In Search of Truth

Part 6

After a few months one day, the supervisory committee sat with the Quran to give a Quranic verdict.

At the gathering, Amr Ibn As humbly requested Abu-Musa to give the first speech. Abu-Musa announced: 'We, the Supervisory Committee, have come to the conclusion that from today the caliphate of both Ali and Muabiya is declared invalid. The people will elect a new caliph through general elections.' Then Amr ibn As declared in his speech: 'I also agree with Abu Musa. Ali is completely new to politics. He is not yet qualified to be the Caliph. But at the moment the law administration of the state has nothing to say. The nation today is in an evil spell. In these critical days we need a prudent, skilled politician like Amirul Momineen Hazrat Muabiya'.

It was as if lightning had struck Abu Musa's head. He cursed in obscene language. The "word-war" of the Quran began. They continued to throw all the obscenities in the world at each other.

They could not come to any conclusion while doing 'word-war' from the Qur'an. The conference broke up. They returned home with the Quran, which failed to provide peace. Hazrat Ali sitting in Kufa was very hurt when he heard the news of the conference. He raised his hands to the sky and uttered a long supplication: 'O Merciful, Mighty Lord, bestow Your worst wrath upon them, especially Muabiya, Amr Ibn As, Abul Awar Al Sulaimi, Abi Sarah, Habib Ibn Maslamah, Abdur Rahman. On bin Khalid, Zahaq bin Qays and Alid bin Uqba.'

It was not known whether this prayer of Ali reached Allah or not, but it reached Muabiya's ears in time. Muabiya ordered his secretary to add some new verses to the sermon for Friday prayers. From that day on, Muabiya made it compulsory to curse the Prophet's family, namely Abdullah Ibn Abbas, Hazrat Hamzah, Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Fatima, Hazrat Hasan and Hussain, in every Friday sermon. A Muslim named Huzur Ibn Adi disobeyed Muabiya's order and sentenced him to death.

Hearing the news of the conference, the people of Kufa divided into several groups. Its as if Hazrat Ali started seeing no light in his eyes. Under the pretext of establishing a treaty with Muabiya, the tribe of 'Khurayz' directly declared rebellion against Ali. Another group expressed their displeasure at the mid-way stoppage of the war. Many began to openly say that Muabiya was a good, strong ruler. As the days went by, Muabiya's party grew bigger and stronger and the walls of Ali's caliphate fell brick by brick. But Ali was not one to stop. The blood of Muhammad (pbuh) was in his veins. Hazrat Ali vowed to take revenge for that insult. The rebel extremist fundamentalist 'Khoriz' or Kharijite party rejected both Ali and Muabiya and formed their own party. They wanted to establish the rule of God, the rule of the Qur'an. According to them, both Ali and Muabiya were anti-Qur'anic rulers. They were on Ali's side until the battle of Siffin. Since Ali signed a peace treaty with an infidel like Muabiya and failed to establish Sharia law in the kingdom, Hazrat Ali was also an infidel in their eyes.

The Kharijites gathered in a village called 'Harora' and started propagating their ideology. Within a few days, they turned into a formidable terrorist militant group. They set fire to the houses of those who disagreed with them, cut people's throats, buried them alive, killed them indiscriminately and created terror in the whole area. Hazrat Ali worked hard day and night, preaching Tabligh from house to house and convinced some people to attack Syria again. He saw that it was more necessary to suppress the rebel Kharijite group than to invade Syria. Meanwhile, the Kharijites vowed that they would not return home until Muawiyah, Ali and Amar Ibn As were killed. Their slogan is 'La hukma illa lillah' which means there is no rule except the rule of Allah. Hazrat Ali sent people to them, trying to make them understand that he had not done anything contrary to the Qur'an. He wrote a personal letter - "To establish the law of God in the state, Muawiya must be destroyed first." And for this I am calling you to join me and participate in Jihad against Muawiya. They replied, 'Ali, you are a disbeliever of the Qur'an, you also do not understand the Qur'an'.

The rebel Kharijites, under the leadership of Hazrat Abdullah Ibn Wahhab, set up their base at a place called 'Nahrawan', 12 miles from Baghdad. Some people came from different areas including Bosora and joined them. The 12,000 member Kharijite militant group would implement strict Islamic law throughout the state from here. Their main mantra was that only the Quran will solve all the problems of the state. Hazrat Ali (R.A.) tried all kinds of ways to bring the Kharijites to his side and failed. He camped in the valley of Nokhail on the way to attack Syria with 60,000 soldiers. News reached Ali that the terrorist Kharijites had slaughtered the Governor of Nahrawan, Hazrat Abdullah Ibn Khabbab (R.A.), along with the governor's pregnant slave girl and three innocent women from the Banu-Tai tribe. Ali sent Hazrat Harith Ibn Murrah 'Nahrawan' to investigate the matter. The Kharijites also killed Ibn Muhrah. Ali suspected that if the Kharijites were to attack Syria at this moment, they might capture Kufa. Hazrat Ali prepared for war against the Kharijites.

