Isn’t my -asws grandfather -saww Rasool-Allah -saww ?
Isn’t my -asws grandfather -saww Rasool-Allah -saww ? Woe be unto you all! He -saww guided the people away from the ways of the strayers. O event of Al-Taff (Karbala)! You have caused us -asws to inherit grief. By Allah -azwj ! You have torn apart the veils of the ones who are veils to us -asws !
’ قَالَ صَارَ أَهْلُ الْكُوفَةِ يُنَاوِلُونَ الْأَطْفَالَ الَّذِينَ عَلَى الْمَحَامِلِ بَعْضَ التَّمْرِ وَ الْخُبْزِ وَ الْجَوْزِ فَصَاحَتْ بِهِمْ أُمُّ كُلْثُومٍ وَ قَالَتْ يَا أَهْلَ الْكُوفَةِ إِنَّ الصَّدَقَةَ عَلَيْنَا حَرَامٌ وَ صَارَتْ تَأْخُذُ ذَلِكَ مِنَ أَيْدِي الْأَطْفَالِ وَ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَ تَرْمِي بِهِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ He (the narrator) said, ‘The people of Al-Kufa came to give the children, those who were upon the carriages, some dates, and bread, and nuts.
Umm Kulsoom -asws shouted at them and said, ‘O people of Al-Kufa! The charities are Prohibited unto us -asws !’ And she -asws went on to take that from the hands and mouths of the children and throwing it to the ground’.
قَالَ كُلُّ ذَلِكَ وَ النَّاسُ يَبْكُونَ عَلَى مَا أَصَابَهُمْ- ثُمَّ إِنَّ أُمَّ كُلْثُومٍ أَطْلَعَتْ رَأْسَهَا مِنَ الْمَحْمِلِ وَ قَالَتْ لَهُمْ صَهْ يَا أَهْلَ الْكُوفَةِ تَقْتُلُنَا رِجَالُكُمْ وَ تَبْكِينَا نِسَاؤُكُمْ فَالْحَاكِمُ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَكُمُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ فَصْلِ الْقَضَاءِ He (the narrator) said, ‘All that, and the people were crying upon what had afflicted them -asws .
Then Umm Kulsoom -asws brought out her -asws head from the carriage and said to them: ‘Shut up, O people of Al-Kufa! Your men killed us -asws , and your women are crying upon us -asws ?
Allah -azwj will Judge between us -asws and you all on the Day of the Decisive Judgment!’ فَبَيْنَمَا هِيَ تُخَاطِبُهُنَّ إِذَا بِضَجَّةٍ قَدِ ارْتَفَعَتْ فَإِذَا هُمْ أَتَوْا بِالرُّءُوسِ يَقْدُمُهُمْ رَأْسُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ هُوَ رَأْسٌ زُهْرِيٌّ قَمَرِيٌّ أَشْبَهُ الْخَلْقِ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ لِحْيَتُهُ كَسَوَادِ السَّبَجِ قَدِ انْتَصَلَ مِنْهَا الْخِضَابُ وَ وَجْهُهُ دَارَةُ قَمَرٍ طَالِعٍ وَ الرُّمْحُ تَلْعَبُ بِهَا يَمِيناً وَ شِمَالًا While she -asws was addressing them when a clamour arose, and there, they were coming with the (holy) heads, the (holy) head of Al-Husayn -asws was ahead of them, and it was a head blossoming like the moon, being the most resembling of the people with Rasool-Allah -saww , and his -asws beard was like the pitch black, the blackness having trickled from it, and his -asws face was like the emerging circle of the moon, and the spear was playing with it right and left.
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