Why did Husayn go to Kufa when he was warned not to?

And he does. He goes to Kufa and he's got it on lock. Now, in Kufa you have now we've fast forward we've come back to that point. You have a bunch of people, so many in their thousands, who are writing to Arabia. They're writing to Hussein. They are from the Shia to Ali. Uh they are from the Shia political Shia. They are telling Hussein, "Come here. We will give you our allegiance.

We're going to make you in charge. We want you. Not we're going to make you, but we want you." And people are disappointed with Yazid, understandably so. Yazid And look, I Yazid by I mean, I I don't I don't believe he was a kafir. Okay, so there's certain things that people say about him being a kafir. I don't believe I don't agree with that, but I do accept that most people would have clearly seen him at the very least as a disappointment, if not just as somebody who's doing damage and done grave damage to Muslims and Islam.

Because he attacked Medina. He attacked the city of the prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So, I mean, this guy, you know, he has no bounds. He's so Now, what's happening is in in the Hijaz, in Mecca, you've got certain people who are prepared to set up resistance. And amongst them you have these four.

The son of Abu Bakr Abdur Rahman has passed away, natural death. So, you have Abdullah ibn Umar, Abdullah ibn Abbas, and then the latter two, Abdullah ibn Zubayr and Hussein. Now, the former two, Abdullah ibn Abbas and Abdullah ibn Umar, they decide to to just give their allegiance to Yazid. They say, "You know, this isn't what we don't like him, but this is just going to lead to bloodshed.

There's no point, you know, there's no point being dead over this. So, they just give him the allegiance. The latter two resist. Abdullah ibn Zubayr and Hussein. Now, radiyallahu anhu. Now, Abdullah ibn Zubayr says, "I'm going to set up camp. I mean, not just camp, but my base in Mecca.

I will establish a military resistance to him." Now, there was something There's an interesting point here. Many Muslims had felt over the last few decades because the shift from Medina and Mecca had gone to the Middle East, where remember the ancient kings of Arabs used to live, they felt the Arabian Muslims felt that the home cities of Islam had lost their prominence.

That it's not You know, and they kind of felt this. So, what Why Abdullah ibn Zubayr setting up Mecca once again as he actually won the hearts and minds of many Muslims. Hussein radiyallahu anhu was being meanwhile invited to Iraq. Now, this thing of him going to Iraq, this was this was the thing that Mhm.

You see, Abdul His own relatives warned him against this. Even his own brother. They told him, "Don't go. That this is a cataclysmic mistake. That do not go." Abdullah ibn Abbas actually gave him some very uh sound advice. He said to him that look, "The people of Yemen were always loyal to your father.

If you are to resist, go to Yemen. The people of Iraq were never loyal to your father. That Shia were kind of like a wavering bunch. So, but he did but he didn't listen, radiyallahu anhu, and he felt that look, I'm going to go. Now, he did send his cousin Muslim ibn Aqil to go check it out.

And Muslim ibn Aqil goes there, but he can't unfortunately send the message back in time and he himself is killed uh by under the instructions of Obaid, who catches him, he kills him, and um you know, and the people And this is it, the Shia betray him. You know, they And in fact, this There's a uh a famous saying that uh there's a poet, Farazdaq, who meets Hussein when he's on route because he hasn't received the message that what's happening over there.