 Many thanks for your time Mustafa Ali for that beautiful recitation of the Holy Quran. We are now The episode of daily dua and this this particular episode or this particular actually segment is where we Uncover some of the jewels within our literature And this is the Ziyara's or the Dua's of supplication something that we can offer which is a bit different people don't really know much about these Even if you recite them you often find you know not everyone who's a native Arab speaker will Actually look in the meaning and it's beautiful to get the interpretation of someone that besides the doors and you know their perspective So and our expert in this field and is Ibrahim Al Anzari. Assalamu alaykum Ibrahim. How are you? Welcome and thank you very much. Thank you for having me once again. Absolutely pleasure. Absolutely. Today's particular Dua or Ziyara actually I've put an underline on Mondays because it's the Ziyara of Imam Hassan A.S. on Mondays So I'd love to find out more about number one why why is it Ziyara of Imam Hassan on on the Monday? So we'll delve into you know the particular days of the week where certain Ziyaras are recommended to be recited and So yeah, walk us through the Ziyara of Imam Hassan or on Mondays. What so? Of course every day of the week Just belongs to one of the infallibles one or two Monday for example It is referred to as Ziyara to Imam Hassan However, it is for both Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein and you realize that towards the end where the Ziyara then turns into Talking towards Imam Hussein as well. All right. To both of them. Is that the whole Ziyara? Yeah, this what we have in front of us is actually the whole Ziyara for the Ziyara of Monday. Okay, brilliant. It's quite short simple Not too long Something that can be recited to start of your day And I think a very beautiful way to start of the day is by actually talking to the Ma'asomeen as At the end of the day after Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala They are there to aid us and they are there to help us throughout the day. Definitely. Would you like to start with the Ziyara so we can look at the Ziyara? Yeah, InshaAllah definitely. Thank you Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Wani Muhammad Assalamu alaykia Yabne RasoolAllah Assalamu alaykia Yabne Amir Al-Mu'mineen Assalamu alaykia Yabne Sayyida Nisa el-Alameen I Shahed wa Naka Iqam tassala Wa Ateeta Zaka Wa martebil ma'roofi Wa Naeyta Anil Munkar Wa abattalah Mukhli Sawa Jahat ti'il Allah Haqq jihad Haqq ta'a ka liyakeen Fa alayka as-salamu minni ma baqii'tu wa baqiyal lail wa nahaar Wa ala ali baiteeka taibinat taahireen Anaya maula yamaulan lak Wa liya ali baiteek Silmon liman salamakum Wa harbon liman ha'arabakum Mu'minun besarrikum wa jahrikum Wa zahirikum wa batinikum La'ana Allah wa a'da'akum Minal awalina wa al-akhireen Wa ana abra'u ila Allahi ta'ala minhum Ya'a maula yaya abaa Muhammad Ya'a maula yaya abaa Abdullah Haada yawm ul-ithneen Wa hua yawmukuma wa bismikuma Wa ana fihi zeefukuma Fa zeefani wa ahsinaa ziafati Fa n'aam man istu zeefabihi antuma Wa ana fihi min jwaarikuma Fa ajee rani Fa innakuma ma'umu'rani Bid ziafati wa al-ijarah Fa sallallahu alaikum Al-qayyibin Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Wa li Muhammad Thank you so much. Very beautiful. Thank you. Jazakum ala khir. I have to say it's my favourite part of the morning to be able to start the day listening to your voice and you know. So tell us how does the ziyarah start and then end because I think within the Arabic it started off as one person or speaking to one person and then it included two people so how does it work? So at the start it was directly talking to Imam al-Hasan alayhi az-zalati was-salam but also at the same time it is in a way funny where we can actually also link it to Imam al-Hasan because everything mentioned at the very start until the names are actually mentioned actually belong to both of them whereas you make it seem as if you're directing it at one person only after does it then say Ya Mawla Ya Aba Muhammad it's focusing on Imam al-Hasan and then says Ya Mawla Ya Aba Abdullah Imam al-Hasan So the very first part although our minds usually go to Imam al-Hasan alone whereas we can actually link it to Imam al-Hasan too and in that way the ziyarah is actually talking to both of them but individually at the same time so that is basically how it works then it moves to actually talking to the Imams Ya Mawla Ya Aba Muhammad Ya Mawla Ya Aba Abdullah today is the day of Monday and it is your day the year is for both of you Yawmukuma this is your day Wabismukuma and in your name and I am here as a guest I have come to you on this Monday as a guest so it is picturing the ziyarah as if it is their house let's say as if Monday is their house and we are coming here as a guest and then he says so welcome me and I think this is a very beautiful part of the ziyarah where it is actually asking the Imams to welcome you, to bring you in and you are the best of those who have welcomed anyone he even says make me feel at home yes it is a spiritual dimension isn't it it is not saying obviously physically you are sat at home reciting but if your heart is in this du'a and ziyarah you will be thinking about actually what would it be like to be speaking to them directly and not to have a barrier of where we are physically constrained and I guess that is the welcoming isn't it yes definitely and the other part there is a specific part in the ziyarah where people might actually look at it as rude so some people try to make it seem as if it is a rude part which is why you told the Imam you have been ordered to welcome me no it is not rude at all it is you telling the Imam oh Imam I am here you have taken yourself down please take me in so first you are asking please take me in then you tell him you have been ordered by Allah SWT to take me in and then what do you say and you are the best of those who do so so in any way there is this thing I don't know it seems as if it is an illness within specific people where even within the shia sect themselves where they try to belittle the Imam where they try to find the smallest word to actually take away from the status to make it seem as if the way we talk towards the imams or in fact since the ziyarahs are all from the imams themselves to say that even the imams couldn't speak and haasha Allahum that they could not actually speak in a proper manner because their akhlaq is always on top absolutely they are the guides I mean in my mind as you were saying that was that they are created to guide mankind and I think we shouldn't look at them as not in this world they are alive they are more alive than we are and to say that when you go to the harems and their shrines it's visiting as though we are visiting them so to say that actually Allah has given you that ability to still guide me in this time even though physically I may not be able to see that imam and I guess that's where what you're saying is that Allah has given them that authority to give that guidance so please give that guidance to me I mean that's not rude it's within our rights to ask absolutely it's within our rights to ask for that guidance definitely I would agree I mean of course we have to make that effort but since we've made the effort and these imams are the most generous of people to be able to give comfort and ease in times of our trials why wouldn't like why would it be an issue if they have been assigned they've been assigned to be a mercy towards us all if we're taking that one step if Allah SWT in His infinite wisdom we take one step towards and He takes 10 steps towards us and then of course the imams are going to have bit of those qualities and in a lot of the du'az or ziyaras we actually say and aid me taking me away from shirk and valala so this is as you said I don't like to say it's their job but this is what they have been assigned to do as you beautifully said that they have been sent after the prophet to carry on this message to make sure that because in every asr and every zaman and every time there is an imam to actually help us of course we have our imam who is not present today but we can look towards him as well our imam Mehdi come and aid us on Mondays it's the house of imam Hassan Hussain welcome me into this day and aid me throughout this day you know I mean they are the children and you think I often think about him and out of all the prophets how much mercy he never once turned his back to his people and he never will to the day of judgement and yet how much he was tortured and you know troubled by the people that were around him and I'm sure we don't justify as Muslims to behave in the best that we can but for his ahalak was always on point and I think when you turn to them and his children are continuing his message so it's not it's like he said it's our right to be who would we turn to we didn't have their mercy and they will never turn anyone away that's the beautiful thing and he said about the prophet keeping in mind that we have a saying that says no prophet has been has had hardships or has been tortured in the way that you have so and then for them to still welcome you for them to still show you the maximum amount of mercy where they truly show the mercy of Allah but in this world through a human being just in the last couple of minutes and again I know that most of the ziyaras and the du'as can be found in Mufat-e-Haljanan is this one the same? yes definitely in fact there's a section in Mufat-e-Haljanan so it starts off with the Quran and then it goes on to the du'as of the day and then so every day has a specific du'a as well and then there's another section which is the ziyaras of the imams of the infallibles sorry during the days so you'll find the ziyara on Sunday, the ziyara on Monday the ziyara on Tuesday each of the infallibles have a specific ziyara for each of the days but this one although it's a ziyara of Imam Hassan A.S it still combines Imam Hussein so Monday it says both of you in both of your names however the title is Imam Hassan the title is usually refers to Imam Hassan and in fact there's another ziyara that is solely just Imam Hassan actually including Imam Hassan alright that makes sense well we have Monday morning blues so this is a beautiful way to start the day bless your week ahead isn't it thank you so much that was really enlightening yeah brilliant thank you so much for your time Brahim as Zahra is mentioning and Zahra going to be seeing you again after the break as your adventure continues with brother Bilal in the special segment so keep an eye out for that after the break grab a cup of tea