HISTORY OF JANNAT AL-BAQI
WHERE IMAM HASAN B. ALI (2ND IMAM), IMAM ALI B. AL-HUSAYN (4TH IMAM), IMAM MUHAMMAD B. ALI (5TH IMAM), & IMAM JA'FAR B. MUHAMMAD (6TH IMAM), PEACE BE UPON THEM, ARE BURIED
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On 8th Shawwal, Wednesday, in the year 1345 AH (April 21, 1925), mausoleums in Jannatul al-Baqi (Madina) were burst by Baron Ibn Saud.
In the aforementioned year (1925), he aswell burst the tombs of angelic personages at Jannat al-Mualla (Makkah) breadth the Angelic Prophet (s)'s mother, wife, grandfathering and added ancestors are buried.
Destruction of angelic sites in Hijaz by the Saudi Wahhabis continues even today. According to some advisers what is accident in Hijaz is in actuality a cabal advised by the Jews adjoin Islam, beneath the guise of Tawheed. The abstraction is to eradicate the Islamic bequest and ancestry and to systematically abolish all its vestiges so that in the canicule to come, Muslims will acquire no amalgamation with their religious history.
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The Origins of Al-Baqi
Literally "al-Baqi" agency a timberline garden. It is aswell accepted as "Jannat al-Baqi" due to its sanctity, back in it are active abounding of our Prophet's ancestors and companions.
The aboriginal accompaniment active in al-Baqi was Uthman b. Madhoon who died on the 3rd of Sha'ban in the 3rd year of Hijrah. The Prophet (s) ordered assertive copse to be felled, and in its midst, he active his baby companion, agreement two stones over the grave.
On the afterward years, the Prophet's son Ibrahim, who died in adolescence and over whom the Prophet (s) wept bitterly, was aswell active there. The humans of Madina afresh began to use that website for the burying of their own dead, because the Prophet (s) acclimated to accost those who were active in al-Baqi by saying, "Peace be aloft you, O address of the faithful! God willing, we should anon accompany you. O' Allah, absolve the advisers of al-Baqi".
The website of the burying arena at al-Baqi was gradually extended. About seven thousand assembly of the Angelic Prophet (s) were active there, not to acknowledgment those of the Ahlul Bayt (a). Imam Hasan b. Ali (a), Imam Ali b. al-Husayn (a), Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (a), and Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (a) were all active there.
Among added ancestors of the Prophet (s) who were active at al-Baqi are: his aunts Safiya and Aatika, and his aunt Fatima bint al-Asad, the mother of Imam Ali (a). The third absolutist Uthman was active alfresco al-Baqi, but with afterwards extensions, his grave was included in the area. In afterwards years, abundant Muslim advisers like Malik bin Anas and abounding others, were active there too. Thus, did al-Baqi become a acclaimed abode of abundant acclaimed acceptation to all Muslims.
Al-Baqi as beheld by historians
Umar bin Jubair describes al-Baqi as he saw it during his biking to Madina, adage "Al-Baqi is anchored to the east of Madina. You access it through the aboideau accepted as the aboideau of al-Baqi. As you enter, the aboriginal grave you see on your larboard is that of Safiya, the Prophet's aunt, and added still is the grave of Malik bin Anas, the Imam of Madina. On his grave is aloft a baby dome. In foreground of it is the grave of Ibrahim son of our Prophet (s) with a white arch over it, and next to it on the appropriate is the grave of Abdul-Rahman son of Umar bin al-Khattab, bargain accepted as Abu Shahma, whose ancestor had kept backbreaking him till afterlife overtook him. Adverse it are the graves of Aqeel bin Abi Talib and Abdullah bin Ja'far al-Tayyar. There, adverse those graves is a baby altar absolute the graves of the Prophet's wives, afterward by a altar of Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib.
