THE SHIA IN BRIEF
The talks about the Shia in the last years, especially after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, have been so widespread. The western information and its media spread everywhere in the world has focused on the Iranian Shia, describing them as 'the fool of Allah' one time and 'terrorists' another time. This included the Lebanese Shia too after they had threatened the American and western interests in Beirut. They were described as 'excessive and extreme'. After no long, these descriptions were ascribed to all the Shia in the world. In fact, they included the Islamic movements everywhere in the world even if they are Sunni having nothing to do with the Shia.
It does not matter to us what the western information and enemies of Islam say or the false justifications and fabrications they follow, for 'you may hope for the friendliness of every enemy, except the enemy of your religion'.
What does really concern us is that which some Muslims say about the Shia. You hear from them wonders and wonders! It is too odd that they do not have any evidence, clear proof, or irrefutable argument in their false accusations, but they only repeat what their ancestors used to say without any analysis or verification.
In addition to the actual definition of Shiism we have mentioned in our fourth book "The Shia are the People of the Surma", we see that we must show the Muslims, who seek the mere truth and do not fear a blame in the way of Allah, the savings of Allah and His messenger (a.s.) about the Shia, and then, we shall discuss the sayings of some approving and disapproving scholars and thinkers.
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The Shia in the Qur'an
Allah the Almighty says :
As for those who believe and do good, surely they are the best of men.
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Jalaluddeen as-Sayuti says in his commentary (tafsir) of the Qur'an called ad-Durr al-Manthur fit Tafsir al-Ma'thur, "Abu Hurayra narrated (that the Prophet (a.s.) said):
Do you wonder at the position of the angels to Allah? I swear by Him, in Whose hand my soul is, that the position of a faithful servant to Allah on the Day of Resurrection is greater than the position of an angel. If you want, you can read (this verse):
As for those who believe and do good, surely they are the best of men.
Aa'ishah narrated, "Once, I said, '0 messenger of Allah, who is the best of people to Allah?' He said:
O Aa'ishah, do you not read:
(As for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the best of men)?
Jabir ibn Ahdullah narrated, "One day, we were with the Prophet (a.s.) when Ali came and then the Prophet said:
(I swear) by Him, in Whose hand my soul is, that this (Ali) and his Shia (followers) shall be the winners on the Day of Resurrection.
Then, this Verse was revealed:
(As for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the best of men.
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1 Qur'an, 98:7.
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Whenever Ali came, the Prophet's companions said, ' The best of men has come.'"
Abu Sa'eed narrated (that the Prophet (a.s.) said): Ali is the best of men.
Ibn Abbas narrated, "When this verse was revealed
((As for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the best of men), the messenger of Allah (a.s.) said to Ali:
Surely, you and your Shia (followers) shall be on the Day of Resurrection pleased and pleased with (by Allah).
Imam Ali (a.s.) said, "The messenger of Allah (a.s.) said to me: Have you not heard this saying of Allah:
(As for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the best of men?
It is you and your Shia, and your appointment and my appointment shall be at the Pond (in the Paradise). When nations shall come for reckoning, you shall be called `ghurran muhajjaleen; honorables and shiny marked.
The Sunni scholars, who have mentioned this interpretation when interpreting this verse, are too many. Besides Jalaluddeen asSayuti, we can mention at-Tabari in his Tafsir, al-Hakim alHasakani in his Shawahid at-Tanzeel, ash-Shawkani in Fat--h alQadeer, al-Aaloosi in Roohul Ma'ani, and al-Manawi in Kunooz al-Haqa'iq.
We can also mention al-Khawarizmi in his al-Manaqib, ibn asSabbagh al-Maliki in al-Fusool al-Muhimmah, ibn Asakir in Tareekh Damashq, ash-Shabalanji in Noor al-Absar, ibnul Jawzi in Tathkiratul Khawass, al-Qandoozi al-Hanafi in Yanabee' alMawaddah, al-Haythami in Majma' az-Zawa'id, al-Mutaqqi al-Hindi in Kanzol Ummal, and ibn Hajar in al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah.
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On this firm basis, researchers cannot be satisfied with the opinions, which suppose that Shiism did not appear except after the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (a.s.).
The Shia in the Prophetic Sunna
The messenger of Allah (a.s.) many times talked about the Shia, and each time he confirmed that the followers of Ali (a.s.) would be the winners, because they supported the truth and kept away from and let down the untruth. He also confirmed that the followers of Ali (a.s.) were the followers of the Prophet (a.s.) himself.
Here, we mention the following tradition that has been mentioned by Ibn Hajar in as-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah and other Sunni scholars;
The messenger of Allah (a.s.) said to Ali:
Are you not pleased that you shall be with me in the Paradise, and al-Hasan, al-Husayn, and our progeny behind our backs, our wives behind our progeny, and our Shia (followers) to our left and right sides?
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Many times, the Prophet (a.s.) said about Ali and his followers:
By Him, in Whose hand my soul is, this (Ali) and his Shia are certainly the winners on the Day of Resurrection.
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It is very natural that the Prophet (a.s.) praised the followers of the truth and distinguished them with a sign by which they would be known throughout the ages so that Muslims would know the suppressed truth and be guided to it through the nearest way.
Because of the Prophet's praising and continuous instructions, a group from the best of his companions became adherents to Imam Ali (a.s.) and were famous of their love and support to him
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1 As-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqa by ibn Hajar, p. 96, 159.
2 Al-Manaqib by al-Khawarizmi the Hanafite, p. 62.
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after the death of the Prophet (a.s.). Among these great companions there were Salman al-Farisi, Abu Tharr al-Ghifari, Ammar ibn Yasir, Huthavfah ibn al-Yaman, and al-Miqdad ibn alAswad. Thus, the word "shin" became a surname for these men. Dr. Mustafa Kamil ash-Shaybi mentions this fact in his book 'the Relation between Sufism and Shiism; and the same is mentioned by Abu Hatim in his book az-Zeenah when saying, "The least name of a creed that appeared in Islam was the "Shia", and this was a surname of four companions who are Abu Tharr al-Ghifari, Ammar ibn Yasir, Salman al-Farisi, and al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad."
This shows clearly that the orientalists and some of Muslim researchers, who had quoted from those orientalists, were untruthful when they said that Shiism was a political phenomenon that came out as a result of the circumstances after the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (a.s.). It also clearly shows the falseness of those who tried to attach Shiism to the Persians. In fact, these people just revealed their own ignorance and fanaticism.
How would these biased people justify the existence of Shiite states in the Arab land in north Africa like Morocco and Tunisia, and the east like Egypt and Halab (in Syria) centuries before the appearance of Shiism in Persia? The state of the Idrisids (Adarisah) in Morocco was in the second century of hegira and the state of the Fatimids was in Tunisia at the end of the third century of hegira. The Fatimids also ruled in Egypt in the middle of the third century of hegira, and the Shiite state of the Hamadanids ruled in Halab (Syria) and Iraq in the fourth century, whereas Iran turned to be Shia in the tenth century of hegira at the hand of the Shah Ismael.
Those, who try in a way or another to attach Shiism to the Persians, will never be able to prove that whatever they try to do.
As I have mentioned before in my book 'Then I was guided' most of the Sunni scholars and imams were Persians and were not Shia! In fact, they were very puritan and fanatic against the Shia and Shiism. Some historians mention that the people of Persia used to
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abuse Imam Ali (a.s.) on their minbars even after Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, the Umayyad caliph, had prohibited it (the abusing of Imam Ali).
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If we know that the first and most famous interpreter azZamakhshari was Persian, the great traditionists al-Bukhari and Muslim were Persian, Abu Haneefah the Greatest Imam, as called by the Sunni, was Persian, the master and most famous of grammarians Seebwavh was Persian, the master of theologians Wasil ibn Ata' was Persian, the master of linguists al-Fayrooz Abadi the author of al-Qamus al-Muhit (comprehensive dictionary) was Persian, Imam al-Ghazali, ar-Razi, Avicenna, and Ibn Rushd all were Persian... and all of the mentioned above men were from the scholars and heads of the Sunni, then would those fabricators and agitators turn to reason and let alone true scholars and researchers conclude and arrive at the truth derived from the true history through their reasons and not emotions and fanaticism?
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1 The Present Islamic World, vol. 1 p. 191, quoted from al-Khawarizmi.
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TODAY, I HAVE PERFECTED FOR
YOU, YOUR RELIGION ...
Would that Muslims have turned Shia on that day!
Eid al-Ghadeer
Eid al-Ghadeer is the greatest and most important eid to Allah.
All Muslims in the east and the west of the earth celebrate two eids; the first is the Eid al-Fitr after the end of Ramadan, and the second is Eid al-Adhha immediately after performing the hajj.
Muslims, since the beginning until now, keep on celebrating these two eids everywhere in the world. They call the first eid as 'the minor eid' and the other one as 'the major eid'.
However and unfortunately, Muslims have disagreed on the third eid, which is the greatest of all eids and called Eid al-Ghadeer. It is the day when Allah the Almighty had perfected the religion and completed His favor on Muslims.
One, who studies history, can undoubtedly discover that this disagreement has come out of the political situation of the men of the Saqifah at the first moments of the Prophet's death. They permitted themselves to behave unlike the clear Qur'anic texts and Prophetic traditions
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1 Besides that, they contradicted many occasions on which the Prophet (a.s.) often declared and announced his successor clearly and openly. Allama Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'iy, in his book 'The Shia in Islam', p. 24, says, "It is impossible for the leader of a revolution, and in its first days, not to assign one of his companions as vizier or successor to him over the
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Because of this, Imam Ali (a.s.), who had been appointed as the caliph after the Prophet (a.s.) according to many clear texts, was kept away from caliphate and replaced by another one chosen by Quraysh
1 after their desires and ambitions. Thus, this was the first relapse that afflicted the Muslims immediately after the death of their prophet that paved the way for the quarrel of the untruth against the truth, and of jahiliyyah (ignorance of the pre-Islamic era) against Islam.
There is no doubt that the following Qur'anic verse has a direct relation with the Eid al-Ghadeer:
And Muhammad is no more than a messenger; the messengers have already passed away before him; if then he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? 2
The messenger of Allah (a.s.) celebrated the Eid al-Ghadeer when Allah the Almighty ordered him to appoint Ali (a.s.) as the caliph after him and introduce him to the nation. The messenger of Allah (a.s.) cried out, "Allahu Akbar" when the present Muslims finished paying their homage to Imam Ali (a.s.), and Gabriel came down to the Prophet (a.s.) revealing to him this verse:
This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion. 3
The Prophet (a.s.) said:
Allah is Great. Praise be to Allah for perfecting the religion and completing the blessing and the contentment of the Lord with the guardianship of my brother and cousin.
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others, and not introduce him to the most loyal of his close companions and supporters...or keep him away from the responsibilities of vizierate and successorship!!
1 Quraysh was the biggest tribe in Mecca of great power and authority.
2 Qur'an, 3:144.
3 Qur'an, 5:3.
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On the same day, the Prophet (a.s.) held a meeting of congratulation that no one of the Muslims men and women present at that day, except that he\she came to Imam Ali (a.s.) congratulating him on that guardianship.
However, it lasted no long! Only two months after the celebration of that great eid, the nation disavowed and denied the eid and the hero of the eid, and chose someone else against the will of Allah claiming one time that Ali was too young then, and another time that the Hshimites had had the honor of the Prophethood and so they should not get the position of caliphate as well, and a third time that the people of Quraysh would not agree on the one who had killed their heroes, defeated their brave knights, and crushed their pride.
Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) had no guilt in all that at all, except that he had sold his life for the contentment of Allah and sacrificed every thing he had for supporting the religion that his brother and cousin had received from the heavens, never minding any blame in the way of Allah and nothing of this worldly life's vanities could turn his determination away.
I cannot account Imam Ali's virtues or show his qualities. I know certainly that:
If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would surely be consumed before the words of my Lord are exhausted.
It sufficed him as pride and honor that Allah the Almighty had perfected the religion with his imamate, completed His favor with his caliphate, and been pleased with the Muslims who believed in his guardianship. And it sufficed him as glory and virtue that the messenger of Allah (a.s.) had made him as the imam (chief) of the pious, the master of Muslims, the leader of the honorables shiny marked, and the head of people in religion.