Ali's powerful troops were able to put down 12,000 Kharijites under their swords in no time. Only 9 Kharijites escaped and survived. Two years later, in 40 Hijri, three of these 9 killed Hazrat Ali in the mosque premises.

By killing the Kharijites, Ali thought that a disaster had passed, then there was no problem in attacking Syria. But it was bad luck, Ali's soldiers refused to fight at all. Hazrat Ali's dream of becoming the ruler of a huge Muslim empire was shattered. Returning to Kufa with a broken heart, Ali calmed down by denouncing his people as cowards. Meanwhile, Hazrat Muabiya did not like Ali's silence at all.

Muabiya knew now the difference between Ali and Muawiyah was between a lion and a goat. Muabiya's father Abu Sufyan said, "One day the opportunity to take revenge on the enemy may come".

Full revenge was still some way away. So Muabiya sent a small army to check whether Ali had the strength of a weak goat. A few centuries ago, just as Prophet Muhammad suddenly attacked the Arab unarmed non-Muslim tribes one by one in the dark of night and seized their property, houses, the soldiers of Muabiya began to occupy the provinces of Ali one by one. Companion Hazrat Muabiya (R.A.) sent a powerful force to Medina under the command of Hazrat Bashar to attack Madinah, the birthplace of Islam and the capital of Prophet Muhammad. Hazrat Bashar's army attacked the people of Medina like monsters. They destroyed the houses of common people in no time. The terrified people of Medina surrendered to Muabiya's army without a fight. The victorious Bashar said to the people of Madinah - "People of Madinah, if I had not come today with the orders of Caliph Muabiya, I swear by Allah, I would not have kept a single man of Madinah alive." Commander Bashar, showed great mercy to the people of Madinah compared to the attack on the Bani Muttalik tribe by the prophet Muhammad. On that day, Prophet Muhammad did not leave a single male of Bani Muttalik tribe alive, moreover, he captured all their women and distributed them among his army. After conquering Medina, Bashar, along with his army, set out to conquer Yemen. On hearing the news of the fall of Medina, Hazrat Ali roared like a paper tiger for a while. No one paid attention to his words. By attacking in the same manner as Medina, General Bashar captured Yemen.

Hazrat Muabiya (ra) after occupying the small kingdoms turned his attention to Egypt. He ordered the commander, "You cannot kill Muhammad, the son of Abu Bakr, the governor of Egypt." Bring him prisoner and bring him to me, I will judge him with my own hands. It is to be noted that after Abu Bakr became the caliph of Madinah, Hazrat Abu Sufyan said to his son Muabiya, "This Abu Bakr is the murderer of your two brothers, I believe you will take revenge one day". Mu'awiya suspected that Ali would try to defend Egypt by sending troops from Kufa. But it was not possible for Ali. So Muawiya's army did not have much difficulty to conquer Egypt. Abu Bakr's son Muhammad was captured and brought to Muabiya. Muabiya coldly told Muhammad, "I will give you a death that is more terrible than the killing of Caliph Usman, more painful than death by sword and spear". Hazrat Muabiya wrapped Abu Bakr's son Muhammad in dry straw and set it on fire. Muabiyah remembers that this Abu Bakr, his son Muhammad and his daughter Ayesha participated in the Battle of Badr against his father Abu Sufyan. That is why Muabiya did not help Ayesha against Ali in the 'Battle of Jamal' that day.

It was Ramadan month of 40 Hijri. Three men of the Kharijite group positioned themselves near the mosque with the intention of killing Hazrat Ali. Asamat Shabir and Abdur Rahman Ibn Muljam came out of the mosque and hit Hazrat Ali on the head with a sword. A few days later Hazrat Ali breathed his last in Kufa in 661 AD. Bereaved Ali's son Hazrat Hasan (RA) said in his father's mourning meeting - 'Today, in such a holy month, assassins killed the best man of Prophet, in which the Qur'an was revealed. The month in which Hazrat Isa (as) was raised by Allah to the sky, the month in which Hazrat Musa (as) spoke to Allah on Mount Tur. In the name of establishing the rule of the Quran, the terrorists had killed the author of the Quran’.

It is to be noted that Hazrat Ali used to write the words of the Qur'an from the side of Prophet Muhammad. When Hazrat Usman compiled the Qur'an, Hazrat Ali was excluded from the compilation committee. The father of 33 children, Hazrat Ali had 8 other wives during his life after the death of his first wife Fatimah.

