Re: Islam and revolution [ll]

Also published in Daily Trust

While still examining the purported link between Khomeini-led revolution in Iran and Islam, and before I draw conclusions in the light of the few quotes from Shi’a’s most recognized books of reference in part one of this rejoinder, let me discuss yet another serious doctrinal contradiction of Shi’a creed that says it all about the unmistakable irreconcilability between it and the fundamentals of Islamic religion.

It could be recalled that, according to Shi’a creed as I quoted, all, except three of the Prophet’s companions (i.e. Salman Al-farisi (RA), Miqdad bin Al-aswad (RA) and Abu-tharr Al-giffari RA) renounced Islam in the aftermath of the Prophet’s demise. This clearly means that, all the narrations of the Prophet’s companions were simply false, according to the Shiites. After all, they have indeed rejected such narrations, which authentically disseminated the entirety of Islamic religious principles, teachings, injunctions and values as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), simply because according to them the narrators were not Muslims in reality.

However, their biggest dilemma lies in the fact that, in all the chain of narrations (i.e. Asaaneed) through which the holy Qur’an was transmitted there was no single narrator who believed in the doctrine of Imamate or any of the Shiite’s heretical doctrines, for that matter. Whereas, even in their fabricated narrations, which by the way fail to meet the standard of authenticity even in their own defective standards, there is no single chain of narration for the holy Qur’an from the Prophet (pbuh).

It is therefore clear that, there is no Qur’an in Shi’a Imamate’s ideological culture, and their purported belief in it and their occasional reference to some of its verses which they largely quote out of context and misinterpret, is for a reason, which I will discuss here a little later.

Anyway, faced with this dilemma, they have, over the centuries, maintained ambiguous and inconsistent stands about the authenticity of the Qur’an circulating among Muslims for over fourteen centuries. In any case, they generally believe that the holy Qur’an in circulation does not contain all the verses actually revealed to the Prophet. After all, according to their various narrations, which they falsely attribute to some of the Prophet’s descendants, the Prophet’s companions had tampered with the Qur’an in order to conceal the provision of the Imamate doctrine among other things.

For instance, while the total number of verses in the holy Qur’an is 6,236 or so, it is mentioned in Shi’as most recognized book of reference i.e. Al-Kaafi V2 page 634 that “the Qur’an that angle Gabriel revealed to the Prophet was seventeen thousand verses.” (Watch this video clip as an example)

It is noteworthy that, being ethnically Persians and historically Zoroastrians i.e. Majus, Iranians have for centuries harboured vengeful feeling towards Muslims. Obviously, before the advent of Islam, Persia was one of two most powerful empires in the world, while Arabs were largely under direct or indirect Roman or Persian occupation. Also people in the remaining unoccupied Arab territories e.g. Hejaz from where Islam emerged were unlettered, largely uncivilized and wallowing in backwardness.

However, soon the relatively new Islamic civilization grew strong enough to conquer the Persian lords and their Zoroastrian “civilization” and liberate the ordinary Persians who in turn voluntarily accepted Islam, thanks to the uniquely wise leadership of the second Caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab (RA) under whose leadership that achievement and many other achievements were made.

Yet, there remained some active Persian supremacists who could not come to terms with the loss of their Persian “civilization” to Arab Muslims who they used to look down on with disdain. They therefore continued to work covertly on various fronts in order to undermine Islam and its civilization.

They assassinated the second Caliph, Umar ibn Al-Khattab (R) who was brutally knifed while leading Muslims in a congregational prayer by a Persian assassin called Abu Lu’u’lu’a Al-majusy who is still being glorified in Iran where they made a fake grave for him on the outskirts of the Iranian city of Kashan, where they also used to pay homage to his grave, though in 2007 the authorities closed down the site following Muslim outcry around the world. Yet they did not demolish it.

Entrance to the grave site of the murderer of Umar (RA), in Iran

Moreover, in their attempt to inflict the worst and probably permanent harm on Islam, they pretended to not only accept the religion but actually claim scholarship in it through which they, through the fabrication and dissemination of such a large amount of narrations falsely attributed to the Prophet and his pious descendants, managed to mislead millions of Muslims into polytheism under the pretext of championing the Prophet’s descendants.

Moreover, following the establishment of the Persian supremacists’ empire in the year 1501 by the Safavid dynasty in Iran, the vast majority of Iranians were forced to embrace Shiite Imamate religion, and ever since then the Persian conspiracy against Islam assumed a systematic form.

Therefore Khomeini was apparently inspired by his Safavid predecessors; hence he traced and followed their footsteps though in a much more clever approach, having realized the futility of adopting the same coercive method used by the Safavids more than 500 years ago. It is therefore clear that the revolution is actually Persian shrouded in the cloak of Islam.

Now, having disproved the link between Islam and Khomeini’s revolution in Iran, I will, in due course (God willing) discuss the pretexts often manipulated by the regime and its propagandists to claim championing the cause of Islam locally and internationally. And I will equally discuss how they use such pretexts and take advantage of the naivety of the ordinary people and even many western educated (‘yan boko”) to promote their agenda among Muslims all over the world.