Dream Zeinab

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One day, whenZeinab was about five years old, she had a strange and terrible dream. A violentwind arose in the city and darkened the earth and the sky. The little girl wastossed hither and hither, and suddenly she found herself stuck in the branches- of a huge tree. But-the wind was so strong that it uprooted the tree. Zeinabcaught hold of a branch but that broke. In a panic she grabbed two twigs butthese top gave way and she was left falling with no support. Then she woke up. When she told her grand father, the Prophet , about this dream hewept bitterly and said, "O my daughter. That tree is me who is shortly going toleave this world. The branches are your father Ali and your mother Fatima, andthe twigs are your brothers Hasan and Hossein. They will all depart this worldbefore you do, and you will suffer their separation andloss