Documents of the Right Word

an enemy of Islam, a Jewish convert named Murtedâ. Giving the
âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs distorted meanings and
misrepresenting the facts and events, it assails the As-hâb-i-kirâm
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’ and the ’Ulamâ (scholars,
savants) of Ahl as-sunna ‘rahmatullâhu ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’,
and misdirects the unlearned people by fabricating false sad
stories.
The second part of the book (Documents of the Right Word)
consists of the comprehensive answers given to Murtedâ’s
delusive writings. Here we begin translating the book (Radd-i-
Rewâfid).
TRANSLATION OF RADD-I-REWÂFID
May plentiful, beautiful, fruitful hamd be to Allâhu ta’âlâ in a
way He likes, loves best! May benedictions and salutations be over
our master, Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’, the highest of mankind,
the Prophet of all people, whites and blacks alike, in a manner
becoming his high honour! May salutations be over Muhammad’s
‘alaihis-salâm’ four Khalîfas, who followed and guided to the right
way, over his children, over his Ahl-i-Bayt, all of whom were
beautiful and pure, and also over his Sahâba, in a manner
agreeable with their great positions and high grades!
This poor born slave, (Ahmad the son of Abd-ul-Ahad)
Fârûqî, [1] who is intensely in need of the mercy of Allah, the sender
of all the necessities of every being, the one and only one owner
and possessor, and who is the servant of the ’Ulamâ of Ahl assunna,
have seen a booklet recently. This booklet seems to have
been written as an answer to the scholars of Mâverâ-’un-nahr
(Transoxiana) during the Shiites’ siege of Mesh-hed city. These
scholars had written that those who censure the As-hâb-i-kirâm
are disbelievers. When I read the booklet, I saw that they are
calling the three Khalîfas disbelievers and traducing hadrat Âishai-Siddîqa
[2]
‘radiy-Allâhu anhâ’ by means of representations
believable only to idiots. I have heard that a few piteous people
among the learners in our vicinity have been boasting about
reading this book and sending copies of it to statesmen and even
to sultans. This faqîr, (Imâm-i-Rabbânî means himself) have
already been giving logical and scientific answers to those untrue
[1] Hadrat Imâm-i-Rabbânî means himself.
[2] One of the Prophet’s blessed wives and, at the same time, hadrat Abû
Bekr’s daughter.
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