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Brief History of Transfer of the Sacred Head of Husain ibn Ali, From Damascus to Ashkelon to Qahera By: Qazi Dr. Shaikh Abbas Borhany PhD (USA), NDI, Shahadat al A’alamiyyah (Najaf, Iraq), M.A., LLM (Shariah) Member, Ulama Council of Pakistan Published in ‘Daily News’, Karachi, Pakistan on 03-01-2009, in ‘Yemen Times’, Sanaa, Yemen on 26-01-2009 & in ‘Wikipedia Encyclopedia’ The most beloved grandson of Rasulullah(S) , Al Imam al Husain ibn Ali (d. 61/680, Karbala, Iraq) , along with his Seventy-two selected relatives and companions, was brutally massacred on the soil of Karbala, in Iraq, on 10 th of Muharram 61/680 by the orders of Yazid bin Mu’awiyah (d. 64/683,Damascus, Syria), the second Umayyad ruler. On the second day after this great tragedy, the barbaric forces of Yazid raised the Sacred Head of the Imam on a lance. 19 th Al Dai al Fatemi , Syedna Idris Imaduddin ( d.872/1468, Shib’am, Yemen ) expressed his heart breaking sentiments as follows: “Abki Alal R’...

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Narrated Abu Huraira: While the Prophet was saying something in a gathering, a Bedouin came and asked him, "When would the Hour (Doomsday) take place?" Allah's Apostle continued his talk, so some people said that Allah's Apostle had heard the question, but did not like what that Bedouin had asked. Some of them said that Alllah's Apostle had not heard it. When the Prophet finished his speech, he said, "Where is the questioner, who enquired about the Hour (Doomsday)?" The Bedouin said, "I am here, O Allah's Apostle ." Then the Prophet said, "When honesty is lost, then wait for the Hour (Doomsday)." The Bedouin said, "How will that be lost?" The Prophet said, "When the power or authority comes in the hands of unfit persons, then wait for the Hour (Doomsday.)" The following information is a summary of a lecture given by a scholar of Riverside, Gharm-Allah El-Ghamdy, around the fall of 1991. Editor's notes are i...

The Victory Of Truth: The Life Of Zaynab Bint e Ali (a.s) Authored by: M.H.Bilgrami Source: Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project Team Presented by: ShiaOfAhlulbayt Preface We wish to acknowledge the Peermohammed Ebrahim Trust for suggesting that we produce this book to commemorate the birth anniversary of Zaynab bint Ali [a.s.]. This book closely follows the various narrations that have come to us from original sources. In producing this work it was thought most appropriate to present the reader with an easily absorbed narrative. The language of this text has purposefully been made simple and lucid so as to make it useful for youngsters as well as adults. Introduction This is the story of the victory of truth. It is the story of a unique woman whose own fate was inextricably bound with the historical events of Karbala that have impressed upon mankind the true reality of living Islam. It was on the plains of Karbala that the conflict between Imam Husayn, 'alayhi 'salam, a...