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“Most Surely Husayn Is The Lantern Of Light And Ship Of Salvation” Holy Prophet (saww)
Bismillah
Alhamdulilah our dedicated team of volunteers and staff members organised regular majlise azaa during the 1st ten days of Muharram for the Shuhada of Karbala and the chief of all martyrs; Sayyidu Shuhada Aba Abdillahil Husayn a.s.
Among various Muharram activities, the little angels expressed their grief for Imam Husayn a.s and tragedy of Karbala through innovative ways by reciting eulogies and lines of poetry, painting and art. Our amazing teachers and learning mentors helped prepare short scripts for role plays re-enacting the fateful day of A’shura.
Our Lady Zaynab Helping Hands in collaboration with Lantern of Light staff volunteers prepared full takeaway tabbarruk niyaaz for the orphans and mothers.
We are very grateful to the amazing donors who assist in reviving such blessed and divine gatherings.
Despite braving the avid and hot summers, with no air-conditioning or fans, these children live with hope and are so content. Their love for the Ahlulbayt a.s is etched in their hearts.
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib a.s in one of his sermons gives us spiritual guidelines to follow:
You need to follow our holy prophet saww, the pure, the chaste and embody his Godly values and principles. In him is the example for the follower, and the consolation for the seeker of consolation. The most beloved person before Allah is he who follows His Prophet and who treads in his footsteps. He took the least (share) from this world and did not take a full glance at it. Of all the people of the world he was the least satiated and the emptiest of stomach. The world was offered to him, but he refused to accept it. When he knew that Allah, the Glorified, hated a thing, he too hated it; that Allah held a thing low, he too held it low; that Allah held a thing small, he too held it small. If we love what Allah and His Prophet hate and hold great what Allah and His prophet hold small that would be enough isolation from Allah and transgression of His commands.
The Prophet used to eat on the ground and sat like a slave. He repaired his shoe with his hand and patched his clothes with his hand.
Certainly, there was in the Prophet of Allah all that would apprise you of the evils of this world and its defects, namely that he remained hungry along with his chief companions, and despite his great nearness, the allurements of the world remained remote from him. Now, one should see with one’s intelligence whether Allah honoured Muhammad (pbuh) because of this or disgraced him. If he says that Allah disgraced him, he certainly lies and perpetrates a great untruth. If he says Allah honoured him, he should know that Allah dishonoured the others when He extended the world for him but held them away from him who was the nearest to Him of all men.
Therefore, one should follow His Prophet, tread in his footsteps, and enter through his entrance. Otherwise, he will not be safe from ruin. Certainly, Allah made Muhammad (pbuh) a sign for the Day of Judgement. a conveyor of tidings for Paradise and a warner of retribution. He left this world hungry but entered upon the next world safe. He did not lay one stone upon another (to make a house) till he departed and responded to the call of Allah. How great is Allah’s blessing in that He blessed us with the Prophet as a predecessor whom we follow and a leader behind whom we tread.
By Allah, I have been putting patches in my shirts so much that now I feel shy of the patcher. Someone asked me whether I would not put it off, but I said, “Get away from me.” Only in the morning do people (realised the advantage of and) speak highly of the night journey.
Deep reflections for the soul.
(captions from Sermon 158 in Nahjul Balagha).
Our heartfelt thanks to all the dedicated volunteers on the ground and to all our beautiful donors who generously give and serve the plight of the internally displaced orphans and widows only for the love of Allah swt and in the name of Aba Abdillah a.s. together with his beloved sister; Sayyida Zaynab s.a.
May we continue to grow inwardly, strive to become better human beings and may our hearts continue to mourn for the epic Martyrdom of Imam Al Husayn a.s and we continue to serve the Imam of our time Al Imam Al Mahdi ajfs a.s.
Sis Nasim Walji Pirmohamed
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