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• Saidina Hussein ibni Ali telah syahid akibat dibunuh dengan kejam di Karbala oleh tentera khalifah Bani Umaiyyah iaitu Khalifah Yazid.

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Mabel wrote:

• Saidina Hussein ibni Ali telah syahid akibat dibunuh dengan kejam di Karbala oleh tentera khalifah Bani Umaiyyah iaitu Khalifah Yazid.

A recount of the events that occured on the 10th day of the islamic month of Muharram in the year 680 AD. The grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Imam Hussain was murdered along with his companions and his family at the hands of the army of Yazid who was the leader of the muslims at that time. These were dark times in Islamic history and the events of Ashura in the city of karbala, Iraq are remembered every year around the world by Muslims. Imam Husein has only 100 family members (comprising of 72 companions and 18 of his household including women and children) fighting against 100,000 army of Yazid who come equipped. Despite the great difference the battle lasted from Subuh until Zuhur…

There are many lessons to take from Karbala and the battle of Karbala. The battle was over in a couple of hours but its memory and teachings will live on for eternity.

Mahatma Gandhi (Indian political and spiritual leader):
“I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.”

Thomas Carlyle (Scottish historian and essayist):
“The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain
and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the
numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood.
The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!”

Edward Gibbon (English historian and member of parliament):
“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, p. 391-392)

Charles Dickens (English novelist):
“If Husain had fought to quench his worldly desires…
then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children
accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for
Islam.”

Antoine Bara (Lebanese writer):
“No battle in the modern and past history of mankind has earned more sympathy
and admiration as well as provided more lessons than the martyrdom of Husayn in the battle of
Karbala.” (Husayn in Christian Ideology)

Dr. K. Sheldrake:
“Of that gallant band, male and female knew that the
enemy forces around were implacable, and were not only ready to fight, but
to kill. Denied even water for the children, they remained parched under the
burning sun and scorching sands, yet not one faltered for a moment. Husain
marched with his little company, not to glory, not to power of wealth, but to
a supreme sacrifice, and every member bravely faced the greatest odds
without flinching.”

Ignaz Goldziher (Hungarian orientalist):
“…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 G. Brown (Professor at the University of Cambridge):
“…a reminder of that blood-stained field of Karbala, where the grandson of the Apostle of
God fell, at length, tortured by thirst, and surround by the bodies of his
murdered kinsmen, has been at anytime since then, sufficient to evoke, even
in the most lukewarm and the heedless, the deepest emotion, 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)

Sir William Muir (Scottish orientalist):
“The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate,
but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after
the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.” (Annals of the Early Caliphate,
London, 1883, p.441-442)

Dr. Radha Krishnan
“Though Imam Hussain gave his life years ago, but his indestructible soul rules
the hearts of people even today.”

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 Hussain (A.S.), the great saint.”

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
“Imam Hussain’s (A.S.) sacrifice is for all groups and communities,
an example of the path of rightousness.”

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
“Hussain (A.S.) 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 Hussain (A.S.) as a martyr
and Yazid as his murderer.”
[A Literary History of the Arabs, Cambridge, 1930, p197]

Rabindranath:
“In order to keep alive justice and truth, instead of an army or weapons,
success can be achieved by sacrificing lives, exactly what Imam Hussain (A.S.) did"

Dr. Rajendra Prasad
“The sacrifice of Imam Hussain (A.S.) is not limited to one country, or nation,
but it is the hereditary state of the brotherhood of all mankind.”

Swami Shankaracharya
“It is Hussain’s (A.S.) sacrifice that has kept Islam alive or else in this world
there would be no one left to take Islam’s name.”

Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
“I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Hussain (A.S.), a great human
being was born, who is revered and honored totally by all communities"