Sahaba - The Blessed

were the disciples of the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ and we should hold the belief that it is necessary to love
them very much and to respect them deeply. All the Sahâba-ikirâm,
the Tâbi’în-izâm, the Taba’i tâbi’în, the mujtahids, the
mutakallimîn (scholars in the branch of Islamic knowledge called
Kalâm), the fuqahâ (scholars in the Islamic science called Fiqh),
the muhaddithîn (scholars of Hadîth), the mufassirîn (scholars of
Tafsîr), and all the pious Muslims in this Ummat held this same
belief.
This right path is the madhhab and the belief of the zumra-inâjiyya
(group of salvation) called Ahl as-sunnat wa-l jamâ’at.
When a person attends the lessons of one of the Awliyâ of this
noble Ummat (Muslims) for a couple of days, the beautiful merits
and virtues treasured in that Walî’s heart and soul will assimilate
him in such fruitful manner as the spiritual benefits he will reap
from the Walî’s sohbat (having been together with him) will not
have any comparable equivalents among all the imaginable
worldly blessings; then, how could there ever be found a grain of
sense in believing the statements made, or the books written, by
those malignant people whose confined mental capacities cannot
reach beyond the periphery of their vicious earthly life, and then
visualizing base and ugly motives behind the disagreements and
wars among the Ashâb-i-kirham? Indeed, the Ashâb-i-kirâm
‘alaihim-ur-ridwân’ felt excessive affection for the Rasûl-i-akram
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, so much so that for his sake they
would sacrifice their lives, their property, their possessions, their
children, their wives, their parents and their homelands.
Attending his sohbat for a long time, they had been acculturated
with all the features, traits and patterns of the most beautiful
moral values innate in the constitution of our master, the Prophet
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, and their selves, hearts and nafses
had been purified from all sorts of evils and basenesses. Such
inappropriate statements and opinions about the Ashâb-i-kirâm
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’, who were the Companions
of our master, the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, are
never permissible.
Those poor people who say or write so; don’t they know that
enmity towards the Ashâb-i-kirâm is no different from direct
enmity towards the Sarwar-i-’âlam ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’?
By blaming them they are blaming the Fakhr-i-’âlam ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’. It is for this reason that the eminent scholars of
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