Her martyrdom

One night lady Rokaya (SA) was asleep and she suddenly woke up crying and started to look for her father everywhere. All the ladies tried to console her so she would stop crying but she didn't get any peace and continued crying, "O my dear aunt where is my father a few minutes ago I was with my father and he kissed me and said to me that my dear Rokaya you will soon be with me. But where is my father now?"

When lady Rokaya told her dream, all the ladies started to cry and now this noise of crying was heard by Yazid at his court. Yazid sent a servant to ask why they were crying. The servant was informed that lady Rokaya (SA) missed her father and that is why she was crying.

They informed Yazid of the situation, and Yazid, for his sadistic pleasure, sent the severed head of Imam Hussein (AS) to the prison and when lady Rokaya received the head of her father she started to cry even more and held it very tight and asked her father, who cut off my father's head, who martyred my father, why are we held as captives?

With these words of sorrow suddenly lady Rokaya (SA) was quiet and there was a silence in the cell. Everyone thought that Rokaya had finally gone to sleep again but this was not a temporary sleep, Rokaya had now gone into a permanent sleep. lady Zeinab called Zain-ul Abideen (AS) to check the status of Rokaya as they thought she had fallen unconscious. When the Imam (AS) went over to check on his sister, he noticed she had stopped breathing.