“Why I Left Shi'ah”--Sayyid Husain Al-Musawi
Rabi Us Sani 26,
1434 A.H, Saturday, March 9,
2013
The Testimony Of The Author Before He Was Killed
Sayyid Husain Al-Musawi is
not an unfamiliar name among the Shi'ahs. He was a great scholar of the
Shi'ahs who was born in Karbala and studied in Hauzah until he got the title
“mujtahid”. He also had a special position in the sight of Imam Ayatullah
Khomeini.
After going through a long
spiritual journey, he finally left Shi'ah, because he found so many
deviations and errors in it. This article was excerpted from his book,
'Why I Left Shi'ah (transl.)', his responsibility for Allah and history
before he was eventually murdered:
I was born in Karbala,
growing up in an environment of Shi'ah people and was cared of by my father,
who was a religious person. I studied in a number of schools in the city up
until I reached early adolescence. And then my father sent me to Hauzah,
sort of like an Islamic boarding school, in the city of Najaf. It was the
main city of knowledge, the place of the famous scholars to study religious
knowledge, such as Imam Sayyid Muhammad Ali Husain Kasyif Al-Ghita. He was a
notable figure in the 'City of Knowledge'. Since then, I started thinking
seriously about the issue of knowledge. I studied the madzhab of
Ahlul-Bait, but on the other hand I have found reproach and attacks against
the Ahlul-Bait.
I learned about the issues
of Shari'ah to worship Allah, but in it were nas (texts) which
show kufr against Allah SWT. "O Allah, what am I studying? Is it
possible that all this is the true madzhab of Ahlul-Bait?"
Indeed, this led to the
splitting of a person's personality. Because, how does he worship Allah
while on the other hand he is kufr against Allah? How does he follow
the sunnah of Rasulullah while on the other hand he attacks him? How
can he be said following the Ahlul Bait, loving and studying their
madzhab, while he insults and mocks him?
"Send down your mercy
and love O Allah. If not because of Your mercy, I will surely be among those
who go astray, in fact among those who lose."
I again asked myself,
"What is the attitude of the notable figures, the imams and those who are
considered as ulama's? What is their stance on this matter? Do they see what
I see? Do they learn what I learn?"
I need someone to complain
about all my confusion and pour out all my sadness to. I finally got the
guidance and a good idea, i.e. to do a comprehensive study and reassess all
the subject materials that I had received. I read everything I got from the
references, be it the mu'tabar or otherwise.
I read every book that got
into my hands. I pondered to review some of the paragraphs and those nas
and I commented based on the ideas that were in my brain.
When I finished reading the
references that are mu'tabar, I got some paper, and then kept them,
hopefully one day Allah will determine a decision for me.
I beg Allah for help in
explaining this truth. There would be a lot of accusation, fitnah and
murder attempts that would be met if one exposes the deviations of Shi'ah,
but I had already considered all those, and they did not prevent me from
doing it.
The people of Shi'ah have
killed the father of our leaders, namely Ayatullah Uzhma Imam Sayyid Abul
Hasan Al-Ashfani, a greatest imam of the Shi'ah after the
disappearance of the imams until today. There is no doubt that he was
a great figure of Shi'ah , however, when he was about to straighten out the
manhaj of Shi'ah and cleanse the superstitious that are present in
it, they slaughtered him like how they slaughter a goat. Just as they also
have assassinated Sayyid Ahmad Al-Kasrawi when he declared himself free of
the deviations of Shi'ah and wanted to straighten out the manhaj of
Shi'ah, they chopped off the body of Sayyid Ahmad into several parts.
There are still many people
who suffered the same fate due to their courage in opposing the bathil
aqeedah incuded into the madzhab of Shi'ah. And they also want me
to suffer the same fate. But it does not frighten me. Suffice it for me to
deliver the truth, advise my brothers, give warnings to them and turn away
from misguidance.
If I want the pleasure of
the world, the mut'ah (contract marriage) and khumus (a fifth of the
property given by the followers of Shi'ah) have been enough to achieve all
those, as done by others other than myself who have become rich in each of
their area. Some of them ride the most expensive cars of the latest model.
