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Role Models from Allah (SWT) (Ft. Str. Sarah Rizvi) · After Maghrib 🌙

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Salaam Alaikum Al Ahmad Allah and welcome back to the late
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night buzz. The aftermath of podcast where
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we have weekly conversations and this week is no different except
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that it is the beginning of the blessed month of Shaban where we
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celebrate and remember the heroes of Karbala Imam and
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Hussain, Ali Salaam, Abel Faval, Al Abbas, Ali Salaam and Imam
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Sajad Zain. Abidin Ali Abdul Salati was
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Salaam. Now before we embrace and, you
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know, get excited about being now in the first week of Shaban,
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I would like to, as always, like we do every week, welcome my
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amazing, energetic Hosseini, Abbasi and Sajadico.
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I think that's the biggest honour anyone's ever.
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Anyone's. Ever.
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Karbalay, Karbalay as well as well.
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As well as well, it depends who's saying it, because
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sometimes if you're like Karbalay.
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Yeah. So that's an honour.
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How? You do it, Abdullah.
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It's a blessed time and congratulations to everyone at
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home as well. This is a monumental occasion
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for us all. But more importantly, and I
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think first and foremost, we should congratulate the amount
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of our time of Sahab Alasar or Zaman on.
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Do you know the the occasions that precede his birth
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anniversary? Of course, inshaallah next
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weekend is Imam Zaman's wiladed 15th Shaban insha'allah.
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So we are preparing for shahadah Mullah.
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You know what's nice is every year it, it feels like a last
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panel to Isla puts these events chronologically in such a way
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where we are ready for the holy month.
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And I don't think there's any coincidence that the third, the
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4th and the 5th called in such a way.
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We have the father, the brother and the son.
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Allah, Subhan, Allah, Allah. So inshallah we can be amongst
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them in the Akram. We can live our lives in the
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Dunya to be whether you've been called their followers.
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Inshallah, inshallah, inshallah. And today's episode.
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We do have a guest joining us. We.
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Do indeed. We do indeed.
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Our first female guest on season three.
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So we're very honoured. I think it's been once in the
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work we finally managed to put it together.
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Sister Sarah is with some article Sister.
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Michael, Sam, thank you very much for having me.
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Honestly, it's truly an. Honor here feels like we've been
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trying to make the supper for a long time.
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Seriously. Yes, and I feel very bad for you
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and your family because you've driven down from Manchester a
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long drive and now it's late night.
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No worries. Anything with the other, but
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it's always at their service and Mailer reward us and everyone
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who's watching this and may we always serve the Albert just
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like this inshallah. Inshallah.
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So I know we've been talking a lot about the the right way I
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think to introduce the podcast. But before we get into the
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discussion, you may or may not know we we tend to do this, this
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kind of, what do you call it like a practice or like we we
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put you on the spot because a lot of guests won't know you.
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Yeah, and some will and some won't.
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But we want to see sister Cyrus V from a different angle of what
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we're going to see for the rest of the conversation.
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So at this juncture, I'm going to hand over to Seh Ali.
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OK, I'll go easy inshallah, and I'll begin here and I and I
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think it's something that you can resonate with.
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And inshallah, we'll all be inspired by.
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And the question is, sister, I want you to imagine you are in
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the presence of the daughter of Rasulullah Muhammad Sallallahu,
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and you have one night to spend with her and one night to have a
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conversation with her. What would you do with Lady
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Fatima the Zahra and what would you talk about should you have
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this opportunity? OK, just thinking about that is
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giving me goosebumps and leaving me emotional.
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But first of I'm going to thank her for everything she's done
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for us. And I'm going to obviously if I
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do have the opportunity, I'm going to hug her.
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And whenever she's done all the sacrifices she's she's made just
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generally for Islam itself and the empowerment of women.
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She's told us that woman, you know, has a huge role in Islam
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and she's got the ability to do anything she can in her, you
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know, power. And second thing, I'm just going
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to sit with her personally. I love reciting the Quran and
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you know, discussing the Quran. So as it was her hobby.
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So I would like to do things that she loves instead of just
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putting something in front of her that I like.
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I'm going to put everything aside and I'm just going to be
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like, let's do something that you love.
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And I'm always at your service. And I'm going to tell her and
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remind her that I'm always there for her.
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And in shall I just, you know, go through the Quran and have a
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discussion with her. I think that's the main thing.
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And I'm going to ask her to pray for me all the time.
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I think that's the main thing. What is?
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What is the? What is your?
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So obviously, say the Fatima has so many qualities about her
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which we can't we can't comprehend, we can't express, we
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can't articulate. But if there was one quality
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about Sailafad Zahra which really touches you, really
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inspires you, what is it? It's it's her being a a arbiter
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and you know she it's one of her attributes and she's the mother
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of Imams. She is the wife of an imam and
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she was known for the upbringing of her children in a very
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merciful and divine way. And we we get a story for from
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that. The one time Imam Hassan and
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Hussain made a painting and this shows how a woman should do the
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upbringing of their children. So they both come up to their
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mother and they say mother Fatima, oh, mother, tell us who
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made a bear painting. Is it me, Hussein or is it my
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brother Hassan? Then she hesitates for a moment
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and she says, I will not be able to answer that.
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And you, I think you should go to your father, Ali.
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So Hassanain, go to, you know, the father.
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And they say, oh father, we made a painting and who do you think
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is the best? And then Imam Ali hesitates.
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And then he says, I can't decide that I think you should go to
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your grandfather for Mama, then ask him and then they both go,
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And this shows the power of woman as well.
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In this story I'll you know address that at the end they
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both go to Prophet Muhammad Visi upon him and then they ask him
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and then he says very beautifully He says I cannot
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decide when Fatima is right there.
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So if Fatima is there to decide, who am I to decide and then go
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back to your mother and ask her who who made the best painting.
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And in the Rewire we see in many stories we see that whenever
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there was a a companion of Prophet Muhammad who used to
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come up to him or Imam Ali and they used to address a problem,
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they never answered it themselves immediately.
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They used to go confirm with ladies Zara Slam and Aliha.
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This shows her aim as well, her intellect which I'm going to
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refer back to. So they go back to their mother
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and they say none of them answered the question and they
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sent, they both sent us to you. So she was wearing a beautiful
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Pearl necklace and she breaks it and then she puts all the beads
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on the floor and she says whoever collects most of it, I
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love their painting. So obviously this was these were
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the actions of Al Aswan Otala. They both start collecting the
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beads and Al Hamdullah, both of them were equal.
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So Hassanain collect both of them equally.
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So then she says something, She says, just like in the eyes of
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Al Aswan Otala, you both are equal.
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Just like for me, in the eyes of Fatima, you both are equal.
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So I can never choose between Hassan and Hussein.
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This is a message for the mothers that you should never
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compare your children. If they do come up to you, just,
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you know, love them equally. No favouritism.
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And this shows a message. It tells us that just like in
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the eyes of Allah Swan Otala, because then in Surah Najam 3 to
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4 we have our the he says whatever Allah says that I'll
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bet on him, Aslam say. So if she said that no, like in
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my eyes, you both are equal, that's all that's saying that.
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So that's basically a message towards the society and to the
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whole community, the whole world.
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The Hassan Hussain should be equal in the eyes of the world.
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So we there's no favoritism in that.
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And their, you know, their power and their status should be equal
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in the eyes. So the.
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Comparison is the enemy of joy. My.
