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The Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah, Hajj mission
 

  Zo Hujja 01 1426H /January 01, 2006 A.D

As costmary, once the Mission arrived at Medina, it started to receive religious scholars, representatives of other missions and pilgrims coming from various parts of the world. In addition, it made a series of visits and meetings with various other religious missions and campaigns.
In this respect, the mission’s administration headed by His Eminence Sayyed Muhammad Ali Fadlullah received in its, a number of campaign managers from several Arab European and American countries . Moreover, several religious scholars from Iran and the Arab Gulf headed by Ayatullah Sayyed Abdullah Ali Fadlullah Guraifi, and the head of Ulama Community in Iraq Ayatullah Sheik Muhammad Baqir An-Nasiri.
A delegation of the mission of the Religious Authority Sheikh Yusuf As-Sani'i headed by Ayatuallah Sheik Ibrahim Ad—Dashti also visited the mission. Sheikh Dashti conveyed the love and respect Sheikh Sani'i has for the Sayyed, and the role he plays in renewing the Movement of Shiite religious authority in the world.
He praised the Sayyed’s academic boldness that accompanies all the modern developments.
Shekh Kazim Al-Umari visited the mission representing his Father Sheikh Muhammad Ali Al-Umari, one of the leading scholars in Medina.
He conveyed his father’s love and respect for the Sayyed and sent him his best regards.
On another level, a delegation representing the mission and headed by Sayyed Ali Fadlullah, paid a visit to the Head of the Iraqi mission of Jama't Al-Ulama in Iraq Ayatullah Sheikh Muhammad Baqir An-Nasiri. They discussed the situation in Iraq at length.
Sheikh Nasiri expressed his appreciation for the Sayyed's following up of the daily developments in Iraq, for it reflects the importance of Iraq in the mind and heart of the Sayyed.
The delegation also visited the mission of the Religious Authority Sheikh Sani'i.
 

  Zo Hujja 02 1426H /January 02, 2006 A.D
The Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah Mission to the Holy lands continues to receive the pilgrims coming for Europe America, the Gulf countries, and Saudi Arabia at its headquarters in Medina
The brothers in the mission have also received several religious scholars from the Gulf countries and the migration states. They exchanged an in depth talk about the concerns and problems of the Muslim World and the means of confronting internal and external challenges especially those that aim at creating sectarian strife.

There was a mutual agreement on the importance of emphasizing of the principle of Islamic unity and trying to reconcile between various views being the most effective way to sustain the strength of the Muslim Nation.
The mission also received a Pakistani delegation headed by Sayyed Muhammad Jawad Hadi, president of Martyr Aref Al-Husseini University, and a Pakistani former MP. The two delegations discussed the situation in Pakistan in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, and the social crisis it created. The Pakistani delegation thanked Sayyed Fadlullah for his concern and care for those affected by the last earthquake.
On another level, a big delegation headed by His Eminence Sayyed Muhammad Ali Fadlullah paid a visit to His Eminence Sheikh Muhammad Ali Al-Umari in his house in Medina. The delegation conveyed the regards of Sayyed Fadlullah and his supplications that the sick Sheikh would, by Allah's Grace, be healed.
During the meeting Sheikh Umari remembered the time he lived with the Sayyed in Najaf, where the Sheikh was a neighbor of the late Sayyed Abdraouf Fadlullah and the late Sayyed Muhammad Said Fadlullah. He described their house as one of knowledge belief and purity. Sayyed Muhammad Ali Fadlullah thanked the Sheikh for his truthful brotherly feelings.
Another delegation of the mission that was headed by the Sayyed's son, Sayyed Ali Fadlullah, visited the Tawhid Campaign of Kuwait where they were received by the head of the campaign Hajj Kazim Abdilhussein and its Imam Sheikh Ali Hassan Gloum
The two delegations discussed the general Islamic situation.
 

  Zo Hujja 04 1426H /January 03, 2006 A.D
The Hajj mission of The Religious Authority, Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah, continued its activities in the Holy city of Mecca.
It received pilgrims coming from every part of the world, and it made extensive visits to a number of missions and campaigns that came from America, Australia, Europe and the Gulf states.
In this respect, a delegation representing the mission that was composed of Sayyed Abdullah Al-Guraifi, Sayyed Hassan Nouri, Sayyed Ali Fadlullah and Shiekh Yaser Audi and Sheikh Muhammad Mikawi, visited the Iraqi mission, and met with Sheikh Khaled Al-Atiah. They discussed with him, the latest developments in Iraq and its future prospects in the light of the constitution referendum and the parliamentary elections.
Sheikh Atiah thanked the mission for their visit, and expressed his deeps appreciation for the profound relationship between the Sayyed and Iraq in all the difficult stages it passed through, especially the daily following up of all the developments in the country.
Delegations from the mission visited also a number of the Gulf campaigns, including the Mustafa and Taa'khi campaigns from Bahrain, the Sadiq campaign from the UAE, and met with their leaders and Imams. They conveyed the Sayyed’s greetings to all pilgrims and his supplication that Allah will accept their effort, and return them have safely. The delegation also presented some of the Sayyed's Books.
 
