Footsteps to Jannah - Children's ziyarah | Full documentary

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This documentary follows 'Footsteps to Jannah', a unique ziyarah group which places its focus upon young children, on their visit to the sacred shrines of the Imams in Iraq.

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[0:24]for me the one moment of real we bought to me was

[0:30]when the children were standing in banal harming and they pledged their

[0:33]oath of allegiance to the Imam and when they said those words

[0:38]that we weren't there for you and we are young but we

[0:42]want to give our bodies our minds our souls to you I

[0:47]just I just brought [Music] [Music] I'll handle I've been had the

[1:19]to go to carbonara many times and it's always occurred to me

[1:25]that for children it's really difficult so many groups out there now

[1:29]who cater for English English language and they cater for for for

[1:33]people from the West but there was not really much for children

[1:37]and so what I having to bless haven't been blessed with two

[1:40]children myself I realize it's actually really difficult for them sort of

[1:43]lectures that are pretty late you know programs are lengthy so now

[1:47]as their last r-ryan I thought you know what my kids haven't

[1:50]been my family hasn't been and we need to create something in

[1:52]order to you know make it easier for them and to kind

[1:57]of make it make it make them want to come my name

[1:59]is Xena Lee and I am 12 years old in February of

[2:02]2018 my parents told me they booked for us to join footsteps

[2:09]- Jonah a trip taking us to the Holy Land in Iraq

[2:11]in April that very year having spent the past year dreaming about

[2:17]this opportunity I felt an overwhelming sense of contentment and happiness I

[2:24]had finally been invited by my Imams surely there must have been

[2:28]something I did wish the Imams appreciated so much that they considered

[2:32]me worthy enough to visit them I'm here with my family I'm

[2:36]hit brought my two children I have a son who's four and

[2:40]the son who's twenty two months my older one is Ali Hassan

[2:42]mullah Dina and my younger one is Ali Hussein mullah Dina and

[2:47]Ali has some more latina and I'm four years old and when

[2:50]two erupted wisdom my Imam on this trip there was member sujen

[2:56]my age we chose this group specifically this time realm because previously

[3:01]we went on adult basic groups this is more a child specific

[3:04]xerath group so for us we thought this would be really good

[3:08]for my older one to learn more of the story so for

[3:12]me at home I explain things to him but I explain things

[3:15]to him from my from my but the best way that I

[3:20]can for children so I would tell him was a bad guy

[3:23]did this to mom Hussein obviously someone else would explain it a

[3:26]bit differently someone who has a little bit more understanding of how

[3:28]to teach children so when I heard that they were taking this

[3:32]group with kids I thought this would be brilliant here with my

[3:34]daughter she her name is Laila Ali and she is seven year

[3:39]old this yard was specifically for Laila because I have been to

[3:42]the arts before with my other children they are older now and

[3:46]I was looking for a group which caters towards kids and this

[3:50]group actually offered that so that's why I signed up for we

[3:54]had any yet to come for Sierra because of my not right

[4:00]for my child we were looking for groups and then I spoke

[4:03]to sister Sakurai she arose and she had mentioned a group something

[4:08]like this where the kids were going to be the priority and

[4:11]it was like a like a prayer answered right so I didn't

[4:16]have to think about it I just signed up so I want

[4:21]to say a special Salam to the stars of our whole entire

[4:25]group you are the reason actually that we are here today of

[4:31]course we're here to meet Imam and to send our salaam but

[4:36]all the parents here and all the organizers made this particular trip

[4:40]especially so that you all could be here and see heaven on

[4:45]earth I felt really happy it was a kids group because so

[4:52]there would be activities that I could take part in and workshops

[4:56]where I could um make new friends and learn new things we

[5:03]began our trip with the holy city of Najaf the land which

[5:05]hosts the successor of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him our

[5:08]first Imam Imam Ali Abner boo Talib the group gathered in the

[5:15]lobby for an introductory program where auntie's are qirush IRA's explained to

