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THE STORY OF KARBALAA
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THE PROPHET (SAW) SAYS: 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.
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. 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 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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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.