The last 10 years of his life (life as Imam, about 50 – 61 A.

The last 10 years of his life (life as Imam, about 50 – 61 A.D.) coincided with the end of Mu’awiyah’s rule and continued with the most critical political turmoil in the history of Islam when the most hypocritical, corrupt and deviant individuals ruled over the territory of Islam. Immediately after the great Prophet of God (swaws) died, the people were deviated from the truth. Imam Ali (as) says: When Allah took the Prophet (to himself) a group of men went back on their tracks.

The ways (of misguidance) ruined them and they placed trust in deceitful intriguers, showed consideration to other than kinsmen, abandoned the kin whom they had been ordered to love, and shifted the building from its strong foundation and built it in other than its (proper) place. They are the source of every shortcoming and the door of gropers in the dark. They were moving to and fro in amazement and lay intoxicated in the manner of the people of the Pharaohs.

They were either bent on this world and taking support on it, or away from the faith and removed from it. (Sermon 150, Nahj al-Balagha) Soon, the materialism, self-worship, self-assumption and different deviated practices that neglected roots of Islam prevailed over faith and morality. Even the rulers of Islamic countries deceived people bringing them false reasons and explanations to prove their illegal and immoral actions for establishing kingdom and building palaces.

Imam Ali (as) pointed this historic fact saying: The cloth of Islam was put on unlikely. Imam Husayn (as) during his 10 years of divine leadership (Imamate) led people to the righteous deeds and introduced them the truth of doctrine of beliefs. Some introduction happened to be initiated through his speeches and poems he reminded consciences of his addressee by, in different appropriate occasions.

Although his poems seem to be much more than what we have collected, however, the number we have in hand is of great value and of preciously influential. The Shiite Imams (as) composed poems according to circumstances of their times and sometimes referred to famous poet that came before their times. From Imam Husayn bin Ali (as) many poems were narrated.

Some of them were recited by him in the battlefield of Karbala during the events that happened to his followers and their martyrdom in the forms of epics, guiding sermons and to awaken the enemy soldiers; While some are those said by him in during his life before that.