 perspective viewers brothers and sisters in Islam aslamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh welcome to light our night with me your host Ahmad Ali now we do have a very special guest for you tonight that will bring joy hopefully to your night and to our night and to celebrate the days prior to the 15th of Sha'ban mid of Sha'ban now I won't let you know who that is until one minute later so do stay tuned for after the break welcome to light our night with me your host Ahmad Ali now as I mentioned we do have a special guest who has joined us tonight to lighten up our night prior to the mid of Sha'ban now it is the young and handsome Ali Fadil happy mullah how's it going now before we get into testing you yeah all right yeah you know I just want to get a little bit of background information out of you fine so the viewers can know I leave behind the scenes okay you know behind all the productions and all the impatient and all the yeah you know so before you know behind all that now the your recitation journey you know we can say that somehow it's revolutionized it's changed over time okay especially English recitation yeah for you know how did you get into it well coming from an Iraqi background my my parents yeah forced to no no no no no no but they paved the way should we say like my mom is a as a as a reciter so she recites for for females okay and my dad is a as a lecturer so oh nice yeah he gives lectures around the world so you can say that the culture of Hussaini rituals was very much entrenched within my mind from a young age so I was always exposed to Latmyat and Anashid and general commemoration and celebration of the Ahl al-Baita al-Masalam so as as I grew up I always I was always fond of the Latmyat and and growing up it was very much I grew up in a in a society where media was starting to play a major role in terms of propagating messages both politically society in society so there was the introduction of tapes I don't know if you were still there yeah so so tapes was back in my day we had a lot of tapes and then it moved on to see um yeah I'm yeah I'm yeah I've been around for quite a while yeah I've been around for quite a while so I was you know I was there with when it came to tapes and then it moved to CDs and then the first video came out obviously Mullah Basim the famous Iraqi recited the pioneer behind all of the Arabic stuff when it comes to propagating the message so when it so me I was always you know I was always infatuated by Mullah Basim and his artistry on the member so you know as as time oh so that's one fact another factor is the fact that my community there was the boom of programs especially in English so we had the introduction of Muharram Majalis in English and then lectures were were born so lectures in English were born and people took a great interest in in English lectures so then you know they gave me the opportunity to say this and recite for so I had a lot of community leaders who I were friends with and who knew my father as well so they gave me the opportunity to say listen if you have a passion for recitations why don't we give you an opportunity to recite that's that was before I was that was after I was in the choir so the the reason why I actually started yeah the reason why I actually started is because I was part of a choir called light of guidance pioneered by Mr. Sajjad Al-Hayari and he really he took on about five or six young Shabab and he nurtured us and he trained us and we we kind of we did really well we did we did about good 20 to 2025 programs where we we would recite as a choir and so I kind of started because I did solo parts as well so he would do solo parts and I would do solo parts so someone noticed and he's like so why don't you try and going like doing your own like graduate stuff but in English see how it goes I was like yeah okay no problem so then slowly so it developed and inside of people started to take notice of the fact that English recitations I was trying to give it much more of a passion passion you know passion I forgot the I forgot the plural for passion passionate passionate yeah sorry passionate I was trying to give it more passionate um outlook rather than because people when it comes to English people look very scared yeah they're very skeptical especially I feel a bit weird because the the tones as well right yeah when you want to give it the tone it you either have to give it an Arabic tone I know I have to make yeah unfortunately you have to give it an Arabic tone because that's the only tone people are accustomed to when it comes to the clapping or the latmyat or or the hodja tone or even the hodja tone which is even faster so there's the Iranian and there's a hodja and there's the arabic so you have to give it its own tone but these own tones are specific to their own culture which is it's difficult because English has its own culture but obviously that culture you have to be very careful as to how you utilize it islamically you understand so that's how I started oh hey it's good to know that how long ago was this like this period about from the choir to yeah this is about 10 10 to about 12 years I think 10 years yeah yeah so so up to now so a decade yeah a decade yeah now a decade of recitation yeah what do you see the next decade the next 10 years will you be a part of it inshallah I hope so yeah yeah or you could be a pioneer for others that you know it's difficult it's difficult to say because I feel like there was a rise in English recitations and people take a great interest in it and then people like well okay this this this isn't so interesting anymore why it's because for anything that's new anything that there's a change people like okay I'm interested I want to know what it's like but once that change becomes normal yeah I'm even like okay this is fine okay this is great but yeah and we're looking for something new people are people are fickle in this way that they they once they find something new they use it oh this is great and after a while it just becomes very normal so it's like okay that's great we're looking for the next best thing because that's how society is run now like every single six months there's a new fad coming out there's a new interest for the youth or there's a new interest there's a new something on the app or on the