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ZAINEB AT KUFA
     When the daughters of the Commander of the Faithful (A.S) entered Kufa, the city's residents gathered to see them, so Umm Kulthum shouted at them, "O people of Kufa! Do not you have any sense of shame before Allah and His Messenger so you look at the ladies of the Prophet?"
     On of Kufa's women came to them and saw their condition for which even a most bitter enemy would feel sorry. She asked them what captives they were, and she was told: "We are captives belonging to the Progeny of Mohammed." The people of Kufa kept doling out dates, walnuts and bread to the children, whereupon Umm Kulthum, that is,  Zainab al-Kubra, shouted at them that they were prohibited from accepting charity. She threw away what had been given to the children. A poet once composed these lines addressing Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (A.S).
O father of Hassan!
She overlooks and in the slumber she delights,
But only with her hand can Zainab now cover her face.
O father of Hassan!
Does this sight you please:
Each of your women chained, uncovered the face,
While Banu Harb's women in their chambers veiled with grace?
Does your side on the bed find comfort and ease,
While your daughters on the camels to Syria are brought?
Are you pleased when your wise ladies are exposed?
With lashes they are whipped when they cry, having no rest..
To the east they are once taken by the mean gangs, the worst,
And once towards the land of shame are taken, to the west.
None to protect them as they cross every plain,
None to heeds their complaints when they complain.
Their voices where lost and their hearts squeezed,
Their breath by grief is almost snatched away
Amazed am I about one who thinks of fate
And wonders and upon it does he contemplate:
A fornicator leisurely turns about on his throne.
As al-Hussain on the ground is left, un buried, alone,
And his head is on a lance openly carried,
And with the crown is crowned the son of a whore.
For three days did Hussain stay unburied or more
One's body is to cruel elements is left exposed
As the other covers his with silk and with gold.