 

  Zo Hujja 05 1426H /January 04, 2006 A.D
Since very early the morning, groups of pilgrims began to visit the Hajj mission of The Religious Authority   Sayyed Fadlullah in Mecca.

The mission received pilgrims coming from all parts of the world including  America Europe, Australian Lebanon and the Gulf states headed by several political and religious leaders .

He also received the Kazim Campaign from Bahrain. He addressed the pilgrims expressing his appreciation of  the people of Bahrain who have produced several religious scholars who have enriched   the literature and Jurisprudence culture and political awareness of the Bahrainis.

Sayyed Fadlullah said:

Our reasonability is the same as that of the Prophet: to convey Islam to the people, to change their minds and fill their hearts with mercy. The Messenger used to live with the people who filled his heart and mind. Therefore, each and every one of us should be Muhammad even if at rate of one percent. Let us renew ourselves, renew our morals by his words, our faithfulness with his faithfulness.

 We are in era where the arrogant and the infidel  are launching a war against Islam to the extent that we have been hearing some voices in the Muslim world and even within the Islamic movements that say that we don't want any Islamic or religious state because the West does not accept it. And they are exerting political, cultural and economic pressures on all Islamic countries to ensure that its policies or culture are not Islamic.

God wants us to be free. And Imam Ali has explained that you should not be slaved to others since Allah has created us free.

This freedom is not a political slogan that we remember in demonstrations. It is a value that we live in our souls and minds, especially when we are faced with big challenges, as big as the one we face today.

Thus, we have to uphold our responsibility and study all our weak points and turn  them to points of strength.

Sayyed Fadlullah called also for strengthening Islamic unity  calling on solving all differences by referring them to God and His Messenger. He emphasized that cursing and insulting will not solve these differences but  rather aggravate them . He drew the attention to the fact that the Muslim unity is more important at this stage since international arrogance and disbelief are trying to incite and drive Muslims to fight one another.

They are making all plans and using all means to reach this goal. We in return have to thwart these plans, and seek to preserve Islam.

Sayyed Fadlullah received several Iraqi Hajj missions, as well as Iraqi religious scholars, and heads of  tribes.

In the afternoon, he received a delegation of the Huzbullah Hajj mission headed by Sheik Muhammad Yazbik, and they discussed the Islamic general affairs.

Sayyed Fadlullah's mission sent several delegations  to visit the Hajj campaigns from the Muslim  and migration countries including the Takwa campaign that came from London  and the Sharaf campaign, the Mahfouz campaign and the Labiak campaigs from Bahrain and the Wasilat Annajat campaign from Canada

 
 

Zo Hujja 06 1426H /January 06, 2006 A.D

Sayyed Fadlullah received a delegation from the Iraqi mission headed by Sheik Khaled Atteih, and a delegation of the mission of Ayatollah Sheik Yusuf Assanii and discussed with them various Muslim affairs.

He also met a number of religious scholars from Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf including Sayyed Mahmoud Al-Guraifi Shiekh Murtada As-Said. Sheikh Jamil Al-Rubayi, (Dalya), Sayyed Ali Miyali (Samawa), Sayyed Ammar Al-Musawi and Mr. Muhammad Az-Zabaidi.

The mission was also visited by delegations from the following campaigns Bab Al-Rayan.

German pilgrims of Safa and Safwa campaigns Umani pilgrims of Tawhied campaigns American pilgrims from the Salam campaign and several Moroccan Tunisian and Algerian pilgrims.

The Sayyed addressed the pilgrims with a long speech in which he said: We are here in these purified lands to renew ourselves with Islam. People now no longer live Islam, justice and leniency. Most of the now live disbelief, arrogance and violence. They are influenced by the anti-Islamic thought in the media, which fills our hearts with feelings that are not Islamic and our lives with Western traditions the others have imposed on us.

Islam has turned into rituals that might not be lively and opening up. Our relations with the Messenger and the Imams of Ahlul Beit, became a subjective one, which we do not live as a message.

Our responsibility, as Muslim religious scholars, is to open upon the world. Our responsibility as intellectuals is to promote Islamic, culture, our responsibility as Muslim workers who travel in the world is make Islam our sole concern, especially in this stage which is marked by the arrogant and disbelief attack on the believers and the downtrodden.

