Husain said:- "0' people!

Husain said:- "0' people! Do ye recognise this turban on my head, is it not the turban of the Holy Prophet and this sword at my hand, that of the Apostle of God?" The reply was:- " Yes we do recognise." Husain said :- " Do ye know that my father Ali ibne Abi Taleb was the first among men to join the Holy Prophet in the faith Islam, and he was the most learned, and the most forbearing of all men and was the ' Maula' (or the Master, Lord) of all men and women?" The reply was:- " Yes!

We know that everything thou sayest is truth." Then Husain asked aloud: " Say ye then, why do ye make lawful the shedding of my blood? " The reply from the brutal forces was:- " Yes! We shall kill thee in thy thirst." The voice of the Holy Imam was heard in the tents in camp. The ladies and the children hearing the last reply from the enemy began to weep for Husain and Zainab and Omme Kulthoom the two sisters of Husain, the daughter of Ali and Fatema were the most effected.

(Zindagani Husain-Imadzadeh, Tehran) Hur joins the Holy Imam HUR, THE COMMANDER of Yazid's regiment, who had obstructed Husain's way near Kufa, was also present in the enemy's forces in Karbala. He spent all his time in repenting for having obstructed the way of the son of the Holy Prophet. The enemy's officers and soldiers were only wondering at the mysterious sorrowful silence and the serious pensive mood in which Hur spent all his time since his arrival on the plain.

While he distributed weapons of defence to his devotees in his camp, the Holy Imam reserved a lance but did not say for whom it was. He only announced in a mysterious tone that a faithful one in the enemy's ranks was to join the ranks of the fighters for Truth. In the meanwhile, there in the ranks of the enemy Hur called his brother and his son secretly in his tent and said:- " We are doomed-driven towards ' hell.' There is yet time.

I have decided to dash out of the ranks of Satan and join the side of the Holy Imam and seek pardon of the son of the Apostle of God. Would you like to accompany me or stay where you are?" The brother and the son of Hur both readily consented to accompnay him and Hur's slave who was a faithful and trusted one of his master, was present in the tent and implored saying ' Master! take me away from this God's cursed side, along with thee. Pray leave me not for hell' and Hur agreed.

Hur, with his son, brother and a slave, dashed out of the enemy's ranks and joined the Holy Imam.