 يجب أن يقوم بعمل الأسئلة منهم ومصاربهم ولكن يجب أن يقوم بوضع الأسئلة من المنطقة والأموشن ويجب أن نقوم بعمل هذه الأسئلة لأننا نعتقد بأن هذا سيأتي لك as you try to go from محرم back to day-to-day life in trying to ensure that you've taken lessons you've taken steps you've got something practical to take away and implement so that this محرم wasn't just surface-level crying rather it went a little bit further and as always I'm honored to be joined by my dear brother and we are now in the days of the Shohada and we've looked at Al-Qasim and we've looked at the Companions in particular and tonight we look to the son of Imam Hussein none other than the one who resembled the Prophet as close to the Prophet as they say at that time which was Ali and Al-Akbar into his 20s historians say a man who had such valor who came from such a pure lineage to that extent and I mean we can talk of the Fada'il of Ali and Al-Akbar but your initial thoughts perhaps yeah so Al-Akbar بسم الله الرحيم السلام عليكم to the dear viewers Al-Akbar as you mentioned he was the closest resemblance to the Prophet even when he would recite the Adhan people would turn and feel like the Prophet is around them when they missed the family of Imam Hussein when they missed the Prophet they would always go towards Al-Akbar and speak to him and look at him because of his face and how he resembled him to the extent it was in manners I think it was the three things in which he resembled in terms of his manners in terms of how he looks and in terms of his piety as well and that's how much he resembled the Prophet and today I mean from an emotional point of view Al-Akbar was the first without hesitation to be sacrificed by Imam Hussein again the same way that when we remember the sacrifice of Tafel Al-Razi'a and that when Imam Hussein took Tafel Al-Razi'a he was showing to the people that I'm not after any power I'm not after any wealth or money or politics this is purely to revive the teachings of my grandfather the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم in that same context he was the first to say my son is to be sacrificed because you find for example within leaders and leadership their own family members are very well protected when it comes in the face of adversity but when it was Imam Hussein he wanted to show everyone again I'm not here for any greed or power and to the extent I will be sacrificing my son and he would be the first from the Bani Hashim to go into battle أحسنت exactly that and I think the point that I want to I would like to explore initially for Al-Akbar is that we looked to Karbala as a day of complete and utter almost mayhem and tragedy and so many different words to describe it and sometimes we actually lose that connection between okay this was an absolute manic day but it wasn't just the day in itself in terms of the actions that were done that made it so tragic I feel sometimes we actually lose the context in saying this wasn't just a family of any sort of family this wasn't just a man any sort of man the tragedy you could even say is not so much in the way that they were killed but rather who was actually killed I read somewhere recently I can't remember where but it was a paraphrase from just a writer talking about it's a shame that we remember the main pain of Imam Hussein to be his thirst rather than anything else rather than his actual pain of how the religion was trying to be distorted by those on the other side and it was no doubt that was of more pain to him than the thirst that he had علينا أكبر عليه السلام was not just the son of a man he was the son of an Imam عليه السلام and that needs to be remembered whenever we commemorate عشورة don't try and disconnect the tragedy that befell in that the physical pain that they had to endure don't disconnect that away from who was actually involved for the person itself Imam رحسين عليه السلام the actual مصيبة upon him as we just said was more that the religion was being usurped by the so-called caliphs at the time and that in itself was the main messiah of Imam Hussein that he had to fight against this or defend the religion and of course علينا الأكبر عليه السلام was looking up to an Imam as well as his father so what I wanted to touch upon was to try and emphasize and understand this and the first of which is this which comes from our Holy Seventh Imam Imam Al-Kawim عليه السلام where he says and he talks about he refers to a verse in Quran Surah number 64 verse number 8 where it says فأامنوا بالله والرسولة والنور اللذي أنزلنا الله سبحانه وتعالى says to have faith in Allah and his apostles and his followers and his followers and his followers and his apostle والنور and the light that we have revealed onto you have sent down so Imam Al-Kawim looks to this verse and he says إمامة is the light and that is and that is so this whole verse that is talking about looking and that looking at Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the Rasool and then it refers to the nor that nor he is saying is the light and actually the imams themselves that is the maqam of the imma إمام الباكر عليه