ABDULLAH was forced to write a letter of divorce to ZAINAB.

ABDULLAH was forced to write a letter of divorce to ZAINAB. When ABDULLAH had executed the divorce, the very next day after it, he was not given even an interview with MU'AVIAH, saying that the offer to wed his daughter was only an offer and had been withdrawn. The letter of divorce was sent to ZAINAB through a special messenger with YAZID'S offer to wed her, ZAINAB was then at Medina when ABUD DARDA the messenger for MU'AVIAH arrived there.

God is always there to protect the interest of the righteous ones when they are unjustly aggressed by any tyrant. ABU DARDA before going to ZAINAB, went first to pay his regard to HUSSAIN the holy Imam and intimated to him the object of his visit to Medina. HUSSAIN hearing the painful story, told ABUD DARDA to convey his own (HUSSAIN) offer to ZAINAB along with that of YAZID'S. ZAINAB receiving the letter of her divorce, began to sob.

When the offers of YAZID and HUSSAIN were conveyed to her she readily preferred the holy Imam, and got herself wedded to him. When the disappointing story was conveyed to MU'AVIAH and YAZID, it enraged both the father and the son. ABDULLAH was dismissed from the governorship, and all his property in Iraq and elsewhere was confiscated and he was rendered destitute.

Poor ABDULLAH having lost his wife, his post, and all his properties, did not know what to do, and at last he walked all the way from Iraq to Medina to recover from ZAINAB the money he had left with her. Reaching Medina he went to the residence of the holy Imam. Now ZAINAB could talk to ABDULLAH only from behind the screen; neither he could see her nor she could look a him.

Both, stood quietly shedding tears, when HUSSAIN suddenly appeared and removed the screen from between them saying: "ABDULLAH! God is my witness, not a glance of mine has fallen on thy wife. ZAINAB is still they safe as was she before, for the divorce under compulsion was no divorce and my wedding her was no wedding. I wedded were just to protect her and restore her unto thee. Take her with thee and go happy".

Both, ABDULLAH and ZAINAB were stunned with tears of joy in their eyes and returned home praising the holy Imam and cursing those who had wickedly devised to separate them. THE SITUATION THAT DEMANDED ANOTHER 'MUHAMMAD' TO RESCUE THE CORRECT FAITH It was the Seventh Century A.D., Europe was still a wilderness.