For an understanding of the psychic complexes of Mu'awiyah...

For an understanding of the psychic complexes of Mu'awiyah which incited him towards enmity with the good and virtuous and roused him to combat with their reputation of purity, there was no other way but a survey of those events Indeed with an understanding of the character of Mu'awiyah and his motives and complexes, one can trace the traditions which were fabricated during his time for the satisfaction of his personal motives, and in this way the thick and dark screens which he hung, by means of those false traditions, over the brilliant visage of Islam and Muslims, may be drawn aside to reveal Islam and Muslims as they really were.

Consequently, we unwillingly accepted this necessity of introducing Mu'awiyah and his lineage as they were, and bring this discussion to an end for God's satisfaction and with the motive of propagation of knowledge. Sayyid Murtada 'Askari…