If someone is accused of having committed ten crimes, then he is found innocent of nine, does this mean that he is still guilty of the same nine from which he is proven as innocent?! Had they been innocent of all of that and did not do anything except making threats which could be described as “mock threats” in order to scare and were not supposed to be taken seriously, especially since they said that the status enjoyed by al-Zahra’ (A.S.) prohibited them from doing anything against her..., what is the problem?!

Yes, had they been so, people would not have had anything to demand of them. It may even be said to us at a later time that they were carrying out their religious obligation and that Allah will reward them for making such threats because they wanted to safeguard Islam and maintain the Islamic unity and protect the nation against very serious problems and dissensions. They have done so already: They interpreted the statement of someone who said to the Prophet (A.S.) during his sickness which preceded his demise that he (A.S.) was “hallucinating,” claiming that it was an accurate and leading stand because had the Prophet (A.S.) written that document, dissensions and very serious problems would have taken place^[1]. They paid no heed to the fact that the Prophet (A.S.) himself told them that they would never stray after his writing it. So, did they forget that the Prophet (A.S.) accurately evaluated the issues and knew in advance the outcomes of what he wanted to undertake?