The Analysis of the Narratives Encouraging the Visiting of Sayyed al-Shohda’s Shrine Even at the Times of Fear and Danger of Life

The pilgrimage of Haer Ḥusaynī is one of the best acts of worship that is strongly recommended in narratives. Throughout history, oppressive governments have attempted to destroy the artifacts of the Imam’s shrine and prohibit its pilgrimage. Instead, the Imams (as) encouraged the Shiites to go on their pilgrimage even at the time of being afraid and in danger. We examined the jurisprudential-narrative aspects of the conflict of these narratives with the proofs of the need to save life, the proofs that negate the rulings of harm, the proofs of the legitimacy of taqīyah, and the proofs of the prohibition of self-destruction in the Qur’an - on the premise of the time-based generality of the narratives - in this article. We a discussed the general proofs that prevent the specificity of the narratives, including the fact that the specificities of self-preservation are dominant in life-threatening situations but that observing these narratives is perfectly acceptable in other situations. If we consider the significance of the aforementioned narratives to be related to the time of their issuance, these narratives will lose the qualification of reasoning and conflictions with the generalities of the obligation of self-preservation, and the generalities of the narratives encouraging the pilgrimage of Haer Ḥusaynī (as) will be subject to the aforementioned general rules. As a result, there will be no distinction between the individuality and generality intents of these narratives.