He felt insulted fighting against a three-day starved young boy...

He felt insulted fighting against a three-day starved young boy, undermining the strength and valour of the grandson of Amir-ul-Momaneen -asws . Instead, he signalled his sons to take on the young Bani Hashim. Shahzada Qasim -asws pointed four of his sons, one after the other, to the hell fire. This made Arzaq -la extremly furious and he came out to fight and was also sent to Hell by Shahzada Qasim -asws .

On seeing the bravery and skills of Shahzada Qasim -asws , no one could dare to come forward and challenge, so Umar-e-saad -la asked his whole army to attack together and surround Qasim -asws from all directions. Shahzada Qasim -asws was fighting very heroically, like his grandfather -asws ,and made a pile of dead bodies of several famous warriors. Yazid’s army started to throw stones and arrows on Shahzada Qasim -asws from every direction.

A Maloon l.a , who was hiding and waiting for Shahzada Qasim -asws to pass near a dune, attacked Hazrat Qasim -asws from behind with a spear. He could not stay on horse and fell on the ground calling to his uncle -asws , “YA AMMAHO, ACCEPT MY LAST SALAM.” Imam Hussain -asws and Mola Ghazi -asws along with Ali Akbar -asws ran towards Shahazada Qasim -asws . Upon seeing them come towards them, the army of Yazid -la started running away out of fear.

This unorganised flee from the battlefield led to the stampede of Shahazada Qasim -asws ‘s injured body, cutting it into several pieces. Upon reaching there, Imam Hussain -asws looked up in the skies, as was telling Qasim -asws ’s father, how could I take his body back to my camp? How will his mother react after seeing the mutilated Qasim -asws ? Will not his widow pass away after looking at her groom in unrecognisable shape?

Imam Hussain -asws took off his ‘Abaa’ [5] , spread it on to the ground and started gathering the remains of Qasim -asws as if one would collect the disintegrated verses of Quran and brought in the recovered pieces of Qasim back to the camp. Imam Husssain -asws opened the sag of Qasim -asws inside Syed Umm-e-Farwa -asws ’s tent and told his sister-in-law: ‘Allah -azwj has accepted every single piece of your sacrifice’.

Sitting in a corner, Syed Kubra -asws pleaded her aunt, Syeda Zainab -asws , to give her a black outfit, which a widower would wear, on hearing this request, all present could not help crying and doing matam therein. [1] Henna [2] Bihar ul Anwar, vol 18, pg. 304.