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Famous saying and of course and and it just goes to show that
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there's the the the love that Santa Fatima Zara had for the
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holy imams is is exemplary in how we should act as parents for
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those of us who have children. Or inshallah, if you don't
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inshallah mail up, grant you children, even if we don't have
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children, But even when we look at our parents, for us to
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remember that our parents love us equally.
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And I grew up growing up, you know, Did you, were you the same
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saying used to debate with your siblings or mum?
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Mum loves me more, Dad loves me more.
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I was definitely one of those kids I used to claim to be the
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favorite my parents. I don't want to go too long, but
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I'll share something since you mentioned this.
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Yeah. When my father passed away a
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little a few years afterwards, we finally like sort of asked
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each other, So who was that's favorite?
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Like for example, everyone gave me an example, everyone said no,
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I was that's favorite. I was that's favorite.
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I was like and then you know, we realised subhanallah, he made us
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all feel like his favorite. So it was like we never
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actually, how can I say it felt like?
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Secretary neglected, yeah. We were always like first and
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like, how can I say it, like he made us feel like we were the
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centre of attention when he was with us.
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A Father's each and every single son A.
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Mother's love and a father's love, they're both delicate and
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and and precious in their own ways.
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And I think we we, we all, we learned that as we grow old and
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as we become parents as. Yeah, it's touching, isn't it?
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OK. I mean, like, there's a lot to
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talk about. We can.
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Spend all. Podcasts Just talking about
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being Fatima Slava later, I'm. Sure.
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We'll talk about Podcast 5050. Yeah, minimum.
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Honestly. Honestly.
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But look, let's let's kind of get into this conversation.
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So maybe a good place to start is on these holy occasions.
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So this weekend's so well these days and obviously next weekend
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we're approaching the Willard of Mahdi to Alafred Sharif in
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preparation. Now we're only a few weeks away
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from Shahadah Mulan. What should be going through our
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minds at this point in time? Personally, you know, like
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everyone has their own connection with the other bed
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with with a certain person. I've got a connection with Imam
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Asima and Arjuna Tarafir Sheriff personally.
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So like, I'm not going to make this up, but the first thing
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that comes to my mind was from, you know, since I came into this
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field, is when am I going to make his birthday, celebrate his
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birthday with him. Even though he is alive, he's
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amongst us. It's our sins that are
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preventing us from recognizing him and, you know, seeing him.
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So when is that day going to come?
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When we celebrate the birthday with him, right.
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So that's the first thing that comes up to, you know, my mind.
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And the second thing that comes up is even if he's not there,
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this birthday is a reminder to everyone that this imam was
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born. This imam is still fighting for
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us in his own way, in his own ways, and we don't know that.
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And he prays for us and he cries for us.
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And in the rewire it says that every Monday and Thursday our
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deed letter goes to Imam Zamanna Jalal for Sharif.
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And just to wash away one sin, he has to use his blood tears
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just to wash away one sin. So that shows how ignorant we
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are. And that is where seeking
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knowledge comes in. So if we say Allah Joel, if we
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say, you know O Imam, we're ready for you.
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But then in our actions we don't show it and that's hypocrisy and
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there's there's no point. It's just like the people of
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Gufa who did that the weight of Imam was saying, but when he
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came, they all, you know, just didn't look at him.
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They changed their wordings and everything and actions, yeah,
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that should be our first goal is to please Imam is Imam and stop
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sinning and praying that our hearts, the hearts that have
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hardened you know, become soft and we realise what what is it
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that we're doing wrong in this world in order to recognise Imam
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of our time. Beautiful, I love.
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I love how you started with Imam as Zaman.
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I'd love to have a Sharif because it's a reminder to us
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that he firstly, he is our Imam. He's alive and he's living and
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he's like, you know, he he wants the best for us.
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He wants the best not just for a Shia but for everyone who
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believes in a lost panel. And it reminds me of a previous
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conversation we had once with Sister Howrah.
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Yeah, I thought I should remember back in season one
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where she mentioned a very similar point where like you
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have to hold yourself to accounts.
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And she did recommend something that if we are Shia and we
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really want to understand if our sins are affecting us or not, we
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should like make you know our self accountable.
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Where we realise what we did good today and what we did wrong
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today and like note it down so we know at the end of the day
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like did we please Allah and the Imam of our time today or did we
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not? This is a way of writing
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letters. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, and you build like a communication with him, so it
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was a nice reminder. It is.
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Beautiful. Also last week when we when we
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had that discussion with Shekhar Mohammed yes he talked about and
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in the in the in the context of knowing yourself to not Allah
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spoke to Allah. Obviously the root of of to
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Shayu is an Imama is Naboa and the root of Naboa is is
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revelation. The root of revelation is daheed
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to know Allah. Spon to Allah in my humble
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opinion is the foundation for everything else.
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I mean the knowledge of Allah. Spon to Allah is is what
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determines whether I pray on time or not.
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Forget even praying on time is what determines whether I'm
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praying. And you know, like the the, the
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heart is the, the sanctuary of Allah, Allah we hear, of course,
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and Allah, Allah, you know, there's an interesting kind of
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side note. There was a conversation between
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Nabi da Wood, Alah, Alah Nabi da Wood asks him.
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He says, yeah, Allah, what is your treasure?
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Every king, every Malik has a treasure, whether it's their
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palace, their gold, their land, whatever it is their throne.
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Allah spun to Allah responds to him.
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He says no. My heart, my my treasure is the
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heart of the believer. The heart of the believer he
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takes subhanallah, Allah spun Allah, Allah who has the whole
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dominion of dunya and akhara from the beginning of time until
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the end. Allah spun to Allah who created
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and sustained He's. Hail, hail you know He can, He
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can end and eradicate existence of anything at any given point.
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But his pleasure is found in the love of the heart of the
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believer. It just goes to show that we are
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doing a disservice to ourselves if we're not pleasing our last.
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Matala. Pleasing the Imam, pleasing say
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the Fatima Sahara. Pleasing say the Fatima Sahara
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is pleasing. Salaam Hamad sallallahu alaihi.
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We know of course, hadith. This is praising our last,
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pleasing a lot to our last. With a lot of the Fatima, it
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goes, it goes hand in hand. Vice versa, I just want to
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mention as well, we did a really interesting discussion.
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Well, it wasn't even it was a discussion.
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Muhammad Ali and Jamaah Knights had a series of women in Islam
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and one of the one of the episodes was talking about say
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the Fatima Sahara in such a way which was not my humble opinion,
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like not a way. I've heard how BB Fatima was the
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Imam of the Imams, pinnacle of the Imams and how she had a role
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of Imam to the other Imams. So it was like just mind blowing
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and I recommend everyone watches it and shout Allah.
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But yeah, really, really, really valid points in terms of
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preparation for the Imam, how we can do it, why we should do it.
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But I'm going to be very frank and transparent because there
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are a lot of people at home and even including ourselves
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sometimes, who do not have that connection, let alone don't have
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it, don't see the need or the requirement for it.
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So we are coming up to Shahadah Mavan, why do I need?
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OK, I know Mum cries blood. I know Mum sees my mother.
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Thursday deeds, OK? If I'm going to be very blunt,
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people will say why should I care what is?
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There's no guilt on my heart. You know, as bad as I know it
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is, I don't realise on a Monday or on a Thursday that today the
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Imam will get my list of deeds, for example.
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So those who are maybe lacking that connection, those who are
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not feeling like the the the proximity to the Imam.
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First of all, we need to know, again, if you link this to
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education, we need to know what is it that's keeping us away
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from the Imam. And second thing, what is it
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that he's wanting for us, if if that makes sense.
