Why is “Eid Ghadir” the biggest Muslim holiday?

Hint: Some may think that Eid Ghadir is reserved for Shiites only, and in the words of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, there is no mention of the need to celebrate it. However, it should be said that Eid Ghadir, like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, is one of the Islamic holidays, but also one of the greatest holidays, and the first person to introduce this day as Islamic Eid was the Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him. What will follow is a research on the historical background of Eid Ghadir, which we hope will be used by dear readers. After appointing Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor on the day of Ghadir, the Holy Prophet announced this Eid and held the ceremony on the same day, and sat in his tent and welcomed the congratulators with great joy and happiness. He said to them: Congratulate me… Congratulate me, because God has assigned me to prophethood and my family to Imamate. (1) We do not find in the history of the Prophet, his joys, the day when the Prophet said: Congratulate me, even on the day of his marriage and the day of his migration from Mecca to Medina and liberation from the clutches of the polytheists, and the day of the conquest of Mecca and the victory of the Muslims did not say congratulations to me. But on the day of Ghadir he would repeatedly say: Congratulate me, why? Because the Prophet understood the greatness of this day well and was aware of the honor of this memory and the superiority of this Eid over other festivals. Accordingly, the Prophet said: The day of Eid-ul-Ghadir is the best feast of my ummah, and it is the day that God Almighty commanded me to appoint Ali ibn Abi Talib as the leader through whom my ummah will be guided after me; Remember that day. It is the day when God completes the religion on that day and completes the blessings, and you like Islam as a religion for the people. (2) In this hadith, the Prophet, firstly: has declared Ghadir Day an eternal Islamic holiday in line with other Islamic holidays; Second: Eid Ghadir is considered absolutely superior to Islamic holidays. After the death of the Prophet, the Commander of the Faithful himself considered Ghadir Day as an Islamic holiday (3) and in the year that Ghadir Day coincided with Friday, he delivered a sermon and said: On this great day, the Almighty God has gathered for you, the group of believers, two great feasts, which are consistent with each other, in order to complete His benevolence with you and to inform you of the path of guidance, so make Friday the gathering place for … Therefore, he does not accept any monotheism except on the basis of acknowledging the mission of the Prophet, and he does not accept any religion except with the guardianship of the one who commanded his guardianship, and the means of his obedience except by relying on his rope. And the rope of the people of his province is not regular, so on the day of Ghadir, he revealed to his Prophet what expressed his will about his chosen ones, and commissioned him to propagate it and leave the company of deviants and hypocrites and disregard them. He was taken care of by them.

Then Hazrat Amir (PBUH) invited the people to perform the Eid ceremony and said: May God have mercy on you, after the end of your community, return to the development of wife and children, and goodness with brothers and thanks to the divine blessings, and all be united so that God may preserve your unity and do good to each other so that God Keep your love, friendship, and sincerity, and give gifts to one another (4) as God has rewarded you on this day many times over the past or the present, except in cases like this. Goodness on this day (ie: the day of Eid Ghadir) increases wealth and prolongs life, and kindness to each other causes God’s mercy and compassion. Prepare for your brothers, wife and children with your own efforts and to the best of your ability, and reveal happiness among yourself and treat each other with openness. (5) After Ali (as), Imam Hassan (as) and Imam Hussein (as) also kept Ghadir Day alive and every year, they considered that day as Eid and be happy to receive greetings and congratulations with full joy and happiness. They sat down, and approached God through prayer, fasting, and supplication, and emphasized goodness, benevolence, and nourishment, in order to thank God for His blessing on such a day that the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, was appointed to the caliphate and Imamate. Have taken place. On this day, they made peace, and placed their families in the breadth of food, and went to visit the brothers, and invited their Shiites to do all this. (6) Now pay attention to the following narrations: 1. Abolhassan Laithi says: Imam Ja’far Sadegh (as) said to some of his friends and Shiites who were in his presence: Do you know what is the day when God made Islam Eid-ul-Ghadir for us and our Shiites? They said: God, the Messenger and the son of the Prophet are more knowledgeable, is it the day of Eid al-Fitr? The Imam said: No! They said: Is it the day of Eid al-Adha? The Imam said: Not! “Of course, these two days are great and honorable, but the day of the minaret of religion is greater, and it is the eighteenth day of Dhu al-Hijjah when the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, returned from the farewell pilgrimage and reached Ghadir.” 2. Euphrates ibn Ahnaf says: I asked Imam Ja’far Sadegh (as): May I be redeemed, do Muslims have an Eid higher than Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha and on Friday and the day of Arafa? The Imam said: Yes! The highest, greatest and most honorable feasts are the days when God perfected the religion on that day, and He revealed this verse to His Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his family: Today is the completion of my religion and the completion of my blessings and the satisfaction of my religion. I asked: What day is it? He said: The prophets of the children of Israel, when they handed over the will and Imamate to the person after them, made that day Eid, and this day is also the day when the Prophet, peace be upon him, made Ali, peace be upon him, the leader of the people. , And on that day things were sent down, and the religion was perfected, and the blessing on the believers was completed. I said: What should we do on this day? Imam (pbuh) said: This day is the day of worship and prayer and the day of thanksgiving to God, and the joy for our guardianship is on you from God, I would like you to fast this day. (7) 3. Abd al-Rahman ibn Salem quotes his father as saying: I asked Imam Sadiq (as): Do Muslims have any other Eid other than Friday, Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr? He said: Yes, a bigger Eid! I said: I beg your pardon, what is Eid? He said: The day when the Prophet of God appointed the Commander of the Faithful to the caliphate and said: Whoever I am his master, Ali is his master. I asked: What day is it? He said: What do you do for a day? (8) The year is always in circulation, but that day is the eighteenth day of Dhu al-Hijjah. I said: What do we deserve to do that day? He said: Remember God and fast and worship, and remember Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, peace be upon him, because the Prophet of God commanded the Commanders of the Faithful, peace be upon them, that Muslims observe Eid on this day and the prophets did so. ; They gave the same order to Hosea and celebrated that day. (9) It is based on these narrations that Shiites have been celebrating Ghadir every year since the time of the Imams in all countries, and they have approached God through prayer, recitation of the Qur’an and recitation of effective prayers, and perfecting God. Religion and the completion of blessings by the Imamate of Ali, peace be upon him, give thanks, and go to meet each other, and approach God with an open face with goodness and benevolence and delight of relatives and neighbors, and if one of them is a brother Meets Dini on this day, shakes hands with him and says: Praise be to God, Who has made us of the pious the rulers of the Commanders of the Faithful and the Imams of the Pure (10). And every year on this Eid, the Shiites go to the shrine of the great leader, Amir al-Mu’minin, peace be upon him, in Najaf Ashraf, and the crowd that gathers at the holy tomb of that Imam for pilgrimage is not less than half a million, which is from any area. They enter there (11) to emphasize the depth of love and friendship, and the strength of belief in their true leader, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, and to record for themselves the honor of attending his blessed position. They do not disperse to embrace the holy shrine and visit their leader, and greet him, and as if he is present before them, they greet him (12) and recite a pilgrimage from some of the pure Imams. It is entered that at the same time, the valuable positions and great records of the Prophet in Islam and jihad and his efforts in establishing the pillars of religion, and serving the Prophet on the day of Ghadir as the caliph of the Prophet, are testified. (13) Yes! This is the program of the Shiites every year, and continuously