But alhamdulillah, I turned away from those since I recognize the
truth.
Seeing The Ahlussunnah
As Najis (Unclean)
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The most widespread belief
among us, the followers of Shi'ah is the prioritization on the Ahlul Bait.
In the madzhab of Shi'ah, everything is based on the love for the
Ahlul Bait. To disown themselves from the laymen, namely the Ahlu Sunnah, to
disown themselves from the three khalifahs and Aishah binti Abu Bakar
for their attitude against the Ahlul Bait.
What's rooted in the mind
of every Shi'ah, be it the young or the old, the clever or the ignorant, the
male of the female, is that the Sahabahs had done injustices against
the Ahlul Bait, shed their blood and made halal their honor. The
belief instilled by the ulama's and mujtahid of Shi'ah is that
their biggest enemy is the Ahlus Sunnah. This is because the Sunni people
are considered najis in the sight of the Shi'ahs, to the extent that
even if they cleanse a thousand times, the najis will not vanish.
Almost all the books of
Shi'ahs that I studied are full of rough languages and are beyond common
sense. Various insults, aspersion and dirty words are scattered in every
book. In fact, oftentimes, what's expressed do not have sound logic. Please
read Al-Kafi, Nahjul Balaghah, Al Ihtijaj and Rijal Kishi.
If we want to explore
everything that is said about Ahlul Bait, the discussion will be extended,
because no one among them is free from the dirty words, foul sentences or
contemptible accusations. Many despicable deeds have been attributed to
them.
Read this riwaayah,"Rasulullah
did not sleep until he kissed the front part of Fatimah's face,"
(Bihar Al-Anwar,43/44).
"Rasulullah kept his face on both breasts of Fatimah," (Bihar
Al-Anwar 43/78).
A very heinous blasphemy,
how could Rasulullah, the noble, do all those illogical things.
Nikah Mut'ah
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Nikah mut'ah has
been practiced in the ugliest forms, the women have been humiliated in the
worst humiliations. Most of them (Shi'ahs) fulfill their lusts in the name
of religion behind the curtain that is called mut'ah.
They have brought
riwaayahs that give motivations to do mut'ah, setting and
detailing its rewards, as well as punishments on those who do not do it. In
fact those who do not practice mut'ah are considered kafir. As
Saduq narrated from As Sadiq, he said, "Indeed,
mut'ah is my religion and the religion of my father. Whoever denies it, it
means he is denying our religion and having the aqeedah of a religion other
than our religion," (Man La Yahdhuruhu Al Faqih,3/366). This is
the declaration of kafir on those who reject mut'ah.
To strengthen further this
mut'ah, the name of Rasulullah was even brought in, such as written
in “Man La Yahdhuruhu Al Faqih”, 3/366, "Whoever
does mut'ah with a woman, he will be safe from the wrath of Allah, the
Compeller. Whoever does mut'ah two time, he shall be gathered together with
the people of goodness. Whoever does mut'ah three times, he will be side by
side with me in paradise."
It is the spirits of these
words that drive the ulama's of the city of knowledge, Najaf, the
dominion of the imams, to do mut'ah with many women. Such as
the ulama' Sayiid Shadr, Barwajardi, Syairazi, Qazwani, Sayyid Madani
and many others.
Check out this riwaayah.
From Sayyid Fathullah Al Kashani, he narrated in Tafsir Manhaj As-Sadiqin,
from the Prophet SAW, verily he said, "Whoever
does mut'ah once, his status is like Husain AS; one who does it two times,
his status is like Hasan AS; the one who does it three times, his status is
the same as Ali Bin Abu Talib; and whoever does mut'ah four times, his
status is the same as my status."
Indeed, it does not make
sense. Say there was a evil man doing mut'ah once, his status is the
same as Husain AS; and then mut'ah twice, his status goes up again.
That easy?? Are the status of Rasulullah SAW and the imams that low??
Even if the person doing mut'ah has attained a high status of iman,
is his status the same as the status of Husain, his brother, his father and
his grandfather?
