 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. My name is Shezad, so Sayyid Shezad Roza, and I come from Dubai But originally from Tanzania, so I stay in Dubai This is I come for Ziyara Alhamdulillah, I've been blessed to come for Ziyara. It's my fourth time When I came the first time I was like really small I came with my mom dad and second time when Arbaeen my second time last year I came for the first time and It was like an addiction. I said I have to go again There's no other better feeling than coming for the Ziyara of Abaabullah, and this was my second time Alhamdulillah Okay, so when I came first time Alhamdulillah I came for Ashura, and it was a different feeling completely I was told by my parents that how Ashura is going to be We're going there to give our respect to Imam So I was not really I didn't know I didn't know much about Exactly how it's going to be but I was really small but last year when I came for Arbaeen I was shocked by seeing the love people give you And what came into my mind was a thousand four hundred years back There was no one for Imam standing And the way today there are millions of people walking from Najaf to Karbala The millions of people who want to enter the shrine of Imam So it was a different picture completely. I never imagined it would have been like this I thought we would just come pray namaz and back home. That's all But it was something else. It was unbelievable So something completely new which I saw Okay, so I when I came for the first time there was like 2008 or nine for ashura I was really young so didn't bring a big change in my life Then we came again in between with family again So when I came again that time it was off season It was after Arbaeen after ashura before Arbaeen in between So I was asking a lot of questions to my dad What is Imam Hussein's story? What is exactly what happened? But I still I was still learning but last year before I came for Arbaeen I had gone back home for summer vacation and I was with mom and dad And I was just learning about Islam and then I came back to Dubai for uni and I did Muharram there So when I listened to the mudlices I got really attracted and I thought that There is something I want to know more and I had more questions and I said I want to go and see I see on the media. I see people who have gone for Arbaeen and come back So I really wanted to learn more and I thought let me give it a come and see how it is So when I came last year for Ziyara, it completely changed me That one Ziyara which I came last year I learned A lot of things. Not just about Imam but about Salah Example like Namaz, the importance of Namaz. I learned so many other things the importance of Namaz as Shab Then the love of Imam Hussein so the things which Imam taught us The sacrifice they gave the love they gave us all of that I saw with my own eyes So it basically that's what changed that brought that increased the love for Imam Hussein Increased the love for Huzur Abbas and me That one Ziyara which last year that one walked basically from Najaf to Karbala was amazing It's I don't know. I cannot even express in words the love that is for For Ababullah When Azair comes to Karbala, he should forget himself. He should forget the world This is a few days He has been blessed to come to the holy land of Karbala of Najaf We get blessed to go to Kathmand and Samara Maximum 10 14 days 2 weeks. That's a very short period of time So when a person should come here, he should forget his world He should give his world away only for Islam for the love of Imam Hussein for the love of Imam Ali and all the other Ziyaras we get blessed over here Okay, so Karbala it should never be a vacation Karbala is a place where you should come in grief So when I go back to Dubai and I get back to my daily routine Each day of my life Last year Until this year each day of my life. I waited for getting a chance to come again and Each day before I go back to sleep or when I wake up I have that feeling that I spent really less time there So even if I stay in my lifetime or as much as as much as love you give I think it's less You can stay here for entire life. You can stay here for a month two months I'll never be enough So when I go back, I always have that That missing I that say something missing Something less. So I want to come again Maybe Sakina, alaihi salam, even though she's not in karbala. She's worried in sham But I really feel sad and Cannot express The problem she went through Uh, she is like I come of course, I've been to Syria once. Alhamdulillah But whenever I come to karbala and I go I go to the shrine of Imam Hussein I give him condolences for his daughter, Bib Sakina where there is A lot of it's really hard for a father to Sacrifice a four-year-old child So this place is heaven on earth I've always come here and I've never left unsatisfied The only thing that Uns or I can say I'm unhappy about is that I'm leaving this place That's the only thing that bugs me that it's time has come. I have to go back That back to normal life again But it's never been or it will never come. I'm with guarantee. I can say that a person comes here for so the ziyarat of Abdullah and he's not satisfied There is no there's no Hajat you pray for or there's no There is no problem in your life which comes here. It's not sorted Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. My name is Muhammad. So here I'm from London. I'm in 24 years old and I work at a law firm in London I'm unmarried inshallah soon and uh, yeah, Alhamdulillah Motivation come to Karbala is purely love. It's the love of Imam Hussein It's the love of his sacrifice what he's given for us For us to come to pledge allegiance to him to give condolences for his family for his Sisters for his children for everything Imam Hussein gave everything It's the least we can do to come to give our condolences and to pledge allegiance to not only him But the Imam of our time when my brother was the first to come He came about three or four years ago And I really wanted to come because I've I've had this desire for the past seven eight years That inshallah as soon as I have the income as soon as I have whatever else Inshallah, I want the invitation to come to come and Alhamdulillah this year. I've been invited twice So Alhamdulillah, I feel really happy that I've come in the less busy time So I could spend proper time with the Imam Hussein sitting between the Zari of Imam Hussein