THE STORY OF KARBALA - PART 2/05

MUSLIM BIN AQEEL AND HURR

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We would like to pause here and give our readers a glimpse of the political situation in Koofa at this time, and the motivation behind those letters received by Husayn, and who actually were the writers of those letters.

The people of Koofa consisted of three very diverse groups of people. The first one were the tribal leaders. These were only paying lip service in inviting Husayn to Koofa. The second were the true Shi'a who had accepted Husayn as their rightful Imam, and the third group were openly hostile to Ahlul-Bayt. The third group was easily identifiable. It were these people who had formed the bulk of the army who fought Husayn at Karbala. These cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be called Shi'a.

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