{"id":723,"date":"2021-10-20T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=723"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:53:39","slug":"rumi-and-imam-hussain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Rumi and Imam Hussain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashura, and the battle of Karbala in 680 A.D., was a pivotal moment in Islamic history. The slaughter of Imam Hussain and the Prophet Mohammad&#8217;s family left a deep scar on Muslim psyche. Rumi has a unique take on this event. He sees a different face of Ashura, which Muslims have failed to notice: the beauty of overflowing love for God, loyalty, perseverance, self-sacrifice, courage and bravery. This is the face we should memorialize- not death and destruction. In this presentation, we will discuss Rumi&#8217;s view of Ashura and Imam Hussain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1628\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1628','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=723-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"08-20-2021.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashura, and the battle of Karbala in 680 A.D., was a pivotal moment in Islamic history. The slaughter of Imam Hussain and the Prophet Mohammad&#8217;s family left a deep scar on Muslim psyche. Rumi has a unique take on this event. He sees a different face of Ashura, which Muslims have failed to notice: the beauty of overflowing love for God, loyalty, perseverance, self-sacrifice, courage and bravery. This is the face we should memorialize- not death and destruction. In this presentation, we will discuss Rumi&#8217;s view of Ashura and Imam Hussain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1629\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1629','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=723-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-20-2021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"08-20-2021.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}