Chapters
Spreading the Ideology of the Islamic Revolution
The Wilderness or the Path to Allah · Imam Ahmed al-Hasan
The Islamic Revolution is the revolution of Muhammad bin Abdullah pbuhap and the believers, and the believers and the oppressed ones against the tyrants of his age, the likes of Abu Sufyan, Khosrow and Ceasar and their supporters . And this revolution will not end until every one on earth says, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,” and the divine Justice is established and spread all over the land by the hand of the Mahdi of this nation pbuh . And no Muslim doubts that the revolution of al-Hussain pbuh is a continuation of the revolution of the Messenger pbuhap, as he pbuhap said in the famous narration, ﴾Hussain is from me .”﴿[1] Thus the revolution of al-Hussain pbuh is the revolution of the party of Allah and His soldiers against the tyrant and his party, and the emergence of al-Hussain pbuh is the emergence of the Messenger pbuhap through his son al-Hussain pbuh , master of the youth of Heaven . The emergence of al-Hussain pbuh would not have resulted in military victory in the battlefield; he knows that with him are seventy men or a few more . Rather al-Hussain pbuh emerged with a covenant from his grandfather, the Messenger of Allah pbuhap, knowing that he would be killed, and that his companions would be killed, and his children, even the infant, and that the women would be captured and among them is Zainab, the daughter of Fatimah pbuh , the daughter of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap . Verily the revolution of al-Hussain pbuh aimed to revive the Islamic revolution of Muhammad and its reformative nature, which the Ummayads wanted to turn into a mere military renaissance that establishes an Arabian empire in the name of Islam . Thus the renaissance of al-Hussain pbuh came to convey to all of the people in every place and in every age, that Islam is not aimed to establish an Arabian or Islamic
empire . The aim of Islam is for everyone on the earth to say, “There is no god except Allah .” The aim of Islam is to establish divine justice on earth . The revolution of al-Hussain pbuh came to declare the repudiation of Allah swt and His Messenger pbuhap from the rulers who dominated this nation and alienated the successors of Allah on His earth, the successors of Muhammad pbuhap, the twelve Imams pbut from rule . What happened in Karbala on the tenth of Muharram in the year of 61 a .h . confirms that the Islamic nation returned to the days of ignorance after the death of the Prophet pbuhap . And the greatest of the appearances of this apostasy was the killing of al-Hussain son of Ali pbut and mounting his head on a spear, and the capturing of the fourth successor from the successors of the family of Muhammad pbuhap, Ali bin al-Hussain pbuh and dragging him to al-Sham, [2] bound in chains of iron . Thus what this nation did with the successors of its Prophet pbuhap is a continuation of what the Children of Israel did with their prophets pbut , if not more bitter and great . And what happened in Karbala became a curse upon that generation of the Islamic nation, who condoned to kill al-Hussain pbuh . And at the same time, it is a mercy for the generations of this nation who came after the killing of al-Hussain pbuh , as the ideology of the Islamic revolution began to deepen in the hearts of many, and its plan was made by Allah swt and it was implemented by Muhammad and the family of Muhammad pbut after him . And today we are comprehending this truth because it is a practical reality, for the Day of Ashura does not come without you hearing the loud weeping on every spot on the earth wherein there are believers . Al-Hussain pbuh sacrificed everything to become the most obvious of signs of the path to Allah and of the exodus from the wilderness into which this nation fell; and to establish the strong and solid foundation to which every Muslim can refer, the Muslim who raises his sword in the face of the tyrants who dominated this nation in order to return it to the days of ignorance . Therefore the Muhammadi, Islamic, and original revolution of al-Hussain pbuh aimed to reform the souls of
the children of this nation, and to prepare a generation qualified to carry the divine message, a divine generation who worships Allah and accepts nothing but the Quran as a constitution, and the infallible appointed by Allah, or whoever represents him, as a ruler . So if the death of al-Hussain pbuh was a major matter, the aim behind it is just as major; it is the establishing of the great state of “There is no god except Allah” on earth, the State of Divine Justice under the leadership of the son of al-Hassan pbuh , the awaited Imam al-Mahdi, may Allah hasten his blessed appearance .