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Being away from Karbala 💔 · After Maghrib 🌙

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This is Mullah al Ahmad al Haim Islam, Alayhi Kumar Alayhi raha
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to run. Sisters.
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Welcome back to the Aftermarket of podcast.
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We are now only a few days away from the blessed day of Abbaeen.
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This is a day where we renew our allegiance to ABBA Abdullah
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Hussein and of course his beloved family, his companions,
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but most importantly to none other than the Imam of our time,
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Imam Sahib al also was Zaman because of course in the day of
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Abbaeen, we begin to renew our allegiance to him.
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The message of Imam al Mehdi is one in the same as the message
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of Imam Hussein Alayhi Salaam. And to be honest, by the
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sisters, it's an opportunity for us really to reflect on how
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Mehta we are. We, if we claim to be hosseini,
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like we've been saying in these last few weeks, are we truly
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Mehta we? So this is something which I
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myself think about each other. Baeen is something that I picked
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up a couple of years ago from one of our blessed scholars who
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I managed to go to on Arbayeen for the walk.
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And since then, I've tried to keep that in mind myself.
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So today, Charlotte, we don't really have one specific topic
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in mind. We've got a lot of different
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things which we want to get through inshallah, and we don't
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have a guest today. We've had an amazing number of
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guests over the last couple of months at Hamdallah.
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But now we are back to where we started in the first episode of
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the Muharram series. And that is with myself and of
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course none other than the beautiful Saeed Ali.
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Rabbi Islam Ali Khalid Mashallah, you have nod on your
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face today. The handsome go call.
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Yeah. How?
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Vivia, how are you doing? I'm good.
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How's it going? I'm the LA can't complain.
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It's good to be. I think it's good to have a
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discussion now. Just me and you.
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Yeah. I feel like I, I really missed
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this. We've had about four or five, I
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think 5 weeks. More than that, I'm going to
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test you. OK?
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Can you name each episode? Because there will obviously be
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people who haven't caught up and that's completely fine.
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But if you can in your memory, try and name the episodes,
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Chronal actually will take it in turns.
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OK, so episodes chronologically from the start of the Muharram
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series. Test your knowledge from the So
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you say yeah, so you say one episode we talked about XYZ and
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I'll say one and back. Do you know what I mean?
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OK. So the first one or it was just
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me and you, I think we we discussed Yazid's in particular
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mainly, but I think we called it they haven't understood Karbala
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or they don't understand Karbala.
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So I guess I'm right on that. Next, your turn.
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Yeah, OK, cool. Then we talked about the Quran
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and the application of the Quran as a code for life in in our
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day-to-day kind of interactions. And that was with my brother
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Montata Jafar, who's obviously come from COM, and he blessed
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us. That was a cool episode.
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That was an episode definitely to remember, and it makes me
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remember even further that you made a mistake and you made a
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huge error. Why?
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Because just prior to that episode, we were blessed to have
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said Abdullah Nabib. Was that the week before or
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after? The week before.
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OK, so I've already. Got it.
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Or am I mistaken? I have no idea it was.
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I was definitely Yazid's episode, Nabib's episode, the
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Montaz Jafar. Yes, you're right.
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You're right. Yeah, because Montaz was aired
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the day after Ashura. Yes, yes.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had, said Abdullah.
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What was that about? We discussed mainly, I think
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Karbala through the lens of Lady Zainab, Alayhi Salaam.
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So that was the approach we took.
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And I really enjoyed that episode, by the way, because I I
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truly felt like I understood, say, the Zainab's role Alayhi
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Salaam in Karbala in greater detail because mainly we just
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know, for example, she was just like, there was only like an
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emotion. Like normally when we hear from
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the pulpits and the massage that we that we hear, it's always
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like a sorrowful conversation between Imam and Hussain and Abu
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Abbas. But that episode went to greater
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detail, how it led to Karbala, what she did outside of Karbala
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and things like this. It was deep.
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Yeah. Yeah, it was.
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Really deep, yeah. After that we had Sheikh
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Mohammed Abbas Banjo, which was a mind blowing episode truly.
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We talked about wilaya in Karbala, the wilaya of Amir Al
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Mahmanim found in Karbala. We talked about Ulamal Abrar,
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this false notion that the Imams were not Mahsoum, that they were
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just righteous scholars who could make mistake and mistakes.
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And of course, that's something which is a terrible
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misconception, which unfortunately is found in
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certain liberal pockets of our community.
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We talked about Palestine and the comparisons between
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Palestine and Karbala. If it's legitimate to make those
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parallels or not, what lessons can be learned from Karbala,
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which we apply to injustice as we see today.
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We also talked about Imam and Mehdi in that podcast.
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So we talked about the establishment of the Ummah of
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Imam and Mehdi, or in the words of the Sheikh, the establishment
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of a new civilization in its entirety, which is the phrase he
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used, and how we can be a part of that, which I really liked.
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And the kind of, like we said at the beginning of this episode,
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the links between Imam Hussain and Imam al Mehdi.
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Angela Allah Attalla Forager On the following week we had say
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Mehdi Madarasi and that was a very long episode, but it was
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very beneficial because we went literally like point after point
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of the point where we started off with, for example, what was
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the Torhid of Imam and Hussein Ali Assalam.
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And this was a question me and you had in the first episode
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back when we spoke about Yazid is that we want to get to this
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point is what was the torhid Imam Hussein Ali Salaam was
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after. So that was very beautifully
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answered by said Mehdi. And then we spoke about what was
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expected from us, a Shia like for example, when it comes to
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the matters of prayers. So that was very heavily
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emphasized. We also went on to speak about
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trying to understand who's a righteous scholar and who's
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someone who's an impostor when it comes to us trying to gain
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access to our religion from. So that was very a very nice
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examples telltale signs that he allowed us to understand.
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And then we also wanted to talk about Urbain and many, many
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other topics. That was a really.
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Nice. And after that was with said Ali
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Imran, who is obviously, As for those who know, a very senior
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scholar from Toronto and he's a principal in Toronto.
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And the episode I wasn't on unfortunately, nor the state
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made the episode. But from what I heard, and
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obviously I had the full podcast, you guys talked about
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the Serie of Rasulullah Muhammad, peace be upon him and
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his family. And understanding what the Serie
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is, what it means, why it's may be understudied in the Shia
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school of thought compared to other schools of thought and
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what lessons we can take from the Serie, how to apply the
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Serie in our day-to-day lives. Lessons from the life of the
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Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his family.
