امام سجاد۴ نے فرمایا :
" مجھ کو اتنی تکلیف کربلا میں نہیں ھوئی جتنی کوفہ والوں کے خاموش رھنے پر ھوئی، کوفہ ایک شہر کا نام نہیں بلکہ ایک خاموش امت کا نام ھے، جہاں بھی ظلم ھو اور امت خاموش رھے وہ جگہ کوفہ اور لوگ کوفی ہیں
Imam Jaffer Sadiq AS ne farmaya:
Agar koi shaks tamam Aaema ka iqraar karey aur Mehdi ka inkaar karey to wo aisay hay jaisay is ne tamam Anbiyaa ka iqraar kya aur Hazrat Muhammad S.A.W.W ki nabuwat ka inkaar kya.
Ref:(Sfha 179 Falsafaey Ghaibat e Mehdi AS tarjuma Kamal u din Wa Tamam un Neamaa Shekh Sudooq)
Respecting Parents/ بر الوالدين
قال الله تعالى : ( وَاخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ مِنَ الرَّحْمَةِ وَقُل رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا ) الإسراء : 24
Al-Mighty Allah (SWT) says: " And make yourself submissively gentle to them with compassion, and say: O my Lord! bestow on them thy Mercy as they cherished me in childhood." Al-Israa: 24
ہر جنگ میں قانون ہے ہتھیار سے لڑنا۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔
خنجر سے کبھی تیرسےتلوار سے لڑنا۔۔۔۔۔
آتا ہی نہيں لوگوں کو آفکار سے لڑنا۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔
سمجھاؤں گا میں دنیاکو کردارسے لڑنا۔۔۔۔۔
اس نسل سے ہر نسل کو امداد ملے گی۔۔۔۔۔۔
ماؤں کو میرے جھولے سے اولاد ملے گی۔۔۔۔۔
ظہور پر نور باب الحوائج مولا علی اصغر۴ کے پر مسرت موقع پر تمام مومنین و مومنات بالخصوص امام زمانہ عج کو دل کی گہرائیوں سے مبارک باد پیش کرتے ہیں
آ در اهلبیت پر کوئی سوال تو کر یه گھرانه بڑا هی لجپال هے. معاف کر دے گا تجھے بهی حر کی طرح جسکی مزار اب حسین ابن علی کے ساتھ هے. ظلم کی مثال هے قبر یزید کی جو آج ایک گندگی کا ڈهیر هے. مظلوم کربلا کی تو شان تو دیکھ جسکی مزار آج بهی ایک سجده گاه هے. توں کهتا هے که میں بڑا عبادت گزار هوں. عبادت تو الله کی کرتا تھا جمال بهی اب جسکا نام شامل منافقوں میں هے. توں غیروں کے پیچھے بھاگتاهے جنت خریدنے. گل جنت تو پنجتن پاک کے قدموں کی دھول هے.
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Cave of Ashabe-Kahf (interior View)
The main view above shows a section of the interior. The crafted stone blocks are tombs; one of them has a viewing hole through which bones can be seen (inset). The bones of the dog have also been displayed.
The Prophet (s.a.w.) was challenged by the Quraysh of Makkah who did not believe in his message to answer three questions passed onto them by the Jews. One of the questions was, “Who were the youth who disappeared, and how many were they?” The Jews knew that the Prophet (s.a.w.) would only be able to tell the story if he was indeed a prophet.
The Prophet (s.a.w.) had no clue and said that he would answer them tomorrow, hoping for the answer to be revealed to him through Jibraeel (a.s.) but forgetting to say ’Inshallah’ (if Allah wills). No revelation came to the Prophet (s.a.w.) for 15 days, leading the Quraysh to greatly abuse and revile him.
The answer, however, was eventually revealed to the Prophet (s.a.w.) in a Surah named after the cave (Al-Kahf) of the sleepers. The Quran revealed the exact story that the Jews knew of, and it answered the questions similarly to the information they had. The Quran confirmed that they slept for 309 years, which the Jews knew of. The Quran however did not give an exact answer as to how many they were. Allah (swt) revealed:“(Some) will say: They were three, their dog the fourth, and (some) say: Five, their dog the sixth, guessing at random: and (some) say: Seven, and their dog the eighth. Say (O Muhammad): My Lord is best aware of their number. None knowth them save a few. So contend not concerning them except with an outward contending, and ask not any of them to pronounce concerning them.” [18:22]
The Jews themselves did not know exactly how many there were (whether 3,5 or 7) and were astonished when the Quran gave all the possible numbers they had suspected for the number of sleepers.
Question :
What is the proper definition of 'backbiting'? Please, give some references from the Quran and Hadith also.
