Mu’awiya approved al-Mughira’s opinion...

Mu’awiya approved al-Mughira’s opinion, rewarded him for that, and installed him in his office. Then he commanded him to go to Kufa to achieve that. When al-Mughira went away from Mu’awiya, he met with his people. They questioned him about his fate. He answered them about what he had brought from among the tribulation and the discords to the Muslims in general for his purpose.

He said to them: “I have put Mu’awiya’s leg into a leather stirrup which is far from the community of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and his family, in objective. I have ripped for them a rip which can never be mended.” Then he quoted as an example: “Through the like of me, the enemies and the angry opponents have witness the secret conversation and exaggerated.” Al-Mughira went to Kufa. He negotiated with those who were famous for allegiance and loyalty about his task.

He bribed each one of them with thirty thousand dirhams. So they responded to what he wanted. He appointed his son Musa as a head over ten persons and sent them to Mu’awiya. When they reached him, they made him think favorably of the affair and asked him to carry it out. So Mu’awiya thanked them for that and asked them to keep the affair secret. Then he turned to al-Mughira’s son and asked him secretly: -How much did your father pay to buy their religion? -Thirty thousand dirhams.

Mu’awiya laughed and said: “Certainly their religion has become easy to them!”[^1] Mu’awiya achieved that through buying religions and consciences, and through the means with which the Muslims were unfamiliar and which the religion did not confirm. Delegations of the Countries Mu’awiya officially summoned all the remarkable personalities in the Islamic world. He invited them to come to Damascus that he might negotiate with them about the affair of the pledge of allegiance to Yazid.

When they stood before him, he secretly summoned al-Dhahhak bin Qays al-Fihri and said to him: “When I sit down on the pulpit and finish some of my sermon and speech, ask me to permit you to stand up. When I permit you, you praise Allah, the Most High, mention Yazid and say about him that which is his right against you from among the good laudation toward him. Then ask me to [^1] Al-Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 6, p. 169. Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 3, p. 214.

Al-Mughira came to Mo’awiya in the year 45 A. H. In this year Mo’awiya made the premises of the pledge of allegiance to his son. appoint him as a successor after me.