Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's Speech on the Tenth of Muharram
(Part One)
Wednesday, 12 October, 2016
Brothers and Sisters, I thank [you for your]
large and blessed attendance on this great day which expresses your loyalty,
commitment, affection, and your constant readiness to sacrifice. You are the
people of loyalty, honesty, and sacrifice.
At the forefront of those who have [come] today in Lebanon to offer condolences
to Saheb-e Zaman and [the bereaved] are the families of our martyrs: the
fathers, mothers, wives, sons, and daughters of the martyrs –the martyrs of
resistance and the martyrs of defending [our] existence, dignity, and sacred
things...
At the forefront of the offerers of condolence are:
The wounded who have walked on the path of Abbas, [and] lost their hands or legs
or eyes but didn’t stop…
The fighters who fill the fronts, arenas, and battlefields and have not stayed
behind…
The honorable families in all our cities, towns, and villages which liberally
granted their sons and dear ones to these fronts in order to protect [this]
country, dignity, sovereignty, and honor.
To you, the true offerers of condolence, [is due] the complete solace, complete
reward, and complete thanks for your honesty, presence, and steadfastness.
Brothers and Sisters:
At the beginning, we should turn to the spirits of the martyrs who were martyred
yesterday in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and in various areas in Iraq and
in Baghdad. The extremists killed them just because they were in the position of
offering condolence to the Greatest Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and
his Household). We ask Allah [to grant] mercy and high ranks to the martyrs of
loyalty to Hussein, and we ask Allah [to grant] swift recovery to all the
wounded. These processions have not been stopped by any explosion and won't be
stopped by murder, wound[s], or assaults. It has always been like this
throughout history, and it will remain so in the future until Judgment Day. Of
course, this year records a great degree of decline in the size of explosions
and assaults [targeting] the Husseini processions in comparison to the previous
years, and this is thanks to the struggle of the fighters and [their] victories
in all the battlefields. This is the cause of defeat of many of these extremist
groups and [the reason for their] inability to cause great harm even though they
are very determined to [do so].
Part One: Yemen
We said that the main title in our procession today in the Southern Suburb of
Beirut, and our Ashoura processions in areas [from] Tyre to Baalbak to Hermel to
the Western Beqaa to Bint Jbeil [and] other regions is the announcement of [our]
solidarity with the struggling, oppressed, steadfast, patient, and courageous
Yemeni nation and with its leadership, army, self organized watch civilian
groups. Today, I want to add [something] to what I said yesterday. It seems to
the observer that the Saudi war on Yemen [which] is Saudily imposed upon the
Yemeni nation is not anymore–or doesn’t seem to be- waged on the basis of
achieving political goals. Rather, it has become a battle which indicates the
level of hatred, spite, and revenge which the Saudi regime is carrying out
against Yemen…this form of murder where humans and rocks, children, adults, the
young and the elderly are crushed, and everything is targeted in Yemen. This is
not a war for [achieving] political goals. This is a war of hatred- Wahhabi
Saudi hatred. This is a war of spite. [A] war which wants to take revenge on the
will of the Yemenis.
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