The people employed to create mischief, acted as devils in human frames.

The people employed to create mischief, acted as devils in human frames. There was regular bloodshed caused by the agents employed for the purpose. The Holy Imam Hasan knew full well that all the troubles were for the seat of the Kalifate which he then most reluctantly occupied. The public which had begged his father Ameerul-Momineen Ali to accept the Kalifate and rule the state, by the crafty campaign of Ma'aviah, had turned disloval, deceitful, hostile and treacherous.

Hasan the Holy Imam the Vicegerent of God on earth, the Successor to the Holy Prophet, whose first concern was the peace and safety of the people, did not need any contested throne to excereise his divine rights.

Ultimately in the interest of the welfare of the people, the safety of the public life and property, and the security of the chastity of the gentle womanhood Hasan relinquished the Kalifate to Ma'aviah under a written and a signed treaty with the following terms:- Ma'aviah should rule over the state strictly according to the word of God the Holy Qur'an as depicted by the traditions of the Holy Prophet. The people should he allowed to enjoy perfect peace and seourity of life and property.

The persecution of the Shias, i.e. the votees of Ali, should atonce be stopped and they ould no more be harassed. M'aviah should not in any way interfere with Hasan and Husain or any one of the Ahlul-Bait. The cursing of Ali on the pulpits, be atonce stopped. All prisoners, particularly the Shias of Ali, the devotees of the House of the Holy Prophet who had been unlawfully put into prisons and mercilessly tortured therein should at once be released.

Ma'aviah should not appoint any heir to the throne of the Kalifate but leave it to the decision of the muslim public. Hasan Martyred WITH THE ABOVE terms of the treaty agreed to and signed by Ma'aviah, Hasan relinquished the rule of the state to Ma'aviah and retired into complete seclusion, having no concern whatsoever with politics or any affairs of the state and yet he was not left to live in peace even to spend his life in devotion to God and guiding the people to a godly life on earth.

Ma'aviah's main object was to make the way for his son Yazeed to succeed him to the throne of his monarchica1 Kalifate and hence he was devising plans to see that Hasan is once for all done with by putting an end to his life.