HAZRAT ALEE/ALI AKBAR THE BELOVED SON OF HAZRAT IMAAM HUSAIEN رضی اللہ عنہ -The Events of Karbala-22

 

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HAZRAT ALEE/ALI AKBAR THE BELOVED SON OF HAZRAT IMAAM HUSAIEN رضی اللہ عنہ

He left the body there and returned to the tent and saw his eighteen-year-old, young son Hazrat 'Alee Akbar رضی اللہ عنہ who was the ‘look alike’ of the

Holy Prophet

He said to Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ, ‘O My father! Let me go out into the battlefield for I don’t want to live if you are slain.’ Hazrat Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ said. ‘O my son! You are the mirror image of the Holy Prophet ﷺ, We look at you and satisfy our desire to see the Holy Prophet. By sending you I am sending image of the Holy Prophet ﷺ out of my home. Don’t go they are after my blood.’ But Hazrat 'Alee Akbar said, ‘I would also like to go there where my brother Qaasim is. Let me go and quench my thirst in paradise. Please send me out with your blessings.’ Who was leaving for the battlefield, it was the life of Hazrat Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ, the apple of the Holy Prophet’s ﷺ, eye, the flower of paradise from the garden of Hazrat Bibi Fatimah Zahraa. Hazrat 'Alee Akbar رضی اللہ عنہ recited the following as he went into the battlefield:

He faced the enemy and said: I am 'Ali Akbar the son of Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ, who is the son of 'Alee Murtaza we are the Household of the Holy Prophet ﷺ, most loved by him.

O slayers of the Prophets Household, destroyers of the flowers of the garden of Bibi Fatimah Zahra…come have my blood on your hands also. [Radiyal laahu ’Anha]

He proved it in the battlefield that he was the grandson of the Conqueror of Khyber, Hazrat 'Alee رضی اللہ عنہ and in his blood and arms was the strength of Hazrat 'Alee رضی اللہ عنہ. He killed eighty Yazeedis before being severely wounded and then martyred. As he fell from his horse he exclaimed, ‘O my father! Catch me your son is falling.’ As Hazrat Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ ran towards his son’s body and before he could reach him, he saw that his son had been killed.

Hazrat Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ stood crying at his son’s body crying and then he carried the body to the tents. Hazrat Zaienab [Radiyal laahu-’Anhaa] came out of the tent looked at the body and said, “these tyrants have obliterated ‘the resemblance of the Holy Prophet ﷺ. Imaam Husaien رضی اللہ عنہ too his sister by the hand and led her into the tent. He asked her to be patient and endure all calamities for everything that was happening was the test from Allaah Almighty.



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