Re: [IslamCity] Hazrat Hussain And Yazid: Facts And Fallacies (Tragedy Of Karbala)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hazrat Hussain And Yazid: Facts And Fallacies (Tragedy Of Karbala) THE BATTLE OF KARBALA IN 61 A.H. WAS NOT A BATTLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD OR ISLAM AND KUFR AS IS ALLEGED BY THE SHIAS. IT WAS NOT JIHAD ETHER OTHERWISE ALL THE SAHABAH WOULD HAVE SIDED WITH HAZRAT HUSSAIN. ALL THE MUSLIM CITIZENS INCLUDING THE THEN LIVING SAHABA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ABDULLAH BIN ZUBAIR SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO GO FROM MAKKAH TO KUFA WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE CONSTANTLY INVITING HIM FOR BAYT (OATH OF ALLEGIANCE) HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES AND WELL-WISHERS LIKE ABDULLAH BIN UMAR, HAZRAT ABU SAEED KHUDRI, HAZRAT ABU DARDA, HAZART ABDULLAH BIN ABBASS, HAZART MUHAMMAD BIN ABU HANIFA ETC. TRIED TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO UNDERTAKE THIS JOURNEY AS IT WAS FULL OF RISKS AND HAZARADS. THEY WERE HOWEVER, NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR ATTEMPT AND HAZART HUSSAIN PROCEEDED ON HIS MISSION OF REFORMATION CONCEIVED ON THE BASIS OF HIS OWN IJTEHAD. THERE WAS HOWEVER, NO MOTIVE OF FIGHTING AS HE WENT WITH 60 OR 70 PEOPLE WHICH MOSTLY COMPRISED MEMBERS OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. IT WAS ONLY A POLITICAL DIFFERENCE WITH YAZID AND HAZRAT HUSSAIN WANTED TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION. IT WAS NEVER A CONFORNTATION BETWEEN ISLAM AND KUFR AS NONE OF THE CONTESTANTS EVEN ONCE CALLED EACH OTHER AS KAFIR (INFIDEL). THE KUFFITE (WHO HAD MOSTLY SABAI ELEMENTS IN THEIR RANKS) WERE PLAYING THEIR OWN GAME AGAINST ISLAM AND UMMAH UNDER THE COVER OF LOVE AND LOYALTY FOR HAZRAT HUSSAIN AS WE WILL SEE LATER. WHEN HAZART HUSSAIN WAS STILL ON HIS WAY TO KUFA HE RECEIVED NEWS THAT HIS COUSIN, MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, WHO WAS SENT EARLIER BY HIM TO KUFA TO ASCERTAIN THE CONDITIONS THERE, HAD BEEN MURDERED ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEATH OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, HAZRAT HUSSAIN LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE OF KUFA AND DECIDED TO RETURN BUT THE RELATIVES OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SABAI ELEMENTS INSISTED ON AVENGING THE MURDER OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL AND HENCE HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO RESUME HIS ONWARD JOURNEY TO KUFA. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN REACHED KARBALA THE GOVERNOR OF KUFA, IBN ZAID, SENT UMAR BIN SAEED AS THE HEAD OF A CONTIGENT TO HALT THE ADVANCE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. UMAR BIN SAEED HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH HAZART HUSSAIN WHERE THE LATTER OFFERED TO MAKE A COMPROMISE IF ONE OF THE THREE CONDITIONS ARE ACCEPTED: (i) HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN JIHAD ON THE FRONTIERS OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE. (ii) OR HE MAY BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO MADINAH. (iii) OR HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO SEE YAZID (IN CERTAIN NARRATIONS LIKE TAHRIK TABARI IT IS STATED THAT HE (HUSSAIN) WILL PERSONALLY OFFER ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID NOT THROUGH ANY INTERMEDIARY). UMAR BIN SAEED ACCEPTED THE LAST CONDITION AND SOLICITED THE APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR (IBN ZAID) WHO HOWEVER, INSISTED THAT ALLEGIANCE FOR YAZID MUST BE OFFERED AT HIS HAND WHICH HAZRAT HUSSAIN DIDN'T ACCEPT. CONSEQUENTLY THE BATTLE ENSUED WHICH RESULTED IN THE MARTYRDOM OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. IT