 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Peace be upon you, our respected viewers and welcome to Imam Hussein TV channel. And today's episode, as a matter of fact, we want to talk to you about a very serious matter. As you may know that the channel is in a very sad situation and it has been off air almost for five days due to financial issues. We are in debt to the satellite company around $1.2 million and this matter is really, really serious and we have to cooperate together to get this problem urgently solved. We have been granted only 72 hours of temporary broadcast to grab donations and fundraising. And that is why we are speaking to you tonight. As you know, there are a few English speaking TV channels across the globe. And Imam Hussein TV is the only channel which has daily five footages from the holy cities of Karbala, Najaf, and Kaldemiya. On the last two years, however, Imam Hussein TV produced various types of shows including lectures, documentaries, live shows, live talk, interviews, and to spread all of that to spread out the pure culture of the Etelbeth, alaykumussalam to you, our respected viewers. Now we tried our best to produce high quality programs with religious content to improve the culture of Shia communities all around the world and support them spiritually and religiously. And this concern, our primal goal was to make a global support of all the Shia of Amir al-Mu'min, alaykumussalam. And tonight with us is our respected guest, Sheikh Yahya Seymour. We welcome him and to have his word on this issue tonight. Welcome, Sheikh Yahya. Thank you so much for having me, Saif Hassan. And it's a privilege to be with you tonight speaking about such an important issue. What would you or what message Sheikh would you like to convey to the lovers of Imam Hussein in regards to the problem that Imam Hussein channel is going to get through? Indeed. I begin in the name of Fatima and her father and her husband and her two sons and the secrets which Allah placed within her. And I wish to address the dear viewers and begin on a very informal note. At the end of the day, we are all brothers and sisters in religion. At the end of the day, we are all lovers of the great Imam Hussein, the father of a very symbolic foundation of humanity. This great figure who we find right behind us here as we are currently speaking from Karbala and we're being filmed right now in the holy city of Karbala. We have the great Imam Hussein and the great defender of Imam Hussein, Abul may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them both. I wish to be informal in my talk to the brothers and sisters out there why because I believe that this is a talk in which we need to be quite frank, we need to be quite open about. We need to be quite open about the fact that we as human beings, myself included and myself especially in fact, have numerous shortcomings in our obligations towards Allah Azawajal and in our obligations towards the Ahlul-Bait, alaym al-salatu wa s-salam. The holy Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi, when he addresses the believers in the Quran, he states or he is told to state rather by Allah Azawajal say, I do not ask you of anything in reward for this message I have brought you other than love of my nearest of kin, namely that I ask that you love the Ahlul-Bait, alaym al-salatu wa s-salam. And yet we find that we live in a world and I think this is where the chat will get informal inshallah ta'ala. We must be honest with ourselves brothers and sisters, those of you who live in the West especially, we do live in a world in which the image of Islam has been tarnished. The image of Islam has been tarnished by what? By the media. The image of Islam has been tarnished by us Muslims and what do I mean by that? I mean that always we find that the Shia tend to be the silent minority. When I remember when I first converted and I moved to London in, well I converted in year 2002 but I moved to London in year 2006, I had met with some brothers who were following deviant schools of thought and initially when they met me they said, oh mashallah we have a convert here and then they started speaking badly about other religions and then they came down to the Shia and they said all these religions are better than the Shia. For us they said the Hindu is better than the Shia and the Christian is better than the Shia. I said why? They said because the Shia you see brother he worships 12 gods, he worships 14 gods, he doesn't just worship three gods like the Christian and of course this is a slight misunderstanding of both but I told him that that's not the case and I happen to be a Shia. The next thing he said to me and this is what I want the viewer to pay attention to here tonight. He said what? You're Shia? But you're English? I told him actually sir I'm Scottish but that's not really the point of what I'm trying to get to here. I said actually sir I'm Scottish but I don't understand what your point is. How is it that a Scottish person is not Shia? He told me because Shias they don't spread their religion. You don't see them calling other people towards understanding Islam through Shiaism. They're a silent minority who follow the culture of their forefathers and no one becomes Shia. At the time I told him no you're wrong but with experience I have found that when it comes to an effort to present the truth to other people it is really us Shia who have the greatest shortcoming in this regard. Yes there are those Islamic Shi'i channels one of them being Imam al-Hussein which are doing a great job to try and bring that message to the wider non-Muslim world yet we do find that unfortunately in terms of support from the community these channels are really cut dry by what we have in the community and Alhamdulillah we do have a rather successful and prominently well-to-do community. Yes that is not to say that everyone in the community is rich but every little helps and everyone who put forward if all the Shia would give just one dollar to each Islamic Shi'i channel then each channel would be able to survive throughout the year and produce excellent quality content. Now what makes the channel of Imam al-Hussein different? What makes the channel of Imam al-Hussein different I believe is the place and the