Q. & A. 711 to 1707 with solved Papers css 1971 to date

(656 A.D.)
Soon a full scale war started. Hundreds of Muslims fell on each side. Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) was greatly pained at the situation. He tried to stop the battle but the battle had already flared up. In the dawn the troops of Hazrat Aisha (Rad.A) apprised her of the situation and suggested that she should mount on a camel in Hijab (Pardah) so that the situation might ease. But it worked the other way and Basrites thought that Hazrat Aisha (Rad.A) came in the field to fight with them. During the fight Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) reminded Talha
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and Zubair (Rad.A) the words of the Holy Prophet: ”one day you (Talha and Zubair) will fight Ali (Rad.A) wrongly.” They remembered the saying and left the battlefield but when Talha was le. ving the field somebody rained arrows on him and he was killed.8 When the fight did not come to an end Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) ordered one of his men to cut the hind legs of the camel on which Hazrat Aisha (Rad.A) was mounting in a ”howdah”. The order of Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) was carried out and the camel fell on its forelegs. Hazrat Aisha (Rad.A) was taken out of the^’howdah” with due respect. The battle came to an end in favour of Tiazrat Ali (Rad.A). Hazrat Aisha (Rad.A) was sent with due respect to Medina escorted by her own brother, Muhammad bin Abi Bakr. In this battle about ten thousand Muslims on both sides lost their lives. Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) felt deeply moved because of the loss of Muslim blood. Hazrat Zubair who had already left the field after remembering the Holy Prophet’s saying was going to Makkah, he stopped in a valley to perform his Salat, but was slain by a man, named ’Amr bin Jarmoz while he was busy in his Salat. When Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) came to know, he rebuked the murderer by saying: ” I have seen him fight for the Prophet of Allah several times. I give the murderer the news of hell-fire.”
After the battle he took pledge of loyalty from the people of Basrah and appointed Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas as the governor of Basrah. He gave general amnesty to all those who fought against him including Marwan bin Hakam and other persons of Banu Umyyah family. The address which Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) gave at Jami Mosque of Basrah before the Bai’at (Pledge of loyalty) moved the Muslims, and they were convinced that Ali (Rad.A) was a just Caliph.