The month of Muharram is the month of epic action, the month in which blood triumphed over the sword; the month in which the power of Truth forever condemned falsehood and stamped the faces of tyrants and wicked government with the brand of vanity and falsehood; the month that teaches all generations throughout history, the way to victory over bayonet point; the month that registered, the defeat of the arrogant powers vis-a-vis the Word of Truth; the month in which the Imam of the Muslims taught us how to fight history's tyrants; the month in which the clenched fists of the rightful, the seekers of freedom and independence must overcome the tanks, the machine-guns and the forces of the devil and the Word of Truth expurgate falsehood.
Muharram is the month in which Justice rose, against Injustice and Truth stood up against Falsehood and proved that, in the course of history, Truth has always Triumphed over Falsehood.
Muharram is the month in which Islam was revived by the Master of Challengers and the Innocent and was rescued from the plotting of the corrupt agents of Bani Omayyad who had driven Islam to the brim of fall. From its inception Islam was watered and nurtured by the blood of the martyrs and mujahedin (crusaders).
For the Shiite Faith, Muharram is the month in which victory was achieve amid blood and sacrifice.
What a tragic and yet destructive as well as creative month is Muharram!? Muharram is the month of the Master of Martyr's great uprising. The lord of all saints and divine authorities by his uprising against the Taghut (Tyrant) instructed mankind how to destroy and how to build or create. He saw the path to the annihilation of the tyrant in giving martyrs and sacrificing lives. This point is an epigraph to Islamic teachings for our nation of the time.
It Is by the grace of Muharram and Safar that Islam survives.
We must keep the months of Muharram and Safar alive by recitation of the calamities that befell the household of the Prophet (pbuh&hh). It is by such recitation and mouming that this Religion has lived to this date.
Muharram is a month during which people are apt to hear the words of Truth.
Now that the month of Muharram, as a divine sword is in the hands of soldiers of Islam, the grand clergy, the honorable preachers and the noble followers of the Master of martyrs, it must be put to best use and, by reliance on divine power, uproot the residue of this woody plant of cruelty and treachery for it is in the month of Muharram that powers of arrogance and evil are destroyed.
* Book: The Ashura Uprising. By: Imam Khomeini (May his secret be sacred)