We need not be told of the fate of international society in
an era of globalization and the ability or rather the inability of the
inherited society of sovereign states to provide a practically viable and
normatively acceptable framework for global political order. It is evident that
all the progress that has been made by our society is only in creating of new
gadgets and devices that provide comfort and ease to human life. But if you
look at the humane angle, there has been no progress at all, despite framing up
of decorative terms like human rights, equality and universal justice. In other
words, if see from the spiritual point of view, man of today has gone from bad
to worse.
If there were cases of large scale murders and loot in
pre-historic times, we can still see mobs vandalizing, killing and tormenting
the innocents wherever they get a chance in each and every corner of this
so-called civilized society. It require stricter and stricter laws to safeguard
women from the prying eyes of men and rape. If there are cases of Namroods and
Firauns who hoarded money, we can still see the lust for money to such an
extent that entire money of countries is increasingly getting confined into the
hands of fewer and fewer people. If we saw Alexander in pre-Christ age who
wanted to control the world, there are still countries and groups of people who
wish to create the New World Order.
A cursory look at the newspapers or internet will show that
several nefarious plans are being hatched by those in power, some succeed while
some fail. One such plan has been devised by the family of an American/European
financial elites of immense wealth and power with ancient historical roots,
called by some the "Illuminati". Their plan is to rule the
world and it is said they are not going to leave any stone unturned to achieve
their objectives.
Some people have started claiming
that this centuries-old conspiracy is to impose a global totalitarian society
where there are just the rulers and the ruled.
Modern democracy, as we know it,
is less than 250 years old. For most of history, except for this brief period,
the world has been ruled by powerful elites who wielded absolute power over
their societies, controlled the wealth and resources of their known world, and
dominated their people by force. The New World Order (NWO) cabal plans to
restore this model of totalitarian rule on a global scale.
The endgame will be a one-world
government presiding over the earth for the benefit of global oligarchs and
their superclass functionaries, leaving the mass of humanity as serfs, to serve
the elite, while suffering impoverishment and immiseration. As per reports
available on internet, the plan includes scientifically engineered global
population reduction (viruses/vaccines/genetically-modified food), cutting the
world's population to less than one billion, which means they will
have to kill 5 billion people on this planet out of the present population of 6
billion plus inhabitants and the population that will remain will comprise of
only the rulers and the slaves. Can you fathom of greater depths that humanity
can fall to?
It seems this has been the human
mind-set in all ages and in all creations. This is evident from the Quranic
description of the conversation between angels and God at the time of creation
of the first of human beings viz. Adam. The angels asked: “Will you create
someone who will commit bloodshed and murder on earth?
Chapters and chapters have been written on different forms
of global inequality and the problems of legitimacy that such attempts to lord
over the world have created in the past and consequent challenges of value
conflict, societal inequality, death and disaster that it poses. Democracy and
various isms were created to provide solutions to the ailing humanity but such
concepts have been used by the mighty and the powerful to meet their own
personal gains. Today, democracy is not about creating a system where global
equality is there for all the citizens but terms like saam, daam and danda and
everything is fair in war are used to support attempts to capture power and
material wealth at any cost.
Those in the power think they can commit any crime under the
sun? No rules apply for them. Look at the highest offices of power, look at the
politicians you are in touch with and look at the local police constable of
your area. They are all busy in misusing the power bestowed upon them to meet
their own objectives or that of people close to them. It is evident that the
world is getting from bad to worse, each passing day.
NEW WORLD ORDER
IS HUSAIN’S MARTYRDOM CAPABLE OF BRINGING ABOUT A
CHANGE?
Where does Husain and Karbala stand in a world where the
powerful negative powers are bent upon using every trick in their armour to
gain control of the masses and their mind? Is it possible that a single person
or his thought has the potential to create order in the world where its own
movers and shakers have willingly created the disorder in their own interests?
More importantly, a man who was himself butchered to death in the most ruthless
fashion, whose entire family and friends were slaughtered by the forces loyal
to the greatest super power of those times – the Muslim empire – and even women-folks
and children kept in prison for more than a year, how is it possible that he or
his teachings can bring about a change for betterment in today’s world?
