For Hurr, Yazid’s army of tens of thousand is now nothing more than a bunch of faces, without meaning. A crowd of men without selves, a group of people without hearts, those who shout but don’t know why, fight but don’t know for whom. (Hurr, by Shaheed Shariati)
On the morning of 10th Muharram, Hurr called his son secretly in his tent and said: We are doomed driven towards hell. There is yet time. I have decided to leave the ranks of shaytan and join the side of Hussain ibn Ali and seek pardon of the son of the Prophet of Allah. Would you like to accompany me or stay where you are?
The blind, the dumb, and chronically ill everywhere lack protection in towns and no mercy is shown them. But you (the leaders and scholars) neither behave in accordance with your function and rank, nor do you support or pay any regard to those who do. You purchase your safety from the oppressive ruling powers with flattery cajolery, and compromise. (Al-Imam al-Husayn (AS))
The humans, the jinn, the birds and the wild beasts (all) mourned and wept over (the tragedy which befell) Husain Ibn A’li (A.S.) (Imam Baqir (AS) Kaamil alZiyaaraat, pg. 79.)
Hussainiat.com and Baab-e-Ilm has lots of links to daily majalis in Urdu. (If anyone knows of any majalis in Spanish, please drop a comment – thanx!)
Indeed Allah (swt) has established a portion of the food for the poor in the wealth of the rich. Therefore no poor person will stay hungry unless a rich person deprives him of his portion. How beautiful is it if a rich man is humble to a poor man when he requests a reward that is near the Almighty God. It is even more beautiful when the poor maintain their pride near the rich and rely on Allah. (Imam Ali (AS) attributed in mishkat al-anwar, h. #646)
Abu Abdillah peace be upon him, said: “Be it known to you that Allah hates a person who is unsteady and fickle. Never slip away from the truth and its partisans. Whoever, rules and oppresses with the aid of untruth, he and his people shall perish, and shall lose this world, and leave the world low and humbled.” (Al Amali, ch. 16, #6)
