Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

ebels, make them obey!” However, because there were religious
reasons for their rebellion, and because each of them was a savant
at the grade of ijtihâd, none of them can be slandered though they
had a wrong ijtihâd. They cannot be said to be disbelievers or
sinners. Hadrat ’Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ said about the rebels
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’: “Our brothers have revolted
against us. They are not disbelievers or sinners. For, they have
done what they inferred from the Qur’ân al-kerîm.” [There is
detailed information about ijtihâd in the two Arabic books entitled
Minhat-ul-wahhâbiyya and ’Ulamâ’ul-muslimîn wal-wahhâbiyyûn,
which are reproduced by photocopy in Istanbul.]
Hadrat Imâm-i Shâfi’î ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ said: “As Allâhu
ta’âlâ has protected our hands from being imbrued with their
blood, so let us keep quiet and not imbrue our tongues!” So had
’Umar bin ’Abd-ul’Azîz said.
Yâ Rabbî! Forgive us and our Muslim brothers preceding us!
May prayers and salâm be upon our Prophet Hadrat Muhammad
‘’alaihis-salâm’, who is the dearest of creatures, and upon his close
relatives and upon all his Sahâba ‘ridwânullâhi ’alaihim ajma’în’
until Doomsday! Âmîn.
[Note: the savants of the Ahl as-sunnat wrote very many books
giving answers and advice to the Shiites. The names of thirty-two
of these books and their authors are appended to the 29th chapter
of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss.]
29 — FIFTH VOLUME, 36th LETTER
The combats among the Sahâba were because of disagreements
in ijtihâd. Those who fought one another loved one another, too.
It was like parents beating their children.
[At several places in my book, I have explained the words and
articles of the savants of the Ahl as-sunnat, revealing the greatness
and the superiority of the Sahâba. Qayyûm-i Rabbânî Muhammad
Ma’thûm-i Fârûqî Serhendî, in answering the eighth question, says
as follows in the thirty-sixth letter of the second volume of his
Maktûbât:]
Hadrat ’Alî ‘kerrem-Allâhu ta’âlâ wejheh’, who was mercy
from head to toe-nails, never cursed any Muslim, let alone his
having cursed our Prophet’s ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ Sahâba,
particularly Hadrat Mu’âwiyya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, over whom he
(Rasûlullah) had pronounced benedictions various times. Hadrat
’Alî said about Mu’âwiyya and the Sahâbîs who were with him,
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