ASSALAMALEYKUM WA REHMATULLAH WA BARKATAHU.
THE BATTLE OF KARBALA IN 61 A.H. WAS NOT A BATTLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD OR ISLAM AND KUFR AS IS ALLEGED BY THE "SHIAS" (RAFIDIS). IT WAS NOT JIHAD ETHER OTHERWISE ALL THE SAHABAH WOULD HAVE SIDED WITH HAZRAT HUSSAIN (ra). ALL THE MUSLIM CITIZENS INCLUDING THE LIVING SAHABA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ABDULLAH BIN ZUBAIR SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO GO FROM MAKKAH TO KUFA WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE CONSTANTLY INVITING HIM FOR BAYT (OATH OF ALLEGIANCE) HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES AND WELL-WISHERS LIKE ABDULLAH BIN UMAR, HAZRAT ABU SAEED KHUDRI, HAZRAT ABU DARDA, HAZART ABDULLAH BIN ABBASS, HAZART MUHAMMAD BIN ABU HANIFA ETC. TRIED TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO UNDERTAKE THIS JOURNEY AS IT WAS FULL OF RISKS AND HAZARDS. THEY WERE HOWEVER, NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR ATTEMPT AND HAZART HUSSAIN PROCEEDED ON HIS MISSION OF REFORMATION CONCEIVED ON THE BASIS OF HIS OWN IJTEHAD. THERE WAS HOWEVER, NO NOTICE OF FIGHTING AS HE WENT WITH 60 OR 70 PEOPLE WHICH MOSTLY COMPRISED MEMBERS OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. IT WAS ONLY A POLITICAL DIFFERENCE WITH YAZID AND HAZRAT HUSSAIN WANTED TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION. IT WAS NEVER A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN ISLAM AND KUFR AS NONE OF THE CONTESTANTS EVEN ONCE CALLED EACH OTHER AS KAFIR (INFIDEL). THE KUFFITE (WHO HAD MOSTLY SABAI ELEMENTS IN THEIR RANKS) WERE PLAYING THEIR OWN GAME AGAINST ISLAM AND UMMAH UNDER THE COVER OF LOVE AND LOYALTY FOR HAZRAT HUSSAIN AS WE WILL SEE LATER.
WHEN HAZART HUSSAIN WAS STILL ON HIS WAY TO KUFA HE RECEIVED NEWS THAT HIS COUSIN, MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, WHO WAS SENT EARLIER BY HIM TO KUFA TO ASCERTAIN THE CONDITIONS THERE, HAD BEEN MURDERED ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEATH OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, HAZRAT HUSSAIN LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE "PEOPLE OF KUFA" AND DECIDED TO RETURN BUT THE RELATIVES OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SABAI ELEMENTS INSISTED ON AVENGING THE MURDER OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL AND HENCE HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO RESUME HIS ONWARD JOURNEY TO KUFA. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN REACHED KARBALA THE GOVERNOR OF KUFA, IBN ZAID, SNET UMAR BIN SAEED AT HE HEAD OF A CONTIGENT TO HALT THE ADVANCE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. UMAR BIN SAEED HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH HAZART HUSSAIN WHERE THE LATTER OFFERED TO MAKE A COMPROMISE IF ONE OF THE THREE CONDITIONS ARE ACCEPTED:
(i) HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN JIHAD ON THE FRONTIERS OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE.
(ii) OR HE MAY BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO MADINAH.
(iii) OR HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO SEE YAZID -------- (IN CERTAIN NARRATIONS LIKE TAHRIK TABARI IT IS STATED THAT HE (HUSSAIN) WILL PERSONALLY OFFER ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID & NOT THROUGH ANY INTERMEDIARY).
UMAR BIN SAEED ACCEPTED THE LAST CONDITION AND SOLICITED THE APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR (IBN ZAID) WHO HOWEVER, INSISTED THAT ALLEGIANCE FOR YAZID MUST BE OFFERED AT HIS HAND WHICH HAZRAT HUSSAIN DIDN'T ACCEPT. CONSEQUENTLY THE BATTLE ENSUED WHICH RESULTED IN THE MARTYRDOM OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN.
