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May his feet stand firm upon the bridge of Sirat on the day when feet shall slip.
ثبتت قدمه على الصراط يوم تزلّ فيه الأقدام.
How excellent are the words of Sheikh Abdul-Husayn Shukr, may mercy be upon him, when he says in lamenting Imam Hassan (peace be upon him):
ولله درّ الشيخ عبدالحسين شكر عليه الرحمة إذ يقول في رثاء الإمام الحسن ( عليه السلام ) :
Who will convey to the Chosen One and to the pure Fatima
that Hussein weeps tears of blood over Hassan?
He calls to him: O my support in every calamity,
my helper when time strikes me with weakness.
You were to me, of the sons of glory, their last remnant,
and against the enemy my spear that did not soften through you.
But today, after you, it has grown soft
for anyone who pokes at it, and life's ease is no longer sweet.
My grief for Zainab, who calls to him while her eye
weeps and her tears pour like clouds streaming with rain.(1)
من مبلغُ المصطفى والطهرِ فاطمة
أن الحسينَ دماً يبكي على الحَسَنِ
يدعوه يا عضدي في كلِّ نائبة
ومُسْعِدي إن رماني الدهرُ بالوَهَنِ
قد كنتَ لي من بني العليا بقيَّتَهم
وللعدوِّ قناتي فيك لم تَلِنِ
فاليومَ بعدَك أضحت وهي ليِّنةٌ
لغامز وهنيُّ العيشِ غيرُ هني
لهفي لزينبَ تدعوه ومقلتُها
عبرى وأدمعُها كالعارضِ الهَتِنِ (1)
The completion of the hadith: He (peace be upon him and his family) said: As for Hussein, he is of me, and he is my son and my child, and the best of creation after his brother. He is the Imam of the Muslims, the master of the believers, the vicegerent of the Lord of the worlds, the refuge of those who seek help, the shelter of those who seek protection, and the proof of God over all His creation. He is the master of the youth of Paradise, and the gate of salvation for the nation. His command is my command, and obedience to him is obedience to me. Whoever follows him is of me, and whoever disobeys him is not of me. Indeed, when I saw him I remembered what would be done to him after me. It is as if I see him having sought refuge at my sanctuary and my grave, yet finding no protection. So I draw him to my breast in his sleep, and command him to depart from the land of my migration, and give him glad tidings of martyrdom. So he departs from it to the land of his slaying and the place of his fall — a land of grief and affliction, of killing and destruction. A band of Muslims supports him; they are among the chiefs of the martyrs of my nation on the Day of Resurrection. It is as if I behold him struck by an arrow, falling slain from his horse, then slaughtered as a ram is slaughtered, wronged.
تتمة الحديث قال ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : وأمَّا الحسين فإنه مني ، وهو ابني وولدي ، وخير الخلق بعد أخيه ، وهو إمام المسلمين ، ومولى المؤمنين ، وخليفة ربّ العالمين ، وغياث المستغيثين ، وكهف المستجيرين ، وحجة الله على خلقه أجمعين ، وهو سيد شباب أهل الجنة ، وباب نجاة الأمة ، أمره أمري ، وطاعته طاعتي ، من تبعه فإنه مني ، ومن عصاه فليس مني ، وإني لما رأيته تذكَّرت ما يصنع به بعدي ، كأني به وقد استجار بحرمي وقبري فلا يجار ، فأضمُّه في منامه إلى صدري ، وآمره بالرحلة عن دار هجرتي ، وأبشِّره بالشهادة ، فيرتحل عنها إلى أرض مقتله وموضع مصرعه ، أرض كرب وبلاء وقتل وفناء ، تنصره عصابة من المسلمين ، أولئك من سادة شهداء أمتي يوم القيامة ، كأني أنظر إليه وقد رمي بسهم فخرَّ عن فرسه صريعاً ، ثم يذبح كما يذبح الكبش مظلوماً.
Then the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) wept, and those around him wept, and their voices rose in clamor. Then he (peace be upon him and his family) stood, saying: O God, I complain to You of what my household will face after me. Then he entered his house.
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ثم بكى رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وبكى من حوله ، وارتفعت أصواتهم بالضجيج ، ثمَّ قام ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ، وهو يقول : اللهم إني أشكو إليك ما يلقى أهل بيتي بعدي ، ثم دخل منزله (2)
1 ـ رياض المدح والرثاء ، القديحي : 318.
2 ـ الأمالي ، الشيخ الصدوق : 174 ـ 177 ح 2.
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How excellent are the words of the scholar Sheikh Hasan Ali al-Badr, may mercy be upon him, when he says:
ولله درّ الحجة الشيخ حسن علي البدر عليه الرحمة إذ يقول :
Have you not seen how the people of God were heaped
with the calamities of fate, in what dreadful heaping?
Did not the daughter of the Prophet choke on her own saliva,
as the enemies made her swallow the taste of bitter colocynth?
Was not al-Karrar slain in transgression by the sword of one
who rebelled and tyrannized in the sins he committed —
the enemy of the God of the worlds, the son of Muljam,
the most wretched of all people since the days of Adam?
Did not the pure one's son return, forced
into a peace with war though he was no peacemaker?
Did they not storm his tent and plunder
his baggage there, as raiders plunder spoils?
Did the enemies not treacherously slip him poison,
so he cast into the basin the heart of all noble virtues?
Did they not shoot him with arrows while he was a corpse
upon the bier — nay, above the heads of the stars?
And if I forget, I shall never forget Hussein when he became,
in spite of the religion's nose, plunder for the swords.
He perished after the vastness of space grew narrow for him,
so the expanse of the worlds grew narrow with grief for him.
He perished, his heart burning with thirst,
amid sorrows in which every Hashimite perished.
Why then does Nizar not rise to avenge them,
and suckle war from the udders of sharp blades,
and fill it with horses racing in their advance
against the family of Harb beneath fierce lions,
so those hooves trample their heads
as they trampled the breast of the master of Hashim?(1)
ألم تر آلَ اللهِ كيف تراكمت
عليهم صروفُ الدهرِ أيَّ تراكمِ
أما شرقت بنتُ النبىِّ بريقِها
وجرَّعها الأعداءُ طَعْمَ العلاقمِ
أما قُتِلَ الكرَّارُ بغياً بسيفِ مَنْ
بغى وطغى فيما أتى من مآثم
عدوِّ إلهِ العالمين ابنِ مُلجم
وأشقى جميعِ الناسِ من دورِ آدم
ألم يَعُدِ الزاكي ابنُه وهو مُلْجأٌ
إلى سِلْمِ حرب وهو غيرُ مُسَالِمِ
أما هجموا فسطاطَه وتناهبوا
به رَحْلَه نَهْبَ الغُزاةِ الغنائمِ
أما دسَّت الأعدا له السمَّ غيلةً
فألقى به في الطشتِ قَلْبَ المكارم
أما رشقوه النبلَ وهو جنازةٌ
على النعشِ لا بل فوقَ هامِ النعائمِ
وإنْ أنس لا أنسى الحسينَ وقد غدا
على رَغْمِ أنفِ الدينِ نَهْبَ الصوارم
قضى بعدما ضاقت به سِعَةُ الفضا
فضاق له شجواً فضاءُ العوالم
قضى وهو حرَّانُ الفؤادِ من الظما
على غُصَص فيها قضى كلُّ هاشمي
فما لنزار لا تقومُ بثارِها
فترضع حرباً من ضروعِ اللهاذم
وتملأُها خيلا تسابقُ طرفَها
على آلِ حرب تحت أُسْد ضراغمِ
فتوطىءُ هاتيك السنابك هامَهم
كما أوطأوها صَدْرَ سيِّدِ هاشمِ (1)
Al-Rawandi, may mercy be upon him, narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) was one day sitting with Ali, Fatima, Hassan, and Hussein (peace be upon them) around him. He said to them: How will it be with you when you are slain and your graves are scattered apart? Hassan (peace be upon him) said: Will we die a natural death or be killed? He said: O my son, rather you will be killed by poison, wronged; your brother will be killed by thirst; your father will be killed unjustly; and your descendants will be driven and scattered across the earth.
