SERMON OF BIBI ZAINAB-e-KUBRA
BINTE ALI(S.A) to YAZID(L.A)
In the name of Allah the, the
Beneficent, the Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the
Universe,
Allah's blessings be on His Messenger's Family
altogether.
Allah says: "Then the end of
those who do evil deeds is that they reject the
verses of Allah and ridicule them". (Quran 30:10)
Oh Yazid! Do you think that by
making us prisoners in such a way that we are being
taken from one place to another in humiliation - do
you think that by this you have humiliated us in the
sight of Allah and have earned respect for
yourself?!
This apparent success of yours
is the result of grandeur of your might and lofty
status for which you are proud…. You feel that you
have conquered the whole world and your affairs are
organised and that our domain is now under you
control… And are you forgetting that Allah has said:
"Surely those who have bought
unbelief at the price of faith shall do no harm at
all to Allah, and they shall have a painful
chastisement". (Quran 3:177)
Is it justice, O son of the
freed slaves!, that you provide your ladies and
slave-girls with hijab, whereas the daughters of the
Messenger of God are held prisoners? You have
insulted them by taking away the covers; you have
exposed their faces to the enemies -- from one city
to another. Everyone irrespective of his high or low
status stares at their faces. These ladies do not
have their gents or protectors with them.
But, of course, how can we
expect protection from him whose mouth spits out the
heart of the pious people, whose flesh has grown
from the blood of martyrs? And why should he not
hate us who is jealous of us and shamefully say: 'I
wish my ancestors had seen me today; they would
congratulate me and pray that my hand would never be
weak'. He is saying this while, he is hurting [with
his cane] the teeth of Husayn, the leader of the
Youths of Paradise.
Why should he not say these
things -- he who has cursed his feelings and sores
by spilling the blood of Muhammad's family, the
stars of the family of 'Abdul Muttalib.
You call your ancestors hoping
that they will answer you. You will be put together
with them and then you will regret and say had my
tongue become dumb so that I would not have said
what I said.
O Allah! Give us our right,
and avenge those who have oppressed us; and send
your anger upon those that spilled our blood and
killed our protectors
By Allah! O Yazid, by killing
'Husayn you have not torn but your own skin and you
have not cut but your own flesh. You will be brought
to the Prophet with the crimes of spilling the blood
of his children and humiliating his family.
"The oppressors will
know when the time changes [against them].”