IT WOULD BE SEEN THERE FROM THAT YAZID HAD NO HANDS IN THE MURDER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. MOST OF THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS ARE WRITTEN BY SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AND AS SUCH HEAP ALL SORTS OF RUBBISH ON YAZID OUT OF SHEER CONTEMPT AND HATRED AND DEPICT HIM IN ALARMING COLOUR WHICH IS FAR FROM TRUTH AND REALITY. STILL SOME OF THE IGNORANT MUSLIMS ACCUSE HIM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SHIAS (RAFIDIS). THE FACT IS THAT WHEN THE NEWS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN'S MARTYRDOM REACHED YAZID, HE AND HIS FAMILY WEPT. YAZID EVEN SAID: "CURSE OF ALLAH BE ON ABAIDULLAH BIN ZAID. BY ALLAH! IF HE HAD BEEN A RELATIVE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN HE WOULD HAVE NEVER KILLED HIM. I WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED THE SUBMISSION OF IRAQIS WITHOUT THE KILLING OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN." THEN HE ACCORDED A VERY GRACIOUS HOSPITALITY TO THE REMAINING FAMILY MEMBERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ARRANGED THEIR RETURN JOURNEY TO MADINAH WITH GREAT HONOUR AND RESPECT.
HAD YAZID GOT ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THE MURDER OF HADHRAT HUSSAIN THE REMANANTS OF HIS FAMILY WOULD HAVE NEVER STAYED WITH YAZID AS HIS GUESTS FOR SEVERAL DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE INCIDENT OF KARBALA. HOW CAN ONE STAY AND DINE WITH THE MURDERERS OF ONE'S BLOOD RELATIONS? ALL THE VILE PROPAGANDA AGAINST YAZID IS A LATTER INNOVATION OF THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS). EVEN SOME OF THE INNOCENT MUSLIMS LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI JAHUR HAVE BEEN DECEIVED WHEN HE SAID IN A COUPLET:
"THE MARTYRDOM OF HUSSAIN IN EFFECT IS DEATH OF YAZID; ISLAM RISES TO NEW HEIGHTS AFTER EVERY INCIDENT LIKE THAT OF KARBALA."
THIS IS HIGHLY MISLEADING AS IT IS EVIDENT FROM THE FACT THAT SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF SAHABA WERE ALIVE AT THAT TIME BUT ALL OF THEM TRIED TO KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THIS EVENT TO SAVE UMMAH FROM ENTANGLEMENT AND BLOODSHED. HAD IT BEEN AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THE SAHABAH WHO THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES HAD NOT SHIRKED JIHAD WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY THROWN ALL THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND HADHRAT HUSSAIN.
IT MAY BE MENTIONED HERE THE CLOSE AFFINITY OF YAZID WITH THE FAMILY OF HADHRAT ALI. IN 53 H WHEN YAZID AS AMIR-UL-HUJJAJ WENT TO MAKKAH AND AFTER HAJJ REACHED MADINAH, AT THAT OCCASION HE WAS MARRIED TO SAYYEDA UMM HUHAMMAD, THE DAUGHTER OF ABDULLAH BIN JAFFAR YAHYAR WHO WAS THE SON-IN-LAW OF HADHRAT ALI AND BROTHER-IN-LAW OF HASAN AND HUSSAIN. TODAY PEOPLE REMEMBER YAZID'S NAME ONLY AS AN ABUSE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES TO SIFT TRUTH FROM THE UNTRUTH.
THERE IS NO DENYING THE FACT THAT REALISING THE FAITHLENESS OF KUFFITES, HADHRAT HUSSAIN LOST HIS HEART AND WANTED TO PROCEED TO DAMASCUS AND OFFER ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID BUT THE PLOTTERS WHO HAD ACCOMPANIED HADHRAT HUSSAIN (I.E. SO-CALLED PARTISANS OF ALI) SAW THEIR OWN END IN SUCH A REPROACHEMTN SO THEY ISSUED FROM THEIR CAMPS AND MURDERED HADHRAT HUSSAIN ALONG WITH HIS KITH AND KIN.
WHEN WE STUDY THE CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS, THE INEVITABLE CONCLUSION DRAWN IS THAT (1) KUFFITE INVITED HAZRAT HUSSAIN TO KUFA AND WROTE HIM LETTERS
(2) THE INVITERS WERE THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS)
(3) THOSE VERY PEOPLE WHO CALLED HAZRAT HUSSAIN MURDERED HIM, CAPTURED HIS FAMILY MEMBER AND ROBBED THEM OF THEIR PROPERTY
(4) THE WOMEN OF THE MEMBERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN RAISED HUE AND CRY TO DEFRAUD THE PEOPLE AND
(5) MURDERERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN BEING SHIAS (RAFIDIS) ARE OUTSIDE THE PALE OF UMMAH OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAWW).
