|Biographical detail : ||The son of Amir Muawiya and the second Caliph of the house of Ummaya.
Yazid ascended the throne the same day his father died, 7 April 680. He was responsible for the death of Hazrat Hussain and his family at Karbala. He ruled for about four years. During his reign the Muslim conquered Khorasan and Khawirzam. He was also a poet and the first and the last lines in Arabic of the Ghazal with which Hafiz opened his magnificent Diwan were borrowed from Yazid.