 into his house, you know, swerving in the car, you know, drifting in his driveway, you know, rushing to his living room, turning the TV on to IH TV 3 to watch his favorite late night show, hashtag LNT. And I just like to say, As-salamu alaykum to everyone, because you know, you guys are the real heroes out there, you know, keeping this show running. I just like to say one thing, I'd like to welcome you guys to episode 86, I'll be favorite show, with your favorite man, Ahmed Ali. Now tonight, it's September 5th, say voila. Tonight is September, is it? Tonight is September 5th, and if you don't know what happened or what this day represents, you gotta go check it out. Go on Google, right? What is September 5th? What is this day affiliated with? Until then, let's go check out Westrending and come back to you guys very short. Once again, we do welcome everyone joining us tonight, although the first headline is a bit dreadful. But man, what's going on in Basra? At least five protesters killed, 30 injured. Why? Because they're demanding the simplest thing in life. They're demanding the essence of life, actually. They're demanding water, you know, fresh water to drink. Now, Basra gets this water from Shatt al-Arab. If you don't know where that is, that's near Kuwait. It's on the border of Kuwait where the Tigris and the Euphrates River meet. Now, on August 28th, a statement from the High Commission of Human Rights said, it has found high levels of salinity in the water feeding the Shatt al-Arab and an increase of chemical and biological containment from sewage contaminants and sewage and industrial waste. And, you know, people of Basra, it's one of the largest provinces in Iraq. And trust me when I say, when it's one of the largest, that means it has one of the most packed cities in Iraq. Thousands, thousands have been reported to hospitals for, you know, poisoning and stuff because of the water. Now, chemicals and biological contaminants being in water is very dangerous. So trust me when I say this, it's a big thing here in Iraq. Protest have been going on just, you know, wanting and demanding simple right for fresh water. So our prayers do go for those in Basra, inshallah, everything will be resolved soon. Now, for those, the second headline, for those who actually are following up with what's going on in the money business, you know, in the money world, Amazon, market cap, one trillion dollars. Yeah, and that's all I should say, one trillion dollars. You know, now it's the second largest or second publicly known US company to reach the record valuation of one trillion dollars after Apple, you know, but amazing, amazing, you know, just a few episodes ago, you know, it's episode 86 and I believe in episode, we were talking about world versus knowledge and we're talking about how Bezos was 119 billion dollars rich, now the company is worth one trillion dollars. So imagine, and actually, do you know how much one trillion dollars is? If you don't know, the cameraman, Alush Presley, he's saying it, but let's actually see how much one trillion dollars is. Show us, I just hit it. So right there, as you can see, that's one million dollars, the small power's right there. Man standing right there, he's chilling and then there's a hundred million dollars, one billion dollars, you have some racks going on and then that one trillion is at the bottom, a whole field, that little guy, that little circle, red circle at the end, yeah, that's a guy and that's how much one trillion dollars is, so he's just, I don't know, you can legit rebuild the whole world with that money, but you know, people are rich and the US is indebted for 12 trillion dollars, 12 trillion dollars, turn around that. So imagine how life could be with that money and tonight we're talking about money, so let's go jump into tonight's topic real quick. Break, in this world and nowadays, we see everyone working hard, including Ida Jocelyn, just to get that cash, to get famous, to get a house, to get a car, all these are beautiful, and life, one of the most beautiful things in life is to strive for a better living and that's the dream of everyone. Yet, there's one thing, notice before I said anything, there was the word get before it, get cash, get famous, get a house, get a car. You know, we humans always want to get, but we rarely actually give and that's unfortunate. You know, hardly do we give today, as I mentioned in the intro, today is September 11th, so it's September 5th, what about September 5th. And according to the UN International Calendar, today is set as the international day for charity. Now charity, as we all know, is all about giving and giving to organizations. However, we thought to dedicate this whole episode about you guys tonight on how charity, and inshallah, you get those big bucks out and you start giving away, making it rain. Anyways, tonight's question is very, very simple, let's pop it up in three, two, one, well, inshallah, guys are on point. What is the purpose of charitable organizations? Simple question, very simple question. What is the purpose of charitable organization? If you're wondering