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that Hadrat Mu’âwiyya began cursing Hadrat Alî, Hadrat Hasan,
Hadrat Hussain and others ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum ajma’în’ means
to slander Hadrat Mu’âwiyya. They never pronounced
maledictions against one another. The Madhhab of the Ahl assunnat
wa-l-jamâ’at states that it is not permissible to speak ill of
Hadrat Mu’âwiyya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ and that that allegation is a
slander against him. In addition, there is not a single genuine
report substantiating it. If historians say so, how can their words
ever be a witness? Basic religious information cannot be
established on the words of historians. Here, the words of Imâm-i
a’zam Abû Hanîfa and his companions are taken into
consideration, not the words of historians or the information
written in the book of Tafsîr entitled of Kashshâf. The names of
Hadrat ’Alî and Hadrat Mu’âwiyya are not mentioned in
Kashshâf. There is not even a sign showing that those two religious
superiors cursed each other. Nevertheless, the so-called statements
written in Kashshâf are true. There is no need to try to deduce
good meanings from them, since there is nothing disagreeing with
the Ahl as-sunnat in them? Yes, the Amawî (Umayyad) Khalîfas
overlooked the Ahl-i bayt’s being cursed for years on minbars.
’Umar bin ’Abdul’aziz ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ put an end to it. May
Allâhu ta’âlâ reward him plentifully through our prayers! But,
although Hadrat Mu’âwiyya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was one of the
Khalîfas of the Umayyads, he cannot be spoken ill of. If Hadrat
Mu’âwiyya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ is cursed and slandered, a great
number of the Sahâba, and even a few of the ’Ashara-i
mubashshara, who were with him in those disagreements and
combats, will have been cursed. And slandering those religious
superiors will obliterate the Islamic teachings coming to us
through them. No Muslim will tolerate or admit that.
Some people slander the three Khalîfas and Hadrat Mu’âwiyya
and those who agreed with him in ijtihâd ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’anhum ajma’în’. They swear at them. They say that after our
Master, the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, all the Sahâba
with a few exceptions became renegades. According to the
Madhhab of the Ahl as-sunnat wa-l-jamâ’at, the Sahâba, all of
them, can be talked about in no wise but by uttering good and
respectful terms about them. None of them is bad or evil. While
explaining the hadîths of Muslim, Imâm-i Yahyâ bin Sharaf
Nawawî says that in those combats the Sahâba parted into three
groups. One group had ijtihâd agreeing with that of Hadrat ’Alî
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’. It was therefore wâjib for them to choose the
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