Eid al-Ghadir: Difference between revisions

[[File:Ghadir Khum by Mahmud Farshchiyan.jpg|250px|thumbnail|right|"Ghadir-i Khumm", a painting by [[Mahmud Farshchiyan]] which shows the [[Prophet (s)]] giving speech to the Muslims while [[Ali (a)]] is standing next to him.]]

::"God is my wali (guardian) and I am wali of the believers; and I have wilaya over them more than they have over themselves. So anyone I am his wali, Ali (a) is his wali."

::"the day of Ghadir Khumm is the best eid of my [[umma]] (people) and that is the day God the Almighty ordered to appoint my brother Ali b. Abi Talib (a) as the standard-bearer of my umma; so that, people will be guided by him after I pass away; and that is the day God perfected the religion and completed blessings upon my umma and chose [[Islam]] as their religion."<ref>Shaykh al-Ṣadūq, ''al-Amālī'', p. 125.</ref>

::"the day of Ghadir Khumm is the grand eid of God. God has not sent any [[Prophethood|prophet]] unless he has celebrated this eid, and has glorified it. And its name in the heavens is the day of covenant and on the earth is the day of solemn covenant and public presence."<ref>Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī, ''Wasāʾil al-Shīʿa'', vol.8, p.89.</ref>

In another hadith from Imam al-Sadiq (a), he regarded Eid al-Ghadir the greatest and most glorious eid of Muslims, in every hour of which, they need to thank God; and that people [[fast]] the day to show their gratitude and that fasting the day equals 60 years of worship."<ref>Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī, ''Wasāʾil al-Shīʿa'', vol.10, p.443.</ref>

Muslims, especially Shi'a consider the day of Ghadir as one of the greatest eids since the early Islam and this day was famous among them as Eid al-Ghadir. In his book, [[Mas'udi]] (d. [[346]]/957-958) wrote that children and followers of [[Imam Ali (a)]] venerated this day.<ref>Masʿūdī, ''al-Tanbīh wa l-ishrāf'', p. 221.</ref> In a hadith, [[al-Kulayni]] (d. [[329]]/940-1) has narrated Shi'a's celebration of this day.<ref>Kulaynī, ''al-Kāfī'', vol. 4, p. 149.</ref> Therefore, it is clear that celebration of Eid al-Ghadir has been common in the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries.

Earlier, [[Fayyad b. Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Tusi]] narrated a tradition which suggested that [[Imam al-Rida (a)]] celebrated the day of Ghadir.<ref>Majlisī, ''Biḥār al-anwār'', vol. 95, p. 322.</ref> Since Imam al-Rida (a) was living at the end of the second/ early 9th century , it becomes clear that the celebrating of the day of Ghadir goes back early centuries of Islam.

Such a celebration has been common among Muslims in the following years and centuries, so that the ceremony of [[allegiance]] with [[al-Musta'la b. Mustansir]] (one of the rulers of [[Egypt]]) was held on the day of Eid al-Ghadir [[487]]/1094.<ref>Ibn Khallikān, ''Wafayāt al-aʿyān'', vol. 1, p. 180.</ref> [[Fatimid]] caliphs made the Eid al-Ghadir an official eid in Egypt; and in [[Iran]], it has been among official holidays since [[907]]/1502, when [[Isma'il I]], the [[Safavid]] king came to throne.

In recent centuries, celebrating this day has been considered among the symbols of Shi'a. In [[Najaf]], a great celebration is held every year in the courtyard of [[Imam Ali's (a) holy shrine]] and noblemen and scholars of Shi'a and ambassadors of [[:category:Islamic Countries|Islamic countries]] attend there and great speeches and odes are recited. In [[Yemen]], [[Zaydiyya|Zaydi Shi'a]] celebrate the day of Ghadir and illuminate and decorate their streets.

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