The Divinely Planned Measure for an Everlasting Guidance to Humanity
IT IS QUITE obvious that the Divine Plan was to associate the lives of most of the leading apostles of God, with some tragic ends, for it is an acknowledged fact of the phenomena of human psychology that human sympathy always goes without fail, to the victims of an unprovoked aggression. It was obviously destined to rouse the sympathy and the support of the whole human world for the Truth for which the martyrs had sacrificed their lives. It will be seen that most of the apostles of God and all the divinely chosen guides called the Imams, excepting the Twelfth one, were martyrs. The story of Jesus is made attractive by its being narrated by the people of the Christian church associating it with the alleged crucifixion along with the other sufferings of his at the hands of the Jews.
Muhammad, the Last Apostle of God, left this world having been poisoned by one of the Jewesses of Khaiber.
Lady Fatema, the Lady of Light, the beloved daughter of the Holy Prophet, the wife of Ali the First Holy Imam, the mother of Hasan and Husain the Second and the Third Imams, who had her advent to he a Model of the correct Islamic womanhood on the earth, was killed by the fall of the door of her abode, caused by some tyrant.
This Holy Lady suffered so much at the hands of the people after the departure of her father, the holy Prophet, that she once addressing the holy soul of her departed father, said :-
"O' Father dear! after thy departure, fell on me such calamities that if they had fallen on !lie bright days the days would haze turned into dark nights."
Ali-al-Murtaza
The Vicegerent of the Holy Prophet, the First divinely chosen Imam, was martyred while in prayer in the Mosque at Kufa.
Hasan-al-Mujtaba
The First son of Ali and Fatema, the first grandson of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and the Second Holy Imam, was martyred by poison. He was made to leave this world vomitting blood with bits of his liver.
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Husain-Shaheede Karbala
The Second son of Ali and Fatema, the second grandson of the Holy Prophet and the Third Holy Imam, was butchered at Karbala along with his faithful devotees, by Yazid son of Ma'awiah, a very brief narration of whose great martyrdom forms the subject of this brief work.
Ali-az-Zainulabideen
The eldest son of Husain the Third Imam, and himself the Fourth Imam was poisoned by the Omayyid Kalif Walid bin Abdul Malik.
Muhammad-al-Baquir
The son of Ali-az-Zainulabideen the Fourth Imam, and himself the Fifth Imam, was poisoned by Hisham bin Abdul Malik.
Safer-as-Sadiq
The son of Muhammad-al-Baquir the Fifth Imam, and himself the Sixth Imam, was poisoned by Mansur.
Musa-al-Kazim
The son of Jafer-as-Sadiq the Sixth Imain and himself the Seventh Imam, was poisoned by Haroon-ar-Rasheed.
Ali-ar-Riza
The son of Musa-al-Kazim the Seventh Imam, and himself the Eighth Imam, was poisoned by Mamunar-Rasheed.
Muhammad-at-Taqi
The son of Ali-ar-Riza the Eighth Imam, and himself
the Ninth Imam, was poisoned by Mo'tasim.
Ali-an-Nayi
The son of Muhammad-at-Taqi the Ninth Imam, and himself the Tenth Imam, was poisoned by Mo'tasim.
Masan-Al-Askari
The son of Ali-an-Naqi, the Tenth Imam, and himself the Eleventh Imam, was poisoned by Mo'tamad.
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Muhammad-al-Mahdi
The son of Hasan-al-Askari, the Eleventh Imam, and himself the Twelfth and the Last of the diyincly commissioned Imams, was aimed at to be killed by Mo'tamad, but by the Divine Will, disappeared, and at the Will of the Almighty, he is alive. This Last Guide in the seed of Abraham through Ishmael is kept alive and is awaited to reappear at God's Will, as is the belief about Jesus the Last One in the seed of Abraham through Isaac.
There are two facts which are obviously wonderful for everyone who comes across the lives of the Holy Fourteen, (i.e., the Holy Prophet, his daughter Fatema and the Twelve Imams):
The Holy Prophet is known as the unlettered one, i.e., the one who did not have any education under any mortal in this world and so was every one of the Holy Fourteen, but every one iif them was a fountainhead of knowledge of the highest order.
2. None of the Holy Ones, save the Fourteenth, (i.e., the Twelfth Imam) died of any natural death, for all the thirteen were martyred either secretly by poison or openly killed. Only the Fourteenth has been spared since he has been divinely secured and kept alive for the guidance of mankind to the end of the world.