[5:20]us the importance of the land of Najaf and how blessed we

[5:22]are to be here this is the city that imam ali salam

[5:28]was the king of he has walked these streets he has been

[5:31]around in this in this city and now we are walking probably

[5:36]on the same spots that he walked on the greatest man the

[5:40]one that's earth the strongest bravest the most pious the most eloquent

[5:45]it was amazing in every way and he is the greatest of

[5:51]the greatest and we are in his city as his guests I

[5:56]know people who have bought their tickets to come here they even

[6:00]paid for their room everything was paid for but their visa didn't

[6:03]come and they are crying literally crying because forget the money it

[6:09]I wanted to be in my job those who are here are

[6:13]the ones that are the chosen ones the first city event is

[6:15]neither money nor a Salam was buried in magic when we were

[6:25]in Najaf the first place we went to see imam ali all

[6:32]of the days I was sick so I couldn't go to the

[6:33]Sierra but on the last day we were no Jeff I I

[6:39]went when I was a little better so yeah I did get

[6:44]to go I felt really sad that I couldn't go all the

[6:51]other days so I kind of pushed myself to go on the

[6:52]last day and I'm really happy I could this is your retainer

[7:14]Heather and Heather Heather and who died are they ombré chuckling man

[7:24]he said he's lucky and God said hey haven't been in NYCHA

[7:33]for 30 fraud job the trip was actually organized for that to

[7:37]be the case reason being obviously sometimes when you're living in your

[7:42]own countries and you have days like 13th Rajab you go to

[7:45]the mosque to our program and you know it's very kind of

[7:47]its defined as to how you how you how you do it

[7:51]within countries whereas obviously being in Iraq being a Shia placed not

[7:54]Jeff you know the celebrations were over to three days and it

[7:57]was really really vibrant so I wanted the children to actually experience

[8:02]that and sometimes obviously you hear so much about these personalities you

