 Imagine, it's 1400 years ago, it's the 9th of Maharram. You're in your tent and at night you hear noises and commotion and voices coming from outside. So you leave your tent, you come outside and you see people leaving the camp of Abdullah in the hundreds and thousands. Looking around confused, for a split second your eyes fall into the eyes of Abdullah. There and then you, Jawad, decide you're going to stay. Knowing when the morning comes what's going to happen to you. So the morning comes, now it's the day of Ashurah. You walk up to the Imam to offer yourself to him, offer your service to him and he lets you pick what you want to do. What would you want to do on that day? I would sacrifice myself to him. I would do everything that I can do to help him out like on the day of Ashurah. How would you help him? Would you, for example, go and get water with Abul-Fadil Abbas, would you want to go and fight against the enemy? Would you protect the tents of the women and children? Would you help the wounded? Would you keep the small children busy so they forget about the thirst or their family members being killed on the battlefield? I would say I would help Abul-Fadil Abbas to help him bring the water to the tents. How would you help him? Because that day he was alone by himself, no one was helping him. So if someone was like to help him, to tell him like there's someone behind you, he may be like be safe and give him the water. Why have you picked him out of all of the scenarios? He could have gone to help Ali Al-Aqbar, he could have helped Qasim, he could have helped. Because he was holding the rye of Imam Hussain. So if he sat down, that's me like they were always finished and they won. And I would like, I want to leave him like be holding it for as long as he can. So yeah, that's why I picked him. Now imagine you've gone to college. You've had a long day at college, you're tired, you're hungry. You come home, you open the house door, you walk in, you see your family frantic. Each of them running around in a different direction. Your mums washing through, your dads trying to make food, your brothers are making tea. And it looks to you like you have a visitor, a guest has come to your house. So you say to your dad, who's come to see us? And he says he hasn't come to see us, he's come to see you. Now you think to yourself, maybe it's a friend from mosque or a friend from college or a friend from down the street, maybe one of your neighbours. So you come to the living room, you open the door, you walk in and you see sitting on the chair is Imam Hussain al-Isra. In that moment, what would you say to him? What would you want him to say to you? First of all he will say that I am of Imam Mahdi army. I will help him in the future. And then he told me that Jannah is your place in the day of judgement. What would you say to him? Anything like, mercy of Allah, maybe like he said, I am not Rahman in Allah, from God that's all. So now he's sat down, talked with you, you've spoken and he gets up to leave your house. What do you do? I would tell him to stay forever, I want to see him forever. Why? Because he's Imam Hussain. Here's a Master of Jannah. At the beginning I asked you about 1400 years ago. I asked you about a day that's already happened and gone. And I gave you, I said to you that you could have the choice of what you wanted to do. Now it might be easy to say, if I was there I would do this, if I was there I would stop this from happening, if I was there I would try and help this person so he can do this rather than them dying for example. A lot of us forget in this day and age we have Imam Mahdi. And in a way him being physically absent from us, is a way of him giving us a choice of how we want to serve him. Because he's not here in person to say, Jawad pick this up, go and do this for me, Jawad help me with this. So you have a choice in how you want to help him. What do you think you've done for the 12th Imam? What do you think he deserves from you? Well to be honest he deserves everything that I can do, like pray, everything that I like. For example he got Ziyarat to him so everything we can do at the ear. How do you think he feels with you as his follower? I'm not expecting anything really. Do you think he's happy with you, he's upset with you? No I think he's happy with me. What makes you say that? I always like read Daraat, I know I read Quran as well. And I go to Majalist as well, yeah a lot. What do you think the most important thing is that we can do to become closer to him? Just like key focus, religion, prayers and stuff like that, Daraat as well. What's your favourite Daraat? For me it's the document. Why the document? Because I don't know, when I read it I feel different. What's your favourite line in the document? Why those lines in particular? Because Allah is like mess food. So when I always just say that I feel good. I feel that something gone, something bad come from me.