Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] A Role Model in Sublime Morals and Spirituality

Address of Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadhlullah

on the anniversary of Imam Zainul Aabideen(as) martyrdom

A Role Model in Sublime Morals and Spirituality

^{In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful}

^{The Firm Stand:}

^{God says in His Holy Book: Allah only wishes to remove all abomination from you, ye members of the Family, and to make you pure and spotless. Today the 25th of the Month of Maharam coincides with the death anniversary of Imam Ali bin Al-Hussein (a.s.). The Imam who was the successor of his father Imam Al-Hussein, was destined by Allah's Mercy not to be martyred in Ashoura, for Allah wanted the Imamate to continue, and thus he was forbidden by a severe illness from taking part in the war.}

^{Thus he lived, the entire tragedy of}^Karbala^{and saw how the martyrs leaded by his father Al-Hussein (a.s.) had fallen in the ugliest massacre committed by those who allied with the devil, and gave priority to their privileges desires and ambitions at the expense of their religion and their principles.}

^{The Imam also witnessed how he and the women of the remembered of the house taken prisoners.}

^{Then when he faced Ibn Ziad he was firm in confronting him which could have lead to his death were not for his aunt lady Zainab, told the tyrant that he had to kill her first.}

^{Then he had to live the most severe conditions in}^Damascus^.

^{When an old man addressed him saying: Thank God who defeated and exposed your and made the Commander of the faithful Yazid victorious over you, the Imam knew that the man was misguided by the Omarayde propaganda and wanted to tell him the truth, so he asked him: have your read this verse: "No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those near of kin.". The Imam said: "How do you associate to this verse?" The Imam asked him who are those? They are Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein" the man said .}

^{Then the Imam asked him have you read the following Ayah. : Allah only wishes to remove all abomination from you, ye members of the Family, and to make you pure and spotless When the man and said that he did the Imam again asked him who is meant by Ahl el-Beit.}

^{Getting the same answer the Imam told him : well al- Hussein is the son of Ali and Fatima and he was killed by Yazid. The old man saw how much mistaken he was and started crying and cursing Yazid.}

^{This is how the Imam used to solve the problems. He did not let emotions and tragedies hinder him from confronting challenges, for the message the Members of the House were entrusted with, is to talk to people with wisdom and good preaching to change their deviating ideas that have been influenced by the arrogant media.}

^{The Motivated Sadness}

^{The image, many preachers and writers try to imprint the Imam with that he used to cry day or night, is not true. He, of course, was sad having lived through the tragedy of}^Karbala^{, but his sadness was humane, and similar to the Prophet's sadness when he lost his son, Ibrahim:}

^{The eyes weep and heart is sad but we do not say any thing that does not please God. Thus the Imam's sadness was a militant and suggestive sadness.}

^{He wanted the people to live the tragedy so that they would understand the principles of Ahl Al-Beit. They should know that the Imam was martyred for the sake of the Message and for reform of his grandfather's nation.}

^{It was not a struggle for power. It was a struggle between right and falsehood, justice and tyranny...}

^{Emphasizing the spiritual and humanistic values}

^{Therefore, the Imam's sadness did not prevent him from playing his role as an Imam, and emphasizing the spiritual humanistic values the Members of the House represent. When, for example, the Umayyads were experiencing some difficulties Marwan bin Al-Hakam was looking for some one in}^Medina^{to leave his family in his protection, but he found no one except the Imam, although Marwan had previously threatened to kill Al-Hussein in}^Medina^.

^{In anther similar incident, A wali who used to torture Al el-Beit was deposed, and the Umayyads ordered that he would be tied in one of the squares so that people could pass by and curse him freely. The Imam ordered his family not to do anything of this sort. He treated him so kindly that he offered to pay any debts the man had. When the people saw these sublime morals, they said: surely God knows whom to entrust His Message.}

^{The Imam played a fundamental role in the cultural sphere too, for he taught most religious scholars of that time. He also taught the general public of Muslims the ethical principles of Islam saying, for example, that the kind of fanaticism that is sinful is to consider the bad lot among you better than the good folks of other people.}

^{He added: It is not fanatic to love your people, but it is surely fanatical to help them in doing wrong. Fanaticism is a sickness we still suffer from today. Thus the Imam tells us that it is your right to love your people, for this is natural, but when it comes to principles, you have to stand by them. You have to be with the righteous human being whether a relative or a stranger. And you have to be against the evil man regardless of his relation to you. This is the Prophet said when he was asked about the pre-Islamic proverb of supporting your brother whether he is wronged or he is wronging others. The Prophet said it is true but to supporting him when he is unjust is by preventing him from wronging others.}

^{Imam Zein Al-Ibidien used to ask God not to let anybody wrong him but also not to let him wrong anybody let me not be wronged
while Thou canst repel from me,
let me not do wrong
while Thou art powerful over holding me back.}

^{He also called on God not to let him think that the poor is not honourable and the rich is more privileged with pride and honour just because they are rich, since the honourable is he who is honoured by obeying God and high rank in society does not come from money. Money is not man; Man is his mind, his spirit and his commitment to the responsibilities Allah has entrusted himself.}

^Humbleness

^{There is also an important point that should be known by all those who ask people to glorify them because they possess knowledge money, or power, like many political or religious leaders, and social dignities. The Imam who is close to Allah, and who is as perfect as could be, used if he travelled with a group not to tell them when was, so as to share them their work and not to treated differently out of respect to his grandfather, the Messenger.}

^{The Imam worshipped God in the best possible way}

^{The Imam played the role of a scholar whose duty is to spread knowledge as perfect as possible. His morals too were impeccable.}

^{In this respect, I ask all believers to read the supplication of sublime manners for it teaches us all we need to about Islamic morals.}

^{Moreover, when the Imam thought of life what did he say: Let me live as long as my life is a free gift in obeying Thee,
but if my life should become a pasture for Satan,
seize me to Thyself
before Thy hatred overtakes me
or Thy wrath against be becomes firm.}

^{These are our Imams who represent all good guidance and spirituality. We have to remember them and follow their lead, because they drive us to the straight path.}

Walhamdo Lillahi Rabbil Aalameen

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