They did not realize that they were involved in the kind of fitna about which the Commander of the Faithful (a.s.) said, "Through them Satan's emblems got flying and his standard was raised in vices which trampled the people under their hoofs, and treaded upon them with their feet." Fitna crushes and annihilates those who are in its way.
A lokacin fitinar nan ma haka lamarin ya kasance. Wasu sun shigo cikin wannan fitina da rikici, ba tare da sun san cewa manufar hakan ita ce kawar da wannan tsari ba; ba su san cewa wannan fitina ita ce fitinar nan da Amirul Muminin (a.s) yake fadn cewa: "Cikin fitinar da ta tattaka mutane da murkushe su da kofatonsu, sannan wadannan (fitinu) suka tsaya da karfinsu" (Nahjul Balaga, huduba ta 2). Fitina tana takawa da murkushe mutanen da suka kasance a karkashin kafafunta.