There are two ways to approach the issue of observing Ashura:
First, mourning with weeping, wailing, and cursing Yazīd, the Yazīdis, and the oppressors, etc. This method is good and valuable, but it is not perfect for keeping the uprising of Abū ʿAbd Allāh (pbuh) alive. We were not ordered to merely curse an individual! Rather, these are symbols of an intellectual movement and religious hostility, which we must fight against. Otherwise, it will simply be an incomplete and ineffective mourning.
“أینَ هادِمُ أبنیَةِ الشّرکِ وَ النّفاق”
The second type of mourning follows and protects the trail and lifestyle of the Messenger of God (pbuh&h). That is, to hate and be averse to the axis of “oppression and oppression states”. This is how a mourning that establishes the mainstream and plans for the Emergence, keeps the “Correct though way” alive.
Let’s read the verse of Al-Nudba Supplication with more reflection.
“Where is he who shall pull down the foundations of confusion (polytheists) and hypocrisy?”