Fact is that it is true. One person who is capable of
bringing about a sea-change in today’s politics is Husain and one incident that
is capable of serving as a lesson to all those who want the world order to
change is Karbala. The day the world will know the true aspects of Husain’s
teachings and Karbala, it will realize that a solution do exist to all the big
problems facing humanity. One can only imagine the wave of optimism that can be
generated on global basis by the crisis-weary population. The entire world will be grateful to Husain
for showing the means to create a new and better world.
Let’s have an example. Fritz Springmeier, author of ‘The Top
13 Illuminati Bloodlines’ who first exposed the New World Order conspiracy by
the Illuminati reports that ‘Slides’ is a CIA term for a conditioned type of
response which dead ends a persons’ thinking and terminates debate or
examination of the topic at hand. Highly tuned and extremely sophisticated
Mind Control (MC) training programs are employed that begin the programing
process while the intended victim is still in the womb. These include
trauma-based MC programs and non-trauma electronic means of MC programming. These
conspirators manifest their agenda through the skilful manipulation of
human emotions especially
fear. Consequently, what most Americans believe to be "Public
Opinion" is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda
designed to elicit a desired behavioural response from the public.
Compare this with the situation in the Muslim world a little after the
Prophet. In the battle of Camel, Muawiya said that I have brought men to fight
Ali who were incapable of distinguishing between a male and female camel. Is
this not an example of mind control? A huge retinue of Muslims was prepared who
were ready to get themselves killed but whose reverence for a camel was such
that they were ready to eat its dung. Trauma-based mind control was utilized to
such an extent that Muslims, who even today won’t accept if the Friday prayers
are held 15 minutes before stipulated time were witnessing that the Friday
prayer was led by the Caliph on Wednesday and weren’t complaining. Wine
drinking is still a taboo in Muslim societies but the Muslim society during the
rule of Muawiya was even witness to morning prayers being led by an Imam
totally inebriated due to intoxication. Highest punishment has been prescribed
under Islamic law for adultery but the people had been numbed to an extent that
they were mute witness to even sacred relations of mother and sister being
compromised at the hands of the rulers and their chieftains, something that no
civilized society would permit. The most revered and knowledgeable companions
of the Prophet were being insulted and even slaughtered at public places and
there was no word of dissent. Yet Karbala changed all that. The morbid society
was suddenly aroused. The sleeping minds were shaken. The mighty citadels of
power and might trembled. The greatest super power of the world crumbled, all
its time-tested political mantras failed. All the money, all the gold and other
world incentives couldn’t lure the newly awakened minds. All this because
Husain aroused the society deep in slumber through a sprinkle of his own blood
and that of his relative, friends and children.
MOHAMMAD, ALI AND HUSAIN
Husain’s grandfather, Prophet
Mohammad had arduously worked to reform a diseased social order where petty
fights resulted into bloody warfare lasting generations, people slaughtered
their daughters, considering it an act of maintaining their self-respect, rich
and high-born were considered superior to the rest of the people, so much so
that the murder of an important person was avenged by putting to death hundreds
of people belonging to the tribe of the murderer, whereas important people were
allowed to kill ‘insignificant’ or ‘unimportant’ men.
Prophet’s job was to cleanse
all those beliefs, superstitions and traditions that had become integral parts
of their lives. He had to teach tolerance, forbearance, humility and
forgiveness to those who deemed forgiveness as evidence of weakness and forbearance
to those who saw it as symbol of cowardice.
