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SERMON 47
About calamities befalling Kufah
O' Kufah, as though I see you being drawn like the
tanned leather of Ukazi (1) in the market, you are being
scraped by calamities and being ridden by severe troubles. I certainly (2)
know that if any tyrant intends evil for you Allah will afflict him with worry and fling
him with a killer (set someone on him to kill him).
(1).
During pre-Islamic days a market used to be organised every year near Mecca. Its name was
Ukaz where mostly hides were traded as a result of which leather was attributed to it.
Besides sale and purchase literary meetings were also arranged and Arabs used to attract
admiration by reciting their works. After Islam, because of the better congregation in the
shape of hajj this market went down.
(2).
This prophecy of Amir al-mu'minin was fulfilled word by word and the world saw how the
people who had committed tyranny and oppression on the strength of their masterly power
had to face tragic end and what ways of their destruction were engendered by their
blood-shedding and homicidal activities. Consequently, the end of Ziyad ibn Abih (son of
unknown father) was that when he intended to deliver a speech for vilification of Amir
al-mu'minin suddenly paralysis overtook him and he could not get out of his bed
thereafter. The end of the bloodshed perpetrated by Ubaydullah ibn Ziyad was that he fell
a prey to leprosy and eventually blood thirsty swords put him to death. The ferocity of
al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ath-Thaqafi drove him to the fate that snakes cropped up in his
stomach as a result of which he died after severe pain. Umar ibn Hubayrah al-Fazari died
of leucoderma. Khalid ibn Abdillah al-Qasri suffered the hardships of prison and was
killed in a very bad way. Musab ibn az-Zubayr and Yazid ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufrah
were also killed by swords.
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