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: Does not my being here mean that I am with them now? I swear to God that I never wrote a letter to [[Husayn b. 'Ali (a)]] and never sent a messenger to him and never promised to help him, but our paths met and when I met him and remembered [[the Prophet (s)]] and Husayn's (a) place for him and learned that he was going to his enemy and your party, then I decided to help him and be in his group and sacrifice my life for the right of God and the Prophet (s) ignored by you. | : Does not my being here mean that I am with them now? I swear to God that I never wrote a letter to [[Husayn b. 'Ali (a)]] and never sent a messenger to him and never promised to help him, but our paths met and when I met him and remembered [[the Prophet (s)]] and Husayn's (a) place for him and learned that he was going to his enemy and your party, then I decided to help him and be in his group and sacrifice my life for the right of God and the Prophet (s) ignored by you. | ||
== | ==The night before Ashura== | ||
The night before Ashura, when Imam Husayn (a) withdrew the allegiance of his companions and household and gave them the permission to run away and save their lives, every one of his companions declared their allegiance and faithfulness to him. After members of Imam Husayn (a) | [[The night before Ashura]], when Imam al-Husayn (a) withdrew the allegiance of his companions and household and gave them the permission to run away and save their lives, every one of his companions declared their allegiance and faithfulness to him. After members of Imam al-Husayn's (a) household expressed their allegiances, [[Muslim b. 'Awsaja al-Asadi]] declared his faithfulness. Then Zuhayr b. Qayn stood up and said: | ||
:"I swear to God that I want to be killed, then be alive again, and then be killed again for a thousand times so that God protects you and your household from being killed". | |||
==Commandership of the Right Front of Imam Husayn (a)'s army on the day of Ashura== | ==Commandership of the Right Front of Imam Husayn (a)'s army on the day of Ashura== | ||