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My Heart Needs The Nights of Ashura 💔 · After Maghrib 🌙

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Sallallahu, Alaika, Abdullah, Smillah, Rahman Rahim, brothers
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and sisters, wherever you are watching and listening from
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around the world, the Salaam Alaikum war, Ahmed Allahi, well
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Barakatu, and welcome back to another episode here on your
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favorite podcast after Maghrib. Now, last week, we were all
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celebrating the magnanimous, joyous celebration of Idol
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Radir, Idol Al Akbar. And we're only a few days away
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from the sorrowful month of Muharram, Muharram and Haram,
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where hundreds of millions of Muslims all around the world
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gather and mourn and remember and recall the tragedy and the
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massacre that took place on the 10th of Muharram, the day of
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Ashwara and the holy city of Karbala.
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So brothers and sisters, there's a lot of upcoming conversations
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we're going to have over the month of Muharram and Safar and
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Sha Allah, each and every single episode will be one that not
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just benefits you, but uplifts and motivates and inspires us to
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continue to understand Imam al Hussain, Imam al Mehdi and Allah
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subhanahu Atta Allah, not just for you, but for myself and
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Ahmed and for everyone here after Maharaj bin Shah Allah.
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Now in this discussion today, we want to have like an
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introduction to the holy month and the sorrowful month of
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Muharram, where of course, there are many emotions, there are
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many reflections. And there are many moments where
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over the last few years here after Muslim, we've been
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inspired by guests, We've been inspired by messages that you
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have sent in via e-mail or via Instagram, direct messaging,
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whatever it may be, it shapes our conversations.
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And this year, Rashad Allah is no different.
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And these conversations, as I always say, I can't have them
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alone. They're done by my Hosseini
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brother alongside my Hosseini brother, and that's none other
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than Ahmed Gokul Habibi as Salam Ali.
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I want to. Shake your hands.
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How you doing bro? Hamdallah, I'm well.
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How are you, Hamdallah? Hamdallah, are you feeling I'm?
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OK, Al Hamdallah. I'm OK.
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Life is good, Hamdallah. Can't complain.
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We are. Thank you for the introduction.
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I think I couldn't have done it any better.
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You know, you always say I can't have these conversations alone.
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It's true. Can.
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No, no, no. It's very true, honestly.
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But look, I think just to echo your words said we are now
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Hamdullah in our fifth year at Arthur Maghreb, entering our
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fifth season of, of the holy month of Mahabharam.
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And I just wanted to thank all of you at home on behalf of the
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aftermarket team myself, said Ali.
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So much by the whole team and really appreciate the kind of
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the, like I said, Ali said, all the feedback you've given us,
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all of the, the growth that we've had, the conversations
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we've had. And I'm sure if you've been
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following the journey from the beginning, you'll know that we
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have been on a journey to learn more, develop our own skills,
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our own knowledge and wisdom through the texture, the text
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that we read, the literature, the the scholars and the
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conversations that we have in Hamdullah.
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And I think this year, inshallah will be no different.
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I think our, our goal, our aim is to enter this blessed month
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with the right mindset, Inshallah, to make it as
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meaningful as possible. We thank Allah for the
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opportunity to to enter the month again and to be able to
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mourn for Abdullah Hussein Ali Salaam.
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That in itself is an honour the the grace of being able to shed
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a tear, to spend a moment to reflect on his life, his legacy,
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his mission, the trials and the the sort of efforts that he, his
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family, his companions went through.
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Now, if you're new to Aftermarket Abra and sisters,
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you will quickly realise that we are a Shia podcast and we're
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proud of that. We're very unapologetic and we
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recognise that a core part of our identity as Muslims and as
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Shia is the fact that Imam Hussein Alaihi Salaam, our third
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Holy Imam of the Albeit, is central to our ideology and
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central to how we not only understand religion, but how we
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live our day-to-day lives. Everything from the interaction
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we have with our friends and our families, to the way we stand up
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against depression in the modern day we live in, to the way we
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treat colleagues and peers and people we come across in
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day-to-day life. And even to the point of the way
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we communicate with our last panel.
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To Allah, the dicker that we do of our last pan to Allah, the
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Ibadah that we do to our last pan, to Allah.
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All of these day-to-day interactions are shaped
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fundamentally by the etiquettes, the Akhlakhyat that are taught
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to us by the Alibait Ayyam Salaam, many of whom and I say
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many of whom in terms of the AL debate.
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Much of these traditions can be found from members who were
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present in the battle of Karbala and Mohammed Hussain Ali Salaam,
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Imam Saljad Ali Salaam and Mohammed Bakar Ali Salam, 3
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generations of the AIM Ali Musalam who were present and
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witnessing what we see to be the most monumental event across the
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course of history. Now, before I ask you my first
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question, saying, I just want to make a point that a lot of the
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time we hear that the battle of Karbala in and of itself was a
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sad event, politically driven. We heard an incredible dialogue
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before kind of two or three weeks ago between Sheikh Mehdi
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Rastani and Sheikh Yasukadi, which was very, very, very good.
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And I applaud Sheikh Mehdi and the community for being able to
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put this together and I really appreciated it.
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I think both of the scholars spoke very well and it was a
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good start to kind of dialogue. One point that was made by
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Sheikh Yasukadi, of course, represents that discussion.
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At least he mentioned that the death of Mohammed Hussein is a
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tragedy. In his words, he says we
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recognize it, we speak on it, we love the Attle Bait, we love
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Imam Hussein. However, he said that the
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greater tragedy theologically is, for example, the death of
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Othman or the death of Mira Mamani in Imam Ali Ali Salaam.
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But the death of Imam Hussein was not a theological tragedy.
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It's like a political or a social tragedy, not really a
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spiritual tragedy. I think that's a key
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differentiation between the Sunni and the Shia.
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The fact that we see Imam Hussein sacrifice as something
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which is theologically defining. You're spilling the blood of the
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Hodja on earth, Allah's chosen representative on earth.
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Of course, to us as the Shia, Imam Hussein represented that
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position and that role. Therefore we see the tragedy of
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Imam Hussein, not just how he was killed or how many were
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killed or the manner he was killed.
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The main issue is who was killed, that the fact that the
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one who was named a part of the Holy Prophet Muhammad,
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Sallallahu Alaihi and Rasallah said Hussein a Mini Wah and Amin
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al Hussein, he is from the Holy Prophet and the Holy Prophet is
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from him. That he was slain in such a way
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after such torment in and of itself is a tragedy.
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So I feel like there's a lot to talk about today.
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I just wanted to kind of get a few things off my chest, but I
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wanted to ask you kind of every year we enter this month, we
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have this conversation the last week before the 1st of Mahadram.
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How do you kind of feel at this point in time?
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What goes through your mind? How do you prepare?
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How do you Do you have to actively get into the mood of
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Mahadram or is this something which happens naturally for you
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you? Know Subhan Allah as you were
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saying all of this. I don't know if it's the right
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word, but I have. Goosebumps.
