 Assalamu alaikum I'd like to welcome you guys to episode 84 of you know I don't have to re-mention it for 84 times it's episode 84 of hashtag LNT and you read right here to watch behind me does say 10 30 so you guys aren't for a treat we are life and holy city of Karbala and you know before the show you guys saw how people in the UK and around the world how they celebrated and how they wished you a wonderful and I hope you guys had a wonderful aid for those who are celebrating it great day for you guys but tonight which I talk about a topic that occurred on the same day if not a day later on the 19th of the Hajj a massacre happened in this very holy city believe it or not I didn't know until yesterday that this actually happened and unfortunately I didn't know about it but Alhamdulillah tonight we got to tell you guys what happened 200 years ago but let's go check out what's trending come back to you very very short once again we welcome everyone yeah that was a bit quick but we do welcome everyone joining us tonight now when the city that never sleeps sometimes it pays just a good little rest of eyes if you will but people nowadays are trying to pay just for a for a shut eye a nap store in New York paying $25 just to get a 45 minute nap you know it's a it's a treat you know Subhan Allah I don't know if these guys don't have any houses or what what's going on but you pay $25 just to get a $45 45 minute sleep now aside from it being a sleep store it's also a promotion for a New York based mattress Brown brand that's also there to show you how comfortable the mattress is and then you can buy it later on now it's not it's it's not just the only one that's providing you know naps for money other stores are also providing it but it ranges from 15 to $50 depending on the time you want to spend you know and that nap even sleep is now bought with money subhan Allah in a few years the oxygen we breathe is gonna cost us money but anyways let's go jump into tonight's topic now sadly several holy places in the world have history of attacks and desecrations the criminals that commit these horrific attacks which usually don't just inflict material damage but at the same time also result in a loss of lives for example we have the evangelical church in Shangxi China that was demolished with explosives then you have the Jewish synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazis and then you have the Hindu temples that were also destroyed throughout history basically most religious sanctuaries have got a hit throughout history either demolish once or twice throughout history and there's no doubt about that but tonight we want to focus on heaven on earth the holy city of Karbala the city where you know my colleague I jassim and I left and stayed here without you know staying in any other country the holy city has been attacked and desecrated by criminals for you know multiple times if you go through our history multiple times Karbala has been attacked but there's one incident and there's one attack that we're trying to highlight tonight and that's why we've gathered everything when you give you one question to think about for tonight your question for tonight is simply in three two one what do you know of the international day of Karbala's oppression what do you know about this international day international day of Karbala's oppression very simple if you do know what happened give us a call share the text message a voice message where and how the numbers popping up in very very short time plus nine six four let's pop up the phone number all right it's lagging tonight it's all good plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six and you can call us at that number and let us know what you guys think about tonight's question now as I mentioned the question for tonight is what do you know about the international day of Karbala's oppression you do let us know via that number phone number shown right there let's take a quick break and come back to you guys very short once again we do welcome everyone joining us tonight now before the break we were talking about some of the incidents that did happen history and other religions who did have their sanctities destroyed by criminals and so on and so forth now the destruction of the holy shrines or site belonging to any religion or faith is unacceptable by all faiths you won't see a Muslim happy well if not radical but you won't see a Muslim happy if a Christian gets destroyed if a church gets destroyed you won't see a Christian being happy if a mosque gets destroyed now in the West we see when someone gets killed they stand side by side unless you come from a Wahhabi background then we have no discussion but before we talk about tonight's question it's worthy to mention some background information about these groups of criminals also known aka's the Wahhabis that are still present even in today's world you know these savages I don't know how they you know compete with today's technology but you know they do but who have no respect for any religion any faith and they don't have respect for the religion they so call themselves follow it they have a history of destroying mosques churches temples and other places of worship you know in addition we can't really forget that the killing of thousands of innocent individuals you know that we're just having a good time chilling if they will and then you have the Wahhabis coming in and killing them you know for more than two centuries Wahhabism has been Saudi Arabia's dominant faith you know it's a radical form of Islam that insists on