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despite all this closeness? What a grave slander it would be
towards that exalted Imâm to say so.
I knew a person who had served as Pâsha and Vizier and yet
who had later swerved into the heresy of Hurûfî, which had been
disguised as the Bektâshî way. After some time this person came to
his senses and made tawba. When this faqîr (I) asked him why and
how he had made tawba, he told me the following story: A book
highly esteemed by these false Bektâshîs calls hadrat ’Umar a
disbeliever. To forestall the natural question how it happened that
hadrat Alî gave his daughter to a disbeliever, the book gives the
following account: One day ’Umar the Khalîfa sent for hadrat
Abbâs and told him that he wanted to marry hadrat Alî’s daughter.
When the latter answered that the girl would be too young for him,
he said, “Alî’s answer was the same when I told him about my
intention. Go and tell him! If he will not marry his daughter to me,
I shall find two false witnesses, bring an action against him, decide
that he is a thief, and mutilate his both hands.” Helpless, hadrat Alî
had to give his daughter to ’Umar. Upon reading this in the book, I
said to myself, “If a cruel person tried to force me to give my
daughter to a disbeliever and threatened to kill me if I should not
obey him, I would rather die than give my daughter to a disbeliever
although I am a black-faced, sinful person. Subsequently, hadrat Alî
‘kerrem-Allâhu wejheh’, the Lion of Allah, the beloved one of the
Messenger of Allah, and a perfect, sinless Muslim, could not have
thrown his daughter, who was at the same time Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-
Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa sallam’ beloved granddaughter, into an
abominable, foul rubbish heap forbidden by Islam only for fear of a
doubtful danger.” I realized that I had been in the wrong way, made
tawba for good, and saved myself from the heresy called Hurûfî.
One of the (Ottoman) viziers, during his service as the
governor of Baghdâd, asked a Persian what he knew about this
marriage of hadrat ’Umar’s. The insolent man made some dirty,
slanderous statements about hadrat Alî’s ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’
blessed daughter and left the place.
As it becomes clear from the detailed information given
above, the great Walî Abd-ul-qâdîr Gheylânî ‘qaddas-Allâhu
ta’âlâ sirrah ul’azîz’ is very right in his comparing Hurûfîs to Jews
in fifteen ways. It is obvious that the Hurûfî sect was invented by
a Jew named Abdullah bin Saba’ with a view to breaking Islam.
In order to sow hostility among Muslims, this Jew alleged that
hadrat Alî had been deprived of his right of caliphate by force,
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