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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Imam Al-hasan Al-mujtaba Preface By: Kashif al-Ghita’ The Hashemites and the Umayyads, Al-Hasan and Mu’awiya Enmities and grudges between individuals, tribes, and folks are instincts inside man since the beginning of his creation and existence on the earth, since the time of Abel and Cain, and they continued in all generations until this one.

The cause and motives of enmity most of times come out of selfishness, the love of power and authority, seizing wealth, a position, or rule And the worst of enmities is that which leads to revenge. But, the worst enmity in effect and extent and that which cannot be changed or removed is the enmity of “the spontaneous opposition” and “the essential difference”, like the enmity of darkness to light, virtue to vice, ugliness to beauty, evil to good, and the like.

This enmity and difference are impossible to disappear except by the disappearance of one of the opposites and this cannot be. These opposites neither agree with each other nor can each of them disappear. Bad entities in their essence opposite the good ones, and each of these opposites tries the best to remove the other from existence like light and darkness which cannot exist together in one place at all.

Each of them, in its natures, opposes and antagonizes the other such as virtue and vice in man, and so on. The enmity of the Umayyads towards the Hashemites was from this kind. It was impossible to disappear because it was like the enmity of darkness to light, evil to good, and malice to kindness. Each of these opposites can be known by its fruits and effects. It has been said, ‘From their fruits you can know them’.

A tree is known due to its good or bad fruit, and man’s good or evil is known due to his deeds and characteristics. Abd Manaf begot Hashim and Abd Shams. The enmity between these two brothers began since the first of their growth for nothing except the difference between their two essences. Then, this enmity grew wider between the two tribes because of heredity.

Each one of these tribes had an opposite from the other tribe in lineage; Hashim and Abd shams, Abdul Mutallib and Umayya, Abu Talib and Harb, Muhammad (a.s) and Abu Sufyan. Since the first moment when the first ray of Islam shone and the Prophet (a.s) announced monotheism, the feud of polytheism and idolatry revolted to efface the lights of monotheism.