Documents of the Right Word

me in my coffin! Take my corpse to the entrance of Hujra-isa’âdat!
Say unto Rasûlullah: Abû Bekr is at the door. He asks for
(your) permission to enter.’ O my brother in Islam! When Abû
Bekr as-Siddîq passed away, I did whatever he had told me to do.
When we put his coffin in front of the door of Hujra-i-sa’âdat and
I asked for permission, we heard a voice saying, ‘Bring the darling
near the darling!’ Therefore we buried hadrat Abû Bekr beside
the Messenger of Allah!”
Hadrat Alî “kerrem-Allâhu wejheh’ and all the twelve Imâms
narrated hadîths from hadrat Abû Bekr and from the other
Khalîfas and from Jâbir bin Abdullah ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum
ajma’în’. This means to say that they confirmed the hadîth-i-sherîfs
transmitted by them. They acknowledged that those noble people
were just and faithful. For this reason, a person who follows hadrat
Alî and Ahl-i-Bayt ought to have the same love for hadrat Abû
Bekr ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum ajma’în’. For it is a generally
known fact that a friend’s friends will be liked, and a friend’s
enemies will be disliked. Qur’ân al-kerîm informs that all the Ashâb-i-kirâm
loved one another very much. Our master, the
Prophet, declared, “He who loves me will love my As-hâb, too!
Love all my As-hâb!” Some people today have abandoned the way
prescribed by Qur’ân al-kerîm and guided by Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’.
They say, “Among the Sahâba there were people inimical
toward the Ahl-i-Bayt. So we are inimical to them.” Such
allegations – may Allâhu ta’âlâ protect us from believing them –
are vilifications fabricated by the Jewish convert named Abdullah
bin Saba’. We Muslims should not fall for such lies! We should
love very much both the Ahl-i-Bayt and all the As-hâb-i-kirâm.
For our master, the Prophet, stated, “My As-hâb are like the stars
in the sky. A person who follows any one of them will attain
hidâyat!” That is, a person who does so will go to Paradise.
They are trying to destroy Islam from the interior. These
people deny the true teachings which scholars of Ahl as-Sunna
learned from Qur’ân al-kerîm and wrote in their books. In order
to deceive Muslims, they say that these teachings are extraneous to
Qur’ân. In order to make their lies believable, they give wrong
meanings to âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs. They call these
heretical meanings the true Islamic religion. According to these
zindiqs, Muslims all over the world have been holding wrong
beliefs and practising wrong worships for more than fourteen
hundred years and now they are recovering the original correct
forms.
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