Ali Ataie – Can A Sunni Muslim Commemorate the Martyrdom of Imam Hussein (RA)

So his question is, I'm a new Muslim.

My question is why don't we commemorate the

martyrdom of of Hussein alaihis salam? As Sunnis,

shouldn't we be concerned

that within 50 years of the prophets of

death, his grandson was murdered. It seems like

we should commemorate

his martyrdom too. Yes. We should. I I

agree. We should commemorate his martyrdom.

We should remember him.

We should constantly

be praising

the. And, of course, Imam al Hussein

is, as the questioner said, a grandson of

the prophet

not only that, he's a he's a companion

of the prophet

So a lot of the times I think,

people get caught up in emotion. They get

caught up in, again, this kind of divisive

rhetoric.

So there are people who I mean, I've

I've quoted

I've quoted hadith in our books

during the chutba

praising.

And people will come up to me and

say, are you a are you a shiri?

And they don't know I'm from Iran because

of the that would be mean, if they

knew I was an Iranian, they would

assume yours. But they don't know anything about

me. Right?

So are you I said, why do you

think I'm a Shi'i? You could you said

this about Imam Hassan. I said that this

hadith is an. This hadith is a. This

hadith is a. This had what are you

talking about? Oh, I've never heard this hadith.

You know, that's that's a shame.

You know? So I think people for the

sake of not

being labeled a certain thing are not being

true to their tradition.

You know? And that's that's unfortunate.

You know?

But that we should we should definitely, you

know, when you say commemorate his martyrdom,

you

know, there there's certain practices that our Shia

brethren do to commemorate the the martyrdom that

are not acceptable according to

the Sunni urdama.

Okay. So there's different ways. As as I

said in my lecture, there's different ways in

which we commemorate Athan Beit.

There's different ways in which in which different

sunnis,

commemorate the molid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wasallam. Everyone believes in the molid of the

prophet. Molid means he was born. Right? Everyone

believed. You have to believe that. And everyone

has to show joy. They have to have

joy in their hearts that the prophet was

born. You have to.

But it doesn't mean you have to go

to a gathering

and listen to poetry about the policy. You

can if you want. You don't have to.

Right?

So

we commemorate Imam Hussain in different ways.

The Dean is

vast.

Right?