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Imam Mahdi is coming, Wake Up! (Ft Sayed M Baqir Qazwini) · After Maghrib 🌙

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  Smila Rahman, Raheem Salaam Alaikum, and welcome back to
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  your favorite Shia Muslim podcast After Mahmoud.
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  If you tuned in last week, you'd have benefited from a very, very
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  beneficial episode discussing the Munajat of Shahbania.
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  And I did say to the guest that we had on, who was an amazing
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  guest, by the way. It was as if we had a commentary
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  on the Munajat of Shahbania. And I do want to say one thing,
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  though we are on the vibes of Shahban.
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  In about a day or two, we are going to be celebrating the
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  auspicious birth of Imam Sahab al afterward Zaman I'd Allah
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  dalla farja Sharif. But before I go and go deeper,
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  But before we go any further, Brun sisters, massive
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  congratulations to the whole Omar and of course to none other
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  than the awaited Imam and Mehdi Anjal Allahu to Allah Faraj
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  Sharif on his birthday on this suspicious occasion.
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  Another year where we celebrate the Imam and of course we speak
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  about the awaited Imam at every opportunity we can.
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  We link it back to him on a week to week basis.
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  But today we want to give as much attention and brothers,
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  sisters, we've grown up hearing about the Imam.
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  You know, the majority of us have been born and raised in the
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  Shia community and we've had the absolute pleasure to hear about
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  the Imam on on a weekly basis, on on a regular basis on on our
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  the member and through interactions with friends and
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  family. But today, brother, sisters, we
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  are going to talk about the awaited Imam in a way you have
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  not heard. An incredibly unconventional
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  fresh discussion, inshallah, on our awaited Imam.
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  And we have someone very dear, very special to us.
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  The last time we saw our respected scholar, he was also
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  talking about the Imam, and this was in.
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  Subhan Allah, this was in. Vancouver.
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  In Toronto, yeah. In Canada, yeah.
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  Subhan Allah, unfortunately I wasn't there but said you had a
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  great conversation. You were there in spirit.
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  I did and I benefited so much and it is online and Subhan
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  Allah till today I still see people engaging.
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  On that episode, amazing, amazing conversation.
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  Let's spill the means. I sent him so we have none other
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  than our dear respect. Say it.
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  Muhammad Bakhar Kazwini saw Ali Hussein.
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  Ali Kumar Salaam al Ahmad Allahi or Barakatto al Hamdulillah.
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  So much for joining us. Thank you for, for, for spending
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  your time with us. I know you've just returned from
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  Amara. Congratulations.
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  How was it? Thank you al Hamdulillah.
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  It was a beautiful Amara. It was very crowded.
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  It gave me the Haj vibes. In fact, I could safely state
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  that it was busier than Haj, the Tawaf, the Sai, Medina, Mecca
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  flocking with mwatamarine and visitors.
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  And just yesterday, as I was sitting in front of the Kaaba, I
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  imagined and visualized Imam al Mehdi Ajah al Afar Ajah
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  standing, having his back to the Kaaba and giving his speech to
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  the world as al Imam al Baqar Ali Salam documents it in one of
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  our hadiths. So visualizing that at the Kaaba
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  was surreal for me. Yesterday will be having the
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  opportunity to go together. Fingers crossed that does
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  happen. That would be an amazing,
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  amazing spiritual, spiritual experience for us.
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  And I just want to add something to Ahmed that means a lot for
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  you to be here personally, on a personal level.
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  And I'm someone who I can say, and Ahmed knows this, we always
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  reference you during our conversations.
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  You've played a huge role in our lives.
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  You possibly don't know about this, but all my friends in my
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  circle, they'll say the same thing.
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  And the handler, I will say my wife can attest to this almost
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  on a daily basis. Let's say Mohammed Baker.
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  Yeah, because when you're playing in the background, so.
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  So you get these constant headaches from me then?
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  Of course not. Thank you.
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  I really appreciate. That on a journey together
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  towards a. Loss.
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  Do you know what it is? You.
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  It's my honor. Thank.
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  You content and we have to shout out our brothers at Thakalain
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  Media who of course have worked with us on aftermarket in the
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  past and the many centers which and of course your own social
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  media Marshall, but the many centers who have put out your
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  content. It's so engaging and you've been
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  able to provide content to our community, which is not like
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  just recreational and engaging, but also is gripping and
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  insightful. Like we're now gaining knowledge
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  but having fun at the same time. And it's because of the, and I
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  mean this from my heart. I was quizzing you, of course,
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  before the podcast about things that you've mentioned in some of
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  your lessons, but we're able to now understand core principles
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  of Shiism in a condensed video most of the time, and we love
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  it. Hamdallahara bin Laden, we're so
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  lucky to have you and we're really honoured so.
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  Thank you, it's my honour. I appreciate that this is all
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  from the Baraka of Allah, Subhanahu Attada and the service
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  of Ehde Bait and I ask you sincerely for this, ask a lot to
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  never take away the service from me.
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  Inshallah. Inshallah to the grave.
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  Inshallah. To the grave, the long the way
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  you live, say, isn't it? I have one question to ask
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  inshallah before we actually dive in to the discussion.
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  Why don't you have social media? Why?
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  Why can I not find say the Muhammad as we need on
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  Instagram? Saying MBQ is on all social
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  media but not his own page. But every page should reshare
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  your lectures, but not your own page.
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  That's a very good question. A lot of people have asked me
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  that. So do I have a problem with
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  social media? Of course not.
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  Yes, I do have concerns with social media.
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  Social media is a very powerful tool.
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  It's like a knife. It depends on how you use it,
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  and I'm sure you've all seen how much damage it can do to the
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  youth when it's misused. It's not used appropriately or
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  productively. But one primary reason why I
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  don't have social media is that the point in having such a
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  platform is to deliver the message of the Quran and Adel
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  bait to the people. So if there are other pages that
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  are delivering that content to the people, I did not really
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  find it necessary to have my own page and my own name to deliver
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  that because the goal is achieved.
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  As long as, alhamdulillah, people are benefiting from this
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  content, that's what I hope for. So why do I need to have a page
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  in my own name if it's already, you know, achieving that?
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  So that's really one reason why I've stayed away from social
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  media personally, even though I do support these platforms and
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  all these wonderful institutions that are providing this
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  excellent content from around the world from many speakers and
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  scholars. Yeah, yeah, I.
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  Sent them saying that. Beautiful.
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  I'm thinking about deactivating. Your your private 1 though, not
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  the aftermath of one. Yeah, no, we'd have an issue if
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  you wanted to deactivate. That one I'm knocking on my
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  door. Honestly, I said so, so let's
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  get stuck in in Charlotte. So look around the world,
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  communities, families are celebrating in Hamdullah.
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  This is the most blessed day and we are celebrating the birth of
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  our awaited Imam. I just love our nutrition.
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  And of course, it's a beautiful time of year, I think not just
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  because we are celebrating his birth, but at the same time
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  there are miles that we do on the 15th night of Shahaban and
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  we are preparing our souls for the for the coming of
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  Shahramadhan at this time of year.
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  There are also many other things, of course, which
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  happened on the 15th of Shahaban, one of which is the I
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  mean we say that not just the birth of the Holy Imam, but also
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  the beginning of Reberto Lukobarat.
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  This is when the 4th Safir, the 4th, the last of the Safarah of
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  the holy of Imam. The the deputies, as we can say
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  during his labour passed away. Abu Abu Hassan a summary and we
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  know from our traditions that dopeyard the letters that the
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  Imam had with his deputies that he warned his fourth deputy of
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  of his death and he told his his deputy that after after you,
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  there will be no more. And there will be a long period
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  where the hearts of people will become hard and rigid and there
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  will be a difficult time of filled with injustice until the
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  Seiha comes, the call comes and the Sofiani rises, if I'm not
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  mistaken. So what I wanted to understand,
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  especially I think for us to understand the Imam, we need to
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  understand, I think what he intended for us.
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  And it's a conversation we need to frequently revisit,
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  especially at this time of year when the Imam Aleh Salaam was
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  speaking to his safarah. And when he was writing these
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  letters, what was his goal for us?
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  What message was he trying to tell us through these letters?
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  Allah's greatest trial throughout history was to
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  prepare the believers for the final stage of His trials, and
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  that is the Gabe and that and that's what it means to define
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  the Meneen and the believers, as Allah tells us in Surat al
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  Baqarah. What is that defining quality of
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  a movement, a ladina menona bill gaib, those who believe in the
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  unseen, so he does based on the unseen.
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  So Allah wanted to prepare humanity for that final stage
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  such that they don't have physical access to their leader,
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  to their Imam, to the representative of God on earth.
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  That's a very difficult trial. So we find all the Imams of Al
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  Bait gradually preparing their followers for this trial and
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  hence if you look at the last Imams of Al Bait from Al Imam Al
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  Jawad onwards, you see that you actually see the prelude to the
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  Reba because very few Shias had access to them, especially at
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  Imam Askari and Imam Hadi and Imam Askari when they were in
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  Samarra. Most Shias around the world at
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  the time did not have access to them.
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  Why? This was deliberate.
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  Get ready. That final Imam you will not
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  have access to anymore. So we find the Imams even by
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  virtue of having access to them, they were preparing the Shia for
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  the gheba. And if you look at the letters
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  of al Imam, al Mehdi, Ajar Allah to his sufara, to his deputies,
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  to his ambassadors, I see this theme in his letters.
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  Get ready. Things are going to get tough.
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  It's going to get very hard. You have to stay strong and
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  patient. You will not regularly have
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  access to your Imam. You will go through a a period
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  of crisis. You'll have questions, you'll go
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  through doubts. Be ready.
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  We've given you all the tools and the ingredients that you
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  need to be safe, to be on the right path.
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  Work with these tools. It's really going to get tough.
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  That's the theme that I see in the letters of the Imam,
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  preparing us mentally, spiritually, psychologically for
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  the Gabe. I mean, imagine, imagine if you
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  have little children, They're attached to their parents.
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  Their parents are raising them. The parents tell their children,
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  look, you're going to get separated from us.
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  You're no longer going to see us.
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  It's very difficult. That breaks the children.
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  It can shatter them. But good parents, what will they
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  do if that has to happen? They'll prepare their children.
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  Get ready. Don't fall into these pits of
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  deviation. Be strong, be ready.
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  That's what I see through these letters of the Imam.
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  He really wanted to prepare us and for us to take it seriously.
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  That's why some people object. Why is it that when I look at
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  the letters of the Imam, I see a threatening tone in them?
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  Like the Imam is a bit tough in his letters.
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  The reason why he's tough is because he's communicating the
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  seriousness of this trial. Don't sit back and relax on your
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  couch and things and think and, and you don't think that things
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  will be OK? No, they're going to be very
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  tough. As you mentioned, the hearts
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  will get hard. What does that mean?
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  It means people will steer away from religion.
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  People will no longer have that Hushua, that humbleness in their
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  hearts to interact with the Quran, with the words of Allah,
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  Subhanahu Ta'ala, a movement interacts with the Quran.
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  One verse should change you, but we see in the Reba the Quran can
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  be recited 10 times, the entire Quran, and it doesn't move some
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  people. So the Iman was very worried,
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  like a father who's worried about his children and the fate
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  of his children. So if the Imam is a bit tough in
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  these letters, it's because he wanted us to be prepared well.
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  That preparation is is key. Of course I know Subhan Allah
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  say that I I remember the points there.
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  There was a conversation between Kumail and Imam Ali Ali Salaam
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  where Kumail finds Emir Al Mahminian digging his fists into
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  the ground and Kumail tells him you know what's going on.
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  And he says I'm thinking about the 9th descendants of Al
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  Hussein Ali Assalam referring to Imam and Mehdi.
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  And then if we go. And the difficulties of the
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  trials of yes. And then, and then I believe it
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  was also Imam Jafar Assad, Ali Salaam, he told one of his
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  companions something very similar.
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  So they when the Imam was crying and he remembered what would
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  happen to the people at the time of the Hebrew.
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  Well, he mentioned something critical and I think it comes to
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  this preparation bit where he says they will know of the
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  Mahdi, but they will have doubts.
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  And I and I and I think if we don't have this relationship of,
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  of and if we don't get prepared for his return, I see doubts
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  around me today. I see people questioning where
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  is Imam Sahab al Astriwal Zaman? And I see it creeping in, in
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  Shia communities. What can we take from the sulky
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  arts of Imam and Mehdi Ajilat Al Farid Sharif that we can
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  actually put into our lives today?
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  That we can have foliar pain in the unseen that you're referring
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  to? What I would take away from
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  these Tokyat is to first of all know that this is the will of
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  Allah to have the final representative in occultation in
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  Ghiba. If you acknowledge that on an
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  intellectual level, you will not struggle emotionally because the
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  doubts that many people are having, are they intellectual
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  doubts or let's call them emotional doubts?
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  I'm using that as a figure of speech, right?
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  It's more of an emotional doubt. Where is the Imam?
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  Is he not seeing all this injustice around the world?
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  If he's not going to reappear today, then what does he want to
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  reappear when the whole planet is burned?
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  I hear such comments like that. See, it's an emotional struggle.
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  It's like a child who's waiting for the parents.
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  Where are my parents? Why aren't they coming now?
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  It's an emotional struggle, whereas the topiat are aimed at
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  intellectually insulating us, understanding.
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  This is the will of God, this is the plan of God, and this is the
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  trial of Allah. Subhan Otada.
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  Once I acknowledge that this is a trial, emotionally I'm able to
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  cope. Psychologically I'm able to
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  cope. Just like you tell a child,
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  look, your father is going to be away for 20 years because he has
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  this business to take care of and he's sending you money and
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  he's taking care of you. If the child understands, OK,
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  this is there is a system behind this, there's wisdom behind
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  this, the child will cope. But when does the child suffer?
