His body parts cut off!

His body parts cut off! O, Muhammad! Your children are taken captives and your descendants are killed!” Then, she put her hand under the body of Imam Husayn, and said, “O God! Accept this sacrifice from us!” When the army saw this, they cried. Sukaynah dropped onto the body of her father and heard someone saying: “O my followers! Whenever you drink water, remember me. And whenever you hear of a stranger or a martyr, cry for me.” Suddenly, Zaynab looked at ′Ali, the only surviving male.

She saw him very weak and almost about to faint. She went to him and said, “O the memory of my grandfather, my father, and my brothers! This is the covenant of God to your grandfather and your father. The tyrants of this earth do not understand that. Indeed, the followers of the Prophet’s House will come and honor these decapitated bodies, and the parts and limbs that were cut off, and raise a flag on this land, a flag which would never be lowered.

The tyrants work day and night to eradicate his name, but whatever they do only increases the respect for his name.” The women and children did not want to leave the bodies. Finally, Zajr Ibn Qays came and whipped them with lashes, and they were forced to leave. In Kufah When the captured prisoners went into Kufah on their way to Ibn Ziyad’s castle, people were gathering to look and see whom the prisoners were.

A lady came and asked, “Which war are you prisoners of?” They said, “We are the prisoners from the House of .” They paraded them in the streets to show the people that the army was victorious. People asked questions as they passed and some people gave food. More people gathered giving them food and bread.

Zaynab and Umm Kulthum took the food from the kids and gave it back to the people, saying, “Charity given to the Prophet’s House is a sin.” When Zaynab reached a large group of people, she stood and pointed to the people to be silent. When everyone became quiet to hear what she wanted, she said: “All praises to God and blessings to our forefather Muhammad! O, people of Kufah; people of treachery and deception! You cry?

May you never end your crying!” And she quoted: “You are like women who untie what they have woven.” [^1] “You have no one among you but dirty, stubborn, liars, and you have done what will bring the wrath of God! May you never end your crying! And may your laughs be very few! You carry all of the shame that cannot be washed away again!