Pearl of Wisdom
'Whoever is unable to come and visit us, let him go and visit the graves of virtuous people from among our friends, and it will be recorded for him as having visited us.'
Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq [as] Bihar al-Anwar, v. 74, p. 354, no. 29
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After the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain |
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After the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain After the supreme sacrifice had been accepted and our Imam Hussain (as) had been martyred, a gloomy silence hung over the battlefield of Karbala.
Every now and then the silence would be broken by the sound of drum-beating to celebrate victory.
Not content with spilling the innocent blood of Imam Hussain and his companions, Amr ibne Sa'ad, the commander of Yazid's army, ordered the horses to be shod afresh and then run over the bodies of the dead Muslims.
Although some people from his army objected to this gross disrespect to the dead, he managed to enforce this horrible action. Having trampled over the bodies of the martyrs, the enemy next turned their attention to the defenseless camp of Imam Hussain.
Yazid's soldiers marched into the camp where they subjected the grief-stricken ladies to further torment and indignity. They had expected to find luxurious articles in the tents of the family of the Rasulullah (S.A.W), but all they found were simple items and clothes, some of which had been stitched by Bibi Fatima (as) with her own hands.
The ruthless soldiers snatched away these few possessions of sentimental value. They were angry at the lack of booty, and they took the veils off the struggling ladies forcing them to expose their hair and faces.
This humiliation was almost too much to bear.
Not satisfied with this, the enemy set fire to the tents. The terrified ladies gathered their children and rushed from tent to tent, trying to escape the burning flames. One young child was seen rushing out of a tent with her clothes on fire.
One of the enemy soldiers, seeing her pitiable condition came forward and put out the flames. The child looked at him, surprised at the unexpected kindness.
Tearfully, the little child asked him,
"O Shaikh, do me one more kindness and tell me the way to Najaf."
The soldier was very surprised at this unusual request, and replied,
"Najaf is far away from here. Why do you want to know the way there?".
The child said with heartbreaking innocence,
"I want to go to the grave of my grandfather Imam Ali (as) and complain about what your people have done to us - how our men were butchered and how our ladies have been whipped. I want to tell him how the earrings were snatched from my cousin Sakina's ears, leaving her earlobes torn and bleeding.",
Bibi Zainab, who had been left in charge of the camp by Imam Hussain, was at a loss as to what to do. She went to the seriously ill Imam Ali Zainul Abideen. He lay unconscious on the ground after the enemy had even robbed the mattress on which he lay.
She shook him urgently to ask his advice. He was burning with fever but with a great effort he replied that it was compulsory on them to save their lives and he asked her to get everyone out from the burning tents into the open.
Soon the raging fires subsided leaving only one tent standing, although it was also damaged by fire. The ladies and children salvaged whatever they could of their few belongings and huddled together in that little shelter waiting for nightfall.
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