Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

praises the Muhâjirs and the Ansâr in the Qur’ân. He informs that
He likes all and promises Paradise to them all. Would they have
elected him for the Prophet’s place? If a person has a good opinion
about the Sahâba of our Master, the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam’, he will be purified from such loathsome suppositions
and doubts. Loving requires entertaining a good opinion. If our
Prophet’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ sohbat and those who attended the
sohbat are not considered with a good opinion and if — may Allah
protect us — they are slandered, this slandering blemishes the
owner of the sohbat and of the Sahâba. It even blemishes the
Owner of the owner, [that is, Allâhu ta’âlâ.] We should consider
well how abominable such a case would be. It has been said that a
person who slights the Sahâba has not believed Allah’s Prophet.
For describing the greatness of the Sahâba, our Prophet ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “He who loves them loves them
because he loves me. He who bears hostility against them does so
because he is my enemy.” Then, to love the Sahâba means to love
him.
When these six prefaces are comprehended there will no longer
be any place for doubt. In fact, one will be equipped with various
responses. These prefaces save one from doubt without any need
to think. Besides, it is obvious that such doubts are out of place.
The prefaces are intended not to explain the corruptness of such
doubts, but to remind us of the fact which is so obvious. According
to this faqîr (Imâm-i Rabbânî means himself), such doubts can be
exemplified as follows: If a clever person approaches a group of
idiots and proves through various lies that a piece of gold
happening to be before them at the moment is a piece of stone, the
poor idiots, being unable to make out the unsound aspects of his
lies because they do not understand that he is lying, will begin
doubting. They will even begin thinking of the gold as stones. They
will forget, or even deny, what they have seen. But a clever person
will believe what he sees clearly and will realize that aguments to
the contrary are wrong. Likewise, the Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîthi-sherîfs
have announced the greatness and the highness of the
three Khalîfas and even of all the Sahâba ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’anhum ajma’în’ as obviously as the sun and shown it to everybody.
Trying to traduce these great people through mendacious and
falsely-sequinned words is like attempting to misrepresent the gold
before the eyes as stone. Yâ Rabbî! After guiding us to the right
way, do not let our hearts slip out of this way. Have mercy upon
us! Only Thine mercy is so plentiful!
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