Documents of the Right Word

Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ and that he is of the
Messenger’s sacred blood. The people of Iraq will call him to their
country, promising that they will help him. Yet they will not help
him. They will leave him alone. If you should be victorious over
him, pay him due respect. Never hurt him in retribution for his
offences towards you! Do him the same favours I have done to
him!” Muhammad Taqî Khân, a Shiite historian, passed away in
1297 [A.D. 1879]. He says in his Persian book Nasikh-ut-tawârîh,
“His advice was as follows: My son, do not follow your nafs! Do
not enter the presence of Allâhu ta’âlâ with your hands smeared
with Huseyn bin Alî’s blood! Otherwise, you will suffer eternal
torment! Do not forget the hadîth-i-sherîf, ‘Allâhu ta’âlâ will not
give barakat to a person who violates the veneration due to
Huseyn.’ ” It is written in the thirty-eighth page of the same Shiite
history book, “Sympathizers of Imâm-i-Alî, that is, Shiites, would
come to Damascus and speak ill of hadrat Mu’âwiya. Mu’âwiya
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ would do nothing to punish his
censurers. Instead, he would give them plenty of gifts from the
Bayt-ul-mâl.” It is stated in the three hundred and twenty-third
page of the book Jilâ-ul-uyûn, “Imâm-i-Hasan bin Alî ‘radiy-
Allâhu anhumâ’ said: Wallahî, hadrat Mu’âwiya is better than
those people who gather around me in the name of supporters.
These people claim to be Shiites on the one hand, and await an
opportunity to kill me and lay their hands on my property on the
other hand.”
As for Yezîd; he did not forget his father’s advice. So he did not
call Imâm Huseyn ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ to Kûfa. He did not
command to kill him. Nor did he rejoice at his death. On the
contrary, he wept when he heard about the sad news, and
commanded mourning. He respected the Ahl-i-Bayt. It is stated in
the three hundred and twenty-second page of the Shiite book Jilâul-uyûn,
“Yezîd appointed Walîd bin Aqaba, who was well-known
for his love for the Ahl-i-Bayt, governor of Medîna. He dismissed
Merwan, an enemy of the Ahl-i-Bayt, from governorship. One
night Walîd sent for Imâm-i-Huseyn and said that Mu’âwiya had
died and that Yezîd was to be obeyed. Imâm-i-Huseyn said: You
would not be contented with my paying homage to him secretly.
You would like me to pay homage in public.” This writing from the
Shiite book shows that Imâm-i-Huseyn did not call Yezîd a sinner,
a debaucher or a disbeliever. If he had considered him as such, he
would not have accepted to pay homage to him secretly. His
avoiding homage in public was because he did not want to incur
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