As Islam stands for the uplift of humanity as a whole, any sacrifice for it would naturally be for the cause of the whole of the Human race. As it is impossible to accommodate in this brief work here, all the heart-rending details of the greatest sacrifice offered by Husain, only a few leading events are mentioned in these few pages which will suffice to give any intelligent reader, a view of the situation in which Husain surrendered his all to fulfil the Lord's Covenant to save Humanity from getting astray after the departure of the Holy Prophet.
The other reference used
HAVING MENTIONED IN the foregoing pages, the blessings, which the Holy Prophet Muhammad had brought for mankind, it is needless to repeat the same. Only the relevant events directly connected with the great sacrifice are, as a necessity, referred to here for the guidance of the readers.
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Husain's Mother-Why the Last Apostle of God was given only a Daughter and not any son to survive ?
THE HOLY PROPHET Muhammad had two sons and a daughter, but sons he did not need, for his apostleship had to conclude with his ministry, and if any son of the Holy Prophet had survived, it would have given the chance to the people to hail the son of the Prophet also to be another prophet of God, whereas there was no prophet to come after him. It may be said that this was the reason of the male issues of the Holy Apostle leaving this world, in their very infancy. But the Holy Prophet needed a daughter of his own purity of spirit and body, to reflect the divine light of guidance in her ideal character and present an authentic model of the correct Islamic womanhood to the world. Hence Fatema, the Lady of Light, was born to the Holy Prophet, who, for her godly qualities, is known in the Islamic World by the following epithets:
1. Az-Zahra-The Shining.
2. Al-Battil-The Liberator of Sinners.
3. Al-Azra-The Clean, the Pure.
4. Sayyeddatun-Nisa-The Chief of Women.
5. Afzalun-Nisa-The Superior-most of women.
6. Khairun-Nisa--The Best of Women.
7. Mariam al Kubra-The Senior Mary.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the mother of only one heavenly guide to the children of the House of Israel, whereas Lady Fatema besides her being the daughter of the Holy Apostle of God, was the mother of the Eleven Divinely Commissioned Guides, (i.e., the Holy Imams). It is a unique instance in the history of the world that the issues of a single pair to have Eleven Heavenly Guides, consecutively one after another.
8. Al-Muharaka-The Blessed one of God.
9. As-Sadiqa-The Truthful.
10. Al-Muhaddisa-The one who talked to her mother from the womb of her mother even prior to her birth. (When God could make Jesus talk from the cradle when he was just born, there cannot be any wonder if the Almighty causes another one blessed by Him, to act in a similar manner).
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There arc several other epithets of this great heavenly being who was the Lady of Light. Naturally Husain, the King of Martyrs could not have been born of any ordinary woman other than the one like the Lady Fatema with the divine attributes she was exclusively blessed with.
It has already been said that one of the unique distinctions of the family of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, is that right from the Holy Prophet down to the Eleventh Imam, including Lady Fatema, all the Holy Thirteen were Martyrs.
Fatema Married to Ali
A DIVINE LADY like Fatema could not have been the wife of any ordinary man, and more particularly when she was destined to provide the Divine Plan with the godly characters suitable to be the Universal Guides to mankind as a whole. Providence had already arranged for the alliance of this holy one with another one of the same lineage.
"If Ali was not born, Fatema had none of her set (to marry with)" said the Holy Prophet. The Holy Prophet Muhammad was ordained by God to effect the alliance between his daughter Faterna and his Vicegerent Ali, so that through this Holy alliance, may continue to flow the Divine Light in their issues who had been destined to be the Eleven of the Twelve Princes promised in the seed of Ishmael (Gen. 17:20). While the Holy Prophet Muhammad was 'The Prophet' prophesied by Moses, the 'Comforter', the 'Holy Ghost' and the 'Spirit of Truth', prophesied by Jesus, Ali along with his Eleven issues was to fulfil the advent of the Twelve Princes promised in the seed of Ishmael. Thus Fatema was married to Ali and through the Holy Alliance of these two divines, came into the world, Hasan the second holy Imam and Husain the third holy Imam to be the King of Martyrs to offer the 'Zibhe-Azeem' or the Great Sacrifice willed by God, instead of the sacrifice of Ishmael
by Abraham (37:105-108).