السلام says if the imam was to ever be removed from the earth even for an instance the whole earth would tremble in its inhabitants the way the ocean trembles with those who are on it i.e. if you stand on the ocean do you tremble that's it you crumble similarly if you stand on the land it would be the same if the imam was taken from there you just wouldn't be able to live you wouldn't be able to stand such as the level of the imma عليه السلام and why it's great saying but why and very similar on a very surface level it's to know that Allah سبحانه وتعالى created a perfect religion created this sharia whereby if we abide by it we can become amazing human beings and in order to give us the best chance to become the best humans he had to send down individuals that could portray and illustrate this message in nothing but a perfect way and hence the imma عليه السلام were provided to us infallibles and that is why the level of the imma is so key and finally the prophet says verily your imams are your representatives before Allah they are representatives before Allah therefore be careful whom you follow in your religion and your prayers if the prophet's warning saying they are your representatives in front of Allah سبحانه وتعالى imagine having your audacity to try and murder that imam so now we're going from the step of Yazid murdering a man which is brutal in itself but now we're saying Yazid is murdering an imam and we're saying Yazid is murdering a man who should have been his imam who should have been his representative to Allah سبحانه وتعالى such was the mistake such was the tragedy and we emphasize this point for the very simple reason that عليين الأكفر عليه السلام his own father this is what he looked to him as he looked to him as his imam someone that he had to obey because this was the decree of Allah سبحانه وتعالى through his own father and of course it's one of the most tragic مسائب of Taha whole event of Karbala when عليين الأكفر has actually fallen even as he walks to the battlefield then إمام الحسين is just steps behind him and he's walking and following because he's whilst he's giving his son he's still a father and he doesn't want to just see his son off into this and he wants to watch every single thing that happens and when عليين الأكفر falls and then eventually إمام الحسين goes to him and عليين الأكفر is covering his chest and إمام الحسين has to take that out from him that spear out from his chest I mean we can't I don't think there's any way to describe you from father and the strength that إمام must have and as you were saying رحسين عيسلام would watch very tentatively at his son's performance on the battlefield and at the same time his mother ليلة would be watching her husband's face to see the fate of her son and if his face was smiling and bright then she would know that he was doing well in the battlefield and if there was a bit of concern then she would know that that she should fear for the life of her son and there was a time when he would say to her he had he had real concern on his face and she said she said to him what's wrong حسين is something happening to my son and he said to her very calmly go back into your tent and pray because the prayer of a mother is very strong in the eyes of الله سبحانه وتعالى and so she goes back and she prepares herself and she prays for الله سبحانه وتعالى and she says the one or the one who returned يوسفتي عقوب returned my son علي to me just one last time before he passes away and الله سبحانه وتعالى granted her that wish and he returned back although when he first returned back he said to his father of father حسين I am thirsty and then حسين replaced to him feel the tongue feel my own tongue and see that if I had anything I would give you but I am it's barren land and I couldn't give you he couldn't give anything to but he said to علي to me go and visit your mother for one last time so she goes he goes into the into the tent and that's where after the the discussion that happened and the the final farewell for علي to me it's the lamentation of a mother that I want to share Insha'Allah with you it says from the power of and this is the words of Layla the mother of علي لك ور علي السلام as a nun I wait for my son's return alone I stand and a nun I ask will my son return will my son return will my son return within these tents only my shadow holds onto my heart and within its heart I gaze out and no one comforts me but an unsure path and the burning sun and only the stars I have to ask will my son return will my son return will my son return a heart heavy with my screams and cries and the last buried sweat on me for this rose was everything to me my path, my future the song within me I bear this weight and with grief I ask will my son return will my son return will my son return with his absence the whispers in me tell me you're beloved for you does not care I answer every whisper with hope I know my absence my beloved can't bear and yet the doubt in my heart it asks will my son return will my son return will my son return a trail and stain with my son's blood it taunts this mother's