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eleventh and the twelfth days, fifty-three years before the Hijrat
(Hegira). History books write that the Mawlîd-i-Nebî (birth of the
blessed Prophet) took place on the twentieth of April five hundred
and seventy-five years after Îsâ’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ Mîlâd (birth).
Since Îsâ’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ birth-year is not known exactly, that the
Hijrat took place in the six hundred and twenty-second year of the
Mîlâd is not a scientifically proven fact.
Like all other Prophets, Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’, too, said that
Allâhu ta’âlâ is One. Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher
contemporary with Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ proposed the doctrine of
three gods. This doctrine, which was called Trinity, did not find
much acceptance. Constantine the Great, East Roman Emperor,
accepted Christianity. With a view to unifying Christianity, which
had been broken into sects, he convened three hundred and
nineteen priests in 325 A.D. He inserted into the Christian religion
prepared by priests a number of idolatrous rites and Plato’s
doctrine of Trinity. In order to convince everyone that this
doctrine of three gods was not Plato’s invention but a teaching of
Îsâ’s ‘alaihis-salâm’, he declared that Plato had lived three
hundred years before the Mîlâd. Thus the beginning of the
Christian era was pushed three hundred years backwards.
Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa sallam’ passed away
in the city of Medîna on a Monday afternoon, which was the
twelfth of the month of Rebî’ul-awwal in the eleventh year of the
Hijrat.
20- Mourning is not Islamic. Our master the Prophet prohibited
mourning. A hadîth-i-sherîf reported in the book Muslim states,
“If a mourner has not made tawba before dying, he shall be
subjected to severe torment in the Hereafter.” Our Prophet states
in another hadîth-i-sherîf, which, too, is reported in Muslim, “Two
things would drift one to disbelief. The first one is to swear at
someone’s ancestors and the second is to mourn.”
It is written in the initial pages of Tuhfa that mourning, crying
and wailing on the Ashûra day, the tenth of Muharram, is a
practice invented by Muhtâr Seqâfî. The bid’at spread like a kind
of worship among people without a certain Madh-hab. Actually,
Muhtâr’s real purpose was to exploit this as a stratagem to dupe
the inhabitants of Kûfa into fighting against the Umayyads and
thus to seize power.
If mourning had not been prohibited, our master the Prophet
‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa salam’ would have taken priority over
anyone else to be mourned for upon his death. Then we would
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