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The authorities took all the procedures against those who praised the ‘Alawids or mentioned
them in a good manner. Also they intentionally tired the ‘Alawids. A loyal decree issued from
Baghdad and was sent to Egypt. It has been mentioned in the decree: “The ‘Alawids should not be
given country estates. They should not ride horses nor should they go to any part of al‐Fustat.
They should be prevented from taking slaves except one slave. If there is a dispute between an
‘Alawid and another person, then speech of the ‘Alawid should not be accepted, and the speech
of his opponent should be accepted without any proof.”[1] It incumbent on the ‘Alawids to go to
the capital, that they might be under the supervision of the government. Al‐Rashid ordered his
governor over Median to order the ‘Alawids to guarantee each other. He ordered them to be
brought before the authority every day. If any of them had been absent, he should have been
punished.[2]
[1] Al‐Kindi, al‐Wilat wa al‐Qudat, p. 198.
[2] Imam al‐Sadiq wa al‐Madhahib al‐Arba'a, vol. 1, p. 117.
The oppressive used all means to severely punish the ‘Alawids and their followers. They harbored
so great malice against the Imams of Ahl al‐Bayt, peace be on them, that they severely punished
all those who mentioned them.
Al‐Meqrizi has mentioned: “Yazid b. ‘Abd Allah, the governor of Egypt, ordered a solider to be
punished. When the solider felt the pain of whip, he adjured the governor by the right of al‐Hasan
and al‐Husayn, peace be on them, to pardon him. However, the governor ordered him to be
flogged thirty times because of this oath. Then he wrote a letter to al‐Mutawakil in Baghdad and
informed him of the solider. So al‐Mutawakil ordered him to be flogged a hundred times and
ordered him to be sent to Baghdad.”[1]
A poet recited a poem before al‐Mutawakil and dispraised the ‘Alawids and their followers. So al‐
Mutawakil ordered three thousand dinars to be scattered over his head and to be collected for
him. He appointed him as a governor over al‐Bahrain and al‐Yemen and gave him four robes of
honor.[2]
The ordeal of the Shi‘ites was difficult and hard, for they met violent political and social problems.
They were afflicted with deprivation of all the natural rights. I (the author) think that no sect met
the persecution and tyranny the Shi‘ites met. For the Umayyad and the ‘Abbasid rulers went too
far in abasing them and forcing them to do what they hated.
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