After Abbas
(pbuh), came the turn of Ali Akbar (pbuh), to go to the battlefield.
The battle drums of the enemies were now getting louder and louder.
It is reported that this eighteen (18) year old son was so very much
loved by one and all in the camp that the account of his taking
leave of his aunts, sisters, brothers and other relatives is so
pathetic that none can resist shedding at least a few tears over the
heart-rending event. At last when the Holy Imam sent Ali Akbar, the
'Ahmad-e-Thani', i.e., (Muhammad the Second), to the battlefield, he
raised his head towards Heaven and said:
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Hazrat
Ali Akbar (AS)
By: Fatima Jafri
Fatima currently attends Dana
Hall School and she is in the tenth grade. She is fifteen years old and
she lives in Dover.
The night of Shabe-Ashoor was scorching and
miserable. The echoes for water haunted Imam Husayn (AS). What could our
Imam do for these parched and famished children? Hazrat Ali Akbar (AS)
was the son of Imam Husayn (AS). He was a handsome young man of
eighteen. He so much resembled the Holy Prophet (SAW) that Imam Husayn
(AS) was often heard to say that whenever I want to remember the Holy
Prophet (SAW) I look at Akbar (AS). Hazrat Ali Akbar (AS) had a powerful
beautiful voice. It was he who always recited adhaan.
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The whole
town of Medina was humming with activity. People from all parts of the
town were looking into the street of the Hashimites where a caravan was
getting ready for a journey. The elders of the town were talking to each
I other in hushed tones, recalling the words of the Prophet, that a day
will dawn when his beloved grandson Husain (as) would leave Medina with
his sons, brothers, nephews and kinsmen never to return. There was
sadness on the faces of all, young and old. The elderly people were
aghast at the thought of Husain going away for ever. They were
accustomed to turning to him in all their needs. The youths of Medina
were saddened by the thought of Abbas and Ali Akbar and Qasim going away
for good. Their anxious inquiries could only elicit this much
information, that Husain with his kinsmen and children, was going for
Hajj and from there to an unknown destination.
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