Ali’s Bay’at with Abu Bakr is repeatedly mentioned in various styles and used in different ways to bring out Abu Bakr’s Ca-liphate from its characteristic feature of usurpation that sur-rounds it.
So they claim:
“It is said that Ali was tied by a rope round his neck and his house was destroyed. I do not know such an Ali. He was not a man of such an insult. He wisely paid allegiance and remained firm on it indicating his satisfaction.”![1]
“This proves that Ali did not view their Caliphate illegitim-ate.”[2]
“After he (Ali) gave Bay’at. He even mended and dressed the shortcomings in Caliphs’ proceedings. This confirms the legit-imacy of Caliphs.”[3]
“Ali has given Bay’at to both (Abu Bakr and Umar). Of course he has done this prudently.”[4]
“The behavior and conduct of Ali and his reverend sons to-wards Caliphs was such that it could be called an approval and pledge of allegiance.”[5]
Those who make the claims (that Ali gave allegiance to
Abu Bakr) have an aim:
A)Ali’s acknowledgment to Abu Bakr serves an umbrella to them, covering illegitimacy of Abu Bakr’s Caliphate. Besides it supports their persistence in their design to prove Ali’s consent and concurrence.
B)To benefit from Ali’s acknowledgment by removing from the public mind suspicion of illegitimacy of Abu Bakr’s Ca-liphate. Besides, to pose it as a Caliphate having God’s pleas-ure. In other words, to provide a sanctity under shade of Ali’s allegiance.
Therefore we must go through these allegations thoroughly: In the meantime we would like to scrutinize these two
claims:
1) Claims that Ali’s Bay’at tantamount to public popularity of Abu Bakr’s rule.
2) Claims that acceptance of Abu Bakr’s rule proves Ali’s al-legiance to Abu Bakr.
Therefore in this analysis we shall evaluate the sources claiming that Ali gave allegiance to Abu Bakr. They are as follows:
Source One: Divine legitimacy (Legitimacy granted by God)
Source Two: Public Popularity (Standard of public accord)
Source Three: Existence (A fact/occurrence)
We shall again thoroughly investigate historical documents related to these claims to find the extent of Ali’s approval to Abu Bakr’s rule.
Because the above subject has taken for granted that Ali in fact gave allegiance to Abu Bakr.
Accordingly we can evaluate Ali’s belief in legitimacy and popularity of Abu Bakr’s Caliphate and thereby gauge its au-thenticity in the light of History.
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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST BENEFICENT AND MERCIFULAs Salamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barkatahu,I am thankful to Allah for giving me the opportunity to compile many of my favoriteMoral Stories, in the form of an electronic book, which I had collected from variousresources, since last few years. Even though many of these stories are fictional innature, but at the end they will give a great lesson to learn for a lifetime.As the reader can himself see from these stories, the subject “Moral” is universal toevery human being. Hence these stories are not just for any particular sect or the followers of particular faith, it is for the entire hu-manity, irrespective of there belief,culture, race, color or age. So, let’s start with a Moral Story called as “A POND FULLOF MILK.”Once there was a king who told some of his workers to dig a pond. Once the pond wasdug, the king made an announcement to his people saying that one person from eachhousehold has to bring a glass of milk during the night and pour it into the pond. So,the pond should be full of milk by the morning. After receiving the order, everyonewent home.One man prepared to take the milk during the night. He thought that since everyonewill bring milk, he could just hide a glass of water and pour inside the pond. Because itwill be dark at night, no one will notice. So he quickly went and poured the water in thepond and came back. In the morning, the king came to visit the pond and to his surprise the pond was only filled with water! What has happened is that everyone wasthinking like the other man that “I don't have to put the milk, someone else will do it.”Dear friends, when it comes to help the Religion of Allah, do not think that others willtake care of it. Rather, it starts from you, if you don’t do it, no one else will do it. So,change yourself to the way of Allah to serve Him and that will make the difference
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CONCENTRATION IN PRAYER was written over a few years and signifi cant research went into completing this project. The main goal of this book is to educate The Muslims of the importance of The Five Daily Prayer and to explain HOW to create, develop and maintain HOW to create, develop and maintain HOW concentration in Prayer. This is an important aspect of Prayer since Allah (SWT) only requires our undimin-ished attention during Prayer.This book on Prayer requires active reading and active participation. Interested readers will fi nd wealth of informa- tion, research and exercises one can effectively employ to reap the fruits of the Prayer. It is envisaged that the reader, in particular the youth and leaders of tomorrow, will look up to this book and apply its recommendations on a daily basis. It is defi nitely not a once-read book! Charts and diagrams havebeen provided to aid the reader in understanding the nature ofthis book.Even though the book quotes many sources, it is some- times unable to provide specifi c citing and references be- cause the collection of the traditions in this book began a few years ago. Suffice it to say that the traditions quoted are authentic and form reliable sources. With the help and assist- ance of learned scholars, the like of my father – Yusuf2 Kermalli, Ma’alim Muhsin Alidina, Ma’alim Mohamed Raza Dungersi, and a few close friends, this project was recently completed. Once again, I would also like to thank my parents who have provided their unlimited love and support in the pro- duction of this book. And finally, my wife and two lovely chil- dren that God has blessed me with, for their patience and confi dence throughout the write-up and production of this book.The Chapter of al-Fatiha is requested for the benefi t of the soul of my mother and the souls of all believers who have already made their journey into the next world.
