{"id":16541,"date":"2019-01-25T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/self-sacrifice-for-saving-others\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:47:46","slug":"self-sacrifice-for-saving-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/en\/self-sacrifice-for-saving-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Sacrifice for Saving Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16541\" class=\"elementor elementor-16541 elementor-1760\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3cffb278 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3cffb278\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7dd57f23\" data-id=\"7dd57f23\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ba16794 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ba16794\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>\u2026 He sacrificed his life in Your way; so that he would save Your servants from ignorance,\u00a0vagrancy of misguidance\u00a0\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Phrases from Ziarat Arba\u2019een of Imam Hussain (PBUH))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u2026 Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0and Ibn Zubair both refused to pay allegiance to Yazid and revolted against him. Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0came to\u00a0Iraq\u00a0and was killed there; and Ibn Zubair stood up against Yazid in\u00a0Mecca. When Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0was killed, ibn Zubair got a good excuse and added revenge of Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0from Yazid to his motives to rise against Yazid. He then fought Yazid for two years. Yazid\u2019s army threw stones and fire with catapult on Masjid al-Haraam from the\u00a0mount\u00a0Abu\u00a0Qubais as Ibn Zubair was hiding in the mosque. Yazid\u2019s army destroyed Ka\u2019ba but they withdrew and returned to Shaam as Yazid died during the war and thus they could not capture Ibn Zubair. Ibn Zubair declared victory and found many advocates and was able to expand his rule throughout Hijaz and\u00a0Iraq. Later at the time of governorship of Abd al-Malik Marwaan, the new Umayyad caliphate, he was killed by the ruler of Kufah, Hajjaj Ibn Yusof.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0and Ibn Zubair both stood against what was wrong and they were both killed; but Ibn Zubair called people to himself and Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0called everyone to his God.<\/p>\n<p>Ibn Zubair rose and said Yazid has no right to rule. He wanted the caliphate for himself; he wanted Yazid down so that he could go up. The one who desires kingship and power, he is devoted to evil. Ibn Zubair was killed for the cause of his worldly desires; he was devoted to the path of evil. Nevertheless, Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0was not seeking any position or kingship at all. Adolescent minded people are the one who care a lot for power. One, who has realized how belittled life is, understands that this world is nothing other than a\u00a0<strong>temporary joy<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>a game<\/strong>; power comes with more pains and concerns. Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0was more than being chained with worldly desires for power. When he was about to leave Mecca on the eight of Dhi al-Hijjah, he clearly stated, \u201cI am rising to enjoin to good and forbid from evil; not for getting any reign and to cause sedition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hussain\u2019s\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0path was exactly identical to his father and grandfather; to invite the Muslim nation to piety; to prevent them from seeking power and according to the holy Quran avoid them to \u201c<strong>seek superiority\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0on earth. Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0intended to prevent people from being deceived by alluring acts of Yazid and make them become worshipers of Allah\u00a0(SWT)\u00a0instead of being worshippers of a Man. Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0wanted to notify people that finally this world would pass, so what is the reason for this greediness and negligence? How many years would a person live in this world?<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Master of Martyrs sacrificed whatever he had only and only for the cause of Allah\u00a0(SWT). Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0points out the divine motive of Imam Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0beautifully in another excerpt from Ziarat of Arba\u2019een, \u201cO Allah, (I bear witness that) he fought with them in Your path while he was patient and only had You in his mind and was committed to shed his blood in the path of Your obedience \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>(The above is a selection taken from \u201c<em>Master of Martyrs (Sayyed al-Shuhada\u2019)<\/em>\u201d, by Ayatullah Dastgheib)<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imam Hussain (PBUH) rose solely for Allah, rejecting power and seeking to guide people from misguidance. Unlike Ibn Zubair, who pursued political rule, Hussain sacrificed everything to uphold truth and enjoin good. 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