 We have been informed in addition to the Maury that we have been mentioning over these last few nights, the elderly lady and the young girl. We are informed that there is also another young lady who is very unwell in Pakistan. We also have many of our family and friends that are unwell at the moment. There are people around the world who are in desperate need of assistance. Please raise your hands and let's join each other in sincere da'a. Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for a very quick recovery for all of those who are unwell and for shat'a'a for all those around the world who are in need. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Amman yujeebu al-muzdal-raitha da'a wa yakshifu al-su. Amman yujeebu al-muzdal-raitha da'a I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the accursed. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. All praise is due to Allah, who guided us to this and we could not guide if Allah did not guide us. And peace and blessings be upon the honored prophets and messengers. And peace and blessings be upon the honored prophets and messengers. The end of the prophets. Our Master, the accursed, the righteous, the truthful. Our Mustafa, the accursed, the Merciful, the Ahmad. Abu Al-Qasim, Muhammad. And upon his people, the good men, the pure men. And Allah is above all the wrongdoers, among the righteous and the righteous. But after him, Allah said, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, in his book, the Magill. And in his mouth, the Hamid. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. And in the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. But after him, Imam al-Hujj, peace be upon him, said, All praise is due to Allah, who believes in those who fear and prostrates the righteous. And He increases those who are weak and He makes those who are arrogant and He destroys those who are kings and He destroys those who are others. And all praise is due to Allah, the accursed, the Merciful. The righteous, the righteous, the accursed, the accursed, the righteous. The righteous, the righteous, the needy of the righteous, the dependant of the believers. Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you. Most of our age, Imam Zamanab. My respect to teachers, elders, brothers and sisters. Peace be upon you all. Continuing where we left off from yesterday's discussion. In this section of the A'if-tita'ah, which has come to us by the Awaited Sager of Humanity, Imam al-Mahdi, Ad-Jalallahu ta'ala, Fardah al-Sharif. The A'if-tita'ah, we have stated in several previous nights, is divided into two. The first half is a praise towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and our relationship with Him. The second is a praise and an understanding of our relationship with the Divine Leaders, representatives of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The section we are looking at here is the bridge between the two. And it seeks to discuss those kings, those leaders, those autocrats, those oppressors and despots around the world that are the ones who seek to have power and feel that they can destroy that which is sanctimony, feel that they can destroy that which is in the heart of God consciousness. And then of course the da'a begins to discuss those leaders who are the Divinely appointed leaders of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it opposes those first groups of leaders. In the first group of leaders we see that they are despots by description and in the second group of leaders, the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them all, they are leaders who have been described with their outstanding and glorious characteristics, the ones that we are obliged to follow and emulate insha'Allah. Yesterday we began a discussion and that was to understand that the Imam of our time who is the awaited saviour of humanity is exactly that title which we give to him. He is the universal Imam of this humanity. He is this universal Imam of all of those within the fold of the world. And therefore when we begin to understand our Imam we need to see him as this universal Imam and we need to see him as the one who will bring justice for the entire world. Hence when we call out to him, we should not consider him to solely be the Imam of the Shi'a, nor is he the Imam of the Muslims. He is the Imam of everyone in this world and when we begin to understand our Imam at that daraja, when we begin to understand our Imam at that level of existence, our understanding and comprehension of him as an individual and also his role as the governor of this world will begin to take shape, hence our own actions towards him will also take shape in the same way. Yesterday we discussed this from one or two different angles. We brought a verse from the Holy Quran and we brought certain traditions from the Ahl al-Bait. In the Holy Quran for example one that we mentioned is one that we recite every single week in Surat al-Jum'a. We highlighted very quickly that Surat al-Jum'a being the chapter of Friday is one that we recite every week but also the context for the Shi'a is that we believe that the Imam will come on a Friday. Hence we pose the question when we read Surat al-Jum'a have we noticed where the implicit statement is about the Imam? We stated the verse starts The verse starts He is the one who was raised from amongst yourselves a messenger who has four job descriptions in that he must teach the signs Ayatihi wa yuzakkihim and he must purify and he must teach the book and he must impart the wisdom The subsequent verse says and that from the latter generations there shall also be the one who will come in this same light if the Holy Prophet of Islam is the only one capable of teaching us the signs of Allah the only one capable of teaching us the book of Allah it cannot be an ordinary human being in the latter