AL-HUSSAIN (a.s.) MEETS THE KUFIANS
People never ceased expressing their hatred towards having to fight al-Hussain (.), the son of the most revered Messenger of Allah (.) and Master of the Youths of Paradise. They had not forgotten all the statements made by the Prophet (.) in his honour and in honour of his father the wasi (.), as well as in honour of his chosen brother (.). They all realized his status with Allah when Kufa was hit by a drought and by a famine, so they complained to his father (.) who took out this same martyr to pray for rain. It was by the blessings of his holy soul and that of his noor, which is made of that of Muhammed (.), that Allah Almighty responded, sending rain upon the earth till grass grew after an extended period of drought. He was also the same person who secured the watering area during the Battle of Siffin, thus making water available for the Muslims who had by then been exhausted by acute thirst. They also came to know how he provided water for al-Hurr and for all the one thousand men and their horses in that desolate desert; that was the incident about which the Kufians were talking everywhere. How could anyone, hence, meet him face to face and fight him, had it not been for succumbing to inclinations, going to extremes in oppression, and due to the weakness of people when facing temptation? This is why many of those who marched out to meet him deserted and stole their way to safety, so much so that only a small number of them remained by the time they reached Kerbala'. When Ibn Ziyad came to know about the large number of those who deserted, he sent al-Suwayd ibn `Abdul-Rahman al-Minqari incharge of a regiment of cavaliers, ordering him to tour Kufa's alleys and quarters to announce the beginning of the war against al-H. usain (.) and to bring him all those who lagged behind. Among those brought to him was a man from Syria who had gone to Kufa seeking an inheritance belonging to him. Once he was brought to Ibn Ziyad, the latter ordered him to be killed. When people saw how ruthless Ibn Ziyad was, they all went out.
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