Re: Imam Sajjad in Yazid’s court
If they were really aware of significance of Ahle Bait then they would not have fought against them.
It is human psychology that if someone is not reminded of something then he stops understanding its significance after a while.
As an example, there cannot be a single Muslim who does not know how important namaz is. But if one lives at certain place where there is no one to talk about namaz or performing namaz, then after a while that person is most likely to stop praying himself. Yet if someone comes there to do tableegh, and make him remember namaz’s significance then that person will once again learn the forgotten lesson and start praying himself.
Similar thing with Syrians at that time. They had forgotten about significance of Prophet’s family and what a great tragedy it was that Iman Hussain’s head was in front of them, along with ladies of Prophet’s family. Imam Sajjad taught them the forgotten lesson with this speech in Yazid’s court. It had its effect. After such speeches Yazid knew that it would be foolish to keep these people in prison. He realized that people will come after him if they listen to these speeches demonstrating the standing of Ahle Bait, and what he had done to them.