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Bro, no, I feel like there was a tightening here like on the
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chest. I just remembering like the
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tragedy of Karbala and the Mossad and the massacres that
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took place. It's not something easy, you
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know it's it's hard, it's heavy and it affects everyone in in in
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their own way. Yanni and you just mentioning
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now you mentioned that hadith by Rasul Allah, you said Hussain
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and Minu and Ahmed Hussain. It's as if I was just like
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picturing it now as you were saying.
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It's as if when they attacked, say the Shahada Salaam Allah,
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they were attacking Rasul Allah himself.
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Of course, of course. So when he says Hussein is from
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me and I am from Hussein, it's like when you hurt him, when you
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attack him, when you slaughter him, when you parade his head,
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when you trample on his body with the horses hooves.
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You are doing this to Rasul Allah Sallallahu Alayhi was
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saying. So it hits hard.
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Yeah. And it hits home.
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And I, and I think it's, it's the tragedy that keeps us, keeps
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you, keeps me, keeps the team, keeps our listeners all around
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the world alive, bro. It revives us and it brings us
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together and it allows us to understand what is, what is,
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what is the, what the Umar is all about.
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It's about this. It's about and you, you talk
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about, for example, in the Sunni world, we say, for example, to
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them, it's a tragedy that took place and it ends there.
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They say rather than Allahu and move on.
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No, like what? There was a mission behind it.
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It was God's mission. Yani Imam was saying, what was
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he doing? Just Yani Ichi had nothing else
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to do and just went to Karbalan and went to beef with the Caliph
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of the time of the Muslim Mano bro.
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There was a godly mission behind this and not just that, he was
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there to revive and restore the teachings of his grandfather.
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Also Allah Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
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I'm all over the place right now, like 1 inside.
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Where do you begin? I don't know where to start.
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It's it's a heavy topic, but but I think we should all start
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within ourselves. And this is a month where
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similar to the holy month of Ramadan where we turn to Allah,
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Subhanahu, Qatar, Allah, or we turn to the Quran, where we turn
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to the supplications and the Amal, the Al Qaeda.
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This is no different. Accent.
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Muharram's not a strange month to us.
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Yeah. And if we, you know, we, we, we
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say we hold on to the Thakalain, the Quran and Elbeit, we have
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Ramadan and we have Muharram. This is this is both for us.
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And Imam Hussain means the world to us, Ahmed.
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Do you mean in the point of like the Ibadat and the Dekal Quran?
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And is that what you mean in terms of the way we?
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Because you know, it's interesting you mentioned that
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today I heard something. There's two things which.
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Come, people think all we do is Azar and more knows much more to
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it. Well, yeah.
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You know, it's interesting, Yeah.
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There's a hadith from Imam and other Ali Salaam where he said
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and you know Imam and other Ali Salaam, all the Imams like
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always paid homage to their grandfather, Imam and Hussein
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and Islam. But Imam and other we know at
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the time of his death, he laid on the floor and said I want to
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feel the pain of my grandfather about Abdullah Ali Salaam.
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But one thing he mentioned in his lifetime which is profound,
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he said do not forego your good deeds and your ebadat and your
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supplication just because you have love of the albeit love of
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us in your heart. And likewise, do not forego the
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love you have for us just because you're doing good deeds.
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Yeah, and it's not enough to love us and abandon all your
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wajibat must habat as well. Likewise, it's not enough to do
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your wajibat must habat but have no love for us.
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So my own, I don't want to say advice because I'm not someone
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to give advice. I am a flawed individual and I.
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OK, put it this way as a reminder to yourself.
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A reminder to myself and also, I think like a reflection on the
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few years I've had learning or studying or even just kind of
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trying to act like a sponge of the wisdom from the Olama we've
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spoken to in the books we've read.
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Something small I think we should do or I should do is #1
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begin the holy month with a clear cut understanding as to
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why Imam Al Hussain did what he did, why he had to do what he
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did, and also the conditions of society at the time of the
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battle and prior. Because a lot of the time we
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begin and we feel like the story begins when the man Hussein
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arrives in Karbala or even, for example, the death of his cousin
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has a Muslim Ali Salaam. It begins much prior to that.
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You know, you can trace it back to, you know, the, the like the
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lifetime of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alewale when he, you
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know, there's so many examples. We can go on and on and on.
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When he gets the sand from Karbala, he gives it to to Umm
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Salim Alayhi Salaam. And there's so many stories in
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the life where he prophesizes Karabala, where he kissed, where
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he kisses Imam Hussein and he he, he where Jibrail will tell
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him this is what the prophecy is of your grants.
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There's so many examples, say the Fatima, Amin, Ammani and
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Imam has, but I want to ask you. Yeah.
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What was the condition of the Ummah in the years prior, let's
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say two or three years latter end of Maria's life, beginning
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of Yazid Caliphate? What was it like at the time?
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What was the mood in society 50 years after the death of the
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Holy Prophet? Yeah, yeah.
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I don't think I'll be able to answer that question in depth,
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but I can say from the little that I know and understand is
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that during the time of after Emir al Mumni aye Salaam, you
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know, attaining martyrdom hasn't taken over Mark Hussein being
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alive at the same time as his brother.
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There was this, this, this, this immense hatred towards the
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edelbate that existed. And there was this love for
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dunya. And you know, the Quran speaks
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about there are two types of people, you know, those who have
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love for the dunya and those who have no love for the dunya in
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the next life, right? So people were far away from
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God, people were far away from the son of Rasul Allah, Muhammad
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sallallahu alaihi Wali wasallam. And I don't think people
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understood the position and the status of the ehrlabet.
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It's as if Rasul Allah left his dunya left this world and that's
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it. Life went back to normal.
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People didn't care about the Ahara.
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People didn't go to seek power because they wanted to empower
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and better the Omano. They don't have for self gain,
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they want the a lot of tragedies took place, a lot of wars took
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place, a lot of oppression and justice, abuse of authority and
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abuse of so many things all upside down beyond the Mahayas
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reign or Yazid's reign. And we see some of these
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examples still living today. But just to stick in that time
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period, I'll go back to the days of Rasallah sallallahu alaihi
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Wali wasallam like you mentioned him prophesizing Karbala and the
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tragedy of Ashura. There was a time where as panel,
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I read this 2 days ago, there was a time you can find this in
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the Bihar Al Anwar, where the prophet was in the mosque, Rasul
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Allah was in the mosque and he was speaking to his congregation
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in the Masjid. And then he mentioned again,
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what will happen to you, Muhammad Hussein?
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Like if you look in history nicely, deeply, when you sit
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down, you find a lot of prophecies about the 10th of
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Muharram and he speaks about what will happen to his grandson
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and he says, you know, is it enough just to cry?
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It's like he's asking the people there, he told us it that as he
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was talking, the congregation was crying and he was like, is
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it enough just to cry or will you stand support and aid him?
