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unanimously elected Abû Bekr imâm for themselves. Hadrat Abû
Bekr sent for hadrat Alî and commanded him to do the funeral
services for Rasûlullah. Thus the Prophet’s funeral was held.
Hurûfîs vilify the As-hâb-i-kirâm by alleging that “after our
Prophet’s ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa sallam’ death they recruited
soldiers against hadrat Alî and fought him.” This allegation is
another lie, another slander. The three Khalîfas cherished hadrat
Alî very highly. They never did anything to hurt his blessed heart.
Those who read Islamic histories know these facts. They will not
fall for these lies.
Exploiting the insolent behaviour displayed by a couple of
cruel idiots during Imâm-i-Hasan’s funeral, they distort the events
into grounds convenient for attacking Sunnite Muslims. Thereby
they try to mislead pure Muslims. ’Umar, who fought aganist
hadrat Huseyn at Kerbelâ and caused his martyrdom, was the son
of Sa’d Ibni Ebî Waqqâs, one of the Ashara-i-mubash-shara, i.e.
the ten fortunate Sahâbîs who had been given the good news that
they would go to Paradise. Now these enemies of Islam are trying
to generalize this ’Umar’s sin so as to include all Muslims and
attempt to exploit it as an excuse for cursing even those Muslims
who had died earlier than the perpetration of that sin. We should
not fall for the mournful and exaggerated stories forged by these
people and cause segregation among Muslims. It is harâm to have
a bad opinion of a muslim, to backbite him, to slander him, or to
hurt him. Each of these things is a grave sin in itself. Another sin
is to nurse a grudge against a Muslim. Each of these sins is
forbidden in Qur’ân al-kerîm. The interior enemies of Islam,
Jewish converts, whose real purpose is to break Muslims into
inimical groups and to set them against one another, rekindle
covered historical events with exaggeration, try to dig out some
sad events which, let alone being principles of belief to be learned,
are to be covered, and provoke brothers against brothers. Let us
not fall for the lies of these insidious enemies and break into
groups. Let us be united in the right way taught by scholars of Ahl
as-Sunna, who are praised through hadîth-i-sherîfs. Unity will
produce power. And disunity will bring disasters.
These people sow disunity of îmân and ideas among Muslims
and make brothers hostile against one another.
The Sunnite Muslims’ parting into four Madh-habs is not a
disunity of îmân and ideas. Muslims being in the four Madh-habs
are in agreement with respect to îmân and thoughts. They look on
one another as brothers in Islam. They love one another. They
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