 Respected viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam, As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Today we have two honorable guests who have crossed continents, or countries if you will, to come to the Holy Land of the Imam al-Hussain, alaihi as-salam, to establish conferences, and if you want to compare with conferences, across the globe we find that one of the most important concepts within a conference is having a strong belief that a certain thing might be successful. However, the conferences established by these two individuals revolve around something very important, which resembles the sacrifice, the peace, and the coexistence emanated from the sacrifice of Imam al-Hussain in Karbala. I have with me Agha Sultan and Hassan Zakaria. Welcome both. I hope you enjoyed your visit to Karbala. I know it's a paradise on earth. And where else would you want to be other than Karbala now? Agha Sultan is an educational and social activist consulting engineer and a former member of the syndicate of Bangalore University in India and his son is also, inshallah, in the future to become a doctor and a representative of who is Hussain from India. Now I'll begin with the father and then we'll go to the son, if you guys will. Today I want to discuss something revolving around the peace and coexistence that are extracted, the lessons that are extracted from the tragedy of Imam al-Hussain or the selfless sacrifice of Imam al-Hussain on the day of Ashura. If you can briefly tell me about that. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Indeed, I'm glad to be sitting here with you. And as you rightly said, Karbala is a piece of jannah. Yes. It's a piece of paradise. There is real peace around here and I can feel it in my body. I have come here with many doctors and engineers, mostly non-Muslims. All of them who have come with me here, they said to me one thing, there is something in the air here. There is something different here and they say in my body I get vibrations of some divine spirit falling on them. This is Karbala and now Imam al-Hussain, what you see in this world today, destruction of humanity. Yes. Which religion has taught to kill the other on a religion basis. Yes. It's my open challenge to anybody. My challenge to the ISIS, the Daesh, they are spoiling the name of Islam. They have nothing to do with Islam. Islam means peace. The Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. The Islam that he delivered through Quran to the people is indeed one of the most refined religion. It ever existed and it will exist till the re-selection of Imam al-Hussain. Alaihi sallam. Now do you think people around the globe, especially in Indian culture that you live in India specifically, do they accept the sacrifice of Imam al-Hussain the way that we accept it? Is there any conflict or do they accept it in the idea that Imam al-Hussain sacrificed himself for humanity not only for a specific group of Muslims or Muslims in general? I come from a country called Hindustan, Al Hind. It is the second largest democracy in the world. And believe me, the Indian government is so good and so cooperative, so helpful. During the 10th of Muharram, it has declared a holiday. It's a national holiday on Ashura. The procession on the busy streets of most of the cities in India, they give procession to block the traffic, hours together. And our Hindu brothers join us in the procession. The Christians, they wholeheartedly support Imam al-Hussain's sacrifice because they know what was true. What happened on that day, majority of them know. But unfortunately, the media, like media doesn't show the Arbaeen in Karbala anywhere. The international media accepts war. You Arab media, I don't see that 28 million, 30 million, more than that people converging on Arbaeen is not shown. It's unfortunate. That's perfect. Now, to use the career. As a youth, I know your father is pretty young as well. But as a youth, how do you find the youth accepting the sacrifice of Imam al-Hussain? Of course, as people grow older, they tend to mature and find aspects that they didn't find of interest during their young age, tend to find it interesting when they grow old. But how are the youth, in your perspective, accepting the sacrifice of Imam al-Hussain? Firstly, I'd like to begin with greeting the viewers of Imam Hussain 3 TV. As-salamu alaikum. As a youth, the question arises, what is our responsibility in today's world? Where the world is engulfed with Islamophobia, there's a lot of darkness spread, there's a lot of racial abuses. Now what do we do? People don't want to know about Islam. So in this world of current scenario, our responsibility is to tell out to the people the real principles of the tragedy of Karbala. With this, I'd like to speak about a global movement with the name Who is Hussain? Who is Hussain is an international organization which began in the year 2012 in London. And in a span of 3-4 years, we have spread across 5 continents. The basic principle of the organization is to let the non-Muslims know about the tragedy of Karbala and how Imam Hussain sacrificed his self-stand in the line of Karbala, inspired millions across the world. So what we do is we visit orphanages, we visit the homeless, we feed the needy, we do blanket drives, blood donation camps, medical camps to non-Muslims. When they ask you, why are you doing this? We say to them that this is what Imam Hussain has inspired us. Imam Hussain has inspired to help the needy irrespective of the caste and creed. So Imam Hussain also inspires us to resist oppression of all forms. So this is a youth movement which is spread across worldwide and we are doing a tremendous job and every year we are getting volunteers who want to be a part of the movement. So I feel I think this is the responsibility of the youth to reach out to people in a positive way. Not making overtly religious but in a very practical way where Imam Hussain has taught us to help the needy and protect the vulnerable across the world. Now in your field of work, I know you mentioned that who was Hussain you were presenting in India. How is the Indian population accepting this? Yes, India is one country under the banner who is Hussain and I am glad to inform you that in India we are 30 cities functioning right now