The Theory Of Imamate

ONE OF THE FALSE AND MISLEADING BELIEFS OF THE SHIAS IS THAT THEY HOLD THEIR IMAMS SOMETHING OF DIVINE ORIGIN, MCUH ABOVE THE HUMAN BEINGS. THE SHIAS EVEN RAISE THE POSITION AND STATUS OF THEIR IMAMS ABOVE THE PROPHETS AND MESSENGERS, SO MUCH SO THAT THEY RENDER THEM THE CHIEFS AND LEADERS OF THE MESSENGERS. THEY HAVE THE POWERS TO ABROGATE ORDAINED THINGS AND TO MAKE THINGS LAWFUL WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY UNLAWFUL. THAT IS TO SAY THAT THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ALTER SHARIAH.

THE ALLEGED VIRTUES AND EXCELLENCES ARE NOT PECULIAR TO ALI ALONE, BUT THE SHIA BELIEVE THAT ALL THE TWELVE IMAMS ARE ALSO CHARACTERISED WITH THESE VIRTUES. ACCORDING TO SHIAS NOTHING CAN REMAIN HIDDEN FROM THE IMAMS ALTHOUGH THIS IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE QUR'AN. IN THE QUR'AN IT IS CLEARLY STATED AT VARIOUS PLACES THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIDDEN THINGS BELONGS TO ALLAH ONLY.

AS AND WHEN ALI AND HIS SONS WERE ELEVATED TO THIS EXALTED AND DIVINE RANK, ON THE INSPIRATION OF SATAN, IT WAS INEVITUABLE FOR SHI'AS TO MAKE ALI AND HIS SONS MASTERS OF THIS WORLD AND OF THE NEXT ALSO. AND THE SHIAS ACTUALLY DID IT FOR THE PROGENY OF ALI.

ALTHOUGH THE SHI'I CLERGY STOP SHORT OF GIVING THE TITLE OF 'NABI' AND RASOOL' TO HADHRAT ALI AND THOSE WHOM THEY CONSIDER TO BE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF THEIR TWELVE IMAMS SUPPOSEDLY DIVINELY APPOINTED, THEY CONFER THE OFFICE OF NUBUWWAH (PROPHETHOOD) ON HADHRAT ALI AND ALL THE IMAAMS WHOM THEY REGARD AS DIVINELY APPOINTED. BESIDES THE WORD, NABI, AND THE WORD RASOOL, ALL OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF NUBUWWAH AND A NABI ARE CONFERRED TO THE SHIA TWELVE IMAAMS BY THE SHIA PRIESTS. IN FACT, THE DOCTRINE OF IMAAMATE OF THE SHIAHS, IS AN EXTENSION OF NUBUWWAH, IN ALL ASPECTS, BUT NAME. AS THE QADIANIS BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD CANNOT BE WITHOUT A MAN OF THE CALIBRE OF A NABI, SO TOO, BELIEVE THE SHIAHS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SHIAH AND QADIANI CONCEPTION OF NUBUWWAH IN REGARD TO THE APPEARANCE OF A NABI AFTER MUHAMMAD (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASSALLAM) IS THAT WHILE THE QADIANIS HAVE MUSTERED UP SUFFICIENT AUDACITY TO PROCLAIM SUCH A MAN AS A NABI, THE SHIAHS HAVE NOT. THEY DESIGNATE THEIR MAN OF PROPHETHOOD, AN 'IMAAM' WHO IN THEIR RELIGION POSSESSES ALL ATTRIBUTES AND QUALIFICATIONS OF A FULL-FLEDGED NABI.

KHOMENI IN HIS BOOK (WHICH IS IN FACT A COLLECTION OF HIS SPEACHES) WRITES TO THE EFFECT THAT ALI WAS THE FIRST CALIPH ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF ALLAH BUT INSTEAD HAZRAT ABU BAKAR WAS MADE THE CALIPH AND HENCE THE CORRECT ISLAMIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT COULD NOT BE ENFORCED. IN THE SAME BOOK KHOMENI UN-EQUIVOCALLY DELARES THE SHIA BELIEF IN THE FOLLOWING WORDS: "IT IS ONE OF THE ESSENTIALS OF OUR RELIGION THAT EACH OF THE IMAMS OCCUPIES A POSITION WHICH NO ANGEL OR PROPHET COULD EVER ATTAIN." (IBID, P. 52).

IF THE QADIANIS (AHMADIS) NAVE BEEN DECLARED OUTSIDE THE PALE OF ISLAM ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT THEY DO NOT RECOGNISE THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD OF MUHAMMAD (S.A.W.) WHAT COULD BE SAID OF THE SHIAS WHO CONSIDER RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) AND OTHER PROPHETS INFERIOR TO THEIR IMAMS?