The Prophet had to give
lessons in equality and fraternity to those who divided themselves upon their
high births. The Arabs could not even dream that piety and righteousness were
the highest merits in the eyes of God, or that the lowest of men could claim
equality with any member of the noblest families in Arabia. The priestly order
was all-powerful which claimed to be an intermediary between the worshippers
and the worshipped. On the contrary, the Prophet brought a message of freedom
to world groaning under the power and authority of priests; he gave freedom
from the tyranny of the affluent, who unmindful of any divine law or human
regulation, brazenly enjoyed the fruits of the toil and labour of others, he gave
freedom to the slaves and the suppressed classes from the oppression of their
masters and social superiors, he gave freedom to women from what was, to all
intents and purposes, slavery which divested them of even their elementary
human rights, and he gave freedom to the ordinary man from the constraints
imposed upon him by narrow inhibitions of castes, colour and race.
Ali is known for giving the first charter of ruling a
nation, when he was made Caliph of the Muslim world for a brief period of four
years. He is famous for giving strict guidelines for his governors, about the
manner in which even the poorest of poor ought to be treated. Ali showed to the
world for the first time what a ruler’s role ought to be when he lived like a
poor man and took only that amount from the government treasury that went to
the poorest of the poor. Muawiya, on the other hand, was an epitome of
materialistic desires and practiced the type of capitalism where all wealth had
to be his, in whatever manner it was earned. Yazid – Muawiya’s son who acceded
to the throne upon his father’s demise - was no better.
From his childhood, Husain had
seen his grandfather toil hard to eradicate all kind of evils from the society.
Husain grew up to seeing a sincere attempt by his grandfather and later his
father to eradicate all kind of evils from the society. He grew up in an
environment where righteousness, piety, justice, generosity and uplifting of
all social virtues were the order of the day. After his grandfather’s death,
Husain saw how the entire direction that his grandfather had given to the
teachings was hijacked by the self-seekers and satanic forces, so much so that
lot many customs of the pre-Islamic period that were banned by Islam, were
reintroduced. It started with those who showed themselves to be the most pious,
but in their hearts valued their own interests more than Islamic injunctions.
And then, within 50 years, it came to a stage where vices were not only being
openly committed, but there were deliberate attempts to portray Islam as a
constituent of those vices. Degradation had reached a stage that Islam’s face
was distorted and people had begun to view the Islam of Muawiya as the real
Islam. Yazid even went further and distorted the teachings of Prophet Mohammad
to such a degree of ugliness that it became a mockery, not only of the
teachings, but also of the basic rational inclinations of the human mind.
Husain’s grandfather Prophet
Mohammad had taught the virtues of peace and piety, Yazid was preaching war and
hatred. Blood of innumerable innocent people was made to spill under his
orders. Mohammad had never allowed forceful subversion of other territories,
whereas Yazid and even his father Muawiya had sent Muslim armies as far as
Africa and India, so much so that even today, it is said that Islam spread
through sword.
Muhammad had preached simple
living and Ali, even when he had become the Caliph of the Islamic world, lived
in a small cottage, while Yazid’s palace vied with the palaces of Byzantine and
Persian kings, in grandeur.
The conscience of the rightful
was either purchased or their souls tormented into obedience and to such humble
submission that their sensibilities were deadened to dumbness. Yazid was
committing every crime and evil under the sun, that too under the banner of
Islam – the very religion that had taught the Arabs the essence of being
humans. He considered himself as an almighty dictator who paid no heed to the
laws of civilized society.
Husain,
when a child, was the most beloved of Prophet Mohammad. Historians have
narrated incidents when people saw Mohammad carrying the young Husain on his
shoulders or prolonging the prayers when the child came to sit on Mohammad’s
back as he prostrated before God. Not merely this, Mohammad also confirmed the
spiritual or rather the Divine role of Husain. He declared Hasan and Husain as
the leaders of the youth of heaven. When Husain was a child, Rizwan – a
guardian angel of heaven – brought heavenly clothes for Hasan and Husain. There
are traditions where even angels were relieved of the punishment given to them
by God, courtesy Husain. If Husain as child bestowed 7 sons to someone, he
actually went on to father 7 sons eventually. Husain was one of the five
(Panjetan or five bodies) who were seen by all at Mubahila, on whom God
showered his praises to the extent that He took guarantee of their purity.
