Documents of the Right Word

exaggeration that the irrational, preposterous Persian tales would
fall far behind it. This date orchard called Fedek was in the vicinity
of Hayber. Rasûlullah would meet the needs of his household with
the income from this orchard, and anything more than their
subsistence would be dealt out as alms. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
alaihi wa sallam’ dedicated this orchard to a pious foundation
supporting the poor and travellers towards his death. Hadrat Abû
Bekr would keep the accounts of the income from the orchard
himself during his caliphate. When Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu
anh’ became Khalîfa, he yielded its management to Hadrat Alî
upon the latter’s demand. These events are told (in the book) in a
gross exaggeration and exploited in a manner as to vituperate
Hadrat Abû Bekr and Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
anhumâ’, and these exalted people are blemished with such
aspersions as could never be forgiven even through tawba.
In addition to the three books mentioned above, there are some
ten other booklets, all of which teem with various blasphemous
absurdities. These booklets are disseminated in Iraq and Iran. They
are trying to mislead the Anatolian Muslims, too. Naming
themselves Alawîs (Alevî), they are endeavouring to deceive the
Alevî Muslims in our country. Their purpose is to bring up a
generation inimical towards scholars of Ahl as-Sunna ‘rahmatullâhu
alaihim ajma’în’, and thus to demolish Islam from within.
[To prevent this planned catastrophe, we have translated
various parts of the book Tuhfa-i-isnâ ashariyya from Persian into
Turkish and published a book titled (To Die in Îmân). The book
Tuhfa was translated into Arabic and an abridged version of the
book was printed in Egypt and was titled Muhtasar-i-Tuhfa. It was
reproduced by offset process in Istanbul. An Iranian scholar has
stated that the so-called books (the heretical books mentioned
above) were written by the Jews in India, that these people are
trying to mislead ignorant Iranians, that Irânian scholars are in the
Imâmiyya group, and that the people who wrote the so-called
books are enemies of Islam.]
Shiites of the Imâmiyya group living in Iran, mostly in Najaf
and Kerbelâ, should cooperate with the Ahl as-Sunna to prevent
these scurvy, groundless, untenable forgeries fabricated by the
inexorable heretics. Negligence in this Islamic requirement will
only serve these eccentric heretics to increase in number, which in
turn will cost the Imâmiyya group quantitative and qualitative
shrinkage. The restrictions which had been imposed on these
wicked heretics after Yavuz Sultân Selîm Khân’s victory at
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