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  When the child is lost, is confused, does not know why the
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  parent is absent. I think a lot of us who struggle
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  with these doubts, we've not really understood why the Imam
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  is in occultation. What does he expect from us
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  during the occultation? What's the nature of this trial?
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  And so all these topiacs are aimed at reminding us of the
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  covenant we made with Allah. Allah made a covenant with you.
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  I'm going to put you on earth. I'm going to try you, and I'm
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  going to try you with the unseen world more than the visible
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  world. If you just acknowledge that
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  emotionally, you'll cope with the riba.
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  Yes, it's still heavy on our hearts.
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  We still cry. We still grieve over the loss of
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  separation from our Imam, just like a child who cries for the
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  separation of parents. Emotionally, it's OK for you to
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  grieve. In fact, that's a sign of faith.
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  That's a sign of concern that you love your Imam.
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  But that should not allow you to have doubts in all of this,
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  because intellectually it makes perfect sense.
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  To say, I don't, if I can be honest with you, I feel like,
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  well, we look at our communities and I, I speak obviously on
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  behalf of myself. I don't think when we say we are
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  waiting for the Imam, we are actively waiting for the Imam,
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  if that makes sense. So I feel like a lot of us are
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  passive. I feel like it's cultural.
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  It's, it's, it's something we've become habituated with when it
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  comes, you know, when we say we are waiting the Holy Imam.
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  And there's a hadith, I wanted to, to, to run past Jews from
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  Imam Sadiq Alayhi Saddam, where he was asked about why we stand
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  and we put our hands on our heads when the name Al Khatim is
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  mentioned. And it's a beautiful hadith.
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  Imam Alayhi Salaam says due to the lengthy nature of his
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  occultation and due to the severity of his longing for
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  seeing those that he loves, he looks towards every person who
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  calls him by the name while thinking of his donor.
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  And it is from his honour and respect that the humble servant
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  should stand when his great master should look towards him
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  with his blessed eyes. So let him stand and let him
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  supplicate our last panel to Allah for his Imam and his
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  reappearance to be hastened. Mashallah, I think it's like a
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  beautiful hadith. It's a feel good hadith, but at
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  the same time it references here that the Imam is also waiting
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  for us. So when we say that he is the
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  awaited Saviour, He is the awaited Saviour.
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  We are waiting for him to come and fill the world, the earth
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  with justice and and with godliness and divinity.
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  However, at the same time are are we also the awaited ones?
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  Is it wrong for us to say that he is the awaited one when he is
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  is waiting for us? We always hear, you know, we
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  grew up in a community where we always were told, and I remember
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  this vividly in my youth being told, what if there are 312
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  right now? What if you're meant to be the
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  13th? So we used to hear this growing
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  up and we always used to think about this, what if, what if the
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  Imam is waiting? So I just wanted to ask that
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  because we, of course, we always make this reference to the Imam
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  being the awaited. So when we look at the hadiths,
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  we see both of these elements. A number of hadiths indicate
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  that we are waiting for him. He is the awaited.
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  In fact, that's one of his names, Al Montalva, one of the
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  titles of the Imam. So definitely you have that
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  element of us waiting for him to come and establish justice on
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  earth. But at the same time, we also
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  have hadiths that indicate he is waiting for us, like the one
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  that you mentioned, or like the famous incidents of Ali Ibn
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  Mahzayyar. Ali Ibn Mahzayyar has a very
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  special relationship with the Imams and specifically with the
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  12th Imam. And on one of those journeys, as
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  he wanted to meet the Imam, the servant of the Imam who came to
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  Ali Ibn Maziar to show him where he could have the honor of
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  meeting the Imam, Ali Ibn Maziar showed frustration.
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  He indicated the following. Our Imam is Mahajubunan.
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  Mahajub means he's basically there's a barrier between US and
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  him, right? Why is he away from us?
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  We've been blocked from seeing him.
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  Mahjoub, that servant corrected Ali Ibn Meziah and he told him
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  it is your sins that are blocking you from him, not
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  himself blocking himself from you.
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  Your sins blocking you from him. What does that mean?
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  He's waiting for us. That means who put the barrier?
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  We put the barrier, Not him. He's ready, but through my sins
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  I've put the barrier and that's what's blocking us from the
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  Imam. So in reality he is waiting for
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  us. So now is there a contradiction
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  among these hadiths? So what's going on?
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  Is he waiting or are we waiting? It's a bit of both.
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  Exactly. It's, it's, it's both, because
• 21:38
  what these hadiths are communicating is that the global
• 21:43
  just government of God is based on teamwork.
• 21:47
  You're going to work with your Imam to establish justice.
• 21:52
  That's the beauty of it. And that's why it's very
• 21:55
  critical for us to be a true companion of the Imam.
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  Who's waiting for the Imam and who's also removing those
• 22:04
  barriers because Allah wants to give the believers the honor to
• 22:07
  be a part of this government. So if I can all say it, because
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  like some may argue, they may, they may say that Allah's panel
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  to Allah has a date and time where he knows that Imam is
• 22:19
  going to reappear. Right now we're 1100 years on.
• 22:23
  Allah knows that it will be 1500 years for argument's sake, right
• 22:27
  tomorrow, so or tomorrow in sha Allah.
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  Of course, in sha Allah, we had a call this year, but we always
• 22:33
  hear, and I remember what someone once told me, imagine if
• 22:36
  the Shia 500 years ago, we're told, why are you waiting for
• 22:40
  the Imam when he's not going to come for at least another 500
• 22:43
  years. And my immediate thought process
• 22:46
  was perhaps if the shield at that time were ready, the Imam
• 22:50
  would have come then. At least in my mind.
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  This is how I process the logic. And please correct me if I'm
• 22:54
  wrong because there is an element of bada, which I know
• 22:57
  we've spoken about before the podcast as well, that Allah's
• 23:01
  plan is ultimately, you know, he, Allah knows what the final
• 23:06
  destination is. Allah knows what is to happen,
• 23:09
  but unless upon Allah gives us as Munin the opportunity to help
• 23:14
  shape that destiny and for us to take part in what is to come.
• 23:19
  Am I correct in saying that the Imam Alai Salaam could come now
• 23:23
  if we were ready and if we continue perhaps on the path
• 23:27
  that we're on of Jahiliya, or maybe not.
• 23:30
  You know, the ignorance which we're currently showing as a
• 23:32
  global community, if we were to continue that this may further
• 23:36
  delay the Imam's coming. Or is it just a case of waiting
• 23:38
  for one sign after the other to to fall like Domino's?
• 23:42
  That's that's a very valid question.
• 23:44
  To understand how this works, it's important for us to
• 23:47
  understand how divine will works.
• 23:50
  As the Quran indicates, Allah has two types of divine will.
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  He's got the fixed one and the contingent 1.
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  Many verses of the Quran point to this reality.
• 24:05
  What is the contingent will of God means?
• 24:08
  The contingent will means Allah Subhanahu to Allah has assigned
• 24:13
  something to happen, meaning He's arranged the factors to
• 24:18
  come together at the right time, at the right place for that
• 24:22
  event to play out. However, Allah Sapan Otada has
• 24:26
  given us the role to change that, to influence that.
• 24:31
  Why? To give us hope.
• 24:33
  Imagine if one day you have this thought, if God has determined
• 24:37
  everything and He's willed everything and as the Quran says
• 24:40
  He's written everything, then what's my role here?
• 24:44
  I'm not going to change anything.
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  You will be at a loss of hope. You won't see any value in your
• 24:50
  actions anymore. You'll see yourself as some
• 24:52
  robot that is just programmed to do what it's supposed to do.
• 24:57
  Unless a panel to Allah wants to make it clear to us that's not
• 25:00
  the case, I've given you some free will and you can actually
• 25:04
  change your fate. You can play a role in shaping
• 25:08
  your destiny. So unless panel to Allah, he's
• 25:11
  put some factors together to generate an outcome, but then
• 25:16
  how you interact with those factors can change the outcome.
• 25:22
  A last palatada, let's say, has willed for you to live 40 years
• 25:27
  because certain factors are going to come together.
• 25:31
  An accident could happen, God forbid, a health crisis could
• 25:35
  happen, but a last palatada has given you that opportunity.
• 25:39
  If you pay a sadaqa, you give charity, you're good, you
• 25:41
  establish good, good ties with your family members, Allah will
• 25:45
  increase that to 80 years because he's giving you a role
• 25:49
  to change your destiny. That's the system of God.
• 25:52
  It's based on that, and that's the core of badat.
• 25:56
  Badat doesn't mean God's knowledge changes.
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  It means this divine will, the contingent one, will generate a
• 26:05
  different outcome if you act differently.
• 26:09
  That's what badat means at its core.
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  So let's now apply this to the Imam Allah Subhana.
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  Allah has promised that the 9th descendant of Hussein, the
• 26:21
  Mahdi, will return. That's a promise from God that
• 26:24
  will not change. Just like the Day of Judgement,
• 26:26
  the hour, that's a promise from God that the hour will happen.
• 26:29
  That's not going to change. But how is it going to be
• 26:33
  shaped? The timing of it, the various
• 26:36
  factors that depends on millions and millions of factors and some
• 26:41
  of them belong to us. Those factors are influenced by
• 26:47
  us, we as the Shia, as the followers of the Imam.
• 26:50
  Depending on our moral state, ethical state, religious state,
• 26:55
  how much we do to our sins, we can either push that back or
• 26:59
  expedite it. So we can go back in time 500
• 27:03
  years ago to those Shia and we could tell them had you done
• 27:07
  more, you could have expedited the return of the Imam.
• 27:11
  Have you not sinned as much? The Imam Ali Salaam might have
• 27:15
  appeared earlier. So our sins and our status as a
• 27:21
  community can have a big influence on that.
• 27:23
  And that's why the Imam told us. Well, Ekthiru Baduha ETA Jihad
• 27:28
  Farage, multiply your efforts when supplicating.
• 27:31
  Well, if God knows the Imam is going to return on that date and
• 27:36
  that's fixed, what is your dog going to do?
• 27:39
  It's not going to change anything.
• 27:41
  The fact that the Imams told us supplicate, pray for this, it
• 27:44
  means it can change. You can either postpone it or
• 27:48
  you can expedite it. We all play a role in that.
• 27:50
  Every single individual plays a role in that.
• 27:54
  Saying that just on this point of sinning, I've heard.
• 27:59
  I can't remember from where, but I've also heard the opposite to
• 28:01
  this, which is for example that the more sins and.
• 28:04
  The more the world is filled with injustice.
• 28:06
  The quicker has returned. Yeah, we've had that.
• 28:09
  We've had that from, Yeah. Yes, we've had there is that
• 28:14
  mentality. There are twisted scholars,
• 28:16
  let's be real, because we think about it, Who have this thought?
• 28:19
  I mean obviously the. If you have advocated for that,
• 28:22
  sure. Yeah.
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  I've heard this by the way. I know you're.
• 28:26
  Thinking I just came to me as you were.
• 28:28
  There was actually a devious cult in some countries in the
• 28:32
  past, you know, few decades, whose mission was to sin and
• 28:38
  spread the culture of sins, of course, and their mentality was
• 28:41
  what you described. If the hadiths have told us that
• 28:44
  Imam will not reappear unless the world is going to be filled
• 28:47
  with injustice and sins and corruption, well, let's get the
• 28:51
  world there. Let's fill it with injustice.
• 28:54
  So that will expedite the return of the Imam.
• 28:56
  We don't need to give the oxygen because we know that's devious
• 28:59
  and. We don't.
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  But I think saying that just on this point, can we consider
• 29:03
  these groups of people or these calls or you know, as imposters,
• 29:08
  troublemakers? Do they fall on the the category
• 29:10
  what's known as the Journal? Definitely, they are imposters
• 29:13
  and I'll tell you why. See someone can give them the
• 29:16
  benefit of the doubt and say, yeah, that's a genuine idea.
• 29:19
  It's in fact, it's a brilliant idea.
• 29:21
  It's a creative idea. Let's get the imam faster and
• 29:24
  get this over with. The reason why these people are
• 29:27
  not well-intentioned is if you look at the Quran and the
• 29:31
  teachings of added bait, in no instance has they have they ever
• 29:36
  given us the exception to sin. Never.
• 29:40
  And they always advocated. If you ever see someone
• 29:43
  advocating for sins, know that this is from Shaitaan.
• 29:46
  This is deception which is the basis of the jot.
• 29:49
  So how could any Mormon ever believe in that that God has
• 29:53
  authorized you to sin for any purpose?
• 29:56
  Never in history did any prophet allow any of their followers to
• 30:00
  sin to achieve any divine goal. So right off the bat we know
• 30:04
  that these people are not well-intentioned.
• 30:07
  These people want to follow their desires and they just want
• 30:10
  an excuse because hey, it sounds nice.
• 30:13
  Go sin, follow your desires and temptations.
• 30:15
  And what? Blame it on the Imam so I can
• 30:17
  bring him faster? It's a very devious concept and
• 30:22
  a very clear application of the dead, jolly deceptive mentality.
• 30:27
  So now I would not give them any benefit of the doubt and say
• 30:30
  Haram, they're lost, they don't know what's going on.
• 30:33
  They really want to bring that global government.
• 30:35
  Who are you following? If you're following the Mehdi
• 30:38
  and the Imams, they told you to do the exact opposite.
• 30:41
  In fact, the Imam Ali, Saddam, in one of those letters we
• 30:44
  talked about, the letters the Imam indicates had you been
• 30:47
  united on the truth, on the hack, on the good, our
• 30:52
  appearance and meeting with you would not have been delayed.
