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61
years pass from Prophet (Pbuh)’s immigration and now Imam Hossain
(Pbuh) who has been trained by Prophet (Pbuh) to carry Imamate flag
of Ibrahim and Mohammad (Pbuh)’s mission. So,he can lead human up to
the light gates.
Army of light and the call of right and
rightness are in oneside and army of dark and the call of darkness
and foulness are in another side. Sun of Ashoora is looking to this
bloody battle and red war. It’s Ashoora noon, and Karbala desert is
terribly hot.
The sun is crying on the bodies, which have fallen
on the earth, and on the corpses without shroud, and on the bodies
without head and hand.
Yes, all the followers of Imam Hossain
(Pbuh) accepted martyrdom and found comfort on the bloody bed of
self-sacrifice and martyrdom in order to awake all the neglectful
men of the history.
Yes, it is the beginning of the first day of
Moharram, bloody and the epic month, one year passes from Mohammad
(Pbuh)’s immigration.
An immigration, which made firm the weak
bases of Islam in Medina and encouraged the fresh hearts of the
Muslims.
This immigration was a new birth in Islam history.He
immigrated in order to teach the movement and rising lesson to the
Muslims and future generations.
He selected immigration in order
to say: “O’ man you have a mission, you are trustee of God,
you have a great responsibility.
You must be prepared,choose your
fortress and do your duty. You must do your mission and you have to
prove your slavery that you are God’s slave.”
Moharram is the
immigration month and Ashoora is the manifestation of immigrants’
immigration.
We must learn the immigration lesson from God’s
immigrants and walk on their way and go toward Allah.
TASOO’A & ASHOOR’A
(IMAM HOSEIN’S FUNCTION IN IMAM KHOMEINI’S WORDS)
IMAM
HOSEIN’S MARTYRDOM WAS JUST FOR GOD AND ISLAM
Imam Khomeini has started his words with
one narration of Holy Prophet (SW): “ I am made of Hosain (Pbuh) and
he is made of me,” which means that their lives were so associated
with each other. The enemies wished to wipe out “Banihashem Tribe”
and they wanted to manipulate the people of this tribe. In fact,
they wanted to wipe out Islam and to form an Arabic country. The
thing that led to this fact that every body including the Arabs, the
Persians and generally all of the Muslims found out that there is
another story behind all that and it is beyond the problem of
nationality, being Arab or Persian …etc. But rather, it is about
Divinities (God and Islam).
THE HOLY PROPHET’S PROGENY
SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR ISLAM
Preachers should speak with people whenever the time is right. While
doing so, and along with talking about the top stories of the day,
they should inform people of the moral and Islamic issues. They
finally should lament for a long time. It should not be short. These
tasks should be done as just they were done before. This would
include lamenting, composing poems and writing essays about
attributes of the Holy Prophet’s progeny as well as their sufferings
which they tolerated, so that people get prepared and acknowledged.
They should know that all innocents Imams devoted their lives for
promulgating Islam. If they wished to choose a conservative manner,
everything (any materialistic need) would be available for them.
However; they sacrificed their lives for Islam and they did not give
up their campaign with oppressors.
WITH OUT IMAM HOSEIN (Pbuh), WE
WERE LOST
Imam
Hosain is omnipresent. “Every land is Karbala”. Everywhere is his
kingdom. All of the altars of the prayers belong to him. In the case
of his absence or if he were forgotten, so many undesirable events
could have happened: Yazid , his father and their successors could
deny Islam. A tyranny regime was piling up his presence, outside,
for Mo’avieyeh and Yazid were going to introduce a tyranny regime to
the people. In the case of Imam Hosein’s absence, the tyranny regime
would be enforced by them. They could deteriorate the society to
turn it to that age of ignorance. And now my nation and I would be
the Muslim with tyranny style not in Imam Hosain’s style.
IMAM HOSSAIN
(Pbuh)(THE LORD OF THE MARTYRS)
AS AN EXAMPLE OF MARTYRDOM
In
these mourning ceremonies held to commemorate Imam Hosain’s memory,
the one who had sacrificed his life for God’s sake and achieving his
satisfaction, along for the sake of his friends and children had
purified the young men who leave for the war battles, seeking for
martyrdom. They are proud of Martyrdom and if they cannot achieve it
they will get disappointed. It had also purified the mothers so that
when they lose their children in war, they will say we have another
ones at home.