location of where we are. Allow me to elaborate upon this more. I've been studying Hausa now for roughly eight years and yet I would say that I've learned more in Hausa here in Karbala than I have in my entire life prior to that. Why is that? I came to the Holy City of Karbala why when most people choose the Holy City of Najaf you see Najaf is known for knowledge as we have that narration. Naturally any city in which Imam Ali is going to be the gate towards knowledge. What was it that attracted me to the Holy City of Karbala? The Holy City of Karbala you see is the place where the Prophet's grandson Imam al-Hussein sacrificed everything in the path of Allah after what can only be described as an attempted calculated genocide on the family of the Prophet and we find that from the occasion of Karbala there are too many messages too many values which can be learned for us to even recount. If someone were to write entire libraries on the moral lessons that are learned from Karbala he would die writing a book every single week and he would never be able to exhaust all the lessons that one can learn from Karbala. From the Holy City of Karbala this disgusting wretched individual that you see in front of yourself was transformed by the Hausa through the ability to come towards Allah as aujal in repentance. I did not come to Karbala with a clean slate yet we find just like this great individual who at one point was heading towards killing Imam al-Hussein and was one of the very reasons for why the camp of Imam al-Hussein were entrenched. He comes forward and repents. He goes to Allah. He goes to Imam al-Hussein and we find that Aba Abdullah alaihi salatu wa salam this great generous magnificent Imam who sacrificed everything in the way of Allah as aujal forgives him like that and Hour becomes one of the companions who are said to be amongst the best of people after the Imams and the Prophets. So we find that this land this Holy City of Karbala has an effect on people. We are told in that Karbala is a piece of Jannah. Karbala is part of paradise. Yes I must admit you are a Karbala. I live in Karbala. Sometimes when we see the place we don't really think this is a part of paradise rather we wonder what's happened to the administration of this city. We wonder why it's not kept under better conditions but nonetheless we're not talking about here for physical state of Karbala as it appears now. We're talking about the reality of Karbala. It is part of paradise according to the Rwayat of Ahl al-Bait. We are told in the Rwayat that the Ziyarah of Imam al-Hussein alaihi salatu wa salam is wajib. It is not just mustahab rather for those who have the imkaniyah. For that person who is mustataa who has the ability to go financially, physically it is actually wajib for him to do so. And this is in the Rwayat. Why is this? It is because the imams, the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala, wanted to place a great emphasis on Imam al-Hussein, the one who sacrificed everything for the sake of Allah Azawajal and as a result Allah Azawajal gave him everything in his hands. Everything we are told by the ulama is within the hands of al-Hussein alaihi salatu wa salam. So if a person would come, no matter what sin they have committed, no matter how filthy the crimes they have done in their life, no matter what desires they have as long as they are within the benefit for that person, Imam al-Hussein alaihi salatu wa salam, realizing their sincerity and the sincerity they have in coming to see him would give them that success, would give them that very thing that they ask for. So what better way to encourage the Shia of today to spread the message of Imam al-Hussein, the importance of the Ziyara of Imam al-Hussein and even to do Ziyara on behalf of the beloved viewer than to have a channel live from the precinct right next to within the site of the shrine of Abul-Fadl al-Abbas alaihi salatu wa salam and the shrine of Imam Aba Abdullah al-Hussein alaihi salatu wa salam. Andy, thank you very much indeed sir for this introduction. Now let me to briefly narrate to you the story how this channel was established. Now here is a very short story about the establishment of this channel, how it happened to come about. Now six years ago a group of Shia activists in Iran met his authority Sayyid al-Qashirazi, may Allah prolong his life, that exactly occurred on the occasion of Eid al-Qadir. However this team of activists was working on religious projects in different cities of Iran. Some of these activities were holding the Majalis in the months of Muharram and Rajab, each of which you know hosting around 10,000 people. Handling these you know Majalis were concerned with handling cultural context where school kids distributing banners on religious events. Upon hearing that Sayyid al-Qashirazi may Allah prolong his age informed those people, those activists that a famous Kuwaiti Salafi leader named Othman al-Khamis is going to establish a channel in the name of Imam al-Hussein alaihi salam to use this popular name, this popular holy name for destroying the image of Shia across the globe. Now upon that Sayyid al-Qashirazi ask those people to stop all of their projects and try to register a TV channel in the name of Imam al-Hussein. That was briefly the first sparkle of this blessed you know channel and after six months Imam Hussein TV was you know registered and has begun its you know programs by 30 minutes per day in pharmacy and then it developed to other languages. Now if I may move on to the you know main points, main goals that this channel you know try to achieve or tries to achieve. Now the first you know goal it aims at you know enlightening humanity with the guidance as the sheikh said the guidance of Imam Hussein and it takes on the responsibility you know of preaching and spreading the teachings of the Ahlulbayt alaihi salam to those third thirsty through seeking individuals. Now the number two goal of this channel is to immunize and fortify the minds of the Shia youth especially from corrupt satellite channels and we know that these days that you know corrupted people and the you know most of the channels around the around the world are you know spending millions of dollars on trying to you know to destroy Islam and to destroy Muslims