Mouood Mouood English Edition
I hope Allah the Exalted will enable all Muslim nations and the Islamic Ummah – particularly the elites and influential figures of the Islamic Ummah – to benefit most from the teachings of the Holy Prophet (S) and the Holy Quran.
I pray to Allah the Exalted to bestow His bountiful blessings on our magnanimous Imam who opened up this path in front of us and on our dear martyrs who sacrificed their lives on this path. 13
Mab’ath: The Most important, the greatest and most auspicious day of the year
If the importance of a particular day depends on whether or not Allah the Exalted has bestowed a blessing on humanity on that day, then Mab’ath is definitely the greatest and the most important day of the year. This is because sending down the Holy Prophet (S) for humanity was greater than all divine blessings throughout history. Therefore, one can say with certainty that Mab’ath is the best, the greatest and the most auspicious day of the year. We should commemorate the event that happened on Mab’ath and we should visualize the greatness of that event.
The Commander of the Faithful (a.s.) said, “God sent the Prophet when the mission of other prophets had stopped and the peoples were in slumber for a long time.” 14 Be’that happened at a time when humanity had been deprived of the presence of divine prophets for a long time. It was about 600 years after Jesus Christ.
Humanity had not seen a divine messenger for hundreds of years. What was the result? “The world was devoid of brightness, and full of open deceitfulness.” 15
The world was a dark place. Spirituality had left the world. Humanity was living in ignorance, deviation and arrogance. Allah the Exalted sent the Holy Prophet (S) in such a situation.
The Holy Prophet (S) was the person who had been prepared by Allah the Exalted for such a great mission in the entire history of mankind. Therefore, the Holy Prophet (S) managed to start a movement in 23 years, and this movement has pushed human history forward in spite of all the problems. Twenty three years is a short time, and thirteen years of it were spent in unfair battles. It started in Mecca with five, ten, fifty people. Only a small number of people managed to resist under the unbearable pressure of prejudiced, blind and ignorant enemies of Islam.
Firm foundations were built so that Islamic society and Islamic civilization could be based on them. Later on Allah the Exalted prepared the way for the immigration of the Holy Prophet (S) to Medina, and he managed to establish this Islamic system and this civilization in Medina.
The Holy Prophet (S) organized, built and managed this system in only ten years. It was a short time. Such events usually disappear in the flood of other important events, and they are usually forgotten. Ten years is a very short time. But the Holy Prophet (S) managed to plant, water and nurture this sapling in that period of time. He managed to start a movement that led to a civilization, and this civilization stood at the peak of human civilization during a certain period. That is to say, during the 3rd and 4th centuries of the Hijri calendar, Islamic civilization was greater than all earlier civilizations. This is one of the miracles of Islam.
This was while different bitter events happened to the Islamic Ummah after the Holy Prophet (S) passed away. Problems, disagreements and internal conflicts emerged. In spite of all these things, in spite of the deviations that emerged over time, in spite of the impurities that appeared and grew, the Holy Prophet of Islam (S) and the message of Be’that managed to give rise to that greatness in 3, 4 centuries, and the modern world and all civilizations of the modern world are indebted to Islamic civilization of the 3rd and 4th Hijri centuries.
If humanity considered the issue in a fair way, it would acknowledge that human beings’ salvation and their movement towards perfection will be possible only through Islam. We Muslims were ungrateful. We were unappreciative. We failed to appreciate Islam. We failed to preserve the foundations that had been developed by the Holy Prophet (S) for prominent and advanced human societies.
We were ungrateful, and we paid the price. Islam has the capacity to help humanity achieve prosperity and perfection. It has the capacity to help humanity achieve material and spiritual growth. The foundations that were established by the Holy Prophet (S) – faith, rationality, struggle and dignity are the main foundations of an Islamic community.
We should strengthen our faith in our hearts and in our actions. We should utilize human wisdom, which is the great gift of God to humanity. We should engage in Jihad in the way of God in military, political, economic or other arenas. We should appreciate our Islamic and human sense of dignity.
When these things are revived in a society, that society will definitely follow the path of Islam and the path of the Holy Prophet of Islam (S). Thanks to the message of Islam and thanks to the call of our magnanimous Imam, we Iranian people managed to practice part of these things in our life, and we can see the positive results.
Today the world of Islam has awakened. The movements that we see today in certain North African and Middle Eastern countries are the result of using the light of Islam and following the guidance of the Holy Prophet (S). Therefore, by Allah’s grace, the future of this region and these countries is bright.
Futile efforts of the arrogant powers to counter Islamic Awakening
The obstinacy of the westerners is futile. Their insistence on their wrong positions is futile. What we see todayin Egypt, Tunisia and certain other countries tell us that a new chapter has begun in the history of this region. The wrong and oppressive balance that western arrogant and colonial powers established in this region 100-150 years ago and imposed it on the destiny of this great and strategic region, has been upset. A new chapter has begun.
Of course, today western arrogant powers are resisting. They do not want to accept the great and undeniable fact that the regional nations have awakened. They do not want to accept that the regional nations have turned back to Islam. But this is a fact. The Islamic spirit has been revived in Muslim countries. The puppets of America and the west did something that these nations had no option but to rise up, start an impressive popular movement and carry out a revolution. Therefore, they started following this path. These movements will definitely achieve the desired outcome. 16
• 1.Sura al-Baghara, Ayah 119
• 2.Sura al-Maeda, Ayahs 15-16
• 3.Sura al-Alaq, Ayahs 15-18
• 4.Sura al-Muddaththir, Ayahs 11-17
• 5.Sura al-Isra, Ayah 81
• 6.Sura ar-Ra’d, Ayah 17
• 7.Supreme Leader’s speech delivered on July 10, 2010 in a meeting with government officials of the Islamic Republic on the occasion of the Holy Prophet’s (S) Be’that
• 8..Sura al-Anbiya, Ayah 107
• 9.Sura al-Fath, Ayah 29
• 10.Sura al-Fath, Ayah 29
• 11.Sura al-Fath, Ayah 29
• 12.Sura al-Qisas, Ayah 83
• 13.Supreme Leader’s speech delivered on February 21, 2011 in a meeting with government officials of the Islamic Republic and ambassadors of Islamic countries on the occasion of the Holy Prophet’s (S) birthday anniversary
• 14.Kafi, Vol. 1, P. 60
• 15.Nahjul Balaghah, Sermon 89
• 16.Supreme Leader’s speech delivered on June 30, 2011 in a meeting with government officials of the Islamic Republic on the occasion of the Holy Prophet’s (S) Be’that
