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Chapter 24
Kerbala
Monarchy stayed in the history of Islam for centuries
after Kerbala but Husain had taken away its legitimacy in the deeper
current of history.
Iqbal’s conception of freedom, equality and brotherhood is
rooted in this deeper current. It requires a vision of destiny that
enables the individual to act as if looking at the whole of the
future with innumerable possibilities enshrined in it, including
those possibilities that may never materialize. Kerbala is the epitome
of this kind of action.
With a different strategy, Husain might have overthrown the usurper
but the sacrifice he offered has “reprogrammed” history
for all times.
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- Can the clues about Joseph be related to concepts associated with Muslim nationhood as follows:
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The Islamic concept of freedom is explained with reference to the Prophet's grandson Imam Husain and your five clues acquire a new meaning with regards to the Islamic conception of nation.