phone or whatever something is always coming up so to keep people's interest and unfortunately recitation has kind of come along that so when it comes to the future of it I would really love for it to remain as as a conveyor belt for young kids to be able to showcase their talents showcase their love and passion for the people of Islam within a way that they're comfortable when I say within the way that they're comfortable they are comfortable reciting Latin American right me the Arabic language now if they feel like they're brave enough to put the English to the Iraqi tone then let them as long as they find their way when it comes to them expressing themselves to for the love of now whether they can I would love for it my vision is what we can utilize both east and west to make it in a way which is obviously within the boundary of Islam but also constantly interesting for the non-wisdom viewers to take an interest in saying you know what you guys are are modern you guys aren't culturally you know very very shawarma conservative like you guys are very very yeah because a lot of the time is oh this is I don't know what this is people are you know doing lot of them and people are kind of hitting themselves or people are clapping and I don't know what this is I don't really want to get involved yeah but if they see that there's something utilized that they can they can relate to then they're like okay this is interesting because this is this is something that we can relate to now what that then there's the age-old argument of well look this is what we are and this is what we like how we like to express ourselves if you like it you like it you don't like it as they say and I like it but like you know what I mean so like what do you want me to do like there's nothing I could do about it or for example within the within the English or you can say no I want to integrate within society like I want to especially people in the this is this is the main crux of the issue here like living in the west do we integrate with them and say listen I want to be a part of your society because I want to be able to show you I am a normal person what is normal is normal what society western society deems to be normal or is normal like me dressing up for example in the today yeah all right it's to me that's oh you know I knew I was gonna come the line so that I mean my vision is that we can hopefully utilize um because at the end of the day even when it comes to Latmyat yeah Latmyat in itself is Arabic now no matter how much we want to try and force the English to it it is Arabic yeah I mean we can't do anything about it it's Arabic the tune is Arabic the maqam is Arabic trying to fit English just sometimes this doesn't work yeah so trying to my vision is trying to find a way where we can utilize both English and Arabic styles of of expression and I'm bringing it together so something that's nice comfortable for people to listen to nice nice now speaking of future in the near future do you think of that not rap as in like what rap music would be yeah but rap and Hussaini recitation would they merge they won't much they won't they won't much no I don't mean the music now I mean the rhymes okay I mean I mean the words I was actually having this discussion with a group of friends of mine and some of the one the other oppression will look rap and the connotations of rap is is corrupt because rap singers are usually associated with drugs and alcohol and fully understood yeah and then you have and but but then you have people who can influence that side because why do you want to propagate the message of Islam because we believe the message of Islam is the safest most secure way of being able to live yourself where you can minimize corruption you can live in a way where you can be friendly to other people and live in a society which is peaceful and hopeful at the same time but these we so what we want to attract is those people who are so corrupt who want to bring them back into religion so at the end of the day rap in itself personally personally I don't feel like if someone wants to express themselves and express the way they love the Ahlulbayt and this is their culture this is how they grew up they don't know anything otherwise rap rap it's poetry ah so that's what I'm saying it's poetry but sung in a different way to what way are accustomed to you know what you have we have a couple of nights to go okay okay we'll discuss it I'd love to discuss this all right yeah inshallah we'll get to discuss it fine in the near future but my my my the last thing that I was going to say the last thing I'm going to say about that is at the end of the day if people want to express themselves in any way shape or form and if they want to reach the Ahlulbayt or they they want to reach Allah's plan to Allah in their own way I do not and I express myself absolutely passionately do not have the right to say that is the wrong way to reach Allah and my way is the right way to reach Allah that's that's the the crux of it and we can we can discuss that all right in future nights inshallah inshallah do you want to come out on the session now no no okay we'll get back to the session I'm just saying why are you jumping right wait okay you know impatient ah that's not one of the gates you see I set you up for that one come on yeah okay all right um so respected viewers do stay tuned for we well which camera am I on okay this one do stay tuned for all right so all right so now we're gonna play a game with Ali Favid now this game is called truth or dare all right now for anyone I don't know who hasn't played truth or dare yeah you know we got to say the rules now truth or dare is a game where each participant well there's only one participant I have to tell him truth or dare and he has to choose one if he refuses to choose one I get to decide a forfeit what you should do instead of saying the truth or forfeit forfeit okay now you have to be honest and as honest as I can be on the on the on the channel of course okay now yeah let's begin yeah truth or dare this means truth truth yeah that's perfect what is your weirdest habit are you doing or not no no you see my my fingernails I'm not sure if the camera wants to get this isn't my fingernails you can probably see this as well um get the camera on it no they're