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'THE ALAM' WHICH is installed in the Imambadas, is another target of attacks from our ignorant friends who not knowing its actual significance and criticise it as Tid'af i.e., an unwarranted innovation. Be it known to the critics that the Alam is onl...

'THE ALAM' WHICH is installed in the Imambadas, is...

WHEN THE TYRANNIES and the torturous death inflicted on the Holy Ahlul-Bait, could not be denied, the other course adopted to hide the most disgraceful and most brutal and heinous deeds is to declare the Majlisc-Aza or the mourning congregation for t...

WHEN THE TYRANNIES and the torturous death inflict...

THE ALAN! WRONGLY called, the 'Panja' in Southern India, is an emblem or the copy of the Holy Banner of the Holy Imam. It is installed in the houses of the devotees of the Holy Imam and also in separate apartments called the 'zishurkhanas' or the Ima...

THE ALAN! WRONGLY called, the 'Panja' in Southern ...

THE SHIA YOUNG, in mourning for the great Martyrs of the Holy Ahlul-Bait, particularly for the First Holy Imam Amecrul-Momineen Ali and the Holy Imam Husain, the King of Martyrs, beat their breasts, sometimes to the extent of bleeding themselves. Hur...

THE SHIA YOUNG, in mourning for the great Martyrs ...

TODAY WHEN THE leaders of every religion are revered only by their respective followers, the Holy Imam Husain is the International Hero who occupies a special position of love, honour, reverence and holiness in the hearts of the followers of all the ...

TODAY WHEN THE leaders of every religion are rever...

THE POSSIBILITY OF intercession for the sinners on the Day of Judgment is quite obvious from the repeated declarations of the Holy Qur'an. The declarations are so clearly worded that none can misinterpret them otherwise:- "Who is any one to intercede...

THE POSSIBILITY OF intercession for the sinners on...

'AsHooRA' MEANS THE 'Tenth', i.e., the Tenth day, of the Lunar month of Moharram 61 A.H. on which historic day, Husain surrendered his all in the way of the Lord to save the truth and thus to save humanity from getting beguiled by the Brute on the th...

'AsHooRA' MEANS THE 'Tenth', i.e., the Tenth day, ...

The Hashimites-from the seed of Abu Taleb :- I. Those mentioned in the Ziarate Nahiyah . . 18 2. Those not mentioned in the Ziarat . . 3. Young children . . 3 No. distributed according to the Immediate parentage of the Martyrs: The Holy Imam Husain ....

The Hashimites-from the seed of Abu Taleb :- I. Th...

WHOEVER IS TAKEN unawares or shot dead or suddenly killed be that even for any matter of goodness on the part of the murdered one, other than God's cause, cannot be called a martyr. It can no doubt be said that the assassin had been cruel and the goo...

WHOEVER IS TAKEN unawares or shot dead or suddenly...

THE HOLY QUR'AN asserts in unequivocal terms that Jesus was neither killed nor crucified by the people: 4:157 and 158. Even taking for granted the statement of our Christian brethren the crucifixion of Jesus under the evidence of the Holy Bible of th...

THE HOLY QUR'AN asserts in unequivocal terms that ...

ALTHOUGH THE HOSTS of the Devils numbered in thousands and the supporters of the cause of Truth for which the Holy Imam stood, could be counted on fingers, and the Holy Imam' his numbered devotees, was mercilessly massacred and the ladies' the queens...

ALTHOUGH THE HOSTS of the Devils numbered in thous...

Husain FIRST PREACHED to his enemies, the love of God, the obedience to the Holy Prophet and abstinence from vice and wickedness, and at last asked the people:- "Why do ye kill me?" "Did I commit any sin or crime?" "Did I plunder anybody?" "Did I int...

Husain FIRST PREACHED to his enemies, the love of ...

THE MOMENT THE Holy Imam's head was severed from his body and raised on the point of a lance, the severed head began glorifying God, aloud in clear words saying :- "Allaho Akbar' (i.e., God the Greatest)." Thus Husain won an everlasting victory over ...

THE MOMENT THE Holy Imam's head was severed from h...

THE DEVIL'S ARMY marched with severed heads of the martyrs raised on their lances. Among the heads, were the head of the baby son of Husain, Ali-e-Asghar. It is now left to the tender hearts of gentle women to imagine in their own places, what would ...

THE DEVIL'S ARMY marched with severed heads of the...

EVEN DURING THE most miserable journey, the severed head of the Holy Imam manifested several miracles which guided several good-hearted Christians and Jews to embrace Islam, most of whom after embracing the Truth attacked the brutes and were ultimate...

EVEN DURING THE most miserable journey, the severe...

THE NEXT MOVE of the brutes was towards the Holy camp which now contained only the helpless wailing ladies, the crying children, and Ali-az-Zainul-abideen the ailing son of the Holy Imam lying unconscious with high fever. They plundered the camp, set...

THE NEXT MOVE of the brutes was towards the Holy c...

AFTER ABBAS, CAME the turn of Ali-e-Akbar, to go to the battlefield. It is reported that this eighteen-year-old son was so very much loved by one and all in the camp that the account of his taking leave of his mother, aunts, sisters, brothers and oth...

AFTER ABBAS, CAME the turn of Ali-e-Akbar, to go t...

Last LATER ANY one in the surroundings should say that he was neither called nor given any opportunity to serve the cause of defending the Truth by helping the Holy Imam who was fighting for it, Husain now standing all alone, bleeding from innumerabl...

Last LATER ANY one in the surroundings should say ...

WHEN THE HELPLESS Imam stood all alone in the field surrounded by the enemies, he was summoned by a call from his sister Zainab in his camp. When he went into the tent, he found his baby son Ali-e-Asghar, dying of thirst in his cradle and the poor mo...

WHEN THE HELPLESS Imam stood all alone in the fiel...

WHEN ABBAS, THE Lion-Hearted son of Ali, went into the field, his fight very much resembled the fight of his father Ali, the Lion of God. Abbas' fight can never be described in a line or two. Anis and Dabir, the two famous Urdu Poets, have beautifull...

WHEN ABBAS, THE Lion-Hearted son of Ali, went into...

WHEN THE YOUNG Qasim aged about fourteen years, son of Imam Hasan, sought permission to go, it is reported that Husain remembered the wish of his late brother Hasan that one of his daughters be wedded to his son Qasim. At the same time Qasim presente...

WHEN THE YOUNG Qasim aged about fourteen years, so...