Hussein recites a few
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  supplications. Again.
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  Remember, put all of this into context.
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  Imam Hussein is in the middle of the fiercest battle perhaps in
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  all of human history, where you have 30,000 people armed to the
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  teeth and only about 100 or so fighters in the camp of Imam
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  Hussein. In the midst of the chaos, Imam
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  Hussein takes time out to pray to God.
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  And I'm not just talking about the obligatory prayers, Salat,
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  I'm talking about duas, for example.
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  I'll read a couple of passages very quickly, please.
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  Imam Al Hussein recites this dua where he says Allahum.
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  And this is at the very beginning of the battle, when
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  the enemy shoots the first arrow.
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  Omar AB Nasat, may Allah, his eternal damnations be upon him.
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  Imam Hussein had many opportunities, as you know, to
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  wage the battle, to be the first to launch the attack and thus
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  gain the advantage of of being the 1st to ambush the enemy.
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  But he refused to do that. And on multiple occasions, as
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  companions would say, should we fight after they'd insult the
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  Imam for, for example, and the Imam would say in the Akrahu and
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  Abdullahi Qatal, I would hate to be the one to initiate the
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  attack. Allahu Akbar, talk about the
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  ethics of warfare, talk about the epitome of virtue.
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  Imam Hussain is unparalleled and indescribable in this sense.
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  Then they they shoot the first arrow.
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  Omar al Nasad looked at his people and he says to them
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  Ishadulli Angdel Amir Faheni Owaluman, Rama bear witness tell
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  the commander meaning obeyed Allahabad, Ziad or Yazid that I
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  was the first to shoot the arrow.
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  After which arrows began coming down like rain.
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  To the point that the authors of the Passion narrative of Imam
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  Hussein known as the Muktel, They all say that when that
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  first wave came, no one was spared.
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  Every single person was injured, every single tent that the women
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  and children were staying in was ripped and torn.
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  At that point, Imam Hussein recites a prayer and he says the
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  following Allah, Allah, O Allah, you are my trust in every
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  affliction and you are the one I turn to at times of adversity
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  and difficulty. When talifi khuli amarin nazarbi
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  thiratunwad, how beautiful are these words?
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  I challenge anyone from any faith tradition, from any
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  religion, to bring me any supplication that is as
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  beautiful, as emotive, as inspirational as this, which was
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  recited in the middle of the battlefield, unmatched.
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  The Imam. Improvised it.
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  If this is not divine revelation, I don't know what
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  is. Wen talifi quli amrin nazelabi
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  Thekaton Nwaudde. And in every affair that touches
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  me, that hurts me. Thekaton Nwaudde.
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  I rely on you and I depend on you.
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  Kem in Ham in the other offer for odd.
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  How many? A tribulation where the heart is
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  weakened. What a kill.
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  Luffy Hill Hailer and I have no choice.
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  I have no recourse, no way out. Huyekdu Luffy has Sadiq and even
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  your closest friends abandon you.
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  Huyeshu Mutufihil Adu and your enemies rejoice at the lack of
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  support that you have and zeltahu bikawa shakotahu ileic.
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  But when I complain about it to you and I put it right there in
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  front of you so that I could seek your help, Rahab admini
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  ileika Aman siwak. When I neglect all others and I
• 25:52
  turn to you exclusively and not other people.
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  How many times the Imam is reminding us of the times when
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  we've lost all hope and we've had, you know, absolute despair
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  and hopelessness and a loss panel to Allah steps in and
• 26:16
  intervenes. He says you helped me when no
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  one else would. You are the one who gives every
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  blessing. Wasa Hebukulli Hassan talking
• 26:33
  about Toheda Imam Hussein? This, this is this is the peak
• 26:38
  of Touhid. This is Imam Al Hussein
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  reminding us that his entire mission was about a loss of Hana
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  Wata Allah and his pleasure. So this is at the beginning of
• 26:48
  the battle. Then at the very last moments of
• 26:53
  the blessed life of Imam Al Hussein, the Imam recites
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  another dua. I don't know if I can go through
• 27:01
  the dua without turning this podcast into a a eulogy and a
• 27:07
  moqtal for Imam al Hussein because the duha itself alludes
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  to things that the Imam had to face.
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  But I feel this is not the right time or place.
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  I will just take an excerpt from the very beginning of the duha.
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  Look at how beautiful this is. The Imam says Allah hum mamuta
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  al makan and this is when the Imam was in the killing pit.
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  Allah mamuta al makan alimul jabaroot shadid dul mihal
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  raniyon Anil khala Ek arival kabriya, he says.
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  Oh Allah, Exalted in position, great in dominion, severe in
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  punishment, independent of the creation, majestic in grandeur,
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  able to do whatever you will near in mercy, true in promise,
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  abundant in blessings, good in trials, near when called upon,
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  encompassing when you have created.
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  Think about the fact that Imam al Hussain had lost Abel Fawl al
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  Abbas, he had lost al Qasim, he had lost Ali.
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  You know al Akbar, he had lost Ali, you know al Akbar.
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  He has faced what no one had faced and will ever face until
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  the day of judgement. And this is how he speaks to
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  God. He says you are good in your
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  trials. In other words, whatever you do,
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  I'm happy with. This is the ultimate pleasure
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  that is resting on the pleasure of Allah, Subhanahu, Attah, a
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  revaab, Al Qaeda. Whatever you want from me, I am
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  happy with, I am pleased with, which is why Indu Arafah.
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  And again, we can't talk about Imam and Hussein and Touhid
• 28:57
  without referencing to our Arafah.
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  Indu Arafah Imam and Hussein makes a truly phenomenal
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  statement in which he says elahi encunta padravita ani, if you're
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  pleased with me falah ubal, then I don't care what happens to
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  him. Who says that?
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  Who? Who puts himself in that
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  position where it's like, oh God, I will take it no matter
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  what it is. Even if it's seeing the sight of
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  my slaughtered 6 month old infant.
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  Even if it's seeing my brother and my backer and my supporter
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  and my one man army, Abu Fadl Abbas falling over his face,
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  which had an arrow pierced inside his eye.
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  I I'm happy with it if that's what you want.
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  Even if it means coming to the to the to, to near the body of
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  his brother and saying Alan and Kasarovar Hari Alan Allah
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  Taylati, what Shama tabi Adu we. Because when people lose a loved
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  one, you spoke about our brother Ahmed, may Allah bless him.
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  Losing a family member. We've all lost a family member
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  at one point or another. And I mentioned this in one of
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  the lectures in Muharram. I said when someone loses a
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  family member, what happens is people come to them, they
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  console them, they hug them, they embraced them.
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  And yet when Imam and Hussein lost his brother, the enemy
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  surrounded ABBA Abdullah and they began clapping and
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  cheering, saying look at Catalna Abbas, which means that Hussein
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  is all alone. From this point on, Imam and
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  Hussein's conviction in belief in Allah, not just on a
• 30:51
  theoretical level, but on on the level that makes him devoted to
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  him unconditionally, there's nothing like it, nothing like it
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  except what you find in the life of other infallible members of
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  this household. You know, Imam Hassan, Emir,
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  Mormonian Rasulullah, Imam Al Hussein is just it.
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  He's, he's a member of that club.
