Epilogue
The Safavid Dynasty in the East (Afghanistan)
December 2, 2022Why the Safavid Dynasty?
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Epilogue
This was the Safavid Dynasty which lasted about 240 years from 907 AH to 1148 AH. The very first Shia Imamiyyah Dynasty. By this I mean, a meaningful and large dynasty unlike those lesser ones like the Musha’shi’iyyin (Musha’sha’) at Hoveyzeh which existed between the years 789 AH and 1117 AH, or the Sarbadariyyah at Khorasan between the years 738 AH and 782 AH, or the Sadah al Mar’ashiyyah at Mazandaran between the years 795 AH and 1001 AH. All these were Shia Twelver Dynasties but they were small and wielded limited influence. As for the earlier substantial dynasties such as the Fatimids and the Buyids, the former was an Ismaili Shia dynasty and the latter a Zaidi Jarudi dynasty.
One piece of information we forgot to mention was that the Safavids did not only cooperate with the English and the Portuguese but they also formed alliances with the French in the year 1708 CE, during the reign of Shah Hussain al Safawi. The French sent a fleet and eased the occupation of Muscat, Oman.[1] We have already discussed their cooperation with Tsarist Russia.
The Safavid Dynasty stretched from Iran to Afghanistan and Iraq. However, the Afghan people were able to keep their lands pure and remain Sunni. Iran continues to plot against Iraq and Afghanistan since they were unable to convert them to Shi’ism.
The Safavid Dynasty was the first Shia Imamiyyah dynasty that forcibly converted Iran to Shi’ism. The Shia only made up roughly 10% of Iran, however, this number increased during the era of Khudabanda, the Mongol, and sat between a quarter to a third of the population. With the arrival of the Safavids it increased further and today they make up 65–70%.[2] Though the Ahlus Sunnah make up 30–35%, they bear no influence in Iran. In fact, the Christians, the Armenians, the Jews, the Zoroastrians, and the Baha’i who collectively make up about 2% of the population enjoy more religious and other freedoms in Iran compared to the Ahlus Sunnah. In Iraq, the Shia populous cannot be more than 37-45%. The rest of the Iraqis are Sunni of different demographics, Arab, Kurdish, Turkmenia.
After the fall and occupation of Iraq, the Shia attempted to displace the Ahlus Sunnah and import Persians from Iran in order to change the population demographic of Iraq. This is a part of the neo-Safavid project which was birthed together with the emergence of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the arrival of Khomeini. They attempted the same in Lebanon and in the Gulf States, i.e. increasing the proportion of the Shia population in preparation for taking a larger role which will be a catalyst for domination over these areas.
At the inception of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which is the only Shia state in the world, they drew up a constitution. Article 12 of the constitution states:
The official religion of Iran is Islam and the Twelver Jafari school of [Shia] religion.
This principle shall remain eternally unchangeable.
The Shia method has throughout time remained the same as it stems from a single source. All their works call towards hatred, torture, and killing the Ahlus Sunnah, whom they call the Nawasib. When they find themselves weak and without power, they resort to Taqiyyah and when they find themselves in positions of power they adopt the most heinous methods to kill and excommunicate the Ahlus Sunnah. When in power, they lose their persecution complex and feelings of being wronged; derangements engendered and taught to their followers just as Jewish leaders continue provoking paranoid delusions and persecution complexes amongst their masses. All this in turn generates a vicious cycle of deep seeded hatred and envy. They have become like slaves, yielding under the whip and rebelling the moment it is lifted.
The Shia have been raised with this complex for more than 13 centuries and all, for differing reasons, have internalised this complex. This is why when the Shia do gain any influence, the actions they perpetrate are shocking and shameful. Those of the Ahlus Sunnah who haven’t co-existed with the Shia may not believe this, since they are unaware of the true motives of the Shia.
The point I want to make is that the hatred of the Safavid Dynasty was not solely against the Ottoman Empire and neither was it against a given nationality. Rather, the hatred included all the Ahlus Sunnah, whether they were Iranian, Iraqi, Afghani, Uzbek, or Turkish. All were guilty of being part of the Ahlus Sunnah which was enough for them to be subjected to torture and murder.
