Similarly...

Similarly, it is not possible for a person to live his entire life as a ‘Yazidi’ but die as a ‘Husayni’ as his heart would be so polluted with sins and evil, that it would be very hard, if not impossible to return back to the straight path. Granted there are those who have led less than pious lives and have died on the path of Islam however for them we can state that they had not arrived to a state in which their entire presence had been covered over with sins – people such as Hurr b.

Yazid al-Riyaahi. Thus, in this life of the Ziyarat we are asking for the death of a Shaheed – Martyr – as this is the noblest way of leaving the world especially keeping in mind that we could die in many ways such as crossing the street, riding a bike or something of this nature... Previous…