[8:05]know from lectures from the member from workshops they do but actually

[8:18]bringing that to life for them was phenomenal one of the special

[8:27]things that we did was we actually had a program within the

[8:33]harem of Mali which is absolutely fantastic managed to attract such a

[8:36]big crowd and it was such a jubilant atmosphere all together so

[8:42]that was really one of the nights then the night before we

[8:58]were going too much of to see Ayatollah Sistani the we decided

[9:02]as penis of you know we would send the kids to bed

[9:09]that we be early and only I would go out and do

[9:10]this yet on myself and come back and the kids came back

[9:15]to them said no we want to go we said we're gonna

[9:20]go every day and all the day we leave I what's interesting

[9:22]about that as before obviously they were saying you know happy can

[9:26]when can you ride to the hotel but that turning point was

[9:31]what we you know particularly emphasized because when we had the lecture

[9:38]with syed ali abbas rose away was that he was talking about

[9:41]the imam calls you you know and he clearly he'd called the

[9:48]children otherwise you know any child girl yeah i'm happy to go

[9:51]to a sleep because I'm tired but in fact there's like no

[9:54]we're no we're gonna be tired when no we're gonna get really

[9:56]early in the morning but we want to go so that to

[10:00]me was reading correctly as a parent and both of us felt

[10:03]this is fantastic you know we how can one say no to

[10:08]shower when he they both expressed both my children express that they

[10:10]want to go now your nature and you have this optimism in

[10:13]your heart that this door can give me but imagine if you

[10:17]don't try to get it then what happens that there is no

[10:20]other door that's gonna give it to you so learn to be

[10:26]like a child it starts crying start begging and you know what

[10:30]just as the parents get embarrassed I think your mom's gonna turn

[10:33]you away to stir this makes guys crying in front of your

[10:37]heart break my heart and your heart break when you see somebody

[10:40]crying somebody in the harem that's crying the first thing your heart

[10:43]goes please alikes up this guy's door you can't take them cry

[10:48]you think I'm gonna lock my name can take you cry I

[10:49]think it was said that knowing that you cry for a month

[10:54]or say but the way the trip was organized that we used

[10:57]to have various lectures and session so in the morning sometimes would

[11:01]have the workshops for children whereby though to have be reciting with

[11:05]them with le father Linamar on day two they were trained to

[11:06]recite and the purpose of that was basically Odyssey give them confidence

[11:09]and by the kind of end day and end of the tenth

[11:14]day and of the trip we had a big presentation farewell program

[11:17]and what they practiced across those ten days is what they delivered

[11:22]in a presentation my aim is to hopefully form a choir who

[11:26]knows what a choir is what's the choir a group of people

[11:33]who sing all right so my aim and hopefully you guys are

[11:36]going to work with me is to form a choir upon which

[11:40]on the last day of this whole entire group we together are

[11:44]going to be presenting a a poem to the whole entire group

[11:51]I really enjoyed the workshops like I said before I can make

[11:54]new friends and learn new things and do fun activities and the

[12:02]the lectures because I could again like learn new stories and miracles

[12:08]that happened the recites were pivotal alongside obviously there are citations there

[12:12]engaging the kids in in in in classes in workshops and there

[12:18]was really powerful where the kids actually gain confidence in being able

[12:24]to recite some poems and poetry as he does as well memorable

[12:55]experience of the kids performing on the stage the closing ceremony where

[13:01]they were taught within the workshop how to recite machine bearing in

[13:05]mind of different ages of the kids they were from four years

[13:11]old three years old to up to 15 16 years old some

[13:12]of them have never been on the stage but they were up

[13:18]there performing to their best and the display was just unbelievable some

[13:23]had language barriers they came over that and they performed really really

[13:43]well [Music] our time in Najaf was special although I wish I

[13:58]could have spent more time beside my master we're now going to

[14:03]deport and head towards another sacred land the place upon which the

[14:07]angels are sent in their thousands every single day this city towards

[14:11]which thousands of lovers flock from around the world all year round

[14:16]the city of Karbala [Music] No [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] so in

