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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Food for Thought: - Sayings of Imam Ali (A.S.) 02 2 Your Daily-Life Questions Answered 03 3 The Impact of Karbala on Vigilance of Muslims 04 4 How to help Imam Husayn (A.S) and hence Imam Mahdi (A.S) 15 5 Why Mukhtar didn’t defend Hazrat Imam Hussein in Karbala? 23 6 Martyrdom of Imam al-Ridha (A.S.) 28 7 Leader's Speech on Arba’een 42 8 Martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad (S) 47 9 Martyrdom of Imam Hasan Mujtaba (A.S.) 51 10 Role of the Imams in the Reconstruction of Islamic Society 53 11 The Parent and Child Relationship 57 Kids’ Corner 12 Shahadat of Sayyida Sakina (S.A.) 61 13 Imam Hasan (A.S.) and the Syrian 63 14 The Conduct of the Noble Prophet (S) 64 Published by Zahra (S.A.) Academy Institute of Islamic Education, Development & Relief 1 The Message Safar-ul-Muzaffar 1439 AH FOOD FOR THOUGHT Sayings of Imam Ali (A.S.) 1. Verily the most honourable is being needy in one’s one of deaths is martyrdom. By hometown. He in whose hand my soul 8. It is obligatory on the poor is, one thousand strikes that he should not put for- with the sword are indeed ward his request [to others] easier [for me] than dying unless he has no other on the bed. choice. 2. Whoever leaves his matter 9. The true scholar is one who to Allah, He resolves it (for neither makes people lose him). hope in the mercy of Allah 3. Destroyed is the one who nor cause them to despair makes a [wrongful] claim, of the comfort of Allah. and unsuccessful is the one 10. Thinking about the conse- who fabricates [a lie]. quences saves one from 4. One who corrupts [his places of destruction. relationship] with Allah will 11. One of the signs of turning not be upright with anyone. [towards Allah] is doing 5. Compel yourself to [ac- good to the people. quire] virtues, for indeed 12. One of the best actions of you have a natural propen- the powerful person is for sity for vices. him to show forbearance 6. The peak of [all] merits is when he is angry. controlling anger and erad- 13. One who is ignorant of his icating lustful desires. own worth does not know 7. There is no shame in being anyone’s worth. far away from one’s hometown; the only shame 2 Safar-ul-Muzaffar 1439 AH The Message Your Daily-Life Questions Answered Q.1: The prayer-leader of husband is leaving that a congregational prayer is place, is she considered to reciting the Four Tasbihāt have abandoned her in prayer while the homeland or does the ma’mum is performing his matter depend on her intention? second rak‘at and wants to recite al-Fateha and Ans.: It depends on the surah; should he/she intention of the wife, if she recite them loudly or in a hopes to return then it is not low voice? considered as abandoning the homeland and if there is no Ans.: He/She should recite hope, then it is considered to them in a low voice. be an inevitable abandon- Q.2: Is it permissible to ment. reserve a place for anoth- Q.4: A person has bought er person in the row of a cloth for veil but she congregation? (meaning couldn’t give that to the that we place a sajdagah tailor because she has for another person and been busy or other rea- don’t let other people to sons and now her Khums sit there)? year has arrived. Does she Ans.: There is no issue with have to pay the Khums of doing this, but if that person this cloth? doesn’t join the congregation Ans.: If she has needed that before ruku‘ of the first rak‘at then it doesn’t have Khums, then his/her right is voided. although accidentally, it has Q.3: When a wife has no not been prepared for use. choice but to leave her homeland because her 3 The Message Safar-ul-Muzaffar 1439 AH The Impact of Karbala on Vigilance of Mu slims By: Mansour Leghaei Imam Husain (a.s.): “Indeed, was only after the tragedy of I did not revolt (against the Karbala that Muslims were tyrannical regime of Bani- encouraged to revolt against Omayyah) joyfully, arrogantly, all tyrannical regimes, espe- to be an oppressor or a cially the followers of Ahlul- corrupted one, rather, I Bait who found their ideal role revolted persuading the model. ‘When the Master of reformation of the Islamic the youth of Paradise was Ummah of my grandfather, willing to sacrifice