Allah ordered me to obey you...

Allah ordered me to obey you; so, if you order me, I can cause an earthquake that will swallow these people just as it swallowed the people of Lot.' He said to him, ‘O Gabriel! I shall call them to account on the Day of Judgment before my Lord, Glory to Him. ' It was then that I screamed, ‘O Messenger of Allah!

I plead to you for security!' He said to me, ‘Be gone, for Allah shall never forgive you.' So, do you still think that Allah will forgive me?”[^10] At one stop on their journey, they put the purified head down; soon they saw a pen made of iron which came out of the wall and which wrote the following in blood:[^11] Does a nation that killed Husayn really hope for a way His grandfather will intercede for them on the Judgment Day?!

But they were not admonished by such a miracle, and blindness hurled them into the very deepest of all pits; surely Allah, the most Exalted One, is the best of judges. One farasang before reaching their destination, they placed the head on a rock; a drop of blood fell from it on the rock. Every year, that drop would boil on ‘Ashura, and people would assemble there around it and hold mourning commemorations in honour of al-Husayn (‘a). A great deal of wailing would be around it.

This continued to take place till ‘Abd al-Malik Ibn Marwan ascended the throne. He ordered that the rock should be removed.

It was never seen after that, but the spot where that rock stood became the site of a dome built in its honour that they called “al-Nuqta” [the drop].[^12] Near the town of Hama and among its orchards stood a mosque called “Masjid al-Husayn.” People there say that they escorted the rock and the head of al-Husayn (‘a) that bled all the way to Damascus.[^13] Near Aleppo there is a shrine known as “Masqat al-Saqt”.[^14] The reason why it was called so is that when the ladies of the Messenger of Allah (S) were taken to that place, al-Husayn's wife had miscarried a son named Muhsin.[^15] At some stops, the head was placed atop a spear next to a monk's monastery.

During the night, the monk heard a great deal of tasbih and tahlil , and he saw a dazzling light emanating from it. He also heard a voice saying, “Peace be upon you, O father of ‘Abdullah!” He was amazed and did not know what to make of it. In the morning, he asked people about that head and was told that it was the head of al-Husayn Ibn ‘Ali Ibn Abu Talib (‘a), son of Fatima (‘a) daughter of (S). He said to them, “Woe unto you, people!