Karbala was the place of showing love.

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Tonight you want to read elegies about Imam Husayn’s (as) companions, right? Do you know what Imam Husayn’s (as) companions did to him? Imam Husayn (as) loved them. When Habib bin Mazahir was being martyred, the Imam said the same thing that he said when Ali Asghar was being martyred. He threw Ali Asghar’s blood up into the sky and said, “That which lets me tolerate this tragedy is that God is watching.” He said the same thing when his friend Habib bin Mazahir was being martyred. He held Habib’s head on his knee and said, “O God, since you are watching I tolerate this.”
This other companion of the Imam truly amazes me. He was shielding the Imam. He took this role on himself. When the Imam talked or went anywhere, he shielded him. He stood up for the arrows to hit him. He was struck so many times that he fell to the ground in front of Aba Abdillah al-Husayn (as). He said, “Imam, I can’t continue anymore.” The Imam came and put his head on his knee. He asked, “O Imam, are you satisfied with me now?”
Do you know what the Imam answered him? [We should say] what kind of question is this? This truly affected Imam Husayn (as). Imam Husayn (as) said, “[My dear] you will be in front of me in Heaven. When entering Heaven you should enter in front of me.”
That desert was the place of showing love. Was this easy for Husayn (as) for this companion to be struck by an arrow in his chest and fall to the ground? It was easier for Husayn (as) to be struck by the arrow himself instead of his companions. When each of Imam Husayn’s (as) companions would fall to the ground [after fighting]
it is said that Aba Abdillah al-Husayn (as) would go to him like an eagle that goes toward its hunt. He wouldn’t let them bother his companion. Imam Husayn (as) would hold the companion’s head on his knee calmly and caress him until his spirit left his body. Then Imam Husayn (as), along with the other companions, would bring the body back. He wouldn’t allow anyone’s head to be cut off while he was still alive. Husayn (as) didn’t allow anyone to be beheaded…

We haven’t been able to help people to understand this attractive, affectionate, deep, rational concept of getting close to God.
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The most important feature of a goal is that it should create a fire from within a person. It should give warmth, strengthen, entertain and give direction to a person’s imaginations. This is how a person’s goal should be, otherwise one’s life is useless. [As a poem says,] “Pray over his body although he’s not dead.” A life in which one’s goal doesn’t give warmth and doesn’t answer one’s need for love is a very low level of life.
In our life, everything really depends on the goal we choose. Imagine if you let people be free but don’t talk about religion, God’s commands or beliefs. Just tell people, “Live with a goal that warms you, creates a fire and answers your need for love. See where you can find this goal yourself.” They can’t find such a goal even if false propaganda is used.
Have you seen that people talk about love and affection? It’s interesting that everyone talks about love, but no one reaches to it. Everyone likes and admires a life filled with love. Instead of using the term “a life with love,” God has designed this in religion in this way that He says, “Set your goal to be getting close to Me.” Getting close to God will light a fire (of love) in one’s heart. Maybe when people talk about a life with love, this is what they mean.
And we have worked so poorly and weakly in this regard! The effects of our deeds have sometimes been so repulsive that we haven’t been able to help people to understand this attractive, affectionate, deep, and so rational concept of getting close to God. People do not know religion to be getting close to God. But no deed without having the intention of getting close to God is accepted. Unfortunately, if you introduce religion without the concept of getting close to God, religion will seem awful to people. Those people [who’ve learned this kind of religion] are right to hate it. Perhaps religion without the passionate, attractive meaning of closeness to God has been taught to them.
Imagine if one is able to understand such a goal, he sets it as his goal and he is able to gradually strengthen this goal. Imagine what effects this will have on one’s heart. The explosive part of religion that awakens one’s heart and causes him to move can be found in the concepts of getting close to God and how to get close to Him. God shows us this majestic universe and says, “I have created these. These are my creation. Now look at Me Myself.” It’s incomparable. Then God says, “Set your goal to be getting close to Me.”

We’re conveying a message to the world on Arbaeen.