FOR SEARCHING DETAILS ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF KARBALA FROM SHIA (RAFIDIH) SOURCES PLEASE SEE MAULANA ALLAHYAR'S BOOK (PP. 114-134). THE BOOK IN URDU IS AVAILABLE FROM DAR-UL-IRFAN, MANARA, DISTT: CHAKWAL (PAKISTAN). THE LATE MAULANA DEDICATED HIS WHOLE LIFE IN CONFRONTATION WITH THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AND HAVE EXPLODED THEIR MYTH AND FALSITY IN HIS WRITINGS WHICH MERIT TO BE TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES.
YAZID IS ONLY PROJECTED BY THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AS A TYRANT, LEWD, DRUNKARD AND PERVERT. HOW WOULD THEY ACCOUNT FOR HIS PEITY AND EMINENCE WHEN THE CONTINGENT OF WHICH HE WAS COMMANDER REMAINED OUT FROM DAMASCUS FOR NINE MONTHS IN THE COMPAIGN OF CONSTANTINOPLE & DURING THIS PERIOD ALL THE SENIOR SAHABAH AS WELL AS HADHRAT HUSSAIN OFFERED PRAYERS BEHIND YAZID? SIMILARLY IN 50 & 53 A.H. YAZID WAS APPOINTED AS AMIR-UL-HUJJAJ AND IN THIS CAPACITY HE LED MUSLIMS TO PERFORM HAJJ RITES AND RITUALS AND MUSLIMS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD OF ISLAM OFFERED THEIR PRAYERS BEHIND HIM.
A QUESTION WAS PUT TO IMAM GHAZZALI WHETHER THERE IS A VALID GROUND FOR CURSING YAZID FOR HIS ALLEGED COMPLICITY IN THE MURDER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. THE IMAM GHAZZALI REPLIED AS UNDER:-
"IT IS NOT LAWFUL TO CURSE ANY MUSLIM. ANYONE WHO CURSES A MUSLIM IS HIMSELF ACCURSED. RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) SAID: "A MUSLIM IS NOT GIVEN TO CURSING." BESIDES THE ISLAMIC SHARIAH HAS PROHIBITED US FROM EVEN CURSING THE ANIMALS. HOW THEN IT WOULD BE PERMISSIBLE TO CURSE ANY MUSLIM WHEN THE HONOUR OF A MUSLIM IS MORE SACRED THAN THE HOLY KABA AS MENTIONED IN A HADITH (IBN MAJAH).
"THE ISLAMIC FAITH OF YAZID IS PROVED WITHOUT ANY SHADOW OF DOUBT. AS REGARDS THE MURDER OF HUSSAIN, THERE IS NO DEFINITE EVIDENCE THAT YAZID EITHER KILLED HIM OR ISSUED ORDERS FOR HIS KILLING OR APPROVED ANY SUCH PLANS. WHEN NOTHING HAS BEEN PROVED IN THIS REGARD, HOW WOULD IT BE LAWFUL TO CAST DOUBTS AND ASPERSIONS ON YAZID WHEN ENTERTAINING SUSPICION ABOUT A MUSLIM IS UNLAWFUL IN ISLAM."
ALMIGHTLY ALLAH SAYS IN THE QUR'AN "O YE WHO BELIEVE! SHUN MUCH SUSPICION; FOR LO! SOME SUSPICION IS CRIME. AND SPY NOT, NEITHER BACKBITE ONE ANOTHER. WOULD ONE OF YOU LOVE TO EAT THE FLESH OF HIS DEAD BROTHER? YE ABHOR THAT (SO ABHOR THE OTHER). AND KEEP YOUR DUTY (TO ALLAH)." (49 : 12).
HAZRAT ABU HURAIRAH REPORTED ALLAH'S MESSENGER AS SAYING "DESPISING HIS BROTHER MUSLIM IS ENOUGH EVIL FOR ANY ONE TO DO. EVERY MUSLIM'S BLOOD, PROPERTY AND HONOUR ARE SACRED TO A MUSLIM." (MUSLIM).
IMAM GHAZZALI REITERATES:
"ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT YAZID ORDERED THE KILLING OF HUSSAIN OR LIKED THE KILLING OF HUSSAIN SUCH A PERSON IS ABSOLUTELY FOOL. . . . . . . . ."
