The barbarities and cruelties perpetrated against the...

The barbarities and cruelties perpetrated against the children of the Prophet (P) by BANU OMAYYA especially the unparalleled atrocities committed on the field of KERBALA'A at least opened the eyes of a section of the people, and as one man they rose to avenge those wrongs. The children of the uncle of the Prophet (P) saw their opportunity in this swing of the people's feelings towards the children of the daughter, and at first posed as the avengers of the wrongs done to them.

It was in their name that they rose; but once success was attained, deceit, treachery and fraud came into play, and BANU ABBAS, passing over BANU FATIMA, occupied the throne. And they ill repaid those in whose name they had obtained the empire.

The pages of history tell a long and continuously mournful tale of horrible atrocities, unparallel barbarities and unspeakable cruelties against the children of the prophet (P), for example, burying the ALIDS alive in the foundations and walls of the palaces those same palaces which are now held up as evidence of a glorious age of Islam.

The jugular vein of this dynasty was also the same theory of Non-appointment, and the basis of its policy was similarly the persecution and oppression of the children of the Prophet (P). Having cleared the ground so far, I will now proceed to describe by whom and under what circumstances and influences the HADITH and the Historical Records were collected and compiled. The power of the HADITH was recognized by the Government from the very beginning.

They also knew that the sayings of the Prophet (P) were full of praise for Imam Ali. They therefore, in the first instance, passed orders prohibiting people from mentioning or circulating the HADITH. Although they were asked not to mention the HADITH at all, they soon realized the impossibility of completely avoiding doing so. It was much too natural for the people to relate among themselves what their Prophet (P) had said.

It served as a legal digest, and was useful as a guide in deciding legal cases. The first order was therefore amended to the extant that the QADIS (judges) were authorized to refer to the HADITH in deciding cases where they could not find in the QUR'AN any express orders applicable to the case in hand. The third stage in the control of the HADITH was reached when orders were passed that those HADITH in favor of imam Ali or in his appreciation should not be permitted currency.