"And We called out to hint saying '0' Abraham! Thou hast indeed proved true the dream ; Verily, thus do We reward the righteous. Verily, this is an open trial; And We have substituted it with 'Zibhe-Azeem' a Great Sacrifice' !" 37:104-108
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Husain's Father
ALI WAS THE Vicegerent of the Holy Prophet and the Divinely Commissioned First Imam who repeatedly rescued the Holy Prophet Muhammad from being killed, and saved Islam from being totally annihilated once for all. He rescued Islam and the Muslims, not once but many a time, which fact is boldly and loudly declared by Islamic History. For his matchless faith, unparalleled valour, wonderful prowess, the divinely gifted knowledge and other unique godly qualities, Ali had earned the following epithets which were exclusively owned by him and by none else before or after him:
1. Al-Murtaza-The chosen one of God.
2. Ameerul-Momineen-The Commander of the Faithful.
3. Inzamul-Muttaqeen-The Guide of the Pious.
4. Mazharul Ajaib-The Manifestor of Wonders.
5. Madeenatul ilm-The Gateway of the City of Know ledge.
6. Saiyyidul Ausiya-The Chief of the Deputies (of Muhammad the Apostle of God).
7. Imamul Auliya-The Guide of the Saints.
8. Asadullahul-Ghaleb-The Ever Triumphant Lion of God.
9. Lisaanullah-The Tongue of God.
10. Yadullah-The Hand of God.
11. Wajhullah-The Face of God.
12. Nafse-Rasulullah-The Soul of the Apostle of God.
13. Valiullah-The Friend of God.
14. Siddeequl-Akbar-The Greatest Truthful.
15. Farooqul-Aazam--The Greatest Distinguisher (between the truth and the falsehood).
16. Abu-Turab--The Father of the Earth.
17. Faateh-e-Khaiber -The Conqueror of Khaiber.
18. Abul Aimma-The Father of the Holy Imams.
19. Akhu Rasulullah-The Brother of the Apostle of God.
20. Abul Eetam-The Father of orphans and the helpless. (Vide Tabari, Ibne-Athir, Abul-Fida, Amir Ali, etc.).
Husain's advent dreamt by Lady Ommul Fadhl
A FEW DAYS before the birth of Husain, Lady Ommul Fadhl, the wife of Abbas Ibne Abdul Muttalib dreamt that a bit of flesh flew
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from the body of the Holy Prophet and fell in her lap. When referred to, the Holy Prophet interpreted the dream telling the Lady Ommul Fadhl that:
"A son will be born to my daughter Fatema and the Baby will be given to thee for nursing."
According to ibne Shar Aashoob, immediately after the birth of Husain, Fatema got indisposed and the Baby was given in the charge of Lady Ommul Fadhl for nursing.
Husain arrives on Earth
WITH THE LACK of the correct knowledge about the absolute independence of the All-Supreme authority and the dominance of the All-Pervading will of the Omnipotent Creator Lord of the Universe, and His being the Author, the Sole Controller and the Independent Regulator of the laws of nature, man had begun to believe as God also being subject to the laws instead of the laws being subservient to their Omnipotent Author.
Many events of guidance to man, about the independent working of the Omnipotent Will of God, were demonstrated in the birth of many holy ones, particularly in the advent of some of the prophets of God and the holy members of the House of the Holy Prophet the (Ahlul-Bait).
1. Yahya-( John soil of Zakariah was given a birth in six months in the inconceivable advanced age of his parents.
2. Jesus-was sent into the world in six months without the agency of a male partner to his mother and talked while still a baby in the cradle.
3. Muhammad-(the Last Apostle of God) was born with signs supernatural, announcing his advent-duly circumcised, with a body not casting its shadow on earth.
4. Ali- the Vicegerent of Muhammad the Last Apostle of God-born duly circumcised: A miraculous entrance was divinely caused into the Holy Ka'ba for the confinement of his holy mother. He could be present at more than one place at one and the same time. His godly strength amazed the world as his exclusive miracles and many other super-natural powers with mystic signs and miraculous events, which facts are unbelievable today by the materialists, but they are authentic.
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5. Fatema-The Lady of Light-was heard glorifying God, in her pregenetal state.
6. Hasan-son of Ali and Fatema-was born duly circumcised with extraordinary cleanliness of birth without the natural signs which ordinarily accompany the conception and the delivery of a human child.
7. Husain-was given a clean birth duly circumcised as that of his brother Hasan, and was born like Yahya (John) and Jesus, in six months.
The miraculous birth of Jesus without a male partner to his mother the Virgin Mary, was nothing but to prove to the people of the age and to inform mankind as a whole that the laws of nature as understood by man with his conceptual limitations, do not bind the Omnipotent Lord who is Himself the Originator of nature and the Independent Regulator of its laws 36:82, 2:113, 16:40, 19:35, 40:68. His commalid, when He intends anything to say it to BE and there it IS.
Much has been made of Jesus' birth without a father, by the christian church, inspite of its very Holy Book the Bible saying that Jesus said :-
"I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise children unto Abraham."
