STRAIGHTPATHMONTHLY December 2011
understand? With what hands did you aim the
lances at us? With what souls did you come to fight us?
With what feet did you proceed for a combat with us?
Your hearts have hardened, your livers have turned into
iron, and your hearts have become blind, while your
ears and eyes have been sealed. Shaitan has enticed you
and has enjoined you while he has blinded your eyes and
you shall never find guidance.
May you be ruined O Kufans! How much blood of
the Prophet of Allah (S) is upon you? And what measure
(of vengeance) is upon your neck? Then you committed
treachery with his (the Prophet's) brother Ali bin Abi
Talib (a.s.) as also his sons, the progeny of the Prophet,
and who were among the chaste and virtuous. And one of
you said arrogantly: It is we who killed Ali and his sons,
with Indian swords and lances, and we captivated their
women-folk similar to the Turkish captives, and we
battled with him and what a battle. Mud in the mouth of
the one who said it! You pride upon the murder of the
ones whom Allah has praised and purified and has kept
away all filth away from them? Hold your breadth! Then
sit down as a dog sits down upon the tip of its tail, as
your father sat. Every man shall reap what he sends
forth. Woe be to you! You envied us due to the grace that
Allah bestowed upon us. What is our fault in it if our
river is full of abundant water, while the water of your
river has dried up, that cannot even hide a worm?
That is the grace of Allah, He bestows it upon
whomsoever He wills, and Allah is the Lord of Mighty
Grace. (Surah al-Hadeed, 57:21).
Unto whomsoever Allah gives not light, there is not
for him anything of light". (Surah an-Noor, 24:40).
It is said that hearing this, the voices of wailing arose and
people said, "Enough O daughter of the Chaste Ones! You
have blazed our hearts and have flexed our necks and
have inflamed our conscience". Then she became silent,
salutations upon her and her father and grandfather.
-Sayyidah Umme Kulsum bint Ali (a.s.)'s sermon
in Kufa
Sayyid Ibn Tawoos in his Malhoof quotes these sermons
and then says that, on that day Umme Kulsum (a.s.),[67] the
daughter of Imam Ali (a.s.), bewailed from behind the curtain
and said,
"O Kufans! May you face evil! Why did you refrain
yourselves from rendering assistance to Husayn (a.s.),
why did you kill him? Why did you plunder his
belongings and become its possessors? Why did you
imprison his women-folk and suppress him? May you
be ruined and uprooted! Woe be to you! Do you know
what you have brought forth? And do you know what
load of sin have you taken upon your backs? And what
blood have you shed? And which women-folk have you
taken as captives? And what children have to loot? And
what belongings have you plundered? You have killed
the best of men succeeding the Prophet (S), while mercy
has departed away from your hearts.
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Beware, verily the Party of Allah alone shall be the
successful ones and verily the party of Shaitan are the
losers (Surah al-Mujadilah, 58:22 and 19)."
Then she retorted,
"You killed my brother, woe be upon you, you will
surely be rewarded by the fire which burns eternally.
You have shed the blood whose shedding was
proclaimed to be unlawful by Allah, by the Qur'an and
Muhammad (S), may you receive tidings of the fire
where tomorrow you shall dwell eternally. I shall weep
upon my brother all through my life, who was born as
the best of creatures after the Prophet (S), the tears shall
flow upon my cheeks similar to the flood and rain
waters and shall never dry up. "
It is said that people started weeping and wailing aloud.
The women tore their hair and put sand upon their head. They
scratched their faces and started beating them and saying,
"Alas! Alas!" The men started weeping and pulled their
beards. Never was such a wailing of men and women ever been
seen before.
So you can see that the Shias of Kufa, having called
Hussain (a.s), crying for him, and appealing to him, disobeyed
and betrayed him so as to invoke the displeasure, rebukes and
anger of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s). Their sermons indicate their
displeasure at them.
The Disloyal Shias- The Shias who will reject
Imam e Zamana (a.j.f):Just as the Shias of Kufa wrote letters to Imam Hussain
(a.s), many Shias of our time write Arizas to Imam e Zamana
(a.j.f). Some are sicnere. Others are not. It is a matter foretold
that Imam e Zamana (a.j.f) will be rejected by the majority of
people. But he will attract the right kind of people, even if like
Wahb e Kalby they are not Muslim at the time. But the
Muslims who are hypocrites- there is no cure for them.
The Ambassador of Imam Hussain (a.s)- Muslim
bin Aqeel (a.s):In order to gather and unite the people