Answer :
Backbiting means “speaking ill of a believer in their absence with the purpose of disparaging or not, and no matter whether the alleged shortcoming was related to his body, lineage, behaviour, deeds, statements, religion, or life, and other defects which are [usually] concealed from the people. Similarly, it does not matter whether the description was done by words or by gesture.”42
Ayatullah Sistani
Signs Of The Arrival Of Imam Mehdi (as) According to Ahle-Sunnat Books And Views
Signs Of The Arrival Of Imam Mehdi (as)
Who Is Imam Mahdi?
Imam Mahdi (meaning : The Guided one) is the descendent of Prophet Muhammad PBUH
Hadhrat Abdullah bin Mas'ood (R.A.) says that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said, "This world will not come to an end until one person from my progeny rule over the Arabs, and his name will be the same as my name." (Tirmidhi)
Hadhrat Ali (R.A.) narrates that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said, "Even if only a day remains for Qiyamah to come, yet Allah will surely send a man from my family who will fill this world with such justice and fairness, just as it initially was filled with oppression." (Abu Dawood)
Signs Of The Arrival Of Imam Mehdi (as)
The dark of night will not be deemed necessary for the commitment of sins.
Extravagant mansions will be constructed.
Singers will be considered respectable.
War shall be prevalent .
Gambling will be prevalent.
People will fear living in their own houses.
Dajjal shall come and shall have one eye
Land shall be turned into deserts
Earthquakes and Volcano's and other natural disasters shall be common.
Good deeds will be few and far between.
False guides will mislead the multitudes.
Posts will be many, but practical teachers a few.
Mosques will be decorated profusely but urge towards adoration will be absent.
The rate of accidental deaths will be on the rise.
The rich will become godless and the devout will become sinful.
Leaders of opinion will be corrupt and overbearing.
False witnesses will be accepted and true ones rejected
The Quran will be considered as an old ancient book
A person spending money on sinful purposes will not be criticized.
People will thrust their personal opinions in the religion.
Usury (Interest) will be considered lawful.
The virtuous will be despised for their faith in God.
Human beings will be followers of selfish desires.
Pride will be taken for oppressive tendencies.
Good people will observe silence due to fear of wicked persons foul speech.
Tale bearing and backbiting will be considered as good and will be prevalent.
A wealthy person will command more respect then a pious person.
Children will curse their parents and will pray for their early death.
Payments will be taken for rendering religious services in Mosques.
There will be two eclipses in the Month of Ramadhan.
Recitation of the Holy Quran will be considered as a burden
Homosexuality will be prevalent
The land will crumble and sink thrice in the East, the west and Arabian peninsula.
History of Bibi Sakina (S.A)
Sakina was Imaam Hussain's most beloved child Our Imaam was often heard to say,
"A house without Sakina would not be worth living in!"
Like any other four-five year old when Sakina went to bed at night she wanted to spend some time with her father. Imaam Hussain would tell her stories of the prophets and of the battles fought by her grand-father Ali. She would rest her head on her father's chest and Hussain would not move from her until she fell asleep. When from the second of Muharram the armies of Yezid began to gather at Kerbala, Hussain said to his sister Zainab, "The time has come for you to get Sakina used to going to sleep without my being there !". Sakina would follow her father at night and Hussain had to gently take her to Zainab or Rubaab.
There was a special bond between Hazrat Abbas and Sakina. He loved her more than he did his own children.There was nothing that Abbas would not do to make Sakina happy.
On the Ashura day, she gave her Mashk to Hazrat Abbas. He went to get water for her. The children gathered round Sakina with their little cups, knowing that as soon as Hazrat Abbas brought any water, Sakina would first make sure that they had some before taking any herself. When Sakina saw Imaam Hussain bringing the blood drenched 'Alam she knew that her uncle Abbas had been killed. From that day on Sakina never complained of thirst.
Yes Sakina never again asked anyone for water. Bibi Zainab would persuade her to take a few sips, but she herself would never ask for water or complain of thirst!!!!
Non-Muslims Say about Imam Husain (as)
Charles Dickens "If Hussein fought to quench his worldly desires, then I do not understand why his sisters, wives and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore that he sacrificed purely for Islam."
Dr. Rajendra Prasad The sacrifice of Imam Hussein is not limited to one country, or nation, but it is the hereditary state of the brotherhood of all mankind.
Dr. Radha Krishnan Though Imam Hussein gave his life almost 1300 years ago, but his indestructible soul rules the hearts of people even today.
Swami Shankaracharya It is Hussein's sacrifice that that has kept Islam alive or else in this world there would be no one left to take Islam's name.
Rabindranath Tagore In order to keep alive justice and truth, instead of an army or weapons, success can be achieved by sacrificing lives, exactly what Imam Hussein did. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Imam Hussein's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of righteousness.
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu I congratulate Muslims that from among them, Hussein, a great human being was born, who is reverted and honored totally by all communities.
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson "Hussein fell, pierced by an arrow, and his brave followers were cut down beside him to the last man. Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Hussein as a martyr and Yazeed as his murderer."
