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- Dedication
- Publisher’s Preface
- Prologue: Eternal Struggle Between Right And Wrong
- Introduction
- Part 1: Husayn And His Foes, Martyrdom
- Abu Sufyan
- Mu’awiyah and Yazid
- Ali, Husayn’s Father
- Imam Husayn Son of Imam Ali
- Islam’s Message to Humanity
- Origins of Deviation
- Yazid Appointed as Supreme Ruler
- The Noble Motives Behind Imam Husayn’s Revolution
- The Revolution’s Process
- Husayn in Mecca
- Muslim Swears Oath of Allegiance for Husayn
- Hani Ibn Urwah
- Muslim’s Uprising
- Al-Mukhtar Jailed
- Muslim at the House of Taw'a
- Muslim Meets Ibn Ziyad
- Qasr Muqatil
- The Kufian Hosts
- Efforts to Secure Water
- Conditional Respite Granted
- Another Confrontation at Watering Place
- Firm Resolution
- Love and Devotion
- Ashura
- The First Lady Martyr
- Al-Abbas is Martyred
- Martyrdom of The Imam
- Husayn’s Horse
- Al-Husayn Marauded
- Part 2: A Summary of Post-Martyrdom Events
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- The Steed
- The Severed Heads
- Leaving Karbala’
- At Kufa
- Zainab’s Speech
- Fatima Delivers a Speech
- As-Sajjad Delivers a Speech
- The Burial
- At The Governer’s Mansion
- Al-Mukhtar At-Thaqafi
- The Sacred Head Speaks
- Al-Ashdaq
- Abdullah Ibn Ja’far
- The Captives Taken to Syria
- In Syria
- Husayn’s Severed Head
- A Syrian Encounters Fatima
- Zainab Delivers Another Speech
- At The House of Ruin
- Back to Medina
- The Severed Head Rejoins Body
- The Arba’een
- In Medina
- Part 3: The Revolution’s Outcome
- Part 4: Husayn’s Successors - Nine Infallible Imams
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Arabic Poems Eulogizing Imam Husayn’s Martyrdom
- Glossary of Islamic Terms
- ا،أ، آ، ع, A
- ب, B
- د، ذ, D
- ع, E
- ف, F
- غ, G, Gh
- ح،ه H,
- إ،ع, I
- ج, J
- ک،خ K, Kh,
- ل, L
- م, M
- ن, N
- P
- ق, Q
- ر, R
- س،ص, S
- ت، ط، ذ, T
- أ، ع, U
- و, W
- ز،ض، ظ, Z
Karbala and Beyond
BOOK ID
Author(s): Yasin T. Al-Jibouri
Category: Imam al-Husayn and Karbala
Topic Tags: Muharram Ashura Karbala
Featured Category: Shia beliefs explained
Person Tags: Imam Husayn (a)
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This book contains a brief yet documented narrative of an incident that took place in Karbala’’, Iraq, in 61 A.H. (After Hijra, or Hegira)/680 A.D. It has stamped the history of the Muslim nation ever since, and it will continue to do so till the reappearance of the Awaited One, the Mahdi from among the offspring of Prophet Muhammad. It refers to a revolution against tyranny and oppression led by Imam al-Husayn son of Imam Ali ibn [son of] Abu [father of] Talib and grandson of Prophet Muhammad.
Dedication
الل__هم_ ص___لِ ع__لی مح___م___د وآل محمد
السلام علی الشیب الخضیب
السلام علی الخد التریب
السلام علی البدن السلیب ، السلام علی الثغر المقروع بالقضیب
السلام علی الرأس المرفوع
السلام علی الاجسام العاریه فی الفلوات
السلام علی المرمل بالدماء
السلام علی المهتوک الخباء
السلام علی خامس أصحاب الکساء السلام علی غریب الغرباء
السلام علی شهید الشهداء
السلام علی قتیل الأدعیاء
السلام علی ساکن کربلاء
السلام علی من بکته ملائکه السماء
السلام علیک یا أبا عبد الله
O Allah! Bless Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad
Peace with the blood-drench gray hair. Peace with the dust-covered cheek. Peace with the marauded body. Peace with the mouth beaten with the rod. Peace with the head raised [atop a spear].
Peace with the bodies exposed in the plains. Peace with the one covered with blood. Peace with the one whose privacy was violated. Peace with the fifth of the Fellows of the
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