The Immediate or the Nearest Ancestry of Muhammad the Promised Prophet, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Ghost
THE QOREISHITES WERE the direct descendants of Abraham through Ishmael, and Abde Manaf had four sons, Hashim, Muttalib, Naufal and Abdush Shams. Hashim died, away from home in one of his trade expeditions and a young son of his was left in the Caravan. Muttalib the brother of Hashim went and fetched the son of his late brother and brought him up along with his own children, and thus the son of Hashim was known as Abdul Muttalib. The children of Hashim through his son Abdul Muttalib were called the 'Hashimites.' Abdul Muttalib had three sons, Abdullah, Abu Taleb and Jafar.
Abdush Shams, the son of Abde Manaf, had a clever, crafty and active Roman slave boy Omayya whom Abde Manaf had purchased and presented to his son Abdush Shams. Omayya, a heathen by birth, had spent his childhood among the Roman Christians. He was not only of questionable birth but was also evil hearted, mean by nature and vicious in temperament. His master Abdush Shams owing to his close attachment, held him as an adopted son. Omayya in his pride, bore an inherent envy and enmity against Hashim and the Hashimites. Abde Manaf, before his death, had handed over the charge of his privileged hereditary duties of service to the Holy Ka'ba to Hashim his eldest son who was very noble by nature and godly in temperament. This aggravated the hatred, jealousy and animosity of Omayya which tendency continued as a personality trait from generation to generation in his seed.
The recent inquiries by the famous scholar Al-Ameeni of Iraq, the author of the celebrated work 'Al-Ghadeer,' and the other
great research scholar Imad Zadeh of Iran, in their great works, discount the story by Ibne Athir and others, of Abdush Shams and Hashim being the twin issues of Abde Manaf, born with their backs joined, which were separated by a lancet, and some fortune teller predicting everlasting enmity between the descendants of the twins; and Omayya being the son of Abdush Shams. However, the issues of Omayya, the slave boy adopted by Abdush Shams, became known as the Omayyads and their inherent env1, and enmity against the Hashimites came to stay as their hereditary trait as the native endowment which further developed in the Omayyad blood. The enmity between the two groups went on increasing. The Hashimites were known for all kinds of virtues and goodness while the Omayyads became notorious for the opposite qualities. As day-by-day the honour, reverence, regard and respect for the goodness of the Hashimites went on increasing more and more, the jealousy and enmity of the Omayyads was got further more aggravated against the Hashimites. In short, the Hashimites were good, noble and gentle, while the Omayyads were wicked, mean and aggressive. The Hashimites held the Trusteeship and the Custody of the Holy House of God, the Ka'ba, which was the most coveted and unique honour enjoyed exclusively by the Hashimites. The Omayyads envied this the most, and could not bear it. While the charitable disposition of the Hashimites could not allow the hoarding of any personal wealth, the selfishness and niggardliness of the Omayyads had enabled them to store abundant wealth which had made the Omayyads ever more haughty and proud against the noble, the gentle and the meek ones of the Hashimites. Much fuel was added to the already burning fire of envy and enmity of the Omayyads when Abdul Muttalib, son of Hashim, miraculously discovered the natural spring-well of 'Lam Zam' which lay hidden and unknown to any one, for ages together. This mysterious uncovering of the well by Abdul Muttalib which was nothing short of a miracle, enhanced the regard and the reverence of the people for him in the Arabian Peninsula as a whole. This godly veteran in the seed of Abraham, through Ishmael, was the grandfather of the 'Spirit of Truth', The Holy Prophet Muhammad and Ali.
Abdul Muttalib worshipped none but the One True Gud and was always resigned to the Divine Will. His faith in God was proved in the ready response he had to his prayers to Him, when the Abyssinian Christian Prince reached the outskirts of the
town of Mecca with a huge army on elephants, with the determination to destroy the Holy House of God, the Ka'ba. History records the wonderful event that an aerial force of innumerable tiny birds, the 'Ababeer, appeared with small stones in their tiny beaks and dropped the stones on the soldiers mounted on the elephants, killing the soldiers and the huge animals on the spot. This routed the enemy totally and the Abyssinian Prince who had come to destroy the Holy House, had to experience the total destruction of his huge army, and was himself killed by a small stone dropped on him by a tiny bird. The year of this attack on Mecca by the Christian army on elephants, was such a historic and memorable event of importance that it gave birth to an Era of its own, called the 'Amu! Feel', i.e., the Year of the Elephant, for the people began to count the passage of time from that date. And this historic year of the miraculous defeat and destruction of the enemy of God, and the mysterious heavenly rescue of the Holy House, the Ka'ba, was to mark the birth of the Last Apostle of God, the Holy Prophet promised to Mankind through Jesus in the Middle East and by the great sages like Buddha in India who had foretold his people about the advent of the Last Buddha calling him in the Pali language as "Maetrea," and as regards the predictions in the Christian scriptures (see Deut 18:18, John 1:21, John 16:17) already given in the earlier pages.
