So much so that it is said: “More deceitful than a Kufian.

So much so that it is said: “More deceitful than a Kufian.” [1] And also about disloyalty an idiom says: “Al-Koofi Laa Yoofi (A Kufian cannot be loyal).” [2] Amirul Momineen (‘a) has described them as follows: “Deceitful loins and crafty foxes…” And it is said regarding them, “They are people whose bodies are together but whose views are conflicting. Anyone who has them with him just derived meager advantage.

And they have become such that there should be no hope in their loyalty and their statements cannot be verified.” [3] Practical aspects in their life were turnabout, hypocrisy and lack of co-operation. [1] Abdul Qahir Baghdadi, Al-Farq Bainal Farq, Pg. 26 [2] Zakaria Qazwini, Aathaarul Bilaad, Pg.

251 [3] Al Imamah was Siyasah 1/129-130 They deceived that great revolutionary, Zaid bin Ali and told him, “A hundred thousand men of Kufa are with you, who shall fight on your side.” [1] And 50000 people gave allegiance to help him. [2] Later when he declared his uprising their number went down to 218. [3] Such that Dawood bin Ali advised Zaid that he should not be fooled by the deception of Kufians and he said, “Cousin, these people are fooling you.

Before you, did they not deceive one who was more respected among them, that is your grandfather, Ali? And after him they pledged allegiance to Hasan but later arose against him and snatched his cloak, plundered his tent and injured him. Did they not call out your grandfather, Husain and made strongest oaths to him and later deserted him and did not submit? They did not rest content with this, they even went so far as to slay him.” [4] They broke allegiance after allegiance.

Aashi Hamdan, who was the poet of uprising of Muhammad bin Ashath against Hajjaj, has ridiculed the Kufians in the following lines: “Allah did not accept but that His light be perfected and that the light of the transgressors is extinguished and that light was extinguished. And on Iraq and its people He sent humiliation due to their breaking of pledge. And they created such inappropriate things that are not eligible to be taken up to God. (Be of any benefit).

That is they broke one pledge after another. Such that if they pledged an oath one day, they betrayed it the next.”[5] They are well-known to all scholars for this quality of theirs. Falhauzen believes that they were absolutely ignorant of rebellion, retraction, deception and disobedience. And political and military loyalty was absolutely unknown to them.