“If India wants to be a successful country, it must follow in the footsteps of Imam Hussain." 2️⃣
“If Husain fought to quench his worldly desires, then I do not understand why his sisters, wives and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore that he sacrificed purely for Islam.” 3️⃣
“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." 4️⃣
“Though Imam Husain gave his life almost 1300 years ago, but his indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today”. 5️⃣
“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”. 6️⃣
“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”. 7️⃣
“Imam Husain’s sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightous-ness”. 8️⃣
“I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Husain, a great human being was born, who is reverted and honored totally by all communities”. 9️⃣
“Husayn fell, pierced by an arrow & his brave followers were cut down beside him. Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Husayn as a martyr & Yazid as his murderer.”🔟
“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. 1️⃣1️⃣
– ‘We come from God, and we return to Him!’ he cried; O Lord, give me strength to bear these misfortunes! 1️⃣2️⃣
"It was possible for Hussein to save his life by submitting himself to the will of yazid. But his responsibility as a reformer did not allow him to accept yazid’s Caliphate. 1️⃣7️⃣
“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. ” 1️⃣9️⃣
“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 Yazid. 2️⃣0️⃣
“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.” 2️⃣3️⃣
“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: 2️⃣4️⃣
-‘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, 2️⃣5️⃣
-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. 2️⃣8️⃣
They asked:
‘What hindered him from being ruled by the rest of his relations.’ 2️⃣9️⃣
‘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.” 3️⃣0️⃣
“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,
3️⃣1️⃣
“In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.” 3️⃣3️⃣
“The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were the rigid believers of God.
– They illustrated that numerical superiority does not count when it comes to truth and falsehood. 3️⃣4️⃣
“Husain marched with his little company not to glory, not to power or wealth, but to a supreme sacrifice and every member of that gallant band, male and female, knew that the foes were implacable, were not only ready to fight but to kill. 3️⃣5️⃣