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Hosseini Mysticism
To know a person, especially a personality, we can and have to look at the issue with different views as follows:
1. personal, family, moral, and divine aspects
2. Physical, spiritual, moral, and mystic aspects
3. Economical, cultural, social, and political aspects
4. Reverential, demonstrative, and possessive aspects To study frameworks and appearances of each of these aspects, we can observe, study, interview, and debate. In other words, we can follow a usual, dynamic, logical… methodology for lighting different personality aspects of the studied person to know him comprehensively.
To know a person, especially a personality, we can and have to look at the issue with different views as follows:
1. personal, family, moral, and divine aspects
2. Physical, spiritual, moral, and mystic aspects
3. Economical, cultural, social, and political aspects
4. Reverential, demonstrative, and possessive aspects to study frameworks and appearances of each of these aspects, we can observe, study, interview, and debate. In other words, we can follow a usual, dynamic, logical… methodology for lighting different personality aspects of the studied person to know him comprehensively.
It is obvious that to identify the personality of Imam Hossein (God’s hail may be to him), this job needs many years of expert research work, and then, the writer is not able to do it, but according to the poet, we can do our best although we may not be able to cover the job completely. I try to write a collection of my read and heard things in some pages for my readers to find some clues and follow the subject themselves. I hope such virtue efforts are safe from the evil of temptresses being helped by holy intention of holy people, God willing.
Historical background More than half a century, we have witnessed holding special ceremonies of Imam Hossein’s memorial with its special Aashoura culture from near. From Qom to Rome, wherever I went, I found the first decade of Moharam different from other times. True followers of Imam Hossein do not only reverence it, but also it is reverenced somewhat among other religions.
When I was in India, I was told of Mahatma Gandhi’s regards to Imam Hossein. I heard many things of religious open-minded movement and Imam Hossein’s regards in Europe. I saw and heard communions and compassions from my compatriot Zoroastrians and Christians. Briefly, according to the poet, whosoever is Hossein for whom the world is crazy? Whatsoever is this candle around which souls are flying like butterflies? Every heart tends to go to his Karbala. I do not know what mystery is hidden in his home. And now, at the beginning of the 21st century, mourning ceremony of Imam Hossein is being held in a special form from Tibet to Sistan, India to Pakistan, France to England, and Iran to Saudi Arabia, and simply saying, everywhere.
In other words, two of our religious-national is worldwide and both ceremonies last approximately two weeks as well, Imam Hossein’s mourning (From Moharam 1st to 13th) and Nowrooz gaiety (From Charshanbeh Soori to Sizdah Bedar). It is interesting to know that, in addition to these similarities between the national eve and national mourning in Iran, some similarities can be seen through the history and in other nations, which might be wonderful from the point of analytic research. It means that human needs to stop working collectively twice a year and make love, whether it has a projective state or introjective state, i.e. whether it discharges people or charge them. It can be a theory too! Imam Hossein’s biological features Imam Hossein is the second grandson of the holy Prophet and the third innocent imam of the world’s Muslims.
He is the fifth member of Five-Aba Family and the last shining star who participated in the Cursing Event (In Mecca and Medina). He is also an application of the holy verse of “Tathir”? saying, “Obviously, God wants to clean you, the Prophet’s family, from filth and clean you in the best way possible.”? (33/33) The explanation of cursing, Tathir, and other verses talking about Imam Hossein is a analytic which is beyond the writer, but I can give a brief for readers: A) Mobaheleh (Cursing): Gathering of some of infidels in Mecca and Medina to execute the ceremony of cursing in order to proving their own rightness against the holy Prophet’s family (Peace be upon him) B) Tathir (Cleaning): Gathering of the holy Prophet’s family under a piece of cloth and descending of the above verse verifying cleanness of this family and their access to the content of the holy Quran, according to this sentence: “It (Quran’s content) is not touched but by cleaned people) (56/79) Names and titles There are some names and titles for imam Hossein as follows: Imam Hossein, Aba Abdollah Hossein, Sar allah, Seyed o shohada whose etymology needs a long time and a lot of precision. I just mention that the universe does not preserve titles; otherwise, there is god’s image in them.
