Angelism

Imam Ali when he was stabbed, he shouted: “I have won, by God’s Kabaa. “ He was waiting for death, and relieved by it approaching him. Neither Ali’s allies nor enemies could understand him, or his final aim. Now, after 1400 year of his death, still both Shittie and Soni communities understand this great man only according to their points of view. From the first day after the prophet death, Ali scarified all of him for the sake of Muslims union. Later on, he focused on the improvement of the community, of being fair, justice, and treating all people evenly. Ali understood the human being value, and fought the entire world for the human being dignity.

To understand Ali’s personality better, we need to understand ourselves, and to learn how to respect the individual for the sake of humanity. He says: “people are either a brother for you in religion, or similar in the creation.” I don’t think Ali would be happier if he has been recreated in our community, again. Anyway, we are not perfect community, it’s impossible to be angels’ community. Ali didn’t want society of angels, he just wanted less hypocrisy. We divide people in many endless categories, tribal and none tribal, Saudi and none Saudi, Arab and none Arab, Muslims and none Muslims, Shia and Soni, and for the worse, poor and rich people. We forgot the main measurement, people are equal, and their value is what they do. In one song for Sting, he says: “I’m not a man of too many faces. The mask I wear is one.” Each individual in my place has too many faces. We play wearing masks accordingly to the position and situation. The perfect person is who wears the best mask in the best place. That’s called among my people: diplomacy, well behaving, and good acting. Yet, I think Ali would call it hypocrisy. Indeed, you can't live among a society which can't understand you. It's like living in the hell.

Recently, I was invited to a lecture about Ali. Unfortunately, the lecturer forgot all Ali manners and values, and kept talking about vengeance, and the unfair treatment Ali had had. However, people started crying like they worship Ali, yet I believe they left zero-handed from Ali’s teachings. In same side, those who insult Ali or think down of him forgot how Ma’wia was really the bad guy and they’re just fooled after 1400 year by a trick he started.

I just mentioned few lines earlier, how Ali was treating people evenly; I repeat this concept again for the sake of its importance. One lovely friend is planning to propose to a girl he is in love with. His main concerns is her mother, she’s Lebanese. Unlikely, his parents would accept this girl for only the previous reason. It’s hard to scale this equation. It consists of two main parts, community/hypocrisy, and the guy happiness, assuming they would be happy among those duplicated people. His parents would not like to hear people look down to their child and his future wife because of her mother. On the other hand, my friend thinks of that disadvantage, as an advantage and benefit to renew the blood line of his family. I hope the best for him. Again, living among people you can't understand is like living in hell.

How the scenario of history could have been changed if Ali was the ruler of the Islamic government. How the life of my friend would change, from absolute doubt, to happiness after lasting.