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20 JUNE 2026

MONTH OF MUHARAM 1447 (07)

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Am a little ‘talked’ out already so will keep this update really short 

The most awesome experience has been the children at the afternoon majalis at Stanmore. They are just geniuses and future Zhakireen in the making. They love the microphone and their renditions of Qur’anic suwer and Marthiyas make the soul trip over rainbows. (especially “O My Asgher…..)

A bonus this year like last year has been to have Sajida there. She has a calming effect on the children and her smile placates them all.

In a matter of a few days, the majority have grasped the basic concepts of the number of suwer in the Qur’an, the difference between Makki & Madani suwer and the focus of Suratu Yaseen ( 36) being the ❤️ of the Quran

I have loads of messages and scraps of paper from them telling  me they 36 me.  The awesomeness of children is that they practise what they learn.

If I were to remain in prostration to thank HIM for the rest of my life, it would not be enough for the opportunity to learn from such awesome little ones….

17 JUNE 2026

MONTH OF MUHARRAM 1448 (06)

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Have you got your mindeel (handkerchief)?

“Yabna Shabeeb, If you weep on the afflictions of Husayn such that tears fall upon your cheeks, Allah will forgive all your sins – big and small – less or lots. If one tear is thrown into the pit of Jahannam, its heat would subside.” Imam Ridha (pbuh)

AN EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF SYED MAR’ASHI –

(Died 1990 – 1.5 million people attended the funeral)

“After giving me kafan, place on my chest the handkerchief which I used to wipe the tears in mourning of my grandfather Husayni”

17 JUNE 2026

MONTH OF MUHARRAM 1448 (05)

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AYATULLAH BEHJAT – “Do not say you are going to a majlis but for the Ziyara (meeting) with Abaa Abdillah”

Ziyara is derived from the word ‘zawr’ which means to deflect or draw away from something.

A ZAAIR moves away from everything but the one he wishes to visit. There is a total focus on the person one visits so much so that one becomes one or united either through a physical or spiritual and esoteric meeting.

Ziyara is an expression of LOVE

TO COLOUR ONESELF WITH THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE VISITED ONE

6th IMAM TO SUDAYR –  Do you read Ziyara every day? Week? Month?
What’s stopping you going on your roof looking left and right and saying: ASSALAMU ‘ALAYKA YAA ABAA ABDILLAH

6TH IMAM TO SAFWAN – When you are confronted with adversity seek help from Husayn with Ziyara

Power of shafaa’a

IMAM KHUMAYNI – After every Salaa – ASSALAMU ‘ALAYKA YAA ABAA ABDILLAH

16 JUNE 2026

MONTH OF MUHARRAM 1447 (04)

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LOVE

“If saying Husayn gives liberation, if reciting Quran without understanding gives guidance, then saying water would quench your thirst and saying food would banish hunger….”

Saying Yaa Husayn is more than just words on a tongue, it’s about falling in love with the Rabb of Husayn through Husayn.

15 JUNE 2026

MONTH OF MUHARRAM 1448 (03)

First of Muharram 1448

Tues/Wed 16/17 June 2026

Fasting on the 1st day of Muharram is highly recommended.

Imam Ridha (pbuh) asks his companion, Ar Rayyan ibn Shabeeb – “Are you fasting?” He answers “no”.

Imam then says: “Yabna Shabeeb! This is the day when Zakariyya at 75 years prayed to his Rabb (3:38) for a child.

Allah accepts his dua and commanded an angel to go to his mihraab and announce the good news of a son Yahya (3:39).

“One who fasts and asks Allah on the 1st of Muharram – He will answer as he answered the dua of Zakariyya”

In other words, make the impossible possible….

 *It is mustahab to fast on the first nine days of the month*

 There will be Majalis at all the Centres for 10 nights and days from Tuesday night.

 Try and go to a majlis for there is no place that gives peace like the ‘farsh’ of Husayn (pbuh).

*NEED YOUR DUAS*

Once again, I have been given the honour to recite the majalis of Imam Husayn (pbuh); it is an awesome opportunity, but it comes with butterflies, brain freezes,  panic attacks and moments of sheer terror…. Need your duas desperately…

12 JUNE 2026

MONTH OF MUHARRAM 1448 (02)

IT’S ALL ABOUT HUSAYN 

And so looking forward to the energising months of majalis from Tuesday evening…..

There is nothing but Husayn. It’s waking up thinking of Husayn, breathing Husayn, living Husayn and everything Husayn. 

The challenge is to live and grow from what will be learnt over these days….

 Am in ‘majlis writing’ mode    so will keep the update   short 

I’d like to share a verse from Allama Iqbal – Am completely enamoured by him.

 “Khuda tuje kisi toofan se ashna karde; ke tere bahar ki mawjon me iztirab nahin”

“May God bring a storm into your life; The waves in the sea of your life are devoid of movement”

Basically, growth can only take place with movement…… 

8 JUNE 2026

MONTH OF MUHARRAM 1448 (01)

With Muharram round the corner, what goes through your mind when you say YA HUSAYN?

1400 years ago, in a desert, one lone man, with one principal has made millions cry out YA HUSAYN every year since then. So who is Husayn? Why Majlis? Why YA HUSAYN?

My first memories are waking up to the sight of Mt Kilimanjaro and hearing my father’s adhan from the mosque. I would ask him – why Papa? Why wake up so early and announce your faith! And he would say because I wear my heart on my sleeve. Quoting the Prophet (pbuh) he would say – “If anybody asks you – What is Islam? What religion is it? Islam is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the most important thing is to seek God in the heart of humankind”. 

And if you want to see the heart of Muhammad – he would say – Look at Husayn. “Husaynu bidh’atu minniy” “Husayn is a part of me” – The Prophet said. 

 I remember the preparation that was done for the 10 days leading upto ‘Ashura. My papa used to ensure that the Centre was clean, the black banners put up…. He used to practise the Marthiyas & Nawhas and his business was a forgotten entity for weeks………. Why? I asked again – “all this just for being sad” “It’s about having a free heart; about being owned by no-one, being the best – that which God ordained you to be.” He said. Whenever he returned from a journey abroad, I saw the enthusiasm with which he would talk about the new gadgets or sound systems or carpeting he had seen for the Husaini Centre.  The Imambada or Centre was always his first priority…above our home….

From him I learnt to love majlis – In its technical sense, a majlis is a meeting, a session or a gathering.  In reference to Husayn, it means a gathering to mourn him.  The majalis is a university with no age barriers, or qualification process – the guarantee being you leave better informed and better connected to those who attended for all came with the same purpose – to become better human beings. Every night is dedicated to an individual who gave his life alongside Imam (pbuh). A day dedicated to Hurr who repents and is forgiven; Abbas – the brother and support whose hands are amputated whilst fetching water for the children, the baby Ali Abdullah Al Asgher who is killed in his father’s arms whilst his mother looked on, and of course Imam who faces an army of 30,000 in solitude – brutally murdered with Shimr sitting on his chest and beheading him…. It is a story of tragedies within tragedies and lessons within lessons. Muharram is about acknowledging and learning from every individual who fought and travelled with Husayn. It is about every minute and major sacrifice these people made to stand against a tyrannical ruler.

When I cry out YA HUSAYN, I see an awesome human being who exuberated compassion – whose every word even when the swords were drawn against him pleaded for peace and harmony; who abhorred enslavement and the exploitation of the weak; who stood for the freedom of truth.

QUR’AN JOURNALLING SESSIONS AT HUJJAT STANMORE

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