“Every entity is fatal and the image of your magnificent and generous God remains only.”? (55/27) Then, there are reasons for calling him as the mentioned titles: 1. He is called “Imam,”? because he is the soul leader of believers. 2. He is called “Aba Abdellah,”? because he is the spiritual father of God’s servants. 3. He is called “Sar Allah”? and “Bin Saroh,”? because he is the lord of karbala martyrs and all martyrs in the world like Hamzeh. The following verse was descended for him: “Do not consider the ones who were killed for God as dead people, but they are alive and nourished beside their God.”?
Tales about Imam Hossein told by the holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) The holy Prophet had a great love and affection toward Imam Hossein and talked about him in many cases as follows:
1. Hossein is from me and I am from Hossein. The delicacy of this anecdote can be perceived through another anecdote told by the Prophet about Zahra (God may hail to her). He says, “Fatemeh is her father’s mother.”? Definitely, the two sentences “I am from Hossein”? and “Fatemeh is her father’s mother”? talks about the continuance of Mohammad’s religion.
2. “Obviously, Hossein is the guiding light and saving ship.”? According to Hafez, “There is no worry, since; the nation has a supporter like you. There is no fear from waves of seas, since; the captain is Noah.”?
3. “They (Hasan and Hossein) are the lord of youths in the Paradise.”?
4. “Everyday is Aashoura and everywhere is Karbala.”? It means that to reach human salvation, everyday should be like Aashoura and everywhere should be like Karbala. Hossein’s innocence Imam Hossein is the central point in the circle of divine innocence and cleanness, which can be read in Tathir Verse.
He is innocent from his grandfather, father, mother, and brother (And from another brother and sister near to innocence), from his son and grandsons (imams after Imam Hossein), and from his own self as well. According to Vares Pilgrimage Prayer, I affirm that you are from reverenced fathers and clean mothers.”? It means that the best human genetic formula appears in Imam Hossein and his children who had a mother like Shahrbanoo. Mixing the blood of an Arab male lord and a Persian female lord result in a kind of mixture that will be unique forever.
According to the writer: In Hasan’s country, Hossein is the king Hossein is the sun of God’s rule He is the guiding light and the saving ship If our way is to God, Hossein is that way “Baher”? Imam Hossein’s professions Imam Hossein, like other good people, had four jobs. To earn his living, he used to trade. To extend moralities, he used to write Arafeh Prayer. For people’s convenience, he used to do public services, and for the other world, he led believers as imam.
Then, we see such messages sent for people:
- Oh! People, be, at least, freemen in your life if you do not have any religion.
- If my grandfather’s religion does not stay firm, otherwise I am killed, then; hey swords! Come and surround me!
- Gloriously dying is better than abjectly living
- I have risen for reviving command to good turns and prohibiting from evils.
Imam Hossein’s family Imam Hossein had four wives as Arabs and the prophet’s custom. They consisted of:
- Shahrbanoo, the mother of Zein ol Abedin; Om e Leila, the mother of Ali Akbar; Robabeh, the mother of Sakineh Khatoon and Ali Asghar; and another woman who is called Aba Abdollah’s wife.
- We can count four people from very loyal relatives of Imam Hossein: “Zeinab Kobra (Imam Hossein’s sister), Abol fazl Abas (imam Hossein’s step brother), Moslem Bin Aghil (imam Hossein’s cousin), and Ghasem Bin Hasan (Imam Hossein’s nephew). - Here, it is necessary to remind of loyal friends of Imam Hossein who taught everyone the lesson of lovemaking before their lovers and say, “hail you all, God’s lovers and friends. Hail you all, God’s men and followers. We are with you and will be salvaged with you.”?
