A Constant Pain in the Heart...

O people of Yathrib

May you never stay therein

Al-Hussein was killed, so my tears now rain,

His body is in Karbala , covered with blood

While his head is on a spear displayed…

Verses recited by the poet Bishr b. Hadhlam outside the Mosque of the Prophet on being informed on the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (as.)

A constant pain in the heart on the tenth of Muharram. Indeed the tragedy fell on Ashura, the tenth of Muharram. A bold seventy two rose against over thirty thousand. Imam Hussein (as.) alongside relative and loyal companion laid down their lives in the way of Allah (swt). He fought to preserve the sacred message of his Grandfather Muhammad the Final Messenger (SAW.)

Within fifty years of the Prophet's death his Ummah was in a state of crisis. A Godless tyrant had taken the reins of power and the Ummayad regime's propaganda machine had rendered the minds of people paralysed. Falsehood was deformed into truth.

It was on this day that faith stood against ignorance. The Prince of the Youth of Heaven confronted the tyrannical, hegemonic and hereditary prince of the lowest of the low. This day the master of martyrs Imam Hussain (as.) exposed the dark, treacherous and most ugly face of Yazid for generations to come.

Imam Hussein rose against tyranny. He refused to give allegiance to Yazid . He sparked a revolution which destroyed the Ummayad's claimed victory and liberated people from fear and tyranny.

It took the spilt blood from the Prophet's sacred slain to wash away impurity from the soul of Islam and into it was breathed an eternal spirit of steadfastness against injustice and corruption and deviation from the path of Allah (SWT). The falling standard of Islam was raised lofty by Hussain (as) and his companions through patience and sacrifice. Truly the world was shown religion and the will of God have precedence.