----- Original Message ----- From: Ebrahim Rashid Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 8:27 PM Subject: BUT WHY THE SAHABAS?
Salamun alaikum Having read all kinds of discussions/debates/arguments about the ahlulbayt and the sahabas, am I entitled to pause some simple straightforward questions which might need some delibrations. 1. Islam is the final religion of Allah. 2. The holy Prophet Muhammad is the final prophet of Allah. 3. Holy Qur'an is the final revelation from Allah. No other deen is going to come. No other prophet is going to come. No other revelation is going to come. 4. So long as the holy Prophet was alive and Muslims had any propblems, they went straight to the holy Prophet who sorted out their problems. What about after his death when the Muslim poulation spread in all corners of the world? The world made progress in science and technology. Muslims were confronted with new problems. How could these modern problems be resolved? How can one be sure that they are in line with the guidance of the holy Qur'an and the teachings of the holy Prophet? How can one be sure that its not anyone's fantasies? 5. The Shias say that the holy Prophet appointed his ahlulbayt as the guides for Muslims after him. This they prove in the light of the holy Qur'an, the ahadith of the holy Prophet and commonsense. Sadly our Sunni brothers do not accept this. Our Sunni brothers say that after the death of the holy Prophet, not the ahlulbayt of the holy Prophet but his sahabas were eligible for religious guidance! Can this be proved in the light of the holy Qur'an, ahadith of the holy Prophet and logic? 6. It is a fact that none of the sahabas were ma'soom or infallible. It is a fact that neither all the prophets of Allah are of equal status nor his angels. Therefore, how can all the sahabas be of equal status? It is also a fact that there were lots of hypocrites amongst the sahabas. There were so many that a whole chapter under the title of Sura Munafiqoon was revealed. How can one distinguish a true, sincere and devoted sahabi from hypocrites? 7. Why do our Sunni brothers reject the ahlulbayt of the holy Propher as guides and Imams after the him? What qualities did they lack to be the guides? What qualities did the sahabas have which the ahlulbayt lacked to be Imams and guides? 8. There is a very famous hadith of the holy Prophet, "after my death my Ummah will be divided into seventy-three sects; of these only one will go to Jannat and all the rest in jahannam." How can one be sure which is this one particular sect going to Jannat? 9. When we hear any hadith of the holy Prophet from any narrator is there anything wrong to investigate the background of the narrator(s)? If no, why? 10. Suppose there are 15 cups of orange juice and one of them has poison in it. Will any person in the right frame of his mind dare to drink any one cup? If there were hypocrites amongst the sahabas, how could one risk seeking guidance on religious matter from anyone of them? 11. What is the exact defintion of a sahaba? 12. Why do our Sunni brothers find it extremely difficult to swallow the wrongdoings, injustice and evil committed by the so called sahabas even though this is supported by full evidence from their own books? In the light of the wrongdoings, injustice and evil committed by the so called sahabas, why are the Shias being cursed and abused for unveiling this? Why are the Shias being cursed for exposing the atrocities they committed and against whom? 13. On the one hand we have a person like hazrat Ali who never worshipped idols and was born inside the Kaba'h. He was with the Prophet of Allah from his childhood until he (the holy Prophet passed away). He accompanied him in all the battles and was with him when everyone deserted him in the battlefield, etc.,etc. Then you have others who were born of pagan parents, lived a good part of their lives as pagans or idol worshippers, were enemies of Islam and the holy Prophet before embracing Islam. We have people like hazrat Umar who hated the holy Prophet to the extent that he wanted to kill him. He also tortured his own sister on finding out she had embraced Islam! We have people like Abu Huraira who embraced Islam not more than three years before the holy Prophet passed away. Yet the ahadith quoted by him outnumber ahadith quoted by Abu Bakar, Umar, Uthman and hazrat Ali!!! Some of the ahadith were concocted according to his own admission for which Umar punished him. No matter which sect one follows their sole purpose is to make sure that the path they are following will lead them to paradise. Is it not commonsense that the people who we follow as our guides or Imams and leaders after the holy Prophet have some kind of authenticity from the holy Qur'an and the holy Prophet? In the holy Qur'an Allah (s.w.t.) constantly reminds us of using our commonsense in matter of fundamental beliefs and not follow our sheikhs blindly or unquestionably. 14. We Shias do not condemn anyone because of their faith. And why should we anyway when we have ways and means of communicating sensibly. We do not call our fellow Muslim brothers kafirs and isssue fatwas of takfir and make their bllod and property halal or lawful. These are things that the Imams of ahlulbayt have made haram upon their followers. 15. If only our Sunni brothers come to realise that studying the Islamic history through authentic sources and see which Muslim personalities played what sort of role before the advent of Islam, during the time of the holy Prophet and after the passing away of the holy Prophet and put things in perspective accordingly. 16. As already said before we have no direct relations with the ahlulbayt to show so much love and affection. Neither those we dislike have done any kind of direct harm to us. But we love and respect and find them worthy of obedience simply because Allah has commaded us to so and very much rightly so. Likewise, we dislike those whom we dislike is simply because of their wrongdoings, injustice and evil they committed. Allah hates unjust, evil mongers and wrongdoers regardless. 17. In our daily prayers/salat/namaz we ask Allah to guide us on the Right Path. To guide us on the path of those upon He has showered His blessings and not of those upon whom He has sent His wrath and those who have gone astray. In the light of the above mentioned verse, how are we going to establish which path is the Right Path which we are supposed to follow and which path is it upon which there's been Allah's wrath and the one going astray? 18. TODAY JUST LOOK AROUND AND ASK YOURSELVES WHO IS ISSUING FATWAS OF TAKFEER, SUICIDE BOMBINGS AND BOMBING PLACES OF WORSHIP, KILLING INNOCENT AND DEFENCELESS MUSLIMS, ETC. If these so called Muslims had the right knowledge from the holy Qur'an, sunnah of the holy Prophet or the sunnah of their so called sahabas then surely rather than cursing and abusing the Shias they would have had an open discussion and dialogue and sorted this out in a civilised manner. Ebrahim http://www.maaref-foundation.com http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/index.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6kpCLDMVg http://www.answering-ansar.org/answers/tarawih/en/index.php http://www.dartabligh.org/books/ebooks/basicbeliefs/index.asp http://www.al-islam.org/info; http://al islam. org/philosophyofislam; -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Shia Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to shiagroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to shiagroup@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