Important efforts of Imam Hossein In Imam Hossein’s movement, four following aspects can be seen prominently:
A) Leaving religiously recommended hajj in order to doing a religiously obligatory jihad (According to the rule “Choosing the most important thing from among some important things”?)
B) Doing the order of “Commanding to good turns and prohibiting from evils”? verbally and practically. (I affirm that you raised for holding prayer, giving Zakat, commanding to good turns, and prohibiting from evils until you reached certainty.”?
C) Giving the right of choice and freedom to the troops accompanying him to Karbala after making them aware. It means “Freedom after awareness”? which is a principle of Imam Hossein’s mysticism and Aashoura culture.
D) Sacrificing everything and everyone for God in order to frustrate the vanity and retrieve the right. What may do the one who knew you? What does he do with his children, wives, and family? You drive him crazy.
You give him both worlds. What does that crazy man do with both worlds? Loving Imam Hossein There are many debates and rich writings in defining love. However, everyone is unable to know it like God who obviously exists, but nobody knows who he is. However, if we want to understand the love from its signs, we can pay attention to the following divine anecdote whose instance can be seen in Imam Hossein. The probable meaning of this anecdote is briefly that whoever understands me, he will want me. Whoever wants me, he will realize me.
Whoever realizes me, he will love me. Whoever loves me, I will love him. Whoever I love, I will enchant him. Then, I will pay his blood money.”? If we take seven parts of this paragraph as seven cities of love, we should say that Hossein and his followers were like the Phoenix and other birds who could reach the top of mountain. Sources there are many sources about imam Hossein, Karbala Event, Aashoura culture, and Hosseini Mysticism most of whose have become everlasting. Any way, according to Mowlana, everyone befriended me because of his perception, but he could not find my inside mysteries. This sound is my moaning and it is not the sound of wind. I wish whoever does not understand it went undone.
The writer owes his knowledge, firstly, to his mother, father, brothers, and relatives’ behaviors, and secondly, studying speeches and actions of great references like contemporary ayatollahs like boroojerdi, Golpayegani, Khomeini, and Makarem Shirazi as well as precious books of Dr. Shahidi, Martyr Motahari, Martyr Hashemi Nezhad, and Dr. Shariati. I hope everyone to deal with these beautiful customs both logically and lovingly to make use of them in both the earthly and heavenly affairs.
1. personal, family, moral, and divine aspects
2. Physical, spiritual, moral, and mystic aspects
3. Economical, cultural, social, and political aspects
4. Reverential, demonstrative, and possessive aspects to study frameworks and appearances of each of these aspects, we can observe, study, interview, and debate. In other words, we can follow a usual, dynamic, logical… methodology for lighting different personality aspects of the studied person to know him comprehensively.
It is obvious that to identify the personality of Imam Hossein (God’s hail may be to him), this job needs many years of expert research work, and then, the writer is not able to do it, but according to the poet, we can do our best although we may not be able to cover the job completely. I try to write a collection of my read and heard things in some pages for my readers to find some clues and follow the subject themselves. I hope such virtue efforts are safe from the evil of temptresses being helped by holy intention of holy people, God willing.
Historical background More than half a century, we have witnessed holding special ceremonies of Imam Hossein’s memorial with its special Aashoura culture from near. From Qom to Rome, wherever I went, I found the first decade of Moharam different from other times. True followers of Imam Hossein do not only reverence it, but also it is reverenced somewhat among other religions.
When I was in India, I was told of Mahatma Gandhi’s regards to Imam Hossein. I heard many things of religious open-minded movement and Imam Hossein’s regards in Europe. I saw and heard communions and compassions from my compatriot Zoroastrians and Christians. Briefly, according to the poet, whosoever is Hossein for whom the world is crazy? Whatsoever is this candle around which souls are flying like butterflies? Every heart tends to go to his Karbala. I do not know what mystery is hidden in his home. And now, at the beginning of the 21st century, mourning ceremony of Imam Hossein is being held in a special form from Tibet to Sistan, India to Pakistan, France to England, and Iran to Saudi Arabia, and simply saying, everywhere.
