There is a majesty that wraps itself around the profound architecture of the Shrines of the Ahlul Bayt (as). For they are not the monuments of and for the dead but rather edifices housing peoples and creeds of eternal life and honourable living.

flowers in their spring time bloom command, colours, fragrance and succour baring a magnetic quality. Though flowers of even the most exotic and spectacular petals, will as quickly bloom only to fade and fall, attracting only those of closest proximity to know of their sweetness and nurture. Iridescent though fleeting.

The Ahlul Bayt (as) are no such flowers. For the flowers of their lives and indeed their deaths bare eternally profound vibrancies of colour, fragrance and succour, attracting humans and angels alike.

Not only during the Arbaeen, though certainly the Arbaeen of Imam Hussein (as) is an exemplary time and a great mobiliser of the lovers of the Ahlulbayt, the pilgrims will traverse often great distances and hardships from every plausible place on Earth to visit those they regard as the very cornerstone of their identity and the paramount examples of guidance, solace and often times recalibration.

The shrines of the Ahlul bayt (as) serve as an eternal spring, from whose spiritual nourishment, hundreds of millions of people and thousands of generations, that have come and will come, will thrive, gaining patience and fortitude in this life and their hearts desire in the next.

The lovers of the Ahlul Bayt (as)  leave the great shrines, knowing that to be recognised as one on Their righteous path, their own lives must echo the example of the ones that they had come to see and beseech. A life dedicated to love, justice, peace and co- existence, dignity and honour, service and sacrifice and above all God consciousness and the remembrance that Almighty Allah demands of us all, the unity, brotherhood and sisterhood of all men and women, in justice and compassion and always “enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil”

The knowledge that millions of Human beings leave the Arbaeen every year with this creed emblazed upon their heart and conscience, is something that all people can take comfort, solace and hope from.

The world remains a good place so long as the grand example of the great Ahlulbayt (as) echoes in the heart of good people