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Imam Husayn’s uprising, martyrdom, and Ashura were of a kind that were for propagating and getting the message to others. Imam Husayn’s uprising didn’t make any practical, immediate changes in the Islamic nation.
An example is that during the time of Imam Zayn al-Abidin (as), the biggest gatherings for drinking, dancing and women singing were held in Medina. So Imam Husayn’s (as) martyrdom didn’t lead to the safeguarding of morals and to an actual reform in morals in the society of Medina. The oppressors, what they were doing, the corruption and the depravity weren’t actually eliminated. And no oppressed person actually got his right.
When we say there was no immediate result, what we mean is that what is important about Aba Abdillah al-Husayn’s (as) uprising is his message. Imam Husayn’s (as) uprising was of a kind that was for propagating the message. Why was Imam Husayn (as) martyred? So that this message would be spread. Why has God put this heat in our hearts (for the Imam)? So that we will burn within and express our excitement publicly. Why did he take his children with him? So that they’d help in propagating the message. Right? So whatever we can do for propagating this message is in the direction of Imam Husayn’s goal. God and Imam Husayn made it such that when someone mourns for Husayn (as), he himself is actually participating in and is a part of Imam Husayn’s uprising.
My dears, when you mourn for Imam Husayn, your mourning isn’t separate from the Ashura uprising. You’re a part of Karbala [events]! You’re a part of the Ashura story since you are spreading the message to others. My dear, will your spreading of this message be more effective when you each cry alone in your homes or when you come to the streets on Ashura? Everyone who holds a mourning ceremony or puts up a black flag over his door, whoever wears black on Muharram wherever he/she is, will be a part of Imam Husayn’s uprising. Now will this spreading of the message be more effective when tens of millions of you gather around Husayn (as), or is it more effective when you come visit his shrine in small groups without much commotion?
Can coming for Arbaeen be compared to coming at any other time of the year? If you were told, “Don’t go for Arbaeen,” say, “Excuse me, so why was Imam Husayn martyred? Wasn’t he martyred to convey a message? If I don’t go for Arbaeen and don’t make a commotion by bringing the number of pilgrims to 20 million, the world won’t find out. So what about Lady Zaynab being beaten? Should this be forgotten and neglected?!” O Husayn, we’re zealous about Arbaeen!
It’s time to introduce Imam Husayn (as) to the world. Imam Husayn (as) is not only for the people who cry for him. Imam Husayn (as) has given us an opportunity to help him. What are we doing on Arbaeen? We’re conveying a message to the world. If ten times more people than those who come on Arbaeen come gradually at other times during the year, even neighbouring countries or cities won’t find out. You may come ten times a year. You take selfies, tolerate hunger on the way and are bothered. These trips will be rewarded. But will this be more effective or if you come one time a year on Arbaeen when everyone comes? In this way, everyone in the world will ask, “What’s going on?!”
Shortly after Ashura, thousands of people were martyred during the “Tawwabin Uprising” that was led by Sulayman bin Surad and others. They were martyred too and won’t go to Hell. They’ll go to Heaven, thousands of people. But compare this with if they had been in Karbala. My dear, you can only appreciate Husayn (as) and his sister, Zaynab, with Arbaeen. The situation is right now too. What about all that has happened so far? It was an introduction for this. They were all an introduction to bring us to this point!
Is it valuable to hold mourning ceremonies in the home? Yes, they have helped to train you so that if you want to participate in the 20 million Arbaeen walk, you will know that you must put all your effort for it. Holding mourning ceremonies in the home is necessary. Your mothers have trained you in these ceremonies and helped you to reach this point. Your mothers trained you in those ceremonies in the home and in those trips when you went to Karbala alone. They trained you so that if one day Husayn (as) asked you for help, you wouldn’t leave him alone!
I swear this is my belief that Imam Husayn (as) asks for his mourners’ help on Arbaeen! When Imam Husayn was going toward Karbala, he knocked on everyone’s door and asked them to come. He asked them to come. Many rejected. O Husayn (as), now we have come too. Similarly, Husayn (as) put this in our hearts and got us to come! What are we doing on Arbaeen? We’re conveying a message to the world.

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A Eulogy for Women

I’ll read a few eulogies for women. Men, you shout too. Women, when you reach Karbala, don’t go forward if it’s crowded. Imam Husayn (‘a) is not satisfied with women being bothered. Men, take care of your women so that they don’t get lost and have to look around for you. Women, when you reach Karbala, say, “Firstly, Imam I’m ashamed that I wasn’t in Karbala to help you.”
Say this sincerely, not the way I said it. Weep and say it. I swear to God if you say this sincerely, they’ll write your name among Husayn’s (‘a) helpers on Ashura! Say, “Secondly, I’ve come to help the Imam of my Time. Imam accept this from me!”
Women, when you reach Karbala, say Salam (send greetings) to the Imam and Hazrat Zaynab. Then say, “We feel ashamed. We were respected when coming. No one took off our veil. No one whipped us for mourning for Husayn (‘a). We only saw respect.”
Some of you have probably come with your families, and the women are listening too. It’s fine if some stand with their families and take a photo. Fine. Have fun. But, remember there was a man who fell to the ground here, and his family was taken captive. Remember this!
I don’t know how some people can put their arm on their brother’s shoulders Bayn al-Haramayn (between the shrines) facing the shrine of Abu al-Fazl and say, “I want to take a photo here.” Fine. Have fun! But, in this place a brother lost his brother and said, “Now, my back has broken!” Remember this too.
Women, when you reach Karbala, say Salam to Hazrat Zaynab. Then say, “We feel ashamed. We were respected when coming. No one took off our veil.”
Cry on the way. When you reach Karbala, these tears will have given dignity to you. When you are there, be drowned in thinking of helping God’s religion and ask Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) to accept your help.

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