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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH) Part 3

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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH)

Part 3

 

Then I said: O’ son of the Rasool of Allah! Inform me of the Word of Allah -the Majestic- to His Prophet Moosa (PBUH): “Hence, pull out thy shoes, thou certainly art in the sacred valley Tuwa.” [Qur’an 20:12]; for, the jurists of both groups believe that it (his shoes) was surely made from the skin of dead animal [an animal died or killed in a way other than the Allah-specified manner.]!

Then he (PBUH) said: he who has said that fabricated lie against Moosa, has thus considered him ignorant in his Prophethood; for, this matter is surely not out of two conditions: either moosa’s Salaat (Specified Prayer) was permitted with it (the shoes), or not permitted. So if Moosa’s Salaat was permitted with it, then it was permitted for Moosa to wear it in that Boq’ah (piece of land), even though that place was sacred and sanctified. and if his Salaat was not permitted with it, then that necessitates that Moosa did not recognize Halaal and Haraam, and did not know in what (article of clothing) Salaat was permitted and in that which it was not permitted; and this is Kofr (disbelief, blasphemy …).

I said: O’ my Mawla! Inform me of its Ta’wil (original interpretation).

He (PBUH) said: Surely Moosa (PBUH) was in the sacred valley, then he said: O’ my Lord! Indeed I have purified my love for You and rinsed my heart from anyone other than You; while his love was extreme for his household. So Allah -the Praised and Majestic- said: “Hence, pull out thy shoes”, meaning: pull out the love of your household from your heart, if your love is pure for Me and your heart is rinsed from the desire toward other than Me.

[Undoubtedly, loving one’s family, and others for that matter, is a Command of Allah, so long as the love for family and others is not other than the love of Allah; i.e. anyone loving his/her family, friends and … not more than Allah and His Commands, and because they themselves love and obey Allah too, then that itself is the love of Allah, and not the love of other than Allah.

Qur’an 58:22 You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, Yowaaddoon (loving obeyingly) those who act in opposition to Allah and His Messenger, even though they be their (own) fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kinsfolk; these are they upon whose hearts He has written Faith and has strengthened them with a Spirit from Him; and He will cause them to enter Gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; Allah is well-pleased with them and they are well-pleased with Him, these are Allah's Party: behold, surely the Party of Allah are the successful ones achieving Felicity.

Thus according to Qur’an, while good behaviour is even recommended with parents trying to encourage polytheism (Qur’an 29:8, 31:15), but obeyingly loving relatives to a point of disregarding Allah’s Wishes, or disregarding their disbelief and sins, or preferring their wishes over Allah’s, or … is absolutely not permitted. The story of the Prophet Noah (PBUH) is also significant in this regard; we cordially invite our friends to read the three parts of the article: “Noah Ark”, and we have already previously recommended the article: “Wives of Prophets” in this site kindfather.com

As we have seen in the aforementioned articles, the issue of those chosen and approved by Allah within the family of Prophets (PBUT) is another issue all together. The Prophet Moosa (PBUH) also asked Allah to appoint his brother Haaroon (PBUH) -a Chosen man of God- as his partner in his Messengership, a request which was granted:

Qur’an 20:25-32 He (Moosa -Moses-) said: O my Lord! Expand my chest (heart) for me, and make my Amr (Matter of Messengership, …) easy to me, and loose the knot from my tongue, (that) they may understand my saying, and give to me a Wazir (aider and remover of hardship and burden) from my Ahl (faithful Allah-obeying family, …): Haaroon (Aaron), my brother; strengthen my back by him, and make him Partner (with me) in my Amr.

Hadrat Haaroon (PBUH) was killed while Hadrat Moosa (PBUH) was still alive, thus Allah (SWT) then appointed Yoosha’ son of Noon as Moosa’s Wasi (Successor) after him (PBUT).

And we all have heard the “Hadith of Manzelat” in which the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP) has clearly stated that the Manzelat (Position) of Ali to Mohammad (PBUT) was that of Haaroon to Moosa (PBUT); i.e. Hadrat Ali (PBUH) was the Allah approved Wazir, Wasi and Partner of Messengership of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP). Here as a sample we present one Sunni document of the “Hadith of Manzelat”:

The Prophet said to Ali, "Will you not be pleased that you will be to me like Aaron to Moses?” (Volume 5, Book 59, Number 700: Sahih Bukhari)

The following is also a traditionally transmitted invocation by the Holy Prophet:

"O Allah! My brother Moosa implored You saying: 'O my Lord! Expand my heart and make my Amr easy and undo the knot in my tongue so that they may understand my talk and appoint from among my Ahl Haaroon, my brother, as my Wazir and strengthen my back with him and make him partner in my Amr.' You inspired him: 'We shall soon strengthen your arm with your brother and make you both dominant.' O Allah! I am Your Servant and Your Messenger Muhammad. I implore You to expand my heart and make my Amr easy and appoint from among my Ahl Ali, my brother, as my Wazir."

It is reported that in response to this prayer verse 55 of Surah al Maa’edah (5) was revealed.

