Al-Husain: To Karbala

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Al-Husain To Karbala

• By A.S. Hashim. MD

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Al-Husain at Age 37

• Al-Hasan, being sick with the poison
• vomiting blood material
• Jaundiced and feeling very weak
• Al-Hasan designates Al-Husain as the 3rd Imam
• Wants to be buried by the Prophet if possible
• Al-Husains Imamah starts

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Al-Husain as the Imam
Al-Husain is in pain about the Ummah Sees Ali being damned in every Jumuah Prayer Numerous charlatans and opportunists playing havoc with Islam Worried about the course Muslims taking for 10 years Muawiya and his intrigue to install yazid, his son
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Al-Husain Continues

• Al-Husain continues to conduct his discourses at
  the Masjid Al-Nabawi
• Is busy at home with family
• Helps the poor and disadvantaged
• Thinks about the future course of the Ummah with
  alarm

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Muawiya sends Yazid for Haj

• Yazid agrees to go for Haj
• Yazid takes supply of liquor with him and singers
  to entertain him
• Takes girls of ill-repute for company
• The show was a disgrace, and the people see for
  themselves

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To Install Yazid for Khilaafah

• Muawiya sends to the Ummah
• Government workers
• Secret Agents (spies)
• Collaborators

• To bribe and reward people who accept Yazid
• To punish people with losing jobs or even being
  killed, if they oppose Yazid

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Muawiya dies

• At age 75 Muawiya dies
• At the time, Yazid was entertaining himself,
  hunting
• Yazid was 30 years old by then
• Muawiya ruled for 40 years and
• Introduced Monarchy
• Lived Caesar like
• Used the Public treasury as if it was his own
• Hadith fabrication became common

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Yazid and the People

• Majority of people refuse Yazid
• People look for Husains leadership
• Gloomy and resentful feeling prevails
• High emotions in Iraq
• 12,000 letters reach Al-Husain from Iraq urging
  him to lead them

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In Medina

• Governor of Medina (Waleed ibn Utba) calls on
  Al-Husain for interview
• Atmosphere somber and tense
• Asks Al-Husain to give Allegiance to Yazid
• Al-Husain answers Tomorrow Ill announce it to
  the People
• Next morning Al-Husain leaves Medina for Mecca

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Al-Husain and family in Mecca

• It was Haj time, Husain was advised by many not
  to go to Iraq
• Al-Husain sends his cousin (Muslim ibn Aqeel) to
  Kufa to ask for full support
• Gives a very stirring Duaa at Jabal Arafat
• Leaves Mecca with family to Iraq before
  performing Haj

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On the Way to Kufa

• Husain goes with family and close associates.
• Sees Farazdaq (the poet) who says Iraqis hearts
  are with him but their swords are against him
• They hear that Aqeel was doing well in Iraq
• Al-Husain is intercepted by Al-Hur and 1000 troops

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Meanwhile in Kufa

• At first Muslim ibn Aqeel was supported by 18,000
  enthusiastic people in Kufa
• The new Governor (Ibn Ziyad) induced an
  atmosphere of terror
• Betrayal at its worst, people run away leaving
  ibn Aqeel to fend for himself
• Alone, Muslim ibn Aqeel had to take refuge in a
  house

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Muslim ibn Aqeel Killed

• Muslim was overwhelmed by the troops
• Was taken as a captive to Ibn Ziyad
• Was promised by Al-Ashath to send a message to
  Al-Husain, but did not do it
• Was killed and body thrown from top of building
  to the street
• Same thing happened to Hani ibn Urwa

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The Interception

• Al-Hur did not allow Al-Husain except to go
  north, waiting for orders
• Ibn Ziyad sent a force of 4000 under Omar ibn
  Saad
• The force stopped at Karbala
• Al-Husain was intercepted, and the enemy swelled
  to 5000 (some say 30,000) fighters
• Al-Husains group consisted of 72

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Karbala

• It was during Summer, the heat was blazing
• Al-Husain was aware of Karbala and what the
  Prophet had said about it.
• Al-Husain was also aware of what Ali had said
  about Karbala
• Al-Husain knew Karbala was the place for
  confrontation

