We have thus confuted the spiteful and blasphemous
slanders in the book Husniyya, torn the curtain behind which its author was hiding himself, and
divulged his hideous purposes. The following is a brief account of the answers
which an Islamic scholar, upon coming across the Arabic books (Haqâyiq-
Ul-haqâyiq), (Al-fâz-i-qudsiyya) and (Ayn-ul-hayât)
written by Hurûfîs, gave to the slanders they contained.
Upon reading the book Ayn-ul-hayât,
this person saw that all its
contents from beginning to end were loathsome calumniations, curses and
vituperations against the three Khalîfas and hadrat Muâwiya and hadrat Âisha
and scholars of Ahl as-sunna ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’, and made a
list of those lies, as follows:
The book alleges that “When our master, Fakhr-i-’âlam
‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ passed away, all the As-hâb-i-kirâm, with the
exception of Selmân and Abû Zer and Mikdâd ‘radiy-Allâhu anhum’, became
disbelievers. It is necessary to curse hadrat ‘Uthmân and to say that Kâ’b was
a disbeliever.” These fabrications cover the initial pages of the book up to
the end of the ninth page.
It is alleged that “The three Khalîfas and most of
the As-hâb-i-kirâm were enemies of Muhammad’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ religion and were
polytheists. Imâm-i-a’zam Abû Hanîfa and Sufyân-i-Sawrî and all Sunnite Muslims
are disbelievers.” The book showers slanders on scholars of Ahl as-sunna and
great leaders of Tasawwuf concerning matters of Wahdat-i-wujûd (Unity of
existence) up to the twenty-seventh page.
It is alleged that “Hadrat ’Uthmân and the Sahâba in his time
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum ajma’în’ were disbelievers.” The book casts vituperative
aspersions on them and asserts that “Most Iraqi people have deviated from the
right course. Allâhu ta’âlâ sends His born
slaves’ sustenance through the twelve Imâms. It is necessary to curse, to swear
at the three Khalîfas. They were disbelievers, sinners, Jews. Sunnite Muslims
became disbelievers on account of their love for these three Khalîfas. In the
Camel event (war) hadrat Alî acted as our Prophet’s
deputyand divorced hadrat Âisha. The existing tafsîrs (explanations of Qur’ân al-kerîm) are defiled. Abû Bekr, ’Umar, Talhâ
and Zubeyr ‘ridwânullâhi alaihim’ were disbelievers. Hadrat ’Uthmân, Âisha,
Talhâ, Zubeyr and Muâwiya were impious, wicked and cruel people.”
It is alleged that “As our master the Prophet
learned from Jebrâîl, Mikâîl and Isrâfîl and these angels learned from the Lawh
and Kalem, being a Walî is indigenous only to hadrat Alî and the twelve Imâms.
Hadrat Alî is the fortress of Allâhu ta’âlâ. On
the Judgement Day hadrat Alî decide who are to go to Paradise and who are for
Hell. The events and fights between hadrat Alî and the devil were revealed in
ninety pages to hadrat Fâtima. It was written in each page that the three
Khalîfas and the As-hâb-i-kirâm were cruel,
miscreant and sinful people. Hadrat Imâm-i-Ja’fer Sâdiq is higher
than Mûsâ (Moses) and Hidir (Hýzýr) ‘alaihim-as-salâm’. The Rûh, which is
mentioned in the eighty-fifth âyat of Isrâ sûra, is an angel appointed as a
servant to the twelve Imâms. Imâm-i-Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’, would enliven dead
people.” The book contains long vituperative statements alleged to be the
insults directed towards hadrat Alî as he was forced to accept hadrat Abû
Bekr’s caliphate, and goes on with its allegations: “High-ranking angels are
servants under the command of the twelve Imâms. Laws of Physics, chemistry and
biology and the motions of atoms and celestical beings are controlled by the
twelve Imâms. Prophets will be questioned on the Judgement day and Noah (Nûh)
‘alaihis-salâm’ will trust himself to hadrat Alî and will be saved owing to two
witnesses sent forth by hadrat Alî. Sunnite Muslims defiled Muhammad’s
‘alaihis-salâm’ religion, called halâl ‘haram’ and vice versa, deviated into
heresies and sins, and became disbelievers. The Sunnî way was invented by
hadrat ‘Umar. He spread it with the help of heretics and the devil. This led to
hectic discussions between Imâm-i-Ja’fer Sâdiq and Sufyân-i-Sawrî, whereupon it
became clear that Sufyân-i-Sawrî followed a course leading to disbelief and
heresy.”
“Scholars of Ahl as-sunna ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’
were unable to see between âyats that are muhkem, muteshâbih, nâsih and mensûh.
They disobeyed commandments and did not avoid harâms. Thus they remained in
ignorance and aberration. Sufyân-i-Sawrî and Iyâd-i-Basrî tried to demolish
Islam. Ibrâhîm bin Hishâm was a zindiq. Sunnite Muslims sing and dance in the
name of worship. Ma’rûf-i-Kerhî was a liar. The Sunnites will go to Hell. A
Sodomite who confesses his sin to hadrat Alî will be pardoned. The namâz of
Tarâwih performed by the Ahl as-sunna is ostentatious and heretical. It is like
disbelievers’ worships. A person who wishes to be a president will become
accursed. On the Judgement Day Allâhu ta’âlâ will
apologize to Shiites like a person apologizing to his brother. Sunnite Muslims
will remain in Hell eternally with disbelievers. They are renegades,
disbelievers. Their excuses and requests will be rejected and they will never
be taken out of Hell. The names Pharaoh, Hâmân and Qârûn, who it is stated will
enter through the gates of Hell, represent Abû Bekr, ’Umar, ’Uthmân, and the
sons of Umayya.” The book makes lengthy descriptions on the vehemence of Hell
fire, on how the torments in Hell will be executed, and on the bitter torments
that will be inflicted on Cain the murderer of Abel, on Nimrod and Pharaoh, on
the Jew who misled Jewry and the Jew named Paul who misled Christians, on Abû
Bekr and ‘Umar, who did not have îmân in Allâhu ta’âlâ,
and
compares the torment that will be inflicted on Pharaoh to that
which Muâwiya will suffer. Then, it carries on its fabrications: “Hadrat
Fakhr-i-’âlam would kiss and smell his daughter Fâtima every day. His (blessed)
wife hadrat Âisha would see this and become jealous. The expression, ‘Lâ ilâha
ill-Allah, Alî Rasûlullah,’ is written
everywhere in Paradise. It is permissible to perform namâz without ablution,
yet in this case one should not expect thawâb (reward in the Hereafter).
Because the unbelievers of Qoureish said angels were Allah’s daughters, an âyat
was revealed. It was stated in an âyat that Shiites, the only true group, would
increase in number in the course of time and the other groups would gradually
fade out. Because most âyats of Ahzâb sûra divulged the evil and atrocious
deeds of Qoureishi men and women, some of them were excised from the Qur’ân and
others were changed. Abû Bekr, ’Umar and ’Uthmân continuously committed
indecencies, forbidden acts, heresy and sins.” The book tells long imaginary
stories about how hadrat Âisha was taken prisoner by hadrat Alî in the Camel
War and how she and seventy other captives weresent to Medina and curses hadrat
Âisha. Then it casts various aspersions, slanders, curses on hadrat Muâwiya,
and goes on: “Allah sold Paradise and Hell and also a jâriya to hadrat Alî for
four hundred dirhams of silver. During the war between hadrat Muâwiya and
hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu anhumâ’, hadrat Alî made a long speech, in which he
explained that hadrat Muâwiya was accursed. Sunnite Muslims wear woolen clothes
in order to make a show of piety. They have been accursed for this reason. It
has been informed through the Wahy that Sunnite Muslims are disbelievers and
zindiqs. Muhammad Ghazâlî and Ahmad Ghazâlî and Celâl-ed-dîn Rûmî and
Muhyiddîn-i-Arabî were accursed disbelievers.” The book showers curses and
swearings on the three Khalîfas, asserts that Hasan Basrî, Mansûr-i-Dawânikî,
Me’mûn and Hârûn-ur-reshîd were accursed, and adds, “Hallâj-i-Mensûr and Abû
Ja’fer Shalghamânî and scholars of Ahl as-sunna ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim
ajma’în’ are all disbelievers and zindiqs.”
