Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Caravan, Part 7

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THE FOURTH STAGE MUSLIM IBN AQIL (PBUH)–KUFA TIME OF THE DEPARTURE TO KUFA: On Ramadan 15th, 3 days after receiving the last letters of the residences of Kufa, Muslim Ibn Aqil moved towards Kufa as the Imam’s ambassador. 68 THE WAY OF MOVEMENT: The terrifying and spy atmosphere of Bani Ummayah’s government caused Muslim to move secretly at night. 69

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Atika, the Wife of Imam Husain (PBUH)

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Atika, the daughter of  Zayd ibn Amr ibn  Nufayl, was an Arab poetess  and a  beautiful  woman  of  great  wisdom  and  good  breeding.  She married Abdullah ibn  Abibakr ibn   Abiqahafe, or as Ibn Abd al-Barr wrote in Al-Isti’ab,his book,she married Zayd  ibn  Khatab. But he was  killed on  the  Day of Yamanah.

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Birth Anniversary of Imam Muhammad Baqir (PBUH)

The fifth Imam  Mohammad al-Baqir (A.S.) was born on the 1st  of the month of Rajab, 57th Hijrah, in the city of  Medina. Because of  the  resemblance  that  he  had  with  his   grandfather  he  was named Mohammad  and  because  of   it  that   he   analysed  the  knowledge and made manifest its secrets he became known  with the title …

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Imam Husain (PBUH) in Edward G. Brown Words

“…a reminder of that blood-stained field of Karbala, where the grandson of the Apostle of God fell, at length, tortured by thirst, and surround by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at anytime since then, sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm and the heedless, the deepest emotion, the most frantic grief, and an exaltation of spirit …

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