Editing Nafi b. Hilal b. Jamil (section)

==Renewing allegiance with Imam Hussain  ==
On the second day of [[Muharram]], Imam Hussain arrived in [[Karbala]]. He called all his households, friends and companions to gather around him. He first looked at his households, cried and said:

"O' God! We are the [[Ahl Al-Bayt|Ahl al-Bayt]], households, of the [[Prophet]] and ; we have been ousted [from our city]; we have been forced to leave the sanctuary of our grandfather, the Prophet, and we have been disrespected by [[Umayyad|Banu Umayya]]. O' God! Give our rights and possessions back to us, and assist us against injustice!"

After his remarks, the companions of Imam Hussain  rose one by one, declared their support of Imam, and renewed their pledge of allegiance with him. After [[Zuhayr b. al-Qayn|Zuhayr b. Qayn]], Nafi' told Imam: 

"You know that your grandfather, the Prophet, could not get all the people to love him or have them all under his command. Some of his companions were hypocrites; they promised to help the Prophet, whereas they betrayed him in the back; they were very sweet to him when they met him, but they were very bitter in his back, until he passed away. The same was the case with your father, Ali. Some people gathered around him to offer him help; Nakithun, Qasitun and Mariqun waged wars against him and opposed him, until he died. Now the same is true about you. People who broke their promises and violated their pledges for allegiance have just harmed themselves, and indeed God does not need them. So you can take us wherever you wish; to the East of the world or to its West. We swear to God that we are not afraid of the fate God has determined for us; we are not afraid of meeting our Lord. We act upon our insights. We love whoever loves you and we hate whoever fights with you."<ref>Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, ''Kitāb al-Futūḥ'', vol. 5, p. 83; Sayyid b. Ṭāwūs, ''al-Malhūf ʿalā qatlā al-ṭufūf'', p. 138.</ref>