I'm just exhausted and nobody warned me about this like literally nobody talks about how hard parenting literally is they just make it look easy and say "everyone does it you can do it too"

But can one really do that when the peak of debauchery, the peak of vileness has been reached? Someone has to take a stand..

There was a difference between the time of Imam Hassan and a man like Muawiya, and there was a difference between the time of Imam Hussain and a man like Yazid.

Islam values human life. No doubt about that. Only when it's necessary for the betterment of society and for the betterment of the people does Islam allow for sacrifice of human life. For the greater good.

War is only allowed as an absolute last resort.

Think of all the oppression and suffering all of our Imams quietly beared. Imam Ali literally witnessed his beloved wife crushed behind a door from members of his own ummah.

Yet Imam Hussain and the battle of Karbala is perhaps the only example of a war that was waged deliberately by an Imam. What makes his example different? The man he was up against, and the precedent which was being set in society by having such a vile man be given any position of leadership!

So Imam Hussain died alongside 72 of the greatest men of that time. At even though, at the time, it felt like a huge loss. No doubt about it. 72 of the holiest living men. Each man was worth a 1000 regular men. To even lose one man of such a high spiritual stature is a travesty to society. Not to mention all the other pain and suffering that the women and children faced, and many of them also lost their lives. It was no small hardship they faced by facing war openly and stepping into battle so boldly.

But yet, even after all that severe level of suffering, it was a sacrifice that was worth it, because only because of that sacrifice do we practice this religion today and only because of that sacrifice do we have the faith which we hold so dearly...even though on a surface level, at the time, it seemed useless maybe. Because Yazid was still technically in power. But it was about taking a stand. It was about bringing awareness to the minds and hearts of people. Which they were 100% effective in..but the cost was their own blood and their own precious lives.