The Imam Has Mut'ah
With A Small Child
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When Imam Khomeini stayed
in Iraq, I went back and forth to visit him. I studied under him, thus the
relationship between myself and him became so close. At one time, he agreed
to go to a city in the framework of fulfilling an invitation, namely the
city that is located on the western part of Mosul, that could be reached in
about half an hour by car.
Imam Khomeini asked me to
go along with him. We were received and honoured with an extraordinary
honour during our stay with one of the Shi'ah families who lived there. He
had pledged allegiance to propagate the creed of Shi'ah in that region.
When the visit ended and on
our way home, on the road, on our return, we passed through Baghdad and Imam
Khomeini wished to rest from the tiring journey. Then he instructed so that
we head to a resort area where there lived a man from Iran named Sayyid
Sahib. There was a pretty strong friendship between him and Imam.
Sayyid Sahib asked us to
stay overnight at his place that night and Imam Khomeini agreed.
When the time of Isha'
came, dinner for us was served. The people who attended kissed Imam's hand
and asked him questions regarding a number of issues and Imam answered them.
When it was time to sleep
and the people had already gone home, Imam Khomeini saw a little girl, her
age was around 5 years old but she was very beautiful. Imam requested from
her father, i.e. Sayyid Sahib, to present the girl to him so that he could
do mut'ah with her. So the father agreed to it, feeling very pleased.
So Imam Khomeini slept and the girl was in his embrace, while we heard the
cries and screams of the child.
The night passed by. When
the morning came, we sat down and had breakfast. The Imam looked at me and
noticed very obvious signs of unpleasedness and disagreement in my face,
because how could he do mut'ah with a little girl, whereas in the
house there were girls who are already baligh (adolescent).
Imam Khomaini asked me,
"Sayyid Husain, what is your opinion about doing mut'ah with a small child?"
I asked him, "The most
supreme words are your words, what's true is your acts, and you are a
mujtahid imam. It is not possible for me to opine or say unless it is in
accordance with your opinion and words. It needs to be understood that it is
not possible for me to oppose your fatwa."
Then he said, "Sayyid
Husain, indeed the ruling of having mut'ah with a small child is permissible
but only with fondling, kisses and squeezing with the thighs. As for the
sexual intercourse, indeed she is not strong enough to do it." See also
the book of Imam Khomeini entitled "Tahrir Al Wasilah", 2/241, number 12,
which allows mut'ah with babies that are still suckling.
Mut'ah with
Married Women
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So obvious, the damages
caused by mut'ah are very huge and complex.
Among others are:
First, it's
violating against the nas of the Shari'ah, for making halal
what is made haram by Allah.
Second, the fake
riwaayahs that are diverse and their attribution to the imams,
whereas therein contains vituperations which would unplease a person who
still has an atom of iman in his heart.
Third, the damage
inflicted by it by allowing mut'ah with a woman who already has a
husband. In these circumstances a husband will not feel safe for his wife
because of the possibility that later his wife will have nikah mut'ah
with another man. This is a damage upon a damage! Nobody can imagine how the
feelings of a husband who finds out that the wife who is under his care have
mut'ah with another man.
Fourth, the fathers
out there also feel insecure about their daughters, because it is possible
that their daughters would do mut'ah without his permission, and then
suddenly get pregnant with God knows who.
Fifth, most people
who do mut'ah allow themselves to do nikah mut'ah but will
object if their daughters are wedded by means of mut'ah. They are
aware that this mut'ah is similar to zina (fornication) and is
an aib (shame) for them, but they themselves are doing it for other
people's daughters. Supposing nikah mut'ah is something that is
allowed by Shari'ah, why most fathers feel disinclined to allow their
daughters or relatives to have nikah mut'ah?
Sixth, in the
mut'ah marriage, there is no witness, announcement, and consent of the
female's guardian, and the spousal inheritance law does not apply, but she
is just a contracted wife. The allowance of mut'ah will open
opportunities for young adults to drown in a puddle of sin that it will
corrupt the image of religion.
So the danger of mut'ah
is very clear from the standpoint of religious, moral and social life. Thus
mut'ah is made haram as it contains a lot of dangers.