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And more than that, when we when we find situations in our lives,
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and I don't mean just looking at the sealer as a historical
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textbook, but obviously like a day-to-day life.
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So you guys talked about conflict resolution, you talked
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about immigration, things like that, which I found to be the
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most beneficial in that episode. But how we can learn from us
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all, Allah and his life, to apply practical lessons into
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policy making today. That was a wicked yeah.
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Hamdullah and it was nice to meet him by the way, because I,
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I told them I normally see your videos in your lectures online
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so nice to have him here in in person.
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And then last week we had brother Zaina one and we had
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brother Nadeem where we spoke about the persecution of the
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Shias in Pakistan in particular, which is a, which was a very
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interesting angle for me. Because normally like when I
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hear the, the targeting and the killing and the genocide and the
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attacks, the atrocities, the fall on Shia Muslims around the
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world, it's normally all within the Middle East or it's, for
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example, all the back in history like the Nawasse Beniomaya.
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So this was a very different angle and it shows, shows you
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that it's still alive and it's still happening here today.
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So that was a very interesting discussion.
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I and I decided not to interject.
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I decided not to say a lot of things.
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I felt like I really held myself.
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Back at me, yeah, but you. Know I didn't want it to become
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like something sectarian and I'll be very honest because I
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felt like any point that I'm going to mention I don't want it
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to be like, OK, This is why they're killing us or this is
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the ideology they have because I really wanted to know more about
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our brothers and sisters of Pakistan and what they're going.
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Through yeah, yeah. But you know what guys?
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Everyone who's been following this series, firstly, thank you
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from us, truly, from the bottom of our hearts.
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What you'll see is we've tried to raise the level of
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conversation, I hope in the last few weeks, really bring about
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like an educational focus to the way we approach Muharram this
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year. As opposed to being click baity
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or or controversial or contentious in the way way we do
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things. Which of course, as we know on
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social media itself, it gets numbers, you get views, you get
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engagement with that sort of stuff.
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But I think that the firstly, the diversity of topics we've
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had has been incredible. The standard of guest.
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We've had every single guest who's come on is an expert or a
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scholar or both. So we've had experts in in, for
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example, like you said last week, we had Zain Awan and
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Nadeem Zady, both who are of course experts in in the
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persecution of the Shia of Pakistan.
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We had Montazero, of course, who's obviously a junior
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scholar. He's been a Houser for a year
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and he's continuing his Houser study Inshallah, 4-5 years from
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now when he comes back on Aftermath, hopefully before, but
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I mean, we'll see him, you know, as a senior scholar in that
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time. And then of course, all that
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other Adama who are continuing to teach us.
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But we're trying to raise conversations, raise ourselves.
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And hopefully, Charlie, you guys will come with us because, you
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know, this is as much as it is a period of, of grieving and
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mourning and connection to Allah through the Adala beta and
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Quran, it is also about development.
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Can I just say something? Like.
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Every single time I feel a slight distance or even a big
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distance from religion, I'm talking about parts of days or
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even phases. Like I have phases or weeks
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where I'm on a spiritual low. Every time I think about Imam
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Hussein, I come back, I'm pulled back, I'm hooked back in, and I
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feel like Imam Hussein has saved my life on multiple occasions.
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I really mean that. Like there's been moments of of
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my life where I am in absolute hopelessness, where the wrong
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thing happens at the wrong time around the wrong people, for
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example, and I have nothing, no one to turn to, no one to ask.
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But the Wasila of Abdullah is so special and he really is Miss
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Bahid Hoda Wasafina Tuneja. Honestly, honest to God, he is I
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I in in the last week alone, I've had miracles which have
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fallen upon me in my most like in the most bizarre ways where I
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can't get my head around it. And I don't just mean Imam
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Hussein, but there will see a lot of different members of the
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other debate. And the reason why I'm saying
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this is because again and again and again and again every year
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we make Muharram, we make adebayeen about ourselves.
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So we say, oh, what can I do? I want to be a better Muslim.
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I want to pray more. I want to do sinless all of that
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stuff without as in take the selfish element away from it.
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Like I'm serving God. My, my goal is to serve a Las
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panel Tyler and to follow the Surat al Mustaqim and to follow
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the Thakalain and all that stuff.
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We know. But if we do take into account
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the, the personal gain, we we do benefit like we don't need to,
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right? Allah could tell us that the
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vicar of the Ahul bait, Mossad and Fawal of the Ahul bait is
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Wajib, right? We believe it's Wajib right,
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because the prophet told us this is and the Quran told us like
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you have to. This is the fawaal of the Ahul
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bait is wajib on us. So they shouldn't, it shouldn't
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necessarily be be something that we're gaining, but Allah is so
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myciful that in every act of wajib, ebada, Salah, so XYZ.
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But even in the ones that we optionally engage in, we attend
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the majalis and whatnot. Like how many majalis have you
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been to in the last few weeks? So many in mosques and at
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people's homes, Mashallah and online.
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Sorry. And online.
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Yeah. And like, all of these majalis
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are optional liquor. Yeah.
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And there's so much that we gain from it.
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So I've just been thinking because I was like, I want to
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save this, this, this specific point.
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I want to just say it to the world that I have benefited.
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And I'm so grateful for it. And I really feel like there are
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people at home who may feel the same way.
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And Hamdullah do. You know what I mean?
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And Hamdullah, no, no, it's nice that you shared that point
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really, because I think there are.
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Well, I know myself and I know the entire team and half the
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mother and everyone listening. So this podcast can maybe say
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something very similar to that. And it's very true.
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You know, it's I don't want to speak about myself here, but the
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people I'm surrounded with always when it comes to anything
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that has to do with about Abdullah and Hussein Ali in
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Salaam is like the hearts change.
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I'm not joking. I mean, you just need to mention
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for the most simplest thing is, you know, can you take time off
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from work and do this, take this from here to here.
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They won't do it, but I tell them this is for Imam Hussein.
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They'll tell you, you'll find 10 of them in front of you saying
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let me do it. They're fighting over who's
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going to come and do this. And that's how special Imam
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Hussein is. I need truly, truly, I'll tell
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you something I heard today actually about the, the status
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of Imam Hussein and the eyes of Allah, the status, the status of
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Imam Hussein when it comes to the when it comes to his.
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You turned American for a second.
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Did I say status? Status.
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I've been speaking to a good friend from from Florida
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somewhere. So they say it on the pulpit.