IMPACT INTERNATIONAL VOL. 14:16 REPORTS SOME PREPOSTEROUS OBSERVATIONS MADE BY KHOMEINI AT THE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHI'I IMAM RAZA WHICH ARE THE FOLLOWING:

(1) THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE AN ISLAMIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT RIGHT FROM THE TIME OF RASULULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM) UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY. ACCORDING TO KHOMEINI THE ISLAMIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WAS NOT ACHIEVED EVEN BY RASULULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASSALLAM).

(2) HADHRAT ALI (RADHIALLAHU ANHU) WAS NOT ALLOWED TO REVEAL THE SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE WHICH HE OBTAINED FROM RASULLULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM) AND THAT THIS "SPECIAL" KNOWLEDGE WAS APART FROM THE QUR'AN SHAREEF.

(3) HADHRAT ALI (RADHIALLAHU ANHU) AND THE IMAMS DID NOT FIND ANYONE TO WHOM THEY COULD IMPART THEIR SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE QUR'AN. THUS THIS SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE QUR'AN DEPARTED WITH THE IMAMS.

(4) THE QUR'AN TODAY IS VEILED IN MYSTERY AND ITS MEANINGS ARE HIDDEN.

(5) THE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE EXISTING QUR'AN, FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE PRESENT, ARE NOT THE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE QUR'AN BUT ARE TRANSLATIONS WHICH RESEMBEL THE QUR'AN.

ALTHOUGH THESE ARE SHOCKING STATEMENTS OF KUFR, THEY ARE NOT SUPRISING TO THOSE WHO HAVE MADE A STUDY OF SHI'ISM. IN THE CLAIM THAT HADHRAT ALI (RADHIALLAHU ANHU) WAS ENDOWED WITH SECRET KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS NOT TO BE FOUND IN THE QUR'AN AND SUNNAH, IS THE IMPLICATION THAT ISLAM IS IN AN IMPERFECT AND INCOMPLETE STATE. FURTHERMORE, THE ALLEGATION THAT HADHRAT ALI (RADHIALLAHU ANHU) WAS PREVENTED FROM REVEALING THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH HE GAINED FROM RASULULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASSALLAM) IMPLIES THAT A CONSIDERABLE PART OF ISLAM IS MISSING AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MISSING. THIS CLAIM NEGATES THE QURANIC VERSE: "THIS DAY HAVE I PERFECTED FOR YOU YOUR DEEN......" (5:3).

IN VIEW OF THE SHI'I BLASPHEMOUS CLAIM THAT ON THE DEMISE OF RASULULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM) THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SAHAABAH BECAME MURTED (APOSTATE - NAUTHUBILLAAH!). IT IS NOT AT ALL SURPRISING FOR KHOMEINI TO ASSERT THAT AN ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT WAS NEVER ACHIEVED.

MUTA (PROSTITUTION), FALSEHOOD AND TRICKERY ARE THE TOOLS OF SHI'ISM. SHIAHS DO NOT HESITATE IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF THESE EVILS IN THE PURSUIT AND ATTAINMENT OF THEIR MOTIVES AND DESIGNS. FORGING PROOF FOR THEIR RELIGION, THE SHIAHS ATTRIBUTE THE FOLLOWING LIES TO HADHRAT ALI (RADIALLAHU ANHU) IN REGARD TO HADHRAT ABU BAKR (RADIALLAHU ANHU), THE FIRST KHALIFAH OF RASULULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM):

"AT LAST THE FIRST CALIPH DIED, BUT WHILE GOING HE APPOINTED ANOTHER TO FILL THIS VACANCY. IT IS NOT ASTONISHING THAT DURING HIS LIFETIME HE WAS ALWAYS BADLY IN NEED OF THE HELP OF OTHERS TO COMPENSATE FOR HIS IMPERFECTIONS AND DEFECTS AND TO COVER HIS FAULTS AND FAILURES, BUT AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE THOUGHT HIMSELF TO BE WISE AND LEANED ENOUGH TO FIX AND APPOINT SOMEBODY TO CARRY ON THE DUTIES AT WHICH HE WAS A COMPLETE FAILURE HIMSELF.

"BOLDLY AND UNSERUPUOUSLY HE AND HIS SUCCESSOR (A REFERENCE TO HADHRAT UMAR), EACH IN TURN, PILLAGED AND PLUNDERED THE WEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY LEAVING THE STATE IN SUCH SADLY INJURED CONDITION THAT THE PASSAGE OF TIME WAS INCREASING THE INTENSITY OFTHE INJURY.... UBT IT WAS CARRIED ON UNDER THE GUISE OF LAW AND ORDER AND MANY UNGODLY ARROGATIONS AND MANY MORE WILL BE REPEATED IN THE FUTURE.

