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Some âyat-i-kerîmas revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ about people who
have attained the Prophet’s sohbat purport:
“Allâhu ta’âlâ is pleased with them. And they are pleased with
Allâhu ta’âlâ, too.”
“I have prepared Paradise for them. They shall stay in Paradise
eternally.”
“Those who suffer troubles and who die or get killed in their
Jihâd against disbelievers for My sake, shall be forgiven their
sins.” The hadîth-i-sherîf quoted at the end of the sixteenth
paragraph gives the good news that the Prophet’s sohbat will save
hadrat Mu’âwiya from the divine reproach.
Because they cannot directly contradict these âyat-i-kerîmas
and hadîth-i-sherîfs, they assert that the good news purported in
them does not include hadrat Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’.
They say that he became a disbeliever because he tormented
hadrat Alî. As a proof for their allegation, they put forward the
hadîth-i-sherîfs, “He who torments Alî will have tormented me.”
and “He who annoys you will have annoyed me.” The book Tuhfa
confutes their thesis as follows:
The events termed Camel and Siffîn were never results of
animosity against hadrat Alî. They never considered to hurt him.
The real causes of these wars are written correctly in books of
Kelâm and Islamic histories. [We have explained them in a brief
and concise manner in the sixteenth paragraph]. Nasîr-ad-dîn
Tûsî, a Shiite scholar, states in his book Tejrîd that “It is sinful to
disobey Alî. It is disbelief to fight him,” and adds that “A person
who denies his imâmat (religious leadership) will not become a
disbeliever.” For hadrat Alî’s grandsons also denied one another.
One of his sons, namely Muhammad bin Hanafîyya, denied the
imâmat of Zeynal’âbidîn, hadrat Huseyn’s son. He did not give
him any of the booties sent by Mukhtâr. Zeyd-i-shehîd, who
declared himself as the Imâm, rejected the imâmat of hadrat
Muhammad Bâqir. After his martyrdom, his sons Yahyâ and
Mutawakkil did not get on well with Imâm-i-Ja’fer Sâdiq’s
children. This Yahyâ, who was hadrat Sayyed-at-Nefîsa’s paternal
uncle, was martyred in the battle he fought against Walîd’s forces
in 125 (H.). Also, hadrat Imâm-i-Ja’fer’s children struggled with
one another over imâmat. Deplorable events took place between
Abdullah Eftâh and Is-haq bin Ja’fer. If we were to write about
the struggles for imâmat among hadrat Hasan’s sons, a separate
book would come into being. Muhammad Mehdî bin Abdullah
bin Hasan Musennâ, better known by his nickname Nafs-i-
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