The events at Karbala renewed life for Islam and corrected...

The events at Karbala renewed life for Islam and corrected the religious beliefsthat had arisen due to the Umayyad’s fabrication of prophetic traditions or hadith and their adoption of ideas from false philosophies. Ideas such as predeterminism (jabr) - the idea that men are compelled by Allah in their actions; delegation (tafwid), and theomorphism (tajsim) - the idea that Allah has a bodily form, and others like them, which served to shore up the pillars of their illegal regime.

Hence Islam appeared once again, shining in the true form in which Allah had revealed it to His noble messenger salla-llahu-alayhi-wa-aalih, in the form of the madhhab or school of the Ahl-ul-Bayt alayhis-salam after being cleansed of the detritus of Umayyad falsehood. This uprising was and remains a model for all other liberationist uprisings in the world against oppressors.

This uprising was the ‘big bang’, which prepared the way for a succession of revolutions and motivated those involved in the struggle to defend the sacred values of Islam and taught them the art of combating tyranny and to be steadfast in the struggle until they achieved a life of nobility and freedom. The nation then is a great power, and government has no power if the legality of its existence has not acquired the approval of the sacred law (shari’ah) and the nation.

The nation must grasp however, that for the legal government to be righteous the nation must also be righteous. On this note, the renowned scholar Sheikh al-Baha’i says: ‘There is no fault in the religion of Islam itself, rather the fault lies in the Muslims themselves.’ Imam Husayn alayhis-salam, through his uprising, pointed out the way for the future generations and made clear the path to solving the problems of society and attaining the happiness of this life and the nobility of the next.

When Islamic society indeed put into practice some of these Islamic teachings it lived a life of prosperity and nobility as history witnessed in the days of Sayyid al-Murtada and Sheikh al-Mufid and Allamah al-Hilli and Sheikh al-Karaki and Sheikh al-Baha’i and Allamah al-Majlisi (May Allah venerate their souls)49. Then society was living an honourable life without being afflicted by any of the problems that afflict the Muslims today.

On the contrary, it was the enemies of Islam who suffered from these crises since they were drowning in the seas of ignorance and backwardness and the like.