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Like there was that rhetorical question the prophet gave at the
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time of his time to his congregation and the mosque.
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And the narration says, well, that General Masuduka Bilbuka,
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like the mosque start shaking from from from crying.
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So there was there was this happening during the time of the
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prophet where he was giving like hints that crying is not enough.
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Are you understand and support man?
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You understand like when? You same as what we, I mean we
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can say that about today. Yeah, yeah.
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And even beyond that, when I came across that and I was
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thinking why did I not think of it that way as well.
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I mean that is not just limited to that specific time, it's
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every single time. And then you come across the The
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thing is, if we don't make our self familiar with for examples,
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Yard Ashura, how are we going to tell the difference between
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right and wrong? For example, how are we going to
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tell the difference that, for example, Karbala is not just
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limited to the plains of Karbala or the to the 10th of Muharram?
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No, it's beyond because for example, we read the lines and
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the salmon Nim and Salim akum wah harbun Nim and Harabakum
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till when Ilaiyama, right. Yeah, so syllable Lehman Salim
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akum harbum, Lehman Haram akum didn't end on the plains of
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Karbala, right? It's until the day of judgement
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and people think, you know, how like how is that even possible?
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The battle took place, Imam and Hussain was martyred, his
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companions, his family members, etcetera.
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And then we come and look at things with Imam and Mehdi, the
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Ali, Farhat Al Hussain. There's a continuation, right?
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And then beyond that, when Imam and Hussain, you know, rejects
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given baya to Yazid where he says mithilai baiya al Mithlay,
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he could have used the simple terms.
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I, Imam al Hussain, do not give allegiance to Yazid.
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But he said may someone like me will not give allegiance to
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someone like him. So that means it's it's forever.
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Yeah. Now when we say ilaya malhiyama,
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this is it. And if you, if you say you love
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Imam al Hussain, you have his principles.
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You have his morals, his values. You can never, you know, fall
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trap to this, to this, to these people.
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So there is, I think, some depth that we have to look in our
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hearts, in our minds and give some clarity that Karbala is not
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just Karbala. It's continuous, it's from them
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and it will remain until the day of.
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Justice, this is it, man. This is it.
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Like this is. There's so many, there's a
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million and one points that I have to to mention.
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We just need to collect the dots, you know, and it all comes
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together. This is it.
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So panel there's a perfect symmetry with Karbala.
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Like it's so poetic the way when we look at the Kava and the
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Kadra Valas Pantala and his will and the way he implements his
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will and kind of the, like I said, the perfect symmetry that
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Allah has given to the whole saga of mankind and the Adul
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Beit Alehemo Salaam. We recognize that everything is
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very cyclical. The final trial of mankind is
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the Lord of the Imam and the Rajah.
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And we know this, right? And that all comes back to Imam
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Hussein. Imam Hussein's mission, he bases
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it on godliness and of course, reforming the community, The
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Omati Jadira Sallallah, right? As you said, it's lahidin.
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So this is so important. Now, a couple of things that
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come to mind. Firstly, just off the back of
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what you said, when we say, and we know where there was a whole
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period where this was debunked as a hadith, not we know, we now
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know there's not hadith. Every day, every day is our
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shala. Every day we know that
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disclaimer. If you think it's hadith, it's
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not hadith. OK However, and I know some
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people still see it as controversial, contentious.
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There is truth to it. There's a there's a truth to it,
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right? We're not saying we know what
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Imam hasn't said. There's no day like your day or
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oh, oh Hussein. However, like you said, when
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Imam Hussein is, there's a man like me.
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He can never give Behr to a man like him when he's speaking to
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Walidim in Udba on the night of Maharia's death, right?
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He's setting a precedent right for permanent.
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Generations rule, yeah. For all of mankind, eternity.
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Yeah, when he says, for example, prior to that, let's go rewind
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in the towards the end of the life of Maharia and my people
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think Imam Hussein was like silent, quiet up until Yazid
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Maharia dying. Yazid came in broke look in the
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life of Maharia in the year, I don't know what it was probably
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5859. AH, roughly.
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So before Karbala by a couple of years.
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Imam Hussein Ali Salaam spoke in Mina at the sermon in sermon of
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Mina. It's known hot, but Mina, it's a
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very well known sermon. Go and research it.
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Incredible. Like when I read it a couple of
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weeks ago, fully in depth, fully open my eyes up.
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Like we read passages, we've read statements across the
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years. People politicize it now because
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it's got a very politically heavy context.
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But let me kind of summarize it like this, OK?
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And Mama was saying that Islam basically comes out, and he
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tells the people that there's a big problem, we need to fix it.
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Yeah. OK.
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And I'm going to summarize and paraphrase his holy words.
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He first criticizes the scholars.
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He says you guys hold a position of authority, You walk the
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streets and people respect you and you have an incumbency to
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perform Amrabel Maharoof Wanahin and Munkar to enjoy good and
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forbid evil. He then says, but you didn't do
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that. Like you have forgone your
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responsibility of Amrabel Maharoof.
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You've not enjoying the good and you've not forbidden the evil.
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And therefore, in these governmental positions or
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positions of authority within the community where you should
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not only set an example, but you should lead by example, you have
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not done so. And as a result of that, society
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has become lackadaisical. They just lacked poverty.
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He repeatedly talks about poverty and injustice, the weak,
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the rights of the oppressed. This is so important.
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The Imam is consistently talking about social justice.
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He's saying that people are suffering and the scholars had a
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responsibility to do something. They didn't take up positions,
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they didn't speak up. And therefore, as a result,
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religion has become worthless. It's become something which is
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like a slogan. He says that the substance and
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the soul of religion has gone and now it's just being used as
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a weapon or as a leverage tool for positions of fame and power.
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And he repeatedly talks about this.
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He talks about how those in places of power are leveraging
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religion for their own usage and their own benefit.
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He talks about how people in positions of power are going
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back to the the kind of the teachings of Abu Safian and Abu
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Lahab and all the Jahiliya that we've seen pre Islam.
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And a lot of these things which were now ostracized from Islamic
23:01
communities are now being kind of brought back in.
23:05
So when he talks about this, he then takes a shot of the
23:07
scholars and in essence, you start to see the beginning of
23:10
the Imam's message. Then, of course, you Fast
23:12
forward on the night of Mahariya's passing.
23:16
Mahariya's died, right? Yazid wants to claim allegiance.
23:23
Yazid sends a message to Walid Ibn Ottba, who's in Medina.
23:29
He says I need allegiance from from three people obeyed Alab in
23:33
Omar, obeyed Allahab Nimh Zubair and Imam Hussein.
23:37
This time, he says these three people get their allegiance.
23:39
Walid's like, how do I do this? He consults Marwan Abdul Hakim,
23:42
who we know of course is a horrendous figure.
23:46
And of course, not just at that time but also after he was
23:48
obviously appointed governor of Medina by by Maharia, if I'm not
23:54
mistaken. So Imam Hussein receives a
23:59
message at the mosque saying Waleed wants to speak to you.
