A bitter incident happened in the past century in the land of Islam that deprived Muslims from Islamic monuments and effects forever and that incident was gaining power of Wahhabism.

About 80 years ago (year 1344 h.gh.) when Wahhabies gained power in Hejaz, they destroyed all historical Islamic monuments in excuse of polytheism or heresy in a coordinated and inexperienced action.

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 land of Islam especially Mecca and Medina moved under the power of a retarded, tactless and extremist group because of misplanning of Muslims, and most cultural heritages of Islam destroyed due to vain and extra baseless excuses, heritages that any of them were the reminder of an important part of glorious history of Islam.

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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