Azadari

In The Name Of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

All Praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the 

worlds and the Maker of all creation, and may Peace and benedictions be upon His servant and messenger, His beloved and elect, our master, our

prophet, and sire, Abu al-Qasim Muhammad, may Allah bless him and his pure, immaculate, and infallible Progeny. I Seek the refuge of Allah from the accursed Satan:So for their breaking their compact  cursed them and made their hearts hard; they would prevent the words from their meanings, and they forgot a portion of what they were reminded of.(5:13).

 

WE said that the event of Ashura has been subject to tahrif and it has occurred both in its outward form as well as its inner content. A consequence of these distortions has been that this great historic document and this great educative source has become ineffectual or less

Potent, in our lives, leaving, at times, even an opposite effect. All of us have the duty to purge general factors responsible for tahrif.Thereafter our discussion will focus on tahrif in the content and significance of this event.

These factors are of two kinds, one of which are of a general nature. That is there are in general certain factors that lead to the corruption of historic and these are not limited to the event of Ashura alone. For instance the enemy's movies themselves a factor that distort and event. In order to achieve their purpose, the enemies bring about alterations in historical texts or misinterpret them. There are many examples of it which i do not wish to mention here. All that i would say is that this kind of tahrif did play a role in distorting the facts of Karbala’, and the enemies did take resort in misrepresenting the uprising of Imam Husayn.As usually happens, the enemies accuse sacred movements of causing conflict and division and of disrupting social harmony and peace.

The Umayyad regime also made much effort to give such a hue to the Husayni uprising. Such propaganda began from the very first day. When

Muslim arrived in Kufah,Yazid,While sending an order appointing Ibn Ziyad to the governorship of Kufah, wrote:"Muslim, son of 'Aqil, has gone to Kufah and his aim is to disrupt peace and to create soacial discord and disunity in the Muslims community .Go and suppress him." When Muslim was captured and brought to the dar al-imarah , the governor residency , Ibn Ziyad said to Muslim:"Son of 'Aqil!What was it that brought you this city? The people here lived in satisfaction and peace. You came and disrupted their peace, causing disunity and conflict amongst Muslims."

Muslims answered in a manly manner  and said:"Firstly , I did not come to this city on my own account. It was the people of this city who invited us. They wrote a great number of letters, which are in our possession .In those letters they wrote that your father, Ziyad , who ruled this city for years, has killer its virtuous men and imposed its scoundrels over the virtuous,

subjecting them to various forms of tyranny and injustice. They appealed to us to help them establish justice. We have come to establish justice!"

The Umayyad regime did wage much propaganda of this kind, but their misrepresentations did not affect the history of Islam. You will not find a single competent historian in the world who might have said that Hussain Ibn Ali(AS)made an unlawful uprising, that he rose to cause conflict and disunity among the people. NO. The enemy could not bring about any misrepresentation in [the history of ]the event of Karbala’. Most regrettably,

whatever tahrif has occurred in the Karbala' has been at the hands of the friends.