his life and the Prophet”. shed his blood to reform the corrupted society, of course Unlike a hasty approach to my blood is not more respect- the event of Karbala which ed than his’. may reflect the idea that the revolution of Imam Husain Such medicine was injected (a.s.) was unfulfilled and it into the semi-dead body of was an unsuccessful struggle, the whole Islamic Ummah by when we carefully study the the revolution of Imam historical events after the Husain. As a result, all salva- tragedy of Karbala we will, no tion movements, initiated one doubt, come to the conclusion after the other, right after the that the revolution of Imam tragedy of Karbala were, and Husain (a.s.) was not only still are, inspired by the great successful in its own nature, revolution of Imam Husain. but was also the major cause To this end, Karbala is the of all the revolutionary luminous torch of human movements which took place salvation which is lighting after Karbala. In fact, Karbala, forever the high peak of in the history of Islam should Islamic history to awaken all be regarded as a turning point people throughout the ages. in the reforming of Muslims. It 4 Safar-ul-Muzaffar 1439 AH The Message The difference between and hence his embodiment is Jesus & Imam Husain impossible to be followed. Imam Husain and Jesus Christ A Glance at some of the have something in common. major revolutionary Both were reformers, and movements after Ashura according to Christian belief, There is no doubt that the both were martyred. Howev- martyrdom of Imam Husain er, there is a main point which had a great impact on the makes Imam Husain different then Islamic Ummah. It was from the Jesus of present such a great catastrophe that Christianity, i.e. the martyr- shocked the whole Ummah, to dom of Jesus in Christianity is the extent that it not only a personal issue. awakened many Muslims, but Jesus, in Christian belief, has some of the Bani-Omayyah been crucified to save his were also impressed by the believers. There is no more tragedy of Karbala. responsibility on his followers. Historians such as Dr. Hassan Whereas, our Imam Husain Ibrahim in his book ‘The was martyred to awaken History of Islam’, Kharbotali in people, and his mission was ‘The History of Iraq’, and not a personal mission. His Philip Hatti in ‘The History of role in the history of mankind Arabs’ have all asserted that is as a role model that must the event of Ashura increased be followed, whereas the role drastically the number of of Jesus, according to Christi- Shiites, to the extent that as anity, was to descend to Earth P. Hatti says: “We may be as an embodiment of God, the able to claim that Shiite Father, to be sacrificed for the movements initiated from the guaranteed salvation of his tenth of Muharram 61 A.H.” believers. Jesus, according to this doctrine, is the personifi- Nicolson, the famous oriental- cation of God and a ransom ist holds in his book ‘The 5 The Message Safar-ul-Muzaffar 1439 AH Political History of Islam’ that many protests were mobilized “the tragedy of Karbala made against Yazid, Medina the Bani-Omayyah feel regretful centre of revelation and the for what they had done, for it main base of the Prophet (S) united the Shiites to revenge in which hundreds of the unanimously, especially in companions of the Prophet areas such as Iraq and Iran, (S) were still living, rebelled where the new Muslims would against the tyrannical gov- like to be rid of the influence ernment of Bani-Omayyah. of Arabs.” Abdullah son of Hanzala (bathed by the angels) who Mind you, the policy of race later on led the movement, discrimination and the privi- upon receiving the news of lege given to Arabs by Bani- Karbala, paid a visit along Omayyah, had annoyed many with a delegation from Medina new Muslims. Among all to Damascus, the capital of Muslims, the followers of Yazid. He reported later on, Ahlul-Bait were the first to be out of what he had observed shocked. The following are in Damascus, that the extent some of the main revolution- of the corruption had gone so ary movements which took far, he wouldn’t be surprised place after the tragedy of if they were stoned in Damas- Karbala which were inspired cus from the sky.

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