Documents of the Right Word

anh’ gave so much freedom that an equal level of tenderness and
patience can never be seen on the dictators governing today’s socalled
democratic socialist countries. A poet who was indignant
about a personal interest did not hesitate to remonstrate with the
Khalîfa:
“O Mu’âwiya! We are human beings like you. Do not divert
from justice!” Even governors and commanders appointed by
Prophets ‘alaihim-us-salâm’ had shed Muslims’ blood unjustly.
Hadrat Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ cannot be blamed for some
wrong behaviour exhibited by a governor appointed by him!
3- Qur’ân al-kerîm is Wahy-i-metlû. That is, the angel named
Jebrâîl ‘alaihis-salâm’ said the words and letters, which we know,
and the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’
memorized them as he heard them and then recited them to his
As-hâb. This fact is informed by numerous âyat-i-kerîmas. Books
written by separatists who distort the meanings of âyat-i-kerîmas
should not be believed.
4- Some people allege that “Originally there are 6666 âyats in
Qur’ân al-kerîm. Today’s existing copies contain 6234 âyats. 432
âyats were annihilated by ’Uthmân, who would not let those âyats
informing about the virtues of Hâshimîs be recorded in the
Qur’ân. He changed the Qur’ân from the Hâshimî dialect to the
Qoureishî dialect.”
They put forward their own books as documents to prove their
allegation. On the other hand, that the Qur’ân al-kerîm contains
six thousand and two hundred and thirty-six âyats is informed by
hadrat Alî, a fact written in the hundred and forty-eighth chapter
of the book Bostân-ul-ârifîn, by the great scholar hadrat Abû-lleys-i-Semmerkandî.
In some copies, several short âyats are written in the form of a
long âyat. So the number of âyats seem to vary. This numerical
variation does not by any means indicate any interpolation in the
âyats.
As is written in the book Tuhfa-i-isnâ ash’ariyya, the best
response to this calumniation directed towards the three Khalîfas
is given by Allâhu ta’âlâ: the ninth âyat of Hijr sûra purports, “We
revealed this Qur’ân to thee. And We shall protect it.” Can any
man defile something protected by Allâhu ta’âlâ? The abovementioned
allegation of theirs show that they consider hadrat
’Uthmân to be more powerful than Allâhu ta’âlâ. On the other
hand, these people take every opportunity to vilify the three
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