Sahaba - The Blessed
At the beginning of the book (The Blessed) superiority of Ashâb of our prophet, Muhammad ´alayhissalâm, is explained along with how unjust and ignorant are those who defame Ashâb-ı-kirâm. Besides, the meaning of ijtihâd is explained. In the part of cautioning, an answer is given to the book (Hüsniyye) written by an enemy of Islam. In another part, biographies of great savants of Islam - hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni and hadrat Sayyed Abdülhakîm-ı Arvâsi - are explained. In the part Two Apples of the Eye of Muslims superiority of hadrat Abû Bakr and hadrat Omar is explained; in the part The First Fitna in Islam events between Ashâb-ı-kirâm are explained beautifully from the pen of hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni Ahmad Fârûkî Sarhandi who explains that to love all of Ashâb-ı-kirâm is a fundamental condition of being Ahl-i-sunnat.
At the beginning of the book (The Blessed) superiority of Ashâb of our prophet, Muhammad ´alayhissalâm, is explained along with how unjust and ignorant are those who defame Ashâb-ı-kirâm. Besides, the meaning of ijtihâd is explained. In the part of cautioning, an answer is given to the book (Hüsniyye) written by an enemy of Islam. In another part, biographies of great savants of Islam - hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni and hadrat Sayyed Abdülhakîm-ı Arvâsi - are explained. In the part Two Apples of the Eye of Muslims superiority of hadrat Abû Bakr and hadrat Omar is explained; in the part The First Fitna in Islam events between Ashâb-ı-kirâm are explained beautifully from the pen of hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni Ahmad Fârûkî Sarhandi who explains that to love all of Ashâb-ı-kirâm is a fundamental condition of being Ahl-i-sunnat.
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person with firm îmân, a sound reasoning and an adequate<br />
realization of the greatness of Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa<br />
sallam’ will know that to love is better judgement than being<br />
hostile to them. Because he loves our master the Prophet ‘sall-<br />
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, he will love each and every one of them.<br />
In fact, as we have already stated, it is declared in a hadîth-i-sherîf,<br />
“Affection towards them originates from affection towards me.<br />
And hostility to them is because of hostility to me.”<br />
It is hard to understand why these people should think that the<br />
Sunnî Muslims are inimical towards the Ahl-i-bayt. As we have<br />
stated in the previous pages, it is the Sunnî Muslims who say that<br />
dying with îmân, (as a Believer, that is,) is dependent on loving the<br />
Ahl-i-bayt.<br />
Imâm-i-Rabbânî ‘quddisa sirruh’ states as follows in the thirtysixth<br />
(36) letter: This faqîr’s (my) father was deeply learned in the<br />
zâhirî (physical) and bâtinî branches of knowledge. [Bâtin means<br />
something pertaining to the heart.] He always advised and<br />
encouraged to love the Ahl-i-bayt. He said that affection towards<br />
them would be of great help in dying with îmân. This faqîr (I) was<br />
with him as he was passing away. As his consciousness of this<br />
world grew weaker towards his last breath, I reminded him of his<br />
recurrent advice and asked him about the effect of that love.<br />
Amidst those difficult moments he had the zeal to say, “I am<br />
bathing in an ocean of affection for the Ahl-i-bayt.” I immediately<br />
made hamd-u-thenâ (thanks and praise) to Allâhu ta’âlâ. Love of<br />
Ahl-i-bayt is a capital for the Ahl as-sunnat. This capital will be the<br />
source of all the earnings in the Hereafter. People who do not<br />
know the Ahl as-sunnat do not recognize the temperate, equable<br />
and true love cherished by these great people and, equating this<br />
modest and fair love with antipathy, they lend themselves to an<br />
overdose of love. <strong>The</strong>y stigmatize the Ahl as-sunna as Khârijîs.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se wretched people do not know that there is a reasonable and<br />
moderate type of love between excessive love and absence of love.<br />
And the right one is usually the medial and central one. This<br />
center of right and justice has devolved on the Ahl as-sunnat. May<br />
Allâhu ta’âlâ lavish rewards on those great people for their toil!<br />
Âmîn.<br />
It is paradoxical that the people who exterminated the<br />
Khawârij and wreaked the Ahl-i-bayt’s vengeance on them were in<br />
the group of Ahl as-sunnat. Do they think the Ahl as-sunnat<br />
Muslims are Shiites? Do they call those who love the Ahl-i-bayt<br />
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