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He was narrating from Imam Jafar Assad Al Hiss Salaam where he
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was speaking about the faval and the merits of his ziara, the
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ziara of Imam and Hussain and he gave 1010 merits when it comes
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to. But one that really stood out to
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me was the one that's very, very interesting where Imam Jafar
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Asada, he said the one who visits my grandfather Imam al
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Hussain on the moment of his death, you know that Sakharat al
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Mot, when the Angel of death comes to you and he wants to
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extract your soul. Imam Jafar Asada says the one
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who visits my grandfather, Imam Al Hussain visits the grave of
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my grandfather Imam Hussain. Rasoolallah Muhammad Sallallahu
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Alayhi Wasallam himself will come to you at the moment of
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death, Oh my God, and he will comfort you.
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Ahmed Rasoolallah, the Prophet Muhammad will come to you at the
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moment of death if you have visited the shrine and the grave
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of Imam Hussain and he will comfort you and Rasoolallah will
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speak with the Angel of death. He'll tell Melik Almod, be easy
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on him, be easy on him. Greater 70 times greater than a
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parent is merciful towards their children.
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Look how great Imam Hussein, honestly, honestly.
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And you know Arbein, the day of Arbein is so close.
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The sonar, we're only a few days away and there's millions
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walking towards this magnet, the Shia magnet, which is Imam
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Hussein. In today's age and in Charlotte,
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we all have that opportunity to see Rachel Allah at the moment
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of our death, Inshallah. How great is that?
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Yeah, well, honestly, I mean, Ziyada, we know.
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Of course, Ziyada Abbayeen is is one of the five signs of the
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believer, as we know from mum Hassan Hassan.
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We repeat it year after year after year.
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For those who want to listen in to the episode we did last year
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with Mohammed Siddiq, we talked about the secrets behind Ziyad
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Al Ababayeen and we talked a lot about Kamala Ziyarat in that
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episode. That was like amazing, mind
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blowing conversation. Highly, highly, highly recommend
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it. One thing people forget is
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aftermarket podcasts are timeless.
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You know, I, I really believe that.
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So for example, someone actually last week said to me, is there
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something that I can listen to for my preparation for the walk?
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Someone on my nose going, So I sent them that episode.
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I said, listen to it, enjoy it, indulge in it.
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Someone who's doing the walk for the first time.
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So I think that's that's really important thing.
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Let me ask you, I'm going to be open and transparent.
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I think that at least for me on a personal level, my first
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Autobahn experience was only two years ago in my mid 20s.
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So for over 20 years, I had never had the experience of
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visiting ABBA Abdullah in on the day of Autobahn.
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OK, Prior to that, my, so let's say from 15 to 25, my desire to
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go for Ziad Arbain was high. I really wanted to every year,
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every year. But then prior to that, I had no
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real like understanding of the gravity of, of Ziad Arbain, if
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that makes sense. So, for example, I remember when
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I was seven or eight years old, Dave Ashura, you know, it feels
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like the world is coming down. It's the biggest day of the
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year. It's the most even at a young
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age, I remember like what Zyada Ashwara was.
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The day of Ashwara was like in in our local mosque 20 years
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ago. I'm sure you're the same.
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Do you think that there's Zyada of Arubaeen as in going to Iraq
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and doing the walk and engaging with the people that everything
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that noise, the, the, the headma, like everything you see
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around you, the people, the heat, the flags, the, the crowd,
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all of that contributes towards the gravity of Arbayan.
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And for example, let's say people hundreds of years ago,
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this year, hundreds of years ago, do you feel like they would
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have had the same connection in the Arbayan time?
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Do you see what I mean? Are we blessed the fact that we
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now live in a day and age where we can attend Arbayan 20 +
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1,000,000 people can go every year to walk to Amman Hussein,
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be part of this pilgrimage and in a grand scheme of things, it
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really strengthens our connection with you a little.
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Bit I think we definitely take it for granted.
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I mean, especially in today's day and age and especially now
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in 2024 when the access to Karbala is so easy, you have
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Mashallah, many airlines that go, many airports that
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facilitate this journey towards, towards, well, not Karbala
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itself, but to the lands of Najaf, to the lands to, to the
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city of Baghdad, for example. So the access to get, sorry, the
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access to get to Karbala is very simple.
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Back in the day, people will travel for weeks and for months
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on foots, on camel, on horsebacks.
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Was it something simple? OK, so.
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And when they used to go, the persecution on the Shia of
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Aliyah Nabihalab Alihi Salaam was so great that when you would
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go, there was a risk if you were to go visit Imam Hussein, there
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was a risk of your hands being amputated.
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If you want to visit Imam Hussein, there was a risk where
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your your feet will be amputated beyond there's there's an
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expectation one has when they go that'll be killed for the love
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of Imam Hussein, for the Ziara of Imam Hussein Ali is Saddam.
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So we have it easy compared to 100 years ago, 200 years ago,
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300 years ago, 400 years ago, one that we have is so easy and
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we do take it for granted. And I'll be very honest, the the
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way I see are buying now is that it's more, it's not just about
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the Sierra itself. It's become more about can I
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have the experience of what it is to feel love, emotion, pain.
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Spirituality, so it's great. So it's not just the Ziara
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itself. We want more and this is this is
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benefits us. By the way, I'm talking about
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the walk. Because now when you say Zarate
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Arbayan, no one just thinks about the grave, no one just
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thinks about the shrine. No one just thinks about the
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dolman and minarets. No, they think about the walk.
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You mention Arbayan, the first thing that happens, the first
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thing you can imagine, there's millions and millions of people
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flocking towards the shrine of Imam and Hussein.
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So it is different from that sense that we get to, we take it
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for granted because we are welcomed.
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We're no longer being killed. Yes, if we go back a few years
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ago, there were the risk of sectarianism, there was a risk
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of being targeted by ISIS, for example.
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But Hamdallah, things are much better and much easier now.
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So we're more welcomed. There's a war field home and
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home is besides. Hussein's don't.
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So one thing I want to say is. I don't know if I answered your
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question correctly, but. No, no, 100% like that.
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And that's contributed, I think to keeping us in a world where
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we don't have, let me rephrase, in a world where there are so
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many distractions, Yes, it keeps us afloat.
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Yes, it's one of the many benefits of having a lot that we
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have. Like, I don't know whether we
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would be as active. Let's be optimistic for a
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minute. Would we be as active or as well
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benefited in our knowledge, in our multiculturalistic
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understanding of the world and Shiism and that the global ummah
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if we didn't have what we had today?
