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lying.<br />

I have seen some eggs in the land of Khuresan. If they are hatched, they will bring about<br />

something wonderful.<br />

They are two ‐year‐old young birds; they have grown up and grown features, but they do not fly.<br />

If they fly and none wangles toward them during this period, they will kindle the fires of a terrible<br />

war.<br />

Yazid said to the carrier of the letter: "Say to your leader: There is no victory but through a large<br />

number (of fighters); and I have no man with me."[1]<br />

Nasr thought of a way to get rid of the crisis, so he sent to al‐Kirmani and Shayban al‐Khariji the<br />

following poetry lines:<br />

Inform Rabi'a in Maru and those in the Yemen to be angry before that anger will not profit (them).<br />

And to declare war, for the people has declared a war in whose edges wood is burnt.<br />

What is the matter with you that you fight one another as if that the men with intelligence were<br />

absent from your opinion?<br />

And you leave an enemy who has en<strong>com</strong>passed you and who has neither religion nor lineage?<br />

We do not know Arabs similar to you among the people, nor (do we know) pure non‐Arabs if their<br />

ancestry is traced back.<br />

They are the people who narrate from the Prophet sayings of which I have never heard, and which<br />

the Books have never mentioned.<br />

Whoever asks me about the origin of their religion, surely their religion is that the<br />

[1] Ibn al‐Athir, Tarikh, vol. 4, p. 305.<br />

Arabs should be killed.[1]<br />

Nasr's attempts for over<strong>com</strong>ing the events were useless, for the revolt widely spread, the cities of<br />

Khuresan surrendered one by one, Abu Muslim was delighted at the victory he won and recited<br />

the following:<br />

Through firmness and secrecy I have attained that before which the Umayyad kings are feeble<br />

when they mobilize (their fighters).<br />

With my efforts I still striving (to shed) their blood, while the people have heedlessly slept in Sham<br />

(Syria).<br />

Until I stroke them with the sword, and they woke up of a sleep which none before them had<br />

slept.<br />

Whoever grazes sheep in a land with lions and neglects them, a lion will undertake grazing<br />

them.[2]<br />

The troops of Abu Muslim occupied the cities and the fortresses and inflicted heavy damages on<br />

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