"CONSEQUENTLY THE THIRD (I.E. HADHRAT UTHMAAN) PROUDLY TOOK CHARGE THE CALIPHATE AS IF IT WAS A PRIVATE GRAZING GROUND AND WITH BLOATED STOMACHS HE AND MEMBERS OF HIS CLAM (BANI UMAYYA) STARTED PLUNDERING THE WEALTH OF THE MUSLIM WORLD IN THE SAME RECKLESS GLUTTONOUS MANNER WHICH CHARACTERIZES A CAMEL WHEN IT DEVOURS HARVEST GRASS. HOWEVER, THIS MAN MET AN UNTIMELY DEATH. THE GREED OF HIS CLAN WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNDOING." (NAHJUL BALAAGHAH).

AMEERUL MU'MINEEN HADHRAT ALI (RADIALLAHU ANHU) NEVER UTTERED SUCH FALEHOOD, SLANDER, ABUSE, INSULT AND VULGARITY. SUCH ABUSE AND VITUPERATION ARE THE STOCK WEAPONS OF SHI'ISM. HADHRAT ALI (RADIALLAHU ANHU) HAD THE UTMOST RESPECT AND HONOUR FOR HADHRAT ABU BAKR, HADHRAT UMAR AND HADHRAT UTHMAAN (RADIALLAHU ANHUM). IN FACT, HADHRAT ALI (RADIALLAHU ANHU) TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIENCE (BA'YT) ON THE HANDS OF THE FIRST THREE KHULFA RAASHIDEEN. THE VILE METHODS OF FALSEHOOD EMPLOYED BY THE SHI'I CLERICS AMPLY DEMONSTRATE THE BAATIL OF THIS DEVIOUS SECT WHICH HAS GREAT AFFINITY WITH THE KHWAARJI SECT.

MUHAMMAD BAQIR SADR, A LEADING SHI'I THEOLOGIAN STATES: "THE SHIAH BELIEVED THAT ALI SHOULD HAVE RULED INSTEAD OF THESE THREE CALIPHS, AND SHOULD HAVE ASSUMED THE CALIPHATE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PROPHET."

ACCORDING TO SHI'I BELIEF THE SAHABA IN GENERAL AND HADHRAT ABU BAKR AND HADHRAT UMAR (RADIALLAHU ANHUM) IN PARTICULAR, DEFIED RASULLULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM), REJECTED HIS APPOINTMENT OF HADHRAT ALI (RADHIALLAHU ANHU) AS THE KHALIFAH AFTER HIM (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM). HENCE THE SHIAHS REVILE, ABUSE AND SLANDER THESE GREAT COMPANIONS OF NABI-E-KAREEM (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM) ON THE BASIS OF THE FALLACY CONCOCTED BY THE MURDERERS OF AMEERUL MU'MINEEN SAYYIDUNA UTHMAAN (RADIALLAHU ANHU). THE ACTUAL FOUNDERS OF THE SHIAH SECT WERE THE MURDERERS OF HADHRAT UTHMAN (RADIALLAHU ANHU.

ABOUT THE SAHAABAH IN GENERAL, MURTAZA MUTAHHIRI, THE CLERIC OF THE SHIA RELIGION, SAYS:

".... THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM WERE VIOLATED AT THE HANDS OF THESE VERY PEOPLE WHO HAD SERVED ISLAM FOR A LONG TIME....

SO, ACCORDING TO SHI'ISM, HADHRAT ABU BAKR, UMAR, UTHMAN AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF SAHAABAH WHO HAD SERVED ISLAM, IN THE END TURNED THEIR BACKS ON ISLAM AND VIOLATED THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM. IF THOSE GREAT AND ILLUSTRIOUS SONS OF IMAAN AND ISLAM DID SO, DO WE WXPECT KHOMEINI AND THE SHIAHS WHO SPRANG FROM THE MURDER OF AMEERUL MU'MINEEN HADHRAT UTHMAAN (RADIALLAHU ANHU) TO UPHOLD THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM? THE VILLAINY OF HADHRAT UTHMAN'S MURDERERS PERMEATES AND SUSTAINS THE ENTIRE SHI'I MOVEMENT, HENCE MUTAHHIRI COULD BE SO CALOUS TO MAKE THE ABOVE QUOTED OBSERVATION IN DENIGRATION OF THE BELOVED SAHAABAH OF RASULULLAH (SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WASALLAM). THE ABOVE STATEMENT APPEARED IN TEHRAN TIMES OF 25TH AUGUST, 1982.