• 30:56
  The Imam is saying the exact opposite.
• 30:59
  So how could you defy what your Imam is saying?
• 31:03
  But now let's briefly address this Shobha, this misconception.
• 31:07
  I mean it, it could make sense. Let's fill the earth with
• 31:09
  injustice and He's going to come.
• 31:12
  The more we fill the earth with injustice, in fact, the more we
• 31:16
  postpone his reappearance. Because when we defy Allah upon
• 31:21
  OTA, Allah makes us suffer more. See.
• 31:24
  Look at the Quran and Beni Israel.
• 31:26
  What do we learn from their experience?
• 31:29
  Sometimes the Quran tells us God was very tough with the children
• 31:33
  of Israel. Allah would intensify, you know,
• 31:36
  their trials. He would impose new restrictions
• 31:39
  on them. Why?
• 31:41
  Like the whole Sabbath on Saturday, you cannot fish.
• 31:44
  The why? It's because they sinned.
• 31:48
  They showed stubbornness with God and God paid them back by
• 31:53
  intensifying their trial. Whenever you sin, you don't get
• 31:57
  relief, you get the opposite, you get more trials.
• 32:02
  So to think that during the Khyber, by sending more and
• 32:04
  filling the earth with injustice that's going to expedite the
• 32:08
  Imams return, that's not going to happen.
• 32:10
  It will only postpone it. Now, it's not a condition for
• 32:15
  the reappearance of the Imam, for the world to be filled with
• 32:19
  corruption, that's not a prerequisite.
• 32:22
  He's not waiting for that. So then what do those hadiths
• 32:26
  mean? What those hadiths mean is that
• 32:30
  really the only one who can truly save you from corruption
• 32:35
  has to be God's representative. Don't think you people, Through
• 32:40
  your systems, through your way of life, through your ideas, you
• 32:45
  can save humanity. Don't be arrogant, be humble,
• 32:49
  follow the representatives of God and you will see it when
• 32:53
  He's going to save you from global injustice.
• 32:56
  That global injustice the hadiths are talking about are
• 33:00
  referring to a massive failure on behalf of humanity.
• 33:04
  All of you human beings, you'll fail miserably.
• 33:07
  Then a last part I will show you why you have to follow his
• 33:10
  representatives. That's the idea behind these
• 33:14
  hadiths. And there's, I know you've
• 33:16
  mentioned I've had and I, I want to ask something separate, but
• 33:19
  I'm just to add on. I know you've mentioned in in
• 33:22
  some of your, your recent lectures that there are certain
• 33:26
  attitudes of the of humanity at a time where the Imam will come
• 33:31
  and, and specific instances of injustice rebar in terms of
• 33:34
  interest, Salah will be abandoned.
• 33:37
  The men will dress like women and the women will dress like
• 33:40
  men and all of these kind of this.
• 33:41
  There's a whole list of them, must be dozens of them.
• 33:44
  But specific instances where the whole of humanity are are
• 33:49
  abandoning Dean and have Hak and Bathen swamped.
• 33:52
  Yeah. I mean, that's my understanding.
• 33:54
  I did want to ask specifically about the five definite signs
• 33:58
  and specifically when we talk about what we call them, the
• 34:01
  Hatamiya signs, the Hatami signs, these definite signs.
• 34:05
  So the rising of the Sofiani, the rising of Aliyamani, the say
• 34:10
  hi, the call from the skies, the Khasfaul Baida, the swelling of
• 34:15
  the earth. And the last one is the killing
• 34:18
  of Nafsa Zakiya in in the Kaaba, the vicinity of the Kaaba.
• 34:23
  These five definite signs, are they impacted by the contingent
• 34:26
  will of a Las Paluta Allah, the Bada?
• 34:28
  Or are these those which are definitely happening and they
• 34:31
  can't be affected by the people? So Subhan Allah, the one of the
• 34:35
  Imams of Al Beit Ali Musalam al Imam Assad al Islam was asked
• 34:38
  about this very question. He was asked these signs of
• 34:42
  reappearance, are they subject to bada or not?
• 34:47
  The Imam Ali Salam responded yes, they are subject to bada.
• 34:52
  Now what does that mean? Here's how we understand it.
• 34:56
  If these 5 signs happen, definitely the Imam will
• 35:01
  reappear immediately because they're signs.
• 35:06
  And if they are signs, they must point to an event that does not
• 35:09
  change because it's a promise that if these signs happen, your
• 35:14
  imam is going to reappear. From this side, there is no bada
• 35:19
  because these are Al Ahmat signs pointing to an event.
• 35:22
  However, let's look at the other side.
• 35:25
  Do these five have to happen for him to reappear?
• 35:30
  Or Allah can expedite his reappearance and he can reappear
• 35:34
  without these happening? Yes, that's where Badat comes
• 35:38
  into play. So let's say Allah Spanada today
• 35:41
  looks at the state of the earth and he sees the meaning,
• 35:44
  humbling their hearts, begging Allah for the reappearance of
• 35:47
  the Imam and people. Humanity is overwhelmingly doing
• 35:51
  good and wanting good and humbling themselves.
• 35:55
  And sometimes you can see the world heading that way.
• 35:57
  We're even non-Muslims. We're not even talking about
• 36:00
  Muslims in the Shia, even non-Muslims.
• 36:02
  We failed. God just help us.
• 36:05
  No government is going to save humanity.
• 36:08
  No group or party is going to save us.
• 36:11
  It's just chaos and confusion and greed everywhere.
• 36:16
  When the world comes to that state, Alas Apano Ta'ala can do
• 36:21
  the following. These signs don't need to
• 36:24
  happen. They let's say they're supposed
• 36:26
  to happen 50 years from now. 5000 years from now, when Alas
• 36:29
  sees humanity showing those good intentions, Alas Apano Ta'ala
• 36:34
  can just put those to the side and in one night have the Mehdi
• 36:38
  reappear. That's why Sunni and Shia Hadith
• 36:41
  have mentioned this exact point. Yuslah allahu amrahufi Laila or
• 36:48
  yuslahu allahufi Laila meaning Allah subhanawat Allah will
• 36:54
  prepare him in one night. See, your deeds are so powerful,
• 37:01
  they can bring about the Lahore of the Imam in one night.
• 37:06
  Don't think that it needs ages and centuries and millennia for
• 37:11
  the Imam to return. Open your heart, do good,
• 37:16
  improve the quality of your intentions.
• 37:19
  It could happen within a night. So all those signs can be
• 37:24
  skipped and the last panotada can bring the imam.
• 37:27
  That's the. That's the application of BADA.
• 37:29
  But how does that different than to indefinite signs?
• 37:31
  Because if they're definite and they're 5 definite.
• 37:33
  Signs. They're they're definite signs
• 37:35
  in the sense that if they happen, the imam must return OK.
• 37:38
  Fine. Whereas the other indefinite
• 37:40
  signs, yeah, yes, most likely. When we talked about Reba usury
• 37:46
  on the rise, divorce rate on the rise, corruption, people
• 37:49
  abandoning prayer, people worshipping their money.
• 37:52
  When these signs happen, yeah, there is a strong indication
• 37:56
  that Imam will reappear. But must he reappear?
• 37:59
  No, all of these can happen and there still will.
• 38:03
  Could be a delay, Yeah, in the reappearance of the Imam due to
• 38:07
  a number of factors. But when the five happen, he
• 38:10
  must reappear imminently, immediately.
• 38:14
  That's what differentiates the hatmi, the definite signs and
• 38:17
  the indefinite signs. Does that make sense?
• 38:19
  Yeah. For sure, sure.
• 38:21
  So it's not a case of it's, it's a case of if these five happen,
• 38:25
  then the imam will definitely reappear.
• 38:27
  But it's not a case of these five have to happen for the imam
• 38:29
  to reappear. Correct.
• 38:31
  Exactly. Whereas the indefinite signs,
• 38:33
  yes, if they happen, there's a strong expectation that he will
• 38:38
  reappear soon. But must he?
• 38:40
  No. A lot can still postpone it
• 38:42
  another thousand years due to a number of factors.
• 38:44
  So say sorry, say no, no. One of those signs is the say
• 38:48
  ha, which we've talked about. And of course, we're approaching
• 38:50
  Shahar on mobile and we see in our traditions that the call
• 38:54
  that will come from the sky, there will be two calls, if I'm
• 38:56
  not mistaken. But the call which comes from
• 38:58
  the skies will be for all of humanity.
• 39:01
  And our hadith says in all languages that the Imam is
• 39:04
  coming. Is that an quite literally an
• 39:07
  audible call? Can we hear it, you know, with
• 39:10
  our ears? Or is it something which is
• 39:12
  internal and it's? Like a divine inspiration in the
• 39:14
  heart. When I look at the hadiths about
• 39:17
  the Saha, it is very clear that this is a literal call from the
• 39:21
  skies. It's an audible call that
• 39:25
  everyone will hear. And that's why the Hadith states
• 39:28
  the person who's sleeping, the sound waves of the call will
• 39:33
  wake him up and the person who's awake will be disoriented, will
• 39:37
  be shocked. So these are all descriptions of
• 39:40
  an audible call, not some, you know, inspiration in your heart
• 39:44
  or like a calling in your soul or in your heart.
• 39:48
  So yes, we expect it to be an audible call and it will be
• 39:51
  heard in your language. For.
• 39:54
  All for all of humanity, Muslims, non-Muslims, believers,
• 39:57
  non believers, every person around the world is going to
• 40:01
  hear this call in their own respective language and
• 40:04
  according to our hadiths. This is expected to happen in
• 40:08
  the month of Ramadan. On the 23rd day of Ramadan, the
• 40:13
  Imam Ali Salaam. In another hadith, the Prophet
• 40:15
  Sallallahu Aliwale, they indicated that Jibrail is the
• 40:18
  one who is going to make this call.
• 40:22
  In Sunni hadith it doesn't mention Jibrail, it says an
• 40:25
  Angel. It doesn't give us the identity
• 40:29
  of the Angel in Sunni hadith. But in Shia hadith, it is said
• 40:33
  by the imams that it will be Jibrail.
• 40:35
  Now what is he going to say? Because there's going to be
• 40:38
  another call that's going to sow confusion among the people.
• 40:42
  The Imam says the first call is going to be earlier in the day.
• 40:46
  Then there's going to be another call at the end of the day done
• 40:48
  by Shaytan Iblis, and he's going to say that first call is a lie
• 40:55
  and the Mahdi is false and he's going to call on people to
• 40:59
  reject the Mahdi. This is mentioned in our
• 41:01
  hadiths. So how do we distinguish or
• 41:05
  decipher the authentic call from the fake one issued by Iblis?
• 41:10
  Here's how. In one hadith, the Imam says the
• 41:14
  true call will mention the Mahdi by his name and his father's
• 41:18
  name. So which name are we expecting
• 41:22
  to hear by the call? It's a name that also in the
• 41:26
  heba the Imams avoided mentioning.
• 41:30
  They avoided mentioning the name of the Imam.
• 41:33
  What's his name? Muhammad.
• 41:36
  Now Al Mehdi is his title. That's not his name.
• 41:38
  A lot of people think that's his name.
• 41:40
  That's a title. The guided 1 Allah guides him,
• 41:43
  but his actual name is Muhammad. Now during the Reba, especially
• 41:47
  the minor occultation, the Shias were prohibited from referring
• 41:52
  to Ali al Mehdi using his name for a number of reasons.
• 41:56
  One is for them not to get in trouble with the authorities
• 41:59
  because of the Abbasids realize the Shias are actually pointing
• 42:03
  to a name, not just a generic title.
• 42:07
  They would torture the Shias. Oh, so there is an Imam.
• 42:09
  We're not going to release you until he comes.
• 42:12
  Show us where is he? It would have gotten the Shias
• 42:14
  into trouble. So the Imams taught the Shias
• 42:17
  don't mention his name, mention titles, and titles are a bit
• 42:22
  generic. So that gives you some leeway to
• 42:25
  avoid trouble with the government.
• 42:27
  But one of the signs that show This site is a true 1 is that
• 42:32
  Jibrahid will say his name and his father's name, Muhammad Ibn
• 42:36
  al Hassan. That is a name we are expected
• 42:40
  to hear. Secondly, the true call invites
• 42:45
  people to follow the Mehdi. So any call that you find that
• 42:50
  is distracting people from the Mehdi, we know that's from
• 42:53
  Shaitaan, right? So yes, it is an audible call
• 42:57
  been going to be initiated by Jibrail and it's expected to be
• 43:02
  in the month of Ramadan. Does it have to be in the month
• 43:04
  of Ramadan? No, the the concept of badat can
• 43:07
  come here. Let's say Allah has planned it
• 43:10
  for the month of Ramadan, but meaning do good, Allah can
• 43:13
  expedite it. But it is expected to be on the
• 43:17
  23rd of the month of Ramadan. That that rule of Badaq can
• 43:21
  apply to anything. So any of these signs?
• 43:24
  When the Imam comes with three correct companions, Masjid al
• 43:27
  Haram, that could come anything. This is all the natural
• 43:30
  expectation, OK, meaning if these factors are at play, this
• 43:35
  is going to happen. But we can change that right
• 43:38
  through good deeds. You can expedite that and not
• 43:41
  have to wait that long. So speaking about good deeds,
• 43:45
  that means we as individuals, as Shia, as Mohalin, as Mohabbin of
• 43:51
  Al Beti Rasul Allah sallallahu alai.
• 43:55
  That means we have to change ourselves.
• 43:56
  And then that that I've had the conversation with Ahmed before.
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  I want to talk about being believers for a second here.
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  We had a discussion where we spoke about the companions of
• 44:07
  Rasul Allah. Yeah, Allah Ali Wali wasallam.
