How can my -asws grief terminate, and my -asws tears dry up?
How can my -asws grief terminate, and my -asws tears dry up?’’ [4] The Month of Muharram: حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَسْرُورٍ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ أَبِي مَحْمُودٍ قَالَ It was narrated to us by Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Masrour, from Al Husayn Bin Muhammad Bin Aamir, from his uncle Abullah Bin Aamir, from Ibrahim Bin Abu Mahmoud who said, قَالَ الرِّضَا ع إِنَّ الْمُحَرَّمَ شَهْرٌ كَانَ أَهْلُ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يُحَرِّمُونَ فِيهِ الْقِتَالَ فَاسْتُحِلَّتْ فِيهِ دِمَاؤُنَا وَ هُتِكَ فِيهِ حُرْمَتُنَا وَ سُبِيَ فِيهِ ذَرَارِيُّنَا وَ نِسَاؤُنَا وَ أُضْرِمَتِ النِّيرَانُ فِي مَضَارِبِنَا وَ انْتُهِبَ مَا فِيهَا مِنْ ثَقَلِنَا ‘Al-Reza -asws said: ‘Al-Muharram is a month (which was even respected by) the people of the pre-Islamic period (who would be) prohibiting the fighting during it (Allah -azwj has also declared Al-Muharram as a scared month).
But they (Muslims) permitted (the shedding of) our -asws blood during it, and tore apart our -asws sanctity during it, and made captives of our -asws children and our -asws womenfolk during it, and they inflamed the fires in our -asws tents, and they seized whatever was therein from our -asws belongings.
وَ لَمْ تُرْعَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ حُرْمَةٌ فِي أَمْرِنَا إِنَّ يَوْمَ الْحُسَيْنِ أَقْرَحَ جُفُونَنَا وَ أَسْبَلَ دُمُوعَنَا وَ أَذَلَّ عَزِيزَنَا بِأَرْضِ كَرْبٍ وَ بَلَاءٍ وَ أَوْرَثَتْنَا [يَا أَرْضَ كَرْبٍ وَ بَلَاءٍ أَوْرَثْتِنَا] الْكَرْبَ [وَ] الْبَلَاءَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الِانْقِضَاءِ And they did not view a sanctity for Rasool-Allah -saww regarding our -asws (family) matters – so (during) the day of Al-Husayn -asws , our -asws eyes get ulcerated [5] (cry out blood), and our -asws tears flow, and our -asws dear ones got humiliated in the land of ‘ Karb’ ( distress) and ‘ Bala’ ( afflictions) (Karbala), and we -asws inherited, O land of distress and afflictions, you made us -asws inherit the distress and the afflictions up to the Day of Judgment.
فَعَلَى مِثْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ فَلْيَبْكِ الْبَاكُونَ فَإِنَّ الْبُكَاءَ يَحُطُّ الذُّنُوبَ الْعِظَامَ So, upon the unprecedented (personality) of Al-Husayn -asws , let the wailing ones wail, for the wailing would reduce the sins of the bones (major sins)’.
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