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  And that explains why Imam Al Hussein and his remembrance and
• 31:24
  his commemoration is so grand and keeps increasing, keeps
• 31:28
  expanding, keeps getting bigger and bigger and more impactful,
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  doesn't it? The fact that this, these, these
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  rituals and these gatherings were always the target of every
• 31:40
  tyrant who came along and tried to test his luck with Imam Al
• 31:45
  Hussein, as my father says, he says every, every tyrant gave it
• 31:50
  a try, right? They tested their luck to see if
• 31:54
  they could stop this. And it's like someone who goes
• 31:57
  out in broad daylight, looks at the sun up in the sky and thinks
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  with himself that maybe I can blow out the sun with my mouth,
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  right? It's futile, it's pointless.
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  But they will test their luck nevertheless.
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  And Imam Al Hussein simply crushes them.
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  Civilizations rise and fall, countries, nations, you name it.
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  The name of Hussein endorse the remembrance of Hussein is here
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  to stay. Why?
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  Because Imam Al Hussein did everything that he did for
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  Allah. And Allah Subhanaw Ta'ala is
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  playing his part as the creator of the universe, making sure
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  that Imam Hussein's name continues to exude life, not
• 32:49
  just the name continues to exist, but that it it, it
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  vibrates and pulsates with life, as we say in the ziyara of
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  Abdullah Hussain. Ashadu Anaka Hotelt.
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  I bear witness that you were killed because one of the
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  misconceptions that the Beni Omega tried to spread at the
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  time was no, Hussain was not killed.
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  He, he was exalted. He was lifted up into the
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  heavens. So in the Ziara, the Imam tells
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  us, let's not be fooled by their by their little games and
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  propaganda. I bear witness that you were
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  killed, but you didn't die. Rather not.
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  Only. Were you not, you know, you,
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  you, you didn't die. Not only that, but it's because
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  of our loose connections to you. Rajat means the shoreline like
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  we stand at the shoreline of the ocean of Imam Al Hussein, the
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  endless, expansive ocean of Imam Al Hussein.
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  By virtue of standing at that shoreline, the hearts of your
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  followers have been kept alive. Imam Al Hussein did what he did
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  for Allah. Look at what Allah has done for
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  him. It's a point of law.
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  I would say that I said I'm a universe and himself.
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  I say that you took you took us to Karbala, you took us to the
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  temple of Muharram to Aishwarya and I wish you continued.
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  I didn't want it to end. And the the way you connected
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  the dots with the top head and the connection about Abdullah
• 34:24
  had with Allah Azzawa gently I need it makes you wonder like as
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  a Muslim, as a as a inshallah from the Shia of Emir Al
• 34:31
  Murminian, what are we doing with ourselves honestly?
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  Like if we see the connection Imam Hussein had with God, we
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  lack any connection or any I, I, I don't want to say anyone lacks
• 34:43
  the connection with the last panel at Allah.
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  But if we love Imam Hussein, how come we not love Allah?
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  And look, look how Imam Hussein, he gave everything, the good,
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  the bad, the ugly, it was all but of Allah.
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  We see. As bad whatever was the best
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  thing because Allah wanted it. On that note, let me give you an
• 34:59
  example. OK Subhanallah, a true shihal of
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  Imam Al Hussein will follow in his footsteps.
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  You can't love Imam Al Hussein and then take your prayers
• 35:14
  lightly. I mean Imam Al Hussein never ask
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  the enemy for any quote UN quote favours except on two occasions,
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  once when he pleaded with them to give water to a six month old
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  infant and the second time was when he asked them to pause the
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  war for Salah. That's it.
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  Those are the only two times that Imam Hussein asked them for
• 35:45
  anything in the heat of the battle.
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  Abu Summami to Saeedi says to Imam Al Hussein and and these
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  words, Oh my God, how inspirational they are.
• 35:59
  He said to him, Ya Abdullah, the way I see it is that they are
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  intent on killing you. I swear to God they will not get
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  near you while there is blood coursing through my vein, and I
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  will make sure I defend you until I die right before your
• 36:22
  two eyes. This is how he starts the
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  conversation. Then he says, However, before I
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  die, I wish to pray one more time behind you.
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  And I I think that the time of prayer has approached and that's
• 36:40
  what Imam Al Hussein looks up and he says in no walk to her,
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  this is the time of prayer. Jahalla kalla min El musaleen.
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  Imam Al Hussein makes this prayer in response to this
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  unwavering dedication to him, this incredible loyalty.
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  What a great dua this is Jahalla kalla min El musaleen.
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  So that's when they began to pray.
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  Imam Hussein prayed what's called Salat al hauf, which is
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  when you are in a in, in grave danger, even even if you're not
• 37:14
  traveling, you get to pray like someone who is traveling.
• 37:18
  So instead of four units Kasol, you pray kasol, essentially.
• 37:23
  And in order to pray Salat al Vohr in only two units, Imam Al
• 37:30
  Hussein lost at least two loyal companions.
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  Syed Abdullah Al Hanafi was one of them.
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  And he's the one who would block the arrows and the Spears and
• 37:39
  the rocks and the blades be what he would do.
• 37:44
  So not with a shield, even though they probably had
• 37:47
  Shields, not with his hands, but rather with his face and his
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  neck and his chest. Because when you're following
• 37:56
  the trajectory of an arrow, for you to then extend your hand and
• 38:01
  block the arrow with your hand might take an extra fraction of
• 38:05
  a second and you might miss. So instead you track the
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  trajectory of the arrow with your eyes and you use your face
• 38:13
  to block it, which is why Imam al Sadaq, when he visits the
• 38:17
  companions of Imam al Hussein, he says be be unto me.
• 38:21
  One explanation that some of the ulama provide as to why Imam al
• 38:25
  Sadaq would say me, my parents including Imam al Qadam Ali,
• 38:29
  Imam al Baqar Ali Saddam be ransomed for you is that they
• 38:33
  were so close to Imam al Hussein.
• 38:35
  Their orbit around the son of Hussein was so, so intense that
• 38:42
  they became one and the same. It's like Imam Assad that was
• 38:46
  addressing Imam al Hussein himself, right?
• 38:49
  It's like when they've melted in, in, in, in the fire of Imam
• 38:54
  al Hussein, Aliyah Salaam. So ashiya of Imam Ali Hussein
• 38:57
  cannot possibly take God lightly, cannot possibly take
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  prayers and worship lightly. You know I'll mention this,
• 39:06
  which I think is is probably something people haven't heard
• 39:09
  before. Ibn Ziyad sent spies when he
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  came to Kufa and he tried to establish his control over the
• 39:18
  city. He only came with a handful of
• 39:21
  soldiers upon Allah. Had people not abandoned Imam
• 39:25
  Hussein and deserted Muslim they could have easily overrun Ibn
• 39:29
  Ziad and and his small army that came.
• 39:33
  There were a couple of dozen but one of the things he did after
• 39:37
  that was that he sent spies to try and identify the Shia of
• 39:41
  Imam Hussein. Guess what were the signs that
• 39:45
  he gave to his spies to identify a Shia from a non Shia?
• 39:49
  Take a wild guess if they prayed.
• 39:51
  On time prayers. Prayers, he said, go to the
• 39:55
  mosque, see who's praying more than others.
• 39:58
  Only all the. Muslims were not praying at that
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  time. So so.
• 40:00
  He says he said no, they probably prayed, but they took
• 40:03
  their prayers lightly. So the sign of a Shia was how
• 40:08
  they prayed, whether it was on time or not, how many now often
• 40:11
  they performed. And so this spy says, he says I
• 40:14
  went to Masjid and Kufa and I looked around and I noticed one
• 40:18
  person whose prayers stood out. So I went and I sat next to him
• 40:22
  and I said to him I would like to join him, Ahmed Hussein, and
• 40:26
  I'm looking for people who are like minded and so on.
• 40:29
  It turns out that person was Muslim.
