 فقط أعطينا نقوم بشكل جداً عن عيد الغدير بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد وآله الطاهرين يوم عيد الغدير هو أفضل عيدنا وعيد الإسلام إمام صادق عليه السلام يقول هو عيد الله الأكبر أكبر أكبر أكبر عيد في حالة كالندر وإمام even أعطينا أعطينا نقوم بشكل جداً يجب أن نكون لنا to realize the importance and the grandeur of this day but briefly of course it's the completion of the Hajj of the Holy Prophet of Islam and once he's coming back from the Hajj he is ordered by الله سبحانه وتعالى with the verse of the Holy Qur'an verse 5 verse 67 to pause to stop all the people who are traveling with him and then to deliver this announcement that is so important that الله سبحانه وتعالى says if you don't deliver this announcement as if you didn't deliver the message at all Holy Prophet of Islam as a result of this commandment stops he stops at this place in between مكان مدينة known as خوم and خدير خدير referring to the pond that was that was there and those of the Hajj who are familiar with the places of ميقات where one puts on the إهرام one of the ميقات is at جوخفا which is where the event of خدير took place any case the Holy Prophet of Islam stops at this place and then he instructs people to gather all the people around and once they've all gathered and they've come together then the Holy Prophet of Islam asks for a very interesting instruction of building a ميمبر which of course in the middle of the desert how is a ميمبر going to be built so he orders all the camel saddles to be brought out and he stands on the camel saddles in order to deliver this famous sermon in this sermon 3 hours long very hot day hottest part of the day people are sweating and waiting to hear what is it that the Holy Prophet of Islam wants to deliver and at the end of the sermon he invites them towards this authority and towards this important point regarding the transfer of authority from the Holy Prophet of Islam towards Imam Amirul Mu'min at the conclusion of the sermon he then invites everyone to now to emphasize the importance of this to attend is erected Imam Amirul Mu'min sits in the tent every single person present at that place is told you have to go in and pledge allegiance to Imam Amirul Mu'min including the women and for that a bowl of water is brought and they're told that Imam Amirul Mu'min will put his hand in the water and then you'll put your hand in the water and that will be considered the pledge of allegiance for the women so after this process over 100,000 people present takes a couple of days camp there they wait each and every individual is ordered to follow this command after the conclusion of this the Holy Prophet of Islam summarizes or ends there this announcement and the ayat of completion of religion is revealed so the beginning of the event of is an invitation or an order to the Holy Prophet of Islam to deliver this important message once he's delivered the message ayat of completion of religion so our 5 verse 3 is revealed which informs us regarding the completion the takmil of the religion of Islam and therefore the announcement of the will of Amirul Mu'min is the completion of the religion and for this reason Imam A.S. considers this day to be the greatest grandest the biggest celebration in the calendar because to the day of the completion of religion through the will of Imam Amirul Mu'min A.S. our next guest is a poet who is a son of a poet a very dear friend of mine, Shahbaz I know that your father has been very important for quite a long time and Insha'Allah you're obviously following the good footsteps Insha'Allah I try but this is actually a poem my dad has written following on nicely from what the say had left off the word that was used is complete and not perfect and the poem goes to say today this religion is complete is what Allah did say today this religion is complete is what Allah did say why did he not use the word perfect in the revelation that day why did he not use the word perfect in the revelation that day Ali is your Moula in the desert was appointed our leader many heard but still went astray only with Ali's leadership could religion be perfect in the perfect way only with Ali's leadership could a religion be perfect in the perfect way I have another poem Insha'Allah which outlines the greatness of Amir al-Mu'minin he is a mercy he is a prayer unlike Adam he was never misled he did not eat from the tree nor like Ibrahim did he need a blindfold his sacrifice he could see unlike Mousa when he asked nor like Isa did he ever say oh lord why have you forsaken me but like Muhammad he could not be but like Muhammad he could not be for he himself even said even the dust under Muhammad's feet is better than me if this is true then someone please tell me why did Muhammad say Ali is with the truth and the truth is with Ali سلوات على محمد وآل محمد and the third poem I have for this part Insha'Allah is a very powerful poem and is not to be mistaken needs to be understood very carefully to be like Ali is hard to be like Ali is hard but it is harder to make him again to be like Ali is hard but it is harder to make him again for a new Ahmed and a new Kaaba would not be the same for a new Ahmed a new Kaaba and new Zahra would not be the same and Ali is he that the Nusairi called by Allah's name brother Allah does not make Allah again and again brothers Allah does not make Allah again and again سلوات على محمد وآل محمد so what made you choose the path of writing poetry same as your father does I feel with the love of the Ahl al-Bait is