When the list we have paraphrased is read, it will be realized
that the whole book is a compilation of ridiculous statements and blasphemous
stories of obscure origin. These things cannot have been written by a religious
man. Especially, the allegations that Allâhu ta’âlâ sold
Paradise to hadrat Alî, that he will send anyone he likes to Paradise and those
he hates to Hell, that worldly affairs are controlled by the twelve Imâms, mean
to deny (Allah’s) Attribute of Will, which in turn indicates the gravest kind
of polytheism. Hadrat Abû Bekr’s refusing to
give the date orchard called Fedek to hadrat Fâtima is told with
such exaggeration that the irrational, preposterous Persian tales would fall
far behind it. This date orchard called Fedek was in the vicinity of Hayber. Rasûlullah would meet the needs of his household with
the income from this orchard, and anything more than their subsistence would be
dealt out as alms. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
alaihi wa sallam’ dedicated this orchard to a pious foundation supporting the
poor and travellers towards his death. Hadrat Abû Bekr would keep the accounts
of the income from the orchard himself during his caliphate. When hadrat ’Umar
‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ became Khalîfa, he yielded its management to hadrat Alî upon
the latter’s demand. These events are told (in the book) in a gross
exaggeration and exploited in a manner as to vituperate hadrat Abû Bekr and
hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhumâ’, and these exalted people are
blemished with such aspersions as could never be forgiven even through tawba.
In addition to the three books mentioned above, there
are some ten other booklets, all of which teem with various blasphemous
absurdities. These booklets are disseminated in Iraq and Iran. They are trying
to mislead the Anatolian Muslims, too. Naming themselves Alawîs
(Alevî), they are endeavouring
to deceive the Alevî Muslims in our country. Their purpose is to bring up a
generation inimical towards scholars of Ahl as-Sunna ‘rahmatullâhu alaihim
ajma’în’, and thus to demolish Islam from within.
[To prevent this planned catastrophe, we have
translated various parts of the book Tuhfa-i-isnâ ashariyya from Persian into Turkish and published a book titled
(To Die in Îmân). The book Tuhfa was translated into Arabic and an abridged version of the book was
printed in Egypt and was titled Muhtasar-i-Tuhfa. It was reproduced by offset process in Istanbul. An
Iranian scholar has stated that the so-called books (the heretical books
mentioned above) were written by excessively heretical mulhids called Ghulâts
in India, that these people are trying to mislead ignorant Iranians, and that
Irânian scholars are in the Imâmiyya group but these eccentric people are
disbelievers].
Shiites of the Imâmiyya group living in Iran, mostly
in Najaf and Kerbelâ, should cooperate with the Ahl as-Sunna to prevent these
scurvy, groundless, untenable forgeries fabricated by the inexorable heretics.
Negligence in this Islamic requirement will only serve these eccentric heretics
to increase in number, which in turn will cost the Imâmiyya group quantitative
and qualitative shrinkage. The restrictions which had been imposed on these
wicked heretics after Yavuz Sultân Selîm Khân’s
victory at Çaldýran in 920 [A.D. 1514] were maintained until recently, when
fifteen years ago, [i.e. in 1280 (A.D. 1864)], they were abrogated and the
harmful, vicious, base slanders reappeared all of a sudden. All this is the
result of Muslims’ slackness and negligence. This is the end of the book
TEZKIYA-I-AHL-I-BAYT.
[If scholars of Ahl as-Sunna do
not answer and refute freemasons, communists, Christians, missionaries, the
unbridled Hurûfîs in Iran and Iraq and Wahhabis, if they do not divulge their
inner malevolent purposes and harms and inform the younger generations about
them, if parents do not teach their children or at least have them read books
written by scholars of Ahl as-Sunna, the future generations will be lost
altogether. They will fall victims to the horrific talons of unbelief. Muslims
will be driven into disasters and calamities similar to those experienced by
the inhabitants of places such as Semmerkand, Bukhâra and Crimea. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the thirty-third âyat of Nahl sûra, “Allâhu
ta’âlâ does not torment them. Yet they torment themselves.”]
Hadrat Imâm Rabbâni
states as follows in the two hundred and seventy-fifth (275) letter of the first
volume of his book Mektûbât:
You have attained the present blessing as a
result of your teaching Islamic knowledge
and spreading the principles of fiqh. Nescience had been settled, and bid'ats rife, in those places, when Allâhu ta’âlâ blessed you with the love of His beloved ones. He
made you
a means for promulgating Islam. Then, do your best to teach religious knowledge
and to spread the principles of fiqh. These two are the fountainhead of all sorts of happiness,
the means of promotion and the cause of
salvation. Strive very hard! Show yourself as a religious man! Perform
amr-i-ma'rûf and nahy-i-munkar and guide
the people who live there to the right way! The nineteenth âyat of Muzzammil
sûra purports: "Verily this is an admonition: Therefore,
whoso will, let him take a (straight) path to his Rabb (Allah)!" (73-19)
The slave will
never suffer from his Hudâ;
Whatever everyone suffers is his own deserts!
Every blessing you offer is faithless, o world;
All ranks you give perish with the cold wind of death!
Nothing in life is so desirable as sovereignty
No sovereignt, yet, equals a breath that’s healthy!