The evil, treacherous, and ungodly Umayyid government feared allowing Imam Husain ibn Alib, peace be upon him, to enter Kufa. Perhaps the people’s hearts would once again rule over their pockets and they might rise in support of their true Imam. So, they ordered Hurr ibn Yazid Riahi, the commander of a large contingent, to force that Eminent one to stop at the desolate plain of Karbala. Imam Husain, peace be upon him, did not insist on going to Kufa; in fact, he offered to return to Medina, or go to a far off land like India, but the evil Umayyids thirsted for a confrontation, what they thought would be a chance to put an end to the religion of Islam forever.
When Commander Hurr refused to allow him and his followers to journey in any direction, and forced them to remain there in
First he praised and glorified Allah, and then said:
“Harshness and tribulation is something that you are now seeing and realizing with your own eyes and ears; the world and its events have been turned inside out. The despicable side of the world is now visible and on top, while all the goodness of the world has turned away. And this turn for the worse is taking place at great speed. There is little left of goodness—like a few drops clinging to the bottom of an empty container. This life has become low and worthless—like a green pasture that has been plowed and upturned, it is in ruin and in disarray.
Don’t you see that no one is enacting the Truth? And no one is preventing falsehood and deceit from being enacted? In such a situation, the believer who seeks the Truth, must certainly long to see Allah, and to meet the Truth. [In other words, no more truth and goodness is to be found on earth, so the person who longs for goodness, longs for death and to find truth in the union with Allah].
I see death as nothing but good fortune and happiness; and life amongst tyrants as nothing but wearisome and disgusting.
Most people are the servants of this mundane world. The sum total of their religion is nothing more than saliva which runs off their tongues. As long as their livelihood is abundant, they are committed to protect their religion; but when they run into difficulties and problems, and are tested, the truly religious are found to be few in number.
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