 Imagine it's 1400 years ago, it's the night of Ashura, you come out of your tent and you see people leaving in the hundreds and thousands. For just a split second, your eye falls on the face of the moment of the same lesson. You, Haider, then and there decide to stay. Knowing 100% what's going to happen to you when the morning comes. The morning comes, you're awake, ready, come outside, now you're the 73rd companion of Imam Hussain Alayhi Salam. Now imagine on this day, with all the different events and calamities that will happen, the Imam turns to you and says, where would you like to serve? Whether it's to bring water with Abul Fadil Abbas alayhi salam, whether it's to stand in front of the Imam while he's praying, whether it's to guard the tents of the women and children, where would you like to serve? Any of those one. It's a question I can't be answered. Just being there is probably my answer. So you'd be happy with doing anything you're told? Cleaning the tents, anything, anything. Going to get water with Abul Fadil, wow. Not like Abul Fadil needed someone, but. Why help him out of everyone who was there? He was there. He, all of them were Muslim, you know. Imam Hussain had people who stood in front of them when he was praying. Guarding the tents, you had the sons of Imam Hussain guarding the tents. Abul Fadil was there at one point, but Abul Fadil went out by himself. He went out by himself. He didn't go for war. So just that itself makes a massive difference. He went to get water for the daughters of Imam Hussain, for the children of Imam Hussain. He wouldn't have drank himself until every single person was given water. Abul Fadil, me personally, massive connection with him because of the stunts he took that day. No person in history has taken stunts like that, like Abul Fadil. Responsibilities that he had. The pride he was carrying. He did offer them everything. I'm one of them sad. Offer them army. Offer them wealth. Offer them. Any moment, human being, if they were at war, whether it's a mom, caliph, king, or a sultan, or whatever it is, the average human being would have probably taken it off. But Abul Fadil didn't carry them. He only had to make it in his mind. So, and he went by himself and he was stopped. Maybe I could have taken the arrow that went in his eye. Maybe I could have carried the water and took all the arrows. Maybe I could have stopped that person who cut his hands. There's just so many things that I know that my father wouldn't have needed because he's a warrior. He has his dad's brave. Religious, upon a religious day, he confirmed God has not had his bravery of who he is. So now I imagine you've had a long day at work. You come home, you open the house, or you walk in. You see the members of your family are all frantic. Your mom's running around, your dad's running around, your brother's, your sister's. Everyone's running around the house. One person's trying to prepare the fruit. Another person's trying to bring sweets. Another person's making tea. Another person's bringing food. Everyone's excited, happy, ecstatic, running around your house. And you stop one of them and you say, what's going on? Why is everyone in this state? And they turn around and they say, hey dad, someone's come to see you. So you ask, who's come to see me naturally as you would? And your dad replies, he's waiting for you in the living room. So you go down the hall, you open the door, you step into the living room, and in the living room you see Imam al-Hussain Ali. In that moment, what would you say to him? What would you want him to say to you? Uh, I'd be speechless. I think so would you and everyone else. Have I given enough now? That's the question I've already answered. Have I said enough? I'll ask him, how come you came to see me? I'll ask him, I'll ask him, what advice? There's always a question I've always wanted to ask myself. And there's always a question I wanted to ask, I'll be Abdullah al-Hussain. And I was, what advice did you say to Zaynab al-Aqab to show strong? Because any lady would have died that same day from the stress. But there's narrations that Imam al-Hussain spoke to her behind the tent, put his hand on her chest, and he gave her the Messiah as well. That's the only thing these narrations says that kept Zaynab alive and strong. What was actually said? That's one of the questions I think I'll ask him. What would you want him to say to you? That he's happy with me? That's probably the best thing you could say. That he's just happy. He's a tiny bit in his name. So at the beginning I asked you about the scenario of being 1400 years ago, the day of Ashurah, which one of the mini events would you like to participate in? What would you give to the Imam? Now with hindsight it's easy to maybe say I would help in this way, or I would do this, or I would try and stop that, or I would try and be a shield for X, Y, or Z. Now obviously today are 12th Imams among us, and some say at least Imam al-Hussain had 72 companions. How many companions does Imam Mehdi have? Some say Imam Hussain's companions gave their all for their Imam at the time. What have we given for our Imam of Ata? And in your opinion, what have you done for the 12th Imam? What would you like to do? What do you think we should do? Well, the most simplest thing is that Imam Ata doesn't know that Imam Ata has died, the death of an immigrant, of a Jahl. So just knowing who your Imam is, knowing what message he carries, for what reason has he been taken away? There is reasons behind it. When will he come? What does he expect from us? You see these things nobody actually knows, because there's so much that you can give to the Imam of your time, which we're not giving especially now in this modern society, a lot of things are changing. Everyone's pushing away the fact that the appearance could happen anytime and this is living life, normal life. So what I'd want from Imam Mehdi, was that the question? How would you serve him? What would you want to be able to do for him? To put his heart at rest? Anything that he wants me to do, I could be from picking up that small glass of water to whatever. I just want like what I, you know, being chosen by the Imam, being accepted by the Imam in that time, because many people will see the Imam and turn their