 Imagine, it's 1400 years ago, it's the night of Ashurah, you see people leaving the camp of Imam Hussain in their hundreds and thousands, for a split second your eye falls on the face of Imam Hussain, and you decide there and then that you're going to stay knowing full well tomorrow you're going to fight in the war or participate and lose your life. Now the morning of Ashurah comes, you've become Abu Talib the 73rd companion of Imam Hussain al-Asr. Now imagine the Imam turns around and says to you, Abu Talib you can help me in any way you like whether it's to get water with Abel Fadr al-Abbas al-Asr or whether it's to bring back the bodies of the fallen ones, whether it's to guard the tents of the women and children, whether it's to stand in front of the Imam in Salat, it's completely up to you. Where would you like to participate and volunteer your services? Wherever I could put myself at the bottom of the rank so I could do the the the worst job just to serve the best. What do you think the worst job would be in that situation? If it's guarding Imam Hussain's horse or being a shield for him so I just you know give away what I most valuable have and it's my life just so I can have Imam Hussain for myself and make him happy for a follow-up. Now imagine you you've gone to work one day you've come home you open the door you see your family running around frantic everyone someone's preparing food someone's preparing food drinks etc you've got guests at your house so you walk in home and you ask your dad your mom what's going on they say someone's come to see you Abu Talib so who where is he how can I see him say he's waiting in the living room so you go you open the door to the living room and you see in the living rooms Imam Hussain alaihi salam sitting there waiting for you in that moment what would you say to him what would you want him to say back to you what would you talk about see the silence you just had right now I'd have the same silence I'll just look at his shadow I won't have the toughness to look at him personally just look at his shadow because Imam Hussain is a very big topic to me he's not just the person we say he is it's not just Imam Hussain no well I say it personally because I feel I have a very strong relationship with Imam Hussain especially serving Imam Hussain so I won't have the toughness to look at him personally I'll have I just look at his shadow and I think that would be like too much of a treat for me to look at his shadow what would you want to hear from him what would you be happy with if he was to turn around and say something what would you want it to be what would you be expecting to hear would you want to hear I've accepted you would you want to hear I'm happy with you I just really want him to say that I was embassy for him in this world which I try to be and I actually represented and presented what he taught and what he fought for and it's a true Islam and it's the salam our religion is named roughly now there's about 50 days left to Ashura and with hindsight might be easy to say the events that took place knowing the events that took place you know maybe I could have stopped this from happening or I could have prevented that from happening or I could have made a difference within this particular aspect and a lot of us often forget that our 12th Imam is among us and in a way him being physically absent from us has given us the opportunity or choice to be able to serve him in any way we see fit so what do you think you've done for the 12th Imam what you think he deserves from you how do you think he feels about you given that on that day I'm a similar salam had at least 72 companions with him how many does this Imam have well I tried to learn from Imam Hussein's companions and see how loyal they were to one person and how they serve the man Hussein although their their time and period and their generation and their technology and their conditions are different than today's conditions so I try and advertise and present Islam and 12 imams in the best possible way spread the peace and love that they taught and make people aware that you know he's still there and he's still coming and he's still you know gonna grab you know I don't know how to say he's gonna come and pick up Imam Hussein's flag you know really bright and high so he can show the rest of the world that you know although there's so much corruption although Islam has been spreading such a negative image although there are so many haters to Islam she Azzam haters to Ahlul Bayt he will actually prove the true Ahlul Bayt and how I can be one of his followers I don't know I try be as religious as possible as possible be polite be giving be thankful be peaceful help and try to follow some other hadith that have been written and say doing these acts are acting on such specific ways will faster the process of my Mehdi actually coming as a savior to us