24:02
He says, I think Maharia has died.
24:05
He goes last night I had a dream was what Imam Hussein says.
24:08
He says, I had a dream last night that the member of Maharia
24:11
was set ablaze and fell on the floor toppled amazing, you know,
24:15
solid. So he goes to the court of
24:17
Walid. Walid's talking that we know.
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Obviously I don't want to go into in detail.
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Imam goes in. He takes 20 people with him,
24:23
armed supporters including Abu, father Aaliyah, Salaam.
24:26
He goes in. He says this line, a man like me
24:30
will never give allegiance to a man like him.
24:32
He then says, look, you want my allegiance.
24:34
He says he give it to me now this time of night, otherwise
24:37
you're never leaving here alive. Imam says you want my allegiance
24:40
so the people can see it or you want it for God.
24:42
He says no, I want the people to see that you're giving
24:44
allegiance to Yazid. He goes why are you getting me
24:46
to give it now? Get get me to give it in public
24:48
in daylight. He says you know what, you make
24:51
a fairpoint. Imam left and he started
24:54
planning his next steps. This is how Karbala began.
24:58
Karbala began, and this is what I think is so important for all
25:01
of us at this time of year. The days entering the first
25:04
night of Muharram and even the first few days before Ashura, we
25:07
should start to think about why did the mum Hussein do what he
25:09
had to do? Why was it so important that he
25:12
left at that time? Why did he take his family and
25:16
his companions? Why did he divert from Kufa
25:19
towards Karbala? And then more importantly, are
25:22
there any commonalities between what a mum Hussein complained
25:26
about then whether it's the scholars, the mutt Mineen,
25:30
whether it's people abusing positions of power, anything
25:35
from then until now? Of course, there is like you
25:38
look around the world today, there is an immense need for
25:42
that justice and kind of that resolution.
25:47
So sorry, yeah, to go on a bit of a monologue, but I, I like, I
25:51
just, I really feel like there's no point entering these blessed
25:55
months. Alhadam must suffer without like
25:58
a concrete understanding as to what we doing here.
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Do you know what I mean? No, it's very true.
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And and you know, thank you for mentioning all of that.
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Forgive me bro. La La, la, you, you, you.
26:08
You bro, I've spoken so long they haven't even switched
26:09
camera. They've fallen asleep on my
26:10
shop. You've dropped a lot of gems,
26:13
Marshall. I see that it's you can give 10
26:16
nights lectures on Moharam Inshallah one day.
26:17
No chance, No chance for no chance.
26:19
You're the grandson of 1. Alex, I love from you brother,
26:24
but you know, upon like reflection, I, I think we
26:28
focused a lot about this saying no to Yazid with Bayar, right?
26:31
Yeah. There's a lot to learn from it.
26:33
Because if you think about it, Imam and Hussain could have said
26:38
yeah, shook hands and made a deal or whatever you want to
26:42
call it, and life would be good, right?
26:44
But he was comfortable and being uncomfortable.
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OK, let me ask you a. Question.
26:49
He had gone. Please.
26:50
Gone. Common question that we get a
26:54
lot of the time. Why did Omar Hussein not just
26:57
say yes to Yazid and give his allegiance?
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You're saying that it would have been more convenient of him?
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Yeah, and it would be easy to say yes.
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And, you know, you rule the Muslims that follow you and
27:13
listen to you and. But no, there's a bigger
27:15
picture. I play Ahmed.
27:17
Yeah. I mean, if, if that incident
27:19
that took place on the 10th of Muharram is alive today, it
27:23
proves that saying no then was worth it.
27:28
Because if he never said no and I don't ever doubt he had any
27:34
other answer in his in his, you know, at play with the I don't
27:40
use the wrong terminology. But had he said no, had he said
27:45
yes to the Bayer and given said yes, I'll do Bayer and whatnot.
27:48
I don't think today we will understand right from wrong.
27:51
That's one that's on one level the difference between justice
27:55
and injustice because now it's a muddy mixed world.
27:58
People can excuse tyrannical powers today and say, ah, this
28:04
defence, some are of self defence and from that.
28:07
So there's a lot to learn from and a lot of lessons that we can
28:09
take from there that keep us who we are as Muslims man.
28:13
And if we talk about values and principles, if he didn't say no,
28:16
we have no values and principles.
28:18
Look at the other Muslims in the world today that don't take Imam
28:22
Hussein as the imam in positions of power.
28:27
What is the difference between? I asked this question, what is
28:29
the difference between them and Yazid bin Malia?
28:33
They're happy with it, bro. They don't mind.
28:35
They sleep fine. They eat the best of foods, they
28:38
drink the best of drinks. They have the best of palaces.
28:42
What else do they want? They have this dunya, that's
28:44
what Yazid. But, but if I go back to the
28:46
point, Imam Hussein was comfortable and being
28:49
uncomfortable because of the bigger picture, and this is what
28:52
I think me, you and everyone come into play and and the
28:55
equation here is that we should also be on that level. 100%.
28:59
Because if we don't say no to certain things and this dunya,
29:03
yes, it's not on the same level as what Imam Hussein faced.
29:06
But if we can't say no to anything at the workplace, at
29:09
home, I don't know. Wherever it may be to things
29:11
that take us away from God, essentially there's no
29:15
difference between US and being Yazid.
29:17
Like if I can use that term, I don't know if I've gone away.
29:21
From I agree with you, the other thing as well is on that is like
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he said, if had he not said yes to Yazid sorry let me rephrase
29:29
that. If he had said yes to Yazid and
29:31
gave his allegiance to Yazid, like you said, the lines would
29:34
be blurred between oppression and and injustice, oppression
29:37
and and truth and justice as well as all kind of the other
29:42
points you made additionally to that as well.
29:44
It's like bro, the admission of Imam Hussein to Yazid, had he
29:51
done that would in and of itself is like it's a false question or
29:56
it's a false narrative. Can't even comprehend this
29:59
because the Imam on repeated occasions talks about the
30:02
Makamat of the other debate. I am Saddam as those who are
30:06
chosen by our last Pantala. He even says from our Ruda Wyatt
30:12
that Allah began Islam through us and he will end Islam through
30:18
us and he says that we are from noble birth, noble lineage and
30:23
we have attained these attributes through our actions
30:26
and so on and so forth. He talks about the Mukam that
30:29
they hold from a theological point of view, the Imam who
30:33
believes that he is the Hajja of Allah.
30:36
Phil Arab will never stoop below someone who is violating that.
30:43
And if he did that, he would have been compromised in being
30:46
able to perform his rights as an Imam.
30:50
And it's very different to Imam Mahmanin and the 30 years where
30:52
he was not the public caliph, as we say repeatedly, like
30:56
obviously he was Al Khalifa. But it's very different.
30:59
And inshallah, one day we can do a proper discussion on that.
