Documents of the Right Word

the Ahl as-sunna in order to prove that Qur’ân al-kerîm is a
creature and that men’s bad deeds are not created by Allâhu
ta’âlâ but men create all their wishes themselves, he withholds,
conceals the express and confuting answers which the scholars of
Ahl as-sunna ‘rahmatullâhi alaihim’ gave them. However, these
answers of the Ahl as-sunna are written in detail in our books of
Kelâm.
Hârûn-ur-Reshîd was the most learned, the most courageous,
and the most equitable of the Abbâsî Khalîfas. In the presence of
such a Khalîfa and in front of scholars and statesmen a jâriya
disparages the Khalîfa by saying to his face that he is not the
rightful Khalîfa and then turning to the thousands of distinguished
people being there and saying to them that they have made an
atrocious sinner their Khalîfa; this is not something the human
mind could accept. And his allegation that these words (of the
jâriya’s) made the Khalîfa laugh and he was so pleased that he
scattered golds on the jâriya’s head, is as ludicrous and as farcical
as to arouse one’s puerile feelings of mockery. His writing that
“with these statements of hers the jâriya silenced the scholars and
no one was able to answer her; people being there and all the
Sunnite Muslims of Baghdâd were pleased and they manhandled
the mujtahids”, shows that the mujtahids, the Khalîfa, and all the
people being there accepted the Mu’tazila sect and hated the
Madh-hab of Ahl as-sunna. On the other hand, all books and
historical records unanimously state that Hârûn-ur-Reshîd was in
the Madh-hab of Ahl as-sunna throughout his life, that he had
very deep respect for the scholars of Ahl as-sunna, that he would
commune with them before going into any action. There is no
written record, not even a sign, to show that the people of
Baghdâd swerved into the Mu’tazila way during his time. Yes, it is
recorded that one or two of the Khalîfas after Hârûn meant to
urge the people to join the Mu’tazila group; yet it is a plain fact
that such efforts proved futile and that all the Iraqis and Iranians
maintained their Sunnite guidelines up until the time of Shah
Ismâ’îl. The reappearing of the Shi’ah sect, which was actually
brewed by Shah Ismâ’îl Safawî [born in 892, dead in 930 (C.E.
1524)] as a stratagem to break Muslims into sects and thus to hold
his ground against the Ottoman Empire, was hundreds of years
after Hârûn-ur-Reshîd. As is seen, Hârûn and the people’s
applauding the jâriya is a downright lie deliberately fabricated for
sheer vilification.
4- The jâriya is made to say, “Formerly, the mut’a nikâh was a
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