Lebanon’s resistance is an extension of Hussein’s approach, and commemorating Ashura renews awareness.
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**Ayatollah Qassim at the Conclusion of the Ashura Season 1448 AH: “What Have You Spent and What Have You Gained?”**
The prominent Bahraini cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim, praised the steadfastness of the members of the Resistance front in Southern Lebanon. He stated that they are making sacrifices in defense of religion, the self, honor, and the homeland of faith, and that the blood, property, and suffering they offer embody the practical extension of the path of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him). This came in a statement he issued at the conclusion of the Ashura season for the year 1448 AH, titled “What Have You Spent and What Have You Gained?”, in which he addressed the meanings of sacrifice in commemorating Ashura and its spiritual and faith-based fruits.
**The text of the statement is as follows:**
**In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful**
**What Have You Spent and What Have You Gained?**
O believing men and women, who are busy these days commemorating the revolution and martyrdom of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him): What have you spent for this commemoration, and what are you spending? And what have you gained from it, and what are you gaining?
You know best the intellectual, psychological, and physical effort you have spent, how many nights you have kept awake, how much you have striven in this path, how much precious wealth and valuable time you have given, and how much hardship, toil, challenges, and suffering you have faced, and the various burdens you have borne in this way. You know best that all of this was in compliance with the command of Allah, the Rich and Praiseworthy, far removed from trivial worldly purposes.
If your spending has been abundant and your giving generous on this path, it is because of what Allah has given you from His bounty, granted you success in, and favored you by allowing you to undertake. Nothing you have spent was for anything but your own benefit, for everything is poor before Allah, and Allah is the Owner of everything and has no need of anything. He is the source of all giving, and all grace and beauty belong to Allah alone. Allah the Almighty’s command to His servants to support His religion is an honor for them, a path to their salvation and success, and a test from Him to reveal their innermost secrets so that they may know His justice in rewarding them, His pardon for those who have erred, and His great benevolence toward the righteous among them.
The rights of Allah cannot be fulfilled by any of His servants, even if they strive to the utmost.
This concerns the right of Allah. And for the sake of Hussein (peace be upon him) and his blessed revolution—which revived the nation and opened the path to its salvation through steadfastness on the path of Allah—there is a right. This is because his sacrifice is a gift that no other type of human giving can equal in its greatness. Because what he spent in this path, in response to the command of Allah, is outweighed by no other sacrifice. He gave everything precious and dear—wealth, children, brother, and his own self—fully content, considering what he gave as trivial and little. He exposed his family—a summit of honor, zeal, pride, dignity, protecting the sanctuary, and defending the borders—to the captivity of enemies, and the defamation of his family from one town to another in a state of gloating that breaks hearts. All this, he did out of patience for the decree of Allah, compliance with His command (Glory be to Him), in support of His religion and to preserve it, and to establish a movement that cannot be eradicated, no matter how much time passes; a movement that must triumph and crush the word of falsehood, and the front of oppression and misguidance on earth.
You have given much, even if it seems little before the right of Allah and the right of the son of the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and his family), Imam Hussein, the Infallible, the Master of the Martyrs of Paradise.
On the same path for which you have given—the true religion of Allah, the line of His prophets, His messengers, and the family of His Prophet, the Chosen Muhammad (may Allah bless him and his family), and the line of the Karbala revolution—you have brothers and sisters in the resistance front in Southern Lebanon who are sacrificing rivers of their blood, their properties, their homes, their entire infrastructure, the foundations of their lives and history, and their security, in a way that astonishes the world. They sacrifice this while enduring all the pain, severe toil, displacement, migration, being hunted night and day, and killings that do not distinguish between soldier and civilian, fighter and non-fighter, man or woman, an exhausted elder, or a child who does not know the meaning of war, even infants.
They sacrifice all of this, suffer from all of this, and consider it all cheap in response to the command of Allah the Almighty and in defense of the religion, the self, honor, and the homeland of faith. They do this and bear this, and they do not consider it too much for the very line you are working to commemorate these days: the line of the Quran and the Sunnah, the line of Hussein (peace be upon him), his Karbala, and his revolution.
The question now is: What have you gained, and what have your brothers in the resistance front gained, who found it easy—in glorification of Allah’s command and for His sake—to sacrifice everything precious and dear that Allah allowed to be spent in His path? And what have you gained from your commemoration of the anniversary of the revolution and martyrdom of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him)?
They gained, and you gained, that you have all revived yourselves and the nation. You have drawn from it a consciousness that hundreds of empty, stagnant, barren, and lean years could not provide you. You have gained manhood, chivalry, religious zeal, courage, guidance, piety, purity, clear vision, piercing insight, strong determination, a sharp objective perspective, captivating spiritual and moral rays, noble intention, and a great attachment to Allah and His upright religion.
This is the gift of the true path, the straight path that they have taken, and that you have all taken.
So, is there anyone among you thinking of leaving this path?!
That is not thought of any of you.
Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
**Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim**
**June 29, 2026**
**14 Muharram 1448 AH**
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