"AS REGARDS SAYING (RADIALLAHU ANHA) AFTER THE NAME OF YAZID, THIS IS NOT ONLY PERMISSIBLE BUT COMMENDABLE. IT IS RATHER INCLUDED IN OUR DUA WHEN WE PRAY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL MUSLIMS AND YAZID WAS CERTAINLY A MOMIN (BELIEVER)." ( ,BERIRUT, P. 288).
THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) HAVE DONE A LOT OF MUD-SLINGING ON THE CONDUCT AND CHARACTER OF YAZID TRYING OUT OF MALICE AND PREJUDICE TO FALSELY PROJECT HIM AS ADDICITED TO WINE AND PASSION ON ACCOUNT OF SHEER ILL-WILL AND ENEMITY. THIS HAS BEEN REFUTED BY MUHAMMAD BIN-AL-HANIFA, THE EIDER BROTHER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN WHO REMARKED:
"WHATEVER ILL YOU SAY ABOUT HIM (YAZID), I HAVE WITNESSED NONE OF THE SAME. I HAVE STAYED WITH HIM AND FOUND HIM A REGULAR WORSHIPPER (I.E. FAST OBSERVER OF SALAT), WELL WISHER OF OTHERS, FONDER OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SHARI'AH AND ABIDING BY THE SUNNAH OF THE PROPHET (SAW)." (VOL. VIII P. 233 ).
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1. THE SO-CALLED IMAMS OF THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AND THEIR NEAR RELATIONS NAMED SEVERAL OF THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THE NAMES OF HADHRAT'S ABU BAKR, UMAR USMAN, MUWAIYAH AND YAZID ETC. OUT OF LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR THESE PERSONALITIES. THIS SHOWS THAT THERE WAS NO RANCOUR IN THEIR HEARTS AGAINST THEM AND THEY CONSIDERED THEM LEGITIMATE CALIPHS AND MONARCHS. THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) SHOULD FOLLOW THE SUNNAH OF THEIR "IMAMS" IN THIS REGARD. SIMILARLY THE MARRIAGE OF HADHRAT FATIMAH TOOK PLACE ON 21ST MUHARRAM. THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) INSTEAD OF PROHIBITING NIKAH DURING THE MONTH OF MUHARRAM SHOULD TRY TO REVIVE THIS DEAD SUNNAH AMONG THEIR MIDST.
2.SOMETIME BACK A SHIA MUJTAHID WHILE DELIEVERING A SPEECH ON T.V. ON THE OCCASION OF ASHURA REMARKED: "WHY DO YOU PEOPLE GIVE SO MUCH IMPORTANCE TO THE TRUNK (OF A TREE) ALTHOUGH ITS BRANCES DESERVE MORE CARE AND ATTENTION SINCE THOSE PROVIDE SHADE AND FRUIT."
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE SHIA (RAFIDIS) MUJTAHID MEANT RASUL-ALLAH WHEN HE REFERRED TO TRUNK (OF THE TREE) AND ALI AND HIS CHILDREN IN REGARD TO ITS BRANCHES. SUCH IS THE STRATEGY AND APPROACH OF SHIAS (RAFIDIS) TO DE-THROWN RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) FROM THE PEDESTAL OF HONOUR AND GLORY!!!
STILL THE RAFIDIS DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS THAN SET OF QUESTIONS WHICH THEY'LL NEVER REFUTE:
1) HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WENT FROM MAKKAH, HE FIRST REACHED KUFA OR KARBALA?
2) IF HE WENT TO KUFA THEN WHY HE WAS MARTYRED AT KARBALA WHICH IS 100 KMS FAR FROM KUFA???
3) IF YOU CONTINUE THE WAY FROM KARBALA, COMES DAMISHK WHERE HAZRAT YAZID'S KINGDOME WAS THERE... BUT SO HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WHERE WAS GOING TO THAT HE GOT MARTYRED AT KARBALA??
4) IF HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WAS MARTYRED AT KARBALA THEN WHY RIVER FURAAT (THE EUPHRATES RIVER) WATER WAS CLOSED WHICH IS 20KMS AWAY FROM KARBALA???
5) IF HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WENT DIRECT TO KARBALA FROM MAKKAH THEN TELL ME KUFA COMES 1ST THEN HOW COME HE REACHED KARBALA WHILE THE LETTERS WERE SENT BY KUFA PEOPLE????
