This man of such extraordinary caliber...

This man of such extraordinary caliber, on his arrival in Iraq, was recorded to have said that the battlefield of Karbala was the place where Imam Husayn(a) and his companions would fall. (Kashi, Rijal p.24). Of those who were standing in opposition to the Imam(a), a number of them had seen the Prophet(s) and had witnessed his miracles.

Nevertheless, in their actions, they denied his mission as God's messenger and attacked the members ofhis inviolable Household, beheading their men and innocent male children, and making prisoners of their pure womenfolk. Some among them had lived during the heyday of Amir al Mu'minin, All, the Master of the Lovers of God, the Imam of mystics and the Paragon of honesty, and during the era of his…