Expressions of famous Muslim and non-Muslim people about Imam Hussain (A.S.).

it's miles interesting to peer the wider human appeal of the fact that Imam Hussein stood for. right here are some expressions and quotations from exquisite Muslim and non-Muslim personalities and students on the subject of Imam Hussein.

Sir Muhammad Iqbal

“If Imam Hussein had aimed at acquiring a worldly empire, he would not have traveled the way he did (from Medina to Karbala). Hussein weltered in blood and dust for the sake of truth. Verily he, therefore, became the bed-rock (foundation) of the Muslim creed; la ilaha illa Allah (There is no god but Allah).”

Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"The world is unable to present an example finer and brighter than the personality of Imam Hussain. He was the embodiment of love, valor and personification of sacrifice and devotion. Every Muslim should seek guidance from him."

Sir Muhammad Iqbal

“Imam Hussein uprooted despotism forever till the Day of Resurrection. He watered the dry garden of freedom with the surging wave of his blood, and indeed he awakened the sleeping Muslim nation."

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 sacrific"

 

Charles Dickens

"If Husain fought to quench his worldly desires, then I do not understand why his sisters, wives and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore that he sacrificed purely for Islam."

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

"The sacrifice of Imam Husain 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 Husain gave his life almost 1300 years ago, but his indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today."

Swami Shankaracharya

"It is Husain's sacrifice that that has kept Islam alive or else in this world there would be no one left to take Islam's name."

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 Husain did."

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

"Imam Husain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness".

Mrs. Sarojini Naidu

"I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Husain, a great human being was born, who is reverted and honored totally by all communities."

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

"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."

Robert Durey Osborn

"Hosain had a child named Abdallah, only a year 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."

Sir William Muir

"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. "

Peter J. Chelkowski

"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."

Edward Gibbon

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

Thomas Carlyle

"The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were the rigid believers of God. They illustrated that numerical superiority does not count when it comes to truth and falsehood. The victory of Husain despite his minority marvels me!"

Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan

“Mr. Justice Arnold’s judgment gives a lucid and moving account of the effect on Muslim life and thought of [Ali’s] assassination and of the subsequent murders – nine years and twenty years after their father – of Ali’s two sons, Hassan and Hussein, the Prophet’s beloved grand children whom he himself had publicly hailed as “the foremost among the youths of Paradise;” of the tragic and embittered hostility and misunderstanding that developed between the two main Muslim sects, and all the sorrow and the strife that afflicted succeeding generations.”

Charles Dickens, English novelist

“If Hussein had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.”