The claim that prohibition
only applies specifically on the day of Khaibar, is a claim that is not
based on daleel. Besides that, if the prohibition only applies on the
day of Khaibar, there must have been an affirmation from Rasulullah. The
meaning of the words that mut'ah marriage was forbidden on the day of
Khaibar is that, its prohibition commenced on the day of Khaibar until the
Judgment Day. As for the words of our ulama's (ulama's of
Shi'ah), they are ridiculing of the nas of the Shari'ah.
How many people who do
mut'ah mix up the children and mothers, the women and their brothers,
fathers.... and other chaos.
A woman came to me asking
for the incident that befell her. That woman told that she had had nikah
mut'ah with an influential personage and ulama', Sayyid Husain
Sadr, twenty years ago, and she got pregnant. After having enough, that
personage divorced her. She swore that she was pregnant from the
relationship with Sayyid Sadr, because no one else did mut'ah with
her except Sayyid Sadr. After her daughter turned into an adult, she became
a beautiful lady and ready to be married . But her mother found that the
daughter had been pregnant. When enquired about it, she said that she had
had nikah mut'ah with Sayyid Sadr and her pregnancy was because of
that nikah mut'ah. The mother was taken aback and lost control and
said that Sayyid Sadr is her father. And then the mother told the story to
her daughter, his flesh and blood! In Iran, such incidents are happening
countless times!
Let us refer to the words
of Allah SWT, "But let them who find not
[the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah
enriches them from His bounty...."
(QS An Nuur:33).
Whoever is not able to
marry in a shar'ie way because of the lack of provision that he has,
let him guard his chastity until Allah gives rizq (sustenance) to him
so that he is able. Supposing mut'ah is made halal, surely
Allah would not have commanded to guard the chastity and wait until the time
comes that the affairs of marriage is eased for him.
It has been equally known
that Islam came to command the virtuous deeds and forbid deplorable deeds.
Islam came to actualize the welfare of the Allah's slaves and so that their
way of life become well-regulated. On the other hand, it cannot be doubted
anymore that mut'ah will disturb life. Mut'ah propagates
uncountable damages.
Indeed, the outbreak of the
practices of mut'ah will plunge the ummah into the lending of
the private parts. The lending of the private parts means a man will give
his wife or mother to other men.
It is very unfortunate, the
fatwas about the lending of the private parts are sounded a lot by
the ulama's of Shi'ah, such as As Sistani, Sayyid Sadr, Ash
Shairazi, Ath Thabathabai and Al Barwajardi. Most of them allow their guests
to borrow their wives if the guests are interested and will be lent during
the guests' stay.
It is our duty to give
warnings to the general public over this indecent practice, so that they
will not accept the fatwas of the personages which allow this
immoral and indecent practice.
The matter does not just
stop here, it even allows doing sodomy to the women. They narrated a few
riwaayahs and ascribe them to the imams.
Concerning Khumus
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Indeed khumus,
one-fifth of the property that comes from their livelihood which must be
paid by the Shi'ahs, is something that is being exploited in a manner that
is very ugly by the fiqh experts and mujtahids. It becomes the
main livelihood and revenues of the personages and mujtahids in a
very large amount, whereas the nas of the Shari'ah show that
the general public of the Shi'ahs are exempted from the obligation of paying
one-fifth of the property.
The ruling on paying
khumus is just mubah, and it is not obligated upon everyone to
pay it out. They are allowed to use those property just as they are using
other properties or incomes from their works.
There has been a
competition among the Sayyids and the mujtahids in obtaining
khumus. Therefore, they try to lower the percentage of the khumus
taken from the possessions of the people with the goal that the people
would come in droves to deposit their khumus to them. So among them,
there are those who are doing Satan's ways.
Imam Khomeini is a very
rich person from this khumus. While in Iraq, his wealth was in
abundance, that when he departed for France and lived there, he had savings
in the form of money in Iraqi Dinar, besides American Dollar which were
deposited in the banks in Paris with very high interests.
On top of that, indeed,
lineage and descendancy is something that can be sold and bought. Whoever
wants an honorable lineage that is associated to the Ahlul Bait, there is no
other way but to approach his sister or wife to come to the Sayyids
for nikah mut'ah with them or he pays a sum of money, so that in
that way that he gets an honorable lineage.