In this stage, there are several research centers in the West that are fighting Islam on the cultural level, just as the administration is fighting it politically, economically, and militarily to dominate over the Muslims’ mind, future and resources. What is our responsibility towards all this? Our responsibility is to protect Islam, each according to his abilities and potentials. We should uphold our responsibilities towards Islam by calling, protecting, promoting our unity and increasing our awareness. We should understand what is lying behind what the others are thinking about, and all their plans that aim at our fall.

Therefore, we need, and let us think about it very deeply, to relive the first call of the Messenger, and the way he faced unbelief, and the way he was hurt like no other prophet. We have to pledge our loyalty, yet again, to the Messenger and tell him what we are with him and that we profess that he is the Messenger of Allah and that the Quran in Allah's Books.

We were not with you when you were alive, but we will be with you in your Message. You are not away from us, we testify for you in our prayers and we want to testify for you in our struggle and in all our actions. We will not tell you as Musa's people told him: God fight with your god, and we are going to sit here. But we will tell you what that great companion of Muhammad said :”Go and fight with your God and we will fight with you." Each carrying his cultural political and security weapon, for there is no room for being neutral, for every one who isolates himself from the arena is a traitor.

Let each us be the Muslims whom Islam is embodied in his mind ,soul, heart and actions. In these times that all "parties" have waged a battle against us, we need Imam Ali in his awareness spirit, firmness, struggle and stand with Right. All those who stand with political, cultural and security falsehood are not with Ali (a.s.). He only accepts those who stand with the right and he used to say that the right left him no friends. It is unfortunate that many of us say to those who cling to the right, that you will be condemned and accused, so you better not stand against the mounting tide.

International arrogance is fighting us throughout the Arab and Muslim world in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan. We have to learn how to prepare our weapons and how to strengthen our willpower... How to be dedicated to the cause… We have to learn how to renew our pledge of loyalty to the Messenger(p.)... How to be inspired by him as he was destroyed the idols in the Sacred House. The House to day is the Islamic world and we have to destroy all the idols that are worshipped instead of God on all political and cultural lives. The greatness of the Messenger was represented in that he did not care for himself. He was dedicated to the Message and to the struggle for the cause. Could we be liberated and dedicated to the Message. Let your pilgrimage seek to achieve this goal.

In Iraq, all the operations that target civilians in their mosques markets and homes or the security officials and policemen are no way a resistance.

They are brutal actions that serve the occupier, as they destabilize the security giving the occupier an excuse to stay. They also prevent Iraq from acquiring force and this is what America wants.

We believe in Resistance and we fought the occupier in Palestine and Lebanon, and we were the first Islamic group to defeat Israel and force it to withdraw unconditionally…

And we call on the Muslims to follow our lead. But we are not with those who accuse others of disbelief because we do not believe it is lawful to kill your Muslim brother.
 

Zo Hujja 07 1426H /January 07, 2006 A.D

In his address to the large number of pilgrims that visited the his headquarters, H. E. Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah drew the attention to the on-going debate about the methods that Muslims ought to use and asked whether it is violence or leniency. He explained that Islam has called for leniency…

Sayyed Fadlullah drew the attention to the fact that Allah says to His Messenger that he was lenient to his people and that had he been cruel, they would have not listened. Imam Ali too was lenient, for although he was a caliph, he asked the people to criticize him, despite the fact that he was infallible. I could even say that he was, more that: He was the man who sold himself to God. He did not live to himself, but he dedicated his life to the Message. And this is the line that ought to be followed by all who assume a leading role, whether religious, political or social, for in the end they all serve the people.

Islam does not legitimize violence except in legitimate Jihad or self-defense. That is why we stood against all the explosions in the West.

If we are against the American Administration, it does not follow that we ought to fight it in this way. But we call for Jihad in Palestine, for the Palestinians are not a violent people, they are a people that seeks freedom from the Zionist oppression. And the only means available for them to defend themselves is martyr operations.

But we are not with those apostators in all their crimes and massacres, especially the last and ugly one that took place in front of Imam Hussein's shrine and killed a lot of children, women youth and the elderly… These people are not resisting; they are serving the occupier because they are helping him to stay longer in Iraq. Any body that says that they are a resistance does not understand what resistance means.

The battle is not in Karbala, nor Kazimiah, Ramadi or any other city. It is in confronting the occupier face to face in Palestine and in every occupied Islamic country.

The Sayyed answered a question regarding his interview with Al-Jazeera news channel, he denied that it has undermined the image of the Shiite religious authority, and added that it has benefited both Islam and the Shiite religious authority. And called for taking advantage of such media outlets to convey our message to the people.