THE DISTANCE BETWEEN MECCA AND MEDINA (THE LENGTH OF THE PATH): About 400 kilometers (70 leagues) THE EVENTS ON THE WAY: 1. The visit of armed angels with the Imam and asking for help and aid as they had helped the Prophet in the battles. A group of jinns also visited Aba Abdullah. They wanted to help too. The Imam …

Mahallati writes: Ramla, the mother of Qasim ibn al-Hassan (PBUH), is one of the ladies who were in Karbala on Ashura Day. The presence of this respectful lady in Karbala is evident in the famous books on Ashura.

Imam Husain (PBUH): Crying because of fear from God is salvation from the hellfire. Imam Husain’s Life (Vol.1, p. 183)

Daddy Husain had four sons. His fourth son was Abdullah. He was born on Ashura morning. He was so young, and, as a baby, willing to sleep in his mother’s arms and suckle milk. Daddy Husain felt sorry about him.

“In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hussein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.” Edward Gibbon (English historian and member of parliament), “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, London,1911, volume 5, p. 391-392)

O, You Nature! How Could You…? O, you Water! O, Water… What did you do to that Man & his family? How could you get so awesome, so cold, and yet so out of reach…? Why did you go so far…, why?

Haniyah (Abdullah ibn Umair al-Kalbi’s Wife) Just nine days after marrying, Abdullah (Wahab) and Haniyah joined to the Imam’s troop. They spent their honeymoon in Karbala among Imam Husain (PBUH) and his respectful family, and finally they martyred on the seventeenth day after they married.