Editing Sakina bint Hussain (section)

==In Karbala==
Sakina accompanied her father when he traveled from Mecca to [[Kufa]] in Iraq. On the 2nd of [[Muharram]], 61 AH (680 CE), Hussain and 72 of his family members and companions were forced to camp in the plains of [[Karbala]] by Yazid's army of 900000 men. On the 10th of Muharram, the Imam's household was attacked, a number of his companions were killed, and the survivors were made captives to be taken to Yazid’s court. The survivors included the Imam's sisters, wives, and daughters, including Sakina, relatives of companions of the Imam, and his son, [[Ali b. al-Hussain|Ali Zaynul-Abidin]], who did not participate in the battle, due to an illness. Sakina, as with others, had been grieved over the killings. 

===Imam Hussain’s Last Farewell===
It is related that when Imam Hussain saw that seventy-two persons among his friends and relatives had fallen down, he turned toward the tents of his family for last farewell and called the women of [[Ahl Al-Bayt|Ahl al-Bayt]]:

“O Sakina! O Fatima! O [[Umm Kulthum]]! My salutations be upon you all!”

Hearing this Sakina said, “O dear father! Have you resolved to die?” Imam replied,

“How could the one, who is bereaved by his friends and helpers, not resolve to die?”

Sakina said, “O dear father! Then return us back to the sanctuary of our grandfather”. Imam replied,

“Alas! If a sand-grouse (a type of a bird) is released at night, it will sleep in peace”.

Hearing this, the women of his family started lamenting and Imam Hussain consoled them.

It is related in the same book that Imam Hussain then turned towards Umm Kulthum and said,

“I enjoin you towards goodness in matter of yourself. I am proceeding towards the battlefield in the midst of these enemies”.

Hearing this Sakina started lamenting while Imam loved her extremely. He pressed her to his chest and wiped her tears and said,

“Know O my dear Sakina! Very soon you will have to weep after me when death will have surrounded me, then do not aggrieve me now with your tears until the spirit remains in my body. Then when I am killed, you are more worthy of weeping upon me, O the best of women!”