1. آهنگ مقصد با صدای شهره

    19:56 6th May 2012

  2. Analysis of the Sermon of Syeda Zainab

    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BAF37BE635DADE5

    Speakers: Zahra Al-Alawi/Sarah Taki, Sunna Kaleem, Fatimah Mohammad

    Qualifications: None stated

    • After the battle of Karbala, Zainab and the other surviving ladies and children were taken captive to Kufa (Iraq), and then to Sham (Syria)  

    • Yazid held a celebration in Kufa for his “victory”  

    • During the celebration, Zainab made a speech that exposed the lies of Yazid and informed the Umayyad dynasty of the truth of Hussein’s revolution  

    • Yazid had stripped Islam of its most basic principles  

    • Syeda delivered two sermons, one in Kufa, and one in Sham  

    • In Kufa, Al-Ziyad tried to mock the Ahlulbayt  

      • He said “Praise be to God, who disgraced you, and revealed your sayings as false”  

      • She replied “Praise be to God, who has honored us with his messenger and purified us from all impurities”  

        • This is a direct quote from the Quran  

         
         

      • She went on to say “The one who is disgraced is certainly the libertine, and the one who has lied is the lewd, and we are not such people”  

        • When someone lies and does evil deeds, it is our duty, as Muslims, to stand against that person  

         
         

       
       

    • Syeda Zainab spoke in front of both men and women, in proper hijab, and she spoke directly  

    • If a person or society stops women from education, how will they be able to learn about Islam, serve the faith, and secure their place in heaven?  

      • A noble lady from the Holy Household established the first madrassa  

      • Where would Islam be today without madrassas?  

       
       

    • If Islam is ever attacked, it is the responsibility of both men and women to come to its aid, therefore it is our responsibility as a society to ensure that both men and women are educated  

    • Al Ziyad was stunned by Syeda Zainab’s well formed reply, as women were not considered as equals in intellect by hypocrites such as him  

      • He continued to abuse her with his language, saying “How did you find the way God treated your brother and family?”  

      • She replied “I saw nothing but beauty; they rushed towards their graves with honor.  But know that God will judge between you and them, and he will call you to account, so be worried about the winner on that day”  

       
       

    • Syeda Zainab made this speech despite being in a great amount of stress  

      • She had just witnessed her brother and family members killed violently, many of her closest friends and their children burned to death, along with many other atrocities  

      • She was speaking to the tyrannical dictator of her nation, who could kill her at any time  

      • She was tired and hungry, after being forced to march in captivity for 80 km  

      • This was not a planned speech, she fought through the difficult situation to deliver a stirring sermon that “shook the very foundations of the Umayyad Dynasty”  

      • She delivered the speech even though her hijab had been compromised by her captors  

        • Her standards of hijab were very, very, high, she wore 7 layers of clothing, so that nothing was ever revealed  

         
         

       
       

    • Of all the tragedies of Karbala, the capture of Syeda Zainab is widely viewed as the most tragic  

      • All the martyrs and Imams are said to have “wept blood” over the unfortunate event  

       
       

    • Yazid was not legally permitted to be caliph  

      • At that time, only born Muslims were permitted to be caliph, Yazid was a “convert”  

       
       

    • It is very important to note that Yazid forcefully removed Syeda Zainab’s hijab  

      • She is the sister of the “Prince of Heaven”  

      • She is in the line of rightful rulers of the Islamic world  

      • Personal Note: Hijab is very important to those people who practice it, forcefully removing a woman’s hijab is the same as stripping her bare, and the severity of this crime was discussed at length by the speakers.  I personally do not believe in compulsory hijab, but the way it is discussed, I can tell that practitioners find hijab to be very comforting, and denying this comfort is, in my mind, an act of oppression  

       
       

    • Even without physically removing the fabric of the hijab, parading such a noble lady around (against her will) before unfamiliar men is just as much a compromise of the hijab  

    • Syeda Zainab was only kept captive for 2-4 weeks, as her imprisonment was a very destabilizing factor for the regime  

    • In Kufa, Syeda caused a storm of discontent among the people, as they largely sympathized with the revolution of Hussein  

    • Even Yazid’s own wife was loyal to the Imamate, and she invited Syeda Zainab and the other captives to hold a majlis in Yazid’s palace  

    • Syeda Zainab’s words inspired insurgency and revolution against the Umayyad Dynasty for years  after her captivity and sermons, and eventually led to the demise of the corrupt Caliphate  

    • On the day of judgment, all people will stand behind their chosen Imam, and if the Imam is lost, his followers will be lost as well  

      • Yazid’s misguided followers will be judged justly for their crimes  

       
       

    • Islam is based on standing against oppression  

      • It is the strongest form of jihad to speak against an oppressive ruler  

       
       

    • “And your lord never treats his servants unjustly, to God is our complaint, and to him do we rely upon.  So scheme whatever you wish to scheme, and carry out your plots, and intensify your efforts, for by God, you shall never be able to obliterate our mention, nor will you ever be able to kill the revelation that was revealed to us, nor will you ever usurp our position, nor will your shame ever be washed away.  Your views shall be proven futile, and your days limited in number, and your wealth wasted on the day the callers call out ‘The curse of God is upon the oppressors’”  

      • The oppressors plot, but God plots as well, and God is the best of plotters  

      • If you follow the cursed oppressors, you are cursed as well  

      • If we do not challenge the oppressor, he will become more bold and more evil  

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  3. Analysis of the Sermon of Syeda Zainab 2

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  4. Analysis of the Sermon of Syeda Zainab 1

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  5. Analysis of the sermon of Sayedda Zainab (as) PT3 

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  6. CHEMICAL WEAPONS HAVE NO PLACE IN THIS WORLD

    01:36 15th Sep 2011

  7. The Halabja poison gas attack (Kurdish: Kîmyabarana Helebce), also known as Halabja massacre or Bloody Friday,[1] was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.

    The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people, and injured around 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians;[1][2]thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack.[3] The incident, which has been officially defined as an act of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq,[4] was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.[5]

    The Halabja attack has been recognized as a separate event from the Anfal Genocide that was also conducted against theKurdish people by the Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein.[6] The Iraqi High Criminal Court recognized the Halabja massacre as an act of genocide on March 1, 2010, a decision welcomed by the Kurdistan Regional Government.[7] The attack was also condemned as a crime against humanity by the Parliament of Canada.[8]

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