Ashura Quotes

I thought you loved all this excitement,' Nyx said. 'I love orange-flavored popsicles. Fried maggots on toast. Sunset in Ashura. This? This, I merely tolerate.

That certainly seemed to be the view in Washington, as Ebrahim Yazdi discovered on December 12. A few days earlier, President Carter had given a tepid answer when asked if he thought the shah would survive the current crisis. Now, in the immediate wake of the Ashura high-water mark, the King of Kings was clearly riding high with the Americans again. “I fully expect the shah to maintain power in Iran and for the present problems in Iran to be resolved,” Carter proclaimed that morning. “I think the predictions of doom and disaster that came from some sources have certainly not been realized at all. The shah has our support and he also has our confidence.” But not if Yazdi could help it. Sitting for an interview with The MacNeil/Lehrer Report that same afternoon, the doctor bravely insisted that the orderliness of the Ashura processions was thanks to the discipline and calming influence of Khomeini-appointed parade marshals, skipping over the fact that most such marshals were actually acolytes of the moderate Shariatmadari. Carrying the point further, Yazdi stressed that the massive turnout on Ashura once again showed the people wanted an end to the dictatorship but, much like the civil rights marchers in the American South in the 1960s, were determined to achieve it by peaceful means. Henry Precht, the Iran desk officer, had been invited to appear in the same MacNeil/Lehrer segment with Yazdi but reluctantly declined; the same State Department stricture against having contact with the Khomeini camp that had scuttled an earlier proposed meeting with Yazdi remained in place on December 12. On the other hand, Precht reasoned this stricture couldn’t possibly be so broad as to extend to a “chance encounter” with Khomeini’s advisor at a Washington restaurant. In a bit of diplomatic sleight of hand, Precht suggested to the MacNeil/Lehrer producers that after Yazdi’s taping they take him to dinner at Dominique’s steak house in downtown Washington. When Henry Precht and Ebrahim Yazdi met at the steak house that evening, it marked the first time that an American government official had sat down with a member of Khomeini’s inner circle since the Iranian Revolution began.

Evil needs to be contained if it can’t be changed. Killed if it can’t be contained.

Cinder halted in uncertainty. “I’m not sure. It just seemed like the right thing to say. I’m not supposed to call you, ‘sir’?” Deepak shook his head. “Not unless you think I’m a lord, an officer of the law, or your master, which I ain’t.

But your performance in the Grand Melee and the Unitary Trail is part of the past. We can learn from it, but it provides nothing more than education. Any glory earned doesn't linger. By now, it's gone. It is this day and every day following which are more important.

No matter how broken the body, any person who can reason can remain dangerous.

-Take some time off and enjoy yourself. Life isn't all about work. >Work is how we define our lives. -And pleasure makes that life worth living.

even the murderer. We know the killer has a limp, and Krain Linshok, the Kumma Magistrate was injured in

This is where my sin sleeps. In this endless dream.

If I resist the stars and nature…I’ll be nothing but a sinner, doing harm against heaven. All for the wish to save my child.

Lord Ashura, this is my little friend, a future guardian warrior. Yama, son of Lord Yasha.

If she gets caught and punished by the God King…it’ll break Ashura’s heart again.

If I resist the stars and nature, I’ll be nothing but a sinner, doing a harm against Heaven. But, if destiny doesn’t change…the world will become a living hell. And even so, I still wish for the next Lord Ashura…my son to be born.

Make all of me…yours.

We were children whose only sin was our very existence.

There are many lives a man can lead, but in the end, they all lead to death.

A few of them even proffered a leering smile at Anya, exposing a graveyard of rotting teeth.

Mohammed even adopted the Jewish traditions of praying in the direction of Jerusalem, of common Friday midday worship in preparation for the Sabbath day, and of fasting on the tenth day of each new year. In the latter case, the Jewish Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) provided the model for the Muslim fast of Ashura. The word Ashura is reminiscent of the Hebrew word asor–ten–and quite early on, Ashura was fixed on the tenth day of the Muslim calendar, following the Jewish example of observing Yom Kippur ten days after the Jewish New Year.9 Similarly, although Mohammed and his followers had prayed only twice a day in Mecca, they followed the Jewish example in Medina by introducing a third prayer at midday.10