Speak out the Truth even if it leads to your perishing.
Imam Kadhim (A)
Excerpt from 'The Life of Imam Musa Bin Ja'far Al-Kazim':
O Allah! O Muslims! Imam Musa-peace be on him, the Prophet’s grandson, Imam of Muslims, master of those Allah-fearing and worshipful, and giant of Islamic though-was put on the Bridge of al-Rasafa while he was dead. Those near and far looked at him. The passers-by watched him. The police surrounded his Holy Body and uncovered his face for the people.
They intended to violate his sacredness, to degrade his dignity, and to slander him. Harun paid no attention to the womb kinship between him and the Imam, nor did he respect his sacredness while he was dead. In this respect it has been said: It is obligatory to respect the dead even if they are far, so how much more are those near?
Through this procedure of his, al-Rashid attempted to abase and insult the Shi‘ites.
This measure had a bad effect on them, and they remembered it throughout their historical stages with sorrow and sadness. And their poets composed poems full of sorrow and sadness on it.