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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Lady Zaynab (peace Be Upon Her) The Black Reign After the perdition of Mu’awiyah, the Islamic Ummah was pervaded by a violent, terrorist reign, which did not submit to a tradition or law or respond to any human emotion. Finally, it betook oppression and despotism as its slogan. This is the very depiction of Yazid ibn Mu’awiyah’s reign, which persecuted Muslims so harshly.

During this reign, Lady Zaynab (a.s.) suffered the most difficult misfortunes and adversities, and the Prophet’s family had to encounter extreme eradication. They were slain, and the Umayyad soldiers cut their limbs and violated their dead bodies so inhumanely. Lady Zaynab (a.s.) saw these excruciating views with her own eyes; therefore, sadness and sorrows cut through her heart and she could not stop against her tears and cries of mourning.

That was not all; she, altogether with the Prophet’s harem, then was taken as captive and shown around the provinces of the Umayyad State. They once were taken to Ubaydullah ibn Ziyad, son of the ill-famed Marjanah, and then to Yazid, grandson of the ill-famed Hind.[^165] In any case, Lady Zaynab (a.s.) suffered the cruelest adversities during the black reign of Yazid, the sinful tyrant who was an inexperienced, lecherous young and had known nothing about leadership, policy, or management.

He could not even manage or control himself; he submitted completely to his whims and his one and only lust was bloodshed. When his cursed father died in Damascus, Yazid was on a journey.[^166] He received a message informing about his father’s perdition and his becoming the caliph of the Islamic Ummah. He thus hurried to the capital accompanied by his immoral faction.

From that moment, people began to criticize him for irresponsible behaviors.[^167] The first thing he did in Damascus was that he declared his determination to wage a destructive war against people of Iraq. People of Syria, however, welcomed this determination and declared their readiness to plunge themselves into such a war.[^168] Yazid’s most malicious opposition was in Medina; they were Imam al-Husain (a.s.) and Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.