generations that's going to do the same it cannot be you and I that's being spoken about if the Holy Prophet of Islam is the one to bring the Quran the one in the latter generation that brings about the true culmination of Quran in our time must be the Imam of this humanity and then we stated as well that the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them have these certain traditions that give us huge insight into how the Imam's coming will be and into our role with him the first one we stated from our fifth Imam Imam Muhammad Baqar, peace be upon him in which he states that the Imam will come only when mankind wants him to come it is not going to be that when he comes we begin to fall in line the goal is for us to fall in line with his thinking that the whole of humanity wants this human saviour to come and then he will come and we also mentioned another tradition from our sixth Imam Imam Ja'far al-Sari, peace be upon him in which the Imam says Al-Mahdi, yasna'u kama sana'u rasool Allah in that Al-Mahdi will act just like the Holy Prophet of Islam has acted and thus if we understand the Prophet correctly we also understand Al-Mahdi correctly we need to build on this we need to finish this discussion and take it to the next layers of thought in our understanding of this particular sequence within the Holy Da'a to continue where we left off yesterday we stated that we need to export Mahdi-ism we needed to export the concept of this human saviour coming why? we stated the fifth Imam says that when mankind wants this human saviour that is when he will come when the people of Mexico, the people of New Zealand the people of Alaska, the people of China as well as the people of Dar es-Salaam will call Al-Ajal in a human voice that is when the awaited saviour will come he is the Imam for everyone and everyone should want his presence on earth to expand upon this point we can show one or two very integral issues the first one we stated was that if the humanity is going to call upon him this is already innately present within us we have found that all of the prophets and the Imams have called for the return of the Imam we also find that within religion itself religion is calling for a human saviour but the difference is within those scriptures they do not necessarily have the active call that we have our active call is based upon the realisation that the Imam was born 1200 years ago he walks amongst us he is in Hajj with us he comes to Ziyarat with us he should be present when we are mourning his grandmother Fatima Ta-Zahra and hence when we call upon him it is innately within us as the Shia he is present hence we call not for him to come but for him to illuminate us with his presence the difference between us and the others is that they are passive in this calling and hence we need to make this idea vitalised we need to make this manifested within the other religions we stated that this not only is something capable because the awaited saviour is present within all religions but also because we find that in the world that we live in today it is a world of great difficulty if you are living in Japan you will have experienced great trials if you are living in Greece today you are going through great trials if you are living in Yemen today you are going through great trials hence whether you are a believer in the name Al Mahdi or you are a believer in just an awaited saviour if we encourage the concept of everyone calling for an awaited saviour it should be easier because so much of the world is in need the point is this that when humanity as one global body becomes tired of our own versions of justice when we get tired of implementing our version of an economic system when we get tired of implementing our own political system and we see that each one has failed us after another we will be ready to throw off that shackle and we will say now I desire a divinely appointed government now I desire an economic system that is divinely appointed I desire a penal code that is divinely appointed and hence I no longer want to see the pitfalls of what we have implemented we have been asking for this day after day after day what would happen if in one voice humanity called for this very same thing now here we need to go further here we need to be constructively critical we need to look within and ask ourselves where are we as a global Shi'a community we need to ask ourselves are we performing in line with what is needed for this particular concept can we do a little bit more to aid this particular concept we stated one this task of exporting Mahdiism should be easy why because each religion has its own concept of a human saviour two that around the world they are going through problems they will want a human saviour two but thirdly on a practical level we see that non-Muslims and I am being very specific with my words here non-Muslims in some ways are doing more to bring about the coming of an awaited saviour than most Muslims what do I mean take as an example look at the Occupy Wall Street movement that has taken place around the world go home tonight take 15 minutes go and look on Wikipedia or go and look on any website that discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement just in case any of our younger brothers don't know what Occupy Wall Street is we will explain and then we will go into the explanation Occupy Wall Street is a title which is given to a movement which is around the world that seeks economic justice that seeks to implement an economic system which is befitting for humanity there is a very famous term that is presented we are the 99% what does this mean that 1% of the world 1% of the world owns or has 99% of the wealth of the economy of around the world whereas the remaining 99% they have that 1% really what's being said here forget the literal statistic what's being said