 It's 1400 years ago, it's the 9th of Maharram. You're in your tent and at night you hear noises and commotion coming from outside. Naturally you leave your tent, you go outside to see what's going on and you see people abandoning the camp of Imam Sain Alayhi Salam in the hundreds and thousands. Looking around confused for just a split second your eyes fall into the eyes of Imam Sain Alayhi Salam. There and then you decide you're going to stay, you're not going to leave him alone. The morning comes, it's the day of Ashurah. You're now the 73rd companion of Imam Sain Alayhi Salam. Imagine you walk up to the Imam and you offer yourself to him, you offer your service to him and he says to you, it's your choice what you want to do. So for example now you know you can go and bring back water with Abul Fadlil Abbas Alayhi Salam. You could protect the tents of the women and children, you could keep the small children busy while their fathers, brothers, uncles are battling. You could help the wounded, you could stand as a shield from Imam Sain Alayhi Salam while he's praying. What part of Ashurah would you want to volunteer for or participate in? My personal opinion, I'll try to put myself in like an everywhere, you know, be part of, you know. I'll protect, you know, obviously I would love to stand and fight against terror, you know. I personally would like to stand behind Imam Sain Alayhi Salam and protect him, you know, and fight against terror that have plotted against him. And, you know, be part of justice and help, you know. Because each human has the right to do what they, you know, like each human has the right to drink water, each human has the right to pray, you know. So there's no one that should be standing against that and tell you, you're not allowed to drink, you're not allowed to pray, you know, that is, you know, that's not fair to anyone. Yeah, and so I would be part of, if someone was willing to pray and asking me to be a shield, I would stand there happily and I would stand there proudly and I would protect that person that wants to pray because God is someone that he deserves to be prayed to. So, yeah, I'll be happy to be part of a shield of someone that's praying. Yeah, and of course I would look after, you know, children that are in need, you know. Because I love children. I've got two little brothers myself. So, yeah, you know, if I see little small kids that are thirsty and want water, I'll definitely try and bring them some water myself, if anything, you know. Because if you're at a certain age in the desert and you're thirsty and you've got a dry mouth, what would the little kids imagine themselves, you know, and they can't even speak, they can't communicate with you, they can't tell you that I'm thirsty, you wouldn't really know. So it's kind of hard for the child to actually, you know, to tell you that he's thirsty and not giving him water is even, that's like torture, you know, you're torturing a child and that's against humanity, I guess. Now, imagine you've had a long day at work, you come home tired, you open the door, you walk into your house and you see members of your family running around the house, one person's organising fruit and other person's making food and other person's making tea and you think to yourself, we've got guests, someone's come round to see us. So you grab someone and you say to them, who's come to see us? Why is everyone rushing around like this? And they reply to, they haven't come to see us, they've come to see you. So you think to yourself, maybe it's a work colleague, it's someone you knew from university or school or it's a friend or it's someone from the mosque. So you go to the living room, you open the door, you walk in and you see sitting in your living room on your chair is Imam Sema. In that moment, what would you say to him? What would you want him to say to you? First of all, I'll go there, I'll kiss his head and I'll thank him for coming to me for spending his time to come and spending that with me instead of somewhere else. Because it's an honour to be someone that is recognised by someone that's special. And it takes courage and it takes a lot of things to be in that position because it's difficult to stand against a crowd that is against you. It's not easy and doing that you need to have a lot of confidence, a lot of information, a lot of knowledge because at the end of the day you're going to stand alone, no one's going to be with you and then someone coming to you and congratulating you like it's an achievement when he comes to you after going through all that struggle so it's an achievement and I want him to say that he knows that I love him I want him to know that that's the main thing to me. How would you feel if he said, I love you too, for example, for I've accepted your service to me, I accept you as one of my servants How would that make you feel? That is a dream come true, that is something that I've always wanted to be always wanted, always tried hard to be that person you know it was hard you know people telling me other things but always believed what the truth is and us stuck to the truth and I will hold on to the truth until the day I'll be that person and when I'll meet him and he'll tell me I love you too I will do anything to get to that stage At the beginning I asked you about 1400 years ago now we know what happened more or less on that day so it might be easy to say if I was there I could have maybe stopped this or I could have helped with that or I could have potentially delayed this tragedy happening to this person in such a way and I said to you, you walk up to the imam and the imam gives you the choice so you can pick where you want to serve In this day and age, in today's age a lot of us forget we have a 12th imam with us and in a way him being at least physically absent from us gives us a choice in how we want to serve him because he's not here to tell us to for example pick this up go and do this, go and stop that so we have to use our own logic and understanding to do things for him and on his behalf to try and aid him in some way so I guess my final question is What have you done for the 12th imam? How do you think he feels about you? Do you think if he came to your house would he turn around and say I love you too as well? Well, I have followed the manners of the imam the way he was treating people the way he was speaking I can't be him, he's better than me but I'm trying to be good and I'm spreading the word, I'm spreading love evil people come to me, I'll give them positive feedback because I believe if a negative person comes to you and you approach them in a negative way it will escalate in a very negative situation but if anything that comes to you and you take, obviously you reply with a positive answer you'll always have a good result believe me when I say because in every situation you're in if you have an optimistic mindset you will always end up in a good situation because evil creates danger and anger and just all the bad things, all the negative stuff but if good meets bad it can make both become good because good spreads around it's like a tree, it's like a seed you grow it and it becomes big and everyone will start following and it's hard to change people's minds because people are ignorant they like to believe what they say especially in this DNA people don't like to be told they don't like to do what they've been told they want to do what they want is what they think in their head they think it's alright not what others tell them to and that's difficult because when you try to teach someone they're going to turn around and say why can't he be like that because you're saying it to me why not saying it to him he's worse than me then again, he's saying it to you because you're the one who's probably going to pass on the message to him so that's why you always have to have optimistic approach to the person that you're talking to because you always learn something from someone and if you spread good good will come back to you and it's a cycle of life and it's common sense mostly as well if you do bad, bad will come back because if you hurt somebody this guy's not going to forget that you hurt him and he's going to come back to hurt you maybe not now, maybe in five years but if you did good to this person this person's not going to forget that Eva and maybe in the future if he's been successful he's going to come back and help you the way you helped him so that's mostly and I believe that Akhila is more good and less decision when I was angry because when you're angry you shouldn't really do any decisions yeah, I believe that every human should just every human should be just good be optimistic be optimistic