روى الراوندي عليه الرحمة أن النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) كان يوماً جالساً وحوله علي وفاطمة والحسن والحسين ( عليهم السلام ) فقال لهم : كيف بكم إذا كنتم صرعى ، وقبوركم شتى ؟ فقال الحسن ( عليه السلام ) : أنموت موتاً أو نُقتل قتلا ؟ فقال : يا بني ، بل تقتل بالسم ظلماً ويقتل أخوك ظمأ ، ويُقتل أبوك ظلماً ، وتُشرَّد ذراريكم في الأرض.
Hussein (peace be upon him) said: And who will kill us? He said: The most wicked of people. He said: Will anyone visit us? He said: Yes, a group of my nation who seek by visiting you my favor and my bond. So when the Day of Resurrection comes,
فقال الحسين ( عليه السلام ) : ومن يقتلنا ؟ قال : شرار الناس. قال : فهل يزورنا أحد ؟ قال : نعم ، طائفة من أمتي يريدون بزيارتكم برّي وصلتي ، فإذا كان يوم القيامة
1 ـ شعراء القطيف ، الشيخ علي المرهون ، القسم الأول : 171 ـ 172.
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I will come to them and deliver them from its terrors.
(1)
جئتهم وأخلصهم من أهواله (1) .
It is related in the commentary of Imam al-Askari (peace be upon him) that he said regarding the words of the Almighty: "And when We took your covenant — up to His words — so the punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be helped"(2). The Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) — when this verse was revealed concerning the Jews, those Jews who broke the covenant of God, denied the messengers of God, and killed the friends of God — said: Shall I not inform you of who among the Jews of this nation resembles them? They said: Yes, O Messenger of God. He said: A people of my nation who claim to be of my religion, who kill the most virtuous of my descendants and the purest of my lineage, who alter my law and my Sunnah, and who kill my two sons Hassan and Hussein as the predecessors of these Jews killed Zakariyya and Yahya. Indeed, God curses them as He cursed them, and He will send against the remnant of their descendants, before the Day of Resurrection, a guide rightly guided from the descendants of the wronged Hussein, who will drive them with the swords of his friends into the fire of Hell.(3)
وجاء في تفسير الإمام العسكري ( عليه السلام ) أنه قال في قوله تعالى : « وَإِذْ أَخَذْنَا مِيثَاقَكُمْ ـ الى قوله تعالى : ـ فَلاَ يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمْ الْعَذَابُ وَلاَ هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ » (2) قال رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ـ لما نزلت هذه الإية في اليهود ، هؤلاء اليهود الذين نقضوا عهد الله ، وكذَّبوا رسل الله ، وقتلوا أولياء الله ـ : أفلا أنبِّئكم بمن يضاهيهم من يهود هذه الأمة ؟ قالوا : بلى يا رسول الله. قال : قوم من أمتي ينتحلون أنهم من أهل ملتي ، يقتلون أفاضل ذرّيّتي وأطائب أرومتي ، ويبدّلون شريعتي وسنتي ، ويقتلون ولديَّ الحسن والحسين كما قتل أسلاف هؤلاء اليهود زكريا ويحيى ، ألا وإن الله يلعنهم كما لعنهم ، ويبعث على بقايا ذراريهم قبل يوم القيامة هادياً مهدياً من ولد الحسين المظلوم ، يحرفهم بسيوف أوليائه إلى نار جهنم (3) .
How excellent are the words of al-Sayyid al-Radi, may mercy be upon him, when he says:
ولله درّ السيد الرضيّ عليه الرحمة إذ يقول :
O Messenger of God, had you witnessed them,
they were caught between slaughter and captivity,
your eyes would have beheld of them a sight
that brings grief to the heart and a mote to the eye.
يا رسولَ اللهِ لو عاينتهم
وَهُمُ ما بين قتل وسبا
لرأت عيناك منهم منظراً
للحشا شجواً وللعينِ قذى
The scholar al-Majlisi, may mercy be upon him, said: I found in the handwriting of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jab'i, copied from the handwriting of al-Shahid — may God raise his rank — copied from the Misbah of Sheikh Abu Mansur — may his resting place be blessed — who said: It is narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) entered upon Fatima (peace be upon her) one day, and she prepared for him food of dates, bread, and ghee. So they gathered to eat — he, Ali, Fatima, Hassan, and Hussein (peace be upon them). When they had eaten, the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) prostrated and prolonged his prostration. Then he wept, then he laughed, then he sat up. The boldest of them in speech was Ali (peace be upon him), who said: O Messenger of God, we have seen
قال العلامة المجلسي عليه الرحمة : وجدت بخط الشيخ محمد بن علي الجبعي ، نقلا من خطّ الشهيد رفع الله درجته ، نقلا من مصباح الشيخ أبي منصور طاب ثراه ، قال : روي أنه دخل النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يوماً إلى فاطمة ( عليها السلام ) فهيَّأت له طعاماً من تمر وقرص وسمن ، فاجتمعوا على الأكل هو وعلي وفاطمة والحسن والحسين ( عليهم السلام ) ، فلمَّا أكلوا سجد رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وأطال سجوده ، ثمَّ بكى ، ثم ضحك ، ثم جلس ، وكان أجرأهم في الكلام علي ( عليه السلام ) فقال : يا رسول الله ، رأينا
1 ـ الخرائج والجرائح ، الراوندي : 2/491 ح 4 ، الإرشاد ، المفيد : 2/131 ، روضة الواعظين ، النيسابوري : 75.
2 ـ سورة البقرة ، الآية : 84 ـ 86.
3 ـ تفسير الإمام العسكري ( عليه السلام ) : 368 ـ 369 ح 258 تأويل الآيات ، الحسيني : 1/75 ح 52.
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from you today what we have never seen before. What is it?
منك اليوم ما لم نره قبل ذلك ؟
He (peace be upon him and his family) said: When I ate with you, I was glad and happy at your safety and your being gathered together, so I prostrated to God Almighty in thanks. Then Gabriel (peace be upon him) descended and said: You prostrated in thanks for your joy in your family? I said: Yes. He said: Shall I not tell you what will befall them after you? I said: Yes, O my brother Gabriel. He said: As for your daughter, she will be the first of your family to join you after she is wronged, her right taken, her inheritance denied, her husband wronged, and her rib broken.
فقال ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : إني لما أكلت معكم فرحت وسررت بسلامتكم واجتماعكم ، فسجدت لله تعالى شكراً ، فهبط جبرئيل ( عليه السلام ) يقول : سجدت شكراً لفرحك بأهلك ؟ فقلت : نعم ، فقال : ألا أخبرك بما يجري عليهم بعدك ؟ فقلت : بلى يا أخي يا جبرئيل ، فقال : أما ابنتك فهي أول أهلك لحاقاً بك بعد أن تظلم ، ويؤخذ حقها وتمنع إرثها ويظلم بعلها ويكسر ضلعها.
As for your cousin, he will be wronged, denied his right, and killed. As for Hassan, he will be wronged, denied his right, and killed by poison. As for Hussein, he will be wronged, denied his right, his kin will be killed, the horses will trample him, his baggage will be plundered, his women and children taken captive, and he will be buried rolled in his blood, buried by strangers. So I wept and said: Will anyone visit him? He said: Strangers will visit him. I said: What reward is there for one who visits him? He said: There shall be recorded for him the reward of a thousand pilgrimages and a thousand minor pilgrimages, all of them with you. So I laughed.
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وأما ابن عمك فيظلم ويمنع حقه ويقتل ، وأما الحسن فإنه يظلم ويمنع حقه ويقتل بالسم ، وأما الحسين فإنه يظلم ويمنع حقه وتقتل عترته ، وتطؤه الخيول ، وينهب رحله ، وتسبى نساؤه وذراريه ، ويدفن مرمّلا بدمه ، ويدفنه الغرباء ، فبكيت وقلت : وهل يزوره أحد ؟ قال : يزوره الغرباء ، قلت : فما لمن زاره من الثواب ؟ قال : يكتب له ثواب ألف حجة ، وألف عمرة كلها معك فضحكت (1) .
Sheikh al-Saduq, may mercy be upon him, narrated concerning the illness of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) that when the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) fell unconscious, Hassan and Hussein (peace be upon them) came crying and weeping until they fell upon the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family). Ali (peace be upon him) wanted to draw them away from him, but the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) regained consciousness and said: O Ali, let me smell them and let them smell me, and let me take provision from them and let them take provision from me. Indeed, they will be wronged after me and killed unjustly. So the curse of God be upon whoever wrongs them. He said this three times.