absolutely absolutely vile so what I do is I um the skin above the nail I do the same I do the skin above the skin above the it gives me so much peace when I sometimes it hurts but sometimes it hurts and that comes out whatever but sometimes I rip it off or nibble nibble that and then rip off the skin a bit and then but it becomes really really ugly and that's probably my weirdest weirdest habit the weirdest habit yeah that's what it is all right now rules of the game okay you can't have three truths one after the other I can't have three truths okay all right so you gotta I'll be sport as they say all right then I'm gonna choose uh dare now this time all right and whenever you want to truth or dare me I'm I'm good I'm gonna try and think of something all right now truth or dare is a dare I said dare dare okay make a um make a poem using words using the words orange and mouse and moose sorry orange and moose there's no there's no other word that rhymes in with orange I can take that for sure so you're trying to catch me on that one I do this for a living with poets you've grown with I do this for a living there's no word that rhymes in with orange and I don't think there's a word that rhymes with with moose moose moose juice loose loose okay okay on the spot on the spot on the spot then orange yeah orange I can't do orange I'll do moose all right all right moose um in Canada okay from the land of moose yeah okay yeah okay I sit beside my friend Ahmed with nothing to lose okay yeah okay you have nothing to lose but yeah I have nothing to lose okay moose loose what was the other words okay hold on let me lose huh snooze when I wake up in the morning wait wait wait it's just my it's just my day I can't wait I've been awake for hours and I can't wait to go home and snooze I don't want to choose choose uh choose between I'm in the studio of Imam Hussein TV 2 3 2 I'm technically technically in the studio of Imam Hussein TV 2 yeah because we're recording live from Imam Hussein TV 2 the actual studio but I my heart is within Imam Hussein TV 3 studio so don't let me choose that was all right wasn't it that was okay yeah I'll give you I'll give you that I'll give you that but I didn't what did that mean I so I'm in the I'm in the Imam Hussein TV 2 studio my heart is in the Imam Hussein TV 3 so don't let me choose all right Imam Hussein one studio I'll go for truth one more time truth yeah what is what is one embarrassing fact that everybody should know about in your life one embarrassing fact that everyone should know or moment or moment I can tell you something that was recitation related okay which is very embarrassing did you get booed out of the stage hopefully I didn't almost yeah so basically so I was telling you different cultures and people express themselves in different way yeah Iraqi clapping is part and parcel of the measures yeah yeah so this is the first time I was going to a Khaja mosque all right outside of London it was about an hour and a half drive so I went all the way there blah blah blah third I was it was the youth committee because the youth committee they want clapping yeah and khajas culturally they don't uh they don't accept clapping within their programs is it but the youth committee they invited me but we were reciting in the main measures so the youth and the elders were there is it so I was there and I was reciting was the birth of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam at first I was going fine everyone was clapping and and then they were finding the rhythm the rhythm as well so it was going well I was enjoying myself fedora all of a sudden I see I see from far someone was walking walking through the crowd walking through the crowd everyone's still clapping everyone's he walked walked walked walked walked walked walked walked he stood right next to me as I was still reciting I mean stood right next to me he the mic was on the stand he took the mic yeah and he said I'm not going to say the name of the Jamaat or the name of the of the mosque but he's like for the sanctity of this Jamaat there will be no clapping in this place and we have warned the youth committee about this this is absolutely unacceptable and we will not tolerate this wow then what a giant microphone wow I'm at this moment I was like oh my god what just so we what do I do what do I say I was like well guys you know what I don't think I can carry on was that I sat down is that I sat down so then there was a bit of an uproar like people like the host came up is that look I follow a really sorry please come back up and then someone was like oh why is this happening they shouldn't happen or what for I'm sorry when I came back and I was like listen guys I don't mind not doing clapping I don't have I don't have no issue with that as well but I was told clapping was okay and as a guest it would be nice for example to someone give me a note look no clapping or it'd be nice that way okay but that was the most embarrassing okay so you're a bit impatient right now so I'm telling you that which one I was just going to say okay I'll finish that yeah okay good so you did it oh the good thing is the good part is you didn't get booed guess who was reading after me yeah I mean respectfully let's let us guess who you you were respectfully booed up yeah I but the thing is I took the major blow like who's resigning after me who abad al-halwaji Allah so he saw this is like okay I am not going to do that because I don't want to get rid of this thing so I took the I took the hit basically for a while but yeah that was that was an embarrassing moment now inshallah you grow grow more anyways truth or dare dare okay good um do an impression of your favorite celebrity I had a lot for you but I actually do a very good Scottish accent yeah a good celebrity Scottish do you know do you know a guy called Alan Hansen no okay so Alan Hansen is one of the most famous soccer players okay to play for Scotland and for Liverpool Liverpool football club he was on a show on a it's a weekly football show weekly soccer show for about 20 years and he would sit down and he the reason why people loved him because he would speak in she's someone in Scottish Scottish but the most famous line he had was you'll never win you'll never win a season with babies you need to have you'll never win a Premier