Every Day Is Ashura and Every Land Is Karbala: Difference between revisions

'''Kull yawm ʿĀshūrāʾ wa kull arḍ Karbalā''' (Arabic: {{ia|كل يوم عاشوراء و كل يوم كربلا}}), meaning "every day is 'Ashura and every land is Karbala", is a famous phrase which some has been attributed to [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]] and some scholars have used it in their speeches. According to some researchers, this sentence has not been mentioned in Shia [[hadith]] sources.

It is not clear who has used this phrase for the first time. In his ''Husayn, warith-i Adam'' (Husayn, the inheritor of Adam), [[Ali Shari'ati]] attributed it to [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]]. This phrase has also been used by some religious scholars. [[Imam Khomeini]] has used this phrase in his speeches and messages. [[Ayatollah Khamene'i]] has also mentioned it in his speech without regarding it as [[hadith]], like [[Murtada Mutahhari]] has also used it, but he did not mention whether it is a hadith or not.

Some researchers believe that not only this phrase has not been mentioned in hadiths, but it is also opposite to Shia beliefs; because no land has the same value as [[Karbala]] and no day is comparable to [['Ashura]] and it seems that this phrase has a [[Zaydi]] origin and cannot have any relation with [[Twelver Shia]].

With the usage of this phrase in his speeches, [[Imam Khomeini]] did not mean the necessity of crying over the hardships of Imam al-Husayn (a); but he deemed that this phrase implies the constant battle with oppression, although he has interpreted it differently in other occasions.

[[Murtada Mutahhari]], explaining the meaning of the victory of Imam al-Husayn (a) in his movement against [[Yazid]], says that this movement is continuously gaining victory and the meaning of "every day is 'Ashura" is that being every day there is a fight against oppression and a revival of right and justice in the name of [[Imam al-Husayn (a)]]. [[Ayatollah Khamene'i]] interprets this phrase that "in every period, people have duties that if they fulfill them well and on time, everything will become alright, nations will promote and humanity will develop."