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وروى الشيخ الصدوق عليه الرحمة في مرض النّبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أن النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لما أغمي عليه جاء الحسن والحسين ( عليهما السلام ) يصيحان ويبكيان حتى وقعا على رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فأراد علي ( عليه السلام ) أن ينحّيهما عنه ، فأفاق رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ثم قال : يا علي ، دعني أشمّهما ويشماني ، وأتزوّد منهما ويتزوّدان مني ، أما إنهما سيظلمان بعدي ويقتلان ظلماً ، فلعنة الله على من يظلمهما ، يقول ذلك ثلاثاً (2) .
And in the narration of al-Irbili: from Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari, who said: Fatima (peace be upon her) entered upon the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) while he was in the throes of death. She bent over him weeping. He opened his eyes and regained consciousness, then said: O my little daughter, you are the wronged one after me, and you are the oppressed one after me. Whoever harms you has harmed me, whoever angers you has angered me, whoever pleases you has pleased me, whoever is kind to you has been kind to me,
وفي رواية الأربلي : عن جابر بن عبدالله الأنصاري قال : دخلت فاطمة
( عليها السلام ) على رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وهو في سكرات الموت فانكبّت عليه تبكي ، ففتح عينه وأفاق ، ثمّ قال : يا بنيّة ، أنت المظلومة بعدي ، وأنت المستضعفة بعدي ، فمن آذاك فقد آذاني ، ومن غاضك فقد غاظني ، ومن سرّك فقد سرّني ، ومن برّك فقد برّني ،
1 ـ بحار الأنوار المجلسي : 98/44 ح 84.
2 ـ الأمالي الشيخ الصدوق : 736.
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whoever shuns you has shunned me, whoever maintains ties with you has maintained ties with me, whoever cuts off ties with you has cut off ties with me, whoever does you justice has done me justice, and whoever wrongs you has wronged me — for you are of me and I am of you. You are a part of me and the spirit that is within my sides. Then he (peace be upon him and his family) said: To God I complain of those of my nation who wrong you. How excellent are the words of Sheikh al-Azri, may mercy be upon him, when he says:
ومن جفاك فقد جفاني ، ومن وصلك فقد وصلني ، ومن قطعك فقد قطعني ، ومن أنصفك فقد أنصفني ، ومن ظلمك فقد ظلمني ، لأنك منّي وأنا منك ، وأنت بضعة منّي وروحي الّتي بين جنبيّ ، ثمّ قال ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : إلى الله أشكو ظالميك من أمّتي. ولله در الشيخ الأزري عليه الرحمة إذ يقول :
She is the handhold by which none is saved
save one who clings tightly to the rope of her devotion.
God saw no reward for the message
save the safeguarding of al-Zahra in her kinship.
She passed away, the greatest of people in sorrow,
a lump of her anguish in the mouth of time.
For what reason was she buried in secret —
the part of the Chosen One — and her grave concealed?
She was laid where people see no resting place for her;
what sanctity does her resting place enshrine!(1)
وهي العروةُ التي ليس ينجو
غيرُ مستعصم بحبلِ وِلاها
لم يرَ اللهُ للرسالةِ أجراً
غيرَ حفظِ الزهراءِ في قرباها
فمضت وهي أعظمُ الناسِ وجداً
في فَم الدهرِ غصّةٌ من جَوَاها
لأيِّ الأُمور تُدفن سُراً
بضعةُ المصطفى ويُعفى ثراها
وثوت لا يرى لها الناسُ مثوىً
أيَّ قدس يضمُّه مثواها (1)
Then Hassan and Hussein (peace be upon them) entered and bent over the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family), weeping and saying: May our souls be a ransom for your soul, O Messenger of God. Ali (peace be upon him) went to draw them away from him, but he raised his head toward him and said: Let them be, O my brother, let them smell me and let me smell them, and let them take provision from me and let me take provision from them, for they will both be killed after me, wronged and treated with enmity. So the curse of God be upon whoever kills them. Then he said: O Ali, you are the wronged one after me, and I will be the adversary on the Day of Resurrection of whoever is your adversary.
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ثمّ دخل الحسن والحسين ( عليهما السلام ) فانكَّبا على رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وهما يبكيان ويقولان : أنفسنا لنفسك الفداء يا رسول الله ، فذهب عليّ ( عليه السلام ) لينحّيهما عنه فرفع رأسه إليه ، ثمّ قال : دعهما ـ يا أخي ـ يشمّاني وأشمّهما ، ويتزوّدان منّي وأتزودّ منهما ، فإنهما مقتولان بعدي ظلماً وعدواناً ، فلعنة الله على من يقتلهما ، ثمّ قال : يا عليّ ، أنت المظلوم بعدي ، وأنا خصم لمن أنت خصمه يوم القيامة (2)
How excellent are the words of one of the poets of Hussein (peace be upon him) who said:
ولله درّ من قال من شعراء الحسين ( عليه السلام ) :
Calamities surged upon his family — not one of them found ease
from the oppression of his enemies until he died subdued.
His brother passed away with head stained in blood, his daughter
filled with wrath, and his two grandsons — one poisoned, one slaughtered.(3)
جاشت على آلِهِ ما ارتاح واحدُهم
من قهر أعداه حتى مات مقهورا
قضى أخوه خضيبَ الرأس وابنتُه
غضبى وسبطاه مسموماً ومنحورا (3)
How excellent are the words of the poet of the Household (peace be upon them), Ibn Hammad (may God have mercy upon him), the Almighty, when he says:
ولله درُّ شاعر أهل البيت ( عليهم السلام ) ابن حماد ( رحمه الله ) تعالى إذ يقول :
I have never ceased to weep blood, pouring down in streams,
for the two masters, the two slain, the two martyrs,
لا زلتُ أبكي دماً ينهلُّ منسجماً
للسيدينِ القتيلينِ الشهيدينِ
1 ـ الأزرية ، الشيخ الأزري : 143.
2 ـ كشف الغمة الأربلي : 2/119 ـ 120 ، بحار الأنوار المجلسي : 28/76 ح 34.
3 ـ المجالس السنية ، السيد محسن الأمين : 1 / 13.
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The two noble masters who were
the best of mankind — two fathers of glory and two grandsons.
The two who humbled themselves to God, returning to Him,
hastening to the truth, the two intercessors.
Two lights they were of old in the shades, as
the Prophet said — two earrings to the Throne of God,
the two apples of Ahmad the Guide, made
offspring for Fatima and the pure Ali.
May God send blessings upon their souls and water
their graves forever with the rain of the two stars.(1)
السيدين الشريفين اللذين هما
خيرُ الورى أبوي مجد وجدّينِ
الضارعين إلى الله المنيبين
المسرعين إلى الحقِّ الشفيعين
نورين كانا قديماً في الظلالِ كما
قال النبيُّ لعرشِ اللهِ قُرْطَينِ
تُفاحتي أحمدَ الهادي وقد جُعلا
لفاطم وعليَّ الطهرِ نسلين
صلَّى الإلهُ على روحيهما وسقى
قبريهما أبداً نوءُ السماكين (1)
It is narrated that when the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) was struck by Ibn Muljam — God curse him — with the sword upon his noble head, and he (peace be upon him) collapsed in his prayer niche, a dark black wind blew, and the angels mourned him in the heavens. Hassan, Hussein, Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya, and the rest of his sons came and found his head split, paleness having overcome him from the flowing of blood and the severity of the poison. The people around him were wailing, lamenting, and weeping in a manner that scorched the hearts. Hassan took his head and placed it in his lap. He regained consciousness and said: This is what God and His Messenger promised, and there is no power and no strength save in God, the Most High, the Most Great. Then he looked at his sons and saw that their souls were nearly leaving them from wailing and weeping. His tears flowed down his cheeks, mingled with his blood. He (peace be upon him) said: Do you weep over me? Weep much and laugh little. As for you, O Abu Muhammad, you will be killed by poison, wronged and persecuted. And as for you, O Abu Abdullah, you are the martyr of this nation, and you will be slaughtered like a sheep from the back of your neck, your limbs crushed under the hooves of horses, your head paraded among the slaves of the Umayyads, and the womenfolk of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) taken captive. And indeed I, and they, have a standing-place on the Day of Resurrection.
