You are invited to join the Assembly of Appearance …

Place: Toward Karbala

Time:  Arba’in

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

It is Arba’in … we proceed toward you with haste … O Hosain!

Toward you, the forever manifestation of Servitude of Allah … O Hosain!

You showed- with your martyrdom, with your pure blood, with your family and loved ones’ captivity …- that the obedience of Allah and survival of the one and only Truth of Allah … were your sublime goals … you indeed served your Lord, O Hosain!

It is Arba’in … we proceed toward your Karbala with haste … O Hosain!

… To commemorate and appreciate the mountain of patience and endurance … your Zaynab … O Hosain!

… To appreciate your immaculate progeny … those who with their footprints depicted your oppressedness and suppressedness … O Hosain!

… To commemorate your companions … the heroes of insight, loyalty and zeal, the essence of devotion and submission … those who knew their lord truly, and knowingly obeyed … O Hosain!

Yes … we proceed toward your rendezvous … to utter the Appearance of your Avenger … O Hosain!

We come on foot … with disheveled hair and crying eyes … weeping, praising and lamenting …  not just for ourselves but on behalf of all believers, all who love and seek you, all the Shi’ah … all who, in these hours and moments, their lips murmur and their hearts whisper Salawaat and the Faraj Supplication … O Hosain!

O our beloved Lord Allah! Watching abandonment of the Truth … is enough … defiance of vanities … is enough … parade of oppression and injustice … is enough … separation from Mahdi … is enough … being deprived of his noble and bounteous Government … is enough …

… Deception, affectation, hypocrisy, guile and … is enough … poverty, calamity and … is enough … corruption, satanic living and … is enough … war, bloodshed and … is enough …

O Allah! Our hearts yearn for Your Kingdom … for the prevailing of True Monotheism … for the delightful fragrance of True Justice … for the echo of Adhaan in Heavens and on earth … for the fruit-bearing of Hadrat Mohammad’s (SAWA) Prophethood … for the blissful conclusion of all Prophets’ and Successors’ Anticipation … for Hadrat Fatimah’s happiness … for Hadrats ‘Ali, Hasan, Hosain, ‘Ali, Mohammad, Ja’far, Moosa, ‘Ali, Mohammad, ‘Ali, Hasan and Mahdi’s pleasedness …

We proceed toward you with haste … toward your Karbala … toward consolation of your last beloved’s broken heart … he who has been reviewing your martyrdom every morning and evening … he who has been crying blood … he who, patiently. Has been leading his Ummah away from the pitfalls and trials of Disappearance … until the day that the darkness of negligence shall be over … wakeful hearts repeat your name and seek your avenger … O Hosain!

We proceed toward your Shrine with haste … hoping that today may be that day … O Hosain!

AAAAAHHHHH!