Dedication

DEDICATED TO THE BLESSED MEMORY OF SAYYEDNA USMAN (R.A), THE 3RD CALIPH OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) WHO WAS MERCILESSLY MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD ON FRIDAY, THE 18TH ZILHAJ 35 H IN A STATE OF FASTING BY THE SABAI REBELS WHO LATER BECAME THE FOUNDERS/ POLITICAL FATHERS OF SHIAISM. THE CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO THE MARTYRDOM OF SAYYADNA USMAN (R.A) ARE SUCH HEART-READING AND BLOOD-CUDDLING THAT THE INCIDENT OF KARBALA PALES INTO INSIGNIFICANCE BEFORE THE SHAHADAT (MARTYRDOM) OF THIS SHAHEED AZAM (GREAT MARTYR). SAYYENDA USMAN WAS SO PIOUS THAT INSPITE OF BEING IN AUTHORITY HE PREFERRED TO ENDANGER HIS OWN LIFE INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THE SHEDDING OF MUSLIM BLOOD. HIS KINDNESS AND COMPASSION WAS MANIFEST ALL AROUND SO WAS HIS GENEROISITY AND CLEMENCY TOWARDS OPPONENTS.

TODAY PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE SUPREME SACRIFICES MADE BY SAYYEDNA USMAN (R.A) FOR THE GLORY OF ISLAM. SAYYENDA USMAN'S CALIPHATE WAS A PERIOD OF EXTRA-ORDINARY PROSPERITY FOR ISLAM AND MUSLIMS. HIS REIGN WITNESSED EXPANSION OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE TO NEW HEIGHTS AND FOR THE FIRST TIME NAVAL FLEET WAS INTRODUCED AND INDUCTED IN MUSLIM ARMY TO SMASH THE ROMAN FLEET WHICH HAD AGGRESSIVE DESIGNS AGAINST THE EXPANDING ISLAMIC EMPIRE. SAYYEDNA USMAN TOOK UTMOST CARE IN THE OBSERVANCE OF HAYA AND TAHARAH. HE WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS VOLUNTARY FASTING AND TAHAJJID PRAYER. HE MIGRATED TWICE; FIRST TO ETHIOPIA AT THE DIRECTION OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) AND THEN TO MADINAH. RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) SAID: "EVERY PROPHET HAS A COMPANION IN PARADISE, AND MY COMPANION WILL BE USMAN." (IBN MAJAH).

ALTHOUGH SAYYEDNA USMAN (R.A) WAS RICH AND AFFLUENT, HE HAD DEDICATED ALL HIS WEALTH FOR THE PROPAGATION OF ISLAM AND WELFARE OF MUSLIMS. HE PURCHASED SWEET-WATER WELL FROM THE JEWS IN MADINAH (SOON AFTER HIJRAH) AND EARMARKED IT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF MUSLIMS. HE CONTRIBUTED HEAVILY FOR THE EXPENDITION OF TABUK AND RECEIVED A WRIT FROM RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) "NOTHING WILL HARM USMAN HENCEFORTH WHATEVER HE DOES" (TIRMIDHI) RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE FOR HIM FROM 1400 SAHABAH AT HUDDIYBIAH TO AVENGE HIS ALLEGED MURDER. ALMIGHTY ALLAH AUTHENTICATED THIS OATH OF ALLEGIANCE CALLED "BAIT RIZWAN" BY THE FOLLOWING WORDS OF THE QUR'AN: "THE HAND OF ALLAH IS ABOVE THEIR HANDS." (AL-QUR'AN, 48:10).

SAYYENDA USMAN (R.A) HAD THE PROUD PRIVILEGE OF BEING (ZUNOORIAN)-HAVING TWO LIGHTS AS TWO OF THE PROPHET'S DAUGHTERS WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE TO HIM ONE AFTER THE DEATH OF AN OTHER. AFTER THE DEATH OF THE SECOND DAUGHTER, RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) SAID THAT HAD I HAD A THIRD DAUGHTER I WOULD HAVE GIVEN HER IN MARRIAGE OF USMAN-SO HIGH WAS THE HONOUR BESTOWED ON HIM BY RASUL-ALLAH (SAW). SUCH A GLORIOUS STAR AND LUMINARY OF ISLAM AND CONQUEROR AND LIBERATOR OF 800,000 MILES OF TERRITORY WAS CONFINED TO HIS HOUSE BY THE SABBAI REBELS FOR 40 DAYS WHO WOULD NOT ALLOW HIM TO LOAD THE PRAYERS IN THE MASJID EVEN DENYING HIM FOOD AND DRINK & STABBED HIM TO DEATH AT THE OLD AGE OF 82 WHILE HE WAS RECITING THE HOLY QUR'AN. THE IRONY OF FATE IS THAT THEY (I.E. REBELS) PREVENTED THE BURIAL OF SUCH OF MAGNANIMOUS CALIPH IN THE MUSLIM GRAVE YARD. IT WAS AFTER MOUNTING DIFFICULTIES THAT HIS FUNERAL PRAYER WAS LED BY HADHRAT JABIR BIN MOTHAHAM AND HE WAS BURIED BY ABDULLAH BIN ZUBAIR IN THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT!