THE GUIDING STAR OF PEACE - THE LITTLE MARTYR, HAZRAT ALI AL-ASGHAR (A.S.)

After the second World War, the scholars and thinkers of Europe resolved in a conference to Appeal for Peace to all the powers in the world in the name of Hazrat Ali Asghar (a.s.), the Little Martyr of Karbala, Iraq. And they declared him as the “Guiding Star of The Peace”.

The great French poet, Alexander Ginil, composed a poem of 1500 couplets regarding the tragic event of Hazrat Ali al-Asghar (a.s.). This composition has also been translated in English. The poem was sent to all the government of the world in the name of The Little Martyr, Hazrat Ali al-Asghar (a.s.). Following are few of the couplets from the poem:

1.      Ali Asghar, celestial star of every child, Master of the bruised and hearts triumphant,

Towards thee rises, time without end, the unquenchable,

Flame of eternal love, which thou to our souls hast given.

2.      The martyrdom in the middle of the stifling desert,

of Karbala, held close in thy father’s arms,

Amid the thousands of sorrows,

In the desert which saw thy doom and thy victory,

Will exalt without end the love in our hours,

Thy young bloodshed in honor’s name,

Like a sun dying in its own purpled glory,

3.      The little innocents were refused a drop of water,

And the victims of the tyrant’s fury,

But the death, noble child, facing the armies,

Thy martyrdom among the deserts scorching stones,

Will, attest forever the wickedness of the tyrants,

Who left thee too perish of a terrible thirst,

And to thy dying lips, Refusing the charity of a drop of water,

The end in the scorching desert.

4.      Child: You have risen the tribes of the world,

You have risen like a star of stars,

In the arms of your venerated father.

Your death fertilized the desert sands,

And in every heart, you reached the pinnacle of love.

5.      At the day of judgement,

We too say: KARBALA!

Thy martyrdom, O our Master ALI-ASGHAR,

Has engraved thee in our hearts,

Thy name shall ever be on our lips!

From your place so high, pray with us,

For an age of Gold, so that justice,

Will open all paths!

Never can we think of Karbala,

Without remembering Thy glorious martyrdom,

Now we shall ever pray that a new era,

Of LOVE and JUSTICE and PEACE

Shall reign in our world forever.

Source: rizvanamrohvi.blogspot.com