Her -asws tears were always flowing for her brother -asws...

Her -asws tears were always flowing for her brother -asws and family -asws whose heads were harvested by the Umayyad (L.A) swords, and whose bodies were maimed severely.Those painful scenes often and always attacked her until she -asws was too weak that she -asws could tolerate those distresses no more. She -asws often said , ‘O my brother -asws !’ ‘O my Hussain -asws !’ ‘O my Abbas -asws !’ ‘O my family -asws !’ and then she(asws) would fall to the ground.

The most beloved thing to her(asws) was to leave this world and join her(asws) grandfather(asws) to complain to him(asws) about the disasters, the capture, the killing, and the maiming that she(asws) and her family(asws) faced.. A year and half after the tragedy of Karbala, Syeda Zainab -asws returned to Damascus where an evil woodcutter (L.A) struck her -asws with his blade and caused her -asws martyrdom on 16th Zil-Hijjah 62 A.H.at the age of 56 years.

Mola Imam Zainul Abideen -asws and Syeda Fiza -asws performed the burial rites and laid Syeda Zainb binte Amir-ul-Momineen -asws to rest. We end with the following tradition of Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws who said to a companion; “O Zurarah! Verily the heavens wept blood for forty mornings upon Hussain -asws . The earth turned dark for forty mornings, and the sun was eclipsed and turned red for forty mornings, while the mountains crumbled and scattered and the seas exploded.

The Angels wept for forty mornings upon Hussain -asws , and until the head came to us, our women -asws did not dye or oil they hair nor did they apply colyrium or comb their hair. We always remained grief-stricken after him, while my grandfather (Imam Zainul Abdeen -asws ) wept whenever he remembered him until his beard was soaked in his tears. And whoever would see him would become sorrowful and weep.

The Angels at the head of his grave weep too, and whoever is there in the environment and heavens weep due to their weeping. And it is said that: No tears or eyes are more cherished near Allah than these eyes, which shed tears upon him. Then whoever weeps upon him, Fatema -asws receives news regarding it, while this being the cause for his felicity. And this news reaches the Prophet of Allah -saww , and it is as if he has fulfilled our rights.

There is no man who shall not arise weeping on the day of Qiyamah, except those who weep upon my grandfather -asws , while they shall arise with enlightened and illuminated eyes and a cheerful countenance.