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The Right Side of History Magazine, No. 25

The Right Side of History Magazine, No. 25

On the occasion of the final week of the month of Safar, we turn to the martyred Leader's reflections on the illustrious personality of Lady Zainab al-Kubra (pbuh) — seeking to grasp something of her towering character through his words, which described her as an ocean of patience, a peak of wisdom, and the woman who launched the jihad of clarification that preserved Karbala for history.

In "Words of Wisdom" and "Word for Word," we revisit his teaching that Lady Zainab (pbuh) demonstrated in practice what no proclamation could convey: that a woman can be both a vast sea of endurance in the face of unimaginable loss and a towering summit of prudence and intellect — standing before tyrants and telling them that their power will never erase what truth has written.

Featuring a "Memorable Frame" of the martyred Leader himself, a man who chose Lady Zainab as his model, walking the path of patient resistance from his earliest days in struggle until the divine promise was fulfilled — and who taught that the movement of the Islamic Ummah must be aligned with the movement of Zainab (pbuh).

In "Opinion," we examine Lady Zainab (pbuh) as the real empowered woman — a figure who transforms every expectation of what strength looks like, who after Karbala took on the role of safeguarding an entire community, who delivered sermons in the halls of the oppressor that altered the course of history, and whose legacy now echoes in the resilience of the women of the Resistance Front.

In "A Moment with Caravan of Martyrs," we pay tribute to Martyr Sayyida Bint al-Huda Sadr — the scholar, writer, and educator who followed the Zainabi model into the darkest years of Ba'athist Iraq, who founded schools and authored stories that awakened a generation, and who was martyred alongside her brother after months of siege and days of torture, leaving behind a legacy that no regime could erase.

"I learned from him the manners of the Prophet, the courage of Ali, the patience of Fatimah, the eloquence of Hasan, and the sacrifice of Hussain (pbut). All the small knowledge that I have, I learned through him." A message of devotion sent to the martyred Leader.

Aug. 9, 2026