Sahaba - The Blessed

practice of vilifying the Ahl-i-bayt and fabricating lies that were
not worthy of their high grades was rife among the Muslims. The
Abbasid dynasty, on the other hand, had no members
knowledgeable enough to perform ijtihâd, and the candidates for
caliphate tried to seize the office only for worldly purposes; this
state of affairs offered a misleading example for the time’s
historians, so they wrote about the events among the Ashâb-ikirâm
by likening them to those among the Abbasid Khalîfas.
Also, they calumniated, blemished and misrepresented the
Umayyad Khalîfas.
Perhaps these people identify the Ahl-i-bayt-i-nabawî ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ with themselves. They think that
those exalted people also were inimical towards Hadrat Abû Bakr
and ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’. They imagine their own
hypocritical, double-faced persons in their visualization of those
great people. They surmise that the widely known friendship
between Hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ and the other three
Khalîfas must have been a mere façade to mask some inner
political considerations and that his apparent affection and
homage towards them must have been insincere and hypocritical.
So ambivalent an attitude. If these people loved the Ahl-i-bayt
really because they loved Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’, they would inevitably feel animosity towards his enemies.
In fact, their vituperation of his enemies would necessarily be
more acrid than all this mudslinging they have been waging against
the postulated enemies of the Ahl-i-bayt. No one has heard any
one of these people curse or swear at Abû Jahl, who was
Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ arch enemy and who
continuously hurt and tormented his blessed body and delicate
soul. On the other hand, they do not hesitate to curse and cast the
dirtiest aspersions on Abû Bakr ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, who was the
most beloved companion of the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ and whose great and exalted person attained
many a praise in âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs; and this they
do only because they suppose he was an enemy of the Ahl-i-bayt.
What kind of a religion is it that they have been practising in the
name of Islam? May Allah protect us against a belief based on the
supposition that Hadrat Abû Bakr and Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-
Allâhu ’anhumâ’ were hostile to the Ahl-i-bayt. If these
unconscionable people only did not begrime the names of the
greatest ones of the Ashâb-i-kirâm ‘alaihim-ur-ridwân’ in the
maledictions they have been pronouncing against the enemies of
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