WOULD BE SEEN THERE FROM THAT YAZID HAD NO HANDS IN THE MURDER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. MOST OF THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS ARE WRITTEN BY SHIAS AND AS SUCH HEAP ALL SORTS OF RUBBISH ON YAZID OUT OF SHEER CONTEMPT AND HATRED AND DEPICT HIM IN ALARMING COLOUR WHICH IS FAR FROM TRUTH AND REALITY. STILL SOME OF THE IGNORANT MUSLIMS ACCUSE HIM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SHIAS. THE FACT IS THAT WHEN THE NEWS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN'S MARTYRDOM REACHED YAZID, HE AND HIS FAMILY WEPT. YAZID EVEN SAID: CURSE OF ALLAH BE ON ABAIDULLAH BIN ZAID. BY ALLAH! IF HE HAD BEEN A RELATIVE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN HE WOULD HAVE NEVER KILLED HIM. I WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED THE SUBMISSION OF IRAQIS WITHOUT THE KILLING OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. THEN HE ACCORDED A VERY GRACIOUS HOSPITALITY TO THE REMAINING FAMILY MEMBERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ARRANGED THEIR RETURN JOURNEY TO MADINAH WITH GREAT HONOUR AND RESPECT. HAD YAZID GOT ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THE MURDER OF HADHRAT HUSSAIN THE REMANANTS OF HIS FAMILY WOULD HAVE NEVER STAYED WITH YAZID AS HIS GUESTS FOR SEVERAL DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE INCIDENT OF KARBALA. HOW CAN ONE STAY AND DINE WITH THE MURDERERS OF ONE'S BLOOD RELATIONS? ALL THE VILE PROPAGANDA AGAINST YAZID IS A LATTER INNOVATION OF THE SHIAS. EVEN SOME OF THE INNOCENT MUSLIMS LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI JAHUR HAVE BEEN DECEIVED WHEN HE SAID IN A COUPLET: THE MARTYRDOM OF HUSSAIN IN EFFECT IS DEATH OF YAZID; ISLAM RISES TO NEW HEIGHTS AFTER EVERY INCIDENT LIKE THAT OF KARBALA. THIS IS HIGHLY MISLEADING AS IT IS EVIDENT FROM THE FACT THAT SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF SAHABA WERE ALIVE AT THAT TIME BUT ALL OF THEM KEPT ALOOF FROM THIS EVENT TO SAVE UMMAH FROM ENTANGLEMENT AND BLOODSHED. HAD IT BEEN AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THE SAHABAH WHO THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES HAD NOT SHIRKED JIHAD WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY THROWN ALL THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND HADHRAT HUSSAIN. IT MAY BE MENTIONED HERE THE CLOSE AFFINITY OF YAZID WITH THE FAMILY OF HADHRAT ALI. IN 53 H WHEN YAZID AS AMIR-UL-HUJJAJ WENT TO MAKKAH AND AFTER HAJ REACHED MADINAH, AT THAT OCCASION HE WAS MARRIED TO
[IslamCity] Hazrat Hussain And Yazid: Facts And Fallacies (Tragedy Of Karbala)
Hazrat Hussain And Yazid: Facts And Fallacies (Tragedy Of Karbala) THE BATTLE OF KARBALA IN 61 A.H. WAS NOT A BATTLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD OR ISLAM AND KUFR AS IS ALLEGED BY THE SHIAS. IT WAS NOT JIHAD ETHER OTHERWISE ALL THE SAHABAH WOULD HAVE SIDED WITH HAZRAT HUSSAIN. ALL THE MUSLIM CITIZENS INCLUDING THE THEN LIVING SAHABA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ABDULLAH BIN ZUBAIR SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO GO FROM MAKKAH TO KUFA WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE CONSTANTLY INVITING HIM FOR BAYT (OATH OF ALLEGIANCE) HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES AND WELL-WISHERS LIKE ABDULLAH BIN UMAR, HAZRAT ABU SAEED KHUDRI, HAZRAT ABU DARDA, HAZART ABDULLAH BIN ABBASS, HAZART MUHAMMAD BIN ABU HANIFA ETC. TRIED TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO UNDERTAKE THIS JOURNEY AS IT WAS FULL OF RISKS AND HAZARADS. THEY WERE HOWEVER, NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR ATTEMPT AND HAZART HUSSAIN PROCEEDED ON HIS MISSION OF REFORMATION CONCEIVED ON THE BASIS OF HIS OWN IJTEHAD. THERE WAS HOWEVER, NO MOTIVE OF FIGHTING