And Habib ibn al-Mudahir and Alhamdulillah. I've been invited on Arba-een So I didn't get the same proximity, but the connection is amazing Alhamdulillah You know the sacrifice Hazrat al-Bas gave so as soon as you see the dome you start it starts to hurt you You say as-salamu alayka Yaqamra bani hasham You know the sacrifice he gave you know the reaction when the Bas didn't return to the women to the children And then once you've done the art of Hazrat al-Bas when you come into bayn al-harameen and you see Imam Hussein again You just break it just so much Imam gave so much And we want to come and give our condolences. It's just absolutely heartbreaking Personally, it's the story of aliyah akbar that always gets to me that I'm the oldest son of my father That I understand the relationship the love that you have for your father The sacrifice that if anything comes to your father you want to be there you want to protect him I I can connect to that kind of relationship and understanding what the sacrifice must have been for the Imam I don't have any children, but you can appreciate that the loss of aliyah akbar really hurt the Imam And so that story always that you start the narration and I will start crying You learn so much in terms of they say that he was the image of the Prophet in his religious attitude in his personality and also in his abadah in everything And that's what you can learn that you can try and emulate these people in your ahlaq in trying to Better yourself through your namaz through your salah in how you treat other people And I think that's such an important lesson that when you come here take away these Personalities these jewels that you learn how to connect better with your lord You learn how to connect with the Imam of your time and you connect better with other people that you learn that You see all of these pictures of the shrines from the outside of the zari room of everything and you You see the beauty But until you come you never understand the majesty That is so big and there's so many people and all of them are yearning They're crying and they're doing everything people will walk days. They don't know when they're going to get food They don't know where they're going to sleep at night, but they're coming because for the love of the Imam And that is the amazing thing the majesty the environment and the the connection you feel here is just incredible You can't experience it unless you come so the first it was Amazing like Alhamdulillah I got to really feel that connection. I got to sit next to the Imam I got to do all of the supplications that there was that I wanted to But this time it was so much more heartbreaking that we did a Jaluz throughout the night of arba'in And just before fajr, we come towards the shrine of ab Abdullah you turn the corner You see the shrine your heart breaks. I just started crying That there's so much sorrow that on arba'in, you know what the women went through You know what the family went through that you just cry you cry It's heartbreaking. It's just different coming during these special days I think it was different. So the first one there was a lot of ibadah There was a lot of Connecting with God connecting with the Imam of our time this time It was a lot about connecting with just the Imam Imam saying that you're reliving kind of what his family went through Walking to garbola You're connecting with his history and it just feels more alive. You feel that connection more and I really feel the Power and the connection this time whenever I strap into the shrine. It just lifts you and you just connect so much more Personally speaking for a long time. I struggled finding a job and I Applied applied applied. I'd done my university. I'd done my studies. I'd kept on applying. Nothing was coming I was working voluntarily and in february before I came I decided Okay, I'm going to leave this voluntary now and inshallah whatever happens after I return from ziyarah It will happen Before I even came to garbola. I got an amazing job offer And alhamdulillah that's just gone better and better and that's why I've come again To again because you have that ish that desire to come back And also because alhamdulillah I've received so much from that first They are that you want to come back again to connect with the Imam again to take away more and more lessons from him During our bain everything is submission That the way you're walking your feet hurt. You're tired It's very hot and you see it's november now even then when the sun comes out it's very hot But you're coming for the submission because of Allah because of the Imam Hussain and because of the Imam of our time that you're pledging your allegiance with every step And then when you're praying on time in the desert After you've already been hot after you're already thirsty again It's that submission and you will never feel such as like you do when you're doing the walk because your feet hurt so much But when you do the such there you feel amazing And everyone is just that constant submission. You don't necessarily know where you're going to sleep at night You don't necessarily know where you're going to get your meals from But you know that i'm going for Imam Hussain everything will be sorted and alhamdulillah it is I can genuinely say that there was nothing that I needed that didn't come to me If I was thirsty soon, there would be water coming my way if I felt I couldn't go on I'd find a companion that would walk with me. Alhamdulillah everything you could need it comes to you There's no doubt in my mind that the same will happen to anyone else that walks Off-season, it's an amazing connection that you can sit there. You can condo Give your condolences. You can do your duwaz You can just connect with the Imam just sitting there and the tranquility and the connection of everyone else doing the abadah It's just amazing I can tell you that after the first time I left I still remember karbala all the time I would have dreams about coming back to karbala and they intensified when I was coming to arabain That I dreamed that I was in the streets of karbala that I dreamed that I was inside of the harams And inshallah even before I left for arabain. I made the plan that inshallah ashura. I'll be here again So it's that constant commitment that inshallah. I'm making the niya now I'm putting my money where my mouth is now and inshallah. I will do whatever I can to return to my Imam