under the banner who is Hussain. How many cities? Out of 28 states and there are 30 cities and we are just expanding day in day. So we have Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Kashmir. So these are the major cities who are doing great work even in Delhi. So what we do is we do humanitarian work and we are getting tremendous response. We do water bottle drive. We go to the public places, we give them a free water bottle. Water is a basic necessity and water was deprived to Imam Hussain and the LL Bess. So we give a message by spreading, distributing water bottle with a flyer, with a message of Imam Hussain and we have a website called whohussain.org. So we have tremendous acceptance and people, even non-Muslims, Christians especially, want to watch with us and want to work on this platform together. And Alhamdulillah inshaAllah next month we are going to have a conference with Christians and Shia Muslims together. We are going to spread peace with the principle of Imam Hussain. Hopefully inshaAllah, inshaAllah. Now going back to the father, so we cannot have it like father, like son. It's amazing to see that. Now, I know you've established or initiated if you will a conference in Karbala revolving around this topic peace and coexistence. Now, what is your role in this? How does Imam Hussain A.S. influence you in what way? During my last visit here. How long ago was this? It's in Arbaeen. I requested his eminence, Sheikh Mehdi Al-Karbala'i. I am Mr. my friend Mr. Sayyid Sadat bin Al-Banna. I told them the concept of inviting Sunni scholars and Christian scholars and the International Media Department of Imam Hussain Holy Shrine. Okay, this Sheikh Mehdi Al-Karbala'i gave his consent. That's how it started and why? See, the international media is portraying this fight as Shia Sunni. Yes. Actually it is not. It is not a Shia Sunni fight at all. It is never Shia Sunni. See, the concept of the press is to divide the Muslims. That's the agenda. So the Muslims should not become victim of the conspiracies of the international, of course, western whatever forces in fighting with each other. Our book is same Holy Quran. Yes. We pray the same direction Holy Ka'ba. They pay pray times. We also pay five times. Where is the difference? There is no difference. At least we can come on the platform on this issue. That's the reason why this conference. We in India, the press in India, my friends in India, my friends from Ile Sunnat, always just talking why the Sunnis are getting killed by the Shias here. I'm a Christian friend. Why are our Christian churches getting demolished? The press is putting the blame on the Shias. So I wanted that misconception to be erased. How can I do it in a little way? It's vice versa. The media says Sunnis are doing this to Shias. Whatever it is, it goes both ways. It goes both ways that way. So in reality, the Sunnis, the Christians and the Shias are together, Hashirul Shabi, are together. I have met the Christian commander, Sunni commander and the Shia commander last year when I came in the media group. So they are all the three and other religions. The entire Iraqi people are joined together to fight the monster ISIS. I wanted to show that. Number one. Number two, Ile Sunnat. We met Ile Sunnat Murthy Aalam in Baghdad. Such a wonderful man he is. He said we are all united. We went to the Christian church, Kaniza in Baghdad. Lady Margin, very church. They said we are all united. So the Christian fathers who have come in the delegation. The Ile Sunnat scholars who have come in our delegation and four journalists who have come in the delegation, total ten of them, have seen something with their... The media is not sure. Now these journalists and these delegation are going to go back to India and going to tell India their own way that this is not a fight between Shia, Sunni and Christian. It is a fight against monster ISIS. Monster time. And every year we see... I would like you to comment on this. Every year in Muharram, in Tendam Muharram, we have the very famous march of Tuareg. When people begin from Tuareg to Al-Fadar Al-Abbas, there are Christians in that. There are Jewish, there are Sunnis. Everybody gathers together. It is amazing to see how Al-Fadar Al-Abbas is a magnet to every race, every nationality, every sect, every religion. It is amazing to see how everyone comes together. In the 40s we see Christians serving. We see Hindus serving. But from different races, different religions, they want to learn who really Imam Hussain Alaihissalam was. Now, the same question that I asked your father, how does Imam Hussain Alaihissalam influence you and what was your role into this initiative? Yes. Speaking the word of truth on the face of the tyrant is the greatest deed. And that's what Imam Hussain has taught all of us. And in the world of scenarios and oppression, this is what Imam Hussain has taught us. Never stay quiet when a particular community irrespective of the caste and creed is being oppressed. We have to be the voice of humanity, not only about our religion. So, coming from a place of India, you must be knowing India was ruled by British for centuries. And the father of a nation, Mahatma Gandhi Ji, has told us that, I quote what he said, I learnt to achieve victory with being oppressed from Imam Hussain Alaihissalam. So, the reason of India's independence goes to Imam Hussain. And this is recorded in history. And there are a lot of people who have been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, like Nelson Mandela. So, there are a lot of people who have directly or indirectly been inspired by Imam Hussain. And Imam Hussain inspires us to show love and compassion because Imam Hussain was a man of love and compassion. Imam Hussain unites all of us. He helps us to help the needy. He expects us to help people who are vulnerable and also to help reach out to people who are not having a voice. He expects us to be the voice of the oppressed. And this is how Imam Hussain has inspired a youth like me. And it's amazing. I mean, just to comment on your point, we have, you know, on the day, I should have had Christians fighting alongside Imam Hussain Alaihissalam. We have people from Africa, John, who was fighting alongside Imam Hussain. We have people who were actually the enemies. Hussain was