I am in no need of showing a proof on the fact of the Eid alGhadeer or proving the narrations and historical events on it, for
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the ummah has agreed unanimously on the reality of this event , whether the Shia, who celebrate it every year, or the Surma who try to misinterpret it.
We have read the savings of celebrators as we have read the sayings of misinterpreters. We have read the savings of the adherents, who have understood from those texts, traditions, and celebrations that imamate is a fundamental principle of the religion.
We have read the sayings of the dissenters who have misinterpreted the texts as to be no more than a personal opinion that Muhammad adopted about his cousin and husband of his daughter to endear him to the hearts of haters and enviers.
After that, we knew the situations of the adherent supporters, who were few, poor, and disabled, and we knew the situations of the disappointing opponents who were in great numbers, wealthy, and arrogant. Therefore, they violated the sanctity of the Prophet's household, beginning with the Principal of all the women of the world, Fatima (a.s.), and then Imam Ali (a.s.) the master of all guardians against whom they broke out many wars; al-Jamal, Siffin, and then an-Nahrawan, until lastly they assassinated him in the mihrab during his prayer, and after that, they prostrated to thank Allah for all that! However, they were not satisfied with all that, until they killed the two masters of the youth of the Paradise; Imam al-Hasan with poison and then Imam al-Husayn by the sword in Kerbala with his family and loyal companions.
From all that, we knew that the Eid al-Ghadeer was the trial for this nation that disagreed and were divided and separated like the Jews and the Christians as the Prophet Muhammad (a.s.) had predicted.
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We also knew that the holy imamate, which is one of the fundamental principles of religion, was suppressed and subdued,
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1 Sahih al-Bukhari, vol. 4 p. 144, vol. 8 p. 151.
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and its people had nothing to do, except to be patient and submissive. This divine imamate was replaced with false emirate that was "a slip from whose evil Allah has kept Islam and Muslims safe", until after that, the tulaqa' (set free prisoners) and the profane wished for, whereas no one rode on the ship of rescue that Muhammad (a.s.) had made except a very few loyal companions. The current of this worldly life and the love of power swept away the rest of Muslims, who turned their backs to the infallible imams of guidance and followed creeds they themselves invented that had a proof neither in the Book of Allah nor in the Sunna of His messenger.
This is, in brief, the event of Eid al-Ghadeer, the hero of alGhadeer, and the plot that was born after the Day of al-Ghadeer. For more details, I suggest for readers to read my book 'To be with the Truthful.
Today, we have to know that we both the Sunni and the Shia are victims of the false history, or in fact, the victims of the plots and transgressions that had been done by other than us. Surely, these are the results of the crimes that our ancestors had committed, and Allah knows that we are free from them. We are just followers and nor heretics. We have been created on nature and our parents were the cause of our being Shia or Sunni, guided or deviant.
We still have to know that the deviation, which has been continuous for fourteen centuries, cannot be repaired in some years, and whoever believes in this just deceives himself and wishes for an impossible.
It goes without saying that the infallible imams (a.s.), from Imam Ali (a.s.) to Imam al-Hasan al-Askari (a.s.), spared no any effort to unite the nation and guide it to the right path. They sacrificed their lives and the lives of their children to keep the Religion of Muhammad (a.s.) untouched, but most of people were unfaithful and resistant to the Truth which they terribly hated.
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We also have to know that efforts of faithful and truthful reformers failed and the hope of unity were broken against the rock of the blind fanaticism and offensive ignorance. Hills and mountains of nationalities and races besides governments stood in the face of these hopes, and at the backs of all these, there were and are enemies to us, whose friendliness cannot be wished for. They were active since the beginning of the Mission until today and they spared no effort to put out the Light of Allah. Besides those, there are many opportunists who do not think except of their own benefits, which the unity of Muslims seriously threatens.
In addition to all those, there is the cursed Iblis, about whom Allah the Almighty has said:
He said: As Thou hast caused me to remain disappointed, I will certainly lie in wait for them in Thy straight path. 1
We have to know, too, that time has elapsed; fourteen centuries have passed while we are sleeping, bewildered, drunken, and confused. The ornaments and embellishments of this life intoxicate our minds, and many incurable diseases gnaw our bodies. At the same time, our enemies worked and arc still working day and night for scientific and technological development, and because of that, they permitted themselves to colonize our countries, subdue us, and suck our bloods and treasures, claiming that we were underdeveloped nations that should be developed, or predacious beasts that must be tamed. They controlled every way and closed every door before us. They began counting our breaths that if anyone of us sneezed, even if one sneeze at the end of every century, they counted everything against him and asked him to prove the source of that flu, fearing for themselves from infection that might cause unpleasing results.
They took much from Islam and did according to it, whereas we turned away from much of what Allah had ordered us to do.
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1 Qur'an, 7:16.
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Here, there is no need of more explanations and derails, because "a word to wise man is enough".
Today, we woke up from our lethargy and began clapping and dancing with the melodies of unity. Each one of us claimed that he was the hero of this unity. We imagined that it was a simple matter and that we would unite the nation within an overnight by calling out some slogans and holding some conferences.
Since I opened my eves towards this life, I heard of "unity". In my first school, I learned songs of unity whose meaning flowed with my blood in my veins. I grew up, and every day, I dreamt of fifty years old, but I have not seen any sign or even ghost of this unity.
After being desperate of the unity of Muslims, and even of the unity of the Arabs, I was satisfied with a minor unity between two neighboring countries. In the morning, I was very delighted for that unity, and in the evening of the same day when it was born, I wept for it.
The two peoples were twins that nothing separated them, except that which was called "the government verdicts". By that time, I knew that the destinies of peoples were in the hands of a few persons who controlled them as they liked; if they liked, they would unite them, and if they liked something else, they would set them against each other and threw them into wars, and then you would see the same people, who used to embrace each other, fight each other.
Since the enemies had power and dominance by which they could separate peoples having united for hundreds of years, shred them, and make them melt away in spite of their power and influence, so certainly they would not let Muslim peoples, who were shredded since hundreds of years, meet and unite to form a powerful entity that would be dangerous to their benefits and interests, though these peoples were poor, underdeveloped, and in great debts.