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روي أن أمير المؤمنين ( عليه السلام ) لما ضربه ابن ملجم لعنه الله بالسيف على رأسه الشريف وخرَّ ( عليه السلام ) في محرابه هبَّت ريح سوداء مظلمة ، والملائكة تنعاه في السماء وأقبل الحسن والحسين ومحمد بن الحنفية وبقية أولاده فوجدوه مشقوق الرأس ، وقد علته الصفرة من انبعاث الدم وشدة السم ، والناس من حوله في النياحة والعويل والبكاء المحرق للأكباد ، فأخذ الحسن رأسه ووضعه في حجره ، فأفاق وقال : هذا ما وعد الله ورسوله ، ولا حول ولا قوة إلاّ بالله العليّ العظيم ، ثمَّ نظر إلى أولاده فرآهم تكاد أنفسهم تزهق من النوح والبكاء ، فجرت دموعه على خدّيه ممزوجة بدمه ، قال ( عليه السلام ) : أتبكيا عليَّ ؟ ابكيا كثيراً واضحكا قليلا ، أمَّا أنت يا أبا محمد ستقتل مسموماً مظلوماً مضطهداً ، وأمَّا أنت يا أبا عبدالله فشهيد هذه الأمة ، وسوف تذبح ذبح الشاة من قفاك ، وترضُّ أعضاؤك بحوافر الخيل ، ويُطاف برأسك في مماليك بني أمية ، وحريم رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) تسبى ، وإن لي ولهم موقفاً يوم القيامة (2) .
It is also narrated that the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) said to Hassan and Hussein (peace be upon them) on the night of his death, after entrusting them with his noble counsel: O Abu Muhammad and O Abu Abdullah, it is as if I see the trials breaking out upon you from here and from there. So be patient until God judges, for He is the best of
وروي أيضاً أن أمير المؤمنين ( عليه السلام ) قال للحسن والحسين ( عليهما السلام ) ليلة وفاته بعدما أوصاهما بوصاياه الشريفة : يا أبا محمد ويا أبا عبدالله ، كأني بكما وقد خرجت عليكما الفتن من ها هنا وها هنا ، فاصبرا حتى يحكم الله وهو خير
1 ـ الغدير ، الشيخ الأميني : 4 / 162.
2 ـ وفيات الأئمة ( عليهم السلام ) ، مجموعة من علماء البحرين والقطيف : 57.
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Then he said: As for you, O Abu Muhammad, you will be killed by poison, persecuted. And as for you, O Abu Abdullah, you are the martyr of this nation. So hold fast to the fear of God and to beautiful patience.
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ثمَّ قال : أمَّا أنت يا أبا محمد ستقتل مسموماً مضطهداً ، وأمّا أنت يا أبا عبدالله فشهيد هذه الأمة ، فعليك بتقوى الله والصبر الجميل (1) .
The scholar Sheikh Ali al-Marhoon says, in seeking the rising of the Imam al-Hujja — may God hasten his noble relief:
ويقول العلاّمة الشيخ علي المرهون في استنهاض الإمام الحجّة عجَّل الله فرجه الشريف :
When will you rise — may my soul be your ransom?
Every heart aches for what has come to pass.
Your grandfather, the Chosen One, passed away by poison;
your pure mother, her cheek was struck.
Your father, the executor, became slain,
and the heart of his son was seized by poisons.
In the land of al-Tuff, Hussein became
stained with dust, his heart full of wounds.
Around him his companions and his noble sons,
sacrificed — children and a nursing infant.
Upon the camels, women uncovered,
and an ailing one, sick from what afflicted him.(2)
فمتى تنهضنْ فداؤُك نفسي
كلُّ قلب لما جرى مألومُ
جدُّك المصطفى قضى بسموم
أمُّك الطهرُ خدُّها ملطوم
وأبوك الوصيُّ أضحى قتيلا
وفؤادُ ابنِهِ عَرَتْه سموم
وبأرضِ الطفوفِ أمسى حسينٌ
عافراً والفؤادُ منه كلوم
حوله صحُبُه وأبناؤه الغرُّ
ضحايا وصبيةٌ وفطيم
وعلى النيبِ نسوةٌ حاسراتٌ
وعليلٌ مما عراه سقيم (2)
The Second Assembly, of the First Day
Fatima's Standing in the Gathering Place with the Shirt of Hussein (peace be upon him)
Know, O believers — may God grant you good consolation in the affliction of the master of the youth of Paradise — that sharing the grief of al-Zahra, the chaste virgin (peace be upon her), over her slain son, the delight of her eye, the grandson of the Messenger (peace be upon him and his family), is a right she holds over us, demanded by the obligation of loyalty and love that God commanded in the clear text of His Book, when He, the Almighty, says: "Say: I ask of you no reward for it except love for kinship." But this nation did not honor the sanctity of the Messenger (peace be upon him and his family) in his pure progeny. So by the killing of Hussein (peace be upon him), the religion was afflicted, and
اعلموا أيّها المؤمنون أحسن الله لكم العزاء في مصاب سيِّد شباب أهل الجنة أن مواساة الزهراء البتول ( عليها السلام ) في ابنها المقتول قرّة عينها سبط الرسول ( صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم ) حق لها علينا يقتضيها فرض الموالاة والمحبة التي أمر الله بها في محكم كتابه إذ يقول تعالى : «
قُلْ لاَ أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْراً إِلاَّ الْمَوَدَّةَ فِي الْقُرْبَى » ولكنّ هذه الأمة لم ترع حرمة الرسول ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) في ذرّيّته الطاهرة ، فبقتل الحسين ( عليه السلام ) فُجع الدين ، وضيِّعت
1 ـ وفيات الأئمة ( عليهم السلام ) ، مجموعة من علماء البحرين والقطيف : 64.
2 ـ شعراء القطيف الشيخ علي المرهون القسم الأول : 171 ـ 172.
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in him the testament of the master of the messengers was lost. Truly we belong to God, and to Him we shall return, and there is no power and no strength save in God, the Most High, the Most Great.
فيه وصية سيِّد المرسلين ، فإنّا لله وإنّا إليه راجعون ، ولا حول ولا قوة إلاَّ بالله العليِّ العظيم.
It is narrated from the master of the worshippers, Ali ibn al-Husayn (peace be upon them), that he said: There has been no day like the day of Hussein (peace be upon him). Thirty thousand men closed in upon him, claiming to be of this nation, each seeking nearness to God Almighty by shedding his blood, while he reminded them of God and they would not heed, until they killed him in transgression, injustice, and enmity.
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How excellent are the words of Sheikh Abdul-Karim al-Faraj, may mercy be upon him, when he says:
روي عن سيِّد العابدين علي بن الحسين ( عليهما السلام ) أنه قال : ولا يوم كيوم الحسين ( عليه السلام ) ، ازدلف إليه ثلاثون ألف رجل ، يزعمون أنهم من هذه الأمة ، كل يتقرَّب إلى الله عزَّ وجلَّ بدمه ، وهو بالله يذكِّرهم فلا يتعظون ، حتى قتلوه بغياً وظلماً وعدواناً..
(1) ولله درّ الشيخ عبدالكريم الفرج عليه الرحمة إذ يقول :
What ails the earth, that its regions have quaked,
and the sun has been eclipsed within its lights?
The clamor has risen from all the worlds,
and likewise the assemblies' veils have been blackened.
They have been turned, after joy, into mourning-houses,
and the people, in grief, have inflamed their eyes.
Has a destroying calamity befallen the creation,
so that its stability has been removed by ruin?
They said: Do you not behold the crescent of Muharram?
It has appeared, and eyes have poured for it.
So don the garments of grief and sit for mourning,
for grief for the pure ones is its emblem within it,
reflecting on what came to pass therein upon
the family of the Messenger, and what the wicked committed.
The brutes of Umayya thought, in their ignorance,
that the free among them would be obeyed as slaves.
They failed, and their sinful hope failed; indeed
they faltered, and their shame became plain to all creation.
