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However, when he and his sons were entrusted with authority, they controlled the wealth of the
‘Abbasid government.
So they possessed villages, gardens, and other things whose number was not accounted and
whose value was not known. They had a good village in every corner, a fruitful garden on each
creek, a valuable possession in every city and town. Their annual income was millions of dinars.[2]
Of course this abundant wealth they had during that short period of time resulted from their
possessing alone the properties of the Muslims and their plundering the possessions of the
government. They made use of their political influence in playing with the public treasuries to
which money was collected from all the Islamic regions.
These examples we have mentioned of Harun, his family’s, and his ministers’ extravagance
indicate his high treason toward the Muslims, his possessing alone their wealth, and his violating
the sacredness of Islam.
His Letter to Sufyan
As Harun deviated from the moderate way and wasted the properties of the Muslims, the
righteous men were displeased with him and turned away from him. He tried to meet with Sufyan
al‐Thouri. So he wrote him a letter and filled the letter with cajolery and showing affection to him,
that he might respond to his purpose, and he would use that as a means to deceive the general
populace. In it he has mentioned:
From the servant of Allah, Harun, the Commander of the faithful.
To his brother in Allah Sufyan b. Sa‘eed al‐Thouri.
No then, O My brother, you have come to know that Allah has made the Muslims as brothers, and
I have made you as a brother with a brotherhood through which I will never cut off your rope, and
from which I will never cut love for you. I have the best affection to you and the most complete
will. Were it not for this authority with which Allah had entrusted me, I would go to you, even if
creeping. That is because of the love for you I find in my heart. All my and your brothers visited
me and congratulate me on that to which I came. I have opened the public treasuries and given
them grand gifts through which my soul has become happy and I have
[1] Ibn al‐Athir, Tarikh, vol. 6, p. 8.
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