From Hell to Eternity of Aashoora - Part 4

As Horr got closer to Imam Hossain’s (PBUH) camp, he turned his shield upside down; the Imam’s companions realized that Horr had chosen the freedom of being his Compassionate Creator’s slave rather than the slavery of being free to sin; they realized that he was guided to the Eternal bliss and saved from the everlasting Fire. Yes, Horr had become a servant of his Benevolent Lord, rather than a servant of selfish lords; such a magnificent moment, it was… .

Horr -while on his horse- humbly and politely stopped in front of Hossain (PBUH); he said Salam and addressed Hossain as the son of the Prophet and told him that he hoped that Allah would grant him the honour of offering his life in the cause of Hossain. Then Horr continued: I am the sinner who caused this; I swear to Allah, I did not think that they would really do this to you, I thought that it was just an argument and it would soon be over; if I knew that these people were as they are, I would have never done what I have done; now, I am so sorry, I am here to repent and I wish to offer my soul,will you accept my repentance? Hossain (PBUH) responded kindly: yes, Allah accepts your repentance and forgives your sins, come down and worry no more. But Horr asked permission to remain on his horse and to perform his duty. Imam told him to do as he wished.

Riding on his horse, Horr -who was well known and highly respected by the people of Kufah- went in front of those people from his city, from Kufah; he tried his best to reason with them and told them that Hossain was the son of their Prophet, the one whom the Prophet had said so many times that Hossain was from him and he from Hossain; but they did not listen, so he told them that he wished them death, he reminded them that they had invited the son of the Prophet and he had accepted their invitation and he came to them for their salvation, he reminded them that they had promised to support and defend him but now they wanted to kill him; he asked them why they cut off the water from him and his progeny, from the women and the children,the water which the non-Muslims were using and so were the animals! Then he said: Woe unto you! Surely, you have done so bad with Mohammad’s progeny; if you do not repent, if you do not return, may Allah quench your thirst not, on the Judgement Day…

Those dark-hearted humanoids started to attack Horr; so Horr -who had not yet asked permission to fight- returned to Hossain, asked permission and then started to fight. Horr fought whole-heartedly, because he was fighting in the cause of Allah and against the enemies of Allah.

O’ my Lord! I am only Your humble earth, but I have seen so much; I have observed that some humans -as soon as gaining some transient power- act as if, I and everything in and on me, belong to them; then they forget You and oppress Your people to gain more transient power; I am astonished, some people are so self-centered and blind-hearted, do they not know that this whole life is transient?! Have they not placed their fathers inside me and learned from it?! Have they not realized that some day they must come inside me,

too?!

Horr sometimes fought on his horse and other times on his feet; his shield blocked their arrows and his sword, their swords; Zohair -another well known companion of Hossain- came to help Horr; the two fought like two brothers for the same holy cause. It was as if Horr was washing his sins off with his blood; finally, Horr fell on me and I felt his warm blood and I took that blood and I shall keep it until Eternity; a group of the enemies, surrounded Horr and…

Yes, Horr fought honorably, until he was martyred in the cause of Allah, in the cause of the immaculate representative of Allah, in the cause of true humanity and Eternity, in the cause of real beauty and purity…

Hossain (PBUH) came next to the body of Horr and said: You were a free man, just like your mother named you Horr and now you shall have a blissful life, Hereafter. [In Arabic, Horr means Free man.]

On that day, the Aashoora, I -the dusty earth- had to take in the blood of the purest free men ever lived; I knew that they were celestial and did not belong to me; I knew not, how to feel…

And when I witnessed Hossain -the manifestation of Qur’an, the living Qur’an- being attacked as inhumanely as he was, I could not believe that those people considered themselves, the followers of Qur’an, who were they fooling?!!!

And when Hossain fell on me, wounded all over, and when his heavenly blood touched me, and when so many of them unfairly attacked him, and when his holy head…

Ah! Only if Allah would have granted me the permission, only if Ali son of Hossain and Zaynab daughter of Amir-Ol-Mo’menin and Fatima (PBUT) and… were not standing on my shoulders, I knew what to do, but…

To be continued…