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Muharram is here: Tears, Love & Being Hussaini (ft. Mohamed Ali) · After Maghrib 🌙

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Salallahu Alayhi ABBA Abdullah Salaam Alaikum and welcome back
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to another episode on the aftermath of podcast.
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Brothers and sisters, the month of sorrow, the month of Muharram
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is now upon us. And it's a time insha'allah,
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where many of us amongst hundreds of millions of Shia all
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around the world will mourn the tragedy of the martyrdom of our
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Imam, Imam Hussein Ali Assalam. And during these nights and
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during the upcoming weeks, we join the grief of the Imam of
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our time, Imam Sahab al Asthma, Zaman, Imam al Mehdi, may Allah
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hastens reappearance as long as as well as joining in grief with
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the late departments of Hara Ali Salaam as well as joining in
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grief with Rasool Allah Muhammad sallallahu alaihi Ali Wasallam.
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But there is questions we want to ask.
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I think in today's episode. Is Muharram more than grief or
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should we just keep it as grief when we begin these holy Knights
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and shallah? For me on the personal note,
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Ahmed, and on the personal note, Brother Muhammad, I would say
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when it comes to Muharam and if I can be real with everyone
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listening and to myself, I feel like I don't know if it's a
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double standard from me. I feel like when it comes to
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Muharram, I double check everything I do, everything I
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say, my ibad, my o'clock, what I do at the mosque, what I do at
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home. And I feel like Imam Hussein has
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such a huge, immense impact on my life and I just want to
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understand why. How does this man 1400 years
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ago, who I've never met and I love so much, how can he impact
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my life to such a level? I would say every year it's life
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changing. It's beyond the grief, it's
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beyond the tears, it's beyond the massage of that we have.
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I feel like he is a father to me, He is a guy to me.
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He is a light to me and I'll hear your thoughts.
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How does this month make you feel?
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Habibi, how are you doing? I'm a larger comp Smila Rahim.
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Firstly, just taking a word, say to condolences to you all on, on
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this, on this month. And we're blessed and Hamdullah,
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we're honored and we've been given bounties by Allah to enter
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this blessed month once again. And for all of us to be able to
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be here in itself, we owe a lot to the generations of the past,
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to the Ailamar, to those who have died and lived in service,
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to the Imam of our time and the Imams of their time, Aleh
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Musalam, to such a point where we can live to see this day
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where we, as you said, say hundreds of millions of us come
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together to commemorate this. And it all started from 1
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moment. But listen, we're gonna have for
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those who are new to after Maghrib, Salam Alaykum and
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welcome. And if you are returning,
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welcome back Charlotte. This if you're this is your
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first Muharram with After Maghrib, then Charlotte, you're
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in for an amazing journey as we are on every year.
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This is our 4th Muharram Hamdullah Bilalami together.
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And we are gonna be. For those who know, we usually
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do a number of episodes over a 2 1/2 month period on a more or
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less weekly basis. Sometimes we have more frequent
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episodes, especially during these ten nights.
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You might have more than two episodes, inshallah.
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And we, we try to uncover things, learn things about each
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other, ourselves, our belief systems, our communities, so on
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and so forth. Inshallah.
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But I, I, I need to introduce and bring in someone who's not a
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guest. He's a Co host, one of our
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beloved brothers, our teacher Muhammad Ali Salaikum.
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Salaam, so definitely not a teacher at all.
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Shall we pray that I can actually live up to what you've?
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Basically, know you are you. Are.
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How's it going? Hamdallah, Hamdallah.
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Honestly what you guys have said is it's exactly how I feel every
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shit they will be feeling listening to this.
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I think Muharram is a is a time for revival.
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It encompasses the the title that we see in the hadith of the
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imams when they talk about reviving the affair of Ahul
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Bait. When we hear revival of the of
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the affair of Ahul Bait, we hear about the Shire of Allah.
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All of these titles for us, it revolves around one name and
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that's Imam Hussein Ali Salaam. So honestly, it's it's that time
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of year that all the shit are they feel this way.
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They feel like they have to revive the affair, whether they
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are religious, whether they're not religious, whether they've
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been on the wrong path in the rest of the year, whether
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they've been on a good path, every shit.
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He feels like they have to return in this in these ten
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nights to Imam Imam Hussein Ali Saddam and it just it just goes
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to show how much Imam Hussein Ali Salaam how much he acts as
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the focal point of the Shayoh. The identity of the Shi'i lies
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in Imam Hussein Ali Salaam I. Agree.
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To the extent that when we're talking about people that may
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have been off the rails in the year, you'll still see them in
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the Husseini al Muharram. And this is like when we when we
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talk about, for example, the story of horror, right?
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And we see that individual go from such a bad place to ending
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up as a companion who Allah sends his Salam upon.
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That's mind blowing. And what it teaches is that all
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it takes is one night, one day with the Mama to say, right?
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And we pray Inshallah that we find that night, that one night,
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that one day with Imam Hussein, this Muharram.
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And we pray every Muharram to be able to find that actual, you
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know, that salvation with Imam Hussein in the month of
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Muharram. It's nice you bring that point
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of heart because there's something we hear year in, year
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out, right? And I think it's beautiful to
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always hear it all over again because it reminds you, no
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matter at what stage you are in your life, that the the door of
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Rahman repentance, it's always open.
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And that door with Abab Abdullah Hussein is the fastest and the
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quickest door to come back to Allah.
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And in in many ways, I, I think we can all consider ourselves as
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hot. We make mistakes, we make
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errors. And during these nights as well,
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I think we have to reflect the comeback towards the.
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Yeah, I completely agree. There's a lot to to talk about.