Luke 3:8
When God can raise human children from stones, w here is the reason to call any child as the son of God; if it was brought forth from a human being (Mary) a woman who by nature was a child-bearer. Our christian brethren hail Jesus as the Son of God, while Jesus himself calls himself a son of man. (Luke. 7:34)
And if Jesus had ever called himself as son of God, he had called Adam also the son of God (Luke 3:38). The term son will mean the chosen servant of God, and not an issue of God.
About the independent execution of the Omnipotent Creative Will of God, the Holy Qur'an says:
"He (God) Createth whatsoever He milleth." 42:49
Qur'an further asserts that God Creates whatever He Wills, which mankind does not know.
"He (God), Createth what ye know not." 16:8
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There are many such assertions in the Holy Qur'an referring to the various aspects of the independent execution of the divine will.
On Thursday the 3rd of Shaban in the fourth year of Hijrat i.e., the Migration of the Holy Prophet from Mecca to Madina, Husain arrived on earth, with super-natural signs which have usually accompanied the birth of some chosen ones of God. Jesus, as a Jew, through his mother Mary, in the lineage of Isaac son of Abraham, according to the covenant of God (Gen. 17:23, 21:40) was circumcised on the 8th day of his birth (Luke 2:21) whereas every male member of the Holy Ahlul-Bait (The Holy Prophet and the Twelve Imams) in the lineage of Ishmael the first son of Abraham, was born duly circumcised, i.e., with the Abrahamic covenant already fulfilled even in the very native formation of their holy bodies.
When Hasan the first son of Ali and Fatema, was born, the Holy Prophet was out of Madina, on a defensive expedition, and had left word that if a child is born to his daughter in his absence, the baby be not fed with anything until his return, but since his return the Holy Prophet said it is only the Will of the Lord that is done. Just before the birth of Husain also, the Holy Prophet was to leave Madina, but this time he desired that whatever time it takes for his return, until then the baby should not he fed. When Husain was born, the Holy Prophet came to Fatema and taking the baby (Husain) in his lap, mysteriously placed his tongue in the mouth of the Baby, and the Baby began sucking it and thus the Holy Child was first fed by the Saliva of the Apostle of God, as the first sustenance of his holy body in this world.
After giving the Holy Baby the first feeding by his Saliva, the Holy Prophet said :-
"Husainun minni wet ana urinal Husain."
"Husain is of me and I am of Husain."
Husain's Martyrdom Prophesied
WHEN HUSAIN WAS horn, Gabriel the Messenger Angel appeared before the Holy Prophet and after paying his respects to the Apostle of God, said:
"O' the Most beloved one of God ; The Almighty Lord presents His blessings and felicitations to thee, and
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wills that thou shouldst felicitate Ali and Fatema on the birth of the baby, and the baby be named Husain, for lie is known in heavens with this name."
Saving this the Angel stopped with some symptoms of concern. The Holy Prophet said:
"Brother Gabriel, if this he a felicitation to us what is the other matter of any serious concern?"
The Angel continued saying:
"0' Prophet of God, it is for the newly born son of Lady Fatema, for he will suffer innumerable difficulties, miseries, tortures, wounds and pains of bitterest nature. He will at last he martyred with all his faithful supporters in a desert called Karbala on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq, it will be a time when Islam will be in a crisis and the existence of this revealed religion for Mankind will rest upon the sacrifices of Husain, your grandson."
Hearing this the Holy Prophet naturally felt sorrowful. It can easily be imagined by the reader how Lady Fatema, the mother of Husain, would have felt when she heard of the calamities to befall the dear one just arrived in her lap.
Immediately after the birth of Husain, Fatema was indisposed and the Holy Baby was given to Lady Ommul Fadhl for nursing and for forty days consecutively the Apostle of God used to place his holy finger in the mouth of the innocent and thus the Holy Baby was sustained for forty days without any thing else, even the mother's milk. It is inferred by great divines that it was the predetermined Divine Process to condition the Holy Child with the divinity endowed in the apostolic physic of its Holy Grandfather the Chief and the Last of the apostles of God for Husain had to play an apostolic role on behalf of his Grandfather to save the Truth, Islam.
Husain a Duplicate Muhammad
HISTORIANS REPORT THAT besides the native endowments, identical with those of the Holy Prophet, the outward appearance (i.e., the physical features) of Husain was a moving picture of his Grandfather the Holy Prophet.
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Ibne Katheer says
"I never saw a more beautiful man than Husain" and according to Anas "there was none other resembling the Holy Prophet more than Husain."
The function of heredity had its full play in Husain. He had inherited all the divine native endowments from his Grandfather the Holy Prophet, and his godly parents Ali and Fatema.
"Wama fil aaha' to'rithul anbiya"
"i.e., Whatever is in their parentage, inherit the apostles."
