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HUSAIN'S MARTYRDOM PROPHESIED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

"For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the North country by the river Euphrates." Jer. 46:10. (The Old Testament)

SHIA'ISM or Islam-Original

People mostly ignorant of what actually Shia'ism is and what in fact the commitment of a Shia is to his faith what actually it is in practice, are Iabouring under a gross misunderstanding of faith and its adhcrents.
When askcd what actually means Shia'ism and the commit- ment ofa Shia to his faith, the Sixth Holy Imam Jafar ibne Muham- mad As-Sadiq gave the whole in a nutshell, after which there remains no room for any question about the faith or its adherents. "Man kaana Iillah mutee'an wahowa lana vail. 'He who is obedient to God is our friend (a Shia),'


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Man kaana lillah ahoo an wahown lana odoo." 'He who is hostile to God, i.e., disobedient to Him, he is our enemy (a nan-Shia).
"Wala yanals vilayatena illa bil wara'e wal amalis Saleh." 'And reacheth not our love save through piety and righteousness.

What is Shia'ism?

SHIA'ISM IS NO new religion, creed or faith. It is nothing but the Original Islam in its original purity. It is the, very same faith which was preached and practised by the Holy Prophet without anything added to or subtracted of it.

Why then Call it Shia'ism and not Islam ?

IT IS AN undeniably acknowledged and a universally acknowledged fact that the last exhortation of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to his faithful adherents the muslims was:-
"I leave behind me amidst you the Two great things, the BOOK OF GOD (the Holy Qur'an)and my 'ITRAT my'AHLUL-BAIT' (the members of the holy family, Fatema, her husband Ali and her issuer) Should ye be attached to these TWO neoea, never shall ye be misled, after me, for verily these Two will never be separated from one another until Hey meet me at He SPRING (the Spring ef Kauther)." (TK., DM., SM., and others)
Under the above apostolic instruction from the Holy Prophet every true muslim has to abide by the Word of God (the hloly Qur'an) guided only by the Ahlul-Bait and none else, and this is the one and only basis on which Shia'ism, i.e., the Islam Original is besed. With the departure of the Holy Prophet from the world, as the people of Moses and Jesus went astray so also the Muslim. The love of pleasures and the glory of this world maddened the masses and led them astray from the right path, under the evil in- fluence of those in power. To get the religious authority and the powers to rule over the destinies of the people, the self-assumed rulers of the states, the self- made religious heads and the fanciful spiritual leaders, misinterpreted the Holy Qur'an and abdeh much of falsehood to the Traditions or the Sayings of the Holy prophet, end many false traditions were fabricated to assume unwarranted powers end authority. At the same time, to see that the messes do


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not get rightly guided by the Holy Ahlul-Bait, the Ahlul-Bait were thrown into the background. They were not only totally naglected but also teasad end tortured and all acceass to them by the public was strictly banneb anb if any one was found to have any friendly contact with these holy ones, he was severely punished even to the extent of his propety being confiscated, his family being put to all sorts of torturous miseries end himself being mercilessly killed. But a very faw who feared but God and cared not for any loss of property or the pleasures af this world against the perpetual gain and the everlasting bliss in the life hereafter, suffered the tortures and kept themselves feithfully ettached in the Holy Ahlul Bait, to be on the right path. Some such godly devotees like Meesam Amanar and others of his group were heartlessly tortured, which they bore with ideal patience and some were mercilessly putr to death,but the great soule most willingly met even the most painful death with matchless courage and boldnees but nevers gave up their attachemnt to the Holy Ones.
When Islam was being corrupted at the hands of the aspirants for power and pleasures of this world, and the Holy Ahlul-bait Were ignorrd , those who resorted to the right guidance from the right authorities were tortured and put to miseries and torturous death. It can be imagined how deep was He Truth buried and how difficult it was for any one to have it, but Truth was always there with the Ahlul-Bait end none could snatch it sway from them at any cost, but only a very few, the sincere and bold ones, could have it. This state of affairs went on until the Sixth Holy Imam Jafar ibne Muhammadf, when the corrupted form af Islam was also called Islam, and the genuine or the original form of it which was with the Holy Ahlul- Bait and practised secretly by the faithful devotees to them, needeh to be distinguished with some particular name to identify it from the corrupt form. Those who remained attached to the Holy House of the Holy prophet, were Known as the Shias of Ali ibne Abi Taleb, and the True or the Origiginal Islam was identified with the name Mazhabe-Jafari ot Shia'ism (i.e., the Original Islam followed by the Shias).Thus Shia'ism is no other then the Islam-Original, but it is only identified with the name 'Shia'ism' just ta distinguish it against the corrupted form. One can judge the Truth in this statement from the brief explanation of the Faith and ths Article given in this book.
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token name 'Tashiyyu' or Shia'ism and its followers are known as the Shias. It means, the followers of the Islam-Original without the subsequent adulteration effected in it.
Shia'ism (Islam-Original) strictly follows the Holy Qur'an, and the Holy Prophet guided by the divinely commissioned Twelve Holy Imams, whose physical and spiritual purity and personal excellence, the Islamic WJrld as a whole unanimously acknowledges.
Shia'ism, in order to help people to remain attached only to the Word of God as interpreted by the Holy Prophet, wants its followers to strictly abide by the following Declarations of the Holy Prophet.
1.At the start of his apostolic mission he declared that Ali was His Deputy, his Vicegerent, his Successor or his Kalif, with his orders to the assembly to listen to Ali and to obey him.
2.Before the huge assembly of pilgrims numbering to several thousands, after his Last Haj or the pilgrimage, on the Eighteenth of Zilhaj 10 A.H. at Ghadeer-e-Khum:-
"Of whomsoever I am the Maula (or the Lord), this Ali is his Maula (or the Lord). "
3.Just before his departure from this world saying:- "I leave behind me amidst you Two important things. The Book of God (The Holy Qur'an) and the members of my family. As long as you keep yourselves attached to these Two, you shall never get astray after me. These Two shall never be separated from one another until they meet me at the Spring of Kauther."
With the above three main guiding factors, the Islam- Qriginal or Shia'ism, keeps its faithful followers, the Shias, strictly attached to the Final Word of God, (the Qur'an), the Holy Prophet Muhammad, and his holy 'Ahlul-Bait (i.e., the Divinely chosen members) of the apostolic family. Shia'ism demands every Shia to cling fast to virtue and to be always with the virtuous, loving them more than their own lives.
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Shia'ism-Its Articles of Faith and Its Practice

