The Mahdi Times March 2012 | Page 52

“Favors should be like the heavy rain that covers the pious as well as the sinful.” On his way to Karbala, “This world has changed and its good has turned tail. Nothing has remained from it except a thing that is as scanty as the leftover of a cup and a mean life that is like a noxious grazing. Have you not noticed that the right is ignored and the evil is not forbidden…People are certainly the slaves of this world; religion is but a slaver on their tongues. They turn it wherever their livelihood demands. If they are examined by misfortunes, the truly religious ones will be but a few.” Indeed there are lessons from Imam Hussain (a.s) that are truly amazing and we need to learn from his time, as the Ansar Allah InshaAllah, and Imam Ahmad (a.s) has taught a great lesson from Karbala for all of us to learn. Please read the Sermon of Muharram InshaAllah. Here is an extract posted below. May Allah bless you all Insha’Allah, all those of you who know and love Imam Hussain (a.s) and support the Righteous Banner Iltimaas-e-Dua. Imam Ahmad Al Hasan (a.s): “It is a rather painful matter for the Clerics of Misguidance today to succeed in withdrawing people’s awareness to an extent that those people who are made ignorant misguided followers are carrying the flag of the Supremacy of People while they then visit Al-Hussain a.s , he who was slaughtered for contradicting the Supremacy of People and establishing the Supremacy of Allah. Could a person be contradictory to such an extent that he would throw the banner of the assassinated to the ground and then carry the banner of the assassin to the shrine of the assassinated to pray for him and to curse the assassin? Then how can we categorize that individual and to which side should we account him? Do we say that he is on the side of the assassin and against the assassinated for the reason that he carries the banner of the assassin and insults the banner of the assassinated, or do we say he is on the side of the assassinated and against the assassin for the reason that he prays for the assassinated and curses the assassin? Oh people with rational minds, oh sane people ponder this, the Supremacy of People and Yazeed are one, and the Supremacy of Allah and AlHussain a.s are one, so anyone who carries, believes and acts upon the banner of the Supremacy of People is inevitably and definitely a Yazeedian. He belongs to Yazeed in essence even if he visited Al-Hussain a.s everyday and even if he spent his entire life crying on the tragedy of Al-Hussain. We cannot by any means separate Al-Hussain a.s from his blessed revolution and blessed purpose which is to establish the Supremacy of Allah in His land.”