(AhlulBayt News Agency) - In 680 CE, less than fifty years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, an army of over thirty thousand men was deployed by thirty-three-year-old Umayyad Caliph Yazid to confront a tiny group of seventy-two people led by the prophet's grandson, Hussein ibn Ali, who had challenged the legitimacy of the Umayyad hereditary rule as un-Islamic.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) will organize the fourth edition of Arbaeen International Award in three categories of photos, videos and travelogue.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Pakistani National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq urged the nation to rise above parochial differences, narrow mindedness, sectarianism, ethnicity and maintain harmony, unity and brotherhood in the ranks in accordance with golden principles of Islam and follow the path of Imam Hussein (AS).
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A senior Kashmiri politician said that sacrifices of Karbala martyrs have a universal message of patience, determination, fortitude, and devotion which is a must to achieve salvation in this world and hereafter.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A conference titled ‘Muhsen of Humanity’ was held in Multan, Pakistan earlier this week with the participation of Shia and Sunni scholars.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A website in the Swedish language has been launched to introduce the life and virtues of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia Imam, to Swedish speakers.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Tehran's streets on Wednesday the 20th September were remarkably different than the other days of the year. Since the early noon hours, the city started getting ready to embrace the new Islamic Hijri year which starts with the commemoration of what some historians acknowledge as the tragedy of all human tragedies; the martyrdom of Imam Hussein [AS].
