Sakina, the 5-year old daughter of Imam Hussain, was imprisoned along with other family members of the Prophet Muhammad after the massacre at Karbala. In prison, Sakina and the others were denied adequate food and water and suffered greatly from the harsh conditions. Sakina missed her father dearly and recounted through tears the torture she and her family endured, including beatings, mockery by their captors, and being forced on a long journey after losing her father and brothers at Karbala. Sakina ultimately passed away in the prison on a cold night while clutching her father's severed head.

1. A LITTLE GIRL OF FIVE
HARDLY ABLE TO SURVIVE
FRAIL AND WEAKENED BY
LACK OF FOOD AND
WATER DENIED TO HER
BECAUSE SHE WAS THE
DAUGHTER OF HUSSAYN
(AS) THE SON OF ALI AND
THE GRANDSON OF
PROPHET MUHAMMAD

2. THE PRISON IN SHAAM

(DAMASCUS)
THIS IS WHERE THE MEMBERS

OF HUSSAYN’S FAMILY WERE
IMPRISONED AFTER THE
MASSACRE OF KARBALA
WOMEN, CHILDREN AND THE

ONLY SURVIVING SON –ZAYNUL
ABEDIN

3. THE PRISON GAVE NO SHELTER
FROM THE HOT DESERT HEAT
NOR THE CRIPPLING COLD
NIGHTS AS THERE WAS NO
ROOF
IN THIS TERRIBLE CONDITION THE
HOLY FAMILY TOOK OUT ONE
WHOLE YEAR OF TORTURE AND
TRIBULATION
SHACKLED AND TIED WITH VERY
LITTLE FOOD AND WATER

4. THE LITTLE GIRL , SAKINA WAS

HER NAME, WAS THE BELOVED
DAUGHTER OF HUSSAIN (AS)
SHE MISSED HER FATHER SO

MUCH
MISSED HIS WARM AND TENDER

CARE
SHE MISSED SLEEPING ON HIS

CHEST WHICH HAD BECOME HER
FAVORITE HABIT

6.  ASSHE SAT ON THE HOT
PRISON FLOOR ,
 TEARS ROLLED DOWN
SAKINA’S EYES AND
SUNKEN CHEEKS AS SHE
REMEMBERED HER DEAR
FATHER AND SHE
WHISPERED…….

7. “O’DEAR FATHER I MISS YOU

SO MUCH
 I MISS YOUR LOVE,FATHER
 I MISS LOOKING AT YOUR
RADIANT AND KIND FACE
 O’FATHER THERE ARE EVIL
MEN ALL AROUND US
 MOCKING AND BEATING US”

8. “THEY SAY THEY ARE MUSLIMS

AND THEY PRAY 5 TIMES A DAY
BUT THEY TORTURE THE FAMILY

OF MY DEAR GREAT
GRANDFATHER MUHAMMAD (AS)
THE PROPHET OF ALLAH
HAVE THEY NO SHAME?

HAVE THEY NO PITY?”


9. “O’FATHER AFTER YOU WERE

SO CRUELLY TAKEN FROM US
THE ARMY CAME AND PUT OUR

TENTS ON FIRE
ONE MAN CAME AND SLAPPED

ME AND PULLED OFF MY
EARRINGS WHICH YOU HAD
BOUGHT FOR ME
MY EARS ARE TORN AND

BLEADING O’FATHER”

11. “YOU WERE NOT THERE TO

PROTECT US NOR WAS MY
BELOVED UNCLE ABBAS-
WHO WENT TO BRING US
SOME WATER BUT NEVER
CAME BACK
 BROTHER ALI AKBAR TOO,
WAS NOT THERE, NEITHER
WAS MY YOUNG BROTHER
ALI ASGHAR ALL KILLED BY
THESE EVIL MEN”

12.  “O’
FATHER, SHIMR WAS
ONE OF THE EVIL MEN
WHO PROMISED ME SOME
WATER. HE TOLD ME TO
FOLLOW HIM AND HE WILL
GIVE ME SOME WATER TO
QUENCH MY THIRST”

13. FOLLOWED HIM AS HE DRANK
“I

THE WATER AND LAUGHED
HE THEN GAVE THE WATER TO

HIS HORSES
HE TURNED TO ME AND THREW

AWAY THE REMAINING WATER
WITH A CRUEL LAUGH HE TOLD

ME THERE WAS NO WATER FOR
ME”

14. BECAUSE
“JUST
 I WAS YOUR
BELOVED
DAUGHTER! ”

15. “ALL THROUGH THE JOURNEY

THEY TIED ME ON A CAMEL
WITHOUT ANY SADDLE
THE PAIN WAS TOO MUCH TO

BEAR AND I CRIED WITH PAIN
BUT NO ONE CAME TO MY AID”

16.  “BROTHER ZAIN UL
ABEDIN’S HANDS LEGS
AND NECK WERE CHAINED
WHILE MOTHER , AUNT
ZAINAB AND THE OTHER
LADIES WERE WHIPPED
AND BEATEN”

18.  “O’FATHER WE WERE
MADE TO TRAVEL FOR 16
DAYS FROM MORNING TO
NIGHT IN THE HOT SUN
AND COLD NIGHT
 TO YAZEED’S PALACE IN
SHAAM”

20.  ON THE WAY WE WERE
BEATEN AND MOCKED AT
BY SHIMR AND HIS
SOLDIERS AND THE
PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS
STONED US.
 DID THEY NOT KNOW WHO
WE ARE?

21. ONCE I FELL FROM THE CAMEL, I

WAS TOO WEAK TO CALL OUT
AND THE CARAVAN DID NOT
STOP
A KIND LADY CAME FROM

NOWHERE AND TOOK ME IN HER
ARMS AND TOOK CARE OF ME
UNTIL AUNT ZAINAB CAME BACK
FOR ME.
SHE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER

FATIMA ZAHRA (AS)

22. “FATHER MY BODY HURTS AND MY

HEART IS BROKEN I DON’T KNOW
HOW LONG I WILL BE ABLE TO GO
ON !!
EVERY DAY IN THE EVENING I SEE

THE BIRDS FLYING TO THEIR
HOMES AND WONDER WHEN WILL
I BE ABLE TO GO HOME JUST LIKE
THEM?”

24. “BUT THEN I WONDER WHERE

IS HOME
 FOR THERE IS NO HOME
WITHOUT YOU MY DEAR
FATHER”

26. “O’FATHER I PRAY TO ALLAH

TO LET ME COME TO YOU
AND MY UNCLE ABBAS AND
MY DEAR BROTHERS
 SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE
AWAY THE ACHING PAIN AND
QUENCH MY THIRST
 AND I CAN FOREVER SLEEP
ON YOUR CHEST”

27. ON THE 10TH OF THE MONTH OF

SAFAR, SAKINA PASSED AWAY IN
THIS SAME PRISON.
SHE DIED AT NIGHT ON A COLD

HARD FLOOR WHILE CRYING
AND CLUTCHING THE SEVERED
HEAD OF HER DEAR FATHER –
IMAM HUSSAIN (as)