Editing Umayyad Caliphate (section)

====Bahá'í====
Asked for an explanation of the prophecies in the [[Book of Revelation]] (12:3), [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]] suggests in [[Some Answered Questions]] that the "great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads",<ref>{{cite web|title=Bible|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+12:3&version=NKJV|website=biblegateway.com|access-date=20 April 2017|archive-date=21 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421092633/https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+12:3&version=NKJV|url-status=live}}</ref> refers to the Umayyad caliphs who "rose against the religion of Prophet Muhammad and against the reality of Ali".<ref>{{cite book|author=`Abdu'l-Bahá|author-link=`Abdu'l-Bahá|orig-year=1908|year=1990|title=Some Answered Questions|page=69|publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust|location=Wilmette, Illinois|isbn=978-0-87743-190-9|url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/saq-13.html#pg69|access-date=19 May 2008|archive-date=8 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208051450/http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/saq-13.html#pg69|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=`Abdu'l-Bahá|author-link=`Abdu'l-Bahá|orig-year=1908|year=1990|title=Some Answered Questions|page=51|publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust|location=Wilmette, Illinois|isbn=978-0-87743-190-9|url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/saq-11.html#pg51|access-date=16 September 2012|archive-date=24 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924055253/http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/saq-11.html#pg51|url-status=live}}</ref>

The seven heads of the dragon are symbolic of the seven provinces of the lands dominated by the Umayyads: Damascus, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, Africa, Andalusia, and Transoxiana. The ten horns represent the ten names of the leaders of the Umayyad dynasty: Abu Sufyan, Muawiya, Yazid, Marwan, Abd al-Malik, Walid, Sulayman, Umar, Hisham, and Ibrahim. Some names were re-used, as in the case of Yazid II and Yazid III, which were not accounted for in this interpretation.