Egyptian Chronicles: The legend of the Boy's mother

This is for Ashurah.

Already this is a very religious day for Muslims in general and Shiite Muslims especially as their mourning bloody celebrations steal the attention of the whole world.

This year I decided to share with you one of the legends ,the Egyptian native legends concerning the hero of the Ashurah day or the Karbala battle , El-Hussein, the Grand son of Prophet Mohammed "PBUH" . Egyptians are fond of the Prophet's family and consider that Egypt was honoured,blessed and protected by their existence in their land and surely it was and is . Already our affection to the members of the prophetic house made us the Shiite of Sunni especially with our great affection about Lady Zeinab and her brother Emam El-Hussein.

Emam El-Hussein's was killed in the battle of Karbala , he was beheaded in one of the most horrible crimes of the Islamic history that inspired poets ,novelists,authors and even rebels till now , the master of Martyrs in heavens if we speak from the religious point of view, the master of rebels if we speak from the political and social point of view.

Our legend will start with praises on Prophet Mohammed "PBUH" just like the old story tellers used to say before starting their stories in Cairo.

it started at the bloody end of Karballa battle when the head of El-Hussein's head was cut off of his body ,before the soldiers of Yazad I would go and grab it , the head suddenly flow away , crossing countries and seas to land in the lap of an Egyptian woman a peasant who knew whose head was it and decided to protect it in all possible and impossible ways especially she knew that the soldiers of Yazad through the spies knew where it had landed and it would be only matter of days and they would come to claim the head.

And they did come and she gave them a head ....but not the head they wanted ,it was another head .. The head of her own son the boy , she scarified her own son in order to save the head of Emam El-Hussein which she buried in front of her house and thus years later a great mosque and shrine were built upon and the area in front of the El-Hussein Mosque became known as "The Boy's mother" area

Already just for your information for real one of areas beside the El-Hussein Mosque is called "The Boy's mother"

Also The head of Emam "El-Hussein" is buried in the shrine in the famous mosque and it is actually there despite the claims recently that say otherwise , already the Head came to Egypt from Ashkelon and was received in a very big reception by the Egyptian people and that was chronicled by many historians like Al-Maqrizi.

Another much vital important evidence that there is a head actually buried in the Shrine is that in 1920s a similar debate was raised and added to it there were restoration works in the huge mosque , a famous Egyptian archeologist whom I can't remember his name opened the shrine and tomb and found the head wrapped in Green cloth "A sign of holiness" , he opened the cloth and saw the skull by his own eyes. It can't be any other proof so please stop saying that the head is not buried in Egypt or it returned to Iraq because sometimes I feel that these claims want to strip Egypt from every thing Muslim. And unfortunately these claims are supported by many people whether from outside Egypt or inside Egypt from seculars,communists and above them the new wave of Wahabis.

I do not deny that there are false Islamic shrines in Egypt but also the whole Sham area of Syria ,Lebanon and Palestine is full of false shrines too. And I do not deny that there are wrong practices that should be stopped regarding how people see these shrines but please leave them alone do not try to erase every thing beautiful in this country and every thing makes it special