and to you know to defame the reality of Islam and therefore should be an anti-force or an anti-channels again as those channels in order to to clarify what the reality of Islam is and to prove the opposite of what those people are trying to you know spread about Islam mistakenly. The third goal of the channel is to assist parents and this is a very important goal that we should stop out and pay more attention to. This channel assists parents in nurturing their children and help young adults by delivering suitable you know proper and correct information since they reside in a wonderful you know in a world full of ethical you know ethical pollution and correction which subsequently results in a lack of identity whether they live in the west or in the east. Number four the goal number four that this channel aims at is to preach the general religious religion of Islam to millions of non-Muslims who have not reached the treasures of the Holy Quran. The other goal that this channel aims at is to stand in defense of the Shi'a entity before those who believe that Shi'a Muslims are pagans and that the shedding of their and that they shed their their blood and is also considered permissible and abuse and insults towards their women and families as a form of worship. However, all these are you know you know false claims that people should you know utterly deny and to stop against. Now we go back to our Sheikh to enlight us more on the message that the channel of Imam Hussein tried to convey to the humanity. Now let's consider the message of Imam Hussein and the light of this channel. How far does it you know take part this channel and problem and you know disseminating the the story of Imam Hussein to the world altogether? Well thank you for that introduction to the history of the channel. I think it's very important that the viewers do understand the the purpose for why the channel was established, understands the struggle which the brothers who initially established the channel went through in order to bring us what we have today. In regards to how this history of the channel, the gales of the channel all relate to the message of Imam Hussein, allow me to be frank brothers and sisters. I understand that there's nothing we appreciate more in this world than frankness. This channel indeed we may have shortcomings. You may have found that this channel has shortcomings in terms of the quality of material that they are bringing you occasionally. I want you to remember how difficult it is how for this channel to have brought you a live English feed from the holy city of Kereballah. This channel has not before previously asked for donations on mass and so for the very fact that they have managed to bring you English programs from this city in Kereballah and well familiar with the brothers who work here, it's very difficult to find English speakers in this city. Not many foreigners come to live in Kereballah, is in and of itself miraculous and they've actually recruited great people like Kostav Hassan who has a graduate from an English department here in Kereballah and was one of the better English speakers amongst the Kereballah students from what I've seen. In regards to how the message links to Imam Hussein, I think there are very key things we need to bear in mind here. We need to bear in mind that brothers and sisters we are not looking at good times right now. We're not looking at good times especially for the image of Muslims in the West. What do I mean by that? I mean, if you look at Syria, Syria was a country in which we Shia used to enjoy and Syria I'll actually bring it as an example of how we failed as Shia and bring it back to the example of this channel and why we need donations so crucially. Syria, we viewed it, we Western Shia, we viewed it as the ultimate holiday destination. We'd go, we'd enjoy it, we'd do our Ziyara, we'd benefit from the relaxed attitude of the people towards Shias, we'd benefit from the stability and yet we found we never once educated the local people about what Shiaism is. What do I mean by that? We created our own Shia ghettos within Syria to such a degree that within neighboring areas to say the Zaynab alayhi salatu wa s-salam, areas such as Babila, you could have local Sunni Syrians who had no idea what Shias believed and Bil Aqis, quite the contrary rather, believed that Shias were Mushriks, Shias were Pagans, Shias were people who believed that Jibrail made a mistake and brought the message to Imam Ali, alayhi salatu wa s-salam, as opposed to the holy prophets. Why? Because of our laziness, because of our lack of ghira, how would you translate the word ghira wa s-salatu wa s-salatu? Ghira, it really doesn't come to my mind right now. Yeah, I can't think of an English word. Our lack of our lack of sense of decency for this religion, our lack of honor for this religion, by refusing it to spread it to others. So what one finds is we've seen how this world has been corrupted by our lack of action, by our lack of ability to take this information and spread it to the masses, and instead our religion, which is a treasure, it's a chest of treasure, a chest of wisdom which the human being naturally would incline towards if he were just presented it in an articulate manner, is rejected, we do not spread it, and yet you have people who are sitting, they're not sitting on a chest of treasure like we are, they're sitting on a chest of garbage, they're sitting on a chest of a jalaqamallah, a trash heap, they're sitting on a sewer, and yet they are able to sell their message to non-Muslims. Non-Muslims are coming to the cities of Iraq, to the nations, to the states which are taken over by the group known as Daesh, and are coming to take these areas. This is indeed something shameful and we need to take responsibility for it. That's right, right, thank you very much indeed. Now allow me just to mention a very clear hadith narrated by Imam Sadaq alaihi salam, and then we're going to elaborate on this sacred hadith. Imam Sadaq alaihi salam said, generosity concerning, you know, encouraging our brothers and sisters to denote for the channel, or to keep it alive. Generosity Imam Sadaq says alaihi salam says, generosity is abstaining from what is forbidden, and being pleased with spending what you