TEHRAN (Iran News) – Sometimes some actions cause hidden norms in the belief of the society to flaunt and to become symbol of a romance which is sustainable and lasting in the nature of the society but it has not put the valuable signs of unity on display in the form of an unconnected and disintegrated ocean.
The 10-kilometer feast of Eid al-Ghadir was of this type of phenomena. It is crystal clear that Shiites and Sunnis are well aware of this auspicious truth that Ghadir is an important event in the history of Islam when Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), on way back from his last Hajj ceremony of his life known as Farewell Pilgrimage and following the Divine order, appointed Hazrat Ali (AS) as his successor. This appointment happened on Dhul Hijjah18 in the 10th year of hijri (632) and at a region called Ghadir Khum.
The Ghadir event in the Holy Quran has been mentioned as the day of “the perfection and blessing of religion”. The word Ghadir means pool and collected rainwater. And Ghadir Khum was a location which was 5 kilometers off Al-Juhfa Miqat (Miqat means the boundary where it becomes necessary for pilgrims to intend the Ihram habiliments and prohibited to pass except the state of Ihram) that in those days was in the form of a big pond. Al-Juhfa was a big village and a strategic trijunction where routes intersected from Mecca, Medina and famous Levant Miqat whose original name was Mahie because once it was completely washed out by the flood before the advent of Islam when the Bani Ebil people were located there.
In Juhfa, the road of Medina, Egypt and Iraq was separated. Currently the remains of an old building in the form of a castle or fortress are there and it is known as Upper Palace or Azur Palace and its distance from Juhfa Miqat at the present time,considering the road and expressway construction, is around 5 kilometers.
According to what the late author Seyed Mohammad Baqer Najafi has written in his article “Geographical Position of Ghadir Khum”, Ghadir Khum is besides Upper Palace but according to the research of Allama Sheik Abd al-Hadi al-Fadl, Ghadir Khum was around 8 kilometers off Juhfa Miqat and this difference due to the progresses and developments is justifiable.
Maybe choosing this place on the Ghadir Khum event by the Prophet (PBUH) was because of geographical reason because pilgrims intersected their routes to Egypt, Iraq and Medina from this point and it shows us well that the Prophet (PBUH), upon the order of Almighty God, has chosen this area because more people can be aware of this appointment and considered this information as a base for promoting commitment to velayat-orientation (Guardianship) in Shiism.
And if this mission today had also been our base, actually we should have trumpeted it with all facilities, talents, promises with full strength and numbers.
Former governments in the past in the Islamic Republic had no incentive and motivation to trumpet it because of being secular or under influence of secularism. With the election of the 13th government, the current of believing in velayat and Ghadir and non-secularist thoughts was disencumbered and last year they trumpeted Ghadir Khum event in the form of a 2-kilometer feast on Vali-Asr Avenue of Tehran which was welcomed warmly and this year the area and space of this feast was expanded to 10 kilometers on a memorable and revolution maker road (Enghelab Street) and this great and glorious initiative was welcomed massively by citizens of Tehran (most likely Iranians). From Imam Hussein (AS) Square to Azadi Square, people were compacted and happy from this event created a feast which had deep root in their romantic norm-maker beliefs. Love and criteria and name of Ali (AS) in this feast were being seen and uttered on the lips of each one of the participants and signs of romantic smile were clearly vivid.
The logo of “To the love of Ali” had created an uproar as if all of them innately knew why they were in the event. This 10 kilometers in Tehran and tens of 10 kilometers in other parts of the country with the people presence will remain as a campaign-like myth whose light of flame will remain lit until the doomsday.
The blind-hearted media like a bat did not reflect this amount of light; they either told nothing about the event or viciously covered it insignificantly. But Almighty God wants to splash His light on the world. Friday afternoon, July 7, 2023 unveiled an upright cedar in Islamic Iran which harvested the hidden seeds in the awakened hearts of religion-oriented people once again and with amazing grandeur in 10 kilometers of love.