something that floods many people's hearts and similarly with the grief of the Ahl al-Bait it's something that engulfs your heart with so much passion and so much pride and it's what we strive it's what our life is it's love for the Ahl al-Bait and grief in their grief and happiness and their happiness and there's so many different ways of showing that whether it's through your actions and a member but for my dad he found a way through his poetry and growing up in that environment I found it in a similar way and from a young age I was encouraged to recite and write in love and in awe of the Ahl al-Bait so that's why I found poetry the way to express my love for the Ahl al-Bait as well شاء الله you stay on this path for a long time our next guest and he's no introduction ملعلي فاضل has excelled himself in the خدمة بابا عبدالله الحسين in the English language he's the leading reciter in the English language until now he has affected many of hearts he's touched many hearts around the world and we are lucky to have ملعلي among us today ملعلي how's things thank you so much for the kind words I really appreciate them ملعلي you have been reciting for a long long time especially in the English language what encouraged you from the start I mean to say that it's been complete this task it's been complete is a lie I mean this is an ongoing thing that many reciters are facing challenges I along with every other English reciter is facing the challenge of trying to fit the English vocabulary into different types of melodies these different types of melodies can range from different backgrounds and cultures I mean I originally just go back to the Iraqi style of melodies and sometimes for us, for example, me and you are Iraqi so if I was to recite English words to Iraqi tune you would know that's an Iraqi tune therefore automatically be thinking well I kind of just preferred the Arabic but to a non Iraqi it sounds different to them so it's new so therefore what I'm doing is cross matching different tunes and words and melodies to hopefully see like for that kind of community maybe this kind of tune works and for this kind of community maybe that kind of tune works of course it is a work in progress but what we're finding is that the reason why English is being pushed out there is because let's not be around the bush the next generation is going to be predominantly English speaking from the parents all the way to the children and if we don't produce projects across all media platforms within the English language then we're going to lose a whole massive segment of our community and unfortunately in terms of our parents are trying to latch on to our mother tongues so be it Urdu or Persian or Arabic or Iraqi whichever dialect it is but the situation and let's be realistic the situation is that if I know 50% of my parents know then my children are going to know 25% of my grandfather and so on and so forth until unfortunately it's lost however the point here is not let's lose the Arabic in favor of the English no we're trying to make sure that our children and the next generation do keep their mother tongues of course it's part of their cultural identity however the main point here is that we're trying to push the words of the Ahl al-Bayt through a melody and a tune towards them towards their hearts and minds through poetry you have recently created your own style which is amazing because it's touching more communities out there because we have communities who have the melodies that come from Urdu language or Arabic but you've touched a melody which is different it's more open what inspired you to? I did a couple of projects where I went back to what I know and what I'm comfortable with but then I thought well this community which I'm reciting to it's probably about 20% of the silent majority by the way in terms of those who are on social media those who like and share and stuff like that they're the majority but they're quite a loud majority they like to make a big noise about their identity which is fine but there's a lot of silent majority out there who just are not really interested in religion much not really interested in the cultural aspects of the melodies and stuff like that what I wanted to do was to say okay well look what are you interested in and they were more interested in western style melodies so I thought let me produce one or two tracks to see if that does resonate with them Alhamdulillah it kind of resonated with one or two tracks three or four maybe didn't really I kind of went too far maybe or didn't hit the right tunes so you need to touch in a different way yeah I just thought well the message isn't exclusive to cultural forms of to those who are born Shi'a to those who are born outside of even even those who are converts or whatever anyone who's not associated with the typical kind of cultural Shi'a identity that they have again it's a silent majority out there who wanted to tap into or who grew up without any blessings of majority or most around them there's places around the world where they're very far from these things and grow up in a different environment so I actually since you did mention that there is something where I was kind of working on in terms of a western style project it's still in the works though so forgive me for any short comments I've been wanting to see you forever as long as I can remember I wish to see your shrine I know soon we will be together for you I would do whatever it takes to prove your mind every step that I