The Weapons

Imam had ordered a man called Jawn, a previous black slave, to prepare the swords and spears and sharpen them. His tent was full of the weapons needed in the war. Imam Sajad who was sick at that time was resting in a tent very near to the tent of the weapon maker and heard al-Husayn whispering something while entering that tent. He later on said that Imam was saying to himself “Oh. God see how the world is behaving us, how my friends are leaving me, but I am not dissatisfied because I think it is you who have decided upon what might happen to me”. Sajad reports that my aunt Zeinab burst to cry and wished she had never witnessed such things. Husayn went to her and advised her not be impatient. He asked her to be the leader of the caravan after him. Zeinab says “O.K. but when my father, my brother, anybody left me and was killed, I thought I am supported by you, but when you leave me for good, to whom I should refer and how I should solve the problems”. Imam asked her not to be impatient after him, and to try to continue informing people about what the reality is.

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