Such Brings Pain To The Heart

By: Al-Hurr al-`Amili (d. 1104 A.H.)

The public speaker and the `allama Faqih Shaikh al-Hurr al-`amili, author of the modern encyclopedia known as Wasa’il al-Shi`a, wrote a poem wherein he says,

Her children are five: Hasan and Husain (A.S.)

And Zainab, older than Umm Kultham

And Muhassan was miscarried when

`Omer forcibly opened their door

As it became known to all.

So she died after the Prophet (A.S.)

Willingly went to her Lord satisfied

With what He for her had been decreed.

Such brings pain to the heart

And every other calamity is surely less in pain

What grief, humiliation, persecution and oppression

And savagery became clear to all.

Then he explains how she died, saying,

Its cause, it was said, natural death but

It was also said that it was caused of the pain

Inflicted from a blow dealt to her by that man

When she instantly miscarried her fetus

For whom she kept weeping and wailing