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This figure commands, “So weep now, you who of passion never / made a holocaust” in a modern reimagining of their most famous speech. As a child, this figure dreamed of clinging to a tree whose trunk, branches, and leaves were blown away by a black wind. In a sermon delivered on the first of Safar, Rasheed Turabi credited this person with “preserving the houses” of a sect. This teacher of Qur’anic exegesis’s knowledge of the hadīth earned them the title “Aqilatu Bani Hashim.” After watching the grandson of (*) Abū Sufyān strike a decapitated head’s teeth, this person cited a verse of Surah al-ʿImrān to warn of “humiliating torment” that would befall him. When Yazīd ordered this “arrogant woman” to identify herself, she responded that she was Muhammad’s (-5[1])granddaughter and Fātima’s daughter. For 10 points, name this daughter of ʿAlī who bore witness to her brother Husayn’s murder at Karbala. ■END■ (0[5])

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