If you persist with envy and hate and hesitated in helping each other...

If you persist with envy and hate and hesitated in helping each other, then Mu`awiyah ibn Abi-Sufyan will overwhelm you and grab the caliphate.”[1] If this talk had reached the ears of Mu`awiyah he must certainly have been motivated by the words and his mind might have started thinking in terms of getting the caliphate in the future. Therefore, his movements and actions very well demonstrated that from the time of `Uthman he had started running around to achieve his end.

After the assassination of `Uthman, he redoubled his efforts. He tried all methods, fair and fowls to achieve his end. When the Umayyad standard flew in Syria,…