Various theologians, politicians and others have discovered the greatness of Hussein and his revolution.

Mahatma Ghandi once said: -

“I learnt from Hussein how to be oppressed yet victorious”

Archbishop Salim Ghazal, the head of the Catholic Church of Lebanon said:

“In this occasion, we stand a stand of prestige and greatness in front of the drama of this sensational tragedy. Because it shows the oppression that occurred against the human and humanity. It shows a big thirst to get the government and attacking all the values and beliefs that the Islamic message was formed based on and even the message of all the religions.

He continued:

“Truly, the tragedy of Karbala has been transformed in the Islamic history to a school that carries the banners or justice, rightness, love, sacrifice and braveness against the banners of delegation, screaming and defeat and against those who wanted to attack Islam and its teachings” {Le waa Saida and South Lebanon Newspaper}

Edward Gibson: (1737-1794) Considered the greatest British historian of his time:

“In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.” [The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, London, 1911, volume 5, pp. 391-2].

Edward G. Brown: Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic and Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge:

“…a reminder of the blood-stained field of Kerbela, where the grandson of the Apostle of God fell at length, tortured by thirst and surrounded by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at anytime since then sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm and heedless, the deepest emotions, the most frantic grief, and an exaltation of spirit before which pain, danger and death shrink to unconsidered trifles.” [A Literary History of Persia, London, 1919, p. 227].

Peter J. Chelkowski: Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University:

“Hussein accepted and set out from Mecca with his family and an entourage of about seventy followers. But on the plain of Kerbela they were caught in an ambush set by the … caliph, Yazid. Though defeat was certain, Hussein refused to pay homage to him. Surrounded by a great enemy force, Hussein and his company existed without water for ten days in the burning desert of Kerbela. Finally Hussein, the adults and some male children of his family and companions were cut to bits by the arrows and swords of Yazid’s army; his women and remaining chilfren were taken as captives to Yazid in Damascus. The renowned historian Abu Reyhan al-Biruni states; “…then fire was set to their camp and the bodies were trampled by the hoofs of the horses; nobody in the history of the human kind has seen such atrocities.”” [Ta’ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran. New York, 1979, p. 2].