Political impact of Ashura- The revival of promotion of good and prevention of evil
According to the most authorized quotations, the first martyr of the family of the Prophet was Ali Akbar, and the last one was Abolfazl Al-Abbas. He martyred when there were no companions for him. He was alone with the master of the martyrs. He came and said: my dear brother! Let me to go to the battle field, I am not satisfied with this life. Abolfazl sent his three brothers younger than himself before. He said: you should go!
My dear brothers! I want to take the misfortune of my brothers as a divine reward!He wanted to make sure that his brothers became a martyr before him and then he joins them. So, Omolbanin and her four sons were alone, but she was not in Karbala, she was in Medina. Those who were in Medina were unaware of the fate of Karbala. Somebody has announced this woman (who had four sons) about her sons’ martyrdom. Of course she was a complete woman, a widow who had lost all his sons. Sometimes she sat on the way of Kufa to Medina and started a jeremiad for her sons. It is written in the history that this woman herself was propaganda against Umayyad. Everyone who was passing there, stopped and cried for her.MarvanHakam was Medina’s ruler before and one of the severe enemies of the prophet’s household , whenever he passed there, he stopped and started to cry with this woman involuntarily. She has some poetries:
لا تدعونی ویک ام البنین
تذکرینی بلیوث العرین
کانت بنون لی ادعی بهم
و الیوم اصبحت و لا من بنین
She addressed a woman and said: do not call me Omolbanin since then, because this name will recall me my bad memories about my children. I do not have any children now.
Her eldest son was Abolfazl and she was so upset about him. She said:
یا من رای العباس کر علی جماهیر النقد
و وراه من ابناء حیدر کل لیث ذی لبد
انبئت ان ابنی اصیب براسه مقطوع ید
ویلی علی شبلی امال براسه ضرب العمد
لو کان سیفک فی یدیک لما دنی منه احد
She asked about his son’s martyrdom (Abbas). Abbas’s courage and heroism is ascertained in the history.He was incredibly good-looking. He was named the BaniHashem’s moon. He has shone among the BaniHashim by his beauty. He was tall and handsome, some historians said when he was on horseback and he got his feet out of the stirrups, his feet were on the ground. He had strong arms and broad chest. She believed that her son couldn’t be killed easily. When she asked about his martyrdom, somebody told her that they had cut his hands first. Then she said an elegy: O’ those guys who were in Karbal when my son was killed by some men who were like jackals! Ali’s sons stood behind him like a lion! Shame on me! Somebody told me that they killed my powerful son by a metal sword. O’ my dear Abbas! I know that if you had hands, no one had the courage to approach you.
