 It's 1400 years ago It's the night of Ashura You see people leaving in their hundreds and thousands From the camp of Imam Hussein They've left it You turn around and look at Imam Hussein And you see sadness and sorrow in his face In that moment you, Shabir Decided to stay and be the 73rd companion of Imam Hussein Now the morning of Ashura comes The Imam says to you It's up to you to help me In any way you want Wherever you see yourself fitting You can be there Where would you volunteer Where would you put your service How would you aid The Imam on the day of Ashura Would you Help Abu Al-Fabr Al-Abbas Go and retrieve water Maybe stop the arrow Coming into his eyes Or would you stand in front of Imam Hussein When they are praying And take the arrows Or would you Stand next to Bibi Sakina And maybe help her And move that person who came and pulled her earrings Or would you stand and say to Zaynab And not allow anyone to come and never He's given you the choice Obviously This is a hypothetical scenario And I'm sure that everyone who's listening to me Everyone who's watching me wishes That they could be in this position Myself have thought of it so many times as well On the day of Ashura I'm sure that all the people that were There by the side of Imam Al-Hussein Would have been fighting with each other To be the first one to be martyred And to be completely honest with you On that day First and foremost I would have asked my master Where he saw me himself And how best I could serve him If he gave me the option I would also want to be the first one to be martyred Whether that's standing in front of him Protecting him while he was saying his prayers Whether that's going into the battlefield Obviously what saddens me Is that after everything unfolded The ladies of the Ahl al-Bait Were treated in the way they were But I think for myself I would just be running out To serve the Imam Running out to be the first one Who could say that they Gave everything they had for the Imam So yeah I would want to be the first one To be martyred Now suppose you finished work Today and you drive back home Your mum, your dad, your brother They open the door And they let you in You see your family is in a frantic state You see everyone is running Getting stuff ready, gathering food Fruits, drinks You ask your dad, what's going on Have you got guests They turn around and say A man has come to see you Personally And he is waiting for you in the living room So you go to the living room You open the door To be the Imam Al-Hussain Sitting there waiting for you What would you want to say To him in that moment To be completely honest with you I'll tell you a story I I hadn't had the good fortune Of going to Karbala Until I reached the age of 27 And The person who had gone to Karbala with I had one I asked him for one Favour, one request And that was That the first time I saw the shrine Around Al-Hussain Al-Islam Not just for me to go there As the average person does Down the sort of Through the entrance And there's a slight hill as you go down A slight slope and then you get to the shrine I wanted him to take me by my hand And I would close my eyes And I wanted him to put me Right in front of the shrine So when I opened my eyes I would see the shrine just like that Without the whole Anticipation side of things And when he did that I just collapsed So trying to answer that question Would be impossible for me Because at that moment I'd be so overwhelmed with emotion That I don't know what I would do I'm sure I'd kiss his feet I would be crying And I couldn't tell you to be honest I couldn't tell you what I would say But I know that whatever it is It would be coming from the bottom of my heart And I would be in floods of tears Now you have sat with him And it's time to say a farewell He's leaving the house What would you in that situation What would you do In that situation Before he leaves I'd want to embrace him Before he leaves For me, the aim of my life And The mission in my every breathing second Is to serve Him In any way that I can So I would ask him For Advice I would ask him for instruction And ask him In what way does he see me Being the best possible 7 That I can be I would supplicate and ask him To pray for me To be able to achieve that And to be able to be the best 7 That I can be for him And in life I want nothing more than that And that's all I would ask him Before he would leave So at the beginning I asked you to imagine About 1400 years ago Then on the day of Ashurah How would you serve Now Knowing the events that took place then It might be easy to say I would go and fetch water With the prophet Muhammad Or I would go and stand With say the Zainab Or I would go and defend the children And the women of Abiy Abdullah Al-Hussain Now I am asking you today In this day and age And for our 12th Imam What would you like to do And what do you think He deserves from us What advice would you give our children That's Interesting question The 12th Imam Now I believe Truly believe that the whole Event of Karbala And the mission that he was trying to propagate Was a message of reform A message of Love and tolerance within society I think that Remembering the أحمد البيت Crying from أحمد الحسين And even awaiting the 12th Imam In itself Is good but unless you can put That Into practice I feel that it is defeating The purpose of it For me trying to Improve society By doing what you can Is the most important thing First and foremost the reason why I chose To go down the path that I've gone down In life in every aspect For example even in the work that I do Is to serve the أحمد البيت To try and help people To try and improve society And I think that's the Message I'd give my children Give all the children at home Is that All the imams Want you to be the best possible Human being that you can Crying for them, remembering them Is a very important part of that Because you've developed love for them But that love should translate itself In improving society In helping your community Whether they're Muslim or non-Muslim They're non-Muslim Helping them in order to try To better society And to just be the best human being And balancing your heart Doing things with the best intentions And that is when you can say That you're a true lover of the أحمد البيت So that would be What I would say In terms of what the Imam deserves I feel that I'm not In any position to say that Because he deserves so much more Than what I can say He deserves everything that I've got Everything that you've got He deserves the very best And that's what we can do For him Is to prepare the groundwork As communities Try to show unity Try to show togetherness And to try and spread the mission Of the أحمد البيت Not because we can convert other people But because we can teach a message Of love and tolerance Respect between everyone And that is doing justice To the mission and the message This is the rest of Allah This is the rest of Allah Allah God is the light God is the light