Re: Muharram Starts!!! Some Important Questions to Ask (Exclusive)
Remembering Ahyl ul Bait (PBUT) and their sacrifice whether alone in a room, in a masjid full of hundreds of people or in Karbala with thousands of others, or doing matam or not doing matam, or wearing black or not wearing black, or listening to Noha or not. That does not define a lover of Ahyl ul Bait (PBUT). A devout Muslim who believes in Allah and our Prophet’s (PBUH) message believes in commemorating the day Imam Hussain came to Karbala to show the world that his sacrifice, however great it was. Was that so the authentic traditions and beliefs of Islam would not be perverted by power hungry caliphs. If a Muslim chooses to use the month of Muharrem as a month to remember these exalted peoples’ sacrifices and troubles, and utilize it as a medium to connect themselves to Allah and Islam, then anyone’s common sense can tell you it is not harmful in any way to anyone. I was raised in a mixed Sunni/Shia family and I know many Sunnis who do matam on these days and say it is because they feel to do it in their heart as long as it is not harming anyone. And I know Shias who have very little interest in Muharrem and still consider themselves Shia. This is not an obligation but a choice to commemorate the sacrifice of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) family- which no one – 1400 years later, has been able to replicate, nor will they ever will be able to. No matter how many times they blow themselves up.