Some unimportant questions -muharam related

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Re: Some unimportant questions -muharam related

According to reports (what i heard) Imam Zainul Abideen was ill during that ordeal, What sort of illness was that ?

i dont know …but descriptions suggest that he was getting deliriums so it was pretty severe

When he became healthy and where he was when Ladies from ahle-bait were taken to Yazeed’s court

he was with them.

he must have been taken to Syria as a prisoner

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he was a teenager (I think )

How he managed to escape from cruelty of Yazeed ?

Great question !
if you understand this you understand the ummmayyads esp the sufyanids
they were masters in the art of propoganda
yazid afterall was the son of muawiyah he was no hajjaj…and only difference between father and son was that muawiyah was politically savy and knew how to keep the different tribes and communities in place with intimidation,threats and bribery.Even the extrajudicial killings he did was of pious but politically insignificant opponents like hujr b adi (ra) and amr b hamiq khuzai(ra) etc]…
yazid was brought up in luxury and at times thought that brute force should prevail. That explains atrocities like Battles of Harra and Karbala.However he was careful not to present himself as the slaughterer of Prophet[pbuh]'s family that would be political suicide…why not leave the blame to his overzealous commanders who cared nothing for public image? let the ibn ziyads and shimars do his dirty work and take blame for it
afterall his father has used this excuse before succcessfully to coverup his crimes.
The immediate aftermath of karbala had potentially devastating consequences for the sufyanids with trouble stirring up in kufa, the perenial kharijite problem and ibn zubayr in hijaz] and yazid must have been aware of that atleast his advisors definately were.Nothing was to be gained now in killing a young son of hussain [as] in coldblood after karbala, hashimites were finished as a political force …now was the time to project himself as the kind and compassionate caliph that was why numan b bashir was sent to escort the family of the Prophet (pbuh) to medina [Keep in mind numan b bashir was a enemy to ameer-ul-mominnen Ali b abutalib only one of the few ansars who sided with muawiyah]

I mean we hear all the time Yazeed was enemy No1 of ahle bait

yazid his father and grandfather were enemies of Islam and it just
so happened that Ahlulbayt stood in his way and could not be bought or intimadated

btw many accounts suggest that more than 72 martyrs in karbala from the side of Imam
72 is the number of heads taken to yazid’s court