Syeda Zainab -asws wept on hearing these words...
Syeda Zainab -asws wept on hearing these words, Mola Hussain -asws said to her, “The blessings of Allah -azwj are upon you -asws . Do not worry about the troubles these wretched people will cause.” That same day, Syeda Zainab -asws brought to him -asws her -asws two sons Hazrat Aun -asws and Hazrat Mohammad -asws and said to him -asws , “O my brother, if women were permitted to fight, I would have courted death to save you. But it is not allowed.
Accept therefore the sacrifice of my two sons.” Both young brothers fought like the grandson of Jafar-e-Tayyar -asws and were martyred, Syeda Zainab -asws raised her -asws hands in Praise of Almighty Allah -azwj When the holy body of Hazrat Ali Akbar -asws was brought to the tents of the women, Syeda Zainab -asws wept with grief.
She -asws clasped the body saying, “ O my son -asws , would that I -asws had become blind, or had been buried beneath the ground so as not to have seen this day” When her -asws brother Mola Abbas -asws approached Syeda Zainab to bid farewell, she fell to the ground and wept. Mola Abbas -asws was also martyred When all the ansar and Bani Hashim -asws had been matryed and only Imam Hussain -asws remained he -asws approached the tents of Syeda Zainab -asws to bid farewell .
Mola Hussain -asws said, “Take heed and remember that this my son -asws is my -asws successor and Imam -asws and is to be followed., After killing me -asws , my enemies (L.A) would take off the clothes from my -asws body and trample me -asws under hooves. Therefore please bring me some old and tattered dress to wear so that they might spare me -asws .” Imam Hussain’s -asws enemies (L.A) surrounded him -asws and attacked him -asws with swords and spears.
When Syeda Zainab -asws saw her brother -asws from her -asws tent door she -asws went to ‘tila zainabiya’ , and she -asws said, “O’ my brother -asws , my master -asws , would that the sky fall down on the earth and the mountains toppled to the ground.” The Holy Imam’s -asws body was trampled by his enemies (L.A) ’ horses, his pious head -asws was severed, and even the tattered cloth were taken At the moment of the Imam’s -asws Martrydom, Angel Jibra’il proclaimed, “Beware,our Lord Hussain -asws has been martyred in Karbala.” Upon hearing this Syeda Zainab -asws rushed to Imam Zainul Abideen -asws and told him -asws about the tragedy that had just occurred.