The members of the Holy Family suffered the hardships and...

The members of the Holy Family suffered the hardships and the tortures of imprisonment in the cell for a long time until in the prison expired Sakina the three year old dearly loved daughter of Husain. She died of wounds caused by the whips and slaps of the tyrants,particularly of the wounds she received from the stone-hearted Shimar. After a long imprisonment, the sick Imam Ali, with the other captives, was released.

They returned to Karbala, and after burying the bodies of Husain and the other martyrs which were lying unburied till then, they returned to Madina. Thus the Holy Imam Husain offered the Greatest Sacrifice to re establish the Truth firmly never again to be shaken by any one until the Day of Judgment.

The Old Testament Prophesies The Martyrdom THIS IS THE Sacrifice which has been prophesied also in the Old Testament in which God promises to avenge the blood of the Holy Imam Husain:- "for this is the day of the Lord God of Hosts, a day of Vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood for the Lord God of Hosts hath a Sacrifice in the morth country by the river Euphrates." Jer.

46:10 This is the 'Zibhe-Azeem' or the Greatest Sacrifice, the Lord has foretold to take place instead of Abrham's sacrifice:- " Most surely this is a manifrst trial, And We ransomed with a Great Sacrjfice And We have shifted it among the later generation." This happened on 61 A.H. on the Bank of the Euphrates at Karbala in (Iraq). Who was Victorious-Yazid or Husain?

ALTHouGH THE HosTs of the Devils numbered in thousands and the supporters of the cause of Truth for which the Holy Imam stood, could be counted on fingers, and the Holy Imam, with his numbered devotees, was mercilessly massacred and the ladies, the queens of virtue and chastity along with the innocent children were taken captives and put to every disrespect, indignity and the bitterest tortures, but soon after the massacre, the world understood who was the Arch-Devil and who was the Divinely Chosen Guide for Humanity.

Many people embraced Islam at the guidance they received from the severed head of Husain wilen they saw it glorifying the Lord even from the point of the lance during the torturous journey to Kufa and from Kufa to Damascus. The realization of the Truth, the World exhibited after the martyr dom ofthe Holy Imam, made even the Devil acknowledge the virtual, spiritual Victory of the Holy Imam.