their literal interpretation of the Quran strict Wahhabis believe that all those who don't practice their form of Islam are enemies and here we see the the creators and you know the so called the officials of Wahhabis you know you got the senator right there you got the head of parliament and you know you got and then and you got the big bus and down out of Saudi you know we don't want to give any credit but you know anyways you know as you might let's continue talking what we're talking about so Wahhabism the main hub if you will of Wahhabism is Saudi Arabia but you can find its roots in some African countries in some South Asian countries as well now if you wondering on who established this not you can just write Wahhabism on Google and I'll tell you everything but just to keep it short Muhammad of Muhammad of Muhammad Abdul Wahhab aka Abdul Wahhab settled in the Middle Eastern part of Saudi Arabia which happens to be the birthplace of the real family that's that's ruling Saudi Arabia right now now he's the second guy to the left so basically right there the guy that looks like a staghfirullah I don't want to say something on national television but you know get that picture out of my face but anyways Muhammad of Abdul Wahhab inspired by the teachings of Ibn Taymiah who is known to be a radical by all schools of thought you know if you go to cynicism they're considered Ibn Taymiah to be a radical but Muhammad Abdul Wahhab and Ibn Taymiah were against any practices they considered as polytheistic according to their belief and mentality what were they or number one they say by teaching Allah through saying some prophets praying on clay tablets practices of rituals and sacrificial offerings and visiting any grave of any pious individual you sum those up you get a shia so they're basically against anyone that follows these and subhan Allah half of them are mentioned if not all are mentioned within the Quran so I don't know what kind of little teaching you try and take from the Quran now Karbala on the other side one of the holiest cities in the world and if that's undeniable human home to the Prophet's grandson was attacked on a day of ashura by Yazid and his armies everyone knows that in a few weeks we'll have ashura and Karbala on 6680 AD now about 1200 years later the holy city of Karbala was attacked by Wahhabis now allow me to tell you the story of Karbala second massacre just a few days ago we on Thursday we had Adil Ghadir the greatest aid the festive of all everyone is happy because the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law Imam Ali Ali peace and blessings be upon him was named as a successor of Prophet Muhammad by the command of Allah now this is all good everyone's celebrating it's a good day the greatest aid everyone's having fun however despite it being named the greatest aid in the most festive of all it does have a bitter side to it for the people of Karbala on that day 1200 years later in the year 1802 AD a large group of what a large group of about 12,000 Wahhabis headed by the Saudi king of that time Saud bin Abdul Aziz son of Abdul Aziz Ibn Muhammad marched from Saudi Arabia towards Karbala with the aim of destroying the two holy shrines in it as because to them this is considered as a polytheistic place of worship people as they believe people when they come to these shrines they worship the shrines instead of worshiping God what kind of mentality I don't know but they massacred thousands of people on that day thousands and to be precise 7,000 people were massacred and killed on that day sees large quantities of donated loot including gold Persian rugs money pearls and guns that had been safeguarded in those holy shrines and you and here we can see it's a drawing and of how they were entering the holy city of Karbala now some may start wondering why the specific day and and so on and so forth why choose this day to come to Karbala you can choose any other day to come and attack this place but why the specific day Adil Ghadir now everyone knows that on this day on this specific day all the she ever whether in Karbala whether through somewhere else now people come from thousands of miles away just to come to Najaf to celebrate this auspicious day near the holy shrine of Imam Ali peace and blessings be upon him so they chose this day as an easy getaway for them to get into the city not a lot of men are there not a lot of people are there so it was easy for them to get into the city when they left eyewitnesses as we're going to talk about them later on that they said that the attack lasted for eight hours and when they left they took 4,000 camels carrying their plunder so imagine the kind of spoils to them you know what kind of gold and what kind of riches they got out of Karbala now Alam Al-Amini one of the most credible Islamic scholars and very known wall Islamic scholars she Islamic scholar he states and I quote the Wahhabi is entered the holy city of Karbala with great difficulty and then they killed people and destroyed the buildings of the two holy shrines of Mount Hussain and his brother Abul-Fadil Abbas peace and blessings be upon them looting valuables and then setting fire to those holy shrines now imagine what Karbala was going through I mean if you just imagine for those who have come to Karbala close your eyes and imagine the place you were standing in bin Haramain Karbala the two shrines being destroyed and let on fire you know what would be your reaction now we would call it inhumane but surprisingly those people are still in the government who did that now according to an