Husain was also one of the Panjetan when the famous tradition ‘Hadees-e-Kisa’
quoted God as saying that the sun, the moon, the earth, the sky, etc. were
created by God in love of the Ahlulbayt. Prophet Mohammad, about whom God in
Quran says that he speaks nothing from his side but that is ordained by God,
even confirmed Husain’s role in salvation when he said Ahlulbayt are akin to
the ark of Noah, one who come overboard gets salvation and one who doesn’t is
drowned. Another universally acknowledged exhortation of Prophet Mohammad says:
“I leave behind amidst you the two great things, the Book of God (Quran)
and my Itrat, my Ahlebayt (progeny).” This
apostolic instruction enjoins on every true Muslim to abide by the holy book
Quran and Ahlulbayt and to no one else.
It is
a great irony that despite all this, Imam Ali bin Husain Zainul Abidin – the
fourth Imam – had to say:
In view of the clear
instructions of the Holy Prophet and the decisive injunctions of the Quran it
is obligatory to love, revere and follow the Ahlulbayt, but, even if the
prophet had commanded the ummah to hate and abuse his children, they could not
have been able to do worse than what they did to us.
They persecuted the Ahlulbayt
in whichever town they took shelter, forced them to drift from place to place,
and at last surrounded them from all sides in the desert of Karbala, and then
murdered in cold blood, all the male friends, relatives and companions of the
grandson of Prophet Mohammad – Imam Husain. They spared no one, not even the
six month infant son of the Holy Imam. The persecutors, in devilish frenzy,
trampled the bodies of the devoted martyrs under the hooves of their horses,
plundered, looted and set the tents of the Ahlulbayt on fire. It was a
premeditated, ruthless and satanic dance of death. The ladies and children of
the holy house in chains, along with the severed heads of the martyrs, walked
through the streets of Kufa and Damascus (to the court of Yazid).
This tragedy of Karbala casted such a gloom upon every
refined, compassionate and God-fearing soul that to this day it makes hearts
bleed and tears flow. When Husain’s suffering is described by narrators, cries
of lamentation reach the heavens.
THE SITUATION AFTER MOHAMMAD?
The Muslims continued to drift from the
teachings of their Prophet, so much so that by the time of Muawiya, the true
teachings of Prophet Mohammad had got corrupted to such an extent that the
Muslims were confused. Most of the mullahs in the then Muslim world had
become subservient to the monarchs of the period. This can be seen from the
cursing on Ali that was done from 70000 pulpits every Friday, under the
sanction of Umayyad rulers. Evidently, 70000 imams of mosques all across the Muslim
world were being paid from state exchequer to curse Ali and his family. Considering
the fact that merely about 30 years had elapsed since Prophet’s departure, it
can be taken as certainty that a good number of these mullahs were Prophet’s
companions. As per Islamic rule, particularly in the light of importance that
the Prophet bestowed on Ali, the Quranic injunctions regarding his truthfulness
and purity and his contribution to Islam during the initial years, such cursing
actually made all these mullahs Kafirs. But they continued to curse Ali,
even if they knew it was unIslamic, for petty gains.
Power
and wealth were the primary motives behind Muawiya attacking Ali while he was
the 4th Caliph. Ali engaged in the war because he could not shirk
his responsibility to preserve the Islamic ideal of justice, as well as Islam’s
polity intact, while for Muawiya and Amr b. As, it was a way to gain power and
wealth. This contrast in the motives of the Imam and his opponents may be
clearly discerned in the conduct of the two parties.
Ali’s stand for truth and
justice was faced with someone who had least regard for these values. Like
every worldly ruler, Muawiya knew that victory is foremost, even if it comes
after trampling of innocent lives, loot and plunder. For Ali, adherence to
truth and justice was paramount. Islam wanted its followers to stand for truth
and justice in all situations even at the cost of their lives but Muslims had
forsaken these teachings.
