A Christian monk saw the refulgent head from his church and asked about the matter. When he was told about, he said, ‘You are bad people. Will you be happy with 10 thousand Ashrafis (gold coins) for leaving this head with me for one night?’ The greedy men accepted the offer. The monk washed the blessed head, perfumed it, placed it upon his thigh and kept closely observing it throughout the night. He noticed a beam of light emerging from the blessed head. The monk spent the night crying and the following morning, he embraced Islam. He abandoned the church and its provisions, and spent his rest of the life serving the Ahl-e-Bayt رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُم.
(As-Sawa’iq-ul-Muharriqah, pp. 199)
Dawlat-e-deedar paayi pak jaanay baych ker
Karbala mayn khoob hi chamki dukan-e-Ahl-e-Bayt
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
When the Yazeedi people opened the bags of dirham and dinar which they had plundered from the tents of Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ and the ones the Christian monk paid to them, they found that all of them had turned into broken pieces of pottery. On one of their sides, the 42nd verse of Surah Al-Ibraheem, part 13 was found written: