 I seek salvation from shaitan the accursed my dearest viewers my brothers and sisters from all around the world may the peace the blessings and the protection of Allah SWT be with you at all times I would like to thank you once again for joining us here on Imam Hussein TV for the Ramadan show with me your host Dr Shabir Tijani Insha'Allah we will impart some more pearls of wisdom to you to be your one stop shop for this holy month I would like to humbly once again request you to send in your videos and your pictures about how you prepare yourself on a day to day basis for this holy month Once again you can join the debate on Twitter using the hashtag IHTVRamadan Please like our page on Facebook and join us on Instagram and on YouTube where Insha'Allah this program will be uploaded tomorrow Before proceeding on to the show I wanted to remember a quote from Amirul Ma'minina where he says The value of a person is in the good deeds that he does and this is so true Our character makes up our personality and if we have good traits and a good character it means we have a good personality Insha'Allah let's endeavor to do this and build upon our personalities in these holy nights in this month of Ramadan In this episode when we talk about spiritual refinement I want to talk about that one specific dua that we should all be making And that is to await and to prepare for and to receive the awaited Imam may Allah hasten his reappearance Imam Mahdi alayhi salam is waiting for us to be ready for him to be prepared for him to return Insha'Allah over the course of the next few minutes I just want to talk about how we should prepare ourselves And the merits of preparing oneself for the return of the Imam When we talk about preparing ourselves what does that mean? We need to be ready on a number of levels whether it's physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually This doesn't mean just hitting the gym and reciting dua e faraj every day but it's more encompassing For example it's important as other people have said to be spiritually cleansed and spiritually empty our souls of any dirt Try and be good Muslims, try and be good human beings, learn more about religion, about faith It's also good to physically prepare ourselves so by that what I mean is eating the right things, keeping healthy, keeping active But one other important aspect is he doesn't need to reach us, we need to reach him as well Basically what incentives does the Imam have to come back for our generation? How are we different from any of the other generations? Why did he leave in the first place and what makes it so special that he should return solely for us? In this sense if Imam Mahdi came back tomorrow we would probably not be ready for him With all the disunity that we have that even the Shia community within our own communities display We need to fix our communities before we can turn around to the Imam and say we're ready After all if the Imam came down today or tomorrow it would take him probably many, many months or years Just to fix the problems of one community, forget about the whole ummah So as a community we need to be prepared, as a society we need to be prepared And as individuals we also need to be prepared Some people just literally sit around and say we need the Mahdi to come and fix our problems We're not going to do anything, we're not going to be proactive And that is not the mentality that one should have The way of getting ready and prepared is to fix your own problems Make proactive steps to improve your lives and improve the lives of your community Fix up any disunity within the community and any negative traits within you as an individual And then the Imam will be awaiting or coming down because we're prepared by that stage During the period of Rehba it is the responsibility of every being, rather every believer That he establishes a spiritual contact with the Imam of our age Don't forget that the Imam can hear us, the Imam can see us We just have to call out to him and he will hear us and come to our aid When a person acquires the recognition of the Imam, a unique relationship is built Wherein the heart, as per its capability, becomes a reflection of the characteristics Of the ethics and the values of the Imam, may Allah re-hacen his reappearance Allah the Almighty informs us in the Holy Qur'an All those who believe be patient and enjoy practice patience amongst one another And remain in contact And be careful of your duty to Allah lest you succeed The above verse has been explained by the Holy Imams As all those who believe remain patient and steadfast during the period of Rehba The Rehba of the Imam of the age Be steadfast upon the right path as compared to your enemies And remain in contact with the awaited Imam Obey the laws and regulation of Islam as laid down by Allah SWT For surely it is in your success Some people harbour the misconception that since we are living our lives in the period of the major occultation It is impossible to maintain a contact with the Imam And there is no way we can have a relationship with the Imam It is important that we clarify this point here As regards to the traditions that are available on this matter It is true that during the period of major