Imam Ali is reported to
have written to the leaders of the army which he dispatched ahead of him to
Siffin, enjoining them not to transgress against people in their towns and
villages. They should not disturb them except when in dire need of food, or to
ask for a guide in case they lose their way. He said:
“God has made you all equal
before the truth, the black and the red of you (that is everyone regardless of
ethnicity and lineage). He likewise made your relationship to the ruler (wali)
like that of a father to a child, or a child to the father. Your right over him
is that he should act justly among you and refrain from usurping your lawfully
gained booty (fay). If he does that, then it is incumbent upon you to obey and
support him in whatever is consonant with the truth, and that you defend God’s
authority. For, you are God’s defenders in the land. Be, therefore, God’s
helpers and supporters of His religion.”
The Imam concluded with the
Quranic injunction, “Do not spread corruption in the earth after it has been
set right, for God loves not those who spread corruption.”
The Imam’s problems at
Siffin did not arise only from Muawiya’s lavish bribes with which he bought the
hearts and consciences of men, but also from the radical and often aggressive
individualism of the tribesmen in his camp and the obedience of the more
urbanized Syrian army to Muawiya’s every command. This radical individualism,
which often expressed itself in spontaneous and hasty emotional actions, was an
important component of the clash of narrow tribal politics with religious
morality in early Islam.
This clash was clearly
illustrated by an event which occurred at the banks of the Euphrates prior to
the encounter of the two armies at Siffin. Muawiya’s soldiers preceded Ali and
his fighters to the water and vowed to block their way to it at all cost. Their
determination was expressed by al-Walid b. Uqbah who vowed:
“I shall deny them water as
they did deny it Usman b. Affan. They besieged him for forty days and denied
him the taste of cool water and good food. I shall kill them with thirst, may
God kill them.” [Note that the weapon being used by the proponents of evil was
still people’s emotional attachment to religion and Islam. They used it to
their advantage so much so that even in Karbala, there were some who wanted to
kill Husain in the name of Islam. This was the result of the continued
propaganda drive against Ali and his family and vigorous attack on their
personality, even if it meant falsely implicating Ali of the murder of Usman,
by those who themselves were suspicious of being involved in the crime.]
When Ali and his forces
reached the site, water was denied to them. His forces started dying due to
dearth of water. It was matter of life and death for them. Ali and his forces
attacked Muawiya’s army and a little later the tide of the battle got reversed.
Ali’s forces gained control of water and it was the turn of Muawiya’s army to
feel the scarcity of water. But Ali asked his forces to leave control of water
as water was God’s grace for all humanity. This incident too shows the
difference between Ali and Muawiya’s stance.
Imam Ali spent the last
months of his life frustrated and virtually deserted. Day after day, he would
call upon the men of Kufa to rise up against Muawiya, whose soldiers continued
to intimidate the people and coerce them into pledging allegiance to him, but
Muslims had forgotten all the teachings of Islam which wanted them to value the
next life over this. The Imam’s appeals and exhortations have been preserved in
moving orations, which remain among the great gems of Arabic literature.
Finally, he convinced his long-time devotee Jariyah b. Qudama to restrain
Busr’s incursions against the peoples of the Yemen and the Hijaz with a force
of over two thousand horsemen. Imam Ali was martyred as this final effort to
oppose wrongdoing and establish justice in Mohammad’s community was going on.
After Ali’s death, people recognized Hasan as caliph. But
they were the same people who had disenchanted Ali and Hasan was no different
than Ali in character. He too had to face the ingratitude of them, as they
wanted to be part of worldly gains, and not indulge in sacrifices. Therefore,
it is evident that Ali lived and died for God while in the midst of those who
only had this world to seek. Consequently, as a result of a treaty between
Hasan and Muawiya, the latter became the Caliph of the entire Muslim world. The
traitor of Islam and the one who had rebelled against the Caliph became the
Caliph of Islam. Muawiya showered wealth and consequently several historians
wrote narrations praising Muawiya’s conduct and extolling his virtues. So much
so that the greater percentage of Muslims accept Muawiya as caliph right till
this day.
It was left to Husain to show the extent to which an
ideal Muslim should take a stand when faced with evil, untruth and injustice.
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