Miscarriage of al-Muhassan Due to a Natural
Accident! Someone even dares to say that miscarrying Muhassan may have happened due to a natural accident and was not the result of an assault! Here is our answer: Numerous texts, actually consecutively reported ones, as well as the consensus of the Shi`as, is that al-Muhassan was miscarried because al-Zahra’ (A.S.) was assaulted as Shaikh al-Tusi, may Allah have mercy on him, says. He actually narrates it, and it is reported also by many others from among the followers and the supporters of the assailants, those who are not happy to even remotely attribute it to those whom they love from among the assailants. Despite all of this, they do so. Why, then, should someone exonerate the assailants from this matter, and how do we permit ourselves to rule more than what the ruler himself has ruled?! Is there any scholarly justification for such insistence, especially since the person who used to advocate it says that negation requires evidence just as affirmation?! There is a definite proof for the excuse which stands on affirmation; so, should we reject it and insist on denying it without any evidence at all?! What is noteworthy is that some other people went beyond that to deny that Fatima (A.S.) had a son named Muhassan...! Some others kept silent and refrained from pointing to it either to confirm or to deny it, as if they want to give the impression, by thus remaining silent, that such a child with such a name never had any kinship to al-Zahra’ (A.S.)! But others, once they have noticed that denying this matter is not possible, feeling incapable of admitting what those folks had committed against him, got rid of the whole issue by claiming that he “died young,” refraining from referring to his being miscarried. But they hinted at the same when they said that he “died young.” A fourth group did, indeed, mention this child, and that he was miscarried, but they refrained from telling the truth of what actually took place. There is a party that has declared the bitter truth and explained it, and we have quoted some of their statements in the part dedicated to texts, so refer to their texts. It was not in the best interest of those who oppressed, harmed, beat, caused the miscarriage of the fetus carried by al-Zahra’ (A.S.) to publicize something like this about them because it would shake their image, and it might even shake their stands in the long run. They, therefore, had no choice except to hide the truth, forge history, force a cruel and bitter hegemony on the media. They had to shut people’s mouths by any possible means. Nothing has reached us except what slipped from their clutches, carried to us by true commandos who traded their blood for the Pleasure of Allah, Glory is His, sacrificing everything precious, just as slipped to us from the clutches of spiteful arrogant people a great deal of good, rather an ocean over-brimming with virtues and stands and jihad of Ali (A.S.). Even the Ghadir tradition, the tradition of the two weighty things, the tradition of Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.) being compared to the ark of Noah, and the tradition of the status, all this slipped from their clutches despite all the wounds and in spite of all the bleeding and pain. They slipped to us covered with heavy wounds, drowned in blood, overwhelmed by pains in order to deeply and truthfully deepen for us the truth of the divine care and concern abut this nation, its future generations and religion. Every call fought by the rulers vanished and was buried except the call of the truth. This has continued, maintaining its originality and characteristics despite the passage of generations since the inception of this devastating war although it challenges the rulers’ bases for ruling and legitimacy. Its doctrine, in as far as an Imam is concerned, is to deny such a legitimacy, pointing a finger of accusation at the usurping rulers and at their oppression, at how they fought the teachings of Allah and of His Messenger (A.S.). The best evidence for all of this against the determination to justify, to forge and to oppress, and the best proof that the Almighty has been kind enough to safeguard the truth is what is relevant to the status of Ali (A.S.) and to how al-Zahra’ (A.S.) was oppressed, the lady who was presented by the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) as the criterion for distinguishing right from wrong. This is what made her role (A.S.), after his demise (A.S.), effective and influential, decisive and strong. Through it, what was right became distinguished from what was wrong, what was distorted or forged was distinguished from what was sound and straightforward. |