"O Yazeed! Allah and His
Prophet have said that committing sins and considering the signs of
Allah to be false is ridiculing them", i.e. deny the sign of Allah
today and hold them in derision and have become happy, and recite
poetic verses on account of the martyrdom of the children of the
Holy Prophet just as the polytheists of Makkah became happy and sang
songs because of the martyrdom of some Muslims in the Battle of Uhud,
and talk about taking revenge upon the Holy Prophet. This is how you
become like them and how you have reached this stage? You have
reached this stage because you have committed too many sins.
Whoever treads the path
of sin and persists in committing sins will, according to the
verdict of the Qur'an, deny the signs of Allah one day and
eventually will ridicule them and then deserve Divine punishment. O
Yazeed! Do you think that we have become humble and despicable owing
to the martyrdom of our people and our own captivity? As you have
blocked all the paths for us, and we have been made captives and are
being taken from one place to another, do you think that Allah has
taken away his blessings from us? Do you think that by killing the
godly persons you have become great and respectable and the Almighty
looks at you with special grace and kindness? For this reason and on
account of this wrong thinking you have become elated and arrogant.
You have become boastful
because you have seen that the matters have taken a turn in your
favour. You have, however, forgotten what Allah says: The
disbelievers must not think that Our respite is for their good We
only give them time to let them increase their sins. For them there
will be a humiliating torment." (Surah Ale Imraan, 3: 178)
Then lady Zaynab reminded Yazeed that on the day of the
conquest of Makkah which took place in 8 A.H. the Holy Prophet did
favour to all the men and women of Makkah and set them free. Yazeed
himself was a descendant of those very freed persons. His father
Mu'awiya, his grandfather Abu Sufyan and Mua’wiyah’s mother were
among those who were set free at the time of the conquest of Makkah.
On that day the Holy Prophet very magnanimously set all of them free
irrespective of what they had done in the past and said: "Go, for
all of you are free".
In the second part of her
speech the daughter of Imam Ali made the conquest of Makkah her
topic and said:
"O son of the freed ones! Is it justice that you keep your
women and slave-girls in seclusion but have made the helpless
daughters of the Holy Prophet ride on swift camels and given them in
the hands of their enemies so that they may take them from one city
to another".
Then she said: "Why shouldn't Yazeed be spiteful against
us, it is he, who looks at us with hostility. You say with perfect
intrepidity and without imagining that you are committing a sin: 'I
wish that my ancestors who were killed in Badr had been present here
today'.
Then you strike Imam
Husayn in his teeth with a stick in your hand! Why shouldn't you be
like this, although you have done what you wanted to do and have
pulled out the roots of piety and virtue! You have shed the blood of
the sons of the Holy Prophet and have hidden the brilliant stars on
the earth from amongst the descendants of Abdul Muttalib under the
clouds of oppression and injustice. However, you shall go before
Allah soon. You shall meet your ancestors and shall also be taken to
their place. At that time you will wish that you had been blind and
dumb and had not said that it was a day of rejoicing for your
ancestors".
At this stage the daughter of Imam Ali prayed to Allah and
said:
"O
Lord! Procure our right and take revenge upon those who have
oppressed us". Then she turned to Yazeed and said: "By Allah you
have pulled off your skin and cut off your flesh. You will soon go
before the Prophet of Allah and will see with your own eyes that his
children are in Paradise. It will be the day when Allah will deliver the
descendants of the Holy Prophet from the state of being scattered
and will bring all of them together in Paradise.
This is the promise,
which Allah has made in the Holy Qur'an. He says: ‘Do not think of
those who are slain for the cause of Allah as dead. They are alive
with their Lord and receive sustenance from Him’. (Surah Ale Imraan,
3: 169)
O Yazeed! On the day when Allah will be the Judge and
Muhammad will be the petitioner, and your limbs will give evidence
against you, your father, who made you the ruler of the Muslims,
will receive His punishment. On that day it will become known what
reward the oppressors earn, whose position is worse and whose party
is more humble. O enemy of Allah and O son of the enemy of Allah! I
swear by Allah that I consider you to be humble and not fit even to
be reprimanded and reproached. But what am I to do? Our eyes are
shedding tears, our hearts are burning, and our martyrs cannot come
to life by our reprimanding and reproaching you.
My Husayn has been killed
and the partisans of Satan are taking us to the fools so that they
may get their reward for insulting Allah. Our blood is dripping from
their hands and our flesh is falling down from their mouths. The
sacred bodies of the martyrs have been placed at the disposal of the
wolves and other carnivorous animals of the jungle. If you have
gained something today by shedding blood, you will certainly be a
loser on the Day of Judgment.
On that day nothing but
your deeds will count. On that day you will curse Ibn Marjāna and he
will curse you. On that day you and your followers will quarrel with
one another by the side of the Divine scale of Justice. On that day
you will see that the best provision, which your father made for
you, was that he enabled you to kill the children of the Prophet of
Allah. I swear by Allah that I do not fear anyone except Him and do
not complain to anyone else. You may employ your deceit and cunning
efforts, but I swear by Allah that the shame and disgrace which you
have earned by the treatment meted out to us cannot be eradicated".
The daughter of Fatima Zahra ended her speech with offering thanks
to Allah.
She said: "I thank Allah
Who has concluded the task of the chiefs of the youths of Paradise
with prosperity and forgiveness and accommodated them in Paradise. I pray to Allah that He may elevate their ranks
and favour them more with His kindness, for Allah is Omnipotent".
Extracted from
‘A Probe into Ashura’.
mulla@almahdi.org.uk