To Abdul Muttalib, the great godly chief of the noble Hashimites, were born Hazrat Abdullah and Hazrat Abu Taleb and Jafar. Hazrat Abdullah was destined to be the father of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and Hazrat Abu-Taleb to be the father of Ali who was to be the Divinely Commissioned Guide, immediately succeeding the Holy Prophet, as the First of the Twelve Holy Imams (i.e., the Twelve Princes promised in the seed of Ishmael vide Gen. 18:2o). Who was to be to the Holy Prophet Muhammad as was Aaron to Moses. Thus the Divine Light of Guidance to Humanity, which emanated from Abraham and Ishmael passed on to Abdul Muttalib, and got bifurcated to flow into the two channels of the seeds of Hazrat Abdullah and Hazrat Abu-Taleb, in the seed of the former, to manifest in the apostleship and in the latter in the Imamat or the Divine guidance. To Hazrat Abdullah was born Muhammad, the Holy Prophet, and through Hazrat Abu-Taleb came Ali, the Vicegerent of the Holy Prophet and the First Holy Imam (the divinely chosen Guide to Mankind). In the fulfilment
of the divine plan, the Holy Prophet Muhammad was gifted by God with a daughter Fatema Zahra, the Lady of Light, endowed with the maximum degree of purity and holiness ever had by any lady in the human race as a whole, destined to be the wife of Ali and the mother of the Eleven of the Twelve Imams, the Princes promised in the lineage of Ishmael (Gen. 18:20) God had chosen Abraham and his descendants:
The Divine Light endowed in Abraham was bifurcated and passed into the two channels of the seed of Abraham viz., Ishmael and Isaac. Through Isaac, it passed on till Jesus, and through Ishmael it descended down to Abdul Muttalib, and from Abdul Muttalib it was again bifurcated into the two channels, Abdullah and Abu-Taleb, and again it was bifurcated into the two channels of the seed of Ali and Fatema into Hasan and Husain, Hasan destined to be the Second Holy Imam and Husain to be the Third one and also the King of Martyrs. From Husain, it passed on to the
Nine Holy Imams in his seed until the Twelfth or the Last one in the line of the Imamat, i.e., Muhammad-al-Mahdi, who is kept alive to re-appear before the end of the world. As Jesus the last one in the seed of Abraham through Isaac is kept alive, this Holy Imam, the last one in the seed of Abraham through Ishmael, is also kept alive, and both these two manifestations of the Divine Light endowed in the seed of Abraham will meet before the end of the world, to fulfil the divine plan of cleaning the earth of falsehood once for all, and establishing peace and harmony on it, in the place of aggression, iniquity, enmity and hatred which will he ruling the earth prior to their Final advent, and this will be the conclusion of the world.
The object of this work is only to present with extreme brevity the great historic event of the matchless sacrifice of the King of Martyrs the Holy Imam Husain, in the seed of Abraham through the Holy Prophet Muhammad, offered to save the Truth and humanity from getting lost to falsehood for ever, for the apostleship had been concluded with the revelation of the Holy Qur'an, the Final Word of God. If anything had to be done or could be done, to save the Truth, it was only through the Imamat which was destined to do it, and Husain was the divinely chosen one for it. Both Ali and Fatema were martyred. Ali was assassinated while in prayer in the Mosque at Kufa and Fatema was killed by the fall of the door of her own house, caused by a tyrant.
From Ali and Fatema, were born Hasan and Husain, the second and the third Imams. Hasan was martyred by being secretly poisoned at the instance of Ma'awiah, and Husain was the victim of the brutal massacre, enacted by Yazeed the son of Ma'awiah. Thus the Hashimites were the family of nobles and martyrs in the way of the Lord, while the Omayyads were the clan of tyrants and assassins.