take every every step that I take every time that I think every move that I make every time that I blink I see you near me I want to feel free where I long to be Oh Wali Oh Wali Oh Wali Oh Wali I spend all my time dreaming of you you can make me feel brand new you are my only cure I wish for love that feels so true the pain of the world the pain of the world I'd go through you make me feel so pure in you I place my hope to help ease all my strife without you I can't cope you're the love of my life I see you near me I want to feel free where I long to I'll see you soon and then I'll feel free I reach your land can you see me for you I've come so far I don't know without you who I would be you make my heart feel complete for you I thank Allah I'd give my all to have you by my side my heart body and soul from your love I can't hide I see you صلى الله عليه وسلم that was absolutely beautiful and the words are very very touching they're very simple and it touches the heart which is amazing that's all the other discussion in terms of the words that are used and how to fit it with the melody as well great we're going to know that right after the break inshallah brothers and sisters do join us right after the break inshallah we'll be with you shortly سلام عليكم ورحمة الله and welcome back to verses of love من كنت مولا فهذا علي مولا اللهم والي من والا وعادي من عادا سيدنا this is the words of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم on that day when he said this there's a lot of hatred happening and a lot of people actually did do the what is the importance of ولاية مير المؤمنين on that special day السلام عليكم this the ولاية المير المؤمنين in itself is an important the most important factor of acceptance of of establishment of the faith يران باقر عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم says that faith is based on five things حجر وصوم وولاية وولاية أهمهما ولاية is the most important amongst them because all the rest are dependent on on this ولاية regarding this particular day I'll just share a few narrations from about the importance of the day and how that would highlight to us the importance of the ولاية that this is the day of ولاية and how important is that the day that it's announced it's so important if people were to know the importance or were to understand the importance and the greatness of this holy day in its reality then the angels would come and shake hands with them ten times a day and whoever Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given the understanding or the importance of this holy day that person cannot count the blessing that Allah سبحانه وتعالى that cannot be enumerated that fact that he has been able to recognize this holy day and another narration says يوم غدير بين الفترة والأضحى ويوم الجمعاك القمر بين الكواكب that amongst the days of Eid غدير stands out like the moon stands out amongst the planets that it's important it's significant out of all of the days of Eid compared to a fitrah and adha and friday is that it illuminates among all of the days of Eid it's illuminating because of this then he says regarding the days of Eid إذا كان يوم القيامة يوم القيامة رفعت أربعة أيام لله عز وجل كما تزف العروس وإلى خضرها يوم الفترة ويوم العضحى ويوم الجمعا ويوم خدي it's on the day of judgment and the days we hasten towards Allah like a bride who hastens towards her she's the day of fitrah and adha of friday and of the day of qadi in reality this is the significance and importance of this day and all these narrations signifying the importance and the exclusivity of this holy day are telling us that the willa it's so important that Holy Prophet Mas' gonna choose where there's the most number of people present where it is the significant place it's not at Makkah, it's not at Medina it's a place where he hasn't been before to make the announcement unique to put camel saddles to make the mimbad unique and in each and every respect the Holy Prophet of Islam is making this day unique memorable to be remembered for posterity to tell us that this is how important this Holy Day is and this is how important it is when I have Amirul Mu'min, peace be upon him in perfecting, in completing in making the religion safe and secure from the enemies who are going to who are going to come after it السلام عليكم so a lot of youngsters nowadays are obviously trying to get into poetry I believe in the centre of Al Haider you guys have a group of youngsters who actually write and recite their own poems yeah we do, we have a brilliant so Alhamdulillah we have my father who really started this drive at Haidery, Imam Barghur, Husseiniyah to start doing poetry in English it was found upon at first like what do you think you're doing when I remember he used to stand up like you know when the Moulana is going towards the pulpit and he'd stand up and he'd read these verses of poetry in English and it became a bit more significant people started taking notice and they actually started giving airtime as to say before the Mejlis they'd get the mic and stuff like that and I believe it inspired other poets within the mosque to start writing their own poetry we have some amazing talent you must have heard of Saajid Al Adina we've got some up-and-coming younger boys as well and we have workshops on certain nights especially nights of high spirituality in Ramadan in Muharram when the kids are passionate and the passion is burning and they want to get things on paper we really do try to encourage them to do their own poetry you mentioned the