AS HE WENT WITH 60 OR 70 PEOPLE WHICH MOSTLY COMPRISED MEMBERS OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. IT WAS ONLY A POLITICAL DIFFERENCE WITH YAZID AND HAZRAT HUSSAIN WANTED TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION. IT WAS NEVER A CONFORNTATION BETWEEN ISLAM AND KUFR AS NONE OF THE CONTESTANTS EVEN ONCE CALLED EACH OTHER AS KAFIR (INFIDEL). THE KUFFITE (WHO HAD MOSTLY SABAI ELEMENTS IN THEIR RANKS) WERE PLAYING THEIR OWN GAME AGAINST ISLAM AND UMMAH UNDER THE COVER OF LOVE AND LOYALTY FOR HAZRAT HUSSAIN AS WE WILL SEE LATER. WHEN HAZART HUSSAIN WAS STILL ON HIS WAY TO KUFA HE RECEIVED NEWS THAT HIS COUSIN, MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, WHO WAS SENT EARLIER BY HIM TO KUFA TO ASCERTAIN THE CONDITIONS THERE, HAD BEEN MURDERED ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEATH OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, HAZRAT HUSSAIN LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE OF KUFA AND DECIDED TO RETURN BUT THE RELATIVES OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SABAI ELEMENTS INSISTED ON AVENGING THE MURDER OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL AND HENCE HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO RESUME HIS ONWARD JOURNEY TO KUFA. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN REACHED KARBALA THE GOVERNOR OF KUFA, IBN ZAID, SENT UMAR BIN SAEED AS THE HEAD OF A CONTIGENT TO HALT THE ADVANCE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. UMAR BIN SAEED HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH HAZART HUSSAIN WHERE THE LATTER OFFERED TO MAKE A COMPROMISE IF ONE OF THE THREE CONDITIONS ARE ACCEPTED: (i) HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN JIHAD ON THE FRONTIERS OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE. (ii) OR HE MAY BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO MADINAH. (iii) OR HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO SEE YAZID (IN CERTAIN NARRATIONS LIKE TAHRIK TABARI IT IS STATED THAT HE (HUSSAIN) WILL PERSONALLY OFFER ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID NOT THROUGH ANY INTERMEDIARY). UMAR BIN SAEED ACCEPTED THE LAST CONDITION AND SOLICITED THE APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR (IBN ZAID) WHO HOWEVER, INSISTED THAT ALLEGIANCE FOR YAZID MUST BE OFFERED AT HIS HAND WHICH HAZRAT HUSSAIN DIDN'T ACCEPT. CONSEQUENTLY THE BATTLE ENSUED WHICH RESULTED IN THE MARTYRDOM OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. IT WOULD BE SEEN THERE FROM THAT YAZID HAD NO HANDS IN THE MURDER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. MOST OF THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS ARE WRITTEN BY SHIAS AND AS SUCH HEAP ALL SORTS OF RUBBISH ON YAZID OUT OF SHEER CONTEMPT AND HATRED AND DEPICT HIM IN ALARMING COLOUR WHICH IS FAR FROM TRUTH AND REALITY. STILL SOME OF THE IGNORANT MUSLIMS ACCUSE HIM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SHIAS. THE FACT IS THAT WHEN THE NEWS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN'S MARTYRDOM REACHED YAZID, HE AND HIS FAMILY WEPT. YAZID EVEN SAID: CURSE OF ALLAH BE ON ABAIDULLAH BIN ZAID. BY ALLAH! IF HE HAD BEEN A RELATIVE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN HE WOULD HAVE NEVER KILLED HIM. I WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED THE SUBMISSION OF IRAQIS WITHOUT THE KILLING OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. THEN HE ACCORDED A VERY GRACIOUS HOSPITALITY TO THE REMAINING FAMILY MEMBERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ARRANGED THEIR RETURN JOURNEY TO MADINAH WITH GREAT HONOUR AND RESPECT. HAD YAZID GOT ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THE MURDER OF HADHRAT HUSSAIN THE REMANANTS OF HIS FAMILY WOULD HAVE NEVER STAYED WITH YAZID