League with kids you need to have a max of of of kids and and and senior players within your team I sent and that was for you there I sent probably no one knows Alan Hansen but I'll try and think of someone else I can I can impersonate all right uh now um let's change up the game all right okay now this game is called respected viewers uh we just finished truth in there um you know I'll get to ask you more in upcoming episodes okay because I do like this portion okay uh now this portion is called try not to laugh all right now we have to do rock paper scissors for this okay to see which one goes first all right now is out of three or out of one first one rock rock paper scissors rock paper scissors all right so I go first okay one second one second yeah I'm already laughing out of the what um what did the excited gardener do when spring finally came what did the excited gardener gardener do you know when spring finally came you don't you don't have to answer to say whatever whatever all right what do you do what his plans what his what's his plans like what are his plans all right go now it's your turn that's my turn what do ghosts ride in an amusement park what do ghosts ride in an amusement park what a roller coaster good good okay that's fine good uh now just for the rules whoever laughs first lose regardless if I'm asking the question no no no the one who's asked the question and if it's your turn yeah I can laugh you can laugh but I can't laugh yeah you get a point if I laugh yeah all right and if you laugh I get a point yeah kosh yeah don't look at my answers what do you get when you cross a clock and a chicken what do you get when you cross a clock and a chicken whatever yeah I'm I'm I'm asking rhetorically huh okay yeah what do you get when you an unarmed clock good it's my turn technically it's my turn technically so no no I wait I wait I wait for that no no I waited until yours for yoga was finished there is no do I get a point no I don't get a point no no because I wait until you finish all right good and then I and then I got a point got a point okay cool cool what do you call a bear without teeth a gummy bear that's undisputed wow what do you call a guy with a rubber toe with a rubber toe mm what Roberto done okay why can't you write with a dull pencil because it's pointless okay that was a real way okay yeah why did the place get hot after the event well I don't know why because all the fans left get it all the fans left that's boring what kind of an ant can count an account tent uh huh a smart smart ant yeah what do ducks wear to weddings doxidos is it where the where do the cows go on their first date where to the movies movies to the movies movies these are small answers it's not funny uh-huh account and movies we'll tell the guys make funny jokes okay knock knock who's there cows go cows go where cows go move huh cows go move is the answer can I answer the question all right I'll do one why can't zoo animals take tests why can't zoo animals take tests why because there's too many cheetahs ah I think we can leave it as one one huh funny ones but now before I don't know if guys are ready to get the final test which will actually test you on that are we ready or no so we go to the second all right let's go to tongue twister game okay now this tongue twister game is yeah it's actually funny because we get to see you know a lot of reciders they have to recite repetitive words yeah in in recitation I've had situations what and the most embarrassing thing is you know we call an araki chafsa is when you mess up and put up everybody and then you yeah yeah all right um yeah so number one you get that so I get the how much wood number one tongue twisters these are tongue twisters yeah but I've got how much wood with wood chuck wood okay yeah you got to repeat that huh three times quickly how much wood with a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood how much wood with a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood how much wood with a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck wood chuck wood I think you messed up you messed up that last Just that last one, the last one. That last one, I screwed up. Now it's my turn. Yes. Which, which, switch the switch, waste watch? Which, which, switch the wrist, wrist, what? Wrist watches. This one's a really hard one. Which, which, switch the wrist? Swiss. Swiss. Wrist watches. Hey. Which, which, switched the Swiss wrist watches? Okay. Slow, please. Yeah. Yeah. Give Papa a cup of proper coffee in a cup of coffee cup. Give Papa a cup of proper coffee in a cup of coffee cup. You messed up, go ahead. No, give Papa a cup of proper coffee in a cup of coffee cup. Allah. See, I don't know why you're doing so good. Send toast to 10, 10th shout. For the coffee. All 10s, what? What? I'm gonna change that. Shina, Shina leads, Shila needs. Shina needs, Shila needs. Shina needs, Shila needs. Shila who? Shina, Shila. Shina leads, Shila needs. Shila needs, Shila needs. Should I say twice, right? No. Shila needs, Shina leads, Shina needs. Anyways, it's your turn. Oh, it's my turn. Peter Piper picked a pep... Okay, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? I'm like, wow. Yeah. Wow, that was good. That was actually good. But it's so old that you can guess it. Yeah, I guess so. It's really old. It's not amazing. Whatever's in front of me, I do. It's an old one. This is actually a hard one. I think we switched papers. Because I was supposed to get the easier one. Give it to me. Oh, you just finished it. Give me that. There's one or two more. There's one or two more. Look how long this is. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish. But if you wish the wish the which wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish. No, I gotta repeat this. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish. But if you wish the wish the which wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish. No, this is too much. Give me, let me try one of these. Which ones are they done? How can I climb cram and a clean climb cram? I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish. But if you wish to wish the which, you know. Anyway. Now, before we go into a short break. Yeah. Some messages. Let's check Facebook if we have any messages. We have quite a few right now. But before we do that, have you ever been on this occasion to Karbala? Just to quit? No, actually no, I haven't. Your first time? In Sha'bania? Sha'bania, yeah, first time. I've been here during Arafah season. During the Hajj season, which is amazing. I've seen the millions of people come. But for the Sha'ban season in itself, no. So I've been here for Muharram and Arba'een. But for Sha'ban, this is like the polar opposite of Arba'een and Muharram. So when you come here for Muharram and Arba'een, it's all sad and there's a grief amongst the visitors. Here it's so much more upbeat. There's lights, there's people handing out sweets. I think I'm making it. I've been here for a day. And what I really want to find out is how the atmosphere and how people react and what are the people's mentalities during the Sha'ban season? Are they more into the season rather than Arba'een and Muharram? Because people put a lot of emphasis into Arba'een and Muharram. But maybe not so much into the Sha'ban season. So I want to see from the people of Karbala themselves, the actual citizens here of Karbala to see how they actually interact with the Sha'ban season, especially with the two tribes. It's amazing here in Sha'ban. It's like Muharram. Although it's a happy occasion, but you see the Muwakib. Oh really? The Muwakib actually come out and they hand out juices, ice-creams, because right now it's especially hot. It's 40 degrees outside. Today it was 41, something like that. For springtime? I'm loving it. This is madness. You're loving it because it's your first day here. Yeah, it's my first day here. But inshallah within a couple of days you'll be fried. But no, we have Barak Hussein who says, yes, in Canada we have moose and goose. You should have mentioned goose. Goose. What? So the Canada connotations is good. Yeah. Yeah, they're calling us Ali and Ahmed Sahga. How is that? Because we Sahagna. Okay. But we do have a lot of comments. So we'll go into a short break. All right, cool. And so respective viewers, do stay tuned for you'll be joined with Ali Fadil alone to send your da'as and you can also call or send in your questions on Facebook for Ali Fadil. We'll take you over from here. So just before we go into the break, just to reiterate what Ahmed was saying that throughout the next couple of nights we'll be taking over. Both me and Ahmed will be hosting the lights of Karbala and trying to bring to you the happy occasion of the Sha'ban year season and the spiritual aspect of the Sha'ban season as well to you to see what it's like here in Karbala from a citizen point of view and from a foreigner point of view. Yeah, you can say. I'm a foreigner in the sense that I don't live here and you're a citizen in the sense that you live here. Actually, one of the questions with her there was about anyways, we'll do another one. But yeah, after the break, I'll be joined by myself to take you through the next couple of minutes to read out your messages, your hajj, your prayers, your wishes hopefully towards the next part of the show. That's what I wanted to say. We'll go. See you in a bit. Hala! Hala! Hala! Hala! Hala! Hala! Hala! Hala! Hala! Hala! Welcome back, dear viewers of Imam Hussein TV. You're with Ali Fadil. I'm going to be making my personal mission to really find out what the atmosphere is like here during the Sha'ban season. And upon saying that congratulations to you and the whole Muslim world for the births of the heroes of Karbala, the Imam Hussein, Abed Fadil Abbas, and Imam Al-Sajjad. Of course, there are many other births within Sha'ban, be it the birth of Ali Al-Akbar, Ali Al-Salam, the birth of Ali Al-Akbar, Ali Al-Salam, I believe Ali Al-Asghar as well. And of course, the major event of the birth of Imam Mehdi, Ali Al-Fadil Al-Sharif. So, from the land of Karbala, I'm going to be hopefully going out investigating to see firsthand what it's like here within the streets of Karbala, the atmosphere, the mentality, all the culture of celebrating the births of the Imams, the same way that they commemorate the deaths of the Imams here within the city of Karbala. And that's insha'Allah for the next couple of days. We have reports from Bail Haramain, we have reports from different Mawakib, we have reports from the different hospitals as well, everything that's going on within the streets of Karbala, hopefully we'll be giving you a first-hand look as to how the atmosphere is like here in Karbala. First of all, what I will hopefully be doing now is to read just a couple of messages, but before that, I just wanted to let the viewers know if you want any hajj, any prayers, any wishes, any requests from the channel, from the Imams, from Allah, whoever it may be, please do use the Imam Hussein media group or Imam Hussein TV Facebook group to put in your messages and hopefully we'll be reading them out in one with the names and the actual messages themselves. As you can see on your screen now, the actual Facebook page and the different comments, so as you can see, so Mariam Zaydi will say, As-salam Ya Hussein Ibn Ali, Alayhi As-salam. Other people like Muhsin, I believe that, we'll leave it as Muhsin, so there's Hudah, there's Allah, Muhammad, Imam Hussein TV. Now me personally, I put out a post there saying that I'm going to be in Karbala, if anyone has any personal messages, then please do send them in. I'll endeavour to read them out one by one, not only here within the studio, but hopefully I will stand between the haramans and read out each and every single message, so that it reaches the Imams, both Imam Hussein and Abul Falil Abbas, Alayhi As-salam. I'm going through a couple of the messages that I have, there are so many, so if I don't actually read out your message out live, my sincere apologies, but rest assured, I will read each and every single one of them, in the near future. Layla Ismail Jawad says, As-salamu alaykum we pray, Allah hasten the reappearance of Imam Mehdi, Alayhi As-salam, Allah help all the people in the world that are facing big or small problems in their lives are mean. Nasreen says, Salam please keep my family and I in your du'as. Muhammad Abbas says, Salam pray for me and my family and for another ziyarat soon. Muhammad Wali Zahra says, I make du'a that I will be able to come to Karbala during arba'een every year and also to be able to do ziyarat at