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And I think one thing we should do is be unfiltered.
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And again, like I said earlier, if you're new to the podcast, we
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try and be a bit human because ultimately we're not like expert
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scholars, teachers, but we're not 2.
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Two of us are not teachers. We have one here.
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No, but in all honesty, we we want to be real.
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We want to be relatable. So for me, I'll be very honest
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and I'll start off, I think for the last two or three weeks,
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it's been difficult for us. Obviously we've seen what's been
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taking place in the Middle East. We've seen the way Iran has been
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attacked, the way the Shia of of Iran and all the population of
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Iran have been attacked. And I think it's taken our
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community in a direction of action and activity in some
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sense, which is amazing. But at the same time it's also
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stirred up a lot of emotion, some solidarity.
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It's asked the question as we hear every time there is a
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conflict about the whole of the Imam Ali Salaam.
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And of course his, you know, Ashura is approaching and we've
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seen the Wyatts. If we've watched him our nights,
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we'll know that on the 10th of March, on the night of the 10th
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of Muharram, the Imam Ali Salaam reappears in in Mecca.
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So these are all things that people talk about now.
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I wanted to ask you guys how you feel for me on a personal level
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on on that side, yeah, I feel activism and I feel passion and
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solidarity, all these things. On a spiritual level, I feel
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like I don't know how I feel because and I feel like there's
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probably people who may relate to me, but life is so difficult.
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Well, like everyone in some way, shape or form is struggling or
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going through something with family, with jobs, with finance,
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with health, whatever it is, it's tough like and you get
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caught up in a lot. And for me, on the personal of
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like, I've been caught up in so much stuff in the last few
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weeks, few months, like I can't even sometimes get time to sit
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down. So there are days where for me,
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like 11:00 PM is the first time I sit down like genuinely.
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And I think there's people at home who probably feel like
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that. And then Muharram comes around
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and you have like a mixed emotion.
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And I wanted to ask you guys if you feel this way, because I
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feel this way. There are times where, for
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example, I feel like, yeah, you know what?
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I need this. I need the Majalis, I need the
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Azar to kind of straighten me out.
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Then there are other times I'm like, I'm not really ready for
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it. Is it worth not, Is it worth
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going? Like I have to push myself into
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it. I have to push myself to listen
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to Ziyad Ashura, for example, to listen to Lakmiyat, all of these
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things because I'm like, I need to get to this place before the
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first time Muharram comes. Do you know what I mean?
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So I wanted to ask you guys, obviously in the context of the
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way things are now in the world and obviously how we feel in
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these days. Now we're recording this two or
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three days before the beginning of the holy month, so yeah.
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The points you mentioned, I think I share them and it's, and
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I think it's only human to feel that way.
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And just in the context of the recent events, like with Iran
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and everything, I think you're right.
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I think for me personally, I've generally asked myself this
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question. If I see, for example, that the
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current war, which is now that they were recording, now there's
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a ceasefire. If that was the side of Abdullah
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Hussein and this was the side of Yazid bin Mahuya, where would I
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stand? Where, you know, how would I
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act? How would I react what starts
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with I take and and and and I and I remember, for example, you
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know, that is very famous. We say that's all Allah Muhammad
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sallallahu alaihi wasallam he bring Islam correct and Imam
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Hussein save the slum. So in many ways I I think even
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if, like when we see these recent conflicts, it's it's hard
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not to say we we have to be Husseini in every way possible.
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And I think we can be to the best of our extent with our
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capacity be it's like you mentioned what activism and
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things like this, but beyond that makes you think Are you
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ready? Like Are you ready for the whole
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of the Imam? Like when we whenever you
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mentioned nice point every time there's a war or something like
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okay, maybe. Signs of the Imam.
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Signs of the Imam. Or something and.
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It's a time where you reflect and you tell yourself, you know,
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am I truly ready for that, for that reappearance?
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Am I going to be welcomed by would the Imam embrace me or
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would the Imam tell me go? Go away.
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Yeah. And it's it's, it's, it's a
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moment where we we have to taste reality, not just think it.
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And if we say we love about Abdullah Al Hussein, we should
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live by him. We should have the same values
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he had, the same principles he had at home and the workplace
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and the mosque everywhere 24/7. This is why I said like when it
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comes to Muharram, I double check everything I say.
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I think about what I'm going to say before I say it, how I act,
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how, how, how, how do I perform my I bother to all last one like
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even yesterday, just yesterday normally like when I'm at home,
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all my girls are awake. My my 2 girls, I tend to put
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them to sleep recite the Quran and things like yesterday's
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recite Asura yesterday I recite as yaad Aishwara.
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And I'm like, I'm not just going to recite it.
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No, I'm going to give it a melody and feel it.
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And I felt, you know, the past when we say in the Salmoneim and
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Salim akum and Allah have him during those moments, I'm like,
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can I really say that? If my Imam of my time is here,
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can I say the same to him? We're saying it to someone 1400
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years ago. If Imam Sahmid after it was the
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man that comes to my home, can I say that to him in the Salmoneim
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and Salim akum, Wahharabanim and harabakum?
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It's more than once. It's a point where we have to
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live it, breathe it, taste it and live it.
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Yeah, no, 100%. How do you feel?
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I think honestly, what you guys have said, I, I echo that so
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much. I think what you were saying as
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well, Ahmed, about the struggles that we go through as humans.
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And I think Mahalam acts as an outlet in some ways for those
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emotions as well. Like I feel I feel like these
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individuals, for example, in Iran, in Palestine, in Yemen,
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who have lost family, who have, who have lost loved ones, it's
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Muharram. That is the time that they have
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the, the opportunity to be able to let their emotions out for
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Imam Hussain challenge channel. Exactly.