Hazrat Ali left the world but Muabiya did not let go of the Ali family. Hazrat Hasan (R.A.) was a homely, innocent, simple man, not politically or power-hungry but a womanizer. Under the pressure of Hazrat Ali's devotees, Hasan first refused and later reluctantly accepted the caliphate. Removing Hasan from power WAS now as easy as breaking a clay doll for Hazrat Muabia (RA). Muabiya, who was skilled in managing the governance of three long periods in one stretch, did all the work in a well-planned manner. He knew that religion iwas a simple but powerful weapon to deceive the uneducated and weak people, it did not lead to the development of a nation or public welfare. So at times he used religion very cautiously when necessary but he did not even go near the edge of religion in the administration of the state, rather he followed the state administration of the neighboring Christian kingdom of Byzantium, Armenia. Later, he occupied all those areas and appointed many Christians and people of different religions to important positions of the state. Hazrat Muabiya built a powerful secular state in a democratic process on the model of a monarchy with a multinational collective effort. The people of Syria had always stood by their leader during the difficult times of war. On the other hand, people distrusted Hazrat Ali's theocratic social system and started flocking to Muabiya's party. Hazrat Ali's loyal soldiers even Hazrat Hasan of the Prophet's family got involved in theft, corruption and lies. Hasan said sadly one day, ‘is there not a single person living in this world who follows the example of the Prophet's Qur'an and Hadith?’

Hazrat Muabiya sent two spies to check the situation in Kufa and Basra. At the same time, 60,000 soldiers were deployed near Kufa and told Hasan through a letter - "Voluntarily surrender or Kufa will be occupied by arms". Hasan sent 12,000 troops to the frontier against Muabiya under the command of Hazrat Qays from the 40,000 soldiers kept by his father, and himself rested in the ancient luxury of Flower Garden in Persia. While resting, news came to Hasan that Hazrat Qays, the commander, was no longer alive, and that the soldiers had broken up and fled. Hasan's own soldiers, who had escaped, and the angry crowd rushed in and tore his stage tent to pieces, expressing their anger and hatred. On the velvet carpet on which he was relaxing with pleasure, a man jerked and lifted the carpet, they began to abuse Hasan as an infidel mushrik. Seeing the dire situation, Hazrat Hasan ran away and hid himself. The timid Hasan informed Mu'abiya that he was willing to surrender without a fight on two conditions. Hazrat Hasan wrote in the contract: 1. I have to be paid the gold, grains and money deposited in the revenue bank of my father's ancestral property in Kufa, so that I don't have to face financial problems for the rest of my life. Two. I have to stop cursing in the name of my father and our family in the khutbah in Friday prayers. Muabiya could have captured Kufa by force if he wanted. Muabiya was not thirsty for the small wealth of Kufa, but he was addicted to drinking the blood of the Prophet Muhammad's family. The wise Muabiya was unwilling to lose even one of his soldiers unnecessarily. He accepted both of Hasan's conditions. However, regarding the second condition, he said - the obligation of cursing the Ali family had been lifted by the state, but if the people practice it voluntarily, the government would not have anything to say. A blind supporter of Hazrat Ali, the self-interested Hasan did not look back at the surviving remaining Shias. He left with his family to Madinah with some wealth of revenue.

Emperor Muabiya, the sole ruler of the entire Arab world, entered Kufa in royal garb. The people greeted him cheerfully with garlands of flowers. The city of Kufa was included in Basra, Damascus was the capital of the Muslim empire. Now one had to remove the thorn with another thorn in secret. Hazrat Muabiyah (R.A.) through a spy informed Hazrat Hasan's wife Zayda bint Ashat bin Qays that if Zayda could kill her husband Hasan then she would be rewarded with one hundred thousand dirhams and taken to the royal palace as the Caliph's daughter-in-law. One day Hasan was fasting, Zayda allowed her husband to break his fast by mixing poison in milk. Forty days after drinking poison, Hazrat Hasan (RA) left the world in the month of Safar, 50 Hijri in 670 AD. When Zayda killed her husband and demanded her reward from Muabiya, Hazrat Muabiya sent Zayda one hundred thousand dirhams and said - I can not make a woman who killed her husband as my daughter-in-law.

Muabiya now thought, while still in power, he must make a permanent arrangement to keep the state power in the hands of the Umayya dynasty. First, he discussed with the trusted people, and he will establish the monarchy by declaring his son Ejid as the prince. The issue created a stir in the whole country. There was endless controversy among historians regarding the fact that Hazrat Muabiya declared his son Ejid a prince, not a caliph, and transferred the power of the state to his son without the support of the people in a democratic manner.

After Muabiya's death in 680 AD, Ezid succeeded his father. The Umayya dynasty ruled for about 90 years from 661 to 750 AD. Therefore, Hazrat Muabiya (RA) would be forever remembered as the architect of the Umayya dynasty in the Arab world. Based on lies, deceit, deception, Islam was born founded by drinking the blood of countless innocent children, youths, men and women of the world, flourished palace conspiracies. It’s inevitable means of survival.

The End

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