• 40:34
  In other words, the sign of a Shia was how seriously they took
• 40:40
  their Salat so say. How you're making me think is
• 40:45
  that people my age, younger than me, I see them in the mosque in
• 40:49
  Muharram that they're so I don't know how to say it, but they,
• 40:55
  they want to go to the Majalas so badly and they want to sit in
• 40:58
  the lecture so badly and they want to do latum so badly.
• 41:03
  But the second it's time for, for Salah, all right, it's time
• 41:06
  to go outside. All right, it's time to chill
• 41:08
  with my friends. All right, it's time to have a
• 41:09
  chat. So how does it work that even
• 41:12
  though they're in the lecture and they're listening to the
• 41:15
  stories of Hussein Salman Ali or in the Latham where they're
• 41:18
  mourning over Hussein Salman Ali, they over they overlook
• 41:23
  that what he was doing is trying to get us closer and remind us
• 41:27
  of the oneness of Allah. How do you advise these people?
• 41:31
  What? I say to them is I would whisper
• 41:36
  gently into their ears and say my brother, my sister, my son,
• 41:41
  my daughter. The reason you've come to this
• 41:44
  medulist is to connect with Imam Al Hussein on a deep, visceral
• 41:49
  and emotional level, which is an absolute prerequisite to being
• 41:56
  religious. Right to to to truly turn
• 42:01
  towards Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala, you need to turn to Imam Al
• 42:05
  Hussein. In fact Imam Hussein himself
• 42:08
  makes an incredible proclamation in one hadith where he says
• 42:13
  Enamah Khalaq Allahabad. We know Allah in the Quran
• 42:20
  explains the reason for creation by saying I have not created the
• 42:30
  old sentient, you know, living creatures, except to worship Me,
• 42:35
  both humans as well as the Jinn. Imam Hussein elaborates on that.
• 42:40
  He says worshipping God is the ultimate objective.
• 42:44
  However, there's a prerequisite to worshipping God.
• 42:48
  He says the terms and conditions and he says the first one is to
• 42:52
  get to know Allah. He says that once they get to
• 42:57
  know Him, when you get to know Allah, His mercy, His kindness,
• 43:05
  His compassion, the fact that He created me from nothing and He's
• 43:09
  given me everything that I have, then you will turn to Allah and
• 43:14
  feel this sense of servitude and humility and nothingness
• 43:20
  compared to Him, and that makes you turn towards Him and worship
• 43:24
  Him. Faida Abadu, there is something
• 43:28
  that happens that's truly magical.
• 43:31
  After they get to know Allah, then reach the next station
• 43:34
  which is to worship Allah. Something happens.
• 43:36
  After that, he says phenom EDA abadu, esternauber ibadati and
• 43:42
  ibadati mansiwa, When they worship Allah, they will be
• 43:48
  sufficed from worshiping anyone other than Allah.
• 43:52
  And what this tells us is that people always worship something.
• 43:57
  Everybody. Even if it's an atheist who says
• 44:01
  I don't believe in God, they will worship something.
• 44:03
  Either it's money or status that's true, or fame or people's
• 44:08
  respect or career, or the size of their income or their home or
• 44:13
  their car. They always worship something.
• 44:15
  In other words, they're devoted to something.
• 44:18
  They spend their time and their energy and their money and you
• 44:22
  know, their, their thoughts and everything is devoted to
• 44:26
  something. Imam Hussein says once they
• 44:28
  devote all that to a loss upon Otahallah, who is the source of
• 44:33
  everything we have, who's the creator of the universe, then
• 44:36
  they will feel no need to devote themselves to any anything else.
• 44:41
  If you worship Allah and somehow you get into this situation
• 44:48
  where you have to commit a sin, you will prioritize Allah.
• 44:52
  You will say that I am devoted to God and God says don't do
• 44:56
  this right. And so I don't care about
• 44:59
  whether my boss is going to like it or not.
• 45:01
  I don't care if my wife likes it or not.
• 45:02
  I will do what I'm supposed to do in accordance with my
• 45:05
  devotion to Allah. Listen to this.
• 45:09
  The person hearing this statement by Imam Hussein then
• 45:14
  says to him, he seeks more clarification because remember
• 45:18
  Imam Hussein said that the condition or the prerequisite
• 45:21
  for worshipping Allah is to get to know him.
• 45:24
  So he asks a very pertinent question.
• 45:26
  He says, well, how do we get to know him?
• 45:30
  He says Be I be unto Omiya ABBA Abdullah Kaifa.
• 45:36
  How do we get to know Allah? The Imam says Marifa to Kuli
• 45:40
  Elizamanin le Imamihim, the gnosis of every group of people
• 45:48
  living at any given time towards the Imam of their time.
• 45:53
  In other words, when you get to know the Imam of your time, you
• 45:57
  get to know Allah. Subhanahu Attallah.
• 45:58
  When you get to know Allah, you worship Him.
• 46:00
  When you worship him you become self-sufficient.
• 46:02
  This leads. To another question and say
• 46:04
  sorry, say no, no please, please, at least to another
• 46:06
  question. Then how do we use the story of
• 46:09
  Imam Hussein al Assam, the story of Karl Bellah to draw a link to
• 46:14
  Imam and Mehdi? How before I answer.
• 46:18
  That that's a very good question.
• 46:19
  But before I answer that, let me try and just tie up some loose
• 46:23
  ends from your previous question, which is that if you
• 46:25
  find someone who's lacking in terms of their religiosity and
• 46:30
  their religious practices and so forth, my advice to them is when
• 46:34
  you've gotten to know Imam and Hussein Ali Hassanam, learn from
• 46:38
  him. Don't just listen passively and
• 46:41
  experience the emotional outpour, which is incredible,
• 46:44
  which is absolutely necessary. As I said, the thawab is there.
• 46:48
  The connection's been made. Like when you cry for something,
• 46:52
  you've established a connection that is so real.
• 46:55
  Yes, it's genuine, it's true, it's true.
• 46:57
  Yes, it's not, it's not fake. It's not manufactured.
• 47:02
  It's not, you know, it it, it's so real.
• 47:06
  And and that should then take you to the next level, which is
• 47:09
  OK. This is who Imam al Hussain was.
• 47:12
  Imam al Hussain was God's sacrifice.
• 47:14
  Imam al Hussain did everything he did for the sake of a loss of
• 47:17
  Hano Taala. Now how can I get closer to him?
• 47:21
  As I said, Muslim Osaja became Muslim Osaja because he had
• 47:26
  built an entire lifetime of connecting with Allah, Subhanaw
• 47:33
  Taada, praying, worshipping, and being loyal and devoted to the
• 47:37
  Imam of his time as well. So that's when the call is made.
• 47:40
  That's why when the call is made, who is the first person to
• 47:43
  show up, right? And so he joins Imam al Hussein
• 47:48
  and gets killed on the plains of Karbala and receives the highest
• 47:52
  accolades that anyone could ever achieve.
• 47:55
  Not only is he someone who gets martyred for the sake of Imam al
• 47:58
  Hussein, but he is then raised back to life in the time of Imam
• 48:03
  al Mahdi. Hence the segue into your
• 48:05
  question. The connection between the Imam
• 48:10
  of our time and Imam Al Hussein is so bold and so saturated and
• 48:15
  so clear. It stares you right in the face.
• 48:20
  And that can be discussed on numerous levels.
• 48:22
  But one, one quick thing that I'll mention is that it's no
• 48:26
  accident that when the 12th Imam, the awaited Savior, the
• 48:30
  one who will cleanse the world from oppression and injustice
• 48:33
  and fill it with justice, kindness, goodness and equity,
• 48:37
  his slogan is Yaditharatil Hussein.