A Shia muslim believes in:
1. The absolute unity of God, with all his divine attributes as inseparable and essential qualities of His absolute Self.
2. The Perfect and flawless Equity of the Lord. Every word and act of the Lord being based on nothing but pcrfect justice. Inequity is imperfection and every imperfection is a defect and the Lord is free from every defect.
3. The infallibility, sinlessness and truthfulness of all the apostles of God, from Adam, the First of God's apostles to the Holy Prophet Muhammad the Last of them. All the apostles were the personalities purified by the Lord Himself and Himself conditioned for the services divinely assigned to them, and no apostle or prophet did come after the Holy Prophet anu neither any will come until the end of the world.
4. With the conclusion of the ministry of the Ho1y Prophet Muhammad the Last one of God's apostles the infinite mercy of the Lord, for the guidance of man on the right lines of His revealed religion Islam instituted the series of godly souls His own com- missioned Imams, or Guide or Leaders from the same Lineage of Abraham to continue the divine guidance and thus started the institution of Imamat in the place of 'Risalat', i.e., apostleship. The Twelve God's commissioned Guides or Imams are:-
(i) Ali son of Abu Taleb the Cousin germain, the Son- in-Law of the Holy prophet and Vicegerent, Brother. Heir and Kalif declared by him at the outset ot his ministry at he Dawate Asheera and at the close of the aposteship, at Ghadeer-e- Khum at the command of the Lord revealed in verse 5:67
(ii) Hasan son of Ali ibne Abi Taleb and the Holy Lady Fatema Zahra-the First grandson of the Holy Prophet martyred by poison.
(iii) Husain the second son of Ali Abi Taleb and the Holy Lady Fatema Zahra,'Zibhe Azeem'i-e, Great Sacrifice, butchered with the Seventy-two godly souls of his kith and kin and devotees, in the wholesale slaughter at Karbala enacted by the Kalif Yazid son of Ma'aviah.


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(iv) Ali-e-Zainul-abideen As Sajjad the first son of Husain the King of Martyrs of Karbala, the Prisoner of Yazid martyred by Kalif Waked bin Abdul Matik.
(v) Muhammad al-Baquir son of AIi-e-Zainul-abideen the Fourth Imam, martyred by Hisham bin Abdul Malik.
(vi) Jafar As Sadiq son of Muhammad A1-Baquir the Fifth Imam, martyred by Mansoor. (vii) Moosa A1-Kazim son of Jafar As.-Sadiq the Sixth Imam martyred by the Abbaside Kalif Haroon ar Rasheed.
(viii) Ali ar-Riza son of Moosa al-Kazim the Seventh Imam, martyred by the Abbaside Kalif Maamoon ar-Rasheed.
(ix) Muhammad at-Taqi son of Ali ar-Riza, the Eighth Imam martyred by the Abbaside Kalif Mo'tasim.
(x) Ali an-Naqi son of Muhammad at-Taqi the Ninth Imam martyred by the Abbaside Kalif Mo'tasim.
(xi) Hasan aI-Askari son of Ali an-Naqi the Tenth Imam martyred by the Abbaside Kalif Mo'tamad.
(xii) Muhammad al-Mahdi son of Hasan A1-Askari, living by the will of the Lord as is Jesus in the seed of Isaac through his virgin mother Mary. Both this Holy Imam and the Holy Prophet Jesus will re-appear at the will of the Lord before the end of the world after which will be the Last Day of Resurrection and Final Judgment.

The Last Day of the Final Judgment (Qiamat)

 IT IS NOW for any intelligent one to say that if the above funda- mnentals of the faith are those prescribed by the Holy Qur'an or not, or if they contain anything more or less than what the Holy Prophet preached and enjoined upon his followers.