which meant that for 3 days, the evil army could do whatever they liked with the lives and the properties of the people of Madinah Munawwarah. Thus, in those 3 days, he martyred more than 10 thousand people, kept the boys captives and such barbaric cruelties which are indescribable, his evil army tied horses to the pillars of Masjid-un-Nabawi. Only Sayyiduna Sa’eed Bin Musayyab رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ remained in Masjid-un-Nabawi under the pretext of being insane. Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah Bin Hanzalah رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُمَا said: We feared that due to his evil practices, we might be bombarded with stones from the skies as a result of the Wrath of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. (As-Sawa’iq-ul-Muharriqah, pp.221)

Thereafter, this evil army left for Makka-tul-Mukarramah, the chief of this evil army died on the way with another person filling his position. Yazeed’s evil army attacked Makkah Mukarramah, catapulting the Sacred Ka’bah with stones and cloth soaked in kerosene oil and other inflammable ammunition resulting in the Sacred Ka’bah being burnt, its pillars collapsed and the roof was demolished where the horns of the ram were secured as a sacred relic which was sacrificed in exchange of Sayyiduna Isma’eel عَـلَيْـهِ الـصَّلٰوة ُ وَالـسَّلَام; those blessed horns were also burnt. The Holy Ka’bah was left uncovered for many days and the natives of Makkah Mukarramah suffered the severe tribulation inflicted upon them by Yazeed’s evil army. (Khulasah Sawanih Karbala, pp. 177 to 179)

Sermon of Imam Husayn in Karbala

Dear Islamic brothers! Blood and brutality were the common features until the filthy Yazeed remained alive, his entire life is an awful story of ruthlessness, he has the blood of the martyrs of Karbala and the people of Makkah and Madinah on his hands. His intolerance and his insane lust of power made him commit the most evil acts. He was supposed to endorse the majesty and eminence of Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ and serve him, by keeping in view the blessed sayings of the Noblest Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, and attain Jannah. However Satan was riding on him and he wore the iron collar of slavery fulfilling his ulterior motives, he mercilessly destroyed the caravan of the innocent Ahl-e-Bayt, just this imagination makes one’s hair stand on end and makes one’s moisten.