legitimately earn in a life's way. What does that mean, Sheikh? This narration basically means that generosity is something which is definitely seen as something which is obligatory upon the mu'min. And in fact Imam Sadaq alaihi salam was placing a particular emphasis on it, shows that a mu'min should also pay particular emphasis upon it. After all we know him as Sadaq alaihi salam. We call ourselves Jafariyah because he is the one who established our legal school, and yet we only want to take from him when it comes to the halal and the haram. When it comes to that which is mustahab, we say no, that's mustahab. That's too much for us. Yet see Imam Sadaq alaihi salam is placing such a great emphasis on the need to be generous, on the need to give for the sake of Allah Azza wa Jalla, and yet we do not take from such a respect. That's right. Thank you very much indeed. Now we go to our break and then we come back later. Thank you very much indeed for being with us. Usually as we approach the festive months of Rajab Sha'aban and Sha'ar Ramadan, spiritually uplifting months where we celebrate the births of various A'im alaihi salam, including our Derawated Saviour in Sha'aban, we usually filled with joy and happiness and that will see celebrations from across the world, across the globe, from those within the mother. However, on this occasion it is with dismay and upset and emotion and to some extent frustration that we may lose one of the establishments that would have delivered these festivities, these commemorations and these spiritual uplifting programs. And that is of course Imar Hossein TV, a channel that you're all familiar with for you're either watching this on the channel right now itself or on the YouTube channel. And to think of what we could be losing, it's worrying because this channel allows us something very unique which not many other channels allow for, especially for us as English listeners and speakers. And when I say that, let me explain, I mean that this channel is of course based within the Holy Land of Karaballa. It is based there, next to the shrine of Uncle Father Imar Hossein. You've seen the footage that we've been able to produce from the channel whilst we've been out there, the studios are directly located next to the shrines and the views are stunning. And the channel is able to capture that life feeling and feedback from the people there and present it to you across the world, be you in the UK, be you in Canada, in the US, in Africa, wherever you are. But unfortunately this Shaaban, this Rajam, this Shah Ramaban and then on to Maharram to Arba'een, we may no longer have this. We may no longer have Imar Hossein TV to bring to us that live buzz straight from the shrines and cutting edge footage. And this is merely down to the simple matter. When you think about it in the grand context it's the simple matter of funds. I never actually realised to what extent of an impact this channel had until when I first went to Arba'een with Imar Hossein TV, not Arba'een just gone but the year before. And upon my return the sheer amount of people that were thanking the channel saying that we've never been able to connect that way to see what it's like during Arba'een. Everyone goes and comes back and says Arba'een is a fantastic experience, the war, the Masha'a is amazing, but we've never actually been able to see it yet. You guys on the channel you went out, you captured it live firsthand. Just like many other channels did as well, but Imar Hossein TV had a unique way of doing it and they were so thankful for it. They said that it felt like they were doing their own Ziyar and equally during the time of celebrations similar feelings can be captured. But because of funds we're going to lose it. We have the people there. We have the talent there. We have the location sorted that can't be matched and the only thing holding us back is funds, just funds. So I'm not going to sit here and say oh please fund, please help, please donate because that's never been the nature of this channel. All I'm going to say is what we could miss if this channel goes, the gap that can be, that may be created and it is with the emotion that I say that because I think this channel has very unique aspects to it as I've explained. So in essence what I think needs to be realised is that this is an opportunity that has been given by Allah SWT to us. It's another way to serve, it's another way to present our love for the Ahlul Bayt Aalaihi Wasalaam in the name of the one who gave the greatest sacrifice to Muhammad Hussein and indeed the holy family that he is a part of. And thus that responsibility of ensuring that this channel remains alive is upon all of our shoulders. Be that by donating huge amounts of money, be that by donating huge amounts of time, whatever it is, it has a purpose and that purpose is to spread this love of the religion of Ali Muhammad. Think about what it's going to be like without being able to see that footage, without being able to go online and on your TV and being able to see the live coverage of the holy shines in Karbala across Iraq. There's a gap left, a huge gap. And I say this to you on a personal note, I'm not in Iraq at the moment, I'm in my university room in Birmingham, United Kingdom. And I want to say from here that the weeks that I spent with the team out there for the month that I was there, the team members are not worried about losing their jobs, that's not why they want to keep this channel alive. The reason why they want to keep this channel alive is because they feel they have a duty to do so. Because they feel they have something unique they can offer to the lovers of Ali Muhammad and equally those who wish to board upon this arc, this arc of salvation. And right now the only thing that is holding them back from doing so is the simple matter of funds. So I ask you to do whatever you can, whatever's within your remit. If it's that you can donate a huge amount of money, then please do so. If it's that you're able to donate very little, then do it with sincerity as well so that Allah has reason to multiply it. If what you're able to do is share this to networks, that you feel that could be able to contribute to the assistance of this channel staying alive, then do so. Whatever you can, just know