2. A Bay’ah on the Spur of the Moment

The first step for things to end up in the wrong hands, is for them to not end up in the right ones. It isn’t the case that from the first day, power ended up in the hands of Bani Umayyah, but rather, according to the Shi’a perspective, it was kept away from those rightfully entitled to it in the story of Saqifah, and this in turn slowly paved the way for it to end up in the hands of Bani Umayyah.