Imam Husayn (A.S.), The Grandson of the Holy Prophet of Islam (S.A.W.),the Doyen of

the Martyrs, the Chief of the Youth of Paradise, the second son of Imam Ali(A.S.) and H.Fatimah Zahra (A.S.), the third Holy Imam of the Shi'ites was martyred along

with his 72 faithful followers on

10th Muharram (Ashura),61 Hijrah.

In Karbala (Iraq) and saved Islam from complete destruction by his great sacrifice.

On this Sorrowful and Mourning Occasion of the Martyrdom

Anniversary of Imam Husayn(A.S.) and his 72 faithful followers we express our Heartfelt Grief and Condolences to the 1.4 Billion

Strong Muslim Ummah and all the freedom-loving and oppressed

people in the world.

If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini's fatwa against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this

rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway

and France would not have dared to do so.

-Syed Hassan Nasrallah

Mourning sessions for Imam Hussein (A.S) who sacrificed in the Path of God, have

developed young men and youth who voluntarily go to the war fronts seeking

martyrdom and feel unhappy if they don't achieve it. It develops such mothers who

urge their sons to go to the war fronts and if they do not return, the mothers wish they

had more sons to send or say we have other sons to send to the war fronts.  . . .

- Imam Khomeini (RA)