A New History Begins

After the death of Abu Talib, enmity and hatred reaches its peak. A group of the Companions and followers of the Prophet go to Ethiopia while another group suffer loneliness and poverty under the increasing torture of the Qoraish. Mohammad, who had reached fifty years of age, whose life had been spent in difficulties without any security, is living alone with Fatima, his young daughter. But ... no. The hand of fate brings a son to this house and no one knew what role he would play.

Yes. Ali does not stay in his father's. house and grow up there. From childhood he lives beside Fatima. He is raised in the home of Fatima's father. The fate of this young boy is strangely connected to the fate of this father and this girl.

History is taking its course. In the mysterious quiet which is full of ambiguity, the stormy design of thought is nourished so that tomorrow, the stone idols are broken, that create barriers for the seekers of monoploy and that create discrimination. The first of the deceitful priests of the royal court die in the fire temples of the Persians. The great, frightening palaces of Madaen are pulled down. The lustful, blood‑thirsty Emperor of Rome is pushed into‑the sea.

But the greatest of all to fall, to be erased in the hearts and minds, is the rusted traditions and the chains of habit, the pus of superstitions and rotted myths, prejuآ­dices, feelings and discriminatory beliefs that are against humanity.

They are disconnected and washed. The previous values and honors are turned upside down and changed. In an environment polluted with bruised fairy tales of racism and pride, aristocracy and power, epics of judgment and plunder, the worship of the earth, blood and idols always cause the earth to revolt against the gods because all these things, large or small, prevent freedom, equality, justice, spiritual struggle and self‑awareness for the unknown masآ­ses who lack glory and tribe. Instead of seeking history in rotted bones and fallen gravestones and rulers of the sword who hold the gold, seek history in the blood, life and motions of the people!

Seek the line which begins with the heirs of the last Chosen Prophet! Each one is to have a finer cloak of martyrdom than the' previous one. Each one either spent their life in the battlefield or teaching people or in the priآ­son of the oppressors. This important mandate in history begins with Fatima and in carrying out this work, history needs an Ali.

This is why the kind hand of poverty causes the child of Abu Talib, even though he had a father, to go to the house of his uncle's son so that his spirit does not become polluted by his own family's ignorance when the revelation arrives. He is present from the time of the first revelation. He is there from the moment that the mission begins. He lives through the fire of difficulties, problems and thoughts so that he can play the difficult role he has to play in the migration, so that he can participate in the battles of Badr, Ohud, Khaybar, Fath and Honein and thereby guarantee the victory of the Islamic Revolution, so that he can grow up. close to Fatima and finally, so that with Faآ­tima, he can establish the `exemplary family' and in the continuation of the work of Abraham, begin a new hisآ­tory.

Migration

Thirteen years of difficulty, resistance, confinement and, torture in Mecca end. Fatima, from early childhood, patiently stood alongside her father, in the‑ city, in their home and in their imprisonment. With her weak constituآ­tion, she withstood the angry blows of envy and the diffiآ­culties of resistance in the savage environment of ignoranآ­ce. With her little hands, she caressed her hero father like a mother.

The migration begins. Moslems go to Medina. The Prophet and Abu Bakr secretly leave Mecca. Fatima and her sister, Umm Khulthum also leave Mecca. Suddenly, one of the evil men of the Qoraish who had a history of having caused the Prophet difficulties, catches up with them and violently throws them down.

Fatima who essentially had a weak constitution and who had suffered from the effects of three years in prison, is greately affected by this event. She suffers pain the entire way to Medina. This uncalled for act of Huirath ibn Naqiz hac; such an effect upon Moslems and, in particular, the Prophet and Ali that even eight years later when conquering Mecca, they had not forgotten what he had done. His name is mentioned among those who should not be spared. They said that even if he is hanging on the cloth of the Ka'ba, he should be killed. It was no accident that Ali carried out this order.

In Medina

Now they are in Medina. The Prophet has built his mosque and next to it, the house which he built from mud and the leaves of palm trees. Then he announces the cereآ­mony of `the covenant of brotherhood'. `Every two should become brothers in the way of God.' Jaffar ibn Abu Talib became the brother of Ma'az ibn Jabal, Abu Bakr, the brother of Khareje bin Zahir, Omar ibn Khattab, the brother of Ottabai ibn Malek and Osman, the brother of Uss bin Sabet and ...`I am his brother.'

Mohammad is the brother of Ali. Ali is the brother of Mohammad.

Once again, from among all the figures, Ali is placed beside Mohammad. Ali takes another step closer to Mohammad. Fatima bint Assad, the mother of Ali, nursed Mohammad. Abu Talib, the father of Ali, protected Moآ­hammad. Mohammad grew up in the house of Ali. A4i grew up in the house of Mohammad beside Fatima, the daughter of Mohammad. Ali was nourished in the lap of Khadijeh, the mother of Fatima. The son of the uncle of Mohammad, child of Mohammad has now become the brother of Mohammad.

...to be continued