Oppression of the Umayyads

Pearl of Wisdom

in his letter to his administrator Mikhnaf, 'Indeed it is a duty upon he who has knowledge to struggle against he who turns away from the truth while despising it and he chooses to sleep in blindness and misguidance.'

Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib [as]

Sharh Nahj al-Balagha, v. 3, p. 182

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Oppression of the Umayyads

Sermon 97 Oppression of the Umayyads

By Allah, they would continue like this till there would be left no unlawful act before Allah but they would make it lawful and no pledge but they would break it, and till there would remain no house of bricks or of woollen tents but their oppression would enter it. Their bad dealings would make them wretched, till two groups of crying complainants would rise, one would cry for his religion and the other for this world and the help of one of you to one of them would be like the help of a slave to his master, namely when he is present he obeys him, but when the master is away he backbites him. The highest among you in distress would be he who bear best belief about Allah. If Allah grants you safety accept it, and if you are put in trouble endure it, because surely (good) result is for the God-fearing.

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