here is that there is a group of people that are implementing their own version of an economic system that is made it is created to suppress a certain mass it is created to keep the certain mass in poverty it is created to keep the mass paying back debt and keeping them in credit cards keeping them paying them in interest today we have seen and over these last few years that as there was the economic crashes around the world when people lost their homes when people lost the things that they have had for dozens of years the governments instead of bailing out the people they decided to bail out the banks as a result of this economic crash as a result of the concept of the economic system that is in place hundreds of thousands of people from around the world decided to participate in a movement known as Occupy the idea was that we will go to places which are the financial institutes of the world we will go to Wall Street in New York City we will go to St Paul's Cathedral in London we will go to such and such a street in Sydney we will go to such and such a street in such and such a country and around the world hundreds of thousands of people took time out to demonstrate against the unjust economic system that is in place today now I pose a very simple question was that movement orchestrated by any Muslim movement? was this led by any Marja Ataklid? was this led by any particular Molvi in any country? no, this was a spontaneous human eruption of justice that they sought to bring around for the world they were Christians they were Jews they were Hindus they were Sikhs they were atheists they didn't even believe in the existence of God but they wanted to bring about a just economic system for the rest of their world now I ask you a question is that not a Mahdiyan movement? when Imam is looking around the world and he sees that there are hundreds of thousands of people that aren't directly associated to him but they are working on his behalf to bring about a just economic system whether they are named Muhammad or whether they are named Paul is he not proud of that movement? is he not looking at that movement and saying this is something I could be proud of? it doesn't matter who is performing this movement whether he believes in me or he doesn't this movement is a pure movement to break a certain illegitimate wrong economic system to bring about something which is more befitting for the state of humanity can you see how the world is taking shape in front of our eyes? can you see that there are people who are actually working on behalf of a Mahdiyan movement but they don't even realize it imagine if they understood what Islam could bring to them for this economic movement imagine if they understood an awaited saviour that is living somewhere that he is residing somewhere and he is weeping over the injustices on this earth and he is waiting, begging every day to be unleashed so he can come and bring justice around this world imagine if we taught this to them imagine if we were able to export Mahdiism to the masses take another example when the United States of America and certain other countries decided to unilaterally invade Iraq people around the world in their millions demonstrated in the anti-war movement we don't want war, we want peace we want you to find a diplomatic solution we don't want the millions of people that have been displaced around this world we don't want your economic sanctions we don't want your tyrannical bombs to be dropped upon human beings were these people Muslim? there were more non-Muslims than there were Muslims fighting for Iraq fighting for Iraq meaning that people around the world in accordance to one statistic one million people marched in London on one day in order to stop that movement in order to stop the invasion of Iraq were they Muslim? they weren't Muslim again we reiterate we are making a really simple, wonderful point here they weren't Muslim they were Jew they were Christian they were atheists they were Hindu they were Sikh but they had a goal in mind justice for this world again I ask you when the Imam is watching when the Imam is looking at this event is he not proud of this event? my people have raised themselves they have decided as a collective human body that we no longer want injustice we want justice around this world the difference was when we marched as Shi'a we did it in the name of Al-Mahdi whereas those people who marched who didn't know the name of Al-Mahdi they did it for the sake of goodness and goodness alone but what if around the world they marched on behalf of Al-Mahdi how would the world begin to change how would the world begin to shift how would the world begin to come together in order to bring about this saviour of humanity this prince of justice when we begin to see the world in this light when we begin to really take shape our minds begin to ponder upon our role as a Shi'a our role as a Muslim in regards to this movement of Al-Mahdi he is a universal Imam and if the universe wanted him then maybe he will come that much quicker hence we are suggesting we need to conceive the idea of how to export Mahdi-ism when I use my Facebook account and I'm speaking mainly to the youth here there aren't too many of my elders that are on Facebook, maybe some of you are but when we are on our Twitter and when we are on our Facebook we should be using this for good we have our non-Muslim friends don't we we have our Sunni friends on Facebook what if we were to be exporting the message of Al-Mahdi what if we were to be tagging people in videos what if we were to bring about this concept now here we need to become again very much aware of what is taking place in the 21st century and what anti-Mahdian movements are taking place in order to battle the concept of goodness and justice here we need to understand this very very specifically in the time in which