And what blood have you shed from him?

And what blood have you shed from him? What an awry thing have you brought forth that it is likely that the heavens would fall down and the earth would disperse, while the mountains would crumble down as much as the fill of the earth and the heavens. The bride of your affairs is hairless, unfamiliar, indecent, blind, ugly and sullen. You wonder why the heavens rain blood. The chastisement of the hereafter is more disgraceful and there will be no helper.

Let not this respite make you frivolous, for none has the power to anticipate upon Allah, the Mighty, the Sublime, and seeking vengeance does not lapse from him.

No, not at all, your Lord is in ambush for you.What will you reply when the Prophet shall ask you, how did you fair, while you were the last nation, with my progeny and my children, the noble ones, that some of them are captivated and some drenched in their blood, this is not the recompense regarding which I adviced you with which you treated my ‘Near-ones’ , I fear that a wrath similar to the people of Iram might descend upon you”.

\n Saying this Syeda Zainab -asws turned her -asws face away from them. The Ahl-e-Bait -asws were then taken before Ibn Ziyad (L.A) \u00a0 \n Ibne Ziyad (L.A) asked, “Who is this woman sitting alongwith the other women in the corner?” Syeda Zainab -asws did not answer him (L.A) . He repeated his question for the second and third time, when one of the maids said, “She is Zainab, -asws \u00a0 \u00a0the daughter of Fatima -asws , the daughter of the Prophet of Allah -saww “ .

Ibne Ziyad (L.A) turned towards her -asws \u00a0 \u00a0and said, “ Praise be to Allah that He has humiliated you, killed you and has brought forward the lie of your appearance”. \n Syeda Zainab -asws replied, “Praise is due to Allah -azwj who has endeared us through His Prophet -saww and cleansed us from all filth. Verily the dissolute is humiliated and a tyrant speaks a lie, while this is far away from us -asws . And praise be to Allah -azwj “.

\n Ibne Ziyad (L.A) \u00a0said, “ What did Allah -azwj \u00a0do to your family -asws ?” \n Syeda Zainab -asws “I have not seen anything except fairness in it. They -asws \u00a0were men for whom Allah -azwj had preferred martyrdom and they prepared to leave for their place of repose. And Allah -azwj will gather you all (L.A) \u00a0and you (L.A) \u00a0shall be tried and interrogated. Then see who will have succeeded on that day, O son of Marjanah (L.A) !