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Friday Messages: From Hajj to Ghadir

Contributed by bineshan on 04 Dec 2010 - 08:48 PM

From Hajj to Ghadir

Shaikh Tabresi in the most respected book AlEhtejaaj, vol. 1, p. 55, through a chain of noble narrators through Shaikh Toosi through other trusted narrators has narrated from Imam Mohammad Baaqer (PBUH) who has said:

The Rasool [Messenger/Apostle] of Allah intended Hajj from Medina while he had surely conveyed all the Sharaaye’ [precepts] of his people except Hajj and Welaayat [Wilayat, Allah Ordained lordship]; and Jebra’el [Gabriel] (PBUH) descended to him and told him:

O Mohammad! Surely Allah -Grand is His name- says salaam to you and tells you:

Indeed I did not take [back toward Me] any Prophet of My Prophets and no Rasool of My Rasools except after the completion of My Religion and the emphasis of My Hojjat [Proof]; and of that certainly, two obligations from what you need to deliver to your people have remained upon you: the obligatory incumbency of Hajj and the obligatory incumbency of Wilayat and Caliphate [Successorship] after you. And surely I did not leave My earth without a Hojjat and I never ever will leave it without. Indeed Allah -Grand is His adoration- commands you to deliver to your people the Hajj and do Hajj, and everyone - from the people of the city and surroundings and the nomads- able to have a way toward it to perform Hajj with you, and teach them of Hajj just like you taught them of their Salaat [specified prayings] and their Zakaat [specified financial obligations]and their Siyaam [specified fastings], and make it known to them just like you made it known, all that which you delivered to them of the Sharaaye’.

So The Rasool of Allah (PBUH&HP)’s caller called out among people:

Behold! Surely the Rasool of Allah has wished to [leave for] Hajj and teach you from it just like he taught you the Sharaaye’ of your religion, and make it known to you like he made known to you other than it.

So the Rasool of Allah (PBUH&HP) left and people left with him, and they paid careful attention to see how he performed, and they performed like him. So he Hajjed with them. And [the number of] those of the people of Medina and surroundings and the nomads who intended Hajj with Rasool of Allah (PBUH&HP) reached seventy thousand people or more, the same as the number of the companion’s of Moosa (Salaam be upon our Prophet and his progeny and him), the seventy thousand from whom he took allegiance for Haaroon [Aaron] (PBUH); then they broke [their allegiance] and followed the calf and the Saameri [he who invited people to idolatry]; and like that the Rasool of Allah(PBUH&HP) took allegiance for Ali (PBUH) for Caliphate from the like of the number of the companions of Moosa, then they broke the allegiance and followed the calf and the Saameri, tradition by tradition, likeness by likeness.

Talbiyah [verbal declaration of obedience and submissiveness to Allah] was recited in the way between Mecca and Medina. Then when Rasool of Allah (PBUH&HP) stopped at the Mawqef [the special halting place], Jebra’el came to him from Allah -the Exalted- and said:

O’ Mohammad! Surely Allah -the Undefeated and Grand- sends you Salaam and says to you:

