Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammed Saeed al-Hakeem Received a Group of Followers of the Ahlulbayt (Peace be upon them) from India and Advised Them to Guard Themselves with the Islamic Original Heritage and Faith.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammed Saeed al-Hakeem Received a Group of Followers of the Ahlulbayt (Peace be upon them) from India and Advised Them to Guard Themselves with the Islamic Original Heritage and Faith.
2018/06/18

His Eminence, Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Saeed Al-Hakeem received a group of followers of the Ahlulbayt (Peace be upon them) from India, mainly from the city of Mumbai. He advised the believers around the world to guard themselves with the Islamic original heritage and their faith, and to propagate it with softness, love, compassion, honesty and sincerity, and to fulfill their duty in reflecting a true image of the Shias and of the ways of the Ahlulbayt (Peace be upon them).

He also advised his respected guests that every one of them should undertake their missionary role through the presentation of the best ethics and morality, which the Infallible Imams (Peace be upon them) showed the path to, upon which their good followers travelled.

His Eminence concluded the meeting with a prayer to the Most High and Powerful that He accepts the guests' Ziyarah on these great nights of the holy month of Ramadan, and that He returns them to their homelands having achieved success and prosperity of this world and the Hereafter, God willing.

Day Questions

What is the position of Ismailis in our religion? Are they considered as non-believers?

Whoever submits to the two testimonies – that there is no god but Allah and Mohammad (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) is His messenger – then he is a Muslim and not considered as a non-believer, even if he believes in false beliefs or certain misguidance.

It is said the sky cried for forty days after the tragic events at Karbala. If that is the case, how do we reconcile that with the history of the Prophet (Peace be upon him and his holy progeny) when his son Ibrahim died and there was a solar eclipse during burial and people thought that occurred because of the Prophet’s sadness but the Prophet quickly warned them against such superstition - as Islam came to destroy superstition?

There is no doubt that certain worldly phenomenal events took place after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him). Historical texts narrated by Muslims in general indicated this. This clearly shows that what happened to the Imam and his family was a great tragedy that represents an offence against Islam, and a violation to the sanctity of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and to the obligation of following the Ahlubait (peace be upon them) and loving them. The said is completely different to the death of Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (peace be upon him), which was a natural death without any aggression against him.

What is permissible and prohibited in the month of Muharram?

All what believers do in order to express their grief and sadness and show their loyalty to the Ahlulbait (peace be upon them) are amongst the best of deeds. One should do so in such a way that the person is not harmed with a prohibited kind of harm.