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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Hussein the Saiviour of Islam The Situation Worsens and the Atmosphere Gets Totally Darkened TFIE PEOPLE FOUND infidelity and godlessness spreading all around them, and its intensity being ever on the increase and getting more and more aggressive. There was no security for the faith and the faithful. Religion aetting horribly adulterated with counterfeit traditions coined in favour of the grossly anti- religious elements.

The practice of the faith laid down by the Holy Prophet strictly on the Qur'anic lines, was recasted into the wrong moulds of infidelity.

The situation had become openly hostile to the House of the Holy Prophet, the love or faithfulness to the members of which was under the command ofthe Lord, decreed incumbent on ever muslim with a definite ordinance of the Holy Qur'an on it had become a mercilessly punishable crime:- " Say thou (O' Our Apostlc Muhammad!) I ask ye naught in return for it (the apostleship) save the lovc for my relatives." 42:23 Thosc who professed faithfulness to the House of the Holy Prophet indentifying themselves as the Shias of Ali were persecuted, plundered, mercilessly crucified and brutally murdered and their properties were confiscated.

People faithful to the Holy House had either to be killed or to go underground under the cover of 'Taqiah' (hiding the faith); they were even then chased, spied and hunted and when found out, were condemned to death. The situation actually needed a Muhammad to brave the devilish forces and deliver the people from the clutches of the satanic sway over the people and the cruel authority of the crown as was sent Moses to deliver the Israelites from the clutches of Pharaoh.

But the prayer of the people for another apostle or prophet would be only in vain for the Last Apostle had come and gone and there was no other prophet or apostle after him to come .The only way to salvation for the faith and the people was to appeal to Husain, the Holy Imam of the age, who was the Vicegerent of God in the place of the Holy Prophet, to come to their rescue. The authority to rule over the destiny of the people in the various parts of the state was distributed by nepotism.

Merits of personal righteousness and the sense of justice had lost their recognition and had no worth or value in the eyes of the administrators of the matters of the state.