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The 'Alawids were disposed by nature for glory, dignity, nobility, and generosity. Thus, the
tyrannical authorities of their times spared no effort to abase them; and they could not bear with
abasement, so they competed with each other for martyrdom, that they might enjoy dignity.
When Yazid b. Mu'awiya tried to force Imam Husayn, the grandson and plant of sweet basil of the
Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family, to pledge allegiance to him and to obey him, he went
to the fields of jihad and declared on the Day of al‐Taff his immortal words in which he described
refusal in the brilliant full sense of the word. He, peace be on him, has said: "Most surely, the
bastard son of the bastard (Yazid) has focused on two (choices) between death and abasement;
and abasement is far away from us! Allah, His Apostle, the believers, the good lap, the pure
wombs, the proud noses, and the refusing souls refuse on our behalf to prefer obeying the
ignoble to the death of the noble!"[2]
These luminous words rotated along with the orbit and embraced it, so they have become a
wonderful lesson for the mujahideen from among his children. When the tyrannical one, Hisham,
tried to abase Zayd b. 'Ali, he said: "When people dislike the heat of the swords, they become
low."
When some people blamed him for revolting (against the 'Abbasids) and frightened him with
death, he said to them:
She came early to frighten me with death as if that I was apart from life.
So I answered her: Surely death is a water‐place, and I will be watered out of the
[1] Maqatil al‐Talibiyyin, p. 521.
[2] A narration similar to this has been mentioned in Ibn 'Asakir's Tarikh, vol. 4, p. 333.
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When the Umayyads went too far in forcing Yehya b. Zayd to accept humiliation and abasement,
he revolted against them and addressed his own great soul, saying:
"O Zayd's son, has Zayd not said: Whoever loves life lives low? Be like Zayd, for you are Zayd's soul
and take a thick shade in the Gardens!"[2] O Yehya, by Allah, you are Zayd's soul; you are a piece
of the liver of your grandfather, the Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family. You carried in
your great inner self self‐esteem and refusal, so you refused to lead a life full of abasement and
wrong, you walked to the field of battle with desire and yearning, that you might die free and
noble!
Through their sacred revolts, the 'Alawids have filled the history of Islam with pride, honor, and
glory. They have described to Muslim peoples throughout their life stages the way to struggle for
freedom and dignity.
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