The Greatest Nights

"And do not speak of those who are slain in the Way of Allah as dead; nay, they are alive, but you perceive not." (THE HOLY Quran 2:154) Imam Ali (a.s.) was martyred on 21st Ramadan 40 A.H. by an assassin who mortally wounded the Holy Imam with a poisoned sword in the Mosque of Kufah during morning prayers on 19th Ramadan. Imam Ali (a.s.), the First Muslim, an intimate associate of the Holy Prophet of Islam (s.a.) in the life and holy Islamic mission, the Immediate Successor to the Holy Prophet of Islam (s.a.) and the First Holy Immaculate Imam of the Shi'ites in the World was born inside the Holy Kaaba in Mecca on Friday, the 13th day of Rajab, 600 A.D. Imam Ali (a.s.) is the only unique personality in the world who was born in the Holy Kaaba and was martyred in the Kufah Mosque and was buried in the holy city of Najaf (Iraq). Regarding the divine right of Imam Ali (a.s.) the Holy Prophet of Islam (s.a.) declared:

What is the reason for the friendship and love for Ali in people's hearts? Nobody has yet discovered the secret of this love. That is, no one has been able to formulate it, and say that if it was like this then that would follow, or if it were like that then this would happen. However it does of course have a secret.
There is something in the love which dazzles the one who loves and draws him towards it. This attraction and love are the highest degrees of love; Ali is the one whom people's hearts adore, whom humanity loves. Why? In what does Ali's extraordinariness lie, that it incites love and draws hearts towards itself, that it plays the tune of eternal life and lives forever? Why do all hearts find out about themselves through him, and do not feel him to be dead but find him living?

What is the reason for the friendship and love for Ali in people's hearts? Nobody has yet discovered the secret of this love. That is, no one has been able to formulate it, and say that if it was like this then that would follow, or if it were like that then this would happen. However it does of course have a secret.
There is something in the love which dazzles the one who loves and draws him towards it. This attraction and love are the highest degrees of love; Ali is the one whom people's hearts adore, whom humanity loves. Why? In what does Ali's extraordinariness lie, that it incites love and draws hearts towards itself, that it plays the tune of eternal life and lives forever? Why do all hearts find out about themselves through him, and do not feel him to be dead but find him living?

In Arabic the words ‘qadha’ and ‘qadar’ are used for fate and destiny. The word, ‘qadha’ means to decide; to settle; to judge. A ‘qadhi’ (judge) is called so because he decides judicially between the litigants. In the Qur’an this word has been used frequently with reference to both man and Allah. It has been used in the sense of giving a final verdict and taking a decisive action.