Omayya in his pride...

Omayya in his pride, bore an inherent envy and enmity against Hashim and the Hashimites. Abde Manaf, before his death, had handed over the charge of his privileged hereditary duties of service to the Holy Ka ba to Hashim his eldest son who was very noble by nature and godly in temperament. This aggravated the hatred, jealousy and animosity of Omayya which tendency continued as a personality trait from generation to generation in his seed.

The recent inquiries by the famous scholar A1-Ameeni of Iraq, the author of the celebrated work 'A1-Ghadeer, and the other great research scholar Imad Zadeh of Iran, in their great works, discount the story by Ibne Athir and others, of Abdush Shams and Hashim being the twin issues of Abde Manaf, born with their backs joined, which were separated by a lancet, and some fortune teller predicting everlasting enmity between the descendants of the twins; and Omayya being the son of Abdush Shams.

How- ever, the issues of Omayya, the slave boy adopted by Abdush Shams, became known as the Ornayyads and their inherent envy and enmity against the Hashimites came to stay as their hereditary trait as the native endowment which further developed in the Omayyad blood. The enmity between the two groups went on increasing. The Hashimites were known for all kinds of virtues and goodness while the Omayyads became notorious for the opposite qualities.

As day-by day the honour, reverence, regard and respect for the goodness of the Hashimites went on increasing more and more, the jealousy and enmity of the Qrnavyads was got further more aggravated against the Hashimites. In short, the Hashi- mites were good, noble and gentle, while the Qmavyads were wicked, mean and aggressive.

The Hashimites held the Trusteeshi and the Custody of the Holy House of God, the Ka'ba, which was the most coveted and unique honour enjoyed exclusively by the Hashimites. The Omayyads envied this the most, and could not bear it.

While the charitable disposition of the Hashimites could not allow the hoarding of any persongl wealth, the selfishness and niggardliness of the Omayyads had enabled them to store abundant wealth which had made the Omayyads ever more haughty and proud against the noble, the gentle and the meek ones of the Hashimites.