18.Ubaydullah bin Ziyad's letter to Imam and his reply.

"Now then O Husain! I have been informed that you have haulted at Karbala. Yazid has written to me not to recline my head on the bed and not be satiated until I send you to Allah, or you submit yourself to me and Yazid bin Mu'awiyah. Greetings."  

When his letter reached Imam Husain (a.s.), he read it and threw it away saying,  

"The one who seeks the pleasure of people against the displeasure of Allah can never succeed."  

The messenger asked him the reply for the letter, to which Imam said,  

"He has no reply, but has the wrath (of Allah)."