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the good news that he shall go to Paradise!” When I opened the
door, Abû Bekr Siddîq came in. I gave him the good news. He
made hamd, (that is, he thanked, praised and lauded Allahu
ta’âlâ). [1] Then there was another knock on the door. “Open the
door and give the good news!”, said the Prophet again. I opened
it, and ’Umar Fârûq came in. When I gave him the good news, he
made hamd to Allâhu ta’âlâ. The door was knocked once more.
The Messenger of Allah said, “Open it and give him the good news
and tell him that he will suffer a catastrophe!” I opened (the door).
It was ’Uthmân Zinnûreyn ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’. I gave him the good
news, and he made hamd. (Bukhârî and Muslim).
Supposing we were to acknowledge that Merwân’s deportation
from Medina had been by wahy, this would not mean a lifelong
deportation. Why should it not be possible that he might have
been deported for a certain period of time? ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu
anh’ knew the duration of deportation, and took him back to
Medina when the time was over.
The âyat-i-kerîma that purports, “A person with îmân will not
love the enemies of Allâhu ta’âlâ and His Messenger,” prohibits
from loving disbelievers. Merwân was not a disbeliever; why
should it be forbidden to love him.
It is stated as follows in the booklet: “The hadîths praising the
three Khalîfas do not exist in our books. On the other hand, the
hadîths about (Rasûlullah’s asking for) paper and (his order for
preparation of) Usâma’s army, which reprove the three Khalîfas,
are recorded in your books, too. Furthermore, some of the
scholars of Ahl as-sunna have said that it would be permissible to
call a useful statement a hadîth. Therefore, hadîths that do not
exist in the Shiite books are not dependable.”
With the help of Allâhu ta’âlâ, we give the following answer:
Those who are too excessive in injustice, malign the three
Khalîfas. So much so that they call them disbelievers. They
consider that saying so is Islam and worship. Consequently, they
do not believe the sahîh hadîths praising the three Khalîfas. They
discard or change these hadîths. They even interpolate and
slander Qur’ân al-kerîm, which is Islam’s basic document and
which has been authenticated by all people throughout centuries
and remained intact until the present time, and make changes in
âyat-i-kerîmas. For instance, they have defiled the twenty-sixth
[1] The Arabic word is “Al-hamd-u-lillâh”, which means, “May thanks,
praise and laud be to Allâhu ta’âlâ.”
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