Muhammad Aly       Fri 16/03/01 13:41            [zanzinet]  Siku ya Ghadiir Khum  

Ndugu wazanzibari wote,

Assalam alaykum

Leo ni tarehe 18 Dulhijjah, siku hii inasadifiana na siku ambayo Mtukufu Mtume

Muhammad(s) alisimama baina ya Makka na Madina katika Viunga na Vidimbwi vya maji

vinavyoitwa "Ghadiir Khum". Hapo aliwahutubia Masahaba zake, akaanza kwa kumshukuru

Mola wake kisha akawausia Masahaba zake kwa kusema:

" Inni tariku fiykum thaqlayn, ma in tamassaktum bihima lan tadhiluw baadi, (ihdahuma)

Kitabullah, wahatha ala Kitabillah, thuma kala,"wa ahlubayti, udhalitukumullaha fi ahlibayti,

udhalirukumulla fi ahlibayti,udhakirukumullaha fi ahlibayti"

Maana yake;(Nimekuachieni vitu viwili vizito(muhimu), cha kwanza ni Kitabu cha Allah, hapo

Mtume akasisitiza juu ya kufata Kitabu cha Allah kisha akasema chengine ni kuwafata

"ahlubayt zangu" kisha akasema mara tatu, "nawakumbusheni Allah katika ahlubayt zangu")

{Hadithi hii imetajwa pia katika sahiih Muslim, lakini nimeinukuu kwa ufupi kutoka kwenye

"Riyaadh aswalihiin" ya Imam An-Nawawi, kwenye mlango uitwao "Ikraam ahlulbayt", kwa

wale wanaotaka kuisoma kwa urefu warejee kitabu hicho..}

Pamoja na yote hayo, siku ya leo ni ya kukumbukwa kwa vile Mtukufu Mtume(s) aliipa

umuhimu huo wa kusimama hapo "Ghadiir Khum" na kutangaza haya rasmi, hivyo

tunawatakia kila la kheri kwa masiku haya ya Eidul-Hajj na Eidul-Ghadiir...

Was-salaam alaykum...

Ndugu yenu, Muhammad Aly

Haditlhugam swal-khumajuaa0ukeDear

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Muhammad Aly       Sun 18/03/01 14:16     

[zanzinet] Fwd: Al-Ghadeer... The Day the Religion Was Pefected and Completed:      

Dear brothers and sisters,

assalam alaykum;

May you may find this article a positive thought and not aiming to inlict any negative sectarian

prejudices, just I have brought it to you all as a piece of information and knowledge on what is

known as the "Event of al-Ghadeer in the history of Islam, you may forgive me if this piece of

information may cause any harm or injuries to some of you, surely it was not my intention to

do that..

May Allah Guide all of us to what is extensively right...

Yours Muhammad Aly

*** The Speech of Grand Ayatullah Fadhlullah delivered on the auspicious

occasion of Eid al-Ghadeer (1420 AH).

>Al-Ghadeer... The Day the Religion Was perfected..

"Our Adherence to Ali's Imamate Is our Adherence to Islam as a Whole In the Name of Allah,

The Compassionate, the Merciful Allah (s) says in his Glorious Book: "O’ Apostle,

proclaim what was revealed to you from your Lord; if you do not so, it is as if you have not

conveyed his message" (Al-Ma’idah 67). The Messenger had already conveyed the

entire Message that Allah had revealed unto him, with all its concepts and worship practices.

But Allah, the most Exalted, wanted Muhammad to convey something else, which although an

integral part of the Message, protects it from all deviations and distortion. But who would

carry the Message after the prophet, except someone who had lived it in his mind and soul?

No one fulfilled this condition except one person, Ali, about whom the Prophet said, “Truth

is with him just as he is with the truth�; the one whom the prophet described as the gate to

the city of know ledge that he himself represents.Allah (s.) told the Messenger (p) before hand

that the unbelievers and hypocrites would claim that he is appointing his cousin and son- in-

law as his successor. But this should not worry or sodden sadden him, since Allah does not

guide the unbelievers. Thus, the Messenger stood up to deliver a speech on his way back

from Hajj to Madina. It was at noon, and the weather was naturally very hot. He called Ali (a.)

and raised his hand saying: “Whoever I have been his master Ali is also his master. O

Allah! Befriend all who befriend him and be the enemy of his enemies.  Did I convey? O, God

Bear witness.� Then further revelation was conveyed: “This day (the Day of Ghadeer,

the Day of the Imamate, the day of the extension of the Message in the only man who

embodies Islam after the prophet) I perfected your religion (by revealing the Imamate that

constitutes a line, a continuous course, a dedication, a commitment) and completed My favor

to you and chose Islam to be your faith�. Thus, we should stand with him because his was

the thought that was enlightened by Islam with all his soul, mind and heart that were filled with

nothing but Islam, and because he gave himself to Allah leasing leaving nothing for himself.

