Yesterday I had two conversations about Shia beliefs. One person asked questions only to argue, dismiss everything as bid’ah, and defend what they already believed. Another asked questions because she genuinely wanted to understand. Same topic, completely different outcome 1/2
عاشورہ کے دن، چترال میں سپاہ صحابہ کے ارکان کے ایک گروپ نے مبینہ طور پر ایک دکاندار کی جانب سے لگائی گئی سبیل پر حملہ کیا۔ یہ سبیل روایتی طور پر محرم کے دوران سانحہ کربلا اور امام حسینؑ کی شہادت کی یاد میں قائم کی جاتی تھی۔
When Zainab’s sermon exposed Yazid, he ordered the Azaan just to drown out her voice and hide the truth. Today, the systematic hate spread during Ashura serves the same purpose,a desperate distraction to save Yazid from condemnation and stop Karbala from being told
@TheAyeshaMirza@Alyhassan959 I’m all for respectful questions. “Was Imam Husayn martyred in sujood according to some narrations?” is a question. “Oh, so that was just an exaggeration?” is a loaded assumption. Those aren’t the same thing
Karbala was not Yazids only sin. 2 years later he waged the battle of Harra, seiged the Kaaba for 60 days, threw catapults at it, and broke the hijr e aswad. His sins knew no bounds. There is mass grave for the Shuhada of Harra in Baqi.
Allama Ali Raza Rizvi said "Hussain a.s ko sab mante hai, Hindu, Sikh, yahoodi aur yazeed ko sirf musalman mantay hai" and it sums up today's Twitter's argument
@TheAyeshaMirza@Alyhassan959 You seem more offended by my reply than by someone dismissing centuries of Islamic narrations as “an exaggeration.” Maybe get your priorities straight
@syedamaheenkam Music and dancing aren’t permissible in Islam to begin with. As for nikahs and engagements, do whatever you believe is right. For us, Muharram is a month of grief, so we don’t celebrate. Respecting that is not extremism
1) Muharram is not a debate topic for me. It is remembrance of Karbala, Hussain, and grief that is carried, not explained. If someone chooses celebration, that is their choice. I am not here to police anyone.
But I will not apologise for observing mourning or treating this month with restraint and respect.
2) What I refuse is the yearly cycle of mockery, insults, and sudden religious policing aimed at Shias.