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What's the difference between Imam Ali staying it's quote UN
31:05
quote quiet or silent and Imam Hussein choosing not to remain
31:09
silent? Because I think that's a great
31:10
question, but that's that's a that's a very interesting.
31:13
I like. Interesting and justify.
31:16
Let's go back onto it just just for a moment.
31:18
The the very fact he said no bro, it's it should be easy for
31:24
us to say no to anything, to temptation, to desire, to Haram,
31:29
to peer pressure. And it's not just limited to
31:31
mourning and Azar remembering a debate.
31:33
No, that no should be known to any Haram in this world, really.
31:37
At home, at school, at work, because we get lost.
31:42
And thanks to Muharram, and I say this all pasai and we're
31:45
lucky, Ashiya Ahmed. Well, well, we're lucky.
31:48
And Hamdullah, it's a blessing from Allah that we don't just
31:52
have Ramadan that, you know, realigns us back on track, but
31:55
we have Muharram that, you know, we're blessed, you know?
31:58
Wake up, call it. Gives us a wake up call because
32:01
you always remember, for example, I'm sure like I used to
32:05
think like this younger. I'm sure you have and I'm sure
32:08
many people listening is that sometimes when you are in a
32:10
situation you feel like it's not worth it bro, I'll go Hussein
32:14
here I serve you marmal Hussein and Ashi and hosseini.
32:20
His eyes should never see Haram ashiya hosseini.
32:24
His ears should never listen to Haram.
32:26
His tongue should never speak Haram.
32:27
His stomach should never be felt with Haram.
32:30
And these are all values and principles.
32:31
If we say we are Husseini today in 2026, what's the biggest
32:35
things we face? What's the biggest challenges
32:37
it's facing Haran? And if we have the Husseini
32:40
principles and Husseini values that we learn, otherwise we
32:43
haven't learnt anything, something we haven't learnt
32:45
anything. One like every year we come, we
32:48
go to the messenger, we go to the Husseiniere, we sit down in
32:50
a lecture and we benefit from our amazing scholars and
32:53
speakers and lecturers. But without them, I don't think
32:56
any of us will be learning our Dean because everyone's on
32:59
surface level, right? So thanks to them and thanks to
33:01
the amazing work and dedication they put and the time they give
33:04
to the community that we are able to learn the lessons of
33:07
Imam Hussein Alayhi Salaam. So if we got to the Masjid, if
33:09
we got to the Hussein here and we walk out the same thing as we
33:13
did yesterday or the day before, then well, we haven't achieved
33:15
any. And in fact, I would ask, I
33:17
would ask this, let me ask you actually, Ahmed, is that you
33:21
know when we I think it was during 15 Shaban, I think there
33:26
was a question asked prior to the episode we had, we'll say
33:30
the Hamad Bharat Taswini or poster, I can't remember what
33:32
was during that season of the birth of Imam and Mehdi Angela
33:35
to Al Farid Sharif. We would say, we would say if
33:38
Imam and Mehdi saw your phone, would you be happy with you?
33:41
If Imam and Hussain, the question should be right now, if
33:43
we say what Hussain, if Mohammed Hussain was with us here today
33:46
or we were with him today, what would we change?
33:50
Because a lot of us relate more to Imam Hussain.
33:52
Let's be real, we are raised in this, We are in many ways
33:58
educated in the Husseini arts. We are many ways united as a
34:02
community through this congregation and the, you know,
34:07
the majorities of Imam Hussein Ali as Salam.
34:09
So if we really want to please Imam and Mehdi, it's not just
34:14
your and Mehdi, it's not just our last panel.
34:16
It's all the and I would say in particularly Imam Hussein, why?
34:20
Why? Tell me.
34:26
Because you know, when Ibis says Hubble Hussein, generally it
34:30
wasn't just the love, Ahmed, it was everything, Donia, life,
34:35
money, whatever it is, Imam Hussain, he's our currency.
34:40
Imam Hussain, he's our heart. But what I want to say, Ahmed, I
34:46
know you're giving, someone's giving me a look over there.
34:48
But what I really want to say is that someone asked once a
34:54
question I saw in the comments and he was like all you Shias do
34:59
is love Imam Al Hussain and love no one else from the prophets.
35:04
You don't show the same love to Allah Subhanaw Ta'ala.
35:08
So I want to ask you a misconception and I want you to
35:11
answer it as a Shiite, Don't give me, you know, left, right,
35:15
centre, don't be politically correct, don't play the cause of
35:18
diplomacy. And you know, the accusations of
35:20
taqaya, just be upfront with me because this, this
35:23
misinformation has been, you know, found online, continues to
35:27
be online as always asked even today we see in the comment
35:29
sections, people ask this question, do the Shias Revere,
35:34
Imam Hussein, Mona Rasol Allah, let me know.
35:37
In fact, let them know. This notion that the Shia love
35:42
the Holy Prophet less than Imam Hussein, I can understand why
35:46
people think that. They see our love for Imam
35:49
Hussein, and perhaps they don't understand it, maybe because
35:51
they don't have that same love a lot of the time.
35:53
They think that they love Imam Hussein more than we love Imam
35:56
Hussein. It's not even a comparison.
35:58
On the contrary, not only do I believe that we love Imam Al
36:02
Hassan and Imam Al Hussain and say the Fatima Zaharah and Imam
36:06
Ali Alai Salam more than others, I think we love the Holy Prophet
36:10
Sallallahu Alaihi more than everyone else.
36:13
This is because the Holy Prophet himself said hold on to the
36:16
Quran and the Ahlal bait and you will never go astray.
36:19
He holds his 2 equal index fingers together such that
36:23
there's equality between the Quran and the Ahlal bait.
36:26
He himself says Hussein and mini Wanaminal Hussein.
36:29
Hussein is from me and I am from Hussein, and Imam Hussein
36:33
himself said I rose only to reform the teachings of the
36:40
community who followed the religion of my grandfather.
36:44
So when you understand this concept, do you recognize that
36:47
by loving Imam Hussein you love the Holy Prophet Muhammad?
36:50
Finally, from a theological point of view, the Holy Prophet
36:53
Muhammad, sallallallahu alaihi wasallam is first in our
36:57
theology, followed then by the Ayaam alaihi musallam, and then
37:01
followed by the Ambiya Alai musallam.
37:04
This is incredibly important for us to make a note of what Imam
37:07
Hussein gave us. He is the ark of salvation and
37:10
the beacon of guidance for all of Muslim mean, all of the mutt
37:14
mineen around the world. Whether you are a Shia or you
37:17
are a Sunni, whether you are a Muslim or you're not a Muslim,
37:21
what you can learn from Imam Al Hussein El a Salaam will
37:24
transform your life, your dunya and your achara.
37:28
I truly believe that, but I want to ask you the same thing
37:31
because a lot of the time people say this and they say not only
37:34
do you guys love Imam Hussein more than you love the Holy
37:37
Prophet, you, for example, love Imam Hussein so excessively.
