
Little did those killers care to know about Islam, and the sameĬan be said about those who refrain from condemning them and who, thus, share in the burden of sins those killers shall bear on the Day of Judgment. The heads of the other heroes who fought on Imam al-Husain’s side were also cut off and paraded in the same mannerĪs trophies although Islam does not permit the mutilation of anyone’s body, be he a Muslim or a non-Muslim. The Umayyad tyrant Yazid “son” of Mu'awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan. Were all tied and chained as captives and conveyed in the most cruel manner the entire distance from Kerbala’, as the Taff area came to be called, to Damascus, Syria, seat of Imam al-Husain’s body was trampled under the hoofs of the soldiers’ horses and his head was cut off, placed on top of a spear and paraded before his women and children, who That he was, the man whom the Prophet on many occasions praised and honoured as one of the Masters of the Youths of Paradise, the other Master being his older brother Hasan ( ﻉ). Of those who fought Imam al-Husain ( ﻉ) and his small band of supporters, the brave defender of principles and the reformer of the nation Imam al-Husain ( ﻉ)Īnd his small band were not permitted to the end to have access to the water of the Euphrates that lied a short distance from their camp. Imam al-Husain ( ﻉ) was pleading to those folks to give Abdullah some water to drink. The exception of his ailing son referred to above, namely Ali _, including his infant Abdullah, who was six months old and who was shot with an arrow in the neck. and ended ten days later with the barbaric killing of Imam al-Husain ( ﻉ) and all males with him _with Orders issued by the ruler of his time, namely Yazid “son” of Mu'awiyah, which is referred to in history books as the Taff Battle, started on the first day of Muharram, 61Ī.H.October 4, 680 A.D. The bloody confrontation between Husain’s tiny group of family members and supports and the huge army raized according to Maadd ibn al-Mansur who was born in 319 A.H./931 A.D. The latter was founded by caliph “al-Muizz li Deenillah,” Abu Tameem Having conquered Egypt in 358 A.H./969 A.D., they builtĬairo in order to make it their capital and founded in the next year the al-Azhar mosque and university.

Migrated to north Africa where they founded the Fatimide caliphate that lasted from 296 - 566 A.H./909 - 1171 A.D.
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He later became the fourth in the series of the Twelve Infallible Imams ( ﻉ).

TheĬonfrontation left a lone male survivor from Imam al-Husain’s camp: Imam al-Husain’s son Ali, titled "as-Sajjad," the one who quite often prostrates to Allah, and also "ZainĪl-Abidin," the best of worshippers of Allah. Son of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib ( ﻉ) and grandson of Prophet Muhammed ( ﺹ).

It refers to a revolution against tyranny and oppression led by Imam al-Husain ( ﻉ)

Mahdi from among the offspring of Prophet Muhammed ( ﺹ). It has stamped the history of the Muslim nation ever since, and it will continue to do so till the reappearance of the Awaited One, the This book contains a brief yet documented narrative of an incident that took place in Kerbala’, Iraq, in 61 A.H. In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
