Who won in ashura?

Did Bani Umayya and their cruel and secularist soldiers win in this great fight? Or did Imam Husayn (a.s.) and his devoting companions win that who sacrificed all that they have in the way of love of truth and purity and for Allah?!

Noticing to the real meaning of “victory” and “defeat” we answer this question: Victory is not the matter of returning safe from the battlefield or destroying the enemy, but victory is achieving the “goal” and preventing enemy from reaching his goal.

By noticing to this meaning, the final result of this bloody fight clears completely. It is true that Husayn (a.s.) and his loyal companions drank the juice of martyrdom after a heroic battle, but they achieved their sacred goal completely from this glorious martyrdom.

The goal was to reveal the nature of reactionary and anti-Islamic “Umavi” movement and weak the public thoughts of Muslims up in order that they get informed about the cabals of these remainents of age of ignorance and residuals of age of paganism and idolatry, which had been achieved successfully.

They finally cut the roots of oppression tree of “Bani Umayya” and removed the evil and disgraceful domination of that usurper government over Muslims which its pride and honor was to revive the traditions of ignorance and corruption and oppression by preparing the preliminaries of extinction of them.

“Yazid” government showed its real face to all people by killing superior men of the dynasty of Prophet (S) especially Imam Husayn (a.s.) the great leader of Islam and the beloved son of Prophet (S), and announced the disgrace of themselves, the claimants of succession of Prophet (S) everywhere.

And this is not strange that we see the motto of “revenge of these martyrs” or “الرضا لآل محمّد” in all revolutions and evolutions which took place after the incident of Karbala that continued until the time of Bani Abbas who used this matter for gaining the power and reaching the governorship and after that chose the way of oppression.

What a victory more than this which they not only achieved their goal, but they became examples of free persons of the world.