*The Shine of Ali*

In the name of the Compassionate

*The Shine of Ali*

Peace,

Realize what America has done today by attacking *The Shine of Ali*.
We will suffer much sorrow for what we have done today. Fear God...
for His judgments are upon this fifthly government and its sleeping
peoples.


Ali Andrew X98
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HISTORY OF THE SHRINE OF
IMAM ALI B. ABI TALIB, PEACE BE UPON HIM


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The visit of Prophet Abraham and Isaac and Abraham's prediction and
desire to buy the Valley of Peace.
Those who have visited Najaf will remember vividly that to the north
and east of the town there are acres of graves and myriads of domes of
various colours and at various stages of disrepair. Whoever goes to
Najaf will follow a road that approaches the town by a winding course
through this vast cemetery. The Prophet Abraham had come to this place
along with Isaac; there had been many earthquakes in the vicinity, but
while Abraham remained there, there were no tremors. On the night,
however, when Abraham and Isaac went to a different village, and sure
enough Najaf was visited with another earthquake. When they returned,
the people were most eager for them to make Najaf their permanent
dwelling-place. Abraham agreed to do so on condition that they would
sell him the valley behind the village for cultivation. Isaac
protested and said that this land was neither fit for farming nor
grazing, but Abraham insisted and assured him that the time would come
when there would be a tomb there with a shrine, at which seventy
thousand people would gain absolutely undisputed entrance to Paradise,
and be able also to intercede for many others.1

The valley that Abraham wanted to buy is called the Valley of Peace
(Wadiu's-Salaam), and it is related on the authority of the fourth
Imam, that Ali once said that this ValIey of Peace is part of Heaven
and that there is not a single one of the believers in the world,
whether he dies in the east or west, but his soul will come to this
Paradise to rest.2 "As there is nothing hidden in this world from my
eyes," Ali went on to say, "I see all the believers seated - here in
groups and talking with one another."

How Najaf was given its name is explained in the tradition. At first
there was a mountain there, and when one of the sons of Noah refused
to enter the Ark, he said that he would sit on this mountain until he
would see where the water would come. A revelation came therefore to
the mountain, "Do you undertake to protect this son of mine from
punishment?" And all at once the mountain fell. to pieces and the son
of Noah was drowned. In place of the mountain a large river appeared,
but after a few years the river dried up, and the place was called
Nay-Jaff, meaning, "the dried river."3

And so as per the prediction of Abraham, Imam Ali was buried here.

Ali is absent today from our midst only physically. His soul even to
this day is the greatest spiritual resort everyone who seeks the help
of God through his medium. Thousands and thousands of people call out
to him in their difficulties, and the word "Ya Ali Madad",
automatically comes to them. A famous prayer known as "NADEY ALI"
(Call Ali) is recited wherever abound the lovers of Ali.

The Mausoleum

"The Mausoleum itself of Hazrat Ali at Najaf, is breathtaking. There
is one large central dome which stands out of a square-shaped ornate
structure at the two sides of which are two minarets. The predominant
colour of'the exterior is gold, bright shining gold and the entire
exterior of the mausoleum is inlaid with a mosaic pattern of light
powder blue, white marble, gold again with an occasional splash of
Middle East rust." So says D. F. Karaka after his visit to Najaf, and
further adds, "I have sat and wondered at the marbled splendour of our
Taj Mahal, the tomb which Shah Jahan built for his Empress Mumtaz
Mahal, but despite its beauty, the Taj appears insipid in comparison
with this splash of colour at Najaf. The tomb surpassed anything I
have seen in gorgeous splendour. All the great kings of the world put
together could not have a tomb as magnificent as this, for this is the
tribute which kings and peasants have built together to enshrine the
mortal remains of the great Ali."

Countless number of people from all over the world flock to his tomb
day after day to pay their respects and to offer salutations and to
pray to Allah seeking his intercession. And those who cannot afford to
go there personally, are constantly praying to Allah to help them to
visit the shrine of their Maula Ali, and when somebody goes on a
pilgrimage to Najaf, they request him to offer salutations on their
behalf, and to pray to God - for some particular favour - and to seek
Imam Ali's intercession.

The deer hunting incident of Harun al-Rashid
"During the reigns of the Umayyad Caliphs his blessed resting-place
could not be disclosed, and so it was also under the Abbasids until
the reign of Harun al-Rashid. But in the year 175 A.H. (791 A.D.),
Harun happened to go hunting in these parts, and the deer he was
chasing took refuge on a small piece of raised ground. However much he
asked his hunting dogs to capture the quarry, they refused to go near
this spot. He urged his horse to this place, and the horse too refused
to budge; and on this, awe took possession of the Caliph's heart, and
he immediately started to make inquiries of the people of the
neighbourhood, and they acquainted him with the fact that this was the
grave of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Holy
Prophet. Harun ordered a tomb to be erected over the grave, and people
soon began to settle down in its vicinity."4





Footnotes:

1. Majlisi op. cit. page 108.

2. Mailisi op. cit. Page 111.

3. Majlisi op. cit. page 111.

4. The Shrine of Ali at Najaf from "The shi'ite Religion" by Dwight M.
Donaldson.

Nice manifesto, dude.

X98 wrote in
:

In the name of the Compassionate

*The Shine of Ali*

Peace,

Realize what America has done today by attacking *The Shine of Ali*.
We will suffer much sorrow for what we have done today. Fear God...
for His judgments are upon this fifthly government and its sleeping
peoples.

Nice try Sodom. The US is trying very hard to avoid damage to the
aforementioned sites and it isn't the US who's attacking the guards
at those places either. Try whining at those really responsible.
Just remember to take along a self addressed stamped shipping basket
for your head because Al Sadr's goons have no sense of humo(u)r at
all.

IBM

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