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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Biography of Imam Hussain Bin Ali (as) Introduction A small Book of about twenty-five pages 'The King of Martyrs' was published in 1925 and since then, it was reproduced four times and every time in several thousands and yet he demand for it had been on the increase, and this is the Fifth enlarged edition. With the increase in the standard of literacy among the masses, the demand for the Islamic literature in its original purity is growing steadily.

Today, more than ever, the awakened intellect of the human world, is seriously in quest of the invaluable knowledge which Islam alone can provide. The pity is that most of the great Muslim scholars, who are the stores of knowledge about the original teachings of Islam, do not care for the modern western languages, and those who have mastered these languages have never had the benefit of a serious study of Islamic literature through the original sources.

Whatever knowledge, about Islam and the Islamic literature, these scholars of the modern languages possess, they could have it from the prejudicial translations into those languages mostly by the missionary class, brought out with the exclusive purpose of spreading prejudice against Islam, and the Holy personalities of the Faith to secure the unearned glorification for their own heroes and enlist believers in their own respective creeds.

Unfortunately some of our own brethren get the information from such hostile sources and present it as the genuine truth and never care to scrutinize with reference to the original sources of the knowledge. The kind or the degree of knowledge about Islam and the Islamic affairs which some of these men possess in disclosed form their talks and writings.

Particularly in regard to the great event of KARBALA which has been termed in the very Word of God, i.e., the HOLY QUR'AN, as 'ZIBHE AZEEM' or the Great Slaughter, most of our Muslim brethren either do not know it at all or they have been missing which has been often noted, that is when such ill-informed ones are rightly informed, they immediately acknowledge the Truth, the glory of HUSSAIN, they Holy King of Martyrs, the divinity endowed in his Holy Personality and the important part the devotion to the Holy Imam, plays in elevating the human soul to the heights of heavenly glory.