occultation A person that claims that he can meet the hidden Imam whenever he desires is a liar It is equally true however that during this period there are numerous instances Of people having been blessed with a visit from the Imam of our time May Allah hasten his reappearance either in person or through a spiritual experience like a dream It is not necessary that contact be maintained only by regular meetings in a person A relationship need not be established through physical contact alone Rather a relationship through spiritual means can be created also By this what we are saying is that have regular conversations with the Imam Even if he is not there physically Talk to your Imam Put your faith and your trust in your Imam because surely he is seeing you He is hearing you Insha'Allah if you do that You can feel more closeness with him Even if it is not in the physical sense of the term But emotionally and spiritually you will feel close to him The Imam prays for us And he loves us all the time It is said that the Imam has true affection for those that love him He prays for those who pray for him He has a close connection with those who regularly remember him It is highlighted by Allah ma majlisi and muhadith noori They have both narrated that Sheikh Tusi said One morning after Sahar I visited for offering prayers I saw the Imam there beseeching Allah and saying O Allah our shia's have been created from our light And the remainder of our earth They have sinned in the hope of our love and benevolence If their sin is related to your exalted self Then you forgive them We will be satisfied with your forgiveness And if their sin is related to the rights of their brethren Then you correct their shortcomings and grant them From the part of khums which is our right So that they may be satisfied with it Protect them from the fire of hell And do not gather them amongst our enemies in your punishment On reflecting on the words of the Imam alayhi salam And his prayer We overcome with shame and remorse This blessed personality whose continued presence Ensures our existence and our guidance In this world and its sustenance He is the Imam of our time Imam Mahdi a.s. He prays for sinners like us and seeks forgiveness So that we may have salvation from the hellfire We the sinners who are the direct recipients Of his love and affection Is it right that we forget him And remove him from our remembrance Remove him from our hearts Remove him from our minds Or rather shouldn't we ensure that we fill our hearts and minds With his remembrance to such an extent That not a moment in our life passes Without his remembrance Without us constantly praying for him Remembering him, connecting to him We end Or rather this segment I want to end it With a final prayer And that is to ask Allah SWT To grant us the Tawfiq To develop a sincere love Sincere affection And a sincere connection with Imam of our time Within our hearts It has been reported on the authority of Imam Ali Ibn Musa Arruba a.s. Who said if one asks Why is it that the fasts were made obligatory Exclusively in the month of Ramadan And not in other months it would be said This is because the month of Ramadan Is the month in which Allah As the Wajal had revealed the Holy Quran In this show as we go through The many different types of preparations For this holy month In different parts of the world, in different cities We will come to a place called Qadamiya Qadamiya is in the heartland Of the city of Iraq It's actually within the confines of the city of Baghdad This is where the resting place Of Imam Musa Qadamiya a.s. And Imam Muhammad Taqi a.s. Qadamiya is a city Which is populated by many of the Shia people And the people there have a very specific way A very specific tradition Of how they commemorate And they get themselves prepared for this holy month The people of Qadamiya They love their sweets and their heavy foods And they have a specific food called Lablabi I never tried it myself But the guys around me today Tell me that they'll make me try it So insha'Allah once I try it I'll let you know how it tastes And the people of Qadamiya During the nights of power During the nights of qadr They all go to the shrine Of the Seventh Imam a.s. Where they do their a'amal They have majalis They have latamiyats And even the people of Baghdad And even further afield Come and gather in this holy shrine The special thing about the majalis During these nights Are that they start at the time of iftar And they go on all the way until about 2.30 a.m Near the time of fajr And people at the shrine They get fed They have a small iftar And they enjoin And they get together And they do du'a together They supplicate together And they do the a'amal together as well And also there is Regular recitations of the holy Quran Regular recitations of du'a During this holy month Within the shrine And you'll be able to see some of these Exclusively on Imam Hussain TV Insha'Allah I hope that you can send your videos in And your pictures Your blogs about how you are Spending this holy month And we can air these videos And show the rest of the world Your preparation I find it astonishing How people come together during this month They form a galvanized community Yet when we look