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Him crying, him worrying him, praying, him asking Allah, you
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know, for the reappearance, he's asking for the reappearance
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himself. Because this is Allah's
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planning. It is all for us.
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It's it's our benefit in us. It's our success in this, in all
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of this. So personally, what I do to keep
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myself closer to Mama Zamana Ajalat for the Sharif is
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speaking to him. We need to believe in him.
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The the Joaquin comes in when we get to know who he is, what is
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his mission, What did he do for Islam?
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So personally, I also had a very close, you know, a story, a
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personal experience regarding Mama's Wana Jalaltaf Sharif in
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my life and shall I speak about that later.
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But personally, what I do is speak to him after every Isha.
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Yeah, just he put everything aside and just think of him as
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someone who prays for us. Just keep everything aside and
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then he's not asking you for anything.
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You know, Imam was at once asked in a dream.
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He was like, Imam, what do you want?
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And he's like, I only need a pure heart and a soul of a
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mortman. That's it.
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He's not asking for anything. And what is that going to lead
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to us? What is that going to lead to?
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Is MO Taqwa more understanding of Allah swan Watallah more
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knowledge and a prevent from hypocrisy?
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Yeah what do I mean by that? So let me just put this one
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point across. Hypocrisy, you know prevents 2
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traits of a of a person, reputation and seeking depth
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knowledge of the religion, right?
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So in order to prevent yourself from this, you know this
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confusion of why does the Imam want us to be close?
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And you know just generally why do we care and why should we
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care? We need to again take, you know,
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judge yourself. That's actually a sin in
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doubting the Imams. And Allah swan with Allah
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because if Allah gives you the knowledge, he wants you to act
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upon it as well because a knowledge that is not acted upon
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is like a untouched treasure right?
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So personally when because I'm still a 20 year old young woman,
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so I had a very personal experience since I published a
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kids book, these English version, English translation and
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I was contacting this. Organization for months.
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And they were leaving me unread. They weren't replying to me.
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And then I was like, what? And I had like 100 copies of a
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book. Yeah, I had 100 copies of this
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book. And I was like, I need more
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children to, you know, have access to it.
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Because I did it for the kids and I did it for the sake of
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Imami Zamano Arjala Thalia for Sharif.
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OK, So this is me contacting the organization, them not replying.
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And then I leave the matter onto Imami Zamano.
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And one Tahaja time I was, you know, I was sound the masala.
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And I was like, oh, my mom, I'm leaving this match on to you.
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I've tried a lot. And they're not replying.
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And I've got, you know, thousands of books.
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Like, literally thousands of books.
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I've got some in my room still. OK.
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So this was last year on Rajab. Yeah.
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So keep in mind, I asked Imam is Amana at Tahajod?
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And we were invited to Aniyaz around 6:00.
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And I was eating in the hours. And then I get a call from my
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father. And I thought he was going to
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call me to, you know, let's go home.
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But no. He calls me.
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And he's like, Sarah, I found a book, you know, a founder of a
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book organization. And I told him about your books.
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And he's willing to look at them.
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And bear in mind, this is the same day I spoke to him.
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I'm his mother. And I was like, oh, and then he
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says he, he wants to meet you. My father says that guy wants to
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meet you. I was like OK and he comes out,
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I've, I've got 10 books in my hand because I was giving them
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out for free as well. In the name of my mum is Amano
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and I've got 10 books in my hand and I come out and the guy comes
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out and he was the same person I was contacting for two months.
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Yes. And he's not, he's not from
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Manchester or Bolton, he's actually from London.
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So and he wasn't expected to be there.
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So when we asked the people, when we asked the host, they
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were like, oh, we weren't expecting him.
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So I don't know where he came from.
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So I don't know who sent him there.
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What made him, you know, to go there, I have no idea.
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Did you ask him why I left you already?
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No, I did. I did.
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You know, I told him that I was, you know, I was texting you for
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two months. He's like, oh, yeah, we did see
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your messages, but we were quite busy.
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I was like, OK, but obviously. And then he says his phrase,
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yeah, which left me sobbing. I started crying at that, you
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know, at that moment. And he says he looks through my
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books and he's like amazing, amazing graphic wig was all done
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in Iran and Pakistan. And then he's like in the name
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of Mama Zamana, we accept your books.
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And I start crying at that moment and then he's looking at
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me like, why is she crying? It's not even that big.
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But for me it was a big moment. It's the world to you love, love
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that mentality and thanks for sharing this honey.
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It makes us like, you know, have that pain that for those
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listening or watching, you know, sometimes they feel like because
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people have similar experiences with us.
23:06
You know I pray and I ask but my daughter doesn't get answered
23:09
and things. We have the best of the best
23:11
Wasilla in the world and that's Sharif and inshallah.
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For those who don't have a connection with him, let's all
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be inspired by the story. Inshallah working ourselves
23:23
build a connection, a relationship with my mom.
23:25
But since before you mentioned a story there was 1 keyword you
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mentioned, you said understanding Allah, you know
23:30
what matter of fact having that understanding that who Allah is
23:34
and believing in tauheed and believing in Allah Allah and
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trying to understand what God is all about.
23:39
And I think there's a question I want to ask here.
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For us to reach the stage to know Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala, we
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have to start somewhere beyond just saying OK there is God, how
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do we understand that? The question I want to come to
23:54
is, is the only way for us to reach that stage is that we have
23:58
to go seek knowledge. So now there's like 2-3
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questions I want to ask here. See, I know there's about many,
24:03
many questions, but I'm trying to get the most out of you
24:06
because I know you've driven 4 hours and inshallah will do
24:09
justice here. I want to seek knowledge, to
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understand the law. Subpoena Mata Allah to
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understand Rasulullah Muhammad to understand the elevator,
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understand the truth. To understand what La ilaha What
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la ilaha Allah means what aishaddhan Muhammad rasul Allah
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means there's a lot of questions.
24:25
We believe in God, we go home, we sleep, we pray, but we don't
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really pay attention. And the only way for us to
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understand all of this is that we have to seek and we have to
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go study. And Marshalla, you are a student
24:37
of Hauser and you are in the field of sharing knowledge with
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a lot of people. So I want to ask you, being a
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sister, you know, entering this field of seeking knowledge and
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sharing knowledge and learning knowledge, where do you start?
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Because I say this because there was a conversation we had
24:54
previously a few weeks ago, Ahmed and someone messaged on my
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sister. But every time I want to go seek
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knowledge, no one wants to take me as a student or no one.
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You know there is no female scholars out there that I can
25:07
learn from the old male. And I thought, you know, the
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females in our community like they want to do more in terms of
25:16
seeking knowledge and it's there's always emphasis on the
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man to go house down on the man to teach his kids.
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But the mothers feel the same as well.
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The sisters feel the same as well.
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Where do they start? Good question based on your
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experience. Yeah, yeah.
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OK. If you if you if you're asking
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me my experience, yeah it's been really different in in a case
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that obviously as we mentioned before I'm from Belgium so I'm a
25:38
European you know girl and I started Islamic knowledge from
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the age of seven from Pakistan, online everything was online.
25:48
Hamdullah was my parents and my siblings who always supported me
25:52
in this and my family you know itself is very cautious on the
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fact of you know, we need to whatever we do, we need to know
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is this action approved by Imam, is Amana?
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Is this action approved by Allah?
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Swan, was Allah? OK?
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So again in the Quran I come back to the Quran as well.
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Allah said that I sent down the Alhabet as role models right
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Albert and many other personalities.