workshops what do you cover in those workshops so in the workshops we assist the kids with or assist the youngers with just the general basics of poetry you get rhyming couplets you get haikus you get ballads there's different ways of writing and we let them explore something that's become big with other other sheet of reciters is what you call free verse so it doesn't have a style but it has a rhythm it might not rhyme but it flows nicely and it's more about the passion in the words rather than the rhythmical side to it or the poetical side to it even it's a way of expression and you know if people have love for the Ahl al-Bait then express your love that's the only way other people would learn to love the Ahl al-Bait but I want to touch on someone very special to أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام on this poem none other than سيد فاطمت الزهراء السلام عليها بقي is only called جنة because of her presence بقي is only called جنة because of her presence heaven is only heaven because of her essence without her without her heaven fools you it's a pretense her lovers are heaven's contents without فاطمة إسلام would make no sense if you say I am a Muslim and you don't know فاطمة you follow nonsense فاطمة يا فاطمة the queen of heaven not its princess so how will you enter heaven if she is the one you oppressed how will you enter heaven if she is the one you oppressed سلوات على محمد وآلي محمد I would not know what greatness Allah could create if he did not create you سأعمير المؤمنين عليه السلام I would not know what greatness Allah could create I would not know what greatness Allah could create if he did not create you I would not know Allah Himself if I could not relate to you all that the heavens and the earth cannot equate to infinite numbers cannot calculate you Oh Ali there are those who negate you Oh Ali there are those who try to relegate you but I I do nothing how can your status be raised any further for it is not man Ali but Allah who elevates you and I want to touch on another special personality Imam Ali had a very soft spot for Abu Fadil Abbas and it's evident on the day of Safin and this is in praise of Abu Fadil Abbas people look for the moon from one side of the world to another this is relating to A'id by the way people look for the moon from one side of the world to the other when all they really have to do is just take one look at Hussein's brother Allah once I had set my eyes upon the door of Qamara Bani Hashim I answer all others ask why do I need A'id or the moon I Abu Shahbaz have found Heaven's moon I have found the Abu Fadil Abbas Allah سلوات على محمد والمحمد Shabas just a quick question what kind of advice would you give to the communities out there if there's anyone who has a centre or has an organisation which contains youth what advice would you give to them to push forward these poetry I'm touching on what brother Ali Fadil said earlier Mullah Ali Fadil said earlier at first it's difficult for people to they've grown in such a culture for us it was in Urdu and even Gujarati to an extent we've grown up in a culture where everything was like that I had a discussion recently where even before Salah when you do your Nia we were taught to say in Urdu you'd say يا الله مجاركات نماز برتو أسر نماز you know yeah so we were taught you know the second best thing even قنوط we were told to like if you don't know what to say in قنوط say something in Urdu but as you've said that the youth it's unfortunate but it's because of the society around they're losing their mother tongues a little bit I believe I don't know if it's like this in all centres but we've become accustomed to it all our lectures are now in English we have our know-how let me recite in English we have poetry in English but for other communities who aren't so accustomed to it at first yeah it's going to be a struggle people are going to frown up on it they're going to be like this isn't you know this isn't how we were brought up but at the end of the day Imam Ali says don't raise the next generation as you were raised because the times are different the society is different the needs are different and we in England or even people in America in Canada and English speaking you know the kids the youngsters are growing up in school their friends are all speaking English they're not speaking Urdu Arabic or Farsi exactly exactly so take a pen get a paper you might not think you've got it in you but I promise you if you've got that passion you've got that love for the Ahl al Bayt miracles take place on a pen and paper man honestly it's incredible so if you can get your pen on a piece of paper write your heart out you might write 50 verses and one of those is one that you're proud of that's mission accomplished if even one of the verses is what you're proud of then that's sometimes what it takes and that's sometimes what you need to do me and dad when we write for recites as we spend hours on hours days on days doing poems and it might be a four verse Qassida or a four verse Noha or Itmiya but we'll write about 100 verses until you get the right four so it's a lot of trial and error it takes a lot of courage as well because it might be looked like oh you're doing poetry ha ha ha but it's not it's actually something I'd very much encourage it's something that would not just you let out your happiness or your grief but it's something that I think brings you closer to the Ahl al Bayt because when you want to write poetry you need to know the facts behind something before