The Prophecy of Imam Ali (a.s.) regarding Mu’awiyah
Late Sultan ul Wa’ezeen e Shirazi writes: If you study Nehj ul Balagha, a collection of the sermons and sayings of Imam Ali (a.s.), with complete focus and attention, you will find a large number of prophecies made by his holiness, regarding the future incidents and happenings, stories of the great rulers, the rise of the Owner of Zanj, the dominance of Moghul, the Sultanate of Chengez Khan, details about the tyrant caliphs and their behaviour against the Shias and specially, from page 208 till page 211 of the first volume of ‘Sharh e Nehj ul Balagha’ by Ibn e Abil Hadeed, where he gives a detailed description.
Khwaja Kalan e Balkhi, Hanafi, in the first section of the 14th chapter of ‘Yanabee ul Mawadda’, proves the greatness of his holiness’ knowledge with the help of some of his sermons and prophecies. Read so that the truth is revealed.
Giving the news of the dominance of Mu’awiyah and the oppression of that damned person: Especially informing the people of Kufa about the dominance of Mu’awiyah on them, and about Mu’awiyah’s command of cursing and abusing his holiness. All these sayings turn out to become the realities of the future. One of them is:
أما أنّہ سیظھر علیکم بعدی رجل رحب البلعوم مندحق البطن، یأکل ما یجد ویطلب مالایجد، فاقتلوہ ولن تقتلوہ۔
ألا؛ وَانّہ سیأمرکم بسبّی والبرائة منّی ؛ فأماّ السبّ فسبّونی ، فانّہ لی زکوة ولکم نجاة۔ وأمّا البرائة، فلا تتبرّؤا منّ، فانّ ولدت علی الفطرة و سبقت الی الایمان والہجرة۔
‘Soon after me there would be put on you a man with a broad mouth and a big belly. He would swallow whatever he gets and would crave for what he does not get. You should kill him but (I know) you would not kill him.
Beware, he would command you to abuse me and to renounce me. As for abusing, you do abuse me because that would mean purification for me and salvation for you. As regards renunciation, you should not renounce me because I have been born on the natural religion (Islam) and was foremost in accepting it as well as in Hijrah (migrating from Mecca to Medina).[1]
Ibn e Abil Hadeed in the ‘Sharh e Nehj ul Balagha’ (printed in Egypt), and others have narrated from the top Sunni clerics who testified that the cursed person was Mu’awiyah bin Abu Sufiyan, who compelled the people to curse and abuse his holiness as well as renounce, and this disgusting act continued for eighty years between the Muslims. His holiness was cursed and abused from the pulpits and prayer places and it was done even in the sermon of the Friday prayers. This continued until the reign of Umar bin Abdul Aziz who eradicated the act of cursing, out of his wisdom, and stopped the people from committing the most awful act.[2]
[1] Imam Ali (a.s.) intended Mu’awiyah by referring towards the excessive eater. As Ibn e Abil Hadeed says in the ‘Sharh e Nehjul Balagha’: 1/335, ‘He intended Mu’awiyah, the over eater, who is famous for his excessive eating in history’. He used to eat seven times a day (according to Zamakhshari in ‘Rabee ul-Abraar’), and every time, he ate so much that he used to lie down near the meal and cry: “O servant, come and lift me; by God, I am not full but I am tired”.
This disgusting person was one of those people who had ‘Jaw ul-Kalaab’. “In the ancient medical science, it is mentioned that the stomach of such a person, such a heat is produced that whenever food used to enter his stomach, it turned into vapour and neither its benefit nor its harm is felt”.
His excessive eating became a phrase among the Arabs, every excessive eater was compared to him. One of the poets mocked the over-eating of his friend in this manner:
Arabic couplet
“I have a friend and companions whose belly is like ‘Hawiyah’ or ‘bereft mother’, as if Mu’awiyah lives in his intestines”.
‘Hawiyah’ is the name of one of the stages of Hell. As the hellfire will not be satisfied with swallowing the infidels, hence the Holy Qur’an says: “Are you filled? And it said: can there be more to come? Indicating towards the fact that Hell will not be filled ever.
[2] Shab’haaye Peshawar: 940
Umar bin Abdil Aziz was a man with many disguises. He banned the act of cursing Imam Ali (a.s.) from the pulpit, but everyone was free to curse Imam (a.s.) elsewhere. But is anyone curse Mu’awiyah, he used to be whipped on the order of Umar bin Abdil Aziz!
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