• 44:10
  And during that episode, I, I remember us two were talking
• 44:14
  about, you know, what made Maitham Maitham Tamar, what made
• 44:17
  Ammar Ammar of Nyassar. They truly lived the values of
• 44:22
  the Quran. They lived the values and the
• 44:24
  laws and the teachings of Rasul Allah and Ali Beta Rasul Allah.
• 44:28
  That means nothing's happening wrong today if, if Imam Khan
• 44:32
  Sharif is still delayed in his reappearance.
• 44:37
  And here, from what I've gathered from the conversation
• 44:39
  today, this is also down to our fault.
• 44:41
  This is if we say, you know, we are believers, we are Shia, we
• 44:44
  are not many. And something is definitely
• 44:46
  wrong with us. We're two weeks away from
• 44:49
  Ramadan. What needs to change with us?
• 44:52
  You know, someone listening today, even to myself.
• 44:55
  Any advice? What has your mom and Mehdi want
• 44:59
  from us to change, to better ourselves, to truly work and
• 45:03
  that teamwork that you were referring to early on as
• 45:06
  believers? I often think about that
• 45:09
  frequently. I wonder the 313, their
• 45:12
  qualities. We've got 1,000,000 millions of
• 45:16
  Muslims and Shias around the world and believers around the
• 45:20
  world. Just before the podcast, the
• 45:21
  Hamas said something very interesting.
• 45:22
  He was like, you know, we go to Irvine and we see the. 10 / 20
• 45:26
  million. Talking towards the shrine of
• 45:28
  Imam and Hussein Ali Salaam, but.
• 45:30
  Really, we can't muster 313 out of all that?
• 45:33
  Something's wrong. I do think of that and and this
• 45:36
  idea, you know, does unsettle me to be honest with you.
• 45:41
  But I've found my answer by looking at the companions of
• 45:45
  Imam Hussein. Ha DES, let me take you back 14
• 45:49
  centuries ago. I would like to ask you, what do
• 45:52
  you think went wrong during the era of Imam Hussein such that
• 45:57
  only 70 or 80 or so companions stood with him and they were
• 46:01
  willing to sacrifice or as the others either fought him or they
• 46:06
  didn't get involved. By the way, the the, the, the
• 46:10
  common misconception that you find that she has invited Imam
• 46:13
  Hussein and then they killed him.
• 46:14
  That's false. No, Shia killed Imam Hussein.
• 46:17
  Yes, some Shia has betrayed Imam Hussein by not making a greater
• 46:23
  effort to come to Karbala and to defend their Imam.
• 46:25
  Sure they are at fault for that, but no Shia killed Imam Hussein
• 46:29
  on this side it. Was the Shia of Yazid?
• 46:31
  They were the Shia Abu Sufyan, because Imam Hussein, he did
• 46:34
  call them on the day of Ashurai, told them, yeah, Shiite ABI
• 46:38
  Sufyan, those who killed you see you as a Shia.
• 46:42
  You may not listen to your Imam. You may give him a hard time,
• 46:46
  you may not support him the way you should, but you're not going
• 46:48
  to take a sword and fight your Imam, right, As Shia is unable
• 46:53
  to do that. It doesn't make any sense.
• 46:56
  So my question to you both, what went wrong during the time of
• 47:02
  Imam Hussein such that everyone either abandoned him or fought
• 47:06
  him except 7072? What was the problem?
• 47:12
  It's such a big question. But based on what you know about
• 47:15
  Imam Hussein and the circumstances of his martyrdom,
• 47:18
  where did they fail? I mean, I can say for example,
• 47:25
  in terms of it can be as simple as saying, you know, they were
• 47:28
  not loyal enough. But I think on a realistic
• 47:30
  level, if I, if I deep it right now and I think about it, I can
• 47:34
  say, for example, they were distracted with this Walt, this
• 47:38
  Dunya that was. That's one of the biggest
• 47:40
  elements. That's how were they distracted?
• 47:44
  Do you have a concrete example? See Ibn Ziad when he mobilized a
• 47:51
  massive army to fight Imam Hussein.
• 47:53
  He promised them something. What was he promising them?
• 47:56
  Some he was threatening, but others?
• 47:58
  Material stuff, yeah. How much do you know?
• 48:00
  How much he was promising some of them.
• 48:02
  Ibn Ziad was promising some of them. 30,000 dinars, some
• 48:12
  dirhams. Let's put a value to it today
• 48:17
  just so we can understand how much this is.
• 48:20
  It's about £6 million. Let me ask you today, the
• 48:26
  average believer, OK, the average Muslim, what are they
• 48:32
  willing to do for £6 million? Anything.
• 48:36
  That kill family. We are willing to do some very
• 48:40
  disturbing things for £6 million, even much less than
• 48:43
  that. We're willing to step on our
• 48:46
  religion, compromise our values. Like you said, some people are
• 48:50
  even willing to kill family, steal, fabricate, defraud.
• 48:55
  We're willing to engage in any type of deception for £6
• 48:59
  million. You see where they failed their
• 49:02
  test. The minute your heart clings to
• 49:06
  this materialistic world, you've lost the test.
• 49:10
  You're not one of the 313. And we all have these
• 49:15
  attachments to this dunya to comfort for me, for my family,
• 49:18
  for my wife, for my children, my house, my car, my job.
• 49:21
  I don't want to lose my job. The biggest fear today people
• 49:24
  have is losing their job. I want financial stability,
• 49:27
  stability. Like, where's the Razak today?
• 49:30
  You know who's the Razak? The corporations, the employers.
• 49:33
  They're the Razak in the eyes of the people.
• 49:36
  See, this is shirk that we're committing.
• 49:39
  The Quran tells us God is your sustainer in my eyes.
• 49:42
  No, no, no, no. The company is my sustainer.
• 49:45
  Whoever is giving me that job is my sustainer.
• 49:47
  No, that's not your sustainer. That's a tool that the sustainer
• 49:50
  uses to give you sustenance. We don't see it that way.
• 49:54
  And I've seen it with some very good brothers.
• 49:57
  By the way, I'm not judging them in any way.
• 49:59
  They're so decent. They're wonderful.
• 50:00
  They could be better than me, but they always have that fear
• 50:03
  saying my job, that my job, my job.
• 50:05
  His biggest fear is his job. When your biggest fear is your
• 50:08
  job, it's hard for me to see how you can be one of the 313.
• 50:12
  The imam does not want a companion who's concerned about
• 50:15
  his job. Your concern is your Dean.
• 50:19
  That's your ultimate concern, your job you have Yapin.
• 50:22
  Allah will sustain you. How?
• 50:24
  I don't know, but he'll sustain me.
• 50:26
  He'll take care of me. So at the time of Imam Hussein
• 50:30
  Ali Salaam, we see that one reason why so many people failed
• 50:35
  is because of their attachment to this Dunya Ibn Ziad realized
• 50:38
  this. He exploited it.
• 50:40
  That's how he mustered 30,000 people to go and fight Imam
• 50:42
  Hussein. They knew it was wrong.
• 50:44
  They were not interested in killing Imam Hussein.
• 50:47
  Even Omar Ibn Saad, the commander of Yazid's army, in
• 50:52
  all honesty, he tried to stop the battle.
• 50:55
  He tried. He tried to negotiate Ibn Ziad.
• 50:58
  Let's figure out another way. Let's.
• 51:01
  He didn't want to initially fight Imam Hussein because he
• 51:03
  knew how wrong this was, Ibn Ziad told him.
• 51:07
  Look, you want the Kingdom of Ray, modern day Tehran, Iran
• 51:11
  area, you've got to kill him. That blinded him.
• 51:15
  What a beside was disputing debating with the Imam for three
• 51:19
  hours. They had a debate right before
• 51:21
  Ashura. Imam Hussein told him, what's
• 51:23
  the matter with you? You're why are you fighting me?
• 51:27
  He's like because Ibn Ziad. He said he'll demolish my house.
• 51:30
  The Imam told him I'll give you a house in Hijaz.
• 51:33
  He said he'll confiscate my properties and farmland.
• 51:35
  The Imam said I'll give you another.
• 51:38
  He says I I fear for the safety of my family.
• 51:41
  Imam Hussein told him I'll guarantee the safety of your
• 51:44
  family. He told him he's promised me the
• 51:47
  Kingdom of right. The amount told him may Allah
• 51:50
  curse you and may Allah send someone to slaughter you on your
• 51:52
  bed. And that's exactly what
• 51:54
  happened. You're not going to enjoy this
• 51:55
  Kingdom that you're willing to sell everything for.
• 51:58
  See, for some it was Kingdom, for some it was £6 million, the
• 52:02
  equivalent of today. If you look at the state of the
• 52:05
  world, that's pretty much where we are failing for money, for
• 52:11
  RZA, for sustenance. We're willing to do very
• 52:13
  disturbing things and we're willing to earn a Haram income.
• 52:17
  Imam Hussein Ali Saddam, he gave another description on the day
• 52:20
  of Ashura when he referred to his people, he said these
• 52:27
  people, their stomachs are filled with Haram, right?
• 52:32
  Shaitan, Shaitan conquered them, they forgot God.
• 52:37
  Now I have a question for you. Imam Hussein says their stomachs
• 52:40
  were filled with Haram. Is he talking about non the bhi
• 52:44
  hameed? No.
• 52:46
  The kufa, where was such such large quantity of Haram meat
• 52:50
  even available? He's not talking about meat not
• 52:53
  slaughtered halal. So what?
• 52:56
  What halal and Haram is the imam is referring to income.
• 53:00
  Income. Yeah, your income, is it ethical
• 53:04
  or unethical? Is it lawful or exactly?
• 53:08
  See in Islam, In Islam, there's two types of Haram food.
• 53:12
  There's the Haram food. You eat a hamburger from
• 53:14
  whatever, you know, McDonald's here or Burger King.
• 53:17
  That's not halal, OK. That's an application of Haram
• 53:19
  food and it has its bad effects on your body and soul.
• 53:23
  There's another application that most people are not aware of.
• 53:27
  When your income is unlawful, unquestionable, unethical, and
• 53:32
  you use that money to buy food, in reality the the food that's
• 53:37
  going into your stomach is a type of Haram food.
• 53:42
  That type of food weakens your faith, makes you fail your test.
• 53:47
  Imam Hussein said These 30,000 people are finding me.
• 53:50
  Their stomachs are filled with Haram, meaning they engage in
• 53:54
  Haram activities, Haram business.
• 53:58
  They take money from oppressors, right?
• 54:02
  And they oppress with it or they side with the oppressors.
• 54:05
  These are all applications of Haram Reba interest.
• 54:08
  Defrauding your customers, you name it.
• 54:10
  Cheating your business partner, you name it.
• 54:12
  All this is Haram. And today, honestly, it's very
• 54:17
  hard with our modern economy to always stay focused such that
• 54:21
  your income is purely halal. That's very hard.
• 54:27
  But if you're willing to sacrifice to go through
• 54:30
  difficulty, it indicates you've got that quality to be among the
• 54:33
  313. That's one take away point I get
• 54:37
  when I reflect on what happened with Imam Hussein Adi setup.
• 54:40
  So you can have 20 million people, 50 million people, how
• 54:44
  many of them are willing to say no when you entice them with £6
• 54:49
  million, how many do? You think so?
• 54:51
  Do you think say sorry because I think I find this concept very
• 54:54
  interesting as well. And what you both have mentioned
• 54:57
  about what? How could there not be 313 Now,
• 55:00
  even if you take the 20 million who are walking, you're on here
• 55:03
  to Imam. I say that they Salam.
• 55:05
  Is it a case where like those 313 have a quality which
• 55:08
  everyone else doesn't have? Or is it that these got the the
• 55:12
  remainder the other people have something bad within them, which
• 55:15
  the three on three are are pure of, if that makes sense.
• 55:18
  Like for example, this the question of money is something
• 55:21
  I've never thought of. Honest to God, when we think
• 55:23
  about three on three, because we think about spirituality and we
• 55:27
  think about prayer. Fasting.
• 55:29
  We think about like. All the lying, the obvious ones.
• 55:33
  Promised you say it. Until today, I had never
• 55:35
  considered money in this conversation, and especially in
• 55:38
  terms. Of and that's one of the biggest
• 55:39
  factors, all those who fought the Imam and they betrayed the
• 55:44
  Imams, there was always a financial factor behind it,
• 55:50
  always a financial factor. And that's one of the biggest
• 55:53
  trials we have cut your heart from money.
• 55:57
  The world have money but be indifferent.
• 56:00
  So when I look at the 313, one of the biggest qualities I see
• 56:05
  in them, they are completely indifferent to this dunya and.
• 56:09
  That's even why we're. That's your main summit, Tamar.
• 56:11
  He doesn't care about this Dunya.
• 56:13
  Give him a trillion dollars. He couldn't care less.
• 56:18
  Salman, he couldn't care less about money.
• 56:20
  Abuda, he couldn't care less. In fact, when Othman tried to
• 56:25
  bribe Abuda, he sent 200 dinars. At the peak of his poverty, you
• 56:32
  know, Abuda starved to death. That's how poor he was.
• 56:36
  He sent someone, a servant, Othman, and he gave him 200
• 56:40
  golden dinars. That's a lot of money.
• 56:42
  You could buy a sheep with one dinar.
• 56:44
  Back then, I would have told him, what's this?
• 56:47
  It's like, no, no, no. This is Othman's private money.
• 56:50
  It's not Muslim treasury, it's not public funds, it's not
• 56:52
  Sadaqa. It's just private money.
• 56:54
  He's giving you a special gift, personal gift.
• 56:57
  I would have told him, is he giving every Muslim this gift or
• 57:00
  just me? He's like no, just you.
• 57:03
  He's like OK, so this is a bribe, right?