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So if you look at, if you know focusing on woman, we've got a
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very big personality. Ladies, Zainab Salaam Al Al Ehi,
26:28
who was given the name of Alima Raima.
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Alima by an Imam, right. So on we got, we got a story of
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this on the day of Karbala when you know the tents you know were
26:41
burning down and Imam Hussein was killed on the Yabba shooter,
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Lady Xena Salam Alai came into the tent and she asks Imam
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Sajad, what do you want me to do?
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Do you want me to take you out of the tent or do you want, you
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know, you know the story, right? Do you want us to, you know,
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burn down and die right here? So Imam Sajjad, you know this is
27:04
not said a law in the rewire. My Imam Sajad actually smiles,
27:08
smiles a bit and he says towards, you know, her aunt, his
27:12
aunt. And he says you're asking me a
27:16
question even though you are Alima.
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Alima even though you know everything, Alima, Alima means
27:23
having the end without being taught.
27:25
And ladies in the In the era of Jahiliya, where people used to
27:31
think that girls are bad luck, girls shouldn't be born in their
27:34
homes. She used to run Hausa.
27:37
She used to teach women about public speaking.
27:40
She used to tell women about women empowerment.
27:42
She used to tell women about, you know, upbringing in the
27:44
right way. She used to tell women about how
27:46
you should be at home with your husband, with your brothers,
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with the relatives. So this is this is the role
27:53
model. I personally take lessons from
27:55
the design of Salaam Al Ali. I personally learned a lot from
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her. The confidence she had in the
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Palace of Yazid, the confidence she had throughout the journey
28:04
of Karbala and Kufa and Sham is unexplainable.
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I I become speechless when I, you know talk about ladies and
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Salaam Ala Lehha And then we get we have a story from Lady Zara
28:16
Salaam Ala Lehha as well. Once the lady in Medina came up
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to her and she kept on asking questions to a point where she
28:23
thought she was being a bit annoying.
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So she apologizes to Lady Zara and says I'm sorry, I keep
28:28
asking questions. So Lady Zara says Lady Zara
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Salaam Ala Lehha says she stops her right there and she says
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never apologize on asking questions, because asking
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questions and attaining God's mercy is a sign of a believer.
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That's what Lady says. She says that you do not know
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what you're doing at this moment.
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You're telling all the other ladies that it's okay to ask
28:51
questions. There's nothing wrong in not
28:53
knowing something. And if you shed light on the
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first verse of the Swan Tyler ever, ever revealed was he said,
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read in the name of Allah. So he didn't focus it on men or
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men read, he didn't focus it on women or women.
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Read in the eyes of Allah, men and women are equal.
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Their roles might differ, the account rulings might differ,
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but their role towards Islam, towards Allah towards albeit are
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equal. Yeah, so in order to and the
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fact the hadees we get in Bihar and Alwar that from the three
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and the 13 we've got 50 or 55 women, What are they doing
29:33
there? It shows the rank and position
29:36
of women in Islam. And it's not just that.
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I think from sorry to interrupt you.
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From the beginning until the end of early Islamic history, we see
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the fundamental role of women either on the forefront or
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behind the scenes. So you know from the time of
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Islam. Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
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Salaam of the wives he married was Bibiyum Salama.
29:56
The role that Bibiyum Salama had was so important in the
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aftermath of Karbala as we know we've discussed this before.
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Say this as you probably remember that both Sunny and she
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are still Revere her until today.
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But she's deemed to be the most or one of the most reliable and
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respected globally approved narrators of a hadith for both
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sex within this within Islam. And you know, that's on an
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earlier level then you look later on, you've got, say, the
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Hakima, one of the, you know, the reports of the birth of the
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Holy Imam himself that happens in sha Allah.
30:30
Next weekend comes from, say, the Hakima, the proof of his
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existence. You talk about Bibimasu Marcom.
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Bibimasu Marcom's journey to Hola Son was so strategic to the
30:40
point where she would enter towns and cities where there
30:44
were fortified lovers of the athlete of Islam, communities
30:49
which were only growing through her visitation.
30:52
So areas which the holy imams had passed through were
30:55
strategically placed and she made such a route where, you
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know, they talk about the the route she took versus the route
31:00
that Imam Radha Ali Islam took. It was so calculated.
31:06
I think some of the respect we give BB Mass Markov is
31:08
underappreciated, undervalued. She's the narrator of probably
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arguably the most famous Shah Hadith, which is how do we know
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that's from people? That's my call.
31:20
So some of the hadith we have come from the top, top, top
31:24
level scholars, those who put a lot of men to shame and
31:29
unfortunately we don't give them the credit they deserve.
31:30
Another at least when he says that hadith and he says teach
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the people our words and we'll do the rest.
31:37
Introduce our values, our lessons to the people, the
31:40
world, and we'll do the rest. It's because the athletics of
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Islam. Their words are magic.
31:44
You know their words are synchronised with the Quran.
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Yeah, side by side. They they, you know,
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undetachable. You can't separate them.
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So the words of the last sponsor are there are miracles, as are
31:55
the hadith of the other bitter themselves.
31:57
A lot of those are hadith come from the female scholars in
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early Islamic history. We have to, we have to give that
32:02
mention, I think. That's true.
32:03
And if you look at, if you look at the, the four greatest women
32:06
in history hadith from Prophet Muhammad, they were all women
32:11
like if they were you know Lady Miriam, Lady Asia, Lady
32:15
Khadijah, Lady Zara Salaam. So we need to know the the rank
32:18
of woman and they've got suitors in the name of woman.
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We've got all suitors and Surah Nisa as well.
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So and Lady Zara, at that time she told us that she used to she
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used to bring Imam Hassan Hussein from the mosque and
32:33
she's to sit down and she's, she used to be like tell me what you
32:36
learnt, you tell me. And then she used to act as if
32:39
she doesn't know something so she could test the knowledge of
32:42
the, you know, her children. So she's basically this was a
32:45
message that it's okay that I don't know something as well.
32:47
You teach me, you know, So a woman needs to know in order to
32:52
pass it down to her children and prepare them for Imam Izawana al
32:55
Gilad. It's really, really important to
32:59
educate ourselves for the imam of our time, and especially
33:03
religious and secular both, because if you look at it, if
33:07
Imam reappears, he's going to be like the pulpit is mine.
33:11
That's my job. What have you learned other than
33:14
that you know I'm going to OK, I'm going to continue the
33:17
message of Allah. Other than that, what have you
33:19
learned? But something that will never
33:22
obviously die down is the Quran. So personally, going back to the
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question you asked me, what helped me was to be honest, it
33:30
was reading the Quran with the translation and tasir.
33:34
And for the youth, I'll recommend reading Tasila Namuna
33:38
from Ayatollah Makaram. Sharazi is the most easiest
33:41
tasir to understand and it's OK to start low.
33:45
You know, as Sam tells us that there are scholars, they've
33:50
learned something, pass it on to someone and all that doesn't
33:54
give anyone knowledge until he doesn't make it incumbent on
33:57
them to pass it on to someone, right?
33:59
So if you see someone, for example, I always take examples
34:02
of stairs. If you're on the 5th step and
34:04
you see someone on 3rd, just pull them up.
34:06
That's why Imams did as well, like whoever, whenever in
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history. If you see in history whenever
34:12
someone came up to the imams, they never made them feel dumb
34:16
or you know, illiterate on something.
34:18
They was like okay. This is the answer.
34:20
This is where Allah said it and where where have you like their
34:24
humbleness and kind words at the end you've always heard that
34:27
they fell down on their knees and said I want to accept Islam.
