KERBALĀ AND BEYOND Yasin T. al-Jibouri اللھم آرزقنا شفاعة الحسين Paperback: 383 pages Publisher: Yasin Publications Date of publication: April 2, 2014 Language: English ISBN-10: 1497539447 ISBN-13: 978-1497539440 Yasin Publications P.O. Box 338 8253-A Backlick Rd. Newington, VA 22122 Website: www.yasinpublications.org Email: [email protected] 2 اللـ ّـھمـ ﱠ صـ َ ﱢــل عــلى محـــمـــد وآل محمد السﻻم على الشيب الخضيب، السﻻم على الخد التريب السﻻم على البدن السليب ، السﻻم على الثغر المقروع بالقضيب السﻻم على الرأس المرفوع، السﻻم على اﻻجسام العارية في الفلوات السﻻم على المرمل بالدماء، السﻻم على المھتوك الخباء السﻻم على خامس أصحاب الكساء، السﻻم على غريب الغرباء السﻻم على شھيد الشھداء، السﻻم على قتيل اﻷدعياء السﻻم على ساكن كربﻻء، السﻻم على من بكته مﻻئكة السماء و رحمة ﷲ و بركاته O Allāh ! Bless Muhammed and the progeny of Muhammed Peace with the blood-drenched gray hair. Peace with the dust- covered cheek. Peace with the marauded body. Peace with the mouth beaten with the iron bar. Peace with the head raised [atop a spear]. Peace with the bodies exposed in the plains. Peace with the one covered with blood. Peace with the one whose privacy was violated. Peace with the fifth of the Fellows of the Covering Sheet. Peace with the stranger of all strangers. Peace with the martyr of all martyrs. Peace with the one killed by the da’is. Peace with the one who resides in Kerbalā. Peace with the one mourned by the angels of the heavens. Peace with you, O Father of Abdullāh… 3 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS TREE LAMENTS AND BLEEDS ON ĀSHŪRA.............................8 PREFACE ..........................................................................................11 PROLOGUE ......................................................................................18 ETERNAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG ....18 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................19 PART I................................................................................................23 HUSSAIN AND HIS FOES, MARTYRDOM.................................23 ABŪ SUFYAN............................................................................ 23 MU’AWIYAH AND YAZID...................................................... 24 ALI, HUSSAIN’S FATHER ....................................................... 30 36 ...............................(ع) IMĀM HUSSAIN SON OF IMĀM ALI ISLAM’S MESSAGE TO HUMANITY .................................... 41 ORIGINS OF DEVIATION........................................................ 43 FALSIFICATION OF HADĪTH AND DISTORTION OF THE SUNNA ....................................................................................... 44 YAZID APPOINTED AS SUPREME RULER.......................... 50 THE NOBLE MOTIVES BEHIND IMĀM HUSSAIN’S REVOLUTION ........................................................................... 54 THE REVOLUTION’S PROCESS............................................. 56 HUSSAIN IN MECCA ............................................................... 57 MUSLIM SWEARS OATH OF ALLEGIANCE FOR HUSSAIN ..................................................................................................... 60 HANI IBN URWAH ................................................................... 63 MUSLIM’S UPRISING .............................................................. 64 AL-MUKHTAR JAILED............................................................ 66 MUSLIM AT THE HOUSE OF TAW'A.................................... 66 MUSLIM MEETS IBN ZIYAD.................................................. 68 QASR MUQATIL ....................................................................... 74 THE KUFIAN HOSTS................................................................ 75 EFFORTS TO SECURE WATER .............................................. 76 CONDITIONAL RESPITE GRANTED..................................... 77 ANOTHER CONFRONTATION AT WATERING PLACE..... 77 FIRM RESOLUTION ................................................................. 78 LOVE AND DEVOTION ........................................................... 78 5 ASHURA..................................................................................... 79 THE FIRST LADY MARTYR.................................................... 82 AL-ABBAS IS MARTYRED ..................................................... 83 MARTYRDOM OF THE IMĀM ................................................ 84 HUSSAIN’S HORSE .................................................................. 88 AL-HUSSAIN MARAUDED ..................................................... 89 PART II ............................................................................................. 90 A SUMMARY OF............................................................................. 90 POST-MARTYRDOM EVENTS.................................................... 