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Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family, saying:
I am the man whose defects are the love for the Prophet, the children of Abu al‐Hasan, and their
father, who was good in the wombs and the backbones. Is it a sin that I love them? Rather love for
them is the expiation for sin.[5] A person wanted to degrade the position of al‐Sayyid al‐Himyari.
The person said to him: “O Rafidi!”[6]
[1] Al‐Khaqani, Rijal, p. 129.
[2] Al‐Madhahib al‐Islamiya, p. 70.
[3] Firaq al‐Shi'a, pp. 74‐75.
[4] Al‐Hashimiyat.
[5] Al‐Jahiz, al‐Bayan wa al‐Tabiyyin, vol. 3, p. 360.
[6] Rafidi is the one who refuses a certain thing.
So al‐Sayyid al‐Himyari said to him:
In spite of you, we refuse the men of error and abominable things![1] These oppressive measures
hurt the feelings of the Shi‘ites and they urged them to believe in revolt as a basic rule to build
their ideological entity. Al‐Zaydiya maintained that. They believed that Zayd b. ‘Ali, a great
revolutionary, was the Imam and after him was his son Yehya, who followed the example of his
father in raising the flag of the revolt against the Umayyad government. They did not follow the
text (the tradition) which is a basic rule for the Imamate with the Shi‘ites. They refused to
maintain the Imams of guidance. For they did not respond to them through going in revolt with
the sword against the Umayyad government. Their justification for that was that the positive
resistance was not useful, unsuccessful, and would bring to the Muslims hardships and
misfortunes. They adopted the negative resistance against the authority and made it forbidden
for the Muslims to cooperate with it.
Al‐Zaydiya maintained the Imamate of Zayd because he resisted the Umayyads and went to the
fields of jihad saying: “When people hate the heat of the sword, they become lowly.” This was the
slogan of al‐Zaydiya. Zayd recited the words of his father, saying:
O Zayd’s son, did Zayd not say: Whoever loves life lives lowly?
Be like Zayd, for you are Zayd’s soul, and take a dense shade.[2]
3. Al‐Imamiya
This sect has clung to the essence and reality of Islam. They followed the Prophet’s pure family,
from whom Allah took away uncleanness. They maintained all the traditions narrated from them
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