Among the poetry she had heard was the following: O eyes!

Among the poetry she had heard was the following: O eyes! This is a day for your tears So cry hard and spare not. Who after me shall the martyrs mourn Over folks led by their fates To a tyrant in the reign of slaves?[^8] On the day of ‘Ashura, Ibn ‘Abbas saw the Messenger of Allah (S) in a vision with his hair looking very untidy, and he was holding a bottle of blood. He said to him, “May my parents be sacrificed for your sake!

What is this?!” “This is the blood of al-Husayn (‘a) and of his companions;” he said, adding, “I have been collecting it, and I have not yet finished doing so.”[^9] They kept al-Husayn's naked corpse on the ground for three days although he was the essence of existence itself, being part of the Prophet (S) who is the cause of all causes, the one whose light was derived from the holiest light of the Most Holy One.

Three days saw nothing but pitched darkness,[^10] and the nights were even more so.[^11] People thought that Doomsday had dawned.[^12] Stars appeared at midday.[^13] And they kept colliding with one another.[^14] The rays of the sun could not be seen,[^15] and all this continued for three long days.[^16] Nobody should be surprised at seeing the light of the sun diminishing during the period when the master of the youths of Paradise was left naked on the ground, for he is the cause in the cosmos running due to what you have come to know of his being derived from the very truth of Muhammad (S), the truth which is the cause of all causes and the first reason.

It is due to the tradition, which confirms the same, and which is related to how the responsibility of wilaya was offered to everything in existence: whoever accepted it would surely benefit therefrom, and whoever refused would be deprived.

If the talk about the cosmos undergoing some change on account of the birth of a great prophet till the heavens are filled with clouds, and that it rained when a Christian scholar at Surra-man-Ra'a [Samarra’][^17] prayed for rain, although he did not uncover the body of the prophet [but only a bone of whose body he was holding], nor were his limbs cut off; so, how could it not undergo a change, or why should not the sunlight or the moonlight not be obliterated when the [corpse of the] Master of the Youths of Paradise was left on the ground after being mutilated?

Why did not the heavens when he was killed not collide? Why did the earth when he fell not crack?