Assassination of Imam Al-Hasan (a.

Assassination of Imam Al-Hasan (a.s.) Anyhow, the gravest crime of Mu’awiyah was assassinating Imam al-Hasan (a.s.) after he had pledged, through a famous truce with the Imam, to hold the position of leadership to the Imam. Thus, he could establish an Umayyad royal state. As he looked in the long list of the criminals whom may do this mission so completely, he could not find anyone more qualified than Jo’dah daughter of al-Ash’as, even though she was the Imam’s wife.

This lady was brought up on betrayal and perfidy. Mu’awiyah sent a lethal poison to Marwan ibn al-Hakam and asked him to seduce Jo’dah to poison her husband under promise of marriage to Yazid, Mu’awiyah’s son. Due to her nature, Jo’dah did not hesitate; she poisoned the Imam’s food. The Imam (a.s.) began to suffer the pains of poison and vomit pieces of blood in a washtub. When Lady Zaynab (a.s.) visited him, he ordered to take away that washtub so that she would not see that hurting view.

Yet, she became very sad as she realized that her brother would depart her forever very soon. The Imam (a.s.) then advised his brothers and companions to adhere to the nobilities of character, good deeds, and fear of Allah (s.w.t.). While he was reciting Verses of the Holy Qur’an, his soul exalted to the Heavens to join the endless world there. Imam al-Husain (a.s.) undertook his brother’s funeral ceremonies and intended to bury him next to his grandfather, (s.a.w.a.).

But Aishah, owing to incitement of the Umayyads, rode a mule, shouted, “Do not take to my house those whom I do not like” and created a big seditious matter due to which the blood of huge numbers of Muslims was about to be shed. Evading such a matter, Imam al-Husain (a.s.) had to change his mind and bury his brother in another place. Assigning Yazid as the Coming Caliph Mu’awiyah sealed his criminal reign with imposing his son, Yazid, as his successor.

Like his father and grandfather, Yazid was known of his hypocrisy, treachery, and enmity against Islam. He, publicly, slighted all human values and principles. He used to drink wine in every moment of his life that some historians have specified dipsomania as his death cause. He was also fond of breeding animals, especially monkeys. In abstract, Yazid represented all vices and offenses and had nothing to do with Islam or leadership of the Islamic Ummah. Previous…