what you do with that question, very simple, on Instagram, I already wrote that. You open your phone, go to WhatsApp, download number shown, inshallah, in a few seconds. It's a bit laggy. Plus nine, six, four, seven, seven, four, zero, six, seven, 18, 36, and let us know what you think via WhatsApp, toll-free. Everyone has Wi-Fi, everyone has data, so open WhatsApp. Should it's a text message, a voice message, and a free phone call during the live show tonight. Now let's go take a quick break and come back to you guys to talk more about charity and giving. Once again, welcome everyone joining us tonight in the live show from the holy city of Karbala. Now tonight, as I mentioned earlier, the question for tonight is very simple. What is the purpose of charitable organizations? Now it's a very important question to actually think about because in the world that we live in today, we'll get to talk about it later on, but the world that we're living in really needs a lot of help. No matter how many improvements we have made to general living standards, we haven't reached every part of the world. What we usually take for granted is someone else's struggle in somewhere around the world. Someone's struggling just to get fresh water, just like in the people of Basila. Someone's struggling just to get some communication with his maybe brother in the States or somewhere around the world. People lack simple living standards and simple things in life. Charity is one of the best ways that can help such people. Most of the time charity is in financial terms. However tonight, we're trying to find out other ways on how to become charitable and donate to charities as well as depending and has to depend on the target that you're looking into. So that's why we have six ways for you as to why you should donate the charity. Number one, improving self-worth, that's number one. What does that mean? Donating is something that makes us feel really good as that person right there, makes us feel amazing. It's a satisfactory state that a person goes through. Most people find helping underprivileged individuals as one of their main purposes in life. The second one is giving back. As I mentioned earlier, we all give, so we all take, I wanna take that cash, I wanna get that car, I wanna get, get, get, get. It's amazing. For me, I would like to get a Lamborghini and that's mine. I'd like to get this kind of house, this kind of, it's all good, it's beautiful. At the same time, do I actually think about what we give? Do we think about how much we give? And that's important as well. And that's number two. Number three is spreading the love. And that goes along with number two as well. Many people, we can say that 90% of the people living on this planet want to get love. At the same time, you gotta give love to get it back. So two and three are connected with one another. We're so, everyone's such a victim and has become a victim of materialism that everybody is craving, that no one right now is really craving love. Even the love that people crave right now, some people crave, unfortunately, is materialistic love. It's not pure love that was, you find in Indian movies where they run around trees and stuff, I'm kidding, those are movies. But what I'm trying to say is that we live in such a materialistic world that no one's actually giving, no one's actually caring about giving love to get it back. Everyone's just expecting everyone to love them just like that, instead of giving something back to the community. Number four is gratefulness. You know, as you mentioned earlier, one of the most aspects, one of the most things in life is the ones that we take for granted. You know, yes, in Karbala, electricity does go off, but there are cities and countries around the world where they barely have any electricity. They barely have cars, they barely have slippers. You know, and we have to really think about that as well. It's a blessing, you know, the simplest blessings is to always give, even if you have such minimum thing, you need to give it because trust me when I say it's gonna multiply. Number five is socializing. You know, when you donate to charities or join non-profitable organizations, you get to find individuals like-minded for yourself. You get to socialize more. You get to form a group or be in a group where you can change the way that a lot of people are thinking nowadays, you know, have an impact on societies that really can't flourish by themselves due to poverty and cancer sometimes. So we have to always keep in mind that, you know, joining a group, joining a non-profitable organization can help a lot. Number six, join causes. It's similar to socializing and joining non-profitable organizations, but this one, your will to donate will help you discover organizations and causes they fight for. You know, there are a lot of organizations out there that are doing a lot of amazing work, a lot of amazing work. If you go to the West, you'll find a lot, you'll find the Zahra Trust, you'll find Lady Fatima Trust doing work, not just in Iraq, in Yemen because of the war that's going on in Yemen. They're