این دو برادر شجاع و قوى‌پنجه، پشت به پشت هم در میدان جنگ جنگیدند. یکى امام حسین در سن نزدیک به شصت سالگى است، اما از لحاظ قدرت و شجاعت جزو نام‌آوران بى‌نظیر است. دیگرى هم برادر جوان سى‌وچند ساله‌اش اباالفضل العباس است، با آن خصوصیاتى که همه او را شناخته‌اند. این دو برادر، دوش به دوش هم، گاهى پشت به پشت هم، در وسط دریاى دشمن، صف لشکر را مى‌شکافند. براى این‌که خودشان را به آب فرات برسانند، بلکه بتوانند آبى بیاورند. در اثناى این جنگِ سخت است که ناگهان امام حسین احساس مى‌کند دشمن بین او و برادرش عباس فاصله انداخته است. در همین حیص و بیص است که اباالفضل به آب نزدیکتر شده و خودش را به لب آب مى‌رساند. آن‌طور که نقل مى‌کنند، او مشک آب را پر مى‌کند که براى خیمه‌ها ببرد. در این‌جا هر انسانى به خود حق مى‌دهد که یک مشت آب هم به لبهاى تشنه‌ى خودش برساند؛ اما او در این‌جا وفادارى خویش را نشان داد.

These two courageous and strong brothers fought while backing each other on the battle field. Imam Hussain (as) was about sixty years old, but he was among famous unique men in terms of his power and courage. His brother Abulfadhl al-Abbas was in his 30’s with all these outstanding features known to everyone. These two brothers would fight side by side, and back to back, in the midst of the enemy’s army, moving into the waves of enemy lines, breaking them. They did so in order to reach to the Euphrates in hopes they could get some water. It was in the midst of this challenging battle that Imam Hussain realized, suddenly, that the enemy had created a gap between him and his brother Abulfadhl Al-Abbas. It was also in the midst of those tough moments that Abulfadhl got closer to water and reached the Euphrates. As it has been narrated, he filled the water pouch to take it back to the camp. Anyone would agree he had the right to drink a fistful of water to sooth his own thirst, but he demonstrated his loyalty in that moment.

اباالفضل العباس وقتى که آب را برداشت، تا چشمش به آب افتاد، «فذکر عطش الحسین»؛ به یاد لبهاى تشنه‌ى امام حسین، شاید به یاد فریادهاى العطش دختران و کودکان، شاید به یاد گریه‌ى عطشناک على‌اصغر افتاد و دلش نیامد که آب را بنوشد. آب را روى آب ریخت و بیرون آمد. در این بیرون آمدن است که آن حوادث رخ مى‌دهد و امام حسین علیه‌السلام ناگهان صداى برادر را مى‌شنود که از وسط لشکر فریاد زد: «یا اخا ادرک اخاک».

مقام معظم رهبري:  ۲۶ فروردین 1379

When Abulfadhl Al-Abbas was filling his palms with water, when he looked at the water, he remembered Imam Hussain’s lips, dry from thirst; maybe he remembered the little girls and other children screaming out for thirst. Maybe he remembered Ali Asghar crying out for thirst and he could not allow himself to drink water. He poured the fresh water onto his hands, it seeped out and back into the river before he left. It was when he was leaving the river that the enemy targeted him, and all those horrible events unraveled. Suddenly Imam Hussain (as) heard his brother from the midst of the enemy’s army calling out to him: “O’ Brother! Help your brother!”

Ayatollah Khamenei, April 14, 2000

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