The son of Motavakkel Mansour...

The son of Motavakkel Mansour, ordered that it be once again returned to the children of Imam Hassan (p.b.u.h.) and Hossein (p.b.u.h.). Evidently, a village that rotates as such from hand to hand, everyday being the plaything in the hands of spiteful politicians will quickly be laid waste. Eventually this very fate encompassed Fadak and all of its inhabited places became ruined arid its trees withered and dried up.

However, at any rate, these quotations explain this reality that the caliphs were especially sensitive in relation to Fadak, and according to his political policies, each showed a special position and reaction regarding it. This is all proof of what was said previously that the usurping of Fadak from Fatimah (p.b.u.h.) and her descendents had more of a political nature than an economic one. Its aim was to exclude them from the Islamic society and weaken their position.

It was also a declaration of enmity towards the family of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.). This was just as the return of Fadak to them, an act repeated several times in the length of Islamic history, was a “Political Maneuver” meant to be a show of sympathy and affection for the Prophet’s family (p.b.u.h.).

Fadak’s importance in Muslim public opinion was such that in some historical reports it is related; that in the time of “Motavakkel Abassi” before Fadak was taken from Bani Fatimah (p.b.u.h.) the dates of its produce were brought among the pilgrims at the time of Hajj and were bought by them at exorbitant prices as good luck gifts! ( Ibn Abi Al-hadid, volume 16, page 217) Previous…