This is because their superstition cannot remain in the face...

This is because their superstition cannot remain in the face of the tremendous progress that has occurred in scientific discoveries. The Husaynian ceremonies however, because of their intellectual aspects and living values, have persisted throughout all these centuries and this is because they are practises, which have a connection with the psychological mechanism of human belief.

For a person who believes in a thing is not like one who invents a superstition and if these ceremonies were superstitions they would not have persisted for the past fourteen hundred years and would not still be perceptibly increasing every year. ..al-Minbar: What then is the cause of this clamour that has been stirred up about the Husayni ceremonies? In truth, I have only seen the existence of this clamour amongst you (Muslims)! In any…