In other words, two of our religious-national is worldwide and both ceremonies last approximately two weeks as well, Imam Hossein’s mourning (From Moharam 1st to 13th) and Nowrooz gaiety (From Charshanbeh Soori to Sizdah Bedar). It is interesting to know that, in addition to these similarities between the national eve and national mourning in Iran, some similarities can be seen through the history and in other nations, which might be wonderful from the point of analytic research. It means that human needs to stop working collectively twice a year and make love, whether it has a projective state or introjective state, i.e. whether it discharges people or charge them. It can be a theory too! Imam Hossein’s biological features Imam Hossein is the second grandson of the holy Prophet and the third innocent imam of the world’s Muslims.
He is the fifth member of Five-Aba Family and the last shining star who participated in the Cursing Event (In Mecca and Medina). He is also an application of the holy verse of “Tathir”? saying, “Obviously, God wants to clean you, the Prophet’s family, from filth and clean you in the best way possible.”? (33/33) The explanation of cursing, Tathir, and other verses talking about Imam Hossein is a analytic which is beyond the writer, but I can give a brief for readers: A) Mobaheleh (Cursing): Gathering of some of infidels in Mecca and Medina to execute the ceremony of cursing in order to proving their own rightness against the holy Prophet’s family (Peace be upon him) B) Tathir (Cleaning): Gathering of the holy Prophet’s family under a piece of cloth and descending of the above verse verifying cleanness of this family and their access to the content of the holy Quran, according to this sentence: “It (Quran’s content) is not touched but by cleaned people) (56/79) Names and titles There are some names and titles for imam Hossein as follows: Imam Hossein, Aba Abdollah Hossein, Sar allah, Seyed o shohada whose etymology needs a long time and a lot of precision. I just mention that the universe does not preserve titles; otherwise, there is god’s image in them.
“Every entity is fatal and the image of your magnificent and generous God remains only.”? (55/27) Then, there are reasons for calling him as the mentioned titles: 1. He is called “Imam,”? because he is the soul leader of believers. 2. He is called “Aba Abdellah,”? because he is the spiritual father of God’s servants. 3. He is called “Sar Allah”? and “Bin Saroh,”? because he is the lord of karbala martyrs and all martyrs in the world like Hamzeh. The following verse was descended for him: “Do not consider the ones who were killed for God as dead people, but they are alive and nourished beside their God.”?
Tales about Imam Hossein told by the holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) The holy Prophet had a great love and affection toward Imam Hossein and talked about him in many cases as follows:
1. Hossein is from me and I am from Hossein. The delicacy of this anecdote can be perceived through another anecdote told by the Prophet about Zahra (God may hail to her). He says, “Fatemeh is her father’s mother.”? Definitely, the two sentences “I am from Hossein”? and “Fatemeh is her father’s mother”? talks about the continuance of Mohammad’s religion.
2. “Obviously, Hossein is the guiding light and saving ship.”? According to Hafez, “There is no worry, since; the nation has a supporter like you. There is no fear from waves of seas, since; the captain is Noah.”?
3. “They (Hasan and Hossein) are the lord of youths in the Paradise.”?
4. “Everyday is Aashoura and everywhere is Karbala.”? It means that to reach human salvation, everyday should be like Aashoura and everywhere should be like Karbala. Hossein’s innocence Imam Hossein is the central point in the circle of divine innocence and cleanness, which can be read in Tathir Verse.
He is innocent from his grandfather, father, mother, and brother (And from another brother and sister near to innocence), from his son and grandsons (imams after Imam Hossein), and from his own self as well. According to Vares Pilgrimage Prayer, I affirm that you are from reverenced fathers and clean mothers.”? It means that the best human genetic formula appears in Imam Hossein and his children who had a mother like Shahrbanoo. Mixing the blood of an Arab male lord and a Persian female lord result in a kind of mixture that will be unique forever.