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Mecca to Karbala

• Distance about 1000 miles
• 18 overnight stops
• Distance between overnight stops varies from 35
  to 55 miles
• The route is across the desert
• Trip is arduous to say the least

Karbala
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Al-Husain Remembers Ali Saying

• On the way to confront Muawiya, they passed by a
  dreary place
• Ali asked about the name of the place
• The answer was Karbala
• Alis face showed profound grief and he said

• ??? ????? ???????   ?????? ??????
• "IT IS HERE WHERE THEY WILL BE STOPPED
• AND IT IS HERE WILL BE THE BLOOD-SHED."

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With Al-Husain

• 72 persons were at Husains camp
• 3 year old Al-Baaqir was with them
• 8 were old Sahaaba (one was older than 90)
• 20 were Companions of Ali
• Al-Husains family (total of 44)
• All knew they were facing imminent death
• They faced an enemy of 5,000 (some say 30,000)

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The Negotiation

• Al-Husain and Omar ibn Saad negotiated about the
  direction to take
• Commands came from Kufa by Ibn Ziyad as follows

EITHER HAVE HUSAIN SURRENDER OR ANNIHILATE THE GROUP. IF YOU DON'T CARRY OUT THE ORDER, SHIMR WILL REPLACE YOU AND IMMEDIATELY CUT OFF YOUR HEAD!
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Water was cut off by the seventh day

• For 3 days water was cut off
• Children were crying of devastating thirst
• No water for cooking
• No water for horses
• Much Suffering and misery because of thirst
• Conditions were desperate by the 10th day

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The 9th day is Spent in Prayer

• Al-Husain gives a speech to all to leave him
  alone and go for safety
• They adamantly refuse
• Night spent in intensive Prayer in anticipation
  to meet their Lord
• Women preparing for the eventuality ahead

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Al-Husains Speech on the 9th
 
BE IT IN COMFORT OR TROUBLE, THE PRAISE IS FOR ALLAH, AND I ALWAYS THANK HIM.  I THANK HIM FOR HAVING HONORED OUR HOUSEHOLD WITH THE PROPHETHOOD.  HE GRANTED US THE FAVOR OF UNDERSTANDING OUR FAITH AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE QURAN.  O' LORD!  MAKE US THY GRATEFUL SERVANTS. NEVER HAVE I KNOWN BETTER AND MORE FAITHFUL COMPANIONS THAN THESE MY OWN, AND NEVER HAVE I KNOWN BETTER AND MORE LOVING RELATIVES THAN THESE MY OWN.  MAY YOU, O' ALLAH, REWARD THEM PLENTIFULLY!   TOMORROW WILL BE THE FATEFUL DAY FOR ME AND MY FOE THE ENEMY IS INTERESTED IN NONE BUT ME, IN ME ALONE.  I'LL BE MOST DELIGHTED TO PERMIT EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU TO GO BACK, AND I URGE YOU TO DO SO.  BY SO DOING, I WON'T HAVE EVEN THE LEAST COMPLAINT OR REGRET AGAINST ANY.  NOW THAT DARKNESS HAS COME, HOW ABOUT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT AND AVAIL YOURSELVES, AND MAKE GOOD YOUR ESCAPE, ALONG WITH MY FAMILY.  PLEASE SAVE YOURSELVES FROM CERTAIN DEATH.
 
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Facing each other on the 10th

• 72 of Al-Husains facing thousands of the enemy
• Many of the enemy were those who previously urged
  Al-Husain to join them against Yazid
• They were Arabs, Muslims, Iraqi Bound and
  determined to kill
• To kill the very family of the Prophet and
  desecrate it

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Al-Hur breaks away

• Seeing the malice ahead, Al-Hur breaks away to
  join Al-Husains camp
• Al-Hur asks forgiveness and is granted
• Omar ibn Saad throws an arrow to start the fight
• Al-Hur was one of the firsts to face the enemy to
  fight till death
• Al-Husains side had only 32 on horses

