You were for me a fortified haven...

You were for me a fortified haven, a cool shade, When life was still within you, Can you see how the people Whenever we pass by you, prohibit us From mourning you, from weeping, from wailing? If my humiliation rests easily with you, If my estrangement with the foes, if my exile, And if my being a captive in the hands of the foes Riding on bare she-camels, Is against my wish to see you Lingering among dark lances and white swords, Your corpse on the sands, your head raised on lance's tips.

How I lament those who drank of the pool of death, How they were kept away from accessible Euphrates... How I lament those who wore reddened attires Decorated by wanton winds...[^6] Al-Husayn (‘a) bought the lots where his grave now stands from the residents of Ninawa and al-Ghadiriyya for sixty thousand dirhams. He then turned and gave it back to them as charity on one condition: they lead people to his gravesite and host whoever visited it for three days.

Al-Husayn's sanctuary, which he bought, was four miles long by four miles wide. It is lawful for his offspring and those loyal to him and is prohibited from those who oppose them. It is full of bliss.

Imam as-Sadiq (‘a) has said that those people did not fulfill that condition.[^7] When al-Husayn (‘a) camped at Karbala’, he wrote Ibn al-Hanafiyya and a group from Banu Hashim saying, “It is as if this life has never been, and as if the hereafter has always been, and peace be with you.”[^8] [^1]: This date is provided by al-Tabari on p. 233, Vol. 6, of his Tarikh, by Ibn al-Athir on p. 20, Vol. 4, of his book Al-Kamil, and by al-Mufid in his book Al-Irshad. [^2]: al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol.

10, p. 198. Al-Khawarizmi, Maqtal al-Husayn, Vol. 1, p. 237. The reader cannot escape the implication of al-Husayn, peace be upon him, inquiring about the name of that land. All things related to the Master of Martyrs are obscure mysteries. To us, Imamites, an Imam is acquainted with what goes on in the cosmos of events and epics, knowledgeable of the characteristics which Allah, the most Exalted One, decreed to the beings, the Creator of the heavens and earth that He is, Exalted is He.

In this book's Introduction, we provided proofs for this statement.