Sadr asks Shiites to sign a blood oath of loyalty

Another show of power issued today by Muq­tada Al-Sadr [image here].

In a state­ment issued today, Muq­tada Al-Sadr asks Shi­ites [not nec­es­sary his fol­low­ers] to sign a “pledge of loy­alty” oath to the “await­ing Al-Mahdi” [occulted Mahdi] with their blood.

With the first sig­na­ture is from Muq­tada him­self, the covenant con­tains four points in which peo­ple can agree upon to sign their names [or fin­ger­prints] at the end of the paper.

To be com­mit­ted to Quran as an approach, Sunna [prac­tice] and the most holly Atra [descended from the profit house] as deeds, and I will do my best to com­mit to Mohammad’s Sharia.

- I am com­mit­ted to lib­er­ate Mus­lim lands in gen­eral and Iraq in spe­cific from the armies of dark­ness, whom I mean the invaders and the occu­pa­tion who­ever they are with Jihad and mil­i­tary resis­tance or jihad and infor­ma­tional resis­tance against sec­u­lar, west­ern ideas, as its ordered by Hawza, my hope and dig­nity and my leader.

- I will make the believ­ers and the vul­ner­a­ble in gen­eral and in Iraq in spe­cific broth­ers of mine in their blood, money, dig­nity are for­bid­den for me until the judg­ment day.

To serve them is my duty, to love them is my goal. I will lead them to right path after set­ting myself on the right path as it is came in the Quran, the Atra [see above] ordered us to be behave and talk gen­tly [to oth­ers] will be my approach.

- I will make the ene­mies of God, and his profit and the fam­ily of Moham­mad [A’al Al-Bayt also means peo­ple who are descended from Moham­mad fam­ily, mostly refers to the “big three” Ali, Hus­sein and Has­san] as my ene­mies if they are the invaders, the occu­pa­tion, the unbe­liev­ers and the Nawa­sib [orig­i­nally, this word used by Sun­nis and Shi­ites to describe any per­son or a group who do not believe in Ali as the fourth Imam. Nowa­days, this word used by the Shi­ites to describe Sun­nis who don’t believe in the holi­ness of the Hi-rank Shi­ites Imams] or oth­ers from bad and twisted sects.

I will not nego­ti­ate with them, I will not appease them, and I will join them as long as I live because this [these acts] causes the delay of Al-Mahdi appear­ance and this is for­bid­den on me.

Name.….….…

Res­i­dent (country).….…..

Sig­na­ture.….……

In this oath:

- Sadr is ask­ing all the Shi­ites com­mu­nity and not his fol­low­ers only.

- He is not ask­ing a pledge of loy­alty to him­self but to the occulted-Mahdi.

- Sadr used the words like occu­pa­tion and invaders in Iraq mix them with reli­gious term and values.

These three points above will attract many Shi­ites to sign this doc­u­ment, but still unknown what is the real maneu­ver behind it.