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Like Allah blessed us, We're born in this day and age.
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If I want to know a Hadith that pick up my phone, I can think of
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five apps on my phone already where I can find a hadith where
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I know if I'm going to know the tafsir of an eye, a Shia tafsir,
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I can pick up my phone and find the app Quran Hadi, which is the
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one I use amazing Shia tafsir, amazing at your fingertips.
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You know what I mean? You have YouTube videos, you
22:07
have lot of me art, you have lectures upon lectures.
22:10
One thing I'll say just very quickly for the for the viewers
22:13
at home, if you are not going for Ziyarat Arbaeen, OK.
22:19
If you are not going for Ziyarat Arbaeen, it's OK, it's OK.
22:25
Imam Hassan Askari Al Islam said that one of the signs of
22:28
believers is to participate in and the do the zyada of Imam
22:32
Hussein on the day of Arbaeen. Why can you not do the zyada of
22:36
Imam Hussein on the day of Arbaeen somewhere else?
22:40
Imam Hussein will still be given your zyada, your Salam, from
22:44
anywhere in the world, and you have a specific part to play
22:48
wherever you are in the world. You can send your Salaam, your
22:51
salutations upon the shohada of Karbala and the asiran of Sham.
22:55
And this is something that can be benefited from for us
22:58
wherever we are in the world. And if this is not your year,
23:01
then inshallah there will be a time where you are invited.
23:04
It doesn't mean that you're not chosen or you're not loved and
23:08
you're not wanted. No, I don't believe some.
23:10
People may not even have the financial means.
23:13
Financial means things happened. You know, I spoke to a friend a
23:15
couple of weeks ago, May Allah bless him.
23:17
I know he's probably listening as well.
23:19
One of one of our close friends, one of the the lovers of the
23:23
podcast and we love him as well. He said to me, someone said that
23:28
you're not invited because you don't know you're imam.
23:31
This. Listen to this.
23:32
Yeah, this blew my mind. And I hope the guy who said that
23:35
hears this because I want to send a message.
23:36
Absolute nonsense. Gunshots.
23:38
This is a brother who's been a Shia for only a few years.
23:41
And unfortunately, and he lives in a far away part of the world,
23:45
so it's hard for him to access logistically.
23:47
Karbala compared to us here in London, it's a bit easier for
23:50
us, You know, for him he has to pay thousands and thousands of
23:53
pounds or dollars. He has to take at least two or
23:56
three flights to get to Karbala. Someone told him you're not
24:00
going to Arbayan. Why?
24:02
Because you don't know the sermons of Imam Hussein by heart
24:05
so much. Yeah, honestly, he says you
24:06
don't know what Imams favorite colours are.
24:08
You don't know three things that make the Imam smile.
24:11
When he told me this is Ahmed. Is this true?
24:13
I said of course not Shinohai like this is absolute madness.
24:17
Like who? Who would believe this?
24:19
So I, I, I, I told him at least this is my perspective.
24:22
I said to him that look, you are a lover of the Ahmed Bait
24:25
whether you're there or not, it's OK, you still remain in
24:27
lover of the Ahmed Bait and maybe alas, Abhanawatiah needs
24:31
your presence in another land. Maybe there's a purpose for you
24:36
to be there. Maybe you will say something to
24:37
someone in the area you are at the time you are because someone
24:41
will benefit from your presence in that land.
24:43
Do you know what I mean? So I just wanted to say that
24:45
because there are a lot of people who who feel very heavy
24:49
in the heart that maybe I'm not wanted, maybe I'm not worthy or
24:52
chosen. In fact, someone told me as well
24:54
two days ago, I'm going for the walk.
24:56
I'm not worthy of it. I said, what do you mean you're
24:58
not worthy? You've been called, that means
25:00
you're worthy. Why are you asking questions?
25:02
Don't, don't do anything. Just thank Allah, thank the Imam
25:05
and go to your master. You mentioned this point of not
25:09
being worthy. Let me just go back to that
25:11
brother first. I would say if he doesn't have
25:13
the opportunity, inshallah we do pray that he does.
25:15
Of course, allow the. Opportunity to go on the ziara
25:17
towards Imam and Paseena Alayhi Salaam.
25:19
But he can allow someone to go on his behalf and he'll he'll
25:23
have. To tell you something, what he
25:25
told me he said the following day with this random guy.
25:28
I don't want to say is random guy said this brother Zariva.
25:31
Yes, like I said this random guy said yeah, the true Shia.
25:34
They're not telling you the truth.
25:36
You don't, but you don't deserve to go because you don't know
25:38
your Imam complete nonsense. The following day that he was
25:41
told this, he said I got a message, ran a message from one
25:44
of my followers who was in Karbala.
25:46
They said that they took 20 pictures in different areas and
25:49
said I took these for you, I did Ziara on your behalf and I
25:52
mentioned your name in the shrine because I didn't ask for
25:55
it. Nothing.
25:55
He was there, I was bubbling. He's done his Ziara, You've done
25:58
your Ziara, I've done that. You know, he's done his niyaba
26:01
Ziara. He got it done for him.
26:02
He didn't request it, but someone thought of him and did
26:05
this Ziara on their behalf. So.
26:07
That's amazing. Yeah.
26:07
Yeah. Let me just come back to this
26:09
point where some, some do say, am I worthy to go?
26:12
You know, there's probably, I don't know, you're probably
26:14
committing many sins or you, you don't really have that
26:17
relationship with Imam Hussein as you imagine it to be.
26:21
But the fact you're going there, I can tell you first hand I know
26:23
people who from different walks of life, you would never imagine
26:27
them ever to go to visit the shrines of the Elle Beit
26:31
Aliensinaba. They go, they come back.
26:33
They're better than me. They they develop a relationship
26:37
and they establish a connection with the elbait ultimately to a
26:40
last upon of its Allah from that Ziara.
26:43
Voila, their life changes and you just watch it and it
26:46
flourishes and it blossoms just from Ziara itself.
26:49
That one intention. You say, you know, I'm going to
26:50
go. Let me just go on shallah, make
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that near. You never know, you go.
26:54
Well, that's life changing. Yeah, Yeah.
26:55
And if it's not life changing forever, you would always
26:58
remember What? Oh, do you remember?
27:02
What if it's not life changing? If it's not life changing,
27:05
eventually will change you because I I, I know people like
27:07
who've been like to Ziara and they come back.
27:10
Nothing's different about them. But 3-4 years later like the
27:13
fact I want Imam Hussain. Yeah, you're right.