He began with the prophet as a young child and was raised by Muhammad (p.) and lived with

him learning all his attitudes and acquiring his mentality, spirituality, knowledge… etc. When

the verses were revealed, the prophet used to tell him, noticing that he was seeing the  Angel

who carried the verses: You hear what I hear and see what I see, though you are not a

prophet. He was also with the prophet both in war and peace, for  he was entirely with Allah

and with Islam. With Ali: The Line and the Course: Our adherence to Ali's and the Imams’

inmate is an adherence to Islam,  the Quran and the Sunnah. Allah (S.) wants us to be with

them and follow them for they upheld the Glorious Book and the Sunnah in a way that no one

else did. Thus, this adherence costs a lot. For Ali (A.) is not only a feeling in our hearts, but

rather a line and a course that governs all our lives and actions. He represents the ultimate

Right. It would be meaningless to be one of his followers if you do not uphold the Right, or if

you are unjust. To understand how much Ali (A.) considered the interest of Islam as the only

interest one should seek to promote, we should review his position when he had to freeze his

demand for his personal right to safeguard the Muslims’ unity without even feeling any

hatred for those who denied him his legal right. In this exemplary behavior, Ali (A.) logic was:

Any unjust ice inflicted on me is not important as long as the Muslims and Islam are not

wronged. The unity of Muslims is secured and the danger of internal strife is avoided. He

opted to give advice to those who denied him his right, to the extent that Omar bin al-Khattab

had to admit that he would be doomed were it not for  Ali.

Why Did Ali (A.) Want to Rule?

When Ali (a) became a Khalif, he made a brief speech in which he told his companions what

was wrong with them and explained why he sought to become a Caliph: To uphold Allah's

Message and not out of any worldly greed in any post: O' (people of) differing minds and

divided hearts, whose bodies are present but wits are absent. I am leading you (amicably)

towards truthfulness, but you run away from it like goats and sheep running away from the

howling of a lion. How hard it is for me to uncover for you the secrets of justice, or to

straighten the curved line of truthfulness. O' my Allah! You know that what we did was neither

to seek power nor to acquire anything from the vanities of the world. We rather wanted to

restore the signs of Thy Your religion and to usher prosperity into your cities so that the

oppressed your creatures might be safe and your forsaken commands might be established.

O' my Allah I am the first who leaned (towards Thee) and who heard and responded (to the

call of Islam). No one preceded me in prayer except the Prophet. Then he began to clarify

what it means to be a ruler in Islam: “You certainly know that he who is in- charge of

honor, life, booty, (enforcement of) legal commandments and the leadership of the Muslims

should not be a miser as his greed would aim at their wealth, nor be ignorant as he would

then mislead them with his ignorance, nor be of rude behavior who would alienate them with

his rudeness, nor should he deal unjustly with wealth, thus preferring one group over another,

nor should he accept bribes while taking decisions, as he would forfeit (others') rights and

hold them up without finality, nor should he ignore the sunnah, as he would ruin the people.

The High Cost of Being An Adherent of Ali (A.S). The Imam up held the Right in every word,

thought or action he performed. Consequently, if we want to renew our pledge of allegiance to

him, we should say: You were the first to become a Muslim and a believer, and we hereby

pledge to be Muslims, committed to the Islam as it was conveyed by the Messenger (P.). We

also pledge to uphold the Truth in all social, spiritual, political, religious, and other areas…"

Ali (A.) demands a lot of those who follow him… he will not accept us if we are unjust to one

another or fight and abuse one another; nor will he welcome us if he finds out that we have

taken the side of the unjust and the arrogant and abandoned today’s downtrodden and

oppressed. We have to renew our understanding and commitment to Ali (A.S) and his path,

and make every effort not to lose him as those who lived with him did. Remember what the

Imam Muhammad al Baqir (a) has advised us when he said that it is not enough to claim that

we are with Ali or with the Messenger who is better than Ali. “If one obeys Allah than he is

with us, and if he disobeys Him then he is our enemy. One cannot become a follower of us

except through piety and hard works�. Thus, the line of the Imamate is the line that calls on

us to  obey Allah's commands and abstain from doing what he deemed unlawful. Being a

follower of this line is not a verbal lip service, but a life long commitment that expresses itself

in every action, feeling, thought and expression.

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