entrusted to him, he would have
held it and led them smoothly,
He would not have harmed them the
size of a thread,
Nor would his followers stammer,
(meaning they would have lived in
harmony under his rule).
He surely would have delivered
them to a spring pure, lush,
abundant, flowing over its banks
yet its sides are not muddy.
He certainly would have brought
them back satisfied and advised
them secretly and publicly without
providing himself with any availing
thing.
Nor would he favor himself with
the worldly things with any gain,
save that which would quench the
thirst of the thirsty, and feed the
hungry.
Surely the abstinent would have
been distinguished from the
desirous, and the truthful from the
liar.
Had the people of the town believed
and feared Allah, We should indeed
have opened out to them (all kinds
of) blessings from Heaven and
Earth; but they rejected (the truth),
and We brought them to book for
their misdeeds.
And the wrongdoers of this
generation; the results of their deeds
will soon overtake them (too), and
they will never be able to frustrate
(Our Plan)!"
It is clear from the content of her
words to the women that the blame
of the condition of the nation was
due to the peoples neglect of the
Laws and Commands of Allah (swt)
and that they had gone off the path
of the Instruction of Prophet
Muhammad s.a.w, had the people
not taken for themselves the unjust
and oppressive leaders, they would
have stayed in the favor of Allah
swt and seen the results for
themselves. Had they stood up
against injustice, they would have
indeed been successful and Allah
(swt) would have given them
abundance beyond their
imaginations. Abundance in faith,
knowledge, worldly riches, and a
place in paradise. So we are given
the remembrance of her death now
in these coming days to reflect on
the similitude of the condition of the
believers today and the matter
concerning the Yamani (a.s), the
acceptance or rejection of the
Sovereignty of the People and the
Sovereignty of God, repeated in
each chapter of history!
"And the Day the wrongdoer will
bite on his hands [in regret] he will
say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with
the Messenger a way." 25:27 'Oh,
woe to me! I wish I had not taken
that one as a friend.' 25:28
And we stand before the end of a
cycle and the dawn of a new day,
and it is clear that the time has come
in which we must wake up from the
deep comatose condition the world
has been in and come to awareness
of the truth of the situation. Indeed
it is the stand of the people which
ensures the stronghold of a dictator,
since a tyrant can only command
those who will follow; alone he
would find no armies to terrorize
with, and no refuge with those who
oppose him, if the people would
have been united in the ways of the
Prophet (s.a.w), and had fear of
Allah (swt) and followed His
commands rather than the imposed
rules and laws of a self appointed
leader, Allah (swt) would have
ensured the demise of all those who
tried to oppress them, but they
lacked sincerity and faith. If men
would have been clear sighted in
the face of the truth and courageous
in the face of injustice, they would
have entered the plentiful gardens
of Allah swt and peace; instead like
the people of Moses a.s and Samarii,
they were forced to enter 'The
Labyrinth' and this is their trial and
their punishment for obstinacy and
seeking supremacy on earth by
creed rather then the state of justice
(in their hearts) and doing right
toward their Lord and his
commandments and His creation
for the Sake of Allah (swt).
A Branch from the Sacred tree
Thus, the branch of the Tree of the
Prophet (s.a.w) which he left among
his nation, lost its flower and its
branches became scattered, the
Muslims and their plight became
similar to that of the nation of
Moses a.s, a rebellious people. And
the 'drought' of the ignorant dried
up the bounties they received from
their Lord and fell into oppression
overpowered by tyranny , the likes
of Pharoah l.a and the earlier
children of Israel who went astray.
So it has remained an era of
difficulty and trials, because the
believers refused to take a stand
against the enemy of the Ahlul Bayt
(a.s) and allowed their rights to be
seized from them, accepting
appointed leaders by the people
instead of the representatives of
Allah (swt) on earth to govern them,
a transgression against the
command of Allah (swt).
Sayyed Ahmad Al Hassan (a.s) says
in 'The Labyrinth or the Path to
Allah', "And in these papers an
Ummah that went into deviation
and got out of it and a nation that
got into it and still is in it, and
these papers are guidance to the
way out of the labyrinth" Imam
Ahmad Al Hassan (a.s) The
Labyrinth or the Path to God.
"And the Labyrinth was a
punishment for them, for the
rebellion against Moses (a.s)
against the divine order of entering
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