eyewitness account JB Rose Russo in his description of the historical note on the Wahhabi's Paris 1809 the events that transpired are as following and I quote we have recently seen a horrible example of the Wahhabi's crucial fanaticism in the terrible fate of the mosque of Imam Hussain incredible wealth was stolen and thousands were killed by Wahhabi's 12,000 of their men suddenly attacked the mosque of Imam Hussain after seizing more spoils than they had ever seized after the greatest victories they put everything to fire and sword the elderly women and children everybody died by the barbarian sword besides it is said that whatever whenever they saw pregnant women they disemboweled her and left her fetus on the mother's bleeding corpse their cruelty could not be satisfied they did not seize their murders and blood flowed like water as a result of the bloody catastrophe thousands of people perished the Wahhabi's carried off their plunder on the backs of 4,000 camels if you want to see where this is written you can go back to Russo's description page 74 to 75 you'll find the whole article there and the whole eyewitness testimony and that in the article on these two pages now we all know that whatever happened on the day of Ashura is horrific and everybody agrees that whatever happened on that day will never come back again but if I told you you know right now we witnessed Isis correct we just went over the the era of Isis hopefully they don't come back the people who saw the criminal the catastrophes and and the beheadings and and the burning and the burying alive and shooting in blank spots and throwing off buildings and so on so imagine that cruelty and that savagery 200 years ago and imagine it 1200 years ago you know people don't change it's the time that changes you know yes 1200 years ago I was it was beheaded yes but the same hearts that behead him are now beheading are beheading innocent civilians nowadays it's the exact same so don't think that this is you know crazy and and it's nonsense absolutely not when you have an eyewitness saying that when whenever they saw a pregnant woman they disemboweled her and left the fetus on the mother's bleeding corpse you know what kind of individual would actually do that nowadays you know if someone now at school swears at someone and hits them they're gonna think he's savage you know why why is you doing that if he keeps on bullying others people will start giving you throwing out names out of yes subhanallah these individuals who you know ended the lives of not just women but their fetus their babies they killed little children elderly so imagine imagine what Karbala went through at that time therefore grant I tell us a tzadak al-hussain shirazi has recommended and has set the day of the 19th of the Hajj of every year so that's one day after Eid al-Ghadiya so because they they don't want the Shia to mourn a day on Eid al-Ghadiya because it is Allah's greatest Eid so they chose the day after it the 19th which a lot of narrations do say that this is what occurred but on the 19th of the Hujjah as the international day of Karbala's oppression this is very important number one it keeps us you know it keeps reminding ourselves of what actually happened in this land you know if you go to ask any native citizen of any country they'll narrate you the history they'll narrate you the wars the fights everything they know everything about their city but subhanAllah honestly I've asked a few people about this today you know that they've been in Karbala they live in Karbala their ancestors are from Karbala I asked them like yo what happened 200 years ago they're like what what happened I don't know you know so we have to really educate us I didn't know and to be honest you know it's good to say that I don't know I didn't know this you know for a couple days ago we were talking about the topic so imagine you know what imagine everyone knew what actually happened in Karbala the echo it would have on social media would have on TV and that's why we have our scholars telling us that today the 19th of the Hujjah we need to set a day and they have 90th of the Hujjah be the international day of Karbala's oppression because we can't let an oppression like this pass by and a tragedy pass by and be forgotten so this is one very important point to mention and until today and until now the perpetrators aka al-as-uud have not publicly said anything about this tragedy and have not returned anything from the stolen goods and from the stolen riches that they've taken from Karbala you know as a matter of fact they've only given weapons to those terrorist groups like ISIS and Qaeda you know and other terrorist groups to come and kill the Shi'a in Karbala and trust me when I say Muhammad Hussein said this 1400 years ago we say it today the Shi'a of Muhammad Hussein will never disappear we're gonna multiply and multiply and multiply get that Shi'a company working at the end of the day I would like to remind everyone that you know let's keep the day of 19th of the Hujjah a day where we can remember Karbala and remember what happened in this holy city let's hope that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala shows us his mercy and helps us to continue serving the al-bayt we do remind everyone to tune in for tune in for the upcoming episodes every Monday Wednesday and Saturday 10 30 p.m. Karbala time and if you do have a topic on your mind be sure to let us know by sending us your suggestions at the phone number shown below aslamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi o barakatuh