helping people in Lebanon, in Syria. You know, who's Hussein? A lot of charitable organizations, the 10th day, also helping a lot of people out there. You know, and some of them are my boys, you know, we're just giving shout outs not to only our boys, but we're giving shout outs to their organizations as well because they're actually giving back to the community, you know, for their work. It's amazing work that they're doing. Insha'Allah, may Allah SWT, you know, give them the will to continue serving the way. Now charity does not have to be big or leave a huge impact. It doesn't. You know, a little act of kindness, of charity. You know, if you find someone that's sitting on the sidewalk and he has written a sign saying, I haven't eaten for a few days and I trust me when I say I've seen someone said that I haven't eaten proper food for more than two weeks. Going to, you know, the closest sandwich shop. You know, even if you're not Muslim, you know, go grab something from, I don't know, from McDonald's or whatever. You know, grab something. Even if it's halal, you know, try to grab halal, you know, grab it and bring it to this individual. That's simple. You know, how much is it gonna cost you? Five dollars? Who doesn't have five dollars? Especially the Muslim community, masha'Allah. They're stacking up their cash. You know, it's good to go buy something. You know, even, you know, dollar ramen nowadays has sandwiches, you know, food basics. My Canadian boys know that. Food basics, fortinos and them. Go grab something very, you know, a small sandwich, some juice, some fruits. And it's not hard to find a homeless person. You'll find them anywhere in downtown. You know, anywhere you go downtown, you're gonna find a homeless person, especially down in downtown Toronto. You'll find a lot of homeless people. Go and help those individuals out. Simple act of kindness, you know, because one day you never know how harsh life can get. Now you're living great, you know, you're having a good time, you're having money, you have a good wife, a good family, everyone's happy, everyone has money, but God forbid something does go wrong and things don't work out properly. Put yourself in his shoes. Wouldn't you want the community to help you out? Wouldn't you want the society that you belong to help you out? That's what charity is. Simple act of kindness will help you a lot and that's the theme for today, is helping others out. Now we all know that giving to charity and helping out is a very good deed, you know what I'm saying? It's important, but what's the purpose of all this? What's the purpose of us giving back? You know, for example, I'll just, you know, bring this small example in. If you're in a relationship with someone, especially a halal relationship, let's keep that up, a halal relationship, and you only want your wife to love you, you don't wanna love your wife. You just wanna get that love, you wanna give it. But how is that gonna make your wife love you even more if you're the only one getting the love and not showing love? It's simple, you know, charity doesn't have to go to someone that's, you know, that's poor. People lack manners, people lack love, people lack food, people lack drink, you know, people lack a lot of things. So charity doesn't have to go to someone that doesn't have any, well, it should, it should. But the closest people to you start with that and then you'll move on very far in life. Show kindness to those around you, you'll get far in life. Show kindness to everyone that you have. And if you, in last episode, we talked about Mamal Kaavan, and how even in the most unpleasant situations where he's getting harassed, he showed kindness, he showed a smile. A smile can be charity for someone that's having a bad day in life. You know, for someone that's having a bad day, you open that simple door opener, you just open the door for that person and they walk through and they see you with that smile on your face, it's gonna change their day. They're gonna be like, you know what? There's good people out there. So try to do the simplest acts, try to do them and trust me when I say, people will love you for that. You will actually become, because giving back, you know, as Maulana Sadiq, alaihi salam says, whoever grants one request of his brother or someone that requests something from him, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala will grant him 70 requests in this world and 70 requests in the hereafter. One request, if someone comes up to you, and in our days, a lot of people do need money, and there's a lot of illnesses going on, and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala cure those who are going through an illness. They come up to you and say, you know what? I need a couple of bucks to get me through the month. Can you lend me some? And you know yourself that you have money, but sometimes you're afraid, is that person gonna pay me back? And not you're right, absolutely. But you know that that individual is in deep trouble. You know that individual doesn't have any money or else he wouldn't come and lower his self-esteem and not