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Suppose that we have united; what would we get from this poverty and underdevelopment? If we think of driving the colonists away and cutting the hand of the thieves, we must prepare enough power and forces to repel the unjust, and control the rioters. And how can we do that while we still buy the arms and weapons, which arc not used except for killing Muslims and drudging citizens, from them themselves?
If we advance one day, they will advance sixty years, and if we prepare one force against them, they will prepare seventy! If we want to face them in war, they will not trouble themselves much! They will incite our brothers in nationality or religion against us, and then one will kill another, while they will remain but delighted audiences clapping their hands.
The Gulf war is not far! Only some soldiers were killed from them, but hundreds of thousands of Muslims were buried alive, and that one, who used to threatened to burn Israel yesterday and many stupid Arabs believed him, came to burn his people in the north and the south with the Napalm. Even the mosques and holy shrines were not safe from his evil mercenaries whom we saw coward and inactive towards disbelievers, but against the Muslims, they were ravenous beasts.
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1 From the book 'The Secret File of the Gulf War', p.138-139. In a letter to the Iranian President Mr. Rafsanjani, the criminal Saddam praised peace and showed that he had given up his conditions...in few lines, this tyrant effaced the remembrance of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed in the eight-year-war which was the bloodiest since the Second World War!!! He adopted the slogan of "the way to Jerusalem passes through Tehran", and then he turned to occupy Kuwait and let his armies kill, rob, and violate the honors of women, and finally set fire to the Kuwaiti oilfields. He issued a law to execute every one of his armies who refused to rob from Kuwait. After all that, yet he was called 'the Sword of the Arabs"!!!
It is worth mentioning that the Iraqi, the American, and the third partner the UN's information refrained from announcing the true losses and damages caused by the allies in their bombing on Iraq. In fact, that, which was bombed in Iraq was the public utilities, bridges, and hospitals. And
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The young Islamic Republic of Iran made every effort to unite the Muslims and offered every sacrifice in this way. It paid a very high price from the bloods of its most loyal people. It resisted the west and the cast and faced an international blockade (sanction). Its leader died while bemoaning the indifference of Muslims, as his grandfather the leader of the pious (Imam Ali) bemoaned before.
From the eternal sayings of Imam Khomeini (may Allah have mercy on him) is this one, "If every Muslim spits once, the Muslims shall make Israel sink."
If Muslims are stingy even with one spit, so how is it expected that they sacrifice their properties and lives? Therefore, most of them have had friendly relations with Israel. So, do not look forward to unity, 0 you inattentive!
Is it unknown to you that fifty thousand Palestinians wait everyday for the mercy of Israel, and they hurry up every morning to work with meanness and disgrace to gain the daily bread for themselves and their families? If Israel closes its doors, these people shall die of hunger. So where are their Muslim brothers whom Allah has enriched with His favors to the extent that one emir of them receives income that is too much more than the needs of those people who are obliged not to resist or fight Israel, as long as they feel that Israel is the benefactor and the cause of their livelihood.
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now, the Iraqi people are suffering terrible famine that more than four millions people are liable to death, and 75% of the newborn children are under the danger of death because of malnutrition and absence of the medical care. Moreover, the sanction shall not be annulled except after destroying the weapons of the regime which have been accumulated from the wealth and sweat of the Iraqi and Arab people, and after offering the Iraqi people as a sacrifice for Israel and its security and stability!!! (This book was published first in Arabic in 1995).
The media and journals mentioned that after the decree of transferring the capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a high official from the Gulf countries
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Peace be on Ali (a.s.) who said:
Poverty is about to be atheism. If poverty were a man, I certainly would kill him.
It is true that there is powerfulness in unity, but it is supposed that there is power in every one of its elements. If all the elements of unity are weak and sick, then in their unity there shall be but more weakness and sickness. How is it possible for one, who is always busy thinking of the hunger of his stomach and the sickness of his body, to believe in unity?
About what shall I talk to you? Shall I talk to you about the children who cannot find any weapon except the stones to resist; though all the stones have been swept away? Perhaps, some of them look for a stone to put it on his abdomen because of hunger!
What makes one laugh and cry at the same time is that you see some drawlers try, with all their abilities, to convince us that the Stone Revolution has troubled and shaken Israel. In fact, this is a mere informational propaganda to justify the savage doings of Israel, that if one Israelite soldier is wounded by those stones, tens of innocent children shall be killed by machineguns and bombs.
So, where arc the Arab countries that have united under the shade of the Arab Assembly since tens of years and promised of liberating Palestine?
Where are the Muslim countries that lead the Muslim World and claim to liberate Jerusalem?
Have you seen even one of these countries offer help, assistance, or arms to those children of stones (in Palestine) or the mujahidin who face the bombs and missiles of the enemy without having any arms to reply except the stones? We have seen them in the
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visited the United States of America offering six milliard dollars for the luxury of the American people!
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Gulf War ... we have seen our Arab Muslim brothers take out their hidden arms and spend milliards from their wealth to overthrow the Iraqi government that in return threatened to do away with the Israelite government, agents, and reactionaries!
However, the truth was that they all were plotting to do away with the Shiite Revolution. And actually, the Iraqi regime remained as it was, and so did Israel, the agents, and the reactionaries, whereas the Shia were buried alive and the rest of them were displaced in the deserts and wild lands, and thousands of refugees are still living in camps under lowness they face from the Saudis and insults from the Wahabis.
I talk to you about the fate of Muslims in Afghanistan whom Allah has bestowed on victory and they came fighting each other between their children and families, destroying their own houses by their own hands, being stimulated by foreign, unfaithful hands!
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1 I saw in a video cassette very horrible scenes of maiming and cutting of heads and burying the wounded in collective graves. I asked the owner of this cassette, "What for all this brutal grudge and enmity is?" He said, "These are innocent, peaceful old people, women, children...just because they are Shia." These horrible crimes were committed by evil men under the leadership of Shah Mas'ud and Abd Rabb ar-Rasool the wahabite, who would be glad to see Satan but not to see even one Shia. He might give a fatwa that the bloods and honors of the Shia were violable.
