Documents of the Right Word

paternal uncle, was among the unbelievers, too. He was one of the
commanders of the troops marching towards Bedr to fight the
Messenger of Allah. When he was taken as a captive, he boasted
to hadrat Alî that they were “repairing the Mesjîd-i-harâm,
providing covers for the Ka’ba, and supplying water for the
Hadjis.” Upon this, Allâhu ta’âlâ revealed an âyat-i-kerîma, which
purports, “Polytheists’ repairing mosques is not sahîh (valid,
acceptable). We shall annihilate the deeds they boast about and
put them into Hell.” Thus Abbâs received the answer he deserved.
Later, however, Allâhu ta’âlâ continued His revelation, which
purports, “There are high grades for those who believed, migrated
from Mekka to Medîna, and performed Jihâd for Allah’s sake. I
offer the good news of My Rahmat (Compassion and forgiveness),
My Ridwân (Being pleased and loving), and My Gardens of
Paradise. They shall attain eternal blessings in Paradise.” Abbâs
and Abû Sufyân ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhumâ’ joined the
Believers. They migrated from Mekka to Medîna in the year of the
Fat-h (conquest). Abû Sufyân lost his eye in the Holy War of Tâif.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ gave him the good news
that he will go to Paradise. In the Holy War of Yermuk, which was
fought during Abû Bekr’s ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ caliphate, he lost his
second eye and attained martyrdom a short time later in the same
battle.
27- “In the combat of Siffîn, seventy thousand people died from
each army. Twenty-five thousand of these people were supporting
Aliyy-ul-murtadâ. Who is the cause of this horrendous fight,” he
asks.
Translating a chapter from the book Tuhfa, we explained in
detail in the sixteenth chapter above that this war was a result of
the provocations perpetrated by a Jew named Abdullah bin Saba’
and a group of zindiqs led by him and named after him as
Saba’iyya. Nevertheless, followers of the Saba’iyya group are
endeavouring to impute this Jewish turpitude to hadrat Mu’âwiya,
thus to break Muslims into groups.
28- “Talha and Zubeyr, two members of the Ashara-imubashshara,
who were on the side of Âisha-i-Siddîqa in the war
of Camel, retracted their earlier erroneous ijtihâd and left the
battle area,” he says.
These two Sahâbîs, who had been given the good news that
they would go to Paradise, did not perform ijtihâd for fighting
hadrat Alî. With this allegation, these people are trying to blemish
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