Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:50:06 Prophet SAWW Passes Away but His Grief Remains
On 28th day of Safarul Mudhaffar in the Eleventh year of the Hijra, Prophet Muhammad SAWW breathed his last. He had ordered some of his close companions to join Usama bin Zayd’s army, but hey reneged and returned to Madinah. The Prophet SAWW was not pleased with this act of theirs and proclaimed baraa’ah against those who had refused to join Usama bin Zayd’s army. When The Prophet SAWW asked for pen and paper to write down wasiyyah that would hold Muslims from going astray, a so-called beloved companion accused The Prophet SAWW of delirium and denied him his wish. There was ruckus among companions and The Prophet SAWW ordered them out of his presence. Then The Prophet SAWW closes his eyes for good, and these so-called companions, instead of participating in his funeral rites hot-footed to Saqifa banu Sa’da, where rogues and brigands used to meet, to “elect” The Prophet SAWW’s successor. The succession to The Prophet SAAWW has been a needless bone of contention among his followers. If it is argued that The Prophet SAWW did not designate a successor, then what right did the ummah in the light of Qur’anic injunctions regarding taking whatever The Prophet SAWW gives and eschewing whatever he forbids, have to bother about a successor?. If The Prophet SAWW did not mention succession, then he did not want the ummah to bother about it and let things take their natural course. But, as any intelligent person knows and as Saqifa proves it, The Prophet SAWW could not have left the ummah bereft of leadership especially when The Qur’an predicted that once The Prophet SAWW disappears people will ‘’Inqalibu” and return to Jahiliyyah. So, The Prophet SAWW must have made provisions for succession after him and that was his declaration ofGhadeer Al-Khum. That is what he wanted to write down on the paper that he was denied by someone who realized that his plot would collapse if he allowed The Prophet SAWW to pen down the name of his successor, Ali ibni Abi Talib AS. Since then, the world has been groping for the likeness of The Prophet SAWW and has been killing the real successors of The Prophet SAWW.
Amongst the real successors who posed a threat to the conspiratorial plot engineered in the life-time of The Prophet SAWW (Madelung, p.3), were Imam Hassan Al-Mujtaba AS who was martyred either on 7th Safar 28th Safar of 50AH. Not only was he surreptitiously poisoned, but he was denied burial next to The Prophet SAWW and his corpse was riddled with arrows shot at the behest of an Ummul Mumineen who happened to be the Imam AS’ step grandmother!In the Month of Muharram on 10th Day in AH 61, of course, the unparalleled tragedy of Karbala took place. The Fortieth Day of Imam Husain AS’ martyrdom falls on 20th of Safar when his devotees relive the distress, pain, anguish, sorrow and suffering of Karbala. On 29th of Safar inH., the Eighth rightful successor of The Prophet SAWW. Imam Ali Musa Al-Ridha AS was poisoned by the Abbasid tyrant Ma’mun Al-Rashid. On 10th Safar, Imam Husain AS' beloved daughter Sakina succumbed to te cruelty of Yazidit forces and died in the dungeon of Damascus.
All these events grieved The Prophet SAWW not only in his lifetime but after his death too. The Prophet SAWW strove in the way of Allah SWT. Thus, he died a martyr and according to The Qur'an a martyr is alive. Thus, grief affects The Prophet SAWW to this day as his real devotees, The followers of his Ahlul Bayt suffer for being his followers and adhering to his sayings, actions and tacit approvals. Our condolences to The Imam of The Age on these griefs. |
