Section VIII: the day of Farewell and leaving Medina toward Mecca

Imam Hussein’s farewell to the grave of his grandfather art8

Imam Hussein, went sadly to the grave of his grandfatherto complain about the wrong doers. Imam stood beside the grave, prayed two rak’ahs, he was very impressed and depressed, then he complained about his distress and said: O God! This is the tomb of Muhammad, your prophet. And I am his daughter’s son, some events happened for me that you are informed about them. O God! I love good acts and Ihate evil acts.

O holder of glory! For the sake of this grave and its owner, I ask you to select for me what makes you and your prophet satisfied.

Imam Hussein saw his grandfather in dreams.

Imam Hussein (a.s.) looked at his grandfather’s grave for a long time, While he was sure that he may never see it again, then fell to weeping. It was early morning that he felt drowsy. He saw his grandfather, the prophet, who came with a group of angels. He hugged Imam Hussein and kissed between his two eyes. And said: it seems that you will be killed soon in Karbala and your head will be cut while you are thirsty and they don’t give you water. But they hope that he will help them in future.

My dear! Hussein! You father, mother and brother came to me and they are enthusiastic to see you. There are great grades in the heaven for you which is possible only by martyrdom.

Imam Hussein looked at his grandfather for a long time and remembered his kindness. Then he became more eager. Then he imagined the hardship in Umaviye government. He had two choice :aleggiace of BaniUmmayeh and hardship in their government. Then he resorted to his grandfather and said: my grandfather! I don’t need to come back to the world, take me with yourself and let me to have dignity.

The prophet PBUH got impressed and said: you have to return to the world to gain martyrdom and the great divine reward. You, your father, uncle and father’s uncle will be gathered up into heaven.

Imam Hussein woke up excessively stressed. He was so depressed and he was completely sure that he will be martyr. Then he got together all his family members and retold the dream for them. Nobody was sadder than them about that matter.

Imam Hussein’s farewell with his parents’ tomb:

Imam Hussein (a.s.) went toward his mother tomb who was so dear for the prophet. He stood for a long time near her tomb and remembered about her kindness. He was so eager to go to his mother, then he cried and said goodbye to it then he went toward his father’s tomb, imam Hassan (a.s.), and he cried so much then he came back home while he was so sad.

BaniHashim women’s panic:

When the Imam decided to leaveMadinah and took refuge in Mecca, the women of Abd al- Motaleb family got together while they were so sad because they heard a lot of news about the prophet son who was killed( imam Hussein(a.s.)).

They atarted jeremiad and began to cry.It was a frightening scene. Imam Hussein said firmly: for the sake of God! Do not clarify this act which is a sin to God and the Prophet. They became sad and screamed:” Who we are jeremiad and cry for. Today is the day that the prophet, Ali, Fatemeh, and Hassan had passed before. May our Lord sacrifice us for you. O popular righteous! One of his aunts came to him while his face was flushed. He was frequently interrupted by the sound of crying and said: I heard from a Pythian (Hatef):

وان قتيل الطف من آل هاشم

اذل رقاباً من قريش فذلت

“That person who was killed in Tef, cut the heads of the Quraysh’s members and humiliated them.”

Imamorderedhimto becalmandpatiant, as he ordered to the other ladies of Abdulmutallab’s family before.

Alongwith his brother, Hannifah’s son:

“Muhammadibn Hannifah” was so distracted and he ran toward Imam Hussein while he couldn’t walk easily and see his front because of his sadness. When he stood said to Imam Hussein:” my brother! My life forthee! You are the most beloved and dearest to me. I swear to God! I will narrate all the advices for the people! No one ismorequalifiedthan youto it, you are like my soul, you are the great one ion my household, you are the only person that i trust on him and i have to obey you and the elevated Godgaveyoudignity and chose you as one of the Elysian. I want to suggest you, so accept it…”

Muhammad conveyed his kindness and respect to his brother by those speeches. Muhammad said: “i suggest to reject Yazid’s allegiance, then send your representatives for the people. So ifthey accept yourallegiance, you thank God. But if they accept some one else’s allegiance, your religion won’t be incomplete and it won’t decrease your dignity. I am afraid of your presence in one of those cities and their people’s conflicts. I am afraid that a gropu of them is in favor of you and they will fight against the other group who is against you. So those guys who are killed in this war are the cheapest ones.”

