The evil/good clash has a history as long as human life. Although human history is replete with instructive lessons, Shiah believes that Karbala is the most valuable lesson one needs to review in an incessant fashion. Karbala is seemingly a scene of clash of two camps, of course in surface, but it bears significant moral, religious and social points. Imam Hossein stands at the heart of this event and is the hero of it who devotes his whole life to truth. In some traditions, Imam Hossein has been compared with the Prophet Muhammad in respect of his role in the history of Islam. This book seeks to offer a viable account of the Karbala and its happenings and insists that Ashura should be seen as a lesson for all ages.

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative Iranian politician and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza in Qom. The official website for his scientific foundation, Isra, describes him as a well-known, outstanding thinker in various fields of Islamic sciences and a distinguished figure in exegesis, jurisprudence, philosophy and mysticism. It is further states that his ideas and views have been reinforcing the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and that "his strategic and enlightening guidance" has been "extremely constructive" during the past three decades.