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HUR, THE COMMANDER of Yazid's regiment, who had obstructed Husain's way near Kufa, was also present in the enemy's forces in Karbala. He spent all his time in repenting for having obstructed the way of the son of the Holy Prophet. The enemy's officer...

HUR, THE COMMANDER of Yazid's regiment, who had ob...

THE HOLY IMAM sent for the enemy's Commander Ibna-i-Sa'd and proposed three honourable conditions:- "Leave me, and I shall quit the Muslim Empire with my whole family and children, and live in some non-muslim lands. I shall go away to Yeman or to Ira...

THE HOLY IMAM sent for the enemy's Commander Ibna-...

HAVING DESPATCHED HIS sons, Muslim, discarded by one and all in Kufa and hunted by the men of Ibne Ziad, wandered in Kufa, as a homeless destitute without any shelter or shade to lay his head or even to rest awhile against the scorching sun. None dar...

HAVING DESPATCHED HIS sons, Muslim, discarded by o...

AT LAST ON the 7th Muharram 61 A.H. (October 68(:) A.D.) the Commander of Yazid's forces received orders to cut off all sources of supply to the Holy Imam's camp and not to allow even a drop of water to reach any of the inmates therein. It can better...

AT LAST ON the 7th Muharram 61 A.H. (October 68(:)...

THE BRUTE IBNE-ZIAD at Kufa got the information of Husain's getting out of the control of Hur and also learnt that the.helpless Imam had camped near the River Euphrates. Regiment after regiment began to pour in on the plain of Karbala from all sides ...

THE BRUTE IBNE-ZIAD at Kufa got the information of...

THE REPORTED STRENGTH Of the brutal forces that were sent by Yazid to martyr the Holy Imam at Karbala. According to Abu-Mikhnaf the total strength of Yazid's army at Karbala was 80,0oo of Kufees excluding the Syrians and the Hijazi forces. The first ...

THE REPORTED STRENGTH Of the brutal forces that we...

WHEN THE WHOLE plain of Karbala was full with Yazid's regiments and the Holy Imam's camp was totally surrounded by the enemy's forces, Ibne-i-Sa'd the Commander of the Brute's armies met Husain on the banks of the River and demanded 'Bait' on behalf ...

WHEN THE WHOLE plain of Karbala was full with Yazi...

THE HOLY IMAM gathered the people of the surrounding places, the owners of the plain of Karbala, and purchasing the land from them gifted the same to the people. Addressing the males among them he said:- "On the Tenth day of this month ye shall see u...

THE HOLY IMAM gathered the people of the surroundi...

AT A PLACE near the Euphrates, the Holy Imam's steed suddenly stopped and inspite of the unusual spurrings, the animal did not move; but raised its head towards heaven, as if to say that it was helpless and could not step forward any more. Husain cha...

AT A PLACE near the Euphrates, the Holy Imam's ste...

As THE CARAVAN of the Holy Imam proceeded, suddenly the men in the forefront cried aloud 'Allah° Akbar' (God the Greatest). Husain smiled and asked what the matter was and what had made the people glorify God all of a sudden; what was the occasion fo...

As THE CARAVAN of the Holy Imam proceeded, suddenl...

THE HOLY KA'BA, a Sanctuary, the Holiest of the Holy Places of Islam, a Sanctuary wherein no creature animate or inanimate could be disturbed wherein even a confirmed convict could not be killed, nor even a plant be plucked out. If the sanctity of th...

THE HOLY KA'BA, a Sanctuary, the Holiest of the Ho...

THE TWO . YOUNG souls in their concealed march from Kufa, travelling during nights, lost their way in the desert. Once they were arrested and imprisoned but the pitiful guard of the prison, allowed them to escape and at last they were found by the go...

THE TWO . YOUNG souls in their concealed march fro...

AT LAST MUSLIM somehow managed to send his two young children out of Kufa with his message to the Holy Imam, a counter to his previous communication to him, requesting Husain never to think of Kufa anymore. The two innocents of the House of the Holy ...

AT LAST MUSLIM somehow managed to send his two you...

THE KUFEES GAVE Muslim a very warm reception and thousands of them paid their 'Bait' to the Holy Imam on the hands of Muslim. Poor Muslim, impressed with and guided by the enthusiasm of the deceitful Kufees and not knowing what would befall him the v...

THE KUFEES GAVE Muslim a very warm reception and t...

THE HOLY IMAM commanded his cousin Muslim, son of Aqeel, to proceed to Kufa and to report from there, after studying the bona-fide of the call from the people of the place. On t4th Ramadhan 60 A.H. Muslim left Mecca with two guides of the route. Musl...

THE HOLY IMAM commanded his cousin Muslim, son of ...

PEOPLE OF MADINA were fully aware of the dreadful consequences that would follow the blunt refusal of the Holy Imam to pay 'Baia!? to Yazid. They went to the Holy Imam in large numbers to know his final decision. Husain replied to them :- "Do you ima...

PEOPLE OF MADINA were fully aware of the dreadful ...

HUSAIN ARRIVED IN Mecca on 3rd Shahan 6o A.H. for the pilgrimage and thereafter to decide for his future step. He could not stay in Madina without paying 'Bait' to Yazid or getting killed in return for his refusal to pay the allegiance. Allegiance me...

HUSAIN ARRIVED IN Mecca on 3rd Shahan 6o A.H. for ...

HUSAIN DECIDED TO leave Madina. Learning about the decision of the Holy Imam, people in groups approached him asking the reason for his decision to leave the holy city. Husain said that his refusal to pay 'Bait' to Yazid, will certainly be defied and...

HUSAIN DECIDED TO leave Madina. Learning about the...

BEFORE BREATHING HIS last, Hasan handed the charge of the Imamat to his brother Husain. Husain was now the Third Imam, the Vicegerent of God on earth, in the place of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. The world was now without the Apostle of God. Fatema the...

BEFORE BREATHING HIS last, Hasan handed the charge...

HUSAIN'S SECOND SON Ali (who after the tragedy of Karbala became known as Ali-e-Akbar) resembled the Holy Prophet Muhammad so much in all his physical features that people from distant places, desirous of having again a view of the departed Apostle o...

HUSAIN'S SECOND SON Ali (who after the tragedy of ...

THE POISON WAS administered through the drinking water and it was so strong that no sooner did Hasan drink the water, than he began vomiting blood and the bits of his liver and knowing the ultimate result of the drink he had, Hasan called his brother...

THE POISON WAS administered through the drinking w...