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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Hussein the Saiviour of Islam The Captives in Damascus EVEN DURING THE most miserable journey, the severed head of the Holy Imam manifested several miracles which guided several good hearted Christians and Jews to embrace Islam, most of whom after embracing the Truth attacked the brutes and were ultimately martyred by the Devil's forces.

When the looted Caravan entered Damascus, at the ordcrs of the Devil Yazid, the whole town was ordered to he fulL dcccratcd and the people to be engaged in rejoicing and making mcrry at the success of their Ruler.To please the Brute the people dressed in festive robes were extremely jubilant amusing themselves in fanciful plays and merrymaking.

When the looted Caravan of the Holy House of the Prophet passed through the public streets and the busy bazaars, people in huge numbers thronged to have a view of the captives whereas the godly ladies of the family of the Holy Imam who were captives, felt mortally ashamed and insulted and covered their holy faces under the hair of their heads.

While the sorrow-stricken ladies were seated on the bare hacks of the camels with the hair of their heads covering their faces, the heads of the martyrs raised on the point of the lances were marching before them. The poor ladies sometimes looked at the heads of their martyred husbands, brothers and children with tears flowing from their eyes. The children seeing the severed heads of their loved ones cried aloud innocently callina them to return to them and to relieve them of their miseries.

After paradina through the crowded streets and the busy bazaars thronged with the rejoicing public the Iadics and the children tied in ropes and the sick Ali in chains with the severed heads of the martyrs were presented openly in the fully attended court of Yazid surrounded by hundreds of his courtiers.

Yazid sat on the throne and kept the severed head of the Holy Imam down in front of him, drank wine, and ridiculed the Holy Iniam and his family standing before him utterly helpless tied in ropes as captives. What all befell the Holy Family in the Devil s court is also a long history of unbearable sorrow and the worst degradation of the godly ones, which will surely move the coldest heart to tears. The captives were imprisoned in a very narrow, dark and roof- less cell.