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(in jamâ’at) behind another person though he knows for certain that
the latter, (who conducts the namâz as the imâm), is a disbeliever, he
himself will become a disbeliever. If hadrat Alî did not perform
namâz behind these three imâms, then he must have neglected
Friday prayers and prayers that were performed in jamâ’at, which, in
its turn, would be a sinful attitude, too. It is impossible for hadrat Alî
to have committed any of these sins.
Hadrat Alî gave hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu anhumâ’ his
daughter. A person who gave his daughter to another person
whom he knew to be a disbeliever would become a disbeliever.
Would that have been worthy of Hadrat Alî?
Thus far we have explained clearly how some Shiite groups
have been polluted with Hurûfî beliefs and lies fabricated by Jews.
Now we shall give some information about how and why this
pollution took place. The inventor of the Hurûfî sect is a Jew of
Yemen named Abdullah bin Saba’. He did this in order to confuse,
mislead and break the Ummat of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’, and
to wreak vengeance on the Ahl-i-Bayt, the source of Islamic light.
To conceal his inner purpose by camouflage, he pretended to have
extreme love for hadrat Alî, alleged that he had been deprived of
his right of caliphate, and asserted that the three Khalîfas and the
Sahâba were disbelievers. He concealed his hatred for hadrat Alî
under the cloak of excessive love for him. He fabricated a number
of follies that are not only irreligious but also preposterous. And
some half-witted, senseless people, quite unaware of faith and
knowledge and as blind to light as a bat, fell into the trap set by this
Jew, believed in slanders quite incommensurable with hadrat Alî’s
high merits, and bluntly supported the Jew’s efforts to blemish the
great Imâm. [Valuable books, which were the fruits of the
profound knowledge and powerful pens possessed by scholars of
Ahl as-sunna, awakened Muslims in every age and the heretical
ideas of Abdullah bin Saba’ were about to be forgotten for good,
when a Persian Jew named Fadl-ullah Hurûfî rekindled this fitna
before he died in 796 (A.D. 1393)].
The wicked imputations which Hurûfîs besmeared this great
imâm with are written also in the Bible and the Torah. It is for this
reason that Jews and Christians acknowledge that these slanders
bear hostility instead of friendliness towards hadrat Alî.
Three things are required for attaining guidance to happiness:
1– It is necessary to be a Muslim. A person who utters this
statement becomes a Muslim: LÂ ILÂHA IL-L-ALLAH
MUHAMMADUN RASÛLULLAH, (which means, “There is no
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