The Story of the Last Day
By the writer and thinkerDr. Djadouni Hakima NinarEskila
From the novel The Prophet of Darkness
In his time, the Prophet Abraham brought forth the Sword of Victory from Bakkah. Its presence where the idol of Satan stood posed a grave danger, for the Accursed would do anything to seize it. When Muhammad was sent as a Messenger, the damned one still awaited the arrival of the Sword of Victory in order to possess it.
The sword: its hilt shone like the full moon, its sharp edge gleamed like the morning sun, and within its core flowed a current of light.
It is no wonder that the king Satan and his followers hate the Prophet Ishmael, Muhammad the Messenger, the reigning King, and the Awaited Man; these are their enemies.
The sword descended on the blessed Day of Sacrifice. Abraham received it, then carried it from Bakkah to a city known as the Gate of the Gods in Iraq, where it remained buried in its land until Muhammad the Messenger was born. He then retrieved it and entrusted it to the Companion Ali, a believing man among his people.
When the time came for the conquest of Mecca, Muhammad the Messenger saw a vision calling him to use the sword that the angel Gabriel had guided him to during the Night Journey from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque. He recovered the sword from its resting place, entered Mecca victorious, then returned it outside the city.
Satan despaired of halting the spread of Muhammad’s message after suffering a crushing defeat before him. He redirected the arrows of his hatred and malice toward his grandson, the Awaited Imam, about whom reports spread that he would wield the sacred Sword of Victory and slay the Accursed with his own hand.
He was Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, son of Fatima, daughter of the Messenger of God ﷺ. He was born surrounded by abundant light, and Muhammad the Prophet drew him close with a special intimacy, as though anticipating a tremendous destiny.
Satan conjectured that the Awaited Imam was Husayn himself, based on what was reported from the Messenger of God ﷺ:
“If there remained of the world but a single day, God would prolong that day until He sends a man from me or from my household, whose name matches mine and whose father’s name matches my father’s, to fill the earth with justice and equity as it had been filled with injustice and oppression.”
The young Husayn devoted himself to prayer in the Mosque of the Messenger of God, studied under his guidance, and regularly attended his gatherings. He was keen-sighted, sharp-minded, pure in intellect, eloquent in speech, and deeply devoted to listening to his grandfather’s words.
Until the day Muhammad called him while he was secluded in prayer, prostrating and supplicating his Lord. Gabriel descended with revelation and said to Muhammad the Messenger:
“Gabriel came to me while Husayn was sitting upon my chest and asked: Do you love him? I replied: Yes. He said: Your community will kill him. Shall I show you the soil upon which he will be slain?”
I said: Yes. He struck with his wing and brought me red soil, weeping and saying: “Alas, who will kill you after me?”
Husayn inherited from his grandfather a perfect likeness, fidelity to the trust, noble character, modesty, courage, forbearance, and vast knowledge, to the extent that he saw with his own eyes what only Muhammad saw. Though his father was Ali — may God honor his face — Husayn possessed a rank, a spiritual authority, and graces that distinguished him.
Husayn informed his grandfather of the extraordinary phenomena he experienced, and he instructed him to keep them concealed. When Husayn asked about the reason for this divine distinction, Muhammad the Prophet whispered a secret to him that bound him forever to silence.
Husayn grew, excelled in battle, yet his nature was governed by love, peace, and renunciation of worldly life. Upon reaching manhood, he preserved Muhammad’s secret within his heart, knowing that revealing it would serve his enemies. He became forgiving, gentle-spirited, and magnanimous toward those who harmed him, as though he had already beheld his destined end.
From that moment on, Satan and his hosts devoted themselves to watching him, lying in wait and plotting against him, especially after that secret which God had concealed from them.
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, Husayn set out seeking leadership in response to letters sent from the land of Iraq, promising that an army would await him. What is commonly circulated is that soldiers under the command of Caliph Yazid ibn Mu‘awiya killed Husayn and his family. Yet what was said is one thing, and what occurred that night is another.
What eyes did not see was that Satan possessed the body of Caliph Yazid ibn Mu‘awiya, and that his followers inhabited the bodies of the army that went out to meet Husayn. By the command of the king Satan, the head of Imam Husayn was severed and brought before the caliph.
Satan laughed, took his staff, and struck the Imam’s head, saying: Speak and tell me the secret you concealed, the one your grandfather revealed to you. The Master of Martyrs did not respond to the first blow to his head, so he struck him again upon the mouth.
The Accursed unleashed his fury upon the Imam’s body. When he persisted in silence, he gouged out his eye with his staff, claiming that the Imam’s eyes were staring at him. Yet the head moved, smiling, without uttering a word.
Satan continued to torture him and withheld the body from burial for several days, without obtaining what he sought. His weakness was laid bare as he battled a head without a body, and his hosts were even more helpless before a man without a body. When he realized the head would not reveal the secret, he ordered it to be crucified for several days.
At last, the tongue spoke, addressing Satan and warning him not to rejoice, for the encounter would come, and he must await it.
Satan trembled in terror: how could a martyr whose head had been severed speak and return to confront him?
What, then, was the secret that Husayn — may God be pleased with him — concealed, even after his martyrdom, leaving Iblis struggling in vain to know it?
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