37:42
You mourn Imam Hussein so excessively that you don't know
37:45
where to draw the line. I'm going to ask you another
37:48
misconception since we're bringing this up and I know this
37:51
is something this time of year where people ask these questions
37:53
a lot, right? I remember in school these
37:55
debates all the time and one of the common themes which we get
37:59
asked, as she has at this time of year, is why do you mourn the
38:05
death of Hossein more than you should or more than other
38:09
Muslims would? To not mourn Imam and Hossein is
38:13
an injustice for any Muslim, Sunni, Shia, whoever you may be.
38:17
To have no grief of your sorrow of your side for the tragedy
38:22
that took place on the 10th of Muharram on the plains of
38:24
Karbala. Are you even Muslim while Rasool
38:27
al-Assad, Hossein and Minni when I'm in Hossein Haba Lam and Haba
38:30
Hosseiner Anafi Oluba Munir Hararatan, you know that flame
38:36
Rasulullah speaks about the eternal flame in the hearts of
38:38
the believers that never fade away.
38:40
For my grandson Imam Al Hussain Ali Assalam, this is me, this is
38:43
you. This is all I would say
38:45
Inshallah the Shia and inshallah one the all the Muslims.
38:48
Let them say well Hadi is is. Let them ask these questions.
38:52
Yani. I I would want to say if you
38:54
want to stop us. Morning Imam Al Hussain.
38:57
You have to fight against us all.
38:59
Allah, if you want to stop us from mourning the tragedy of
39:02
Karbala, go against God and see what happens.
39:06
Because we say haba Lam and haba hosseinah.
39:10
Did I say this? No, our prophet said this.
39:14
If you show love to Imam al Hossein, if you love Imam al
39:17
Hossein, Allah loves you. What greater status do we want
39:21
as Muslims than the love of Allah, Subhanahu utti Allah?
39:23
Beyond that, I go back to a narration where Rasul Allah
39:27
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was having a conversation with his
39:31
beloved daughter Fatima Zahra Ali Hasallam, where she saw him
39:36
crying. She went to him.
39:38
Abatah Rasul Allah, why are you crying?
39:40
And he told her what will happen to her son Imam and Hussein Ali
39:44
has Salaam Fatima Zahra. She herself began crying.
39:48
She said, Yah Rasul Allah, who will be there when this takes
39:52
place? Who will cry for him?
39:55
Who will remember him? Who will mourn him?
39:58
What the Rasul Allah say to her? He said Fatima, there will come
40:04
a day where Allah, Subhanahu wata Allah will create Shia, not
40:11
just Muslims, Shia. Who will mourn about Abdullah?
40:15
Who will remember ABBA Abdullah? Who will cry for the tragedy of
40:18
ABBA Abdullah? Who's going to stop us?
40:20
You want to stop us from crying? One is is any bro.
40:24
We've been doing this since the battle of Karbala.
40:27
And we will cry until the day of judgement.
40:29
I'm being very real, Ahmed. You cannot be a Muslim.
40:34
And asking these questions that in fact, let me take it
40:36
personal. Yeah.
40:38
You want to stop us from crying? Imam Al Hussein banished us from
40:40
this Earth. We're going to take us to the
40:42
moon. We'll hold the measures on the
40:44
moon. You want to put us in prison?
40:46
We'll turn the prisons, the jails into Hussein.
40:48
Here. We all try.
40:50
You can't stop this. This is a promise by Allah by
40:55
the by, by the narration I mentioned of Rasul Allah between
40:58
him and his daughter Fatma Zahra Ali as Salaam Bro, this is
41:02
you're not going to be able to. End this.
41:03
Yeah, of course, man. And if you have a problem with
41:06
the way Shia Muslims mourn Imam and Hussein, you have a problem
41:10
with God. That's how I see it.
41:12
Because you haven't understood Rasul Allah, you have, you
41:14
haven't understood, understood the mission of Imam and Hussein
41:17
on the plains of Karbala. Imam Hussein didn't just die for
41:20
me and for you. No, he died for you as well.
41:22
For those of you who don't mourn or cry for ABBA Abdullah Wasirah
41:25
Salaam. And not just Muslims bro, that's
41:27
I won't. Say that I can tell this.
41:29
It means a lot because we always get attacked.
41:32
We always, you know, people try to gaslight everything and drop
41:38
comments left, right and centre and you know, she has this and
41:41
she has that. No, bro, we're very happy.
41:42
In fact, she has what we do, what we worship Allah, upon
41:47
Allah, we pray five times a day, we fast, we pray our zakat, we
41:52
do Amar Bilmarov, we go to, we do all of this, all the
41:54
obligations as Muslims we do. So if you have a problem with
41:57
us, you have a problem with Allah, Allah, That's it.
42:00
Allah Allah, Allah Allah Ahmed One.
42:02
They're OK bro. No, no, I got frustrated, man.
42:05
Why are they asking these questions in 2026?
42:07
Yeah, go bro, go look at what's happening in the Middle East and
42:10
then ask us again. That's it.
42:12
No, you're right. No, I mean, look at this time of
42:14
year. Like I said, you get this guys.
42:18
Go easy on state. Ali, please in the comments
42:20
please. Every year we get the same
42:21
question. Go easy for his help.
42:24
Put the new question for the love of Imam Al Hussain Ali, his
42:27
Salam. Honestly, I love you, bro.
42:30
I love you all. I love you.
42:31
But yeah, you're speaking facts. You're speaking facts.
42:33
Mashallah I agree with it. That mean, do you want me to ask
42:36
you another misconception? No, no, no.
42:37
I think you're going to get my blood pressure.
42:39
Yeah, no. This, this is the love of Imam
42:44
Hussein. No, I know, I know.
42:45
No, I know. There's a look, There's a lot of
42:46
these. Another one is that this year I
42:48
killed him and Hussein. God, don't get me started.
42:51
We've had this. We've been there.
42:53
We've done that. Google.
42:54
It did. This year I killed him and
42:55
Hussein. You're going to have one speaker
42:58
say, yeah, this year I killed him and Hussein.
43:00
They called him Imam Hussain was heading there.
43:04
They abandoned Muslim, they abandoned Man Hussain.
43:06
They wrote him the letters and then they never showed up when
43:09
it came to battle. Come on, man.
43:10
I'm not going to get into that now.
43:11
I don't want to do kind of a rebuttal, but obviously we know.
43:15
We are the school of Torhida. We know who killed Imam Hussain,
43:18
we know who killed the school. When Sam and Hussein prayed that
43:21
final prayer on the battle of Karbala.
43:23
But we are the school of Torhida.
43:24
You know what can I say something to you on this year?
43:27
You know, I read today Subhanallah was thinking about
43:31
this year, the battle was meant to happen on the 9th of Muharram
43:34
as we know, I would have been sad came with his came with his
43:41
his envoy towards the camp of Imam Hussein.
