The role played by the Jews and

Christians in the misguidance of Umayyad beliefs

It is written in the book ‘Az Zerfehaye Fitne’ that:

“The wave of conspiracies spread throughout the human minds during the Umayyad rule, a rule that fought against the intellectual and learned people and presented the ideology of the infidels of the age of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) in a fresh and glamorous uniform. The clerics are in agreement to the fact that the ideology of Qadrism was promoted during the Umayyad rule and the Umayyad rulers nurtured it inside their own vicinity and they supported this incident which resulted in its progress and growth.[1]

          The workshops laid down with the intention of shutting down the path of God, crafted and propagated the ideology of Qada and Qadar, with the intention of bringing the world to an ideological crisis and havoc. The result of this act was that people no more regarded the Islamic Shariah to be holy and stopped following the rules and started committing the unlawful practices that were prohibited by the heavenly religions and all the malpractices were committed with the excuse of the divine Qadha. The Umayyad rulers nurtured and promoted this ideology in order to overshadow all those things that were said about them by the Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.) himself, and to present the thought that their rule and governance is nothing but the Divine will itself, and the Muslims have to follow them unconditionally, and all kinds of revolt and uprisings against them will be regarded as a revolt against the Divine will.

Sheikh Mohammed Abu Zahra writes about the first person who spoke about the ideology of Jabr or forcefulness in a new manner: ‘we are absolutely certain that the ideology of Jabr became widespread during the initial stage of the Umayyad rule and attained the position of a school of thought by the final stage of their rule. It is said that the first promoters of this ideology were a group of Jews who gave its teachings to the Muslims and they were the ones who propagated it. It is said that the first Muslim who invited towards this school of thought was Jaad bin Dirham who learned it from a Jew in Syria and began to promote it between the Muslims in Basra whereupon Jahm bin Safwan learned it from Jaad.’[2]

          Jahm not only promoted the ideology of Jabr, but he also taught the people his opinions regarding the Heaven and Hell, the sighting of God, etc.[3]

          In this manner, the branches of the Umayyad tree which strengthened its roots with the ideology of Jabr which was suitable for their political stance, learned it from the People of the Book and tied their knots with them.

          It is evident that Syria, the capital city of the Umayyad dynasty, followed different religions and sects and the Umayyad rulers dealt leniently with the heads of these religions, and for the purpose of saving their power by assassinating the Muslims widely without any repercussions, they signed peace treaties with the Caesars of their era. Within the duration of these peace treaties, the Ahbaar created conflicts inside the Islamic society for the completion of the base laid by the prior Ahbaars and the Umayyad rulers also maintained proximity with them. Historically, it is evident that Sir John, who was the advisor of Mu’awiyah, Yazid and Marwan bin Hakam[4] and the secret keeper of the Umayyad dynasty, headed the school of Jabr’ism.[5]

          Therefore, as per the common belief of the clerics of all the sects, the Umayyad dynasty took forth the politics of strengthening and promoting the concept of Jabr’ism and made it the base of their politics, because the filth of Umayyad politics could hide only under the base of this thought-process, and their jurisprudents could find a way out of all their obstacles in this manner. If they were asked about the reason behind their fight against Ali (a.s.) and the use of abusive language against him? Or why was Hujr bin Adi assassinated? Or why was Zyaad associated with Mu’awiyah and this tradition of the time of ignorance revived? Or why was Imam Hussain (a.s.) killed? Or the reason behind their attack on Medina and the incident of Harrah and the stoning of the Holy city of Makkah? Or why did they misused the Divine treasuries and enslaved the slaves of Allah for themselves and mixed the Divine religion with falsehood and disregarded Salah (prayer)?

             In reply to all these questions and all the other questions put forward in this context, they answered that all these events were in accordance to the will and fate designed by the Almighty and the nation has consensus on this matter, and if someone opposed them, he had to face their swords!