• 57:06
  This is not a gift anymore. Then the servant, he looked at
• 57:11
  Abu Dhar. He felt bad for Abu Dhar.
• 57:14
  He told them, Abu Dhar, just look at yourself, but just look
• 57:17
  at your state. Your poverty is bothering my
• 57:22
  eyes. Just take it.
• 57:25
  Just take it. Who needs this more than you?
• 57:29
  You're poor. You know what Abu Dhar said?
• 57:31
  He says, I swear by Allah. Allah has enriched me with the
• 57:36
  Willaiah of Imam Ali, Ali's. That's your Abu Dhabi today, in
• 57:42
  the peak of your poverty. You've lost your job, you fear
• 57:47
  your children are going to go hungry.
• 57:50
  And you really see yourself poor in that moment.
• 57:54
  Do you see yourself as the richest of the richest through
• 57:59
  your Iman and wilaya? If you can see that 100%,
• 58:03
  without a doubt you're one of the 313 potentially.
• 58:08
  If I can't see that, I need to work on myself.
• 58:12
  I'm not saying let's lose hope. We're doing, no.
• 58:14
  But I know now how to work on myself.
• 58:18
  That's the financial factor here.
• 58:21
  And when I look at the trial of the people at the time, Ivan
• 58:25
  Persin, I apply it to our modern era that sheds some light on
• 58:29
  what's going on. Where's the problem?
• 58:32
  So that's one way of looking at it.
• 58:34
  Yeah. That's a very, very.
• 58:37
  I think it's at home. Yeah, that one hit.
• 58:40
  That one hit. I really love this example of
• 58:44
  Karbala and Ashura and Imam Hussein.
• 58:46
  And I'm thinking as you're speaking, saying that this could
• 58:50
  be us if we're not careful. And imagine, imagine shallow we
• 58:54
  live to see. Say it.
• 58:56
  It's not that it can be us. It is us.
• 58:59
  Yeah, it is us. Now we just all have different
• 59:03
  degrees. Someone, maybe 90% of what I
• 59:06
  described. Someone, 50%, someone, 30%.
• 59:09
  But once I can purify my soul from that, I'm not just one step
• 59:15
  close. I'm, I'm almost there, but but
• 59:18
  this is hard. Yeah, it's this is really hard.
• 59:21
  It's not easy. We got to work on ourselves.
• 59:23
  I think that's what you know. Sorry, but Sharon Mavan coming
• 59:26
  around the corner now, a big part of that conversation is, is
• 59:31
  to do with this detachment from the material.
• 59:33
  Like this is the time, brothers, sisters, if there's a time, this
• 59:36
  is the time, you know, the, the the asceticism, the Zohud or
• 59:40
  whatever you want to call it, that detachment from the
• 59:43
  material is now. And look, if you think of it
• 59:45
  from a like a global perspective, we've seen like we
• 59:48
  live in in the world now where it's not just capitalists,
• 59:51
  democracies, you have oligarchies.
• 59:52
  You've seen capitalism, you've seen socialism, you've seen
• 59:55
  communism. The world has seen every ISM
• 59:57
  that there is. Of course, the Imam will come
• 59:59
  and he'll bring something different, a global sense of
• 1:00:01
  justice in a way which we've never seen, sovereignty in a way
• 1:00:04
  we've never seen. The resources of the world will
• 1:00:06
  be utilized in such a way which has never been seen.
• 1:00:09
  We see in our hadith that the the aim and the the potential,
• 1:00:12
  the capacity that the world has humankind has up until the point
• 1:00:16
  that Imam returns is 2 out of 27 parts and the remaining 25 parts
• 1:00:21
  will come from the Enlightenment of Imam.
• 1:00:23
  I methi a lot to Anafar Sharif and I just to me, it makes us
• 1:00:27
  think that we yearn to sit with him, to sit beside him, to pray
• 1:00:31
  behind him, you know, to walk behind him and his blessed self.
• 1:00:35
  You know, the fragrance of the Imam, the knowledge of the Imam,
• 1:00:38
  like it's just and it's a beautifying thought for us,
• 1:00:41
  Subhan Allah. And you know when I know, I
• 1:00:44
  remember said you mentioned in one of your classes that at the
• 1:00:46
  time of the coming of you know, Inshallah, under the the dole of
• 1:00:49
  the Imam, there is no poverty. And and one of the hadith
• 1:00:53
  mentions that even if you offered people money in that
• 1:00:55
  time, they were. People would bring zakat and
• 1:00:57
  charity and they would not fight.
• 1:00:59
  And you want to take it? Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  He will eliminate the causes of poverty.
• 1:01:04
  You know that we don't have a problem with natural resources.
• 1:01:08
  Yeah, we don't. Allah has created all the
• 1:01:10
  natural resources that we need. Yeah.
• 1:01:13
  The problem is what? With greed and lack of proper
• 1:01:16
  distribution. And we see it today and we see
• 1:01:18
  it today everywhere. Yeah, God has created the
• 1:01:21
  resources, but how they're, you know, distributed among people
• 1:01:25
  is where the problem is. Imam al Mehdi Ajal Alafaraja
• 1:01:29
  will eliminate that injustice. That's all.
• 1:01:32
  That's all you do. And people will have access to
• 1:01:34
  resources. Yeah, yeah, part of the law.
• 1:01:36
  You mentioned this as an injustice because like when we
• 1:01:39
  think of injustice, we think of death, destruction, massacres.
• 1:01:43
  Planes and bombs and. Right.
• 1:01:45
  Or like a dictator who's directly oppressing, but that
• 1:01:50
  that system of, of, of improper distribution, that's one of the
• 1:01:55
  biggest acts of injustice. Compression, yeah.
• 1:01:58
  Yeah, and and by the way, This is why Imam Ali, Ali, Salam and
• 1:02:02
  the Imams in general had so many enemies.
• 1:02:05
  Why did Imam Ali have so many enemies during his four year
• 1:02:08
  rule? Because he disrupted the system
• 1:02:12
  where the resources are concentrated in the hands of the
• 1:02:16
  elite, the dominant powers. The Imam Ali, Saddam humiliated
• 1:02:21
  the dominant powers by saying you're equal.
• 1:02:24
  Under God's system, you're equal.
• 1:02:26
  I don't care if you're rich. You come from this background.
• 1:02:29
  You're a master. You get 3 DN Rs a month.
• 1:02:32
  Just like that Lady gets it. Just like that divorcee gets it.
• 1:02:36
  The widow, the slave, everyone gets three.
• 1:02:38
  I don't care who you are, the dominant powers, OK, You're not
• 1:02:43
  going to give us more. We're going to fight you.
• 1:02:45
  And in fact, some people who we thought they were Shias, like
• 1:02:50
  Zubair, why did Zubair flip against Imam Ahmadi?
• 1:02:53
  Why Zubair was there at Satifa as the hadith states?
• 1:02:58
  I'm you're familiar with this. His eyes were at the eyes of
• 1:03:01
  Emir Al Mumini. Just give me the signal, I'll
• 1:03:03
  take out my sword. He was from the one that also
• 1:03:06
  shaved his head to correct, Yes. That's Zubair there with the
• 1:03:11
  profit with Imam I need from day one.
• 1:03:12
  Why did he fail? See the financial factor?
• 1:03:18
  Me, Zubair, you're the Caleb. You're not going to give me the
• 1:03:20
  governorship of somewhere. You're not going to give me more
• 1:03:22
  money? They might wanted to test them.
• 1:03:25
  No, you're equal. Even.
• 1:03:27
  No, no, no, no. I'm not equal.
• 1:03:28
  Me, me. I'm not equal.
• 1:03:30
  Yeah. Because in so bears mind, you
• 1:03:33
  think that I've proven myself now.
• 1:03:34
  I made it to the top. I've been with the imam for so
• 1:03:37
  long. I deserve a status that's crazy
• 1:03:39
  to. Think and so that equality is
• 1:03:41
  also another dimension of this trial, and let me give you this
• 1:03:46
  hypothetical scenario. Imagine the Imam reappears, or
• 1:03:48
  you could see the Imam and the Imam and you think, I'm a Mwali,
• 1:03:52
  I'm a Shia, I've gone to Alba and I do this, I do that.
• 1:03:55
  I participate in these institutions and programs.
• 1:03:58
  The the Imam puts you next to someone from, I don't know, Papa
• 1:04:03
  New Guinea, from the Congo. The Imam puts you as like you're
• 1:04:07
  equal. Will you get offended or will
• 1:04:11
  you accept that? Yeah, it's hard to.
• 1:04:13
  Think about that if you, if you struggle me, this guy, I, I need
• 1:04:22
  to work on myself. If the Imam is training me the
• 1:04:27
  same that he is with someone else, accept it.
• 1:04:30
  That could be your trial. Allah wants you to surrender.
• 1:04:33
  Don't think you're better than anyone else.
• 1:04:36
  Don't expect privileges from anyone, from Allah, from the
• 1:04:40
  Imam. Expect forgiveness, but don't
• 1:04:43
  expect privileges. Inside our heart, somewhere we
• 1:04:47
  expect privileges. That me for my Iman, for my
• 1:04:51
  faith, I've done this, I've done that.
• 1:04:52
  I expect privileges. The minute you expect
• 1:04:55
  privileges, you've lost your test, because the Imam will test
• 1:04:57
  you one day by not giving you those privileges, and then
• 1:05:00
  you're going to get disappointed in the imam.
• 1:05:03
  The minute you get disappointed in your imam, you failed your
• 1:05:05
  test, it's gone, it's over. That's that's another way to
• 1:05:09
  also look at it. That's why the qualities of
• 1:05:12
  those companions, they're indifferent.
• 1:05:14
  No, I'm not attached to anything.
• 1:05:17
  I'll sleep on the dirt. I'll sleep on the dirt.
• 1:05:19
  In this month of Ramadan, let's train ourselves.
• 1:05:21
  Give up some of your comforts. You know one thing I love about
• 1:05:25
  ziadas? Whether it's Amra Ziadra, I
• 1:05:28
  observe how the people in the group react to unexpected
• 1:05:34
  situations or if something's missing.
• 1:05:36
  Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:05:37
  You get that, you know, person who comes and he's angry because
• 1:05:42
  something didn't work in the hotel room, some light didn't
• 1:05:45
  work, the shower wasn't hot enough, the food.
• 1:05:48
  Was this what what happened? Stories of people not liking the
• 1:05:51
  food that. People not liking the food at
• 1:05:53
  the hotel or the room at the hotel or the wait a minute, you
• 1:05:57
  came here for what you really care.
• 1:06:01
  You really care about that thing in your hotel room, about the
• 1:06:04
  food in your hotel room when the family of Imam Hussain were
• 1:06:07
  starving. You really care about the food?
• 1:06:10
  Then why are you here now? How do I address that?
• 1:06:15
  Sacrifice some comforts occasionally, but on a regular
• 1:06:20
  basis to prove to your Nefs Al Hamdullah, if Allah has given me
• 1:06:25
  comfort, I'll enjoy it, I'll accept it, but I don't care
• 1:06:29
  about it. It's the last thing on my mind.
• 1:06:32
  So one night you're tired, you came back from work, you've had
• 1:06:35
  a long day. Instead of going and curling up
• 1:06:38
  under your warm blanket on your nice mattress, just sleep on the
• 1:06:42
  ground. No pillow, no blanket.
• 1:06:45
  Do it now. Don't put on social media.
• 1:06:48
  People will think you're crazy, but do try it.
• 1:06:51
  You're going to get up the next morning.
• 1:06:53
  Your body is going to be sore. You've slept on the ground.
• 1:06:55
  But I guarantee you the next day when you wake up, you're a
• 1:06:58
  stronger person. You've proven something.
• 1:06:59
  You've proven something and you've become you've.
• 1:07:03
  You have a stronger will in the morning and you remind yourself
• 1:07:06
  there are millions of people who sleep on the ground.
• 1:07:08
  Who are you? Who do you think you are?
• 1:07:11
  Give up some comforts occasionally just to prove to
• 1:07:14
  your Nephs I'm in charge, not you.
• 1:07:17
  Because surely say, the whole point of of Ramadan is that
• 1:07:21
  willpower concept in every sense of it, the comforts, the
• 1:07:25
  detachment from the comforts, the waiting until the time is
• 1:07:28
  ready and you, you reward yourself and Allah rewards you
• 1:07:31
  with, you know, company and good food.
• 1:07:33
  But is that what we're seeing in the in the world out there
• 1:07:35
  today, even in our communities? I'm not here to be harsh or
• 1:07:39
  judge. We indulge in Shahramavan.
• 1:07:41
  I see more comforts for us, that's.
• 1:07:43
  True. More sleeping, more food, more
• 1:07:47
  joys. I know some people, they'll not
• 1:07:50
  eat certain things that they like except in the month of
• 1:07:53
  Ramadan. Habibi, it's the exact opposite.
• 1:07:56
  If anything, don't eat it in Ramadan because you're trying to
• 1:07:59
  prove to yourself that this is the month where I renounce the
• 1:08:02
  world but we indulge in Ramadan. How?
• 1:08:06
  How can I be one of the 313 when the month of alarm treating I'm
• 1:08:11
  abusing it that way? That's all right.
• 1:08:13
  I really love your point saying that there's.
• 1:08:16
  It's it's a sad reality, but it gives us hope because there's
• 1:08:19
  room for. Change and it's a true reality
• 1:08:21
  and you know every time you're mentioning examples and
• 1:08:22
  analogies, I'm thinking you know, I'm remembering certain
• 1:08:25
  things you know I've Sarah I'm. Sorry.
• 1:08:30
  But saying that, there's a question I want to ask.
• 1:08:34
  It's got me thinking, yeah, I need we're here.
