Imam Hussain was the grandson of the Holy Prophet of Islam.After the passing away of the Prophet , there was a clamouring of power , though the Holy Prophet had inadvertently mentioned at Ghadir Qum Man Kunto Moula Ali Fazhaiun Moula , simply translated it meant give Ali the same respect as you give me.
However [...]

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 Al Muntazar

1. Yazid ibn Muawiyah

Without doubt, the biggest contributor to the shedding of Imam Husain’s (a.s.) blood and its main proponent was Yazid ibn Muawiyah. And that is not exactly surprising when we consider that Yazid is the one who inherited apostasy, tyranny and blasphemy from his father. He was the grandson of Abu [...]

a muslim woman
begs on the graveyard of a mound
around her mocking her despair
dead laughter surrounds
ghosts spirits her living death
astound
a few coins in her hand
deathly silence no sound
covering her beggary
her shame
born as a Muslim Woman
by other moving men and women
frowned
she in her hijab
her winding sheet
buried live above ground
we are building
masjids madarsaas
womens home childrens home
homlessness no home [...]

This little girl is the daughter of Munna who recites namaz on fire during Ag ka Matam , most of the julooos she accompanies him loyally, dressed in a manner to invoke the pain that Hazrat Imam Hussains 4 year old Sakina had to bear , after the Martyrdom of her beloved father , brothers, [...]

Date: 03/05/2006 Time: 08:27 PM Visits: 25
Cartoons in Blood on the Sands of Karbala
I am hurt and pained my human eyes can take it no more and perhaps I would rather have been born blind so as not see what I dont want to see.
I can assure you I lost all and vision did this [...]

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I think without Bibi Zainab..Karbala  what it means to us Shias would have been unknown,  though the Oppressors tried to erase the happenings at Karbala ,  with everything at their disposable ,Karbala would not be buried in the Sands.. it rose as a sandstorm.. weeping blood..  the cries of the children reverbrate in the [...]

Poocha gaya jab
abid se who naam
Bibi zainab aur islam
Moulah farmaye
Shaam sham sham sham
Sham sham sham sham
Padke Nade Ali Mushkil
Kusha ka naam
Be Rida balon se ubhar aaya Islam
Sham sham saam sham
Sham sham sham shaam
Moulah ka yehi tha paigham
Sar katake bachayenge Islam
Sham sham sham sham
Sham sham sham sham
Mashke sakina uska naam
Khush hoton pe hai wo jam
Shaam sham [...]

Janabe Zainab was the indomitable, and a very courageous , eloquently vocal sister of Hazrat Imam Hussain..and she was the witness to the carnage and saw all her beloved male members of her family die before her eye including her children Ono and Mohomed..and she never wept once for her them.
She put a stone on [...]