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The Fight

• Al-Husains fighters were on the offensive
• Enemy had to ask for reinforcement
• They burned the tents in the back
• The companions started to fall one after the
  other
• By noon they stopped for Dhuhr Prayer
• Ibn Mudhahir protected Al-Husain with his body,
  and fell of his wounds dead as the Prayer was
  finished

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In the afternoon

• Left were the family consisting of
• Son Ali, about 19 Yrs old
• Son, Zainul Abideen who was sick with fever
• Al-Abbas with 4 of his brothers
• 17 Nephews all teenagers
• Women and other young children

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Al-Abbas

• Al-Abbas was the Commander and the flag bearer
• Went to get water for the parched mouths
• On way back fought an overwhelming enemy and was
  killed, arms cut, an arrow in his eye
• He was preceded by all 4 brothers in fighting the
  enemy. All by then killed
• Al-Husain in great grief at the loss

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The Fighting in the Afternoon

• Ali ibn Al-Husain fights bravely and ferociously,
  but is eventually overwhelmed by the enemy
• Women and children watch in horror and anxiety,
  have very heavy feeling
• 17 Teenagers go out for the fight, get killed one
  after the other
• A crying baby a few months old is hit with an
  arrow as Al-Husain was pleading for a drink of
  water for him

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Al-Husain supplicates facing the enemy

• O' LORD!  MAY I ASK YOU TO TAKE AWAY YOUR BOUNTY
  FROM THESE PEOPLE!  AND IF YOU, LORD, ALLOW THEM
  A RESPITE, MAY I ASK YOU TO SOW DIFFERENCE AMONG
  THEM AND LET THEM BE DIVIDED!

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At another time Al-Husain said

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• IT IS MY BLOOD THAT YOU WANT, BUT I ASK ALLAH
  ALMIGHTY TO HAVE ME HONORED BY DISGRACING YOU AND
  HUMILIATING YOU, AND IN WAYS YOU CANNOT IMAGINE,
  TAKE A FULL RETRIBUTION FROM YOU. 

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Al-Husain bids farewell

• Al-Husain bid his family good-bye
• Saw to it to confer Zainul Abideen the Imamah
• The heavy burden, emotional, physical, and thirst
  was unbearable
• Goes to fight off the enemy in the service of
  Islam

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Gets Severely Wounded

• Cut in many places and severely bleeding
• Al-Husain becomes weak and falls from his horse
• No one dared to finish him off
• Shimr screamed at them, but they refuse
• Then Shimr himself finished him off
• Shimrs mother was a disbeliever (Majoosi)

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And with that

• Was the Heavens welcoming Al-Husain, its Hero!
• Or Was the Heavens giving a notice to the
  atrocities committed!!!

• WITH THAT, A SUDDEN LOUD THUNDER WAS HEARD AS IF
  IT WAS FROM FAR, HIGH ABOVE.

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The horror to see

• Flabbergasted women in anguish watched
  Al-Husains head severed
• The heads of everyone else were severed
• The horses trampling on the slain holy bodies
• Cloths were stripped of the bodies
• Zainul Abideen while sick was in great anguish,
  as well as others

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The Enemy

• The enemy stole the womens jewelry
• Desecrated the family of the Prophet
• Took all of them as captives to Ibn Ziyad in Kufa
• Food and water was finally allowed

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They face Ibn Ziyad

• Ibn Ziyad tried to intimidate them, thinking he
  had shattered them beyond repair. 
• Husain's sister, Zainab, answered him so sharply
  and in such a cutting manner he was taken aback
• He turned back to the sick Zainul Abideen, and
  did the same.  Zainul Abideen's answer was just
  as sharp as his aunts, but through quoting the
  Holy Quran.
• A few days later they were taken to Damascus

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To Damascus

• A trip of 800 miles, on camels back, taking many
  weeks to arrive
• In front of them were 72 heads on the tip of
  spears
• People in Syria were under the fabricated
  propaganda that Al-Husain was simply a rebel
• On finding who he was, feelings changed
  dramatically
• Processions were pathetic, to see how haggard and
  how humiliated the family of the Prophet was!

