Hussain refused.
He said: “I will never give Yazid my hand like a man who has been humiliated, nor will I flee like a slave… I have not risen to spread evil or to show off… I only desire to enjoin good values and prevent evil.”
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No more than 50 years had passed since the death of Muhammad(the last Prophet of Islam)and the Muslim Empire was sliding into corruption under a tyrant from the Ummayad dynasty,Yazid
Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad took a stand against Yazid’s illegitimate rule.