Day 3

The lesson

1. At Karbala he was gravely ill and did not fight. When men came to kill him, some said: this sickness is enough for him (al-Irshad; I'lam al-Wara). In Ibn Ziyad's palace in Kufa he was again ordered killed; the intercession of Sayyida Zaynab and his own firm words saved him (al-Futuh of Ibn A'tham; Maqtal al-Husayn of al-Khwarazmi).
2. He was carried into captivity in a jami'a, a chain joining the hands to the neck, and because he was too ill to sit the camel his feet were tied beneath its belly (al-Amali of al-Tusi; Maqtal al-Husayn of al-Khwarazmi). He is quoted: they mounted me on a lame, lean camel, while the head of al-Husayn was on a spear, the women behind me and the spears around us (Iqbal al-A'mal of Ibn Tawus).
3. In the mosque of Damascus he gave a sermon in which he made himself, his father and his grandfather known to the people, and told them that what Yazid and his agents spread was false: his father was no rebel, but rose for the truth (Muthir al-Ahzan of Ibn Nama; al-Malhuf of Ibn Tawus; Zindigani-yi Ali ibn al-Husayn of Sayyid Ja'far Shahidi). After his sermon and Sayyida Zaynab's, opinion in Damascus turned and Yazid moved the household from a roofless ruin to a house near his palace (al-Irshad).

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