Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] Imam Hussein: The Imamate Responsibility for reform and change

Thursday, February 4, 2010

[MahdiUniteMuslims] Imam Hussein: The Imamate Responsibility for reform and change

Address of Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadhlullah

on the anniversary of 40th day after the martyrdom of Imam Husayn(as)

Imam Hussein: The Imamate Responsibility for reform and change

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

The Prophet's role

Allah Says in His Glorious Book: {Allah's wish is but to remove uncleanness far from you, O folk of the Household, and cleanse you with a though cleansing} (33:33)

One of those Members is Imam Hussein (a.s.) whose anniversary of the fortieth day after his death has just passed. This Imam (a.s.) will remain in our minds and hearts as long as time remains. He will stay in our life as a guide for the truth; a movement leading mankind and a revolution for justice and against oppression.

Imam Hussein (a.s.) enjoyed, like his father before him, the love, care and education of the Messenger (p.) giving him, like he did with his father with each passing day, some of the good manners that a child like him could grasp. He used to play with him and his brother, Imam Hassan, for he wanted to give the Muslims a lesson that a man has to turn into a child when he deals with children so that he could give them the love they need and guide them in the way they understand.

The role of Imam Ali (a.s.)

When his grandfather and mother died, the Imam along with his brother, Imam Al-Hassan, were taken care of by their father Imam Ali (a.s.). They learnt from his knowledge for the Messenger (p.) has described him as the gate of the city of knowledge, which is the Messenger (p.) himself. This knowledge has made the Imam reach the Truth, which there is no truth beyond it. He expresses this when he says: If the cover was unveiled, I would not become more certain.

Thus, Ali's Alienation was grater than that of Hussein (a.s.), for he lived in a society he wanted to elevate, but one which did not understand his motives or what he was telling them, for they continued to be concerned with trivial things.

Thus, both Imams lived with their father: his spirit, experiences, knowledge and the way he dealt with the challenges that faced him. And then he lived the situations his brother lived in his brief Imamate. In this respect, we have to say that Imam Hussein (a.s.) followed the lead of Imam Hassan (a.s.) in everything he did, and had Imam Hassan lived to face what his brother did, he too would have acted like Imam Hussein (a.s.). Therefore, we refuse what some say about the two brothers having different personalities. They were both infallible Imams who carried the interests of Islam in their hearts and minds.

After the death of Imam Hassan, Imam Hussein (a.s.) became the Imam. He pursued this role and lived with people, teaching them and acting as a role model to them. He lived with the people, taught them and was responsible for their affairs, just the Prophet did. The Imam's revolution was in this sense a part of his responsibility as an Imam.

A caller for change

Imam Hussein (a.s.) could not have possibly remained neutral when it came to the way the nation was ruled, or the way it witnessed deviations that it might be trapped to follow. He felt responsible for all that, and he waited for some of the nation to ask him to lead their march. When this happened he made his first speech in which he assumed the role of leadership. He stood up and said: Our Messenger has said: Whoever sees an oppressive ruler who has made lawful what Allah has prohibited… and who has violated the Messenger (p.)'s traditions… and did not try to change this, God would be rightful if He treated him as one of the deviators.

These people have taken to obey Satan… They have made lawful what Allah has prohibited… They have monopolized all the revenues. In this respect, the Imam was more rightful than others to assume the role of leadership because this was his responsibility as an Imam.

The Imam announced in his letter and will to his brother when he left Mecca to Medina after testifying that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his Messenger that he revolted neither for wickedness nor for fame. Verily I rose only to seek for rectification in the nation of my grandfather, The Messenger of Allah.

I want to enjoin good, forbid evil and follow the path of my father and grandfather. For their path is the path of the right, the path of Islam. And I ask the people to accept my call because it is the call of the right. Whoever accepts it will be accepting the right. But if he does not, I will be patient and wait until Allah rules between us. This means that he came in peace to call for the Right. But he had to fight when the war was imposed on him.

He had to revolt because the affairs of Muslims were left to an unjust ruler who threatened some by the swords if they do not pledge their loyalty to him and bought others by money. Then he took all the public money for himself and dealt with the people as slaves.

When the Imam was left alone after those who were supposed to support him sold themselves to the devil and asked the Imam (a.s.) of what amounted to unconditional surrender, he stood with all the Islamic dignity in his soul and said:

"By God, I will never give you my hand like a man who has been humiliated; nor will I flee like a slave,"

Al-Hussein (a.s) is the light that illuminates our minds, hearts and lives. He will stay at all times the sprit and the message that gives us the motive and the will to confront all oppressors and arrogant. It is not enough to cry over his tragedy. We have also to learn the lesson of this tragedy and follow his course.

Peace be on him, his father, his mother and his grandfather, and all those who fought with him on the Day of Karbala.

Courtesy:http://bayynat.org.lb

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