The grave of Hasan bin Ali (a), anchored abreast the aboideau to it's appropriate hand, has an animated arch over it. His arch lies at the anxiety of Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib, and both graves are aloft top aloft the ground, their walls are panelled with chicken plates and brindled with admirable star-shaped nails. This is how the grave of Ibrahim, son of the Prophet (s) has aswell been adorned. Behind the altar of Abbas there is the abode attributed to Fatima, babe of our Prophet (s), accepted as "Bayt al-Ahzaan" (the abode of grief) because it is the abode she acclimated to common in adjustment to ache the afterlife of her father, the called one, accord be aloft him. At the extreme end of al-Baqi is the grave of the absolutist Uthman, with a baby arch over it, and there, next to it, is the grave of Fatima bint Asad, mother of Ali b. Abi Talib (a)"
After a aeon and a half, the acclaimed traveller Ibn Batuta came to call al-Baqi in a way which does not in any way alter from the description accustomed by Ibn Jubair. He adds saying, "At al-Baqi are the graves of abundant Muhajirin and Ansar and abounding assembly of the Prophet (s), except that a lot of of their names are unknown."
Thus, over the centuries, al-Baqi remained a angelic website with renovations getting agitated out as and if bare till the Wahhabis rose to ability in the aboriginal nineteenth century. The closing besmirched the tombs and approved boldness to the martyrs and the assembly of the Prophet (s) active there. Muslims who disagreed with them were branded as "infidels" and were afterwards killed.
The Aboriginal Abolition of Al-Baqi
The Wahhabis believed that visiting the graves and the shrines of the Prophets, the Imams, or the saints was a anatomy of account and absolutely un-Islamic. Those who did not accommodate with their acceptance were asleep and their acreage was confiscated. Back their aboriginal aggression of Iraq, and till nowadays, in fact, the Wahhabis, as able-bodied as added rulers of the Gulf States, accepting been accustomed out massacres from which no Muslim who disagreed with them was spared. Obviously, the blow of the Islamic Apple beheld those graves with abysmal reverence. Had it not been so, the two caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar would not acquire bidding their admiration for burying abreast the grave of the Prophet (s).
From 1205 AH to 1217 AH, the Wahhabis fabricated several attempts to accretion a ballast in Hijaz but failed. Finally, in 1217 AH, they somehow emerged arrive in Taif breadth they agitated the innocent claret of Muslims. In 1218 AH, they entered Makkah and destroyed all angelic places and domes there, including the one which served as a awning over the able-bodied of Zamzam.
In 1221, the Wahhabis entered Madina to befoul al-Baqi as able-bodied as every abbey they came across. An attack was even fabricated to annihilate the Prophet's tomb, but for one acumen or another, the abstraction was abandoned. In consecutive years, Muslims from Iraq, Syria, and Egypt were banned access into Makkah for Hajj. Baron Al-Saud set a pre-condition that those who admired to accomplish the crusade would acquire to acquire Wahhabism or abroad be branded as non-Muslims, acceptable disqualified for access into the Haram.
Al-Baqi was razed to the ground, with no assurance of any grave or tomb whatsoever. But the Saudis were still not absolutely annoyed with accomplishing all of that. Their baron ordered three atramentous associates at the Prophet's altar to appearance him breadth the abundance of admired ability were stored. The Wahhabis plundered the abundance for their own use.
Thousands of Muslims fled Makkah and Madina in a bid to save their lives and escape from the ascent burden and animality at the easily of the Wahhabis. Muslims from all over the apple denounced this Saudi abomination and exhorted the Caliphate of the Ottoman Empire to save the angelic shrines from absolute destruction. Then, as it is known, Muhammad Ali Basha attacked Hijaz and, with the abutment of bounded tribes, managed to restore law and adjustment in Madina and Makkah, dislodging the Al-Saud clansmen. The absolute Muslim apple acclaimed this achievement with abundant alarum and rejoicing. In Cairo, the celebrations connected for 5 days. No doubt, the joy was due to the actuality that pilgrims were already added accustomed advisedly to go for Hajj, and the angelic shrines were already afresh restored.
In 1818 AD, the Ottaman Absolutist Abdul Majid and his successors, Caliphs Abdul Hamid and Mohammed, agitated out the about-face of all angelic places, abating the Islamic ancestry at all important sites. In 1848 and 1860 AD, added renovations were fabricated at the amount of about seven hundred thousand pounds, a lot of of which came from the donations calm at the Prophet's tomb.
The additional boodle by the Wahhabis
The Ottoman Empire had added to the brightness of Madina and Makkah by architecture religious structures of abundant adorableness and architectural value. Richard Burton, who visited the angelic shrines in 1853 AD bearded as an Afghan Muslim and adopting the Muslim name Abdullah, speaks of Madina boasting 55 mosques and angelic shrines. Accession English charlatan who visited Madina in 1877-1878 AD describes it as a baby admirable city-limits akin Istanbul. He writes about its white walls, aureate attenuate minarets and blooming fields.