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Face to face with Yazid

• The evil 30 year old Yazid was sitting like the
  Byzantines. He was the fruit of Mu'awiya and
  Abu Sufyan
• Seventy two severed heads with the horrible mask
  of death on them, were brought forward.
• The women along with Zainul Abideen were in
  fetters.
• Yazid had the audacity to play with the lips of
  Al-Husain with the end of his stick!!
• These lips represented Muhammad (pbuh) and taught
  Islam.
• It was these very lips that were kissed by
  Muhammad (pbuh) 57 years back

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The Exchange

• A powerful exchange took place between the two
  sides
• Yazid was rebuffed by Zainul Abideen through
  quotes from the Quran, and so did Zainab
• They put the women and children in special
  quarters where the first Majlis took place, done
  by Zainab
• Zainul Abideen gave a stirring speech at the
  Mosque
• There was fear of uprising against the 30 Yr old
  Yazid

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They return

• Given the choice to return to Medina or stay in
  Damascus
• They chose to return
• Accompanied by a contingency of guards, they
  headed towards Medina
• Zainab and Zainul Abideen worked incessantly to
  expose the disgrace that befell the Ummah at the
  hands of Benu Umayya

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About the End
A N D    Such comes an end, to give birth to a beginning, since the end of Imam Husain was the beginning, the beginning of awakening.  It was the beginning of the Islamic awakening all over the world, it was almost the REBIRTH OF ISLAM. We Owe our Totality to Imam Husain
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Husain for whom the Quran Says

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• (Surah  33  Ayah  33.  According to A'isha, Ayah
  of Tat'heer (Purification) was revealed on behalf
  of Fatima, Ali, Al-Hasan, and Al-Husain, see
  Sahih Muslim Vol. 3, Page 130.)

• VERILY, ALLAH HAS DECREED TO PURIFY YOU, O'
  AHLUL BAYT, AND SANCTIFY YOU IN A PERFECT WAY

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Husain for whom the Prophet Says

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• ??? ????? ????? ????????   ?????? ????? ???????

• AL-HASAN AND AL-HUSAIN ARE EACH A PRINCE OVER THE
  YOUTHFUL IN HEAVEN".
• THE ONE WHO LOVES HASAN AND HUSAIN WILL ALSO HAVE
  LOVED ME, AND HE WHO DETESTS THEM,WILL HAVE
  DETESTED ME.
• "IN PEACE I AM WITH HIM WHOM YOU ARE IN PEACE
  WITH AND IN BATTLE I AM WITH HIM WHOM YOU ARE IN
  BATTLE WITH

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THE TRIUMPH OF VIRTUE OVER VICE 
VIRTUE over VICE
  BENU HASHIM      BENU UMAYYA
MUHAMMAD (pbuh) Abu Sufyan fought Muhammad and Islam.  ABU SUFYAN
ALI (a.s.) Mu'awiya fought Ali, used deception.      MU'AWIYA
AL-HASAN (a.s.) Mu'awiya used deception with Al-Hasan then poisoned him.  
AL-HUSAIN (a.s.) Yazid killed Al-Husain in the worst manner. YAZID
 
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Ziyarah (Visitation) of Al-Husain

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Ziyarah (Visitation) of Al-Husain

• Peace be on you, O Aba Abdillah! Peace be on you,
  O son of the Messenger of Allah!
• Peace be upon, O the Finest of Gods Creatures
  and the son of the Finest of Gods Creatures!
• Peace be on you, O son of the Commander of the
  Faithful and the forebear of the Prophet's
  successors!
• Peace be on you, O son of Fatima, the choicest
  among the women of the worlds!
• Peace be on you, who was martyred while fighting
  in the cause of Allah, and the son of Allah's
  fearless warrior, who was attacked with a
  vengeance!
• Peace be on you and on those souls which had
  gathered in your camp, in your journey.
• To all of you I pray Allah to be in Peaceas long
  as I live, and as long as nights follow the days.

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Shrine of Imam Al-Husain
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May Allah Bless youBe in Allahs CareA.S.
Hashim MD