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Karbala is the cruelest tragedy humanity has ever seen. Yet, the startling (though appalling) events in Karbala proved like a powerful volcano that shook the very foundation of Muslims, it stirred their consciousness, ignorant or learned alike. For s...

Karbala is the cruelest tragedy humanity has ever ...

By the afternoon 70 brave persons had sacrificed their lives in Karbala to save Islam. All had fought under nerve racking conditions, severe thirst, dehydration, exhaustion, and agonizing feeling of what would happen to the family of the Prophet (pbu...

By the afternoon 70 brave persons had sacrificed t...

During the early phase of the journey the caravan met Al-Farazdaq (a famous poet) at a place called al-Sifah. Al-Farazdaq advised the Imam not to go to Kufa because though people's hearts were with him (Imam), their swords would be against him. But t...

During the early phase of the journey the caravan ...

It was Mu'awiya's ardent desire to impose his son Yazid (who had been named after his uncle) upon the Muslims by making him the succeeding Khalifa, despite the fact that Yazid was the playboy of the time, with many evil habits including gambling, hea...

It was Mu'awiya's ardent desire to impose his son ...

Mu'awiya began a campaign to introduce Monarchy into the structure of Islam. To have Monarchy, by force or otherwise is alien to Islam, an innovation in religion, simply not acceptable. Everyone knew that, for Islam does not subscribe to any form of ...

Mu'awiya began a campaign to introduce Monarchy in...

Imam Hasan (a.s.) faced extremely difficult conditions from the start. He observed that fear, anxiety and much distress were ever present in Kufa, Basrah, Medina and other towns. The anxiety, uncertainty and insecurity were caused by Mu'awiya's ill d...

Imam Hasan (a.s.) faced extremely difficult condit...

Imam Ali's (a.s.) generals, who stopped the battle to negotiate with Mu'awiya, did not pick the right person for the negotiation. They unyieldingly refused to accept Imam Ali's choice, instead they picked Kufa's Governor, Abu-Musa Ash'ari, an incompe...

Imam Ali's (a.s.) generals, who stopped the battle...

Upon returning to Kufa, Imam Ali (a.s.) immediately prepared for the anticipated clash with Mu'awiya. The defying Mu'awiya continued to violate the Islamic principles by personally using the public treasury for espionage and buying peoples' loyalty. ...

Upon returning to Kufa, Imam Ali (a.s.) immediatel...

When Imam Ali (a.s.) became Khalifa, he decided to remove Mu'awiya immediately, notwithstanding Mu'awiya's strong base of support. At that time, Mu'awiya had been the governor of Syria, Palestine, and Jordan for 17 years. Mu'awiya became defiant, he ...

When Imam Ali (a.s.) became Khalifa, he decided to...

Mu'awiya was son of Abu Sufyan, a leader of Benu Umayya clan which was one of the clans of Quraish tribes. Mu'awiya grew up in a family known to be cunning, worldly, materialistic, and power hungry. Mu'awiya became Muslim only when Prophet Muhammad (...

Mu'awiya was son of Abu Sufyan, a leader of Benu U...

The events of Karbala reflect the collision of the good versus the evil, the virtuous versus the wicked, the collision of Imam Husain (the head of virtue) versus Yazid (the head of impiety). Al-Husain was a revolutionary person, a righteous man, the ...

The events of Karbala reflect the collision of the...

With the situation taking place during the reign of Yazid ibn Mu’awiah and that of the corrupt Umayyad dynasty, there remained no choice for an ordinary Muslim, let alone the divine leader of Muslims, to pursue except for that way that Imam Hussain (...

With the situation taking place during the reign o...

'AsHooRA' MEANS THE 'Tenth', i.e., the Tenth day, of the Lunar month of Moharram 61 A.H. on which historic day, Husain surrendered his all in the way of the Lord to save the truth and thus to save humanity from getting beguiled by the Brute on the th...

'AsHooRA' MEANS THE 'Tenth', i.e., the Tenth day, ...

The Hashimites-from the seed of Abu Taleb :- I. Those mentioned in the Ziarate Nahiyah . . 18 2. Those not mentioned in the Ziarat . . 3. Young children . . 3 No. distributed according to the Immediate parentage of the Martyrs: The Holy Imam Husain ....

The Hashimites-from the seed of Abu Taleb :- I. Th...

Husain FIRST PREACHED to his enemies, the love of God, the obedience to the Holy Prophet and abstinence from vice and wickedness, and at last asked the people:- "Why do ye kill me?" "Did I commit any sin or crime?" "Did I plunder anybody?" "Did I int...

Husain FIRST PREACHED to his enemies, the love of ...

THE MOMENT THE Holy Imam's head was severed from his body and raised on the point of a lance, the severed head began glorifying God, aloud in clear words saying :- "Allaho Akbar' (i.e., God the Greatest)." Thus Husain won an everlasting victory over ...

THE MOMENT THE Holy Imam's head was severed from h...

EVEN DURING THE most miserable journey, the severed head of the Holy Imam manifested several miracles which guided several good-hearted Christians and Jews to embrace Islam, most of whom after embracing the Truth attacked the brutes and were ultimate...

EVEN DURING THE most miserable journey, the severe...

THE DEVIL'S ARMY marched with severed heads of the martyrs raised on their lances. Among the heads, were the head of the baby son of Husain, Ali-e-Asghar. It is now left to the tender hearts of gentle women to imagine in their own places, what would ...

THE DEVIL'S ARMY marched with severed heads of the...

THE NEXT MOVE of the brutes was towards the Holy camp which now contained only the helpless wailing ladies, the crying children, and Ali-az-Zainul-abideen the ailing son of the Holy Imam lying unconscious with high fever. They plundered the camp, set...

THE NEXT MOVE of the brutes was towards the Holy c...

AFTER ABBAS, CAME the turn of Ali-e-Akbar, to go to the battlefield. It is reported that this eighteen-year-old son was so very much loved by one and all in the camp that the account of his taking leave of his mother, aunts, sisters, brothers and oth...

AFTER ABBAS, CAME the turn of Ali-e-Akbar, to go t...

Last LATER ANY one in the surroundings should say that he was neither called nor given any opportunity to serve the cause of defending the Truth by helping the Holy Imam who was fighting for it, Husain now standing all alone, bleeding from innumerabl...

Last LATER ANY one in the surroundings should say ...