The Imam -son of Fatima al Zahra - who was not seeking power - could not give his approval to the corrupt rule of corrupt Yazeed saying that someone like him ( like the Imam) could not condone the rule of someone like Yazeed . For this reason the Imam was challenged by Yazeed to the battle of Karbalaa’. . In Karbalaa’, the Imam went to meet his fate with his progeny and family and friends, after his supporters failed him and refrained from backing his right to rule. In Karbalaa’, the Imam went to face the army of Yazeed who counted eighty thousands . Not only the Imam fell martyr on the battleground, but his whole family and companions and friends were killed in one of the ugliest slaughters that ever existed in history and in religion. This genocide was achieved at the hands of Muslims and the ones who were killed are the progeny of the Rasoul from the two months old baby to the Imam himself who fell after fighting - till the last men and till the last breath- the enemies of religion who had dressed in religious garbs and had usurped power and religion and exposed Islam to corruption and deviation. What do you think happened to Islam after this ? Nothing good happened for sure , this was the most significant deviation in the history of Islam , and the biggest atrocity ever committed , and the ugliest event that the Prophet himself had foreseen, to have the family of the Prophet of Islam slaughtered and genocided , and his grand son beheaded at the hands of Muslims , and his head on a spear, roaming the four quarters of the Muslim nation, and his family abducted and taken hostage and his grand children – the progeny of Fatima- exposed – handcuffed- to the masses while crossing from one village to the other. How did this thing happen and has Islam ever recovered from such a thing ? Well, the answer is : No, Islam never recovered from such a plight and could not. #My_take: while Karbala tragedy is indellible, Islam has recovered as Mahatma Ghandhi rightly put it: I learn from Imam Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed Also, as the caption of the article also reads: The victory of blood over the blade
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:49:21 +0000