{"id":6713,"date":"2019-09-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/6713\/were-the-policies-of-imam-hasan-and-imam-husayn-different\/"},"modified":"2019-09-04T07:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:42:59","slug":"were-the-policies-of-imam-hasan-and-imam-husayn-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/6713\/were-the-policies-of-imam-hasan-and-imam-husayn-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Were the Policies of Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn different?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Were the Policies of Imam Hasan and Imam Hossain different?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although these two great leaders are, according to the explicit statement of the Holy Prophet (s), rightful Imams, their policies apparently seem different. Some have even said that the difference of opinions of these two brothers was so great that one of them, having 40 000 combatants, accepted the peace offer, while the other, with only 40 friends and companions (other than his relatives) fought the enemy and lost all of them including his suckling child for this cause. However, close investigation proves the contrary, as we see that Imam al-Hasan (a) lived for about nine and a half years during the reign of Mu\u2019awiyah and did not oppose him overtly. After the martyrdom of his brother, Imam al-Husayn (a) also lived for about nine and a half years during the reign of Mu\u2019awiyah and never thought of rising in rebellion against him and did not challenge him.<\/h4>\n

Although these two great leaders are, according to the explicit statement of
\nthe Holy Prophet (s), rightful Imams, their policies apparently seem different.
\nSome have even said that the difference of opinions of these two brothers was so
\ngreat that one of them, having 40 000 combatants, accepted the peace offer,
\nwhile the other, with only 40 friends and companions (other than his relatives)
\nfought the enemy and lost all of them including his suckling child for this
\ncause.<\/h4>\n

However, close investigation proves the contrary, as we see that Imam al-Hasan
\n(AS) lived for about nine and a half years during the reign of Mu\u2019awiyah and did
\nnot oppose him overtly. After the martyrdom of his brother, Imam al-Husayn (a)
\nalso lived for about nine and a half years during the reign of Mu\u2019awiyah and
\nnever thought of rising in rebellion against him and did not challenge him.<\/h4>\n

Hence, the main cause of this superficial difference in the policies of the two
\nImams (a) lies in the difference of opinion between Mu\u2019awiyah and Yazid, rather
\nthan the difference of opinion of these two great Imams (a).<\/h4>\n

The policy of Mu\u2019awiyah was not based on lack of discipline and restraint and he
\ndid not deride the religious precepts by its overt opposition.<\/h4>\n

Mu\u2019awiyah called himself a “companion” of the Holy Prophet (s) and the “writer
\nof Revelation”. Through his sister (who was the wife of the Holy Prophet (s)
\nand who was Umm al-Mu\u2019minin (the mother of the believers), Mu\u2019awivah was called
\n“Khal al-Mu\u2019minin” (the maternal uncle of the believers) and was greatly
\nfavoured by the Second Caliph in whom the common people had total confidence and
\nspecial attachment.<\/h4>\n

Furthermore, Mu\u2019awiyah, in a majority of cases, had appointed the Companions of
\nthe Holy Prophet (s) who were respected and honoured by the people (such as Abu
\nHurayrah,\u2019 Amr al-\u2019As, Samrah, Yusr, Al-Mughirah ibn Shu\u2019bah, and others) as
\ngovernors of provinces and had put them in charge of the key positions of the
\ncountry. These governors used to work for the favourable opinions of the people
\ntowards Mu\u2019awiyah. Many ahadith were fabricated and narrated among the people
\nregarding the virtues and the religious immunity of the Companions of the Holy
\nProphet (s) and that they were not questionable for whatever they did. Thus
\nwhatever Mu\u2019awiyah did, if corrigible and justifiable at all, it was rectified
\nand justified by these authorities; otherwise, by giving a great deal of
\nhush-money, he prevented his opponents from complaining. Where these means and
\nmethods did not work, thousands of innocent people comprising of Shi\u2019ahs
\n(friends) of \u2018Ali (a), other Muslims, and even a great number of the Companions
\nof the Holy Prophet (s) were killed by these collaborators, partisans, and
\n“companions” of Mu\u2019awiyah.<\/h4>\n