Robert Durey Osborn "Hussein had a child named Abdallah, only a year old. He had accompanied his father in this terrible march. Touched by its cries, he took the infant in his arms and wept. At that instant, a shaft from the hostile ranks pierced the child's ear, and it expired in his father's arms. Hussein placed the little corpse upon the ground. 'We come from God, and we return to Him!' he cried; 'O Lord, give me strength to bear these misfortunes! ' . Faint with thirst, and exhausted with wounds, he fought with desperate courage, slaying several of his antagonists. At last he was cut down from behind; at the same instance a lance was thrust through his back and bore him to the ground; as the dealer of this last blow withdrew his weapon, the ill-fated son of Ali rolled over a corpse. The head was severed from the trunk; the trunk was trampled under the hoofs of the victors' horses; and the next morning the women and a surviving infant son were carried away to Koufa. The bodies of Hussein and his followers were left unburied on the spot where they fell. For three days they remained exposed to the sun and the night dews, the vultures and the prowling animals of the waste; but then the inhabitants of a neighboring village, struck with horror that the body of a grandson of the Prophet should be thus shamefully abandoned to the unclean beasts of the field, dared the anger of Obaidallah, and interred the body of the martyr and those of his heroic friends."
Sir William Muir "The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the caliphate, but of the Mohammedan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared. "
Peter J. Chelkowski "Hussein accepted and set out from Mecca with his family and an entourage of about seventy followers. But on the plain of Kerbela they were caught in an ambush set by the . caliph, Yazeed. Though defeat was certain, Hussein refused to pay homage to him. Surrounded by a great enemy force, Hussein and his company existed without water for ten days in the burning desert of Kerbela.
Finally Hussein, the adults and some male children of his family and his companions were cut to bits by the arrows and swords of Yazeed's army; his women and remaining children were taken as captives to Yazeed in Damascus. The renowned historian Abu Reyhan al-Biruni states; ". then fire was set to their camp and the bodies were trampled by the hoofs of the horses; nobody in the history of the human kind has seen such atrocities."
Simon Ockley "Then Hussein mounted his horse, and took the Koran and laid it before him, and, coming up to the people, invited them to the performances of their duty: adding, 'O God, thou art my confidence in every trouble, and my hope in all adversity!'. He next reminded them of his Excellency, the nobility of his birth, the greatness of his power, and his high descent, and said, 'Consider with yourselves whether or not such a man as I am is not better than you; I who am the son of your prophet's daughter, besides whom there is no other upon the face of the earth.
Ali was my father; Jaafar and Hamza, the chief of the martyrs, were both my uncles; and the apostle of God, upon whom be peace, said both of me and my brother, that we were the chief of the youth of paradise. If you will believe me, what I say is true, for by God, I never told a lie in earnest since I had my understanding; for God hates a lie. If you do not believe me, ask the companions of the apostle of God [here he named them], and they will tell you the same. Let me go back to what I have.' They asked, 'What hindered him from being ruled by the rest of his relations.' He answered, 'God forbid that I should set my hand to the resignation of my right after a slavish manner. I have recourse to God from every tyrant that doth not believe in the day of account."
Edward G. Brown "a reminder of the blood-stained field of Kerbela, where the grandson of the Apostle of God fell at length, tortured by thirst and surrounded by the bodies of his murdered kinsmen, has been at anytime since then sufficient to evoke, even in the most lukewarm and heedless, the deepest emotions, the most frantic grief, and an exaltation of spirit before which pain, danger and death shrink to unconsidered trifles." Ignaz Goldziher
"Ever since the black day of Karbala, the history of this family . has been a continuous series of sufferings and persecutions. These are narrated in poetry and prose, in a richly cultivated literature of martyrologies - a Shi'i specialty - and form the theme of Shi'i gatherings in the first third of the month of Muharram, whose tenth day ('ashura) is kept as the anniversary of the tragedy at Karbala. Scenes of that tragedy are also presented on this day of commemoration in dramatic form (ta'ziya). 'Our feast days are our assemblies of mourning.' So concludes a poem by a prince of Shi'i disposition recalling the many tragedies of the Prophet's family. Weeping and lamentation over the evils and persecutions suffered by the 'Alid family, and mourning for its martyrs: these are things from which loyal supporters of the cause cannot cease. 'More touching than the tears of the Shi'is' has even become an Arabic proverb."
Edward Gibbon "In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hussein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader."
Thomas Carlyle "The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Hussein and his companions were the rigid believers of God. They illustrated that numerical superiority does not count when it comes to truth and falsehood. The victory of Hussein despite his minority marvels me!"
Dr. K. Sheldrake "Hussein marched with his little company not to glory, not to power or wealth, but to a supreme sacrifice and every member of that gallant band, male and female, knew that the foes were implacable, were not only ready to fight but to kill. Denied even water for the children, they remained parched under a burning sun, amid scorching sands yet no one faltered for a moment and bravely faced the greatest odds without flinching."
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