you do it and you need to know more about the Ahl al Bayt if you want to indulge in their praises and it will bring you closer to them so we are now talking about poetry and just before one on our break we're obviously I'll ask you about the simplicity on the poetry that you're reciting and why it's so important to do so yeah again so it's all it's all to do with what vocabulary you use for what type of melody so for example with the English actually let me give you an example of the Arabic and the Persian if you've heard it's so deep and so cutting because they have an array of different words they can use for one feeling or one expression it's the same with the Arabic do you have even in the Arabic you have 23 meanings of friend or or yeah 23 meanings of Mola some people say it's friends just that one word can mean 23 different meanings so because the Arabic vocabulary is so vast the poetry you can use so many different words for that expression with English it's very limited very very limited in terms of how not only in terms of what words you can use but what words you can use within a melody or within a certain tune so you can't be using you know three syllables the maximum you probably use is a three syllable word right you can't be using anything more than that anything more than that then it won't really fit with the poem and then it'll get to be too complicated to understand what's going on let's start thinking too much yeah you think it too much so they need it just especially if you if you hit the right tune as well so if you hit the right tone and they hit the right words then it it goes directly straight through the heart doesn't have to be sieved through you don't have to really think about it especially with the English with the Arabic because even the way it's given like the Arabic the way it's given the poetry it's people take their time people sit there and listen but with the English again the people need to sit there and think because it's in English because it's in the Iraqi tune they need to sit there and think because it's in English and it's using this tune so I've got a really a tune to the words if the words are going to be complicated and the tune's going to be complicated it's just going to get lost in translation so the simpler words they use even if people want to sound oh I want to sound like I'm smart or I want to sound like you know I'm saying something that's really profound but if it comes from the heart as Shebaz was saying it comes from the heart and you're using words that literally describe how you feel the vehicle you use is what's important the vehicle you use from your mouth all the way to the ears of that that's what's important not the words you use it's what they hear which is important exactly it's what they hear and how they hear it which resonates because again I guess it's very technical but the sound and the sound waves and how for example ملاباسم he knows how to he has an array of different voices that he can use different tones that he can use to hit different different words so for example if there's a really passionate word he'll go high for example or if it's something that he wants to show sorrow he'll go very low the words maybe the words could be the same every single poem but it's the way he delivers it it's the way he delivers it which really resonates with his viewers and his audiences I wanted to get you all involved for this last segment and I hope for the for the viewers as well to get involved I'll be reciting to a rhythm and I'll be reciting to a tone so hopefully I'm gonna be saying exactly what I'm gonna be doing what I just said so to understand what's been said all I'm gonna say is so all I'm gonna say and his clapping rhythm Insha'Allah all right say it you're a tune to this I suppose you're a tune to this as well Bismillah and I've just lost the here we go It's as if my pupils I am when your virtues my I seem it's as if I am but a drop but oh Ali you are a seam it's as if the verse that bore you was God's word be and it will be it's as if you made the word I while scared of you was the word we you knew reality and yet you'd make it swim and why else would that be Ali Ali you are Ali Ali Ali you are Ali Ali Ali you are it's as if the canvas on was given to it by your birth it's as if the land of Najf without your body has no worth it's as if the star shines on us it's as if the star shine to us حالي حالي you are if I start listing your virtues I'll never finish this poem the Lord made me aware of you and you made me aware of him you're the ship that sails in the hearts the joy of the flow the joy of the flow of blood stream your name leaves heavens divided your name leaves heavens divided the lower heavens of you dream the lower heavens of you dream you have left existence confused by your presence as you outweigh it all حالي you are حالي حالي you are حالي حالي you are I'll finish one last poem they asked me the angels they asked me how did you spend your youth I replied I spent it searching I replied I spent it searching for the truth I was confused who was the leader after the Nebi I was confused who was the leader after the Nebi for how can the Prophet leave without appointing A or C they told me oh man go and search the events of Ghadir they told me oh man go and search the events of Ghadir upon which all the Muslims said upon which all the MuslimsAST they told me oh man محمد ووالي محمد أحسنتم أحسنتم كان هذا جميل أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه أخوه