THE BATTLE OF KARBALA IN 61 A.H. WAS NOT A BATTLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD OR ISLAM AND KUFR AS IS ALLEGED BY THE "SHIAS" (RAFIDIS). IT WAS NOT JIHAD ETHER OTHERWISE ALL THE SAHABAH WOULD HAVE SIDED WITH HAZRAT HUSSAIN (ra). ALL THE MUSLIM CITIZENS INCLUDING THE LIVING SAHABA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ABDULLAH BIN ZUBAIR SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO GO FROM MAKKAH TO KUFA WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE CONSTANTLY INVITING HIM FOR BAYT (OATH OF ALLEGIANCE) HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES AND WELL-WISHERS LIKE ABDULLAH BIN UMAR, HAZRAT ABU SAEED KHUDRI, HAZRAT ABU DARDA, HAZART ABDULLAH BIN ABBASS, HAZART MUHAMMAD BIN ABU HANIFA ETC. TRIED TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO UNDERTAKE THIS JOURNEY AS IT WAS FULL OF RISKS AND HAZARDS. THEY WERE HOWEVER, NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR ATTEMPT AND HAZART HUSSAIN PROCEEDED ON HIS MISSION OF REFORMATION CONCEIVED ON THE BASIS OF HIS OWN IJTEHAD. THERE WAS HOWEVER, NO NOTICE OF FIGHTING AS HE WENT WITH 60 OR 70 PEOPLE WHICH MOSTLY COMPRISED MEMBERS OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. IT WAS ONLY A POLITICAL DIFFERENCE WITH YAZID AND HAZRAT HUSSAIN WANTED TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION. IT WAS NEVER A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN ISLAM AND KUFR AS NONE OF THE CONTESTANTS EVEN ONCE CALLED EACH OTHER AS KAFIR (INFIDEL). THE KUFFITE (WHO HAD MOSTLY SABAI ELEMENTS IN THEIR RANKS) WERE PLAYING THEIR OWN GAME AGAINST ISLAM AND UMMAH UNDER THE COVER OF LOVE AND LOYALTY FOR HAZRAT HUSSAIN AS WE WILL SEE LATER.
WHEN HAZART HUSSAIN WAS STILL ON HIS WAY TO KUFA HE RECEIVED NEWS THAT HIS COUSIN, MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, WHO WAS SENT EARLIER BY HIM TO KUFA TO ASCERTAIN THE CONDITIONS THERE, HAD BEEN MURDERED ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEATH OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL, HAZRAT HUSSAIN LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE "PEOPLE OF KUFA" AND DECIDED TO RETURN BUT THE RELATIVES OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SABAI ELEMENTS INSISTED ON AVENGING THE MURDER OF MUSLIM BIN AQEEL AND HENCE HAZRAT HUSSAIN DECIDED TO RESUME HIS ONWARD JOURNEY TO KUFA. WHEN HAZRAT HUSSAIN REACHED KARBALA THE GOVERNOR OF KUFA, IBN ZAID, SNET UMAR BIN SAEED AT HE HEAD OF A CONTIGENT TO HALT THE ADVANCE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. UMAR BIN SAEED HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH HAZART HUSSAIN WHERE THE LATTER OFFERED TO MAKE A COMPROMISE IF ONE OF THE THREE CONDITIONS ARE ACCEPTED:
(i) HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN JIHAD ON THE FRONTIERS OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE.
(ii) OR HE MAY BE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO MADINAH.
(iii) OR HE MAY BE ALLOWED TO SEE YAZID -------- (IN CERTAIN NARRATIONS LIKE TAHRIK TABARI IT IS STATED THAT HE (HUSSAIN) WILL PERSONALLY OFFER ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID & NOT THROUGH ANY INTERMEDIARY).
UMAR BIN SAEED ACCEPTED THE LAST CONDITION AND SOLICITED THE APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR (IBN ZAID) WHO HOWEVER, INSISTED THAT ALLEGIANCE FOR YAZID MUST BE OFFERED AT HIS HAND WHICH HAZRAT HUSSAIN DIDN'T ACCEPT. CONSEQUENTLY THE BATTLE ENSUED WHICH RESULTED IN THE MARTYRDOM OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN.