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And I think this is what the Imams, I'm Salaam, encourage the
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Imams, they, they say in Kunta Baki and if you want to cry
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about something, cry for Imam Hussein Ali Salaam.
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Some people, they say this means that we should only mourn for
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Imam Hussein, really meant for the Atul bait.
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But there's that wisdom there with the Atul Bait, that
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philosophy of having that time in the year where you channel
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all of your emotion, all that sad emotion, and you channel it
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towards something that is greater than all of your
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sadness, greater than all of your pain.
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Interject there for a moment. Yeah, because it's so true.
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I, I, there's moments I've had in my life, Muhammad, where if,
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if, if I feel like my heart has hardened.
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I hear the Mossad and I share the softens your heart.
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That's it. You feel the, you feel like it's
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been like. Something's been lifted up.
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Something's unlocked. You're floating and and it's
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very true. Sorry I.
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No, no, that's 100% is and, and I think that's how a lot of us
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feel, right? Imam Hussein and that and that,
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and with Karbala and Imam Al Hussain, there's, there's
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something for everyone in the characters as well.
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And I think this is something that's really important in the
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philosophy of sadness and mourning for somebody that has a
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young child, for example, you're relating to Alil Asghar, you're
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relating to say the Rukhaya, you're relating to the other
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daughters, say the khola, right? For someone who has a young son,
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or if you're young yourself, unmarried, you're relating to
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Hasim, you're, you're relating to Alil Aqbar.
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You see, it's these, these characters in, in Karbala, they
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transcend time. They, they're able, they're able
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to relate to them in such a way that every, every night from the
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10 nights, you're able to relate to that from a different angle.
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You're able to picture yourself. And I think that's the most
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important thing about Karbala and one of the underlying
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philosophies of Karbala that we should feel like it is happening
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today. We should feel like part of it,
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right? The same way that you said in
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the Salim and Salim and Harabakum, we say until the day
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of judgement, it's something that's ongoing right now and
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it's something that's not going to end.
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And I think this is YARAT and we spoke about this in Germanite as
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well. That is Yarat are a blueprint to
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our headma, our relationship with Imam Hussein.
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Even if we start take just the first line as Salaam Alaiki ABBA
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Abdullah, like contemplation on that line and research into that
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line will open up for you actually so many avenues you
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wouldn't have thought of. So for example, when we say
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Salaam, Salaam comes from the word SIM, right, which is
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submission. So when we say as Salaam Alaikya
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Abdullah, it's not only a greeting, right?
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And This is why Salaam is so it's an oath or it's an oath of
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allegiance. And that's why it's so
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emphasized in every Zara. Every Zara starts with Salaam,
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right? So you see that this oath of
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allegiance, this remembrance that I'm completely in
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submission to you, the narrations of the imams, I am
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Salaam. They mentioned that someone that
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gives Salaam is when you've given that person your complete
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attention. Yeah, with regards to when
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you're speaking about Salaam towards Al Bait, right.
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Normal people, it's a greeting yeah, to hear like as mentioned
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in the Quran, but when we're talking about in the zarat, this
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is complete submission in our thoughts, our limbs, our mouths
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and complete like this is the highest level of submission in
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generations. You have, you have to slim, you
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have Silm and you have Salaam, which is the, the NTH level of,
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of submission to the elevator Salaam.
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And I think it's something that we should really reflect on when
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we're reciting this Yala to reflect on the words and
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ultimately, like you said, to have this level of submission to
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the Hussein of our time, which is Imam Sahab Zaman Ali Salaam.
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And and that's, and that's all it all it goes towards, right?
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Imam Hussein Ali Salaam, his mission began with that lofty
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goal right when Imam Hussein said in the Arido and Amourable
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Maruf Wahan al Munkar. The fick of Amourable Marufa
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Nahian Munkar is that whatever comes out as the conclusion
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should be better than the situation that was there before.
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Not the same. Not the same or potentially
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worse. When you think about Imam
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Hussein being martyred on the plains of Karbala, you you may
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think what good came out of that.
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When you look at the words of Imam Sahab Zaman in Zyatan
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Nahiya, he says Falwell Lulu Osaka lakat katalu.
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Bipatical Islam may well be upon the oppressors.
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By killing you, they killed Islam as a whole.
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When Imam Hussain is talking about Amir Bilmarovar Nahen and
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Mokar is speaking about the long term mission of Imam Hussain.
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Because what Imam Saheb as a man will bring is the true revenge,
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the true goodness that came out of that event.
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And that's why we're expected as the supporters of Imam Mahdi to
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come with the slogan Yalafarat al Hussein.
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And that's and that's the philosophy of Muharram, that we
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should always feel that we're part of it, we're part of this
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movement and reignite that feeling.
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It shouldn't be just to use the as as a as an emotional outlet
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what which it is, but also to be able to channel that emotion
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into something greater and into the movement of the Imam of our
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time. Because obviously the grief is
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is is the heavy element save you and I were speaking about this
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before the podcast, but like the the grief and the husband is the
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word you used that you feel the deep level of grief.
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I think that can't be taken away from us.
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And I think we will have to give into it and actually experience
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it and feel it and personify it. Because, you know, we live in a
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world which kind of it makes a mockery of men who cry at times.
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It makes a mockery of those who show weakness in the form of
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crying and grief. But grief in, in the form of
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this ozone, this level of grief is a grief which is praised and
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the grief which we've had seen so many of the wires about,
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about the one who sheds the tear, about the one who gives
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Salaam to the Imam Alayi Salaam and all of these things.
