The Role of Murjea in the society

Misguiding poetries, drinking and sexual indecencies are a few issues that spread between the people due to the promotion of ideologically misleading sects like Murjea.

The youngsters had forsaken their efforts to achieve their supreme goals and motives and went towards love and pleasure, giving up their religion and its duties. Heterodoxy and atheism became common and people neglected Allah and His Messenger (p.b.u.h.).

          The Murjea leaders played a significant role in this movement and invited people towards impiety in the name of religion itself, took way their decency and replaced it with indecency.

             ‘Due to the beliefs of Murjea, people became shameless and Walid also did not feel shame because of the beliefs of Jabriyya. Most of the youngsters were attracted towards music, poetry and debauchery, leaving all their motives behind for these worldly pleasures.

          Dr. Khaleef writes: ‘The strength of debauchers increased, and the sound of music, which was composed by a number of musicians, became widespread and a group of naked and shameless debauchers marched over the bridge which connected the Umayyad banks with the Abbasside banks, in order to disgrace each other. A disgrace that welcomed with open arms, all the new comers and those who wished for it, so that it can drag them into the deep caverns of darkness, and gulp those youngsters who ran towards it like a moth flies towards fire. The more the darkness of this cavern, the larger the number of those who fell into it.

          In this manner, the poets who had connected themselves to each other with their sentiments and desires, and whom debauchery had bounded in a single chain, went forward into misguidance; all of them were debauchers, lecherous and intoxicated. This institution of unworthiness and fortunate opportunity, helped in the strengthening of such poetries which were associated to love and women.

          The voice of love was prevalent in this institution; not the words of affection that was the innate voice, nor the whisper of the soul which was the voice of the body. As a result of this thought school, the number of slaves and bondwomen increased in the Islamic society and heterodoxy became widespread and strengthened its roots, hence monastic poetry also became common.’[1]    

          Walid bin Uqba, or his Christian friend Abu Zubaid, were the first in the rule of Othman to be able to create a platform for such deeds and make the atmosphere suitable for it.

          Along with monastic poetry and bondwomen, the Umayyad dynasty reached its downfall and passed on this cultural disgrace to the Abbasside dynasty. Even in their rule, the number of slaves increased; and bondwomen and the children born out of them, from different races, cultures, civilizations and religions, came into being. This significant point had its effect over the rulers and their children also, to such an extent that there were such bondwomen in the palaces who used to wear crosses around their necks[2].[3]