جزیره علم

Early Islamic conquests: with or without the province of Imam Ali؟

© Mahdi Movahed-Abtahi

Most of Muslims believe that the conquests done in the early period of Islam had great values because the territory of Islamic country was developed. I critically analyze it:

In all of captured countries – from Persia to Roman and from Africa to Cordoba-, distributed Islam did not include the province of Imam Ali. Triple Caliphs introduced themselves as the prophet`s Successors.

Allah completed and finalized the Islam as a human`s religion when the prophet appointed Imam Ali as his successor. The Quran explicitly says, Today, I completed and finalized my gifts and submit Islam as the religion for you (Maida; 3).

Historically, the prophet appointed Imam Ali as his successor in ghadir place in the last hajj pilgrimage (hajjatolvidae).

Allah did not being accept Islam without the province of Imam Ali because the prophetic mission had a close relation to the prophet successor. The Quran says, O! The prophet, If you do not propagandize [what Allah has revealed before about Ali], then you have not done your prophetic mission (Maida; 67).

Evidently, doing prophetic mission was the most important attempt that the prophet did in 23 years –even more important than Islamic conquests-

Conclusion, Allah has accepted neither the prophetic mission -from the Muhammad (P.B.U.H) - nor early Islamic conquests –authorized by triple Caliphs- if Islam had distributed without the province of Imam Ali.