Part 3- farewell to the family in the moments of Imam Hussein’s martyrdom

Part 3- farewell to the family in the moments of Imam Hussein’s martyrdom

Imam (a.s.) returned to his family for the last farewell while his wounds were bleeding, he advise the women to wear scarves and get ready for the disaster and ordered them to be patient in God’s justice and fate. And said: be prepared for a disaster and know that God will support you, he helps you to get rid of the enemies and provides a good fate for you, and then he will hurt your enemies.Instead of this tragedy, he will give you dignity and blessing; so, do not complain because it can reduce your value. The governments, the countries, and the civilizations would be ruined and changed but the only thing which remains forever is faith.

Who can bear such a disaster and welcome these tragedies firmly. Nobody but Hussein (PBUH)! He was a true symbol of his grandfather, the prophet and his daughter!

The prophet’s daughters became sad as they saw imam and said goodbye to him. Their faces were full of terror; they were saying goodbye to Imam with a perished manner. When Imam saw them, he became so sad.

“Imam KashifAlghta’” says: who can imagine Imam Hussein’s repentance while there were a lot of disasters for him. In that case, he decided to say goodbye to his family. Then he approached to the tent of Zahra and Ali’s daughters. They got out and saw him in blood. Can you imagine their Daunting Situation?

One of the hardest situations in Imam‘s life was his farewell with his wife. The prophet’s daughters were screaming and crying and they called their grandfather. They hugged Imam and said goodbye. This scene had a great effect on him.

“Ummar ibn Saad” shouted to his armed forces and motivated them to fight against Imam and said: Attack him, while he is busy with his family, you will be succeed and there won’t be any differences between the laft and right parts of your army. The evils invade Imam and they threw their beams toward him that fell among the tent ropes.Then Imam Husseincame out angrily and attacked those evils by sword while arrows were thrown toward him in all directions. So he was hurt severely:

1.An arrow was hit on his mouth and his blood flew. He took his hand under the wound and when it was full of blood, raised it to the sky and said to Allah: O’ my God it is so worthless in your way.
2.An arrow was hit on his forehead by “Abu HatoofJaafi”. His blood was flown, he said prayer and said: “O’ my God! You see my situation among your disobedient servants. O ‘my God! Consider and kill them and never forgive them. Then he shouted:” o’ maltempered people! After Muhammad you did the evil actions. You won’t kill someone after me whose killing is important for you, but after killing me it would be easy for you! I swear to God! ito be martyred, Then he will take revenge on you, but you do not understand. The prophet’s reward for surviving them from living in poverty and misery was killing his children; it was the reason of their shame. God answered imam’s request and took revenge on his enemies. There were a few people, then “Mokhtar” attempted to avenge and followed them while they fled to the desert, Mokhtar’s agents ran toward them and most of them were killed.

“Zahri” said:”Hussain’s killers didn’t remain unless they were punished. Some of them were killed or became blind and…

3.One of the most important things that hurt Imam was the same thing which was narrated by the historians: Imam, after the bleeding had incapacitated him, stopped to rest, then an evil guy threw a stone to him, it hit the forehead, blood was running over his face,Imam picked up his shirt to wipe the blood from his eyes, suddenly an arrow was thrown toward him and hit his heart. He was so kind with all those people. He was sure that he was going to be martyred. He looked at the sky and said:” O’ my God! They want to kill the prophet’s son to not to live on the earth”

Then, he took the arrow out and his blood flew. He held his hand under the wound and said: the presence in the God’s view would make all the problems easy for me!Imam, took some of his blood-stained his face in it. He said: I do it to see my grandfather, the prophet, while I am in blood”.

4.“Hassin ibn Namir” threw an arrow toward Imam and it hit his mouth and his blood flew, imam threw his blood toward the sky and he cursed those criminal offenders: O’ my God! Punish them as much as you can! They threw a lot of arrows toward him. His body was bleeding and he was so thirsty. So, he sat on the ground and moved his neck because of pain. At the same time “Malek ibn nasr” attacked him and hit him with his sword. Imam’s hat was full of blood. Imam cursed him: I ask God that you can’t drink and eat with your right hand and you are one of the evils”. Then he threw his hat and that guy couldn’t get it because his hands became disabled.

Imam along with ibn Riah:

“Moslem ibn Riah” was the last companion of Imam, an arrow hit imam’s face, he sat and took it out, his blood flew and he couldn’t move. He said to ibn Riah: pour this blood in your hands.

Ibn Riah held his hands under the wound. Imam said: now pour it on my hands. He did so then he looked at the sky and said: O’ God! Demand the revenge of the prophet’s daughter’s son.

Then he poured his blood toward the sky, according to ibn Riah, his blood didn’t come back to the ground.