This attack was against a town called Afshar where about eleven thousands of peaceful civilians were killed. Their women were raped and their properties were robbed. After killing the leader of the Afghani Unity Party, martyr Abdul Ali al-Mazari, there was another attack against innocent civilians where about thirteen thousands were killed, their women were raped, and their properties robbed.
The Shia form one fifth (if not one third) of the population and have historical deep-rooted existence there. There is a holy shrine of one of the sons of the great martyr Zayd bin Ali (may Allah have mercy on him) in Jowzjan, now called Mazar Sharif. The situations of the Shia (of Afghanistan) against the Umavvads, against the British colonists, and lately their participation with their brothers in forcing the Red Army to leave
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I talk to you about the destiny of the Muslims in Yugoslavia where the powers of atheism have gathered together to remove them all from Eastern Europe. I talk to you about the Muslims in India, and about what I 'myself have seen. Their dignities were violated often and always to the extent that Alawid Muslim women were sold in the markets like animals.
I talk to you about the Muslims in Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and all Africa who die of hunger in thousands every day, whereas dogs and cats in Europe enjoy all kinds of delicious food. The dignity and holies of Muslim are violated, whereas many societies for defending and protecting animals have been and are founded.
Stop lying and deceit! Stop hypocrisy and misleading! If the people of one country are not in accordance with each other, then how can we ask the Muslims of different countries to unite?
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Afghanistan, were and are great that cannot be neglected. Thus, instead of being grateful to them and acknowledging their creed, the others try to remove and do away with them and their beliefs!
1 Imam al-Husayn (a.s.) said addressing the followers of the Umayyads, "If you have no religion and you do not fear the Hereafter, then be free in your worldly life and regard to your lineages if you are Arabs as you claim!"
We have refused and took off the black dress of the reactionary religion that has taken us to underdevelopment and darkness! Let us keep pace with the ages of development and progress. The Iraqi regime said, "There is no place in this country except for development and socialism." Whenever religion was mentioned, it was described as reactionary and was detested. The Iraqi regime adopted the slogan of "One (united) Arab nation...", but it divided Iraq into pieces, and its army was divided, and then the members of the government, until it reached the members of the president's family themselves, and now the president is surrounded not by the Republican Guards, but by those who are more loyal; Fedayeen of Saddam.
This is an example of the Arab developed socialist leader who would suppress the reactionary religion and unite the Arab nation! He plotted and is still plotting against his own people and neighbors. (We have said before that this hook was published first in Arabic in 1995 AD). The aim of the Iraqi army in the war of 1967AD was to overthrow the Jordanian regime. And in the year 1970, the Black September, the Palestinians thought that
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The sayings are too many, but the doings are too little!
One look at the history that we lived since the war of 1948 until the Persian Gulf War would be enough. Victory was always with disbelievers. Every time, the share of Muslims was defeat, loss, lowness, and disgrace. So take a lesson from the wrath of Allah, O people of understanding!
Recently, we said that we would not negotiate with Israel, and what was taken by force, would not be taken back except by force. And today, we run after Israel and beg it to give back to us our lands that it had extorted from us. We entreat its close lovers to intercede for us!
Our hearts have become tired and bored, and our minds confused and submissive, and now, we believe neither in unity nor in the victory that shall come one day!
Can it be believed that the emirs of the Gulf, the kings, and rulers shall unite with the poor, the hungry, and the destitute some day?
Yes, they unite by speaking only! The testimony of "there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah" is just a saying! Faith is just a saying, and even the prayer, zakat, fasting, and the hajj have all become sayings in sayings!
It is not difficult for an orator to say for example: "our god is the same, our prophet is the same, our Book is the same, and our qiblah is the same; therefore, 0 Muslims, be united! Be united!"
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Saddam and his army tried to defend them against the massacre committed by King Husavn ibn Talal of Jordan, but they were massacred before the sights and hearings of the all!
Yes, they gathered together to tight against their Muslim neighbor Iran, after they had been disciplined by the cudgel of the Shah! And after that came the scenario of the invasion of Kuwait to pave the way to coexist with the Zionists. As they took back Husni Mubarak to the Arab line, they shall take Saddam back to it as well, and whoever refuses shall be fought by them and with their new partner Israel, because in that there is the glory of the Arabs and their progress toward the eternal Arabic goals!!!
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How it is easy to adopt a slogan saving "no Shiism, no Sunnism, but Islamic unity"!
However, it has disappeared from the minds of all these people to live the painful reality and face the naked truth with no clothing of misleading!
They have come to us in the last years with a new opinion, as if it was unknown to their ancestors and to the infallible imams! They said it should be prohibited to discuss the matters of history lest some of Muslims would be provoked. They went too far in that, until they said that there was no difference between the Shia and the Sunni except in the branches of religion, exactly as the differences between the Sunni sects themselves and they gave up the matter of imamate which is to them a fundamental from the fundamentals of religion.
As a result to this new situation, minds have become frozen and have stopped to search for the truth after they (minds) had been liberated claiming that they (those claiming Muslims) should be united in order to face the common enemy! These people have forgotten that our actual enemy is hidden inside our selves, living inside our houses, and being brought up by our eyes.
It is a wonder that when you talk to one of them about Marx and Lenin, he becomes proud and bloomed, and he considers you as a learned man, but when you mention Imam Ali (a.s.) and the infallible imams of his progeny, he frowns and is depressed, and then accuses you of defaming the Orthodox Caliphs. Worse than that is that when you argue with him with clear evidences and proofs, then he pretends to adopt the slogan of the Islamic Unity, and accuses you of trying to divide the Muslims.
After that, would we abuse those who call for the unity of beliefs according to the Book of Allah and the pure Sunna of His messenger and accuse them of trying to divide the Muslims?
In fact, some ulama hide the truth willingly and when they are asked, they do not answer fearing that they may be accused of striving against the Islamic unity.
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I think that the scientific researching to get to the sought truth is not a danger threatening the unity of Muslims, because it is not more than provoking some people's emotion that shall disappear in the end when arriving at the truth.
The danger and the worst of dangers is to close the mouths, tie the tongues and prevent people from researching, freeze the minds and keep them away from the truth by the pretense of unity! This is the very thing that the Baathist regime in Iraq did to separate between the Shia and the Sunni. The talk about Shiism was prohibited lest the Sunni would know the truth of the Shia.
