When Imam Husain^(SA) was born, Allah sent Jibraeel towards Rasulullah ^(SAW) offering him tehniyat (felicitations) along with t‘aziyat (condolences). When Jibraeel conveyed both together, Rasulullah ^(SAW) was bewildered. He pleaded Jibraeel to explain the meaning of this strange paradox on such a glorious and happy occasion. Jibraeel asked Rasulullah^(SAW) to look at the newborn’s neck. When Rasulullah ^(SAW) examined the neck of Imam Husain ^(SA), he found a red line etched on the back. Jibraeel explained that it was the sign of ‘shahadat’, the precise point where the sword of the enemy would be put. Rasulullah ^(SAW) cried; he was joined by Maulana Ali^(SA) and also Maulatena Fatema^(SA). Fatema^(SA) wept inconsolably having learnt that her beloved son Husain^(SA) would be slain in the scorching heat of the desert, devoid of any help and succor, alone amidst thousands of enemies and that his body would lay unburied for days, trampled by the hoofs of the enemies’ horses. Fatema ^(SA) anxiously asked Rasulullah ^(SAW) as to who would cry and grieve for her son. Rasulullah ^(SAW) assured Fatema ^(SA) that a time would come when a faction of his believers would grieve the martyred Imam and perform matam every year. “Indeed we are those mumineen,” exclaimed Maula ^(TUS).

The prophecy of Rasulullah ^(SAW) has come true due to the efforts of Duat Mutlaqeen ^(RA), who year after year, have renewed the grief and sorrow of Imam Husain ^(SA) and gathered mumineen in thousands to perform buka and matam. The efforts of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin ^(TUS) in conducting buka and matam are as great as his sorrow and lament upon the grief of Imam Husain ^(TUS). Every year, Maula^(TUS), with the ilham of Imam-uz-Zaman ^(SA) selects a venue to perform Ashara Mubarakah. This year, Maula ^(TUS) selected Colombo as the place where mumineen would congregate from all parts of the world for attending Ashara Majalis. The power of his words, the spiritual energy and the enthusiasm, the atmosphere created by his divine presence, and the intensity of buka and matam among mumineen perpetuated by Maula’s own buka and matam are such that they transpose the venue into the land of Kerbala and mumineen sitting in front of Maula feel as if the events of Kerbala are unfolding in front of their very eyes.