43:45
Aye Salaam say the Zainab woke up Imam Imam was having a nap,
43:49
she woke him up. She said they're coming, wake
43:53
up, be prepared. So Imam Hussein looked at Abu
43:56
father and he says go and see what they want.
43:59
Our father rode out like a warrior that he is He said to
44:02
Omar beside what do you want? He said today is your day you're
44:07
either going to give allegiance now or we're going to have to
44:08
kill you. Yeah, I'm alive you rather but
44:13
hazard Abbas said his son went back to Mama Hussein.
44:15
He kind of conveyed the message and Mama Hussein said ask them
44:19
for one night's respite such that I can do my about that
44:23
Allah. I want to pray, I want to
44:25
supplicate, I want to seek forgiveness to Allah, I want to
44:28
recite the Quran. He said my Lord knows how much I
44:31
love to do this. He said specifically my Lord
44:34
knows how much I love my Salah. When Imam Hussein says I want
44:40
one more night to pray my Salah, tomorrow we can touch base.
44:46
When they went back to Abu, father went back to Omaha.
44:48
Beside he said we want one more night to worship Allah, to read
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the Quran, to pray our Salah. Omdem Masad was in two mines.
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He had two commanders with him. The names are mentioned in our
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wayat one commander said don't give it to them.
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If they were Turk from the Turkish tribes or another tribe,
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you should give it to them. But I don't know why, some
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cultural reasons. And another commander said Nah
45:11
give it to give it to him. One of Assad was confused.
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Ultimately he said yes, fine, one more night, fine tomorrow,
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deadline day, If you don't give me allegiance tomorrow to give
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to Yazid, game over. We know who killed Imam Hussein.
45:26
Who were those 30,000 plus? Who were they giving allegiance
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to when obeyed Allah bin Ziad? When he was speaking to Imam
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Sajjad Ali Salam, you know, he said to him, it's crazy, it's
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crazy. He said Allah killed your father
45:50
and Imam Sajad Ali Salam himself said Allah did not kill my
45:56
father, it was you who killed my father.
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Allah is a witness to what you did.
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Allah. And that in and of itself is an
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answer to those like Jahil guys today and in the past who
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claimed that the killers, Imam Hussein, were the Shia
46:14
themselves. The Shia were the ones who are
46:16
with Imam Hussein. Habi bin Madahil.
46:20
You're talking about the likes of horror.
46:22
You're talking a lot about the likes of Al Qaasim Ali Salaam,
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the family, the companions, many of those who join the Imam.
46:30
You look at the companions of the imam crazy, crazy.
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I mean, in a good way, like unbelievable.
46:36
Like, I'd not to say in this way, like, and I hope this
46:40
doesn't get taken the wrong way. It's kind of like a band of
46:42
misfits looking at people from different tribes.
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Some were old, some were young. You had a teenager from Turkey
46:49
who was a servant. You had Habib, who of course was
46:52
an elderly man. You had Wahab, who of course was
46:56
from a Christian background. You had people from different
46:59
backgrounds, Joan. You had all of these people who
47:02
represented a different path or a different struggling life.
47:04
They represented the world. They represented the world.
47:07
They represented humanity. They represented like sincerity,
47:12
like these were people who were drawn towards their mom's
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mission. Let me just say something in a
47:18
microcosmic fashion. What we saw of the companions
47:23
who were drawn towards Imam Hussein will be what we see with
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Imam Al Mehdi and those who are drawn towards him.
47:30
People from diverse backgrounds, people with different struggles
47:32
from different parts of the world, who are drawn towards
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this man's goodness and his godliness.
47:38
Like there's something about this man which is drawing me
47:41
towards him. I don't care if it's him versus
47:43
the world. I'm choosing him.
47:46
We know when he unlit the candle on the night of Ashura and he
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said to them, now's your chance to leave.
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And they said no, no. Yah, Hussein, if we were to be
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killed, burned, chopped into 1000 pieces, revived and had it
48:03
done again, we would still stand with you.
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Yeah. ABBA Abdullah.
48:09
And imagine just the concept of absolute conviction.
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You're clean. That this is your imam.
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I know this is my mum. I know he's on hack and I know I
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will never leave him no matter what odds are against me.
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That means that you have more belief in the truth of this man
48:24
than in the inevitable pain and suffering you'll face in a
48:27
physical sense from what is to come through standing with him.
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It's just like a mind boggling thing.
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Yeah, it's. Absolutely mind boggling bro.
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I mean. As Hab the companions of Imam
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and Hussein Ali has Salaam they they.
48:39
Superheroes. They bro, they had conviction.
48:41
Yeah, yeah, like real life. Superhero.
48:43
They understood the mission and we we mentioned for example, I
48:47
remember, I think it was our first Muharram or second
48:49
Muharram here on after Maghrib, where we were talking about the
48:55
companions of Imam Al Hussein and why Imam Al Hussein said
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these companions are the best companions, bro Yani, if we just
49:03
focus on the companions themselves, bro, each one.
49:06
Yes, yeah, yeah. Is a message, each one there
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are. No companions like my
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companions. Imagine that.
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That's incredible, man. And speaking about this Ibar
49:14
there where you mentioned, for example, Imam Hussain requested
49:16
one final night of, you know, being able to watch one last
49:19
final with the Allah. The narration say wait, say what
49:22
about his companions that the way they were worshipping was
49:25
like bees at the sound of bees. This is how much they were
49:29
engaged in about the to Allah. So final matala, which which is
49:32
which is mad when you think of it.
49:34
Yeah. And you know you're about to die
49:35
Inevitable death. You know, for example, not not
49:38
just you. Your Imam is going to face
49:40
30,000 sorts and Spears and the likes.
49:44
Of can I add to that? Yeah, sorry.
49:46
You know, like Shahramaban after a long day of fasting.
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Some of us, we're thirsty. We don't even want to pray Salah
49:54
before we break our fast. Yeah bro.
49:56
The Imam had water cut off from him for three days and the
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desert heat of Karbala 3 days. Him, his children, his family.
50:04
He knew. He'd said Al Qassim, They will
50:06
not spare us. Al Qassim will be killed.
50:08
Abdullah Ravi will be killed. With that thirst, the inevitable
50:14
death and destruction which will face them.
50:17
He knew what was to come tomorrow.
50:19
He even had a dream on the 9th of Ashura the night of Muharram
50:23
where the Holy Prophet Muhammad Salah Aliwal came to him and
50:26
said you will be joining us very soon.
50:28
Oh grandson, you think about even knowing that like after
50:32
three days this is what I can't stand 3 days of thirst.
50:36
Then to be supplicating like you said, humming like bees
50:40
overnight. I cannot wrap my head around
50:44
that. Like even just talking now.
50:45
How long? However long we've been talking.
50:47
Bro, I'm tired. My do you know what I mean?
50:48
You need to finish the pod soon. Man's tired.
