Therefore, it is not that Imam Husayn (a.

Therefore, it is not that Imam Husayn (a.s.) wanted to achieve power, but his departure to Iraq was in response to the call of the people to redeem the faith from being corrupted and to protect the common man from oppression, tyranny and cruelty of the state perpetrated on the poor and the innocent.

The importance of this aspect of the Imam’s obligation stressed in the letters written by the people of Kufa and Imam Husayn’s response to the demand can be appreciated only with a proper understanding of Imamate, which we have dealt with in an earlier chapter. Imam Husayn (S) replied to the last letter that is extracted by al-Haj Moulvi Ghulam Abbas Ali, “In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate. This letter is written by Husayn son of Ali to the believers and…