He made his wicked...

He made his wicked, dissolute and drunkard son as the caliph over those great companions; Yazeed that sinful and criminal dissolute who committed, a little time after being the ruler, his horrible crime in Kerbala against the master of the youths of Paradise, Imam Husayn (as), his family and his sincere companions…that crime which distressed the prophets and made the rocks cry. Then Yazeed, according to a covenant from his father Mo’awiya,[^3] sent the criminal Muslim bin Aqaba to attack Medina.

He committed horrible crimes against the people of Medina for three days. One thousand virgins from among the daughters of the Muhajireen and the Ansar were violated. [^4] On that day ten thousand and seven hundred and eighty men of the Muhajireen, the Ansar, their offspring and the rest of the Muslims had been killed. No one of the Muslims of Badr had remained alive after this event. [^5] A great number of women and children had also been killed.

The soldiers pulled the suckling babies with their legs from their mothers’ laps and threw them against the walls and made their brains scatter before the eyes of their mothers. [^6] Then the people of Medina were ordered to pay homage to Yazeed on condition that they were considered as slaves; whether Yazeed liked to enslave them or to set them free. The people paid homage under this condition while their monies were plundered, their bloods were shed and their women were violated.

Then Muslim bin Aqaba sent the heads of the killed people of Medina to Yazeed. When the heads were thrown before Yazeed, he became delighted and he recited some verses of poetry. After that Muslim bin Aqaba went to fight Ibn az-Zubayr, who had been paid homage as the caliph in Mecca. On his way to Mecca, Muslim bin Aqaba died. Then al-Husayn bin Numayr became the leader of the army by an order of Yazeed. He moved with his army until he arrived at Mecca.

He ordered his army to set up mangonels towards Mecca. He ordered his men to throw Mecca with ten thousand stones in one day. The army blockaded Mecca for four months and kept on fighting every day until the news of Yazeed’s death came. The mangonels had hit the Kaaba and destroyed it besides the fire that had been set on it. The horrible crimes of Yazeed from the beginning of his life until his death were more than to be included in the books or to be written down by the pens.

They had deformed the face of history and blackened its pages.