50:50
I need some more, you know, Mashallah, like it just goes to
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show like there was a complete, complete connection to God.
50:59
Yeah, unconditional loyalty to the mum of their time.
51:04
Yeah, Yeah, it's one last song I know.
51:06
And that's beautiful. Yeah, it's crazy.
51:07
I just just just finally, I think on the companions is that
51:11
I generally believe they, they they saw and tasted gender
51:16
before going gender honestly, because they were with Sayed
51:19
Shabab, eh, legend, you know, and you, you're with the very
51:22
man who's going to lead you in paradise.
51:24
Like how beautiful is that? I mean the status and the makan
51:27
as Hab of Imam Al Hussein have and bro, it's tragic.
51:30
And as much as we're talking about the greatness and the the
51:34
status with the last panel at Allah, they face a tragedy
51:38
themselves. Go read the Makati.
51:40
Go read and and I you know, something that's very sad, a lot
51:45
of people who go to yard in Karbala, they forget to visit
51:48
that haba of Imam Hussein. It's it's happened a few times.
51:51
So for example, they go to the shrine and they go to the vary
51:55
of ABBA Abdullah Hussein Alehissalaam.
51:57
Then you ask them, OK, did you go, for example, to Habibi Bibin
52:00
Mubahir? Did you see the place where
52:03
tragically the head of Imam Hussein was severed?
52:06
Did you see that Hab the like, no, I don't know.
52:08
I just went, you know, I just went to the and I didn't know
52:11
everything else that was happening.
52:12
Nothing is important that we can educate ourselves to understand
52:16
Imam and Hussain is to understand not just him, but
52:19
those who died with him alongside him.
52:21
And I think that's very important and shut Allah.
52:23
And I think finally, because I think we've we're coming towards
52:26
the end the podcast. Ahmed, you know, there's a lot
52:30
of people who say I want to serve.
52:34
I always see this question being asked, how can I get involved?
52:39
Are there ways? Do I have to contact
52:42
communities? Do I have to, you know, call up
52:44
centres or husseiniads? What's the best way for someone
52:48
who doesn't belong to a community but wants to serve
52:51
Imam and Hussein this Muharram? How can they go out about that?
52:56
It's a good question. I know you're very, you know,
52:58
you're involved with. Community no mushroom this
52:59
conversation I've learned from you my whole life.
53:02
Look, ultimately my humble opinion is, is that Hidma is an
53:07
honour. If you're granted that honour,
53:10
don't say no to, don't decline it, don't deny it.
53:12
Sometimes you're not, it's not over, so you won't be told.
53:16
Would you like to volunteer? Sometimes it is, sometimes it's
53:18
not. Sometimes the thought comes to
53:20
you like an Ishara or an I'll harm, like an inspiration into
53:23
your mind. You have an intention, you want
53:26
to serve, you've got an idea, you've got resources and
53:28
capacity. Smiller like Allah is giving you
53:30
an opportunity. Do it right.
53:33
How to serve. We're very lucky in the world in
53:35
the way that we live in a world where we have communities around
53:38
us. For the most part.
53:39
We have Rosania. We have in many cases, you don't
53:41
have that. Or if you do have that, you
53:43
don't. You're not in a relationship
53:44
with them. Maybe you're not local or you're
53:46
not on terms with them. Fine, It happens.
53:49
At the same time, you have many other things.
53:51
I will never, ever underestimate and never understate the power
53:54
of digital resources. After Maghrib, his digital
53:57
resource as a classic example where a couple guys who were
54:01
like, yeah, we want to talk about religion, All we have is a
54:03
camera. Do you know, on a YouTube
54:05
account, Spiller, let's do it. Let's build a digital community
54:08
that serves the imam. So the same way you can do that,
54:10
Like how many video editors do we know?
54:12
How many people do we know that writes blogs about the imam?
54:15
How many guys do we know that are graphic designers and
54:18
sisters, guys and girls and those who are serving the Imam
54:21
in their own ways beyond that as well, bro, it can be absolutely
54:23
anything. You can be doing Hidma in your
54:26
own heart. You go in the street and you'll
54:28
see litter and you're picking it up because you want to build a
54:31
world that's prepared for the coming of Imam and Mehdi by
54:34
cleaning the earth, for example. Or you teach in your local
54:38
school or as your Sunday school, Islamic school or whatever your
54:42
madrasa, you're educating the next generation.
54:44
Or it could be visiting the elderly in the community, could
54:47
be helping them out with their tasks, their shopping, and
54:50
they're visiting the sick. There are so many ways to serve.
54:53
Serving and service in and of itself should not be limited to
54:57
what we consider traditionally to be Hidma, which is stirring
55:01
the pot of Kheema, you know, climbing the ladders, drilling
55:04
the flags into the walls that these are what when you think of
55:07
Hidma, you think of like the, you know, what we see on
55:10
Instagram reels, you know what I mean?
55:12
Like the guys who are carrying the member or the guys who are
55:16
like putting the flags up. Yeah, of course that's service.
55:20
Of course service comes in many forms.
55:22
Bro. Anything you do feels to be
55:23
Allah with the intention for proximity towards our last
55:27
Pantala to please your Imam Ali Salaam.
55:31
In and of itself it's counted as Hedma who inshallah we all
55:34
accept is Hodam. That's our goal, that's our aim.
55:37
It's an honour, inshallah. Yeah, man.
55:39
Listen, last point from me, then I'll wrap up.
55:41
We both wrap up from me. Last point is firstly, Brothers
55:44
and Sisters after Maghrib is going to have a good few
55:48
episodes this Muharram where we're talking about the saga of
55:52
Karbala directly or indirectly. Some podcasts of course,
55:56
especially the the Holy nights, the 1st 10 nights are going to
55:59
be specifically about Imam Hussein Majalis, Ashura Karbala.
56:05
Then of course as we drift towards Arbaeen, we're going to
56:07
be starting to talk more about the global mission of Baham
56:10
Hussein, Arbaeen, say the Zainab Imam Sajad Ali and Saddam.
56:14
And of course many of the other stories that took place after
56:18
the 10th of Muhabram. We're also going to be talking
56:20
about things that are indirectly affecting this time of year and
56:26
are affected by this time of year.
56:27
So for example, our lives, our struggles, our relationships,
56:32
our communities, these are things which we have to talk
56:34
about at these times because it's now, right?
56:38
We learn. If not now, when?
56:40
Like we use this time to learn. Yeah, bro.
56:42
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57:46
Smashed it. I don't think there's anything
57:48
else left for me to say, unless you want to hear a story.
57:53
Today you kind of head butted me with that, with that answer you
57:57
gave. I was.
57:58
I'm excited to see what the comments say.
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Lasha yeshbahu karabana. What can I do about it?
58:04
This is this is our life. Masha we we live by.
58:09
Imam and Hussain and Shala we die by.
58:11
Inshallah Hussain, I mean our brothers.
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We'll see. See you inshallah next week.
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Salaam alaikum.