90 THE STEED ................................................................................ 93 THE SEVERED HEADS ............................................................ 94 LEAVING KERBALĀ................................................................ 96 AT KŪFA .................................................................................. 101 ZAINAB’S SPEECH................................................................. 103 FĀTIMA DELIVERS A SPEECH............................................ 105 AS-SAJJĀD DELIVERS A SPEECH....................................... 109 THE BURIAL............................................................................ 112 AT THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION....................................... 116 AL-MUKHTAR ATH-THAQAFI ............................................ 122 THE SACRED HEAD SPEAKS............................................... 125 AL-ASHDAQ ............................................................................ 127 ABDULLĀH IBN JA’FAR....................................................... 130 THE CAPTIVES TAKEN TO SYRIA...................................... 131 IN SYRIA .................................................................................. 136 HUSSAIN’S SEVERED HEAD ............................................... 145 A SYRIAN ENCOUNTERS FĀTIMA..................................... 148 ZAINAB DELIVERS ANOTHER SPEECH............................ 148 AT THE HOUSE OF RUIN ...................................................... 152 BACK TO MEDĪNA................................................................. 153 THE SEVERED HEAD REJOINS BODY ............................... 156 THE ARBA’EEN ...................................................................... 158 IN MEDĪNA .............................................................................. 166 6 PART III...........................................................................................171 THE REVOLUTION’S OUTCOME.............................................171 THE HARRA INCIDENT......................................................... 173 WHAT HAPPENED IN MECCA? ........................................... 177 AL-HUSSAIN’S GRAVE......................................................... 183 PERFORMING ZIYARAT TO HUSSAIN’S SHRINE ........... 194 PART IV...........................................................................................200 HUSSAIN’S SUCCESSORS: .........................................................200 200...................................................(ع) NINE INFALLIBLE IMĀMS 200 .....(ع) IMĀM ALI IBN AL-HUSSAIN ZAIN AL-ĀBIDĪN (1 213 ................................(ع) IMĀM MUHAMMED AL-BĀQIR (2 224 ............................................(ع) IMĀM JA’FAR AS-SĀDIQ (3 233 ......................................... (ع) IMĀM MŪSA AL-KĀDHIM (4 241 ................................................ (ع) IMĀM ‘ALI AR-RIDHA (5 339 ...................................(ع) IMĀM MUHAMMED AT-TAQI (6 347 ...................................................(ع) IMĀM ‘ALI AN-NAQI (7 355 ..................................... (ع) IMĀM HASSAN AL-'ASKARI (8 362 ................(ﻋﺞ) THE AWAITED ONE, IMĀM AL-MAHDI (9 CONCLUSION ............................................................................ 375 اللھم صلي على محمد و آل محمد اللھم آرزقنا شفاعة الحسين 7 TREE LAMENTS AND BLEEDS ON ĀSHŪRA In Qazween city, Iran there is an old tree which for so long has been Its .(ع) wailing and lamenting the martyrdom of Imām Hussain branches bleed warm blood on the 10th Muharram, i.e. Āshūra, when the Imām was martyred, and it keeps doing so till the 11th night of Muharram. The faithful residing in Qazween and surrounding areas gather there and commemorate Āshūra. Bleeding tree shortly before dawn when its color starts changing to red 8 Marks of Hussaini blood visibly appear on the miracle tree after sunrise 9 The faithful take blood specimens to show others 10 In the Name of Allāh , the most Gracious, the most Merciful PREFACE This is the third of nine books written so far by Yasin T. al-Jibouri, and hopefully the reader will eventually read the others as well. The first was Fast of the Month of Ramadan: Philosphy and Ahkam, and the second was his best book yet titled Allāh : the Concept of God in Islam. Since the reader is most likely interested in knowing who the author is, we would like to state the following: Al-Jibouri was born on August 14, 1946 in Baghdad, Iraq, and he lived most of his life in the holy city of al-Kādhimiyya (Kādhimain). In 1969, he graduated from the College of Arts, Baghdad University, where he majored in English which he taught at a high school in Babylon (Hilla) then at a vocational institute