THE STORY OF KARBALA - PART 10/02

THE END OF THE BATTLE

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Eyewitness reporters have recorded that they had not seen anybody fight so bravely after having seen so many killings in a few hours time in his own family.
At last, Shameer Ibn Ziljawshan collected his troops and asked them to attack Husayn from all directions at the same time, which they did. Husayn fell from his horse, not far from the tent where his sister Zaynab stood watching the battle apprehensively. When Shameer proceeded to behead the fallen Husayn, Zaynab looked to Umar Ibn Sacad and said:

'O son of S'ad, you will watch while Abu Abdullah will be killed.'

At the same time a young boy ran out of the tent and watching the assassin approaching his uncle, stretched his hands out and said:

'O please do not kill my uncle'

But the blow had struck and the boy's both arms were severed.

In spite of all the fighting and crowding, nobody was prepared to behead the grandson of the Prophet. At last it was Khawli and Shameer together who did it and Husayn's head was raised on a lance, Umar Ibn S'ad's commanders started congratulating him for winning the battle of Karbala.

On Yazeed's express wish, Umar Scad ordered that Husayn's dead body be trampled under hoofs. Husayn's camp was plundered. Everything including the ladies' cloaks were looted. Even earrings from Husayn's four year old daughter's ears were snatched brutally and she bled. The goat skin on which Zaynul Abideen lay in fever, was pulled away.

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