 Back when Aitul Abdul Karim Kashmiri was asked, what do you think of Qum? He said, it's not Najaf. Not the present day Najaf, the Najaf of the 50s and the 40s. What was that Najaf? The one Aitul Abahchid said, there was 60 to 70 different Arafah with different Karamat. Not the same, different. Each one of them different. When he was asked then, what was different about them? He says, in the month of Ramadan, if you can find even one student within the house that can do this, let me know. There were 70 students in the house who would recite Surah Bakr in the first verse, and Aal-e-Imran in the second verse, second units of prayers, and in the dua, they would recite Bihar Dua Abu Hamza Famaali. He said that these were those Ulama who would stand the all night reciting this, two units of prayer. That's the power of those Ulama who were there. Today you don't find that, as one teacher once said, as materialism increases, spirituality decreases. Who is this Aitul Abahchid then when he first came? A student of Sayyid al-Iqabi. They say, in fact, one of the students of Aitul Abahchid said, he said, when I, Abahchid, used to go at night time into the Sahan of Amir al-Mu'mineen, and do Wadhu, a light used to shine from the heavens at night time to light up the Sahan so that he can do Wadhu. It was then that Allama Tabata Bay and other people met Aitul Abahchid. He guided many people. So this Aitul Abahchid, when his father found out that he was with Sayyid al-Iqabi, he was about 18 years old. And at that moment, somebody wrote a letter to say, your son has gone into Sufism. He's become a Sufi. So his father got upset, angry, writes a letter and he says, my son, it is haram for you to go to Sayyid al-Iqabi. It is haram for you to do anything which is mustahab or anything which is more than just your Wajibat. The letter comes, the letter comes to Aitul Abahchid. If you wanna see a true disciple, this is a true disciple. Not the disciples like we are. Many people turn around to Aitul Abahchid and said, Sayyid al-Iqabi is a spiritual master, but it's the way of Allah. But if you lose this opportunity, how are you gonna get to Allah? What about Maraqah? You know what Aitul Abahchid turns around and says? He goes to Sayyid al-Iqabi. He says, Sayyid, what should I do? Sayyid turns around and says, who's the Khalid you do? He says, Abul Hassan is Fahani. He said, go and ask Abul Hassan is Fahani. He doesn't say, ask me. He says, go and ask Abul Hassan is Fahani. He goes to Abul Hassan is Fahani. Abul Hassan is Fahani. He says, according to my fatwa, it's haram for you. You have to obey your father. You have to obey your father. Aitul Abahchid doesn't argue with him. He says, As-salam to Sayyid al-Iqabi. He stops everything, even the mustahabahats. He stops everything other than the wajah prayers. But he makes a decision and he says to him one thing. He says, for as long as my father is alive, I will not talk. I will silence my tongue. I will not say anything. For four years he didn't speak. And within these four years, over 20 karamat were developed. But when he closed his eyes, he could be in Najaf, and Um, and Mashhad, and Medina, and Makkah, simultaneously. That is a Maharaja who died in 2009. We're not going back a thousand years, my friends. You have the ability to do that. If only you understand your potential. You have the ability. I have the ability. We all have the ability to do that. Aitul Abahchid is exceptional. He's a normal person like me. You're the Ahlul Bayt, right? Exception. What makes you the exception? The heart of a person makes you exceptional. What makes you exception? The ability that Sayyid al-Shuhada's love gives you. What is the one thing, when the Sixth Imam was asked, when you talk about Safina to Najad, he says you talk about Sayyid al-Shuhada. Are you not all Safina to Najad? He says, yes, we are all Safina to Najad. But no one thing. Sayyid al-Shuhada's ship sells very fast. Sayyid al-Shuhada's story, from this story you'll begin to understand exactly the power of Sayyid al-Shuhada. They said, Sayyid al-Iqazi, for 40 years did spiritual exercises. For 40 years he did not even see a dream. He did not see any mokashifah. He did see nothing whatsoever. There was no breakdown. But one thing Sayyid al-Iqazi did, one of the things was that he persevered. No one thing. Within the spiritual pathway, you must persevere. Whether you resolve straight away or not, Allah is testing you. For 40 years he struggled and struggled and struggled until that point comes. He says, I went into the Haram of Abul-Khawal Abbas to pray Maghrib prayers. He used to pray Maghrib there in Isha in the Haram of Sayyid al-Shuhada. He says, as I stood and I said, Allahu Akbar for my Maghrib. 40 years I'd waited for this moment. All of a sudden I see reality begins to open up. I can see all of reality in front of me. I can see all the dimensions in front of me. I can see all of the tajalliyat of Allah. I can see all of the... He says, I felt weak. I didn't know what to do. I finished my prayers. I put my head back. I stretched my legs out. I could see all of this opening up in front of me. He says, I can't go to Sayyid al-Shuhada. If Abbas can do this, what can Sayyid al-Shuhada do? He says, I can't go now. He went back home, finished his prayer. He said, that night Allah revealed everything upon me. That's when he became Sayyid al-Iqazi that Sayyid al-Iqazi we talk about. If there's anything that you can learn from this lesson today, be one of those people who controls their tongue. You know what it says in another tradition. It says that apart from our nation, the other nations had to fast by closing their tongue. Mariam, what happened? She gives birth to a child, right? There's no father there. What would you expect for Mariam to be able to defend herself? What does Allah say? It says, silent. Of all things, the moment where you need to defend yourself because you've got a child and there's no husband, Allah says, silence. Your career, the same thing, silence. What is within silence is a great power within silence. We haven't been told to remain silent, though, in terms of fasting. Yes, it's better for us to remain silent. Control your tongue and you'll find that you better yourself when it comes to the hereafter. One of the most important things is that, the ability to control your tongue. Each one of us needs to do that. Each one of us needs to develop that. The spiritual journey dictates that you have control. This is why one of the most important things within spirituality is muraqibah. Make sure that you are diligent of yourself, diligent and vigilant of yourself. Make sure that you're taking hesab of yourself. Make sure that you are muraqib of yourself so that you understand what you are to understand your tongue. Goes back again. man arafa narsafa qadara farabah. Become selfless. One of the best ways of selflessness is the control of the tongue. Control this tongue. Make sure that you control this tongue. What else then? As we are journeying now, the other most important thing is that when you can control this tongue, the second thing that comes is edad of imam imamsum. You see, today, when Allah gives us a decree, we don't follow it. We make 110 excuses. You know what was different about ablifallil abbas? Is that he had two characteristics. One was the fact that he was silent in obeying the imam of the time. Today, we need to instill these values within us. The ability to obey the imam of our time and the ability to remain quiet. Everything lies within them. The arafa are all there, right? As I said, there are 360 companions of the imam living. When one dies, another one comes. When the other dies, another one comes. They can be of all walks of life. Atmukhui's friend said in Masjid-e-Khan in Tabriz in the Madrasa Khan in Tabriz where he went there, in those days, he said Khui went to Najaf. His friend went to Tabriz to study. Over there, there used to be a man. Final story. Over there, there used to be a man who used to clean up, warm the water. He was a person who used to remove the garbage. You know what a story is? Inshallah, I'll tell you the story tomorrow. But the summary was this. He was a special servant of the imam. And that tells us that even within this room, we wouldn't know it, is more than possible a servant of the imam sitting here. 360. The world is never free of the helpers of the imam. This is that power. Become one like that. Open your hearts. Become something. You can become that. All it requires for you is to connect. How do we connect? Everything is there. What did Qadi say? I'm going to repeat what we said yesterday. Take care of your five daily prayers. Make it the access of your life. Everything else flows from that. Because the Rahmah of Allah comes from that. You see, if you follow all those things which are mustahab, for example, fasting on a Monday or a Thursday, giving sadaqah removes problems coming in your life. Giving sadaqah. Putting your hands in your pockets and giving that. They say that Abul Fawla bars up three characteristics. Three characteristics. One of them that he was courageous. One of them that he had knowledge. The other one that he was generous. You've heard the appeal today. It's no benefit to me but your community. For the sake of Abul Fawla, Abbas, if each one of you were to take out some money for the sake of the center, tomorrow your children and their children and their children will benefit. So before you go today, I was listening to the appeal. For the sake of Abul Fawla, for the sake of the generosity, for the sake of the fact that we are holding sadaqah today, where Fatimut al-Zahra alaihi salam comes. For the sake of that, clear the debt of this community. There's a million pounds or million dollars or whatever it is that's remaining. If each one of you was to take even 300 dollars out, the entire debt would be clear. There's enough people here that even if you were to take out 300 dollars, before you go out do that clear and finish off so that your future generation can benefit. So that next year after there's no burden what did you do for your community and your society? What did you do for the progression of Islam? One of the biggest ways that we can help out is to help out the system.