we are living in we have seen post-911 that there has been a rise in Islamophobia today there are certain terms that are used around the world and the most famous is Islamist if you are someone who wants justice you are called Islamist if you are someone who prays five times a day you are an Islamist if you are someone who wears hijab you are an Islamist if you are someone who doesn't think that Israel should have a right to occupy you are an Islamist so they have certain terminologies Islamophobia has been on the rise but there have been two things in particular that have risen the third that is about to rise the two that have risen is one which is anti the holy prophet of Islam and two anti-Qura'an we have seen this Paster Terry Jones in Florida what does he do? he burns the holy Quran may Allah guide him and guide those who also have this very same thought if you ask him and you will see videos scholars from the Qazweeni family scholars from Florida asking him have you ever read the Quran? no I haven't why do you burn it? because I think it's a blasphemous book I think it's speaking about such bad things read the book before you go and burn it what kind of ignorance is this? there is anti-prophet and anti-Qura'an but I am saying today that there is a third anti which is on the rise and the Shi'a need to become aware and very much in preparation for this third anti-movement and that is anti-mahdi-ism anti-mahdi-ism the reason why is two-fold one when it comes to certain powers we see certain countries and groups that are anti these powers for example we see the Hezbollah we see the state of Iran we see other countries they are anti-certain powers the fact of the matter is when Sayyid Khamenei may Allah grant him long life and when President Ahmadidjinat speak you will often see that they speak about a certain individual by the name of Mahdi they are exporting Mahdi-ism President Ahmadidjinat will go to the United Nations and he will speak about Mahdi the Shi'as don't speak about Mahdi Ahmadidjinat will speak about Mahdi as a result because Mahdi is deemed as the awaited saviour of the Shi'a as opposed to being the awaited saviour of humanity there are certain powers that want to speak ill of Mahdi in order to put Mahdi down today there are certain writers who are actively being paid to write books newspaper articles magazine articles in order to be specifically anti-mahdi what they say is your Prophet Muhammad is the one who butchered people your Prophet Muhammad is the one who slaughtered innocents your Prophet Muhammad created a system of Sharia which is this and which is that when your Mahdi comes he will be the one to implement the Muhammad and Sharia the same way Muhammad killed the Jews Mahdi will kill the Jews the same way the Muhammad oppressed the Christians Mahdi will oppress the Christians hence there is anti-mahdi in writing that is coming out today and instead of the world being pro-mahdi the world becomes anti-mahdi this is a fact this is taking place around the world the Shi'a need to be aware of this issue they need to become aware of this problem the fact of the matter is we said al-mahdi will act just the way the Prophet acted but if I am the one who is presenting the Muhammad and Sunnah as being the one that oppresses women the one that makes women not allowed to drive the one that ensures that women can't even get educated of course then I'm going to promote a Mahdi that acts exactly the same way but if I am the one who learns how to state look at the beauty of the Holy Prophet of Islam look at the tradition that we have been giving from this pulpit in the last few nights when he came and someone gave that red aba to the Prophet he came and gifted it to Abu Jahl oh Abu Jahl you may be the worst of enemies of God but all I want is for you to be guided when Abu Jahl responded by throwing that back in his face Allah revealed the verse from Surah Al-Kahf it may be that you will kill yourself with grief this is the Muhammad who loves the disbelievers not the one who kills the disbelievers Mahdi is the one who inherits from Muhammad he is the one who loves the whole of humanity not the one who kills the whole of humanity can you see how it's all coming to shape if I believe in one type of Prophet I believe in this one type of Mahdi if I believe in the Muhammad who is beautiful who is loving, who is all embracing who is universal, who allowed Jews and Christians and non-Muslims to flourish in their own capacity to achieve their own culmination of existence can you imagine what Mahdi I believe in for Mexico what Mahdi I believe in for Uruguay what Mahdi I believe in for Alaska what Mahdi I believe in for New Zealand what Mahdi I believe in for Dar es Salaam Mahdi is universal Mahdi is beautiful Mahdi is the culmination of human existence Mahdi is the prince of human justice if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al-Rahman al-Rahim imagine what al-Mahdi will be within his own human capacity there are people today writing about al-anti al-Mahdi what are the Shi'a's doing the rest of the world is marching anti-war the rest of the world is marching anti-imperialism the rest of the world is marching against economic injustice and all of a sudden I want to export a religion that is anti these people they are performing a movement on behalf of Mahdi greater than what some Muslims are doing some Muslims are putting off the world whereas non-Muslims are the one bringing about al-Mahdi quicker than some Muslims this is a fact this is an absolute gospel fact we have to wake up to these issues that we see within our world these people are beautiful people they are walking on the streets marching for Iraq they are marching on behalf of economic justice imagine what we can be doing this is the level that we need to start thinking at we need to start working with these groups we