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And I think that that grief, we should fully experience that
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grief at the highest level of that we can, you know, and
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especially up until the, the build up of the day of Ashura,
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you know, personify that grief. Shed as many tears as you can,
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beat your chest as much as you can, recite the ZR to recite the
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Quran, everything, give it 110%. And then after that 10th day, we
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will witness that transformation that we've been on and we'll
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know that this is Huck, this is Salat Mustaqim.
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Ultimately, like there's no, there's nothing else we've felt.
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And we're blessed to be in a community of people who've had
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access to this. We've grown up around these,
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we've grown up around melodies and eulogies and, and, and
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poetry. And we've grown up around so
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many thousands of lecturers and, and different topics that we can
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choose books, anything we want. We have it at the tip of our
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fingertips. Like the, the, the Shia of the
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last thousand years have not had that.
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The Shia forget even those who have had access to one scholar.
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They have not had access to any or have relied on what their
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parents told them and still made it.
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You know, they still got us to where we are today.
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So it's just something great. And the fact that we can then,
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as you mentioned, channel that grief, our grief into the grief
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of the Imam and then the grief of the Imam into the grief into
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into action for our Imam today. That's just such a beautiful
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chronology to think of it about. Just to quickly interject story
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as well, there was when you mentioned like the generations
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before that actually gave us this gift of Azar.
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It reminded me of a story that Sheikh Abbas Jaffal mentioned in
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in Stanmore in the ELC. It was Muharram night and he
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mentioned the story and I was mind blown by and I'll never
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forget it. He was saying that I think he
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went to one of the villages or something in, in Russia and they
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were doing Azad there and he mentioned they were reciting in
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Russian or whatever language they were reciting in and they
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did their Latin. And towards the end, like
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everything had finished, everything went quiet.
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They turned off the light like the the little lights on the
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speaker, everything. And he started reciting very,
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very quietly. And everybody put their hands
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inside their shirts and they just did Latham really, really
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quietly. So Chef was confused.
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He was thinking like, what's going on here?
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So he asked one of the individuals that was there.
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He said, like, what's going on? And what he mentioned was that
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at the time of the Soviet Union, it was not allowed to do us.
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So back in those days, this is how they used to do majalis.
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They used to come and they used to gather for Imam Hussain,
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recite really, really quietly. And people used to put their
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hands into their shirts so that the sound of Latham doesn't go
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out. So he said that every year when
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we do Muharram, we do this at the end of Latham to remember
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the sacrifice of our forefathers that gave us this.
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So like stories like that, it makes you really think like, you
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know, for, for people like us. And like we, we are obviously
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speaking for myself as well, growing up in this country, we
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have like the, the freedom of us out.
22:09
We have this gift, but we don't know the sacrifices that our
22:14
ancestor has gone through to, to bring us this as A and it's a
22:18
gift and, and honestly, we should, I think it's, it's
22:21
something to always remember in Maharam like that, that purity
22:24
of, of, of your mother that gave you the how.
22:27
How did that, how genuinely how did it go from the Maktal and
22:32
the narration of what happened? How did it then in the news
22:36
Reach Medina and whatnot and Bibiomal Benin and all the,
22:40
everyone who played part of that Imam Sajjad say the Zainab
22:43
Salaam Allah, all of them kind of played a role in this.
22:47
You know, this transmission right from oral transmission to
22:50
then written transmission. And then it just spread like
22:52
wildfire. Muhammad Bakar Ali Salaam played
22:55
such a big role at all of the Ayma.
22:57
But then like it's here now it's here.
23:00
Like it's, it's out in the open. No one can silence, silence this
23:03
forever. Like they'll try and shut us
23:05
down, but they'll never be able to censor this because this is
23:07
something like it's dug deep within some grained and buried
23:11
in US, you know, I mean. And you're right, this is all
23:12
thanks to our forefathers and now 100% still this love in our
23:16
hearts. And and it's a love that I would
23:18
never trade ever because I, I, I don't think you know, love until
23:25
you have fell in love with Imam Hussein.
23:26
So, you know, there's, there's some English, although the love
23:30
of Imam Hussein is not one that's, as we say, lovey dovey.
23:33
It's painful. And there was there was an
23:36
English line, I forgot the name of the poet.
23:38
And he he mentions, he says to Bam Hussein, your story starts
23:42
with love. Your story ends with love,
23:46
although your love is pain, your pain is what I love.
23:51
What a line. I think that explains what we
23:55
feel during during these ten nights.
23:57
And I just want to say, you know, you mentioned the story of
24:01
during the Soviet Union come to Arab, come to Saddam's time.
24:05
There is so many examples of how despite the the high level of
24:11
enforcement against propagating the message of Karbala, the
24:15
Majadas of Imam and Hussein, yes, still lived on it all
24:17
today. But as soon as 2003 when Saddam
24:20
Hussein, Anatollah Aliyah fell, when he was when he was removed
24:24
from power, the first Arbayan. Who remembers the first Arbayan
24:29
that was on your TV screens live.
24:30
I still remember my father in the living room saying look.
24:34
What year was I was? Five years old. 2003.
24:38
I was five years old in the same year he took was yes, yeah,
24:40
yeah. Yeah, that's when it began.
24:42
That's beautiful. And this is.
24:43
Making pick up their flags and they weren't walking to Karbala.
24:47
And it just showed you how much you know, they were suppressed
24:50
from this. Like the amount of grief that
24:53
was available for you to view on television was unbelievable.