IT WOULD BE SEEN THERE FROM THAT YAZID HAD NO HANDS IN THE MURDER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. MOST OF THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS ARE WRITTEN BY SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AND AS SUCH HEAP ALL SORTS OF RUBBISH ON YAZID OUT OF SHEER CONTEMPT AND HATRED AND DEPICT HIM IN ALARMING COLOUR WHICH IS FAR FROM TRUTH AND REALITY. STILL SOME OF THE IGNORANT MUSLIMS ACCUSE HIM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SHIAS (RAFIDIS). THE FACT IS THAT WHEN THE NEWS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN'S MARTYRDOM REACHED YAZID, HE AND HIS FAMILY WEPT. YAZID EVEN SAID: "CURSE OF ALLAH BE ON ABAIDULLAH BIN ZAID. BY ALLAH! IF HE HAD BEEN A RELATIVE OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN HE WOULD HAVE NEVER KILLED HIM. I WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED THE SUBMISSION OF IRAQIS WITHOUT THE KILLING OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN." THEN HE ACCORDED A VERY GRACIOUS HOSPITALITY TO THE REMAINING FAMILY MEMBERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN AND ARRANGED THEIR RETURN JOURNEY TO MADINAH WITH GREAT HONOUR AND RESPECT.
HAD YAZID GOT ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THE MURDER OF HADHRAT HUSSAIN THE REMANANTS OF HIS FAMILY WOULD HAVE NEVER STAYED WITH YAZID AS HIS GUESTS FOR SEVERAL DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE INCIDENT OF KARBALA. HOW CAN ONE STAY AND DINE WITH THE MURDERERS OF ONE'S BLOOD RELATIONS? ALL THE VILE PROPAGANDA AGAINST YAZID IS A LATTER INNOVATION OF THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS). EVEN SOME OF THE INNOCENT MUSLIMS LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI JAHUR HAVE BEEN DECEIVED WHEN HE SAID IN A COUPLET:
"THE MARTYRDOM OF HUSSAIN IN EFFECT IS DEATH OF YAZID; ISLAM RISES TO NEW HEIGHTS AFTER EVERY INCIDENT LIKE THAT OF KARBALA."
THIS IS HIGHLY MISLEADING AS IT IS EVIDENT FROM THE FACT THAT SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF SAHABA WERE ALIVE AT THAT TIME BUT ALL OF THEM TRIED TO KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THIS EVENT TO SAVE UMMAH FROM ENTANGLEMENT AND BLOODSHED. HAD IT BEEN AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THE SAHABAH WHO THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES HAD NOT SHIRKED JIHAD WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY THROWN ALL THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND HADHRAT HUSSAIN.
IT MAY BE MENTIONED HERE THE CLOSE AFFINITY OF YAZID WITH THE FAMILY OF HADHRAT ALI. IN 53 H WHEN YAZID AS AMIR-UL-HUJJAJ WENT TO MAKKAH AND AFTER HAJJ REACHED MADINAH, AT THAT OCCASION HE WAS MARRIED TO SAYYEDA UMM HUHAMMAD, THE DAUGHTER OF ABDULLAH BIN JAFFAR YAHYAR WHO WAS THE SON-IN-LAW OF HADHRAT ALI AND BROTHER-IN-LAW OF HASAN AND HUSSAIN. TODAY PEOPLE REMEMBER YAZID'S NAME ONLY AS AN ABUSE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES TO SIFT TRUTH FROM THE UNTRUTH.
THERE IS NO DENYING THE FACT THAT REALISING THE FAITHLENESS OF KUFFITES, HADHRAT HUSSAIN LOST HIS HEART AND WANTED TO PROCEED TO DAMASCUS AND OFFER ALLEGIANCE TO YAZID BUT THE PLOTTERS WHO HAD ACCOMPANIED HADHRAT HUSSAIN (I.E. SO-CALLED PARTISANS OF ALI) SAW THEIR OWN END IN SUCH A REPROACHEMTN SO THEY ISSUED FROM THEIR CAMPS AND MURDERED HADHRAT HUSSAIN ALONG WITH HIS KITH AND KIN.
WHEN WE STUDY THE CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS, THE INEVITABLE CONCLUSION DRAWN IS THAT (1) KUFFITE INVITED HAZRAT HUSSAIN TO KUFA AND WROTE HIM LETTERS
(2) THE INVITERS WERE THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS)
(3) THOSE VERY PEOPLE WHO CALLED HAZRAT HUSSAIN MURDERED HIM, CAPTURED HIS FAMILY MEMBER AND ROBBED THEM OF THEIR PROPERTY
(4) THE WOMEN OF THE MEMBERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN RAISED HUE AND CRY TO DEFRAUD THE PEOPLE AND
(5) MURDERERS OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN BEING SHIAS (RAFIDIS) ARE OUTSIDE THE PALE OF UMMAH OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAWW).
