Karbala

Honour, Dignity & Freedom. Just three of the many things Imam Hussain (as) portrays through Karbala. Three of the many things that humanity learns from this tragedy. The tragedy that catches the attention of the Shia and the non-Shia; the Muslim and the non-Muslim; the old and the young; male and female. It is a story in which the truth lost the physical battle but it is the truth that lived on till today; 1400 years later. It is an event in which every action had a meaning and every meaning had a message. It is universal, it is an event which everyone can sympathize, empathize and feel pathos for. For it is a series of tragic events that will be commemorated till the Day of Judgement by the lovers of the Ahlul-Bayt; the Shia of Imam Ali.


It is an event that brings tears to my eyes when i write about it . It is a message that brings tears to everybody's eyes. It brings tears to the eyes of the listeners, the readers, the writers and the narrators.It is an event after which even enemies like Yazid ibn Mu'awiya could not sleep peacefully. An even which Imam Ali Zainul Abideen ibn Hussain (as) wept, wailed and mourned over for the 36 years he lived after the tragedy of Karbala.


I pray that I will one day be privileged to do the Ziyarat of Imam Hussain and the Shuhada of Karbala.


As-Salaamu Alayk Ya Aba Abdillalahil Hussain.