ما للبسيطةِ زُلزلت أقطارُها
والشمس قد خُسفت بها أموارُها
وعلا الضجيجُ من العوالمِ كلِّها
وكذا المجالسُ سُوِّدت أستارُها
قد أُبدلت بعد السرورِ مآتماً
والخلقُ حُزناً أُقرحت أبصارُها
أفهل دهى الأكوانَ خطبٌ مهلكٌ
فأزيل من عَطَب بها استقرارُها
قالوا أما ترنو هلالَ محرَّم
قد هلَّ فانهلَّت له أنظارها
فالبس ثيابَ الحزنِ واجلسْ للعزا
فالحزنُ للأطهارِ فيه شعارُها
متفكِراً فيما جرى فيه على
آلِ الرسولِ وما جنت أشرارُها
ظنَّت علوجُ أمية من جهلِها
أن العبيدَ تُطيعُهم أحرارُها
خابت وخاب رجاؤُها الخاطي وقد
فَشِلَت وبان إلى البريَّة عارُها
Sheikh al-Saduq, may mercy be upon him, narrated from Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida, from his forefathers (peace be upon them), who said: The Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) said: My daughter Fatima (peace be upon her) will be raised on the Day of Resurrection with garments stained with blood, clinging to one of the pillars of the Throne, saying: O Just One, judge between me and the killer of my son. Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him) said: The Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) said: And God will judge for my daughter, by the Lord of the Ka'ba.
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روى الشيخ الصدوق عليه الرحمة عن الإمام علي بن موسى الرضا ، عن آبائه ( عليهم السلام ) قال : قال رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : تحشر ابنتي فاطمة ( عليها السلام ) يوم القيامة ومعها ثياب مصبوغة بالدماء ، تتعلَّق بقائمة من قوائم العرش ، تقول : يا عدل ، احكم بيني وبين قاتل ولدي ، قال علي بن أبي طالب ( عليه السلام ) : قال رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : ويحكم الله لابنتي وربِّ الكعبة (2)
1 ـ الأمالي الشيخ الصدوق : 547 ح 10.
2 ـ بحار الأنوار ، العلامة المجلسي : 43/220.
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Al-Saduq, may mercy be upon him, narrated from Aban ibn Uthman, from Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him), who said: When the Day of Resurrection comes, God will gather the first and the last on one ground, and a caller will cry out: Lower your eyes and bow your heads until Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family), crosses the bridge of Sirat. He said: So the creation will lower their eyes, and Fatima (peace be upon her) will come upon one of the noble mounts of Paradise, escorted by seventy thousand angels. She will stand at a noble standing-place among the standing-places of the Resurrection. Then she will dismount from her mount and take in her hand the shirt of Hussein ibn Ali (peace be upon him), soaked in his blood, and say: O Lord, this is the shirt of my son, and You know what was done to him. Then the call will come to her from God Almighty: O Fatima, you have with Me My satisfaction. She will say: O Lord, take vengeance for me upon his killer. So God Almighty will command a column of fire to emerge from Hell, and it will pick up the killers of Hussein ibn Ali (peace be upon him) as a bird picks up grains. Then the column will return them to the Fire, and they will be punished therein with various torments. Then Fatima (peace be upon her) will ride her mount until she enters Paradise, with the angels escorting her, her descendants before her, and their followers among the people to her right and left.
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How excellent are the words of the scholar Sheikh Ali al-Jishi, may mercy be upon him, when he says:
وروى الصدوق عليه الرحمة عن أبان بن عثمان ، عن أبي عبدالله ( عليه السلام ) قال : إذا كان يوم القيامة جمع الله الأولين والآخرين في صعيد واحد ، فينادي مناد : غضّوا أبصاركم ونكِّسوا رؤوسكم حتى تجوز فاطمة بنت محمد ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الصراط. قال : فتغضّ الخلائق أبصارهم ، فتأتي فاطمة ( عليها السلام ) على نجيب من نجب الجنة ، يشيّعُها سبعون ألف ملك ، فتقف موقفاً شريفاً من مواقف القيامة ، ثم تنزل عن نجيبها فتأخذ قميص الحسين بن علي ( عليه السلام ) بيدها مضمَّخاً بدمه ، وتقول : يا رب ، هذا قميص ولدي وقد علمت ما صنع به ، فيأتيها النداء من قبل الله عزَّ وجلَّ : يا فاطمة ، لك عندي الرضا ، فتقول : يا ربّ ، انتصر لي من قاتله ، فيأمر الله تعالى عنقاً من النار فتخرج من جهنم فتلتقط قتلة الحسين بن علي ( عليه السلام ) كما يلتقط الطير الحبَّ ، ثم يعود العنق بهم إلى النار ، فيعذَّبون فيها بأنواع العذاب ، ثم تركب فاطمة ( عليها السلام ) نجيبها حتى تدخل الجنة ومعها الملائكة المشيِّعون لها ، وذريتها بين يديها ، وأولياؤهم من الناس عن يمينها وشمالها (1) ولله در الحجة الشيخ علي الجشي عليه الرحمة إذ يقول :
Would that I knew — can Fatima ever forget
the loss of one who was the delight of her eye?
Did she not weep in anguish before he was even born,
though consolation is hoped for after a while?
How can she forget when, in her grief, she dyed
her hair with the blood of Hussein's veins?(2)
ليت شعري أَوَ تسلو فاطمٌ
رُزءَ مَنْ كان لها قرَّةَ عينْ
أَوَ قَبْلَ الحملِ تبكي جزعاً
ولها السلوانُ يرجى بعد حينْ
كيف تسلو وهي شجواً خضَّبت
شعرَها من دمِ أوداجِ الحسينْ (2)
It is narrated from Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) that he said: When the Day of Resurrection comes, God will erect a canopy of light before the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family), and all the creation will be present. Then a caller will cry out: O assembly of people, lower your eyes, for Fatima al-Zahra, the daughter of Muhammad the Chosen, wishes to pass through the canopy. So they will lower their eyes, and she will come forward. When she sets her foot in the canopy, she will be called: O Fatima. She will turn and see her son Hussein standing beside her without
وروي عن الإمام الصادق ( عليه السلام ) أنَّه قال : إذا كان يوم القيامة ينصب الله سرادقاً من نور بين يدي رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ، والخلائق كلّهم حاضرون ، ثمَّ ينادي مناد : يا معشر الناس ، غضّوا أبصاركم ، فإن فاطمة الزهراء بنت محمد المصطفى تريد أن تجوز السرادق ، فيغضّو أبصارهم ، فإذا هي مقبلة ، فإذا وضعت رجلها في السرادق نوديت : يا فاطمة ، فتلتفت فترى ولدها الحسين واقفاً بجانبها من غير
1 ـ بحار الأنوار ، المجلسي : 43/224.
2 ـ الشواهد المنبرية ، الشيخ علي الجشي : 50.
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a head. She will cry out a cry such that no angel brought near, nor prophet sent, will remain except that he falls upon his knees and collapses, fainting. Then she will recover from her faint and find Hussein wiping her face with his hands, his head restored to him. At that moment she will pray against his killer and those who aided him, and they will be ordered to Hell, with no intercessor for them.
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رأس ، فتصرخ صرخة لا يبقى ملك مقرَّب ، ولا نبيّ مرسل إلاَّ جثى على ركبتيه وخرّ مغشياً عليه ، ثم إنها تفيق من غشيتها فتجد الحسين يمسح وجهها بيديه ، ورأسه قد عادت إليه ، فعند ذلك تدعو على قاتله ومن أعانه ، فيؤمر بهم إلى جهنم ولا شفيع لهم (1) .
It is narrated from the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) that he said: When the Day of Resurrection comes, Fatima will come forward upon a she-camel of the camels of Paradise, holding in her hand the shirt of Hussein, soaked in his blood. She will cry out and throw herself down from the camel, falling prostrate to God Almighty, and saying: O my God, my Master, and my Lord, judge between me and whoever killed my son Hussein. Then the call will come to her from God Almighty: O My beloved and daughter of My beloved, raise your head. By My might and My majesty, this day I shall take vengeance upon whoever wronged you and wronged your son. Then He will command that all who were present at the killing of Hussein and all who took part in killing him be sent to the Fire.