At any time and place, their narrators narrate the hadith of Ghadir in a concise or concise manner and in brief or in detail. An examination of the issue of Ghadir leads us to the conclusion that not only the Shiites considered Ghadir as an Eid – although Shiites care more about it than others – but non-Shiite Muslims also celebrated it. Allama Amini writes in his book Al-Ghadir (vol. 1, p. 267) Biruni – who is one of the Sunnis – considers Ghadir day as one of the days that: Muslims consider it one of the festivals (14) Ibn Talha al-Shafi’i in his book Matlab al-Saul (p. 53) when talking about Eid al-Ghadir states: Amir al-mu’minin has mentioned the day of Ghadir in his poems and since He gave a high position to Ali (as) among all the people, and this day became a great feast. Then Shafi’i adds on page 56 that: The word “Molly” has any meaning, has been given by the Prophet to Ali, and this is a high position and a great dignity that the Prophet gave to Ali (as). Dedicated for this reason, this day is Eid and the day of the server of his friends. Allama Amini says: This Shafi’i statement indicates that all Muslims celebrate this day, whether Muslims who consider Imam Ali as the immediate caliph of the Prophet or Muslims who consider him the fourth caliph, and in short, the ummah Islamists in the East and the West all agree on this Eid, especially considering that the Egyptians, the people of the Maghreb and Iraq in the past centuries have paid attention to this day and considered it as a day of prayer and sermon and composing poems. subscripts: 1. ر. K: Abu Saeed Neyshabouri, Sharaf al-Mustafa. 2. For further explanation r. K: Al-Amini, Abdul Hussein, Al-Ghadir, vol. 1, p. 283. 3. The day that power came to that Imam. 4. And in a noble hadith, it is narrated from Hazrat Reza (as) that he said: “A debt of one dirham to a believing brother on this day is equal to a thousand dirhams that you owe at other times” and in another hadith it is stated: ” “Which is equal to one hundred thousand dirhams except this day.” 5. Al-Amini, Abdul Hussein, Ibid., Vol. 3, p. 284; Al-Tusi, Muhammad ibn Al-Hassan, Mesbah Al-Mujtahid, p. 524. 6. Al-Musawi Al-Ameli, Al-Sayyid Abdul Hussein Sharifuddin, References, p. 197. 7. Al-Amini, Abdul Hussein, the same, vol. 1, p. 285. 8. It seems that the narrator asked: On which day of the week? 9. Al-Kalini, Muhammad ibn Ya’qub, Al-Kafi, vol. 1, p. 204; Al-Amini, Abdul Hussein, Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 285. 10. The mentioned text has been included in a noble hadith. 11. And in a noble hadith, it was narrated from Imam Reza (as) that he said: “Wherever you are, try to be present at the grave of Hazrat Amir al-Mo’menin (as) on the Day of Ghadir. 12. It is clear that the Imam is not dead or alive, and he is always alive, and the verse: ولا تحسبن الذین قتلوا في For the sake of God the dead but resurrection… and other verses indicate this meaning. 13. If the opportunity was not short, I would quote an example of the sentences of this pilgrimage for you to taste the joy of faith and the sweetness of the province and the happiness of the soul and the warmth of enthusiasm. This pilgrimage is mentioned in the books of prayers and pilgrimages. 14. Biruni, Abu Rihan, the remaining works, p. 334.