The above were some examples of the atrocities the Abbasides...

The above were some examples of the atrocities the Abbasides had committed on the descendants of Imam Ali (a.s) that were versified by these poets. Letter of Khwarizmi to the people of Nishapur Abu Bakr Khwarizmi wrote the following letter to the people of Nishapur. It is an example of records containing the oppressions done on the Ahle Bayt (a.s) after the passing away of the Messenger of Allah (a.s) that were committed by Umayyads, Abbasides and others.

Here we shall quote this letter verbatim, because it contains in details some of the tortures suffered by the Alawites. It is as follows: “Know that! May Almighty Allah guide your efforts and may He gather your activities on piety and fear of God. There is a matter on which no powerful person has spoken about.

That he could not bear any kind of difficulty except that he should have kept it in his own place and would not confess to its greatness but that he be inclined to it and no one shall care, that he should destroy his religion. If his world becomes bad and if he saw his happiness in it he does not care about the pleasure of Allah. You all and me - may Allah reform you and us. We are that group that Allah has not made us for this world. Rather he was kept us for the Hereafter.

He has kept us away from instant happiness and prepared the rewards of the Hereafter for us. We are divided into two groups: A group that accepted sacrifice and another group that is a life of homelessness. The living people doubt regarding those who have died and had reached an elevated status and are not pleased with the life given to them. [That\ is\ the\ life\ of\ homelessness] .

Amirul Mo-mineen (a.s), the chief of religion said: “Calamities reach our Shias more swiftly than water reaches a low-lying land.” The conclusion of this discourse is that these things are obtained by patience; and he found the people of his house to be always in difficulties and calamities. Their life was always in difficulties and their hearts were always filled with sadness and grief and the world had becomes aloof from them.

If we wish to be the Shias of Ahle Bayt (a.s) in the obligatory and recommended deeds and wish to act on all their commands, we must also be prepared to bear the worst kinds of difficulties.