Mourning of Youm-e-asad concluded at Phyang

By Hajira Bano Balkhang Phyang, Aug 19, 2014
Phyang :
On the concluding day of Youm-e-asad, the procession, azadari was observed at Imam Bargah Phyang on 17 August to commemorate the day of martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS). The event was chaired by Alhaj Sheikh Ghulam Hadi Phyang.

The day marks the Anniversary of the Battle of Karbala when Imam Hussain Ibn Ali, (a shia Imam) Grandson of Prophet Mohammad and his entire family along with his 72 companions were martyred by the forces of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid including his six month old son Ali Asgar and that their women and children were taken as prisoners to Syria. News of Hussain’s death was spread by Imam Zainul Abedin, who succeeded Imam Hussain as the Shia Imam and Muhammad's granddaughter Zainab bint Ali and sister of Husayn, began mourning for the fallen and making speeches and sermons against Husayn ibn Ali's opponents: Ibn Ziyad and Yazid.

In this connection a majlis-e-aza was organized wherein people took out Azadari procession with Zuljanah and tabood, mourning, beating their chest and reciting nohas remembering the pain, suffering and sacrifice made by Imam Hussain for the sake of Islam and Humanity.

All the speakers threw light on the importance of observing this day and highlighted that Imam Hussain has set an example of humanity and peace for the whole world and has proved that at the end truth and justice always triumphs. The religious heads (Ulemas) spoke on different topics like importance of nimaz; status of women in Islam; Rights and duties of parents; unity among muslims; Momin ke Faraiz; Taqleed; Ilm aur Amal; Haq aur baatil; Falsafae qayaame Hussain; Taqwa; Mohabbat-e-Ahlibet; Tarbiyate aulad; Halaate mushaira; Falsafaye Azadari; Quran aur Ahlibet; Imamat; importance and reasons of observing Ashura (moharram).

Sheikh Ghulam Hadi in his speech said that the sacrifice and revolution of Imam Hussain and his companion were to preserve Islam and his Grandfather's Ummah against the innovation, hypocrisy, wickedness as well as the attempts to destroy and alter Islam and the quest for worldly pleasures and worldly gains by Yazid and his people. It was a matter of right and wrong, just and unjust and Hussain chose what is just.

The majlis concluded by observing Ziyarat-e-Imam Hussain, resembling or as a mark of paying homage and pilgrimage to the Imam Hussain shrine.