story of my life - after you...

I knew Him.

I had grown up with Him.

I loved Him and felt a strange closeness to Him.

But this song ignited a new spark within me.

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I had heard His story. Many, many times.

But it was as if I was hearing it for the first time. My perspective changed.

With this phrase:

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"After You...

We just can't live.

After You...

We just can't breathe..."

...

On the night of Ashura, Hussain said to his companions:

"Tomorrow,all of us will be killed by our enemies."

He extinguished all the lamps,

so that anyone who wished to leave,could do so without shame.

And it was there that Hussain's brother,Abbas, said:

"After You...

We just can't live.

After You...

We just can't breathe."

...

This was completely new to me... This attachment, this affection and love for the Imam... You see, it was no longer about a religious duty or even a human one, It was about love... Pure and intense love... A love where your very existence is so bound to your Beloved that if He were not, you could not be ... You know how some people lose someone they deeply love, and they die of a broken heart shortly after? This phrase... "After You, we just can't breathe"... I repeated it to myself constantly... Until it settled deep within my soul... "My Imam... a life without You is simply not possible... Because You are my entire existence... my whole life... my breath is tied to Your breath...

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And after that,

I love Him differently.

And this love became the seed that,as it grew, began my healing... full of ups and downs, and gradual...

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