🔹 Ayatollah Haeri Shirazi 🔹
🔸 Taqiyyah: An Opportunity for Renewed Uprising 🔸
Our Imams (AS) sometimes resorted to Taqiyyah (dissimulation) to preserve the religion of Allah — so that believers would have more opportunity to strike at the Umayyad and Abbasid regimes.
However, in the event of the uprising of Aba Abdellah (Imam Husain) (AS), seeking further opportunity no longer made sense.
If the Imam had not risen and been martyred, the opportunity would have been given to disbelief to deliver its final blow — a blow that would result in nothing but the defeat of Islam and the Muslims.
If, at that juncture, the Imam had made allegiance to the tyrant like the other Imams, it would not have been a respite for the Imamate, but a respite for the tyrant.
The Imams needed time and opportunity to preach and spread Islam, not to hand it over to the tyrant and witness its destruction!
The peace of Imam Hasan (AS) was not a respite for Mu'awiyah — it was a respite for the believers, so they could prepare themselves for the time when they would once again launch a movement — a movement that could educate and guide the people.
If Mu'awiyah had killed all the companions of the Imam (AS), there would have been no opportunity left even for mourning him.
For example, it is narrated that Imam Ali (AS) in the Battle of Uhud was “very watchful and cautious.”
Why? Because he wanted to survive — so the enemy could not strike him. Not out of attachment to this world, but for the survival of Islam — just as he was willing to endure blows for the sake of Islam's preservation, but not in a way that he would stand and say, “If anyone wants to strike me, go ahead and strike!”
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🔸 Taqiyyah: An Opportunity for Renewed Uprising 🔸
Our Imams (AS) sometimes resorted to Taqiyyah (dissimulation) to preserve the religion of Allah — so that believers would have more opportunity to strike at the Umayyad and Abbasid regimes.
However, in the event of the uprising of Aba Abdellah (Imam Husain) (AS), seeking further opportunity no longer made sense.
If the Imam had not risen and been martyred, the opportunity would have been given to disbelief to deliver its final blow — a blow that would result in nothing but the defeat of Islam and the Muslims.
If, at that juncture, the Imam had made allegiance to the tyrant like the other Imams, it would not have been a respite for the Imamate, but a respite for the tyrant.
The Imams needed time and opportunity to preach and spread Islam, not to hand it over to the tyrant and witness its destruction!
The peace of Imam Hasan (AS) was not a respite for Mu'awiyah — it was a respite for the believers, so they could prepare themselves for the time when they would once again launch a movement — a movement that could educate and guide the people.
If Mu'awiyah had killed all the companions of the Imam (AS), there would have been no opportunity left even for mourning him.
For example, it is narrated that Imam Ali (AS) in the Battle of Uhud was “very watchful and cautious.”
Why? Because he wanted to survive — so the enemy could not strike him. Not out of attachment to this world, but for the survival of Islam — just as he was willing to endure blows for the sake of Islam's preservation, but not in a way that he would stand and say, “If anyone wants to strike me, go ahead and strike!”
@haerishirazi
@rahyafte_en
#Taqiyyah #ImamHusain #Karbala #ImamHasan #ImamAli #IslamicHistory #Resistance #Uprising #Ahlulbayt #Wisdom #HaeriShirazi