• 1:08:37
  We're praying for his reappearance and inshallah we
• 1:08:41
  get to see this day. But is there a fear that when
• 1:08:46
  Imam and Mahdi does return, we will say, for example, go back
• 1:08:50
  of son of Fatima Yani. The reason why I say this Yani,
• 1:08:53
  we're praying hard. I hope so.
• 1:08:56
  I hope everyone's listening, watching Inshallah you are
• 1:08:58
  making that do heart for his reappearance and working towards
• 1:09:01
  his reappearance. But when he comes, are we really
• 1:09:04
  going to be beside him? And I say this why I say it.
• 1:09:07
  We're Muslim Hamdullah. We know what's right, we know
• 1:09:09
  what's wrong. We know what's Haram.
• 1:09:11
  We know what's Haram, OK? We know something is Haram.
• 1:09:15
  God's told us this is Haram, but we're still going after it.
• 1:09:19
  So that's going to be thinking, if your mom Mandy's here the
• 1:09:21
  shar Allah and we live to see that day, what's stopping us
• 1:09:26
  from saying go back of son of Fatima If we're committing
• 1:09:30
  Haram, knowing is Haram. Does that make sense?
• 1:09:34
  Yes, here's how I understand it. There's no doubt that there will
• 1:09:39
  be some people who will say to the Imam, go back, O son of
• 1:09:44
  Fatima, this is the text of the hadith.
• 1:09:49
  Now let's read between the lines, as they say.
• 1:09:53
  When we say not we, I mean those people, whoever they are who are
• 1:09:57
  going to say that Inshallah, we're not among them.
• 1:09:59
  Inshallah. When those people say go back, O
• 1:10:04
  son of Fatima, it means they don't have a doubt who he is.
• 1:10:10
  They're saying to him son of Fatima.
• 1:10:13
  So they're not confused people. Oh, is he really the Imam?
• 1:10:17
  Is he the dead jot? Is he somebody else?
• 1:10:19
  No, they know he's the son of Fatima.
• 1:10:22
  So the first thing we can take away from these hadiths is these
• 1:10:25
  people know the identity of the Imam.
• 1:10:27
  They don't have any doubts about his identity.
• 1:10:30
  Because sometimes you can genuinely have a doubt, like,
• 1:10:32
  are you the really the Imam? Can you show me a miracle?
• 1:10:34
  I really need to know if you're the Imam.
• 1:10:35
  If you are, I will follow you blindfoldedly.
• 1:10:38
  I'll follow you. No, these people know he's the
• 1:10:41
  Imam. They still tell him to go back.
• 1:10:44
  Whoa, that's big. That's big.
• 1:10:46
  I can sympathize. Sympathize with someone who
• 1:10:50
  genuinely doesn't know. This is the Imam.
• 1:10:52
  He's trying to look for a miracle to make sure he's the
• 1:10:55
  Imam. That's understandable.
• 1:10:57
  I mean, if I'm confused, I would also look for a sign.
• 1:11:01
  These people are not confused. They know.
• 1:11:03
  They know he's the son of Fatima.
• 1:11:05
  Yet they tell him, go back. We don't need you or we don't
• 1:11:09
  want you. Why?
• 1:11:12
  Here's the take away. Don't they know that he's going
• 1:11:15
  to bring God's beautiful system? Don't they know he represents
• 1:11:19
  Adam, Musa, Isa, no Ibrahim? He's the whateth of all of them,
• 1:11:23
  the inheritor. He's the await.
• 1:11:25
  They know all of that. So what's their problem?
• 1:11:29
  I'll take you back to the financial factor and the social
• 1:11:33
  factor. These people have thrived in the
• 1:11:37
  RIBA and they have vested interests in whatever system
• 1:11:43
  they're involved with, and they're concerned the Mehdi will
• 1:11:47
  disrupt the system that they're taking advantage of, so they
• 1:11:51
  don't want his justice. Their comfort.
• 1:11:54
  This has 2 dimensions. One is the financial dimension.
• 1:11:58
  The second is the that's the position of.
• 1:12:01
  We'll talk that. That one's a bit sensitive, but
• 1:12:03
  we'll have to talk about it. The first one, let's say I
• 1:12:06
  engage in Haram business, indecent companies, alcohol
• 1:12:11
  companies, investments that are Haram and I'm thriving in the
• 1:12:15
  labour. You've got your money, you've
• 1:12:16
  got your businesses. You know when the Imam is going
• 1:12:19
  to reappear, he's going to disrupt that.
• 1:12:22
  I don't want him to come go back.
• 1:12:24
  I don't want you. I have already my way.
• 1:12:27
  I'm I'm comfortable with the status quo.
• 1:12:29
  I'm comfortable with it. I know who you are and I know
• 1:12:32
  exactly what your mission is. But Habibi, I'm enjoying myself.
• 1:12:36
  I've got my millions. I'm benefiting from these
• 1:12:39
  businesses. See what the problem is?
• 1:12:42
  Again, that attachment to the dunya, That's the first
• 1:12:46
  dimension. The second dimension, you have a
• 1:12:49
  social status. Your respected people are
• 1:12:51
  following you. And in fact, this could be
• 1:12:54
  applicable to some scholars. Now, it's wrong for us to
• 1:12:58
  generalize and say all scholars are going to fail and they're
• 1:13:01
  going to stand. No, we've got the righteous
• 1:13:03
  scholar. You've got the unrighteous
• 1:13:04
  scholar. Always throughout history, there
• 1:13:06
  was the, there were the good scholars and the bad scholars.
• 1:13:09
  It's nothing new. But let's say, let's say I'm a
• 1:13:12
  scholar at that time, I have a large following, people
• 1:13:15
  following me. People kiss my hand, people.
• 1:13:18
  Now the imam, when he's going to reappear the spotlight, is going
• 1:13:21
  to go where to? The.
• 1:13:23
  Imam to the Imam. If I have an issue of ego, I
• 1:13:26
  don't want him to come. Yeah, I I advocate for the Imam
• 1:13:31
  and his absence. I advocate I benefit from this
• 1:13:35
  whole system. But the reason why I like the
• 1:13:38
  system is because I'm benefiting from this system.
• 1:13:42
  But when he reappears, I fear this is going to get disrupted.
• 1:13:46
  I'm not going to the The spotlight is not going to be on
• 1:13:49
  me anymore. I'm going to tell him.
• 1:13:50
  You know what? Go back.
• 1:13:51
  I know who you are. I don't have any doubts, but go
• 1:13:54
  back, you see how dangerous that is.
• 1:13:57
  That's why whoever you are, wherever you are, every single
• 1:14:01
  day, evaluate yourself. Yeah.
• 1:14:03
  Who am I working for? Where does my ego fit in?
• 1:14:07
  Am I benefiting from anything or no?
• 1:14:09
  If honestly, you feel like you're attached to something,
• 1:14:12
  you're really benefiting from something, cut it.
• 1:14:15
  You don't need that in your life.
• 1:14:17
  Yeah, and I'll be, I'll be honest with you, since you asked
• 1:14:21
  me in the beginning of the podcast, that's one reason why
• 1:14:25
  some don't want to have social media.
• 1:14:27
  This is the first thing that came to my head.
• 1:14:29
  What you mentioned the point. Now, I'm not judging those who
• 1:14:32
  have. I respect those who have.
• 1:14:33
  I mean, through social media, I've seen some wonderful leaders
• 1:14:38
  and scholars and speakers and, you know, good influencers,
• 1:14:42
  right? And a lot of people benefit from
• 1:14:44
  that, right? But sometimes it can get to you,
• 1:14:47
  of course. Yeah.
• 1:14:48
  Sometimes social media can get to you when you get the likes
• 1:14:51
  and the comments and the attention right.
• 1:14:54
  If you are in that field and you're enjoying that attention,
• 1:14:58
  Habibi, run away from it it. Becomes like life support.
• 1:15:01
  It comes like life support. See, see, let me ask you this.
• 1:15:06
  Why do you need that validation from social media or the
• 1:15:10
  feedback of people when you know that you're serving a lot,
• 1:15:15
  you're serving the added bait and you're doing that, which is
• 1:15:17
  good. Why do you still need that
• 1:15:18
  validation? Yani, Allah is not enough for
• 1:15:20
  you as validation. Imam is.
• 1:15:22
  Imam himself is not enough for you.
• 1:15:24
  I still need Joe and Mike and Zaidan AM to give me that
• 1:15:27
  validation that shows me I've got a problem.
• 1:15:32
  That's where we fail in our test.
• 1:15:35
  When I still need validation. See, Abu Dhar told that servant
• 1:15:39
  of Othman, I don't need you. I've got Oulaya of Imam Ali.
• 1:15:43
  I don't need anything else. He doesn't need any validation.
• 1:15:47
  If his reputation is is tarnished, he doesn't care.
• 1:15:52
  His social status is taken away from him.
• 1:15:53
  He doesn't care. I've got Allah, I've got a
• 1:15:56
  debate. Who cares?
• 1:15:59
  Today in my community, Can I say that if I lose respect, if I
• 1:16:03
  lose status, you know, and part of the problem with the
• 1:16:07
  financial factor, you know what it is, It's not just comfort if
• 1:16:11
  you lose your job, if you lose your financial status, people.
• 1:16:14
  Disrespect. You exactly.
• 1:16:16
  People will see you differently. People will look at you
• 1:16:20
  differently. In fact, it's a type of
• 1:16:22
  humiliation socially. But the true movement, the true
• 1:16:27
  movement, the 313, I don't care. Allah's with me.
• 1:16:31
  The universe is really the Malaika, the imams.
• 1:16:33
  I should waste my time on people and how they think of me.
• 1:16:37
  Who cares? What's their value compared to
• 1:16:40
  Allah? That's how the 313 think.
• 1:16:44
  That's how the 72 think. I don't care about Ibn Ziad and
• 1:16:47
  his promises and what he's saying to the people and how
• 1:16:50
  people are talking about. I don't care.
• 1:16:52
  He's giving money, he's giving palaces, he's giving social
• 1:16:55
  status, political status. I have ABBA Abdullah, I have
• 1:16:59
  ABBA Abdullah. If 1000 times they burn me, they
• 1:17:02
  kill me and they resurrect me, I'll still stand with ABBA
• 1:17:05
  Abdullah. Because ABBA Abdullah is the
• 1:17:06
  whole. He's the existence to me.
• 1:17:09
  He represents everything. He's the universe to me.
• 1:17:13
  We say these words in our poetry, in our majidis.
• 1:17:16
  Do we mean it? Do we really mean it or no?
• 1:17:21
  That's that's how you get to the 313.
• 1:17:24
  So those scholars who will fight the Mehdi, according to the
• 1:17:27
  hadiths, their problem is not that they don't know who the
• 1:17:30
  Mehdi is. They know, but they don't want
• 1:17:33
  the Imam and they pray for his return.
• 1:17:36
  Sure, of course. In fact, they encourage us, you
• 1:17:39
  know, to pray for their return. They have the proper AKA it.
• 1:17:43
  We don't doubt they're AKA it. But it comes to an issue of the
• 1:17:48
  clash of interests and the ego and the wrong perception that
• 1:17:53
  when the Mandy comes, he's going to take the carpet from under my
• 1:17:56
  feet and I'm not going to get that spotlight anymore.
• 1:18:00
  So, like, go back. I don't need you.
• 1:18:02
  Say, just a last question for me because I know we've discussed a
• 1:18:07
  lot Hamdullah and I feel like we've still, I've still got at
• 1:18:10
  least like 7 or 8 questions at. Least more than that.
• 1:18:12
  But I'm going to try and I'm going to try and summarize,
• 1:18:14
  especially because we've talked a lot today about Abdullah
• 1:18:17
  Hussein Salaam and you know, we, we and I always have this
• 1:18:23
  comment, you know, I'm going to say we always come back, always
• 1:18:25
  comes back to. Every episodes.
• 1:18:27
  Yeah, it's something. Because Imam Mehdi is the
• 1:18:30
  continuation of Imam Hussein. See you mentioned as when we're
• 1:18:34
  talking about the signs in Bada that it's expected that he's
• 1:18:38
  going to be in Mecca get addressing the 313 on which
• 1:18:42
  night on. The night of.
• 1:18:44
  Why? Why?
• 1:18:45
  Out of all nights, the night of Oshawa, Why, what what do you
• 1:18:47
  what do you how do you understand my.
• 1:18:49
  Grandfather was the one who was Ashan and but this.
• 1:18:52
  Is. Yeah, but why does he bring that
• 1:18:54
  up though? The.
• 1:18:56
  What message is he telling people?
• 1:18:58
  I mean, is he just doing a medulist?
• 1:19:00
  Let's cry on Imam Hussein. What's his message?
• 1:19:03
  It's completion of. Exactly.
• 1:19:05
  Imam al Mehdi is basically saying to the world, Imam
• 1:19:08
  Hussein's mission was to bring justice.
• 1:19:11
  You people try to stop that, realize today I'm going to
• 1:19:14
  continue it. This is the revolution that my
• 1:19:17
  grandfather started. I'm continuing it.
• 1:19:20
  So that's why whenever you talk about the Mehdi and his
• 1:19:22
  companions, you have to go back to Imam Hussein and his
• 1:19:25
  campaign. This.
• 1:19:26
  Is my question said, because it's, and you mentioned this
• 1:19:29
  point and this was what I was going to ask because we here,
• 1:19:32
  I'll be very honest and transparent.
• 1:19:33
  So myself and a lot of brothers and sisters in the in the
• 1:19:38
  community have worked over the years to try and bring the name.