EXPLAINING THE THEORY OF IMAMATE, KHOMEINI IN HIS PERSIAN BOOK WRITES:

"AFTER THE DEATH OF THE PROPHET OF ISLAM THE TWO TOPICES (CONCERNING IMAMATE) WHOSE OBLIGATORY NATURE WE HAVE DERIVED FROM COMMONSENSE- THE SHIAS OPPOSETHE SUNNIS FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY. THOSE RESPECTABLE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET WHO WERE CONSIDERED NOBLE BY ALL THE MUSLIMS AND NO ONE HAD SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THEM WHICH COULD CAST ANY DOUBT ON THEIR CHARACTER, SUCH AS AMIR-UL-MOMINEEN ALI BIN ABU TALIB, HASAN, HUSSAIN, SALMAN FARSI, ABU DHARR GHIFFARI, MIQDAD, AMMAR BIN YASIR, ABBAS, IBN ABBAS ETC. ROSE IN OPPOSITION AND DEMANDED THAT IN RESPECT OF (MEN IN AUTHORITY) THE COMMANDMENT OF ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER SHOULD BE ENFORCED. BUT NARROW PAROCHIAL CONSIDERATIONS DIVIDED MEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND SIDETRACKED THE RULING OF WISEMEN. GREED AND LUST IN EVERY AGE HAS ENDEAVOURED TO DEMOLISH TRUTH AND REALITY; THE SAME WORKED ON THIS DAY AS WELL. HISTORY BEARS TESTIMONY THAT WHEN THE AFORESAID RESPECTED PEOPLE WERE BUSY IN GIVING A BURIAL TO THE PROPHET (SAW), THE ASSEMBLY AT BANU SAQIFAH ELECTED ABU BAKR FOR RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT AND ON THE SAME DAY THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS DISTURBED. AFTER THE FIRST PHASE OF ISLAM THERE CONTINUED DISCUSSIONS AMONG THE SHIAS AND SUNNIS. THE SHIAS-FOLLOWERS OF ALI - CONTENDED THAT THE VERDICT OF COMMONSENSE IS THAT IMAMATE (CHOICE OF IMAM) RESTS WITH ALLAH AND CALIPHS AND SULTANS ARE NOT WORTHY OF IT AND ONLY ALI AND HIS SINLESS PROGENY ARE . THEY HAVE NEVER UTTERED A WORD AGAINST THE COMMANDMENTS OF ALLAH AND NEITHER SAY NOW; THEIR APPOINTMENT TO THIS POSITION IF FROM THE PROPHET. THIS WILL BE DISCUSSED LATER AND I WILL PROVE THAT THE PROPHET OF ISLAM HAS MADE THE APPOINTMENT OF THE IMAM AND HE IS ALI BIN ABU TALIB." (P. 141).

HERE IT MUST BE MADE CLEAR THAT AFTER THE SAD DEMISE OF THE PROPHET, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS DIFFERENCE OF OPINION OVER THE ELECTION OF A CALIPH BUT IN THE END ALL THE COMPANIONS UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED ABU BAKR AS . HADHRAT ALI AND ZUBAIR WHO TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE (BA'YT) ON THE HANDS OF HADHRAT ABU BAKR A LITTLE LATTER THAN OTHER COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET EXPRESSED THE CAUSE OF THEIR DELAY THUS: "WE ARE SORRY THAT WE WERE LEFT BEHIND IN CONSULTATION; OTHERWISE WE CONSIDER ABU BAKR MOST SUITED AND DESERVING FOR THE CALIPHATE THAN ALL THE PEOPLE BECAUSE HE WAS A COMRADE OF THE PROPHET (S.A.W.) IN THE CAVE. WE ADMIT HIS SENIORITY AND FINE QUALITIES. AND THE PROPHET (SAW) SELECTED HIM IN HIS LIFETIME FOR LEADING THE PEOPLE IN CONGREGATIONAL PRAYERS."

IT IS OBVIOUS THAT HAD HADHRAT ABU BAKR (R.A) NOT BEEN THE RIGHTFUL OCCUPANT OF CALIPHATE, HADHRAT ALI AND HADHRAT ABBAS WOULD HAVE DISPUTED WITH HIM JUST AS ALI DID LATTER WITH HADHRAT MUAWIYAH (R.A). THUS HADHRAT ABU BAKR WAS ELECTED AS THE CALIPH BY CONSENSUS ( ). THE SHIAS AFTERWARDS IN THE NAME OF ALI DENIED THE CALIPHATE OF ABU BAKR, UMAR AND USMAN AND LAID THE FOUNDATION OF A NEW RELIGION. THE CLAIM OF KHOMEINI THAT THE OBJECT OF VERSE IS THE TWELVE IMAMS FROM ALI TO MAHDI WHO WERE NOMINATED BY ALLAH AND RASUL ALLAH HAVE NO BASIS IN THE QURAN AND NEITHER THERE ARE ANY AUTHENTIC SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET (SAW) TO THIS EFFECT.