that you've done something. So that when we're asked, what did you do to spread the message of Imam Hussein, you can still point to this and say, I tried to keep a method of communication of the love of multimedia alive to the end of it, Ali Hamasar, to people across the world, to people who can access it on the internet or receive it on the satellite dish or perhaps see the occasional video and picture on YouTube. We've seen so many people sharing the pictures that we're able to share from the holy shrines and equally the videos we're able to produce there. And I think this is the unique part that on every occasion when the city of Karbala especially is buzzing because of perhaps a shahada, a death anniversary or a maulid, a birth anniversary or an important life like Laylatul Qadil, we're able to get an English reporter on the ground in the shrine, in and around the shrine to say, this is the feeling, this is what's going on. Look at the buzz around us. And if this channel goes under, we're not going to have dance. Yes, there are other channels and they're fantastic channels, all of them. But the more we have the merrier, the more we can spread this message. The less we have, the more burden is upon the shoulders of those that are existing. Share the load and we can go even further. It encourages advancement in our methods of spreading this beautiful message. I shan't take up much more of your time. But from your humble servant, Salik Domani, I ask you to please do whatever you can to help this channel keep going. To help this channel continuing in its message and its aim to spread the message of Ali Muhammad to those across the world. And most importantly, to help this channel in assisting the message of our dear awaited saviour and may Allah SWT accept our efforts, accept your efforts, accept the efforts of those who are in the control room in Iraq, to accept the efforts of those who are heading up the channel, who are overseeing the operations. May it remain alive for a long time spreading the holy message and may Allah SWT accept our efforts. Asalaamu alaikum, welcome back to our episode. Now I would like to ask you Sheikh one more question, if I may. Now we see that the media in the west, those people are spending a great deal of money in order to manipulate the minds of people. They are trying to deviate people from the right path. They are creating, you know, trying to dehumanize people. Now what is the best way in order to, you know, to stop those people from doing this? To lead by example, the best way in order to combat such a campaign is for Muslims to get involved in media themselves, to have their own representation within the media, and to have a representation on the ground front. What I mean by that is naturally your average Joe blogs, your average Tim, who comes from a village in London, a village in England, or comes from a village in Scotland or Wales, or even Ireland, or anywhere else. Someone comes from a state in America where there are no Muslims. All he hears in the media is terrorism dash, terrorism dash, suicide bomber beheader, cartoonist getting killed in France. So this is the image he has of Islam. When he turns on the TV, he's going to look for the nearest Muslim channel on. He's probably going to see a radical Wahhabi channel, because they have so many in the English language, in which the Wahhabi is speaking badly about more Muslims. So he's going to see all this, and he's going to think oh, so everything they're saying about Muslims is true. Now imagine, imagine this person would be educated a little more. Imagine we were able to tell this person, look, you are a victim of extremism in the name of Islam. Do you know who the first individual to be a victim of extremism in the name of Islam was? Well, actually it wasn't Imam Hussein. It was actually Fatima Tezahra, alaihi salatu wassalam. But for the sake of exact, for the sake of analogy, Imam Hussein is one of the first individuals to have been a victim of extremism in the name of Islam, and yet he is the grandson of the Holy Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi. Imagine how powerful a symbol this would be for that non-Muslim to hear this. This is a corruption of Islam, and this corruption of Islam did not just fight against the so-called non-Muslim world, but even fought against the representatives of God on earth. It fought against the very household of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and is destroying everyone, including the household of the messenger of Allah, regardless of faith, race, creed, nationality or any of these accidental factors. This corruption of Islam is something that can only be combated by spreading the truth about Islam, by spreading the true Islam, the real Islam, the original Muhammad in Islam, the original Islam of Ali Muhammad. Right. So you mean Sheikh that there is no, you know, connection between Islam and what those terrorist people are doing out there? Absolutely. Sure, definitely. Now, let's consider another hadith by Imam Sadaq. Imam Sadaq, alaihi salam says on the authority of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, Allah's blessings and peace be upon him, upon his pure family, he says generosity is a tree rooted in heaven with its branches hanging over the earth. Whoever grabs one of those branches will climb up to heaven. Now, Sheikh, what does that mean if you elaborate more on this hadith by Prophet? Anand, first of all, let's go to Sheikh Fayyad to take the call. As-salamu alaykum, Sheikh Fayyad. Alaykum salam wa rahmatullah. How are you? Thank you for being with us in this episode. My pleasure. Sheikh Fayyad, what would you, what message would you deliver to the people out there? And you know that Imam Hussein TV channel is going through a very, you know, difficult financial crisis these days. What message do you deliver to those people on this matter? All of the last mention, the channel is going through quite a dire situation these days and everyone needs to recognize that what all of these channels are trying to do, specifically Imam Hussein TV, using the name and the banner of Imam Hussein, alaykum salam, is trying to present the teachings of the Imam of the Ahlul Bayt, alaykum as-salatu wa s-salam across the entire world. And this in