In this process...

In this process, they attempt to conceal the atrocities committed by Yazid and accuse Imam Husayn (a.s.) of brewing a revolt. Mr. Ghulam Nabi writes, “ Changes and charges apart, basic objective of the Umayyads was to maintain the unity of the Islamic Ummah and Muslim State.

They were living in a time when uprising and insurrection started to shake off the unity of the Muslim world to eradicate or to expunge the civil wars the Umayyads maintained their rule within their own family by making their sons and brothers as their heir apparent .”[^14] By saying this, Mr.

Ghulam Nabi attempts to maintain the proposition that the Caliph, be he virtuous or vicious, once seated in power by whatever means, should be obeyed implicitly.[^15] Anyone opposing such a Caliph should be considered to have bred…