The Captivity Journey

Indications in the Stances of the Ahlu El-Bayt R

1 - The supreme courage that is enjoyed by Ahlu El-Bayt (R) in many of the responses that were shown in their speeches. Amongst them is what Sayyeda Zeinab (O) had said: "Indeed, only a dissolute can be exposed, and only an extravagant shall be proved wrong…" "I only saw good doing!", and in the saying of Sayyeda Um Kalthoum: "O Bin Ziad, do prepare an answer for his Grandfather, as he is your opponent tomorrow!"

2 - The strong believe in Allah The Only and the loving of The Almighty are shown in the stance of our lady Sayyeda Zeinab (O) and her answer to Bin Ziad: "I only saw what is good!", and she did not say I only saw good doing in Karbala, but declared the absolute viewing of goodness! That means since she began to see, she only saw good doings from Allah, in Karbala, before it and after it. And in this is the ultimate acceptance of God’s destiny, the ultimate thanking for Him, and a way to view the results of the situations without getting confused with the current details.

As for her redemption and sacrifice O they were embodied by her continuous willingness to die in the many situations where she was defending Hujjatu Allah,5 Imam Zein El-Abedeen (Q).

3- To clearly show that the immolation of God and the one being murdered in Karbala is the heart of the Messenger of Allah (P), so his murderer is the killer of the Messenger of Allah (P) and the latter will be his opponent on the Day of Resurrection.

4- Denying the fatalism logic that the Umayyad propagated, while Bin Ziad had insisted on inculcating it in the people’s minds in his parlor. This is shown in his saying to Sayyeda Zeinab O: "How did you see what God had done to your family?" and his saying to Imam Zein El-Abedeen Q: "Didn’t God kill Ali Bin Hussain?!" And what we mean by the fatalism logic is that the Umayyad wanted to delude the people into believing that everything that was happening, all the incidents, events, oppression and killing were due to the Willing of Allah and to the fulfilling of His orders and no one has the right to object His Will. And to face this logic, Ahlu El-Bayt (R) were determined to popularize another doctrine, which states that everything that is happening by the hands of the oppressing tyrants from killing, oppression, injustice, and corruption do not represent the Will of Allah, because Allah the Almighty, as He had stated in His Wise Book, does not want oppression, corruption, or injustice. Allah the Almighty had asked his good believers to order the good doing, forbid the wrong doing and restraint the oppressors from committing injustice.

Thus Sayyeda Zeinab (O) had replied to Bin Ziad’s claim that everything that happened to her family was of Allah’s (SW) doing by saying: "These are people that God had destined them to be killed" which means they were obeying the legitimate rule of Allah to rise against the Umayyad ruling, and if this uprising had lead to their martyrdom, they would have went to their resting places in compliance to the legitimate ruling.

Oppression and rejoice have always been signs of tyrants, and this was clearly shown in Bin Ziad’s parlor when he said, while deploring Imam Zein El-Abedeen’s courage and bravery in answering back to him: "And you dare

to talk back to me?"… "God had pleased my soul with what he had done to your tyrant and the rebellions of your family!!"