On the 11th of Muharrum 61 A.H., the family of
Imam Hussayn (a.s.) and that of his companions started from Karbala. The female
members were made captives and were made to sit on the camels without any seats
and their hands were tied at the back of their necks like the slaves. Imam Ali
ibnal Hussayn (a.s.)’s hands and feet were chained down and a thorny garget
(taoq) was hung from his neck causing bleeding. He was also made to sit on a seat
less camel. When they passed near the trampled bodies of their loved ones, they
screamed and beat their faces. Sayyida Zaynab (s.a.) cried and said, “O
Muhammad! Here is al-Hussayn in the desert covered with blood, his limbs cut
off! Here are your daughters taken captive and your offspring slaughtered!” Then
she put her hands under his sacred body and lifted it as she supplicated
saying, “O Lord! Do accept this sacrifice from us.” Bibi Sukayna hugged
the body of her father and kept telling him how she had heard him saying:
O my Shias! Whenever of water
you drink * Never from mentioning my name should you shrink
Al-Bahrani narrated in Madeenat al-Ma’ajiz chapter 127
page 263, “A man belonging to Bani Asad, narrated as under:
“Once the army left, I came to
the battlefield and saw light emanating from those corpses that were covered
with blood and smelled sweet scents. I saw a terrifying lion walking between
the amputated parts till he reached the embodiment of sanctity and the
sacrifice of guidance. He rubbed himself in his blood and rubbed his body on
his as he kept muttering and letting out a very strange sound. Never have I
seen such a fierce lion abandon what would be for his like nothing but a meal.
I hid among the marshes. I was more amazed when midnight came. It was then that
I saw candles with voices that filled the earth with painful cries and wailing.”
When they reached Kufa,
Sayyida Zaynab (s.a.) signaled the crowd who had gathered to see the captives
and said, “All Praise is due to Allah. Peace and blessings be upon my father
Muhammad (s.a.w.a.s.) and his upon his good and righteous Progeny (a.s.). Your
similitude is one who unspins what is already spun out of the desire to violate
a trust. You make religion a source of your income. Is there anyone among you
who is not a boaster of what he does not have, a man of grudge without any
justification, an instigator. Truly bad is that which your souls have
committed. You have the Wrath of Allah, remaining in chastisement for eternity.
By Allah, you should cry a great deal and laugh very little, for you have
earned nothing but shame and infamy, and you shall never be able to wash it
away. The descendant of the Bearer of the Last Message, the very essence of the
Message, the source of your security and the Beacon of your guidance, the
refuge of the righteous among you, the Master of the Youths of Paradise is
killed. O how horrible is the sin that you bear. Miserable you are and renegades
from the path of righteousness; may you be distanced and crushed. The effort is
rendered futile, the toil is ruined, the deal is lost, and you earned nothing
but Wrath from Allah and His Messenger (s.a.w.a.s.). You are doomed with
servitude and humiliation. Woe unto you, O Kufians! Do you know whose heart you
have burned, what a feat you have labored, what blood you have shed, and what
sanctity you have violated? You have done a monstrous deed, something for which
the heavens are about to split asunder and so is the earth, and for which
mountains crumble. Do you wonder why the sky rain blood? Surely the torment of
the hereafter is a greater chastisement, and they shall not be helped.”
Source: Karbala and Beyond by Yasin T.
al-Jibouri
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