 Ladies and gentlemen, salamun alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. You know, I pray to God that you guys are having a good night. I know time shifted and time difference in Karbala, another country as well. So we had to shift it back an hour. We do apologize for those who were tuning in. But everyone stayed the same. The timing still stayed the same. I just had to, you know, throw that out. Welcome to episode 13 of hashtag LNT. The late night talk with me, your favorite host, Ahmed Ali, now tonight is a very nice topic. You know, we're trying to shift it up a little bit, trying to give you guys another, a different vibe. Tonight, why should I get to help you a lot? Because for the people living in the West, you need tonight's episode. So I advise you to stay tuned in. Yeah. Welcome back, dear viewers. Hoping, inshallah, are all doing well. And as I mentioned, you know, tonight's episode is going to affect you in a lot of ways. And if you're lost, you're going to find a guide. But before we tell you what tonight's episode is, let's check out West Trending. Now, for the people who have Facebook and, you know, a lot of people do have Facebook around the world. Now, Facebook has been through a huge mess with the data breaches that have affected around 15 million users. Now, Mark Zuckerberg, he apologized to his Facebook users. And, you know, the apology didn't do anything, though, because honestly, Facebook went down $58 billion. The value of Facebook, $58 billion. I mean, you know, sometimes when you go, you know, when you get fined, you might get fined $400. This guy got, you know, went down. The value of Facebook went down $58 million. But, you know, these guys make it in the next day. So it doesn't really matter for us, you know. Yeah. So two thumbs down, Mark. I know you're watching the show. I made sure you do that, you know. But I used to love you. I still do, you know. I still do. You gave us a great way to communicate. But, I mean, come on, man. Do we need to do this? Anyways, what else is trending? A huge fire ripped through a shopping entertainment mall in Siberia, killing at least 64 people. The witnesses says, the witnesses, they say, or Russian investigators, they say that there was no fire. There were no fire alarms. And the escape gates and the escape and exits were blocked. Tens of people are also listed as missing. Hopefully, inshallah, we can, you know, people can find their relatives or whoever's missing can be found ASAP. But let's jump into tonight's episode or there's a video. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go check out the video. So the fire is quite bad. I mean, oh my goodness, as you can see right there. But, you know, flames and flames everywhere. You know, we do feel sorry. I shouldn't be laughing, but we do feel sorry for those who lost their lives and our hearts with the families of the victims, hopefully, inshallah, they can be, you know, granted with the best rewards. Definitely inshallah. But let's go into a very quick break and come back and talk about tonight's episode because honestly, who doesn't want to be guided? Everyone or at least some people, most people have a vision or go in life. Now there are multiple paths that may lead to this goal, but the destination is one and funny thing, still people still managed to go astray. Now, you know, as the saying all goes, the famous saying, all the roads lead to Rome. We start from there. However, there is one correct straight path that guarantee that guarantees you the reach to your goal. You know, nowadays, we have a lot of ways. We'll get to talk about that later on, but thankfully we have guides that ensure us and guarantees us the arrival at our destination and tell us where to go, a.k.a. GPS, but we'll get to talk about it more. Let's say you're lost in a remote village. You know, I don't know why you're in a remote village, but you know, maybe you're going hiking, maybe you're going on an adventure, but anyways, you're lost in a remote village and you don't know where to go. So the best solution, the best thing to do is what? The best thing to do is to find a villager and ask him for directions because honestly, if you're in a remote village, there's not a lot of people there. So everyone knows where to go and all the shortcuts and stuff. So you ask a villager because he probably knows the village on the back of his hand, but when you find that villager, you ask him for destinations. If you don't find that villager, a map. If you don't have a map, look for someone that doesn't have a map. And if you don't find that, then good luck. I don't know where you're going to end up. But this tells us that the goal in life is to have a guide. That's one and a map, of course. That's two. And we also need something to show us where to go and to ensure us that the destination we're going to is 100% reachable. And for example, to bring an example about this, you know, a lot of people have a goal in mind. Their goal, so for example, one's goal is medicine school. One's goal is to become a doctor. They have to go a couple of stages. You know, for example, they have to go through elementary, they have to go through high school, middle school, middle school, high school, university, and then med school. Someone wants to be rich. One word, hustle. You need to hustle your way through and work hard. Work hard, play hard, and you become rich. A lot of people have other goals as well. And for a lot of people, they have this vision. Everyone differs in their goal and their vision. People think that their main goal is success. Their main goal is wealth. Their main goal is having a beautiful wife. Their main goal is having wealth and a beautiful wife. A lot of people do focus on the materialistic thing. When you talk about goals, they tend to look at, and for me, you know, I'm not saying I'm not a materialistic guy. For me, I love, you know, to buy stuff and think about stuff, but at the same time, you have to think about other things as well. You know, but the first thing when you ask someone, what's your goal? The goal in life, for me, or other people when they want to answer, as a spontaneous answer, would be to have a nice job, have a nice house, have a nice car, you know, those good stuff. But this guide or the guides that will lead us to where we haven't mentioned the goal yet, those guides or the guide are the apostles or saints of God sent down on earth with a map, you know, and the funny thing is, a lot of people tend to look for that map. Well, I don't know if they found it or not. I don't know how I'm kidding. But that map is a divine book. Now, before Islam, there was the Bible and then before that, there was the Torah. But those divine books are the maps that lead you to where, that leads you to perfection and that leads you to the right path. This is the only way to reach that destination. Now, this brings us to tonight's question. How do you guide? I thought this camera was on me. Again, three, two, one, three, two, one. How do you guide others to the right path? How do you do that? I'm trying to find out because honestly, for me, I have like three ways to, to, to that, you know, may lead us to the right path. But do call now because the lines are open. The lines are open. Plus nine, six, four, seven, seven, four, oh, six, seven, thirteen, eighteen, thirty-six, sorry, eighteen, thirty-six. The lines are now open. You can share your opinion with us by dialing that number via WhatsApp. Everyone has data. Everyone has Wi-Fi. Everyone has, has internet. There's no excuse for you to not share your opinion and hashtag LNT the late night talk. So you can also join our live Facebook at Imam Hussain 3TV or at LNT.Show. We are live on Facebook. Do comment there and let us know what you think about tonight's question. How do you guide others to the right path? Now we'll take a very, very short break and move back very shortly with you, man. Welcome back, viewers. Hope you enjoy that, you know, that 10-second break that we had right there. But just to recap and to let you guys know what we're talking about today. If you just tuned in, welcome to hashtag LNT. If you're still watching, also welcome to hashtag LNT. But tonight's question, how do you guide others to the right path? Now you guys get to decide which path that we're talking about today because we're going to conclude which path it is at the end of episode. But which path are you willing to talk about? Or are you willing to share your opinion about? A lot of people say the path of success, the path of, you know, occupation, the path of wealth, the path of women, some people say, the path of cars, whatever, you know, whatever path that you think, so whatever path that you think is suitable for you to do join us. But, you know, another cup of water from heaven, you know, see the cameraman, the crew team, you know, the guy felt bad, you know, so he's like, during the break, I want water. So he's like, how do I leave Ahmed Ali with no water? You know, that just shows, you know, because it's a two-way thing, you know, it's mutual. I take care of them, they take care of me. Yeah, but yes, yeah. Let me just, you know, I'll drink a bit more and we'll go to a short break and come back. Go ahead. A lot of people when we're talking about guiding others and talking about the right path, a lot of people do mention the idea that it's the responsibility of every single individual to guide others to the right path. For example, if anyone, if you're sitting in class in university, if you're sitting in university and there's someone that, you know, in your class that's not on the right pace as the study, it's your responsibility. Whether you think it is or you don't, it's your responsibility to tell that individual, you know what, as a classmate, the responsibility as a classmate, to tell that person, you know what, you're not doing this properly, you should do it this way, you know, always learn and always grow. So that responsibility is a burden on the shoulders of everyone and on humanity, but I don't know why they're laughing. Now, depending on what faith or what religion you're from, a lot of people, if a Christian, he's going to call you towards Christianity. If he's Hindu, he's going to call you towards Hinduism. If they're, you know, Jews, Jewish, he's going to try to talk to you about Judaism, but we'll continue that right after we read this message that we just received right now from, who would you have a message from? Yeah, so we have a message from Muhammad. Now, Muhammad from the USA, he says, I think, yeah, so Muhammad from the USA, he says, I think that it's best to study Hausa in the holy city of Najaf or Qom and then spread the message of Ahlul Bayt to the world. Thank you very much, brother Muhammad from the USA. You know, yes, if you feel like that's the way to go, go ahead, bro. No one's stopping you. Go ahead and then start spreading the message of Islam. Why