27:16
The fact I want Imam Hussain, you know what, I'm going to
27:19
change my life like it may not happen.
27:21
I'm talking about the change. You may not be instant, but they
27:24
change. It does affect.
27:25
You in a very positive way. You cannot be surrounded by the
27:30
by the motahila. Is that correct?
27:34
Like the the? I don't know.
27:35
The pure were you trying to see? Like by the purified ones, you
27:39
can't be surrounded by those who are purified and not be worthy
27:42
of being in their presence. I mean that I'm saying you can't
27:45
be, you can't go to the place of, of, of the ones who are
27:48
Bahar. Yeah.
27:50
You're saying it right. Yeah, yeah.
27:51
And, and not be of, of, you know, purification yourself like
27:54
you. You have to have an element of
27:56
purity to your soul to be invited to these lands.
27:59
I truly believe that. You know, so you know, you know,
28:01
I'm going to mention something and we may go a little bit off
28:03
topic there, there, there was a time.
28:07
So as I don't know if this brother listens to this podcast
28:11
or this episode in itself, he has never been to Iraq and he
28:15
went two years ago. He doesn't really have any
28:19
connection with Imam and Hussain.
28:21
He only has the connection of going to a medulis, for example,
28:25
or helping out at times in serving food or serving, helping
28:30
the centre facilitate for the measures to take place.
28:34
The brothers never prayed in his life.
28:37
The brothers never fasted properly.
28:42
But he had a lot of this question with himself.
28:45
You know, am I worthy? Like who am I to go to Iraq?
28:48
That when he went to Iraq, he realized it's not that I'm just
28:52
not praying. I don't know how to pray, bro.
28:56
Yeah. So that became life changing for
28:58
him, that eventually when he went on the siara, he learned
29:01
how to do Salah. He didn't even the worst thing
29:04
that really hurt me is that, you know, he didn't even know how to
29:08
do the wage of Ozols, for example.
29:11
So the point the brother was saying, and he I'm not going to
29:14
say he was impure his whole life, but spiritually he wasn't
29:18
for her. Do you understand?
29:20
So this really effects you And the conversation went to this is
29:22
that maybe you had this sort of lifestyle because you whenever
29:26
you whenever like spiritually cleanse in some, for example,
29:29
whether it's woo or whether it's Janaba also, for example, these
29:35
things affect an individual plays on your soul.
29:39
So all of this, of course you're going to feel like, am I not
29:42
worthy? No, bro, the door of Rahma of
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the last planet Al is always open.
29:46
And Imam Hussein, we say he's the ark of salvation.
29:48
Yeah, yeah, knock on the door of Hussein and.
29:51
The the dust of Karbala in itself is, is Shafar and it's
29:55
pure and it's nature as well. So yeah, listen, OK, before we
29:59
wrap up, I want to ask you one of different things I'm going to
30:03
ask you like your favorite this, your favorite that, your
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favorite this, your favorite that.
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OK, so one lecture which you've heard since the first of
30:10
Muharram until now, which stuck with you, or which you
30:13
remembered. Who was it by and what was it
30:15
about? One lecture that stuck with me.
30:18
The issue is I've heard about maybe 100 lectures.
30:20
I know. Oh my God, this is very
30:22
difficult. Ahmed, go on.
30:23
I've never thought it's very difficult.
30:25
Can you come back to me? OK, fine.
30:26
I'll say it and then you come For me.
30:29
It was Sheikh Mohammed Abbas Panju, who of course was on the
30:32
podcast. As we said a few a few weeks
30:34
ago, he had an unbelievable series at the Imam Hussein
30:40
Foundation in Watford in the UK and it was hosted by the Bandali
30:44
family, who are like family to me, very close brothers and
30:47
Unmot Minin. He, I can think of like four or
30:51
five lectures he did which were incredible.
30:54
He did a lecture on Hulu, he did a lecture on understanding
30:59
Willaya, He did a lecture on the origins of Abufalan Abbas Salah
31:02
Salaam. The one lecture which stood out
31:04
to me the most was how he connected sort of Hammond with
31:09
the Willaya Miramot Minin and then how he connected this with
31:13
Imam Hussein. And it's similar to a point that
31:15
Montazur mentioned in his podcast.
31:17
He says we always look for that little bit in the Quran and we
31:19
don't look for the Quran in the other bit.
31:21
For example, in Sutton Hamd, we say Surat al adeen and Hamda
31:26
Alayhi. So that and Hamda, that point,
31:30
he says it's the same as, you know, Aliam Akmel to the eye of
31:34
Qadir who have completed your religion and the nitama which is
31:37
mentioned in the. Ayah.
31:40
Yeah, the nitama there, he says it's the same nitama and Amtar
31:44
Ali basically. So that that lecture was like
31:49
amazing. So I realized that there are so
31:51
many ways where we can find the ayah in the Quran and the Quran
31:54
in the ayahu debate. And for me that was probably a
31:57
stand out lecture. Now it's your turn.
31:59
It's my turn. OK, so I, I've listened to many,
32:02
many people, but I I would say this Muharram, I listened to the
32:08
entire sunlights from night one all the way to the day of
32:13
Ashura. My doctor said Ammar and I
32:15
really enjoyed his series because it allowed me to
32:17
understand, I think more about my identity as a Shia in terms
32:22
of, you know, how did we originate?
32:25
What makes us different? What did we go through Yani?
32:28
All of this was something unique from a different lens.
32:30
Yeah, we may hear it from other lectures throughout the year and
32:33
from different people, but I really felt like he put enough
32:36
effort into the work he delivered over those ten nights
32:39
where I was able to be like, you know what?
32:41
I'll handle love for being Shia. So.
32:43
So that feeling and that connection that I I felt.
32:47
Strengthened your Iman not. Just strengthened my Imam.
32:50
I would say strengthened my my belief.
32:52
And you know what, I don't mind if I have to die for Imam by
32:55
saying if they want to kill me because I love emila MO minion
32:58
I'm down for. It so be it so be it is what it.
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Is and that's why I felt and I still, I still have that feeling
33:03
today, yeah. Yeah, OK, cool.
33:06
Your favorite Latomia? This year it.
33:12
Doesn't have to be this year, but something that you've heard
33:14
like the one in my mind is not read from this year, but
33:16
something that you've maybe heard a lot this year.
33:19
Something I've heard a lot this year.
33:22
We have so many things we do. What Ali Father done on the
33:25
podcast with which is what behind the number, What did you
33:29
do Where you name your top five favorite reciters?
