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Ashura Movement and its Aspects
This movement enjoys two confronting aspects: one dull, dark and
disastrous while the other one bright and illuminating.
In the dark aspect, we observe a world of cruelty towards women
and children, forbidding human beings from water. Wiping
detained children, women and men, and killing a lot of good
people. Our world has witnessed a lot of wars such as the
crusades,Europeans in Spain and Sicily, American soldiers
killing Vietnamese, the first and the 2nd world wars,
etc… but the cruelty executed in Karbala, considering the
situation and the relationship between the two parties of war,
is the most terrible and disastrous one.
The second phase provides us with humanity, good manners and
moralities on the Husayn’s part. The virtue, scarification, and
bravery of Imam and his followers and friends came to be a
unique source of moral sense for the Muslim world.
Banu-Umayya system came to know about their own great mistake,
killing Imam, and tried to make one another guilty of the
events. They observed that Husayn’s death didn’t augur well for
their government.
Husayn’s memorial (tomb)turned out to be a holy place for
Muslims. People know that Husayn was killed and his decapitated
body was buried there in 680, the place is known as Mashhad
(al-) Husayn. This sanctuary is visited by many a people from
Muslim world every year.
Zaynab, Imam’s sister addressed Yazid saying
“كوكيدك. واسع سيعك ، ناصب جهدك فولله
اتحوذكرنا، ولاتميت و حينا”
that means: “Do whatever you can, but be sure my brother will
never die, he is alive and more active after you killed him” and
Imam himself, at the very night of the event, was quoted to say
“you are best comrades and you are the best ones in the world. I
prefer you even to the prophet’s companions in Badr war”. The
people who presented bravery and courage in Karbala event were
Imam Husayn, Abu’lfazl (al-) Abbas, Ali Akbar, Ali Asghar, Habib.
B. Mazahir, Zahir, Muslim b. ‘Aquil (who was killed in Kufa, by
order of ‘Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad), and Muslim b. ‘Ausaje,…
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