Is Imam Hussain remembered at your Hussainiyat?

Are your Hussainiyat carefully designed to be pleasing to the eye? Are they set up to look good on camera? Did you ask one person specifically to make plans with the media?

Is Imam Hussain remembered at your Hussainiyat?

Is your Hussainiyat highlighted by emotional latmiyat bringing to mind the brutality that took place at Karbala? Are wails and moans fine-tuned to perfectly punctuate the poetry? Does your baby Asghar bring all the weeping ladies to the musalla?

Is Imam Hussain remembered at your Hussainiyat?

Who has heard Imam Hussain's Mina sermon at a Hussainiyat? Who knows what kinds of oppression Yazid inflicted on Muslims? Not just sexual mores broken, but lives broken, souls crushed. Who has heard Zainab's words to Yazid recited? Who has listened to Imam Sajjad's speech recited? Who among you knows how Imam Hussayn planned to counter Yazid's tyranny, how he would do things differently?

Is Imam Hussain remembered at your Hussainiyat?

Recorders and Vibrato

I just heard recorder players employing the vibrato on With Heart and Voice. Take that, Dr P. *grinz*

Here Is a Reason to Fly to Edinburgh!

Aman's post

Announcing the Scottish launch of my book on Tuesday 3rd November 2015. At The Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study...
Posted by Amanullah De Sondy on Thursday, 8 October 2015

His Name Is Cayden: "When Whites Boys Cry" Edition

Awwwwwwww, did we make the poow widdle white boy cwyyyy? Maybe ...
Posted by Freedom2B on Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Wild (Sorta) Pink Rose

In what ways is love like a flower? Why do we compare the two? Looking forward to your answers! :)

2015.10.04. Wild Pink Rose

This Rose as Love

A newly emerging Friendship Rose. May love grow in you as it does with this flower.

2015.10.04. Friendship Rose

Pouring Libations for the Ancestors

Some of the most powerful communications that I have ever heard were aired in this episode. They weren't loud. They spoke of the power of surviving hell. When the Ancestors speak, listen.