[15:07]karbala we arrived very close to the date anniversary of the shadows

[15:14]of BP's a nepali salaam so it was again a great atmosphere

[15:17]there in Karbala when we arrived you know for them to see

[15:21]the other aspect the other side of mourning and how it's done

[15:24]and obviously you know nowadays it's such a multilingual place so you

[15:27]could see people you know sort of doing gala darian in order

[15:33]to you could see in Farsi from the Iranians and those lectures

[15:35]going on in the Haram in in Arabic recitation and I think

[15:39]all of that for the kids was was just amazing to see

[15:41]that this is how morning is done in a different way compared

[15:45]to what they just see on a daily basis and they when

[15:46]they hear Karbala has been has been his favorite place he came

[15:51]my older one came Ali Hassan came when he was 20 months

[15:53]the first time three the second and now he's four so for

[15:58]him this place feels like home so for him to come back

[16:01]here again it was just it was you she was just very

[16:03]joyful very happy so hadith that says that when Allah favors someone

[16:07]when he favors somebody he puts a speck of light in their

[16:15]heart that light has two-fold properties to it one is increases the

[16:18]love for imam hussain in your heart and one it drags you

[16:21]to the z/r of the month we'll say front the day maybe

[16:24]you feel all of a sudden you just want to go to

[16:27]the harem that feeling all of a sudden sitting there bang you

[16:29]want to go that's the mom for saying calling again that's the

[16:32]light which is still there but know something the opposite is also

[16:37]true when a log removes goodness from somebody's life he takes two

[16:41]things away number one he takes away the love of imam hussain

[16:43]and the love of the zr of the malthus a this is

[16:47]what chef abbas of whom was written and the hadith if you

[16:51]look at the sun it is a sir he is most of

[16:54]the heavy fulfil that if a person does not go to zero

[16:56]once every three years they marvel saying what happens he's cut from

[16:58]the wheel of the elevator having heard about that place all my

[17:02]life I was really grateful that my mum could take us here

[17:09]and I felt really lucky because not many people get to go

[17:13]on this trip when we go to our mosque Hussein him address

[17:18]in New York and go to the Zuri room we see miniature

[17:20]Zuri's and this is here and this is there and now we're

[17:26]taking them and we're bringing them to the life-sized versions and that's

[17:31]the most beautiful feeling when they see that anyone who has visited

[17:36]the shrine of imam hussein were to agree that to describe the

[17:39]feeling is close to impossible while you feel blessed to be in

[17:45]the vicinity of the man who is defined much of your life

[17:46]from since you were born like a lost soul who has finally

[17:53]found his way home you also overcome by immense grief as I

[17:57]approached the shrine of Imam Husain I kissed the doll about my

[18:02]head with tears in my eyes and slowly walked into the courtyard

[18:05]assalamu alayka ya soon allah assalamu alayka ya nabiyya allah assalamu alayka

[18:15]hartamanda being as salaamu alaik ASAE Dalmore said you cry for one

[18:21]hussein more than anyone in the world even other so it just

[18:26]made me pour my heart out and even though I was excited

[18:30]in the beginning when I I actually realized who I was visiting

[18:37]and then I just like poured my whole heart when we were

[18:40]visiting the shrine of imam hussain it was very busy you know

[18:46]people were all trying to touch the zuri of imam hussain and

[18:49]i i thought she is not gonna be comfortable going into that

[18:53]crowd and and i wanted to go and touch the zuri of

[18:57]course and i came out and she's like why did you come

[19:01]out and i was i told her it was very busy I

[19:04]don't think you can do it and she she held held my

[19:06]hand and she's like no I can do it and she actually

[19:09]dragged me in so she gave me that energy and that support

[19:12]which I was looking for and that's that was very touching yesterday

[19:18]we went you know to the harem and Kia and all of

[19:23]a sudden he was sitting in a corner like I was doing

[19:25]my to us and I see you know his eyes were you

[19:28]know red and I thought he was tired so I asked him

[19:32]you know why are you so quiet why you you know why

[19:36]you sitting quietly here in the corner he goes you know mom

[19:38]I'm very sad and I said why are you sad what happened

[19:43]you know did somebody say anything to you because no I'm sad

[19:47]because you know Mom our Imams are not here anymore you know

[19:50]they died and I said okay we can be sad but then

[19:57]you know let's make dua you know he goes mom I am

[20:00]sad that I won't be able to see them anymore I wish

[20:03]that you know I would see them and hug them and I

[20:05]felt that you know a little boy a six year old boy

[20:11]if he has that feelings if he is getting that feeling how

[20:16]would I you know give him that if I don't bring him

[20:17]to the earth how would I give him that I think it's

[20:22]very important to plant this seed at any age even if you

[20:25]bring them you know when they're little or old but it's just

[20:29]you have to have a connection to this land because this is

[20:32]who we are and we just have to know our Imams and

[20:38]why we mourn the way we do and since we are the

[20:43]dogs era our children needs to know what exactly happened here to

[20:47]stand at a place and to watch her brother being slaughtered even

[20:53]did this so that she could be a witness so she could

[20:55]tell us that I saw with my own eyes that my brother

[21:01]was alive and that he begged shimmer and shimmer without any any

[21:06]deals and I called out to my mother Oh what the my

[21:10]mother do you see what they're doing to your beloved for signing

[21:13]Oh mother do you see that this is the Hussain who is

[21:19]covered with arrows the one who was be saying or duty or

[21:22]kamusta lipid well those tears those arrows those arrows did not allow

[21:27]a person's body to touch the ground but we say this was

[21:31]the body of La Palma that had taken over scene in her

[21:36]arms shooting the Messiah off my mom and I slung off all

[21:43]and all the ones that we've been to I mean I took

[21:46]her in I took with myself a book which talks about the

[21:52]Messiah and I read thou in English to the children why was

[21:55]it a misery and what I had seen is that the emotions

[22:00]had grown over over the days that we've been here where they've

[22:04]actually shed some tears now if I look back at listening to

[22:09]modulus while in the Imam bargah and golf school I'm not I've

[22:15]not witnessed not they've seen us and they kind of look at

[22:17]me or my wife or people around and say oh they're crying

[22:23]but here they've actually seen tear drops like that I mean that

[22:27]softens the heart as we were told and I think for me

[22:31]that was a real turning point for the kids I think as

[22:33]well as as ourselves [Music] [Music] [Music] tell me to be patient

[22:58]I'm Imam Husayn means love and I believe to bring your children

[23:02]it doesn't there's no age minimum like minimum age limit to which

[23:06]you can bring your children the younger the children I feel it

[23:10]the better because younger children don't understand hate children understand love first