34:30
That's what we should do as well if we need to learn from the
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role models of Allah Sabah Matala.
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Mashallah, mashallah. And you know what's beautiful,
34:38
right? This entire conversation, we
34:39
have to say Quran elevate, Quran elevate.
34:43
Truly, they are inseparable. And I and I have a question, you
34:46
know, it's just that someone just send in a question.
34:48
Ahmed shared it with me. And I was like, you know, if we
34:50
do end up mentioning this, I think now is the time.
34:53
You said the Quran is what helped you.
34:56
And at the same time, I've realized you always refer back
34:58
to the Echel bait, Ali Martha Salati with Salaam.
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So here I'm saying the Quran and the Ehel Bait are inseparable
35:03
and we know Hadith al Thakalin. Yeah.
35:06
Can we ever separate from them? No.
35:09
Someone that asks this question, can I have the Quran enough for
35:11
me or can I have the echel bait for me because I can lose focus?
35:15
Can I just add to that question as well?
35:16
Like is it so a lot of us will study like for example, you
35:20
know, a good place to start. You look at, I don't know,
35:23
Katabu Shah by Sheikh and Mufid. You start with Katabu Shah.
35:26
How do I then link my knowledge? Because there are times where
35:30
you feel like this is my Adam's make time.
35:31
I might imagine something Martha and I'm reading Katabu Shah
35:34
whatever it is. And then you're like, this is my
35:36
Quran time. I'm I'm on the Musa and I've got
35:39
the Quran I'm reading so far, seeing whatever it might be.
35:41
How do I bring the two into one? How do I how do I do you require
35:48
a minimum threshold of knowledge where when you read a verse
35:50
you're like hi, I know, I know that the context of this IA is
35:54
revealed in this context where the and the beta were in this
35:56
situation. You know what I mean is there is
35:58
there a stage, the minimum requirement of knowledge that I
36:01
need to have to be able to put one and two together, not even
36:05
1:00 and 2:00 but you know, like for like together.
36:08
Don't even rank it as one and two, but like for like together
36:11
and understand their their symbiotic, you know?
36:15
Yeah, OK I I I mentioned this which made me really focus in
36:21
the Quran. And the other bit, as you said,
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I mentioned everything back to the, you know, Quran.
36:27
Obviously everything is planned by Allah, right?
36:29
So Allah left some hints in the Quran and then he said if you
36:35
need the whole thing refer back, you refer to the other bit and
36:38
look at their quotes. So there's no way you can intake
36:41
the whole Quran without referring back to the Elbai
36:43
Talimasa. But what I mean to say is if
36:45
when you're studying one, are you by nature also studying the
36:49
other? Because if you study Ali
36:51
Abdullah be Taliban Islam, you're gaining of knowledge of
36:55
Imam Ali. Is that not also gaining
36:57
knowledge of the Quran? Do you see what I'm what I've
37:00
been, I know. Said I agree.
37:01
We're on the same. Yeah, yeah, I knew.
37:04
You are, you are. But again, you not get
37:07
everything. You can't get full understanding
37:09
from just one part. Of course, yeah, you need to
37:11
take. There's a reason he said Quran
37:13
and the Elbeit. That means he said you can take
37:17
something from the Quran but you need to refer back to the Elbeit
37:20
and again Allah. The Quran does mention about
37:26
Ekam. You know dawheed how you should
37:29
be with the relatives to a certain extent.
37:33
But if you go, I'll give you an example.
37:36
If if you said the Quran, the Quran says you need to pray five
37:40
times a day. But the way on how you should
37:43
pray is only said by a Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
37:46
The Quran says this is how you do.
37:48
He told us that you need to do, you know you need to perform
37:51
with you, but how do you perform it?
37:54
That's in the rewire. See The thing is I think that we
37:57
tend to have, I don't know if you agree with me saying, but
38:00
we've discussed this that we're we're we are imbalanced as a
38:04
community. There's no kind of doubting that
38:07
and we fall prey to being very one sided when it comes to Vicar
38:11
of the Ethel of Islam and not the same attention being given
38:14
to the Holy Qantan in these weeks coming.
38:17
Not even forget even the start of the Ramadan.
38:19
I should be on my Quran now, like I should be day in, day out
38:25
studying. And we've talked about this
38:26
before how you could take it in many options.
38:28
You know you've got 30 days, 30 nights, you could do adjust per
38:33
night, You could focus on once for another whole month, you
38:36
could do 3 / 10 days each, whatever it might be.
38:39
But as a community we might be like that quite often, right?
38:45
Where we focus on one, we're we're so used to growing in a
38:48
culture where we attend majorities and that is our
38:50
island big time and we feel I've done my religious thing for the
38:53
day, especially when you're when you're not a student of
38:56
knowledge per SE. Religion has its time of day, as
39:01
if your work has a time of day and as you're sleeping and
39:04
eating at this time of day. So some of us will have that
39:06
kind of mentality. Do you agree with?
39:09
I just sort of agreed. And you know it's funny that
39:11
we're speaking about this now about less than, well, by the
39:15
time this is I think just over 2 weeks ago, I had a conversation
39:19
with a scholar everyone knows and we were sort of trying to
39:23
see if there is a way we can bring Quran more to the youth
39:28
because Hamdullah, we love majalis.
39:30
The the discussion was like having shows for the youth and
39:33
stuff. Yeah, but there is more than,
39:36
for example, knowing about the athen debate.
39:37
Let's learn more about Allah through the Quran.
39:40
And he was like we need to find that balance where if we are
39:43
going to speak about Imam Ali and know so much about his
39:46
virtues and all about his history and how great he is, we
39:50
should also have that same balance with the Quran.
39:52
Because if we say we are holding on to Haditha Thakalain, if we
39:56
truly hold on to Quran and Nehalebate, we should have them
39:59
as equal in our lives. There's no point I like.
40:03
I would say literally from my my humble opinion, there is no
40:06
point going to imagine list knowing your Imam lamenting your
40:10
Imam, going over the history. And trying to live and be like
40:14
him but neglect that aspect of the Quran because they lived by
40:17
the Quran. And you said your favorite hobby
40:19
that Fatima Zara used to have was the recitation, recitation
40:22
of the Quran. And it shows the importance of
40:24
Quran that even on her when she was when Lady Father Zahra was
40:29
in her final moments, we know she was doing what?
40:31
Reciting the Holy Quran. Exactly.
40:33
And the servant she chose with her sister in the house, Bibi
40:37
Fizza al Islam be the peace be upon she.
40:40
What was she known for? Bibi Fizza?
40:42
She's to, you know, speak the verses of the Holy Quran, she.
40:46
Only used, yeah. Only used to talk, yeah.
40:48
Bless us. Only used to conversant and this
40:51
this was the person that baby father Machos.
40:53
Yes. Yeah.
40:53
So it's, yeah, great reminder for us.
40:55
Well, you know, this is where I live by if I, you know, believe
40:58
in the Alberta and Islam, I look at them as my role models.
41:02
So how is it possible if I think of someone as a role model and
41:05
not do something that they used to do?
41:08
Yes, right. So if they used to pray, you
41:10
know, Imam Ali is known for bravery, right?
41:13
He was, he was really brave. But have you heard that quote of
41:17
Imam Sajad, who was known as Saeeda Sajadi in the beauty of
41:19
prayers, the beauty of Sajud? Once he was asked, he was said,
41:23
oh Imam, you pray so much and you're going to Sajud so much.
41:27
So he says my father is nothing in front of Imam Ali Ali Salaam.
41:32
So this shows that Imam Ali used to pray as well.