least twice a year, also to go Hajj every year. Matt Bayat says, As-salamu alaykum peace be upon you my chief of martyrs. My wish is to come to you again. It is true, for those who have not seen you once is their journey but for those who have seen you 1000 more times won't even suffice. You know what is in my heart and what I am struggling with by the light of your guidance, please help me achieve my goals, please keep your blessings and prayers over me and my family and may I be invited again. Ashi Kazmi says, please pray for my mom's health and may Allah give a long blessed life. Hilmi Shafi says, pray for us a recent convert to the Imamate from Sri Lanka. Abbas Ansar says, please do pray for me and my family and grant us to go for arba'een every year. Sara Nakvi says, please recite Surah Fathah for my grandmother, who recently passed away. I pray for the health and well-being of my family, relatives and the Shia community in the United States and around the world. Ali Fahs says, Salam, please pray for me and my family, God bless. Shabu Bashiru says, As-salamu alaykum, I am a Nigerian by my Shuaibu Muhammad Bashir. My Hajj at R1, pray for quick release of our prayers. Shabu Bashir, my Hajj at R1, pray for quick release of our leader, Maulana Sheikh Ibrahim Zek Zaki. 2, I am a student. I need a retentive memory in facing different problems, especially my mother, father, brother and sister need my prayer. So much. 3, I'm owing a lot of debts. So please pray for me and 4, to Allah provide me to pay off those debts. Yasser Sarraf says, Salam, just pray that Allah keeps all the Muslims in the west, united and on the right path. Sayyidah Tani Safavi says, Salam please pray for me, say my Salam. Kazim Hussein, Salam for my Imam Mehdi, Salam for Imam Mehdi, alayhi salam's return for us to become to him as Maula Abbas was to him so for us to become to him as Maula Abbas was to Imam Hussein, alayhi salam and for our health and success, particularly success in our finals and between that, it is the month of May I know that there's a lot of finals and exams for a lot of our youth out there so may Allah SWT grant them the success that they require, insha Allah in this life. For Azana Ghulam Abbas Rajani says, Salam please pray for me and my family Mustafa Hashim says, I want a son please pray for me and everyone else in need. Sajjad Manju says, Salam alaykum please pray for all the mu'min my family, myself may Allah fulfill everyone's Hajjats. Zinat Darwala says, Salam alaykum peace be upon our master Hussein, alaykum and the Imam of our time may my parents be granted your Ziyarah and every year, insha Allah I heartily pray the Jew of lady Zayn I heartily pray the Jew of lady Zahra alaykum to be paid and justice flourished in the nation that is the appearance of our Imam Mehdi al-Jalla, alaykum death to ISIS and its leaders blessed the believers and protect them Fatim Murtazaram Talas says, Salams please pray for me and my family my salams to our Imam there is many, many more messages insha Allah but what I will do is put this on hold for a bit and then hopefully read some more out in the later part of the show what I would like to do is to give you our first report from brother, I believe, Muhammad Ali who was Bain al-Haramain today, earlier today in the scorching heat of course in the 40 season it's quite cold but during the afternoon it's warm it's durable to go outside but the Bain al-Haramain report is by Ahmad Ali who was there in the afternoon in the scorching heat so these are a couple of words from him Salamu alaykum respective viewers peace and blessings of Allah be upon you all welcome to the holy land of Karbala respective viewers we are in the area between the holy shrines of Imam Hussain and his brother Abul Fadal Abbas peace be upon them you see the numbers of pilgrims are not huge enough because it's the tenth of Sha'ban you see we are waiting the pilgrimages starting in five days but however we can find thousands of pilgrims in the area going and returning from the holy shrines of Imam Hussain and his brother Abul Fadal Abbas peace be upon them as you see the atmosphere of the pilgrimage is quite amazing it's basically a piece of paradise we will meet a number of pilgrims to see how they feel about the pilgrimage and how they feel about the atmosphere and the reasons that push them to come to the holy city of Karbala to perform the pilgrimage ritual what does insistence back to you with the other group of pilgrims I will ask them now about how do they feel about the atmosphere of the pilgrimage particularly at this time and in this area peace be upon them in the beginning tell me about yourself I am Muhammed Ahmed from Qadhaat Wairij Haliyan Zair Abul Fadal Abbas and Imam Hussain peace be upon him my brother's name here is Muhammed and he came from a district which is basically a district on the spur on the edges of the holy city of Karbala and he came here to perform the pilgrimage rituals of Imam Hussain and his brother Abul Fadal Abbas peace be upon them what do you feel about this holy area I swear the feeling of the person when he is in such a place the most comfortable place for the person and he can feel that he is between Imam Hussain and Abul Fadal Abbas peace be upon him always we visit Karbala the first place the most comfortable place for the person even the soul is comfortable in this place and the atmosphere is very nice my brother here just said that the place that people mostly feel comfortable and secure is this area in particular is the areas neighboring the holy shrines of Karbala and basically it's not only that people mostly feel comfortable secure my brother here said that he cannot express his emotions it's almost impossible to express one's emotions as they be here it's the area of the area of of paradise it's basically a piece of paradise now I will go to my other brother ask him to introduce himself and how he feels about this atmosphere in general peace be upon him peace be upon him what's your name? my name is Usam from Tuareg of course we visit Karbala because of the presence of the two emami Abbas this place is very sacred for the Muslims this place is very comfortable for the soul because of the positive energy the spirit the faith that gives this place is very beautiful of course the visit of the 15 people brought