Abdullah ibn Saba is a figure in Islamic history whose name has been weaponized for over a thousand years. But here is the question we must ask: Is there more to his story than the general understanding?

The Qur’anic command to love the Prophet’s family is not a minor teaching, it is a divine trust. To fast while turning away from the suffering of the Prophet’s Family and to dismiss their oppression with slogans like “history is complicated,” such a fast may be recorded on the calendar, but in the sight of God it is stripped of light, because it is built on a refusal to acknowledge injustice against those whom He commanded us to honour.