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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Lady Zaynab (peace Be Upon Her) The Caliphs’ Reigns The Holy Qur’an has depicted adeptly the tragedy that inflicted the Islamic Ummah because of the absence of (s.a.w.a.), yet no one else can depict such a vision. Listen to the Holy Qur’an.

And whoever turns back upon his heel will by no means does harm to Allah (s.w.t.) in the least, and Allah (s.w.t.) will reward the grateful.[^114] In fact, the most disastrous tragedy that inflicted the Islamic Ummah after the Prophet’s (s.a.w.a.) demise was taking the Prophet’s Household (a.s.) away from the political fields and giving the leadership to other unworthy individuals.

Besides the many adversities that the Islamic Ummah has been suffering because of these procedures, this matter resulted in the Umayyad rulers’ coming to power and behaving savagely with Muslims in general and the Prophet’s Household (a.s.) in particular, In few words, the plot of taking Imam Ali (a.s.) away from the leadership was the major reason beyond slaying the Prophet’s Household (a.s.) and the genuine companions in Karbala at the hands of the Umayyad army.

The events that occurred during the reigns of the first three caliphs had left clear prints on the life of Lady Zaynab (a.s.). Let us then refer briefly to these events. The Plot of Al-Saqifah While ’s (s.a.w.a.) dead body had not been buried yet, some individuals from the Ansar[^115] hurried to hold a secret congress in Saqifah -shed- of Banu-Sa’idah for proposing one of them for the headship of the Islamic Ummah because they anticipated that the Mohaajerun[^116] would seize power.

Sa’d ibn Ubadah, the chief of al-Khazraj tribe, delivered a speech in which he applauded the Ansar’s straggle for sake of Islam and that they would be worthier of leading the Islamic Ummah than the tribes of Quraysh who antagonized the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and tried to assassinate him.