[23:14]so you bring them here they might not know the story they

[23:18]might not they might be too young to know the story they

[23:20]don't have an understanding or concept of who these people are at

[23:24]their age but they know the names we teach our children the

[23:25]names of the bunch of them from when they're babies so they

[23:29]know these names they hear them over and over again and then

[23:31]you bring them to this place the first thing they'll see is

[23:36]the love we have for mom Hussein and they themselves will feel

[23:38]that love they'll go to the shrines they'll hug the shrine they

[23:41]don't understand that you know someone is buried under there what is

[23:45]this gril they don't understand that children don't see those concepts but

[23:49]they see and understand love so by bringing them from a very

[23:53]young age that's the first thing they'll know about him I'm gonna

[23:57]know that he stood for love what he did wasn't wasn't for

[23:59]anything other than love for Allah and love for us he loved

[24:03]us and that's why he did what he did and for me

[24:06]bringing my children here I wanted them to understand that we love

[24:09]him and why we love him because of what he did and

[24:13]what love he had and by doing that then they will hopefully

[24:15]have the same love he had for Allah and for their fellow

[24:19]human beings and that's that's essentially what I would like [Music] [Music]

[24:43][Applause] thus yarra of karbala is far from complete without visiting Imam

[24:52]Hussain's beloved brother hazrat abbas we headed towards his shrine and gathered

[24:56]in the courtyard where brother Imran da2 recited some poetry with us

[25:02]in his honor pas de de Cicco es la parte de semana

[25:06]luger de santa came ACK de sica Kariba utica okay ha ha

[25:27]I'm going 200 Abbas for the first time during this trip we

[25:32]went went in there we rushed in towards the Zuri it was

[25:35]right before the hard time and we did we touched history and

[25:41]we were about to step out of the room because we wanted

[25:44]to join the Jamaat outside and and the doors were shut on

[25:50]us right as we were about to step out so for me

[25:54]it felt like he wanted us to stay in there so we

[25:56]did our demise in near his histories for me that was very

[26:02]emotional I couldn't hold my tears the whole time I'm just crying

[26:04]as I'm doing my namaz and I just it was it was

[26:07]a beautiful experience beautiful my favorite shrine was probably Hazzard Abbas is

