Author: Kianoush Qasempour

Date: 2015-01-24

Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani, in his book, has not deprived any group, faction, sect and country of his criticisms, and has attacked them all from one side! Neither the Shiite, nor the Sunnite, nor the Salafi, nor the Sufi, nor the Ahl al-Hadith, nor the philosophers, nor the poets, nor the scholars, nor the guardianship of jurisprudent, nor democracy, nor the West, nor the ISIS, none of them is confirmed by him and none of them are considered in accordance with his so-called pure and complete Islam! Therefore, he has not left anyone for himself, and has displeased everyone! It is obvious that the Muslims of the world are either on that side or on this side and he has reacted against both sides! Therefore, there is no one left to support him! Everyone has become his enemy! Had he had a little politics, at least at the beginning of his movement, he would have kept at least one person for himself and would have not driven everyone away from himself! Anyway, now nobody considers him as a friend and everyone has taken a stand against him, and from Iran to Saudi Arabia and from ISIS to America, all are on one side and he is on another side! Therefore, it is clear that his work will not come to a conclusion and his failure is certain! He has no politics in my opinion.

Response to critique: 1

Date: 2015-01-25

Dear brother!

What you call politics and believe that Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani lacks, is the very lie and deception and hypocrisy which has no place in Islam and therefore, it is not seen in Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani’s morality; just as some of the like-minded people in the time of Amir al-Mumenin Ali ibn Abi Talib, used to accuse his Excellency of not having politics with the same reasoning like yours, and used to consider him as naive and tactless because he did not compromise with oppressors and deviants, whereas his Excellency had enough politics and tact and just because of the piety, he avoided lie and deception and hypocrisy and compromising with oppressors and deviants. Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani is also in the line of Islam and in the line of Ali ibn Abi Talib, and does not go out of their line; in the sense that he does not cover a truth and does not express a falsehood to please someone, and does not resort to flattery to attract someone’s support, rather he reveals the truth, even if it makes the whole world to stand against him, and rejects the falsehood, even if it disperses away all the people from around him; because God and His Caliph on earth are sufficient for him, and with those two, he does not fear the enmity of the world and its people. He has abandoned the love of your worthless world and does not care about things that matter the most to you; because he looks at the world from a horizon of vision very much higher than your horizon of vision, and follows the equations very much greater than your equations. He has not criticized any group, faction, sect, and country unjustly, rather he has criticized based on the Book of God and the mutawatir Sunnah of His Prophet and therefore, he has not struck the base of everyone, but rather God has struck the base of everyone! As He has said: ﴿فَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمْ ۚ وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ رَمَى﴾[1]; “So you did not kill them, but it was God who killed them and you threw not when you threw, but it was God who threw”! Therefore, only those would stay with him and support him who, like him, have divorced the world three times and are not affiliated with any group, faction, sect and country, and they are the truthful, martyrs and the righteous who are the best of friends. Maybe their number is too few in your view, but it is too many in God’s view; because each of them, like Ibrahim peace be upon him in his time, is considered a nation; as He has said: ﴿إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ كَانَ أُمَّةً﴾[2]; “Indeed Ibrahim was a nation”!

Anyways, Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani is not regretful and ashamed that he has reminded all groups, factions, sects, and Islamic countries of their deviation with reliance on certitudes of Islam and common things between Muslims and he has done so with a scholarly and compassionate expression, and invited them all with no discrimination and exception toward the pure and complete Islam and toward the preparation of the grounds for the advent of God’s Caliph; because regret and shame is suitable for someone who has acted against the Book of God and the Sunnah of His prophet and such person is the one who is regretful and ashamed in the world and in the Hereafter. Although he invites all groups, factions, sects and Islamic countries to accompany him in the blessed way he is traversing; considering that to be fair, it is possible for all of them to accompany him in this way and his movement has such an extended vastness that has enough capacity for all of them and indeed, it is not exclusive to any of them truly and not allegedly, and if they cannot gather together under his flag with such a vast shadow, they will never gather together under the flag of anyone, but it is clear that if none of them do so, and if they all agree to reject him, they will not harm him, rather they will harm themselves, and in any case, he is “Mansoor” and the winner of this arena; because his goal is to perform the intellectual and religious duty by explaining the truth of Islam and this is a goal that has already been achieved; because his message has been imparted through the publication of the book “Return to Islam” very well and has been spread in every corner of this world like a blessed seed and naturally, sooner or later, in the far or near lands, will sprout one by one and two by two and multiple by multiple, and despite all enmities and hostilities, will grow and become robust, to the extent that it will turn into a blessed tree with a firm root and branches in the sky, and will produce its fruit; as God has said: ﴿وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي الْإِنْجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَآزَرَهُ فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوَى عَلَى سُوقِهِ يُعْجِبُ الزُّرَّاعَ لِيَغِيظَ بِهِمُ الْكُفَّارَ﴾[3]; “And their description in the Gospel is as a plant which produces its sprout and then strengthens it so it grows firm and stands upon its stalks, delighting the sowers and enraging the disbelievers” and has said: ﴿أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً كَشَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتٌ وَفَرْعُهَا فِي السَّمَاءِ ۝ تُؤْتِي أُكُلَهَا كُلَّ حِينٍ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهَا ۗ وَيَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثَالَ لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ﴾[4]; “Have you not seen how God presents an example, making a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches high in the sky?! It produces its fruit all the time, by permission of its Lord and God presents examples for the people that perhaps they will be reminded”!

Yes, dear brother! The blessed seed which Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani planted with his blessed hands in every corner of this world, sooner or later, despite all groups, factions, sects and countries, and with the protection of the oppressed, the orphans, the refugees and the barefoot, will grow into a blessed tree which its fruit is the global justice in the light of Mahdi’s sovereignty, and will feed the oppressed children, women and men to the extent that they will never ever become hungry, Insha’Allah.