خلاصة:
Taking one's family members was never an easy task, particularly in a struggle-oriented journey like that of Ashura. Data from the earliest accounts suggest that Imam al-Husayn took his family members for various reasons: (1) respecting and protecting his household and defending them against any threat, and (2) preventing any misinterpretation of his movement in the future. On the other hand, the savage treatment that they received from the tyrant Umayyad forces disclosed the real face of the Umayyad hegemony.
ملخص الجهاز:
Second, that women, in a special mission, in a migration towards Allah, accompanied the caravan of Imam7 to prevent incorrect historical judgment about this movement, to provide proof of the oppression of Imam7, to preserve the truth and legitimacy of the uprising, to protect the events of Ashura from the distortion of narrators, to provide a global model from the behavior of the Ahl al-Bayt: showing moral virtues of Imam7 towards the family during heavy calamities and exposing the tyranny of the Umayyad caliphs.
However, considering that the destination of the Imam's journey was unknown at the beginning and, on the other hand, in terms of the quality of the journey, it was a difficult and exhausting trip; because it was to avoid pledging allegiance to Yazid and to escape the pressure of the Umayyad nobility, and it seemed that the end of this movement would be the martyrdom and captivity of the Ahl al-Bayt; nevertheless, what interest was there for the companionship of women and children, for whom enduring the hardships of this journey would be difficult?
b. Proof of the Oppression of Imam7 against Tyranny In the event of war conditions, the captivity of women and children in the Karbala uprising was a proof of the truthfulness of the Ahl al-Bayt: family against the tyranny of Yazid's army.