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Supporters have also described martyrdom/suicide operations as a military "equalizer" whereby pious Muslim martyrs use their willingness to sacrifice for their faith and their certainty in their reward in the afterlife to counter the Western unbeliever, who has "at their disposal state-of-the-art and top-of-the-range means and weaponry to ...
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A song written by Xue Wenbo at the Muslim Chengda school, which was controlled by the Kuomintang, called for martyrdom in battle for China against Japan. [51] The Muslim General Bai Chongxi himself was a member of a Dare to Die corps in the Xinhai revolution. [52] Some activists have referred to victims of the Uyghur genocide in China as martyrs.
The Christian martyrs of the 1622 Great Genna Martyrdom; 17th-century Japanese painting A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, 'witness' stem μαρτυρ-, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.
Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili (1506–1558) was the Second Martyr, and the author of the first Sharh of Shahid Awwal's Al-Lum'ah ad-Dimashqiya (The Damascene Glitter) titled as Ar-Rawda al-Bahiyah fi Sharh al-Lum'ah ad-Dimashqiya (الروضة البهيّة في شرح اللمعة الدمشقيّة) (The Beautiful Garden in Interpreting the Damscene Glitter).
Sumeyah (Arabic: سُمَيَّة; c. 550–615), was the first member of the Umma (community) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad to become a martyr (Arabic: شهيدة, romanized: shahīda, lit. 'female martyr') shortly after she was martyred, her husband Yasir ibn Amir was also killed for his conversion to Islam, making him the first male martyr ...
Sumayya, Yasir's wife, died while she was being tortured. She thus became the First Martyr in Islam. A little later, her husband, Yasir, was also tortured to death, and he became the 'Second Martyr in Islam'. Quraysh had stained their hands with muslim blood. In the roster of martyrs, Sumayya and her husband, Yasir, rank among the highest.
شهید šahid) are greatly revered, including martyrs from the distant past as well as martyrs from the modern age. In Iran, Shia Islam is the majority religion, at 89% of the estimated 79 million inhabitants, [ 1 ] and is a very important part of public and political life.