The Sunni Abu Es-haaq al Tha’labi has recorded the above prayer in his Tafsir Kabir while commenting on the verse occurring in al Maa’edah. Also the Sunni scholar Al Balakhi in his Yanaabi’ has copied the same version from the Sunni Ahmad ibn Hanbal's Musnad.

Please also pay careful attention to the first verses of Surah al Ensheraah (94) which make it known that the Holy Prophet's (PBUH&HP) prayer was accepted by Allah, and to the last verses in which He (SWT) commands the Holy Prophet to establish his Successorship before returning to Allah:

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Have We not expanded for you, your chest,

and removed from you, your burden (Wezr),

which pressed heavily upon your back,

and exalted for you your Dhekr?

Then, surely with hardship is ease.

Surely with hardship is ease.

So when you have completed (your Messengership), FaNsab (then do Establish) (your Successorship),

and desire to return toward your Lord.

(Qur’an, Surah Ensheraah (94))

With all this in mind, it is also noteworthy to mention that even Sunni scholars have acknowledged that the wage of the Messengership of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP), as commanded by Allah (SWT), is the “Mawaddat” (loving obeyingly) of the AhlulBayt (PBUT); we also cordially invite you to read the article: “The wage of the Prophetic Mission of the Last Divine Prophet (PBUH&HP)“:

Say (O Prophet Muhammad!): No wage I ask you (the people) for it (my Mission), except the ‘Mawaddat’ (loving obeyingly) of ‘Al-Qorba’ (The Near Relatives).

(Qur’an, Surah Shora (42), Verse 23) 

The unanimous Traditions of utmost authenticity assert that the Mawaddat of the near to the Holy Prophet means the obeyingly love of those relatives who are nearest to him in excellence and accomplishment. So, when he was asked to point out his Near Relatives, he pronounced the names of Ali, Fatemah, Hasan and Hosain and their children (PBUT). There is not a single tradition of the Holy Prophet that Qorba refers to the relatives of the Qoraysh, or the relationship of the Holy Prophet with the Qoraysh or the relatives of the believers, as concocted by some Sunni commentators.

 Ibn Hajar in Sawaa’eq, chapter 11, page 160 and ibn Sa’d in Tabaqaat in the account of ‘Omar ibn Khattaab have accepted that the Qorba (Near Relatives) of the Holy Prophet are the AhlulBayt. The same opinion is found in Tafsir Kaashaf, Sahih Moslem, Mosnad ibn Hanbal and Tafsir Dorr al Manthoor.

 Also Ahmad bin Hanbal writes in his Musnad, volume 6 page 323, that the Holy Prophet covered Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn with a blanket and said: "O Allah! These are my Ahl ul Bayt so I invoke You to send Your blessings (Salawaat) on Muhammad and aale Muhammad."

Moslem has also related this in his Sahih, in part I of "the book of prayers."

Also refer to Mushkil al Athar by Tahawi (volume 1, page 334), Kanz al Ummal by Ali Muttaqi (volume 7, page 103) and Tafsir Durr al Manthur by Jalaluddin al Suyuti in his interpretation of ayah al Tat-hir (33:33). He has also quoted the well-known verse composed by Al Shafi-i:

"O Ahl ul Bayt of Allah's Messenger! your love is a duty made obligatory upon us in the Qur’an. It is enough among your great privileges that whoever does not invoke Allah's blessings (Salawaat) on you, his prayer (Salaat) is void."

Ibn Hajar also quoted these lines of Shafi-i on page 88 of his Sawa-iq al Muhriqah, in connection with his interpretation of verse 33 of Surah Ahzaab.

Here we wish to present another Sunni verification to bring to an end our proofs, for now:

The following is the declaration of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP) regarding Hadrat Ali (PBUH) on the day of Khaybar:

Tomorrow I shall give the standard of Islam to him who loves Allah and His Prophet, and Allah and His Prophet love him.

(Sunni Tabari, Rawdatul Ahbab, Seraat al Muhammadia, Tadkh ul Khulafa)

At the end of this comment by the site kindfather.com, we humbly offer a token of our love and devotion to Hadrat Mohammad and his AhlulBayt (PBUT) by relating a few exclusive merits of Hadrat Ali ibn Abi Taaleb (PBUT), as narrated in Sunni documents and gathered by the Sunni Jalaal al Din al Soyooti in Tarikh al Khulafa:

(i) Ahmad bin Hanbal says: "There had not come down to us regarding the merits of any one of the companions of the Holy Prophet what has been transmitted concerning Ali." (Al Hakim).

(ii) Ibn Asakir from Ibn Abbas says: "There has not been revealed in the book of Allah regarding any one what has been revealed concerning Ali and that 300 verses have been revealed concerning Ali."

(iii) Al Tabarani and Ibn Abi Hatim record from Ibn Abbas that he said: "The Lord never revealed the words: "O true believers" but, Ali was understood to be the Lord and the chief of them, and verily the Lord has reproved the companions of the Holy Prophet in various places but has never mentioned Ali save with approval."

(iv) Al Tirmizi, Al Nisai and Ibn Maja from Habashi bin Junada say that the Holy Prophet said: "Ali is a part of me and I of Ali."

