Documents of the Right Word

ooks telling about the virtues of the Ahl-i-Bayt ‘radiy-Allâhu
ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’. For their sake these scholars stood against
Umayyad and Abbasid governors and even sacrificed their lives.
Sa’d bin Jubeyr and Nesâî and many others were martyred on
account of their struggles for the Ahl-i-Bayt. A considerable
number of them suffered persecutions and spent their lives in
dungeons. Meanwhile, those who did not belong to a certain
Madh-hab concealed themselves in a hypocritical way termed
Taqiyya and pretended to be against the Ahl-i-Bayt in order to
attain their goals, which were either money or worldly positions. It
is the Ahl as-Sunna who have always supported the Ahl-i-Bayt. All
Sunnite Muslims have been asking blessings on the Ahl-i-Bayt in
all their prayers of namâz.
Sunnite Muslims love all the members of the Ahl-i-Bayt
without discriminating among them. This is not the case with
people who do not have a certain Madh-hab. When one of their
imâms died, his own brothers and relatives would call him a
disbeliever. They would appoint one of their sons as their new
imâm, cursing and vituperating the others. No one except Sunnite
Muslims loved all the Ahl-i-Bayt and would always run to help
any one of them in need of help. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi
wa sallam’ stated, “I am leaving behind me two guides for you: I
am leaving Allah’s Book and my Ahl-i-Bayt.” As this hadîth-isherîf
indicates, as it will be useless to believe a certain part of
Qur’ân al-kerîm and to disbelieve the rest, so will it do one no
good in the Hereafter to believe and love some of the Ahl-i-Bayt
and to curse and vilify the others. As it is necessary to believe in
Qur’ân al-kerîm as a whole, so is it a must to love all the members
of the Ahl-i-Bayt. And loving all the members of the Ahl-i-Bayt,
which is a blessing of Allâhu ta’âlâ, has not devolved to anyone’s
lot except Muslims holding the belief of Ahl as-Sunna. For
instance, Khârijîs entangled themselves in the opprobrium of
harbouring a grudge against hadrat Alî and his pure children.
Some Shiite groups tumbled into the curse of bearing hostility
towards hadrat Âisha-i-Siddîqa and hadrat Hafsa, who are
Muslims’ blessed mothers, and towards Zubeyr bin Awwâm, who
was Rasûlullah’s paternal aunt’s son. The Kirâmiyya group
denied hadrat Hasan’s and hadrat Huseyn’s being Imâms. The
Muhtâriyya group disbelieved Imâm Zeynel’âbidîn, the Imâmiyya
group denied Zeyd-i-Shehîd, and the Ismâ’îliyya group would not
accept Imâm Mûsâ Kâzim. These are only a few examples of
numerous people who deprived themselves of the great fortune of
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