A bitter incident happened in the past century in the
About 80 years ago (year 1344 h.gh.) when Wahhabies gained power in
But they did not dare to go for sanctuary tomb of holy Prophet (s.a.), in order that may all Muslims arise against them and these “anti Taqiyya” people performed Taqiyya from other Muslims!
In some of my pilgrimage travels to Ka’ba I asked their leaders in friendly discussions, what is the reason that all tombs had destroyed except the holy tomb of prophet of Islam (s.a.)? They had no answer to that.
However, the life of nations has tied with lots of matters that one of them is protecting cultural, scientific and religious heritages. Unfortunately
Only tombs of Imams and superiors slept in Baqi were not destroyed, but this “nation” destroyed anywhere they found a valuable monument from history of Islam and in this way unrecoverable damages occurred to Muslims.
These Islamic monuments had an incredible attraction and brought human to the depths of history of Islam. Baqi cemetery which had someday a magnificent view and each corner of that was a reminder of an important historical event, nowadays has transformed to an ugly and bad viewed desert, among very luxurious hotels and glamorous buildings, which its jumbo iron doors open only one hour or two in a day for pilgrims and only for men!
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