Taqiya (Pious Fraud Or Falsehood)

IT IS SAID THAT SHIAISM AND AND FLASEHOOD ARE IDENTIAL.

TAQIYAH MEANS HYPROCRISY, OR RESERVATION IN SPEECH, THE WORDS SPOKEN BEING DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO THE IDEAS AND PRECEPTS OF THE SPEAKER. THIS IS JUST TO BEGUILE THE OPPONENTS OR TO SAVE ONSELF FROM AWKWARD OR CIRITCAL POSITIONS. IMAM JA'FER IS ALLEGED TO HAVE SAID THAT TAQIYYAH IS 9 OF 10 PARTS OF THE RELIGION (USUL-E-KAFEE, P. 482). THE SHI'ITES SAY THAT HAZRAT ALI (RA) ACCEPTED THE FIRST THREE CALIPHS AND OWED ALLEGIANCE TO THEM JUST BY WAY OF TAQIYYAH, OTHERWISE IN HIS HEART OF HEARTS HE WAS DEADLY AGAINST THESE USURPERS OF HIS RIGHTFUL CLAIM TO CALIPHATE.

THE FACT IS THAT HADHRAT ALI HAD GREAT RESPECT AND REVERENCE FOR HADHRAT ABU BAKR. HADHRAT UMAR AND HADHRAT USMAN (RA). HE SINCERELY AND WILLINGLY TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE (BAY'T) ON THE HANDS OF THE FIRST THREE KHULFA-E-RASHIDDEN. THIS IS ESTABLISHED FROM A CHAIN OF UN-INTERRUPTED NARRATIONS. TO DENY THIS OF COURSE IS LIKE DENYING THE GUIDANCE ITSELF!

ALLAMA IBN AA'SEER HAS REPORTED A SAYING OF HADHRAT ALI (RA) TOWARDS THE EXCELLENCE OF SHAIKHEEN (I.E. HADHRAT ABY BAKR AND HADHRAT UMAR) :

"ALMIGHTY ALLAH HAS MADE ABU BAKR & UMAR AS AUTHORITATIVE PRECEDENT ( ) FOR ALL TILL THE DOOMSDAY. BY ALLAH THESE TWO HAVE TAKEN A GREAT EDGE OVER THE OTHERS AND HAVE CAUSED THE LATTER (PEOPLE) IN GREAT HARDSHIP IN THE MATTER OF FOLLOWING SUNNAH AND SHARI'AH ( VOL.IV, p. 68, PUBLISHED FROM TEHRAN 1386 H ED.)

HADHRAT ALI (RA) SAID : "NONE BUT A PIOUS MUSLIM LOVES ABU BAKR AND UMAR (RA) AND NONE BUT A VILE AND A WRETCHED ONE HATES THEM. " (TALBEES-E-IBLESS). HE IS ALSO REPORTED TO HAVE SAID: "MAY ALLAH CURSE THOSE WHO ENTERTAIN ANYTHING OTHER THAN GOODNESS FOR ABU BAKR AND UMAR (RADHILLAHU ANUHUMAA). ABU BAKR AND UMAR ARE THE BROTHERS, THE COMPANIONS AND THE MINISTERS OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW)." (TALBESS-E-IBLESS).

IT IS STATED IN MASNED AHMAD THAT IMAM ZAIN-UL-ABIDEEN (I.E. 4TH IMAM ACCORDING TO SHIAS) WAS ASKED ABOUT THE STATUS OF HADHRAT ABU BAKR AND HADHRT UMAR IN THE ESTIMATION OF RASUL ALLAH (SAW). HE REPILED: "DURING THEIR LIFETIME THEY ENJOYED THE SAME STATUS AND NEARNESS TO RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) WHICH THEY ARE HAVING NOW AFTER THEIR DEATH (I.E. THEY STAND BURIED VERY CLOSE TO THE PROPHET UNDER THE SAME ROOF). AND WHAT COULD BE GREATER EXCELLENCE IN THE ENTIRE UMMAH THAN THIS THAT AFTER THE DEMISE OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) THEY HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE OF SUCCEEDING HIM AND SERVING IN HIS PULPIT AND PRAYER-NICHE ( ). EVEN AFTER THEIR DEATH, THEY OCCUPY SUCH A PLACE OF (HONOUR) IN THE TOMB OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW). WHICH IS EVEN MORE EXALTED THAN ARSH AND THE THRONE."