2. Ali.....................................................................The first holy Imam
3. Fatima...The lady of light, the Holy Mother of the Eleven Imams
4. Hasan........................................................The Second Holy Imam
5. Husain............................................................The third Holy Imam
were the embodiment of the Divine Light or the models of the ideal godly life on Earth, the presentations of the models of whose divine purity and Holiness in the practical life was the fulfilment of the Divine Plan and the realisation of the object of the ceation of the Universe.
The Last Apostle of God
IF ANYONE GOES through the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, he will nor be able to resist shedding tears for the tortures, the miseries and calamities which the great godly soul suffered at the hands of the people. Any intelligent reader would find that all the sufferings which every one of the preceding apostles of God had suffered, had been inflicted on the Last Apostle of the Lord, along with other additional tortures and miseries which none else had ever experienced and he suffered all the calamities with ideal patience, matchless fortitude, unparalleled steadfastness and unshakable determination to fulfil the covenant established with the Lord.
23. Nude dances were stopped, graceful dressing was prescribed.
24. Seeking of knowledge was made compulsory, both for man and woman, scholarship was encouraged and scholars honoured.
25. Gambling and all games of chance were declared as crimes.
26. Adultery was declared as the most abhorred and the most severely punishable crime.
27. Slavery was abolished in the most practical and a peaceful way, enjoining equal treatment to the slaves as compulsory, if slaves had to be maintained.
28. The law of 'Maktabah' to facilitate slaves get liberated was enforced.
29. Usury was strictly prohibited, loan without interest highly commended.
30. Socialistic pattern of society was established through a commonwealth called 'Bait-id-ma!:
31. Accumulation of wealth was controlled through the Laws of inheritance, and the annual taxations, with the prescribed rates.
32. Hoarding of foodgrains and other foodstuffs were declared as punishable crimes.
33. Just and the correct use of Weights and Measures, was ordered.
34. Cleanliness of body, thou ght, conduct and character was made compulsory.
35. Varieties of food and drinks and the limits of eating and drinking fixed.
36. Strictly regulated fasting was prescribed and declared compulsory.
37. Protection of travellers and helping them as much as possible, made ob ligatory and highly commendable.
38. Patronage of orphans and the destitutes declared as one of the great virtues and a strongly commended quality.
39. Compulsion in faith strongly deprecated and strictly prohibited.
40. Man was given the liberty in the choice of his faith, with personal responsibility for a correct decision.
41. Reformation through many other characteristics and exclusively distinctive commandments was enforced through which human society was revolutionised and greatly profited.
The above facts justly warran t every intelligent and impartial reader with his scholarship, logical reasoning and the sense of justice, to fearlessly declare that t he Man who could bring about such a wonderful revolution in the ideology of the people totally lost in the barbaric paganism, and effected such a miraculous transformation in every sphere of the practical life of mankind, which for the greatest statesmen, or even for the strongest of the dictatorial monarchs, could have been nothing short of an impossibility, within the short span of only 23 years, must be the Wonderman, the Greatest Benefactor of Humanity; and he could be none else other than the Greatest of the Apostles of the Almighty Lord. In fact, it was God's will, which none could ever resist that was done on the earth, to finally guide mankind for all times, which He had mercifully promised to do. This is what the Last Prophet of God, gave effect to, and if this godly service is undone, he who
does it, will be none but Satan, even, if the individual appears in human frame. And one who fights such a devil will naturally and necessarily be the greatest hero of humanity with the maximum divinity end ;wed in him, though he may not be a prophet, he must necessarily be a Deputy of an apostle of God. This is the point to be remembered in judging the personality of Husain, the King of Martyrs.
Islam the Universal Religion for Mankind
THE CONCEPTION OF God in Islam is unique in its strict unitarian aspect. The jurisdiction of God, is not restricted or limited to any section of humanity or to any part of the world. God according to Islam is the Rabbul-Aalameen' (i.e., The Lord of the Worlds i.e., the Absolute Monarch of the whole Universe).
Prophets sent before the Holy Prophet Muhammad, were not for the human race as a whole, they were for particular peoples in various parts of the earth.
