The morals and values depicted include faith...

The morals and values depicted include faith, monotheism, freedom, love for God and struggle for His sake, hate for God's sake, remembrance [of God], renouncing of the world, sincerity, gratitude, piety, altruism, allegiance, self-esteem, strength, courage, patience, far-sightedness, acute discernment and much more that we are not aware of, which history recorded for us concerning the blessed party that accompanied Husayn (as) on his journey to God on the day of Ashura and prior to that.

Beauty attracts man wherever it may be: in nature, in society, in forms and figures or in values, morals and meaning. It is amazing that we find loyalty and repudiation in the camp that was opposed to Husayn (as) as well, although in a completely opposite direction: loyalty to taghut and repudiation of God's friends, and loyalty to the party of Satan and repudiation of the party of God. As loyalty and repudiation are reversed, values and morals follow suit; both follow God's norms.

Thus we witness these opposites within the camp that fought Husayn (as): heedlessness to God as opposed to remembering him, polytheism as opposed to monotheism, selfishness as opposed to altruism, cowardice as opposed to courage, weakness as opposed to strength, ingratitude as opposed to gratefulness, sin as opposed to piety, love for God's enemies and hate for His friends as opposed to love for God and for His sake and hate for His sake, egocentrism as opposed to concern for others, meanness as opposed to generosity, humiliation as opposed to self-esteem and honour, anxiety as opposed to patience, treachery as opposed to loyalty.

We witness these and other negative values of that camp as opposed to the positive ones that abound in Husayn's camp. In this camp, after his right hand had been cut off by the enemy, al-Abbas raises this battle cry.

‘By God if they cut off my right hand, I will forever defend my religion, And [defend] the Imam who is certain in faith.’ From the other camp we read that when Shimr, the killer of Husayn (as) met Ibn Ziyad and, requested a prize, said: ‘Make my mount heavy with silver or with gold, [for] I have killed the cultured lord.

I have killed the man with the best father and mother, and the best of men when genealogies are mentioned.’[^1] These two opposing loyalties and repudiations that we see on the day of Ashura in Karbala, issuing from the two contending camps will continue throughout history among the supporters of Husayn and the supporters of the Umayyads.