After Imam Ali (as) was struck, the fatal strike with the poisonous sword, Imam Ali (as) said a few words to his sons Imam Hassan (as) and Imam Hussain (as). This is a little excerpt from his final will: O Children of Abdul Muttalib! Do not shed the blood of Muslims under the banner: The Imam has been assassinated! Only the assassin should be condemned to death. If I die of this stroke of his, kill him with one similar stroke. Do not mutilate him! I have heard the Prophet, peace be upon him, say: “Mutilate not even a rabid dog.” This man, who taught his sons never to mutilate anyone, think of what must have gone through his mind and how hurt he would’ve been when his own family was being mutilated. When Qasim’s (as), his eldest son’s son, dead body was trampled by horses, what he would have been feeling is unimaginable. When his second son, Imam Hussein’s (as) body was covered in arrows to the point that when he fell, he didn’t fall on his back but his body sto