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Second: The general level of the nation as a whole was below the required to stand up to the current of sweeping deviation. A tendency to treasure the pleasures of this world began to be visible in all sections of the nation, as a substitute for the spirit of sacrifice for the cause of Allah. And this enabled the opportunistic current to win and hold the positions of ruling and guidance.

Third: It was necessary that the nation should learn about the true Islamic conception of the Imamate; its true role and its dimensions. The dangerous effects of undermining the Islamic conceptions which were played by the Ummayad rule were never emerging from the grassroots level, but rather from the high levels of leadership that monopolized all means of guidance.

Therefore, in accordance with the demands of the Islamic message, and the qualities that have to be available in a Muslim ruler, Imam Hussain (A.S.) had to explain these issues to the Muslim masses in every speech he made or any other opportunity he had: “O people you have to be pious believers and know the right. That is better for you.

We the members of the family of Muhammad (Ahl ul-Bait) are more entitled to be the rulers than those who claim what is not rightfully theirs; those oppressors and tyrants”. With such roaring words, Imam Hussain (A.S.) revealed that the Ummayads who have deviated from the right Islamic path are not fit to be rulers, and explained to the nation the foundations of the course of Islamic traits that are embodied in the Imam himself that qualify him to be Imam of the nation.

Thus, underlining the Islamic conception of the Imamate and revealing the falsehood of the Ummayad claims were among the fundamental reasons that made the Imam declare his revolution. Fourth: The Islamic message offers no justification for the Muslim to relieve him from performing his duties as a man who has obligations towards the message he believes in.

Man in Islamic society is not an independent individual but rather a person who is integrated into his society and who should perform his duties towards the Islamic message. But to fulfil his commitments towards Allah’s Shariah in enjoining the good and forbidding the evil meant that he had to follow the path of the revolution because it was the only way that provided any hope for reform in his grandfather’s (s.a.w.a) nation.