Had Imam Husayn (as) not left Makkah...Might have been Saved!

Objection Four: Had Imam Husayn (as) not left Makkah his blood might have been saved as opponents would have taken the honor of Kabah into account

Reply One:

First of all this assumption is incorrect as it was certain at that time that people were not going to spare Imam Husayn (as) at any cost even Imam Husayn (as) himself was aware of this fact therefore He said:

“By Allah ! Even if I go inside the holes of insects, these people will bring me out of that and will slay me”

1. Tareekh Tabari, Volume 6 page 27

2. Tareekh Kamil, Volume 4 page 16

As for the assumption that the opponents would have spared Imam Husayn (as) by taking the honor of Kabah in concerned, we would like to present the historical fact that Yazeed’s army didn’t spare the blood of Abdullah Ibn Zubair and murdered him inside the Kabah without keeping in mind any importance of that esteemed place.

Reply Two: Yazeed sent Assassins to Kill Imam Husayn within in Makka

We read in Tareekh e Kamil Volume 4 page 63:

“Ibn Abbas replied a letter of Yazeed saying ‘I can never forget the fact that you forced the grandson of the Prophet (s) to leave Madeena and seek refuge in Makka, you sent soldiers on horses in his direction to disturb him, so you forced him to make his way towards Iraq, he left Makka through fear”.