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1 Collective conversions to Shiism took place at the hands of some ulama. For example, Allama al-Qazwini could convert about thirty thousand people from the tribes of al-Jubour in Hillah (in Iraq). The same took place at the hands of other ulama. Some tribes of nomadic trends near Tikrit and Ramadi have a proverb saying, "May Allah afflict you with like the affliction of the tribe of Aal Alwan who gave up the religion of their fathers and became Shia!"
There were many meetings between the Shia and Sunni ulama during the struggle against the British colonialism, the communistic expansion, and the Iraqi Baath's prevailing. Among those Ulama was the Martyr Abdul Aziz al-Badri whom the tyrannical regime cut into pieces.
Thus, the Baathist regime in Iraq followed a hypocritical policy that his Masonic masters had trained him to. They exploited Saddam's ignorance, complexes, and nomadic nature that he had inherited from the village of alOujah (in Tikrit) which was terribly underdeveloped and nomadic, besides his vagrancy because of his uncle's bad and severe relation to his mother, besides his Jewish background and gypsy life that was with no moral bonds, lawful marriage, or pledges...so this nomad was worthier of not knowing the limits of Allah. He knew neither Sunnism nor Shiism. He was just to carry out what he had been ordered to do; therefore, he did not refrain from any crime or sin. He accused the Shia of treason for foreign countries, disbelief, and of Persian origins ... He accused me of his own guilt and ran away ... and a suspicious one may expose himself!!
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It is the same thing like that which the first caliphs did when they prohibited people from writing down or mentioning the traditions of the Prophet (a.s.). Therefore, the truth was hidden from most of Muslims who did not know the Eid al-Ghadeer and what happened on that Day, which made the Jews and Christians say to them, "If this (Qur'anic) verse was revealed about us, we would highly regard that day and take it as eid even if only two people remained from us:
This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you. 1
The companions could not find an answer to that.
Some others have come to us relying on Imam Ali's saying:
I will submit as long as the affairs of Muslims are safe and when there is no oppression except against me only.
These people have forgotten that it was Imam Ali (a.s.) who revived the event of al-Ghadeer after it had been buried and made to be forgotten, when he made thirty companions from those, who had attended the Day of al-Ghadeer, bear witness and he invoked Allah against those who denied it. Then, after him, his two sons (Imam al-Hasan and al-Husayn) revived it during the season of the hajj before great masses of Muslims. In this concern, Imam Ali (a.s.) said:
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Unfortunately, many Sunni people responded to him (Saddam), especially those who broke into houses, tortured, raped, and maimed innocent people with total rage to write with Saddam that "there would be no Shia after today". And due to their jurisprudence, it is not permissible to disobey the ruler and turn away from the group (congregation), and therefore they helped Saddam to do whatever he liked. Certainly, this is the continuity of the fatwa of the first (illegal) rulers of Muslims saying that it is not permissible to disobey a ruler even if he is unjust. Certainly, this is a clear rejection to the Prophet's tradition saying that "Whoever of you sees a wrongdoing let him repel it ..."
1 Qur'an, 5:3.
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Do not be revilers or cursers, but you say that their doings were so and so, in order to be more effective in argument.
We must take Imam Ali (a.s.) as our example and not take only one of his sayings (I will submit...) and leave the others; that we believe in some of the Book and disbelieve in some!
It is right that Imam Ali (a.s.) was patient unwillingly for the sake of the welfare of Islam and Muslims, because he did what he exactly said. He fought the breakers of covenants (nakitheen) (in the battle of al-Jamal), the unjust (qasiteen; who falsely sought arbitration in the battle of Siffeen), and the renegades (mariqeen) (in the battle of an-Nahrawan), until he straightened the pillars of religion, provided safety to all Muslims, and pardoned his enemies whenever the matter concerned the oppression against him only.
Those, who argue against us by Nahjol Balagha, must believe in everything in it, and not argue by what complies with their desires only. If there is a praise to someone unknown mentioned in Nahjol Balagha, they say: this is Imam Ali's speech about our master Umar al-Farouq. He praises and commends him!
But if you say to them (that Imam Ali (a.s.) has said), "By Allah, ibn Abi Quhafah (Abu Bab) has dressed himself in it (assumed the caliphate) and he knew well that my position to it was like the position of the axis to the quern that flood flows down from me and birds cannot ascend to me", they say that this is the speech of ash-Shareef ar-Radhy
1 and not Ali's. Yes, they love Ali (a.s.) and pray Allah to be pleased with him when he is sincere to the caliphs and does not disobey them. But, these people forgets that the self of Ali (a.s.) is like the self of Muhammad (a.s.) and the heart of Ali (a.s.) is like the heart of Muhammad (a.s.) that Allah has kept away uncleanness from and purified thorough purification. Ali (a.s.) was a true copy of the messenger of Allah (a.s.) whom Allah had described as "on exalted standards of
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1 He is the compiler of Nahjol Balagha.
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character" and that the hearts of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) had no any place for grudge or hatred.
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For that, this was the Prophet (a.s.) and that was the guardian (a.s.); Muhammad (a.s.) was the warner and Ali (a.s.) was the guide. The first one fought for the revelation, and the second one fought for the interpretation.
For that, Allah chose him (Imam Ali) for imamate by which He perfected the religion and completed the favor, and as honor to him, Allah crowned him with the imamate on the day of the Major Eid (of al-Ghadeer).
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1 And the same is said about us his Shia! If we say that Imam Ali (a.s.) is the gate of the (Prophet's) city of knowledge, their (the others than the Shia) arguers cries out loudly that this fact does not deny that this city has many gates. If we mention his great courage and that it was he who put the cornerstone of Islam, they say to us: do you want to invalidate all the history? How did the Muslims achieve all those conquests and victories and ... and ...etc?
This is if the argument is quiet, but if there is injustice and oppression against the Shia, they shall approve the setting of fire to Fatima's house, the murdering of Imam al-Husavn (a.s.), the persecution of the Alawids, making the al-Azhar University and Halab Sunnite, persecuting the seyyids from the progeny of the Prophet (a.s.), the killing of the Iranian hajjis, fighting and trying to do away with the Shia and their ulama in Iraq like the descendants of the great religious authority Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakeem and the great thinker Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr (may Allah have mercy on him).
