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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Lady Zaynab (peace Be Upon Her) Mu’awiyah’s Reign By Mu’awiyah’s coming to power, the pre-Islamic idol ruling replaced the democratic ruling of Islam.

Vice, indecency, and violation of good manners found themselves expansive places under the consent of the Umayyad individuals.[^161] From his father who was the bitterest enemy of Islam, and from his mother who, out of her malice against Islam, ate the liver of Hamzah during the Battle of Uhud, Mu’awiyah inherited enmity against the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.).

Furthermore, the son exceeded his parents; he could not hide his real feelings as the name of the Holy Prophet (a.s.), during the five-time per day declaration of prayer, was annoying him.[^162] In sequence, he hated the Prophet’s Householdand offspring as extremely as possible. He therefore issued the most malicious decision of concealing their virtues and merits.

Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi’e; the founder of the Shafie Islamic school of law answered those who asked him to say his opinion about Imam Ali Amir al-Mu’minin (a.s.): “What can we say about a person whose partisans have had to hide his merits because of fear, and enemies have hidden his merits out of envy?

But between these two, his merits that have become widely known are too numerous to be counted.”[^163] During the reign of Mu’awiyah, the partisans of Imam Ali (a.s.) and the (a.s.) had to suffer various sorts of persecution. For instance, the criminal Bisr ibn Arta’ah killed and burnt more than thirty thousand individuals, Samarah ibn Jundab killed eight thousand individuals from Basra, and Ziyad ibn Abih, who exceeded everyone else in criminality, cut the limbs of the Imam’s partisans.

Even the women who showed loyalty to Imam Ali (a.s.) and the (a.s.) were not saved from the inhuman procedures of Mu’awiyah’s criminal authorities. Furthermore, Mu’awiyah gave the orders of destroying the houses of the Imam’s partisans and leaving them homeless. He also deprived them of their shares from the public treasure[^164] and refusing their testimonies in the official courts. Eventually, Mu’awiyah exiled more than fifty thousand of them to Khurasan, northeast Persia.

By the way, those exiles propagandized Shiism in that province whose people, later on, changed into a strong front of opposition against the Umayyad ruling until they, under the leadership of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani, could overthrow their oppressive state.