“O Ali! Allah has created me and you from His Light. He created Adam and put that light into Adam. This light reached Abdul-Muttalib and then it split; so I was in Abdullah and you were in Abu Taleb. Nubuwwah (Prophethood) does not befit anyone other than me, while Wilayah (vicegerency) does not befit anyone other than you. Whoever denies your vicegerency denies my prophethood, and whoever denies my prophethood Allah will throw him down on his nose into Fire…” – Prophet Muhammad (SAWA)
These are the days, when 1457 lunar years to be exact, the holy Ka’ba suddenly came alive. The symbolic House of the Unseen but Omnipresent Creator, built for the first time at the dawn of creation by Adam, and rebuilt by Abraham and Ishmael, suddenly became animated. Its walls parted and closed to permit a noble lady of the monotheist Hashemite clan to enter its hallowed precincts, as she implored the Lord Most High to ease her pangs of delivery.
The Arab pagans who had polluted the Primordial House of Monotheism with idols were flabbergasted. They tried to break the door with crowbars but the locks and the wooden beams held steadfast.
Three days later the Arab idolaters were again stupefied when the same miracle occurred at the Ka’ba as its walls parted and closed to allow Fatema bint Asad (SA) to step out with a radiant boy in her arms.
To the further bewilderment of the heathen Arabs, a calm and unperturbed Abu Taleb stood at hand to smilingly greet his virtuous wife. Along with him was his nephew, the son of Abdullah his deceased brother, who gently stepped forward to take into his arms his infant first cousin.
It was then that the baby boy opened his eyes. As the eyes of the two cousins caught each other there were smiles of acquaintance on both the faces as if the two were meeting after a period of separation. The sight was indeed dazzling as light mirrored light. The infant moved his lips and seemed to be expressing voiceless words when the elder cousin whispered something in his tender ears.
The rest is history, and we need not go into details of the thirty-three years that the Light of Muhammad al-Mustafa (SAWA) and the Light of Ali al-Murtadha (AS) was beside each other, proceeding together through such immortal events in the history of mankind, as Mab’ath or the Day of formal declaration of the “Nubuwwah” (prophethood) of the elder cousin, and Ghadeer-Khom or the Day of the formal proclamation of the “Wilayah” (vicegerency) of the younger cousin. In between were many other spectacular occurrences, such as revelation of the Verses of Purity (33:33) and Mubahela (3:61) that exclusively concern the Ahl al-Bayt – and no one else among the growing Muslim community – by highlighting the prime position in Islam of the holy family made up of the noblest-ever lady, Hazrat Fatema Zahra (the Prophet’s Infallible Daughter and the Imam’s Immaculate Wife) and the Impeccable boys, Imam Hasan (AS) and Imam Husain (AS) – Leaders of the Youth of Paradise.
Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) did not leave the Ummah in darkness, nor did he place on his political podium someone who had lived the greater part of his life in idolatry, atheism and sins, when the Light of his Enlightened Progeny was present in each and every era for the guidance of human societies. He thus said in explicit terms:
“He, who likes to meet Allah (on the Day of Resurrection) safe, purified, and without fearing the great horror, let him follow you O Ali, and follow your two sons al-Hasan and al-Husain, and (your grandsons) Ali ibn al-Husain, Muhammad ibn Ali, Ja’far ibn Muhammad, Musa ibn Ja’far, Ali ibn Musa, Muhammad ibn Ali, Ali iin Muhammad, al-Hasan ibn Ali, and al-Mahdi the last of them.”
Now we understand what went wrong after the Prophet, and how the forces of darkness usurped the political right of leadership of the Prophet’s Divinely-decreed Vicegerent, Imam Ali (AS). This is the reason Muslims are fragmented today, and instead of adhering to the path of the spotlessly pure Ahl al-Bayt, they have taken some of the companions of the Prophet as role model, when the fact of the matter is that these so-called Salaf were neither created from the Light of Allah nor could remain untarnished from idolatry and cardinal sins during their freewheeling pagan years.
With heartiest felicitations to all seekers of truth on the blessed eve of the birthday of Imam Ali (AS) in the holiest spot on Planet Earth, I end the column by citing another hadith of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA):
“O Ali! During the end days, there will be a group of people hating those following you, but if they love them it will be better for them if they know. They (your devotees) will prefer you to their fathers, mothers, brothers, tribes, and all relatives. The best blessings of Allah be upon them. Such people will be resurrected under the banner of Hamd (Praise). Allah will forgive their faults and exalt their positions as reward for what they have done.”
source : irib
