The Annual Ashura Mourning gathering began on Sunday the 1st of Muharram 1433(27/11/2011) at Husainiyyah Baqiyyatullah, Zaria. The Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sayyid Zakzaky gave a brief speech on the significance of Hijrah of the Prophet(AS).
Sayyid Zakzaky explained that new Islamic year ought to be a time for expressing joy, however, the event of Karbala has turned it to be a time for sorrow, mourning and expressing condolences .
Significance of Hijrah
The Leader also explained the Hijrah of the Prophet which mark the Islamic Calendar. He said the Prophet did not migrate to Madina as asylum seeker which is normally characterized with certain unfavorable conditions. In contrast, the Prophet was received in Madina as Leader where the first Islamic state was established. Madina then became a root wherefrom Islam reached every part of the world. Madina served as a base for Islam, when it had no one before. Islam became the system of Government while the Prophet was the Leader. This shows the necessity and importance of having Islamic system of Governance.
Nigeria’s situation is like the situation before the Prophet’s migration. The responsibility upon every Muslim in Nigeria is to work toward establishing Islamic system of Government in order to change it to a situation after Hijra. Our sole aim is to establish system of Islam and those who oppose it have similar aim like that of Satan who always wants to be a stumbling block to Prophetic mission and aim.
Nowadays to frustrate the effort of Islamic revival, theories and like democracy and modernity are introduced.
The aim is to establish Islamic Government, and inability to achieve that does not mean failure as there were Prophets like Musa(AS) and Ibraheem (AS) who had not establish Islamic state. However, the effort must be put continuously.
On Ashura Tragedy.
The time of Ashura is a time of weeping and mourning with killings of Imam Husain(AS). It is a great loss to the Ummah and humanity in general. If asked why the weeping and mourning of a death which occurred over a thousand year. The answer is we weep because of the loss the Ummah has made with death of Imam Husain(AS). The killers choose the path of Satan as they wanted to extinguish the light of Islam altogether, and God leave them with their choice as He cannot impose his path on them. He has the power to make his religion prevail, He however left the killers with their choice. The Ummah has made a big lost with the killings of the Prophet’s son.
Commemorating Ashura event is reviving Islam. Islamic revival must begin from Karbala event. The Imam of the Age(AJ), as reported, will also take revenge of the killing of Imam Husain(AS). So, the 1st to 10th of Muharram is time of sorrow for Ahlul Bayt (AS), the Prophets, Angels and the Followers of the Right path.
After the killing of Imam Husain(AS), the perpetrators formed a new version of religion for the Ummah in accordance with wishes and caprices. The atrocities began in Thaqeefah and ended in Karbala. The Molestation of Imam Husain’s mother gave way for the killing of her son, after which they formed official version of religion for the Ummah. A religion which produced shaykhs and clerics. What happened to Islam is similar to Christianity and Judaism in which some people formed those religions, in contrast to the real teachings, and attached the names of Isa and Musa to them.
Those in authorities, the past ones and the present, are disturbed when Ashura event is commemorated. They are disturbed because they know that it is to do with Islamic revival. Islam was about to be “killed” in Karbala and its coming back to life.
After sunset Prayers, matham was performed followed by Ziyara of Imam Husain a closing prayer said by Sayyid Zakzaky.