Takfiri Terrorism Fails to Extinguish Allah’s Light

By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz “They desire to put out the Light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah shall perfect His Light though the faithless should be averse.” (Holy Qur’an 61:8)

Date: 21 February 2015 - 21:46

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The ayah refers to the plots of the faithless, not just against the faithful but against the fundamentals of faith.
As God Almighty says, His Light, or more properly those Immaculate Personages who embodied Divine Light and whose hallowed tombs continue to emanate resplendent rays of Celestial Light, will shine more brilliantly to the chagrin of the Godless.
Today is the 9th anniversary of one such attempt by ungodly terrorists to extinguish the dazzle of Godly Light that has made the Iraqi city of Samarra to shine as a beam of guidance for the seekers of truth all over the world.
It was on this day that a group of dastardly terrorists triggered the blasphemous bomb blasts at the holy shrine that resulted in the destruction of the magnificent gold-plated dome and desecration of the tombs below of Imam Ali an-Naqi al-Hadi (AS) and Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) – the 10th and 11th Infallible Heirs of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA).
The devilish elements thought of igniting a communal conflict in Iraq through such acts and similar acts of terrorism on Sunni mosques and Sunni Muslims, but no such thing happened – although the American occupation troops did abet the seditionists to kill people randomly while the Zionist-controlled western media tried to give the impression of a sectarian strife.
Over a year later in June 2007, these cowardly terrorists again desecrated the holy shrine of Samarra by blowing up the two exquisite minarets flanking the destroyed dome.
They again failed to extinguish Divine Light, as the faithful rallied to take charge of the city, cleanse it of the cowardly seditionists, and start rebuilding the holy shrine of Samarra.
The rebuilding of the sacred shrine of the 10th and 11th Infallible Imams is almost complete today. The tireless efforts of Iraqi Muslims devoted to the Prophet’s Blessed Household, along with a steady flow of craftsmen from Iran, are embellishing the dome, the minarets, walls, pillars, and ceilings, with the finest specimens of Islamic arts.
So luminous are the beams of Celestial Light from Samarra that recently over 3 million pilgrims had assembled at the shrine of Imam Hadi (AS) and Imam Askari (AS). This gathering, just after the record 20 million pilgrims that had converged on holy Karbala on the day of Arba’een to mark the traditional 40th day anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Husain (AS), is proof of the failure of the plots of the Takfiri terrorists, whose feverish attempts since last year to descend upon Samarra have been soundly defeated by the faithful.
This warrants us to cast a glance at the crimes against humanity of the cowardly enemies of the blessed Ahl al-Bayt. Without the least doubt the Takfiris are following the footsteps of the pagan Arabs of the Jahiliyya, who had pledged to the devil to never cease troubling and tormenting the "Mercy unto the Creation” and his Immaculate Progeny – even though in course of time most of these infidels became Muslims in name and are considered today as "Salaf” (progenitors) by the seditious Salafis for whom cannibalism is part of life.
As a matter of fact, the very first act of blasphemous terrorism in the history of Islam had occurred 1425 lunar years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the passing away of the Prophet when a group of rowdies stormed the house of his noble daughter, Hazrat Fatema Zahra (SA), flinging the burning door upon her and martyring the baby in her womb – the stillborn Mohsin.
Time and space do not allow me to dwell on either the sacrilege in the blessed fasting month of Ramadhan that saw a renegade smite with a poisoned sword the head of the Prophet’s cousin, son-in-law and divinely-decreed vicegerent, Imam Ali (AS) in the state of prayer in the grand mosque of Kufa in 40 AH; or history’s most heartrending tragedy that occurred in Karbala 61 AH, in the sacred month of Moharram when the Prophet’s grandson Imam Husain (AS), was savagely martyred along with 18 other members of the Prophet’s family.
It was around 240 AH that the first act of blasphemous terrorism occurred in Karbala when the tyrant Mutawakkil, the self-styled caliph of the usurper Abbasid regime, destroyed the holy shrine of the Chief of Martyrs and ploughed the area in a vain bid to erase any sign of veneration for pilgrims coming in from all over the then Muslim world. He failed to extinguish Divine Light.
Holy Karbala, whose sanctity even the bloodthirsty Buddhist Mongols did not dare to violate during their sack of Baghdad in 1258 AD, became the target of blasphemous terrorism again in 1806 when ungodly Wahhabi hordes from Najd in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula raided it, martyred at least 5,000 men, women and children, and stripped the dome and the minarets of their gold.
Muslim conscience was not so frozen in those days. Soon Mohammad Ali Pasha of Egypt on the orders of the Ottoman Sultan sent his son Ibrahim Pasha to capture the Wahhabi chieftain of the Aal-e Saud clan who had led the sacrilegious attack on Karbala and sent him to Istanbul for public execution.
Over a century later in 1925, the Wahhabis again repeated their act of blasphemous terrorism and this time in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, where the sacred cemeteries of Jannat al-Mu’alla and Jannat al-Baqie were destroyed, along with the tombs of the Prophet’s aunts, wives, companions, and especially four of his Infallible Heirs – Imam Hasan Mujtaba (AS), Imam Zain al-Abedin (AS), Imam Muhammad al-Baqer (AS), and Imam Ja’far as-Sadeq (AS).
Baqie is lying desolate and is a permanent blot on Islamic conscience as the Salafis have expanded their sphere of blasphemous terrorism to commit crimes against humanity in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, African states, and other places.
Over the past year we have seen the sporadic showering of missiles by the cannibalistic terrorists at the shrine of the Prophet’s granddaughter in Damascus – the Heroine of Karbala, Hazrat Zainab (SA).
However, thanks to the spirit of Islamic resistance, both Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims in Syria have joined together to thwart the capture of this sacred place.
We pray to God to Perfect His Light and dispel forever the darkness of Takfirism by expediting the reappearance of the Prophet’s 12th and Last Infallible Heir, the Lord of the Age, Imam Mahdi (AS) to establish the global government of peace, prosperity, and justice, by ridding Planet Earth of all vestiges of corruption, oppression, terrorism, and Salafi sedition. Amen