• 1:19:41
  The message of Rebut Abdullah Hossein is and I'm to the world
• 1:19:43
  around us. We have amazing organizations
• 1:19:46
  who is Hossein and so many others who do this and who have
• 1:19:49
  come to an effective way, let's say in the last 10 to 15 years,
• 1:19:53
  have developed a narrative depending on the region.
• 1:19:56
  You are depending on the, the the the demographic of people
• 1:19:58
  you're speaking to about how to communicate the message of a
• 1:20:01
  moment for sale Salaam to people in a way which is digestible and
• 1:20:04
  transferable and understandable. You use their language, you use
• 1:20:07
  their narratives, you use the values which people connect to,
• 1:20:11
  but it's easier for people to understand because you put it in
• 1:20:14
  comparison. To other social justice figures
• 1:20:17
  across history, not that there is a comparison, but rather a
• 1:20:20
  case of people understand this information because they can
• 1:20:22
  say, wow, this is a leader for this person.
• 1:20:25
  In the same way I might have a leader who I look at as a social
• 1:20:28
  justice leader, for example. But I realized, you know, a
• 1:20:31
  couple of weeks ago I was helping one of my brother's, my
• 1:20:35
  dear friends at a stall. He had a stall at a public event
• 1:20:39
  and it was like on the streets of London, OK.
• 1:20:43
  And the stall was focused on who is Imam al Mehdi.
• 1:20:48
  This was the the notion of the stall.
• 1:20:50
  So I was thinking about how to approach this because it's wajib
• 1:20:54
  on us to talk about the Imam and to prepare for his coming and to
• 1:20:58
  prepare the world for the arrival of the awaited Imam.
• 1:21:01
  But how do we do this? Because when we talk about Imam
• 1:21:04
  Al Hussain, we're talking about story of someone who lived and
• 1:21:07
  died when he gave his sacrifice. When we talk about about Imam Al
• 1:21:10
  Mehdi Ali Salaam, we're talking about someone who went into
• 1:21:14
  labour at the age of five, 1100 years ago, will return at some
• 1:21:17
  point, which we don't know and bring the world, you know, the
• 1:21:20
  earth to justice and so on. Islamic figure, but he'll be
• 1:21:23
  peaceful with other relations, other religions and so on.
• 1:21:26
  It seems mythical from the non-muslim perspective.
• 1:21:30
  And this is something which I wanted to ask, how do we do
• 1:21:32
  that? Because when the Imam makes
• 1:21:33
  those, how Hadith says the five statements he makes between the
• 1:21:36
  rukun and the Makam, three of them will relate directly to
• 1:21:39
  Imam Hussein Ali Salaam. But the world, and when they
• 1:21:42
  hear that say, had a call and they hear Mohammed Ibn al
• 1:21:45
  Hassan, they're going to ask, where have I heard that name?
• 1:21:49
  So there must be a responsibility on us to, to, to,
• 1:21:53
  to impart that knowledge somehow.
• 1:21:55
  How do we do it? Do we talk about the values that
• 1:21:58
  the Imam will bring and what we're working towards, you know,
• 1:22:00
  the political and economic sense?
• 1:22:02
  Do we talk about him from a biographical sense?
• 1:22:05
  It's a very difficult question because I think we need to
• 1:22:07
  elevate now our communities. If I'm going to be really
• 1:22:10
  brutally and critically honest in the last 20 years, we've got
• 1:22:14
  to a point now where we can say Al Hamdullah, our youth, the
• 1:22:17
  majority of them are educated and literate and, and they're
• 1:22:20
  they're they're smart enough to talk about Omar al Hussein in a
• 1:22:23
  way which is digestible for for a non-muslim.
• 1:22:27
  But the next step for us is to be able to talk about Omar al
• 1:22:30
  Mehdi. How do we do that?
• 1:22:32
  This is a question which I've been like thinking about a lot
• 1:22:34
  in the last few weeks. Sorry I'm I'm been rambling but
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  I feel quite passionate about this.
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  Absolutely. This is a very important thought
• 1:22:44
  to have. How do we introduce Imam al
• 1:22:46
  Mehdi to the world in a way that people can resonate with, in a
• 1:22:50
  way that doesn't seem too mythical and legendary for
• 1:22:53
  people to dismiss it and think, ah, this is just another myth.
• 1:22:57
  That's very important because the more we introduce the Imam
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  properly, the more I believe it will expedite his return because
• 1:23:05
  it prepares the world for his arrival, for his reappearance,
• 1:23:09
  such that when they hear the sahat, when they hear of his
• 1:23:13
  return, people like, OK, we're familiar with that.
• 1:23:15
  That resonates with us, and they're more willing to support
• 1:23:19
  the Imam when they see him in that light.
• 1:23:22
  So how do we introduce the Imam to the world?
• 1:23:25
  Now, there are many ways and different scholars, different
• 1:23:31
  experts in this field will give you different recommendations.
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  And there's, and then, and then there's the all, there's the
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  customized way too. It depends on you who you're
• 1:23:40
  speaking to. Let's say if I'm speaking to a
• 1:23:42
  Sunni audience, what would I say to them about the Mehdi that we
• 1:23:46
  believe in when they believe? OK, you believe he's been alive
• 1:23:51
  for about 12 centuries. That's mythical.
• 1:23:53
  Come on, What would I say to that?
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  What would I say to the Jewish? What would I say to the
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  Christian? What would I say to the atheist?
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  So there's definitely an element of customization that you have
• 1:24:02
  to do to get the message across. But if I had to stick to one
• 1:24:07
  global message, regardless of whom I'm speaking to, whether
• 1:24:11
  the Christian, the Jewish, the Shia, the Sunni, the atheist, I
• 1:24:14
  would stick to this message. The Mahdi is basically the hope
• 1:24:19
  for humanity today. The more you look around the
• 1:24:24
  world, the more we are hopeless, the more depression is on the
• 1:24:28
  rise, suicide is on the rise, anxiety is on the rise,
• 1:24:32
  loneliness is on the rise. Despite our technology, our
• 1:24:36
  science, our wealth, we're struggling with our mental
• 1:24:39
  health. Why?
• 1:24:40
  People don't really have something hopeful to hold on to.
• 1:24:45
  And when you look at the future of the world, it's very grim.
• 1:24:48
  If you ask the scientists, oh, this, the oceans are going to
• 1:24:51
  rise. Half the UK is going to be
• 1:24:53
  underwater. I don't know if Florida's going
• 1:24:54
  to go underwater. Maldives is going to disappear.
• 1:24:57
  Go and see it while you're alive.
• 1:24:59
  Make it your honeymoon destination, right?
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  Because 20 years from now, it's not going to exist.
• 1:25:03
  And the wildfires we saw in California, the natural
• 1:25:07
  disasters, the droughts. You look at the future, there's
• 1:25:11
  no hope. You look at the moral state of
• 1:25:13
  the world with what we're seeing right now, right?
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  Yeah. You know, on on media, the TV,
• 1:25:19
  the school system, what they're teaching our children, you lose
• 1:25:23
  hope. I know brothers and sisters were
• 1:25:24
  like, I don't think I'm going to have children.
• 1:25:27
  Why say it? Tell me why should I have
• 1:25:28
  children when the world is so dark like that?
• 1:25:32
  Do I really want to raise children in such a world?
• 1:25:35
  Everywhere you go, there is lack of hope.
• 1:25:40
  Financial security is becoming, you know, something that people
• 1:25:44
  really try to pursue. A 20 years ago, it wasn't like
• 1:25:48
  that. Honestly, I remember 2020 years
• 1:25:51
  ago here in the UK and Canada, in the US, and OK, people always
• 1:25:55
  have their financial struggles, but people were OK.
• 1:25:58
  Right now, people are worried about jobs and security and
• 1:26:02
  money and investments, and they're worried even though
• 1:26:05
  people have become richer. Can you see the irony?
• 1:26:07
  People have become richer, the living standards have improved,
• 1:26:11
  but people are more concerned. So the common theme that I'm
• 1:26:15
  seeing is lack of hope. Imam and Mehdi, for me, in one
• 1:26:20
  sentence to introduce him, he is the hope for humanity.
• 1:26:27
  Any concern that you have, you'll find the solution in Imam
• 1:26:32
  and Mehdi. You're concerned about wars and
• 1:26:36
  an injustice and countries using advanced weapons.
• 1:26:40
  Imam and Mehdi will bring safety to the world.
• 1:26:42
  The hadith says a woman, a woman will walk from Syria to Iraq.
• 1:26:47
  And we know how dangerous these zones are.
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  Alone, alone. She can walk.
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  Nobody will harass her. Nobody, nobody will stop her.
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  Can you say that in some of our Western capitals in New York and
• 1:27:01
  Detroit and Chicago and some parts of London?
• 1:27:03
  Can a lady go and nobody's going to harass her?
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  No, No. But this Imam al Mehdi gives you
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  personal security, gender security, economic security,
• 1:27:14
  financial security, health security, healthcare, justice.
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  He is the hope for humanity and all of us.
• 1:27:24
  We hope that God will bless us with a representative, but we
• 1:27:28
  have to humble ourselves, tell people, look, we failed despite
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  our country's OK, We have democracies, great, wonderful.
• 1:27:35
  We're not saying let's go to to theocracies or dictatorships.
• 1:27:39
  No, fine, keep your systems, but are they solving your problems?
• 1:27:42
  No, they're not. Don't you think God who created
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  us? I mean, when you're talking to
• 1:27:48
  Christians and Jews, they believe in God.
• 1:27:50
  Don't you believe God who's created us has something bigger
• 1:27:53
  for us than this? That's it.
• 1:27:55
  This is the peak of civilization with all the poverty and
• 1:27:58
  injustice that we're seeing. Is that it?
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  There's definitely something more than that that God has in
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  store for us. You Jews believe in your
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  Messiah. You Christians believe in your
• 1:28:08
  Messiah, Jesus. We Muslims believe in your
• 1:28:10
  Messiahs too. But we're going to combine
• 1:28:13
  forces. We're going to work as a team.
• 1:28:17
  The Mahdi is that team who works with Jesus and the Messiah to
• 1:28:23
  bring that global justice. It's not a myth.
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  It's what you Christians believe.
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  We're just only adding one element you're not aware of.
• 1:28:32
  Jesus is going to work with another representative of God.
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  We call him the Mahdi. And I would tell fellow
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  Christians, I would tell them, look, today if you look at the
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  global population, 8 billion, half of the global population,
• 1:28:45
  at least 4 billion Muslims and Christians, they make up half of
• 1:28:50
  the world population. These are the two who Revere
• 1:28:54
  Jesus, You Christians, OK, obviously.
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  Who other than the Christians Revere and respect Jesus and his
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  mother, the Virgin Mary, who we Muslims, why is it far fetched
• 1:29:07
  for you Christians that work? We are going to work with our
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  Imam, with Jesus. We love Jesus, nobody loves him
• 1:29:16
  more than us from the other religions.
• 1:29:19
  We admire him, we advocate for him, we believe in his miracles.
• 1:29:25
  So our Messiah is going to work with your Messiah.
• 1:29:28
  Why is that far fetched? That's a reality.
• 1:29:30
  It's not a myth. You already believe in that
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  Messiah. We're just telling you who else
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  is going to work with him. I think that would be a very
• 1:29:38
  effective, simplified way of communicating that to the
• 1:29:41
  people. But the hope factor, I think, is
• 1:29:45
  what we'll do it. People need hope.
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  People are looking for security. Imam and Mehdi represents that
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  security. Thank you.
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  So thank you so much. I think that's that's very
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  pertinent and there's definitely I think we're going to see in
• 1:30:00
  the coming years, I hope and shot a lot our communities, our
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  youth take initiative and maybe we can develop this and it's
• 1:30:07
  through consultancy with scholars and teachers like
• 1:30:10
  yourself to develop a formula which works because I feel like
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  we we have a responsibility to do that, especially us here in
• 1:30:18
  the West. We are, we're valuable assets to
• 1:30:21
  the Imam. I truly believe we speak the
• 1:30:24
  language of the West. We integrate with the
• 1:30:26
  communities here. We have normal jobs.
• 1:30:28
  We act very western in our day-to-day interaction and we
• 1:30:32
  have an advantage over 95% of the Shia world who aren't given,
• 1:30:38
  you know, access to this. Do you see what I mean?
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  Absolutely, we have this. Responsibility, therefore, is
• 1:30:43
  heavy on us. Here and I, this is, I mean, I
• 1:30:46
  know you're, you know, you did the migration session at the
• 1:30:48
  Muslim convention a couple of weeks ago.
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  And that's the whole, but one big argument which weighs in my
• 1:30:54
  mind is Allah has placed me here.
• 1:30:57
  Maybe this is where I reach my potential.
• 1:30:59
  And maybe I'm here to serve the Imam like as a minority of the
• 1:31:04
  Shia community. And I'm, I live in this society
• 1:31:07
  amongst all these people who don't believe in my Imam, but I
• 1:31:10
  have that accurate within me. I need to think strategically
• 1:31:14
  how to utilize that. So it's something which weighs
• 1:31:16
  on my mind. And that's a conversation for
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  Inshallah next time when you're in Townsend.
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  So but thank you so much said said anything to add.
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  You guys say the very heavy question, but I I'm I'm so
• 1:31:28
  happy. The way you answered it very
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  eloquently, it is universal and Imam Mehdi, Inshallah is the
• 1:31:32
  hope for everyone, not just the Shia.
• 1:31:34
  But brings me to a final point from me saying that, if you
• 1:31:37
  don't mind, I know we've taken so much of your time already now
• 1:31:41
  that we've we've said, for example, we've addressed the
• 1:31:43
  Christians or the Jews, but there's one more group that.
• 1:31:48
  Really, really gets. To me online saying and the
• 1:31:51
  trolls, the trolls and they, no, not all of them.
