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Shiite leaders also possessed such huge amount of bravery and audacity. They did not submit to
the persecution and severity of the unjust ruling authorities. They pushed forwardly for exalting
God’s word and renouncing corruption and evil. Abdullah bin Afif al‐Azdi, the acquaintance of
Imam Ali, revolted against Ubeidullah bin Ziad, the tyrant murderer, when the latter addressed a
speech after the killing of Imam al‐Hussein, the Prophet’s grandson. Before Ubeidullah had
finished his speech, the man answered him with words sharper than new swords. He said, “The
liar is most surely you and your father, and that who appointed you and his father. O, you slave of
the barbarous! You killed the sons of the prophets, and ascended on the Muslims’ pulpits. Where
are the sons of Muhajirs and Ansar to revenge you and your tyrant chief‐‐ the cursed and son of
the cursed? –He refers to Yazid and Muawiya whom were cursed by the Prophet (s)‐”
Al‐Kumeit bin Ziad, the poet, was another example of the revolution against the wrongdoers. He
satirized roughly the Umayyad kings and praised the Alawids. He said:
“They –the Alawids‐ are chiefs unlike those who see no difference between leading people and
leading sheep. They are unlike Abdul‐Melik, al‐Walid, Suleiman
[1] Refer to Social justice: 211.
and Husham[*].”
He also satirized Husham the tyrant as well as the Umayyad kings. He said, “His words are the
prophets’, while his deeds are the Jahilites’[**].” “Tell the Umayyads wherever they were, though
you fear swords: May God starve those whom you feed, and saturate those whom you starved
due to your injustice.”
Those kings exceeded in persecuting and oppressing our poet, but he was exceeding in adhering
to his belief and principals.
On the theatre of Shism, another poet emerged. He was al‐Farazdaq, who criticized and
reprimanded the Umayyads and upheld the Prophet’s progeny ‐‐the real people of the Islamic
right and justice. The most remarkable situation of this poet was praising Imam Zeinul abidin and
denigrating Husham bin Abdul‐Melik, the Umayyad king, who pretended he had not known the
Imam. Al‐Farazdaq said, “This is the one whose steps are realized even by the deserts. The holy
House, the legality, and the precincts realize him, too. This is the son of the best of God’s servants.
This is the pious, the pure, the sanitary, and the master. Your asking about his personality does by
no means prejudice him. The Arabs and the non‐Arabs know him.”
The poet went on praising the Imam in such an unprecedented wording. Consequently, he had to
encounter the Umayyads’ irritation and punishment. Nevertheless, this persecution did not stop
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