The Imam -son of Fatima al Zahra - who was not seeking power - could not give his approval to the corrupt rule of corrupt Yazeed saying that someone like him ( like the Imam) could not condone the rule of someone like Yazeed . For this reason the Imam was challenged by Yazeed to the battle of Karbalaa’. . In Karbalaa’, the Imam went to meet his fate with his progeny and family and friends, after his supporters failed him and refrained from backing his right to rule. In Karbalaa’, the Imam went to face the army of Yazeed who counted eighty thousands . Not only the Imam fell martyr on the battleground, but his whole family and companions and friends were killed in one of the ugliest slaughters that ever existed in history and in religion. This genocide was achieved at the hands of Muslims and the ones who were killed are the progeny of the Rasoul from the two months old baby to the Imam himself who fell after fighting - till the last men and till the last breath- the enemies of religion who had dressed in religious garbs and had usurped power and religion and exposed Islam to corruption and deviation. What do you think happened to Islam after this ? Nothing good happened for sure , this was the most significant deviation in the history of Islam , and the biggest atrocity ever committed , and the ugliest event that the Prophet himself had foreseen, to have the family of the Prophet of Islam slaughtered and genocided , and his grand son beheaded at the hands of Muslims , and his head on a spear, roaming the four quarters of the Muslim nation, and his family abducted and taken hostage and his grand children – the progeny of Fatima- exposed – handcuffed- to the masses while crossing from one village to the other. How did this thing happen and has Islam ever recovered from such a thing ? Well, the answer is : No, Islam never recovered from such a plight and could not . No one can recover from killing the last of the Prophets’ family . Those who recovered from this were a minority who had suddenly awoken to the fact that they are the ones who let this happen and they did forsake the son of Fatima – grand son of their Prophet - and left him to die alone on the shore of the Euphrates, hungry, thirsty and surrounded by enemies. Those never forgave themselves and are still crying over failing their leader the son of Fatima and Imam ‘Ali. Islam never recovered and could not recover from this , but the rulers, the ones who ruled in the name of the religion , acted as if nothing happened . They continued ruling in the name of Islam and people followed them thinking that they were ruled by Islam while – in fact- they were rule by corrupt Islam, the Islam that killed the sons of Fatima one after the other and abducted her daughters . This is the Islam that ruled and the Islam that continued to rule , it created many schools of thoughts and so many currents and so many ways of interpretation and religious schools and ideas, and produced so much art and science and literature and philosophy, but still something essential was missing that is the true Spirit of Islam , The Spirit that was sacrificed in Karbala’ but remained alive somewhere, some place in the bottom of the hearts, waiting to unfold and retrieve the sanity , the rectitude and the ethics of the religion . But the official Islam continued undisturbed carrying this blister called the death of al Hussein, and not knowing what to do with it , thinking that by ignoring it will fall in desuetude
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:35:24 +0000