A Great Battle between the Tigris
and the Euphrates
 

There will be a city called Zawra (Baghdat) between the Tigris and the Euphrates. There will be a great battle there. Women will be taken prisoner, and men will have their throats cut like sheep. (Muntakhab Kanzul Ummal, vol. 5, p. 38)

  

It is quite likely that the hadith calls attention to the war between Iran and Iraq that took place in the near past. As we saw in the previous pages, in this war between the two Muslim countries, great clashes took place. Under heavy bombardment, villages, towns and cities were reduced to rubbles. Women, elderly people, children lost their lives. The mass graves uncovered after the war reveal that the casualties were much beyond the anticipated.

The war between Iran and Iraq, two Muslim countries, lasted for several years. Apart from great casualties, serious material loss devastated both of the countries. Pictures from the Iran-Iraq war.


12 January 1987
The Iran-Iraq war intensifies


27 JANUARY 1987
The worst casualties of the last seven years; Iran, Iraq head-on.


29 JANUARY 1987
Tahran is full of wounded, orphaned, widowed and captured people. The Tragic consequences of war: thousands of teenage Iranian children, wearing red bands on their foreheads with their automatic weapons they can hardly lift.