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However, your uncle would never let you go to the battlefield and will try to protect you until the very last moment. For this reason, your father -asws left a will for you, which is wrapped in a tablet and I made you wear it since the departure of your father -asws . Son, never think of your young age, you are the descendant of the Lion of Lord (Shar-e-Khuda) [3] . Your father -asws belongs to Aya-e-Tatheer, so please do not embarrass me by showing any sign of weakness.

I am sure your sacrifice will be as your father had wished for. If you stumble, I shall not forgive you and will disassociate myself from you, when I meet you in the presence of your grandmother -asws .’ Shahzada Qasim -asws replied, ‘Do not worry mother, just wait until sun rises, I will bow down to Uncle’s feet and plead him by showing the will of my father. I am sure my uncle, for the sake of his enormous love for my father, will permit me to fight against the army of infidels.

O my kind and honourable mother! Consider me as an ‘elm’ (Sadaqa) for brother Ali Akbar -asws . I shall fight bravely to make you and my father proud and there will nothing near our tents but the dust and noise of ‘Alaman al hafiz’ from running army of Yazeed -la . If I do not finish all of them then you will not see me in ‘One piece’! Ashura day On the day of Ashura, all companions and relatives of Imam Hussain -asws were eager to meet Shahadat.

They had spent the Ashura night in prayers and were fully explained about all that were to take place during the day, the places of their martyrdom, and their places in the Paradise. But Shahzada Qasim -asws ’s desire for Martyrdom was unique with fervour that if his father were here he would too sacrifice his life to save the true Islamic virtue which was suffocating under the tyrannical grips of infidels.

When Imam Hussain -asws asked him, ‘How do you feel about tasting the death as a saviour of Islam?’ ‘I find Martyrdom sweeter than honey’, was the reply of Shahzada Qasim -asws . Before everyone else, Shahzada Hazrat Qasim -asws pledged his uncle to grant him permission for fighting, But Imam Hussain -asws was not prepared to lose him so early in the day, and asked him to wait, ‘How can I allow the Mirror image of my brother to embrace death’?

Hazrat Qasim -asws was becoming eager and emotional when he observed that his uncle was bringing back the bodies of the martyrs from the battlefield.