IMAM HOSSIEN’S
FUNCTION IN UNIFICATION OF THE NATION
All of
the lecturers (and also we) should bear in mind that if there were
no Ashoora’ movement, today we would not be the winner. This unity
which served as the origin of our victory, is because of these
mourning ceremonies and those which held for promulgation of Islam.
The lord of the oppressed, paved the ground for the nation in order
to supply them with convenience and there would be the ease of
unity, for this gathered people.
HAZRAT-E ZEYNAB’S FUNCTION ON
DESPISING BANI OMAYYEH
What is one’s special duty in Moharram? How about the scholars and
the great lecturers? What should the other social classes do? The
Lord of the martyrs (Imam Hosain), his followers and his progeny had
determined this duty and provide us with the right way:
To
sacrifice in the battles and promulgation in the society. Hazrat-e
Imam Hosain’s sacrifice considered by God as precious as the
lectures of Hazrat-e Sajjad (Pbuh) and Hazrat-e Zeynab (SA) .They
taught us , that the women and men should not be afraid of the
tyrannical regime . Hazrat Zeynab (SA) made a stand against Yazid,
and she despised him to the degree that no one had experienced such
a thing before. Her lectures in Kuffa, Syria along with that of Imam
Sajjad (Pbuh) clarified this point. The problem is not about the
battle between good and evil. The tyrannical regime wanted to
introduce Imam Hosain (Pbuh) as the one who had risen against the
ruling government directed by the Caliph who is appointed as the
Holy Prophet’s substitution. These facts were revealed to audience
by Hazrat-e Sajjad (Pbuh) and Hazrat-e Zeynab (SA).
Few words
and comments about Imam Husain the Grandson of Prophet
Mohammed, by important personalities:
Mahatma Gandhi:
“My faith is that the progress of Islam does not depend on the
use of sword by its believers, but the result of the supreme
sacrifice of Husain, the great saint.”
Dr. Rajendra Prasad:
“The sacrifice of Imam Husain is not limited to one country, or
nation, but it is the hereditary state of the brotherhood of all
mankind.”
Dr. Radha Krishnan:
“Though Imam Husain gave his life almost 1300 years ago, but his
indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today.”
Swami Shankaracharya:
“It is Husain’s sacrifice that that has kept Islam alive or else in
this world there would be no one left to take Islam’s name.”
Rabindranath Tagore:
”In order to keep alive justice and truth, instead of an army or
weapons, success can be achieved by sacrificing lives, exactly what
Imam Husain did.”
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru:
“Imam Husain’s sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an
example of the path of rightousness. “
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu:
“I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Husain, a great human
being was born, who is reverted and honored totally by all
communities” .
Sir Thomas Adams
"Professor of Arabic at the University
of Cambridge"
“Husayn fell, pierced by
an arrow, and his brave followers were cut down beside him to the
last man. Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is
uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Husayn as a martyr
and Yazid as his murderer.”
[A Literary History of
the Arabs, Cambridge, 1930, p. 197]
Robert Durey Osborn:
"(1835-1889)
Major of the Bengal Staff Corps"
“Hosain had a child named Abdallah, only a year old. He had
accompanied his father in this terrible march. Touched by its cries,
he took the infant in his arms and wept. At that instant, a shaft
from the hostile ranks pierced the child’s ear, and it expired in
his father’s arms. Hosain placed the little corpse upon the ground.
‘We come from God, and we return to Him!’ he cried; ‘O Lord, give me
strength to bear these misfortunes! ‘ . Faint with thirst, and
exhausted with wounds, he fought with desperate courage, slaying
several of his antagonists. At last he was cut down from behind; at
the same instance a lance was thrust through his back and bore him
to the ground; as the dealer of this last blow withdrew his weapon,
the ill-fated son of Ali rolled over a corpse. The head was severed
from the trunk; the trunk was trampled under the hoofs of the
victors’ horses; and the next morning the women and a surviving
infant son were carried away to Koufa. The bodies of Hosain and his
followers were left unburied on the spot where they fell. For three
days they remained exposed to the sun and the night dews, the
vultures and the prowling animals of the waste; but then the
inhabitants of a neighbouring village, struck with horror that the
body of a grandson of the Prophet should be thus shamefully
abandoned to the unclean beasts of the field, dared the anger of
Obaidallah, and interred the body of the martyr and those of his
heroic friends.”
