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form of his children, and then into the form of Abu Muslim al‐Khuresani. After him, He moved to
him. He asked his followers to serve him and to prostrate themselves in prayer before him.[2] He
commanded them not to pray and not to pay zekat (alms). He made it lawful for them to sleep
with women.[3]
Al‐Muqanna‘ was skillful in engineering. He made an artificial moon. The moon appeared and the
people saw it from the distance of a month. Then it disappeared. Al‐Muqanna‘ deceived the
people with that. Concerning that false moon, Abu al‐‘Ala’ al‐Ma‘rri says:
Beware, the moon whose head is veiled is misguidance and error; it is like Al‐Muqanna’s moon.
Anyhow, these destructive movements divided the Islamic society and made the cultural
movement disordered.
The Summoners to Atheism
The summons to atheism and all the destructive principles at that time stood on some unknown
people suffering from psychological diseases. Yezdan b. Badhan was one of them. He was famous
for atheism and hypocrisy. He went to the Sacred House of Allah during the season of hajj. When
he saw the people circumambulating the Kaaba, he said: “They look like cows treading on wheat.”
This statement of his created waves of anger and displeasure in the souls of the
[1] Al‐Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 6, p. 147.
[2] Ibid., p. 367.
[3] Wafayat al‐A'yan, vol. 1, p. 453.
good and those clinging to their religion. Al‐‘Alaa’ b. al‐Haddad addressed caliph Musa al‐Hadi and
urged him to kill Yezdan b. Badhan, saying: O one entrusted by Allah over His creatures, inheritor
of the Kaaba and the Pulpit, what is your opinion of an unbelieving man who likens the Kaaba to a
threshing floor, and the people circumambulating the Kaaba to cows treading on wheat and
darnel?
So Musa al‐Hadi ordered him to be killed and to be crucified.[1] Yet another examples of the
unbelievers is Bashshar b. Burd. He went too far in summoning the people to atheism. He urged
them to warship fire. He declared that when he said:
Iblis is better than your father Adam; therefore distinguish, o group of the wicked. Fire is his
element; Adam is a piece of clay. Clay is not as high as fire. Clay is dark, and fire shines. Fire has
been worshipped since it came into existence.[2] He insisted on his creed until he was killed.[3]
Among them was Salih b. ‘Abd al‐Qudus. He was among the most prominent atheists. Al‐Mehdi
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