41:36
So if you're looking at his bravery, which is obviously
41:39
speaking about Ali's Ibadah, right, But learn something from
41:42
his actions as well because not only the you know, the will, I
41:46
won't take you anywhere, will I with the you know actions will
41:50
take you somewhere. So the will I and the Quran will
41:52
take you somewhere if I say I'm a follower of Lady Zahara Salaam
41:56
al Alaahan and I don't do her job just like her.
41:59
And this doesn't make sense, right?
42:01
If I say I respect my parents but then I don't obey them, it's
42:05
it's the same way it's. Just because we haven't
42:07
understood them, we haven't reached that level of marathon
42:11
knowing what they represent, what they stand for and what we
42:13
should learn from them and implement into our lives.
42:17
Because ultimately it's it's just an emotional attachment to
42:21
the island base if all we're doing is looking at their lives
42:24
and not implementing what they did and told us to do.
42:27
And it's not maybe you could argue it's it's it's surface
42:31
level. So you it's it's not sincere.
42:34
You know obviously the Huda Qurano Las Bartala talks about
42:39
how prayer is difficult except the Khashi or those who have
42:44
for. Sure.
42:45
You know the sincerity and prayer.
42:46
Like I find prayer hard. Does that mean I'm not
42:48
insincere? Maybe I am.
42:50
Allah knows best, you know. But the point being is that we
42:53
should strive to such a level where thicker ibadah in any
42:58
shape or form, whether it's prayer, whether it's reciting
43:01
lamentation for the athlete Bacon was some, whether it's
43:03
reciting Quran doesn't become burdensome or doesn't feel
43:06
burdensome on us. That's when we know we've maybe
43:09
attained kosher like in that purest form of sincerity.
43:13
Because like you know I and we talk about this a lot how the
43:18
the model picture we have of Jenna is the like Ferraris and
43:24
like whatever Cadburys, whatever, whatever is there for
43:27
you PS Fives you know, But for for a motbin, for a proper
43:31
motbin, Jenna could be a a wide open space blank room with
43:36
nothing but a prey mountain at that speed.
43:38
You know what I mean? More hopefully so, but the idea
43:41
being is that that should be sufficient and we should be at a
43:43
stage where that is a goal. I don't know how.
43:46
Mum, Mum, Mum, Mum. You mentioned him earlier and
43:49
how he talks about Matt Leifer. Mum, Mum, what does he say when
43:51
he was thrown into into prison? He says that I'm grateful for
43:55
the opportunity to be alone with my Lord so.
43:57
I can supplicate you more. And that is, that in itself is
44:01
the mark of a believer, of a leader, of believers, you know.
44:05
So inshallah we can be at a stage where we can, we can try
44:07
and find a time or a place. Even my true belief is even if
44:13
we get to a point where in the coming weeks we try our best to
44:18
just really enjoy one prayer a day, honestly, like as a genuine
44:23
goal, try your best to really enjoy one prayer a day and then
44:28
you shall increase it to two and three and so.
44:30
On I'd like to link that to. Sorry to interrupt but it
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reminded me a very good point. On the day of Karbala, on the
44:37
day of Ashura, Imam Hussein said that the belief in Allah spawn
44:41
Allah right? So when he was raising Ali Al
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Azhar he says I it's painful and I I feel the sorrow but I've got
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the akin that Allah is watching me.
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I know that Allah is with me right?
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And one thing I'd like to put across for the youth, whoever
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struggled to pray or don't know how to manage life and don't
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take Islam seriously, know what Allah wants right?
45:05
Allah is not like obviously humans want perfection right?
45:10
This is a bad thing in humans they don't look at effort but
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Allah looks at effort but not perfection.
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So what do I mean by that? So even if you even if you going
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to sujood, just going to sujood in you know in a day or in the
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night and just say y'allah, I'm back to you.
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Allah does not love you with a condition.
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I might like someone for a condition with a condition or I
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might be, you know in a relationship with someone who's
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in a condition. But Allah loves His or you know
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His person without condition. Unconditioned.
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Yeah, it's unconditional. So we get a story on this.
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There was a man who used to sin. You know, he used to repent and
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he did that, break his promise. And he, you know, come in his
45:57
sin again for 50 years. After 50 years, he was ashamed
46:00
and embarrassed to seek forgiveness.
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Right. So one day he was on the prayer
46:05
map. He was crying, was ashamed.
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But he never said from his, you know, lips, he never said, oh
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Allah, forgive me. So he, he went to sleep on his,
46:15
you know, masala. And then he sees Angel Gibral in
46:18
his, you know, dream and he sees angels really asking him, he's
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like, why don't you say a stuff for a lot of why don't you just
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say, yeah, Allah forgive me, He says, how can I?
46:30
I have sinned for 50 years, right.
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And I'm ashamed. How do like Allah might be
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thinking, oh He's 50 and He's back to me, you know, seeking
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forgiveness and He will never forgive me.
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So let me put this point across. Even doubting on Allah's mercy
46:47
is a sin. You know Subhanallah, growing up
46:50
when I was Charlotte youth by youthful age, I always remember
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Allah Subhanahu Attallah. He will hold you accountable on
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your youth youthful age. So that period you know what
47:02
they said. What did you do with Shababak?
47:03
You know during your youth because that's when you're at
47:07
your most best you can perform and do everything without you
47:11
know having for example let's say sicknesses or
47:14
responsibilities and where you can focus on ibadah to Allah,
47:19
subhanahu matallah. So it's a very critical keyword
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you said youth and Allah loves the youth and inshallah we also
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love Allah Subhanahu matallah. And Allah as you said is Alhamar
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Rahim before Rahim and you know we are in Shaban and Ramadan is
47:35
the month of Allah. But Shaban is also the month of
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Rasool Allah No there is a hadith.
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I heard by I read by Imam Imam Asada Khalil Salam where he said
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Rasool Allah said Ramadan is the month of God, Shaban is my
47:50
month. And if you love me, you connect
47:53
both these months together by fasting.
47:56
If you don't fast the entire month, you fast the final every
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night of Shabani connecting to Ramadan.
48:03
So it's like if we're here now with Shaban and we know what
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Ramadan is coming up soon, we have to do more to change
48:10
ourselves. We have to do more and I think
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we have to take an initiative and hold ourselves accountable
48:16
and just stop sinning, stop doing wrong.
48:19
Just you know as you mentioned earlier on have that
48:21
relationship with the Imam, is the man like if I'm going to do
48:24
an action, is this action going to upset my Imam and count as a
48:28
sin towards me on the day where we all going to be held
48:31
accountable? It's not worth it.
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Well Allah is not worth it. We say we love Rasul Allah it's
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not worth it, it's not worth it. But I know it's not easy and it
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leads me to a final question from me sister.
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I want to come towards mercy door of Rahmah of Allah
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Subhanahu masala. You know Ramadan is coming and
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we all have examples of how we saw the mercy of Imam and
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Hussein with but what other examples can we know that Allah
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truly is Rahman Rahim? Because people reach a stage
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where they say I've sinned so much, I've done so much Haram.
49:07
There is no way on God's green earth Allah is going to accept
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me and allow me to enter his his paradise.
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How do we know Allah has forgiven us?
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Is it more than just seeking forgiveness?
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Is this like a feeling someone gets?
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OK, your question has the answer to it.
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So the the fact of you thinking that will Allah forgive me, Am I
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capable of forgiveness is a big blessing.
49:34
Not everyone has the capability of thinking oh some people just
49:37
live their lives and keep sinning and keep sinning.