According to the writer: In Hasan’s country, Hossein is the king Hossein is the sun of God’s rule He is the guiding light and the saving ship If our way is to God, Hossein is that way “Baher”? Imam Hossein’s professions Imam Hossein, like other good people, had four jobs. To earn his living, he used to trade. To extend moralities, he used to write Arafeh Prayer. For people’s convenience, he used to do public services, and for the other world, he led believers as imam.
Then, we see such messages sent for people:
- Oh! People, be, at least, freemen in your life if you do not have any religion.
- If my grandfather’s religion does not stay firm, otherwise I am killed, then; hey swords! Come and surround me!
- Gloriously dying is better than abjectly living
- I have risen for reviving command to good turns and prohibiting from evils.
Imam Hossein’s family Imam Hossein had four wives as Arabs and the prophet’s custom. They consisted of:
- Shahrbanoo, the mother of Zein ol Abedin; Om e Leila, the mother of Ali Akbar; Robabeh, the mother of Sakineh Khatoon and Ali Asghar; and another woman who is called Aba Abdollah’s wife.
- We can count four people from very loyal relatives of Imam Hossein: “Zeinab Kobra (Imam Hossein’s sister), Abol fazl Abas (imam Hossein’s step brother), Moslem Bin Aghil (imam Hossein’s cousin), and Ghasem Bin Hasan (Imam Hossein’s nephew). - Here, it is necessary to remind of loyal friends of Imam Hossein who taught everyone the lesson of lovemaking before their lovers and say, “hail you all, God’s lovers and friends. Hail you all, God’s men and followers. We are with you and will be salvaged with you.”?
Important efforts of Imam Hossein In Imam Hossein’s movement, four following aspects can be seen prominently:
A) Leaving religiously recommended hajj in order to doing a religiously obligatory jihad (According to the rule “Choosing the most important thing from among some important things”?)
B) Doing the order of “Commanding to good turns and prohibiting from evils”? verbally and practically. (I affirm that you raised for holding prayer, giving Zakat, commanding to good turns, and prohibiting from evils until you reached certainty.”?
C) Giving the right of choice and freedom to the troops accompanying him to Karbala after making them aware. It means “Freedom after awareness”? which is a principle of Imam Hossein’s mysticism and Aashoura culture.
D) Sacrificing everything and everyone for God in order to frustrate the vanity and retrieve the right. What may do the one who knew you? What does he do with his children, wives, and family? You drive him crazy.
You give him both worlds. What does that crazy man do with both worlds? Loving Imam Hossein There are many debates and rich writings in defining love. However, everyone is unable to know it like God who obviously exists, but nobody knows who he is. However, if we want to understand the love from its signs, we can pay attention to the following divine anecdote whose instance can be seen in Imam Hossein. The probable meaning of this anecdote is briefly that whoever understands me, he will want me. Whoever wants me, he will realize me.
Whoever realizes me, he will love me. Whoever loves me, I will love him. Whoever I love, I will enchant him. Then, I will pay his blood money.”? If we take seven parts of this paragraph as seven cities of love, we should say that Hossein and his followers were like the Phoenix and other birds who could reach the top of mountain. Sources there are many sources about imam Hossein, Karbala Event, Aashoura culture, and Hosseini Mysticism most of whose have become everlasting. Any way, according to Mowlana, everyone befriended me because of his perception, but he could not find my inside mysteries. This sound is my moaning and it is not the sound of wind. I wish whoever does not understand it went undone.
The writer owes his knowledge, firstly, to his mother, father, brothers, and relatives’ behaviors, and secondly, studying speeches and actions of great references like contemporary ayatollahs like boroojerdi, Golpayegani, Khomeini, and Makarem Shirazi as well as precious books of Dr. Shahidi, Martyr Motahari, Martyr Hashemi Nezhad, and Dr. Shariati. I hope everyone to deal with these beautiful customs both logically and lovingly to make use of them in both the earthly and heavenly affairs.
