Muharram and Muslim World

Its been a while since my last post. Seems I've lost some of the enthusiasm I had when I started about two weeks ago. Anyways, writing something may be better just to keep things rolling in here.

Recently, so many events have taken place that I just kept thinking that I would right about this, or may be that. Eventually, I ended up writing about nothing. Finally, I decided on writing some words on the holy month of Muharram.

Last Sunday was 10th Muharram of the Islamic year 1429. Being the first month of the Islamic calender this month hold so much significance in Islamic history that it would be unfair to summarize in few lines or words. The prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him [s.a.w]) had informed us in his teachings about the many significant events that had taken their place in the history. However, as we take a look around us we see the significance this day holds nowadays is the tragic events that took place at Karbala in 680CE. A heart wrenching chain of events unraveled during the time. The most cherished and loved ones of our prophet (s.a.w) were martyred. A portion of the Muslim world still mourns those deaths with a certain passion. Differences have plague the Muslim world since those days, which have sometimes ended up in meaningless violence and hatred amongst the ignorant population.

There is no doubt that some of the scholars of the two main school of thoughts try to reconcile their differences. However one cannot ignore the the number of not so scholarly scholars who are intolerant of others' views and their records of history.

I can only hope that these differences become only matter of debate, not matters of life and death.