soul with the hint of with every toys and calls for death too a mother with her son's absence asks will my son return will my son return will my son return beside me sits only my patience as tonight's patience when once my son and with this uncertainty I ask will my son return my son return will my son return I raise my hands with his answer this prayer like you return and this mother's womb for him it asks will my son return will my son return will my son return how can my eyes settle until they see the portrait of beloved's beauty how can the weight of my heart's dark grief rest when in this tragedy and every beat of this heart it asks will my son return will my son return Many thanks to the poet Nouri It's that almost fear not fear but anticipation Will he return He returns, and just probably that yearning again ارجوك الان من أول موضوعاً ونحن لن يتوقعه وفي أي أبو من أطبيقين بأطباء الأمام there's that level of almost pride that they have for their child from when you're young and you do a play and it's the innocence of that right the way through to something as intense that this there's that pride that parents have for their children and they want to have for their children ونحن نتحدث عن المعرفة عن أن تحتاج لكياراتك بشكل كثير من الوقت الماضي لأنه مرحباً فيما يحدث في الأفناء من كربلان ومديف عشورة ولكن one thing that we really note with the relationship of Ali and Al-Aqbar and his deffah of Imam Hussain was that of pride of Imam Hussain for his son a man who is so proud of what his son has achieved who is when he goes to the battlefield is content with how he's performing as you said earlier and it's something that I wanted to explore ever so slightly with us which is to what extent our parents are actually proud of us or more specifically to what extent it's our father, our father proud of us what have we actually done to make them proud of us or if we just lived a life that completely doesn't involve them we haven't listened to what they've advised us we've kind of gone down our own track and how if they're not proud of us how does it then make them feel how does it then leave them Imam Sujad alaihi salam in رسالة الحقوق where he talks about the rights of different relationships the one way he says the rights of the father it's beautiful I'm just going to read this out to you where he says and the rights of your father is that you should know that he is your root and you are his branch and without him you would not be whenever you see anything in yourself which pleases you you should know that your father is the root of its blessing upon you so praise God and thank him in recognition of that and there is no power but in God and some of the commentary she says about this where they say there's a weird balance that happens when a son starts to grow up the father actually starts to get older so the son is getting more and more powerful and stronger by the day and hence this willpower to disobey actually starts to fill them and equally the father becomes more and more frail day by day and maybe their impact upon the son becomes less and less in terms of the intensity that they can have in training their son and what can actually happen is a power shift in that when you're born the father is definitely superior to the son and we need to be cautious that whilst we get stronger as sons and our parents or our father gets weaker are we taking that for granted and then actually thinking we're superior to our father so are we actually when they say to us why don't you try this don't worry I've got this covered I know how it works and it's a scary thing it's a really really scary thing especially when you start to reach the age of your late 20s 30s 40s that's where that balance can really start to shift and it's something that we must be very very mindful of and if we try and relate that to Karbala it's that moment exactly when Aliyan Alakba goes back and Imam Hussein the dialogue where it's all about place your tongue into my mouth and see if there's anything you can extract any water and it's so symbolic of a moment of a son going to their father who has given them everything on a plate since their birth but at that one moment his father has nothing absolutely nothing and maybe for us our pride could have got the better of us in that moment and said this old man I'm not surprised us in that moment could have had that pride or in our day today when we go to our father did you pick up that food it's kind of your role comments like that that would break a father's heart yeah Aliyan Alakba's responses I had no idea almost like just begging for forgiveness of it and I'm just going to go straight back I can't believe I tried to put my father through that torment and how can we reflect to that whilst we get this slow increase of power and pride how can we ensure that we control it and perhaps it's drawing inspiration from Aliyan Alakba and the way in which he is with his father at that moment so maintain that respect for they were of course the ones who cradled you when you were young and when your mother was taking care of you at home they were the