Ahmad Hussein Yaqub “Jordanian Writers and Scholars”

By choosing Shi’ism, I made a covenant with my God that I would always be a defender of the Ahl al-Bayt… My eyes shed tears over the sufferings of Imam Hussein (as) and this led me to turn to Shi’ism… What wise person leaves the family of Muhammad and follows others…

Ahmad Hussein writes in a book entitled Ibna al-Rasool fi Karbala (ابناء الرسول فی کربلا) about the issues of Karbala and Ashura: The oppressors wanted to erase Islam, to eradicate the remembrance of Muhammad and Ali (as), they committed every crime and oppression and they had nothing of humanity and they changed the Haram and Halal (حرام و حلال) and replaced the companions with the Ahl al-Bayt… At this time it was Hussein a.s who stood against oppression… he is Sayyid Azadegan and Sayyid al-Shuhada and he caused the conquest of the heart of Ahmad Hussein Yaqub and…