Imam Hussain(a.s) in the eyes of Non Muslims Scholars"( In ENGLISH)".

The today incident of an attack in Peshawar city bana-marahi area on school bus forced me to send my previous two years ago Coulmn on the same issue writeen in same month Muharram when taliban attacked and abducted students in bannu for thier wasted intresesWhile on last year taliban abducted cadet college razmak students returning home during vacations I once again send the Coulmn.But unfourtunatly at that time my Coulmn was not published Because at that time anti taliban opnion publications was almost impossible Because taliban were ideal & eye brown.In  today's Changing public Opinion & anti Taliban Sceniario This Coulmn "Taliban,The Modren Yazediyat (URDU attachement)" is very important as the content of Coulmn are even valid today.At that time When Coulmn was written Children of School in Bannu were abducted by taliban with addition to other cruilities in Swat & FATA.The same happened recently When once again on monday(13.02.2010) the Schoolbus was attacked by taliban near bana-marhi Peshawar .So by editing the coulmn a sentence by putting Peshawar bana-marhi instead of bannu the rest of Coulmn is even valid today to show modren Yazidiyat in the form of so called "TALIBNAN".  

Note:-It is worth mentioning here that the attached Coulmn in URDU was written and sent by me in Muharram 1430hijri(2008 A.D) for Publication.But unfortunatly It was not published ,The reason might be that at that time When the Taliban point of view was over highlighted by giving Taliban Spokesman extra ordinary coverage While anti taliban point of view was not published even based on Logic.Any How I am struggling and doing hit rick by sending the same Coulmn for 3rd time.I am satisfied either it Publish or not publish.Thanks & Regards (Feedback/reply me on my e-mail If Coulmn Published)

"ENGLISH ESSAY".

Title:-

What Non-Muslims Say About Hazrat Imam Hussain(AS) & Karbala.

According to the global constitution for humnity Quran it is saying that Think not of those who are slain

in God's way as dead. Nay, they are living, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord

(Qur'an 3:169)

While according to holy saying of Hazrat Imam Jaffare-Sadiq (AS) Ever day is Ashura and Ever Place(City) is Karbala.

There is lot of work on Karbala and Hazrat Imam Hussain(AS) in diffrent religions and literature of the world to pay homage to the greatest sacrifice of Syed-e-Shuhad hazrat Imam Hussain.Karbala is an ideal for freedom seekers and oppressed nations or people of the world without any discrimination.The proof of which is the Homage(tribute)paid tograndson of thethe holy Prophet & Rahmatul-lil-Alimeen Hazrat Muhammad (s.a.w.w) Syed-e-Shuhada Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) even by non Muslims .

Karbala is ideal for all ages either it is Past or today (present) and even for future.

Here we are giving the Views of Non Muslims about Syed-e-Shuhada Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) and Karabala the war between the truth and evil .

Edward G. Brown

Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic and oriental studies at the University of Cambridge.

· "… a reminder of the blood-stained field of Kerbela, where the grandson of the Apostle of God fell at length, tortured by thirst and surrounded by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at anytime since then sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm and heedless, the deepest emotions, the most frantic grief, and an exaltation of spirit before which pain, danger and death shrink to unconsidered trifles."

[A Literary History of Persia, London, 1919, p. 227]

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Ignaz Goldziher

(1850-1921) Famous Hungarian orientalist scholar

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· "Ever since the black day of Karbala, the history of this family … has been a continuous series of sufferings and persecutions. These are narrated in poetry and prose, in a richly cultivated literature of martyrologies - a Shi'i specialty - and form the theme of Shi'i gatherings in the first third of the month of Muharram, whose tenth day ('ashura) is kept as the anniversary of the tragedy at Karbala. Scenes of that tragedy are also presented on this day of commemmoration in dramatic form (ta'ziya). 'Our feast days are our assemblies of mourning.' So concludes a poem by a prince of Shi'i disposition recalling the many mihan of the Prophet's family. Weeping and lamentation over the evils and persecutions suffered by the 'Alid family, and mourning for its martyrs: these are things from which loyal supporters of the cause cannot cease. 'More touching than the tears of the Shi'is' has even become an Arabic proverb."

[Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law , Princeton, 1981, p. 179]

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Edward Gibbon

(1737-1794) Considered the greatest British historian of his time.

· "In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader."