• 1:31:55
  Some of them are, you know, ignorance in their beliefs.
• 1:32:00
  They attack us on our social media.
• 1:32:02
  They constantly mock. Us to our DMS, they leave us
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  their. Comments.
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  They make a mockery. I I just want them to open their
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  heart and I want you to tell them something.
• 1:32:12
  Say it. Some words of advice.
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  Why? As a Muslim, firstly, you need
• 1:32:18
  to respect Imam al Mehdi and pray for his reappearance.
• 1:32:22
  What would you tell them? Sent that is.
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  That is a very important aspect of this discussion.
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  Because it's part of their belief 100%.
• 1:32:31
  Not just the part of their beliefs.
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  I, I would, I would say the following.
• 1:32:36
  When you go back to your hadiths, the hadiths that are
• 1:32:40
  found in the books of our Sunni brothers and sisters, you will
• 1:32:44
  find hundreds of narrations from Rasul Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
• 1:32:52
  about the Mahdi and the advent of the Mahdi.
• 1:32:55
  By the way, the Saha that we talked about, do you know that
• 1:32:58
  in Sunni sources this has been mentioned?
• 1:33:02
  But like I said, it doesn't say Gibraltar.
• 1:33:03
  This is an Angel when you look at the combined narrations from
• 1:33:08
  the Prophet. About.
• 1:33:09
  The Mahdi and the signs of the reappearance and what his
• 1:33:11
  mission is. You have narrations that amount
• 1:33:15
  to the hundreds. My question to my Sunni brothers
• 1:33:20
  and sisters is this. If you're Rasul dedicated so
• 1:33:23
  much time to talk about the Mehdi, Honestly, I'm asking a
• 1:33:29
  humble, brotherly, genuine question.
• 1:33:32
  Why is it that this issue has become so secondary to you and
• 1:33:39
  not part of your main discussions?
• 1:33:42
  Sometimes you spend hours on your pulpits talking about one
• 1:33:45
  hadith the Prophet said, which is good.
• 1:33:48
  If the Prophet said one thing, I'd still discuss it.
• 1:33:51
  It's my Prophet. But if he's invested that much
• 1:33:54
  time where there are hundreds of hadiths from the Prophet about
• 1:33:58
  the Mehdi, why is Imam and Mehdi absent from your discussions?
• 1:34:03
  Why are you not concerned about who his?
• 1:34:06
  Identity is. The prophet is going to tell you
• 1:34:08
  about this mysterious Mandy and he wouldn't even care to tell
• 1:34:12
  you who he is, which family he comes from, what's his family
• 1:34:15
  tree, who his father is. Is that even rational that the
• 1:34:18
  prophet talks about him hundreds of times?
• 1:34:21
  But who is he? Oh, I don't care who he is, he's
• 1:34:22
  going to appear at some point in the future.
• 1:34:25
  Does that add up? Be honest with your prophet.
• 1:34:28
  If you want to honor your prophet and the words of your
• 1:34:31
  prophet. Are you going to marginalized
• 1:34:33
  this issue and unfortunately those ignorance, are you going
• 1:34:36
  to mock the belief and the Mahdi?
• 1:34:39
  That's one part of it. The second Part 1 of the biggest
• 1:34:43
  things they mock is the long life of Ali Mahmad, Mahdi Ayushi
• 1:34:47
  as believe in this mythical figure, 1200 years he's been
• 1:34:50
  living, he's been hiding, come on.
• 1:34:53
  And they really mock this. Even some of those who are a bit
• 1:34:56
  moderate, they still find this difficult to digest.
• 1:35:00
  Now there are many ways of addressing that.
• 1:35:02
  I know a lot of you will tell you will tell me say we could
• 1:35:05
  just tell them Prophet Noah and the Quran 950 years ago.
• 1:35:08
  It doesn't really work with them.
• 1:35:09
  No matter how many times you use these verses.
• 1:35:12
  I would say the following to them.
• 1:35:13
  I would say in your works, in your Sahih works and ask your
• 1:35:17
  Sunni scholars you believe that the Djad has been alive since
• 1:35:23
  the days of the prophets of Allahu Aywala?
• 1:35:25
  Did you know there Hadid state that that the jot as a physical
• 1:35:29
  being not as a system, as a one eyed human being has been alive
• 1:35:36
  since the time of Rasulullah Allah?
• 1:35:40
  That is the mainstream authentic hadith.
• 1:35:42
  I even wanted to check like what Wahhabis and bin Baaz says.
• 1:35:45
  He says yes we accept it. I just want to check even the
• 1:35:48
  extreme ones, OK? He said yes, we accept that
• 1:35:51
  based on our hadiths that the Jol is alive.
• 1:35:54
  So he's been alive at least 14 centuries, so at least 200 years
• 1:35:59
  more than Imam al Mehdi. And he's hiding and he's going
• 1:36:03
  to come and cause deception. So you and a Sunnah
• 1:36:07
  conveniently, easily believe in this evil figure present here on
• 1:36:13
  earth, hiding for 14 centuries, and that's completely OK.
• 1:36:17
  And you'd be offended if somebody would mock you?
• 1:36:21
  On what grounds do you come and mock me for believing in the
• 1:36:26
  representative of Allah, the source of hope, the one who
• 1:36:30
  never separates from the Quran, the thick lane, the family of
• 1:36:34
  the Prophet, the Mahdi, if he is alive, 12 centuries on earth,
• 1:36:39
  for a lot of reasons, wise reasons.
• 1:36:42
  Why do you struggle with this? Why do you mock me for believing
• 1:36:45
  in that? Why?
• 1:36:48
  And then you mentioned the basement thing in the beginning,
• 1:36:50
  right? We were when we were having the
• 1:36:52
  discussion, another aspect that they will mock you about all you
• 1:36:55
  believe in this Mehdi who's been in a basement for, I don't know,
• 1:36:59
  12 centuries. Imam al Mehdi was in the
• 1:37:03
  basement of his house. The guards of the Abbasid
• 1:37:07
  government stormed into his house to arrest him because they
• 1:37:10
  had heard he might be there. Now if there are guards outside
• 1:37:16
  and you go in your basement to hide and have an exit strategy,
• 1:37:20
  is that something unusual? It's your house, it's your
• 1:37:23
  basement, for God's sake. And then Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala
• 1:37:27
  blinded them, the soldiers and the Imam left.
• 1:37:29
  We don't believe that Imam is hiding in a basement for 1200
• 1:37:33
  years. We believe that the Imam Ali
• 1:37:35
  Salaam was in a basement when they tried to locate him and
• 1:37:39
  Allah saved him. And for any Muslim who struggles
• 1:37:42
  with that, I'll take you back to your Prophet Sallallahu Aliwale.
• 1:37:45
  The Prophet Sallallahu Aliwale, on the night of the migration,
• 1:37:48
  the Hijra when Imam Ali slept in his bed, the Prophet blinded
• 1:37:52
  who? The mushrikeen, he poured dust
• 1:37:56
  in their face and he read this verse from Surat Yasin Wajala
• 1:38:00
  Mumbai ID him said then woman held for him said then fell
• 1:38:03
  Shayna hum for home Lai absolute.
• 1:38:05
  Our dear brothers from Addison. Do you not accept this biography
• 1:38:08
  of the Prophet? Is this not mentioned in your
• 1:38:09
  books? And then where did he go?
• 1:38:12
  Well, the verse of The Cave is not something they will ever
• 1:38:14
  overlook, right? They consider it the biggest
• 1:38:16
  virtue for Abu Bakr, right? Who did he take with him to The
• 1:38:19
  Cave? So the Prophet left his house.
• 1:38:22
  He saw Abu Bakr on the way. The Prophet didn't want the
• 1:38:26
  mushriks to know his whereabouts because if Abu Bak would run
• 1:38:29
  into the Prophet and then he would go and see them against
• 1:38:32
  they'd interrogate him. They'd figure out where the
• 1:38:34
  Prophet is. So to hide his whereabouts, the
• 1:38:36
  Prophet said come with me, I don't want to be exposed here.
• 1:38:39
  Where did the Prophet go for three days?
• 1:38:43
  Where cave he was hiding where in a cave.
• 1:38:49
  It's context said I would tell my brothers and sisters from
• 1:38:52
  other. Schools of thought.
• 1:38:54
  The same Lord who keeps his prophet hiding in a cave for
• 1:39:00
  three days to protect him will protect his grandson, the Mehdi
• 1:39:06
  for a few hours in the basement. Why is that mythical and funny
• 1:39:10
  and you make a mockery out of it, but we accept the other one?
• 1:39:13
  I said be honest, be fair. Look, you're welcome.
• 1:39:18
  To criticize, to critique, to ask.
• 1:39:23
  We're not asking anyone to blindly accept.
• 1:39:25
  Ask with evidence. But be fair.
• 1:39:28
  Have decency in your ishqaal, in your problem for you to come and
• 1:39:34
  make a mockery. You're disgracing Rasul Allah if
• 1:39:38
  you mock us for believing in the media in the basement tomorrow
• 1:39:41
  the non-Muslims going to mock you and say oh you're Rasul was
• 1:39:44
  in a cave hiding. Hiding in a cave.
• 1:39:48
  Don't open this bag of worms on yourself.
• 1:39:52
  Be decent, have an intellectual discussion, ask what the
• 1:39:56
  evidence is that the man you can live like that long Didn't your
• 1:40:01
  rest would say my family? The added bait will never
• 1:40:04
  separate from the Quran until the day of judgment.
• 1:40:07
  Is that not enough evidence for you that one of the members of
• 1:40:11
  added bait has to be alive as long as there's the Quran on
• 1:40:15
  earth? And didn't your prophet say 12?
• 1:40:20
  Yeah. Any name you want, Amir, He said
• 1:40:23
  it. Khalifa, he said it.
• 1:40:24
  Imam he said it what word do you want?
• 1:40:27
  So he said 12 the prophet says this world is not going to stop
• 1:40:31
  until 12 rule and these 12 cannot separate from the Quran.
• 1:40:36
  So Habibi, one of them has to have a long life because if they
• 1:40:40
  all live a normal 70 year life. And the 12.
• 1:40:43
  Are gone. Who's going to be with the
• 1:40:45
  Quran? The prophet says the world will
• 1:40:48
  not end until 12 rule and he said my family the Arabic will
• 1:40:51
  never separate from the Quran. Why is this difficult to accept?
• 1:40:57
  Forget that Shias believe in this because I know some have
• 1:41:00
  allergies to whatever we believe in.
• 1:41:04
  Forget we believe in that. Just look at what your prophet
• 1:41:07
  taught you. What does he want from you?
• 1:41:10
  Forget us and what we believe in.
• 1:41:12
  Be honest with your books, with your prophet, with Allah,
• 1:41:16
  Subhanahu, Watan, open your hearts.
• 1:41:20
  You don't want that day to come where you're disoriented and you
• 1:41:23
  follow the call of Shaitaan. Because if you're mocking the
• 1:41:28
  Mahdi today and Jibra, it says, hey, get ready, the Mahdi is
• 1:41:31
  coming. You're going to fight the Mahdi.
• 1:41:33
  If I spent my life mocking the Mahdi and mocking people who
• 1:41:37
  believe in the Mahdi, well, guess what?
• 1:41:40
  In what camp are you going to find yourself and on that day
• 1:41:44
  when the Siah happens? And don't say this is a Shia
• 1:41:46
  belief. No, in your Sunni books the Siah
• 1:41:49
  has been discussed, hadiths from the Prophet, from Ibn Ahmad.
• 1:41:53
  You want more than that from the son of Omar Abdul Kabab.
• 1:41:55
  He talks about the Siah, quoting the Prophet.
• 1:41:58
  When that Siah happens, on whose side are you going to be Iblis
• 1:42:02
  or Jibrai or that Angel according to your books?
• 1:42:05
  Well, if you've spent your whole life mocking the Mahdi and those
• 1:42:08
  who believe in the Mahdi, good luck.
• 1:42:12
  Thank you so much. Muhammad.
• 1:42:20
  We still pray for guidance. And he died.
• 1:42:24
  Taking so much of your time saying it's been.
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  My pleasure and honor to be part of this podcast.
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  Have we put you off? Would you come back?
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  Let's be real. Yes, that's not the answer.
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  I would. I would come back.
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  In a heartbeat. Anytime.
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  We love that, Sid. Thank you So.
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  Much Sid, how you feeling? I've got so much things I need
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  to improve in my life. Yeah, we all.
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  We all do. There's always room for
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  improvement. The time, the where, this is the
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  time. And that's what the Med you want
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  from us. That's what he's.
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  Expects don't sit. Comfortable with your state.
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  There's a lot to improve, and it begins with that recognition and
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  that that. Humility I sent him.
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  So thank you so much for your time.
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  And brothers, sisters, I'm sure you'll agree that this has been
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  an episode, I think like no other and something to prepare
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  us for the holy month of Shahramadhan.
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  We ask you to please pray for us.
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  And of course for the dolfi and the long life and the success
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  of, say, Muhammad Barkha Kazwini Halahi.
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  I mean that he can keep serving the community the way he does.
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  And for our last point, I'd like to give him more such that he
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  can inshallah return more to us and, and we can learn more from
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  him as well. Brother, sisters, leave your
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  comments below. Let us know how you're feeling.
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  Any comments, any thoughts that you you had during this episode,
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  any parts that you really liked and also what you want to see
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  more of in the next coming weeks.
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  And Charlotte, as we get closer to Sharla Mulan, this is the
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  time where we want to hear more from you.
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  So get engaged. We have some incredible,
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  incredible episodes lined up. I can't wait for you guys to see
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  it, but yeah, until next week, don't forget I see your doors.
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  It's not why they come off. It's a lie here on a cattle.