The Captivity Journey

The Speech of Amro Bin Saeid Bin Al-Ass

Amro Bin Saeid climbed up the rostrum, so he spoke to the people and then mentioned Imam Hussain and what happened to him and said: "it was a strike after a strike, a shock after a shock, and an advice after the other "Perfect wisdom (the Quran), but (the preaching) of warnings benefit them not"27 , By Allah, I would have loved for Hussain’s head to be with his body and for his soul and body to be alive and he would insult us and we would praise him, he would cut us off and we would stay in touch with him as it was our habit and that was his habit, rather than seeing this happens to him. But what should we do to who had drawn his sword wanting to kill us? We had no choice but to defend ourselves".

So Abdu Allah Bin Al-Saeb stood up and said to him: "If Fatima was alive and had seen the head of Hussain, she would have cried for him". So Amro Bin Saeid answered him and said: "We are more close to Fatima than you! Her father and her husband were like our brothers, and her son was like our son, indeed if Fatima was alive, her eyes would have cried and her heart would have felt sad, but she would not have blamed who had killed him while defending himself".

A person who thinks about this speech while being aware of its conditions would not find it strange, as he would know that it was delivered on unstable conditions after the arrival of the news to Medina and the arrival of the holy head to it. That is why we see this spiteful person who used to hate the Prince of Believers, Ali (Q), the most, is now backing down in his speech and showing himself in the place of a touched defender.