 Blessings upon the father of virtues of Fala Abbas, Aisam, and today, insha'Allah, we are going to be doing some lamentations on his tragic, tragic story that touches so many of our hearts just because so many of us relate to the amazing values that he displayed on that day. And from my point, I want to take you back, not to the story, I don't want to take you to the story of Karbala and himself, but I want to take you to the birth of Fala Abbas and his upbringing. When his mother, Ummul Benin, who almost taught him to be the father of virtues, teaches him how to pray, and specifically, preparing him for prayer in Karbala. She says, my Abbas, whenever you pray, ask Allah to protect Hossein, but don't raise your hands when you make your da'a to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. My son, Abbas, you are young, but now today I'm going to teach you my beloved how to pray. The rest of us raise our hands, and our palms face the sky. Don't do the Abbas. You'll make the angels cry. When we have dreams, Allah will call, but you pray for Hossein, and that is all, whenever you're in need, you pray for your brother to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. When you wake up for Fajr, and your Lord you call, ask Allah for Hossein's morning to be peaceful, and when the Dhuhr prayer calls your name, ask Allah to make Hossein's evening blissful. Ask Allah every single day, I beg you, don't let Hossein feel thirsty. I beg you every single day, say this prayer, to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. My Abbas, when we pray, we raise our hands, but don't copy us Abbas, your Lord, he understands. If you raise your hands, you'll hear crying the heavens. If you raise your hands Abbas, you'll hear crying the heavens. Why? Because your hands, they smell just like the scent of Karbala's scent. Every morning I kiss your hands, and I say they plan, and Allah plans, learn to use your elbows to hold your banner, to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. My son Abbas, we ask Allah when we're in need, and one day they will turn to you to intercede. Our Lord is the one who says, be and it shall be. I spend nights begging Allah, keep safe my Hossein, please, Allah take all of my children, just let no pain ever touch him, ask Allah to take your soul, and leave his here to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. My tears, they soak the ground when I prostrate, beseeching. They flow like a river, where I see you crouching. I see for the water your two hands are reaching. I see for the water your two hands are reaching, for you not to drink my son. I spent years praying. My Abbas don't let me down, throw that water where it was found. I taught you to offer all other's water to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. My Abbas when you do fall in Karbala, raise your two handless arms, and pray towards Allah. Tell him that you spent your life praying for your brother, but now on this day you have a wish from your own desire. Just a wish, say, oh Allah, before I am slain, let me once again see my Hossein. Try to use your arms to wipe the blood from your eyes to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. Oh my Abbas, whenever you pray, ask Allah to protect your face, but don't raise your hands when you need to prepare yourself for prayer in Karbala. Allahumma salli ala alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, once again, we send our blessings upon the father of virtues, al-Abbas, al-Islam, and today, of course, is a day when our hearts connect to the messaibah of Abbas, al-Islam, and we connect to that messaibah by the Lamentations and the Poetry, and I want to be joined once again by Sayyid al-Iqeem. Thank you for joining us once again. So Insha'Allah you have the Lamentations for us. Please introduce them. No, after that, Insha'Allah. Go ahead. So Insha'Allah this is a poem written in a way where it's a conversation between the L'Abbas, al-Islam, and Imam Hussein. Each paragraph has its significance and it's a conversation written by our dear brother Sayyid al-Namani. I just want to say what an honour it is to be able to recite for this individual and this studio specifically is right behind him. So this is like such an honour right now and to have it obviously in tradition this is the commemoration of his night and for us just to be sitting here commemorating his death in a language which is foreign to this nation here is just such an honour and blessing. So we have to just thank Allah for this honour. So this poem is written by our dear brother Sayyid al-Namani. Abbas please call me by my name oh please oh brother I now feel lonely with you gone who will be flag bearer. I look to you as the bearer saw me you stand so firm and you confirm our safety which now you fall and what do I do you're caught into laying my life be the moon's lamp that's now your stamp that's now your stamp. Abbas says oh master how can I say that's what my mother said this man respects until you die but oh master just one request remove the blood from my eye so I can see last time you won last time Hussain asks what will I say to Ruqayya you're here if I squander a heart will break her fourth quake for the water's sake for the water's sake picture the scene a tragedy two brothers laid but one can't say that's my brother Abbas say protect you Hussain says oh brother he's upon you he just takes his final breaths upon this land he looks to see Zayne being grief blood by the sun Abbas says oh master to rest here to their master a servant can't be buried so near be buried so near Hussain picks up the body parts of Abbas Hussain picks up the body parts of Abbas his left and right sums from the floor what that's was until the flash can be flag of the army were parts of him this broke his heart back on a part one last glance one last glance as we know they say that in every majlis from our scene I say the father is present so we sent our salams to her and we hope inshallah she accept from us a small service in honor of the father of virtues Abbas we were here today commemorating the tragedy of Islam and truly this story is one that impacts the hearts not just because of the sadness of what happened to him as a person physically also because we learned from how much he gave away how selfless he was they say there was nothing to stop him from drinking water to replenish his own energy which may have even helped him in the battle with his loyalty to her mom saying Islam and in the wider spectrum of things is something greater than himself something that we can learn as well was such that he didn't he refused to take a sip of water just because amounts in itself was thirsty that's how much his his loyalty was there are even stories that mention that the reason for the Abbas islam was killed was because he didn't actively fight in the battle with his mom saying didn't give him the fight he only gave permission to go and get the water to bring back to the children and these are lessons that we can learn in our daily life whenever we see someone in need of help whenever we see someone that needs a hand whenever we see someone that is poor living in austerity living under oppression that needs something from us whenever people come to you and me needing something that might hurt us to give away it might be difficult to give away it's in those moments in our life that we have to remember the selflessness of Abbas islam and we have to begin to ask ourselves when we are here on the seventh of Muharram every single year weeping as we all do over the tragedy of al-Abbas islam are our tears may a crocodile tears where they are just flowing because we find parts of the story sad or are we weeping and crying because we just like a full abbas when these moments are presented to us in life we will also give away what is there to us we will also be selfless for the sake of Allah and in the way of Maulana Sain al-Bait and the last part we are here every single day at 10 p.m. UK time 12 a.m. midnight Calabala time where life maulana Sain al-Qalabala which will begin with a show called welcome to Calabala which is your opportunity to call in and send your salams and your salutations to Maulana Sain al-Qalabala and perform a ziyarat thereafter one hour later 11 p.m. UK time 1 a.m. Calabala time said al-Hakeem I guess we're right now will be resigning ziyarat al- ashura live on TV thereafter I will be joining you inshallah joined by said ayah Nawab but we are discussing the journey of Maulana Sain al-Hakeem from Medina to Calabala in the context of what we can learn from that story and we shall conclude every show just like today with some lamentations in honor of the ad-libate and the story of Maulana Sain al-Hakeem and inshallah there will be a final show after the eve of ashura on the day of ashura itself Fasham ghariban so please stay tuned for that inshallah we'll see you again tomorrow waslamu alaykum jami'an warahmatullahi wabarakatuh