Dr.Mazhar
Naqvi
The
viewers of Muharram Mirror are well-acquainted with Syed Hafeez Hussaini. They
are also aware that he is neither Syed nor Hussaini. Though he claims himself
to be a Sunni yet he praises Yazid and hurl abuses at all those who confront
him on the issue. As a result of his glorification of Yazid, I had to write
three articles to highlight what happened with Ahle-Bait after the death of
Holy Prophet and silence of some highly revered companions. I always believe in
Shia-Sunni unity as both love Imam Hussain and mourn his sacrifice at Karbala in
different ways. Today I happened to see an article of Obaid Zia,(May Allah reward
him for his noble approach) that was
posted on October 21,2016.I am reproducing below excerpts of his post with the objective
to let everyone know how logical reasoning and rationale can bring both the
communities together and frustrate sinister design of fanatics like Syed Hafeez
Hussaini, May Allah curse him for hurting the Rasul SAW and his pious progeny. Here
are the excerpts :
“I am a Sunni. My family is Sunni. We love Abu Bakr,
Uthman, Umar, Ali. We believe in their Rightly Guided Caliphates. The
Commanders of the Faithful. We believe in Aisha as a wife of the Prophet ﷺ and a role model.
A Mother of the Faithful. This is our belief. We are not Shia……As part of being
Muslim, we love the Prophet ﷺ and
love all that which he loves. For what is beloved to the Prophet ﷺ is beloved to God…..Of
the Prophet’s family ﷺ,
there exist two names shadowed in an eternal passion, kept alive by billions of
lovers for over a millennium. The beloved sons of Fatima az-Zahra, daughter of
the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and
her husband Ali ibn Abi Talib: Hasan and Hussain. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ confided with
humanity that indeed his favorite two children in all of creation would be the
leaders of the youth of Paradise. The two sons of the House of the Prophet ﷺ would grow up to
be great leaders, as prophesized by the Holy Messenger ﷺ, and find
themselves murdered by their grandfather’s followers for their sacred ancestry ﷺ….. Why is it that I,
and many other youth in America, are not taught much about Hasan and Hussain
when they grow up? All that most know about them is that the Prophet ﷺ loved and kissed
them and that they would bring him his blessed slippers. That’s it. They’re our
role models to be the perfect children. We, as Sunnis, have forgotten that
they’re really models through our
death and afterlife.
We never learn about the murder of the Prophet’s ﷺ grandsons at the
hands of his Ummah. We never learn about the betrayal from a son of Bani
Ummayah. We never learn about the theft of khilafat from the righteous. We
never learn about Muawiyah’s warning his son to not “meet God with his [Imam
Hussain’s] blood.” We never learn about the gross disobedience to his father,
his soul’s nature, his sense of inhumanity, to the Prophet he claimed to love ﷺ…..I’m not writing
this to criticize the pseudo-salafi influence in America throwing off 1400
years of orthodox Sunni scholarship. I’m writing this because I was (and still
am, obviously) a confused Sunni youth in America wondering why the hadith and
scholarly quotes about the Ahl al-Bayt are an open secret, why the poems of
Imam Shafi’ are hidden, why our elders and teachers are content in letting an
entire generation grow up without knowing that Islam could have died barely 60
years in. How can an imam talk about the erroneous “fitnah of women” when we
don’t even know about the fitnah that almost killed the religion of our beloved
Prophet ﷺ?... We
are brothers because when a tyrant stole the caliphate of the Muslim Ummah and
abused it, Imam Hussain stood up for you and me and the nation his grandfather
built with his blood, sweat, and many tears. He marched himself to his death
for the sake of survival. On that day in Karbala, he was undoubtedly on the
side of Islam, the side of his father, the side of his grandfather ﷺ, the side of
righteousness and truth…Imam Hussain came to the battlefield not as a Shia to
fight Sunnis, or a Sunni to fight Shias. He was there as the inheritor and
rightful successor of his grandfather ﷺ to continue the Prophetic crusade against injustice
and darkness. It wasn’t “Sunni succession vs. Shia succession.” The
knowledgeable of the Ummah had already designated Imam Hasan and Imam Hussain
as caliphs. No. That day in Karbala, the battlefield was Haq vs. Kufr.
An army who claimed to be on the path of Islam, an army
who claimed to love the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, was about to slaughter his holy family before leaving
their dead bodies to rot for three days. They took the words of the kalima,
chewed them up, spat them out, and trampled them with their horses. When
Sayydina Abu Bakr “would rather do good to the family of the Prophet ﷺ rather than to
[his]own family,²” the army at Karbala didn’t even spare thirsty infant Ali
al-Asghar crying in the arms of Imam Hussain. They couldn’t spare a drop of
water for the progeny of the Prophet ﷺ they claimed to love. Their hearts had already traded
God for the pleasures of this world. Words cannot describe the revolting lapse
of conscience, of taqwa, of basic humanity, that the murderers of the Prophet’s
household had on that day ﷺIf it
weren’t for Imam Hussain’s sacrifice, Islam would have died. The legacy of
Hussain’s selfless sacrifice lived on in the community of the Muslims under
unjust rulers. The light of his fight for truth lived on in the minds of the
believers, ready to reclaim the religion of the Holy Prophet ﷺ whenever
opportunity presented. Imam Hussain inspired the spirit of reality in the
darkness. Yazid had Imam Hussain killed, Yazid won, but Yazid still died three
years later, and today he’s nothing but dust in the desert, while Hussain lives
on in the hearts of billions…..
How could I ignore the sacrifices of the Prophet’s
family? How could I not grieve and mourn when recounted the atrocities at Karbala?
How could I ignore the suffering of Imam Hussain, when he watched all those he
loved in the world beaten, abused, slaughtered, beheaded, and molested in front
of his eyes? When Imam Hussain gave up his whole world, was stabbed 33 times by
spears, struck 34 times by swords, hit over 100 times by arrows, only to weep
and say “I only wish for Allah to shower them with forgiveness,⁴” how can I say
that remembering his suffering is a sin?
The words of Obaid Sahib reflect how Sunnis view the
sublime sacrifice of Imam Hussain. Youths like him are true believers whereas
Wahabis who create fitna by claiming themselves to be Sunni and promote terrorism in the name of Islam are real threat to
world peace.
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