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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Edward Gibbon:
“In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hussain (a.s) will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.”
[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London, 1911, volume 5, pp391-2]
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 sacrifice of Hussain(a.s), the great saint."
Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru:
"Imam Hussains(a.s) sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of righteousness."
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson:
"Hussain(a.s) 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 Hussain(a.s) as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer."
----[A Literary History of the Arabs, Cambridge, 1930, p.197]
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 Hussain (a.s) did.”
Dr. Rajendra Prasad:
“The sacrifice of Imam Hussain (a.s) 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 Hussain (a.s) gave his life almost 1300 years ago, but his indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today.”
Swami Shankaracharya:
“It is Hussain’s (a.s) sacrifice that has kept Islam alive or else in this world there would be no one left to take Islam’s name.”
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu:
“I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Hussain (a.s), a great human being was born, who is revered and honored totally by all communities.”