Translations:On Dokuzuncu Mektup/122/en
“After me, the caliphate will last thirty years; then it will be rapacious monarchy.”(*[1])“The beginning of this affair is prophethood and mercy; then it will be mercy and caliphate; then it will be rapacious monarchy; then it will be arrogance and tyranny.”(*[2])He thus predicted the six-month-long caliphate of Hasan and the period of the Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and, following that, the transition from caliphate to monarchy and monarchy’s being plagued by intrigues and tyranny. This is exactly what later occurred.