 I feel that my words are like the fire of understanding In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful May peace and blessings of Allah be upon our master and prophet Muhammad and the family of the righteous and the pure Among the questions that we ask often, ourselves Is what our obligations towards the master of martyrs Imam Hussain A.S. and his noble household Inshallah I will address several of these obligations Which are considered one of the easiest obligations The great sacrifices and actions were performed by our forefathers Some of them were beheaded Others had their hands chopped off, their legs chopped off Others were hanged to death And yet they stopped at no limit for the sake of Imam Hussain A.S. And his great tragedies There are some individuals that have boundaries When it comes to dealing with Imam Hussain A.S. And Al-Mahdi Allah and his beloved messengers They act within these boundaries However, our forefathers did not place any limits For the relationship with Imam Hussain A.S. And they endured everything The great hardships and struggles Therefore, as we stated, the deeds and obligations That we will discuss tonight Will be among the easiest of the deeds And the easiest of the obligations The first obligation is the financial participation Regardless of your financial capability Whether you're poor, you're wealthy Each one of us must and should dedicate a percentage of their wealth That they will share with Imam Hussain A.S. It can be 1%, it can be 10%, it can be 20% According to what some scholars say That some people pay hummus twice a year They pay the first 20% As part of their yearly obligation For the sake of Allah And they pay the second 20% For the sake of Imam Hussain A.S. Ultimately, those individuals Pay about a sum of 40% Of their yearly income This notion of financial participation Was introduced by Imam Sadiq A.S Imam Sadiq A.S. was once on a journey With a group of people And some of those who were travelling With the Imam were carrying money with them And during those days, the roads were not safe Yet thieves used to attack the caravan And the travellers used to take everything with them In case they would get stolen So these individuals Who were with the Imam A.S. Imam Sadiq They told the Imam that we are afraid That our money gets stolen From thieves that appear on our way And we want to leave the money with you The Imam rejected And he said, maybe those looters Who will attack you Will attack me as well and take the money They said then We shall bury the money somewhere The Imam said to them But it's possible that anyone can come And dig out the money and find the money Or it's possible that you will forget The place where you buried Or the direction where you buried your money In both cases, you will lose your money The Imam said then what should we do The Imam replied, he said Deposit your interest money With whomever doesn't lose money and trust The man asked and who is he The Imam replied, Allah They replied, how do we entrust our money with him The Imam replied and he said By paying one third of the money to the poor Now they're on their way in the desert They're like, how do we pay one third Of the money to the poor When there are no poor amongst us The Imam said to them, intense Make an intention That if you pass the road safe And you end your trip safely One third of your money will be given to the poor All the men made their intention And they went on their way They witnessed a thief approaching them They were afraid They said to the Imam that those thieves Are approaching us The Imam said to them, how could you fear When Allah is protecting you Those looters they came And they approached the Imam And they kissed his hands And they told him, one of them told the Imam That I saw the prophet in my dream And he told me to be at your service And we are here being at your service And if you want us to deter other looters From your caravan We will accompany you The Imam replied to them And he said there is no need for you The one who deterred you from harming us Will deter others from harming us as well They arrived to their destination Those men paid one third of their money To the poor According to the Hadith Those men who paid each dirham To the poor have profited ten dirhams For each dirham they gave to the poor Have you witnessed the blessings And doing business with Allah Have you witnessed doing business With Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam There was one Saman who was stuck With a complicated business deal There was no way out of it And there was no hope So what he did is he turned to Allah And pledged to Abu al-Fadr al-Abbas alaihi s-salam And his brother Imam al-Hussein And he said that he would dedicate One third of his wealth to them If this problem was revealed Through the help of Allah He was able to get out Of the hardship that he was going through And he has fulfilled his pledge To the last day of his life Meaning any money he would earn He would dedicate one third of it To Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam And to his brother Abu al-Fadr al-Abbas This is the first obligation It's the easiest The financial obligation Each one of us should contribute Financially to Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam Even if it was a small amount Even if it was 1% That 1% will cause blessings and mercy The second obligation is participating With children One of us should vow One of their child to become a servant For Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam This is the second obligation A man narrates once He said that when I was a little child Around maybe 8 years of his age He said I saw Sayyid Muhammad al-Shirazi On certain occasions