24:58
Like these people have been their emotions, they were
25:03
suffocated, they were suffocated and they just, I felt like it
25:06
was an explosion, an eruption. And look what a letter today
25:09
that you have annually 10s of millions of people going to.
25:12
But you know what, like it is sad because obviously there are
25:15
still places in the world. Look at Sham right now, look at
25:19
Gentle Bucket. Like there's so many examples of
25:21
places where we still we still haven't achieved that, you know.
25:24
And I read today about Afghani Scholar, if I'm not mistaken,
25:29
who was. I don't even want to say it.
25:31
Yeah. Martyr.
25:32
Do you read about it? I don't want to say how.
25:34
Yeah, I don't want to say how he was killed because it was so
25:36
graphic and brutal, but purely just for being Shia.
25:41
Shia. And we see that across the
25:43
world, like till now, the Shia of Pakistan, the Shia of
25:46
Afghanistan, There are people around the world who can't
25:49
express. This is the price you pay.
25:51
This is the price you know you. Know in Arabic we say this is
25:53
the arriba, this is the tax, the tax you pay to have love for a
25:57
little bit. Yeah, and that's how you know
25:59
that that is sincerity as well. Like it's, it can't be when
26:02
Allah puts you in that position, he's really testing you.
26:05
Like we have it easy, man. Like we don't even have.
26:08
There are obviously centres. Look at Kuwait right now, if I'm
26:10
not mistaken, they've shut down Majalis.
26:14
Look at the UAE. There's obviously these centres
26:17
where you can't practice the way you want, but obviously you
26:20
know, like. Even, by the way, in Saudi
26:21
Arabia, 2025 in Riyadh, the capital, yeah.
26:27
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, You can't publicly
26:29
hold the, they privately hold majalas in their homes and they
26:33
have to send secret messages. 2025, we're talking.
26:36
We're not talking 1991 or something.
26:40
We're living in this age of technology, this age of age
26:42
we're about to show you or something normal.
26:45
And it used to be fed, used to be looked down upon, but no like
26:48
people. Do you know why?
26:50
But look at like I said. No, they scared.
26:53
That's what I'm saying this is. What I was?
26:55
Going to say yeah, it's not just morning, it's.
26:58
It's. Revolution.
26:59
It's. Evolution.
26:59
Even in some places in the UAE, when you go to a measurist,
27:03
there's like police standing outside.
27:05
Yeah, you show your ID. Yeah, yeah, when you go inside.
27:08
Yeah, you show your ID. Imagine that, bro.
27:10
Do you have to show your details ID and then you have to leave by
27:13
10:00 PM sharp? Yeah, exactly.
27:14
So United Arab Emirates. Yeah, Imagine.
27:16
Interesting. Those who say happy we come to
27:19
Dubai, come. To Karambala.
27:21
Honestly, honestly, you know, we did that.
27:23
We did that. Video.
27:25
Last we did a TikTok, it got like a million plus views or
27:29
something. That's hilarious.
27:30
Yeah, I was going to add something to this, this thing
27:33
you mentioned about that Thodi thing that the Shia have this
27:37
revolutionary spirit, the Hosseini spirit.
27:41
You know, I was, I was watching a clip of Senator Marco Rubio.
27:46
Have you seen this? You might have seen it.
27:48
Marco Rubio. He's a, he's a senator,
27:51
Republican senator. And he was talking about how?
27:57
The. 12 is the 12 is have this archaeological point of view
28:01
where they are apocalyptic in their nature.
28:04
And firstly, shout out to to whoever gave them that
28:07
information because a lot of it was fair play.
28:09
Like, you know, I'm quite impressed.
28:12
However, at the same time, Marco Rubio, if you're listening, bro,
28:15
we don't want to hear you again, talk, talk about our people or
28:19
our belief system. But let's be real, there is a
28:22
deep level of knowledge about what our belief system is and
28:26
you know the the positions that we take as she are today, it
28:31
remains as has been and always will be, our Arcadia solidified.
28:36
This is the difference between US and other schools of thought.
28:38
Our Arcadia solidified. And they're actually interested.
28:41
I don't know if if any of you like like me and search hadith
28:45
in Arabic on Google all the time about every day and stuff.
28:48
Yeah. Every single day, but.
28:50
Honestly, when you when you're like that and you search, you'll
28:53
see websites coming up that you didn't expect really.
28:56
Like you will see government websites USA like spy
29:01
intelligence agencies, you'll see, you'll see documents that
29:05
they have of a hadith from like crazy, like genuinely, genuinely
29:10
like that. That's an actual thing.
29:11
And one of our scholars actually say Muhammad Sadaq Sadaf.
29:16
Actually, you know what he said? And he was saying this in like
29:19
the 90s, if I'm not mistaken, or even maybe before that, he was
29:22
saying, I don't think that the, the enemies don't know about
29:27
Imam Sahab Zaman. He's like, they have all of the
29:30
details of Imam Sahab Zaman. All they're missing is a
29:32
picture. Yeah, literally that's, that's
29:34
what he said. That's that's what he said.
29:36
And and in those days, these files that I'm talking about on
29:40
the Internet now, we're not known, but it is public
29:43
information now. And you can you can see that how
29:46
how much they research into our like our theology.
29:49
I feel like that's. Why they they definitely.
29:52
That's why I mean, look, look at them when you talk about the mid
29:55
state of the Middle East, we're talking about, obviously we have
29:58
to be careful like, you know, kind of how we go about this.
30:00
But in terms of like, at least from an ideological perspective,
30:04
it's very difficult to to defeat a group of people who young
30:08
martyrdom, you know, I'm saying who, who idolize and who discuss
30:13
and mourn martyrdom. And you know, it's congratulate
30:16
each other on martyrdom or whatever, or the families of the
30:19
martyrs on this magnificent achievement because this is
30:22
something which we believe is God-given.