itself is a noble task. I myself have been on Imam Hussein TV and oftentimes when I travel, visit different cities and different communities, people, they come up to me and they tell me about the amount that they benefited from the channel. I've spoken to some people who they do not have access to going to a mosque very often, thus they rely on Imam Hussein TV to provide them that insight. And with the pictures coming directly live from the Holy City of Kebra, the holiest land that we have, the city of Abul Sada al-Abbas, alaykum as-salatu wa s-salam, people, they attach their hearts to this channel because of what it stands for, meaning it stands for Imam Hussein, it stands for Karabara and everything that Imam Hussein and everything that Karabara stands for is that for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we need the entire community of ours, the lovers of the head, they do their best to try to give back toward this cause because this cause is giving toward the cause of Imam Hussein alaykum as-salam. If we want to register ourselves amongst the supporters, amongst the companions of Imam Hussein alaykum as-salatu wa s-salam, then one of those ways to link ourselves with anything that attaches itself or anything that attaches ourselves to Imam Hussein alaykum as-salam and perhaps nothing is more valuable than being at the service of a channel that has been able to do this in so many different households and so many different communities and affected so many individuals as lives. I recall speaking with some of the brothers when I was in Kebira at the Imam Hussein TV channel, those who work with them and they went and they told me about how women would give their dowry that they received from their wedding in terms of jewelry and so on and so forth and that the donation toward the channel because of what impact that it had toward their lives. So imagine all of those people who don't have anything to give. We need those who are able to give, those who are financially low off, those who can give even a little bit in the way of Imam Hussein TV, they should certainly make their best efforts in doing so because like I said the potential that it has to change people's hearts, to change people's souls, to bring them toward the path of the Abdullah Hussein alaykum as-salatu wa s-salam is really really tremendous. So I urge and I remind myself firstly and I urge all of the mu'minim across the world to give toward this great cause and register themselves on the ark on the ship of Abdullah Hussein alaykum as-salatu wa s-salam of course the narration states that Imam Hussein is the lantern of guidance on the ship of salvation. If we want salvation we need to link ourselves to Imam Hussein alaykum as-salam, the man he went to Imam Masadaq and he said oh Imam after the he said oh Imam aren't you guys all aren't all of you do the Imam of the added faith aren't you guys all the ships to salvation? Imam Masadaq responds to with the companion yes what I can in the sassanah in the sassanah but the ship of Imam Hussein is the most spacious and is the quickest way the quickest means to get toward this salvation so again we need to do our best to board on the ship of the Abdullah Hussein by supporting this channel by supporting this cause giving doing whatever that we can to help this message of Imam Hussein reach the entire world let people's eyes on a daily basis be witnessed to the pictures from the blessed shrine of Imam Hussein alaykum as-salatu wa s-salam and his brother Abdullah Abbas and really this will not only do a good service toward people across the world but this will certainly be a means for us to receive the intercession of Imam Hussein in this life in the Badaqah and the next life inshallah thank you very much indeed Sheikh Fayyel Jafar we highly appreciate your call and it's highly appreciate thank you very much indeed and ma'asalama now back to you sheikh Yahya we were talking about the hadith or prophet that generosity is a tree rooted and now let's move on to another hadith by Imam Calvin Imam Calvin said how bad it is for someone to be asked for something and he says no what is that supposed to say on on the level of generosity of course this is a reflection of the fact that the pure imams the imams of al-Muhammad who are the most generous individuals known in the history of mankind may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all we're trying to educate their shia they were trying to raise their shia with a culture which taught us that it's yes it's difficult things are very difficult sometimes when we earn our money and we see people who do not earn money they do not have jobs we see that they are not doing the same path that we are upon we have this almost devilish tendency of in ourselves to think why should i give you money i earned this this is my right why should i part with it and in fact we find that shaitan he comes and he makes partying with things that we have one of the more difficult things ever we try and educate us try and raise us with this culture of not only giving a simple amount but also giving that which we would want to be given ourselves so we find that the imams and i'm not suggesting everyone goes around doing this but rather they try to show us the best of morality how so if the imam had five garments of clothing and say one of them was particularly high quality the other four were substandard quality and someone would ask him for clothing had that been any of us we would have given away one of the four substandard quality of clothing yet the imam would have given away the highest quality to that other person why because he wanted to educate us that when you give you should give generously you should give to the best of your ability and when you do so you're acting in the way that Allah azza wa jel would want you to what do i mean by that Allah azza wa jel we describe him with his names and attributes and of course when we imagine these names and attributes we are only describing what he is not he is described as generous and we were told that we should emulate Allah azza wa jel in all of his attributes of action specifically his attributes of action which do not involve things like of course we're told the exception is Allah azza wa jel and we should not be those