FOR SEARCHING DETAILS ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF KARBALA FROM SHIA (RAFIDIH) SOURCES PLEASE SEE MAULANA ALLAHYAR'S BOOK (PP. 114-134). THE BOOK IN URDU IS AVAILABLE FROM DAR-UL-IRFAN, MANARA, DISTT: CHAKWAL (PAKISTAN). THE LATE MAULANA DEDICATED HIS WHOLE LIFE IN CONFRONTATION WITH THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AND HAVE EXPLODED THEIR MYTH AND FALSITY IN HIS WRITINGS WHICH MERIT TO BE TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES.
YAZID IS ONLY PROJECTED BY THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AS A TYRANT, LEWD, DRUNKARD AND PERVERT. HOW WOULD THEY ACCOUNT FOR HIS PEITY AND EMINENCE WHEN THE CONTINGENT OF WHICH HE WAS COMMANDER REMAINED OUT FROM DAMASCUS FOR NINE MONTHS IN THE COMPAIGN OF CONSTANTINOPLE & DURING THIS PERIOD ALL THE SENIOR SAHABAH AS WELL AS HADHRAT HUSSAIN OFFERED PRAYERS BEHIND YAZID? SIMILARLY IN 50 & 53 A.H. YAZID WAS APPOINTED AS AMIR-UL-HUJJAJ AND IN THIS CAPACITY HE LED MUSLIMS TO PERFORM HAJJ RITES AND RITUALS AND MUSLIMS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD OF ISLAM OFFERED THEIR PRAYERS BEHIND HIM.
A QUESTION WAS PUT TO IMAM GHAZZALI WHETHER THERE IS A VALID GROUND FOR CURSING YAZID FOR HIS ALLEGED COMPLICITY IN THE MURDER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN. THE IMAM GHAZZALI REPLIED AS UNDER:-
"IT IS NOT LAWFUL TO CURSE ANY MUSLIM. ANYONE WHO CURSES A MUSLIM IS HIMSELF ACCURSED. RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) SAID: "A MUSLIM IS NOT GIVEN TO CURSING." BESIDES THE ISLAMIC SHARIAH HAS PROHIBITED US FROM EVEN CURSING THE ANIMALS. HOW THEN IT WOULD BE PERMISSIBLE TO CURSE ANY MUSLIM WHEN THE HONOUR OF A MUSLIM IS MORE SACRED THAN THE HOLY KABA AS MENTIONED IN A HADITH (IBN MAJAH).
"THE ISLAMIC FAITH OF YAZID IS PROVED WITHOUT ANY SHADOW OF DOUBT. AS REGARDS THE MURDER OF HUSSAIN, THERE IS NO DEFINITE EVIDENCE THAT YAZID EITHER KILLED HIM OR ISSUED ORDERS FOR HIS KILLING OR APPROVED ANY SUCH PLANS. WHEN NOTHING HAS BEEN PROVED IN THIS REGARD, HOW WOULD IT BE LAWFUL TO CAST DOUBTS AND ASPERSIONS ON YAZID WHEN ENTERTAINING SUSPICION ABOUT A MUSLIM IS UNLAWFUL IN ISLAM."
ALMIGHTLY ALLAH SAYS IN THE QUR'AN "O YE WHO BELIEVE! SHUN MUCH SUSPICION; FOR LO! SOME SUSPICION IS CRIME. AND SPY NOT, NEITHER BACKBITE ONE ANOTHER. WOULD ONE OF YOU LOVE TO EAT THE FLESH OF HIS DEAD BROTHER? YE ABHOR THAT (SO ABHOR THE OTHER). AND KEEP YOUR DUTY (TO ALLAH)." (49 : 12).
HAZRAT ABU HURAIRAH REPORTED ALLAH'S MESSENGER AS SAYING "DESPISING HIS BROTHER MUSLIM IS ENOUGH EVIL FOR ANY ONE TO DO. EVERY MUSLIM'S BLOOD, PROPERTY AND HONOUR ARE SACRED TO A MUSLIM." (MUSLIM).
IMAM GHAZZALI REITERATES:
"ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT YAZID ORDERED THE KILLING OF HUSSAIN OR LIKED THE KILLING OF HUSSAIN SUCH A PERSON IS ABSOLUTELY FOOL. . . . . . . . ."
