Everyone will always love you and your love for your brother … our lord … Hadrat ‘Abbas …

Everyone will always love you and your love for your brother … our lord … Hadrat ‘Abbas …

 

Hazrat ‘Abbaas  (SBUH) loved Imam Hosain (SBUH) so much that he used to apply to his eyes, the dust from Imam Hussain's feet …

 

He never wanted anyone taking precedence in serving Imam Husain. It is said that once Imam Hussain, while present with his holy father Hazrat Ali (SBUT) in the mosque of Kufa, felt thirsty and asked for water from his servant. The child Abbas leapt to his feet, and brushing aside the faithful servant, rushed to bring the water for his lord himself …

 

In the hurry to carry the water as quickly as possible, he spilt it on his own clothes …

 

His holy father stopped in his speech and tears rolled down his cheeks …

 

When asked by his faithful followers the reason for his tears, Hazrat ‘Ali (SBUH) uttered those prophetic words which came true some twenty years later:

 

"Abbas who has today wetted his clothes with water in his zeal to quench the thirst of his brother Hussain, will one day soak his very body in his own blood in attempting to quench the thirst of Imam Hussain's children".

 

AAAAAHHHHH!

 

… The flow of the Euphrates became dark as winter and a murmur arose from the flowing waters as if to protest against the killing of a thirsty water-bearer on its banks … the beloved "Moon of the Hashimites."

 

May Allah hasten the ever-Promised Appearance of his beloved nephew …

 

AAMEEN …

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