ordered the cursing of Ali from the pulpits.

ordered the cursing of Ali from the pulpits. All those who supported him or did not endorse such animosity were killed.[^8] Then the Abbaside government started in 132 A.H./750 A.D.

with the reign of Abul-Abbas al-Saffah [the blood-shedder]; it was then that dissociation in various means from Ali and from those who supported him continued, and the means of this dissociation varied according to the then prevailing conditions and circumstances because the Abbaside dynasty was erected on the ruins of Ahlul Bayt and those who followed their line.

Some rulers, if the government's interest demanded, did not publicly curse Ali but were secretly doing more than what the Umayyads did. They learned from the historic experience which highlighted the oppression to which Ahlul Bayt and their supporters were subjected: such oppression drew the sympathy of people to them; therefore, the rulers cunningly tried to tilt the situation in their favor.