• 48:43
  Imam is Zaman, may Allah hasten his reappearance and bring
• 48:51
  comfort and solace to his heart that's been bleeding for the
• 48:55
  last 12 centuries over his grandfather's tragedy.
• 49:07
  Imam Hussein or Imam says that I will since I had I had not been
• 49:14
  given the chance to support you and to defend you and to prevent
• 49:17
  your enemy from hurting you in Karbala.
• 49:21
  I will therefore cry for you day and night, and I will shed not
• 49:29
  just tears but blood out of my eyes.
• 49:33
  The as I said, the connection is incredibly clear.
• 49:39
  The Imam of the time comes back in order to restore justice for
• 49:44
  the oppression that Imam Al Hussein had to endure.
• 49:48
  And that is an incredible thing because think about it, we live
• 49:52
  in the time of the occultation, which means that we stand a
• 49:57
  chance at being part of that mission, that it's possible if
• 50:03
  we do the right thing, if we live by the by the pleasure of
• 50:11
  the Imam of the time and try to connect with him.
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  It means that there is a potential, at the very least,
• 50:17
  that you and I and the audience and everyone listening to this,
• 50:22
  we get to be a part of that mission, which is, I mean, more
• 50:27
  than we could ever ask for. That we could somehow
• 50:30
  participate in avenging the blood of Imam Al Hussein and
• 50:34
  restoring justice for him and in pleasing him at the same time.
• 50:39
  I saw him saying that I, I, I want to ask a question.
• 50:42
  You know, here we're speaking about the Torhid al Imam al
• 50:45
  Hussein. For us to build the connection,
• 50:47
  the last part of Italian, we have to understand Hussein.
• 50:49
  And now the narrations of if you really want to understand a lie,
• 50:52
  you have to go through so many different steps leading back to
• 50:55
  Imam Sahab last with Zaman. And if we want to we know God,
• 50:59
  we need to basically learn from the Imam of our time, Ajilat al
• 51:03
  Raja Sharif, which leads me here saying is that?
• 51:07
  I think. Myself and a lot of brothers I
• 51:09
  know and we've had many conversations like this between
• 51:12
  my own circles, is that we all want to know how we all want to
• 51:17
  pursue knowledge. We all want to be on the path
• 51:19
  that's right, the path that's true, a path that pleases the
• 51:21
  Imam of our time, a path that Allah wants from us.
• 51:25
  But I think especially now given the rise of, I would say social
• 51:30
  media as well as it's, it's become easy for anyone to come
• 51:35
  on and say, this is what the Imam of our time wants from you.
• 51:39
  This is what Allah Subhanaw Taala wants from you.
• 51:42
  This is the Islamic history. These are the kind of like it
• 51:45
  gets confusing to a stage to us saying there was we don't know
• 51:48
  who to turn to because we look up to people and we trust them
• 51:53
  with this responsibility, teach us this and or to allow us to
• 51:58
  pursue this knowledge and gain from them.
• 52:00
  It's like a two way St. And then sometimes we may turn
• 52:02
  around and we see someone else in the same field saying
• 52:06
  something completely different, something completely completely
• 52:09
  opposite. Now, as a Shirley, as a Muslim,
• 52:12
  there's an obligation for us to pursue knowledge.
• 52:14
  How do we gain true knowledge? Who do we look up to?
• 52:17
  Where do we go? Is there any like traits,
• 52:20
  characteristics or something we find from a scholar that can
• 52:24
  help us and aid us in the pursuit of knowledge?
• 52:27
  That's a very important question and I think it represents one of
• 52:33
  the biggest challenges as as you said, in this day and age where
• 52:39
  with the rise of social media, you can literally be a little
• 52:43
  tech savvy is really all it takes.
• 52:46
  Everyone's so that you can exactly.
• 52:50
  And you can have plenty of followers and, and people who
• 52:54
  listen to what you have to say. Well, I think we, I think we can
• 52:59
  address this in, in, in different levels.
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  The first one is kind of common sense, but perhaps a little
• 53:10
  easier said than done. And that is that every single
• 53:14
  one of us has to be equipped with a basic level of knowledge
• 53:20
  about religious matters such that we're able to, to discern
• 53:26
  and distinguish between a righteous godly scholar and
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  someone who is, you know, lacking in their knowledge.
• 53:38
  And, and that's me being really generous.
• 53:40
  I mean, because you have godly scholars and then at the
• 53:43
  opposite end of the extreme or the opposite pole, you have
• 53:47
  downright impostors. And they've been around since
• 53:50
  time immemorial. Imposters have existed during
• 53:55
  the first phase of the occultation, the minor
• 53:57
  occultation, the the the first minor occultation of the Imam.
• 54:02
  There were imposters around people who claimed to be
• 54:05
  connected to the Imam and who claimed to have a lot of
• 54:08
  knowledge. And in fact, they did have a lot
• 54:10
  of knowledge. There was one person in
• 54:11
  particular who had a book very similar to what we find in the
• 54:20
  Rasala of our contemporary Maraja.
• 54:23
  So it's like a legal manual of dos and don'ts and whatnot.
• 54:26
  And this book, a copy of it, a handwritten copy of it existed
• 54:30
  in the homes of pretty much every Shia.
• 54:32
  This guy turned out to be an impostor like you, right?
• 54:36
  And he essentially went against the, the emissary of the, of
• 54:42
  the, of, of his time, who was Al Hossein of Rour.
• 54:46
  And suddenly you can imagine the mass hysteria and the confusion
• 54:50
  like, you know, we, we used to refer to this guy when it comes
• 54:53
  to religious matters, and now all of a sudden he's an
• 54:56
  impostor. So impostors have existed and a
• 54:59
  Sheikh, a pussy in his labour. He actually lists all those
• 55:04
  early imposters and what they said and said and what they did
• 55:07
  and how the Shia responded, responded to them as a community
• 55:12
  and the scholars as well. So this is nothing new.
• 55:16
  It's existed. And we have to grapple with this
• 55:19
  for, for the foreseeable future, at the very least until things
• 55:25
  kind of sort themselves out. So how am I able to then
• 55:30
  distinguish between a righteous scholar and an imposter?
• 55:36
  Requires a basic level of knowledge on my part.
• 55:39
  So just be awful and just. Before you can see, I don't want
• 55:40
  to interject, but when you say a righteous scholar, an imposter,
• 55:43
  is there no one in between? Like no, there is OK there.
• 55:46
  Is exactly, but I mean, that's what I said early, early on.
• 55:48
  I said you have people who are overly confident and articulate
• 55:52
  and they're able to speak and they they're not camera shy.
• 55:56
  They just don't have the knowledge right.
• 55:58
  And maybe their intentions are, I mean, I guess you could say
• 56:01
  their intentions might be pure. Yeah, right.
• 56:03
  They're not actively trying to misguide and deviate people, but
• 56:07
  they just lack the credentials. Yeah, right.
• 56:09
  Gotcha. You have a Doctor Who lacks the
• 56:13
  academic credentials of being a Doctor Who's not out there
• 56:17
  trying to, you know, disembowel his patients or abuse them
• 56:22
  physically or anything like this.
• 56:24
  He's probably in it for the money, or he's in it because
• 56:26
  he's out of a job or whatever the case might be.
• 56:29
  So you have impostors at one polar opposite.
