Husayn Quotes

“Son, no hardship is bad after which there is Paradise and no goodness is good after which there is Hell. Every bounty is less than Paradise and every calamity is lesser than the Fire of Hell. Know, my son, that one who is aware of his own faults, he does not find fault of others. And one who is satisfied with the fate of Almighty, he is not distraught with what he loses. And one who exposes others, his own defects shall be exposed. And one who ignores his own sins, he regards the sins of others as great.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“There are some among them who have fulfilled their pledge, and some of them who still wait, and they have not changed in the least,’” Husayn quoted Quran 33:23.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“The contentment of our household lies in the pleasure of God alone. Verily we will endure His trials and secure the reward due to the patient.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“Two, the Prophet of God said that a believer never takes a life by way of deceit. This was simply not the way for us.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“By God, a leader is only one who acts on the Book of God, practices justice, and follows the truth. It is he who has connected himself to the decree of God.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“Hasan and Husayn tolerated Muawiya and entered into an accord with him for the benefit of the people and the faith. At that time, no other option would have yielded better results, given the circumstances. With Yazid, however, acquiescing to his rule would not save the faith or the people. While Muawiya maintained a public façade of piety and regard for the tenets of the faith, Yazid was a drunken miscreant who publicly violated what any Muslim would hold sacred. The people of Iraq saw this. They beseeched Husayn once again.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“By God, this shoe is more valuable than the caliphate they fight over. I only assume its position to establish truth and eradicate falsehood.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“No status is higher than submission to God,”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“whosever’s heart dies, he shall enter the Fire.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the caliphate, but of the Mohammedan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared. – Annals of the Early Caliphate (London, 1883).”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Husayn as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“If the religion of my grandfather Muhammad is not to remain except by my death, then, O swords, take me.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“Husayn should be remembered as the savior of God’s last and final message, the guardian of its pristine faith, the custodian of its truth. He was the leader who would sacrifice everything he had for people he would never see, and for generations not yet born.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“even with the presence of thousands of soldiers in battling camps, it was most common for duals or one-on-one skirmishes to take place. The best of one camp would come forward to challenge the best of the opposing camp.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“the Prophet Muhammad and his family, as the vicegerents of God, acted on the basis of two principles: hifdh al-din (preservation of faith) and hifdh al-dima’ (preservation of life). Their objective was to save and preserve Islam, as its guardians, and at the same time protect the sanctity of life and honor humanity.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“Mohamed Ali Al-Bodairi’s The Saga: The Battle of Karbala, published by the Mainstay Foundation in 2018.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Husayn will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“Manners are the best inheritance and good behavior is the best companion.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope

“His love was the Prophet’s love, and to love the Prophet was to love God. The Prophet made this an essential part of Muslim ethos and identity. Loving Husayn was inevitable. He told his companions, “Husayn is of me and I am of him, God loves whoever loves Husayn.”
― Jalal Moughania, Husayn: The Saga of Hope