The Story Of KARBALA
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The Prophet (SAW)
said: "Indeed, Hossein is the light of guidance and the
saviour ship."
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. Prior to his departure, he delivered the following
sermon (khutba): "All praise is due to Allah! Allah's Will be done,
and there in neither power or nor might, except in Allah, and the
blessings of Allah unto His messenger (SAW)." "Death surrounds
Adam's offspring as a necklace surrounds a girl's neck.
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My passion to join those who
preceded me (in winning the honor of martyrdom) is like Jacob's
passion for Joseph; it is better for me to receive death which I
shall surely meet. I can see my limbs torn by wild beasts of the
desert, between Nawawis and Karbala, so much so that they will thus
fill their empty bellies. The decree cannot be avoided. Whatever
pleases Allah pleases me." |
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"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." Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr asked Imam Hussein (AS) why he
was in such a hurry to leave Mecca. Whereupon he said, "My father
told me once that there is a man in Mecca because of which Mecca's
sanctity will be violated. I don't wish to be it. If I were to be
killed outside Mecca it would surely be dearer for me. By Allah! had
I been inside a crack of these land cracks, they would have hunted
me out of it and done to me what they would have liked to do. By
Allah! they will transgress on my account, just as the Jews
transgressed and violated the sanctity of the Sabbath." |
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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." |
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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." |
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"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." "I am the best effect a change, and your letters have
reached me. So have your envoys, offering your aliegiance to me,
promising me that you will never abandon me nor betray me. If you
complete you allegiance to me, you will surely have acted wisley,
for I am al-Hussein, son of Ali and Fatima, daughter of the
Messenger of Allah (SAW). I support you, my family supports yours,
and I am an example for you." |
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"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." "Wassalmu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa
Barakatuh." |
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IMAM HUSSEIN (A.S) ONCE
SAID:
"DIGNIFIED DEATH IS BETTER THAN HUMILATING
LIFE". |
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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." "Oh Allah! On our behalf, take from them what
rightfully belongs to us, and help us against oppresive people!" |
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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. |
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