need to start working on behalf of al-Mahdi in this manner because he is seeing the beauty of humanity taking shape whereas some Muslims want to be perverse enough to spread them and say no you are not Muslim therefore there is nothing for you in this world which Islam are they following which Islam are they truly understanding they haven't understood the first drop in the ocean of Islam here we need to really understand al-Mahdi what it means for his universal movement it is a tradition I would like to give to you and this is found in all of our books if you want I will bring it to you from Bihar al-Anwar I will show it to you and our sixth imam provides us with the most worrying of traditions and having given you this very long sermon that I just have about us as Muslims about us as Shi'a and how some other facets of the world are working on behalf of al-Mahdi greater than some Muslims I will prove it to you from a tradition of Ahl al-Bait our sixth imam Imam Ja'far al-Sariq s.a. is narrated to have said the following and I give this tradition to you verbatim he says when the flag of al-Mahdi will be raised the people from the east to the west will curse it when the flag of al-Mahdi will be raised the people from the east to the west will give la'na upon it the word is la'na it will curse it now before I give you the rest of the tradition I need to explain this we need to contextualize this first half of the tradition how beautiful was the holy prophet of Islam how beautiful was Ali ibn Abi Talib how beautiful was Imam Riddha al-Salaam and how beautiful will al-Mahdi be we are talking about an individual that is going to bring about justice around the entire world we are talking about an individual that will cease war we are talking about an individual that will bring about all kinds of economic justice around the world let me give you a very simple hadith and you'll understand this the commander of the faithful may Allah allow us to perform his ziyara this year and every year has a tradition he says whilst I sleep under my governance meaning when he was the caliph of the entire ummah under my governance whilst I sleep there isn't a single person who goes hungry in the world meaning in his world meaning in his area of the ummah the ummah of Islam at that time is the equivalent of 80 countries today in the Middle East Saudi, Yemen, Qatar, Dubai, Oman and so on and so forth all the way up to North Africa the time Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib was governed the entire ummah governed that amount which is the equivalent of 80 countries the way he had established justice as the Imam of the time the way he had employed governors like Malik al-Ashtar around the world of his time he had the confidence to say under my watch there isn't a single person who goes hungry now if that is the justice of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib imagine how Al-Mahdi with the wealth of petrodollars the wealth of the diamond industry the wealth of the gas industry will be able to bring about justice on this earth think about Al-Mahdi how he is the culmination of human thought if you are a master of engineer he is the master of all masters of engineer if you are a doctor there is no question he cannot answer you if you are a mathematician if you are a psychologist if you are a lawyer whatever industry you are in is there anyone more knowledgeable than this man Al-Mahdi? which conversation can he not have with you? which way can he not uplift your thinking and give you the perfect correct answer? this brothers and sisters Al-Mahdi it is this human saviour that is due to come the one who is the peak of humanity yet the hadith says when the flag of Al-Mahdi is raised the people from the east to the west will curse his flag they will not want this man to come the man who will bring such justice to the entire world they will stop him from coming why the sixth imam continues in this tradition when the flag of Al-Mahdi is raised the people from the east to the west will be the ones who cursed it why? because of what my Shi'a do and how they put the world off what my Shi'a do what our family what our followers do our followers of Ahl al-Bait will be acting in such a way that when their Mahdi comes the entire world will not want that Mahdi why? because of the way we have portrayed him we are the ones who have portrayed Mahdi wrong we haven't shown him to be this universal king this prince of universal justice we think he's going to come and kill millions of people we think he's going to come and seek and obliterate people the holy prophet of Islam didn't obliterate people how will Al-Mahdi come and obliterate people which Mahdi are we presenting to the world? our sixth imam says we are the ones who are putting the world off when we do business with our brothers in Dar how am I when I do business with my fellow businessman in London how am I in school when I sit with my friends in university and in the workplace am I that shining beacon of achlaq or am I the one when you engage with me in business that I will rip you off am I the one that when someone gives to me a trust I am the one who breaks it and loses it and can't give it back to you or am I the one that everybody be you Hindu or Sikh or Ismailia or Buhra will come and trust we used to have that reputation we used to be the Shi'a of Na'ashari the ones who were the beaming lights of Ahl al-Bayt whatever you want come to us we will give to you look how Imam Al-Hassan alaihi salam dealt with that person that person came to him and cursed and abused his father the prince of justice at that time he came to Imam Al-Hassan and abused his father Imam Al-Hassan responded and said you must not be aware of whom we are if you have traveled a long distance I will give you my house to sleep in if you are hungry I will feed you if you are thirsty