Day of Ashura (is on the tenth day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar, which is today) Zayn al-Abidin said: There was no day like the Day of Husayn, when thirty thousand men advanced against him (while) they claimed that they belonged to this community, and that they (wanted) to seek proximity to Allah, the Great and Almighty, through (shedding) his blood. He (al-Husayn) reminded them of Allah, but they did not learn (from him) till they killed him out of (their) oppression and aggression. The Battle of Karbala lasted from morning till sunset of October 10, 680 (Muharram 10, 61 AH) all Husayns small group of companions and family members (in total who were around 72 men and few ladies and children) fought with a large army under the command of Umar ibn Saad. and were killed near the river (Euphrates) where they were not allowed to get any water from. Some of the bodies of the dead, including that of Husayn, were then mutilated. Once the Umayyad troops had mass murdered Husayn and his male followers, they looted the tents, stripped the women of their jewelry, and took the skin upon which Zain al-Abidin was prostrate. It is said that Shemr was about to kill him but Husayn’s sister Zaynab was available to make Umar ibn Saad, the Umayyad commander to let him alive. He was taken along with the enslaved women to the caliph in Damascus, and eventually he was allowed to return to Medina. Bani Umayyah (Umayad) forced people to celebrate the day of Ashura (10th of Muharram) as a blessed day, and encouraged people to buy and store their annual food on that day and to fast that day as Sunnah, by fabricating traditions in this regard which were solely designed to overshadow and to cover up the great catastrophe of the slaughtering the household of Prophet (S). You can watch this cartoon narrating the story of Karbala youtube/watch?v=S2bzqcNlVPM
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:07:58 +0000
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