By: Hussein Al-Rumaithi
O’ messenger of God, peace be upon you and your holy household.
Please accept this letter from a Muslim and a follower of your religion,
who has tons of grievances and grumbles about the status of your nation
at the current time. Your follower want to tell you, what is your
nation has become and how Muslims have repaid your years of mercy,
preaching, and enlightenment with ignorance, violence and distorting
your name. Your follower wants to tell you that you religion and nation
is currently viewed and known as source of violence and instability,
when the almighty lord states that you were sent upon this world as a
mercy. Although, I truly believe you are fully aware of your nation’s
conditions and its failures, but I am writing this letter to you as a
fluttering mean, since the ears are sealed and the eyes are shut and
apprehension is blocked.
O’ messenger of God, the moment you left this world, some of your
companions attacked the house of your successor Ali Ibn Abi Talib and
assaulted your daughter, Lady Fatima Al-Zahra and your religion was
confiscated by a clan, which doesn’t fear the almighty. Your holy
Household were persecuted and slaughtered in the most vicious ways
possible and their followers were labeled as rejecters. What did they
reject? They rejected the treason against Islam and its prophet. They
rejected the rule of tyrants and they rejected the violence and
corruption, which was taking place in the name of your religion and you
personally. Your successor Ali, was struck and assassinated during
prayer in the mosque of Kufa, and your grandsons were poisoned and
slaughtered and the women of your household, were taken as foreign
captives to the (Caliph of Muslims) in Damascus.
O’ messenger of God, the rights, liberties and entitlement granted by
Islam, which you preached during the 23 years of your prophecy, were
stripped and taken away from Muslims. The respect, which granted to any
human being was not longer, and humans were treated based on their
allegiance to the Caliph and tyrants. The prisons were filled with
innocents, the graveyards were filled with innocent souls, allies and
roads of Muslim cities turned red from the blood spilled. The tyrants
claimed, they were your successors and narrations distorting your
merciful years were fabricated. They claim, you revealed to us the
religion of slaughter and violence. They claim, you revealed to us the
religion of beheading and you smiled every time an enemy was
decapitated. They claim, you married a six years old child, and they
claim, and claim and claim.
Yet, I read when you entered Mecca and a man shouted: Today is the
day of revenge and slaughter, you replied: “No, say today is the day of
mercy”. You entered Mecca without spilling a drop of blood and cutting a
branch of a tree and demolishing a single brick of a building. You
introduced to the world a covenant for co-existence and tolerance, when
this world was governed by tyrants and savages, and you protected the
rights of others and assured their right to exist and express.
O’ messenger of God, when it comes to intellect and knowledge, your
nation has fallen behind and Muslims have become in need of everyone in
all aspects of life, and yet no one needs them in any aspect of life.
The current leaders of your nation and what are known as Muslim
countries, are occupied with wealth accumulation, favoritism and
corruption, which has forced Muslims to leave their lands and migrate
elsewhere. O’ messenger of God, when other Muslims shut their doors in
the face of oppressed Muslims, other have opened their doors and arms
and welcomed them into their lands. The soul and life of a Muslim is
worthless and your followers are being slaughtered by individuals
claiming to be your followers as well.
O’ messenger of God, some of the scholars in your nation have brought
more calamities and affliction upon Muslims than the people, who you
battled during life. They preach violence, they preach intolerance, they
preach ignorance and they have led many of your followers astray and to
their doom’s day. These scholars legitimize terrorizing innocent
people, and they legitimize violence and they legitimize taking the soul
of a human, which God has stated: the dignity of a human’s soul is
greater than the Ka’aba. Yet, when soldiers of darkness and terror carry
their crimes, they shout the name of Allah and your holy name, and they
claim, their actions portray your will and faith.
O’ messenger of God, the Islam that is presented today to the world
is far from your Islam, yet it is still introduced as Islam of Mohammad.
Therefore, I pledge that every breath of my life will go toward
presenting the true Islam of Mohammad, and the righteous principles and
values, which you revealed upon this universe. Knowledge and intellect
will be my weapon, my belief, which is derived from your essence and
principles, will be my strategy and peace, tranquility and prosperity
will be my goals. It is said that a person reflects the actions and
values of his/her love and affections. Therefore, I state that you are
my love, as love and passion was defined by you and I will always
reflect the principles you preached and presented to this world. You
were sent as mercy to mankind and therefore, I shall be the reflection
of that mercy within my world and surrounding.
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