SINCE KHOMEINI DOES NOT CONSIDER HADHRAT'S ABU BAKR, UMAR AND USMAN AS RIGHTFUL CALIPHS BECAUSE OF HIS BELIEF IN THE IMAMATE THEORY, HE HOLDS THEM AS TRANSGRESSORS AND OPPONENTS OF THE QUR'AN (GOD FORBID). IN THE ABOVE REFERRED BOOK HE MADES ONE HEADLINE VIZ "ABU BAKR HAS CLEARLYVIOLATED THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE QUR'AN." IN THIS CONTEXT HE ALSO WRITES THAT HADHRAT ABU BAKR DID NOT ACCEPT THE CLAIM OF HADHRAT FATIMA (R.A) OVER THE FIDK GARDEN AND DID NOT AWARD LEGAL PUNISHMENT TO KHALID BIN WALID FOR CERTAIN ALLEGED CRIMES. SHIA WRITERS LIKE AL-QUMMI AND OTHERS NARRATE THAT KHALID RAIDED THE TOWN OF MALIK IBN NUWARIRA FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF MARRYING THE PRETTY. WIFE OF MALIK WHICH IS A FALSE AND FABRICATED STORY. THE FACT IS THAT MALIK IBN NAWARIRA, A NON MUSLIM LEADER WAS KILLED IN AN ENOUNTER WITH THE MUSLIM ARMY AND HIS WIFE WAS TAKEN AS A CAPTIVE (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECOGNISED ISLAMIC PRACTICE) BY KHALID WHO LATER MARRIED HER. THE PROPHET (SAW) ONCE REMARKED ABOUT KHALID BIN WALID:" KHALID IS ONE OF THE SWORDS OF ALLAH, THE MIGHTY, THE POWERFUL, AND HE IS THE FINE WARRIOR OF THE TRIBE." (AHMAD). "KHALID BIN AL-WALID IS A GOOD SERVANT OF ALLAH; HE IS ONE OF ALLAH'S SWORD." (TIRMIDHI).

KHOMENI IN THE MIRROR OF HIS OWN WRITINGS - HIS OPINION ABOUT HADHRAT ABU BAKR, UMAR, USMAN, SAHABAH AND AHLE-SUNNAH:

THE FOLLOWING IS THE SUBSTANCE OF KHOMENI'IS WRITINGS IN HIS FAMOUS BOOK (PP. 112-120) WHICH HAS BECOME VERY RARE SINCE THE SO-CALLED "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION" IN IRAN IN FEBRUARY 1979 MOST PROBABLY ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT SUNNI MUSLIMS MAY NOT KNOW HIS INNER-CURRENTS AND THUS TURN AWAY FROM HIM:

(1) SHAIKHEEN ABU BAKR AND UMAR HAD NOT ACCPTED THE FAITH OF ISLAM FROM THE HEART OF THEIR HEARTS BUT DID SO OUTWARDLY ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF WORDLY GAIN AND POWER AND TAGGED THEMSELVES TO RASUL-ALLAH (SAW).

(2) THEY HAD HATCHED A PLAN TO WREST POWER AFTER THE DEMISE OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) FOR WHICH THEY WERE PLOTTING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND FORMED A PARTY OF THEIR LIKE-MINDED PERSONS. ALL WERE UNITED IN THEIR DESIRE TO ASSUME AUTHORITY AFTER RASUL-ALLAH (SAW). THEY HAD NO CONCERN WITH ISLAM AND THE QUR'AN.

(3) EVEN IF THE IMAMATE AND CALIPHATE HAD BEEN MENTIONED SPECIFICALLY IN THE QUR'AN THESE PEOPLE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN UP THEIR MISSION AND PLAN FOR WHICH THEY HAD TAGGED THEMSELVES WITH ISLAM & RASUL-ALLAH (SAW). THEY WOULD HAVE PLAYED ALL THE DIRTY TRICKS AND TACTICS THEIR GOAL AND WOULD HAVE NEVER CARED FOR THE DIVINE COMMANDMENTS.

(4) TO ACT AGAINST THE QUR'ANIC INJUNCTIONS AND DIVINE COMMANDMENTS WAS A ORDINARY ROUTINE MATTER FOR THEM. THEY OPPOSED SEVERAL INJUNCTIONS OF THE QUR'AN AND NEVER PAID ANY HEED TO THE DIVINE COMMANDMENTS.