This is if they have not participated in the activities of the media or as soldiers in the different armies of the tyrant (Saddam), because, for them, it is not permissible to disobey the guardian of Muslims when he has not disobeyed Allah yet!!!
How wonder it is! I do not know how the color of disobedience would be for Yazid, al-Hajjaj, and Saddam!!!
Yes, we invite them to dialogues and discussions so that we do know the truth and its people, but they invite us today to keep silent. The invitation that they have accustomed us to is murdering and supporting the wrongdoers to defend the rulers whether good or bad they arc!
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Ali (a.s.), with his patience and loyalty, did not overlook his right even one day. You (Sunnis) have mentioned in your Sahihs that he did not pay homage (to the caliph) for four months during which he argued against them (the men of authority) with every proof and evidence, and he said to Umar one day:
Milk a milking that you shall have a half of it, and support him (Abu Bakr) today, to recompense you tomorrow ...
Muhammad is my brother and father-in-law ...
You also have narrated that he (Imam Ali) took out his wife Fatima (a.s.) with him and they both frequented the meetings of the Ansar who apologized, saying to her:
0 the beloved of the messenger of Allah, if your husband and cousin preceded to us, we would not prefer to him anyone at all.
Imam Ali (a.s.) said in reply:
Would I leave the messenger of Allah (a.s.) without washing (ritually before the burial) and go out disputing with the people for his succession (caliphate)?
Fatima (a.s.) said:
Abu Hasan did not do except what he was required to do, and they did not do except what Allah shall judge them for.
Did Ali (a.s.) not complain when burying his wife in the night by addressing the messenger of Allah (a.s.) saying:
Peace be on you 0 messenger of Allah and on your daughter who is coming to your neighboring. She shall tell you about the rising of your Umma against me and the extorting of her right. So keep on asking her and know from her what happened?
Did Ali (a.s.) not refuse the caliphate when he was asked to follow the way of the two previous caliphs in rule? Does this show that he accepted and was pleased with what they did?
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Did Ali (a.s.) not refuse the caliphate when people forced him to assume it, and he did not accept it except when he made thirty men witness for him about (the reality of) the event of alGhadeer and that the messenger of Allah had appointed him on that day as the caliph over all Muslims, until he said:
Whoever does not consider Ali as his guardian is not Muslim?
Thus, Imam Ali (a.s.) revived the Eid al-Ghadeer after it was about to be buried forever. Nevertheless, most of Muslims do not know that and they cannot believe those events, claiming that the courage of Imam Ali (a.s.) would not let him keep silent before his right.
I say to these people that the courage of Imam Ali (a.s.) was not greater than the courage of the messenger of Allah (a.s.) about whom Imam Ali (a.s.) said:
When war became violent, we protected ourselves by the back of the messenger of Allah.
Nonetheless, the messenger of Allah (a.s.) kept silent and gave up his right when he accepted all the conditions of the polytheists for the welfare of Islam and Muslims, until one of his companions accused him of being indifferent to the religion by saying to him:
Are you really the messenger of Allah?
It was the same situation when some ignorants accused Imam alHasan (a.s.) of degrading the believers when he concluded a truce with Mo'awiyva to spare the bloods of Muslims.
Thus, the Lid al-Ghadeer is the borderline between the truth and falsehood; between the perfecting of the religion and its comprehensiveness with the Book of Allah and the Sunna of His prophet on the one hand and its imperfection and being in need of the ijtihad of mujtahids on the other; between the completion of the favor and its belonging to the grateful on the one hand and the wrath of Allah on the renouncers; between the infallible
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imamate that Allah has made among His loyal, pure servants, and the usurped caliphate that the tulaqa' (freed captives) and sinners had assumed.
When I remember the great martyr Sayyid Muhammad Baqir asSadr (may Allah have mercy on him), I do not and shall never hesitate even for one moment to announce the right of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.). One day, he (Martyr as-Sadr) said to his companions, "When the letter of at-Teejani came to me from Tunisia, telling that some of our Shia brothers had celebrated the Eid al-Ghadeer for the first time there, I cried and praised Allah that He planted the seed of Shiism there."
The attendants understood then that the crying of Sayyid as-Sadr was because of his delight that some believers had been guided at his hand. However, by the passing of years, I understood that his crying was for the great injustice against Imam Ali (a.s.) and the pure progeny of the Prophet (a.s.), because the injustice against them was as injustice against Islam and all Muslims. Sayyid asSadr cried for most of the Muslims who had not heard about the Eid al-Ghadeer and not known about its great value and importance near Allah the Almighty.
After this brief discussion about the Eid al-Ghadeer and its importance, I have to show my opinion as to the sought solution for the unity of Muslims. Anyhow, my opinion is not a personal one, but it is a following of the texts of the Qur'an and the Prophetic Sunna, because after these two holy sources, my opinion and the opinions of all people shall be just deviation and supposition, and surely, supposition is nothing before the truth.
I think that the unity of Muslims shall not come true except when it is built on a firm basis; the basis of the same beliefs and the clinging to the firm rope of Allah, because the Prophet Muhammad (a.s.) said:
If they disagree in the religion, they shall become the party of Iblis.
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The signs of the unity were declared by the messenger of Allah (a.s.) when he said:
I have left among you the Two Weighty things which if you keep to, you shall never go astray after me at all; the Book of Allah and my household, my family. The all-comprehensive, the all acquainted (Gabriel) has told me that they will never separate until they will come to me at the Pond (in the Paradise).
So whoever, whether knowingly or unknowingly, keeps to them is from the propagandists for the unity that the messenger of Allah (a.s.) had ordered of, and whoever turns his back to them is from the propagandists for separation and disagreement, which the messenger of Allah (a.s.) had forbidden. If such a man claims that he is the leader of unity and uniting, his claim is certainly false, as long as he follows other than these Two Weighty things.
What one of scholars has said to me might reveal clearly the intentions of the Sunni propagandists of unity whom no Muslim doubts their love to the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.). He said to me, "We (the Sunni) cannot unite with you except by the appearance of your sign."
I asked him, "What is our sign that you wait for?"
He said, "Al-Mandi whom you claim to be alive and hidden. When he comes to us, only then we can unite with you and know that you are truthful."