I will give you water if you need new clothes I will go out and buy you new clothes if you need transport you can take my horse this is how the Imam was and this is how we should be presenting our Imam and this is how we need to be in the 21st century this person abused his father look at how Imam responded back to him 6th Imam says it will be us that puts people off the awaited saviour coming think about it think about it where we are as a Shi'a group around the world are we ready for the Imam's coming are we really understanding his coming and our role alongside the Imam we need to build we need to think like the Imam here we will conclude one verse and insha'Allah we will have understood this little rant of mine the verse of Quran says you you Muslim ummah you are the best of nations amongst mankind why? because you perform meaning the moment you stop performing we fall from being the very best of nations but here I pose a question I want you to think very deeply about this verse please my brothers and sisters this verse says that the Muslim ummah is the best of nations when the Holy Prophet of Islam came when the Holy Prophet of Islam came what were the Quraish like? what were the Quraish like? idol worshippers thugs thieves they used to go to war so often that they had to implement where they were for sanctified months in the year whereby war was haram correct? you're not allowed to go to war in the non-Muslims adopted this it wasn't Muslims that started this this was a non-Muslim this was a Quraishi action it was adopted into Islam because it was a good deed the Quraish used to perform pawaaf around the Kaaba naked correct? they used to perform pawaaf around the Kaaba naked clapping, singing and dancing think about this think about this deeply when the Prophet of Islam came this was the level of the Quraish they used to inherit their own women true? they used to inherit women imagine how low these people were at the beginning of the prophetic mission these people were so low that that's what they were like at the end of a 23 year period Allah SWT says you are the best of nations amongst the whole of mankind ay the Prophet have taken you from the point where you are singing and dancing naked around Kaaba to Allah praising you where you are the best of nations what does this mean? this means very simply the Prophet's mind was up here the Prophet's ethic his mindset, his attitude was up here at the beginning of his mission the people he was speaking to their mind, their attitudes their ethics was down here there was a gap correct? his mindset was here the Quraish was down here by the end of the 23 years the Prophet had lowered his mind down towards the Quraish Hadi he had lifted the Quraish to being like him their minds were similar they were able to feed each other they were able to converse with each other they were able to look after each other to the extent that the muhajirun were able to leave their belongings in Makkah and the Ansar could give half of their prophets half of their property and everything they owned to those people who had left one city to come live with them people's mind had come and met with the mind of the Prophet today, today the mind of the inheritor of the Prophet the Imam of our time is up here is our mind equal to his? have we understood the same way? Jabir ibn Abul lahil Ansari understood the Prophet, their minds met Ahmad ibn Yasir understood the Prophet, their minds met hence the success of Islam the Imam's mind is up here his thought process is up here our mindset is still down here the moment we elevate our thinking to be in accordance with his is the moment our minds will converge with the Imams of our time and we will again adorn ourselves with that statement that we will be brought out to people and we will be known here in Makkah is that simple? our institutions need to be run in accordance with the mindset of Imam our families need to be run in accordance with the mindset of the Imam our philosophy needs to run in accordance with the mindset of Imam Marja'iyah needs to be raised in accordance with the mindset of Imam everything needs to run in accordance with the Imam of our time is thinking how he sees our interaction with this world how he sees our interaction with our brothers how he sees our interaction with this entire universe in play this is where we are going towards this is what we must do for the coming of our future this is how we must raise the next generation to think and to act in accordance with the needs of our time and how the Imam wants us to be please raise your hands please raise your hands join us in da'a we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the hastening of the reappearance of the awaited saviour we ask you Allah allow us to be alongside him in all times in our life and in our death we ask you Allah there are many people around the world who are in desperate need there are the people in Africa in Asia in South America there are people going through wars hunger, famine, poverty, illness you Allah grant them safety security, education and victory we ask you Allah allow us to perform the Ziyarat of the Imam of our time we ask you Allah allow us to perform the Ziyarat of Ahl al-Bayt peace be upon them all we ask you Allah allow us to understand Quran month of Ramadan the fasting and our Imam as best as we can we say to you Allah please forgive us for our sins we are short, we are weak we have come to you with many faults but you can only prove us we ask you Allah forgive us for our sins the sins of our parents the sins of our loved ones all those whom we love all those that love us all of our ulama all of our leaders we ask you Allah in the final moments of our life when the shayateen encircle us water from paradise peace be upon you all may I ask you to recite one loud salawat in honor of Imam al-Mahdi adjala Allah