not? If you're trying to spread the message of Islam, we have over a hundred billion Muslims on this planet and it's the responsibility of every single Muslim, not to only, you know, Imam Sadiq, he says this, we do want to talk about a bit religious today. We thought, you know, why don't we just, you know, shift gears a little bit, talk about religion. But it's the responsibility of every single individual because Imam Sadiq, he says, you know, guide others through your actions and that's what we need to do is to guide others through their actions. But is that the right way or is that the path that you're trying to guide people to? We're trying to find out later on in tonight's episode, inshallah. Now the holy book in the first chapter, the holy book of Islam, the first chapter, I hope you guys know what the first chapter is not Baqarah, it's al-Fatiha, like the beginning, al-Fatiha, the beginning. But yeah, so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in verse six or seven, he says, guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom you have bestowed favor upon, not of those who you have invoked your anger, or of those who are astray. I sound like a scholar right now. You know, I should put out my Rasala'a Amaliyah, you know, my religious, how's a PhD if you will, and become a scholar right away. But the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, as a guide, but we do have a call before we talk about Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We have Muhammad Nusra from the USA. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah, welcome to hashtag LNT and tonight's question is how do you guide others to the right path? I believe that number one, in order to bring people to the right path, I think we have to be on the right path. If we want to guide people to salvation and everything, I mean, we shouldn't be hypocrites and do the things that our faith denies or doesn't approve of. Yes. I want to guide a brother or sister that doesn't understand the reality of being Islam, but I truly believe that we have to uphold and practice what we preach. Would you agree? Yes, that's actually very true. Now, a lot of people do wonder about the path. Now, in your opinion, what is the right path? Number one, I think the right path is found. If I could easily give you the frank answer like Islam's the right path. That's right. But the end of the day Islam is the faith that Allah brought down to mankind through the Holy Prophet. Yeah. And there are certain levels within the Islam a person can read. Yes. We look at the Qur'an describes the certain types of selves. I don't know one. I don't know if it's true. Yeah. And if I could give you just to say that Islam is the right path, I mean, I have to figure out who I am to say something like that. Yeah. Yes, I truly believe that Islam is the way of Allah. At the end of the day, Allah requires us more than to just sell ourselves as slaves to one way of thinking. We have to take into consideration our brothers and sisters from other faiths. Yes. And with Islam, with the power of our faith, that's how we are able to guide you to the right path. Raise our levels to that nefs and that certain soul, that certain self, and ultimately guide people to faith with our actions. Yes. Yes. Thank you very much, brother Muhammad al-Musser from the United States for joining us tonight. And yes, very valid points for tonight's episode. Thank you very much once again. Now going back to the points, I want to talk about the points that Muhammad mentioned, and we do remind viewers of the question before we talk about the points. The question is, how do you guide others to the right path? How do you, yeah, you, how do you guide others to the right path? You know, how do you guide your friends? How do you guide your family? How do you guide your boyfriend and girlfriend? Astaghfirullah, maybe you don't have, but you know, just in case you fall in that deep road, how do you guide them? No, you know, your co-workers at home and co-workers at home, your co-workers at work, your classmates, you know, sometimes you have to even guide your parents. And if you're a parent, you have to guide your children. So call in, pick up the phone, call in dial the number, that's plus nine six four seven seven four, oh six seven eighteen thirty six. I have that number memorized in the back of my head because you know, I'm the one and only baby, I'm the one and only, you know, I have to hashtag L and T the late night talk is the logo this way or this way? It's this way, right? Yeah, yeah, it's this way. This logo right there is the guide. That's what you're trying to conclude with. This is the guide, but we'll take a short break and back very short. Don't go away. Welcome back, my sisters and bros. Hope y'all are doing well. Once again, I do welcome to hashtag L and T. But before we took that 10 second break, we were talking about the question and the ways you can contact us. We are live on Facebook, so do share your opinion on there. You can send us an audio message. You can send us a text message at the WhatsApp number shown below or you can call that same number via WhatsApp as well and share your opinions, share your opinion with us today. Now, we do, I just received another message. Now, we got Jessica from Sweden. Now, Jessica from Sweden, she says as a faithful Christian, I depend on the Holy Bible and spreading Jesus' message of peace and love to all. I hope that everyone finds