"Indeed, Indeed," Waleed immediately agreed.

"So let us wait and deal with this at dawn, Said Imam Husayn.

"Agreed! At dawn then, when the people gather, and the light "makes It plain." "By God," Marwan rudely interrupted.

"if you let Al Husayn leave, our advantage will be seriously disrupted.

"The power we have over him will be lost "

And we will have to pay a heavy cost.

"And the cost will be dead men piled up between him and you.

"So do what I told you to do."

"Until Husayn pledges allegiance to Yazeed, imprison him or execute him but don't let him leave."

"Can't you see the web that he's trying to weave?

" Husayn Jumped up in anger, and loudly said,

"Oh son of a strange woman, which of you will have me dead?

Husayn's heroic brother barged in

And stood next to his beloved kin.

"You are a liar and a disgrace,

" And with that, Husayn left in a rage, and indignant haste.

It was the last Friday night of Rajab, in the year 680,

When this incident happened that was so crucial and weighty.

The stage had been set 20 years back

When another treacherous act

Was committed by a self righteous ignorant, band,

Who thought they were the best Muslims in the land.

On the I 9th of Ramadan in the 40th year after The Immigration,

A misguided fool assassinated the best Muslim in the Nation.

The Kharijites, a self proclaimed group of holy men,

Who believed they were guided above the Prophet's own kin,

Murdered Imam Husayn's father, Imam Ali, The Door To Knowledge City,