[7][8] The attack began on the morning of 2 November at around 11:00 A.M. A group of armed gunmen detonated an explosive[6] at the gate to the university's grounds, after which they entered the compound, killing bystanders and later taking around 35 hostages.

[9] Kabul police and Afghan army special forces were dispatched to the university and set up a perimeter around the site, after which they engaged in a building-by-building sweep of the grounds over the next few hours.

[9][10][11] Following the attack, SITE Intelligence Group reported that the regional branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had claimed responsibility for the killings.

But the Talibs, their likeminded satanic allies in the next door won’t be ever able to wash their conscience of this stinking and non-justifiable attack on Kabul University."

Soon after, this message began trending on social media, and Iranian classical singer, Homayoun Shajarian decided to dedicate a song to those killed in the attack.

A month earlier his own father, a legendary Iranian classical singer, Mohammed Reza Shajarian, died in Jam Hospital in Tehran.

With the approaching one-year anniversary of the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 coming up on January 8, Shajarian decided to dedicate the song to all who had lost their innocent loved ones recently.