saving his face and stuff. Why lower that much just to get the buck? So you know that he's in desperate need. So just help him out. That right there will make you a very successful person. But let's take a very quick break and come back to you guys very short. Thank you very much. I talked a lot, you know, Alhamdulillah. I have my prayer bead today. You know, we're trying to, you know, trying to get my sins washed away. So Alhamdulillah, I got my prayer bead going on. But before the break, we were talking about how simplest things can actually change people's lives. Tonight, we want to highlight one special foundation, one special organization out there founded by Grand Ayatollah, Sayyed Sadaq Al-Shirazi. Now, this foundation, this organization is actually very unique in its way where the aim is to unite the males and the females of society together in a halal way, of course. Bringing the men and the women to get married under one roof, having kids. They're trying to get people to get married. And that's actually very beautiful because nowadays, marriage is one of the most hectic things in life. You know, I'm not saying, cause, you know, to scare you guys, although you guys probably know more than me, but what I'm trying to say is nowadays, marriage, you need to think a lot for it. You know, now they're requesting a huge dowry, lots of gold, you know, if you're living in Iraq or somewhere in the Middle East, you're paying a lot for marriage. You know, now, in Iraq, the simplest marriage will cost you around eight to $15,000. Somewhere else, and that's in Iraq and that's very high, you know, and somewhere else, it's gonna cost you around $50 to $100,000 because you have to need a house, you need a car, you need a job, you know, all that. This foundation is actually trying to bring everyone together, trying to bring the male and the female together so everyone can live happily under one roof. Very wonderful initiative. For me, I'm not saying I want to sign it up, but you know, if someone is gonna make a wife, I'm just kidding, but I was watching the show. We don't want to get into problems with her. So, yeah, I'm just kidding. But, what we're trying to say, it's a very beautiful initiative. But we have the spokesperson, the official spokesperson of Imam Hussain Development and Relief Foundation, the IHDRF, joining us live during the show via phone call. Salamun alaykum, Salamun alaykum. Hello? Ah, so there are some technical, this, inshallah, we'll do try again to get in contact with him, Sheikh Abbas Panjou, the official, spokesperson of IHDRF. This is the organization called the IHDRF, Imam Hussain Development and Relief Foundation. So, as I was mentioning earlier, inshallah, we can get to, we do have a few minutes left till the show we can get to talk with Sheikh Abbas soon, inshallah. Now, as I mentioned before the break, one of the most beautiful things in life is giving back more, or we can weigh it out. Get and give, get and give. At the end, there are technical difficulties so we couldn't get in touch with Sheikh Abbas Panjou, inshallah, we'll do have him in other episodes. But, at the end, as a conclusion, what's your duty at the end? What's the answer for tonight's question? What's the purpose? Well, the purpose is very clear. The purpose is to have everyone on this planet live a peaceful life and in harmony. That's what the Ahlul Bayt wants. That's what Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, quality, what Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la wants, quality, justice, equality, justice, quality of life to a good living standard, helping those who are in need. Going out to see, you know, there are a lot of villages out there that are undiscovered. And trust me, I've seen that with my own eyes. Here in Iraq, I had to go to a village to go check it out. And one of the most horrific things I've seen, trust me when I say, kids don't have underwear to wear. They're naked running around the streets. They're naked going around the house. No slippers on her feet, no shoes, bare clothes, minimum clothes. So imagine if everyone around the world wants to come together, donate very simple things, and help those individuals out. Check your wallets, you know, check your bank account. If you know that you have an extra $50, $25, which is nothing, pay it out. Take it out, give it to an organization that you know. Give it to IHDRF. If you have one that you trust and you've been working with and you know that your friends are working with, go pay it to that. But as long as you have a small amount out for charity, that's our message for tonight. Thank you very much for joining us. This is Ahmed Ali, come into your life from the Holy City of Karbala on hashtag anti-do-stay-tune for the upcoming episodes and hint, hint, hint. And Muharram, insha'Allah, and Safar, there's gonna be episodes every single night, 60 episodes in two months, insha'Allah, that is gonna be tough. But we got the man Ali Jassim writing the scripts and the man Ahmed Ali presenting them. Thank you very much for joining us. Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.