1924 AD Wahhabis entered Hijaz for a additional time and agitated out accession barbarous boodle and massacre. Humans in streets were killed. Houses were razed to the ground. Women and accouchement too were not spared.
Awn bin Hashim (Shairf of Makkah) writes: "Before me, a basin appeared to acquire been paved with corpses, broiled claret staining everywhere all around. There was hardly a timberline which didn't acquire one or two asleep bodies abreast its roots."
1925 Madina surrendered to the Wahhabi onslaught. All Islamic ancestry were destroyed. The alone altar that remained complete was that of the Angelic Prophet (s).
Ibn Jabhan says: "We apperceive that the tomb continuing on the Prophet's grave is adjoin our principles, and to acquire his grave in a abbey is an abhorrent sin."
Tombs of Hamza and added martyrs were burst at Uhud. The Prophet's abbey was bombarded. On beef by Muslims, assurances were accustomed by Ibn Saud that it will be adequate but the affiance was never fulfilled. A affiance was accustomed that Hijaz will acquire an Islamic bunch government. This was aswell abandoned.
1925 AD Jannat al-Mu'alla, the angelic cemetery at Makkah was destroyed alongwith the abode breadth the Angelic Prophet (s) was born. Back then, this day is a day of aching for all Muslims.
Is it not aberrant that the Wahhabis acquisition it abhorrent to acquire the tombs, shrines and added places of accent preserved, while the charcoal of their Saudi kings are getting attentive at the amount of millions of dollars?
Protest from Indian Muslims
1926, beef gatherings were captivated by abashed Muslims all over the world. Resolutions were anesthetized and a account analogue the crimes perpetrated by Wahhabis was issued and included the following:
The abolition and abuse of the angelic places i.e. the bearing abode of the Angelic Prophet [s], the graves of Banu Hashim in Makkah and in Jannat al-Baqi (Madinah), the abnegation of the Wahhabis to acquiesce Muslims to recite Ziyarah or Surah al-Fatiha at those graves.
The abolition of the places of adoration i.e. Masjid Hamza, Masjid Abu Rasheed, in accession to the tombs of Imams and Sahaba (Prophet's companions).
Interference in the achievement of Hajj rituals.
Forcing the Muslims to chase the Wahhabis innovations and to carelessness their own means according to the advice of the Imams they follow.
The annihilation of sayyids in Taif, Madina, Ahsa, and Qatif.
The annihilation of the grave of the Imams at al-Baqi which acutely affronted and afflicted all Shias.
Protest from added countries
Similar protests were lodged by Muslims in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Indonesia, and Turkey. All of them adjudge the Saudi Wahhabis for their barbarian acts. Some advisers wrote tracts and books to acquaint the apple the actuality that what was accident in Hijaz was in actuality a cabal advised by the Jews adjoin Islam, beneath the guise of Tawheed. The abstraction was to eradicate the Islamic bequest and ancestry and to systematically abolish all its vestiges so that in the canicule to come, Muslims will acquire no amalgamation with their religious history.
A fractional account of the burst graves and shrines
Al-Mualla graveyard in Makkah which includes the grave of Sayyida Khadija bint Khuwailid (a), wife of the Prophet (s), the grave of Amina bint Wahab, mother of the Prophet (s), the grave of Abu Talib, ancestor of
Imam Ali (a), and the grave of Abdul Muttalib, grandfathering of the Prophet (s)
The grave of Hawa (Eve) in Jeddah
The grave of the ancestor of the Prophet (s) in Madina
The abode of sorrows (bayt al-Ahzan) of Sayyida Fatima (a) in Madina
The Salman al-Farsi abbey in Madina
The Raj'at ash-Shams abbey in Madina
The abode of the Prophet (s) in Madina, breadth he lived afterwards brief from Makkah
The abode of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (a) in Madina
The circuitous (mahhalla) of Banu Hashim in Madina
The abode of Imam Ali (a) breadth Imam Hasan (a) and Imam Husayn (a) were built-in
The abode of Hamza and the graves of the martyrs of Uhud (a)
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