33:33
Top five what? Top five reciters, Top five
33:36
favorite. Reciters.
33:39
My top five, yeah, yeah, OK, well, say Hassan Karbala is #1.
33:45
OK. For those that don't know who he
33:48
is. Why, why why why is it hasn't
33:51
Karbala in #1? Firstly, I think because he's
33:54
very unique in the way that he does his recitations.
33:57
He's like a old school Karbala. He's a classic old school that
34:01
you are guaranteed to cry from the moment he goes up the pulpit
34:04
till when he comes down and he you just connect with him.
34:07
He's like a unique vibe, honestly, Like when he goes up
34:10
the member, you connect straight away from the beginning till the
34:14
very end and you feel the mostly, but you feel the
34:16
tragedy. Say it quick fire, quick fire.
34:18
OK, so how's the Karbalai one? Number two, of course, is Bassem
34:22
Karbalai because he never fails to deliver what he does on the
34:28
pulpit #3 one that's very difficult.
34:31
This is, this is very, very tough.
34:33
Very, very tough. But I think my, my raw idea have
34:35
changed over the years. I would say Mullah Janami, of
34:38
course, Bayati at times. But the problem with Bayati is
34:43
that I'll be very honest. If there is no like it's going
34:47
to sound a bit mess, but I'm not.
34:49
I don't use the word music, but if there is no background
34:54
instrumental in his Latmi yacht, I can't hear him.
34:58
I feel like I'm not. Listening to me and so you
35:00
prefer. So I'm trying to see where where
35:03
what I prefer. But then my fourth guy is an
35:07
Iranian reciter that I don't know the name of.
35:09
I just have the lot of me out playing in the background.
35:11
To find out the name. That's because of my wife and #5
35:17
I don't know what less difficult, what The Wall is
35:20
difficult because they're all good, man.
35:23
They're all good. And they all have their own, I
35:24
think, style, own style and their own vibe.
35:27
So for me it's different or it's difficult because obviously I
35:30
listen to different recitis, different recitis, different
35:33
languages. So if I'm thinking about Arabic,
35:36
for me in order when the basin #100%.
35:40
No no, do a generic so even like.
35:42
I've got a couple different ones.
35:47
Mohammed tsunami #2 well, Ali Muhammad #3, this is Arabic Abu
35:55
Khayeb. I love Abu Khayeb.
35:57
The Bahraini guy, sorry, is he Bahraini?
35:59
Abuhayeb. Abu Khayeb, Yeah.
36:01
The one that was the Yeah. Yeah, yeah, OK, OK.
36:03
Do you like him? I, I like his hossats.
36:06
So I, I it's not that I don't like his recitation.
36:09
Yeah, these are like hossats. So yeah, yeah, he's he's
36:12
amazing. Probably Muhammad Bhujbala.
36:18
OK. I think he's like sick.
36:21
I'd say that's probably my top five Arabic, obviously.
36:24
Then there's Urdu. Mir Hassamir is my all time go.
36:27
He's up there with Mullah Basim. That's my favorite ever reciter
36:31
in English. I love Mullah Ammar Nashid.
36:33
Well, Ali Fardan said Ali rather we these are honestly, they're
36:38
the best. They're the best and like in
36:40
English, my Brother Ali Fardan, he every year I listen to one
36:47
specific track you released a few years ago is called I
36:50
remember. No, it's called Remember her
36:53
about, say, the Omel Benin. Remember.
36:56
Her. I absolutely love it.
36:58
I love it. I can't hear it.
36:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I cannot hear it without crying,
37:02
crying with my eyes out. And I try and do like something
37:06
small either with my with the ladies of my family or as a
37:10
men's thing in all of Bibi Omel Benin in my house.
37:13
And every time I hear that track, it destroys me.
37:16
Well, Amar National, obviously, he's, he's probably one of the
37:19
goats in English. And for those who don't know
37:23
what a goat is, Saint Ali. Greatest of all time.
37:26
Yeah, I got that right, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:29
I land on the podcast with Ali Hamadi.
37:32
Obviously, we're talking about footballers.
37:34
Yeah, yeah, man. OK, last, last question, Your
37:38
favorite moment like a stand out when you close your eyes and you
37:44
picture the 1st 10 nights or maybe something since the 1st 10
37:47
nights, but since this year Muharram 2024 began, think of a
37:53
moment which stands out to your way.
37:55
You know, this time next year, when you think about the
37:57
previous year, it's something that you can visualize.
38:01
So for me, I think, look, I would, I would always say it's
38:09
the night where we remember Ali Lazar.
38:11
And that's because we're able to visualise it, especially like in
38:17
the Iraqi senses, is that as the Mossiba of, you know, the six
38:22
month old infant is being recited on the pulpit.
38:25
Is that we sort of also bring an infants to the pulpits that's
38:31
supposed to resemble the six month old of Imam Hussein Ali
38:35
has Salaam. So that really shatters the
38:37
heart and it breaks it breaks the heart.
38:39
And I can still remember it till today.
38:42
And it happens every year. So that's the year for me that
38:44
really I connect with when it comes to, you know, what do I
38:47
remember from from Muharram? It's moments like this is that
38:52
we remember the tragedy, the greatness of the tragedy and and
38:56
it goes, it goes on, of course, without saying any.
38:58
We have, for example, Qasim night.
39:00
We also have similar traditions in our community, Abbas Night
39:06
and other cultures they may have like taboos, islands and things
39:08
like this. So these are the things that
39:10
always stand out to me that I will never forget because it
39:12
allows me to have that connection with Karbala.
39:16
It's like the door opens and I'm there.
39:18
I literally feel like I'm there and that's so beautiful to have
39:21
and live. It's a very unique feeling.
39:22
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about you?
39:27
One moment that I visualize or connect with, it's difficult
39:32
because of course there's there's things that happen
39:35
outside of the mosque. So for example, with your
39:37
family, in the homes of your family, when you sit with
39:41
friends and brothers like yourselves and obviously all of
39:44
the guests that we've had and with the like the discussions
39:47
we've had outside of the podcast.
39:49
But in terms of the majlis, probably this year I went to
39:53
four or five majlis in terms of different centres, but probably
39:56
a ACABAR Foundation which I mentioned every year, always
39:59
amazing. Every year I listen to the
40:03
Maktal with Al Akbar Foundation and after the Maktal they play
40:09
the Maktal by ullabasam Karbalai which is the only time I listen
40:14
to it around the whole year and and it just.