وَمَا نَقَمُوْا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ يُّؤْمِنُوْا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيْزِ الْحَمِيْدِ
And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy.[3]
The words of Allah ring true:
إِنَّهُمْ إِنْ يَظْهَرُوْا عَلَيْكُمْ يَرْجُمُوْكُمْ أَوْ يُعِيْدُوْكُمْ فِيْ مِلَّتِهِمْ وَلَنْ تُفْلِحُوْٓا إِذًا أَبَدًا
Indeed, if they come to know of you, they will stone you or return you to their religion. And never would you succeed, then, ever.[4]
Yes, this is what happened in the past and what is happening today in Iraq with the Ahlus Sunnah. People are being killed only because they are from the Ahlus Sunnah. Scholars, intellectuals, and politicians that call this ‘sectarian strife’ between the Ahlus Sunnah and the Shia cannot justify the atrocities being perpetrated. The Shia leadership in Iraq today have shown their true colours and have displayed their true creed which was curated, developed, and instituted by the Safavid Dynasty.
Hizb Allah in Lebanon will do the same, given the opportunity, as their overlords in Iraq have done. In Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi the very same atrocities will be perpetrated in following the Shia model adopted against the Ahlus Sunnah in Iraq.
Look at ‘Hizb al Da’wah al Islami’ in Iraq. Many of the Muslim Brotherhood in and out of Iraq opined them to be students of the Shia scholar Muhammad Baqir al Sadr and as such are moderates, not extremists like others. Well, what did they do when they came into the seat of power? Ibrahim al Jafari and Jawad al Maliki are both disciples of Muhammad Baqir al Sadr. When they rose to power in Iraq they killed, slaughtered, forced change, upended the education system, and wished to change every landmark of Iraq and Baghdad.
In fact, the spokesperson of Jawad al Maliki, ‘Ali al Dabbagh mentioned several times on the satellite channels that the Shia have been oppressed for 14 centuries and now was the time for them to reclaim their rights. Iyad Jamal al Din who campaigned for a secularist and liberal Iraq regurgitated the same sentiments many times over the satellite channels. How true is the speech of Allah in saying:
أَتَوَاصَوْا بِهِۦ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُوْنَ
Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people.[5]
When a delegation of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood travelled to congratulate Khomeini on the successful Islamic Revolution circa. 1979 CE, his representative said to them, “You i.e., the Ahlus Sunnah ruled for 14 centuries and now the time has come for the Shia to rule over the Muslim world.”
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[1] Mahmud Shakir: Al Tarikh al Islami vol. 18.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Surah al Buruj: 8.
[4] Surah al Kahf: 20.
[5] Surah al Dhariyat: 53.
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Epilogue
This was the Safavid Dynasty which lasted about 240 years from 907 AH to 1148 AH. The very first Shia Imamiyyah Dynasty. By this I mean, a meaningful and large dynasty unlike those lesser ones like the Musha’shi’iyyin (Musha’sha’) at Hoveyzeh which existed between the years 789 AH and 1117 AH, or the Sarbadariyyah at Khorasan between the years 738 AH and 782 AH, or the Sadah al Mar’ashiyyah at Mazandaran between the years 795 AH and 1001 AH. All these were Shia Twelver Dynasties but they were small and wielded limited influence. As for the earlier substantial dynasties such as the Fatimids and the Buyids, the former was an Ismaili Shia dynasty and the latter a Zaidi Jarudi dynasty.
One piece of information we forgot to mention was that the Safavids did not only cooperate with the English and the Portuguese but they also formed alliances with the French in the year 1708 CE, during the reign of Shah Hussain al Safawi. The French sent a fleet and eased the occupation of Muscat, Oman.[1] We have already discussed their cooperation with Tsarist Russia.
The Safavid Dynasty stretched from Iran to Afghanistan and Iraq. However, the Afghan people were able to keep their lands pure and remain Sunni. Iran continues to plot against Iraq and Afghanistan since they were unable to convert them to Shi’ism.
The Safavid Dynasty was the first Shia Imamiyyah dynasty that forcibly converted Iran to Shi’ism. The Shia only made up roughly 10% of Iran, however, this number increased during the era of Khudabanda, the Mongol, and sat between a quarter to a third of the population. With the arrival of the Safavids it increased further and today they make up 65–70%.[2] Though the Ahlus Sunnah make up 30–35%, they bear no influence in Iran. In fact, the Christians, the Armenians, the Jews, the Zoroastrians, and the Baha’i who collectively make up about 2% of the population enjoy more religious and other freedoms in Iran compared to the Ahlus Sunnah. In Iraq, the Shia populous cannot be more than 37-45%. The rest of the Iraqis are Sunni of different demographics, Arab, Kurdish, Turkmenia.
