Glimpse of the Tenth Day
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Imam Hussain
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Women in Karbala
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The Askew Horses
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Glimpse of the Tenth Day
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Hussain was the man who sacrificed everything in less than half a day on Friday, the 10th of October 680 AD (10th of Muharram 61 AH), on the hot desert sands of Karbala in Iraq.
Hussain and 72 of his family members, friends and followers, including his 6 month old son, Ali Al-Asghar, were butchered under the most gruesome circumstances. |
These include among others His brother Abbas, his young 18 year old son Ali Al-Akbar & his 4 year old daughter Rouqayyiah, who died whilst in prison in Damascus.
The martyrs were beheaded & their heads were put on spears, and not even the infant Ali Al-Asghar’s head was spared. The enemies, however, did not stop there, as the corpses were trampled upon and crushed under the hooves of their horses and left unburied. The women and children were held captives and tortured while being led on an exhaustive journey from Karbala to Damascus to be paraded and later imprisoned.
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Hussain was determined to defend the thirsty womenfolk and children from the killer army’s onslaught, rather than being forced to submit into giving his oath of allegiance to a criminal and oppressive regime. He was committed to upholding the principles of truth and justice, even if he was the last man standing.
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Hussain, his family and companions sacrificed everything they had in their struggle against tyranny and oppression in order to uphold the human values of truth, justice and liberty of thought, word and deed. Their struggle was aimed at the ultimate goal of awakening human beings of all times and all places to uplift the human spirit beyond short-sighted materialistic pursuits, and establish a just and equitable order in society.
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