30:24
You know, you don't die when you become a martyr like so it's
30:26
something that you yearn for. As a Shia, we're taught that
30:29
we're born with that understanding.
30:31
All of our In My Name of Salaam and our Holy Prophet, all
30:33
martyred. So we believe that that's
30:34
something that we work towards. Shah and Shah, ultimately I.
30:38
Mean martyrdom. Yeah, man.
30:41
So I feel like a big sober, a big part of what we need to do
30:44
in these ten nights is to understand how what the Imam did
30:48
was a success, like a victory in in its totality, in its
30:52
entirety. Like there was no way, like you
30:55
said about Amar bin Maaruf, you talked about how Islam, right?
31:04
Like, yeah, we agree with that. Of course the Imam said it.
31:06
But more of a case like the victory is in principle, right,
31:11
The principles and the values that the Imam died showing off
31:15
and, you know, sharing it was such a shock and awe moment when
31:21
it happened that everyone was like, what how would he let
31:25
himself sacrifice? How could he sacrifice himself
31:28
for this? What was it that he sacrificed
31:30
himself for? So it probably caused such a
31:32
shockwave in the Oma at the time that they couldn't ignore it.
31:36
And then, I don't know, I just, I think that's it's kind of
31:39
been. Yeah, exactly.
31:41
And it's still like there's still people try to uncover it
31:43
and they've created fake hadith, fake stories.
31:45
Fake, fake, what do you call it, Muster habad that you do on that
31:50
day? All of these things just to try
31:51
and like bury the reality of the 10th of Muharram.
31:55
Do you know what I'm saying? I think also it acts as huge
32:00
proof of the Shia opposition with regards to the system of
32:04
Khalafa that existed after a sort of, I think Imam Hussein's
32:07
mission literally exposes it, literally like there's curtains
32:12
and he's opened the curtains for you.
32:14
How has it proved the system of Khalafa?
32:16
So when when we're when we're talking about the martyrdom of
32:20
Mohammed Hussain, there's many reports that actually speak
32:23
about it directly being linked to the system of Khalafa being
32:28
hijacked by the at Sakifa Mini Sada.
32:31
So even mentions that on the day that the those companions made
32:36
that plan to over like to overtake Rasulullah, to kill
32:41
Rasulullah, to kill the albeit Al Salaam, it literally mentions
32:45
for either Kutsiable Kitab Qutsi Al Hussein.
32:48
It was at that moment that Imam Al Hussein had to be martyred in
32:52
order to expose the system. And I think any Muslim in his
32:57
right mind even today cannot accept if you were to just sit
33:02
and ponder Shia, Sunni, wherever you are, right, even if you're
33:06
not Muslim, sushi say you're not even Muslim and you sit and you
33:10
ponder and you say, OK, what years is happening in 61?
33:14
50 years after the death. 50 years Rasulullah has passed
33:17
away. Rasulullah, what did he say
33:19
about Imam Hussein? He said all of these things
33:21
about him say say from the say that Shabab al Jannah Hussein al
33:24
Mini and I mean Hussein, he said all of Hussein Musbah al Huda
33:27
was a funeral to Najjah. He said all of these things by
33:30
man Hussein. He kissed him on his face, he
33:32
kissed him on his cheeks. He held him on his shoulders.
33:35
You know he he delayed. Getting up from there during his
33:38
sermon. All of all of these things that
33:40
Rasulullah said about this individual, this individual
33:43
stands against the khilafa. Haba haba hussaina like.
33:48
This individual is standing 50 years after the death of
33:52
Rasulullah on the plains of Karbala alone.
33:54
That is the biggest exposure of that system that you can find
33:59
that shows you very clearly that what happened after the
34:02
martyrdom of Rasulullah was not what Rasulullah intended.
34:05
Yeah, very clear. Because everything else you can
34:08
argue about, you know, you can say, OK, they will say no, Imam
34:12
Ali gave bear. OK, OK, cool.
34:14
Imam Hassan, he made the treaty. OK.
34:17
So Salam, now like a judgment. OK, we accept.
34:20
No problem. Imam Hussein, what are you going
34:23
to say about that? Were you going to say?
34:25
He'd remind them in Karabakh, he said.
34:27
You would tell them, am I not the grandson of Rasulullah?
34:31
And he used to take names of individuals that everybody
34:34
agreed upon. Is my uncle not Hamza?
34:36
Yeah. Is is my is my uncle, not Jaffa.
34:40
He was mentioning names that everybody knows that they are,
34:44
they are high-ranking individuals.
34:48
He's exposing them very clearly. And it's also very interesting
34:50
that it's only after the Martism of Mohammed Hussein that the
34:54
Shia get a strong identity like known, like obviously the Shia
34:59
existed since since the time of Rasulullah.
35:01
But in terms of to the to the eye looking in, they now become
35:05
a theological group after the death of a Mama saying after the
35:08
Martian of Mama, let's say. So you can see how important it
35:11
was and you can see the victory in it because that identity
35:14
wouldn't exist. When we say saved Islam, what
35:16
does that mean? At that time, people were still
35:18
confused about what they believed about Islam, right?
35:21
And you can see that from how Muslim Akhil was treated in
35:25
Khofa. Yeah.
35:26
Those individuals that left Muslim Akhil were not
35:29
necessarily Shia theologically, right?
35:33
The Shia that believed in Mahmoud Hussein well with Imam
35:36
Hussein Kabbalah. They will follow us in a
35:37
political sense. Right?
