So, By Your Logic Sr Judith Angouin… The True Power of Karbala’s Tears

Why sacred grief fuels revolution — and why mocking it misses the point entirely.

So, by your logic:

The tears of Sayyida Zaynab (AS) were useless.

The cries of Imam Sajjad (AS), shaking behind the curtain, were just passive.

The daily weeping of Fatima Zahra (AS) after the Prophet’s death — an inconvenience.

The azadari of generations — pointless rituals.

The latmiyas, the poems, the sighs in sujūd — just noise.

Because, you know, unless we’re marching with slogans and selfies, pain is “not doing anything,” right?

Thank you for letting us know that 1,400 years of sacred mourning is, in fact, just wasted emotion — unless we’re performing it on your timeline, in your format, under your spotlight.

But Let Me Remind You:

It was not the march to Karbala that changed the world.

It was the tears from Karbala.

It was the sorrow that shook hearts.

It was the grief that cracked open the heavens.

Lady Zaynab (AS) did not march to gain attention.

She wept, she remembered, she spoke with fire, and her fire burned empires.

Revolution Begins Where the World Cannot See

If you can’t feel, you can’t transform.

If you mock feeling, you mock the furnace where God shapes revolutions.

Pain is not passivity.

It is the birthplace of every sacred uprising.

So don’t tell us to “do something” —

While you erase the very soil from which sacred action grows.

If Your “Activism” Requires Erasing Sacred Grief, It’s Not Activism — It’s Ego in Protest Boots

You don’t silence women by saying, “Feeling isn’t enough.”

You don’t mock sincerity by calling it stagnation.

And you don’t spit on dhikr and mourning while dressing up your spectacle as leadership.

You are not calling people to Karbala.

You are dragging Karbala into your performance.

You want a march?

Build one.

But don’t insult the ones who carry grief like a flag every day —

Silently. Steadily. Sincerely.

You are an unwanted distraction, a drain on mind and energy and one that I for one, have no time or need for.  You are not a part of the solution.