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Perhaps, it will be beneficial to mention some incidents
that show the gross ignorance of the Khawarij. When they came
across Abdullah Ibn Khabbab and asked his opinion about Ali’s
decision, He stated, “Ali knows and understands the injunctions of
Allah and His Messenger more than you all.”
Khabbab also related to them a Hadeeth of Allah’s Messenger
, “I heard my father relate from Allah’s Messenger that he mentioned a
time of dissension in which one who sits is better than one who stands,
one who stands is better than one who walks and one who walks is
better than one who runs. And he said, “If you are alive at that time, be
a slave of Allah who is murdered (than among those who murder).”
Hearing this, the Khawarij were enraged and they took him to
the edge of a river and murdered him and his wife.
Later, while they were camped in a date palm grove in
Nahrawan, a ripe date fell, and one of them picked it up and tossed it in
his mouth. When another person told him he had no right to take it
without paying for it, he immediately spat it out of his mouth.
One of them sharpened his sword and began to wave it in the
air and when a pig passed by, he slashed it with his sword to try it out.
His companions told him that what he did was corrupt, so he found the
owner of the pig and gave him a price agreeable to him.
These incidents show how Shaytan deceived the Khawarij;
they find it permissible to unleash their swords on the innocent
Muslims, kill Abdullah ibn Khabbab for narrating a hadeeth that was
against their madhhab, revolt against and murder Caliph Alee ibn Abi
Talib - while they severely condemn the eating of a date without paying
its price and the killing of a pig!!
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