the truth, the truth through the Messiah. God bless. Thank you very much, Jessica, from Sweden for joining us tonight. And yes, as I mentioned earlier, whatever faith, whatever faith or religion you're following, we're always trying to guide people to that faith. Thank you very much for joining us, Jessica, for tonight. And we always should have a guide. Whether you guide Jesus, whether you guide Moses, whether you guide the Messiah, whether you guide is Ahmad Ali, you know, hashtag NNT. You need to search for that guide to take you to Allah, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and what better guide the hashtag, NNT. You know what I mean? But, we go back to the narration of Prophet Muhammad where he talks about Ali. They're giving us a few funny comments in my ear. Thank God these comments are not on air. But, Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in his Pharaoh when Imam Ali was leaving from Medina. To Yemen, he says, oh Ali, if Allah guides only one person through you, it will be better, it will be better for you than all that the sun has risen or set over. What is the Prophet trying to say? The Prophet is trying to say that, oh Ali, oh Imam Ali, if Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala guides one individual through you, you know, through your actions, through your words. Yatni means through, through your actions, through your words, through your manners, through the way you talk to others. That also, that all says it. And that all guides people, wow, what am I saying? That all plays a very, a very crucial role. What's wrong with me today? Wow, okay. Yeah, let me, let me just catch my breath and drink some water. Let's go check out the new segment that we have for you guys. Ask an expert who, no, no breaks. We were going straight to the video. Sheikh Abbas Panju, my teacher and very, very good friend to Sheikh Abbas. Yes. So what is Sheikh Abbas saying? There are sources of guidance and guiding people towards the right path. In essence, this in itself is a science and the etiquettes of guiding people towards the right path, the etiquettes and the conditions, the protocols that are required in guiding people towards the right path are outlined across a number of verses within the Holy Quran, of which we shall examine four for today. The first verse of the Holy Quran, which I would like to refer back to, is from Surah al-Saf, where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says within the second verse of the, of this blessed chapter. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Ya ayyuhal ladheena amanu lima takuluna ma la taf'aloon. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says within the Quran, O you who believe, khitaab khas. This is a command that is directed particularly towards those who have iman, those who have belief. Ya ayyuhal ladheena amanu lima takuluna ma la taf'aloon. Why do you speak? Why do you preach? Why do you call people towards those actions? Ma la taf'aloon. Those actions which you yourselves do not even perform. So we understand from this verse that the first criteria of inviting people towards guidance is that we need in essence to practice what we preach. Ya ayyuhal ladheena amanu lima takuluna ma la taf'aloon. Why do you speak about those things that you yourselves do not do? Therefore, if I want to guide a person towards recitation of Salat, I myself must also be observing Salat. If I want to guide somebody towards not performing ghiba, then I myself must refrain from ghiba before I invite others towards the same. Sadly, if I myself am inviting people towards peaceful Islam, non-violent Islam, then it also means that me myself as a practicing person, I must be non-violent and peacefully nature myself. Therefore, you find ahiba'i that the first criteria of guidance, i.e. being a source of guidance, inviting people towards the truth or inviting people towards goodness. Number one is to practice what you preach. When you truly practice what you preach and you truly believe in what you say and you adhere by those principles that you wish to teach, you find that your kalam, that your words emanate from the bottom of your heart and they go and they penetrate the bottom of the heart of the listener, the one listening to you shall also have an impact because the words that come out from your mouth, the art of... Thank you, thank you, Sheikah for that words of wisdom and for joining us tonight. And that's, that was the expert for tonight and what a better expert than Sheikah Abad's point to talk about tonight's episode and how to guide others. Now, he mentioned very valid points in that message right there and he says, guiding others first starts from us. We have to practice and believe in what we preach and that and those words, the kalam that what he mentioned, those words will penetrate through the hearts of the listener. So hopefully my words can penetrate through the hearts, you know, through your hearts and reach the destination, if you know what I mean. But we do have another message, we do have another message from, okay? So we do have another message from Jordy, okay? Jordy, I'll buy Jordy what? But Jordy, Jordy Ek, okay, I want Ek, okay? In order to guide someone to the right path, one must be on the right path himself. Yes, thank you very much, Jordy, for sending us the message. We'll go to a very short break and we'll go to a very short break. Welcome back to the viewers and we do welcome the viewers who are