When he heard this...

When he heard this, Shapur reflected for a while and then said: “Despite these comforts provided by your father, you were not loyal to him; how can you ever be loyal and faithful to me?” He ordered that she be tied to a horse’s tail and the animal made to gallop through the desert so that the desert thorns become coloured by the blood of this treacherous and unfaithful daughter.[^6] The Indian and the Sixth Imam Imam Kadhim (as) narrates: “One day, I was with my father in the house when a friend entered and told my father that some people were standing outside, waiting to see him.

My father asked me to find out who they were. As I went outside, I saw numerous camels laden with chests and a man seated on a horse. “Who are you?” I asked the man. “I am from India and seek the honour of meeting the Imam (as),” he replied. I returned to my father and informed him about the man outside.…