7th MUHARRAM UL HARAM-The
Events of Karbala-
PREVENTED FROM ACCESSING WATER
Prevented From Accessing Water
As a
strategy of war, on the 7th Muharram, the authority
prevented
Hazrat Imaam
Husaein رضی اللہ عنہ
and his followers from taking water from the river. Seven thousand soldiers comprising, two thousand on mounts and five thousand on foot were ordered to guard the river.
The order was that not a drop must be given to the Husaieni camp. The surprising aspect of this strategy was that water was being denied to the grandson of the owner of the fountain of Kauser in paradise.
A poet has said,
"Haakim Kaa Yeh Hukam Thaa Keh Paani Bashar Piyay
Ghoray Piyay, Oonth Piyay, Ye Ahle Hunar Piyay
Sab Piyay Charind aur Parind Piyay, Manaa Tum Naa Kijiyoon
Magar Ek Fatimah Keh Laal Ko Paani Na Dijiyon"
The authority has ordained that any man may drink water
The horses, camels and intelligent man may.
All may drink the grazing animals and birds
But don’t give water to Fatimah’s beloved!
All including unbelievers and polytheists were allowed to take water from the river, including grazing animals and birds but the water was closed on the grandson of the owner of the fount of Kauser in paradise.
Hazrat
Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ
mounted
his horse rode to face the enemy forces and delivered a brief sermon. He
explained to them to stop groping in the darkness and not to stain their hands
with his blood, since deliberately killing somebody was purchasing hell. He
further explained that he was the grandson of their Prophet ﷺ
upon
whom they testify faith, and at this moment in time there was no other grandson
of the prophet on earth. He said that he was that same Husaien رضی اللہ
عنہ about whom the Holy Prophet said:
Hassan
and Husaien are the leaders of the youth of paradise…
He also
explained that when he used to cry whilst his mother cared for him then
the Holy Prophet use to say:
Oh! Fatimah! Don’t make Husaien cry, since I become uneasy when he cries.
He told
them, ‘Think if the Holy Prophet ﷺ
could not bear me crying in the care of my loving mother, then if you trouble me in this far off land, stain your hands with my blood and trouble my children then try and fathom how aggrieved the Holy Prophet will be.’ ﷺ
Don’t you read in the Qur’aan
33rd Soorah, Al-Ahzaab, verse 57
Those who annoy Almighty Allaah and His Prophet, Allaah has cursed them in this world and in the Hereafter and has prepared for them a humiliating punishment.
Hazrat
Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ
presented these proofs and tried to reason with them since he had harmed them in no manner and had only come on the invitation of the Kufian’s who had betrayed him. They had become hardhearted and stubborn since hell was their fate, so the Imaam’s sermon had no effect on them. They shouted that they had not come to listen to a lecture but to secure his allegiance and since he had refused, he must get ready to fight. He said that he had done his duty so that none of them could complain on the ‘Day of Judgmen’t that they were unaware, and none had explained to them.
He said, ‘Now the proof has been presented to you do as you would’.
Allaah Kareem says in the Holy Qur'aan, the 17th Surah, al-Israa, Verse: 15
Nor do We punish until We have sent a Messenger …
[to
give warning].
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