Mu’awiya’s use of threats to secure Yazeed’s Khilafat

Mu’awiya’s use of Threats to Secure Yazeed’s Khilafat

We read in al Bidaya Volume 7 page 79 Dhikr events of 54 Hijri

“Five people rejected the bayya to Yazeed.

1. Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr
2. Abullah bin Umar
3. Abdullah bin Zubayr
4. Abdullah bin Abbas
5. Husayn bin ‘Ali

Mu’awiya then personally went to Medina, summoned all five and threatened them.”

We read in Tareekh Kamil Volume 3 page 455 Dhikr bayya Yazeed

“Five people rejected the bayya of Yazeed. Mu’awiya approached Ayesha and said, ‘If these individuals don’t give bayya to Yazeed then I will kill them’. Ayesha replied ‘I have also heard news that that you are threatening the Khalifah’s sons, in connection with the bayya to Yazeed”.

We read in Tareekh Tabari Volume 7 page 177 Events of 56 Hijri

“Abdur Rahman bin Abu Bakr refrained from giving bayya to Yazeed. Mu’awiya called him and said ‘You have the audacity to raise your hands and feet against me? By Allah I am thinking of having you killed’. Abdur Rahman said ‘By killing me, then your punishment shall be that Allah (swt) shall curse you in this world and throw you in Hell in the next”

We read in Nuzul al Abrar page 89 Dhikr bayya Yazeed:

“When Mu’awiya made plans to make Yazeed the khalifah he consulted the people of Syria. He then made his way to Medina and Makka, to raise this matter they voiced their opposition. Mu’awiya then intimidated and threatened them”.

Just look at the way that Mu’awiya secured the Khilafat that Abu Sulaiman and Azam Tariq deem to be lawful. He threatened to kill the sons of the rightly guided khalifahs. If Yazeed were really worthy of Khilafat then the situation would not have reached a stage where Mu’awiya was issuing threats to kill people to secure bayya!

Mu’awiya’s withdrawal of stipends to Banu Hashim for their rejection of Yazeed

We read in al Imama wa al Siyasa Volume 1 page 173 Dhikr Bayya as follows:

“Mu’awiya sent stipends to the people of Medina he increased their amounts, with regards to Banu Hashim stipends were withdrawn as they had rejected the bayya of Yazeed”

We read in Tareekh Kamil Volume 3 page 256:

“When Mu’awiya made preparations to return to Syria, Ibn Abbas complained ‘You have perpetuated injustice against us’. Mu’awiya replied ‘Your chief Husayn bin ‘Ali has not given bayya”.

This was the legitimate bayya; Mu’awiya was willing to apply economic sanctions as a bargaining chip for Yazeed’s bayya! It was like the United Nations. When Sunni Muslims contemplate their khalifas they should know that their games were no different to those of America and Britain in the UN – acting holier-than-though, while slaughtering and getting away with it through legal loopholes. The problem with the Sunni khalifas is their sincerity. Neither is America sincere, nor was the khilafat sincere. This makes their protagonists pathetic.

Mu’awiya adopted evil methods to secure the bayya to Yazeed

We read in Tafseer Ruh al Ma’ani, Volume 26 page 73:

ولو نظروا في السير لعلموا كيف عقدت له البيعة وألزم بها ولقد فعل كل قبيح

“If people analyse history, they shall realise how he (Muawiyah) obtained Bayah and how he (Yazid) complied others with it, he (Yazid) did every evil deed”.

Mu’awiya used every means at his disposal to secure bayya for his Nasibi son: bribery, threats, intimidation and killing. Despite this we have Nasibi such as Abu Sulaiman and Azam Tariq deeming his bayya to be legitimate simply because he got it. This is no dissimilar to what goes on at the United Nations. The Sunni khilafat is one big legal loophole whereby the worst men are revered as saints. It is part of the Nasibi religion…one big sickening legal loophole. The integrity, the honesty, the TRUTH is with Shia Islam and the 12 Shia Imams. Imam Husayn (as) refused to play ball with the American President of his time, the Sunni khalifa Yazeed, appointed like George Bush was through a legal loophole and through his father’s influence. Nawasibis condemn Hussain (as). Real Muslims applaud him. The mentality of the Nasibis is that of southern redneckers in America – “What MY President (Khalifa) does is ALWAYS right. God bless America (Sunni Islam). How can WE be wrong? George Bush (Yazeed) is our leader. He’s as good as his father George Bush Snr. (Mu’awiya).” And just like George Bush Jr, Yazeed was the vile (but stupid) son of a cunning father. And just like Bush, he has the media (Nasibi scholars such as the Ansar site) feeding the masses his lies. Only difference is Mu’awiya and Yazeed, father and son, were several times worse even than the Bushes in the White House.

Abu Sulaiman al Nasibi’s claim that there was an ijma in Yazeed’s khilafat is an absolute lie

Advocate of Mu’awiya Ibn Hajr al Makki in Tat-heer al-Janaan page 109 states:

“The Sahaba were just, but on some occasions they would make such mistakes that were not becoming of the Sahaba. Such mistakes can be highlighted. For example Mu’awiya’s appointing his son as Khalifah was a mistake, his love for his son clouded his eyes. This love in effect made Mu’awiya blind, and his making Yazeed the khalifah was a mistake, may Allah (swt) forgive him….”

This is a polite way to say nepotism.

According to Ibn Hajr al Makki, Mu’awiya was blinded by his love for his son Yazeed. Nasibis such as Abu Sulaiman and Azam Tariq are just as blind when they sing the praises of Yazeed and deem his khilafat to be legitimate.

The acknowledgement that this appointment was a mistake destroys the Nasibi notion that Yazeed’s khilafat had ijma and was hence lawful. Had there been ijma then there would have been no grounds to conclude that a mistake had taken place. Mu’awiya through his blind love of his fasiq / fajir son sought to secure his Khilafat via the State machinery of terrorism and bribery.

Another defender of Mu’awiya, Allamah Abdul Hai states in Mahmuwa Naqwi Volume 2 page 94 states:

At the time of the bayya to Yazeed, Hadhrat Husayn and other Sahaba did not give bayya. Those who did give bayya were forced to do so; it was known that Yazeed was a fasiq and faajir.

This is further proof that people were pressured to give bayya, thus meaning that Abu Sulaiman’s glowing curriculum vitae for Yazeed, namely that his khilafat had ijma, is a clear lie.

In Fatawa Azeezi page 227 al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz states as follows:

“People in Makka, Medina and Kufa were unhappy at filthy Yazeed being made heir apparent, and Imam Husayn, Abdullah bin Umar, Abdullah bin Abbas, Abdullah bin Zubayr and other Sahaba did not give bayya”.

Medina was the capital and heart of Islam where the family of the Holy Prophet (saws) and remaining companions lived. When the people of Madina rejected the khilafat of Yazeed then to all extent and purposes Nasibi Abu Sulaiman’s claim that Yazeed’s khilafat was legitimate on account of ijma is an absolute lie. It doesn’t get more clear-cut than this.

In Shaheed Karbala page 11 Part 19 the Hanafi scholar Mufti Muhammad Shaafi writes:

“Yazeed’s personal lifestyle was such that many in the vast Ummah did not deem him to be the khalifah. The people (Sahaba) opposed this planning, many opposed it till their last breath, and the situation got to a point where residents of Medina, Kufa and Kerbala were massacred.”

This author has also through his pen discredited the claim that Yazeed had attained ijma of the people.

We read in Takmeel al Iman page 178 by Shah Abdul Haq Dehlavi:

“How could Yazeed be the Ameer when Imam Husayn was present? How was it a duty to obtain ijma (in this circumstance) when the Sahaba and their children were present at that time and when they had already voiced their opposition to this order? They were aware that he was an enemy of Allah (swt), would drink, did not offer Salat, committed Zina (adultery), he could not even refrain from copulating with his Mahram relatives (incest – having sex with sisters, daughters etc).”

This further destroys Nasibi Abu Sulaiman’s false claim that ijma constitutes legitimacy.

Shah Abdul Haqq also wrote in Ba Shabaath basnaath page 36 as follows:

“The reality is Yazeed was born in 25 or 26 Hijri, and just like his father public disdain was no barr on him attaining power”.

i.e. father and son displayed a trait peculiarly common to many notorious families, who want power at any cost, even human life.

Maulana Akbar Shah Abadi in Tareekh Islam Volume 2 page 56 stated:

“Mu’awiya’s securing bayya for his son during his lifetime was a major mistake, this mistake was on account of his blind love for his son”.

We have faithfully relied on Sunni sources to prove that the claims of any Muhaddith that ijma was secured for Yazeed is an absolute lie.