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family to be denounced by the Mullas as a heretic and was subsequently murdered. It is reported that when Yazeed, the accursed, demanded from his Mullas to furnish him with a ruling of Hussain's apostacy, they, like the Mullas of the present day, readily obliged him. Consequently Yazeed, on the strength of this ruling, caused the noble Imam, his family and supporters, to remain without food and drink for many days and eventually martyred him in the field of Karbala". (Afzal-ul-'Amaal Fi. Jawaab Nataaej-ul-'Amaal: p. 22). In his book "Jawaahar-ul-Kalaam", Aqaae Haji Mirza. Hassan wrote, "The Kharjites had pronounced a ruling of apostasy against Hazrat Ali, but the Prince of the Martyrs (Imam. Hussain) has the distinction that one hundred Qazis and Muftis of the Umayya court signed their names and affixed their seals on the said document. This verdict was headed by Qazi Shureeh. . This Qazi was sent for by Ibn-i-Ziyaad the Governor of Basra and demanded a verdict of apostasy against the noble Imam. . Hearing this the Qazi took up the pen-and-ink holder and hit his own head with it in exasperation and walked out of the court, lamenting that he could not do such an heinous thing". "In the evening Ibn-i-Ziyaad sent a few purses of gold coins to the Qazi's house. Next morning when the Qazi came to the court and the question of the verdict was again raised by the. Governor, the 'venerable' Qazi said, "Your Excellency, last night I pondered over the matter very deeply and have arrived at the conclusion that Imam Hussain was, without any doubt, a confirmed apostate and wrote the following verdict of his death with his own pen and under his own seal. 'It has been proved that Hussain son of Ali has gone out of the pale of Islam for which reason he is liable to death punishment”. (Jawaahar-ul-Kalaam: p. 88: 1962 Hijra edition: Matba Ilmi, Tabrez, Iran). About this Holy Imam, the Promised Messiah wrote, "Hussain (may Allah be pleased with him) was holy and pure and, without the least doubt, was from among those whom God Himself purifies with His own hands and fills them with His love. 8