Therefore...

Therefore, one night he walked with much difficulty to Jannat al-Baqi` and prayed for the people of the graves and said, “Seeing the living people the way they are, your condition is praiseworthy. Now mischief is spreading like dark nights and the mischief that will rise will be worse than the earlier one!” In the trying circumstances when the time for his Call was nigh on one hand and on the other mischief was raising its ugly head.

He had to think whether to suppress the mischief or to seek qisas for the martyrs of Mu’tah. Almost two years had passed since the persons were martyred at Mu’tah and the qisas was not obtained so far. The subject was almost in the cold storage…