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elonged to hadrat Alî by rights ‘radiy-Allâhu anhumâ’. Why did
hadrat Alî accept this usurped right later? Furthermore, why did
hadrat Huseyn ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ try to win his usurped
right of caliphate back from Yezîd so earnestly that he attained
martyrdom in the end?
2) “Hadrat Alî imitated hadrat Fâtima ‘radiy-Allâhu anhumâ’
and did not accept any share from Fedek,” they say.
This answer of theirs is even more unsound. Then why did the
Imâms who accepted Fedek (afterwards) not imitate hadrat
Fâtima? If it was a farz to imitate her, why did they ignore this
farz? If it was supererogatory and not farz, then why did hadrat Alî
do this supererogatory act at the cost of omitting an act that was
farz? For it is farz to give everyone his or her due. Moreover, it
might be reasonable to imitate someone’s optional behaviour. If
this behaviour is a result of coersion it should not be imitated. If
hadrat Fâtima’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhâ’ not utilizing Fedek was
due to someone else’s oppression, then she had to waive her right
because she had no other way. In this case it would have been
senseless to imitate her.
3) “Hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ’ had witnessed Fedek’s
being bequeathed to hadrat Fâtima. In order to show that this
witnessing was done for Allah’s sake and not for worldly
advantages, he did not accept any advantage from Fedek,” they
say.
This answer of theirs is weak, too. Those who knew about
hadrat Alî’s witnessing and those who rejected it were dead by the
time he became Khalîfa. Furthermore, some Imâms’ accepting the
orchard named Fedek made the group called Khârijî consider that
hadrat Alî might have done this witnessing in order to obtain
advantages for his children. In fact, in matters concerning real
estates, such as fields, houses, vineyards and orchards, one thinks
of one’s children’s advantages rather than one’s own. Perhaps,
hadrat Alî might have advised his children not to utilize Fedek lest
his witnessing be tarnished. And his children might have refused
Fedek both to imitate hadrat Fâtima and to fulfil this secret advice.
Such is scholars’ commentation on the matter.
4) “Hadrat Alî’s not accepting the orchard called Fedek was
intended for Taqiyya. Taqiyya is necessary for Shiites,” they say.
Taqiyya means to get on well with people one does not like.
This statement of theirs is untenable, too. For, according to
Shiites, “when an Imâm takes the battlefield and begins to fight it
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