Especially that he stops the evils because they were...

Especially that he stops the evils because they were committed and encouraged by those who were occupying the seat of vicegerency of the Prophet. Secondly: His Eminence had received allegiance for caliphate in the Arabian Peninsula and thirty thousand letters of support were received by him from Iraq from the people of Kufa and Basra. And they promised the Imam that they would support him in his fight against Yazid bin Muawiyah.

Repeated entreaties insisted that the Imam must rise up against the tyrant regime. So much so, that a leader of these petitioners, Abdullah bin Haseen wrote: “O Husain! We shall complain against you to Allah on the Day of Judgment.” How was it possible for Husain (‘a), who had…