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the news reaches yazid and he is
completely shocked he cannot believe
that Abdullah had tricked him this way
and so he genuinely feels hurt that I
was generous with these people I did not
mistreat them and this is how they pay
me and so he sends n
bash as his Emissary to Medina and he
sends him to reason with the people of
Medina now two years his credit he
didn't send somebody to crush them
straight away he sent somebody to go and
speak to them and he said to man go to
these people and make them see sense
advise them okay before I have to send
my Army advise these people know a man
goes to uh to Medina and it's very clear
the people of Medina are not backing
down so it comes back to Damascus and he
says yazid they're ready for war
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before muawiya dies he tells yazid that
if there's any problem Muslim is the man
yeah so Muslim was a very very loyal
Governor under under muaah and now under
his son is finally sent to Medina with
an
army with an army of like 12,000 people
and yazid tells him when you enter
Medina again give them three days is to
reconsider so give yazid credit he is
not rushing to destroy he's given
opportunity for diplomatic talks he says
to Muslim go and give them three
days okay don't enter the city don't
begin the fighting give them three days
and if they do oblige Let It Go but if
not but if not then you have
permission for three days
to do as you
please in
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Medina the people of Medina despite all
of these
opportunities insisted they were ready
to fight and so when Muslim akba arrives
he gives him three
days they would not accept any other
term and in fact they chose two
people as leaders in Medina so now
Medina has two lead
leaders Abdullah himself became a leader
of the ansar and another companion uh
became the leader of the uh
mun so Medina has two
leaders look what just happened we have
a leader in
Damascus we have a leader in Mecca and
we have two leaders in
where in Medina so now the Muslim umah
has four leaders yazid had no choice but
to crush the
Rebellion yeah it had to be done
according to the political Playbook he
had no choice it would be it would be a
bad start to begin his career with such
rebellious
movements so effectively for the next
three days according toat who was very
conservative
306 ansar were killed they were brought
out in the streets of Medina and
executed in front of
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everyone women would have their babies
torn from their arms and the baby would
be beheaded also and the head was given
to the mother as a
gift approximately a thousand women were
raped uh we don't understand what it
means to go into Civil
War we don't understand what it means to
go against a government there are no
rules in war and governments are able to
turn a blind eye to the transgressions
of their soldiers when it's war time
they can tell their soldiers don't worry
whatever you do in that period of time
you are completely free from
blame so the people in Medina didn't
expect this to happen this is
Medina is lying here in Medina s
wasallam what is the worst can do even
theal cannot enter
Medina right or
wrong yeah Medina's exam from theel so
what is
yazid they
miscalculated they
miscalculated so raping
execution uh Muslim set up a a temporary
court and he would invite people he
would call them to come up and he would
humiliate them in public
the only people who couldn't be killed
was the son of Al Hussein who was also
brought forward after all the trauma he
went through and his father was killed
in carbella only one year
earlier he was brought forward yeah so
uh
alus was brought forward what did he do
he
gave he gave
B yeah but when he came uh Abdul Malik
man who I told you was one of the nine
people who was a righteous man he
accompanied him he accompanied
zuh to protect him from his own umad
counterparts but Muslim was so
bloodthirsty he said had it not been
that yazid forbade me from killing you I
would have cut your
head they sent him back
home then another
umad the son of of uhar the other son
of was called out he's an keep this in
mind and so Muslim says to him when you
come to us in Damascus you pretend to be
with us but when you're in Medina you go
against us I cannot kill you but he can
do something else so he began to he
ordered for the beard of this man to be
plucked now imagine your beard your
little beard your nice beard being
plucked
he ordered for that to happen he
couldn't kill him but he found something
else to do to torture him and so on and
so on and so on the rape and pillage of
Medina for those three
days the details of which if you read in
the books of s and books of would make
you sick to your stomach you would
question do these people even have Iman
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