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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH) Part 7

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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH)

Part 7

 

Another issue brought up by the Naasebi man that day, causing Sa’d son of Abdollah’s heart break into pieces, therefore motivating him to go and see Ahmad son of Eshaaq,, was as follows:

 

The Naasebi man had told Sa’d:

 

O the group of Rawaafez! You say that the first [AbuBakr] and the second [‘Omar] were indeed hypocrites; and for it you base your argument on the night of ‘Aqabah [the night of unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Prophet (PBUH&HP)]. Inform me of their [AbuBakr’s and ‘Umar’s] Islam, was it out of willingness and inclination, or was it out of unwillingness and compulsion?

 

Sa’d had avoided answering that; he had told himself:

 

If I answer him that it was out of willingness, then he would say that in this case their faith was not out of hypocrisy; and if I say it was out of unwillingness an compulsion, in that time [the time the two of them entered Islam, which according to the Sunni was years after the start of the Prophet’s invitation, unlike Hadrat Ali (PBUH) who was with the Prophet (PBUH&HP) from the very beginning] there was no might for Islam so that their Islam would had been out of compulsion and reluctance.

 

This was where Sa’d son of Abdollah left that adversary while he felt as if his heart was being torn apart; and that was when, as we mentioned in part 1 of this story, he decided to write on a scroll, over forty questions which he did not have answers for and hand it over to Ahmad son of Eshaaq, a companion of Imam Hasan Askari (PBUH) who was in Qom. But when Sa’d son of Abdullah went after Ahmad son of Eshaaq, he had already left for Samarra to see Imam Hasan Askari (PBUH); so Sa’d followed him and down the road, he reached Ahmad and upon his suggestion, Sa’d joined him.

 

Now let us go back to the beautiful story where Sa’d was at the presence of Imam Hasan Askari (PBUH) and his beloved little boy, Imam Mahdi (May Allah hasten his wonderful Appearance); again let us keep in mind that Hadrat  Mahdi (PBUH) said the following without Sa’d mentioning his argument with the Naasebi man:

 

And as for  what your adversary told you in regard to whether those two [AbuBakr and ‘Omar] accepted Islam out of willingness or unwillingness, why did you not tell him that rather, they accepted Islam out of greed? That is because the two of them had mingled with the jews, and they [the jews] informed them, from Torah and preceding books [please refer to “Mohammad , the Promise of Torah” and “Mohammad, the Promise of Enjil (Gospel)” in this site, kindfather.com], of the emergence of Mohammad (PBUH&HP), and his dominance over the Arab, and the conclusion of Mohammad’s (PBUH&HP) story; they [jews] had told the two of them that His [Mohammad’s (PBUH&HP)] dominancy was like Nebuchadnezzar’s dominance over the Bani (children of) Israel, with the exception that He [Mohammad (PBUH&HP)] claimed Prophethood while in his [Nebuchadnezzar’s claim] was nothing of Prophethood. So when the Amr (Divinely Ordained Matter, Command, …) of the rasool of Allah (PBUH&HP) became manifest, the two of them, out of greed, supported him in bearing witness that there was no god but Allah and that Mohammad (PBUH&HP) was the Rasool of Allah, so that they might find rulership of a territory from the Rasool of Allah once his Amr was established, and his mind was at peace, and his lordship was stabilized. But when they lost hope of that, they accorded with the likes of themselves, in the night of ‘Aqabah, and avidly desired like those of them who avidly desired and set upon the camel of the Rasool of Allah to cause it to fall after it had climbed over the mountain-neck, but Allah -the Sublime- protected His Prophet from their guile and they were not able to do anything.

 

And their [AbooBakr’s and ‘Omar’s] case were like [the case of] Talhah and Zobair who went to Ali (PBUH) and pledged their allegiance to him out of greed, so that there might be a territory for each of them. But when that did not happen and they lost hope, they broke their allegiance to him and revolted against him; to the point where the end of each of their matters returned to where the matters of all who break covenants and pacts return to [they both fell into perdition …].

 

To be continued …