The stance of most Shi’ites, scholars and laymen alike, towards
the Islamic governments throughout history has been, if the govern-
ment was powerful and well-established, to honour its leaders in con-
sonance with their tenet of taqiyah, for the purpose of material gain.
If, however, the government is weak, or is under attack by enemies,
they side with its enemies against it. This is precisely what they did
during the last days of the Umayyad dynasty when the Abbasids
revolted, under the instigation ?f the Shi’ites of that era. ln a later time,
they took the same criminal stand against the Abbasids who were
threatened by the raids of Hulago and his pagan Mongol followers
against the Caliphate of Islam and its glorious capital of science and
civilization .
An example of this is seen in the behavior of the Shi’ite
philosopher and scholar An-Naseer At-Toosi. He composed poetry in
praise of Al-Musta’sim, the Abbasid Caliph, then in 65 A.H. executed a
complete turn about, instigating revolution against his patron, thereby
hastening the catastrophe which befell Islam in Baghdad, where he
headed the butcher Hulago’s blood-letting procession. In fact he per-
sonally supervised the slaughter of Muslims, sparing none, not even
women, children, or the aged. This same At-Toosi also approved of
wholesale dumping of valuable texts of Islamic literature in the Tigris
River; its waters ran black for days from the ink of the innumerable
manuscripts. Thus vanished a great treasure of the Islamic heritage
consisting of works in history, literature, language and poetry, not to
mention those in the Islamic religious sciences, which had been pass-
ed down from the pious of the first generation of Muslims, and which
could be found in abundance until that time when they were destroyed
in a cultural holocaust the like of which had never been seen before.
same thing with Jinnah and Pakistan
Mir Jaafar