fortunate enough after becoming acquinted with iran going there several times to go there during ashhura, which is the the month in the islamic calendar. where shiah support the martyrdom of imam hussain. i became acquinted with the story of hussein, with his rendez-vous in karbala, with the forces of oppression, and with the power of his action, is a man who categorically says no to injustice and marches out against it, although he knows that he will be defeated, and yet that position of principle was more important to him, far more important to him than his life, far far more important. what are the priorities that we that we have in our lives? yes, so if you're if you're sensitive to the question of justice and how it works itself out in the world, how could you not be moved and drawn? to to the example of hussein, but from that time until the time that i actually accepted islam formally, um, how many years passed? 28 years past, very slow progression, this is not somebody who says, on the spur of the moment a great light comes down, and i, i become a convert, no, that didn't happen,

through this very, very difficult circumstances before karbala, during the days of karbala and after ashhura, reaching up to madina and to the very last day of his life. and he carried this cause of this cleansed blood and he revived it, and he preserved it, and he mobilized it and used it in service of the cause which his fatherin, may peace be upon him was marted for, and so this is the day of the prisoners and our prisoners, thank god, all of them have been liberated today as a result. these days also the day of the wounded and the day of the prisoners, it's according to the hijrah islamic calendar, not the rest of the other calendar, that's why it's in february, and this is further decorated by the birth of peace be upon him on the third of shaban and he was... born according to the text in the year four in the islamic calendar, the fourth here, there are some disagreements, but it is more known that it's in the third, the third of sha'ban in the fourth year of the islamic calendar, the brothers in iran during the life of imam khumini, may peace be upon him, took the day of the birth of