Imam Hussein said:”where should i go?”

“stay in Mecca, if you were calm there, you would stay. Otherwise you have to go to the mountains and emigrate from one city to the other. Thus, your vote is the rightest one and your act is the most farsaighted one. So it makes you to welcome the events and continue the difficult affairs. Imam started to speak, oblivious to theevents, and informed him about his firm decision of rejecting the allegiance. And said: i won’t swear alegiance with YazidibnMu’awiya, even there is no shelter for me in the world.

Hannifah’s son started to cry because he was sure about a disaster which is going to happen and he remembered the disasters which happened for his brother. Imam thanked him because of his caring. And said:” my brother! May Godgiveyougoodfine, because you manifested your caring and did a lot of good affairs. I am going to Mecca. My reltives’ situation is similar to mine. There is no problem for you to stay here and take care of the events and narrate all of them for me.”

Imam Hussein’s testimony to Hnnifah’s child:

Imam wrote his eternal testimony for his brother, Hannifah’s son in which he talked about his great revolution elementswhich were against the Yazid government. In this testimony, after God’s name he said:

“this is all the things that Hussein ibn Ali testified to his brother,Muhammad ibn Hannifah. Hussein bears witness that there in no lord except our God and there is no partner for him. Muhammad is his servant and he come by him. The heaven and fire are true and the The Day of Resurrection will undoubtedly come and Godmotivatethose whoare in the graves. I am not moving because of absurdity, arbitrariness, corruption or oppression. But i have risen to reform the nation of my ancestor and prophet PBUH, i want to promote good affairs and reject the bad deeds. I want to behave like my grandfather and my father, Ali ibn Abitaleb. Those who accept me they accept God in fact. Those who reject me and complain, i ask God to judge between us because he is the best judge. My brother! This is my testimony for you!I have put my trust in God and i will return to Him!”

Imam began his eternal revolution because of these noble purposes. He didn’t go out arbitrarily and therewas nofinancialbenefitfor himselfand his family. But his uprising was against the regim’s oppression. He wanted to promote justice among the people. He has a marvelous speech:

“Those who accept me they accept God in fact. Those who reject me and complain, i ask God to judge between us because he is the best judge.”

Imam introduced his uprising as an attempt for justiceanddestructionofevil. He called the nation in the name of truth and rightness in orther to get them together and protect their rights and dignity which was crushedby theUmayyads.If thecommunitydoes not respondto thechants for freedom, hisrevolutionarymovement continues with patience andpersistencein fighting against theoppressorsandaggressors. God will judge between that nation and him, because he is the best judge… he showed that he wanted to behave like his grandfather and ancestors and he disagreed with the Caliphs’s methods.

In thistestament, there are some items about the reason of Imam’s uprising that we will refer to them later. After the tertament to his brother, Imam got ready to go to Mecca in order to visit the Mecca’s pilgrims and talk with them about the current situation in the country and the possible risks and crises of Yazid government for the people. Before Imam leave Medina toward Mecca,he went to his grandfather’s mosque while he was so sad and said goodbye to him and remembered his childhood memories with his grandfather because Hussein didn’t forget his grandfather’s kindness. Hussein and i are exactly the same, God loves everyone who loves Hussein.

Imam remembered about the noble values of the prophet which were common between them. These are the same values which were the reason of the prophet mission. Imam knew that the prophet’s attention was not just because of being kind, it was for continuing the prophecy. Imam was sure that he need a big sacrifice to save Islam from the criminals.Historianssay: that imam entered the mosque among his household. He was walking and emphasized “Yazid ibn Mofragh’s speech”:

لاذ عرت السوام في فلق الصبح مغيراً و لا دعيت يزيدا
يوم اعطي من المهانة ضيما والمنايا ترصدنني ان احيدا

“atdawn, i do not attack the birds, because by this work they call me Yazid”.

“a day comes when somebody force me to run away but i don’t”.

Abu Saeed says: when i heared about this poetry,i don’t think like this about Imam, after a while i was informed about his departure toward Mecca.

Imam decided to sacrifice in order to change the life style and promote the divine thought in the world.

But, the people of Yasrib, as the prophecy center,became so sad when they informed the people about imam Hussein’s departure. Those people were sure about the diaster which was hapening for them. The only light of prophecy was going out of their city. The prophet’s companions were so sad,too. They could see some signs of the prophet in his grandchild.