Even Jesus, the immediate predecessor of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, about his own self, had said:-
The Holy Prophet Muhammad had been sent as the Rahmatunlil (i.e., the Mercy unto the Worlds or the Universe).
No creed preached by any religious leader or apostle prior to the Holy Prophet, was ever given any name, for it was incomplete and no imperfect thing, is ever given any name. Since the religion preached by the Holy Prophet, was the divinely perfected code of discipline for human life on earth, it was named Islam and was
prescribed for the human race for all times till the end of the world.
The Holy Qur'an-the Word of God
THE CODE OF control, regulation and the discipline of the human life on the earth, called the Holy Qur'an, is not a Book edited by any mortal. It does not contain legends and stories or any collection of folklore on the life of the Holy Prophet or about the faith Islam. It is the very Word of God which was recorded then and there as it was revealed to the Holy Prophet through the Messenger Angel Gabriel, which is a complete Book, sent down for the use of the pious ones in the human race as a whole, for all times, in all parts of the world.
To Destroy Islam is to Destroy Humanity
WHEN ISLAM IS the divinely revealed religion for the human race as a whole, as the only religion acceptable to God (3:84), none but the Devil alone would aim to destroy or corrupt it, and the one who aims to do it, would be the worst enemy of mankind. He would naturally be the devil in human form. And the one who saves the religion from being destroyed or getting corrupted, would undoubtedly be the Greatest Benefactor and the Saviour of Truth and humanity as a whole. It has been clearly announced by the Lord in the Holy Qur'an that the one who saves a single human life, has saved humanity as a whole.
The Fate of the Apostolic Missions, Previous to the Holy Prophet Muhammad
ALTHOUGH THE ALL-MERCIFUL Lord sent His apostles to guide humanity in the various parts of the earth, but the satanic resistance
against every such godly mission was also counteracting against any lasting effect. Most of the apostles were killed. The sacred heavenly scriptures which were given to those apostles were either corrupted or made totally extinct. Fabricated stories from the folklore of the various people, were used as sacred scriptures and mankind was misled by imposters.
Divine Measures to Secure the Final Word of God for Ever
THE ALL-KNOWING CREATOR Lord of the Universe, with His infinite knowledge, knew about the utter darkness which would shroud the human world, and had also determined the panacea for it, in the mission of the Last of His apostles about whom Jesus had declared that the Comforter who would come after hint will abide for ever. John 14:16.
As all the previously revealed scriptures had been either corrupted or were made extinct, the Almighty Lord willed that the Holy Qur'an, His Final Word, shall be preserved for ever, beyond the reach of any satanic hands with any questionable intention to meddle with it. The Lord has declared:
To preserve the Holy Wan in its original purity both in its verbal form as well as its meaning, and to keep the divine guidance always current and ever available to every seeker after truth, the Holy Prophet Muhammad was not sent alone into the world. As Aaron was given to Moses to assist him and to succeed him, along with the Holy Prophet, his cousin Ali, son of Abu-Taleb, from the same holy family of Abraham, was given his advent, to be his Vicegerent and his Successor. Thus was started the line of the Holy Imams (i.e., the Divinely Commissioned Guides) who were destined to be the authentic custodians of the Holy Qur'an, and as the fountainheads of the correct knowledge of the Word of God, to guide mankind towards the correct belief and the proper practice of the Faith.
If these guides, the Holy Imams, had been from any family, other than the family of Muhammad, it would have been misconstrued as another authority parallel to that of the Holy Prophet. The grace of the Lord, avoided this confusion and established one
single authority of the Last of His apostles, as the unique one, with the unity of purpose. Hence it was divinely destined that the line of the Divine Guides called the Imams, to succeed the Last Apostle, also, to be from the same stock of the Holy Family of Abraham, and this was also the covenant with Abraham.
Both the Holy Prophet Muhammad and his Vicegerent Ali were brought into the world from one and the same family, with whom the Lord had established an Everlasting Covenant (Gen. 17:7, 8). Muhammad to be the Promised Last Apostle, the 'Con forter' the 'Spirit of Truth', the 'Holy Ghost', and the 'Maetrea' prophesied by Buddha, and Ali, his cousin, his adopted son, his son-in-law and his Vicegerent, to be the starter of the line of the Promised Twelve Princes or the Twelve Holy Imams in the seed of Abraham, through Ishmael.
