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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Hussein the Saiviour of Islam Ali Weds Lady Ummol-baneen THE WORLD AROUND the Holy Prophet witnessed and history has vouched the fact that the gap in the domestic life and the happiness of the Prophet, created by the demise of Lady Khadija doubtlessly proved as irreparable for no other woman fittingly filled it up to give the Apostle of God the happiness at home or the harmony in his domestic life, and it is only about the good Lady Omme Salema that the Holy Prophet said: ' Ante alal Khair, i.e., Thou arton good- ness, which the good Lady proved true by not leaving the house of the Holy Prophet even after his departure from this world, and remaining as attached to his Ahlul Bait as she was during his life- time.

The same was the case with Ali the First Imam, the Vice- gerent of God on earth, succeeding the Holy Prophet. After the martyrdom of the Holv Lady Fatema, there was none in the world to take her holy place in the house of Ali and the good Lady Ommol- Baneen served Ali after Holy Lady Fatema as did Omme Salema to the Holy Prophet after the demise of Lady Khadija.

The alliance for a Holy Cause THE PROPIIECY FROM the Holy Prophet about the impending ' Zibhe Azeem' or the Great Martyrdom of Husain, had gained so much currency and had become a matter of such a conviction and concern to the AhluI-Bait that after the departure of Lady Fatema,Ali called his brother Aqeel who was known for his knowledge about the tribal geneologies and told him to find out a respectable lady of a noble family, known for its bravery, for him to wed for he wanted to have a brave son from her to be his own representative there at Karbala to serve Husain the son of the Holy Prophet and help him in the calamitous situation against his enemies and lay his life defending Husain on his own behalf, for Hasan and Husain were hailed as the sons of the Holy Prophet and each one was addressed as 'Ibne Rasoolullah' (son of the Holy Prophet).

Ali expressly and particularly stressed when he told Aqeel for the selection of a lady, that he wanted the determined issue from the lady to be the bravest one in the world, to serve Husain at Karbala on his own behalf. Aqeel said:- " Marry thou, Ommol- Baneen- e- Kalbi, the daughter of Hazm bin Khalid- e- Kalbi, for braver than her father, there was none in the tribes." Abbas the Standard-Bearer of Husain arrives THE DESIRE OF Ali was readily granted by the Lord.