 Imagine, it's 1400 years ago, it's the ninth of Mahara, at night in your tent you hear noises outside so naturally you come outside to see what's going on and you see hundreds if not thousands of people leaving the camp of Mahabasin. For a split second, your eyes fall onto the face of Abba-l-Fadbal-Abbas, and you see him looking at his brother in sadness and his brother looking onto the people in even more sadness. So there and then you decide you're going to stay, knowing what's going to happen to you when the morning comes. So now it's the 10th of Mahara, the day of Ashura, you Muslim have now become the 73rd companion of Abba-Abd-Allah, imagine you walking up to the Imam and asking him what to do and he gives you the choice. So he says to you, you can go and bring back water with Abba-l-Fadbal-Abbas. Or you can stand in front of the tent of my women and children and protect them from the slaps they're going to get. Or you can bring back the torn bodies of my companions with me when I ride out to send them my farewells. Where would you want to sell? What would you want to do on that day? On the morning of Ashura, I would most likely beg Abba-Abd-Allah to help the children and the women within the tents because who do they have to turn to when you have tents burning calamities everywhere. They've got nowhere to turn to support them. What would you do when the army comes to slap the three-year-old girl, to pull her earrings off her face? What would you do when they use the wooden part of the spears to lash the women? And why then, why not Abbas alay salam when you see him carrying the water coming back to the tents with no arms? Why the women and children over him? Abbas alay salam, he's had the strength, he's got the power. The children haven't seen anything, they've never been through anything similar to what's happened to them. They protect the children, cover them, take what, instead of them going through the pains and the suffering that is happening to them. So the children, they play a big part in the day of Ashura. Now imagine, one day you come home from work and your family are all running around frantically in your house, one person's organising fruit, another person's organising sweets, another person's making tea and you finally grab hold of one of them and you say, what's going on, why is everyone rushing around the house? And they say we've got guests and you say, well who's come to see us? And they reply, not see us, they've come to see you. So you say who is it and they say they've been waiting for you in the living room, go and see them. So you come to the living room, you open the door, you walk in and you see sitting there in your living room waiting for you is Abba Abdullah, he loves him. In that moment, what would you want to say to him, what would you want him to say to you? I would ask him how, how is everything happening, how am I involved, what did I do to be blessed with his parents and him sitting in front of me, I wouldn't know what to say. So now he gets up to leave your house as a final farewell if you like, he turns around to say something to you, what would you want it to be, how would you let him go? I would ask him to take me with him if he doesn't need anything at his service and it wouldn't be easy to let go of such an idol. So you mentioned you wanted to leave with him, what about your mum, dad, brothers, how would you separate from them? In Ziyarat Ashura, he says, baby, enter my home, my whole family, I would sacrifice them to go and help my master, Abdullah. So at the beginning, I asked you about 1400 years ago. Now, knowing what you know about Ashura, knowing about the different events that took place, it might be easy to say if I was there I would do this, or if I was there I would stop that, or if I was there I would try and protect this person from this calamity falling upon their head. A lot of us forget that in this day and age we have an Imam with us and although he isn't apparent and visible to us he's still among us and in a way he's given us the choice of how we want to serve him by physically not being here and telling us. For example, Muslim do this, Muslim take that, Muslim go and help this person. What do you think you've done for the 12th Imam, what do you think the 12th Imam deserves from you, you who's so ready to sacrifice everything for one Imam, why not for this one too? Imam al-Mahdi, I just love Rajah, he's the Imam of our time and just like Imam al-Hassain, his word is my command, whatever he needs. From whatever it is, from if it's small or big or something that no one wants to do, I'm more than happy to do it. People may not want to do certain things because of the part that I just play. But personally I'm happy with anything that comes to me and I will be honoured to do it. Thank you very much.