face. What means amongst them? Shia, amongst them Christians will turn in before the Shia. But that's all the Imam, he touches the right people, he touches the people that he thinks that will serve and be genuine about himself as well. So, you know, just being chosen amongst those people is an honor, is a blessing, is a gift in itself. So wherever he puts me, wherever his hand points, I'll be there. You know, all this service for Imam Hussain, all these things, we're mourning with Imam Mehdi, rather than we're just mourning for the sake of Imam Hussain's death. No, because we still have an Imam that lives and mourns till this day. Some of our greatest scholars throughout history have said, in their opinion, if the Shia of the time took the event of Qadir seriously, Maharram wouldn't happen. Now some came after that and said, in this day and age, if we don't take Maharram seriously, then we'll lose our religion entirely. So in your opinion, how do you think we can keep the candle of Imam Hussain, a life for our future generations, for example, our children, our grandchildren, what's our duty towards an event that happened almost 1400 odd years ago? You know, the funny thing is that just the other day was the Shia of the time of Sadaq, and not many people cared. It was just another average day for a lot of people in our community. And Imam Sadaq plays a massive role to why we still know about what happened in Qadirah, why we mourn Imam Hussain, how we should mourn Imam Hussain, when we should mourn Imam Hussain. All these rituals, Imam Sadaq done himself, the walking to Kalbala, the visitation of Imam Hussain and how important it is, the mourning that he's made. It's given up food in the name of Imam Hussain. This was all through Imam Sadaq's teachings. And Imam Sadaq, it came to a point where when it came to Imam Sadaq, you know, if it wasn't for Imam Sadaq, we wouldn't know what happened in Kalbala, because at that time, the Abbasiyah had to control, and there was not many companies left, you know, but Imam Sadaq kept that fire burning. How? His rituals, his magades, his poets, his, you know, his reminder to his companions, to always mourn Imam Hussain. Imam Hussain is, in Arabic we say, a oppressed, more than, you know, a lot of historic members who we believe in. Because Imam Hussain gave every single thing that he brought up, that he worked on, you know, his son Ali Akbar wasn't married. His brother's son Al-Qasim wasn't married. He left one of his daughters back in Medina because she was so ill. She wouldn't have made off this trip. His brother, his sister, he died knowing that his sister, who is the pride of Benny Hashim, who no one even seen her shadow, let alone her voice, who was covered by Abbas, when she came out of her house straight into her Mahman, into her camera, into her ride. Even at that point, no one saw what Sayyid al-Zaynab looked like. Him knowing that Sayyid al-Zaynab will be dragged from her head, will be beaten, will be hurt. The children, the wives, the sisters, you know, everyone lost somebody that day. Everyone lost a person, Allah, someone they love. Imam al-Hussain lost all of that. And in one day, and he gave it just like that, without thinking twice. Why? For who? For me and you. For others who believe in Ahmadiyyat. Not only for the people who believe in Ahmadiyyat, for the whole humanity. If it wasn't for Imam al-Hussain's stance, what would we be now? We'll be nobody. We'll just be Islam. You know, we have so much detail in our history. No other religion has. You know, there's no detail. You hear just the main occasions that happened. We don't actually hear anything. But through Imam al-Hussain's tragedy, all this detail came up. And Imam al-Sadaq was the one who was to give that story out. Imam al-Baqir was there. You know, Imam al-Baqir was there. And he even said, he said, if one of you was a monster since that day, if you heard or saw what actually happened on the day of Ashurah, you'll die. That's how intense, that's how bad it was. We don't know half of what happened. We hear Sayyid al-Raqaiyya's erring got ripped off and we scream. But there's Imam al-Baqir saying, if you actually understood what happened in Kabila, you'll die. So, you know, the importance of carrying on with these Majalis is so important that it was passed down from Imam to Imam to Imam. Imam al-Rover used to have a poet come and he used to tell him, just recite about Imam al-Hussain. He wouldn't say, I recite about Imam, my father, recite about Imam al-Sadaq or recite about Imam al-Hussain. That was the main thing to mourn about because it was a tragedy. Or other Imams were killed at the Masmul. That's the only thing, Masmul. Only Imam Ali was killed with a sword. Imam al-Hussain gave everything that day and and we can't hold him a Majis every Friday in his name. We can't come to the Hussainy every Friday or every Thursday. We're supposed to have to do Ziyat Imam Hussain. We can't come to one of those Majalis every week. You know, in 10 years' time, sometimes I sit down and fear that where are our children going to be? When this society is modernizing every single day, all these rituals are being taken lightly. Where are our children going to be in 10 years, 20 years' time? So these things are important. We have to always keep the fire inside the heart of Saydeh Zaynab burning amongst in our hearts. And it's important because in 10 years that time, if we don't do what we need to do to keep it burning and teach our children of the Masaib of Abiyah Abdullah al-Hussain, the religion evolves around Musaibah of Abiyah Abdullah al-Hussain. The whole religion, the core of religion was on the day of Ashurah. So Allah already finishes religion. I have completed your religion. Whatever you do after this, that's your test. I've given you guidance, a guideline, and it was going to go all to waste on the 10th of Muharram if Imam Hussain didn't sacrifice himself and his family. So it's important to keep these rituals going. The fire, let it burn, have as much Majalis as you can. If you say you can't afford the Majalis, that's rubbish. It doesn't need nothing. A small room, a candle, a khateeb, and someone just to recite what happened in Kandala. Ziyarat Imam Hussain. Give thanks to Imam Hussain. What do you think is all this for?