Tuesday, December 18, 2007
THREE DREADFUL CRIMES OF YAZID IBN MUAWIYA
The First Dreadful Crime: Killing Abu Abdillah
Al-Husain (as).
Yazid son of Muawiya with that inhuman and wicked
qualities in his first year of his rule martyred the
"Leader of the Youth of the Paradise" Abu Abdullah
al-Husain(A. S.) and his family and companions in that
tragic state.
The Second Dreadful Crime: Killing and raping
thousands of Residents of Madina and Desecrating
Masjid Nabavi
In his second year of his rule he created the
deplorable incident of "Harrah" which blackened the
pages of history. The people of Madinah after the
martyrdom of Imam Husain (A.S.) came to know the evils
of Yazid and refused to obey him and threw out the
agents of Yazid from Madinah.
Yazid on previous advice of his father Muawiya, sent a
heartless and bloody old man Muslim ibn Aqbah with a
strong army towards the holy tomb of Prophet of Islam
(S.A.W.) at Madinah. The army of Yazid in that holy
city committed such heinous crimes that the pen is
ashamed to describe it.
The army of Yazid confronted the people of Madinah
within a mile from Madinah, at a place called "Harrah"
in the command of Abdullah ibn Hanzala. A fierce
battle took place. The people of Madinah who could not
defend themselves took refuge in the tomb sanctuary of
Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.). The Syrian Yazidi army
entered Madinah. They broke the sanctity of that holy
place and shed the blood of the people so much so that
the holy mosque (Masjid Nabawi) was filled with blood
which even reached Holy Prophet's grave.
Their horses impured the Masjid by passing urine and
dung. Among the persons who killed were seven hundred
people who were famous for piety and nobility. Others
who were massacred consisted of ten thousand innocent
men, women and children.
The Syrian Yazidi commander left free the army to loot
and rape. The shameless Syrian Yazidi army began the
plunder and rape. Thousands of girls and women got
pregnant those newborns later called "The Children of
Harrah". It is narrated that Yazidi army even
committed rape in Masjid un-Nabawi.
A Sample Yazid's Cruelty to the People of Madinah
Ibn Qutaibah in his book "Al-Imamah va Siyasah"
described:
"One of the army man entered a woman's house who had
recently delivered a baby. Her new born baby was
sucking milk in the lap of her mother. The man told
that lady: Have you got money? She said: I swear God,
the Syrian army did not left a single coin for me.
The army man said: Bring some thing for me else I will
kill you and your infant.
The woman cried: Woe upon you, this is the child of
Prophet's companion (sahabi). I also gave oath of
allegiance to Prophet (S.A.W.) at "Shajara
Allegiance", and pointing her infant told: My child, I
swear God, if I have something, I will surely
sacrifice upon you".
Suddenly that accursed man snatched the infant's leg
who was sucking milk and pulled him away from mother's
lap and hit him to the wall. So that the infant's
brain got scattered before her mother's eyes and
spread all over the floor.
The narrator said: As the accursed army man was
stepping out of that house his face blackened at once.
This incident became an idiom among the people of
Madinah.
The depth of the Harrah tragedy was so much that for
along period when a man wanted to marry his daughter
he was unable to give the guarantee of his daughters
maidenhood.
Then the Yazidi army took allegiance from the people
of Madinah, to be the slaves of Yazid. It was upon his
will to leave them or made them slaves. The people of
Madinah though their property plundered, blood shed
and their women raped and molested, all of them gave
allegaince "Bayyat" to Yazid except the fourth holy
Imam of the Shi'ites Imam Zainul Abedin(A.S.) .
The criminal Muslim Ibn Aqbah sent slaughtered heads
of the people of Madinah to Yazid at Damascus ( Syria
). As the heads were presented before Yazid he said:
"I wish my forefathers who were killed in the battle
of Badr would be alive and see how I took revenge with
the Prophet of Islam and Muslims".
The Third Dreadful Crime: The Army of Yazid Set Ablaze
and Destroyed Holy Kaaba
After suppressing and plundering people of Madinah,
Muslim ibn Aqabah started towards Makkah to crush
Abdullah ibn Zubair.
Finally Hasin ibn Namir took the leadership of the
Syrian Yazidi army and attacked Makkah. When Abdullah
ibn Zubair took refuge in Masjid al- Haram and Kaaba,
they stoned Kaaba with catapult war machine and with
cloth in kerosene oil and what ever inflammable in
hand, they threw upon upon so that Holy Kaaba was
burnt and demolished.
It is narrated that the Syrian army commander ordered
to hit the Holy Kaaba daily with ten thousand stones.
In the meantime as the Syrian army was attacking Holy
Kaaba and destroying the holy place, Allah Almighty
gave Yazid no chance and took away his life. He was
still under the age of forty.
Yazid in the period of only three years caliphate
committed heinous crimes. In his first year of rule he
martyred Sayyid ush- Shuhada Imam Husain (A.S.) and
captivated his whole family. In his second year of
rule allowed his army to kill, loot and transgress the
chastity of women in the holy city of Madinah . In the
third year of his rule he set ablaze the Holy Kaaba
and demolished the holy place.
The reason for the the death of Yazid some said: He
was drunk so much, that while dancing fell down upon
his head and died.
Others said: He was killed buy a bedouin Arab in the
desert. When Yazid got alone in chase of hunt, he
introduced himself to Arab who got furiated and said:
'You are the murderer of Husain ibn Ali', thus the
Arab killed Yazid on the spot. His body was buried in
'Bab Saghir" in Damascus . Now that place has been
changed into rubbish heap.
Masudi in "Muruj az-Zahab" said: Yazid used to booze
openly in public on the footsteps of Pharoah (Firaun).
Rather Firaun was better than Yazid. Following Yazid,
his agents too started debauchery overtly before
people. In the period of Yazid's caliphate singing and
dancing were performed openly among people. Musical
instruments were in use and alcohol was consumed
freely in public.
-Asif Raza
asifraza13@yahoo.com
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment