قَالَ فَتَرَكْتُ الْخَادِمَ حَتَّى خَرَجَ وَ لَطَمْتُ وَجْهِي حَتَّى خَشِيتُ عَلَى عَيْنِي أَنْ يَذْهَبَ وَ غَسَلْتُ يَدَيَّ مِنَ الْجِصِّ وَ خَرَجْتُ مِنْ ظَهْرِ الْقَصْرِ وَ أَتَيْتُ إِلَى الْكِنَاسِ فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا وَاقِفٌ وَ النَّاسُ يَتَوَقَّعُونَ وَصُولَ السَّبَايَا وَ الرُّءُوسِ إِذْ قَدْ أَقْبَلَتْ نَحْوَ أَرْبَعِينَ شُقَّةً تُحْمَلُ عَلَى أَرْبَعِينَ جَمَلًا فِيهَا الْحُرَمُ وَ النِّسَاءُ وَ أَوْلَادُ فَاطِمَةَ ع وَ إِذَا بِعَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع عَلَى بَعِيرٍ بِغَيْرِ وِطَاءٍ وَ أَوْدَاجُهُ تَشْخُبُ دَماً He (the narrator) said, ‘I left the servant until I went out and slapped my face until I feared upon my eyes that these would be lost, and I washed my hands from the plaster and went out from the back of the castle and came to the sweepers.
While I was standing and the people were anticipating the arrival of the captives and the heads, when there came approximately forty carriages upon forty camels wherein were the sanctimonious ones, and the women, and the children of (Syeda) Fatima -asws , and there Ali -asws Bin Al-Husayn -asws was upon a camel without a saddle and his -asws throat veins were dripping blood.
وَ هُوَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ يَبْكِي وَ يَقُولُ- يَا أُمَّةَ السَّوْءِ لَا سُقْيَا لِرَبْعِكُمْ- يَا أُمَّةً لَمْ تُرَاعِ جَدَّنَا فِينَا لَوْ أَنَّنَا وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ يَجْمَعُنَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مَا كُنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَا تُسَيِّرُونَا عَلَى الْأَقْتَابِ عَارِيَةً كَأَنَّنَا لَمْ نُشَيِّدْ فِيكُمْ دِيناً And he -asws , along with that, was weeping and saying: ‘O evil community! There will be no quencher (except) for a quarter of you.
O community who did not care of our -asws grandfather ‑saww regarding us -asws ! If we -asws and Rasool-Allah -saww were to gather on the Day of Qiyamah, what will you be saying to us -asws ? They are travelling us -asws upon the bare humps, as if we -asws had not built a religion among you all .
بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ مَا هَذَا الْوُقُوفُ عَلَى تِلْكَ الْمَصَائِبِ لَا تُلَبُّونَ دَاعِيَنَا تُصَفِّقُونَ عَلَيْنَا كَفَّكُمْ فَرَحاً وَ أَنْتُمُ فِي فِجَاجِ الْأَرْضِ تَسْبُونَا أَ لَيْسَ جَدِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَيْلَكُمْ أَهْدَى الْبَرِيَّةِ مِنْ سُبُلِ الْمُضِلِّينَا يَا وَقْعَةَ الطَّفِّ قَدْ أَوْرَثْتِنِي حَزَناً وَ اللَّهُ يَهْتِكُ أَسْتَارَ الْمُسِيئِينَا Clan of Umayya! What is this pausing upon these calamities? You are not answering our -asws callers?
You are clapping your hands upon us out of happiness, and you are reviling us -asws in the areas of the earth.