Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Qur’ân al-kerîm and from hadîths. When they are slandered,
what they conveyed loses its value. Islam was not conveyed to us
by a few certain people among the Sahâba. Each of them has a
service, a share in this. They are all equal in trueness, in justice
and in (the authenticity of) their teaching. When any one of the
Sahâba ‘’alaihimurridwân’ is slandered, the Islamic religion will
have been slandered and cursed. May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect us all
from falling into such a loathsome situation!
If those who swear at the Sahâba say, “We still follow the
Sahâba. It is not necessary to follow them all. In fact, it is not
possible, for their words do not agree with each other. Their ways
are different,” We will answer them as follows:
To have followed some of the Sahâba, it is necessary not to
deny any of them. When some of them are hated, the others have
not been followed. Amîr [’Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’], for instance,
respected the other three Khalîfas, deemed them great and knew
that they were worth obeying. He obeyed them willingly and
accepted them as Khalîfas. Unless the other three Khalîfas are
loved, it will be a lie, a slander to say that one follows Hadrat ’Alî
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum’. In fact, it will mean to dislike
Hadrat ’Alî and to refute his words. It would be idiocy and
ignorance to say that Hadrat ’Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, who is
Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Lion, was disdainful of them, that he only smiled
at them. How could a wise person ever say that Allah’s Lion,
despite his great knowledge and bravery, concealed his enmity
against the three Khalîfas, pretended to be friends with them and
established a superficial friendship with them for a full period of
thirty years. Even the lowest Muslim could not stomach such
hypocrisy. We should be aware of the ugliness of such words
which belittle Hadrat Amîr to such an extent and which
represent him as an impotent and deceitful munâfiq. Even if we
could admit for a moment that Hadrat Amîr ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’
was so —may Allah protect us from such a supposition— what
would they say about the fact that our Master the Prophet ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ praised these three Khalîfas, lauded
them and esteemed them throughout his life? Would they say
that our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was hypocritical,
too? Never! It is impossible. It is wâjib for the Prophet ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ to tell the truth. He who says that he
was deceiving them becomes a zindiq, becomes irreligious.
Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the sixty-seventh âyat of Mâida Sûra:
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