DURING THE LAST DAYS OF THE REIGN OF HADHRAT USMAN (RA) WHEN SHIAS LEVELLED FALSE CHARGE AGAINST HIM THAT HE HAD BURNT ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE QUR'AN, HADHRAT ALI REBUKED THEM AND SAID : "THIS IS A FALSE ALLEGATION. HADHRAT USMAN HAS ONLY BURNT THAT COPY WHICH HAS DISPUTED (IN REGARD TO PRONOUNCIATION AND MODE OF WRITING ETC.) AND HAS PRESERVED THE ORIGINAL TEXT WHICH HAS BEEN AGREED UPON AND ESTABLISHED FROM RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) BY ALLAH! IF I WOULD HAVE BEEN IN PLACE OF USMAN, I WOULD HAVE DONE WHAT HE HAS DONE." ( VOL-VII p. 171).

AT ANOTHER OCCASION HADHRAT ALI SAID : "HADHRAT USMAN IS ABOVE ALL US ; HE IS MOST GENTLE, POLITE, GOD-FEARING AND RIGHTEOUS."

SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT HADHRAT ALI (RA) USED TO ACCURSE MUAIWYA AFTER EVERY PRAYER, BUT THE FACT IS WHAT TO SAY OF CURSING HIM, HADHRAT ALI EVEN DID NOT LIKE THAT ANYBODY SHOULD SPEAK ILL OF MUIWAYA IN HIS PRESENCE. SIMILARLY WHEN SAYYEDNA MUIWAYA CAME TO KNOW THAT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE INTERNAL RIFT AND STRIFE AMONG MUSLIMS (ARISEN ON ACCOUNT OF AVENGING THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENT MARTYR CALIPH USMAN) THE ROMAN EMPEROR WANTS TO INVADE SOME OF THE MUSLIM LANDS, HE WROTE TO HIM; "I WARN YOU THAT IF YOU DARED TO UNDERTAKE SUCH A VILE VENTURE, I WILL BE FIRST SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF ALI TO MARCH AND FIGHT AGAINST YOU."

EHSAN ELAHI ZAHEER IN HIS BOOK THE SHIITES AND THE SUNNAH (AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE FROM MAKTABA DAWAH, 58-ABU BAKR BLOCK, NEW GARDEN TOWN, LAHORE, PAKISTAN) SAYS THAT SHIAISM IS AN OFFSPRING OF LIES AND THE SHIA GAVE IT THE COLOUR OF REVERENCE AND ESTEEM. THEY CALLED IT WITHOUT ANY NAME. THEY USED THE WORD TAQIYA FOR IT, AND INTENDED TO EXPRESS SOMETHING CONTRARY IN WHAT IS IN THEIR MIND, AND TO DEMONSTRATE SOMETHING QUITE OPPOSITE TO WHAT THEY CONCEAL IN THEIR HEARTS.

KULAINI, ONE OF THEIR FAMOUS SCHOLAR SYAS: "TAQIYA IS MY RELIGION, AND IS THE RELIGION OF MY FOREFATHERS. HE WHO DOES NOT PRACTIES YAQIYA IS NOT A TRUE BELIEVER." THIS HAS BEEN DELCARED BY ABU JAFFAR, THE FIFTH IMAM ACCORDING TO THEIR RECKONING. (AL-KAFI, IRAN EDITION 2. 219).

KULAINI ALSO RELATES: "NINE-TENTHS OF THE RELIGION IS IN TAQIYA. HE WHO DOES NOT PRACTICE YAQIYA IS NOT A TRUE BELIEVER." (IBID).

THE GREAT SHIA MUHADDITH, MUHAMMAD (IBN ALI IBN AL-HUSSAIN IBN BAHAWAIHI AL-QUMMI IN HIS TREATISE ENTITLED AL-ITIQADAT SAYS: "TAQIYA IS INCUMBENT (ON THE SHIA). IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO DISREGARD IT, TILL SUCH TIME THAT THE (HIDDEN IMAM) MAKES HIS APPEARANCE. ONE WHO ABANDONS (TAQIYA) BEFORE THE APPEARANCE (OF THE HIDDEN IMAM) HE IS FACT GOES OUT OF THE PALE OF THE RELIGION OF ALLAH, THE EXALTED, AND OUT OF THE RELIGION OF THE IMAMIYAH SECT. MOREOVER, HE DISOBEYS ALLAH, HIS MESSENGER AND THE IMAMS."