49:40
They don't worry about the the fact of what will Allah, Allah
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think about me. So the fact of how do we know
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Allah Allah has forgiven us is OK.
49:51
Being ashamed what? Being ashamed is one of the
49:54
factors of seeking forgiveness. So if you sat on the musala and
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you're like, y'allah, forgive me, and you're ashamed that
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you'll never repeat that, OK? Being ashamed and never
50:05
repeating that sin are the two main factors, right?
50:09
So if you have that thing in you that Y'allah, I'm never going
50:12
to, you know, repeat this sin and I'm ashamed and then you
50:16
don't repeat that sin, you know Allah's forgiven you.
50:20
So the fact of you just thinking and going back to Allah and
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being ashamed this, there's no bigger proof of Allah's mercy.
50:29
And another thing, Allah not punishing you immediately is a
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fact of him being merciful. You know, you mentioned the
50:35
words feeling guilty, having that guilt.
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I remember there was a conversation I had a long time
50:39
ago and someone said, you know if you feel guilty, trust me,
50:44
God loves you. The fact that you can still feel
50:46
guilty if you've done something wrong that means there is that
50:49
the door of repentance is still open because people reach a
50:52
stage where they sins and sin, that sin becomes so normal they
50:56
don't even think it's a sin normal.
50:57
They make they think it's absolutely fine and they go to
51:00
sleep like they've done no wrong.
51:01
And the fact I think we can feel guilty and and Charlotte, we can
51:04
humble ourselves and feel ashamed and possibly do more
51:07
stuff. And being Shaban apart from the
51:11
fasting, apart from the charity losses.
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The this. Is the month of figures.
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That's true. This reminds me of his story.
51:20
Imam Ali asked Prophet Muhammad he was like, oh prophet yah
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Rasulullah, what should we do in the month of Shahaban in
51:27
Ramadan? He said just prevent yourself
51:31
from sin, that's all he said. He didn't say fast, he didn't
51:35
say pray. So if the basic, the main goal
51:38
for us should be preventing ourselves from sin, yes, you
51:41
could be fasting but you could be you know, committing sin as
51:44
well, like you know, backbiting, not doing the hijab, that's
51:47
committing sin. So generally our main goal
51:51
should be just preventing ourselves from sin right?
51:54
And just knowing that Allah is always merciful, Allah is not
51:57
going to leave you alone. Allah is always watching you.
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Someone was asked to commit a sin in front of a six year old,
52:04
right? And he was like, why are you
52:06
asking me to commit a sin in front of a six year old?
52:09
He might be looking at me even though he doesn't, you know,
52:12
have a grown intellect. He doesn't know what a sin is.
52:14
A six year old doesn't know that.
52:16
So then the scholar says in return he's like you're not
52:18
standing in front of the six year old, but you're sitting in
52:21
front of your Lord. So just have that understanding
52:25
of who Allah is and if you do like we get a story.
52:28
Again, these are all my horses stories where I've learned.
52:31
Keep sharing them we're learning from.
52:34
This there was, there was a young man who was, you know,
52:37
praying in a in a dark room. And there was a King's daughter
52:41
who ran away from the house and she didn't have anyone to say
52:45
overnight. Yeah.
52:46
So she enters this room and there's this young man in in
52:49
front of a candle. That's it.
52:51
And he just, he never looks towards the woman, the, the, the
52:55
girl. And she's shocked.
52:57
She's like, why is he not looking at me?
52:58
We're in a room alone, obviously the third is Shaitaan.
53:01
We've heard it. And what is he doing in this,
53:04
you know, alone dark room? And I'm a young, beautiful girl.
53:08
He's not doing anything. And then when she goes back home
53:13
the next morning, the dad asked, the king asked, where were you?
53:16
What happened? You know, Long story short, she
53:18
was like, oh, I was with the guy and he didn't even look at me.
53:20
He's like, bring that young man towards me, call, you know, the
53:23
young man, he comes to the king and he's like, how come you
53:27
saved yourself from the sin? So he says, I had a candle in
53:33
front of me. This story shows us the fact of,
53:36
you know, believing in the existence of Allah, Samarah.
53:39
What Allah. So he says whenever I had the
53:43
thought or intention of looking at the girl, I used to put one
53:46
of my finger in the fire to remember the fire of, you know,
53:50
the Jahannam. And then when he takes his hand
53:52
out of the other whole, all of his hand was burnt, whole hand
53:56
was burnt and it was black. So this it's like if you give
54:00
your children the existence of Allah.
54:03
Like if you explain them the existence of Allah swan with
54:07
Allah they will never sin, even if they're if they're alone.
54:10
You know if you know there's a camera in the room, you sit
54:13
still, you won't move right. You'll be afraid or who's
54:17
watching me. So just believe in, you know the
54:19
camera 24/7. My my father says is that
54:21
Allah's eye is the you know camera 24/7.
54:24
He's always watching you very true and and he's so you know,
54:30
Imam Ali says in Najib Alaga. I'm worried about the man who
54:34
doesn't seek forgiveness, who loses hope in Alas, Saban,
54:38
Ozalah. Despite the fact of seeking
54:40
forgiveness, you know from Alas Saban Ozalah, and be thankful to
54:45
the Lord who's you know hidden your sins to an extent that you
54:49
think he's forgiven them. Yeah.
54:51
Yeah, So, yeah. There's there's like a really a
54:56
final point for me and maybe a last question for you, but like,
55:01
we could definitely talk for another two of the reals, but we
55:04
don't need to get home or get off the bug if we'll get home
55:06
after Fajr, honestly. But yeah, I mean, look, there's
55:13
in terms of like just going back maybe a few minutes.
55:16
So you mentioned a good point about our our lack of knowledge
55:21
about or or maybe our our desensitization to sinning.
55:25
So we sin sometimes and we don't feel guilt.
55:27
I know you mentioned that as well saying, I'll be honest,
55:29
that happened to be today. So I had a moment today where I
55:33
felt like, you know, I'll do it later or whatever was in terms
55:38
of my solar. So I was like, yeah, I'll pray
55:41
later. A lot of this, that, whatever.
55:43
I was like, Nah, I can't because tonight I'm recording a podcast
55:46
about getting close to our last part and here I am three hours
55:50
earlier, five hours or whatever it was.
55:52
I can't be a hypocrite. So I'm like, yeah, that guilt
55:55
plays on our minds. That guilt is a good thing
55:59
because it pushes you. So you get up and then you go
56:02
and do the water's cold and but by the end of it, you're like,
56:06
yeah, it was worth it. Do you know what I mean?
56:07
You feel that, like that satisfaction.
56:10
There's nothing greater than that satisfaction.
56:13
Absolutely nothing greater. At times we feel confused.
56:15
We feel lost. You know, there's you know
56:18
where. What is my purpose?
56:20
day-to-day? Where am I going with life?
56:22
What is Allah? Sponsor Allah's plan for me?
56:25
Brother. Look around.
56:26
Look at the universe. Allah has created everything in
56:30
tandem, in perfect motion. The the, the, the heavens and
56:34
the earth. You look at, from a cosmological
56:37
and astronomical level, the moons that orbit the planets,
56:42
the planets that orbit the sun. You know the galaxies within the
56:45
universe. You look at a microcosmic level,
56:47
an atomic level. You look at the proton and the
56:50
neuron, the electron and an atom, how they all work in
56:53
motion. You look at the the beehive and
56:55
the bee colony. You look at the Ant farm.
56:57
Everything has its place. Animals aren't confused.
57:00
Animals have its its roles. Animals have its duties, its
57:03
responsibilities. But here we are, humans
57:07
confused. A miserable human being.