35:39
Shell. Shell, not shell the capital.
35:41
But after the the Martism of Mahmoud Hussein, you see all of
35:43
these movements now that are taking a theological stand,
35:47
right? The Tawa boon, right with the,
35:50
the the companion of Ali, they were, they were martyred.
35:53
I believe it was Saeed or his name was, I forget his name
35:56
right now. It was I believe he was a
35:58
Khuzati. And then you see the movement
36:00
with Mohtar. Yeah.
36:02
And this becomes a theological movement as well.
36:04
Fine. For for the, for the imams of
36:07
albeit aim Salam. So you see like that, that
36:09
identity of, of being a Shiite starts from that point until
36:14
this day. Our identity is Hosseini.
36:16
You see that go from from that moment, from that moment on the
36:20
10th of Maharam till this day, there's the fire in the heart of
36:24
the believer that will never go cold.
36:27
This is what the Imam say. This is the words of Rasulullah.
36:30
He says, for the killing of my grandson Hussain, there is a
36:32
flame in the House of the believer that will never
36:34
extinguish, will never fade away.
36:36
And and I think like, look today, look at look at the Shia
36:40
around the world. The Hussain is around the world.
36:42
That's living proof, by the way. And I remember last year or the
36:47
previous year, I shared one of the episodes we had, the
36:50
Muharram, the conversation Rasulallah had with his beloved
36:53
daughter, Patna Zarah. Alayhi Salaam.
36:56
You know, when we say, for example, you know, they can try
36:59
as hard as they want to try to extinguish this love and
37:04
extinguish the shayo and extinguish the, you know, the,
37:08
the love we have about Abdullah, it's not going to happen because
37:11
this, this was like a promise Allah gave to Rasul Allah.
37:15
Rasul Allah comforted his daughter Patna Zarah regarding
37:21
this when when she when he informed of the story of what
37:24
will happen to her beloved son of Abdullah Hussein on the
37:26
plains of Karbala. Then she asked me, you know,
37:28
would I be there? Would you be there with Emir Al
37:30
Moumanim be there. And he said no, no, no, no, but
37:33
don't worry. Be rest assured, I lost one of
37:35
my Taliban Croatia that will love Hussein, moan Hussein, cry
37:38
for Hussein until the end of times.
37:40
And we are living proof and this.
37:42
Is this is? A moment.
37:44
This is a moment where I think we need to say at Hamdulillah
37:47
that we are Shia and Hamdulillah that Allah has blessed us with
37:51
the love of Hussein. Because I think if you have the
37:53
love of Hussein, there's some it's impossible to go left and
37:56
right, by the way, because you know your, your head, as we say,
38:00
we know your end goal. We know like even being
38:02
Husseini. Can you, can you say Allah, you
38:06
know, make us from the companions of Sahaba Zaman
38:08
without being Husseini? Impossible.
38:09
Impossible. Impossible.
38:10
Because I have more than half of your values and principles of
38:14
what makes you want to be with your mom and Zaman is you have
38:16
to be Hosseini. Yeah.
38:18
Like, so like Imam and Hossein, like, you know, people say, you
38:23
know, like you cry too much over.
38:26
No, people say you'd be your chair.
38:28
Well, let them say with their one man, we're we're entering
38:31
Maharam. Now, so past that, honestly, I
38:33
mean like. We're now entering Muharram just
38:37
even for that. If everyone at home don't even
38:39
bother with these guys, especially online social media,
38:42
don't even engage with it. Do your thing.
38:44
Be proud of your identity, be proud of you know, your the Azar
38:48
that you have and that you feel. These are these are things of
38:51
pride for us, you know, and the the our salvation.
38:54
You know, it's very important for us to be.
38:56
Proud that you were created to satisfy a zahlat, that that in
39:01
itself is such an honour for for us, Allah's promise to say the
39:05
Fatima Zahlat, for you to be the embodiment of that when you cry
39:09
for about beautiful that is, is an honour that we should never
39:12
like. We should never even have this
39:15
inferiority complex of trying to explain ourselves.
39:18
Definitely not. Definitely Cafe Bad.
39:21
We've had enough now. Yeah, man, who cares?
39:23
Genuinely, who cares? Like we're here.
39:25
We've made it this far, Hamdullah.
39:27
We keep going. We pray that we come out even
39:30
better and with a great greater matter of our imams.
39:34
Honestly, it makes it makes you imagine as well, right when we
39:36
talk about the Azad of Imam Hussein, there's something
39:39
that's going to continue to till the day of Kiama.
39:42
You see in some of the reports that after the whole, the Imam
39:46
himself, he goes to Karbala and he's leading his Shia.
39:52
Like imagine this scenario after the Lahore right and you're with
39:57
your Imam going towards Azziara of Mama Hussein.
40:00
And the reports say that Imam Sahab Zaman will enter the grave
40:04
of Mama Hussein and he will take out the small body of Abdullah
40:10
Al Ali, Alaska, and he will hold it up in the air and he will say
40:15
what was the sin of this child? This, this, these, these
40:21
reports, they make you really understand that this movement of
40:26
Imam Al Hussain, it's not even something that ends with the
40:29
whole, it's something that continues and continues and
40:32
continues till the day of judgement.
40:34
Even when we look at the the whole of the Imam, the Imam is
40:38
still sad. The Imam is still crying for
40:41
about Abdullah, even though he will take his revenge, even
40:44
though he will do all of those things in the name of Imam Al
40:48
Hussein, he is still crying and he still expects you to cry for
40:51
Imam Al Hussein. Like think about, think about
40:54
that. Think about when you when you
40:55
look at the the concept of Raja Imam al Hussein being the first
41:00
Imam to return after the Shahada of Imam Sahab Saman, look at
41:04
Imam al Hussein. The Raja is Husseini as well,
41:09
the Raja in itself. All of this understanding.
