BLOG 102 - AH, THE CHEST-BEATING!

[Dr. Shabbir]

AH, THIS CHEST-BEATING!
March 23rd, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

TIME LINE
680 CE: The supposed Tragedy of Karbala.

700 CE: Imam Zain son of Hazrat Husain writes two books making no mention of Karbala.

758 CE: Imam Malik makes no mention of Karbala in his book.

860 CE: Hadith books start appearing making no mention of Karbala.

900 CE: Tabari imagines and writes a detailed Karbala documentary with not a scrap of paper before him!

900 CE ON: The story perpetuates to this day with new colors added in every decade, and by every blind follower Zakir (narrator) of the Zoroastrian “Imam” Tabari.

Can anyone show us a book before Tabari, 900 CE, with even a hint to the supposed Tragedy?

The baseless story makes a mockery of religion in the most humiliating manner when millions of Shiites turn out on streets with chest beating, and bleeding themselves with knives every year in the month of Muharram. For them it is the second most important form of worship. What is the best form of worship? - Waiting for the emergence of Imam Mahdi from the Cave of Samera in Iraq. Oh, 90% of religion is Taqiyyah (Concealing the Truth, hiding the details of religion and speaking in a manner the meaning of which can be twisted in 70 ways. - Imam Ja’far Sadiq).

The Tragedy of Karbala is supposed to have happened in 61 AH = 680 CE. No book of Hadith and History (including “Bukhari and Muslim”, all Sahah Sittah, written 850-860 CE onward) even hints to Karbala or anything such as Yazeed’s forces killing Hazrat Husain at Karbala. Imam Malik bin Anas wrote the first collection of Ahadith, Muwatta, around 758 CE making no mention of Karbala!

But, to create dissension among Muslims, the Parsi “Imam” Tabari (d. 310 AH = 923 CE) suddenly brings up the audio-video of the story out of his magician’s hat around 900 CE. This is half a century after any and all of other writers! More astonishingly, Hazrat Husain’s son Zain-ul-Aabidin (d. 95 AH = 712 CE), considered as the Infallible Fourth Imam by Shiites, makes no mention of Karbala and Yazeed’s atrocities at all in his two books written around 700 CE, only 20 years after the supposed event. In fact, he showers generous laurels on Yazeed. ‘Munajaat-e-Zainul Abideen’ and ‘Saheefa Sajjadia’]

PLEASE REFLECT: Whether you are a Sunni or Shi’ah, please think! Are you aware of any community, nation or religion that indulges in chest-beating and considers it a noble form of worship?

For details, you may study KARBALA: FACT OR FICTION in ISLAM: THE TRUE HISTORY AND FALSE BELIEFS in the Library Section.

http://ourbeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/admin2/2007/08/true-history.pdf

SAAZ-E-ISHRAT KI SADA MAGHRIB KE AIWANON MEIN SUN
AUR IRAN MEIN ZARA MAATAM KI TAYYARI BHI DAIKH

(Listen to the music of delightful glory in the West. And then see the preparations of chest-beating in Iran.)
- Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal