↑[1] . Likewise, it has been narrated from Abu Wa’il Shaqiq ibn Salamah—one of the senior Tabi‘un—that he said: “Be wary of these people when it comes to your religion; for by Allah, they did not pass away until they had mixed things together.” Al-Ka‘bi (d. 319 AH) has narrated this in Qabul al-Akhbar (vol. 1, p. 37).

↑[2] . Al-Baqarah/ 9

↑[3] . An-Nahl/ 105

↑[4] . Maryam/ 42

↑[5] . Luqman/ 15

↑[6] . What His Eminence Mansoor has pointed out regarding the great influence of the Umayyads on the culture of Muslims and their understanding of Islam is a regrettable reality supported by many attestations. In fact, it is something that the Prophet and his Ahl al-Bayt foretold previously; as it has been authentically narrated that the Prophet said: «يُهْلِكُ أُمَّتِي هَذَا الْحَيُّ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ» (Sahih of al-Bukhari, vol. 4, p. 199; Sahih of Muslim, vol. 8, p. 186); “This branch from Quraysh will bring ruin upon my Ummah,” and it is clear that their bringing ruin upon the Ummah means nothing other than this. It has also been narrated that the Prophet saw in a dream that the Umayyads would ascend his pulpit after him, leading people astray from the straight path and turning them backward—which also carries the same meaning (see Sunan of al-Tirmidhi, vol. 5, p. 444; Musnad of Abi Ya‘la, vol. 11, p. 348; Manaqib Amir al-Mu’minin by Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Kufi, vol. 2, p. 171; Tafsir al-Ayyashi, vol. 2, p. 298; Tafsir ibn Abi Hatim, vol. 7, p. 2336; al-Mustadrak Ala al-Sahihain by al-Hakim, vol. 3, p. 186; Dala’il al-Nubuwwah by al-Bayhaqi, vol. 6, p. 509), and it has been narrated that he said: «إِنَّ أَوَّلَ مَنْ يُبَدِّلُ سُنَّتِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ» (Musannaf of ibn Abi Shaybah, vol. 7, p. 260; al-Awa’il by ibn Abi Asim, p. 77); “Indeed, the first to change my Sunnah will be a man from the Banu Umayyah,” and he said: «إِذَا بَلَغَ بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا اتَّخَذُوا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ خَوَلًا، وَمَالَ اللَّهِ نِحَلًا، وَكِتَابَ اللَّهِ دَغَلًا» (al-Fitan by ibn Hammad, vol. 1, p. 130; Musnad al-Shamiyyin by al-Tabarani, vol. 2, p. 338; al-Mustadrak Ala al-Sahihain by al-Hakim, vol. 4, p. 525); “When the Banu Umayyah reach forty men, they will take the servants of Allah as slaves, the wealth of Allah as private property, and the Book of Allah as a means of deception.” For this reason, the most detested of all branches by him were the Banu Umayyah (see al-Fitan by ibn Hammad, vol. 1, p. 132; Musnad of Abi Ya‘la, vol. 13, p. 417; Musnad of al-Ruyani, vol. 1, p. 79; al-Mustadrak Ala al-Sahihain by al-Hakim, vol. 4, p. 528). Likewise, it has been narrated from Ali that he said: “Every nation has a blight, and the blight of this nation is the Banu Umayyah” (al-Fitan by ibn Hammad, vol. 1, p. 129), and he said: “Indeed, the most fearful of tribulations is, in my view, the tribulation of the Banu Umayyah for you, because it is a dark and murky tribulation. Its scheme is widespread, while its calamity strikes particular targets. By Allah, after me you will surely find the Banu Umayyah to be evil masters over you, like a vicious she-camel: it bites with its mouth, strikes with its hand, kicks with its foot, and withholds its milk. They will continue among you until they leave none of you except one who is useful to them or who causes them no harm. Their tribulation will come upon you ugly and dreadful, like fragments of the pre-Islamic era, in which there is no guiding landmark and no visible sign,” and he said: “By Allah, they will persist until they leave nothing that Allah has declared unlawful except that they deem it lawful, and no binding covenant except that they dissolve it; and until there remains no house of clay or hair except that their oppression enters it and the evil of their governance reaches it; and until two mourners rise and weep—one weeping for his religion and another weeping for his world; and until the support one of you receives from one of them becomes like the support a slave receives from his master: when present, he obeys him, and when absent, he backbites him” (see al-Fitan by ibn Hammad, vol. 1, p. 195; Musannaf of ibn Abi Shaybah, vol. 7, p. 528; Hadith ibn Dizil, pp. 82 and 84; al-Gharat by al-Thaqafi, vol. 1, p. 10; al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir by al-Tabarani, vol. 3, p. 102). It has also been narrated that when Husain was informed of the pledge of allegiance to Yazid, he said: “Indeed, we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. Farewell to Islam, when the Ummah has been afflicted with a ruler like Yazid” (al-Futuh by ibn A‘tham, vol. 5, p. 17). His statement, “Farewell to Islam,” indicates the magnitude of the impact of the rule of Yazid and those like him from the Banu Umayyah upon Islam—to the extent that it was as if it brought about its death. Reflect, then.