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Yazid’s men had believed that the masses would
agree with their actions and share in their
happiness. When they realized that the truth had
been spread, by witnesses and the likes of brave
women such as Lady Zainab, they began to fear,
and intended to change history. Source relays the
likes of “Ibn Hajar al-Haythami […] went to so far
as to claim that Yazid was not pleased that al-
Hussain was killed and had not ordered that to
1
happen.” But regardless of the researchers, the
voice of the witnesses and the death of his family
was enough to refute such claims.

6. Keeping alive the truth of the Day of
Ashura and the message of Imam Hussain
Further attempts were made to shift the blame on to
Imam Hussain. There was a push for propaganda of
portraying of “al-Hussain and his followers as
Kharijites, or as sinners who had rebelled against
the constitution... as represented by Yazid ibn
2
Muawiya… [and] spread discord on the ummah.”
Their attempts had backfired on them as “an
increasing numbers of people rejected [the false
claims] after the extent of its distance from the
3
truth.”

1. Shams Ad-Din Al-Amili, https://www.al-islam.org/revolution-
imam-al-Hussain-shaykh-muhammad-mahdi-shams-ad-din-al-amili.
2. Shams Ad-Din Al-Amili, Ibid.
3. Ibid.