{"id":80893,"date":"2025-08-13T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/?p=80893"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:36:34","slug":"sri-lankan-scholar-islamic-revolution-brought-the-light-of-imam-hussains-a-s-love-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/sri-lankan-scholar-islamic-revolution-brought-the-light-of-imam-hussains-a-s-love-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Scholar: Islamic Revolution Brought the Light of Imam Hussain\u2019s (a.s.) Love to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\"><strong>According to the Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>Sheikh Laffer Madani, a member of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly\u2019s General Assembly from Sri Lanka, stated that the Islamic Revolution of Iran played a key role in introducing Shiism to his country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Speaking during the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala, he noted that while individual Shiites existed in Sri Lanka before, a united Shiite community was formed only after the Revolution. He credited Imam Khomeini (r.a.), the martyrs, and the Iranian nation for guiding hearts toward the AhlulBayt (a.s.).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Sheikh Madani highlighted the growth of second and third-generation Shiites in Sri Lanka, despite political and security challenges.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">He described Arbaeen as a renewal of allegiance to Imam Hussain (a.s.) and a manifestation of Islamic civilization based on truth and justice, which will flourish globally after the Reappearance of Imam Mahdi (a.s.).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Praising the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, he said even in predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka, he is recognized as a great leader.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Stressing the importance of jihad of clarification, he urged using the media to prepare the world for the Reappearance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\">Concluding, he expressed gratitude for knowing Imam Hussain (a.s.) and prayed that this blessing continues for future generations in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly\u2019s General Assembly from Sri Lanka, stated that the Islamic Revolution of Iran played a key role in introducing Shiism to his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1627,202,1648],"class_list":["post-80893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arbaeen","tag-imam-hussain-a-s","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81231,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80893\/revisions\/81231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}