 Imagine it's somewhat 1400 years ago. It's the ninth of Mahadra. At night you're in your tent and you hear noises and commotion coming from outside. So naturally you leave your tent to see what's going on and you see people leaving the camp of Marmah Senle-e-Salaam in the hundreds and thousands. Looking around bewildered yourself, confused, your eyes fall onto the face of Marmah Senle-e-Salaam. There and then you decide you're going to stay, knowing full well what's going to happen to you when the morning comes. So now it's the day of Arshurah. You've now become the 73rd companion of Marmah Senle-e-Salaam and imagine walking up to him to offer your services and he gives you a choice in how you want to serve him on that day. Which aspect or what part of it would you want to serve? It's a really fundamental question. When you think about it, everyone wants to be part of the companions. That's what they say first of all, it could be a part of it, to be obviously martyred and to be a winner. I'd like my services to be pointed in a direction where it could be valued the most, if that was to mean Al-Qasim Salaamullah Alaih, lasting for at least 10 minutes longer or Ab-Al-Fath to spend maybe 10 minutes longer with Ab-Abdullah, then that's my services provided there if I was to be martyred before them. Just so Marmah Senle could see them just for a bit longer, then I'd believe my services would have been totally used. Why do you think it's important he gets to spend 10 more minutes with them in particular? Because, for example, Ab-Al-Fath Salaamullah Alaih, we all knew during his whole lifetime, he never called Al-Hussein as his brother, as only Maulai, my master. And on the day of Ashura, it was finally that day where they recognized they both said the word brother if I'm not mistaken. And that's where you see how respectable Ab-Al-Fath is, no matter how big he is, in our eyes or anything, he still had the limits towards the Marmah Senle Salaamullah Alaih. So that's why, maybe a bit 10 minutes longer for them to recognize each other as brothers, even though they did before that, but for Ab-Al-Fath to sink it in just a bit longer, you know, would have been great. Now imagine you've had a long day at work or you come home, you open your house door, you walk in, you see your family frantic, everyone's running around the house in different directions, someone's bringing fruit, someone's bringing sweets, someone's trying to make tea, someone's trying to clean up other people's messes, and you grab one of them and you ask them, what's going on? Have we got guests? And they reply to you, we haven't got guests, you've got a guest, someone's come to see you. So you say, okay, who is it? Where are they, when did they come? The natural questions that you would ask, and they say they're waiting for you in the living room. So you come to the living room, you open the door, you walk in, and you see sitting on one of the chairs is Imam Saini, so in that moment, what would you have to say to him? What would you like to hear from him to you? I know something I'd say, that the sacrifice he provided was like none other, it was a life lesson to every single human being prior to the event and after the event to be honest with you, because everyone has learned from that event, we believe in all the usual good stuff about not being segregated or anything like that, but just a mere thank you out of what he's done and out of what we've learned and how we've lived our lives. What would you want him to say to you? What would make you the most happy to hear from his holy mouth? Would you want him to say, for example, I've accepted you as a servant? Or would you want him to say, for example, I'm happy with your actions? Would you want him to, what would make you happy? What would you want to hear? To be honest with you, the one thing that popped into my head, I wouldn't want any of that. I know what I'd want to be honest with you. I would want him to say that once you are in your grave and Imam Mehdi does reappear, I will be the one to resurrect you and give you your soul back. That would be fabulous. So at the beginning, I asked you about 1400 years ago, I asked you about a day where you know some things about you know some of the events that occurred, some things that happened and it might be easy with that hindsight to be able to say, for example, if I was there I would have stopped this or I would have prolonged that or I would have aided in this manner, knowing these things have actually happened. But a lot of us often forget that our 12th Imam is still with us and even though he's not with us physically, that's in a way him giving us a choice in how we want to serve him. So what do you think the 12th Imam feels about you as a follower? What do you think he expects from you? How do you think you've served him till now? You know I believe, I believe that every action is counted for you know, you're accountable for every action. I believe in this day and age, this generation that we live in, our actions have not been great you know. Keeping up with the technology is fairly easy nowadays and obviously that hinders everything, that hinders the religion, that hinders the mindset, physical abilities, mental capabilities and I think with all due respect, I think he'd be, inshallah I'm wrong, but I think he'd be disappointed to be completely honest with you. You know and I do hope one day that, I don't even hope one day, I hope some time you know and if it's a few minutes from now it would be good but maybe get grasped on my life, I speak for myself before I speak for anyone else. Maybe I'd like to get grasped on my life you know and and do the things that the emma have casted upon you in their books and then their ahadith so that we may learn because what's left is what Imam Mehdi wants you know, what they've left, how our actions should be in all that stuff that we should be like the imams pray like them, fast like them, talk like them, walk like them, that's when he'd be, that's when he depreciates you know like appreciates this stuff all over, be happy with us you know, that's what I think.