 Imagine, it's 1400 years ago, it's the ninth of Mahārāma, you're in your tent at night and you hear noises coming from outside. So you leave your tent, you come outside and you see hundreds and thousands of people leaving the camp of the Marmāsēn lī ṣalā. When you're looking around the wilderness for a split second, your eyes fall onto the face of the Marmāsēn lī ṣalā. You see the sadness and sorrow in his face, in that moment you decide you're going to stay. So now the tenth of Mahārāma comes, the day of āshurā and now you're the 73rd companion of Abā Abdullāh lī ṣalā. Imagine you walk up to the imām and you offer your service and he gives you a choice in how you want to serve him. So for example you can go and get water with Abāl-Fadl al-Abdu Llāh, you could protect the tent of the women and children, you could go and fight against the armies, the enemies. What would you want to do on that day? To be honest, what I would want to do is anything that's best. So if the best thing to do is to protect the women, I would do that. And if the Marmāsēn lī ṣalā, he tells me to go get him water, I'll do it straight away with no hesitation. Because it's not just the way that he got hurt, it's how once you help people and forgive people, it makes your heart stop to see this story that people sometimes don't even pay attention to. So to be honest, I'll just do whatever I can. If he wants me to fight, I would fight. If he wants me to protect the women, I'll protect the women. If he wants me to bring him water, I'll bring him water. No doubt about it. So now imagine one day you come home from school, you see your family running around the house, one person is trying to bring fruit, another person is trying to make tea, another person is trying to cook food. And it looks like to you that you have guests or a guest has come to see your family. So you grab one of them and you say, what's going on? Who's come to see us? And they say, someone's come to our house, but they haven't come to see us. They've come to see you. So you say, okay, who is it? Maybe you think it's a friend from school or a friend from the mosque or a friend from the community. You ask where your guest is and they say the living room, you come up to the living room, you open the door, you walk inside and you see sitting on the chair is, I'm not saying this. In that moment, what would you say to him? What would you want him to say to you? Knowing he's come to your house to see you. When I first step into the room, when I see his face, no doubt about it, I'll straight away cry and I'll ask him to make the art for me and ask God to forgive all my sins because like no one's perfect in the world. So that'll be my first, my first like, bad idea. And then I'll ask him to keep my family safe from that type of thing to us. No illness, no nothing because without family there's not really life. And I love my family to the bottom of my heart, so that's what I'll probably tell him. What would you want him to say to you? Like that, I would let him praise me and to motivate me. I want that to tell me how he was so patient with the struggle that he had to put up with to help me. It's like him being inspiration to me. At the beginning I asked you about 1400 years ago. I asked you that if you walk up to the Imam and the Imam gives you a choice. He says to you, you can pick whatever you like and you said no, I would do whatever the Imam said was best. Now a lot of us in this day and age often forget that we have an Imam who's here with us and in a way him being physically absent from us has given us a choice in the way we want to serve him. Because some say you know Imam saying had 72 companions with him on that day. Yes he sacrificed was great but he still had 72 loyal followers. How many companions does the Imam have today? So my final question is, what do you think your 12th Imam wants from you? Do you think he's happy with you? Do you think you've served his cause? You've put a smile on his face. You've done what's best by him. Well, as I've been told stories, why do you ask when you have no kids, why do they face all bright and light? It's because they don't do wrong and they don't hurt someone. It's like when you're thinking or what does the Imam think of you? You know in your heart like it has to be something good because no Imam will think negatively towards a person. So in the 12th Imam, what I'll think like he thinks of me is that because I've been told by other people as well I have lots of potential and I want to do good with my life but there's some mistakes I've done and I regret a lot. So I know he would mention mention some of my mistakes but also motivate me and inspire me and to help me become better person. What do you think he wants from you the most? To be loyal and to pray to God and be religious and to keep on following your Dean, don't make stupid mistakes, don't be influenced by friends, don't let anger take over your happiness and your goodwill. That's what I'll think of you. And if you could say anything to the Imam of your time now, what would it be? The first thing has to be thank you. I will have to thank him because knowing that there's someone so close to God and me telling him things about me and him saying that he'll help me, it has to be a thank you because it's like I'm relieved now that I've spoke to Imam and he also and also God's watching but now that I've spoke to someone that is from one of seven heavens, I just, I'll just like lots of things in my life will just calm down because in a lot of situations I don't like telling people, not my mom, not my dad, not my brothers, not my sisters. I keep it to myself and so it getting a chance to speak to Imam, I'll straight away express my feelings and it will have to be a thank you first thing and also I'll cry because it's like like happy cries because it's just. You know someone's got your back.