A Drop in the Ocean
My condolences to the Faithful, for the martyrdom of their Master, Imam Ali Ibn Abi Thalib AS, on the 21st of Ramadhan, 40th year of the Hijrah.
The Faithful convey their condolences to Rasulullah SAWA his brother, to Fatimah Az Zahra AS his equal companion and to his children, the Imams from the Ahlul Bayt AS, especially to the Imam of This Age, Muhammad Al-Mahdi AJTFS.
Imam Ali is undisputedly incontestably incomparably the greatest personality in Islam, of Islam, for Islam and from Islam, second only to the Noble Prophet Muhammad SAWA. If Muhammad SAWA is the best teacher, Ali is his best student.
The Prophet had said of Ali, “O Ali, love for you is true faith (imaan), while hatred for you is hypocrisy (nifaaq)”. Like his brother, the Prophet himself, Ali is a polarised figure. Like his predecessor, Muhammad SAWA, he is one of the most loved as well as the most hated personalities in history.
He is loved for his generosity, nobility, magnanimity, valour, wisdom, brilliance, mercy and liberality. Yet he is hated by the hypocrites and the treacherous for his unflinching devotion to justice and preserving the purity of Islam.
Yet his true lovers, followers and devotees will find that even if all the books in existence were to be made into praises for him, they would not do justice to him.
Some more points about Imam Ali:-
- The ONLY Muslim or human being for that matter to have been born in the House of Allah, the Holy Ka’abah.
- The ONLY Muslim to have given zakat (alms) while praying, in the state of Ruku’ as revealed in the Quran, Chapter 5 Verse 55.
- The ONLY Muslim who 100% never questioned the Prophet and always supported him in everything, while other Muslims and Companions occasionally had their human moments.
- Yet despite all his greatness and the praises which he absolutely deserve, he describes himself only as a “Servant of Muhammad”. Despite his undefeatable ferocity on the battlefield in the defence of Islam (and he is the best defender of Islam, Khalid Bin Walid, Salahaddin, etc, cannot compare to a single stroke of his sword), he is so humble such that sometimes beggars who eat from his hands mistook him as someone even poorer than them, and in prayer, he is the best example of one who upholds the prayer after the Prophet.
- His in-depth knowledge of Islam and the Quran was of such genius proportions that the Companions and the Caliphs after Rasulullah would only turn to him as a trusted authority on religious, political, social, even occasionally mathematical matters, despite being narrators of hadith themselves. His deep knowledge of Islam was evident in the fact that he never manifested any signs of doubt or forgetfulness in giving his answers or delivering his sermons; there was absolutely no uncertainty in him, it was as if Rasulullah was still alive and dictating to him when he was giving his guidance. Many Jews and Christians with questions about Islam did not embrace Islam only until they get satisfied by the answers of Imam Ali AS; for the answers of no one else could satisfy them of the truth of Islam.