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Quotes of prominent Non-Muslims on the legacy of the Chief of Martyrs Imam Hussain RadiAllah Anhu ! [Thread]

1-Mahatma Gandhi(Indian Leader):

“I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed”. 1️⃣

“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.”

“If India wants to be a successful country, it must follow in the footsteps of Imam Hussain." 2️⃣

2- Charles Dickens (English Writer):

“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

3- Dr. Rajendra Prasad (Indian Scholar):

“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

4- Dr. Radha Krishnan (Indian President):

“Though Imam Husain gave his life almost 1300 years ago, but his indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today”. 5️⃣

5- Swami Shankaracharya (Religious leader):

“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

6- Rabindranath Tagore (Poet):

“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

7- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian Prime Minister):

“Imam Husain’s sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightous-ness”. 8️⃣

8- Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (Indian Activist):

“I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Husain, a great human being was born, who is reverted and honored totally by all communities”. 9️⃣

9- Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (English Scholar) :

“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.”🔟

10- Robert Durey Osborn (British officer):

“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

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! 1️⃣2️⃣

-Faint with thirst & exhausted with wounds, he fought with desperate courage, slaying several of his antagonists. At last he was cut down from behind; as the dealer of this last blow withdrew his weapon, the ill-fated son of Ali rolled over a corpse. 1️⃣3️⃣

-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 Kufa. 1️⃣4️⃣

-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; 1️⃣5️⃣

but then the inhabitants of a neighbouring village, struck with horror that the body of a grandson of Prophet should be thus shamefully abandoned to the unclean beasts of the field, dared the anger of Obaidallah, & interred the body of the martyr and of his heroic friends.” 1️⃣6️⃣

11. Washington Irwing (American Author):

"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

He therefore prepared to embrace all sorts discomfort and inconvenience in order to deliver Islam from the hands of the Omayyads. Under the blazing sun, on the parched land and against the stiffing heat of Arabia, stood the immortal Hussein." 1️⃣8️⃣

12- Sir William Muir (Scottish scholar and Statesman) :

“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

13- Peter J. Chelkowski (Author):

“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

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. 2️⃣1️⃣

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. 2️⃣2️⃣

-The renowned historian Abu Reyhan al-Biruni states;

“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

14- Simon Ockley (British Orientalist):

“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

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, 2️⃣5️⃣

-‘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. 2️⃣6️⃣

-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. 2️⃣7️⃣

-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. 2️⃣8️⃣

Let me go back to what I have.’

They asked:

‘What hindered him from being ruled by the rest of his relations.’ 2️⃣9️⃣

Hussain 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.” 3️⃣0️⃣

15- Edward G. Brown (Author):

“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,
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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.” 3️⃣2️⃣

16- Edward Gibbon (British Historian):

“In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.” 3️⃣3️⃣

17- Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Philosopher):

“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

18- Dr K Sheldrake(English Writer):

“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

Denied even water for the children, they remained parched under a burning sun, amid scorching sands yet no one faltered for a moment and bravely faced the greatest odds without flinching.” 3️⃣6️⃣

May Countless Peace, Blessings, and mercy of God be upon Prophet Muhammad, his Noble Family, and his Blessed Companions. Ameen.