It is a painful conclusion, but it is inevitable, for this nation cannot unite except by his (Imam al-Mandi) appearance. Even if we suppose that most of the Sunni shall return to the truth, there shall be some obdurate people there until the Last Day.
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It is necessary in the end of this brief discussion to remind of the will of the leader of the Umma and founder of the Islamic Republic (Imam Khomeini may Allah have mercy on him) to close the way before pretenders. He prohibited disputing between the Shia and the Sunni for the sake of unity. He began his will by the tradition of ath-Thaqalayn (two weighty things), and after explaining the tradition, he directly said,
"We must say that what had afflicted the two trusts of the Prophet (a.s.) by the tyrants, afflicted the Muslim nation, and in fact all humanity where the pen is unable to express. We have to mention this point that the tradition of ath-Thaqalayn has been mentioned by so many narrators (mutawatir tradition) and it is well known among all Muslims. It has been mentioned in the
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what you have inherited from the ancestors! "(Abdullah) ibn Umar (ibn alKhattab) blamed Imam al-Husayn (a.s.) for marching to Kufa and for his rising against Yazid ibn Mo'awiya and separating from the group (congregation of Muslims)." Refer to al-Bidavah wen-Nihayah fit-Tareekh, vol. 8 p. 163. "And ibn Umar secluded himself from the people of Medina when they renounced their pledge to Yazid ibn Mo'awiya and ordered his children and family to keep on their allegiance to him (Yazid) and not to follow the people of Medina in renouncing him". Ibid., vol. 8 p. 218...though Yazid killed Imam al-Husayn ibn Ali (a.s.), his children and companions, took his women as captives, and roamed with the heads of the martyrs on spears ... destroyed the Kaaba, and violated Medina for three days by committing every kind of vices in it!
As the Mufti of the Saudi royal palace (ibn Baz) gives a fatwa that it is not permissible to eat from the meat of the sacrifices of the Shia, for they (the Shia) are polytheists and unfaithful and that it is not permissible to marry from them or marry women to them, we see him welcome the foreign armies in Hijaz and the scenes of the American female soldiers in their sunbaths freely (nakedly) considering them secured by Islam, since they are in the land of Muslims, and he sees that peace with Israel is recommendable ... with the full obedience to the rulers of Aal Saud (Saudians)!
Then, why do we not wait for Imam al-Mandi (a.s.) under a good shade instead of this shade, so that Allah may hasten his reappearance to spread justice and remove injustice?
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main Sunni books of Hadith, such as the six Sahihs and other books in different wordings and in many places.
This Prophetic tradition is an irrefutable argument over human beings especially the Muslims with their different creeds. All the Muslims, on whom the argument has been cast, have to undertake this responsibility. If the ignorant have an excuse, the scholars of the different sects have no any excuse."
After Imam Khomeini had disclosed the stages of the plot against the Book of Allah and the Immaculate Progeny (a.s.) and showed that tyrants made the Qur'an as a means to establish governments hostile to the Qur'an, though the call of the messenger of Allah (a.s.) "I have left among you the Two Weighty Things" was still sounding in their ears, and that they tried their best through different plots and tricks to keep away the true interpreters of the Qur'an and the real scholars of the Prophet's Hadith, he said,
"We are proud that we are followers of the creed that strives to release the facts of the Holy Qur'an which all invite to the unity among all Muslims, and, in fact, all human beings.
We are proud that we are followers of the creed of the foundation of the messenger of Allah (a.s.) by the command of Allah, and the foundation of Ameerul Mo'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.), this loyal servant who was free from all ties and who was ordered to liberate humanity from enslavement and all kinds of fetters.
We are proud that the book Nahjol which is, after the Qur'an, is the greatest course of material and moral life and the greatest book of liberality for human beings, and whose moral and administrative teachings are the best way for deliverance, is from our infallible imam.
We are proud that the infallible imams from Imam Ali (a.s.) to the Saviour of humanity, Imam al-Mandi (thousands of blessings and peace on him) who by the power of Allah the All-Powerful is still alive and watchful of all affairs, are our imams."
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Then he said in the end of his will, "I ask from the Muslim nations with all seriousness and all humbleness to take the infallible imams as their examples and not to listen to any misleader who opposes the truth and the creed, and to know that any deviant step may form the beginning of the decline of the creed and the government of the Divine Justice.
... from that, they have not to be indifferent at all to the Friday Prayer, congregational prayers, and the rituals of consolation of the immaculate imams (a.s.), especially the master of the wronged and martyrs Imam al-Husavn (a.s.).
... and to know that the teachings of the imams (a.s.) to liven up this great historical Islamic mission, and that the cursing against those, who were unjust toward the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.), is all but a heroic, public cry in the face of the unjust rulers throughout history and forever. And you know that cursing the Umayyads (may Allah curse them) and the talking about their injustice-though they have become extinct and gone to the Hell-is but a cry in the face of all oppressors of the world.
It is necessary to mention openly in the consolation, eulogies, and elegies of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) the disasters of the oppressors' oppression in every land and every time, and this very time, which is the age of the oppression of (the United States of) America, Russia (the Soviet Union), and the rest of their followers from among whom are the Aal Sa'ud (the rulers of the Saudian dynasty) the betrayers of the Divine Sanctum, may the curse of Allah, of His angels, and of His messengers be on them. We must mention their injustice openly accompanied with invoking curse against them.
Let us all know that what lead to the unity of Muslims are these rituals that keep the identity of Muslims, especially the Twelvers Shia.
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What I have to remind of is that my will does not concern the great Iranian people only, but my will is for all Muslim peoples and all wronged nations in the world with their different races and beliefs."
This is the will of the leader of the umma. It is clear in showing the necessity of openly mentioning the injustice of the unjust and cursing them.
The claim of those, who claimed that Imam Khomeini had prohibited that (unity), is a false claim with no any proof at all.
In the end, I would like to say that all Muslims have to ride the Ship of Safety (of the infallible imams) if they seek the real unity. We see that the Prophet Noah (a.s.) made, by the command of his Lord, a small ship that could not hold except a few believers, but the Prophet Muhammad (a.s.) prepared, by the command of his Lord, a big ship that can hold all the nati