• 56:32
  Then you have the righteous scholars, and then you have
• 56:34
  everyone in between. And so point #1 to, to try and
• 56:40
  make this as succinct as possible, you need to be able to
• 56:43
  make that distinction. And the way you arrive at that,
• 56:47
  at the ability to make the distinction is that you need to
• 56:50
  be well aware religiously. And that means you don't just
• 56:57
  feel content with listening to lectures every Muharram.
• 57:00
  You don't feel content by reading a couple of books here
• 57:02
  and there. Because the sad reality is that
• 57:05
  most people are like that. That should be the minimum.
• 57:08
  It. Should be the absolute bare
• 57:09
  bones minimum, but that minimum is no longer enough.
• 57:14
  It's not sufficient anymore. I recently published my latest
• 57:20
  book called Why I'm a Shia and in the introduction I tell the
• 57:24
  story of an encounter I had with a with a friend of mine who used
• 57:29
  to come to my lectures. And I literally the inspiration
• 57:33
  from for the book came about because of this encounter.
• 57:36
  And I said to him, do you know why you're a Shia?
• 57:40
  And he said, I have no clue. I'm a Shia because my parents
• 57:43
  were Shia. And obviously I kind of it, it
• 57:46
  resonates with me, the message and all that.
• 57:48
  It's, it's a beautiful religion. I said, well that's not enough.
• 57:52
  You need to have at least like 3 verses from the Quran that
• 57:56
  support our case for the succession of a mural Momini
• 58:00
  which is what makes us Shia right?
• 58:01
  We are Shia of Alibn ABI Talib. Well why is Alibn ABI Talib the
• 58:05
  true successor of Rasulullah? Why was he superior to everyone
• 58:09
  else? Why was he the sole candidate
• 58:11
  for the falafa? Do you know any verses to back
• 58:15
  up this claim? Do you know any hadith that that
• 58:19
  might back up your claim? Do you have any rational
• 58:22
  arguments? And it's like, no, I literally
• 58:24
  have no clue. And so I wrote the book in
• 58:26
  response to that. So as a, as a Shia, you can no
• 58:31
  longer be content with being a layman.
• 58:35
  That's not enough anymore. Why?
• 58:36
  Because you have so many conflicting ideologies.
• 58:39
  You have so many interactions with people from different walks
• 58:43
  of life, different religions, different faith traditions.
• 58:46
  It's not enough anymore. You need to constantly read, and
• 58:49
  you need to read with the supervision of a scholar, yes,
• 58:53
  So not just read anything. And you need to listen to
• 58:56
  scholars with advice being taken from a learned scholar and not
• 59:01
  just listen to anybody. So it can't be.
• 59:03
  Done alone because I've seen like there's this rise so you
• 59:05
  know where people pursue knowledge on their self and they
• 59:09
  I'm not going to say they know better, but they seem to know
• 59:12
  better than everyone else like right, yeah, I don't want to
• 59:14
  give example I think that's because.
• 59:16
  They have the art of speaking. Maybe more than the
• 59:18
  knowledgeable person, no? I.
• 59:20
  Mean, like, I've seen this trends as I've generally seen
• 59:22
  this, like I've interacted with many people where they've spent
• 59:26
  a year or two doing research in Islam themselves.
• 59:28
  I know every other scholar they brushed aside and is their way
• 59:31
  of the highway. They're the best.
• 59:32
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 59:33
  So my question to them is, where do you begin?
• 59:37
  Which book do you read? Yeah.
• 59:39
  Do you know the different, you know primary sources, for
• 59:43
  example, do you know the secondary sources if you're
• 59:45
  going to read into history, for example, which history books are
• 59:49
  you reading? Because every historian leaves
• 59:52
  their fingerprints on, you know, their, their version of history.
• 59:56
  If you're like. And so if I'm going to start
• 59:58
  reading just for the sake of reading, then it's going to be a
• 1:00:03
  very confusing labyrinth. It's a minefield is the best
• 1:00:06
  description I can provide. It's a minefield.
• 1:00:09
  You don't know when you're going to step on a mine and it's just
• 1:00:13
  going to explode in your face because you read the wrong book
• 1:00:16
  or you watched the wrong speaker.
• 1:00:18
  So it's very confusing. So if you are going to read, you
• 1:00:22
  need to do so with advice and supervision.
• 1:00:26
  And a plan that's provided to you by a learned scholar
• 1:00:30
  themselves. OK, yes, so, and I'm not even
• 1:00:35
  saying that you should go to the Hauser and study, even though
• 1:00:37
  that's absolutely necessary right now.
• 1:00:40
  We definitely don't have enough people doing this.
• 1:00:42
  I've always said that I and people like me are a dying
• 1:00:45
  breed, unfortunately, and it's a tragic reality that I think, no,
• 1:00:51
  I mean, we have to be honest about this, that there are less
• 1:00:54
  and less people doing what we do who have the right
• 1:00:58
  qualifications and credentials, who have spent a considerable
• 1:01:01
  amount of time in classical institutions like the How is
• 1:01:04
  that? Unfortunately, this is becoming
• 1:01:07
  a less appealing, less glamorous type of career for for lack of a
• 1:01:11
  better term. But I'm not even talking about
• 1:01:13
  that. I'm saying that the general
• 1:01:15
  public, right the regular Shia need to read and study and do so
• 1:01:22
  with the supervision of a scholar who knows you know how
• 1:01:26
  to navigate this minefield. So that's one thing you need to
• 1:01:30
  reach this ability on your own. You can't rely on other people.
• 1:01:34
  And Murad Munin famously put the put said this on multiple
• 1:01:39
  occasions. One was in the battle of Safin
• 1:01:41
  or Jamal. Another was at another time when
• 1:01:47
  his, one of his companions by the name of Al Harith Al
• 1:01:51
  Hamdani, and I did a whole series about this this last
• 1:01:54
  fall. To me, Al Hadith Al Hamdani came
• 1:01:57
  to the Imam and he said to him, I'm confused.
• 1:02:01
  I don't know where to go. I don't know which direction to
• 1:02:03
  take. I see people saying different
• 1:02:05
  things and they're all conflicting and clashing and I
• 1:02:09
  don't know what's right and wrong anymore.
• 1:02:12
  The Imam said to him, Whalek, woe unto you.
• 1:02:17
  And he put his finger right on the problem that he suffered
• 1:02:21
  from. He said to him, your problem is
• 1:02:24
  that you follow other people's opinions.
• 1:02:27
  In other words, in order to tell who's a righteous scholar and
• 1:02:29
  who's not right, you ask around, you conduct a survey, you go by
• 1:02:35
  the rating on, you know, if there was a website which rates
• 1:02:39
  the scholars, you go by ratings. You can't do that.
• 1:02:43
  The Imam said to him And Nadine Allah, Allah you had O Berejal,
• 1:02:48
  God's religion is not derived by the opinions of men meaning
• 1:02:54
  people, right? What in Nama you have to have
• 1:03:00
  proof it. It's an evidence based approach,
• 1:03:04
  right? You need you want to know what
• 1:03:05
  God religion God's religion is. You need to have evidence for
• 1:03:09
  everything that you believe in, right?
• 1:03:12
  When it comes to the branches, as we say, when it comes to
• 1:03:16
  matters of jurisprudence and whatnot, obviously not everyone
• 1:03:20
  can do this. This is a more difficult and
• 1:03:22
  more rigorous process where it's it's something that requires
• 1:03:26
  expertise, right? But when it comes to, I got it,
• 1:03:29
  you need to be able to arrive at those conclusions with the right
• 1:03:33
  set of evidence. And so the Imam says don't
• 1:03:37
  follow other people's opinions. Don't just go by whatever
• 1:03:41
  happens to be popular at the time.
