KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday said that the sacrifices rendered by Imam Hussain (AS) and his companions called upon every Muslim to keep aloft the banner of truth and resist oppression and falsehood even under the most trying of circumstances.
In a message on the Yom-e-Ashur, he said that Imam Hussain (AS) will also be remembered in history for redefining the meanings of life and death on the one hand and the victor and vanquished on the other. Today Imam Hussain (AS) is alive and victorious while his tormentors are dead and vanquished, he said. “Tyranny and falsehood appear from time to time under different garbs and a Hussain is needed at every point of time in history. The falsehood and oppression of our time has reared its head in the garb of religiosity.” “We need to emulate the example of Imam Hussain in resisting tyranny, oppression and falsehood,” he said. “Let us therefore reiterate our resolve today that we shall neither submit before oppression and injustice nor let the evil have its sway,” the PPP chairman said. “On this day we also pay homage to the immortal martyrs of Karbala. May Allah be pleased with them all.” Meanwhile, former president Asif Zardari called upon the people to emulate the example of the great Imam (AS) in resisting tyranny and injustice. In a message, he said that the underlying message of Imam Hussain’s supreme sacrifice was; ‘resist tyranny, oppression and falsehood at all costs and under all circumstances’. “This message was relevant yesterday, is relevant today and will be relevant tomorrow. Indeed the message is universal in character and transcends the bounds of time, geography, guise and climes”. “Tyranny and oppression changes guise with changing times. The tyrant of our time wears the guise of religiosity to unleash a reign of terror in the name of religion,” he said.
Published in Daily Times, October 1st 2017.
