Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

avoid saying ‘disbelievers’ about those who deny the superiority
of Hadrat ’Uthmân and even of the Shaikhayn. We must look
upon them as holders of bid’at, as divergent Muslims. For, one
party of our savants did not say that they were disbelievers. The
case with them is like the case with the base Yazîd, who our
savants have forbidden us to curse, for circumspection.
Offending our Prophet by way of hating the Khulafâ-i râshidîn
is identical to offending him by way of disliking Imâm-i Hasan
and Imâm-i Husayn. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
stated: “Fear Allâhu ta’âlâ in case you should ever hurt my
Sahâba! After me, do not think ill of them. He who loves them
does so because he loves me. He who bears hostility against them
has borne hostility against me. He who hurts them hurts me. He
who hurts me has hurt Allâhu ta’âlâ; hence He will torment him
for that.” Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, in the
fifty-seventh âyat of Sûrat-ul-Ahzâb: “Those who offend Allâhu
ta’âlâ and His Prophet; may they be accursed in this world and in
the Hereafter!” The great Islamic savant Sa’daddîn-i Taftâzânî
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, (722 [1322 A.D.], Taftâzân, Khorasan
– 792 [1389], Samarkand) says: “We should be reasonable in this
order of superiority,” in his commentary to ’Aqâid-i Nasafiyya; [1]
but his statement is unreasonable, and his doubt is out of place.
For, our savants state that in this context ‘superior’ means ‘the
one with more thawâbs’. It does not mean the one who is more
useful to others with his goodness and trueness. A wise person
will not value such things. The Sahâba and the Tâbi’ûn informed
us about so many cases and events manifesting the goodnesses of
Hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ as they did not communicate
about any other Sahabî. On the other hand, they, again, said that
the other three Khalîfas were higher than he. As is seen, being
superior is not because of the maniness of merits and epics.
Superiority arises from other reasons. Who can understand these
reasons are only those chosen fortunate people who have been
honoured with seeing the wahy, that is, the coming of the angel.
They have understood the reasons of superiority by seeing them
clearly or through some denotations. And they are the Sahâba of
our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. Then, it is out of the
[1] Written by Nasafî Najm-ud-dîn Abû Hafs ’Umar bin Muhammad
‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, (461 [1068 A.D.], Nasaf, Fâris, Iran – 537 [1142],
Samarkand.)
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