Re: Bibi Sakina (a.s.)
No I did not write up all myself. Been browsing around for a good article for Bibi and found this. No2 post I typed up from my book. I don't like typing up myself coz I might not be accurate.
Pls add anything else relevant to her.
Here I will type up some more. (After Imam Hussain a.s. is beheaded.)
Bibi Zainab ran to Imam Zainul Abideen a.s. and told him what had just happened. They stood silently, tears rolling down their cheeks. A strong gust of wind blew on the desert. They felt as if nature itself was crying with them. The silence was only broken by the beating of drums from the enemy camp. They were celebrating their victory. It was indeed a hollow victory, won by a well fed huge army fighting against an army of 72 brave warriors, who died hungry and thirsty.
That evening the enemy soldiers rushed into Imam Hussains a.s. camp and looted everything in sight. One of the men pulled Sakina's earings off, ripping her ear lobes. Sakina ran out of the tent crying, her ears bleeding. Outside she met a kind old man. He wiped the blood from her ears. When Sakina saw how kind he was she asked him if he would show her the way to Najaf where her grandfather was buried, She told him that she was going to complain to him about how they killed her father and didn't let her uncle Abbas bring any water for her. When the old man saw how upset Bibi Sakina was, he comforted her and then took her back to her aunty Bibi Zainab.
[Another thing I heard is that Bibi Sakina's front was on fire when she ran out of the tents, the old man attempted to put out the fire on her. But Sakina said,
"Thank you for being so kind, but I am syeda. We don't let na-mehrams touch us. If you'd like to help, tell me the way to Najaf"]
The troops snatched the veils off the ladies heads, and then set fire to their tents. Bibi Zainab was very distressed. She turned to Imam Zainul Abideen a.s. and said
** "You are our Imam now. Tell us what we should do now, should we stay in our tents and burn, or go out without our veils?"**
Imam Zainul Abideen a.s. told her that it was their religious duty to try and save their lives. Bibi Zainab gathered everyone and waited outside, while their homes burnt down. When the fire was out, they took shelter under one of the tents which had not been completely destroyed.
That night Umar Saad sent some bread and water to Imam Hussain's a.s. camp. When Bibi Zainab saw the bread and water she cried,
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"Imam Hussain a.s. and his brave soldiers had died hungry and thirsty, and now the same people who killed them were bringing bread and water to their widows and orphans!!"
**
She looked at the sky and prayed to Allah to give her courage. Bibi Zainab remembered the words of her brother to give water first to Sakina. When Sakina heard that there was some water, she said
"Has my uncle Abbas come back? Dear aunt, please give some water to my brother Ali Asgher first, he is the youngest. "
Sakina then started to cry, She remembered what had happened that day. There was no uncle Abbas to bring her water and there was no little Ali Asgher to play with. There was only sadness.