God willing peace and security to the Iraqi people peace and security to the people and the security forces and the chaos my brother's name here is Usam he's also from Tuareg which is a district as I said it's about 10 to 12 kilometers away from the holy city of Karbala my brother here said that mostly people come to this sacred place because basically at the very beginning it's a holy place for the Muslims and secondly because as my other brother said that this place has a major comfort and they feel they feel mostly calm at this place because of the positive energy it has my brother here also prays for the security forces and for the pilgrims during the pilgrimage of of Shaabania which is the 15th of Shaaban he prays that may Allah bless them and keep them in a secure atmosphere I will ask my third brother here to introduce himself and how he feels about the atmosphere at this particular area peace be upon you what is your name and what do you feel in this place my name is Muhammad Al-Qazwini I'm from Tuareg so many thanks to our brother who reported earlier from today regarding a couple of visitors and their experiences within Karbala they came from a city just outside Karbala so obviously they were asking questions about how they feel and one thing that I noticed was the positive energy that they feel once they enter Karbala and of course all the lights the green and the red and the pink all of the lights they add to this positive energy that Karbala gives and so it's just the polar opposite of the energy that you see in Muharram and Arba'een isn't obviously positive it's electric in the sense that people are commemorating but in the sense that the positive energy that we see in Karbala is something which draws people towards this holy city especially during the Sha'a Bani season now in terms of the numbers I've noticed that the numbers are a few for now and in numbers during Thursday the night of Friday and of course being the Milad of course that will also be a momentous occasion as well with a lot of people here sending their salutations to the holy Imam the awaited saviour at the shrines of both Erfal Al-Abbas and Imam Hussein so we're going to go back to a couple of the the requests and to Imam and Hazrat Abbas to call me to be their Zawar during the Arba'een Zayba Shah can you please recite for my late paternal grandfather Sayyid Anayat Hussein Shah also to ask for my maternal grandmother grandfather Sayyid Abid Hussein Shah for his good health and Shifa from his illness and on that actual note of illness and some disturbing news as we were on the break and the reports that one of our directors the studio directors his name is Sermad who's a very good friend of mine I met him when I was here in Arba'een a year ago a year and a half ago he's actually been rushed to hospital he's not feeling very well he's very very dear to all of the Imam Hussein TV group and the members here so we ask Allah SWT to grant him a speedy recovery and we also ask you as the viewers to also keep him in your prayers as well actually coincidentally Ahmad my co-host had to rush him to the nearest hospital here at Safira so we hope that he is feeling better soon Malangi Mustafa Ali says please recite Surah 5 for my late mother Arshad Begum Suzan Saftar Qatar Al-Nakhi says special du'a for my family Adnan Hussein Mirza says pray for my family Sheenu says Sayyid Al-Shahid Al-Hasan please convey my humble salams to Imam Hussein Muhammad Ladakh says hello from Muhammad Ladakh from Tanzania Ali Azhar Shah says please can you ask the viewers to recite a fatah for my nephew who would have turned 21 today and passed away from an asthma attack 3 years ago and was buried on his birthday his name is Sayyid Al-Qasim Abbas son of Azhar Abbas if this can be requested every night that would mean so much Ali Jassim Tikmachi says Fátima Ansari says du'a for the Lady Fátima Charitable Trust for 20 years of service Talaya Arafi says thank you for this opportunity Could you kindly mention after the Imam and humanity my family and all students with exams at this moment to be made easy and remember useful knowledge and given memory of the prophets Alaykum As-salam Ashifah Mirza says please say salam to my Mawla Hussein and Mawla Abifad Al-Abbas and Salam Ya Hussein and Sayyid Aftab Naqvi says Salam Ya Hussein Ya Abbas Al-Tamaas Al-Dua'a for my family and all Salman Ustad Abed he says Salman, Salam for myself and my cousin Farhan Asif Al-Tamaas Al-Dua'a feeling a bit ill today and he's from south Wales Newport and it's actually Khuddam Al-Mehdi group who I've attended their programs quite regularly and they make it a habit actually to go to Ziyara small amount of numbers but go to Ziyara as much as they can delightful young guys so wish you guys all the best Asad Ja'far is sad please remember me and my families in your Dua'aj that's Sabar Ali and Rashad Yusuf Li says I think we'll now there is still many more messages coming through and really really appreciate the interaction with the channel of course once more I'll remind you that these messages will be read out by myself personally and of course they're read out of course in the presence of Abbas and Imam Hussein we're going to go to the remainder of Muhammad Ali's report and then we'll come back to it do a bit more poetry and then we'll ask for your Dua'aj thank you about the atmosphere at this particular area and what do you feel about this area my name is Imam Al-Qazwini I'm from Qadhaat Wairid I'm a very positive energy here how can you say I'm from the side of the earth I'm from Karbala, Imam Hussein I'm from Abbas I'm from Sadis instead of going to the remainder of the area I'm going to visit so thank you thank you for people it's a great honour to be here for those who can come usually they come here to feel calm and to feel comfortable and it is a very very comfortable place to come to particularly by the people of Karbala and particularly you know it's five days for the pilgrimage to begin so basically it's the time for the people of Karbala to come to this area before the the roads get blocked and everything respect the viewers, stay tuned with more pilgrims to interview and how do they feel about the atmosphere in this particular area stay tuned dear brothers and sisters respect the viewers back to you from the peace of Paradise