who are arrogant right right but when it comes to step up like generosity when it comes to step up like merciful we are meant to emulate Allah azza wa jel in this particular action thank you very much indeed our respective viewers if you are really interested in denoting we have different types of of denotion methods first of all many transfer companies around the world karebala iraq made out of raouf sayi champs and the number is shown right at the bottom of the screen you you can do that via paypal and western or the western union made out of raouf sayi champs karebala and you have the number shown at the 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information you call us on this number uh seven seven one nine six one one one nine nine now let's move on to a short account of carrying on the islamic mission of imam hussein allah's blessings and peace be upon him let me shortly relate this to you throughout history our world has continued to be plagued with ultimate battle of good versus evil this battle or the compete between uh good and evil a constant collision among those who possess the qualities of being righteous being virtuous being uh and perform good deeds for the sake of pleasing allah the almighty against those who are evil wicked and only aim to carry out harmful acts against allah's command never has this type of comparison comparison been as prevalent as during the imam it of our beloved imam hussein alaihi salam now in an effort to save islam and guide fellow muslims to the right path imam hussein alaihi salam made the ultimate sacrifice that nobody had ever made that sacrifice he meaning imam hussein along with his family and uh you know a a handful of faithful companions of his were savagely tortured and slain by the tyrant yazid the son of muawiyah last christmas be upon them whose sole purpose was to rule the muslim empire throughout any means necessary including horrendous acts of violence massacres propaganda and corruption and whatsoever now year after year the tragedy of kerbala however is recounted to us making our grief fresh and softening our hearts as we continue to mourn the loss of our prophet's beloved family allah's blessings and peace be upon them all however what we often lose sight of is that in addition to our tears imam hussein as well as the imam over time are counting on our actions and this is very important now the horrid crimes and injustices that took place in the era of imam hussein continued to remain rampant in today's life innocent victims including children all over the world in countries like iraq syria bahrain and pakistan are being viciously murdered simply for being lovers of the halal bait and proclaiming their shia simply for that purpose scholars are being you know attacked and killed for preaching the truth on the pulpit and suppressing the message of imam hussein alaihi salam as we hear about such atrocities and view unimaginable images in the media we have a responsibility a very very big responsibility lies upon upon us to stand up for the true values of our religion and to speak out again as this type of tyranny this type of corruption now indian political however to mention this very important indian political and the spiritual leader mahatma gandhi in this concern once he said i learned from imam hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed we may not have the same status as the halal bait alaihi salam but we have them as our you know our models in life if we continue to survive to survive or if we continue sorry to strive for the truth and unite against the injustices of our time we will achieve the mission of carrying on imam hussein's message that was deeply humanitarian message now we go to london to take a phone call from sheikh uh sayid ali khalkhali assalamu alaikum sayid ali khalkhali and welcome to imam hussein tv channel and with us in the studio assalamu alaikum assalamu alaikum to my dear how are you sheikh how are you say it i'm may Allah bless you all the viewers at home and may Allah continue to have this blessing of watching the imam hussein tv alhamdulillah we pray for you to come here as soon as possible say it ali what message if i may would you like to deliver to the people out there to the shia community in particular uh as long as we know that the imam hussein tv channels are you know uh going through a very difficult financial crisis what is your message to those people uh in this regard Allah has given us the opportunity and the platform to spread the message of the Quran and the alhamdulillah to the various parts of the world and this in itself is a blessing that we have been given this honor to spread the message of the alhamdulillah and the Quran via imam hussein tv and i first you know of many great great great stories and experiences of those viewers who have been watching imam hussein tv from very far parts of the world who wish to be in fact under the shrine of imam hussein by the shrine of uh husband abul abul saba al-aqsa and because of the distance they learn to be there now imam hussein tv has given the opportunity for us to do the jihara for us to recite the the blessed prayers and the blessed supplications and the blessed invitation to be blessed in imam and furthermore we get the opportunity to visit our own village channel to read the great message of imam hussein the message that imam hussein stood for truth imam hussein stood against injustice imam hussein stood for the oppressed and we have to continue to spread the message of imam hussein imam hussein's name is the name that we all wish to understand for when we know and learn from the life of imam hussein and not just from the death and the martyrdom of imam hussein alaihi s-salam but when we see and learn from his life many people from different parts of the world they are attracted towards the beautiful deen towards the blessed life towards the blessed and the blessed divine religion of islam and the part of the ahlul bayt and the part of the qur'an so it is very important if we can continue to have this platform the imam hussein tv and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and pray that this opportunity continues to exist and secondly we ask the dear viewers to help as much as they can and to the best ability to the best to