Documents of the Right Word

There are other groups, who are more or less similar to these
groups. All of them have deviated from the right way; changing
with time, some of them have come nearer the right course, while
others have gone altogether beyond measure.
[In today’s Iran, all these aberrant groups exist among the
illiterate people. Nevertheless, it is observed with gratitude that
the educated ones have been reading true books and day by day
getting closer to the right word of the Ahl as-sunna. For instance,
it is stated as follows in the dictionary of Doctor Muhammad
Muqremî, which was printed in Tehran in the solar hijrî year 1333
[C.E. 1954]: “The Khulafâ-i-râshidîn: Abû Bekr and ’Umar and
’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu anhum’, and Alî ‘kerrem-Allâhu
wajhah’.”]
Upon reading the lines above, a person who is reasonable
enough to tell good from bad, will realise at once without seeking
another evidence how false and how wrong these groups, who
have merged among the Shi’îs, are. It is obvious that their beliefs
are thoroughly unfounded, irreligious, and illusory. It is a subject
vulnerable to derision, for people who hold these beliefs, to claim
that they love the Ahl-i-Bayt of our master the Prophet ‘sall-
Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ or the twelve imâms. No, they could not
be sincere. For those great people, (the Ahl-i-Bayt and the twelve
imâms), do not want inordinate, excessive love, and they hate
being followed in words only. The Hurûfîs’ saying that they love
the Ahl-i-Bayt is like Christians’ claiming that they love Îsâ (Jesus)
‘alaihis-salâm’. Loving him excessively, they make a god of him
and worship him. However, Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ does not want this
kind of love. As a matter of fact, Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ stated that
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ had said to him: “O Alî!
The case with you is like the case with Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. Jewry
became hostile to him. They spread a very offensive slander about
his mother. Christians, on the other hand, loved him too much.
They exalted him to a rank that would have been impossible for
him to occupy.”
Now, trusting ourselves to the help of Allâhu ta’âlâ, the great
owner and ruler of mankind, we will answer the addle protests in
that booklet. Allâhu ta’âlâ is powerful enough to do everything,
and He never turns down those who ask for His help.
1- The scholars of Mâverâ’un nehr [May Allâhu ta’âlâ give
them plenty of reward for their toils. The vast extent of land lying
between the rivers Seyhûn (Jaxartes) and Jeyhûn (Oxus), which
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