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Muharram
By: Dr. Hassan Najafi
I am leaving amongst you Two Weighty Things
The Book of God and my nearest of Kin,
If you leave the other and stick to one
You go astray, never leads you to heaven.
These two will not separate from each other
Till meet me on Doomsday at Font Kowthar,
These were the Prophet’s words to the nation,
Repeated and reiterated for the people’s attention.
Besides, God too recommends in His Book
In ayah 23 of Surah 42, if you care to look
“Say (O Prophet) I don’t want wage for my endeavours,
“Your love I want towards my House Members,”
The Prophet wanted to commit this to papers.
He asked for pen and paper; but one blasphemously answers:
‘The man (the Prophet – God forbid) is uttering nonsense
‘The Book of God sufficient to us – no Ahl al-Bayt hence.’
How insolently he says “The Man”, didn’t he believe him as Prophet!
How impudently he ridicules God’s Messenger without any respect!
The Prophet warns against leaving any of the Two Weighty Things
But the Dissenter wants to hear nothing of the Prophet’s Kin.
Does he know better than the Prophet and God?
Aren’t the Prophet’s words, the words of the Most High Lord?
He thus openly deviated from the Prophet’s Way,
And led all those who follow him astray
Because of him flames leap from the House of Zahra
From here originates the tragedy of Karbala
Husain’s Sacred Blood sits heavily on his head
Due to his usurpation of caliphate Yazid became nation’s head
Muharram the month of mourning renews our tears
While the followers of pagan Arabs celebrate it as New Year
The source of sedition is the scandalous gathering of Saqifa,
It broke the pledge of Ghadir to usurp Ali’s right as Prophet’s Khalifa.
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