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said so. These rumours are slanders.” And Haqq ta’âlâ sent down
âyat-i-kerîmas exactly agreeable with these statements of hadrat
Khâlid’s. Presently, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’
convened his Sahâba in the Mesjîd (or masjîd=mosque): He
recited the âyat-i-kerîmas revealed to him. With the barakat of
these âyat-i-kerîmas, the Believers were relieved from the doubts
pestering their hearts. Mistah was a relative of hadrat Abû Bekr’s.
He was poor. Formerly hadrat Abû Bekr used to help him with his
subsistence. When Mistah joined the munâfiqs in this squalid act,
he (hadrat Abû Bekr) took an oath not to help him any longer.
Upon this, Allâhu ta’âlâ sent down the twenty-second âyat-ikerîma
of Nûr sûra. When Abû Bekr as-Siddîq heard this âyat-ikerîma,
he said, “I would love Allâhu ta’âlâ to forgive me,” and
helped Mistah as he had done before. When the âyat-i-kerîmas
restoring hadrat Âisha’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhâ’ reputation
came, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ ordered that the
slanderers be chastised with the punishment called Hadd for the
Qazf (accusing a woman with fornication). Four people were
flogged with eighty stripes each. One of them was a woman and
Rasûlullah’s wife’s sister. This is the end of the part we have
borrowed from the book Me’ârij.
The book of Tafsîr called Mawâkib explains the first of the
âyat-i-kerîmas about hadrat Âisha as follows: “Slanderers of
Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu anhâ’ are only a few among you. Do not take
this slander as a harm inflicted on you! It will be auspicious for
you. [You have attained much thawâb because of this slander.
Their falsification has been divulged and your honour has been
promoted. The âyat-i-kerîma has declared your innocence]. The
slanderers deserve punishment equal to the sin they have acquired.
Those who cast the grave aspersion and say the very abhorrent
thing shall be tormented bitterly in this world and in the
Hereafter.” After these people were clogged in accordance with
(the prescribed punishment called) Hadd, Abdullah bin Ebî fell
into utter disrepute. Hassân became blind and remained so till his
death. And Mistah became one-handed. The twelfth âyat-i-kerîma
purported, “Upon hearing about this slander, Muslim men and
women should have an optimistic opinion of their families. They
should say that it is an obvious lie and slander.” The nineteenth
âyat-i-kerîma purported, “Those who mean disrepute for
Believers shall be tormented bitterly in the world and in the
Hereafter.” And the twenty-sixth âyat-i-kerîma purported,
“Uttering foul words is worthy of foul men. Foul speech befits foul
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