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you whatever you need, provide aid in your matters, and serve
you. Upon this hadrat Fâtima was quiet and never talked about
inheritance again.” This is the end of the passage from Qisâs-i-
Enbiyâ.
The number of the Sunnî Muslims living on the earth has
always been many times that of those people without a Madh-hab
in every century. Hurûfîs curse the Ahl as-sunna, who are much
more numerous than themselves, and call them disbelievers. If the
Ahl as-sunna Muslims respond to their bold and unfair
inculpation in kind and say that they are heretics, the party whose
number is overwhelmingly in the ascendant is more likely to be
right.
Furthermore, it is thoroughly contradictory to Qur’ân al-kerîm
to say that hadrat Alî was inimical towards the three Khalîfas
‘radiy-Allâhu anhum ajma’în’ or that hadrat Fâtima cursed the Ashâb-i-kirâm
on account of an orchard. The second âyat-i-kerîma of
Mâida sûra purports, “Allâhu ta’âlâ calls His slaves to help one
another in birr and taqwâ and to get on well with one another. Do
not help in sinning or enmity.” If the Ashâb-i-kirâm did not love
one another, if Muslims cursed one another and called one another
disbelievers, this would be a sinful state, which is quite contrary to
birr and taqwâ. And this in turn would mean to say that hadrat Alî
and hadrat Fâtima ‘radiy-Allâhu anhumâ’ disobeyed the âyat-ikerîma.
Saying, on the other hand, that these people “did not
know that by opposing to hadrat Abû Bekr’s caliphate and bearing
hostility towards the As-hâb-i-kirâm they would cause Muslims
coming after them to call one another disbelievers, which in turn
would lead to a convention quite counter to the âyat-i-kerîma. If
they had known, they would have given up this behaviour,” would
mean to deny their superiority and their ability in kashf and
kerâmat.
Sayyid Abd-ul-qâdir Gheylanî [born in 471, and passed away in
Baghdâd in 561 (C.E. 1166)], who was one of the descendants of
hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ and at the same time one of the
greatest Awliyâ, gives the following information in his book
Ghunyat-ut-tâlibîn: “According to the Shiites, caliphate is the
exclusive right of the twelve imâms. These people are innocent.
They never commit sins. Kashf and kerâmet can be seen only on
them. They know about everything that has happened and
everything that will happen.” On the other hand, it would be
contradictory with this belief to say that hadrat Alî, who (they
allege) knew everything down to the number of sand grains, did
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