Ghadir
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Ghadir
Articles about Imamate and Ghadir
compiler: Ghulum Abbas Sajan
Author: Mohammad Baqir al_Sadr- Dr. Abdulaziz a Sachedina- Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi- Husein Khimjee
Translator: Dr. p. Haseltine
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications- Qum
Third Reprint:2000-1421-1379
Forth Reprint: 2005-1426-1384
Fifth Reprint: 2007- 1428- 1389
Quds Press: 2000
ISBN: 978-964-438-177-5
Introduction
The caravan returning from the Hujjatul- Widdah (the Final Pilgrimage) of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny, was halted unexpectedly.
The archangel Jibreel (Gabriel) had come with the message from Allah: '0 Apostle! Deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord, and if you do not, then you have not delivered His message, and Allah will protect you from the people' (Qur'an 5:67). The place where the Muslims had stopped was at Ghadir Khum. The Prophet delivered a sermon and appointed Imam Ali, peace be upon him, as his successor.
His words were: '0 Muslims! Who is more worthy [in the eyes of] the believers than their ownselves?' The audience replied: 'Allah and His Messenger know better.' Hearing this, the Prophet declared: 'I am the Master (Mawla) of the faithful and I have rights over them even more than what they have over themselves. Therefore of whomever I am the Mawla, (this) Ali is his Mawla.'The first to congratulate Imam Ali was Umar ibn al-Khattab who said: 'Excellent! How fortunate you are 0 Abul Hasan! Now you have become my master as well as of all the Muslims.'This all happened 1,400 years ago.
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