just tuned in right now. We're talking about, I'm really reading a few messages. We do remind viewers to call, send in your questions, send in your opinions via WhatsApp, either you can call it, you can send us a written message or an audio message on the same number. Plus nine, six, four, seven, seven, four, zero, six, seven, 18, 36. We just have received an audio message from Isra'a from Canada. What does Isra'a say? Assalamu alaikum, definitely very, very interesting topic. It actually makes us reflect on our own behavior, our own way of life and how we actually lead our day-to-day activities. I think the best way to guide others is to first think of how to guide yourself from starting with how you view yourself, how you view your actions, your manners and behaviors around others, because at the end of the day, the best way to lead others is to lead yourself to the right path. Make sure that you're sending a good example. Make sure that you're following in the right footsteps of the people, the great people before us. Like, for example, the Ehud-e-Bait, Alayhi As-Salaam, and those great exemplary leaders like Imam Alayhi As-Salaam, where he was able to show his great attitude, remarkable stands in history with the Prophet Muhammad SAW. So there's a lot of examples that we can take in history during our lifetime as well, but I think the best way is to start with the self, be a good model of yourself, and then move up from there, because before we think of guiding anybody, we need to guide ourselves first. So that's what I think, but definitely a great topic, and I do wish the program the best of success. Thank you so much, and all of us too, all those who want to work on themselves and improve themselves and, you know, continue being positive role models in this world. May Allah be with you. Thank you. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. And yes, as you mentioned, first, guide yourself, then you can guide others. And honestly, this is one of the best ideas that we can actually give. If a person smokes, you can't tell another person that smokes or stop smoking. Why don't you stop first? No, I'll stop if, you know, God forbid, someone drinks. You know, you can't just tell someone, you know, don't drink when you're drinking. Same thing. A lot of examples that fall into that category. So at the beginning, we have to guide ourselves, then we can guide others. Muhammad Ali Moji on Facebook, he says, guide yourself first. Yes, first guide yourself. Okay, perfect. If, yeah, you can first guide yourself. And that's, that's one, are you talking about me or you talking, should I guide myself? Of course, I mean, I do guide myself, but, you know, thank you very much. But we are getting a few messages. I'd, you know, no offense to the people commenting on their Facebook page. This is not welcome to Karbala. When I go through the comments, a lot of people think that, you know, we're having a live Ziyarah, As-Salamu Alaykum, Aba Abdullah. Yes, that's great. You can convey your salams, but my show is different from my very, very good friend, the brother of my Muhammad Ali, who has welcome to Karbala. It's not the same show. Welcome to Karbala is on, you know, on a Ziyarah. This is your opinion. So, yes, do say, As-Salamu Alaykum, Aba Abdullah, about your opinion on a topic after, because the question is right there and on the screen. Yes, but going back to the discussion. Now, and the question for tonight. How do you guide others to the right path? We've got a few opinions, but they are all on the same line. That is, we had a few people saying you need to guide yourself and then we had our expert. He says we have to first begin with ourselves before we preach to others. So the preaching can be effective and as effective as possible. Now, if just to say as a conclusion, all of those, the Prophet, the Imam, the saints, the apostles, as I mentioned earlier, I figured to look at their lives. God sent us 124,000 prophets. You know, right now, how many social media platforms do we have? Actually, we have what? You can count them on your 10 fingers. But God sent us 124,000 prophets each with a path leading to the same destination. Some may argue, you know what? Now, all are mentioned in the Quran. 25 are only mentioned in the Quran. Yes, 25 are only mentioned in the Quran. Okay. At least we can use those 25 to reach the destination. Now, a few examples of, you know, which prophets actually used their power to guide the people to the right path. Take for example, Jesus. Jesus, through the power of Allah, through the will of Allah, he was able to heal the sick. He was able to cure the blind and, you know, heal and bring back the dead, resurrect the dead. Moses. Moses, as a lot of people would mention it, he used magic to guide the people as well because, you know, his staff and how it changed into a snake. And then we have Prophet Muhammad, who brought the Quran and overcame the eloquence. The Arabs were known for their eloquence. But the Quran came and overcame their eloquence, the level of eloquence. But we hope through today's episode and through hashtag and through Mu'a, Ahmad Ali, you can be guided to the right path because honestly, you would be, you would be, you would want to be on my path because my path is special. And I mean, but thank you very much for joining us tonight. A big shout out to everyone that contributed in tonight's episode. Thank you very much. Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.