[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , London, 1911, volume 5, pp. 391-2]

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Peter J. Chelkowski

Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University

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· "Hussein accepted and set out from Mecca with his family and an entourage of about seventy followers. But on the plain of Kerbela they were caught in an ambush set by the … caliph, Yazid. Though defeat was certain, Hussein refused to pay homage to him. Surrounded by a great enemy force, Hussein and his company existed without water for ten days in the burning desert of Kerbela. Finally Hussein, the adults and some male children of his family and his companions were cut to bits by the arrows and swords of Yazid's army; his women and remaining children were taken as captives to Yazid in Damascus. The renowned historian Abu Reyhan al-Biruni states; "… then fire was set to their camp and the bodies were trampled by the hoofs of the horses; nobody in the history of the human kind has seen such atrocities."

[Ta'ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran, New York, 1979, p. 2]

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Simon Ockley

(1678-1720) Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge

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· "Then Hosein mounted his horse, and took the Koran and laid it before him, and, coming up to the people, invited them to the performances of their duty: adding, 'O God, thou art my confidence in every trouble, and my hope in all adversity!'… He next reminded them of his excellency, the nobility of his birth, the greatness of his power, and his high descent, and said, 'Consider with yourselves whether or not such a man as I am is not better than you; I who am the son of your prophet's daughter, besides whom there is no other upon the face of the earth. Ali was my father; Jaafar and Hamza, the chief of the martyrs, were both my uncles; and the apostle of God, upon whom be peace, said both of me and my brother, that we were the chief of the youth of paradise. If you will believe me, what I say is true, for by God, I never told a lie in earnest since I had my understanding; for God hates a lie. If you do not believe me, ask the companions of the apostle of God [here he named them], and they will tell you the same. Let me go back to what I have.' They asked, 'What hindered him from being ruled by the rest of his relations.' He answered, 'God forbid that I should set my hand to the resignation of my right after a slavish manner. I have recourse to God from every tyrant that doth not believe in the day of account.'"

[The History of the Saracens, London, 1894, pp. 404-5]

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Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

(1868-1945) Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge.

· "Husayn fell, pierced by an arrow, and his brave followers were cut down beside him to the last man. Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Husayn as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer."

[A Literary History of the Arabs, Cambridge, 1930, p. 197 ]

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Robert Durey Osborn

(1835-1889) Major of the Bengal Staff Corps.

· "Hosain had a child named Abdallah (Ali Asghar), only six months old. He had accompanied his father in this terrible march. Touched by its cries, he took the infant in his arms and wept. At that instant, a shaft from the hostile ranks pierced the child's ear, and it expired in his father's arms. Hosain placed the little corpse upon the ground. 'We come from God, and we return to Him!' he cried; 'O Lord, give me strength to bear these misfortunes!' … Faint with thirst, and exhausted with wounds, he fought with desperate courage, slaying several of his antagonists. At last he was cut down from behind; at the same instance a lance was thrust through his back and bore him to the ground; as the dealer of this last blow withdrew his weapon, the ill-fated son of Ali rolled over a corpse. The head was severed from the trunk; the trunk was trampled under the hoofs of the victors' horses; and the next morning the women and a surviving infant son were carried away to Koufa. The bodies of Hosain and his followers were left unburied on the spot where they fell. For three days they remained exposed to the sun and the night dews, the vultures and the prowling animals of the waste; but then the inhabitants of a neighbouring village, struck with horror that the body of a grandson of the Prophet should be thus shamefully abandoned to the unclean beasts of the field, dared the anger of Obaidallah, and interred the body of the martyr and those of his heroic friends.

[Islam Under the Arabs, Delaware, 1976, pp. 126-7]

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Sir William Muir

(1819-1905) Scottish scholar and statesman. Held the post of Foreign Secretary to the Indian government as well as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwestern Provinces.

· "The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the caliphate, but of the Mohammedan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared."

[Annals of the Early Caliphate, London, 1883, pp. 441-2]

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In the last lets see the Influence of Karbala in present or 21 st century .

For this we have to see the post Iraq attacks by the evil force or Yazeedi force of today that is Uncle Sam and its cruel president Geoge War bush.

But yet the Karbala has influence on the people of America especially its soldiers(mairines) working in Iraq,which can be seen from the letter below written by US marine Tom from Iraq (Karbala) to his Mom at Houston(USA).Latest reports shows manyamerican soldiers are converting to Islam.

Let's come to Toms letter that How KARBALA has influence on the Psyche of US Soldiers.
He Writes "Hi Mom! I am your son Tom. This is my third day in a trench close to the town of Karbala.They revere the place. People here say Hussain, the grandson of their Prophet Muhammad, had laid down his life along with entire male members of his family, including a six month infant, in the name of Allah, their God…
At least I have not traveled all the way from Houston to this desert country to fight in the name of God. We are here because our President (USA President)desired us to be here."

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Written Compiled & Contributed By:- S  H  BANGASH