(2)
وروي عن رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أنه قال : إذا كان يوم القيامة تقبل فاطمة على ناقة من نياق الجنة وبيدها قميص الحسين ملطَّخ بدمه ، فتصرخ وتزجّ نفسها عن الناقة ، وتخرّ ساجدة لله عز وجل ، وتقول : إلهي وسيدي ومولاي ، احكم بيني وبين من قتل ولدي الحسين ، فيأتيها النداء من قبل الله عزَّ وجلَّ : يا حبيبتي وابنة حبيبي ، ارفعي رأسك ، فوعزتي وجلالي لأنتقمن اليوم ممن ظلمك وظلم ولدك ، ثم يأمر بجميع من حضر قتل الحسين ومن شارك في قتله إلى النار (2) .
It is narrated from the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) that he said: When the Day of Resurrection comes, Fatima (peace be upon her) will come amid a company of her women, and it will be said to her: Enter Paradise. She will say: I will not enter until I know what was done to my son Hussein. It will be said to her: Look to your right. She will turn, and there will be Hussein standing without a head. She will cry out a cry, and the women will cry out at her cry, and the angels too. Then she will call out: Oh, my son! Oh, fruit of my heart! At that moment God will become angry and command a fire that has been kindled for a thousand years until it has blackened — no breeze enters it, and no one ever leaves it. It will be said to her: Pick up those who were present at the killing of Hussein. So she will pick them up, and when they are in its belly, it will neigh at them and they will neigh at it, and it will shriek at them and they will shriek at it, and it will roar at them and they will roar at it. Then they will speak with sharp, articulate tongues: O our Lord, why have You made the Fire obligatory for us before the idol-worshippers? The answer will come to them from God: that the one who knew is not like the one who did not know.
(3)
وروي عن النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أنه قال : إذا كان يوم القيامة جاءت فاطمة ( عليها السلام ) في جماعة من نسائها ، فيقال لها : ادخلي الجنة ، فتقول : لا أدخل حتى أعلم ما صنع ولدي الحسين ، فيقال لها : انظري عن يمينك ، فتلتفت فإذا الحسين قائم وليس عليه رأس ، فتصرح صرخة ، فتصرخ النساء لصراخها والملائكة أيضاً ، ثم تنادي : واولداه ، واثمرة فؤاداه ، فعند ذلك يغضب الله ويأمر ناراً قد أوقد عليها ألف عام حتى اسوّدت ولا تدخلها ريح ولا يخرج منها أبداً ، فيقال لها : التقطي من حضر قتل الحسين ، فتلقطهم ، فإذا صاروا في جوفها صهلت بهم وصهلوا بها ، وشهقت بهم وشهقوا بها ، وزفرت بهم وزفروا بها ، ثم ينطقون بألسنة ذلقة ناطقة : يا ربَّنا ، لم أوجبت لنا النار قبل عبدة الأوثان ؟ فيأتيهم الجواب عن الله أن من عَلِم ليس كمن لا يعلم (3) .
1 ـ بحار الأنوار ، المجلسي : 43/224 ، نور العين في مشهد الحسين ( عليه السلام ) ، الاسفرايني : 81.
2 ـ نور العين في مشهد الحسين ( عليه السلام ) الإسفرايني : 82.
3 ـ نور العين في مشهد الحسين ( عليه السلام ) ، الإسفرايني : 82.
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It is narrated from the People of the Household (peace be upon them), from the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), that he said: When the Day of Resurrection comes, Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her) will come upon a she-camel of the camels of Paradise — its bridle of moist pearls, its legs of green emerald, its tail of pungent musk, its eyes of red ruby — and upon her a dome of light whose inside is seen from its outside; within it is God's pardon, and outside it is God's mercy. Upon her head will be a crown of light with seventy corners, each corner studded with pearls and rubies, shining as a star shines on the horizon of the sky. To her right will be seventy thousand angels, and to her left the like of them, and Gabriel holding the bridle of the camel, calling out at the top of his voice: Lower your eyes until Fatima passes. So they will lower their eyes until she passes the Throne of her Lord and throws herself down from her camel, saying: O my God, my Master, and my Lord, judge between me and whoever wronged me and killed my son. Then the call will come from God Almighty: O My beloved and daughter of My beloved, ask and you shall be given, intercede and your intercession shall be granted. By My might and My majesty, no wrongdoer's wrong shall pass Me by. She will say: O my God, my Master, and my Lord — my descendants, my followers, and the followers of my descendants. Then the call will come from God Almighty: Where are the descendants of Fatima, her followers, the followers of her descendants, her lovers, and the lovers of her descendants?
وروي عن آل البيت ( عليهم السلام ) عن النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أنه قال : إذا كان يوم القيامة تأتي فاطمة الزهراء ( عليها السلام ) على ناقة من نياق الجنة ، خطامها من لؤلؤ رطب ، وقوائمها من زمرد أخضر ، وذنبها من مسك أذفر ، وعيناها من ياقوت أحمر ، وعليها قبّة من النور ، يرى باطنها من ظاهرها ، داخلها عفو الله ، وخارجها رحمة الله ، وعلى رأسها تاج من النور ، وله سبعون ركناً ، كل ركن مرصَّع بالدر والياقوت ، يضيء كما يضيء الكوكب في أفق السماء ، وعن يمينها سبعون ألف ملك ، وعن يسارها مثلهم ، وجبرئيل آخذ بخطام الناقة وهو ينادي بأعلى صوته : غضّوا أبصاركم حتى تجوز فاطمة ، فيغضّون أبصارهم حتى تجاوز عرش ربها وتزجّ نفسها عن ناقتها ، وتقول : إلهي وسيِّدي ومولاي ، احكم بيني وبين من ظلمني وقتل ولدي ، فإذا النداء من قبل الله تعالى : يا حبيبتي وابنة حبيبتي ، سليني تعطي واشفعي تشعفي ، فوعزّتي وجلالي لا يجاوزني ظلم ظالم ، فتقول : إلهي وسيّدي ومولاي ، ذريّتي وشيعتي وشيعة ذريّتّي ، فإذا النداء من قبل الله تعالى : أين ذرية فاطمة وشيعتها وشيعة ذريتها ومحبّوها ومحبّو ذرّيّتها ؟
They will say — while the angels of the Most Merciful surround them — Here we are, O our Lord. Then Fatima will lead them until she brings them into Paradise, while she is holding the shirt of Hussein, soaked in blood, clinging to the pillars of the Throne and saying: O Lord, judge between me and the killer of my son Hussein. So she will be granted her right, as the poet said:
فيقولون ـ وقد أحاطت بهم ملائكة الرحمن ـ : ها نحن يا ربَّنا ، فتقودهم فاطمة حتى تدخلهم الجنة ، وهي آخذة بقميص الحسين ، وهو ملطَّخ بالدم ، وقد تعلَّقت بقوائم العرش وهي تقول : يا رب ، احكم بيني وبين قاتل ولدي الحسين ، فيؤخذ لها بحقِّها كما قال القائل :
Woe to one whose intercessors are his adversaries,
while the trumpet is blown for the resurrection of creation!
Fatima must come forth on the Day of Resurrection
with her shirt stained by the blood of Hussein.
She will say: My Lord, to You I complain
of the killing of my son Hussein, and here I cry out!
And God will command them all into His Fire —
woe to those who killed Hussein, recorded for all time.(1)
ويلٌ لمن شفعاؤُه خصماؤُه
والصورُ في بَعْثِ الخلائقِ يُنْفَخُ
لابدَّ أن تَرِدَ القيامةَ فاطمٌ
وقميصُها بدمِ الحسينِ ملطَّخُ
فتقولُ ربِّي إنني لك أشتكي
قَتْلَ الحسينِ ابني وها أنا أصرخُ
واللهُ يأمرُ بالجميعِ لنارِهِ
ويلٌ لمن قتلوا الحسينَ يؤرَّخُ (1)
1 ـ نور العين في مشهد الحسين ( عليه السلام ) ، أبو إسحاق الإسفرايني : 82 ـ 83.
(27)
Sibt ibn al-Jawzi was asked, on the day of Ashura during the reign of King al-Nasir, lord of Aleppo, to recount for the people something of the slaying of Hussein (peace be upon him). He ascended the pulpit and sat for a long time without speaking. Then he placed the handkerchief over his face and wept intensely. Then he began to recite while weeping:
وسئل سبط ابن الجوزي في يوم عاشوراء زمن الملك الناصر صاحب حلب أن يذكر للناس شيئاً من مقتل الحسين ( عليه السلام ) ، فصعد المنبر وجلس طويلا لا يتكلَّم ، ثمَّ وضع المنديل على وجهه وبكى شديداً ، ثمَّ أنشأ يقول وهو يبكي :
Woe to one whose intercessors are his adversaries,
while the trumpet is blown for the raising of creation!