(5) IF FOR ACHIEVING THEIR GOAL (I.E. GOVERNMENT POWER) THEY FELT IT NECESSARY TO SUPPRESS AND EXCLUDE THOSE VERSES OF THE QUR'AN WHICH DEALT WITH THE IMAMATE OF ALI THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SO EASILY.

(6) IF THEY HAD NOT SUPPRESSED/EXCLUDED SUCH VERSES FROM THE QUR'AN, THEY COULD HAVE DONE AND WOULD HAVE DONE SO BY CONCOCTING A HADITH TO THE EFFECT THAT DURING HIS LAST DAYS RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) DECLARED THAT THE QUESTION OF IMAM AND CALIPH WILL BE DECIDED BY SHURA (CONSULTATIONS) AND ALI WHO HAD BEEN NOMINATED EARLIER FOR THE OFFICE OF IMAMATE (TO WHICH A REFERENCE HAS BEEN MADE IN THE QUR'AN) HAS BEEN DISMISSED FROM THIS POSITION.

(7) THIS IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT UMAR WOULD HAVE SAID ABOUT THOSE QUR'ANIC VERSES (RELATING TO THE IMAMATE OF ALI) THAT EITHER ALMIGHTLY ALLAH HAD ERRED IN THE REVELATIONS OF THESE VERSES OR ANGEL GABRIEL OR RASUL-ALLAH HAD ERRED IN THIER TRANSMISSION.

(8) NARRATING THE INCIDENT OF HADITH QURTAS IT IS STATED CANDIDLY THAT THE EXPRESSION OF UMAR ON THIS OCCASION WAS AN INDICATION OF HIS IRRELIGIOUSITY AND KUFR. THAT IS IN THE HEART OF HIS HEARTS HE WAS A KAFIR & ZINDEEQ (INFIDEL AND IRRELIGIOUS).

(9) IF THE SHAIKHEEN AND THEIR FOLLOWERS FELT THAT THEY WOULD NOT WREST POWER IN THE FACE OF THE QUR'ANIC DECLARATION ABOUT THE IMAMATE OF ALI AND THEY COULD ACHIEVE THIS PURPOSE BY RENOUNCING ISLAM, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SO. AND BY FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF ABU JAHAL AND ABU LAHAB THEY AND THERE FOLLOWERS WOULD HAVE ARRAYED AGAINST ISLAM AND MUSLIMS.

(10) USMAN, MUAIWYA AND YAZID WERE TYRANTS AND CULPRITS OF THE SAME ORDER.

(11) THE GENERAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE (COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET) WAS THAT THEY HAD JOINED THE PARTY OF SHAIKHEEN (ABU BAKR AND UMAR) AND WERE HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH THEM IN THE STATE AFFAIRS (OUT OF THE DESIRE FOR SELF-GAIN) AND THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE AFRAID OF SHAIKHEEN AND COULD'T DARE TO UTTER A SINGLE WORD AGAINST THEM.

(12) THE ATTITUDE OF SUNNI MUSLIMS WAS THAT WHATEVER ABU BAKR & UMAR DID IN VIOLATION OF THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE QUR'AN THOSE PEOPLE ACCEPTED AND FOLLOWED IT IN GOOD FAITH. UMAR BROUGHT ABOUT ALTERATIONS IN THE ISLAMIC SHARI'AH AND ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS BY-PASSING THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE QUR'AN BUT THE SUNNIS SETTING ASIDE THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE QUR'AN FOLLOWED THE TEMPERINGS OF UMAR AND ACCEPTED HIS INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDLINES AND ACTED ON THESE (IN CONTRAST TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF ISLAMIC SHARI'AH).

THE ABOVE ARE, IN A NUTSHELL, SOME OF THE SACRILEGEOUS UTTERANCES AND ASPERIONS AGAINST SHEIKHEEN AND THE SAHABAH BY KHOMENI WHO POSES HIMSELF AS THE UNDISPUTED CHIEF OR SUPREME LEADER OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD.

IN THE RELIGIOUS TERMINOLOGY OF SHIAS, NASABAI IS AN EXPRESSION OF ABUSE. ACCORDING TO SHIAS, ANYONE WHO CONSIDERS SHAIKHEEN (HADHRAT'S ABU BAKR AND UMAR) AS RIGHTFUL CALIPHS AND DOES NOT CONSIDER HADHRAT ALI AS "IMAM" IN THE SAME WAY AS SHIAS CONSIDER HIM ALTHOUGH HE MAY ACCEPT HADHRAT ALI AS THE RIGHTFUL CALIPH AS IS THE BELIEF AND PRACTICE OF AHLE-SUNNAH IS A NASABI. ALLAMA BAQIR MAJLISI IN HIS BOOK HAQUL YAQEEN WHILE DESCRIBING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE "PEOPLE OF FIRE," MAKES ONE SHUDDER TO THINK THAT ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT THE NASABIES WILL MEET THE SAME FATE AS THE KAFIRS I.E. THEY WILL BE CONSIGNED TO HELL-FIRE ETERNALLY.