And Sayyid Muhammad asked him The Sheikh narrates he asked him What is your name? The man replied Or the little boy replied He said his name And Sayyid Muhammad said There is a scholar A great scholar who shares your name And he writes an outstanding books In several volumes He said you should be like him one day The man is narrating He said in my mind he influenced me From my childhood till today Don't say that he or she is a child That those men and women Who are governing this world today Were children That word can be so influential That child is now grown And has been the great Shia speakers A motivated child can bring And can be a defender of Islam This is the second obligation The first one is financially The second one is participating With children And motivating them Vowing one of them To become a servant for Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam The third obligation is personal participation That one would participate in anything That is related with Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam Anything in many varieties In many different ways This participation can be done Through many different forms As I mentioned before We should not place limits To the relationship with Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam For example, participation can be simple As reciting Ziyarat Ashura That's one way to interact And participate with Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam And his cause Another story narrated by a man And on the day of judgment We may invade these individuals He said that his mother Would always recite Ziyarat Ashura For 30 years Every single day And she did not miss it Not even once He said one day She decided to go to Mashhad To visit Imam al-Raza alaihi s-salam During the days of Muharram She went to Mashhad And she died On the 10th day of Muharram And was buried In the shrine of Imam al-Raza alaihi s-salam This will be presented before us One day on day of judgment Where some of us don't even read Ziyarat Ashura Not even once in our lives Wouldn't we invade this woman For her status? These are all personal participation With Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam Another woman who would read Ziyarat Ashura Or another woman who read Ziyarat Ashura For 10 years And she reads it twice a day So she reads it morning and night Because she wants to make up For the days that she didn't read Imagine participating And interacting in all different forms Without any limits When it comes to Imam Hussein alaihi s-salam There must be no limits People, when they get older They start to place limits and boundaries For themselves Sheikh Wahid al-Khurasani He mentions a story and he says That many of our great scholars Depends on a fatwa If he had to consents Among three scholars And they would issue their opinion According to the fatwa Meaning that based on the consents They would be assured That there is credible evidence Since those scholars are precious And pious Who are Sayyid Mirza Or are Mirza Shirazi A scholar and a leader of Iran's Tobacco Revolution And Mirza Muhammad Taqia Shirazi Who is a scholar from the 19th and 20th century Who led the great Against British occupation in Iraq If those three Would agree on specific religious ruling Other scholars would issue their fatwa And rulings according to theirs As you are aware That the Sheikh Muhammad Taqia Shirazi Was a supreme religious authority For the Shia Muslims And had led one of the great Revolutions in history So he was both a religious And a political leader Yet the Mirza would do something On the 10th day of Muharram Which most of us wouldn't do He would come out from his house Barefooted without a turban And he would walk and mourn With the marchers He would walk and mourn Imam Hussain A.S. And he would beat his chest Sheikh Wahid says That Mirza has excessive knowledge He would see the hadith Of Imam Raza A.S. Saying The day of Ashura The day of Imam Hussain Has injured our eyes And shed our tears The eyelid is the most sensitive And delicate part of the body How much would someone Have to cry in order For their eyelid to be injured I still haven't witnessed anyone Who injured their eyelids Due to excessive crying Imam Raza A.S. Says the day of Ashura Has injured our eyelids In Ziyarat al-Nahi al-Mughaddasa For Imam Al-Mahdi A.S. He says I will lament you Every morning and every evening And will we blood instead of tears Meaning due to excessive Crying His tears would come out Blood Therefore it's not strange For Mirza al-Shirazi To come out barefooted On the day of Ashura Sayyed Bahra al-Uloom He threw his turban And his cane And he started marching With the people And beating his chest The students who were accompanying him This doesn't suit you You're a great scholar Later he was asked For the reason behind his action He said I witnessed With my own eyes Imam al-Mahdi barefooted With no amama No turban marching with those marchers Thus Imam al-Mahdi Participates in such rituals And such programs What are our excuses For not participating We should Not place any limits When it comes to Imam Hussain al-Islam And we should make Majalis And serve food Therefore this is the third obligation We should participate In various forms And method of participating Without any limits We ask Allah SWT To grant us with success For such a task We pray to Allah And to Muhammad And to the best of the best In the prayers of Imam Imam al-Hujj Imam al-Hussain Prayers to Allah So I will bury you In the morning And in the evening Will he benefit From this sentence Because he wants to bury Imam al-Hussain In the morning and in the evening When he wakes up He will say And in the evening He will say From the door that Imam Prayers to Allah