The Dark Age

The age of the caliphate elapsed and it was full of the virtues of Abutalib (as); the great man of Islam. The age recorded the exploits of this man and the benevolent hands of him to give him some of his due.

Then the age of monarchy and tyranny came. This illegal authority wouldn’t last except  by defaming the gem of Islam, Hazrat Ali (as). The rulers began to hire those of the filthy consciences and the opportunist hearts, who didn’t know a meaning of a virtue nor an end of vice. Such people wouldn’t be able to live except  under the darkness because the bat wouldn’t fly during the brightness of the daylight.

This black market was based upon three things, Hiding the virtues of Hazrat Ali (as), fabricating traditions against him and turning the Quranic verses concerning him to others and those concerning others to him, and thirdly ascribing fabricated virtues to the other companions.

The merchant Mo’awiya encouraged this market to work for the benefit of him. It was the cornerstone of his rule. He wrote to his governors “ We will never forgive anyone, who narrates something about the virtues of Abu Turab or any of his family.

As the proverb goes ‘ Money makes the mare go’ ,the orators hurried to respond, They began to cure Hazrat Ali (as) on every member throughout the state. They declared their quittance from him and began to defame him and is family The mimbers upon which Hazrat Ali (as)was cursed  , were more than seventy thousand ones.

You may estimate how many men sitting before each member of those seventy thousand and how many women and children were behind each one of those men, who certainly would listen to his sayings as he listened to the orator’s sayings.

Then Mo’awiya wrote to his governors “ Don’t accept any witness of the followers of Hazrat Ali (as) or his family”. To tighten the grip around the Shias, to disgrace them and to let them e liable to the oppressions of their enemies and to be a target for their arrows. Money from Mo’awiya’s treasury was the driving force behind this marked which never faced any decline or recession.  Fabricated traditions were lectured from the members and given to the teachers to be learny by the children, who memorized them as they memorized the verses of the Holy Quran. Their flesh would grow with those fabrications and their blood would flow in the veins with them. Mo’awiya gave open orders to his governors to torture whomever they found of supporting Hazrat Ali (as) and his family and to burn and demolish their houses.

Mo’wiya not only issued unjust orders but also chose those people who implement them. He appointed his illegitimate brothe Ziyad bin Abeeh as the governor of Iraq to increeas the pressure against the Shias because Ziyad knew them well  for he had been near them before the grudge reigned in his heart.

He wouldn’t refrain from announcing among the people of Sham that Hazrat Ali (as) didn’t offer prayer and that it was he who shed Usman’s (la) blood and that they had to revenge usman (la) and fight against Hazrat Ali (as).

Mo’awiya thought of hiring some people to fabricate traditions defaming Hazrat Ali (as) so he chose some of the Prophet’s companions and some of their successors, who were respected by the public and had sanctity because of their companionship with the Prophet (s.a.w.w.) in order to be believed when fabricating traditions.

Among those, with whom he concluded a bargain, were Abu Hurayra, Amr bin abubakar(la) Aass,, the adulterer abubakar(la) Mugheera bin Shu’ba and Orwa bin az Aubayr. They created odious news to defame Hazrat Ali (as).

Besides this war there was another war, It was that pursuit of everyone, whose heart had a bit of love to Hazrat Ali (as) or whose tongue murmured in praising him or mentioning him favorably. Whoever was found to be of those would be given the option to choose between the sword and the acquaintance from Hazrat Ali (as).

Hujr bin Adiy and his companions had showed that great example of sacrifice for the sake of the deep-rooted belief and the true faith, which would never be bent before the wind or be frightened by the assaulting sword.

The dark age passed to be replaced with a darker one. An age came and cursing Hazrat Ali (as) became a rubrid, which the fancies tried the best to make firm in the hearts. If one public speaker forgot to curse Hazrat Ali (as) he would be taken from every side by shouting and crying of the people. The Sunna ! The Sunna ! He would know then what a mistake he did and what a Sunna he left !. Mo’wiya had made cursing Hazrat Ali (as) a compulsory part of every Friday sermon.

The age of the perfidious tyrant, al Hajjaj the student of Mo’awiya would never be forgotten at all, It was full of incredible crimes and calamities. He supported the oppressive construction of Mo’awiya and added to it many bricks that raised it high. Al-Hajjaj let his sword exceed with the necks of the Shia.  He killed so many people patiently. He killed people without any guilt but just for suspicion and accusation. He committed crimes that were like legends.

Al Hajjaj was full of grudge against Hazrat Ali (as) and he satisfied his filthy conscience, fury grudge and serious spite by cursing Hazrat Ali (as) and ordering people to curse him as his teacher Mo’awiya did before.

Mo’awiya reached what he had hoped. Abussing and cursing Hazrat Ali (as) continued as a heresy, with which the child grew up and the adult become old, but he couldn’t distort the  essence of the truth as he wished for.

History is full of such shameful deeds and if one wants to track the, he will be tired. But it is painful when you find that the leaders of the Umma, who were alled amirul mo’mineen or the caliphs of the Prophets sometimes were either freed captives, hypocrites, stealers, adulterers, drunkards, deviators or dissolute to the end of this empty circle of corruption of those mean walis.

Mo’awiya the freed captive was amirul momineen, Yazeed the drunkard was the caliph of the Prophet, Marwan the deviant and the son of the deviant was the caliph of the Muslims. Until the turn of the tyrant Abdul Malik, Yazeed, the deficient and Marwan the donkey.

Between this and that there were shed bloods, extorted rights, violated dignities, spread injustice, open sins and extreme poverty, All that was an inevitable result of that unjust dark age.

They passed away after they had foisted into the religion what they liked and ravaged and corrupted according to their mean fancies, obscene desires, and beastly greed.

They passed away but the people, who came after them, accepted what was left and considered it as the truth but if they pondered a little and used their minds to search for the truth, they would discover the defects and the disadvantages of those ones. Which might not trouble the clearness of the sphere and might not blacken the bright faces of the religion.

This was a subject we had to review as we were about to talk about  Hazrat Abutali (as). We had to know the matter of fabricating traditions since Hazrat Abutalib (as) was one of their victims.

After we knew what Mo’awiya had done against Hazrat Ali (as) and how he had fought him with the sword and the tongue, so it was definitely that some of that flood of accusations would have reached Hazrat Abu Talib (as). If Hazrat Abutalib (as) hadntg been the father of Hazrat Ali (as) he wouldn’t have been defamed nor been accused of anything.

But whenever the clouds cumulate, the sun must shine and send its rays through the clouds and the darkness never stays as long as the sun is in the sky.

So you find, in spite of the shameful situation of the history towards this wronged man, what clears his life on a pure page in a bright line or in a shining letter.