IT IS ALSO RELATED ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE EIGHTH IMAM ALI IBN MUSA, WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID: "HE HAS NO FAITH AND RELIGION WHO IS NOT TIMID: AND HE WHO DOES NOT PRACTISE TAQIYA IS NOT A TRUE BELIEER. FOR "CERTAINLY THE MOST HONOURABLE OF YOU IS HE WHO IS MOST GOD-FEARING OF YOU" (49 : 13 ) AND ACCORDING TO THE SHI'ITE INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD "ATQAKUM" ( ) IT MEANS "ONE WHO PRACTISES YAQIYA MOST." SOMEONE ASKED HIM: O SON OF THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH, HOW LONG SHALL WE BE REQUIRED TO PRACTISE TAQIYA? HE REPLIED: "TILL THE APPOINTED TIME, AND THAT IS THE DAY WHEN OUR (HIDDEN IMAM) WILL MAKE HIS APPEARANCE. HE WHO SHOULD GIVE UP PRACTISING YAQIYA US". (AL-ARDABILI : KASHFUL AL-GHUMMA p. 341).

THE SHIA RELATE ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE FIRST IMAM OF THE SHIA, ALI IBN ABU TALIB, WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID: "TAQIYA IS THE MOST EXCELLENT OF THE ACTS OF A BELIEVER, WHERE BY HE SAVES HIMSELF AND ALSO SAVES HIS SINFUL BROTHERS." (TAFSIR AL-AHSARI, FAFFARI PRESS, INDIA p. 162).

ALL THE SHIA CONCOTION ABOUT TAQIYA IS HIGHLY ABSURD; FOR ALLAH SAYS IN THE QUR'AN:

"FEAR ALLAH AND BE WITH THE TRUTHFUL." (SURAH TAUBA, VERSE 119).

"O TRUE BELIEVERS! FEAR ALLAH AND SPEAK WORDS WELL DIRECTED. (SURA AL-AHZAB, VERSE 70).

"THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS AND WHO DID NOT MIX THEIR FAITH WITH TRANSGRESSION". (4 : 82).

"WHO IS MORE WICKED THAN HE WHO FABRICATETH A LIE CONCERNING ALLAH, OR SAITH; THIS WAS REVEALED UNTO ME, WHILE NOTHING HAS BEEN REVEALED UNTO HIM." (SURAH AL-ANAM, VERSE 94).

"THEY SEEK TO DECEIVE ALLAH AND THOSE WHO DO BELIEVE, BUT THEY DECEIVE THEMSELVES ONLY, AND ARE NOT AWARE, (OF IT)." (SURAH AL BAQARAH, VERSE 9).

A HADITH OF THE PROPHET (SAW) READS:

"IT IS INCUMBENT ON YOU TO SPEAK TRUTH, FOR TRUTHFULNESS LEADS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LEADS TO PARADISE. AS LONG AS A MAN SPEAKS TRUTH AND SELECTS IT (FOR HIMSELF) TILL ALLAH SCRIBES HIS NAME AMONG (HIS) FRIENDS. YOU SHOULD AVOID TELLING A LIE: FOR LYING LEADS TO WICKEDNESS, AND WICKEDNESS LEADS TO (HELL) FIRE. AS LONG AS MAN IS USED TO TELL A LIE AND SELECTS IT (FOR HIMSELF) TILL ALLAH SCRIBES HIS NAME AMONG THE LIARS." (RELATED BY AL-BUKHARI AND MUSLIM).

TAQIYA, THE WEAPON OF FALEHOOD AND MUTTA, THE LICENCE FOR LICENTUEOUSNESS AND 'TABARA (REVILING THE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET (SAW) INVENTED UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THEIR JEWISH MENTORS ABDULLAH BIN SABAH AND OTHERS HAVE MADE THE SHIA'S SURVIVE IN EVERY AGE. OTHERWISE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN ROUTED AT THE HANDS OF THEIR ADVERSARIES. HOWEVER, NO CIVILISED RELIGION WOULD ADVOCATE HYPOCRISY AND FALSEHOOD. THIS CHARACTERISTIC BELONG TO SHIAISM ALONE.

NOTES

1. THERE IS NO DENYING THE FACT THAT WHEREVER SHIAS GOT POWER, THEY MURDERED SUNNI MUSLIMS, ABUSED SHAHBAH AND UMMAHATUL MOMINEEN, THEY RAZED TO THE GROUND MASJIDS AND BUILT OVER THEM THEIR IMAMBARAS. IN SHORT THEY PROPAGATED THEIR CREED BY SPREADING GREED AND AVARICE AND WITH THE AGE-OLD INSTRUMENTS OF (GOLD, WOMAN AND PROPERTY). REALITY OF SHIA RELIGION (URDU) BY HAKIM FAIZ ALAM SIDDIQI RAJOORI P. 145).