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THE STORY OF KERBALA
THE PROPHET (SAW) SAID: Indeed, Hossein is the light of guidance and the saviour ship.
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Having come to know of Yazid's scheme to assasinate him while performing the rite of Hajj, Imam Hussein (A.S) decided to leave Mecca before finishing the rites, performing only the Umra.
"We shall bear his trial patiently, and He shall surely reward us with the rewards of those who presevere. The Prophet's progeny shall never stray from the Prophet's path. Rather, they shall be rejoined with him in the Presence of the Most Exalted One. His eyes will thus be cooled, and He will fulfill his promise. Whoever is present among us now and whoever is wholeheartedly determined to meet his Lord, let him depart with us. For, In sha-Allah, I will be departing at the Break of day."
Imam Hussein Once said to Abu Harrah al-Azdi: "Banu Umayyah confiscated my wealth, and I took to patience. Then they cursed my honor, and I again took to patience. And when they sought to kill me, I did not take to patience, I fought."
At a place call al-Thalabiyya Imam Hussein (AS) said to a man he met: "By Allah! Had I met you in Medina, I would have shown you the marks of Gabriel's revalation at our house, and his descent upon my Grandfather (SAW). O' brother of the Kufans! The foutainhead of Knowledge is surely with us. Do they have knowledge while we are ignorant? This will never be."
"O' people! The Messenger of Allah (SAW) has said: 'Whoever sees an oppresive ruler who permits what Allah has forbidden, reneging on his oath, violating the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (SAW), treating the servants of Allah oppresively, and does not try to stop him by deed or by word, it will be incumbent upon Allah to treat him as He treats the first. These people have rubbed shoulders with Satan and abandoned their obedience to the Most Merciful one. They have manifested corruption, transgressed the limits, felt comfortable with their ease, permitting what Allah has forbidden, and forbidding what Allah has permitted."
"But if you do not do so, and if you renege on your promise and abandon you allegiance, then it will not be unexpected of you, for you have done the same to my father and brother, and to my cousin ibn Aqeel. Vain is one who is deceived by you. Your own sign have you missed, and your own portion of divine rewards have you lost. Whoever reneges, he, indeed, reneges to the detriment of his own soul, and Allah will make me independent of him."
IMAM HUSSEIN ONCE SAID: DIGNIFIED DEATH IS BETTER THAN HUMILATING LIFE
Having reached Karbala, Imam Hussein (AS) assemble his children, sisters and kin, he then looked at them and burst into tears. He then supplicated, "O Allah! We are the progeny of Your Messenger Muhamad (SAW), and we have been exiled, turned out of our homes by force, and we have become estranged from the sanctified precincts of our Grandfather. Banu Umayyah (LA) has oppressed us."
SAYIDA ZEINAB (AS) was duty bound to prevent the truth of the Karbala revolution from being distorted by the deceitful and poisonous propaganda of the ruling system.
SAYING OF IMAM ALI al-RIDA: For him who weeps on the day of 'Ashura, Allah will provide happiness and joy on the day of Judgement. |
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