IMAM HUSAYN WAS KILLED ON THE DAY OF SAQIFA

By: Brother Abdulhujjah (A Moderator in ShiaChat.Com)

It all began after the untimely martyrdom of the Messenger of ALLAH, many of those around the Messenger who had claimed to be his friends, were plotting a major revolution after his demise. As foretold by the Messenger and his MASTER in the Holy Quran :

3:144 And Muhammad is no more than a messenger; the messengers have already passed away before him; if then he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? And whoever turns back upon his heels, he will by no means do harm to Allah in the least and Allah will reward the grateful.

He died, and none of his so called 'dear friends' were next to him, in fact according to the most reliable of his living wives Um Salama, he died in the arms of his brother and rightful successor the Commander of the Faithful Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS). So where were the claimants (ones who claimed to be his closest of friends) ? What could possibly be more important than washing and burying the body of ALLAHs most loved creation ? Unless of course, the Caliphate was more important than this, but if it was then why didnt the Messenger of ALLAH choose a successor ? But he had, and the people couldn't accept his selection, after all people want someone that follows his whims and allows them to be capricious in nature.

It was Saqifah, that dreaded day, the beginning of all calamities, the mother of all massacres. The day the rightful successor was robbed of his right. This is what allowed Fatima (AS) to be slapped by Kunfudh and crushed behind the door by the Messenger's own father-in-law !!! It begin there.... It was that incident that allowed all injustices to take place, the murder of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) in masjid al Kufa, while he was prostrating, the poisoning of the Grandson of the Messenger of ALLAH, and the daughter of the first usurper waging war against the Imam of her time and preventing the burial of Imam Hasan to take place next to his Grandfather, in fact she even ordered his purified dead body to be showered with arrows!! And people like shimr ibn thul jawshan only emulated the actions of his masters on the day of Ashura, and while Imam Husayn (AS) was his mother, except that on the day of the incursion of the House of Al Zahraa (AS) only one of her ribs was broken. But on the day of Ashura all of the ribs of Imam Husayn were broken!!!!

My dear brothers and sisters it all began on that day, when someone asks you when was Imam Husayn (AS) murdered you reply it was on the day of Saqifaa!!!

I am one who Yearns for Karbala's heart,
As if crying and sadness is my art

From my eyes tears fall like rain
because I can't comprehend your pain,
thinking of it is making me insane,
You are my master O Husayn!