Make these unjust people taste the fire of hell.

Make these unjust people taste the fire of hell.” Just then an arrow pierced the water skin and all water spilled on the sands. When the water was gone, Abbas became broken hearted and did not wish that he should go to the camp anymore. Just then an oppressor hit his head with a mace, due to which he fell down from the horse. Who can estimate the valor and courage of this valiant youth?

For whom, when Imam Husain reached his wounded brother, he sat near him and heaved a sigh of sorrow and said, “O my brother your grief has broken my back. Now I have also washed my hands off this world. It is the time when after you the enemies will attack us.” As he worded these statements a flood of tears flowed from his eyes. An Arabic poet has mentioned this in a beautiful way: You must weep most on the young man on whom the Imam also wept.

It is that brother of Husain and the son of Imam Ali. It is Abul Fazl Abbas bathed in his own blood.[1] [1] Al-Irshad, Shaykh Mufid and NafasulMahmoom Back Index Next Previous…