THIS IS IN BRIEF THE GLIMPSES OF IMAMATE TO WHICH KHOMENI AND OTHER SHIA PRIESTS ARE DRAGGING THE MUSLIM UMMAH. THE SHIA THEORY OF IMAMATE IS THE NEGATION OF PROPHET'S MISSION AND ALLAH'S DECLARATION IN THE QUR'AN ("MUHAMMAD IS THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH AND THE SEAL OF THE PROPHETS"). BY A CONCERTED COMPAIGN OF ENLIGHTMENT MUSLIMS EVERYWHERE MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THIS CONSPIRACY WHICH IS A GREAT THREAT TO THEIR IMAN (FAITH).

NOTES

1. PLEASE SEE APPENDIX--I.

2. THUS ACCORDING TO THE SHIAS, THE GREAT SAHABAH, EVEN THE ELITE AMONG THEM SUCH AS THE KHLAFA RASHIDEEN WHO WERE TRAINED DIRECTLY BY RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) WERE NOT DEVELOPED SPIRITUALLY & CULTURALLY TO RULE ISLAMIC EMPIRE. BUT KHOMENI POSSESSES SUCH QUALIFICATION AND THE HORDE OF SHIA PRIESTS POSSESS SUCH QUALIFICATIONS AND THE MURDERERS OF AMEERUL MEMINEEN, SAAYYIDUNA OTHMAN (R.A) POSSESSED SUCH QUALIFICATIONS!!
IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS KUFR BELIEF THAT THE MISSION OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) NOT BEING COMPLETED THAT THE SHIAS INTRODUCED THE DOCTRINE OF IMAMATE WHICH IS IN ACTUAL FACT THE PERPETUATION OF RISAALAT (PROPHETHOOD). THE SHIAS EXTENDED THE RISAALAT OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) INTO THE PERSON OF THEIR TWELVE IMAMS WHO ACCORDING TO SHIA THEOLOGY ARE SUPERIOR TO MANY AMBIYAA (PROPHETS). THEY HAVE ASSIGNED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF NUBUWWAH TO THE TWELVE IMAMS SO THAT THE IMAMS CAN COMPLETE WHAT RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) LEFT UNFINISHED OF HIS RISAALAT (---).

3. IT IS REPORTED THAT ON HADHRAT ABU BAKR'S ELECTION TO CALIPHATE, HADHRAT FATIMAH (R.A) ACCOMPANIED BY HER GRAND UNCLE HADHRAT 'ABBAS (R.A) WENT TO SEE HADHRAT ABU BAKR, AND ASKED HIM NOT ONLY TO DISTRIBUTE THE PROPERTY LEFT BY THE HOLY PROPHET AMONG HIS HEIRS, BUT ALSO TO GIVE THE REGION OF FADAK EXCLUSIVELY TO HER ETC. CAN SHE GO WITHOUT THE CONSENT AND EVEN DIRECTION OF HER HUSBAND HADHRAT ALI (R.A.)? WHY DID SHE GO TO HIM, IF NOT BECAUSE SHE AND HER HUSBAND AND HER GRAND UNCLE, ALL RECOGNISED IN HIM A LAWFUL INCUMBENT OF THE CALIPHATE? FOR IF THAT WAS NOT SO SHE HAD TO TELL HADHRAT ABU BAKR TO QUIT THE OFFICE IN FAVOUR OF HER HUSBAND THE SO-CALLED HEIR-PRESUMPTIVE OF THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW). FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE CHAPTER 21.

