Documents of the Right Word

equal to twenty-four Sâ's.
And sâ’ is a unit of volume equal to 4.2
litres. One irdeb is (around) one hundred litres. Accordingly, the
first cargo transported from Egypt to Medîna by way of sea was
six million litres, that is, six thousand cubic metres of cereals.
After ’Umar bin Abd-ul-’azîz, this canal was stopped up for lack
of care. In 155 (H.) Khalîfa Mensûr had it cleaned and it was used
for many long years. Amr Ibni Âs ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ was
considering to connect the Mediterranean and Red Seas. He let
the Khalîfa know about this thought of his. Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ would not give permission for military
considerations. There is detailed information about the canal in
the book Fârûq, written by Shiblî Nu’mânî, an Indian professor.
We have borrowed the information above from its Persian
translation printed in 1351.
It should not be presumed that these zindiqs’ incessant
endeavours to vilify hadrat Mu’âwiya and the Sahâbîs with him
originate from their love for the Ahl-i-Bayt! They say so; yet their
purpose is to use this lie as a means for reviling thousands of
Sahâbîs whose ijtihâd did not agree with hadrat Alî’s ijtihâd, to
disgrace those superior religious leaders, and thus to shock the
trust in Islam’s foundations and essential sources and destroy them
piecemeal. At one time Jews demolished hadrat Îsâ’s religion with
the same insidious methods. They annihilated the Injîl (original
form of the Bible). They forged false Gospels. They turned the
Isâwî religion, which had been sent by Allâhu ta’âlâ, into today’s
wrong, ridiculous Christianity. The genuine form of Injîl, called
(the Gospel of) Barnabas, which re-appeared in 1393 [A.D. 1973],
divulges the fact that Christianity is a human fabrication. The
(Turkish) book Herkese Lâz›m Olan Îmân, which was printed in
Istanbul and translated into English, French and German, contains
detailed information about Christianity. Their aim was to change
Islam into a similar system of absurdities by using the same
methods. Fortunately, Muslims of the right way were wise to these
base Jewish plans. Writing hundreds of thousands of books for
fourteen centuries, they promulgated Rasûlullah’s religion all over
the world. They announced the Jewish turpitudes and lies, and
refuted them with documentary evidences. These enemies of Islam
may call themselves Alevî’s (or Shiites). Our benevolent Alevî (or
Shiite) brothers should be extra careful not to fall into the traps of
these enemies who may be using this sacred appellation as a cloak
for themselves.
Alevî (Alawî) means a true Muslim who loves hadrat Alî.
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