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The roots of war are human deprivation, which brings about
revolution against the group causing this deprivation. The
causes of this deprivation are colonialism, exploitation, and
despotism in government, in economics, or in science and
education.
It is necessary for
one seeking to sever the roots of war to prevent those who stir
up war from attaining their goals and this through spreading
political, economic, and social awareness.
War is the worst
thing known to mankind throughout his long history. It brings
about the killing and maiming of human beings, the loss of their
powers and their disfigurement. It also causes the destruction
of civilisation and stirs up hatreds and resentments
contd..
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The motive which causes us to
further pursue the history of Fadak and to extract the
continuation of events after it for a period of three
centuries from the texts of the historical books is to clarify
three questions:
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The rule of
annulment of inheritance from prophets made by the Holy Prophet
('s). In other words, that the
property of the Holy Prophet ('s) is a part of the public
treasury
and belongs to all Muslims. This was claimed by the first Caliph Abu Bakr, and was rejected by his successors,
both by the next two caliphs (Umar and Uthman), and by the Umayyads
and the Abbasids. contd...
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Imam Musa Kazim
('a) was aware that the government of the day
will not allow him to breath freely and that during the later
part of his life when he would be about to leave the world, such
conditions might come to prevail that would not even let the
devotees of Ahle Bait ('a) see him and find out from him the
identity of their future guide. He therefore had deemed it
necessary to acquaint the followers of Ahle Bait ('a) of their
future Imam after him during that very period of respite when
he was still in Madinah. With this end in view, he had called an
assembly of seventeen distinguished personalities from amongst
the progeny of Ali ('a) and Fatima ('a) and made a formal
announcement of the name of his son Imam Ali Riza ('a) as his
vicegerent and successor.
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