4. THE SHIAS GREATLY EXPLOIT THIS HADHRAT ABOUT THE WILL OF HOLY PROPHET (SAW) IN REGARD TO THE SUCCESSTION OF HADHRAT ALI WHICH IS NOT AL ALL CORRECT. A DETAILED DISCUSSION REGARDING THIS HADITH FOLLOWS AT p. 112 HERE IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THIS HADITH:
IBN ABBAS REPORTED: WHEN ALLAH'S MESSENGER (SAW) WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE THIS WORLD, THERE WERE PERSONS (AROUND HIM) IN HIS HOUSE, UMAR B. AL KHATTAB BEING ONE OF THEM, ALLAH'S MESSENGER (SAW) SAID: "COME, I MAY WRITE FOR YOU A DOCUMENT; YOU WOULD NOT GO ASTRAY AFTER THAT. THEREUPON 'UMAR SAID: VERILY ALLAH'S MESSENGER (SAW) IS DEEPLY AFFLICTED WITH PAIN. YOU HAVE THE QUR'AN WITH YOU. THE BOOK OF ALLAH IS SUFFICIENT FOR US. THOSE WHO WERE PRESENT IN THE HOUSE DIFFERED......
IN ANOTHER VERSION WHEN THE COMPANIONS AROUND HIM DISPUTED (ON THIS ISSUE) THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW) SAID: LAVE ME. I AM BETTER IN THE STATE (THAN THE ONE IN WHICH YOU ARE ENGAGED). I MAKE A WILL ABOUT THREE THINGS: TURN OUT THE POLYTHEISTS FROM THE TERRITORY OF ARABIA; SHOW HOSPITALITY TO THE (FOREIGN) DELEGATIONS AS I USED TO SHOW THEM HOSPITALITY. HE (IBN ABBAS) KEPT SILENT ON THE THIRD POINT, OR HE (THE NARRATOR) SAID: BUT I FORGOT THAT: (MUSLIM).
A MINUTE STUDY OF EVENTS FALSIFIES THE CLAIMS OF THOSE WHO ASSERT THAT IN THIS WILL THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW) WAS GOING TO NOMINATE HADHRAT ALI AS HIS SUCCESSOR. IT WAS ON THURSDAY THAT HIS ILLNESS TOOK A SERIOUS TURN, BUT THERE WAS MARKED IMPROVEMENT DURING THE NEXT FOUR DAYS, SINCE HE WENT TO THE MOSQUE AND LED A FEW PRAYERS ALSO. HE BREATHED HIS LAST ON MONDAY. BETWEEN THURSDAY AND MONDAY, HE ADDRESSED THE VISITORS MANY A TIME AND ADVISED THEM ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS. IF THE MATTER FOR WHICH HE ASKED FOR THE WRITING MATERIAL TO BE BROUGHT TO HIM HAD BEEN OF GREAT IMPORTANCE HE HAD ENOUGH TIME AND SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO DO SO BUT ON NO OCCASION DID HE MAKE MENTION OF THE CALIPHATE OF HADHRAT ALI AFTER HIM. THE AHADITH WHICH GIVE THE DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS LAST ILLNESS RECORD EVERY WORD OF HIS THAT HE UTTERED AND EVERY MOVEMENT THAT HE MADE, BUT GIVE NO INDICATION OF HADHRAT ALI BEING HIS IMMEDIATE SUCCESSOR.

SECONDLY IT IS WRONG TO INFER FROM HADHRAT UMAR'S STATEMENT "THE BOOK OF ALLAH IS SUFFICIENT FOR US," THAT ONE DOES NOT REQURIE HADITH FOR RIGHT GUIDANCE. THE SUNNAH IS THE SECOND IMPORTANT SOURCE OF THE ISLAMIC SHARI'AH, THE QUR'AN BEING THE FIRST ONE, AS IT HAS BEEN STRESSED UPON IN SO MANY VERSES OF THE QUR'AN AND THE INJUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN SO MANY AHADITH. WHAT HADHRAT UMAR AT THAT CRITICAL JUNCTURE WANTED TO STRESS WAS THAT RELIGION HAS BEEN PERFECTED TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, AND NOTHING HAS BEEN LEFT UNSAID, WHICH IT WAS ESSENTIAL TO SAY IN REGARD TO THE ISLAMIC SHARI'AH. THERE WAS, THEREFORE NO NEED TO GIVE ANY TROUBLE TO THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW) AT THAT MOMENT WHEN HE WAS SERIOUSLY ILL. THIS STAND OF HADHRAT UMAR SEEMS TO BE QUITE PLAUSIBLE AND CONSISTENT WITH THAT CRITICAL SITUATION.
REGARDING THE CONCLUDING PORTION OF THIS HADITH, OPINIONS DIFFER AS TO WHAT WAS THE THIRD PIECE OF ADVICE. SOME OF THE SCHOLARS ARE OF THE VIEW THAT IT WAS ABOUT THE PROPHET'S WARNING AGAINST HOLDING HIS GRAVE AS A PLACE OF WORSHIP ETC. WHATEVER IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE THING IS CLEAR THAT THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW) MUST HAVE MADE IT EXPLICIT ON SOME PREVIOUS OCCASION AS HE COULD NOT HAVE LEFT ANYTHING INCOMPLETE BEFORE LEAVING FOR HIS HEAVENLY HOME.