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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Essays On Ghadir 10- Ghadir Day, in the Words of Nonmuslim People Hajjat-ol-veda (The last pilgrimage of the holy prophet Hazrat Mohammad (p.b.u.h.)-to Mecca) never vanishes from our wish.

I wish farewell -in its literal meaning didn't exist until twenty more pilgrims; or at least it existed in the meaning of eagerness for being a longer time with the prophet and the leader of the truth and guidance, since prophetic mission would find more firmness, more pure, strong growth in the people's life, more constancy, and a firmer exercise in their feelings ... .However, the last Hajj fulfilled.

It seems that, this Hajj is like the wishes and dreams in a morning, that its sun has been darkened by eclipse. Was Hajjat -01 -Veda more than a tent, that succession was hidden in it? Alas, that abundant population, who had filled across the road of caravans - between Mecca and Medina - , were walking yet with the barefooted of the past!

It is true that the new birth, with the new light, draw collyrium on the eyes of those people; but that light didn't penetrate to the depth of those ignorant eyes, and it didn't take place in all aspect of it, to change it...... I wish this desire had accomplished, and the last Hajj of the holy prophet would have fulfilled thirty, or forty years after Hijrat. And the sun of his life didn't set so soon.... I wish it had happened...!!!

But succession in the Ghadir -e - khom appeared like a fine dress, and as a mystery for the prophetic mission and didn't have a favorite outcome. Didn't the holy prophet, the great person who was a source for magnificence and glories, show Ali when he said, "Ali is from me, and I am from Ali." "Whoever I am his master, Ali is his master too." "0' God, like whoever likes him, and hate whoever hates him". "1 leave among you two things, the Holy Quran, and my family.

If you hold them, you never go astray after me. These two never separate from each other until they arrive to me at the Kosar pool. " (The name of a pool in the Paradise). And this was the prophet's last will. Hajjat- 01- Veda was thirsty to that will. Hajjat- 01- Veda was eager and in search of it.

But, those people who heard this testament in Ghadir Khum, were those who had sitten in the past, in the mosque, in front of the holy prophet, - one who descended the Quran verses to him, - saying to each other Jealously; "How pretty the holy prophet plays with Hussein (his grand son) ... .