IN SYRIA
When they were near Damascus, Umm Kulthum sent a message to al-Shimr asking him to let them enter the city from the least crowded highway, and to take the heads out so that people might be diverted by looking at them rather than looking at the women. He escorted them as they were in a condition
from which skins would shiver and senses quiver. Al-Shimr instead ordered his men to take the captives for display before onlookers and to place the severed heads in their midst.
On the first day of Safar, they entered Damascus and were stopped at the Clocks Gate. People came out carrying drums and trumpets in excitement and jubilation. A man came close to Sukayna and asked her, "What captives are you all from?" She said, "We are captives belonging to the family of Muhammed (.)."
Yazid was sitting at a surveillance outpost overlooking the mountain of Jayrãn. When he saw the captives with the heads planted atop the spears as their throng came close, a crow croaked, whereupon he composed these verses:
When those conveyances drew nigh
And the heads on the edge of Jayrãn,
The crow croaked so said I:
Say whatever you wish to say
Or say nothing at all,
The Messenger this very day
What he owed me he did repay.
It is due to these verses that Ibn al-Jawzi and Abu Ya`li, the judge, as well as al-Taftazani and Jalal al-Sayyãt. I permitted cursing Yazid and labelling him as kafir. Sahl ibn Sa`d al-Sa`idi came close to Sukayna daughter of al-Husain (.) and asked her, "Is there anything I can do for you?" She asked him to pay the man who was carrying the head some money and to ask him in return to stay away from the women so that people would be distracted by looking at the head instead of looking at the women. Sahl did so. An elderly man came near al-Sajj~d and said, "Praise be to Allah Who annihilated you and Who granted
the governor the upper hand over you!" At such a juncture, the Imam poured of his own kindness over that poor [ignorant] man who was brainwashed by falsehood in order to bring him closer to the truth and to show him the
path of guidance. Such are the Ahl al-Bayt (.): their light shines over those whom they know to be pure of heart and pure of essence and, as such, who are ready to receive guidance. He (.), asked the man, "Have you read the Qur'an, O shaikh?" The man answered al-Sajjad in the affirmative. "Have you read," Continued al-Sajjad, "the verse saying, `Say: I do not ask you for a reward for it [for conveying the Islamic Message to you] except that you treat my kinsfolk with kindness,' the verse saying, `And give the [Prophet's] kinsfolk their due rights,' and the verse saying, `And be informed that whatever you earn by way of booty, for Allah belongs the fifth thereof and for the Messenger [of Allah] and for the [Prophet's] kinsfolk'?" The man answered by saying, "Yes, I have read all of them." He (..) then said, "We, by Allah, are the kinsfolk referred to in all these verses." Then the Imam (.) asked him whether he had read the verse saying, "Allah only desires to remove all abomination from you, O Ahl al-Bayt, and purifies you with a perfect purification" (Qur'an, 33:33). "Yes" was the answer. Al-Sajjad (.), said to him, "We are Ahl al-Bayt whom Allah purified." "I ask you in the Name of Allah," asked the man, "are you really them?" Al-Sajjad (.), said, "By our grandfather, the Messenger of Allah, I swear that we are, without any doubt."
It was then that the elderly man fell on al-Sajjad's feet kissing them as he said, "I dissociate myself before Allah from whoever killed you." He sought repentance of the Imam (.) from whatever rude remarks he had earlier made. The encounter involving this elderly man reached Yazid (maloon) who ordered the man to be killed..
Before they were brought to Yazid's court, they were tied with ropes. The beginning of the rope was around the neck of Zayn al-Abidin [Ali son of Imam al-Husain (.), also called al-Sajjad, the one who prostrates to Allah quite often], then around the necks of Zainab, Umm Kulthum, up to all the daughters of the Messenger of Allah (.). Whenever they laxed in their walking, they were whipped. This went on till they were brought face to face with Yazid who was then sitting on his throne.. Ali ibn al-Husain (.) asked him, "What do you think
the reaction of the Messenger of Allah might have been had he seen us looking like this?" Everyone wept. Yazid ordered the ropes to be cut off were lined up on the stairs to the gate leading to the [Umayyad Grand] mosque as was their custom with all captives, and the sacred head was placed in front of Yaz§d who kept looking at the captives and reciting
these verses:
We took to patience, and on patience we set our minds,
While our swords chopped off heads and hands.
We were splitting heads of men held by us as dear
But they to unkindness and injustice were more near.
Then he turned to al-Nu`man ibn Bashir and said, "Praise to Allah Who killed him [al-Husain]." Al-Nu`man said, "Commander of the faithful Mu`awiyah (maloon) used to hate killing him." Yazid said, "That was before he rebelled. Had he rebelled against the commander of the faithful, he would have killed him."
......... contd.
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