[26:14]shrine because I always amazing how many people would pay their respects

[26:20]and cry and mourn him I felt really really kind of emotional

[26:27]when I went inside and I remembered how um Huzur at the

[26:32]boss lost his arms and died in regrew some way to save

[26:43]Islam you were my right hand you were my everything history tells

[26:50]us that that's what the boss was always standing beside him understand

[26:57]he was bodyguard and until he was with him no one could

[27:02]approach imam husain you so ruwaida that says that when Apple father

[27:10]Lovaas was riding he made a door he put his head up

[27:16]to pray you know when we pray we raise our hands to

[27:20]the skies right especially when it said an important walk a buzzient

[27:24]have any hands to raise he raised his head up when he

[27:26]raised his head up to Al I said to my mom I

[27:29]just want one thing from you and that is that this water

[27:33]gets back a reply comes from the skies it says that we

[27:35]haven't accepted your dog but we've made you bärbel halides though from

[27:43]this day onwards whoever you pray for be answered so fast there's

[27:47]one more thing then he says if you haven't accepted my door

[27:50]then I want to ask you for one more thing to make

[27:54]sure that my body never gets back into those fins because I

[27:59]feel embarrassed that those children are waiting the reason why this time

[28:05]is very emotional you'll see is that children will be coming and

[28:10]lighting these candles as they like those candles are put in the

[28:13]water and the hope is that this water takes its total from

[28:21]the low pass because of the kids around there's so much energy

[28:26]and there's so much faith Keon especially he he's not feeling well

[28:31]and you know he has he was having a stomach ache since

[28:36]the last two days and I told him today when we were

[28:39]in the harem he told she tells me that I have a

[28:43]stomachache mommy and my stomach is hurting I said you know what

[28:49]let's bring a mosque you know and you asked you know how

[28:51]about the bus because you're in the harem ask him to ask

[28:56]Allah to take your pain away and the childlike faith he stood

[29:01]up with me thrid namaz and after two minutes he was running

[29:06]around and I was like you just told me that your stomach

[29:11]is hurting why don't you sit down because mom it's gone it

[29:13]was like really because yeah didn't you tell me to pray and

[29:18]then my pain would go away so it's gone that fate you

[29:21]know so that's the energy of the kids and the faith you

[29:27]know the childlike faith is I feel that you know building a

[29:29]myself up you know in my faith this is where the 12th

[29:34]Imam comes they say that when he came here he comes to

[29:36]the floor art and he recited the art in Najia he began

[29:42]to recite and in time mercy mercy by my side for his

[29:47]judge Imam Hussain and he starts off by saying Salam on my

[29:51]judge who was slaughtered like a sheep is slaughtered on the plains

[29:56]of Karbala Salam on my judge whose body wasn't on the floor

[30:02]wasn't in the sky wasn't a bed of arrows you're lonely Imam

[30:04]comes here at least all of you are together when you go

[30:10]walking inside imam comes here by himself cries by himself beats his

[30:13]chest by himself recites two units have praised us there and then

[30:17]he walks himself all the way to the shrine of imam hussain

[30:22][Music] one of the major aspects of that kind of trip in

[30:31]karbala was we were able to help the kids pledge allegiance to

[30:36]the imams and to hasta pasta mama saying basilar membrane or her

[30:40]mane which is absolutely phenomenal so they were kind of dressed with

[30:43]their green sash it's and they were facing the shrine and brotherly

[30:48]father took them through an oath of allegiance which is phenomenal and

[30:51]just to see them standing there line in line shoulder to shoulder

[30:55]all the kids there it was such a wonderful sight to see

[31:03]obviously you've got the true shrines on either end and they're just

[31:06]standing there right there and literally you know reciting from their heart

[31:11]it was absolutely amazing you know the the word they were saying

[31:14]and you could actually see they were feeling what they were saying

[31:17]we would first go inside the shrine in PR specs then we

[31:25]would meet up between the two shrines and we would stand in

[31:30]in lines all the kids and we would make Hartlage salam alayka

[31:42]ya about abdullah o inherit ER of Prophet Adam prophet ibrahim and

[31:50]prophet nor peace be upon you I stand here before you from

[32:04]far lands bearing witness that you are the proof of Allah I

[32:11]feel really lucky to be there in front of him on soon

[32:17]and make that pledge for me the one moment that really got

[32:22]to me was when the children were standing in banal haramein and

[32:26]they pledged their oath of allegiance to the imam and when they

[32:29]said those words that we weren't there for you and we are

[32:36]young but we want to give our bodies our minds our souls

[32:38]to you I just I just broke because for me that that's

[32:45]my goal that's all I want for my kids from a young

[32:49]age I've had great love for Imam Hussain and the whole all

[32:52]the family oh ha ha ha ha babe but I've wanted that

[32:55]for my children and as you can see the name's Ali Hassan

[32:59]Ali Hussain like that's what I want and for me to hear

[33:02]my son stand in front of his Imam and say these things

[33:06]that the won't work at another one and I just hope and

[33:08]pray that from that moment from whenever I've brought them the first

[33:14]time till the day they leave this earth that they always have

[33:17]that love and they always pledge that oath here I stand bearing

[33:22]witness to your might I just want them to feel the same

[33:29]way I feel at my age or even now you know when

[33:33]you hear the word who's saying I want those tears coming out

[33:36]of their eyes I just want that love because once you have

[33:41]that love and the reliable e in your heart is they will

[33:44]not go astray in life ever I want her to keep the

[33:55]connection she built here or established here you know keep that connection

