\n We, however, will confine the scope of the article to...

\n We, however, will confine the scope of the article to those conditions, which are relevant to our time – the time of Grand Occultation.\u00a0 It is important to note that all Masomeen -asws , including Imam Ali -asws and Imam Hussain -asws , in favour of \u2018Taqqiya\u2019 avoided confrontation under certain unfavourable conditions but on other occasions, they -asws called for the Jihad.\u00a0 After the Shahadat of Imam Hussain -asws , as per Divine instructions, any armed struggle was deferred until the time of the appearance of the last \u2018Hujjat Allah -ajfj \u2019.

\n For example, Imam Hassan -asws replied, on various occasions when asked about the reasons in agreeing to the truce offered by Mua’wiyyah -la even though having complete knowledge and undeniable proofs of his corruption and treachery.

We will only present two extracts from Imam Hassan -asws ‘s replies: (1) ‘The doctrine behind my truce is the same as -saww had adopted when signing the treaty of ‘Hudebia’ with Bani Zammer and Bani Ashajja and people of Mecca, when they offered their conditions of peace. Although, those people were deniers of the \u2018Wahi\u2019 (Inspiration) as well as the Book, however, Mua’wiyyah -la and his associates are only deniers of its (Book) interpretation’.

(2) ‘By Allah -azwj , I had opted for a truce with Mua’wiyyah -la , on the conditions that he would not spill our blood, give immunity to our relatives and associates, it is certainly better than him assassinating us and completely destroying our -asws lineage and listen, it turned out to be in our favour that I did not respond to his antagonising assaults and a series of aggressive measures, otherwise my -asws own people (who were bribed by him) would have grabbed me from my -asws neck and handed me -asws over to Mua’wiyyah -la .

By Allah -azwj , it is far better for me to secure a truce with him (on my -asws dictated conditions) than being presented to him as a prisoner of war, then he may have either killed me -asws or alternatively, spared my life as a favour, hence Bani Hashim would have been eternally buried under his goodwill and his decedents would have kept on teasing us -asws by mentioning his favours to our present and past generations.

\n Shortly afterwards, Imam Hassan -asws , left for Medina and resided there, facing and enduring Bani Umayyad -la \u2019s antagonising propaganda and fabricated lies against Ahl Al Bayt -asws in order to cause damage to their -asws Divinely Higher status.