Why Do We Mourn?!

They say that if Imam Husayn (a.s.) won, so why don’t we celebrate? Why do we cry? Is this much of crying appropriate for that great victory?

Those who arises this objection, do not know the “philosophy of mourning” and mistake it with cries of contempt.

“Cry” and flowing of tear drops from “eye” which is the gate of the heart of a human has four kinds:

1- Cries of Delight

Cry of a mother at the moment of finding his beloved children after being lost for some years, or cry of happiness of a lover who meets her lover after a lifetime of deprivation are cries of delight.

Lots of parts of epic of Karbala are delightful and sensational and it follows with the flood of tears of delight flows from the eyes of hearer because of those much of braveries, devotions, courage, freedom, and fiery speeches of men and women who were apparently captives; is this cry a proof of defeat?

2- Emotional Cries

The thing that is inside the chest of a human is “heart” and not a piece of “stone”! And this heart which draws the emotional waves of humans vibrates by watching the scene of an orphan child who dies in the arms of his mother waiting for his father to return home and draws the lines of these waves on the face by flowing tears and show that it is a living and full of humanly emotions heart.

If a heart beats by hearing the incident of dying an infant in the arms of his father and his agony in the flood of his blood in the incident of Karbala and throw its fiery sparks out as drops of tears, is this a sign of weakness and inability or the proof of awareness that full of emotions heart?!

3- Cry of Conjunction of Goals

Sometimes drops of tears show the goals; maybe those who want to say that they accompany the belief of Imam Husayn (a.s.) and are compatible with his goal and follow his sect and doctrine express these matters by fiery mottos or by poems and epics; but sometime they might have been made up; but a person who sends out a drop of tear from inside the heart by hearing this heartrending incident expresses this truth more truthfully. This drop of tear is the announcement of loyalty to the sacred goals of companions of Imam Husayn (a.s.) and conjunction of heart and soul with them and the announcement of fight with idolatry, oppression, and expressing the hatred from impurities. Is this kind of cry possible without the knowledge about his pure goals?

4- Cry of Contempt

This is the cry of weak and disabled persons who have failed to achieve their goals and see no more soul or courage for advancement in them; they sit down and start crying because of their contempt.

Never cry like this for Imam Husayn (a.s.) because he hates this kind of cry; if you cry it should be the cry of delight, emotions or conjunction of goals.

But more important of mourning, is familiarity with the thought of Imam Husayn (a.s.) and his companions and his sect and doctrine, and practical conjunction with the goals of his holiness and being pure and living pure and thinking right and acting correct.