Documents of the Right Word

written curse against the first two Khalîfas, or drinks the water in
which this paper has been dipped, will recover.”
20- According to them, cursing hadrat Âisha and hadrat Hafsa
‘radiy-Allâhu anhumâ’ five times daily “is farz.”
21- They say that the Messenger of Allah “gave proxy to
divorce his wives. So Alî divorced Âisha (from Rasûlullah) by
proxyy.” On the contrary, âyat-i-kerîmas did not even give the
right to end a marriage to anyone, be it the Messenger of Allah.
22- They say that “Prophets would not have been created had
it not been for Alî.” They cannot think that a person who says
that “a non-Prophet is higher than a Prophet” becomes a
disbeliever.
23- They say that “on the rising day everything will depend on
Muhammad and Alî’s decision.”
24- According to them, when ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’
was slain, “angels did not record sins for anybody for three days.”
25- They say that the stones thrown on Minâ during every hajj
are actually thrown towards Abû Bekr and ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu
anhumâ’.
26- “The âyat about Dâbbat-ul-ard was intended to inform that
hadrat Alî will come back to earth,” they maintain.
27- According to them, and it is at the same time the twentysecond
article in their false credo, it is a very thawâb-deserving act
for the host to offer his wife and daughters to another Hurûfî who
visits him. In Iran the Hurûfî fathers pay visits as they wish, and the
families they visit offer them women to choose as they wish. Thus,
they believe, the children conceived on Friday nights (nights
between Thursdays and Fridays) are (called) Persian Sayyeds.
Therefore the so called Sayyeds are abundant in Iran.
28- The eighteenth of Zilhijja (month) is their greatest day of
celebration. It is the day when hadrat ’Uthmân was martyred.
29- Another day they celebrate is the ninth of Rebî’ul-awwal,
the day when hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ was
martyred.
30- Another day they hold sacred is the Nevrûz Day, which is
actually a day celebrated by Magians.
31- According to them, prayers of namâz except those which
are farz can be performed in any direction. For instance, when they
visit Imâm-i-Alî Ridâ’s tomb in Mashhad they perform namâz
towards the grave on whichever corner of the grave they are. It is
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