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true, it would signify love for the Ahl-i-Bayt at the very most. The
Sunnî Madh-hab also commands us to love all the members of
Ahl-i-Bayt, every one of them with a love symmetrical with the
position they occupy, being neither too frugal nor too inordinate in
this respect. Being Sunnî requires loving the Ahl-i-Bayt in a
manner suitable for their honour. But you make statements
contrary to Islam in order to wage loving them; a person with the
least îmân in his heart could not make such statements. You say,
for one, ‘If a person loves Alî, no wrongdoing will harm him.’
Likewise, some of you fabricate hadîths. For instance, could we
ever believe a person who slanders our master the Prophet by
saying that he (the Prophet) said, ‘Alî’s Shî’a (group) shall not be
questioned on the Judgement Day, neither on venial sins, nor on
grave ones. Their evils shall be changed into goodnesses’? Ibni
Bâbawayh fabricates a hadîth in which he quotes Ibni Abbâs as
having said that our master the Prophet stated, ‘Allah will not burn
Alî’s lovers in Hell.’ Another hadîth which they fabricate in order
to mislead others is, ‘A person who loves Alî shall enter Paradise,
even if he is a Jew or a Christian.’ Isn’t it injustice to slander our
master Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ by fabricating
such statements in the name of hadîth?
[The real name of Abû Ja’fer bin Bâbawayh is Muhammad bin
Alî. He is one of the four renowned men of Fiqh and Tafsîr in the
Shiite group. He has a book of Tafsîr and a book of Fiqh, which is
highly esteemed by the Imâmiyya group (the Imamites). He was
born in Khorasan, and died in 381 (A.D. 991)].
“Calumniation is neither Islamic nor reasonable. Allâhu ta’âlâ
declares in the hundred and twenty-second âyat of Nisâ sûra, ‘The
wrongdoer shall be punished.’ The last âyat of Zilzâl sûra purports,
‘He who does the smallest evil shall pay for it.’ The unfounded
slanders run counter to these âyat-i-kerîmas.
“Furthermore, it is a worship to love the Ahl-i-Bayt. And this,
in its turn, depends first and foremost on having îmân, as is the
case with all types of worship. The ninety-fourth âyat of Enbiyâ
sûra purports, ‘The good deeds performed by the Believer...’. It is
not Islamic to say that people who have not attained the honour of
îmân, e.g. Jews and Christians, will enter Paradise only by loving
the Ahl-i-Bayt, or to believe that love of these people will change
venial and grave sins into goodnesses and thawâb. It is written in
the Shiite books that our master Alî ‘kerrem-Allâhu wejheh’
would always give the following advice to his Ahl-i-Bayt: ‘Do not
rely on your ancestors! Keep up with your worships and prayers!
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