Re: Islam and revolution [lll]

Also published in Daily Trust 

I admittedly feel somehow guilty for not addressing the recent escalation of terror attacks in the north-east where innocent and defenceless people have been mercilessly massacred over the past few weeks. Yet, it’s worth it anyway since I have been engaged in refuting some misrepresentations intended to cover the 1979 Khomeini revolution in Iran with Islamic cloak.

Now, to conclude this serialised rejoinder, let me address the political aspect of the revolution. First of all, it is important to note that, Iranian political system is basically based on the theory of Wilyatul-Faqeeh i.e. Supreme Guardianship of the Jurist, a concept cleverly created in order dodge a very serious dilemma in Shi’a religious doctrine.

Obviously, one of the fundamentals of the Shi’a Imamate belief is the belief in a heretical doctrine of Imamate (explained in part 1 of this rejoinder). Besides, they believe, among other things, that, world can’t survive without one of the twelve imams, also all Shi’a adherents shall not follow any political leader not among those twelve imams.

Apparently, those who fabricated this theory never seemed to envisage that the world would survive to outlive all the Imams, so in order to escape the resultant dilemma, they claimed that the twelfth Imam, Al-mahdi disappeared at the age of 5 more than 1,200 years ago and hid in a cave somewhere in Samarra’a, Iraq, from where he follows all what is going on in the world, and will one day re-emerge to lead the whole world.

Incidentally, to avoid any confusion, it is noteworthy that, this fictitious Mahdi is not the same Mahdi whose real name is Muhammad bin Abdullah and who will actually be born towards the Last Day to spearhead a phenomenal global Islamic revival that will culminate in the reign of peace and justice all over the world, as prophesized by the Prophet (pbuh).

The Shia’s fictitious Mahdi is absolutely different, because according to their belief as maintained in their most recognized books of reference, the first thing he will do after his re-emergence is to, according to Almajlisi in Biharul-Anwar V52 page 368, exhume the bodies of the prophet’s companions Abubakr (RA) and Umar (RA), from their graves, burn them and scatter their ashes to the winds then demolish the mosque. He will also resurrect the Prophet’s wife Aisha (RA) and punish her (See Biharul-Anwar V52 page 314).

As a matter of fact, according to Al-nu’umani, their Mahdi will actually come with a completely new religion, a new book and new power from the heavens. (See Kitabul-Ghaiba page 107). Moreover, he will, according to them also, govern according to the books of Prophet Dawood (pbuh) and Prophet Sulaiman (pbuh) (See Al-Kaafi V1 page 397)

Yet, as the Shiite’s long wait for the awaited fictitious Mahdi dragged on, their dilemma continued to grow. Therefore around the year 1501 or so, they began to consider the idea of making a provision that would religiously justify the appointment of the representative (of a sort) of the Mahdi pending his re-emergence. Eventually, the concept of Wilyatul-Faqeeh was created by one Sheikh Ahamd Al-nuraqi who died in 1829.

By the way, apparently aware of the illogicality of this political theory, Malam Adamu claimed, in his futile attempt to justify it, that it was what Sheikh Usman bin Fodio did when he appointed Islamic scholars as emirs in all the cities under his control.

Anyway, In 1979 Khomeini incorporated it into Iran’s constitution and assumed the position of Waliyul-Faqeeh, or Supreme Leader. Though unelected, the Supreme Leader is constitutionally empowered to enjoy huge political power, which effectively makes him more powerful than even the elected president of the country. After all, being the representative of their awaited Mahdi, all Shi’a Imamate adherents around the world are, regardless of their different nationalities, under religious obligation to pay allegiance to him, which they indeed do. (Watch this video clip as further proof).

Iran has therefore, under the pretext of Wilyatul-Faqeeh, secured the allegiance of the Shiites around the world who it simply manipulates to promote its Persian agenda. This enables it maintain and, directly or indirectly, sponsor many propagandists who are particularly active in academic and media circles, and who consciously or unconsciously serve its supremacist agenda in their respective countries.

As a matter of fact, one of their strategic objectives is to maintain armed militia and run semi-states within states in all Muslim countries, which they have achieved in Lebanon where they, through their local agents, created and sponsor the so-called Hezbollah militia and Yeman where they, also through their local agents, sponsor Al-Houthy Shi’a militia.

Therefore, in reality there is no difference between Iran and the countries it often pretends to criticize i.e. western countries and even Israel for that matter. Iran has simply managed to deceive the gullible by being particularly cunning in manipulating events for its strategic advantage. It takes advantage of the notoriety of the western countries for their biased policies against Muslims especially in Palestine, and also capitalizes on Muslims’ frustration to, every now and then, release its deceptive confrontational rhetoric and empty threats, which it has never and will never carry out neither against Israel nor against any of its purported western enemies.

Besides, just as Israel continues to occupy and oppress the Palestinians, Iran also continues to occupy some territories and equally oppress its citizens. For instance, it occupies Al-Ahwaz, oppresses and subjects its Arab citizens to one of the worst human rights abuses today, as it also continues to occupy three islands belonging to the United Arab Emirates.