Kashaful Aza

Preaching of Aza

The third aspect of azadari is its preaching. All the azadars (mourners) of Imam Hussain (as) came out of their houses and imambargahs and marched into the streets, roads, and bazaars.

They do matam, zanjeer, and qama zani while being barefoot and having bare dust covered heads. They march from one street to another. The chant of "Ya Hussain (as)" can be heard on every street.

It seems as if every single living being on this earth is chanting "Ya Hussain (as)". This is the way to express one?s grief and protest. Every one who sees this scene is forced to think; there must be a very important reason to make these people act this way.

Who on this earth likes to give himself pain or put himself intentionally into the difficulties of this world? They ask each other "What has happened?" They were told the day of judgment before the day of judgment has occurred.

That Nabi (saw) which they follow, His Son (as) and His Son?s whole family (as) were brutally martyred in Karbala. His Daughters (sa) were taken bareheaded into the bazaars and courts. All of this was done by the so called followers of this Prophet (saw).

Anyone, who has even a little iman (faith), will be unable to bear hearing this. He will then join the mourners by doing tabarra (disassociating himself from the enemies of Ahlul Bayt as) on the enemies of His Prophet (saw). Believe me when I say the mulvi (scholars) did not convert the people to Shia.

Even if they did cause someone to become Shia, it is like they have taken him out of kufr (disbelief) and entered him in the deviation.

This is a great miracle of azadari of Imam Hussain (as). The one who becomes Shia because of azadari gives his whole life to Imam Hussain (as). The azadari of Imam Hussain (as) is the great source which caused a revolution to spread throughout the whole world.

The enemies of Imam Hussain (as) became so afraid that they made plans to end the whole of azadari of Imam Hussain (as) but especially the juloos e aza (procession of mourners).

In order to fulfill their shaitani purpose, they started attacking the procession of Ashura every year. History is a witness that as the violence increased, the attendance of these processions also increased.

The glory of the processions reached its highest peak. The enemies of Imam Hussain (as) immediately realized it is impossible to harm these processions from the outside. So they found people within the Shia religion whom they could use to fulfill their shaitani purposes. Obviously common Shia are not fit for this job. So they selected only those people who wore the label of religion and who had great influence over the masses of common Shia. People follow their fatwas.

These people were the owners of religion and of sharia (Islamic law) themselves. These people joined the ranks of the enemies of Imam Hussain (as) and raised the banner of "Ittehad bain ul muslimeen" (unity amongst muslims). Then they came to their true purpose which was how to shatter the power of the processions of azadari. To achieve their goal, they decided it was best to not do this all at once, but in different stages.

First Stage

The first thing they decided to break was the temp of the processions which would cause the participants to not have their usual feelings of enthusiasm. Its participants come from miles and miles away, despite the thousands of dangers, they come only to attend the procession of azadari of Imam Hussain (as).

So they planned to stop the matam and to silence the noha khawns. So they invented a custom. When the time of zuhr prayer approaches, they immediately stop the procession and stand for prayer. The end result of this was the tempo of the juloos became broken. A lot of people would go and drink tea or smoke cigarettes. Many people divided into smaller groups and busied themselves in gossips. A lot of people can be seen laughing.

Zuljenah is stopped and Alams are lowered. By doing this, the honor and respect of the juloos is lost. We see such attendees at the juloos who are not there for mourning, but for enjoying themselves. Even after seeing all of this, the people?s faith still does not force them to stand up and say, "O?ignorants! The government gave us license and route permits for juloos not for prayer".

This prayer which you are offering on the roads is not only a violation of route permit but completely against sharia. You cannot offer prayers on the road because prayer cannot be performed in a place that is a walk through for the people.

How can this sharia, which takes immense care of its people, bear having its name used by those who are simply performing prayer for the purposes of being seen by others and for breaking the tempo of the juloos so the mourners will stop performing matam? If anyone wants to pray at that time, he could very easily go to any mosque or return to his own house to pray.

People must think Allah ordered His Prophet (saw) to stop His prayer for Imam Hussain (as). If anyone stops the juloos of Imam Hussain (as) simply to perform prayers so the people can see them, then it is completely against the will of Allah. When we see such scenes,

our tongues immediately start saying "Ajal Allah talla farajaka" (May Allah hasten the reappearance of our Imam ajf). May Allah bring that day soon. When Imam Zamana (ajf) will take revenge on the people who offer the prayer of Lashker yazid (la) (army of yazid la). Ameen !