40:18
It's a killer. Finishes me.
40:19
I've never heard something like a a tune which encapsulates an
40:24
emotion so well as well as that does.
40:26
Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's literally called the
40:28
maktal. If someone's called the Marel,
40:29
it's literally called the Maktal.
40:30
Just it's, it's pure grief. Like there's, there's a feeling
40:33
that I had on Ashura day and I'm sure we all had and continue to
40:37
have every year, but it's like hopelessness that I don't know
40:42
what to do now. Like a like, I, like I cried so
40:47
much on the day of Ashura that I didn't want to stand up and
40:50
then, you know, go and drink water and, you know, continue
40:54
with my day. And you know what I mean?
40:56
Like you just don't want to, you want to sit there and you want
40:58
to grieve and you want to be left in peace alone to grieve.
41:02
So for me, I think that the day of Ashwadar has to be something
41:07
which is the heaviest day or the most monumental day.
41:10
Like every year for me. And since Al Abdullah becoming a
41:14
dad, I've done arshoda at home for the last three years, three
41:20
years. And prior to that I'd always
41:22
obviously been to a centre before COVID and everything my
41:25
whole life. But now to be honest bro, I
41:27
prefer that. And my friends, when I say that,
41:29
I mean I told one of my friends a couple of weeks ago, I said I
41:32
prefer to do arshoda at home. Now.
41:34
He said to me, I can't even remember which friend it was to
41:36
be honest with you bro. But I remember my brother said
41:39
to me, he said, I don't know how you have the courage to do that.
41:44
He says I rely on the atmosphere of people crying to get me in a
41:48
place where I can cry. So I told him, at least in my
41:52
opinion, like being alone and getting yourself to that stage
41:57
where you can grieve unapologetically and be yourself
42:01
and just cry with no one except say the Fatima Zahra in your, in
42:06
your house, Inshallah or wherever you are.
42:08
That is when you know that you're, you're in the right
42:12
place because you can take yourself there.
42:13
You don't need to rely on the emotion or the atmosphere or the
42:18
sound or the crowd or the heat or do you know what I mean?
42:23
The symbol to, to get you there. So that transformation that,
42:28
that, that change from being someone who I've, I've across my
42:31
life been very reliant on that to hopefully Inshallah have
42:34
found a place which makes me less reliant on that, where I
42:38
can be driving my car and think about something and it makes,
42:41
you know, makes one cry or be listening to something which
42:45
kind of triggers your heart and bang, you've got tears.
42:48
Like that is a beautiful emotion which I pray Inshallah never
42:52
leaves us, but it's at its peak during these days.
42:55
Palala is very unique to that little bit.
42:57
Yeah, this is the sort of thing. Nothing.
42:59
Nothing. Can get you and this emotion
43:01
that the connection that we have.
43:02
I think as human beings that from the moment I think we
43:07
understand the tragedies of the elevator until the very final
43:11
moments of our life, we will cry.
43:13
We will honestly like you can't eat like so I don't want to say
43:17
this, but for example, you can lose a parent, you can lose a
43:20
grandma or an auntie or you know an uncle.
43:24
You will cry. Perhaps remember them yearly
43:27
45678 ten years, but then beyond that, you won't cry, but you can
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cry from the age of I don't know, 12 until the age of 19.
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Charlotte people have long lives.
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You will continue to cry for their headed baits.
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And and these tears, like a lot of sadly, some sometimes people
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come and attack it like, what are you guys doing crying every
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year, things like this year. But they don't understand the
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power of what these tears do. And there's these sort of tears
43:54
that don't just shape our community and shape our
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spirituality and shape our connection with the Ehlebetani
44:00
Salaam, Rather, it also benefits us.
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Trust me, you can be the most angriest person.
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You go to the most of Imam Hassan, you share the tear,
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you'll be as soft as the teddy bear.
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I'm very joking. And that, that, that that's how
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much Imam Hassan can soften the heart of any individual.
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And these tears that people mock at times, you know, we have
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narrations where they say someone who sheds a single tin
44:23
the size as small as a wing of a mosquito, a loss of Hanoi Tano
44:28
will erase your sins. Look how great that is.
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And you know, now we're approaching inshallah the the
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Zyarov are behind the day of the 40th of Mom Hassane on his
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Salaam as to remember that inshallah, those who are blessed
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with the journey, inshallah mean you have the opportunity to walk
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there because we are recording this a bit early on.
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And if we have the opportunity, inshallah, we do all together.
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And as we're walking, you know, there was that there's there's
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this narration that says Allah Subhanahu Attallah, we'll send
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down, I believe it was 4000 angels that will walk with you
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all the way until the grave. And then when you enter the
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grave, they will do is the far for you and they will go back
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with you until you reach home. And, and during the whole
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process they're doing is the far for you and they're praying for
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you and they're wishing the best for you.
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But the most beautiful thing that I read when it came to this
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is that Imam Hussein Ali Salaam is that his soul, the soul of
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ABBA Abdullah is by the arch of Allah and he sees his zuwar.
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He can see them alongside who his mother Fatima Zara.
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And imagine when we go to Karbala, not only do we have the
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blessings of angels, of God, doing is the far for us.
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Who are we? Well, we just commit sins left,
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right and centre. They're doing is the far for us.
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And have Imam and Hussein to look down on us.
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And Allah, Subhana was Allah to write us down as from the zulwar
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of ABBA Abdullah. We take everything for granted.
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We are stupid if we do. Honestly, we haven't understood.
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We haven't understood that. Inshallah.
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That's how great. Like you said, we're recording
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this a few days in advance, but inshallah things work out and we
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get the opportunity to go. It would be amazing.
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But of course, as we said earlier, if not this year, then
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inshallah another time when the when Allah permits and when the
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Imam has space for us, I say Inshallah, we will be there
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Inshallah, whether it's this year or next or another year,
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Inshallah. And for those who are going,
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don't forget to remember us in your DAR.
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I mean that. And for those who are not, we
46:29
ask you as well to keep us in DAR.
46:31
The podcast, the success of the podcast, the success of those
46:34
who support the podcast as well in in front of the camera,
46:37
behind the camera as well, because there are a lot of
46:39
people who work with us to make it happen.
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All our guests, all our, our, our team, Inshallah as well.
46:48
Yeah, these are of course, as we said, like very, very holy days,
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very special days and days building up to Adebayeen.
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We should commemorate the tragedy of Mama Hussein and
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relive that and remember what happened in the weeks prior to
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the day of Adebayeen as well. Every tragedy that happened
47:05
after the day of Ashura, you know, the, the, the, the
47:08
tragedies that the family of Imam Hussein went through in
47:12
Kufa and Sham and the return to Karbala and everything that
47:15
happened in these days really spark that flame in our hearts.
47:21
And we have to remember that because we've been on a journey
47:24
now since Ashura and we're now nearly at the finish line.
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Are we, are we worthy of getting to that finish line?
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Are we in the place that we want to be when we reached that
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finish line, the day of Arbayeen, when on the day of
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Arshad Hapil feels like yesterday, But when we had that
47:41
day, we knew that Arbayeen was fast approaching.
47:44
I remember telling myself said, like I remember thinking, OK,
47:48
between now and Arbayeen, I want to study this, this topic.
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I want to, I want to grow this like I had these goals in my
47:55
mind. Have I done that or not?
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Like we're fast approaching and inshallah we have a couple of
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days before we reach that blessed day, inshallah.
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So keep working on yourselves brothers and sisters, keep
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working for those around you, keep serving and inshallah we
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will be worthy to be called the lovers of Abdullah Hussain
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Sallallahu. Sorry, you were talking and I
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was just thinking, you know, Mama Hussein I Salaam, his final
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law, he was Kharib, you know, he was alone on the plains of
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Karbala. You know, Sakbar Azhar, his
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companions and he knew what would happen to his women and
48:34
his children once he goes. And you know when he said that
48:37
call Hanman Nassaran like is there anyone to come aid or
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sustain or to come protect the woman of Rasul Allah, Allah,
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Allah look today it's crazy. Allah look today how much like I
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don't know why that feeling of, you know, just looking and
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trying to imagine there was a day where the son of Fatima, the
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Zahra Al Assalam said, you know, come to our aid and no one came.
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Ahmed, today's Subhanallah millions.
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This is what hits me the most, Hits me the most.
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You know, you see these, these images of Imam Hussein alone.
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He's standing alone with a sword like these.
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Sometimes you see these images. Brings her to life.
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And the army's in front of him and he's by himself.
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And that just that sight in, in your mind of the red sky, the
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sun, these, these dogs and these pigs surrounding him and this
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holy man, this man of God there by himself and the enemies of
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God are tugging his beard with, with blades in their hand, like
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these are the enemies of Allah. And we pray to be disassociated
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from them, not Allah, Ali, all of them.
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They're all inshallah receiving nothing but like divine
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punishment. And that's all we can pray
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inshallah. We have no association with
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them, with their filth and their personalities and their, all
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their, their characteristics and their sin ultimately, because
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there was sin, sin there, the greed, the lying, the lack of
50:01
consideration, the lack of humanity.
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You know, these are all like very, you know, sorry, I know
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we're trying to wrap up, but just something that kind of hit
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me two days ago. I was speaking to my dad and I
50:13
told him I was like, civilization has changed
50:17
obviously throughout the course of history.
50:18
Now we have roads and infrastructure, electronics and
50:21
whatnot, but humanity has not changed.
50:24
Like you look at the earliest stories of the prophet Ibrahim
50:28
Hood, Saleh, Idris, like all of the early prophets and the
50:32
stories that involved the early prophets until today, a lot of
50:35
the stories are the same. Anger, greed, all sorts of
50:39
things, you know. History.
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Repeats this history. Repeats this.
50:44
You have family units and authority, you know, leadership
50:47
structures. You have wealth.
50:49
You have poverty and richness. You know all of these kind of
50:52
dynamics that humans engaged in 10s of thousands of years ago
50:56
remain today. And that just shows that Allah's
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wisdom and creating us is that you yourself as a as a race
51:04
remain. You do not change your innate
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desires, your your wishes, your wills, all of these things.
51:11
You can have 8 billion people onwards over the course of
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history, 1520 billion people who have ever existed, whatever,
51:17
maybe more. The point being is humans don't
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change. What's around us might change,
51:22
but really your, your, your soul and your roar and your nerves.
51:28
That is a battle with ourselves, you know, so I don't know, I'm
51:33
waffling a lot. My point being is that, you
51:35
know, there's, there's a lot of work that we need to do on
51:37
ourselves. There is, you know, we face the
51:39
same decides as our forefathers, the same sins, the same issues,
51:43
the same communities. You know, you have sinners, you
51:46
have oppressors, all of these kind of people around you,
51:49
people before have had as well. So what man, who cares?
51:51
Just do your thing. Allah's all knowing, Allah's all
51:54
merciful and we have like you said earlier, we have access to
51:59
to what we need to to get to a better place and what better
52:02
time to do that then now. Just just I think finally there
52:04
from me that point we just mentioned, for example, Wilson
52:06
is and I and I and I think that if we can change our mindset and
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reprogram ourselves into thinking yes, of course, Wilson
52:18
is when I'm also mean. We're not infallibles, right,
52:20
where we're fallible, and I think we're bound to make errors
52:23
and mistakes and at times, you know, go against a loss upon the
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whole Attallah be it for the actions that we do, but to
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always have back in the mind that yes, Allah Alhammad Rahman,
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but we have Hussein and that's what stands out bro.
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Some people. My point is don't lose, don't
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ever lose hope, whatever stage you are in your life.
52:46
Honestly, because this was from a lecture that I was hearing by
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say Madarasi, the one that was giving the Arabic lectures and
52:53
Hussain Rosaladam this year, I think it was night 3 or night
52:56
four, I can't remember now where he was.
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Like if you, if you oppressing someone, you're hosseini, it's
53:03
time to change. For example, you're earning
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Haram money and you're hosseini, it's time to change.
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And he kept going on and on. I think he listed like 20
53:13
different examples that many of us can relate with right in the
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crowd. And it was like the door of
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Allah is open and the key is with Hussein and you choose do
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you want, do you want to be under the mercy and the rahma of
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God? Allah has given you Hussein.
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No one else has this. No other sects has this.
53:31
As Shia, we have understood Hussein.
53:33
Everyone can claim they love their little bit Alim Salam, yet
53:36
they claim those who killed their little bit Alim Salam.
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We're different here. We have Hussein take the
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opportunity and use that Rahman, that door which is about
53:49
Abdullah. Hussein, been a nice episode,
53:57
nice dynamic conversation. So thank you for tuning in.
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Say, do you want to wrap up? I just want to say please keep
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us on your duas. Pray for us.
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Inshallah we do end up in Karbala, not just this year or
54:10
last year, next year and every year.
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