41:13
The. The whole thing of this
41:15
oppression being ended, the enemies being like the revenge,
41:20
right? All of the, all of the revenge
41:22
that takes place for Ahu Beit Aim, Salaam Mohammed Hussein is
41:26
the title. He's the only one of that
41:28
oppression. And this is something that we
41:31
should never forget. It's something bigger than all
41:34
of us. And I think all of us feel that
41:36
on the day of Ashura, when you're sitting there and you're
41:39
crying, you hear the martyr, you hear the matter, you hear the
41:42
details, the small details of what happened in in Karbala.
41:46
And you still know in your heart it's much bigger than that.
41:52
It's still greater than this. It's still greater than what we
41:55
hear, what we can fathom, what we can imagine.
41:59
When we close our eyes in the Messiah and you imagine, you
42:02
know that you can't imagine, you can't find them.
42:05
You can't understand the greatness of this day.
42:09
What does this day actually mean?
42:11
And every Shia he feels that and we pray inshallah, that being
42:16
the answer of Mam Sahab Saman, we can understand that Maharifa.
42:21
We can have the Maharifa of Ashura in his the hole.
42:24
And that's the only way. Like you said, the only way that
42:27
we can be supporters of Mam Sahab Saman is to be a true
42:30
saying. If we get caught up in things
42:34
that are on on the side, like on adjacent to to the Azhar, we
42:38
argue with people that are telling us why you crying?
42:41
We argue with people about certain forms of Azhar.
42:45
We're arguing with that centre. I don't like that centre.
42:48
This this guy, that scholar this honestly, like it's time that we
42:54
all as she are, especially in the current context and
42:58
especially after we've what we've just seen in in the world
43:02
in Iran, right. This is a moment for the Shia to
43:06
actually realize that there's one thing that unites us here
43:10
and it is Imam Al Hussein. When you hear the when you hear
43:12
the call in these in these times.
43:15
Yeah, when you hear the the the retaliation or the resistance,
43:20
you hear them call this name till this date.
43:24
Yeah. About Abdullah Hussein, I feel
43:26
like every sheer when you hear that, like I saw the video and
43:31
they were when they were resisting and they mentioned
43:33
yeah about Delilah saying it makes your hair stand up.
43:37
Something happens. To you, it makes you want to
43:39
cry. In that moment, it makes you
43:41
want to cry. Just the name.
43:43
Just Yeah. About Delilah saying it makes
43:44
you want to cry. And Janami proved it.
43:49
Hussein is enough. That's it.
43:52
All. All that all.
43:53
All you need to say is Hussein. That's all you need.
44:01
May Allah give us the opportunity to be worthy of
44:03
these nights and of His desire and and His remembrance
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Insha'allah and allow us to be of those who are worthy of being
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the answer of the awaited Mama. Allah.
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Allah run sisters, we are going to call it a day and we ask you
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to continue to pray for us and pray for the thought of the
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Imam, pray for the entire Ummah, the safety of the Shia
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worldwide. And of course, if you are here,
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as I mentioned earlier, this is your first time.
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So whatever contribution you can make towards this project will
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help us go a long way and show Almar to put out as much as
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possible, especially during these very blessed weeks that we
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are in. Finally, we will be uploading
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another episode in the coming days before our usual Thursday
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episode, so stay tuned for that and inshallah we will back be
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back soon, Muhammad Ali. Also, inshallah we'll be, yeah,
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we'll be having Jamaa Nights episodes back inshallah for AQ
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and a series. It's not going to be like normal
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Jamaa Nights, but we had a few questions come in and we thought
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it would be the best time inshallah to have it in the
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Muharram season. So inshallah we have we'll have
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an episode every week on CAN. You give us some ideas, like a
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couple topics. So inshallah the the first few
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questions. So we have questions about Imam
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and Hussein Ali Salaam. Did he commit suicide?
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We had the rank of Al Abbas compared to the imams we had.
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Is it allowed to listen to shore?
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We had questions about Taklid, about Raja, about Istikhara.
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So we had like a range of topics.
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Inshallah, each episode will address one question.
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There'll be short episodes, there'll be like 20 minutes, so
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on and so forth. So it won't be too long like the
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usual Drama Nights episodes. And Inshallah, I hope you are
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able to benefit. You're able to connect with the
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the message in the in the videos in sha Allah.
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Make sure you tune in. Obviously this is airing on
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Thursday, so in Sha Allah you'll have the first episode of the
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Q&A series releasing tomorrow in sha.
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Allah of. This religion and may Allah
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bless you Ahmed. Honestly, this is our 4th Ahmed
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Ali. Yeah, this is inshallah
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something we continue until the great.
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And. We say this is a journey we take
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inshallah to our graves and I've always said I've always imagined
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this as the last word from me. Even even if we die and
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inshallah we are granted gender, I still want a measures for
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Abdullah. Honestly, this is something I I,
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I can't live without. It's not.
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I can't explain how easy it is not to cry for Abdullah, even
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randomly sometimes. Like you'll be driving.
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Yeah. Something.
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I can, I can. Somehow, somewhere, you remember
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something about Karbala and that's it.
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That's it. We Allah bless our tears and
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inshallah the other. Lady.
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Inshallah, my name is Saddam and Inshallah we see you tuning in
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throughout the next few weeks, throughout the months of
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Muharram and Safar Wasalam, Alaikum Allahi or Baraka.