Documents of the Right Word

the word ‘disbeliever’]. Yezîd would invite hadrat Zeynel-’âbidîn
to eat with him every morning and every evening, and they would
have breakfast and dinner together. As they bid farewell to each
other, he said, “May Allâhu ta’âlâ curse Ibni Merjâna! Wallahi, if
I had been in his place, I would have accepted all your father’s
wishes. It was Allah’s foreordination, after all! Write to me if you
need something. I will send it immediately whatever it is.” Yezîd
died in the year 64, when he was thirty years old. And Ibni Ziyâd
was slain by the chief of bandits Mukhtâr during the bloody
combats he fought in the month of Muharrem of the year 67.
Hadrat Abdullah bin Zubeyr ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’, who
occupied the seat of caliphate at that time, appointed his brother
Mus’ab governor of Basra. And Mus’ab sent one of his Emîrs, one
named Muhalleb, against Mukhtâr. At the end of a bloody battle,
Mukhtâr was killed in 67.
If these writings borrowed from Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ are read with
reason, it will be seen that hadrat Huseyn’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
anh’ martyrdom was not a result of a grudge against him or his
blessed father, but it was a consequence of worldly ambitions.
Whatsoever the reason, even Yezîd would not shoulder
accountability for this ignominious savagery. He cursed Ibni Ziyâd
for this abominable deed. Grave as Yezîd’s felony is, it would be
injustice equally grave to attempt to blemish his father on account
of this guilt. It would be like blaming Âdem ‘alaihis-salâm’ for his
son Cain’s slaying his brother Abel.
To allege that hadrat Mu’âwiya’s appointing Ubeydullah Ibni
Ziyâd a governor was intended to have hadrat Huseyn martyred,
would mean to gainsay the events. As it is stated in Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ,
he appointed him governor because he had fought against
disbelievers successfully and suppressed the Khârijîs, who were
hostile to hadrat Alî. Seeing that he was serving Islam, he
appointed him to Basra. Hadrat Huseyn ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ was in
Medîna then. If hadrat Mu’âwiya had had malice towards hadrat
Huseyn, he would have appointed Ibni Ziyâd governor of Hidjâz.
Why do not those people who blame hadrat Mu’âwiya for (his son)
Yezîd’s guilt, put the blame for ’Umar’s martyring hadrat Huseyn,
instead of setting him free, on his father? ’Umar’s father Sa’d Ibni
Ebî Waqqâs is one of those fortunate people who were given the
good news that Allâhu ta’âlâ promised Paradise to them (Asharai-mubashshara).
They know that if they criticized this person their
secret plans and lies would be noticed.
Abd-ul-wahhâb-i-Sha’rânî states as follows in the hundred and
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