Al-Huda Magazine participated in one of the cultural centers inside the city, specifically on Al-Dariba Street, as part of the annual cultural activities of the youth of the religious authority in holy Karbala, aimed at providing knowledge services to pilgrims of Imam Hussein’s Arbaeen.
The center consists of a tent, like other tents lined up along the street to offer various services to pilgrims. It is divided into stations with attention-grabbing titles, such as “Pain and Hope,” which transfers young visitors from a state of despair and frustration caused by the brutal aggressive actions of arrogant powers to a state of hope and building strength through reliance on God Almighty. Another station is “The Holy Quran, the Infallible Balance,” where young people thirsty for culture and knowledge listen to new ideas inspired by the Glorious Book of God and authentic Islamic culture.
One young man raised a question that may be on the minds of many of his peers, about the difference of opinion between “the government and the popular will.” The answer from the Holy Quran was quick: that we should be on the axis of truth, revolving with it wherever it revolves, as the Prophet’s (PBUH) testament regarding Amir al-Mu’minin (AS) states: “Ali is with the truth and the truth is with Ali, it revolves wherever he revolves.”
We explained to the questioning brother what Amir al-Mu’minin (AS) clarified to the one who asked him before the outbreak of the Battle of Jamal: “Where should I be? Should I be with you, and you are the caliph, or with the sons of the Prophet’s companions and his wife, the Mother of the Believers?” His answer (AS) was: “Know the truth, and you will know its people.” Truth is not known through men, nor through appearances and superficial manifestations, but through a fixed rule that the Holy Quran explains in numerous noble verses — the rule of truth. It is very easy to know the truth when we know falsehood and its values, such as oppression, aggression, lying, and betrayal.
Closing:
Al-Huda Magazine’s presence in Karbala’s cultural tents is an example of efforts to answer young people’s questions based on the Quran and authentic Islamic culture — an approach that seeks to create space for thinking and questioning amid the bustle of the Arbaeen pilgrimage.