• 1:03:46
  The sign of the truth, meaning evidence.
• 1:03:49
  So that's the first point. The second point is there are
• 1:03:55
  telltale signs that, once identified, can help you
• 1:04:02
  distinguish between a righteous scholar and someone who's not.
• 1:04:07
  I talked a little bit about this in my previous series in the
• 1:04:10
  month of Muharram, where one of the things I mentioned, for
• 1:04:14
  instance, is when you see a scholar who's constantly trying
• 1:04:20
  to provide concessions and compromises in religious
• 1:04:26
  matters, that's usually a suspicious sign that this person
• 1:04:32
  doesn't have my best interest at heart.
• 1:04:35
  Right? If the scholars job becomes all
• 1:04:39
  about saying Oh no don't worry, this is halal.
• 1:04:41
  I know all the other scholars say it's Haram but don't worry
• 1:04:44
  about finding. Loopholes making you like I
• 1:04:45
  found a new. Loophole or I found a new
• 1:04:47
  understanding. I have a new novel way of
• 1:04:53
  reading the literature, whether it's the Quran or Hadith, that
• 1:04:56
  tells me that dogs are no longer impure, Right?
• 1:05:00
  Because I rely on the story of the people of The Cave.
• 1:05:03
  And I mean, look at how loyal their dog was.
• 1:05:05
  And I'm sure he was super, you know, cuddly and friendly as
• 1:05:10
  well. And so how could a dog be impure
• 1:05:13
  when you have all these verses about this loyal dog that they
• 1:05:16
  took along with them? It's ridiculous.
• 1:05:19
  Yeah. But you know that what this is,
• 1:05:21
  but what this aims to do is to make religion more appealing so
• 1:05:25
  that they could have more followers, so that they could
• 1:05:27
  have more likes, more views, and ultimately more money and more
• 1:05:30
  status. When you see a scholar trying to
• 1:05:33
  provide concessions, that's usually a very good sign that,
• 1:05:37
  hang on a second, this guy at the very least is not practicing
• 1:05:42
  caution. He's not being cautious.
• 1:05:44
  One of the Maraja once said something interesting.
• 1:05:47
  He said that you look at the fatwa and you read through it
• 1:05:52
  and to you it's just, it's just a fatwa.
• 1:05:55
  It's a legal opinion, he said. But what you don't realize is
• 1:05:58
  that the hand of the merger, who was writing the fatwa was
• 1:06:01
  shaking. This merger has to like, for
• 1:06:06
  example, and this is something that happens within the
• 1:06:10
  scholarly circles in the Islamic seminaries.
• 1:06:13
  They will debate a matter for weeks.
• 1:06:17
  Is this like in? For example, they will debate
• 1:06:20
  this issue and it could be like the most peripheral, most
• 1:06:23
  marginal issue. They will debate it for weeks
• 1:06:26
  and then in the end the marjat will say this is my opinion,
• 1:06:30
  which is like a a rather new and innovative kind of opinion.
• 1:06:35
  But when the Marjat publishes his legal manuscript, his legal
• 1:06:39
  opinion in the form of a fatwa, he will revert back to the
• 1:06:43
  cautionary position. In other words, he will take
• 1:06:45
  into account the views of other maraja.
• 1:06:48
  So if I'm the only one who has this opinion, there might be
• 1:06:51
  something wrong with it. Because why have I found
• 1:06:55
  something that other scholars for the last 14 centuries have
• 1:06:58
  missed, right? Maybe they didn't miss it, they
• 1:07:02
  just had a different view of it and I'm not reaching the right
• 1:07:07
  conclusion. And so they will revert back to
• 1:07:10
  the cautionary position because of that, or they will revert
• 1:07:13
  back to the cautionary position based on what they call siratul
• 1:07:17
  mutashele al mutasila bizemen al mahsom.
• 1:07:20
  Which basically means that if you look at all the previous
• 1:07:24
  religious people, right? Forget the scholars, all the
• 1:07:28
  religious, devout, pious individuals in our history going
• 1:07:34
  all the way to the time of the Imams or close to the time of
• 1:07:37
  the imams, Adiyama Salaam, they would practice this particular
• 1:07:41
  action in a specific way. This is usually a very good
• 1:07:45
  sign. This is how it's supposed to be.
• 1:07:48
  And even if I develop or innovate a new opinion, right?
• 1:07:55
  I would rather just stick to the tried and the tested, right?
• 1:07:59
  If it's not broken, why fix it? This is something that people
• 1:08:03
  have done for eons for centuries, right?
• 1:08:06
  Then it's probably closer to what the imam wants from me.
• 1:08:10
  The reason I'm saying all of this, and I know we could have
• 1:08:12
  debates about this until tomorrow afternoon, but but the
• 1:08:16
  reason I'm saying all of this is because.
• 1:08:18
  Or after. Another exactly.
• 1:08:21
  No, that's another podcast afternoon, afternoon.
• 1:08:25
  So, so the reason I'm saying this is because you need to, you
• 1:08:29
  need to take into account caution and you need to consider
• 1:08:33
  the fact that God's religion is not something to be played with
• 1:08:37
  or tampered with. And if you see a scholar who's
• 1:08:40
  giving you concessions left, right and center and basically
• 1:08:43
  rubber stamping or lifestyle, you know, you got to be a little
• 1:08:47
  careful with him. Another thing that the Imams,
• 1:08:49
  Aliyahu Salaam himself have stressed over and over again is
• 1:08:53
  when you see a scholar whose pursuit of the dunya is
• 1:08:58
  uncharacteristic and unlike what you see in righteous godly
• 1:09:04
  ulama, right? Yatlabuddunya, he's not zahed,
• 1:09:08
  he's not an ascetic. One of the signs of a righteous
• 1:09:12
  faki. And obviously, if you're just a
• 1:09:15
  speaker, you might have a different set of rules that
• 1:09:18
  apply to you. But when we're talking about
• 1:09:20
  Fukaha, about the people who give you access to your
• 1:09:25
  religion, right, they one of their signs is they have to be
• 1:09:29
  ascetic. They have to be disinterested in
• 1:09:32
  the dunya. If you see them like buying
• 1:09:34
  properties and you know, having like luxury cars and a luxury
• 1:09:38
  lifestyle and so forth, that usually tells you you better
• 1:09:43
  switch managa, right? You better find someone who's
• 1:09:47
  not interested in the in the glamour of this dunya.
• 1:09:51
  And, and I think to an extent that kind of it, it trickles
• 1:09:56
  down to, to the ulama that we interact with on a daily basis.
• 1:10:00
  So not the level of the merger, but even the ulama who are like
• 1:10:04
  local scholars and whatnot, if you see them too immersed, too
• 1:10:08
  engrossed in the dunya, again, there's a beautiful hadith, I
• 1:10:13
  think by Prophet ASA al Assalam in our traditions in which he
• 1:10:18
  says al adunya, adunya. I'm paraphrasing here.
• 1:10:24
  The dunya is the disease and the scholar is the physician.
• 1:10:30
  So if you see the physician seeking the disease, that tells
• 1:10:34
  you there's something wrong with this picture.
• 1:10:36
  Of course. Right?
• 1:10:36
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, there's nothing wrong in
• 1:10:39
  living a life of relative comfort.
• 1:10:41
  But if you see this insatiable desire, right, Something's
• 1:10:44
  wrong. Then there's something wrong.
• 1:10:46
  A sense of a. Sense of say kind of have a
• 1:10:51
  question that I want to divert from where we are now sure which
• 1:10:55
  is? Divert away, which is.
