In The Respect Of Muharam -By: Sana Naseer Shaikh

Sayings of Legends:

• Mahatma Gandhi “I learnd from Hussein how to achieve victory while
  being oppressed.”
• Thomas Carlyle (Scottish historian and essayist): “The best lesson
  which we get from the tragedy of Cerebella is that Husain and his
  companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the
  numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and
  the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels
  me!”
• Edward Gibbon (English historian and member of parliament): “In a
  distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will
  awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.” (The Decline and Fall of
  the Roman Empire, London, 1911, volume 5, p. 391-392)
• Charles Dickens (English novelist): “If Husain had fought to quench
  his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and
  children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he
  sacrificed purely for Islam.”
• Antoine Bara (Lebanese writer): “No battle in the modern and past
  history of mankind has earned more sympathy and admiration as well as
  provided more lessons than the martyrdom of Husayn in the battle of
  Karbala.” (Husayn in Christian Ideology)
• Dr. K. Sheldrake: “Of that gallant band, male and female knew that
  the enemy forces around were implacable, and were not only ready to
  fight, but to kill. Denied even water for the children, they remained
  parched under the burning sun and scorching sands, yet not one
  faltered for a moment. Husain marched with his little company, not to
  glory, not to power of wealth, but to a supreme sacrifice, and every
  member bravely faced the greatest odds without flinching.”
• Ignaz Goldziher (Hungarian orientalist): “…Weeping and lamentation
  over the evils and persecutions suffered by the ‘Alid family, and
  mourning for its martyrs: these are things from which loyal supporters
  of the cause cannot cease. ‘More touching than the tears of the
  Shi’is’ has even become an Arabic proverb.” (Introduction to Islamic
  Theology and Law, Princeton, 1981, p.179)
• Edward G. Brown (Professor at the University of Cambridge): “…a
  reminder of that blood-stained field of Karbala, where the grandson of
  the Apostle of God fell, at length, tortured by thirst, and surround
  by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at anytime since then,
  sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm and the heedless, the
  deepest emotion, the most frantic grief, and an exaltation of spirit
  before which pain, danger, and death shrink to unconsidered trifles.”
  (A Literary History of Persia, London, 1919, p.227)
• Sir William Muir (Scottish orientalist): “The tragedy of Karbala
  decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan
  kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.” (Annals
  of the Early Caliphate, London, 1883, p.441-442)
• “Though Imam Hussain gave his life years ago, but his
  indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today.”Dr. Radha
  Krishnan
• Mahatma Gandhi-“My faith is that the progress of Islam does not
  depend on the use of sword by its believers, but the result of the
  supreme sacrifice of Hussain (A.S.), the great saint.”
• Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru-“Imam Hussain’s (A.S.) sacrifice is for all
  groups and communities, an example of the path of righteousness.”
•  Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
  “Hussain (A.S.) fell, pierced by an arrow, and his brave followers
  were cut down beside him to the last man. Muhammadan tradition, which
  with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty,
  regards Hussain (A.S.) as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer.” [A
  Literary History of the Arabs, Cambridge, 1930, p197]
• Rabindranath Tagore-“In order to keep alive justice and truth,
  instead of an army or weapons, success can be achieved by sacrificing
  lives, exactly what Imam Hussain (A.S.) did
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad-“The sacrifice of Imam Hussain (A.S.) is not
  limited to one country, or nation, but it is the hereditary state of
  the brotherhood of all mankind.”
• Dr. Radha Krishnan-“Though Imam Hussain (A.S.) gave his life almost
  1300 years ago, but his indestructible soul rules the hearts of people
  even today.”
• Swami Shankaracharya-“It is Hussain’s (A.S.) sacrifice that has
  kept Islam alive or else in this world there would be no one left to
  take Islam’s name.”
• Mrs. Sarojini Naidu--“I congratulate Muslims that from among them,
  Hussain (A.S.), a great human being was born, who is reverted and
  honored totally by all communities.