The World Grieves Hussain
By the end of the tragic events of the day of Ashura, and once the grandson of the final messenger of God was martyred, the world grieved.
A man had hurled a stone at Imam Hussain’s forehead (peace be upon him), and blood flowed down his luminous face. He took a cloth to wipe the blood from his eyes. In that moment, another man shot an arrow — a barbed one with three prongs — and it struck his pure heart.
Imam Hussain (peace be upon him) said: "In the name of Allah, and by Allah, and upon the religion of the messenger of Allah." Then he lifted his head toward the heavens and cried: "O my Lord, You know well that they are killing a man who has no equal on the face of the earth — the only living grandson of Your prophet." He then pulled the arrow from his back, and blood gushed forth like a stream. He placed his hand beneath the wound, and when it filled with blood, he cast it toward the sky, saying: "What has befallen me is made bearable because it is witnessed by You, O Allah." And not a single drop of that blood fell back to Earth — a sign of divine acceptance.
It was on another continent that it was documented that on the same year Imam Hussain was martyred that ‘the sky rained blood, and milk and butter were turned into blood.’ Whichever the scientific reasoning behind this phenomenon was, it is unarguable that the death of the valiant and courageous Hussain had all of God’s creation mourning him, even thousands of kilometers away.
The documentation was on The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, on year 685 A.D. (coinciding with year 61 A.H.) These chronicles are a collection of historical records written in Old English of the history of Anglo-Saxons in England and are one of the most important sources of early English history.
A man had hurled a stone at Imam Hussain’s forehead (peace be upon him), and blood flowed down his luminous face. He took a cloth to wipe the blood from his eyes. In that moment, another man shot an arrow — a barbed one with three prongs — and it struck his pure heart.
Imam Hussain (peace be upon him) said: "In the name of Allah, and by Allah, and upon the religion of the messenger of Allah." Then he lifted his head toward the heavens and cried: "O my Lord, You know well that they are killing a man who has no equal on the face of the earth — the only living grandson of Your prophet." He then pulled the arrow from his back, and blood gushed forth like a stream. He placed his hand beneath the wound, and when it filled with blood, he cast it toward the sky, saying: "What has befallen me is made bearable because it is witnessed by You, O Allah." And not a single drop of that blood fell back to Earth — a sign of divine acceptance.
It was on another continent that it was documented that on the same year Imam Hussain was martyred that ‘the sky rained blood, and milk and butter were turned into blood.’ Whichever the scientific reasoning behind this phenomenon was, it is unarguable that the death of the valiant and courageous Hussain had all of God’s creation mourning him, even thousands of kilometers away.
The documentation was on The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, on year 685 A.D. (coinciding with year 61 A.H.) These chronicles are a collection of historical records written in Old English of the history of Anglo-Saxons in England and are one of the most important sources of early English history.
