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If caught in a fight for your life, what would you do? Self-defense masters tackle the question.
If caught in a fight for your life, what would you do? Self-defense masters tackle the question.
Thailand's government has resurrected the country's so-called war on drugs that claimed thousands of lives under Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister. Selina Downes reports from near the Thai-Myanmar border where increased drug smuggling and opium production has prompted the crackdown.
Even after the martyrdom of Habeeb, Husayn was intent upon offering his Zuhr prayers at that moment. Sa'eed b. Abdullah and a few more men stood in a line in front of the prayer lines with shields while Husayn and the remaining companions offered Zuhr prayers under a barrage of arrows from the enemy camp.
As Husayn and his companions were finishing their prayers, Sa'eed b. Abdullah and all others with him were dying of arrow wounds in front of Husayn.
Husayn's seventy-two companions included Muslim Ibn Awsaja who was 70 years old and his own fourteen year old nephew, Qasim Ibn Hasan. As it was, those sevety-two were no match to Yazeed's huge army. Now, a substantial part of that group was already killed.
The remaining few friends of Husayn asked for Husayn's permission to fight, went to the battlefield either one by one or in groups and were killed in action.