Dousree rewayat yeh hai kay…
The days were so hot that it was difficult to breath in the prison. And the nights were so cold that Sakina’s toes would turn blue. They had nothing to sleep on but the bare floor.
One night Sakina suddenly started to cry in her sleep. When her mother asked her what the matter was she said that she saw her father in her dreams telling her that he could not bear to see her in this state any more. Everybody started to cry so much that the noise reached Yazid at the palace. He asked the guards what all the noise was about. When they told him what it was, he ordered that Imam Hussain’s (a.s.) head be taken to Sakina in order to keep her quiet. The guards brought the head, and put on the ground. When Sakina saw her father’s head, she ran to it and hugged it. All the ladies were stricken with grief. Sakina complained to her father about how the evil men snatched her earings that he had given to her, how they took away their vieils, and burnt their tents. Suddenly Sakina stopped complaining and was completely quiet. INNA LILLAH WA INNA ILAYHI RAJI’OON. Sakina, the loving daughter of Imam Hussain (a.s.) passed away. Imam Zainul Abideen (a.s.) buried her in a small grave in one corner of the prison. All the ladies sat by Sakina’s mother Rubab and cried. Sakina will finally be able to sleep on her fathers’ chest once again.
When they were released from the prison, Rubab would cry “Where am I suppose to go, my Ali Asgher is in Karbala and my Sakina in the prison in Sham”.
Karbala kee maoN par salaam.