[Islam Under the Arabs, Delaware, 1976, pp. 126-7]
Sir William Muir:
"(1819-1905) Scottish scholar and
statesman"
Held the post of Foreign
Secretary to the Indian government as well as Lieutenant Governor of
the Northwestern Provinces.
“The tragedy of Karbala decided not
only the fate of the caliphate, but of the Mohammedan kingdoms long
after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared. “
[Annals of the
Early Caliphate, London, 1883, pp. 441-2]
Peter J. Chelkowski:
"Professor of Middle Eastern Studies,
New York University"
“Hussein accepted
and set out from Mecca with his family and an entourage of about
seventy followers. But on the plain of Kerbela they were caught in
an ambush set by the . caliph, Yazid. Though defeat was certain,
Hussein refused to pay homage to him. Surrounded by a great enemy
force, Hussein and his company existed without water for ten days in
the burning desert of Kerbela. Finally Hussein, the adults and some
male children of his family and his companions were cut to bits by
the arrows and swords of Yazid’s army; his women and remaining
children were taken as captives to Yazid in Damascus.
Abu Reyhan al-Biruni
“then fire was set to their camp and the
bodies were trampled by the hoofs of the horses; nobody in the
history of the human kind has seen such atrocities.”
[Ta'ziyeh: Ritual
and Drama in Iran, New York, 1979, p. 2]
Simon Ockley:
"(1678-1720)
A Jew Professor at the University of Cambridge"
“Then Hosein mounted his horse, and took the Koran and laid it
before him, and, coming up to the people, invited them to the
performances of their duty: adding, ‘O God, thou art my confidence
in every trouble, and my hope in all adversity!’. He next reminded
them of his excellency, the nobility of his birth, the greatness of
his power, and his high descent, and said, ‘Consider with yourselves
whether or not such a man as I am is not better than you; I who am
the son of your prophet’s daughter, besides whom there is no other
upon the face of the earth. Ali was my father; Jaafar and Hamza, the
chief of the martyrs, were both my uncles; and the apostle of God,
upon whom be peace, said both of me and my brother, that we were the
chief of the youth of paradise. If you will believe me, what I say
is true, for by God, I never told a lie in earnest since I had my
understanding; for God hates a lie. If you do not believe me, ask
the companions of the apostle of God [here he named them], and they
will tell you the same. Let me go back to what I have.’ They asked,
‘What hindered him from being ruled by the rest of his relations.’
He answered, ‘God forbid that I should set my hand to the
resignation of my right after a slavish manner. I have recourse to
God from every tyrant that doth not believe in the day of account.”
[The History of the
Saracens, London, 1894, pp. 404-5]
Edward G. Brown:
“a reminder of the blood-stained field of Kerbela, where the
grandson of the Apostle of God fell at length, tortured by thirst
and surrounded by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at
anytime since then sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm
and heedless, the deepest emotions, the most frantic grief, and an
exaltation of spirit before which pain, danger and death shrink to
unconsidered trifles.”
[A Literary History
of Persia, London, 1919, p. 227]
Ignaz Goldziher:
"(1850-1921) Famous Hungarian orientalist
scholar"
“Ever since the black day of
Karbala, the history of this family . has been a continuous series
of sufferings and persecutions. These are narrated in poetry and
prose, in a richly cultivated literature of martyrologies – a Shi’i
specialty – and form the theme of Shi’i gatherings in the first
third of the month of Muharram, whose tenth day (‘ashura) is kept as
the anniversary of the tragedy at Karbala. Scenes of that tragedy
are also presented on this day of commemmoration in dramatic form
(ta’ziya). ‘Our feast days are our assemblies of mourning.’ So
concludes a poem by a prince of Shi’i disposition recalling the many
mihan of the Prophet’s family. Weeping and lamentation over the
evils and persecutions suffered by the ‘Alid family, and mourning
for its martyrs: these are things from which loyal supporters of the
cause cannot cease. ‘More touching than the tears of the Shi’is’ has
even become an Arabic proverb.”
[Introduction to Islamic
Theology and Law, Princeton, 1981, p. 179]
Edward Gibbon:
"(1737-1794) Considered the greatest
British historian of his time"
“In a
distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will
awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.”
[The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire, London, 1911, volume 5, pp. 391-2]
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