Documents of the Right Word

Qudâma’s command to Yemen against Busr. [Busr was not a
Sahâbî]. Hârisa came to Yemen and stayed here as governor until
hadrat Alî’s martyrdom. He killed many people. When he went to
Medîna, hadrat Abû Hureyra, who was the Emîr there, took flight.
Hârisa said, ‘I would kill that father of cats if I found him.’ ” As is
seen, hadrat Alî’s commander meant to kill a Sahâbî loved very
much and praised by the Messenger of Allah and made fun of his
nickname (father of cats), which had been given by the Messenger
of Allah. It would be extremely unfair to attempt to blemish
hadrat Alî and hadrat Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhumâ’ on
account of the cruel acts perpetrated by governors appointed by
those great people and to exaggerate the events through fabricated
stories.
34- “Mu’âwiya sent circulars to all his governors, wherein he
commanded them to curse Aliyy-ul-murtadâ and his children on
menbers. ’Umar bin Abd-ul-’azîz put an end to this business of
cursing. Hajer bin Adî, one of the Sahâba, and seven companions
were martyred on account of their refusing to curse Alî,” he says,
and puts forward as documents the book Eghânî, and Nahj-ulbelâgha
and Aqd-ul-Ferîd, two commentaries written by
Abulhadîd.
This is a peerless degree of shamelessness and an
unprecedented sordidness in vilification. For one thing, the books
he puts forward as documents are, as we have stated earlier in our
translation from Tuhfa, among Hurûfîs’ publications. It is written
in the book Esmâ ul-muallifîn that the author of the book Eghânî,
namely Abul-faraj Alî bin Huseyn Isfahânî, is a holder of bid’at.
This man assails the greater ones of the As-hâb-i-kirâm and
vituperates them in an insolent language in his book Muqâtil-i-âli-Ebî
Tâlib. We have stated in the tenth paragraph that Ibni
Abdulhadîd is an eccentric Mu’tazilî. It is seen with regret that
these slanders have infiltrated into Sunnite books as well. Hadrat
Imâm-i-Muhammad Ma’thûm-i-Fârûqî ‘qaddas-Allâhu sirreh-ul-
’azîz’, a great Sunnite scholar and at the same time one of the
leaders of Awliyâ-i-kirâm, confutes these slanders very well
through documents. Translating this valuable answer of his, we
have added it to the second part of our book. Please reread it.
To say that hadrat Mu’âwiya cursed hadrat Alî would mean to
slander hadrat Mu’âwiya. It is not permissible to censure hadrat
Mu’âwiya. Yes, a few of the Umayyad Khalîfas had certain people
cursed. Yet, Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ cannot be blamed for
this only on account of his being one of the Umayyad Khalîfas.
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