Every educated and awakened mind knows that the remembrance...

Every educated and awakened mind knows that the remembrance of the godly ones by every possible means is remembering God Himself and such a remembrance is highly commendable, rather essential to keep the models of the various aspects of godliness always in view to be imitated or copied by one, for himself or herself to become godly.

The object of the holy Ones having been sent into this World was only to set up the models necessary for the guidance of man, for man to copy them and thus get himself qualified and fit for the higher levels of the life of eternal bliss. The secret is that the ill-informed or the misinformed critics have not at all understood the Most Exalted position of God.

They do not know that God is too Great, too Exalted, too Just, too Gracious, too Merciful and too Excellent to be only the watch to catch hold of every one and chastise him, judging merely the actions or the external appearances, irrespective of the intention or the real object latent in man.

It is man who cannot probe into the secrets of the heart of another man, that accuses another man basing his accusation merely on his limited and defective knowledge of the outward appearances or the external outlooks. It must be remembered that man's actions are judged by God, the All-Knowing Lord, by his intention. Let every Muslim remember the well-known declaration of the holy Prophet: "An act is naught but with its intention and 'Verily the actions are judged only by the intention".

'SEENA-ZANI' OR THE BREAST-BEATING The SHIA young, in mourning for the great Martyrs of the holy AHLUL BAIT, particularly for the First holy Imam AMIRUL MOMINEEN ALI and the holy Imam HUSSAIN, the King of Martyrs, beat their breasts, sometimes to the extent of bleeding themselves. Hurting of ones self is of course not allowed in Islam. SHIA'ISM the Islam-Original, knows it and recognizes it fully and has no sanction against it.

but when it is a matter for a godly cause, it contents itself with exhortations from the pulpit and the press, and if the uncontrolled emotion of any its enthusiasts in his extreme love and devotion to the godly cause, helplessly gives expression to it in beating his breast, the law has to be considerate and tolerable in view of the intention of the action not being any defiance of the law, but the helplessness to the love for the godly ones who suffered the miseries, tortures and the most cruel death in the way of the Lord.