Imam Hussein (A.S.) in View of Intellects, Philosophers Orientalists, and scholars

Edward G. Brown

Edward G. Brown, a professor of Arabic and oriental studies at the University of Cambridge, said a few words on the Master of Martyrs Imam Hussein: “... a reminder of the blood-stained field of Karbala, where the grandson of the Apostle of God fell at length, tortured by thirst and surrounded by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at anytime since then sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm and heedless, the deepest emotions, the most frantic grief, and an exaltation of spirit before which pain, danger and death shrink to unconsidered trifles.”

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (English novelist) writes: \"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.\"

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi (Indian political and spiritual leader) writes: \"I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.\" He adds \"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 sacrifice of Hussein, the great saint.\"

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Scholar describes the altruism of this great personality saying \"Imam Hussein\'s (A.S.) sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of righteousness.\"

Antoine Bara

Lebanese writer Antoine Bara in his book Hussein in Christian Ideology writes: \"No battle in the modern and past history of mankind has earned more sympathy and admiration as well as provided more lessons than the martyrdom of Hussein in the battle of Karbala.\"

Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal, poet and philosopher of Pakistan says: \"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.

Rabindranath Tagore

The great poet Rabindranath Tagore, He writes: “Hussein’s sacrifice indicates spiritual liberation. In order to keep alive justice and truth, instead of an army or weapons, success can be achieved by sacrificing lives, exactly what Imam Hussein (A.S.) did

Such an everlasting victory can only be achieved by the one who totally believes and trust in the Almighty God. ”

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson(1868-1945) writes, \"Hussein 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 Hussein as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer.\"

Edward Gibbon

Member of Parliament Edward Gibbon, considered as the greatest British historian of his time writes about Imam Hussein (AS) in his most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hussein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.”

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