tanha khaDa hoon main bhi

Interpretation

Karbala, in present-day Iraq, was the site of a defining event in 680 CE when Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, and his small group of followers confronted the forces of Yazid ibn Muawiya, the Umayyad ruler. Hussain refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid, whom he saw as an unjust, oppressive, and corrupt leader who distorted the values of Islam for political power.

Outnumbered and surrounded, Hussain and his seventy-two companions faced deprivation, thirst, and eventual martyrdom on the 10th of Muharram, known as Ashura. Historically, this battle marked the moral and spiritual resistance of principle against might—of conscience against coercion. Spiritually, Karbala became an eternal symbol of sacrifice, truth, and the willingness to endure suffering for divine justice and moral integrity.