AS HIS GUESTS FOR SEVERAL DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE INCIDENT OF KARBALA. HOW CAN ONE STAY AND DINE WITH THE MURDERERS OF ONE'S BLOOD RELATIONS? ALL THE VILE PROPAGANDA AGAINST YAZID IS A LATTER INNOVATION OF THE SHIAS. EVEN SOME OF THE INNOCENT MUSLIMS LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI JAHUR HAVE BEEN DECEIVED WHEN HE SAID IN A COUPLET: THE MARTYRDOM OF HUSSAIN IN EFFECT IS DEATH OF YAZID; ISLAM RISES TO NEW HEIGHTS AFTER EVERY INCIDENT LIKE THAT OF KARBALA. THIS IS HIGHLY MISLEADING AS IT IS EVIDENT FROM THE FACT THAT SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF SAHABA WERE ALIVE AT THAT TIME BUT ALL OF THEM KEPT ALOOF FROM THIS EVENT TO SAVE UMMAH FROM ENTANGLEMENT AND BLOODSHED. HAD IT BEEN AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THE SAHABAH WHO THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES HAD NOT SHIRKED JIHAD WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY THROWN ALL THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND HADHRAT HUSSAIN. IT MAY BE MENTIONED HERE THE CLOSE AFFINITY OF YAZID WITH THE FAMILY OF HADHRAT ALI. IN 53 H WHEN YAZID AS AMIR-UL-HUJJAJ WENT TO MAKKAH AND AFTER HAJ REACHED MADINAH, AT THAT OCCASION HE WAS MARRIED TO SAYYEDA UMM HUHAMMAD, THE
[IslamCity] Hazrat Hussain And Yazid: Facts And Fallacies (Tragedy Of Karbala)
Hazrat Hussain And Yazid: Facts And Fallacies (Tragedy Of Karbala) THE BATTLE OF KARBALA IN 61 A.H. WAS NOT A BATTLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD OR ISLAM AND KUFR AS IS ALLEGED BY THE SHIAS. IT WAS NOT JIHAD ETHER OTHERWISE ALL THE SAHABAH WOULD HAVE SIDED WITH HAZRAT HUSSAIN. ALL THE MUSLIM CITIZENS INCLUDING THE THEN LIVING SAHABA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ABDULLAH BIN ZUBAIR SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO GO FROM MAKKAH TO KUFA WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE CONSTANTLY INVITING HIM FOR BAYT (OATH OF ALLEGIANCE) HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES AND WELL-WISHERS LIKE ABDULLAH BIN UMAR, HAZRAT ABU SAEED KHUDRI, HAZRAT ABU DARDA, HAZART ABDULLAH BIN ABBASS, HAZART MUHAMMAD BIN ABU HANIFA ETC. TRIED TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO UNDERTAKE THIS JOURNEY AS IT WAS FULL OF RJSKS AND HAZARADS. THEY WERE HOWEVER, NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR ATTEMPT AND HAZART HUSSAIN PROCEEDED ON HIS MISSION OF REFORMATION CONCEIVED ON THE BASIS OF HIS OWN IJTEHAD. THERE WAS HOWEVER, NO MOTIVE OF FIGHTING AS HE WHENT WITH 60 OR 70 PEOPLE WHICH MOSTLY COMPRISED MEMBERS OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. IT WAS ONLY A POLITICAL DIFFERENCE WITH YAZID AND HAZRAT HUSSAIN WANTED TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION. IT WAS NEVER A CONFORNTATION BETWEEN ISLAM AND KUFR AS NONE OF THE CONTESTANTS EVEN ONCE CALLED EACH OTHER AS KAFIR (INFIDEL). THE KUFFITE (WHO HAD MOSTLY SABAI ELEMENTS IN THEIR RANKS) WERE PLAYING THEIR OWN GAME AGAINST ISLAM AND UMMAH UNDER THE COVER OF LOVE AND LOYALTY FOR HAZRAT HUSSAIN AS WE WILL SEE LATER. WHEN HAZART HUSSAIN WAS STILL ON HIS WAY TO KUFA HE RECEIVED NEWS THAT HIS COUSIN, MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, WHO WAS SENT EARLIER BY HIM TO KUFA TO ASCERTAIN THE CONDITIONS THERE, HAD BEEN MURDERED ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEATH OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, HAZRAT HUSSAIN LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE OF KUFA AND DECIDED TO RETURN BUT THE RELATIVES OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SABAI ELEMENTS INSISTED ON AVENGING THE MURDER OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL AND HENCE HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO RESUME HIS ONWARD JOURNEY TO KUFA. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN REACHED KARBALA THE GOVERNOR OF KUFA, IBN ZAID, SNET UMAR BIN SAEED AS THE HEAD OF A CONTIGENT TO HALT THE ADVANCE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. UMAR BIN SAEED HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH HAZART HUSSAIN WHERE THE LATTER OFFERED TO MAKE A COMPROMISE IF ONE OF THE THREE CONDITIONS ARE ACCEPTED: (i) HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN JIHAD ON THE FRONTIERS OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE. (ii) OR HE MAY BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO MADINAH. (iii) OR HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO SEE YAZID (IN CERTAIN NARRATIONS LIKE TAHRIK TABARI IT IS STATED THAT HE (HUSSAIN) WILL PERSONALLY OFFER ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID NOT THROUGH ANY INTERMEDIARY). UMAR BIN SAEED ACCEPTED THE LAST CONDITION AND SOLICITED THE APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR (IBN ZAID) WHO HOWEVER, INSISTED THAT ALLEGIANCE FOR YAZID MUST BE OFFERED AT HIS HAND WHICH HAZRAT HUSSAIN DIDN'T ACCEPT. CONSEQUENTLY THE BATTLE ENSUED WHICH RESULTED IN THE MARTYRDOM OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. IT WOULD BE SEEN THERE FROM THAT YAZID HAD NO HANDS IN THE MURDER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. MOST OF THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS ARE WRITTEN BY SHIAS AND AS SUCH HEAP ALL SORTS OF RUBBISH ON YAZID OUT OF SHEER CONTEMPT AND HATRED AND DEPICT HIM IN ALARMING COLOUR WHICH IS FAR FROM TRUTH AND REALITY. STILL SOME OF THE IGNORANT MUSLIMS ACCUSE HIM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SHIAS. THE FACT IS THAT WHEN THE NEWS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN'S MARTYRDOM REACHED YAZID, HE AND HIS FAMILY WEPT. YAZID EVEN SAID: CURSE OF ALLAH BE ON ABAIDULLAH BIN ZAID. BY ALLAH! IF HE HAD BEEN A RELATIVE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN HE WOULD HAVE NEVER KILLED HIM. I WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED THE SUBMISSION OF IRAQIS WITHOUT THE KILLING OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. THEN HE ACCORDED A VERY GRACIOUS HOSPITALITY TO THE REMAINING FAMILY MEMBERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ARRANGED THEIR RETURN JOURNEY TO MADINAH WITH GREAT HONOUR AND RESPECT. HAD YAZID GOT ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THE MURDER OF HADHRAT HUSSAIN THE REMANANTS OF HIS FAMILY WOULD HAVE NEVER STAYED WITH YAZID AS HIS GUESTS FOR SEVERAL DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE INCIDENT OF KARBALA. HOW CAN ONE STAY AND DINE WITH THE MURDERERS OF ONE'S BLOOD RELATIONS? ALL THE VILE PROPAGANDA AGAINST YAZID IS A LATTER INNOVATION OF THE SHIAS. EVEN SOME OF THE INNOCENT MUSLIMS LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI JAHUR HAVE BEEN DECEIVED WHEN HE SAID IN A COUPLET: THE MARTYRDOM OF HUSSAIN IN EFFECT IS DEATH OF YAZID; ISLAM RISES TO NEW HEIGHTS AFTER EVERY INCIDENT LIKE THAT OF KARBALA. THIS IS HIGHLY MISLEADING AS IT IS EVIDENT FROM THE FACT THAT SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF SAHABA WERE ALIVE AT THAT TIME BUT ALL OF THEM KEPT ALOOF FROM THIS EVENT TO SAVE UMMAH FROM ENTANGLEMENT AND BLOODSHED. HAD IT BEEN AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THE SAHABAH WHO THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES HAD NOT SHIRKED JIHAD WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY THROWN ALL THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND HADHRAT HUSSAIN. IT MAY BE MENTIONED HERE THE CLOSE AFFINITY OF YAZID WITH THE FAMILY OF HADHRAT ALI. IN 53 H WHEN YAZID AS AMIR-UL-HUJJAJ WENT TO MAKKAH AND AFTER HAJ REACHED MADINAH, AT THAT OCCASION HE WAS MARRIED TO SAYYEDA UMM HUHAMMAD,
