Documents of the Right Word

aynayn. We have summarized and translated this book from
Persian into Turkish and titled it Eshâb-› Kirâm.
25- “In the interpretation of the âyat, ‘You are a beneficent
Ummat produced for (the good of) humanity,’ Imâm Ibni Jerîr-i-
Taberî quotes (through authentic narration) ’Umar-ul-Fârûq as
having said, ‘This noble attribute includes the earlier ones among
us, not the later generations.’ According to Ahmad bin Hanbel
and Ibni Shîrîn, the earlier ones are those who performed namâz
towards two qiblas. According to Sha’bî, on the other hand, they
are people who paid and promised homage (to the Prophet) under
the tree of Ridwân,” he says.
Thus he tries to pave the way to a position whence to attack
hadrat Mu’âwiya. Yet the fulcrum whereon he bases his theory is
quite untenable. By writing that the people called Sâbiqûn and
praised in the âyat-i-kerîma are the early Believers, he tries to hint
that hadrat Mu’âwiya and hadrat Amr Ibni Âs, being among later
Believers, are not included in the group praised. He quotes only
the former part, which reads as “Sâbiqûn-al-awwalûn”, of the
hundred and first âyat of Tawba sûra, and withholds the latter part.
After beginning as “Sâbiqûn al-awwalûn,” the âyat-i-kerîma
purports, “Allâhu ta’âlâ is pleased with those who follow these
people in îmân and ihsân. And they are pleased with Allâhu ta’âlâ,
too. Allâhu ta’âlâ has prepared Gardens for them.” All books of
Tafsîr unanimously state that all the As-hâb-i-kirâm and people
who will follow them till the end of the world are included among
them. The Tafsîr named Tibyân, after stating this fact, quotes
Muhammad bin Qa’b as having said, “All the As-hâb-i-kirâm,
including the ones who committed sins, are in Paradise,” and adds
that he quoted the aforenamed âyat-i-kerîma after making this
statement. A Hurûfî father was asked why he did not perform
namâz at all. His answer was that he obeyed the âyat, “Do not be
close to the namâz!” By withholding the final part of the âyat-ikerîma,
which terminates as, “... when you are drunk,” he changed
the commandment of Allâhu ta’âlâ quite the other way round and
thus became a disbeliever. Likewise, the author of the aforenamed
book writes only the beginning part of the âyat-i-kerîma and
conceals the fact that hadrat Mu’âwiya and hadrat Amr Ibni Âs
are among those people who are to go to Paradise.
26- Then he launches his first offensive by saying, “The leaders
of disbelief are Abû Sufyân, who was Hind’s husband and
Mu’âwiya’s father, and his coterie.” He seems to forget that in
those days Abbâs, Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’
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