Mu\u2019awiyah pretended to be right in whatever he did and accomplished everything
\nwith a special patience and forbearance. With a particular gentleness and
\nflexibility, he attracted the kindness and obedience of people. Sometimes, he
\neven heard the curse of people on him and sensed their enmity, but he responded
\nwith cheerfulness and forgiveness and thus pursued his policy in this way.<\/h4>\n

Apparently, he paid respect to Imam al-Hasan (a) and Imam al-Husayn (a) and
\nsent them valuable gifts and souvenirs. On the other hand, he publicly announced
\nthat whoever narrates a hadith concerning the virtues of the Ahl al-Bayt (a),will
\nhave no security of life, reputation, and property; but whoever narrates a
\nhadith concerning the virtues. Prophet (s) will receive a of the Companions of
\nthe Holy reward.<\/h4>\n

He gave orders to the orators and preachers to curse Imam \u2018Ali (a) from pulpits
\nused for addressing Muslims. By the order of Mu\u2019awiyah, his hirelings killed the
\nsupporters of Imam \u2018Ali (a) wherever they could find them. They went along in
\nthis matter to such an extent that they killed a large number of people who were
\nthe enemies of Imam \u2018Ali (a), accusing them of having friendship with the Imam
\n(a).<\/h4>\n

It becomes clear from the above description that the rise of Imam al-Hasan (a)
\nwould only have ended to the detriment of Islam and would have had no effect
\nother than the martyrdom of the Imam (a) and his supporters. And even it was
\nnot unlikely that, in this case, Mu\u2019awiyah might have got killed Imam al-Hasan
\n(a) through the friends and relatives of the Imam (a) and then, in order to
\npacify public opinion, Mu\u2019awivah would have rent (torn) his shirt and mourned
\nfor the Imam (a) and, in seeking vengeance (for this bloodshed), he would have
\ntried to take his revenge by killing the Shi\u2019ahs, as he later did while dealing
\nwith the case of \u2018Uthman.<\/h4>\n

But the political trend of Yazid had no resemblance with that of his father. He
\nwas a self-admiring and indisciplined youth. He had no logic: other than force.
\nHe gave no importance to public opinion.<\/h4>\n

During his short-term rule, Yazid at once revealed the damages which were
\nsecretly inflicted on Islam.<\/h4>\n

In the first year of his rule, Yazid put the family of the Holy Prophet (SA) to
\nthe edge of the sword.<\/h4>\n

In the second year of his rule, he ruined the city of Madinah and allowed his
\ntroops to transgress upon the honour, life, and property of the people for three
\ndays.<\/h4>\n

In the third year of his rule, he destroyed Ka\u2019bah.<\/h4>\n

Owing to the above reasons, the movement of Imam al-Husayn (a) was imprinted on
\nthe minds of the people and its effect grew more profoundly and publicly day by
\nday. In the beginning, this movement manifested itself in the form of bloody
\nrevolutions. Finally, it attracted a great number of Muslims as the supporters
\nof truth and reality and as the supporters of the Ahl al-Bayt (a) of the Holy
\nProphet (s).<\/h4>\n

It was because of this reason that Mu\u2019awiyah, in his will to Yazid, had strongly
\nrecommended that Yazid should leave Imam al-Husayn (a) alone and not bother
\nhim; but would the drunkenness and self-admiration of Yazid permit him to
\ndifferentiate between his benefit and his loss?<\/h4>\n

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Although these two great leaders are, according to the explicit statement of the Holy Prophet (s), rightful Imams, their policies apparently seem different. Some have even said that the difference of opinions of these two brothers was so great that one of them, having 40 000 combatants, accepted the peace offer, while the other, with only 40 friends and companions (other than his relatives) fought the enemy and lost all of them including his suckling child for this cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7453,7763,7915,7758],"tags":[9237,9238,7556],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-of-subjects-of-articles","category-characters","category-muharram","category-prophet","tag-imam-hasan-and-imam-husayn","tag-policies","tag-shiastudies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}