57:10
The irony is what we have the answer, you know, we know what
57:14
is what. We know how to reach perfection,
57:16
how to reach our last font. We can articulate, we can
57:19
communicate, we can contemplate, we can intellectualise we can
57:23
rational, be rational with our thought and and and understand
57:27
what is right and what is wrong. We can engage with others,
57:31
learn, you know, digest information there.
57:33
These are things which we have at the tip of our fingertips.
57:37
And if we are not using that that resource today, then you
57:41
know we are a lost cause. We're we're a defeated nation.
57:45
We are the nation of Imam and us like that.
57:47
That in itself is a heavy, heavy responsibility that we hold.
57:51
Like we are the chosen nation. We are the chosen nation.
57:55
This, this earth has existed for millennia.
57:57
We are amongst the last of of mankind who is in the Lord of
58:01
the awaiting the Lord of the Holy Imam Insha'allah.
58:05
So you know we have to use this opportunity now.
58:07
This may be the last time 15th shaban is without the Holy Imam.
58:12
This may be the last shahrah madan we live in or we see
58:16
inshallah we make it and we make it to the end.
58:18
But hopefully we make it to the end by the next year.
58:22
We're still here and the Imam is with us.
58:23
Inshallah, Inshallah. So I think you've given me a lot
58:27
of inspiration since I know you've definitely given say it
58:29
as well and I'm I'm without a shadow of a doubt I'm I'm very
58:33
sure that there are a lot of young brothers and sisters at
58:35
home who are very grateful for you to for coming on as are we.
58:40
So thank you very much to yourself also to your brother
58:43
and and your your sister-in-law for making the journey and for
58:46
for you know, allowing us to benefit from your wisdom, your
58:49
knowledge. You have inshallah a very bright
58:51
future ahead of you. We really look forward to having
58:53
you back on after model if you were to come on.
58:56
Or was that your favorite? Maybe we'll get Studio.
58:58
Up north to save you the journey.
59:00
Inshallah, is there anything last that you want to test, say
59:03
or add before we wrap up? Yeah, it's a quote from mom, Ali
59:07
and Najibullah. He says there's no point of your
59:09
eyesight if you don't have good and excellent insight.
59:13
So you need to. You need to know.
59:15
Mom, Ali had boss, yeah. You need to have the
59:20
understanding of yourself, who you believe in, what shahada
59:24
you've said, Who are your imams? What is your purpose in life?
59:28
All the factors contribute to this, which comes with the, you
59:32
know, depth, knowledge and understanding of the religion.
59:35
Islam, where would you take this knowledge?
59:38
What are you going to do with it?
59:39
Everything will be questionable. You know others are going to
59:42
question this as well. So whatever I'm doing right now
59:44
is a big responsibility and I will be questioned for it and
59:48
you have no excuse in this day and age of not educating
59:52
yourself. And you know, just educate
1:00:03
yourselves. And if you can't, if you're
1:00:06
struggling with it, start with the Quran.
1:00:08
Our Imam saw the 60. Mommy says there's no one person
1:00:13
who does not gain anything when he gets up from reciting the
1:00:17
Quran whether that's 1% of ill So we always gain something
1:00:21
while reciting the Quran which I personally referring back to the
1:00:24
podcast, it did help me a lot personally.
1:00:27
So because it opens questions, it opens your mind, it gives you
1:00:31
in depth understanding of Tori, the understanding of Allah, you
1:00:34
know, you know belaya and the rank of women, how we should be
1:00:39
with you know people calm everything.
1:00:42
The answer is Quran. So go look into it and you know
1:00:47
everything has, you know, an appetite to the appetite of our
1:00:51
soul and our heart is the Zika of Alaswan Matala and the Zika
1:00:55
of the Holy Quran. So that's what.
1:00:58
I'm going to beautiful and I'm sure everyone watching this
1:01:00
thing is taking notes. If you're not, you're in
1:01:02
trouble. And I'm telling you, there's so
1:01:04
much we've learned today. And inshallah, the advice that
1:01:07
sister just ended here was amazing.
1:01:08
And I just want to echo Ahmed points earlier where he extended
1:01:11
his hand and gratitude. You know, you've driven here 4
1:01:13
hours and you know you've shared with us your valuable time and
1:01:16
your knowledge and inshallah, it's a conversation everyone's
1:01:19
found benefiting. But the fact you draw 4 hours, I
1:01:22
think it's only fair that the viewers understand about your
1:01:27
recent work. You recently made the
1:01:28
publication where you author the book and I think it's called.
1:01:32
Can you just tell us a bit about it for those who don't know and
1:01:35
how they can get access to that book and where they can find
1:01:38
your work? Okay.
1:01:40
So first of all, you got a poem in that book as well.
1:01:44
So you contributed. You contributed?
1:01:49
Because you mentioned the just so much Sony, so we speak about
1:01:53
this book for. Yeah.
1:01:54
So one thing I'd like to keep tell the Youth is working for
1:01:59
the Imam of Imam of your time is working for the rest of the
1:02:02
Alberta. So they're going to ask you who
1:02:04
your Imam was at that time, right?
1:02:06
So do whatever you can for Imam is Amana and the latest
1:02:09
publication is on the Last Hope. So obviously in this world of
1:02:14
oppression and tyranny, the only hope you've got is Obama, Zamana
1:02:17
and you know, always ask him question.
1:02:20
And it's about how we can purify ourselves.
1:02:22
The concept of Roger, the return, it's on how you know,
1:02:26
the signs of the reappearance and what does Imam is Imam want?
1:02:30
There's a beautiful story in that book of a companion Imam
1:02:34
Ali, and we can refer back to our Imam on how we can build
1:02:38
that connection. I'm not going to give everything
1:02:39
away because then there's no point of writing the book.
1:02:42
And I've got all my work on Instagram if you want to, you
1:02:46
know. So it's Sarah Rizvi with two
1:02:50
eyes. Yeah, I'm.
1:02:53
Sure, there must be like 5 million Sarah Rizvi's in the
1:02:55
world. So the fact that you got the one
1:02:57
with two eyes. So if you actually, you know,
1:03:01
selling them privately. So I've not actually published
1:03:03
them. I know because.
1:03:05
You're both you're both descendants of the same imam.
1:03:08
Yeah. Mashallah and here I'm sister.
1:03:15
Thank you very much. Before you could you please ask
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Yeah, it's been a fascinating discussion.
1:03:48
We have a lot coming up in Charlotte in the coming weeks.
1:03:52
It's going to be a busy, busy year.
1:03:54
Busy busy period for us. So what else can I say other
1:03:58
than thank you sister and also thank you to everyone at home
1:04:01
for for being patient. If you've made it this far then
1:04:03
thank you for staying till the end and let us know in the
1:04:07
comments if there is anything particular.
1:04:09
We say this every week but let us know what you want us to talk
1:04:11
about, how these podcasts may be helping you.
1:04:15
There's someone who messaged yesterday saying how the podcast
1:04:18
has stopped, helped them stop listening to your music.
1:04:20
And that like probably helped me, you know, helped me like
1:04:22
feel like OK, inshallah, it's making some some help, some
1:04:26
benefit to people's lives. So thank you very much said
1:04:28
anything to add? You've said it all, Yeah, I
1:04:30
sent. I sent Tom.
1:04:32
Thank you. Very.
1:04:33
Much thank you very much for having me.
1:04:34
Honestly tuning on see. You next week.
1:04:36
Take care, Aslam Alaikum. What's a lot?