MUHARRAM SERIES - 11/03

Shaam-e-Ghareeban, the Imam was being introduced as tents burnt

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The story of the first fifty years after the Prophet of Islam is witness to the fact that Divine Leadership appointed by Allah was being challenged. Every Imam that came was either forced politically, militarily or economically away from that position. Then came Husayn, who exposed the entire conspiracy, and proved to the world as to who was Zalim and who was Mazloom.

Both Yazeed and Husayn were Quraysh who were among the progeny of Ibraheem through Isma'eel. But, one was Zalim and the other was Mazloom. During Mu'awiyyah's times the world was full of the propafanda that the real heirs of the Prophet were the Banu Umayya, everybody who opposed them, incluidng the family of the Prophet, were rebels.
However, Yazeed had, by becoming a Zalim, identified himself as totally un-deserving of the Divine promise.

The Zalim was so drunk in his stupor of WINNING that he wanted to complete his victory by taking away the honour that was given to women of the Prophet's family by taking depriving them of the cahadrs. But, that was the great folly of the Zalim.
The chadar was identified in the holy Qur'an in verse 33:33, as follows:

[Shakir 33:33] And stay in your houses and do not display your finery like the displaying of the ignorance of yore; and keep up prayer, and pay the poor-rate, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O people of the House! and to purify you a (thorough) purifying.

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