around the world There's so many different practices Based on tradition Based on backgrounds But at the end of the day They all come together when it comes to Time for du'a Time for a'amal They pray to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And they all pray for one thing And that thing is to achieve nearness To Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And the Ahlul Bayt Alaykum As-Salaam Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem Respected Imam Hussain TV viewers Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Peace and blessings of Allah Be upon each and every one of you Again we are in one of the store markets In the holy city of Karbala To show you the last days Of the holy month of Ramadhan In the holy city of Karbala Dearest viewers I have one of the blurs here I will ask him a few questions Regarding the holy month of Ramadhan Assalamu alaikum Can you tell us about the Ramadan season In the holy city of Karbala First of all, it's a blessing for Islam In the month of Ramadan And the season here is a blessing And the visit is complete And the visit is coming And now in Eid There will be more visits Brother is congratulating you On the arrival of the holy month of Ramadhan And he is saying that The holy city of Karbala Is full of spirituality during the holy month of Ramadhan And the visitor is coming To the holy city and especially That we are getting closer To the days of the Eid al-Fitr Inshallah Can you tell us about your work hours During the month of Ramadhan And what is different about the rest of the months In the month of Ramadhan We did different things Because the work that we will do Will only take 4-5 hours Until the dawn And then every one of you I asked him about the working hours And he is saying that We usually open after the Eftar And stay open until The time of the morning prayer And almost all the stores here Do the same and Usually they have a rest During the day hours During these last few episodes Of health tips and medical advice Instead of focusing upon illnesses And ailments of the human body I wanted to talk about the miracles Of the human body Those systems that are in our bodies That allow us to function on day to day basis And when we analyse them We realise they are nothing short Of Allah's blessings, of Allah's bounties Of Allah's miracles Today I am going to talk about The excretory systems of the body I know that on the face of it Probably doesn't sound like a pleasant thing To talk about but really it is One of the most amazing things When I talk about excretory systems I am not going to talk about all of them But just two of the main ones Two of the systems Which actually help us to continue Living and remove toxins out of our bodies And those are the kidneys and the liver The first organ I want to talk about Is the kidney The human kidney is so super specialized For its job That it is one of the three main organs in our body Along with the heart and along with the brain The kidney when we look at it On the face of it It may seem like an organ that we don't want to think about Because it does such a Well, some people think it does a disgusting job But actually it is so beautiful In the way it is created In the way it works In the way it is so specialized for its job It has so many different things From simple things such as Absorbing water and salts into the system To very complex things Like managing the acid and base balance of the blood Make sure the blood is not too acidic And it also makes sure that Your blood pressure is right And there isn't any fluctuations in the blood pressure Itself Other things it does Is it absorbs sugars back into the system If there is any sugar to be found Within the kidney or within the actual tubules Of the kidney And finally it works with other hormones Such as angiotensin Such as antidiuretic hormone And as a result it allows us To maintain our fluid balance Within our bodies And that's why the kidneys are so specialized At fluid balance and managing fluid balance In short, over the next few minutes I just want to talk about the role of the kidneys The different parts of the kidneys and how they work The first part of the kidney Is actually before the kidney And that is the blood supply to the kidney The renal artery supplies the blood to the kidneys And it's a very important blood vessel Because without it And without the blood supply to the kidneys The kidneys would fail To manage the fluid balance within our bodies We wouldn't be able to manage the blood pressure within our bodies So it's such an important artery The blood passes over the glomerulus Which is like a filter Which is like a sieve essentially Things that are not allowed to pass through it Are things like large proteins Are things like red blood cells And as a result The things on the other side of the sieve Or the glomerulus are fluid Are salts Are sugars sometimes They may have a very specific role When we talk about the kidney in itself The kidney then You get to the proximal tubule The proximal tubule has a very simple job But it's so specialized for its job And that job is to take in sugars And salt into the bloodstream And as a result The fluid follows the gradient for osmosis Once salt and sugars