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Welcome Letter
Auzobillahe Minashaytaan Nirajeem
Bismillah Arahma Niraheem
All Praise is Due to Allah swt Who Makes What He Wills Possible and His Will is Just
Allahumma Salle Ala Muhammad wa Ale Muhammad al Aimma'ti wal Mehdiyeen wa Sallim Tasleeman Katheera
Asalaam alaykum wa rahmatullah wa
barakatu,
Welcome to the February Issue of "The Mahdi
Times", I pray you are all well and in a Place
Most Pleasing to Allah swt, InshaAllah,Mola
Ali Waaris.
By the Grace of Allah swt, the news of Ahmed
a.s is spreading extremely fast and the Ansar
Allah have been working globally to propagate
the message in an unprecedented manner.
We find in Germany, some of the Ansar Allah
have opened up a Hussainiyat, a book store in
Lebanon, Schools in Iraq and Egypt and of
course we have a massive number of Ansar
Allah in Australia that have Majalis and
gatherings.
In fact, I heard from Brother
HussainTheShortcomer, that it is said about
Australia, how there are two types of Shia in
Australia. One are the mainstream Shia and the
other are the Ansar Allah, SubhanaAllah!
I often get the feeling that any second now, the
world is going to echo, "Ahmed! Ahmed!
Ahmed!", InshaAllah,Mola Ali Waaris.
me and those words became embedded in my soul.
With all of these projects and opportunities we
must Thank Allah swt That the Dawah reached
us. For this Dawah is a Blessing as well as a
responsibility. Getting to the Dawah and taking
the Shahadah is the first step. It is after that,
that the work truly begins.
I remember when I first heard "Sermon of
Hajj" by Ahmed a.s on youtube, after the
familiarity of his voice, the thing that stood out
to me was,
"...work and work and work..."
Wallah, it felt like he was saying it directly to
Aside from Seeking the Pleasure of our Creator, all
desires and wishes and wants are from the
Darkness, the Ego. Sounds simple to understand?
Well, it is really not.
Every word from the Imam a.s is a Blessing, for the
Imam a.s only says what Allah swt Says, and our
Creator Speaks to us Through His Representatives.
Therefore, the Orders and Advice from Imam a.s are
the Orders and Advice of Allah swt. So we must
Obey with every fibre of our being. We must empty
ourselves of our desires and only Desire that Which
Allah swt Desires for us and what His
Representatives desire for us, InshaAllah,Mola Ali
Waaris.
If we try this, we find it is not as easy as we think
and the Ego Monster is pretty skilled at sneaking in
there when we are not paying attention.
Imam Ali a.s speaks about desires and describes
things in a way nobody else can. Every word of
Imam Ali a.s drips with the Justice and Unmatched
wisdom only he had.
This means monitoring the origin of our thoughts
and wants, which is not easy, but is something that
must be strived for, InshaAllah,Mola Ali Waaris.
Read here how the Master of the Universe describes
the human mind;
Personally, I talk about the Ego Monster a lot and
this might have something to do with my
background in Psychology.
"More wonderful than man himself is that part of
his body which is connected with his trunk with
muscles.
In Psychology, we were always taught about the
Ego from the Freudian perspective of how it is a
part of us. So, we had a Western perspective of what
the Ego is and found the Western media glorifying
the Ego and using it as a source of
strength, ultimately justifying their actions through
their Ego.
Coming to the Call of Ahmed al Hassan a.s, the
truth of the Ego is shown in such a way only the
Ahlul Bayt a.s can describe. The veil was pulled
back and we saw the difference. But still, it trips us
up.
It is the darkness within all of us, as only Allah swt
is Pure Light. It must be within us, as this is what
makes us human and the Creation. Only the Creator
is Free from any Darkness. Mola Ali Waaris.
It is his brain (mind).
Look what good and bad tendencies arise from it.
On the one hand it holds treasures of knowledge
and wisdom and on the other it is found to
harbour very ugly desires.
If a man sees even a tiny gleam of success, then
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