The Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.)
was born, lived and died when he got to be 63 years of age- 40
years of them were spent in Mecca calling people to adopt the
concept of the One God and the return of man's position with
regard to his relationship with Allah, with people and with
himself and directing himself towards the One God religion and
delivering mankind from the loathsomeness of polytheism while at
the same time, he spent ten years of them in Al-Madina
Al-Munawara as prophet and leader of a whole nation and a whole
society to die after all-poisoned and martyred, placing his
honorable head in the lap of his cousin and trustee Ali bin Abi
Talib (P.B.U.T.)
His death was on Monday on 28th of
Safar, the tenth year or the 11th year of the honorable migration
The difference in the year of his martyrdom has nothing to do
with feeling suspicious of its date but rather limiting the
beginning of the migration by either being from Rabee Al-Awal
(that is what the second Umayyad political caliph Umar bin
Al-Khattab had defined the beginning of the migration calendar
and this is what usually happens in books of biography and
history and in all religions and is not regarded as a negative
point in the Islamic Calendar.
We can conclude that Imam Ali
(P.B.U.H.) had undertaken the whole matter of washing, shrouding,
embalming him and praying for him and permitted the companions to
pray for his pure soul individually so that he would engage
himself in the matter of his burial procedures in the place where
he died in the pure room of his house where his soul rested which
is now renowned as the Prophetic Mosque in Al-Madina Al-Munawara
to witness after that so many events and happenings which have
led to a change in the course of the Prophetic
movement.
Among the things he has issued is
the isolation of the leaders whom he himself had appointed to
keep them as pure spiritual leaders to complete his heavenly
Islamic project and take it away from the grip of the civil
authority in Al-Madina Al-Munawara to remain as spiritual leaders
specialized in preaching people to embrace real Islam only to
represent the first and the biggest coup against their legality
to hold high official posts and be at closer quarters of what is
ongoing of events in the Islamic State which consequently caused
a great crack in the essence of Islam.
In the forthcoming chapters, we
will endeavor to throw sufficient light on some special
casualties in other realms whose effects have spread their
shadows to far-off regions of the world their and extended their
dimensions up to the present age like depriving some of the
trustees of their divine rights in translating his prophet-hood
to the nation through their Imamate visions and concepts and
clearly show what remained vague and ambiguous for them to
comprehend and transferring them to the complacency of the
Islamic religion by dealing with the way that is better –far away
obligatory submission to religion.
That same case may have led to
robbing Ahlul-Bayt (P.B.U.T.) of their legal right of completing
the Prophetic Program so as to grant its security from
defectiveness, blemishes and shortcomings and to stand as a
protective valve against the volatile and perverted trends which
may take religion away from its normal course and leave people
wallow in the morass of bewilderment, dismay and
misguidance.
All these negative disadvantages
may be reckoned against Islam like what we nowadays witness of
terrorism and violence in the human societies without these
guiding hands who can take the Muslims to the shore of safety and
security by virtue of the high religious authorities in whom we
take much honor and pride till the reappearance of the honorable
Imam Al-Mahdi (May Allah hasten his reappearance) (Muhammad is no
more than a Messenger and indeed (many) messengers have passed
away before him. If he dies or is killed, will you then turn back
on your heels (as disbelievers)? And he who turns back on his
heels, not the least harm will he do to Allah; and Allah will
give reward to those who are grateful."
(Aal-Imran:144).
Sun -
22 Jamadilawal 1446H -