their best that we can have imam hussein tv spreading its message spreading its wings throughout the world thank you very much indeed said ali khal khali was with us from london how you appreciate your word now we come back to you sheikh ehya again on the on the matter of generosity if we could yes let's step back from narrations and just come to a few thoughts i had on my mind based on the short introduction you gave to why the message of imam hussein is so important one of the things you mentioned that particularly brought memory to my mind was you mentioned how people are being persecuted all over the world for nothing more than being shea right people are being killed all over the world for nothing more than the fact that they profess a love for the ahlul bayt and a rejection of the enemies of the ahlul bayt nothing greater comes to my mind when i thought of what you said than the martyrdom of the great martyr the scholar the egyptian convert to sheism who was one of the great sheikhs or alama of one of the non sheikhs in egypt he was a sheikh of al-azhar university who became shea some of the brothers remember the brutal tragic circumstances surrounding the death of the great martyr sheikh hasna shahata and i remember particularly that when we saw the video sheikh hasna shahata was being dragged down the streets of egypt without its clothes on he'd been mobbed in an egyptian village by over two thousand young men who stormed his house on the day of the birthday of imam sahib al-astru was zaman may Allah hasten his reappearance and i remember many of us were mortified by these brutal images of course some have indeed pointed out that sheikh hasan was involved in a form of rhetoric which many people may not have may not have agreed with i'd like to point out to such people that they should not judge the context of sheikh hasan sheikh hasan was someone that had been calling to what he believed was deviation for the vast majority of his life and he felt he was calling towards the enemies of imam hussein only to be guided by imam hussein so he felt guilty for this and his method was very much a reaction to that guilt he felt yet what i wanted to focus upon here is the fact that when those individuals those villagers were interviewed and asked why did you kill hasan shehata they didn't say because he's a shea and he loves imam hussein they said because he's a shea and we here on our tv channels that sheas go around committing acts of indecency between men and women of a collective nature now the adults who are listening to us will of course understand what i mean by that they used different terms i'm trying to gloss over of them for any young audience who are watching who i don't want to understand these terms so the fact that people in this village of egypt could misunderstand what sheism stands for to such a degree that they felt that sheism was just a bunch of deviant family practices shows that we have truly failed in articulating what the true message of the alabate is now what you saw leading up to shea hasan being killed was the fact that channels like the the two main wahhabi channels one of them begins with a w one of them begins with an s for those of you who watch middle eastern satellite channels they were leading the front because both were based in egypt and both were going around saying you have this shea hasan shehata why is he still alive and you found that it was the media over a year before the death the martyrdom of shea hasan shehata which led for his martyrdom to come about by spreading this misinformation about sheism within egypt before the opening of qanat safah i'm going to name the channel which is headed by people like othman al khamis who was mentioned previously no one had this negative impression of sheism in egypt yet you found when you had a channel dedicated to just bashing sheism 2047 the natural result the natural conclusion of it is that shea blood is going to be spilled in egypt because they're taught a bunch of lies as to what she has believed where were the shea channels educating the egyptians as to what sheism was same thing in the uk in the uk where i'm from the shea is very much the enemy on two fronts why because the non-muslim views him as your typical muslim he believes that he supports dash so your average shea is going to be treated just like a normal muslim movie they think he's a wahabi just like the rest and he's going to be persecuted from that front so you run to your brothers expecting unity and no you don't get unity from them because they're watching anti-shea channels and think you're a non-muslim so the shea finds himself stuck with no supporters why because he has been too lazy too inactive to think about spreading his religion through either supporting those who do it or making an active role himself more importantly i thought i'd mention one more thing that i that had come to my mind during the duration of the show which is that we find ourselves again speaking about imam al-Hussein what is it that imam al-Hussein is famous for imam al-Hussein is famous for sacrifice he's famous for giving that which was dear to him likewise we find that the previous the previous prophets who came to visit the holy city of kairbala when they came to visit the holy city of kairbala decades centuries before the martyrdom of imam al-Hussein Allah Azza wa Jal always gave him a sign in the form of an injury in the form of blood being spilled from their bodies in order to educate them that this is a place where the grandson the master of martyrs of the last prophet will be martyred and in doing such their blood shared with the bloods of aba abdallah in land of kairbala so these great prophets they would give their bloods for this land of kairbala to share within the sacrifice of aba abdallah they would give physically from their bodies for this and yet we're unwilling to sacrifice a few pennies from our pockets we're unwilling to sacrifice a few notes from our checkbooks that's right thank you martyred for being with us we highly appreciate your presence this is the end of today's episode we ask Allah the Almighty to grant us with success and we indeed seek your honorable help as well and support in this channel thank you very much indeed for being us until we meet again goodbye