martyred. The respected Ahl-e-Bayt رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُمـ  were imprisoned. The blessed head was carried through different cities and towns. It is certainly strange that the Ashaab-e-Kahf spoke out after a very deep sleep of several years, however, it is much stranger for the blessed head to speak out after being struck off the blessed body.’ (Sawanih Karbala, pp. 118)

Couplet written with blood

The army of Yazeed was proceeding carrying the blessed heads of the martyrs of Karbala along with them. They stayed at    one place. Sayyiduna Shah ‘Abdul ‘Azeez Muhaddis Dihlvi    عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی has reported: ‘They began drinking the date extract.’ According to another report, ‘وَهُمۡ يَشۡرَبُوۡنَ الۡخَمۡرَ i.e. they commenced drinking wine.’ Meanwhile, an Iron Pen appeared and it wrote the following couplet with blood:

اَتَرۡجُوۡ اُمَّةٌ قَتَلَتۡ حُسَيۡنًا      شَفَاعَةَ جَدِّه يَوۡمَ الۡحِسَابِ

(Do the murderers of Husayn still hope to avail the intercession of his Noble Grandfather on the Day of Judgment?)

It is stated in some other narrations that above couplet was found inscribed on a stone 300 years before the advent of the Most Noble Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. (As-Sawa’iq-ul-Muharriqah, pp. 194)