Fatima must come forth on the Day of Resurrection
with her shirt stained by the blood of Hussein.
ويلٌ لمن شفعاؤُه خصماؤُه
والصورُ في نشرِ الخلائقِ ينفخُ
لابدَّ أن تَرِدَ القيامةَ فاطمٌ
وقميصها بدم الحسينِ ملطَّخُ
Then he descended from the pulpit weeping, and ascended to al-Salihiyya in the same state.
(1)
ثمَّ نزل عن المنبر وهو يبكي ، وصعد إلى الصالحية وهو كذلك (1) .
How excellent are the words of Ibn al-Arandas, may mercy be upon him, when he says:
ولله درّ ابن العرندس عليه الرحمة إذ يقول :
So woe to Yazid from the torment of Hell
when Fatima the pure comes forward at the gathering,
her garments a robe of black poison,
and another, deep red, crimson with the grandson's blood.
She calls out while the eyes of mankind are fixed in dread,
and in every heart there is terror at her majesty.
She complains to God the Most High, her voice —
Ali, and our master Ali, is her support.
The tyrant Yazid cannot speak of what he committed —
and how could he have an excuse when treachery is his nature?
So retribution will be exacted from him, and he will be denied
bliss, and a palace in Hell will be set aside for him.
The singer will sing for him and the song will delight him,
and pure wine will be poured into the cup for him —
but that "song" (al-ghina), at the resurrection, transformed, is "torment" (al-'ana),
and that "wine" (al-khamr), transformed, in his heart is "embers" (al-jamr).
Does he strike, in his ignorance, the lips of the grandson of Muhammad,
when the owner of those lips was the one by whom the frontiers are guarded?(2)
فويلَ يزيد من عذابِ جهنم
إذا أقبلت في الحشرِ فاطمةُ الطهرُ
ملابسُها ثوبٌ من السمِّ أسودٌ
وآخرُ قان من دمِ السبطِ محمَرُّ
تنادي وأبصارُ الأنامِ شواخصٌ
وفي كلِّ قلب من مَهَابتِها ذُعْرُ
وتشكو إلى اللهِ العليِّ وصوتُها
عليٌّ ومولانا عليٌّ لها ظَهْرُ
فلا ينطقُ الطاغي يزيدُ بما جنى
وأنّى له عذرٌ ومن شأنِهِ الغدرُ
فيؤخذُ منه بالقصاصِ فيحرمُ الـ
نعيمَ ويُخلىَّ في الجحيمِ له قصرُ
ويشدو له الشادي فيطربُهُ الغنا
ويُسْكَبُ في الكأسِ النضارِ له خمرُ
فذاك الغنا في البعثِ تصحيفُهُ العنا
وتصحيفُ ذاك الخمرِ في قلبِهِ الجمرُ
أيقرُع جهلا ثغرَ سبطِ محمد
وصاحبُ ذاك الثِغريُحمى به الثغر (2)
1 ـ البداية والنهاية ، ابن كثير : 13/227.
2 ـ الغدير ، الأميني : 17/7.
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The Third Assembly, of the First Day
The Weeping of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) and His Grief over Imam Hussein (peace be upon him)
It is narrated from the master of the worshippers, Ali ibn al-Husayn (peace be upon them), who said: There has been no day like the day of Hussein (peace be upon him). Thirty thousand men closed in upon him, claiming to be of this nation, each seeking nearness to God Almighty by shedding his blood, while he reminded them of God and they would not heed, until they killed him in transgression, injustice, and enmity.
(1)
روي عن سيِّد العابدين علي بن الحسين ( عليهما السلام ) قال : ولا يوم كيوم الحسين ( عليه السلام ) ، ازدلف إليه ثلاثون ألف رجل ، يزعمون أنهم من هذه الأمة ، كل يتقرَّب إلى الله عزَّ وجلَّ بدمه ، وهو بالله يذكِّرهم فلا يتعظون ، حتى قتلوه بغياً وظلماً وعدواناً..
(1) .
So my grief for them — no noble one of them died
a natural death, but only by poison and by sword.
The family of Harb transgressed against them in crime,
and assailed them, clothed in iniquities.
How many noble ones they slaughtered at al-Tuff,
in thirst, with their blades, slaughtering them like grazing cattle.(2)
فلهفي عليهم ما قضى حَتْفَ أنفِهِ
كريمٌ لهم إلاَّ بسمٍّ وصارمِ
تجنَّت عليهم آلُ حرب تجرُّماً
وجالت عليهم باحتباءِ الجرائم
فكم جَزَروا بالطفِّ منهم أماجداً
على ظمأ بالبيضِ جَزْرَ السوائم (2)
Sheikh al-Saduq, may mercy be upon him, narrated from Imam al-Rida, from his forefathers, from Ali ibn al-Husayn (peace be upon them), who said: Asma bint Umays al-Khath'amiyya related to me, saying: I served as midwife to your grandmother Fatima, the daughter of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family), at the birth of Hassan and Hussein. She said: When she gave birth to Hassan, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) came and said: O Asma, bring me my son. She said: So I handed him to him in a yellow cloth, but he cast it aside and said: Did I not charge you not to wrap the newborn in a yellow cloth? And he called for a white cloth and wrapped him in it. Then he made the call to prayer (adhan) in his right ear and the iqama in his left ear, and said to Ali (peace be upon him): What have you named this son of mine? He said: I would not precede you in naming him, O Messenger of God. He said: And I would not precede my Lord, the Almighty. He said: So Gabriel descended and said: God conveys His peace to you and says to you: O Muhammad, Ali is to you in the position of Aaron to Moses, except that there is no prophet after you. So name your son with the name of the son of
روى الشيخ الصدوق عليه الرحمة عن الإمام الرضا ، عن آبائه ، عن علي بن الحسين ( عليهم السلام ) قال : حدَّثتني أسماء بنت عميس الخثعمية ، قالت : قبلت جدَّتك فاطمة بنت رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) بالحسن والحسين ، قالت : فلمَّا ولدت الحسن جاء النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فقال : يا أسماء ، هاتي ابني ، قالت : فدفعته إليه في خرقة صفراء ، فرمى بها وقال : ألم أعهد إليكم أن لا تلفّوا المولود في خرقة صفراء ، ودعا بخرقة بيضاء فلفَّه بها ، ثم أذَّن في أذنه اليمنى ، وأقام في أذنه اليسرى ، وقال لعلي ( عليه السلام ) : بم سمَّيت ابني هذا ؟ قال : ما كنت لأسبقك باسمه يا رسول الله ، قال : وأنا ما كنت لأسبق ربي عزَّ وجلَّ ، قال : فهبط جبرئيل فقال : إن الله يقرأ عليك السلام ويقول لك : يا محمد ، علي منك بمنزلة هارون من موسى إلاَّ أنه لا نبيَّ بعدك ، فسمِّ ابنك باسم ابن
1 ـ الأمالي ، الشيخ الصدوق : 547 ح 10.
2 ـ مثير الأحزان ، الجواهري : 155.
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Aaron. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: And what is the name of the son of Aaron? Gabriel said: Shubbar. He said: And what is Shubbar? He said: al-Hasan. Asma said: So he named him al-Hasan.
هارون ، قال النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : وما اسم بن هارون ؟ قال جبرئيل : شبَّر ، قال : وما شبَّر ؟ قال : الحسن ، قالت أسماء : فسمَّاه الحسن.
Asma said: When Fatima gave birth to Hussein (peace be upon him), I served as midwife to her at his birth. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) came to me and said: Bring me my son, O Asma. So I handed him to him in a white cloth, and he did with him as he had done with Hassan. She said: And the Messenger of God wept, then said: Indeed, there will be a tale concerning you! O God, curse his killer — do not let Fatima know of this.