After the fall and occupation of Iraq, the Shia attempted to displace the Ahlus Sunnah and import Persians from Iran in order to change the population demographic of Iraq. This is a part of the neo-Safavid project which was birthed together with the emergence of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the arrival of Khomeini. They attempted the same in Lebanon and in the Gulf States, i.e. increasing the proportion of the Shia population in preparation for taking a larger role which will be a catalyst for domination over these areas.
At the inception of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which is the only Shia state in the world, they drew up a constitution. Article 12 of the constitution states:
The official religion of Iran is Islam and the Twelver Jafari school of [Shia] religion.
This principle shall remain eternally unchangeable.
The Shia method has throughout time remained the same as it stems from a single source. All their works call towards hatred, torture, and killing the Ahlus Sunnah, whom they call the Nawasib. When they find themselves weak and without power, they resort to Taqiyyah and when they find themselves in positions of power they adopt the most heinous methods to kill and excommunicate the Ahlus Sunnah. When in power, they lose their persecution complex and feelings of being wronged; derangements engendered and taught to their followers just as Jewish leaders continue provoking paranoid delusions and persecution complexes amongst their masses. All this in turn generates a vicious cycle of deep seeded hatred and envy. They have become like slaves, yielding under the whip and rebelling the moment it is lifted.
The Shia have been raised with this complex for more than 13 centuries and all, for differing reasons, have internalised this complex. This is why when the Shia do gain any influence, the actions they perpetrate are shocking and shameful. Those of the Ahlus Sunnah who haven’t co-existed with the Shia may not believe this, since they are unaware of the true motives of the Shia.
The point I want to make is that the hatred of the Safavid Dynasty was not solely against the Ottoman Empire and neither was it against a given nationality. Rather, the hatred included all the Ahlus Sunnah, whether they were Iranian, Iraqi, Afghani, Uzbek, or Turkish. All were guilty of being part of the Ahlus Sunnah which was enough for them to be subjected to torture and murder.
وَمَا نَقَمُوْا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ يُّؤْمِنُوْا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيْزِ الْحَمِيْدِ
And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy.[3]
The words of Allah ring true:
إِنَّهُمْ إِنْ يَظْهَرُوْا عَلَيْكُمْ يَرْجُمُوْكُمْ أَوْ يُعِيْدُوْكُمْ فِيْ مِلَّتِهِمْ وَلَنْ تُفْلِحُوْٓا إِذًا أَبَدًا
Indeed, if they come to know of you, they will stone you or return you to their religion. And never would you succeed, then, ever.[4]
Yes, this is what happened in the past and what is happening today in Iraq with the Ahlus Sunnah. People are being killed only because they are from the Ahlus Sunnah. Scholars, intellectuals, and politicians that call this ‘sectarian strife’ between the Ahlus Sunnah and the Shia cannot justify the atrocities being perpetrated. The Shia leadership in Iraq today have shown their true colours and have displayed their true creed which was curated, developed, and instituted by the Safavid Dynasty.
Hizb Allah in Lebanon will do the same, given the opportunity, as their overlords in Iraq have done. In Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi the very same atrocities will be perpetrated in following the Shia model adopted against the Ahlus Sunnah in Iraq.
Look at ‘Hizb al Da’wah al Islami’ in Iraq. Many of the Muslim Brotherhood in and out of Iraq opined them to be students of the Shia scholar Muhammad Baqir al Sadr and as such are moderates, not extremists like others. Well, what did they do when they came into the seat of power? Ibrahim al Jafari and Jawad al Maliki are both disciples of Muhammad Baqir al Sadr. When they rose to power in Iraq they killed, slaughtered, forced change, upended the education system, and wished to change every landmark of Iraq and Baghdad.
In fact, the spokesperson of Jawad al Maliki, ‘Ali al Dabbagh mentioned several times on the satellite channels that the Shia have been oppressed for 14 centuries and now was the time for them to reclaim their rights. Iyad Jamal al Din who campaigned for a secularist and liberal Iraq regurgitated the same sentiments many times over the satellite channels. How true is the speech of Allah in saying:
أَتَوَاصَوْا بِهِۦ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُوْنَ
Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people.[5]
When a delegation of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood travelled to congratulate Khomeini on the successful Islamic Revolution circa. 1979 CE, his representative said to them, “You i.e., the Ahlus Sunnah ruled for 14 centuries and now the time has come for the Shia to rule over the Muslim world.”
NEXT⇒ Why the Safavid Dynasty?
[1] Mahmud Shakir: Al Tarikh al Islami vol. 18.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Surah al Buruj: 8.
[4] Surah al Kahf: 20.
[5] Surah al Dhariyat: 53.