Today is the 3rd of the month of Rajab. It is the day on which in the year 254 AH, corresponding to 868 AD, the 10th Infallible Heir of Prophet Mohammad (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny) was forced to leave the mortal world through a fatal dose of poison by a self-styled caliph of the usurper Abbasid regime.

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