قالت أسماء : فلمَّا ولدت فاطمة الحسين ( عليه السلام ) نفستها به ، فجاءني النبيّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فقال : هلمي ابني يا أسماء ، فدفعته إليه في خرقة بيضاء ، ففعل به كما فعل بالحسن قالت : وبكى رسول الله ثمَّ قال : إنه سيكون لك حديث! اللهم العن قاتله ، لا تعلمي فاطمة بذلك.
Asma said: When it was the seventh day, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) came to me and said: Bring me my son. So I brought him to him, and he did with him as he had done with Hassan, and he sacrificed for him as he had sacrificed for Hassan — a pied ram — and gave the midwife a haunch and a leg, and shaved his head, and gave in charity the weight of the hair in silver, and anointed his head with khaluq perfume, and said: Blood is among the practices of the Age of Ignorance. She said: Then he placed him in his lap and said: O Abu Abdullah, it is grievous to me. Then he wept.
قالت أسماء : فلمَّا كان يوم سابعه جاءني النبيّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فقال : هلمّي ابني ، فأتيته به ففعل به كما فعل بالحسن ، وعقَّ عنه كما عقَّ عن الحسن كبشاً أملح ، وأعطى القابلة الورك ورجلا ، وحلق رأسه ، وتصدَّق بوزن الشعر ورقاً ، وخلق رأسه بالخلوق وقال : إن الدم من فعل الجاهلية ، قالت : ثمَّ وضعه في حجره ، ثم قال : يا أبا عبدالله ، عزيز عليَّ ، ثمَّ بكى.
I said: May my father and mother be your ransom — you did this on this day and on the first day, so what is it? He said: I weep over this son of mine, who will be killed by a transgressing, disbelieving faction from the Umayyads — God curse them — may God not grant them my intercession on the Day of Resurrection. He will be killed by a man who breaches the religion and disbelieves in God the Almighty. Then he said: O God, I ask of You concerning these two what Abraham asked of You concerning his descendants. O God, love them and love whoever loves them, and curse whoever hates them, with a curse filling the heaven and the earth.
(1)
How excellent are the words of the great scholar Sheikh Muhammad Jawad al-Balaghi, may mercy be upon him, when he says:
فقلت : بأبي أنت وأمي ، فعلت في هذا اليوم وفي اليوم الأول فما هو ؟ قال : أبكي على ابني هذا ، تقتله فئة باغية كافرة من بني أمية لعنهم الله ، لا أنالهم الله شفاعتي يوم القيامة ، يقتله رجل يثلم الدين ويكفر بالله العظيم ، ثمَّ قال : اللهم إني أسألك فيهما ما سألك إبراهيم في ذريّته ، اللهم أحبَّهما وأحبَّ من يحبُّهما ، والعن من يبغضهما ملء السماء والأرض (1) ولله درّ الحجّة العظيم الشيخ محمد جواد البلاغي عليه الرحمة إذ يقول :
The heart of the Chosen One was gladdened with joy by the grandson,
had not the one announcing the news of al-Tuff alarmed him.
He saw him the best of children, by whom refuge is sought,
and the best of martyrs in the faith, defending it.
Though Fatima rejoiced on the day of his birth,
on the night of al-Tuff she became one who weeps for him.
Or though her heart revived from the light of his countenance,
the flow of crimson tears was given in turn over him.
وارتاح بالسبطِ قلبُ المصطفى فرحاً
لولم يَرُعْهُ بذكرِ الطفِّ ناعيه
رآه خيرَ وليد يُستجارُ به
وخيرَ مستشهد في الدينِ يحميه
إنْ تبتهجْ فاطمٌ في يومِ مولدِهِ
فليلةَ الطفِّ أمست من بواكيه
أو ينتعشْ قَلْبُها من نورِ طلعتِهِ
فقد أُديلَ بقاني الدَّمْعِ جاريه
1 ـ بحار الأنوار ، العلامة المجلسي : 44/250 ح 1.
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For her heart's joy in him did not endure long
until the torment of grief contended within it.
O sun at the zenith of glory, I never imagined that soon
you would become with body dusty, lying slain,
with a body upon the breast of the Prophet that grew —
the sharp blades of his enemies divided it among themselves;
and O for a head that the majesty of God had crowned,
which the bearer raised high upon the swaying spear;
and a holy breast that held the secrets of its Creator,
which for the filthy Shimr became a thing to mount upon;
and a throat that was the Guide's place to kiss,
which Shimr came to kiss with his blade.
O you who rose avenging for guidance and the faith,
Umayya came to take its vengeance upon you —
how, when your forefather is the cupbearer at the Pool, Haydar?
You passed away while you, with anguished heart, were parched.(1)
فقلبُها لم تَطُلْ فيه مسرَّتُهُ
حتى تنازعَ تبريحُ الهوى فيه
يا شمسَ أوجِ العلى ما خلتُ عن كثب
تُمسي وأنت عفيرُ الجسمِ ثاويه
فيالجسم على صدرِ النبيِّ رَبَى
توزَّعته المواضي من أعاديه
ويا لرأس جلالُ اللهِ توَّجه
به ينوءُ من الميَّادِ عاليه
وصدرِ قُدْس حوى أسرارَ بارئِهِ
يكونُ للرجسِ شِمْر من مراقيه
ومنحر كان للهادي مُقَبَّلَهُ
أضحى يقبِّلُهُ شِمْرٌ بماضيه
يا ثائراً للهدى والدينِ منتصراً
أمست أميَّةُ نالت ثارَها فيه
أنَّى وشيخُكَ ساقي الحوضِ حيدرةٌ
تقضي وأنت لهيفُ القلبِ ضاميه (1)
Ibn Qulawayh, may mercy be upon him, narrated from Abu Ja'far (peace be upon him), who said: When Hussein (peace be upon him) entered, the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) would draw him to himself, then say to the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him): Hold him. Then he would bend over him, kiss him, and weep. So he would say: O father, why do you weep? He would say: O my son, I kiss the place of the swords on you and weep. He said: O father, will I be killed? He said: Yes, by God, and your father and your brother and you. He said: O father, will our resting places be scattered apart? He said: Yes, O my son. He said: Who among your nation will visit us? He said: None will visit me and visit your father and your brother and you except the truthful ones of my nation.
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روى ابن قولويه عليه الرحمة ، عن أبي جعفر ( عليه السلام ) قال : كان رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إذا دخل الحسين ( عليه السلام ) اجتذبه إليه ، ثمَّ يقول لأمير المؤمنين ( عليه السلام ) : أمسكه ، ثم يقع عليه فيقبِّله ويبكي ، فيقول : يا أبه ، لم تبكي ؟ فيقول : يا بنيَّ ، أقبِّل موضع السيوف منك وأبكي ، قال : يا أبه ، وأقتل ؟ قال : إي والله وأبوك وأخوك وأنت ، قال : يا أبه ، فمصارعُنا شتى ؟ قال : نعم يا بني ، قال : فمن يزورنا من أمتك ؟ قال : لا يزورني ويزور أباك وأخاك وأنت إلاَّ الصدّيقون من أمتي (2) .
Ibn Nama, may mercy be upon him, narrated in Mathir al-Ahzan, from Ibn Abbas, who said: When the illness from which he died grew severe upon the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family), he drew Hussein (peace be upon him) to his breast, his sweat flowing upon him as he gave up his soul, and he was saying: What is between me and Yazid — may God not bless him! O God, curse Yazid. Then he fainted for a long while and revived, and began to kiss Hussein while his eyes overflowed, saying: Indeed, I and your killer have a standing-place before God Almighty.
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وروى ابن نما عليه الرحمة في مثير الأحزان ، عن ابن عباس قال : لما اشتد برسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مرضه الذي مات فيه ، ضم الحسين ( عليه السلام ) إلى صدره يسيل من عرقه عليه وهو يجود بنفسه ، ويقول : مالي وليزيد لا بارك الله فيه اللهم العن يزيد ثم غشي عليه طويلاً وأفاق وجعل يقبل الحسين وعيناه تذرفان ، ويقول : أما إن لي ولقاتلك مقاماً بين يدي الله عز وجل (3) .
1 ـ شعراء الغري ، الخاقاني : 2/457 ـ 458.
2 ـ بحار الأنوار ، المجلسي : 44/261 ح 14.
3 ـ مثير الأحزان ، ابن نما الحلي : 12 ، بحار الأنوار ، المجلسي : 44/266 ح 24.