This is the practice that
is not unfamiliar in the city of knowledge.
I remembered my honourable
friend, Ahmad As Safi An Najafi. I knew him after I had obtained the title
of mujtahid, we became very good friend despite the big difference in
age. He said to me, "My son, Hussain, you shall not dirty yourself with
khumus, because it is a haram possession." We engaged in an intensive
discussions until I was sure that khumus is a haram
possession.
Other Holy Scriptures
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But the gravest of all in
the deviations of the Shi'ahs is the presence of other holy scriptures
besides Al-Qur'an and that they say that the Qur'an is fake. When reading
and examining our references that are mu'tabar, I found the names of
other books claimed by our ulama's as being revealed to Rasulullah
SAW and that those books were specially dedicated to Ali RA. Those books are
Al-Jami'ah, Sahifah An Namus, Sahifah Al-Abithah, Sahifah Dzuabah As-Saif,
Sahifah Ali, Al-Jufr, Mushaf Fatimah, Al- Qur'an.
Regarding the mushaf
Fathimah, from Ali bin Said and Abu Abdullah AS (Ja'afar As Sadiq), he
said, "We possess the the mushaf Fathimah, it
contains the verses of the kitabullah, it was revealed to Rasulullah and his
family and was written personally by Ali with his hand." (Bihar
Al Anwar, 26/48).
If the book was dictated by
Rasulullah and written by Ali, why did he hide it from his ummah?
Allah SWT says, "O Messenger, announce that
which has been revealed to you from your Lord. , and if you do not, then you
have not conveyed His message...."
(QS Al-Maidah : 67).
Regarding the Qur'an, Our
ulama's and mujtahids agreed that the Qur'an is the only book
that has changed among the books that are recognized by the Shi'ahs. Al-Muhaddiths
An-Nuri Ath-Thibrisi has compiled all the evidences and proofs of the
occurrence of wide-scale alterations in the Qur'an in his book which he
named “The Determiner In Establishing The Occurrence Of Alterations In
The Book Of God Of All Gods” (Faslu al-khithab fi Ittsbati Tahrif
Kitabi Rabbi Al-Arbab).
In his book, he has
compiled a thousand riwaayahs which stated that there has occurred
alterations. He compiled the words of the fiqh experts and the
ulama's of Shi'ah who openly stated that the Qur'an that is in the hands
of mankind today has been changed from the original.
The true Qur'an is the
Qur'an that was with Ali and the imams after him until it will be
with Al-Qaim.
Due to that, when facing
death, Imam Al-Khaui made a will to us, his students and cadres in Hauzah,
"Hold tight to this Al-Qur'an until the appearance of the Qur'an Fathimah."
Indeed, the most bizarre
and surprising thing is that, all of these books had been handed down from
Allah and dedicated to Imam Ali and the imams after him but they are
all hidden from the ummah. If Imam Ali really had those books, what
is he hiding them for?
After wandering in very
tiring and painful journey, what should I do? Do I have to remain in the
position and office the way it is today, and dredge away the abundant
treasures from the simple-minded people who do not know anything in the name
of khumus and contributions in the festivals and then ride on a
luxury car and practice nikah mut'ah with beautiful women? Or do I
have to leave this pleasure, abstain from the haram deeds and blast
out the truth because one who is silent from the truth is a mute Satan.
I know that Abdullah bin
Saba' is a Jew who founded the Shi'ah Madzhab and sects in Islam. He
instilled enmity and hatred amongst them after they were earlier bound by
love and iman which united their hearts.
"They [think to] deceive Allah and those who believe, but they deceive
not except themselves and perceive [it] not." (QS Al-Baqarah : 9)
After I published my book,
for Allah and then for History (Why I Left Shi'ah – transl.), then a
fatwa was issued from the city of knowledge about the declaration of
kafir of myself, the retraction of all my knowledge based titles. All
the punishments of the murtad people are imposed on me, and it is
forbidden for the Shi'ahs to read my book.
Translated and Submitted by a Mujahid
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