• 1:10:57
  Hussein and is some story of course guides us and we try to
• 1:11:05
  take from it to get closer to our last Pantala.
• 1:11:08
  But you said towards the start that his whole mission was on
• 1:11:12
  last Pantala. The Oneness of Allah and to
• 1:11:14
  revive this thoughts in the hearts of all the people that
• 1:11:18
  call themselves Muslims. So after the calamity that
• 1:11:22
  befell Imam Persein al Assam and after the day of Al Shura, this
• 1:11:27
  now responsibility went to Imam Sajjad al Assam.
• 1:11:31
  If you don't mind saying then maybe my question isn't right.
• 1:11:34
  I don't know is that how can we take now from we ask the.
• 1:11:38
  Question We could always cut it out.
• 1:11:40
  Can always be. Edited How can we take from Imam
• 1:11:44
  Sajal Isam from say the Zainab that both saw what happened
• 1:11:49
  right before their eyes, what happened to their father but
• 1:11:52
  knew of the mission? How can we now take from them
• 1:11:55
  that they just saw what happened to their father and knew that we
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  can't let it end here, that now it's up to us, It's now up to
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  Imam Sajad Alisam to make sure that's mission, that's message
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  keeps getting said and keeps getting remembered in the hearts
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  of all these Muslims that it never dies like it did before
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  and that the message and everything that's happened to
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  Imam Hussein Azam doesn't go to waste.
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  Love it. How can we learn from them?
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  Beautiful. I did say that Imam Hussein's
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  mission and ultimate objective was to please a lost panel, and
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  there's no doubt about that whatsoever.
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  However, the more immediate mission of Imam al Hussein was
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  to establish divine rule. In other words, it was about
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  Imam. Yes, it was ultimately about
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  tawheed, but as I mentioned in the hadith of Imam Al Hussein
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  himself that for you to reach Allah subhanaw Taala and to get
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  to know Allah, you have to get to know the Imam of your time.
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  Which means that the long term objective for lack of a better
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  expression was God and his pleasure.
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  But in order to do that, the Imam had to establish Imam
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  because, and I say this because you do find people here and
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  there saying that Imam Hussein died for Salah, Imam Hussein
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  died for zakat. And that's wrong.
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  It's, I think it's an inaccurate description of Imam Hussein's
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  objective. We say in the Ziara, you upheld
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  prayer. Without you, prayer would cease
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  to exist, which is why they say that senior Maraja would pause
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  just before Tekbirot al Ahram and they would whisper
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  something. And so their students would say,
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  what did you say? Is there like a prayer or a
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  vicar or something that we have to say that's recommended before
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  we enter the state of Salah? And he would say that I would, I
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  would whisper Salallahu alaikya ABBA Abdullah, Allahu Akbar.
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  Why? He said because my Salah would
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  cease to exist. In fact, prayer itself wouldn't
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  exist without Imam Hussein. And so I am merely acknowledging
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  Imam Hussein's role in in in reviving and in keeping the
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  remembrance of Allah Subhanaw Ta'ala alive before entering
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  into the state of prayer. So that's the ultimate
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  objective. But to get there, Imam had to be
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  established, meaning divine rule over the world.
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  And as I was saying, in the Ziara we say a shadow.
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  You did all of this. However, why was the Imam
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  himself killed? The Ziara of Urbain has a
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  statement which provides a lucid explanation of that.
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  We say wabeda la mujeta hufiq. He gave mujah is the blood that
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  is inside the heart, not the blood that's in the veins or the
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  rest of the body. The actual, you know, essence of
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  an individual is called muhaja. He gave the blood that's inside
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  his heart, which could be a reference to the three pronged
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  arrow as well. Why Liestenka the ibad, the
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  camenal Jahala so as to salvage your servants from deviation and
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  the confusion of ignorance. That's why the Imam did what he
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  did. Now you come to the time of Imam
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  Zeiner Aberdeen. Imam Zeiner Aberdeen didn't do
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  what his father did. And this is, I think, a a very
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  eye opening point that many people could benefit from,
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  people who who feel that Imam Hussein's mission was to topple
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  the government of Yazid, was to rise up against oppression.
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  No, it was not. Because if that was the case,
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  then Imam Zain al Abidin would have followed in his father's
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  footsteps and he did not. And Imam Zain al Abidin was an
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  infallible inerrant. Are we not seeing Les?
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  Paul of his mission. Yeah.
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  So obviously, obviously there are different sizes of the
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  puzzle that had to have been put in place for this mission to to,
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  to reach its fruition. No, no, no question there.
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  But if we acknowledge that the objective of Imam and Hussein
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  was to establish Imama in order to please Allah, subhanahu wata
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  Allah, then Imam Zain al Abidin did do that.
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  But if we say that his objective was to topple Yazid, Imam Zain
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  al Abidin lived in the time of Yazid, that same tyrant, for the
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  next three years, right? And the Imam, for lack of a
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  better term, didn't even lift a finger.
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  Not only did he not go and fight Yazid, the Imam left Medina.
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  He left Medina. He was living outside in the
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  desert, in an encampment, right when Yazid sent his army to
• 1:17:39
  rampage through the holy city of Medina and to massacre people
• 1:17:45
  and to desecrate the city. Imam Abedin was outside.
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  He didn't do anything, which tells you that if the objective
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  is to establish Imam and to guide people, the tools could.
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  It would be different in different times.
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  In the time of Imam Al Hussein, it had to be to wage war.
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  It had to be to go and fight a war of resistance, but a war
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  nonetheless. In the time of Imam al Abedin,
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  the tools were different, but the guidance was still the same.
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  This time it was through. It was through training slaves
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  who were bought and and and then freed, right?
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  It was in disciplining a number of individuals who became close
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  companions of imams al Abidine who would then go on to recruit
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  other people if you like. But the objective and the plan
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  was exactly the same. The tools were different.
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  How do we do that? By simply asking this question,
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  and I've said this in multiple places, one of the statements
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  that was repeated over and over again by multiple companions of
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  Imam Hussein on the day of Aishwarya, including Saeed
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  Abdullah Al Hanafi, was when Imam Hussein came to them.
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  At the last moment before they breathed their last, they would
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  utter this statement. Our fate, Aravite.
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  Have I been loyal? Have I fulfilled my pledge to
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  you? Are you pleased with me?
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  Are you happy with me? Imagine if we if we ask this
• 1:19:30
  question every single day, whether it's in the morning or
• 1:19:33
  at night before we go to bed. Awfit Yahoo Gentleman Hassan,
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  You also have a Zaman out of the eat.
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  Are you pleased with my conduct today?
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  Are you pleased with how I treated my father and my mother?
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  Are you pleased with how I treat my wife or husband?
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  Are you pleased with how I try to raise my children?
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  Are you pleased with what I do for a living?
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  Are you pleased? Are you pleased with me on the
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  balance of things? Right, The day has passed.
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  I've done so many things. I've said so many things.
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  Are you now pleased with me? Have I fulfilled my pledge to
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  you? This is a life altering
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  statement. It transforms your actions and
• 1:20:11
  how you lead your life in the most profound manner.
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  And I think that sums it up. We could talk about, you know,
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  fulfilling our religious duties. We can talk about all those
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  details, but I think this will give you the answer in a
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  nutshell. Ask yourself everyday O of fate
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  or Elite awesome. I need to recheck my connection
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  with the amount of our time because I truly believe
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  sometimes we forget he's he's living, he's breathing and we
• 1:20:43
  can communicate with him on a daily basis may allow us to have
• 1:20:47
  better Marafa in the Imam of our time and Shallah saying I know
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  we've taken so much of your time and I think as a final, it's
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  been a pleasure point from me. That's what I say, isn't it?