[34:00]with their moms when she goes home and she thinks about it

[34:05]and I'm definitely going to make sure that I talk about it

[34:08]and you know we want that connection to be there always [Music]

[34:25]after she's been to several lectures with zacchara she Rose I'm seeing

[34:37]that understanding or in her of karbala of a mom saying her

[34:41]etiquettes have changed she was worth taking it at first she was

[34:44]taking it very lightly but after several sessions and several talks in

[34:50]the bus which Zakia sharrows she actually now understanding what is it

[34:54]all about you know what she's supposed to do what is expected

[34:57]out of her when sister Charles was giving much less on baby

[35:02]sign up the other day I saw coos um getting really teary

[35:04]eyed and for me that was like wow you know she's you

[35:08]know for a six-year-old to cry at a much less for me

[35:11]that was a big thing as a mom you know so for

[35:14]me that's the highlight of my trip there's a beautiful that even

[35:17]shallow and be in Karbala I will share it with you with

[35:21]a 60-mile praise for desiring awesome beautiful hadith indeed what he prays

[35:26]for these diarrhea and all the difficulties that they're facing that oh

[35:29]allah bless them for every difficulty they took because they came to

[35:35]visit us and you know when they visited that was what they

[35:38]did they made our enemies angry I think it's important to give

[35:41]your thanks to Imam Ali and Imam Hussain for their greatness for

[35:51]sacrificing their family and themselves to save our religion the same some

[35:56]widows Yared to give a salutation to our imams but within that

[36:00]is the respect that we have to what they've done what they've

[36:07]taught us they've taught us the the conduct of love sacrifice confidence

[36:14]the bravery that they they had from the little Hazrat Ali Asghar

[36:20]alaysalam - to the brotherly love that imam hussein it was at

[36:25]the bath displayed sinus - the living miracle fourteen hundred years later

[36:29]still as relevant as he was fourteen hundred years ago even if

[36:34]there was no miracle the factors that were alive because of them

[36:37]are passing and that's the biggest miracle in itself the fact that

[36:40]it brings you to tears that's a miracle nobody brings you to

[36:46]tears honestly 1400 years later you forget your great grandparents and grandparents

[36:49]and parents off for a while the good I didn't see 1400

[36:53]years later you're still crying and that's a major major miracle and

[36:56]I say that with complete authority that takes millions of people every

[36:59]single year from all walks of life towards them are the same

[37:04]not everybody has an opportunity to read the floor arm but what

[37:06]sign is the only person that I've seen Christians cry and I've

[37:11]seen juice crying Hindus cry only recently in fact because of the

[37:14]tragedy of them are the same they've never touched the floor on

[37:17]but Hussein is an embodiment of the Quran it's free mom or

[37:21]saying that you come to understand Kalama law and this is why

[37:24]we're different and we're special we are lacking role models in our

[37:27]society especially in the West these days so we all we have

[37:32]is a little bit and we are blessed that we have them

[37:36]so you know we the more we'll connect our children to a

[37:40]little bait they're not going to look for role models anywhere else

[37:42]so I think and that's what I did for my other children

[37:44]too and I hope and pray that I can do that for

[37:47]Leila as well I feel that raising children wasn't going to quite

[37:50]young it's very difficult we're bombarded every day by different things so

