Empty Hands | Ali Reza Panahian

Empty Hands

O Aba Abdillah! We have come to God’s Banquet (Ramadan) and aren’t ready yet. We still aren’t ready. We can’t benefit from it. We don’t have any plans for the month of Ramadan. What can I do? I don’t want to insult you [audience]. I want to confide in Imam Husayn (‘a) and talk about myself. I want to recite the Qur’an, but my worshiping is worthless. I even ruin reciting the Qur’an. What can I do? I don’t have a plan. Whatever I do is to keep myself busy and to have done something. We can’t do anything. Imam Husayn, take responsibility for our month of Ramadan. We promise we will come to Karbala [in our thoughts] every night and say hello. Then, we will become more involved with Husayn than even in Muharram. Read elegies for 30 nights. In Muharram, people usually participate in mourning ceremonies for 10 days.
[ELEGY:] If we go next to the ditch where he was slaughtered [and read elegies] from the first night of the month of Ramadan, will Imam Husayn return us empty handed? No! I swear! A camel driver came to the place the Imam was slaughtered and didn’t return empty handed. The one who took his shirt didn’t even return empty handed. The other one who took Husayn’s turban didn’t return empty handed. [Said sarcastically.] “Shemr” came to the ditch and didn’t return empty handed. [Even his enemies took something.] Zaynab came and didn’t return empty handed. [Sadly,] she returned with a body, which had been whipped. No one returns empty handed from that ditch.
Aba Abdillah, help us. We can’t do it. If we were able to do it, we would have been corrected during many previous months of Ramadan.
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