one out bringing the food home they were the ones supporting the family they were usually the ones perhaps doing things behind the scenes that you never actually realized the benefits that you've had the education that you've received the lessons of Quran that you received a lot of this could have come from your father driving you around when as we all know when you get into the world of work weekends are a luxury all of a sudden 9am to drop you to madrasa for 9.30 and wait in the car park for 3 hours and then you buy them food all these little things are we going to have the humility that when they end up in a moment where they can't drive anymore or they can't lift this up anymore are we going to be running to them or are we going to be saying actually I've got something better to do take inspiration from just the relationship of of we mentioned pride I think that's probably the biggest the biggest thing that really comes to life when it comes to I think about stand from a tragic point of view his actual the actual story of how he was murdered in Karbala was that whilst he was fighting and managing to slay one of the other the blood either from him or from his enemies would gush onto the horse of Ayla Al-Karbala and for this this is the key because most of most of the companions when they fell they weren't in the enemy camps when they fell they were in and around what's called no man's lands in between the two camps and for that as soon as they scream or they shout to يا أبا عبدالله أدركني come and help me that's when the enemies would disperse because it's more or less over for that companion المحسين would come but for this المحسين had to travel a lot a further period because the horse with blood over his eyes he didn't know which way to go and so instead of carrying يا أبا who was wounded heavily wounded to the camp of المحسين he carried them to the camp of and they had no mercy in what they were in what they did to him in terms of the brutality yeah the brutality in the knives and the swords and the spears and so when he heard managed to hear يا أبا عبدالله أدركني helped me or saved me by the time he reached and he saw the dust settled يا أبا عبدالله was in pieces and that's what the generations say that he was technically in pieces and he had to drag him back to the camp of المحسين so here it's the poem is about المحسين I'm describing what he sees of يا أبا I saw you tone علي my son علي my son I saw you tone I saw you on the the dust lying for your father you were crying now in my arms you are dying علي my son علي my son علي I see it here and I gaze into your eyes I wonder how I shall still live with your demise this beautiful flower within my two arms I recognize the ripped and torn you're still beautiful in my eyes when you cry out that scream of death my heart it cries and I early when your soul leaves you my soul shall die I cry a scream I cry a scream I cry and weep with death you meet with death you meet I cry and weep I weep on you with tears flowing my heart can't bear this grief knowing that soon from my arms you're leaving علي my son علي my son علي my son for your blood the souls were thirsty they did not rest until their blades touched your body they met along to cause for you this tragedy as I wail rest in tranquility and with your heat turn you to me just like they struck the head of my father Ali for him I cry and now I cry for him I cry I cry for you I cry for you I cried when my father told me that this won't be the end for me for one day they'll take you from me علي my son علي my son you cannot talk to me your thirst is made but I hear you cry as your blood to me it speaks how do I reply to this blood that from my two eyes knee my tears soothe you as they all flow as they all flow my cheeks as they I embrace you all my tears with your blood me blood on your arms tears on my palms blood on your arms tears on my palms tears on my palms blood on your with me it meets with me it meets your death I agree death is soon taking you away just like the sword upon you pray with it it takes away my days علي my son علي my son I saw you on the dust night for your father you were crying on my arms you were dying علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son علي my son إذا كانت تفعيلة جداً لأن هذا هو why أمام الصالح عليه الصلاة والسلام يقول أن هؤلاء who shed tears when Hussein is mentioned in front of them will be rewarded by Allah Himself even if their tears are as small as the wing of a fly and Allah will not be pleased with any reward for them less than paradise أو محراء the candle of Hussein you've lit whatever has an eye today find its eye where it the tears that flow remind the eyes that may forget these are the days when with the soul حسين هدمة we ask for the intercession of Ali in Al-Akbar and his dear father our Holy third Imam Imam حسين عليه السلام we ask for their intercession we ask for their شفاعة in this life and in the next and we ask Allah to allow us to be amongst those who can avenge the blood from them that fell in the land of Karbala السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته