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By your support I shall defeat all those who confront us and I am hopeful of your complete obedience.” [3] He also said, “Kufa is the mine of faith, the treasury of Islam and swords and spears of God that He appoints wherever He likes.” [4] Iraq participated in the more severe battles and the deadliest confrontations for the sake of Ahle Bayt and they took revenge from the killers of Ahle Bayt under the leadership of the great revolutionary Mukhtar Ibn Abi Ubaidah Thaqafi who rose up to take revenge for their blood.

On the basis of this the Imam selected Iraq for migration because the people of the Iraqi cities had a deep loyalty and devotion to Ahle Bayt. [1] Journal ‘Ghurra’, Year 9, No. 11-14, Pg. 108 [2] Al Imamah was Siyasah 1/125 [3] Al Imamah was Siyasah 1/124 [4] Ibne Faqih, Mukhtasar al-Buldan , Pg. 163 Thirdly: Kufa was the original center of the opposition to Umayyad Kingdom.

Because throughout the Umayyad rule, the Kufians had never restrained from confronting the Umayyads and they always aspired to bring about its downfall. According to Falhauzen the cause of Kufian animosity towards the Umayyads was that the caliphate had been relocated from Kufa to Damascus and that previously, they themselves had been at the helm of the government. And that their city was reduced to the position of only a territory of the new kingdom.

And their lands were taxed and funds dispatched to the lands they themselves had conquered. Now the position was such that they had to remain content at the leftovers of the Umayyad rule. Therefore it was nothing strange that Kufians displayed remarkable fury in confronting the Syrian Kingdom and they considered their authority as a yoke of slavery upon them and tried their best to overthrow their domination.

Among the factors that lent severity to the anger of Kufians against the Umayyads was that Muawiyah had appointed incapable persons like Mughairah bin Shoba and Ziyad bin Abih as governors of Iraqi provinces. And these two wreaked injustice and oppression among them and took away their comfort and peace.

They also tried to bring about their economic deprivation and took steps to make effective the politics of hunger and deprivation…Kufa became the center of revolt against the Umayyad regime and the arrests, murders and oppression of the governors did not restrain them from it.