On the day of ‘Aashura i.e. Friday the 10th of Muharram, 61 AH, when His Excellence Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ was delivering sermon to the Yazeedi soldiers in the battlefield of Karbala in order to leave no room for excuse on their side, a foul-mouthed Yazeedi (Maalik Bin ‘Urwah) looked towards the fire which was lit in a trench for the protection of the camps of the dejected caravan and said, ‘O Husayn (رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ)! You have lit this fire before that of the Hereafter.’ Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ replied: كَذَبۡتَ يَا عَدُوَّ اللّٰه meaning ‘O enemy of Allah! You are a liar! Do you think, مَـعَـاذَ الـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, I will go to the Hell?’
A devotee of Imam Husayn, Sayyiduna Muslim Bin ‘Awsajah رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ asked permission from Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ to fire an arrow at the face of the foul-mouthed Yazeedi but Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ did not allow and said, ‘We should not initiate the attack.’ Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ then lifted his hands for prayer and supplicated, ‘O Rab-e-Qahhar (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)! Make this wicked suffer the punishment of worldly fire before the torment of the hellfire.’
The prayer was answered instantly; the hoof of the horse of the Yazeedi stepped inside a ditch, which jolted the horse. The blasphemous Yazeedi fell off the horse’s back and his foot entangled in the stirrup. The horse galloped whilst dragging the Yazeedi along and threw him inside the trench which was full of fire. The ill-fated Yazeedi burnt to death. Sayyiduna Imam