Another prophecy regarding Marwan

The author of ‘Al Istee’aab’ writes: One day, Imam Ali (a.s.) looked at Marwan and said:

‘Woe upon you, and woe upon the nation of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) from you and your sons when the hairs of your temples will turn white’.

Marwan was famous as ‘Khait e Batil’ or ‘the wrong thread’, and he was called by this name because he was tall and shaky. In the fight that occurred at Othman’s house, Marwan was hit on the back of his neck and he fell down facing the ground.

When Marwan attained the governance, his brother Abdur Rahman bin Hakam, who was a witty poet who used to write decent poetries and did not share the beliefs of Marwan, read these lines: “By God, I don’t know but I wish to ask the wife of the person who was struck at the back of his neck about what he is doing? May got destruct the nation which appointed this tall and shaky person as the people’s Amir, who donates as much as he wishes or stores with himself”.

And it is said that Abdur Rahman read this poetry when Mu’awiyah appointed Marwan as the governor of Medina. Abdur Rahman has severely humiliated Marwan and here is another satirical poetry by him: “O Marwan! I donated my benefits from you to Amr and to the tall and shaky Marwan and Khalid…’’.

Malik ur-Raib has also humiliated Marwan by reading these lines: “I swear to your own soul that Marwan is not solving our issues, but it is the daughter of Jafar who makes the decisions for us. If only that same woman was our Amir, and if only you, o Marwan, had female private organs”.

 Here are a few more couplets in which his brother Abdur Rahman has denounced him: “Ho, who can deliver this message of mine to Marwan and the messenger is the message’s kind, you are definitely a shame and disgust for the free men like the attachment of some dirt that you don’t see”

When Mu’awiyah attained the caliphate, he firstly appointed Marwan as the governor of Medina, and then handed over the governance of Mecca and Taif to him as well, and then dethroned his from the position of governor and appointed Amr e Aas on his position. When Yazid bin Mu’awiyah died, and his son Abu Layla, Mu’awiyah bin Yazid ascended the caliphate in the sixty fourth year of Hijrah for merely forty days and then passed away; his mother, Umm e Khalid, who was the daughter of Abu Khalid bin Abu Hashim bin Utba bin Rabee’a bin Abd e Shams, said to him: “Leave the caliphate for your brother after yourself”.

Mu’awiyah bin Yazid did not accept it and said: “It is not possible that the sourness of its result becomes my share and the sweetness becomes your share”.

Meanwhile, Marwan rose for the caliphate and said these lines: “I can witness such a conspiracy whose vessels are boiling; and kingdom after Abu Layla is for someone who overpowers and dominates”.[1]