[37:57]they've got their tablets they've got all sorts of gizmos and gadgets

[38:01]and it's so easy with all of that to forget and to

[38:03]get lost and kids these days I find or more visual because

[38:08]that's what they have the tablets that iPads the funky watches so

[38:11]for them they learn a lot more visually if you tell them

[38:15]a concept like how we learned when we were younger that this

[38:16]is your mom who saying this is what happened they don't take

[38:20]it in as easily as we would have when we were growing

[38:22]up so we're bringing them here by showing them by showing them

[38:27]what people are doing what the behavior is the etiquette is they

[38:30]themselves will pick it up naturally if you've got the opportunity to

[38:35]do something really rare so not many people get to do I

[38:42]think make a count and really try our hardest to make the

[38:45]most out of it like because I was sick I still I

[38:50]was already determined to go param respects to Imam Ali and I

[38:54]did also because in because it was so hot I still had

[39:02]to push myself and to get through the heat my son I

[39:05]think he's gained more of an understanding because he's learned with the

[39:10]other children and he's done things with the other children and he's

[39:15]been more willing to try out new experiences while he's been here

[39:18]so normally he can he can tends to be a bit shy

[39:21]sometimes but in these group environments with the kids he had no

[39:24]problems pledging the oath of allegiance that day Imam Hussain he's also

[39:26]gone out and wanted to help more people as we're walking along

[39:30]the streets of herb Allah he'll point them out and say Oh

[39:33]mommy look let's go help this person let's go give them some

[39:36]food or some money because he's seen the older children do that

[39:39]so he's been more willing to to participate in these activities so

[39:42]I think from this trip I feel he's enjoyed it more because

[39:48]he's learned from his older his older friends in the group as

[39:50]we approach the end of our trip I felt a deep sadness

[39:54]about leaving the city we prepared to bid farewell to Imam Hussein

[39:57]and his wrath Abbas and gathered in the hotel lobby where we

[40:03]had speeches by said Ali Abbas rasoi antes de Caro gyros and

[40:06]other important members of our group you say to Imam but I'm

[40:11]leaving not because I want to or because I'm tired I'm going

[40:14]because I have to go any mom don't let this be my

[40:20]last Sarah please call me again and again you know you're so

[40:23]right Xena because even though we have this great hope in us

[40:29]that you know this is one of many footsteps - Jenna and

[40:31]we pray that we can come again and again with this group

[40:35]so we can all grow together I want to say don't think

[40:38]that you're just gonna come back you gotta pray for that and

[40:42]you got a craze for that cuz I snuck into the suitcase

[40:44]but you guys don't have to you can just tell your parents

[40:48]buying a ticket true true indeed amazing I love from the trip

[40:52]was the value of Islam and the value of family and like

[41:01]you should always look after family and learn to be brave from

[41:06]hazard Abbas and unto peace and to be strong from hazard Abbas

[41:16]and to be kind from Imam Hussain spending the last few days

[41:19]beside the master of martyrs allowed me to realize how much he

[41:22]truly means to me visiting this land had changed my life forever

[41:27]and I knew that no matter how far I go I will

[41:29]always hold the land of Karbala very close to my heart I'm

[41:38]running him I said I'm running some of the comments when I

[41:52]came back from the Zurich trip I mean we had after a

[41:53]couple of weeks one of one of the young girls parents had

[41:57]hinted for in a message to me and they were saying how

[41:59]the young child who woke up in the night and you know

[42:03]wearing the perfume that she bought from there because it reminded her

[42:06]of being near the shrine that's absolutely beautiful and if you if

[42:10]the young kid from young age can develop that sense of closeness

[42:12]that abate it's what you can ask for and that kind of

[42:16]then kind of keeps keeps you kind of happy I guess the

[42:19]fact that when they and then entering to the different stages of

[42:21]the life as they're growing up if they have that solid foundation

[42:23]it'll be very easy for them to then continue on the path

[42:28]and obviously have that protection with them so really instilling that from

[42:31]a young age allowing them that sense of closeness that sense of

[42:35]direction and and and and obviously the kind of history and the

[42:39]stories we hear actually bringing us life for them you know we

[42:42]hear the narrations of karbala every year year in year out but

[42:45]hearing from a lecture and actually if being physically there and seeing

[42:48]you can actually kind of physically visualize this is where the camp's

[42:51]were this is where you know has the bosses right hand was

[42:55]you can actually then sense that and I guess when you hear

[42:57]it again it becomes very different and kids are sometimes some kids

[43:00]are obviously very much more kind of hands-on so they want to

[43:04]see that instead of kind of just hearing and it's great to

[43:06]bring that to life for them [Music] [Music]

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