Indeed your specified time and period is drawing near, and I call you for that in which there is No choice and no escape from. So fulfill your Covenant and give your will; and that which is with you from Knowledge, and the heritage of the Knowledge of Prophets before you, and the weapon, and the Ark [of the Covenant], and all the Aayaat [Signs, Communications, …] of the Prophets, entrust and give them to your Wasi and your Caliph after you, My Baaleghah [completed, expressive, …] Hojjat upon My creations, Ali son of AbiTaaleb, then install him as a Sign and an Authority for humankind, and reestablish his pact and his Covenant and his allegiance, and remind them of that which you took of them for My allegiance and My Pact which you made firm with them, and My Covenant that you made with them regarding the Wilayat of My Wali and their Mawla [master and lord] and the Mawla of every believing man and woman, Ali son of AbiTaaleb. Indeed I never took any Prophet of the Prophets except after the perfection of My Religion and completion of my blessing through the Wilayat of My Awliya and Mo’aadaat [enmity] of My enemies, and that is the ultimate of My Tawhid and My Religion and completion of my blessing upon My creations through the following of My Wali and his obedience; and such is indeed I never leave My earth without a Qayyem [executor, guardian, …] so that he would be My Hojjat upon My creations. Thus on this day I have perfected you’re religion for you, and have completed My blessing and grace upon you, and I have chosen and become pleased of Islam as Religion for you through My Wali and the Mawla of all believing men and women, Ali My Abd [servant] and the Wasi of My Nabi [Prophet], and the Caliph after him, and My Baaleghah Hojjat upon My creations. His [Ali’s] obedience is Maqroon [next to and coupled] with the obedience of Mohammad, My Nabi, and his [Ali’s] obedience with the obedience of Mohammad is Maqroon with My obedience; Whoever obeys him has surely obeyed Me, and whoever disobeys him has surely disobeyed Me. I have installed him [Ali] as an ‘Alam [sign, emblem, …] between Me and My people. Any one knowing him has been a believer, and any one denying him has been an unbeliever, and any one taking a partner in his [Ali’s] allegiance has been a polytheist, and any one achieving My Presence [dying] with his Wilayat enters al-Jannat [Paradise], and any one dying with his enmity enters Fire. So O’ Mohammad! install Ali as an ‘Alam and take pledge of allegiance from them and reestablish with them My Covenant and My Pact which you had made firm with them in regard to him. Surely I take you toward Me and I call you back to Me.



In regard to his people and the adherents to hypocrisy and schism, The Rasool of Allah (PBUH&HP) was anxious that they would disunite and return to the era of Jaaheliyyat [disbelieving and polytheistic ignorance], for, he knew of their enmity and of that which was hidden in their soles, of animosity and hatred regarding Ali son of AbiTaaleb(PBUT). He [Mohammad (PBUH&HP)] asked Jebra’el to ask his Lord for protection from the people. Then he waited for Jebra’el to bring him from Allah -Grand is His Name- the protection from people. So he delayed that until he reached the Masjid alKhayf; then in Masjid alKhayf Jebra’el (PBUH) came to him and commanded him [from Allah] to fulfill his Covenant and install Ali as an ‘Alam for the people, but he did not bring him the protection that he wanted from Allah -the Undefeated and Grand-. Until when he reached Koraa’ alGhamim between Mecca and Medina, then Jebra’el came to him and commanded him from Allah, that which he had come for but he did not bring him the protection, and he said:

O’ Jebra’el! Surely I am anxious regarding my people that they will deny me and will not accept my word regarding Ali.

So the prophet departed, then when he reached Ghadir-Khom, 3 Mils before Johfah, Jebra’el came to him 5 hours passed the day with [a message from Allah] of admonishment and prevention, and with the [Prophet-requested] protection from people, and said:

O’ Mohammad! Surely Allah -the Undefeated and Grand- sends you salaam and tells you:

O’ Rasool! Deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord regarding Ali, and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His Resaalat [Messengership], and Allah will protect you from the people.

And the ones on the front were near Johfah, so when he [Jebra’el] informed him from Allah -the Undefeated and Grand- that He had indeed protected him from the people, then He commanded him to call back those of them who had gone ahead, and gather and keep those of them who were behind, in that place to install Ali as an ‘Alam for the people and to deliver to them what Allah had revealed regarding Ali (PBUH).

Upon receiving the protection, Rasool of Allah commanded a caller to call the people for Jamaa’at Salaat [congregational worship], and to return those of them on the front and gather those of whom behind, and in the right manner, to move toward the Masjid [worship and prostration place] of Ghadir: Jebra’el from Allah -Undefeated is His Name- had commanded him for that.

And in location of trees, the Rasool of Allah commanded that beneath them to be swept and stones to be placed for him in form of a pulpit to face the people; so continuously the people returned and those behind arrived in that place.

So the Rasool of Allah (PBUH&HP) stood on top of those stones, then he praised and paid Allah Divine Honor and said:

The Ghadir Sermon