"AS REGARDS SAYING (RADIALLAHU ANHA) AFTER THE NAME OF YAZID, THIS IS NOT ONLY PERMISSIBLE BUT COMMENDABLE. IT IS RATHER INCLUDED IN OUR DUA WHEN WE PRAY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL MUSLIMS AND YAZID WAS CERTAINLY A MOMIN (BELIEVER)." ( ,BERIRUT, P. 288).
THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) HAVE DONE A LOT OF MUD-SLINGING ON THE CONDUCT AND CHARACTER OF YAZID TRYING OUT OF MALICE AND PREJUDICE TO FALSELY PROJECT HIM AS ADDICITED TO WINE AND PASSION ON ACCOUNT OF SHEER ILL-WILL AND ENEMITY. THIS HAS BEEN REFUTED BY MUHAMMAD BIN-AL-HANIFA, THE EIDER BROTHER OF HAZRAT HUSSAIN WHO REMARKED:
"WHATEVER ILL YOU SAY ABOUT HIM (YAZID), I HAVE WITNESSED NONE OF THE SAME. I HAVE STAYED WITH HIM AND FOUND HIM A REGULAR WORSHIPPER (I.E. FAST OBSERVER OF SALAT), WELL WISHER OF OTHERS, FONDER OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SHARI'AH AND ABIDING BY THE SUNNAH OF THE PROPHET (SAW)." (VOL. VIII P. 233 ).
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1. THE SO-CALLED IMAMS OF THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) AND THEIR NEAR RELATIONS NAMED SEVERAL OF THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THE NAMES OF HADHRAT'S ABU BAKR, UMAR USMAN, MUWAIYAH AND YAZID ETC. OUT OF LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR THESE PERSONALITIES. THIS SHOWS THAT THERE WAS NO RANCOUR IN THEIR HEARTS AGAINST THEM AND THEY CONSIDERED THEM LEGITIMATE CALIPHS AND MONARCHS. THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) SHOULD FOLLOW THE SUNNAH OF THEIR "IMAMS" IN THIS REGARD. SIMILARLY THE MARRIAGE OF HADHRAT FATIMAH TOOK PLACE ON 21ST MUHARRAM. THE SHIAS (RAFIDIS) INSTEAD OF PROHIBITING NIKAH DURING THE MONTH OF MUHARRAM SHOULD TRY TO REVIVE THIS DEAD SUNNAH AMONG THEIR MIDST.
2.SOMETIME BACK A SHIA MUJTAHID WHILE DELIEVERING A SPEECH ON T.V. ON THE OCCASION OF ASHURA REMARKED: "WHY DO YOU PEOPLE GIVE SO MUCH IMPORTANCE TO THE TRUNK (OF A TREE) ALTHOUGH ITS BRANCES DESERVE MORE CARE AND ATTENTION SINCE THOSE PROVIDE SHADE AND FRUIT."
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE SHIA (RAFIDIS) MUJTAHID MEANT RASUL-ALLAH WHEN HE REFERRED TO TRUNK (OF THE TREE) AND ALI AND HIS CHILDREN IN REGARD TO ITS BRANCHES. SUCH IS THE STRATEGY AND APPROACH OF SHIAS (RAFIDIS) TO DE-THROWN RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) FROM THE PEDESTAL OF HONOUR AND GLORY!!!
STILL THE RAFIDIS DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS THAN SET OF QUESTIONS WHICH THEY'LL NEVER REFUTE:
1) HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WENT FROM MAKKAH, HE FIRST REACHED KUFA OR KARBALA?
2) IF HE WENT TO KUFA THEN WHY HE WAS MARTYRED AT KARBALA WHICH IS 100 KMS FAR FROM KUFA???
3) IF YOU CONTINUE THE WAY FROM KARBALA, COMES DAMISHK WHERE HAZRAT YAZID'S KINGDOME WAS THERE... BUT SO HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WHERE WAS GOING TO THAT HE GOT MARTYRED AT KARBALA??
4) IF HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WAS MARTYRED AT KARBALA THEN WHY RIVER FURAAT (THE EUPHRATES RIVER) WATER WAS CLOSED WHICH IS 20KMS AWAY FROM KARBALA???
5) IF HAZRAT HUSSAIN R.A WENT DIRECT TO KARBALA FROM MAKKAH THEN TELL ME KUFA COMES 1ST THEN HOW COME HE REACHED KARBALA WHILE THE LETTERS WERE SENT BY KUFA PEOPLE????
Akhi....
