Thus if you like we shall guarantee your safety!

Thus if you like we shall guarantee your safety!!” Ali bin al-Husain ridiculed him and shouted at him, “Relationship with the Messenger of Allah (s) is more deserving of respect.” [1] He was among the most righteous sons of the Holy Imam and the foremost of them in his loyalty and defense of His Eminence. He was the first Hashemite to depart for the battle with exceeding eagerness. At that time his age – according to historians – was 18 years.

[2] When the Imam saw him he continued to look at him [1] Nasab-e-Quraish, Pg. 57 [2] Al Futuh 5/207 it is mentioned that his age was 23 as mentioned in Umdatut Talib , Pg. 192. And it is said that his age was 27 on the basis of what Muqarram has written in Maqtalul Husain , Pg. 255 for a long time while his heart was melting with sorrow and he was almost on the verge of death; because he beheld a son, the like of whom there was none, moving towards death.

Thus he raised his face to the heavens and in a sad forlorn voice prayed: “O Allah! Be a witness on these people that a youth has gone towards them to fight who in appearance, manners and speech most closely resembles their Prophet, Muhammad (s). Whenever we used to be eager to see Your Prophet we used to glance at him...O Allah! Prevent the bounties of the earth from them and make them dispersed and distressed and make them a divided people.

And never let their rulers be pleased with them as they had invited me and offered to help me, but later on they oppressed us and confronted us in battle.” In these grief-filled statements could be seen the level of the sorrow of His Eminence for his son whom he loved with all his being and with a burning heart he begged to Allah to punish those sinful people in the world with His most terrible chastisement.

The Imam’s heart was burning for his son in emotions and he screamed at the sinful criminal, Umar bin Saad: “What has happened to you, may Allah cut off His mercy from you, not bless any of your deeds and impose such a one upon you that shall kill you in your bed like you have cut off my relations and not honored our kinship with the Messenger of Allah (s).” Then he recited the following verses of the Holy Quran: “Surely Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the descendants of Ibrahim and the descendants of Imran above the nations.