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  Is that the yard of our brain is coming up.
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  Is there any words of advice you can give to everyone listening
• 1:21:05
  and watching of why they should go on this journey of love
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  towards Karbala? As a final point, if.
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  You've never been to Zaratel Arbarine.
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  You're missing out on an experience like no other.
• 1:21:21
  If you've been to Zaratel Arbarine, you know what I'm
• 1:21:23
  talking about. You've caught glimpses of that.
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  Ziaoto El Alabayin is the closest resemblance to the time
• 1:21:33
  of the reappearance of Imam Al Zaman.
• 1:21:35
  Like if there is anything we can point to and say, you know, the
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  world is going to be a much better place with kindness and
• 1:21:44
  generosity and love and fraternity and people, you know,
• 1:21:51
  being hurt but not feeling hurt because of the incredible bond
• 1:21:58
  of brotherhood that exists between all of us.
• 1:22:00
  That's the Otto, the brain. And it's a time of connecting
• 1:22:05
  with Lady Zainab. If you ask the people who walk
• 1:22:10
  through the marshes and through the rough terrains and through
• 1:22:14
  the mountains and endure all this difficulty and pain to
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  reach Imam and Hussein Ali Salaam, why do you do this?
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  Especially the villagers, Especially, you know, the, the
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  more I guess you could say that, that the simple people who not
• 1:22:32
  only walk but also serve the zawad of Imam and Hussein, if
• 1:22:36
  you ask them what their motivation is, they'll say
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  Nawazi Zaynab. We're here because.
• 1:22:41
  Zaynab walked. We're we're doing this because
• 1:22:45
  Zeyneb did it and we're simply walking in her footsteps and
• 1:22:48
  we're making a statement. The statement is we, we see you,
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  we feel you, we hear you, and we wish to feel just a tiny
• 1:22:58
  fraction of the pain that you felt, even though there is no
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  comparison. When they walked, they were
• 1:23:06
  being pulled by chains and ropes.
• 1:23:08
  And they, they, they would pull the rope so that the first child
• 1:23:14
  who's tied by that rope would walk faster.
• 1:23:17
  And all the children that were tied to the same rope would fall
• 1:23:21
  like domino bricks and they would lash them and beat them
• 1:23:26
  and insult them. When we walk, you're welcomed by
• 1:23:31
  these makeshift tents and these malakib and, and you keep
• 1:23:36
  hearing this Haleb, Zuharabwali Halebio.
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  There's no comparison. But you know, I, I want to feel
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  just a tiny bit, a fraction of what they felt.
• 1:23:50
  If there's a little pain, some blisters in my foot or some heat
• 1:23:54
  or whatever it is, that's why people will walk.
• 1:23:56
  You ask them, They couldn't care less.
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  They couldn't care less. The Arotel Erbine is by far the
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  greatest shower of the day. Allah says the Ali ko Emmanuel
• 1:24:10
  album Shah al Allah, whoever honors and glorifies and
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  amplifies the signs of Allah Subhanahu ta'ala, that is a sign
• 1:24:19
  of the piety that is in the hearts.
• 1:24:22
  You wish to exhibit the signs of piety, to gain piety,
• 1:24:27
  participate in Zealotel Urbain. It's not even optional at this
• 1:24:30
  point. It's not even optional.
• 1:24:32
  That's why Meraja before you they actually had fatwas that
• 1:24:36
  visiting Imam Hussein is wajib and we have a hadith from the
• 1:24:40
  Imams Ali Musalam who say that if you don't visit Imam Hussein
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  Faqa Jafa jafa is when you when someone does a favor to you and
• 1:24:50
  you shun them. Imam Hussein has done the
• 1:24:53
  greatest favor to all of us, and for someone to now in this year,
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  in 2024 tells me that no, I still haven't visited Mama
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  Hussein. That's shameful.
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  I'm sorry to say this. Shame on you.
• 1:25:06
  Shame on you and shame on you. I'm not trying to make you feel
• 1:25:09
  bad. I'm just saying you're losing
• 1:25:11
  now. Wake up.
• 1:25:12
  Wake up. Go.
• 1:25:14
  And so my suggestion is you go to Ziara and not just any Ziara,
• 1:25:18
  but Ziara and not just next year, but this year, right?
• 1:25:22
  Don't postpone, don't delay. Make the decision right now.
• 1:25:25
  Book your tickets, go down there, you'll thank me later.
• 1:25:29
  I sent something so I've not said it better honestly.
• 1:25:34
  Oh wait, counting on this, I'm just thinking.
• 1:25:36
  Now, Sharma, may Allah grant us the opportunity.
• 1:25:38
  Hopefully we'll walk together. We're walking.
• 1:25:41
  Together at some point, whether we're actually physically
• 1:25:43
  together or not. Sharla this year next.
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  Good to see you there. Sharla saying that we took a.
• 1:25:48
  Lot of your valuable time. I learned so much.
• 1:25:50
  We benefited so much. Bless you.
• 1:25:52
  And. I really hope that we have a
• 1:25:55
  better understanding for everyone that's listened
• 1:25:57
  throughout this conversation of the connection we need to have
• 1:26:00
  with the last panel with Tahala and if you have anything else.
• 1:26:03
  Just one more question. I'm joking.
• 1:26:06
  I'm joking. I'm joking.
• 1:26:08
  I should be. Excited now, thank you.
• 1:26:09
  So honestly, it was my. Pleasure being here.
• 1:26:11
  Thank you, Sid. Pleasure.
• 1:26:12
  Saying that, I've always. Been behind the panelists.
• 1:26:16
  Yes. It's a bit weird, but Hamdullah
• 1:26:19
  went very well and unsecure. I've asked for a better episode.
• 1:26:24
  I learned a lot. A lot.
• 1:26:25
  And again, I reiterate that I thought I loved the amount of
• 1:26:29
  saying to the Max after today's talk.
• 1:26:32
  I just, I've loved him. More I've loved.
• 1:26:34
  Him more, may Allah. Increase the love of Imam Al
• 1:26:36
  Hussein in our hearts. The Allah Allahabadin Al Khair
• 1:26:41
  Paddafi it could be the more Allah.
• 1:26:47
  Allah's love is endless and infinite.
• 1:26:52
  So the more Allah loves us, the more He plants the love of Imam
• 1:26:56
  Al Hussein in our hearts, the more Allah wants to increase
• 1:26:59
  goodness in our lives in both this world and the next.
• 1:27:02
  He increases the love of your Mama.
• 1:27:05
  Hussein Hussain. There just finding you your
• 1:27:07
  book. Where can we find it?
• 1:27:10
  How can someone purchase it? It's on.
• 1:27:12
  Amazon, it's the only outlet, the only platform that has the
• 1:27:17
  the worldwide distribution capabilities.
• 1:27:20
  And so it's available on Amazon, but you'll be able to find that
• 1:27:24
  and all the other titles on Amazon.
• 1:27:26
  Thank you for your time much. My pleasure, brother, sisters,
• 1:27:29
  wherever you're watching from around the world and shallow,
• 1:27:31
  you benefited from today's conversation.
• 1:27:32
  I know I did. And I, I generally ask you if
• 1:27:35
  you loved this conversation, share it with someone you know,
• 1:27:38
  a family member, a friend, so everyone inshallah, can learn
• 1:27:41
  and benefit from the wisdom and the island of Saint Mehdi, may
• 1:27:45
  Allah protect him. Yarab al Hussein, Bhakt al
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  Hussain, Ashfiya. Southern Hussein.