are taken out And moved into the blood system The fluid The water travels by simple osmosis Into the blood system also It's a very simple Theory But it works so perfectly After that we get to the loop of Henle The loop of Henle is a very, very complex part of the kidney In itself The reason being that In the proximal tubule Where things pass through osmosis And they moved from the tube Into the blood vessel In the loop of Henle In the loop of Henle We have to push the salt out against the osmotic gradient Using A thing called active transport And this happens within the cells as a result Because we are pumping out Salt into the blood system To create a concentration gradient for further on Which I'll talk about The reason, the problem is That you have to use energy And this is why this specific part of the kidney So super specialized at what it does Because it pumps out Large volumes or large quantities Of potassium Of sodium and of chloride And as a result Once the fluid in the tubule Is devoid of the salts It then passes on to the distal tubule Where as a result There's a large osmotic gradient Between the actual fluid Inside the duct And the fluid in the blood vessel And therefore the fluid inside the duct Can pass very comfortably From the tubule into the blood vessel In the distal tubule You also find that you have a salt transporter The potassium and sodium transporter Which moves sodium and potassium Around In the body Based on the needs of the body So we have here Another hormone that acts upon This part of the kidney And that's called aldosterone And again that's produced in a different part Of the body called the adrenal gland And depending on how much the body Needs the salts And how much the body needs the fluid It will actually either cause There to be more production of aldosterone Or less production of aldosterone I don't have time to talk about this hormone But it's a very specialized hormone And it works on the distal tubule And therefore we find that The salts are absorbed in the right amounts And if there's more salts that are Not needed by the body They're excreted in the right amounts The fluid moves into the collecting ducts Which is the last part of the kidney system And that is known Oh that has something called aquaposin Which are controlled By a hormone called antidiuretic hormone This hormone Is produced when For example you get thirsty Dioresis means Passing of urine Antidiuretic hormone Is something that does the opposite So it keeps fluid in the system Therefore passing less out in the form of urine And antidiuretic hormone Is producing the brain And the triggers for that are things like You're circulating blood volume The amount of thirst you have So things like the thirst on your tongue Or the dryness of your tongue Is actually controlled by many many different factors as well Not just the fact that you feel thirsty But also It's not because your mouth is dry But because also in your brain You're feeling thirsty But also because of the specific hormone Finally Once the fluid is absorbed Through the aquapos via this Specialized hormone It passes through the renal pelvis And out into the ureters Into the bladder And then out through the urethra And there's an opening And it passes out via urine It's such a super specialized system And that's how the excretion happens The kidney also has very specialized systems That are doing blood pressure And once it's blood pressure Once the blood pressure has been found Has been monitored It produces a hormone called Well, it's actually a complex hormone system Called the Renin-Angiotensin system And it affects the system And therefore the system controls the blood pressure Other things that it controls that has Senses That trigger Once the hydrogen levels are too high Or too low, the hydrogen ions All the acidity of the blood And as a result it acts as a buffer If there's too much hydrogen ions in the blood system It actually produces more bicarbonate In order to neutralize the acid However if there's too little Hydrogen ions It produces less bicarbonate And as a result You get less buffering And therefore the system, the human body And the blood Is kept to the neutral pH Next I'm just going to talk about the liver Very very quickly The liver is found in the right Upper quadrant of the right top part of the abdomen The role of the liver is very specialized To what it does The liver gets the blood system Or the blood profusion from the gut And it goes via something called A first pass metabolism That means that when the food Is absorbed through the gut It goes via simple blood systems Into the liver itself Where any toxins are taken out And that's why some medications we have to take orally We can't inject them We can't give them via other ways Because in order for the Tablet to become active It needs to actually go through the liver And then once it's excreted out of the liver Once it's gone into the blood system From the liver it actually becomes active And therefore we find That the liver is so specialized It's got cells called hepatocytes And very specific enzymes in them Enzymes such as P450 And these actually Work with the toxins Or they bind onto the toxins Or they change the structure of the toxins So