Imam Sadiq(as) said: Eid-e-Ghadeer is the greatest Eid of Allah(swt)
\n(Ref: Wasail ush shia, Vol 5, Pg 224)
\nThe closed schools and workplaces, clean and shining roads, perfumed houses, happy smiling people with rose like faces, new dresses, variety of meals and the noise of playing kids, which day does you remember by all this??? Everyone will say that all these things are the signs of \u201cEid-day\u201d. This is the atmosphere on \u201cEid-ul-Fitr\u201d or Eid-ul-Azha\u201d. The only difference between the two is that, \u201cFitra\u201d is paid on one of the days and \u201cSacrifice\u201d is offered on another.
\nPleasure and happiness of these days are very important to everyone hence along with elders, the youths and children impatiently wait for the Eid-Day. Hence every year \u201cEid\u201d is celebrated with great enthusiasm. People want to share the happiness, hence even if they don\u2019t usually help the needy, on \u201cEid-Day\u201d they make it a point to help. Besides this, if there happens to be death of someone\u2019s family member before Eid and there is atmosphere of sorrow in that house, then in India and Pakistan usually the vermicelli is send and in other countries sweets are send to them.
\nYou must be thinking that what\u2019s the point in reminding all these things??? Well! There is definitely an aim behind it, which is to ask an important question.
\nThe question is, whether these two are the only \u201cEids\u201d for the celebrations and happiness????? There are two answers to this question.
\nFirst Yes! As there is no Eid for Muslims other than \u201cFitr\u201d and Azha\u201d (Friday is considered to be a weekly Eid with limited joy).
\nSecond No! But the problem is that our way of Eid celebrations reveals something else, due to being influenced by common Muslims.
\nThose who believe in the Wilayat of Ahlulbait (as) do admit at heart and say that the Greatest Eid\u201d is \u201cEid-ul-Ghadeer\u201d.
\nBut this belief has to be put in action, because there are a lot of Ahadith from Infallibles (as) on this matter
\nThe readers may decide themselves that our routine works and business on \u201cEid-ul-Ghadeer\u201d speak volumes! (Although we do enjoy a separate \u201cEid-Holiday\u201d even if the holiday was announced some other day due to moon sighting problems).
\nWhat is proved by no special arrangements in our houses, dresses, meals etc???
\nDo we consider \u201cEid-ul-Ghadeer\u201d to be greater than \u201cFitr\u201d and \u201cAzha\u201d???
\nWell! Congratulations to those who celebrate in a special way (Juloos and Jashn of Ghadeer). But generally we see that the celebration in Ghadeer is not even equal to \u201cEid-ul-Fitr\u201d and \u201cAzha\u201d. We would like to draw your attention towards a very important point in the end. All the other Eids are called \u201cEid-al-Lil-Muslimeen\u201d i.e. Eid for the Muslims, but \u201cEid-ul-Ghadeer\u201d is called to be the great Eid of the great Lord. Hence we pray that all the followers of Wilayat may celebrate \u201cEid-ul-Akbar\u201d (great Eid) in the great manner and get the Tawfiq of propagating Wilayat as a gift on Eid-Day.
\nMetioned below are some ahadees highlighting the importance of Eid-e-Ghadeer
\n(1) Imam Jafar Sadiq (as) said: \u201cFasting on the day of Ghadeer is equivalent to fasting throughout the entire age of the world\u2026 It is the greatest festival of Allah. Allah has not sent any prophet but that he celebrated this day as Eid and was aware of its sanctity. It is known in the heavens as \u2018The Day of the Famous Covenant\u2019\u2026 You might think that Allah, the mighty and the majestic, has created a day more sacred than that. No, by Allah! No, by Allah! No, by Allah!\u201d
\n(Complete hadees is not quoted here)
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Source: Tahdhib Al Ahkam \u2013 Sheikh Toosi Vol.3 Pg.143
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\n(2) Imam Raza (as) narrates from his father (as): \u201cCertainly, the day of Ghadir is more famous in the heavens than in the earth\u2026 and by Allah, had people truly known the superiority of this day, the angels would have been shaking hands with them ten times a day.\u201d
\n(Complete hadees is not quoted here)
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Source: Tahdhib Al Ahkam \u2013 Sheikh Toosi Vol.6 Pg.24
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\nSome points on the sermon of ghadeer delivered by the Holy Prophet(saww) which you might not have read or heard are mentioned below:
\n(1) The Prophet (PBUH&HF) explicitly mentioned the name of Imam Ali (PBUH) in his sermon about forty times besides many more instances that he (PBUH&HF) referred to him by pronoun.
\n(2) He (PBUH&HF) repeatedly used the following titles for Imam Ali (PBUH) in this sermon:
\n\u2013 Wali and Mawla (guardian) fifteen times.
\n\u2013 Imam (leader) twelve times.
\n\u2013 Amir (commander) seven times.
\n\u2013 Wasi (executor of the will and deputy of the affairs) seven times.
\n\u2013 Akh (brother) four times.
\n\u2013 Khalifa (successor) three times.
\n\u2013 Hadi (guide) three times.
\n(3) The Prophet explicitly mentioned the word
\nA\u2019imma (Imams), referring to the eleven Imams after Imam Ali (PBUH), nine times in his sermon.
\n(4) The sermon also refers to over one hundred verses of the Holy Quran concerning Imam Ali
\n(PBUH) and his authority, his followers, and their enemies.
\n(5) The number of sentences categorized by some important subjects of the sermon is as follows:
\n\u2013 Over fifty sentences on the
\nWalaya of Imam Ali (PBUH).
\n\u2013 Twenty sentences about his virtues, yet stressing that it is impossible to enumerate all his virtues in the sermon.
\n\u2013 Twenty-five sentences about the followers (Shia) of Imam Ali (PBUH) and their enemies.
\n\u2013 Ten sentences on the Walaya of the Imams (PBUT) after him.
\n\u2013 Twenty sentences specifically about Imam Mahdi (PBUH), the last divinely appointed Imam who will establish the divine government on earth at the end of time.
\n\u2013 Twelve sentences about the importance of the Quran, and introducing Imam Ali (PBUH) and his children as its exclusive authorized interpreters.
\n\u2013 Ten sentences on urging people to pledge their fealty to Imam Ali (PBUH) and the Imams after him from his offspring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eid-e-Ghadeer is the greatest Eid of Allah (SWT) Imam Sadiq(as) said: Eid-e-Ghadeer is the greatest Eid of Allah(swt) (Ref: Wasail ush shia, Vol 5, Pg 224) The closed schools and workplaces, clean and shining roads, perfumed houses, happy smiling people with rose like faces, new dresses, variety of meals and the noise of playing kids, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7554],"tags":[13763,7555,7573,20196,19669],"class_list":["post-13176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ghadir","tag-ahl-al-bayt-a-s","tag-ghadir","tag-imam-ali","tag-shia-imams","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}