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Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ said, “When I meet a disaster,
I am pleased for three reasons. First, the disaster has been sent by
Allâhu ta’âlâ. Anything coming from the beloved one will be sweet.
Second, I thank Allâhu ta’âlâ for not sending me a more serious
disaster. Third, Allâhu ta’âlâ will not send human beings something
which is vain or useless. In return for disasters He will give blessings
in the Hereafter. I am pleased with disasters because worldly
disasters are insignificant when compared with the everlasting
blessings in the Hereafter.” Even today there are many Sunnite
Muslims who take pleasure from troubles and disasters because
they have purified their hearts by following hadrat Alî’s path. Who
on earth would believe the sophistry that hadrat Alî did not take
pleasure from a troublesome situation, suffered the so-called
trouble unwillingly for years, and before dying made a will advising
hostility towards millions of Muslims and the As-hâb-i-kirâm
‘ridwânullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’?
Despite the various âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs
commanding Hubb-i-fillâh and Bughd-i-fillâh, i.e. to love Muslims
because they are Muslims and to dislike disbelievers and enemies of
Islam, and while all the As-hâb-i-kirâm have been blessed with good
news through an âyat-i-kerîma which purports, “Allah is pleased
with them all. And they, too, are pleased with Allâhu ta’âlâ,” and
with all the innumerous hadîth-i-sherîfs praising and lauding the
Muhâjirîn-i-kirâm and the Ansâr-i-izâm ‘ridwânullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim
ajma’în’, and while ten of those people were honoured with the
name (Ashara-i-mubash-shara) because they had been given the
good news that they would attain Paradise and it has been stated
through various hadîth-i-sherîfs that these people must not be
treated with hostility, is there any likelihood that hadrat Alî ‘radiy-
Allâhu anh’, the highest member of the Ahl-i-Bayt and the gate to
the town of knowledge, might have fostered rancor against them?
Would such an extremely detestable imputation incur sympathy or
resentment towards that great Imâm?
It is explained in âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs that one
would be sinful for not joining the jamâ’at for Friday prayer or for
(any of) the five daily prayers of namâz. Everyone knows that the
prayers of namâz that are farz are performed in the Mesjîd-i-Nabawî
in Medîna-i-munawwara and the Khalîfa conducts these prayers as
the imâm. Now, if hadrat Alî called these three Khalîfas, (i.e. Abû
Bekr, ’Umar and ’Uthmân) disbelievers, then he must have followed
people he called disbelievers whenever he performed the namâz in
jamâ’at behind one of these three imâms. If a person performs namâz
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