The Shias of Mumbai a Unique Race

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every day is ashura every land is karbala ,

“The tragedy of Karbala taught humanity a lesson that standing for the truth and fighting unto death for it is more honorable and valuable than submitting to the wrongful, especially when the survival of Islam is at stake.”


Quotations about Imam Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) by Non-Muslims


Mahatma Gandhi
"My faith is that the progress of Islam does not depend on the use of sword by its believers, but the result of the supreme sacrifice of Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ), the great saint."


Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
"Imam Hussain's (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness."


Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
"Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) 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 Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer."
[A Literary History of the Arabs, Cambridge, 1930, p197]


Edward Gibbon
"In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader."
[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London, 1911, volume 5, pp391-2]


Rabindranath Tagore
"In order to keep alive justice and truth, instead of an army or weapons, success can be achieved by sacrificing lives, exactly what Imam Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) did."


Dr. Rajendra Prasad
"The sacrifice of Imam Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) is not limited to one country, or nation, but it is the hereditary state of the brotherhood of all mankind."


Dr. Radha Krishnan
"Though Imam Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) gave his life almost 1300 years ago, but his indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today."


Swami Shankaracharya
"It is Hussain's (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ) sacrifice that has kept Islam alive or else in this world there would be no one left to take Islam's name."


Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
"I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Hussain (ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ), a great human being was born, who is reverted and honored totally by all communities."

the shias of mumbai
a unique race
giving others
a breathing space
bleeding backs
bleeding heads
bleeding face
karbala the holy place
in the hearts of the shias
a watering place
memories of their heritage
journey of their forefathers
they retrace
1400 years a pain
called Ghame Hussain
we wont let them erase
azadari e hussain
in the first place
hussainiyat
Hussain is Humanity
they embrace
remembering
protesting
against Yazidi Islam
the atrocities the disgrace
on the soul of humanity
that they have forgotten
in any case
kule yomin ashura
kule arzin karbala
historical words
just in case
to remind them
another karbala
wont take place
shah ast hussain
as coup de grace