from the area between the holy shrines of Imam Hussein Abu-Fadal-Abbas peace be upon them and as you as you heard from my brothers the pilgrims who just expressed their feelings about being here and about this atmosphere basically the thing that they all you know said and frequent they said that the place is a source of comfort is a source of calmness of security of the sense of security and many of them said that it is a place of positive energy and spirituality and how is it not the grandson of the holy prophet peace be upon him and his progeny is barred here and basically it's not a piece of Paradise since a recent time it's since the very beginning of the creation of earth narrations from the holy prophet that Imam Hussein will be barred in a piece of Paradise and as general this piece is famous of the spirituality the high level of spirituality the people are coming here as you see now to this area because they feel they sense the sacred the sacred features of this land of this area between the holy shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother respected viewers thank you very much for joining us stay tuned for more reports from the holy land of Karbala from the areas neighboring the holy shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother Abbas during the pilgrimage of Sha'bania the pilgrimage of the 15th of Sha'ban thank you very much indeed my brothers and sisters yes welcome back dear viewers of Imam Hussein TV3 that was the report from Muhammad Ali who reported on the atmosphere between the Haramain who we are so accustomed to seeing people lamenting and grieving and congregating sending their salutation to Imam Hussein in the months of Muharram and Safar but for a change what we would love to do is to really live by the saying of Imam Hussein be happy for our happy occasions and be sad for our sad occasions so we're trying to strike that balance between commemorating and celebrating the births and the deaths of our holy imams and let's not divert too much the reason why we're celebrating their lives and why we commemorate their deaths is because we would like to highlight their lives highlight what they stood for what principles they stood for and what we can really take from their lives in order to put into our lives in here today in this day and age and to really connect with them because they are the most pristine perfect way to reach Allah SWT because Allah SWT used them to come to us there's no better way to reach Allah SWT through them and that's why we celebrate their births to commemorate their lives and what they stood for what they really gave to the world that they lived in and their deaths as well at the same time upon saying that again so I'll reiterate I'm going to be making it my personal mission over the next week to really go out there into the streets and to find out what it's really like to be here as a citizen to find out what the rituals are here associated with Sha'ban the month of Sha'ban and of course the preparation for Ramadan because Ramadan is around the corner and the heat is increasing so it's I mean in London from a personal point of view in London the heat isn't that much but the timing is always difficult because we have to break our first at 9.30pm and we hold our fast from about 3 o'clock in the morning or 2.30 in the morning so we have a lot of hours that we're fasting but here not only do they fast up until about 7.7.30pm but under the scorching heat of the summer months which is very very difficult so I want to actually see what the preparations are like for Ramadan here among the streets and the citizens and I've actually heard that people walk there's a special walk actually the similar walk that people walk from between Najaf and Karbala people actually walk between Najaf and Karbala for Sha'ban year time as well and of course there's a spiritual aspect of the month of Sha'ban and of course the birth of Imam Mehdi Ajaal Ta'ala Faraja Sharif there's so much du'as and supplications and amal associated with the mid month of Sha'ban as well so hopefully you'll be relaying all of that to you we'll be hopefully relaying that to you in the near future and there's obviously going to be more reports from Muhammad Ali our reporter will be taking you out of Karbala to get insights from our visitors as well the visitors of Karbala to see what they feel and how they are interacting with the imams during the month of Sha'ban to conclude today I wanted to recite a poem in four languages Arabic, English Iranian and Urdu because I understand there are some Urdu speakers out there so with the Urdu from a comical point of view with the Urdu I don't actually understand much of what I'm saying but I'm hoping that the pronunciations are correct so hopefully I get that right with the Persian as well same kind of similar format obviously Arabic and Iranian is something that I'm accustomed to Arabic and English is something that I am accustomed to and on that note recitations actually what I would love to get into the culture of and during the next couple of nights is we're going to be having a bit of an audience and when I do the recitations I'll be doing it live in front of the audience as well as live in front of the in front of the viewers so the viewers can actually if you're sitting on your couches with your family you can of course get involved start clapping and reciting alongside with me I won't be hearing you obviously but hopefully you'll create some joy within your household and will bring you the positive energy from here Karbala into your homes so that you can hopefully really celebrate the Sha'ban month with us as well so stay tuned for that next couple of nights insha'Allah in the morning letters of which daily I have dreamed and to each letter a lifetime I have learnt his name touches my ears before my heart's concerned yet I still wonder what her saying and what she's saying and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the and to the Stay tuned for the remaining nights as we take you live from the holy city of Karbala'a to hopefully bring the positive energy and the joy of the Sha'ban season into your homes as you celebrate the month of Sha'ban as well. So stay tuned inshaAllah we'll see the next couple of nights with myself and my co-host Ahmed Ali. So we'll see you very soon.