Ya Hussain

اَلسَّلامُ عَلى مَنْ جَعَلَ اللهُ الشِّفاءَ في تُرْبَتِهِ،

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Arbaeen evening 1438 – Karbala, Iraq

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Every year on the tenth day of the holy month of Muharram, the first on the Islamic lunar calendar, Shia Muslims show a distinctive face of Islam, one that sees spirituality in passion and rituals rather than in law and the familiar practices that punctuate Muslim lives. Open spaces and narrow alleys in cities, towns and villages take over from the mosques and seminaries as Shias individually and collectively make a show of their piety and their identity. No observer of this day, the festival of Ashura, will remain unaffected by the Shias’ display of fealty to their faith. None will fail to see the uniqueness of Shia Islam or the values and spirituality that define it.

- Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival (via darknessandlight)

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Narrated by Abdullab bin al-Fadhl al Hashimi, who asked one of the Imams;

‘O son of the Prophet - how did the day of Ashura become a day of calamity, and grief, and sorrow, and weeping, single to the day in which the Prophet (s) departed and the day in which Fatima (as) died, and the day in which Amir al-Muminin was killed, and the day in which al-Hassan was poisoned and killed?’…

The Imam then said to him; 'The day of al-Hussain is the greatest calamity of all other (calamities), as the people of the cloak - who were  the most exalted to God - were five…(so) When the Prophet (s) departed (them) - Amir al-Muminin, and Fatima, and al-Hassan and al-Hussain remained, and in them there was comfort and consolation for people… 

-and when Fatima departed, people found comfort and consolation in Amir al-Muminin, and (in) al-Hassan, and (in) al-Hussain….

(so) When Amir al-Muminin departed people found comfort and consolation in al-Hassan and al-Hussain…

(so) When al-Hassan departed people found comfort and consolation in al-Hussain…

(so) When al-Hussain was killed there was no one left from the People of the Cloak after him, in which people could find comfort and consolation… so his leaving was like the leaving of them all, in the same way his staying was like the staying of them all, and therefore his day became the greatest calamity of all other days..' 

source; maqtal Mulla Agha Darbandi (eksir al- ebadaat fi asraar al-shahadaat) vol. 1. p. 80) 

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Shrine of Imam Hussain

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Hussain and the story of Karbala.              

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Art & Beauty: Shrine of Abbas Alamdar (a.s), Karbala, Iraq.

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Don’t try to convince me, you will not change my mind,

I will walk to him, even if I see my death before me. 

wich death will prevent me, when Hussain hears me. 

My soul, my blood, my eyes, my heart,

every part of me and my body will walk to Hussain,

(Indeed )I am headed to he whose hands fell, but never did his flag fall.. 

never did his flag fall! 

[masterofmartyrs]

Narrated by sheikh Jaffar bin Quliyeh, in Kamel el Ziyaraat, from Ibn Kharjeh, that he said;

We were with Imam al-Sadeq (as) then we mentioned Hussain ibn Ali (as), then Abu Abd Allah (Imam al Sadeq) cried, and we cried, (and) then he lifted his head and said; 

Al Hussain ibn Ali (as) said; I am the martyr of tears, no believer remembers me but that he weeps.  

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Let the weepers weep over someone like Husayn, for verily weeping over him reduces the burden of great sins. Then he continued, saying, ‘As soon as the month of Muharram would set in my father (AS) was never seen laughing, and he would be overcome by melancholy until after the first ten days had passed. When the tenth day dawned, it was a day of grief and sorrow and crying for him, and he used to say, ‘This is the day when al-Husayn (AS) was martyred.

Imam al-Rida (AS) Wasael al-Shi`aah , v. 1, p. 394, no. 8 (via shia-prince)

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Amazing photos of Arbaeen in Nigeria.

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After walking barefoot for days, Pilgrims start to weep at the glimpse of the Golden Dome of Hussein (as)

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Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is revered by Muslims as the “Prince of Martyrs”. He was killed in Karbala on a day which became known as Ashura, the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, having refused to pledge allegiance to the corrupt and tyrannical caliph, Yazid.

He and...

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Little did Abbas care,

As his arms fell at Karbala.

For his true arms rose at Ghadir,

When the arm of Muhammad,

Raised the arm of Ali.

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The Abbasid caliph, al-Mutawakki ordered, during his reign, guards to drive away visitors to Imam al-Husayn's  tomb, and to inflict severe punishment on those who performed the pilgrimage. He ordered, four times during his rule, the tomb destroyed, plowed under, and flood it with water from the Euphrates. The narration goes as follows: 

source: visit the Tomb of Al-Husayn b. 'Ali in Shiite Poetry: First to Fifth Centures AH (8th-11th Centures CE), Khalid Sindawi 

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Arba’een walk from Basra to Karbala. Basra, Iraq December 2014

by alkafeel.net