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ABU TALIB The faithful of Quraysh
might have died after repenting.[48] He discussed the repenting of Wahshi[49] as an
evidence of impermissibility of damning in spite of that Wahshi had never got rid of his
beastliness[50] for a day and he had ended his life with the wine until it overcome him
completely that he couldnt sober up.[51] But al-Ghazali in this situation tried his best in
order that no curse would reach an unbeliever and a transgressor like Wahshi, Yazeed
and their likes. This man, who strove to defend Yazeed and Wahshi and in fact he
defended their chief Iblis, curse be upon him, when he said: It doesnt matter in not
damning Iblis besides other than him.[52] This man with all these disgraceful situations,
with which he didnt want even Iblis and his grandsons to be cursed, didnt feel shy
when he said his second calamity: Cursing has more special form like saying: Curse of
Allah may be upon the Jews, the Christians, the magi, the fatalists, the kharijites, the Shia,
the adulterers, the unjust and the usurers. All of that is permissible.[53] One might think
that there was much contradiction between the two situations because here he
permitted cursing all these groups while there he defended Yazeed and his band of killers
of al-Husayn after he thought that it didnt matter not to curse their master Iblis! But
with a little deliberation we find that there is no contradiction. In fact there is a firm
connection between the two situations. His permission of cursing the Shia united with his
defending Yazeed at the same purpose and aim. Both were the inevitable result and the
bitter fruit of the seed of the grudge against the pure family of the Prophet (s). We
werent surprised when he put the Shia, the followers of the Prophets family, in one
row with the fatalists and the Kharijites and permitted cursing the all because, according
to his thought, the all were apostates and no good would be expected from them and no
repentance would be accepted from them. In fact if he declared his inner dregs, he would
prefer all the deviated and illegal sects and groups to the Shia just because they were the
followers of Ali and his sons and this was unforgivable crime and unwashable dirt! There
was a great difference between the situation of al-Ghazali in defending the low Yazeed
when he killed al-Husayn and the situation of aj-Jahidh about this very point. It would be
better to quote something of what aj-Jahidh had said about the subject. The following
passage came after the passage we quoted before, in which aj-Jahidh had talked about
the lie of the year of the unity (aam aj-jamaa). He said: then what was committed
by Yazeed and his governors and followers, then the invasion against Mecca, hitting the
Kaaba by mangonels, violating Medina and killing al-Husayn (s) and most of his family,
who were the lamps of darkness and the pillars of Islam, after al-Husayn promised them