an enemy to Imam Hussain. Yet, he still switched sides and came to Imam Hussain Alaihissalam for his aid. You know, we have children from very young up until we have, you know, Habib al-Mubarak was over 90 years old. He was Shohadai Karbala. We had a lot of people from outside Islam community. We had Christians, we had Jews. Yeah, everybody, subhanAllah, I keep on repeating this. It's like a magnet to Imam Hussain Alaihissalam. Any final comments that you would like to comment? Yes. And you don't need to be a Muslim to love Imam Hussain. Of course. You need to be a human. Of course. Because he stood up for humanity. Yeah. And that's what I want to say. Of course. Imam Hussain Alaihissalam is not the property of the Shias only. Imam Hussain Alaihissalam is a person, the universal person. You said magnet. I would say magnet word is more or less. He is the nucleus. Nucleus of all the activities around the world. He is the nucleus of humanity. Everything revolves around it. Okay. But for him, but for Imam Hussain sacrifice, but for the role played by two person, Imam B.B. Zainab. Yes. Salam Alaihissalam. And Imam Zainab Alaihissalam. Islam would have been white top. Islam would have been white top. He would have had Islam which as he preached. Yeah. So apart from Islam, he gave us a lesson as he rightly said. Zakaria as he rightly said. He gave us all the lesson of how to live. So my thing is my request to the entire world is stop this bloodshed. Stop this sectarian politics. Hopefully. And to the media, please write the truth. Please save the world. Innocents are homeless. Lacks and lakhs of people are homeless. Lakhs of people have died in the name of religion. Religion is a matter of faith. Keep it in your house. Yeah. Follow your faith. Your faith is supreme. My faith is supreme. But when you come out, be a human being. Be a good human being. Of course. Be a human being where you help each and every individual. Help even your neighbor. Even your enemy. Even your enemy. If you seek help and you feel, do it. Help him and he will become your friend. You help somebody who is your enemy. He will become your friend. He will say, yes this is my religion. This is Imam of Islam. Has taught me to help you and the enemy. Amazing. Do good. Be good. Be good. And hopefully we can learn from that message. But Zakaria, any last words? Yes. I think the only solution to the current world scenario is, you know we all know the world is engulfed in darkness and Imam Hussein's principles is that silver lining. And we need to reach out to people as a youth. That's what my father has been doing for decades now. He gets delegation journalists and telling the world the truth. And as an individual being a part of this international organization who is Hussein, there are a lot of volunteers working for this cause and this is what we've been doing. We reach out to people in the most positive way and not only restricting our services to our community, there are a lot of people outside our community who are suppressed who are oppressed in the worst forms. So we reach out to them. We do something called blanket drive. There are a lot of homeless sleeping on the road. We quietly go and we just put a blanket on them. We don't do this for publicity. When the person wakes up in the morning, he finds a blanket over him and this is what we do. We don't do it for our fame. Our names are not mentioned. We are mentioned as the Hussein volunteers. So we are spread across. So I request all of you to join this movement and Alhamdulillah we have been expanding tremendously and a lot of cities are enrolling in. And this is what as a youth today, this is what I can do and we've been doing. Hopefully we can continue. Yes. Incidentally we have yearly one function, interreligious function in Bangalore called Hussein Day. I do it just after Muharram. On that day, I call every religious scholar, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Sunni Shia, call them and it's a huge gathering. The press covers it and each time we have a subject, as you rightly said, it's an embodiment of peace, Imam Hussein's principles of humanity, Imam Hussein's truth and justice and it's become a very famous program Hussein Day. Now, to the press, please don't link Islam to terrorism. That's a huge problem. Please, ISIS is a monster. It will die its own death very soon because God is watching. And we have faith in Allah and Ahlul Bayt and we have faith, I mean Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they're all watching. They're watching, they're helping us. So it's going to get white top. So we let's pray that the entire world, including Iraq at the moment, Syria, whatever, entire world should be in peace. Hopefully. This is our dream. And also I'd like to mention, we have expanded our services to Iraq. Last Ramadan, we did a campaign with the name hashtag, it starts with you. We initiated an online crowdfunding campaign with the name Give Life and we are successfully sponsoring 15 surgeries to the Iraqi Yathim and the Neeri. So Alhamdulillah, we look forward to expanding our reach across Iraq because Iraq is the most neglected country in the world. The victims of war are the children. What are they being punished for? 80% of the children have congenial heart defects and there are not many good doctors, surgeons in Iraq. So my father has been doing this. We get patients across to India and we sponsor free surgeries and get them operated at subsidized costs. So I'm happy to know that we've completed seven surgeries so far and we have another seven to eight patients who are going to fly down to Bangalore and our organization Who Is Usain is going to fund the operation and my father is going to provide with the hospitality on the ground. Hopefully, that's amazing. This is what we've been doing. That's amazing. I would like to thank you both for joining us tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. So again, hopefully, we can learn how to serve Adil Bayt A.S. through our own creative ways. Whatever we think that helps Adil Bayt A.S. They don't really need our help. We need their help. So let us call for Allah SWT through the help of Adil Bayt to continue serving them in any way possible. Thank you very much. One second. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.