Then the rooms and houses in Damascus were emptied for them...

Then the rooms and houses in Damascus were emptied for them, and no lady from Hashim or Quraish was left without wearing black clothes for the Imam (Q) and they wailed over him during all the time they had spent in Sham, and the people of Sham cried till their voices became really loud. So Yazeed, may Allah curse him, felt compelled to pretend crying in front of the people due to his fear from their strong anger towards him.

Then he feared sedition or a revolution, so he started to apologize, condemn the act of Bin Ziad and began to show glorification and dignifying of Ali Bin Al-Hussain (Q). Then, he moved the women of the Messenger of Allah to his private house, and he refused to eat lunch or dinner without the presence of the Imam (Q). Previous…