 Imagine it's 1400 years ago, it's the ninth of Muharram, you're in your tent and at night you hear voices, you come outside from your tent and you see people leaving the camp of Imam Sayyain alaihi salam in their hundreds and thousands, and you're looking around to see what's going on, for a split second your eyes fall onto the face of Imam Sayyain alaihi salam, you see him in sadness and sorrow, there and then you decide you're going to stay, knowing that it's going to be Ashura tomorrow, so you go to sleep, you wake up in the morning, it's now the 10th of Muharram, it's the day of Ashura, you come up to Imam Sayyain alaihi salam and you ask him how you can help him and he gives you the choice, so he says to you for example you can go and get water with Abul Fadal al-Abbas, alaihi salam for the children, you can stand guard in front of the tents of the women and children, you can go and fight in the army against the enemies, you can play with the other little kids to try and keep them happy so that they forget about their dad being killed in the battlefield, what would you want to do on that day? I would go with Abul Fadal al-Abbas to get water for all the children and women because they would be very thirsty because they're being cut off from the water, so even though I would have to die trying to get the water I would still try. Why is it so important to get the water? Because if you don't have enough water because 70% of your body is made of water, so if you don't have enough you might get dehydrated and you'll get ill. Now imagine you're at school, you've had a long day at school, it's now home time, your dad or your mum's come to pick you up, get in the car, you drive home, you open the house door and the rest of your family are all running around the house, one person's trying to get fruit ready, another person's trying to cook food, another person's making tea and it looks like you've got visitors, you've got guests that have come to see you, so you ask them what's going on, who's come to see us and one of them replies they haven't come to see us, they've come to see you, so you ask okay who is it, you're thinking maybe it's a friend from school or a friend from mosque or a friend from out down the street and they say he's waiting for you in the living room, go go quickly, so you run to the living room, you open the door, you walk inside and you see sitting on the chair is a mum saying this, in that moment what would you want to say to him, what would you want him to say to you? I actually don't know, I would be speechless because such a holy man has come to see me. What would you want him to say to you, what would you be happy with to hear from him? I would be happy to hear good news, so like so there was someone ill and they have been nursed back to health. Would you want him to say stuff like I'm happy with you, I've accepted your service, would you want him to say these things about your family as well? So now you've sat and talked with Imam Sain al-Islam and he's getting up to leave your house as a farewell message, what would you say to him? As a final thing he's leaving your home, he's just come to see you, now he's going. I would thank him for visiting. Would you invite him back again? Yeah, I would ask him to come again for dinner or for tea or something. So at the beginning I asked you about 1400 years ago, I asked you about a day where you already know what's happened, you already know from history, from mosque, from reading the events that took place and out of them you picked Hazat al-Abbas al-Islam. So now in this day and age we have an Imam that's with us as well, he might not be physically here in person but we do believe that he's alive and he's amongst us and in a way him not being directly next to you in person and telling you what to do, he's giving you a choice in how you want to serve him. So what do you think you've done for the 12th Imam, how do you think the 12th Imam feels about you? I think he feels well because I'm still 11 and in Ramadan I've been fasting, I've been praying, I've also given to charity from my own money and I've helped out in mosque so I think he would be proud. He would be proud.