Departure of the Prophet of Peace
Nov 17, 2017 05:10 UTC
Heartfelt condolences to you all on the anniversary of a very tragic day. It is the day on which the Last and Greatest Messenger, Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) whom God had sent to deliver mankind from manifest error, left the mortal world for his heavenly abode, plunging his followers, especially his blessed family in grief.
He was foretold by all prophets of the past in every age and land, and was entrusted with the universal message of Islam. He was 63 of age and during his 23-year mission, he made monotheism so marvelously manifest that his legacy continues to enlighten the seekers of truth. Before presenting to you a special feature on the Messenger of Mercy, we recite to you ayah 2 of Surah Jumah, which reads:
“It is He who sent to the unlettered [people] the Messenger from among themselves, to recite to them His signs, to purify them, and to teach them the Book and wisdom, and earlier they had indeed been in manifest error.” (Holy
As is clear by the wordings of the ayah that we presented to you God had sent Prophet Mohammad (SAWA), to purify humanity and deliver them from manifest error. Today when we see Muslims in all parts of the globe, we begin to realize the greatness of the Prophet of Islam, who mission continues to attract new adherents daily, despite the intense Islamophobia of the enemies of humanity and their agents, the Takfiri terrorists who masquerade as Muslims in order to distort the image of Islam. But they will never succeed, in view of the great efforts taken by the Prophet and his Blessed Household, the Ahl al-Bayt, in enduring hardships, in order to promote peace and prosperity amongst mankind.
Yes, the fact is, the path of the Prophet of Islam was not paved with roses. On the contrary it was strewn with thorns, at times poisonous and fatal, as is evident by sufferings he endured at the hands of the pagan Arabs, who refused to listen to his words of wisdom, mocked at him, derided him as insane, pelted him with stones, clamped a socio-economic boycott upon him, and plotted to murder him.
When by the Grace of God, he safely migrated from his hometown Mecca to Yathreb where the people welcomed him and helped him establish the first Islamic state, these hardcore pagans imposed wars upon him, ganged up with the equally treacherous Israelites to try to extinguish his mission, and on the failure of all their murderous plots, resorted to hypocrisy in paying lip service to Islam and claiming to be Muslims, although at heart, the majority of them had no faith in his mission.
The question might arise: How come, a people whose hearts were devoid of the genuine teachings of Islam that he had endeavoured to inculcate in them, soon after his passing away, burst upon the Roman and Persian Empires to defeat the superpowers of the day and establish a caliphate that quickly spread over all of West and Central Asia, North Africa, and southwest Europe?
The answer becomes obvious when we properly and rationally focus on the closing months of the mission of the Seal of Messengers.
The books of hadith and history of all Muslim denominations unanimously testify that Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) had foretold about his death during his Farewell Hajj Pilgrimage, when on 9th Zil-Hijjah during his sermon from atop Mount Mercy (Jabal ar-Rahma) on the Plain of Arafah, he pronounced the famous words, known as Hadith Thaqalayn:
“I have been informed (by God) about my imminent death, and I am leaving behind among you Two Weighty Things (Thaqalayn), the Book of Allah (i.e. the holy Qur’an) and my progeny the Ahl al-Bayt. Hold fast to them and you will never go astray, for the two never separate from each other even when they return to me at the Fountain (of Kowthar on the Day of Judgement).”
Again all books of hadith and history unanimously state that nine days later on the 18th of Zil-Hijjah, the Prophet halted the caravan of Hajj pilgrims at the ghadeer or pond of Khom in the wilderness near Juhfa, ordering that those who had parted ways earlier for different routes should come to this place for he had an important announcement to make. Then in front of a huge gathering of 120,000 Muslims, after delivering a memorable sermon and repeating the Hadith Thaqalayn, he lifted his dear cousin and son-in-law Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS) and proclaimed:
“For whomsoever I am Master this Ali is his Master.”
Two months and ten days later on the 28th of Safar, the Prophet passed away in the house of his one and only daughter, the Immaculate Fatema Zahra (SA). In these last moments of his life, his head placed in the lap of Imam Ali (AS) and his grandsons, the future Imam Hasan (AS) and Imam Husain (AS) were around him.
Did the Prophet of peace leave the world with peace of mind?
The answer to this question is rather tragic.
No, he was not allowed to.
A few days before his death, when he was not feeling well and had asked for a quill and ink to be brought for writing his Last Will, so that Muslims will not meet the fate of Israelites who used to tamper with the holy scriptures, or the fate of the mission of Prophet Jesus, which was distorted by Paul the Hellenized Jew – the founder of Christianity and the weird concept of trinity – a group of his supposedly senior companions refused to obey him, with one of them saying in an insolent tone: The man is sick and delirious; the Book of God is enough for us.
This neo Muslim who had spent the greater part of his life in polytheism and sins, uttered these blasphemous words without bothering to read or understand the Book of God (Holy Qur’an), which explicitly says in the opening ayahs of the Surah Najm that the Prophet Mohammad does not speak out of his desire, nor is he amiss, whatever he says is revelation revealed.
History bears testimony that the Prophet expelled these disobedient companions from his presence, and none of them were near him in his last moments, nor were they involved in his last rites, which were performed by his divinely-designate heir, Imam Ali (AS).
Where were these people? The answer is crystal clear. They had assembled at Saqifa Bani Sa’da, where they conspired to seize the right of political leadership of the Ummah from Imam Ali (AS), the Prophet’s divinely designated heir. They set up the political system known as the caliphate, which was devoid of spirituality, and which would soon be usurped by the Godless Omayyads, including Mu’awiyya and Yazid, the killers of the Prophet’s beloved grandsons, Imam Hasan (AS) and Imam Husain (AS) – the Leaders of the Youths of Paradise.
If today, cannibalistic terrorists are claiming to be caliphs and revivers of the caliphate, and desecrating the holy shrines of the Prophet’s blessed Ahl al-Bayt, and blowing to bits pilgrims to the holy shrines, they are merely following the ways of the “Salaf” or the progenitors – the pagan Arabs who had hypocritically claimed to be Muslims in order to hijack the leadership of Muslims from the Prophet’s divinely-designated heirs.
Alas, no sooner had the Prophet left the world calamities descended upon his Immaculate Ahl al-Bayt, and the first casualty was his Infallible Daughter, Hazrat Fatema Zahra (SA), who was mortally injured when a roguish group of her father’s companions battered the burning door of her house upon her, breaking her ribs, and demanding that Imam Ali (AS) give pledge of allegiance to the usurpers who now styled themselves caliphs.
This is the sad history of Islam, and the emergence of terrorism amongst Muslims. Safar 28 is thus a day of multiple grief, since it also happens to be the martyrdom anniversary of the Prophet’s elder grandson and 2nd Infallible Heir, Imam Hasan Mojtaba (AS), of which we will speak in a separate programme.
Meanwhile, the Prophet left a lasting legacy and his dynamic message as propounded by his Immaculate Ahl al-Bayt continues to enlighten humanity.
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