While the people were wholeheartedly attached to the memories of the Prophet...

While the people were wholeheartedly attached to the memories of the Prophet, and still spoke of association with him, of his vision and gestures and even of his clothes, she raised his shoe as a decisive evidence of disregard of his ways and traditions by 'Uthman, thus rousing the people violently against him, and instigating them to her heart's content. With this single gesture which was made with a careful calculation and was appropriate in terms of time and place, she made a…