We are poor Muslims, and I am among them; The fact that a victim of emotional dealings with the great historical sedition in which the young Islamic state was afflicted, and authorized to start the most complex political conflict that the early Muslims knew, in order to stabilize the legitimacy of the Imamate and unite the nation under one banner.
Fate wanted that the “great strife” would fall, to divide the ranks after an exceptional era of the rule of “pre -sedition”, when the swords were famous in the face of the enemies of religion, instead of being instilled in the issuance of Muslims. The accumulations of those first moments of sedition continued to cast a shadow over every rise and decline in the Islamic State, which exhausted the awareness of the nation, and was flooded in crises that are reproduced to this day, which are fed by the complex historical causes in its formation.
Why are we poor?
We are poor because we believed the existence of a “one -faced” fact of an ancient historical conflict and heavy in the great events, relying on the narratives that we inherited its vision charged with bias and partisanship for this or that team, ignoring that all those who fought those conflicts have been collected by faith, the seniority of companionship, and kinship ties.
We are poor because we deluded ourselves that the “historical truth” must be subject to our whims, and not to the facts of the reality that it produced. Woe to those who are obligated to transport the transport and analysis to remove confusion and fraud when providing the facts; As he quickly accused of apostasy and betrayal of the religion; Because he decided to deviate from the heritage intellectual consensus of the masses, so that it will be included for fear of threat and promises.
We are poor because we have become an easy prey to fabricate the facts, with our tendency to evade the responsibility for discovering the “objective truth” that requires a balanced understanding of the logic of historical events and putting them in its temporal, religious, cultural, and even personality of the main actors in the past of these events, in order to preserve the minimum level of our moral unit as Islamic societies.
Great sedition in historical drama
The foregoing is nothing but scattered thoughts of what is going on in the mind and the conscience dwells when contemplating the reasons for the “great strife”, which was awakened by the narrative of dramatic work “Muawiyah, and I am not here in the process of evaluating this epic production in terms of artistic that I do not understand it, but I seek to search and investigate, to reassure the heart and calm the mind, that what is heard and sees is agreed with what the weighted pens decided to exaggerate Description of the facts of history, especially after this work was placed in the “prohibition” box!
Among these pens among the Tunisian Islamic historian Hisham Jaeit, the author of the famous book, “The sedition: the dialectic of religion and politics in early Islam”, in which he presented a solid analytical reading of that critical period of our Islamic history. It was necessary to re -read it to refute what was stated in the series, which I see had moved the stagnant water, awakened many legitimate questions, and some of us earned the virtue of patience before the unjust rulings were launched against those who tried to tame “the monster of sedition.”
Free from the burdens of history
Because the “monster of sedition” used to pursue us, we are the public, and cut off the way of questions that may re -program our awareness to dismantle its pilgrimage and liberate it from its highest, as it was necessary to do such a dramatic work to restore something from the audacity of the search behind the mountain of strife.
The way to know what is beyond the “hill” is long and arduous, and it is in urgent need of objective reviews that restore matters to their fair and balanced mental quorum, as there is no even in the ideal world, an absolute or absolute right, except within the limits of what God has legalized.
So, what we need to raise the burdens of “great strife” is a free awareness of the shackles of the past, which re -read history by placing it in its correct contexts. Consciousness saves us from the delusions of biased novels, and the hand of those who exploit them will stop to throw us in the debris and controversy leading to the paths of hatred and discord, instead of uniting on the word.
*Member of the founder of the circuit of Muhammad Jaber Al -Ansari for thought and culture