that it can be excreted out of the body And it doesn't become harmful to the human body The other thing that the liver does Is it metabolizes Cholesterol and bile The role of bile is that It emulsifies fats That are in the gut So the liver produces bile Via the ducts Into the gallbladder And when the body is ready Or once there is fat in the system The gallbladder Passes the bile out Via the bile duct Into the duodenum Which is a part of the small intestine And therefore it can emulsify the fats there And absorb the fats in the right amounts Insha'Allah Even though this has been a very very Brief The coverage of these excretory mechanisms The human body is truly Beautiful Even something that we feel Is so disgusting We may feel repulsed at the sound Of these excretory systems But really without them We would not be alive Without them we would not be able to function Allah SWT has placed So many beautiful systems In total equilibrium Within our bodies One of them we would not be able to survive Yet we live up to the ripe age Of sometimes 70, 80, 90 And even some of us up to the age of 100 With these organs all working In pure and perfect Synchrony throughout our lives And that in itself is a miracle So insha'Allah I hope that you Appreciate these miracles through these nights Thank Allah for these miracles And look after yourselves One day When Imam Hussain Peace be upon him was riding his horse Through the seats of Medina He came across some beggars who were gathered Around to eat their food That they begged for during the day When they saw the Imam They invited him to join them Imam Hussain Peace be upon him Was not allowed to take anything Given in charity As he was the family And he was a member of the family Of Muhammad Peace be upon him Madaqa is forbidden For the members of Ahlul Bayt As well as the descendants of Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him Imam Hussain still even though Imam Hussain still got off his horse And sat down with the beggars Imam Hussain politely explained to them By saying that although he would love To eat with them But since he is a member of Ahlul Bayt He cannot accept charity As an alternative Imam Hussain Peace be upon him invited For food so they can all join together And eat together The moral of the story is that we should always be kind To one another, especially the poor Because we should not compromise Our beliefs for anyone But at the same time We should always be polite In how we express ourselves Insha'Allah today during the poetry I want to recite and remember The story of Imam Hussain Peace be upon him You see because the remembrance of him Is the beating heart of the Shia nation And it is said that If you ask for any forgiveness Ask for anything With the Wasila of Imam Hussain You'll surely get it On these nights where we remember our sins Remember the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And we ask for forgiveness Remember the grief And the pain of Hussain Alai Salam And surely forgiveness will be yours This is a poem that was originally written In Farsi It's called Hussain Vai And we've translated or converted it into English Me and my brother Abbas Insha'Allah I hope you listen to it And you remember Imam Hussain You cry and you remember your own sins Whilst you're doing it In our hearts it Will only grow Today your name runs In our veins When our heart beats It beats your name On our lips is Hussain Hussain When we hear of Your grief and pain Hussain Vai Vai Hussain Vai Hussain Vai Vai The brother that she Did so adore The one that she Did love to her core The heart of Zainab Stop when she saw Your headless body Upon the floor To trample you All the horses run The horses rushed Beneath their hooves Your bones were crushed From every piece of Body blood gushed Your daughter cried With her heart so crushed Hussain Vai Vai Hussain Vai It has been reported on the authority Of Imam Ali Ibn Mousa Ar-Riba A.S. Who said if one asks Why is it that the fasts were made obligatory Exclusively in the month of Ramadan and not In other months it would be said This is because The month of Ramadan is the month In which Allah, as the Jal had revealed the Holy Quran As we reach the end Of another show I would like to once again share One thing that I've been thinking about Something to get you to reflect And to contemplate And that is that if you stop focusing On every grain of sand in your path You will soon realize That you have a whole desert to cross Sometimes in our lives we so overcome With the little obstacles we forget That we actually have a long journey ahead And we have to reach our destiny But we get so caught up in these Individual obstacles that we waste our time I would like to once again thank you And inshallah we hope we've been able to impart Some pearls of wisdom for you And for your holy month of Ramadan I would like to ask you to send in your pictures Your videos, your blogs And inshallah we can air them on our show Don't forget to join us on social media as well Finally I would ask you To please remember us in your du'as And also pray for the reappearance Of the holy 12th Imam Aleyhi salam I wish to bid you farewell with the following words As-salamu alaikum Jami'an warahmatullahi wabarakatuh