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.[^27] 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 and those who followed their line. Some rulers, if the…