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farewell ceremony due to their honour.”
As is shown in the writings above, and many other books
written by reasonable and unbiassed Shiite scholars, hadrat
Mu’âwiya was never inimical towards Imâm-i-Huseyn ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ anhumâ’. Yezîd did not command that Imâm-i-
Huseyn should be killed, nor did he wish such a thing. Enemies of
the Ahl-i-Bayt and people who martyred Imâm-i-Huseyn
slandered these two Khalîfas, thus to cover their own animosity.
Abd-ur-rahmân Ibni Muljem was a Shiite formerly. Later he
joined Khârijîs, and martyred Imâm-i-Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
anh’.
There were no soldiers from Damascus among those people
who martyred Imâm-i-Huseyn in Kerbelâ. These people were
from Kûfa. Qâdî Nûrullah Shushterî, a Shiite scholar, writes this
fact plainly. It is written in Jilâ-ul-uyûn as well that when Imâm-i-
Zeynel’âbidîn ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ was brought to the city of
Kûfa, he said that the murderers were Shiites.
In order to demolish Islam from the inside, enemies of Islam
drifted the Ahl-i-Bayt-i-nabawî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum
ajma’în’ into disasters and calamities. Imputing these murders of
theirs to the Ahl as-sunna, they assailed the As-hâb-i-kirâm ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum ajma’în’, the strongholds of Islam, and via
them their followers, i.e. scholars of Ahl as-sunna. Muslims have to
be extra careful lest they should fall victims to their traps.
37- “Mu’âwiyâ’s governor to Egypt, Amr bin Âs, during his
stay in office, which lasted four years plus four months, embezzled
three hundred and fifteen thousand golds and appropriated the
territory called Reht,” he asserts, adding that he has acquired this
information from the Shiite books titled Murawwij-uz-zahab and
Al-îjâz.
The lines quoted above are naked examples of how these
people without a certain Madh-hab insert their lies into books in
the name of religious information like amusing a child. He tries to
blemish hadrat Amr Ibni Âs by saying that he was a governor of
hadrat Mu’âwiya. The fact, on the other hand, is that he served as
governor of Egypt for four years in the time of hadrat ’Umar and
for four more years during the caliphate of hadrat ’Uthmân.
Hadrat Mu’âwiya appointed Ziyâd, who had been one of hadrat
Alî’s governors, as a governor again. Likewise, he appointed
hadrat Amr, chosen as a governor of Egypt by these great people,
as a governor again. Besides, Amr Ibni Âs had been one of his
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