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HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
The 20th of Jamadiyolthani is the "Day of Kowthar". After the death of the children of the noble Prophet
of Islam (pbuh), the Qoraysh polytheists rejoiced and made taunting
remarks claiming that the progeny of the Prophet (pbuh) will not survive!
Just then, this judgment came from God, the Creator; "Surely, we have
given thee "the Kowthar", i.e. abundance. So, pray unto thy Creator and
sacrifice.
Surely, thy foe is the one who shall be of no posterity"
(The Holy Qoran, sura Al-Kowthar [Abundance], verses 1-3). That very great
day the nectar of Guardianship and Imamate streamed on the earth and the
Lady of Chastity and Faith, Her Holiness Seddiqeh Tahereh (pbuh) was born
destined to be consort to our eternal Imam of justice and humanism, Ali
(pbuh) to produce together a generation of which the eleven stars of
imamate standing on the high road to salvation are but one example. A
generation whose peace and wars; whose prayers and silence; whose
patience, knowledge, and life of constant resistance and pain and
martyrdom and finally the awaited Occultation, all reveal divine
expediencies. All this prove that God's servants are not left to
themselves during periods of descension and caged in the fences of time
and nature. Furthermore, the seekers of truth and those who stride in the
path of guidance always have a pathfinder and the earth is never without
signs of God. The period
of Occultation began while the struggle
between the good and the bad continued. Generation after generation, the
rebels, mammonists and carriers of vice stood up in their dark front; and
on the opposite side, stood firm the faithful believers and the pious men
and pure nobles gathered in their lighted plane. The lights of inspiration
were cast upon the world, and Islam, conquesting the hearts of God's good
servants, was extending its domain, advancing to the Far East on the one
side and to the heart of Europe on the other. A great, unprecedented
civilization was in the offing and mankind was witnessing a wonderous leap
and evolution in areas of science, literature, culture, arts and all signs
of true civilization based on a solid foundation of faith and
motives.
The awakened intuitive approaches toward the salvation message
of the trusty Prophet (pbuh) was so deep and widespread that even the
weakness and cruelty of the incompetent rulers could not stop the
advancement of God's religion. Europe was aflame in the barbarism of the
Middle Ages and the materialists ruling over the oppressed servants of God
had taken up offensive position behind the holy cross to prevent the
message of him--whose advent, Jesus Christ (pbuh) had heralded--from
reaching their dark world. So they did to prevent the medieval
church-shop, devoid of the spirit of the ideology of Jesus and
censorship-ridden of opinions or inquisition--which is indeed a stain on
history of man's reputation--lose currency. How surprising and woeful it
was that exactly at the time they had gotten ready to do away with the
religion of the last divine Prophet, the fires of friction, power-seeking
and ruinous factionalism were being kindled on this front.
It was at
this same time that a variety of causes and elements prepared the grounds
for scientific and industrial changes in Europe when machinery and
technology fell into the hands of the enemy's might and their governments.
The spread of new sciences and techniques, the development of which Islam
had a major decisive part in, gave prosperity to the stagnant and
primitive European community.
Instead of seeking a remedy, the rulers
and leaders of Muslim lands accepted the shame of negligence and
backwardness rather than toil of struggle and crusade. Consequently, the
enemies (of Islam) became stronger day after day, extending their
possessions. Parts of the Islamic territories were practically and
painfully colonized by colonialists. The bitter story of the rule of might
and capital, and challenging the Almighty God as well as overt and covert
interference of the colonialists in the destinies of the Islamic lands
continued for several centuries.
In Iran, monarchical dynasties came to
power one after another. In spite of constant oppression over the
hard-working nation of Iran--a nation that had very early voluntarily
accepted the call to monotheism--remained for a long time the vanguard of
Islamic civilization and culture. But tyranny by the monarchs and schism
by the neo-colonialists increased, especially now that the enemy had
entered the scene under the disguise of development and
progress. The
treason of the Qajar monarchs(پ), their loyalties to the foreigners and
their concomitant rule with the era of Anglo-Russian interference in Iran,
had produced the most painful circumstances.
Embassies of colonial
powers directly involved themselves with and interfered in all aspects of
the country's affairs, even in appointments and dismissal of ministers of
state, courtiers and military commanders. It was at this juncture, filled
with affliction and pain, that wide stretches of Iranian territories and
Islamic homeland were ceded to foreigners by shameful agreements or
treaties. Within the country, too, insecurity, injustice and governmental
corruption were devastating. The Tobacco() Boycott Decree in the form of
a fatwa by the great clergyman, the Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, the reformist
cries and calls of Seyyed Jamaloddin Asadabadi() and the uprisings of the
ulama in Iran and Najaf against the British
colonialism had revealed the might of the Islamic
clergy. The British government had recognized the
source of danger. Because of this,a wave of anti-clergy challenge and of
separation of religion from politics, started using
various ruses and tricks. Amid all this, the
Freemasons and the queer "Westernized" elements were,
under assumed intellectualism, fanning the fires
inside the country.
Mozaffaroddin Shah() Qajar, not seeing a foothold
for himself among people, had courted the Anglo-Russian support for the fulfillment of his wishes and hopes, and surely, other Islamic countries were bogged down in similar regrettable
conditions.
