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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Biography of Imam Hussain Bin Ali (as) The Looted Caravan After burning their dead and leaving the bodies of the holy Imam and his martyred devotees unburied, lying on the plain of the massacre, the Devil's forces left the plain of KARBALA for KUFA with the virtuous ladies and the innocent children of HUSSAIN'S family as their captives, on bare backs of camels, snatching away their veils, without any purdah, with their necks tightly tied in ropes.

The sick holy Imam Ali son of HUSSAIN, who could not even sit up owing to his illness, was bound in heavy chains and was made to walk barefooted on the thorny plains and on the burning sand of the desert, form KARBALA to KUFA and from KUFA to Damascus.

THE TORTURES OF THE JOURNEY The history of the tortures of the journey from KARBALA to KUFA and from KUFA to Damascus which the sick Imam Ali, the helpless ladies and the young children were put to, is a very pathetic record of the worst brutality ever recorded on earth, the narration of which in detail needs a separate volume.

The captives of the family of the holy Imam were first marched on public roads and through the streets of town of KUFA, to the open court of IBN-I-ZIAD the Governor of KUFA, and from there they were marched to Syria to be presented in the open court of the brute YAZID who before an audience of hundreds of his courtiers, seated on the throne there, were purchased by his wealth and who had signed the death warrant of the holy Imam supporting the claims of the Brute to be Deputy of the holy Prophet.

THE DIVINE LIGHT SHINES OUT Every soldier who was given the severed head of a martyr, to carry it raising it on his lance was made responsible for its safe custody. KHOOLE a hard-hearted tyrant was put in charge of the holy head of HUSSAIN. As the Brute's army marched from KARBALA after the great massacre, it halted near KUFA where KHOOLI lived.

KHOOLI left the camp in the night to visit his wife in the town and carried with him the holy head, and to hide it form his wife, he kept it covered under ashes of the hearth in the kitchen of his house. When KHOOLI'S wife came out of her room in the middle of the night, she fund pillar of light rising out from the hearth in the kitchen. She was stunned and when she saw through a hole in the door, she found some heavenly figures descending form heaven on a severed head in the hearth.

She rushed back into her room and waking up KHOOLI reported the matter to him.