Documents of the Right Word

men.” Rasûlullah and hadrat Âisha and Safwân are far from the
allegations of those ignoble people. They deserve (Allah’s)
forgiveness and compassion, and blessings in Paradise. Safwân is
praised in a hadîth-i-sherîf. He was martyred at the conquest of
Erzurum in (the hijrî year) 17.
Allâhu ta’âlâ states that He will subject the slanderers of
hadrat Âisha to very painful torments. Since Allâhu ta’âlâ
answers these base people exactly in a manner they deserve, we
need not add anything. However, we shall present a fatwâ, which
exists in the two hundred and ninety-second page of the book
Mir’ât-i-kâinât:
It is stated in the book Hasâis ul-habîb that hadrat Abdullah
Ibni Abbâs has given the fatwâ that “A person who commits
‘Qazf’ against one of Rasûlullah’s blessed wives, (that is, who
accuses one of them with an act of impurity), becomes a
disbeliever, and his tawba will not be acceptable.” Accusing hadrat
Âisha with impurity, on the other hand, means contradicting
Qur’ân al-kerîm, which, in its turn, is disbelief according to a
unanimous report. And imputing immodesty on the mother of one
of the Sahâba, [e.g. on Hind] deserves chastisement double the
punishment for Qazf. May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect our Alawî and
Shiite brothers and all Muslims from falling into such a disastrous
error! Âmîn.
7- “Utba’s daughter Hind, the notorious heroine of numerous
men’s love adventures, chewed hadrat Hamza’s lungs during the
amorous hours she shared with an Abyssinian slave. She had been
divorced by her husband Ibni Mughîra on account of her
prostitution and admitted as a wife by Abû Sufyân. Hind’s
marriage with Abû Sufyân could not make her cease from other
men. She continued her notorious way of life. This marriage gave
birth to Mu’âwiya the accursed, who of all the probable fathers
was finally ascribed to Abû Sufyân. This man grew to be a cruel
tyrant and oppressed the people ruthlessly,” he says.
One would feel shame to use such dirty and squalid language
even against Abû Jahl and Iblîs (Satan), the two most implacable
and accursed enemies of the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi
wa sallam’. Yet it is stated in Qur’ân al-kerîm that “Foul speech
befits foul men.” One’s speech is one’s mirror. We could not
expect fragrance from sewerage! The dirty, repulsive, slanderous
writings quoted above cannot defame those people whom Allâhu
ta’âlâ has forgiven and promised Paradise and blessings. They
cannot be completely disignored, however, inasmuch as they
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