(v) Al Tabarani records in the Awsat from Jabir bin Abdullah that the Holy Prophet said: "The people are of various stocks but I and Ali are of one stock."

(vi) Al Tabarani records in the Aswat and Saghir from Ummi Salima that she narrates: "I heard the Holy Prophet say: "Ali with the Quran and the Quran with Ali shall not be separated until they arrive at the fountain of Kawthar in paradise."

(vii) Ibn Sad records on the authority of Ali that he said: "By Allah a verse of the Quran was never revealed but I know regarding what it was revealed and where it was revealed, for my Lord has given unto me a wise heart and an eloquent tongue."

(viii) Ibn Sad and others on the authority of Abu Tufayl record that Ali said: "Ask me regarding the book of Allah, for verily there is not a verse but I know whether it was revealed by night or by day, in the plains or on the mountains."

(ix) Al Tirmizi and Al Hakim record from Ali that the Holy Prophet said: "I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate."

(x) Ibn Masud says that the Holy Prophet said: "To look at Ali is devotion."

(xi) Muslim records on the authority of Ali that he said: "By Him who had cleft the seed and created the soul, verily the Holy Prophet stated to me that none but a true believer would love me, and none but a hypocrite would hate me."

(xii) Al Tirmizi from Abu Sa-id al-Khudri says that he said: "We used to distinguish the hypocrites by their hatred of Ali."

(xiii) Ibn Asakir on the authority of Abu Bakr records that the Holy Prophet said: "Looking at Ali is worship."

(xiv) Al Tabarani from Ummi Salima says that the Holy Prophet said: "He who has loved Ali has verily loved me, and he who has hated Ali has verily hated me, and he who has hated me, verily hated the Lord."

(xv) Abu Yula and Al-Bazzaz from Sad bin Abi Waqqas say that the Holy Prophet said: "He who annoys Ali, has annoyed me."

(xvi) Ahmed bin Hanbal records and Al-Hakim, on the authority of Umme Salima verifies that she narrates: "I heard the Holy Prophet say: "He who has reviled Ali verily he has reviled me."

(xvii) Sad bin Al-Musyib says that Umar bin Khattab used to pray to Allah to preserve him from a perplexing case which the father of Hasan (Ali), was not present to decide and that Umar said: "None of the companions used to say 'Ask me' except Ali."

(xviii) Al Tabarani says in the Awsat from Ibn Abbas that he said: "Ali possessed eighteen eminent qualities which belonged to no other of the people."

(xix) Al Bazzaz records on the authority of Sad that the Holy Prophet said to Ali: "It is not lawful for anyone to be in the Masjid while under the obligation of performing a total ablution, except for me and for you."

(xx) Abu Yula says that Umar bin Khattab said: "Verily Ali had been endowed with three qualities of which had I but one it would be more precious to me than were I given high bred camels." It was asked of him what they were, he replied: "His remaining in the masjid while that is permitted to him which is not lawful for me, his carrying the standard on the day of Khaybar and his wedding the Holy Prophet's daughter."

(xxi) The two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) record on the authority of Sa’d ibne Al-Waqqas that the Holy Prophet left Ali ibn Abi Talib behind as his vicegerent during the expedition to Tabuk, and Ali said: "O Messenger of Allah, do you leave me behind among the women and children?" He replied: "Are you not content to be to me in the relation of Harun to Musa save that there shall be no prophet after me?"

(xxii) And from Sahl ibn Sa’d said that the Holy Prophet said on the day of Khaybar: "I will surely give the standard tomorrow to one at whose hands the Lord will give victory, one who loves Allah and His Prophet and whom Allah and His Prophet love." The people passed the night in perplexity as to whom it would be given. When they entered upon the dawn, they went early to the Holy Prophet, each one of them hoping that it would be given to him, but he said: "Where is Ali the son of Abu Talib?" They said to him: "He complains of pain in his eyes." He said: "Then send for him." They brought him and the Holy Prophet applied his saliva in his eyes and prayed for him, and he was healed so that it was as if he had no pain, and he gave him the standard.

(xxiii) Muslim records on the authority of Sad ibn Abi Waqqas that when verse 61 of Ali Imran was revealed, the Holy Prophet summoned Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn and said: "O Allah, these are my Ahl ul Bayt."

(xxiv) Al Tabarani records in the Awsat and Abu Nu-aym in the Dala-il, on the authority of Zadan, that Ali was relating a tradition when a man accused him of speaking falsely, and Ali said to him: "Shall I curse-"and Ali cursed him, and he did not quit the place till his sight left him.

(xxv) Abul Qasim-al-Zajajaji narrates in his dictations that Ali composed a work on the principles of the Arabic language, and the grammar of the Arabic language.

Ah!!! We offer our wholehearted, warmest and most sincere felicitations to the last Remained One of the AhlulBayt, our beloved Imam of Time Hadrat Mahdi, (PBUT) and to all who love and follow the AhlulBayt (PBUT), on the anniversary of the glorious birth of Hadrat Ali (PBUH) in the House of Allah, the Ka’bah.]

To be continued …