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the unbelievers when they came to the mouth of the cave
(wherein Rasûlullah and hadrat Abû Bekr were hiding) on Friday
and saw the spider's web completely covering the mouth of the
cave and gave up entering the cave saying, “It seems as if no man
has entered here since the creation of the earth”? Would he miss
this chance?
To distort the meaning of the âyat-i-kerîma which purports,
“Don’t worry! Allâhu ta’âlâ is with us,” and to attempt very
sordidly to use it as a ground for condemning Abû Bekr Siddîq
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’, is the most disgusting way of ignorance
and emnity towards Islam. It is not worth answering at all.
6- “Husniyya talked with Ibrâhim Khâlid for a long time. She
asked him questions on subtle matters. Like the other mujtahids,
he failed to answer her questions. Placed in a quandary, he asked
Husniyya who was rightful to the caliphate. When Husniyya
replied that the caliphate rightfully belonged to the earliest
Muslim, he asked who the earliest Muslim was, to which Husniyya
answered, ‘Hadrat Alî was.’ When he objected to this answer,
saying, ‘Hadrat Alî was a child when he became a Muslim. Since a
child’s becoming a Muslim is not important in this sense, the
earliest Muslim was Abû Bekr Siddîq,’ Husniyya recited the âyati-kerîmas
telling about Hadrat Îsâ (Jesus) and Mûsâ (Moses) and
Ibrâhîm (Abraham), said that those (Prophets) had become
Muslims in their childhood, and vituperated Ibrâhîm Khâlid and
the scholars of Ahl as-sunna. Hadrat Imâm-i-Shâfi’î, who was
present there, asked the Khalîfa to punish the jâriya. The Khalîfa
just refused the suggestion, ordering that she must be beaten
through knowledge.”
On the contrary, the hadîth-i-sherîf, “Every child comes to the
world in a nature well fitted for becoming a Muslim. Later their
parents turn them into Jews or Christians or atheists,” is widely
known among the Sunnite Muslims, so that everyone has heard it.
While there is this hadîth-i-sherîf, to believe the assertion that
Ibrâhim Khâlid or any other man of religion said, “Hadrat Alî
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ was a child when he became a Muslim. So
his being a Muslim cannot be taken into consideration,” and that
hundreds of scholars who heard this eccentric statement accepted
it and remained mum, would be as droll as believing a person who
calls white ‘black’, which would even make children laugh. The
assertion betrays the fact that it has been written by an Iranian
Jew.
7- The jâriya is alleged to have confuted the scholars by saying,
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