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19.3 Imam Ali Ar Ridha(a):
One day, someone named Rayyan, the son of Shabeeb, went to meet the 8th Imam,
Imam Ali al-Rida (a) on the first day of the month of Moharram. He said that the
Imam (a) told him:
"O son of Shabeeb! Muharram is such an important month that even Arabs of the
age of ignorance (jahiliyaa) respected its importance. They didn't allow fighting and
blood-shed in it. But these people (the Umayyads) did not honor the importance of
this month nor of their Prophet. In this month they killed the son of the Prophet and
imprisoned the women in his family after stealing and plundering their belongings.
Allah will never forgive this crime of theirs."
"O son of Shabeeb! If you want to cry and weep for anyone, cry for Hussein bin Ali
bin Abi Talib (a.s.) because he was beheaded like a lamb. Eighteen people from
his family were also killed with him. The heavens and the earth cried for the death
of Hussein. Four thousand angels’ came down from the heavens to aid him, but
when they arrived they saw that he had already been martyred...O son of
Shabeeb! My father (Imam Moosa al Kazim) has told me...that when my
grandfather Imam Hussein (a.s.) was martyred, the sky rained blood and red
sand."
"O son of Shabeeb! If you cry over what happened to Hussein (a) so that tears flow
from your eyes and fall upon your cheeks, Allah will forgive all your sins whether
big or small and less or large in number."
"O son of Shabeeb! If you want to earn the reward of those who were
martyred along with Imam Hussein (a), then whenever you remember him, say: I
wish I could have been with them, because then I too would have attained the
Great Victory (meaning I would have become a martyr as well)."
19.4 Imam Zainul Abideen(a):
Imam Zain ul Abideen (a) used to cry a lot whenever he remembered `Ashura.
There were times when the glass of water he drank, would become so full of tears
that he would not be able to drink that water. When people asked him why he cried
so much, he said,
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