So much so that it seemed as if all the people residing in...

So much so that it seemed as if all the people residing in Damascus had come out to celebrate.” [5] [1] Miraat az-Zamaan fee Tawarikhul Ayan, Pg. 99 [2] Hadaiq al-Wardiya 1/125 [3] Ansaab al-Ashraaf 3/416 [4] Al-Irshad , 2/119 [5] Hujjatul Sa’adah fee Hujjatush Shahada That community which was raised on the enmity of Ahle Bayt expressed in various ways its joy at the killing and captivity of the family of the Prophets (‘a).

The honorable head was brought in the circles of people chanting the slogans of “God is Great” and “There is no god, except Allah” for the victory that the grandson of Abu Sufyan had achieved.

Khalid bin Safwan or Ghufran who was present in Damascus when the head of the Imam was brought expressed his grief and lamentation and sought refuge from the people lest the spies of Bani Umayyah may apprehend him, while he recited: “Your head O son of the daughter of Muhammad, they brought smeared in its own blood. As if by killing you O son of the daughter of Muhammad they have openly and intentionally killed prophethood.

They killed you while you were thirsty and in killing you they did not have any regard for the meaning and interpretation of Quran. Now that you are killed they chant, God is the Greatest while in killing you they have destroyed the slogans of ‘God is Great’ and ‘There is no god, except Allah.’”[1] Sahl bin Saad says: I was on the way to Baitul Maqdas when I reached the capital of Syria and found it to be a city of flowing rivers and numerous trees with curtains and silks hanging from them.

And people were in a festive mood, women played drums and tambourine etc. So I said to myself: The people of Syria must be having some festival of which we were ignorant. I saw some people talking among themselves. I asked them: “Do you have a festival in Syria about which we have no knowledge?” “Yes respected sir! You seem to be a foreigner.” “I am Sahl bin Saad and I have seen the Messenger of Allah (s).” “O Sahl!

Is it not strange for you that blood doesn’t rain from the sky and the earth does not swallow its inhabitants?” “What happened?” “It is the head of Husain which has arrived from Iraq as a gift!” “Really? Husain’s head is being sent as a gift and people are celebrating it? From which gate is it going to arrive?” They pointed towards the Sa’at Gate.