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Joshua Charbonneau is an American Muslim. He was born in 1982 in Sumter, South Carolina. He is of French Canadian and American descent. He was born into a Christian family, and later chose to revert to Shi’a Islam at the age of 17, having studied both faiths. After reverting to Islam he chose the name Mateen which in Arabic means strong, firm and unshakable. His first language is English and he also learned Quranic Arabic. At age 26 he moved to Washington, DC and has been an active part of the Muslim community. He took part in a documentary by AlAnwar Hussain TV entitled Journey of the Spirit where he narrated his incredible story on how he became a Shia Muslim.1 In 2012 he had the opportunity to travel with the members of AlAnwar Hussain TV to visit the Holy shrines of Imam Ali (as) and Imam Hussain (as) in Iraq for Ziyarat Arbaeen. Since March of 2013 he has been studying Howza (Islamic Seminary) classes under the guidance of Sheikh Mustafa Akhound at the Imam Ali Center of Springfield, VA. Mateen has also compiled and published some very in-depth books entitled The Suffering of the Ahl ul Bayt and their Followers (Shia) throughout History, Christians who defended and died for Prophet Muhammad and his Family and Mystery of the Shia. These titles are available at Amazon. In 2014 he co-founded a publication company entitled Yasin Publications and also a program to send free books to prisoners entitled 2nd Chance Books
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To Allah (Almighty God) we belong, and to Him is our return.” (Qur’an 2:156)Multitudes of men have walked on the surface of this Earth. They all belonged to different nations and cultures. A few of them made history for which they were remembered, where as others were never to be men-tioned again. Although each one was personally different from another - their habits, thinking and tastes differed - they all had two (2) things in common, first, they were all delivered from their mothers womb (birth) and second, they all tasted death. Who claims he has lived a thousand years?“The Sun travels to an appointed place. This is the decree of the Mighty, the All Knowing.” (Qur’an 36:38)Almighty God blesses us with all His gifts. The Sun gives us light dur-ing the day to help us see and it helps our crops grow so that we can eat. But the Sun also teaches us other things. The Almighty God causes the day to die with its setting and allows the night to take over, which is a time for rest. In this way, He may be showing us that all of us will even-tually have to die just like the day. And when the Sun rises in the morn-ing again after our period of rest, it is as if Almighty God is telling us that we too will be raised to life after we have died. These are all signs of Almighty God to teach us to take care of our life.One thing that we must remember is that death is inevitable, and everything except the Almighty God of course, will perish. Signs of death can be seen all around us. At funerals we see people who were once walking among us being buried in their graves. In the fall we see the leaves turn from green to yellow and fall one at a time, and in the winter we see trees, lifeless. In this way, all things in this world will wither away and die.According to an old fable, a man made an unusual agreement with Hazrat Izraeel (pbuh) - the angel of death. He told Izraeel (pbuh) that hewould be willing to accompany him (as though he had a choice)only if Izraeel (pbuh) would send him a notice well in advance. The agreement was made. Weeks became months and the months into years. One bit-terly cold night, as the man sat alone thinking of his success in life, Izraeel (pbuh) tapped on his shoulder. “You are here too soon” the man cried out.“You sent no messenger. I thought we had an agreement!” Izraeel (pbuh) whispered “Notice your hair,once it was full and black, now it has streaks of silver in it! Observe your face in the mirror and see the wrinkles. Yes! I have sent many messages through the years! I have kept my part. I am sorry that you are not ready for me but the order of Almighty God cannot be averted!”
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This is obligatory according to texts (Quran and Hadith), and reason.Rational Proof: The Imam of the Time (aj) is a guide and a leader whose obedience is compulsory and it is necessary to re-cognize correctly one whose obedience is compulsory. So that if someone lays a false claim to be that leader, he can be ex-posed at once and we shall not be misguided by his false pro-paganda. Thus the recognition (Marefat) of the Imam of the Time (aj) is obligatory and it is also obligatory to learn about his special characteristics so that if a false claimant of Mah-daviyat appears we can, at once, realize his falsehood. Further details will come in the coming pages, Insha Allah.Textual Proof: Shaykh Sadooq (r.a.) has recorded a tradi-tion of Imam Musa Kazim (a) that he said, “One who doubts about four things has denied everything revealed by Allah. One of these being the Marefat of the Imam of age.”Also that which supports the above point is that which is mentioned in Kamaluddin, quoting from Imam Sadiq (a), who has narrated from his forefathers that Amirul Momineen Ali (a) said from the pulpit of Kufa Masjid: “O Allah, it is necessary that Your earth does not remain devoid of Your Proof on Your creatures, who may guide the people to Your religion and who teaches Your religion, so that Your argument is not rendered invalid and those who follow Your saints may not be misguidedafter having received guidance, whether this Proof be seen and not be obeyed or be hidden and the enemies are lying in am-bush for him and himself he is hidden from the view of the people while his knowledge will not be hidden from the people and his laws are firm in the hearts of the believers and they act upon them.”1I say: According the Arabic dictionary Qamoos, the Arabic word ‘aadaab’ for manners is the plural of ‘daab’ which means manner or characteristic etc. Here it implies the special char-acteristic of the Imam of the Time (aj) that make an impression on the hearts of the people, especially his followers. It is nar-rated in traditions that during the time of the advent of the Imam of the Time (aj) people will adopt virtuous qualities in or-der to emulate the Holy Imam (a). Another point derived from this is that the effectiveness of the Imam’s morals and manners on the hearts of the believers is a sign of faith. Another thing that proves the importance of this is the emphasis with which the Holy Prophet (s) has all times shown in informing the people about the special qualities of His Eminence.So much so that he is even having precedence over the other Imams (a) in this regard. However this is only for the fact that it is necessary for all the people to have cognition of the spe-cial characteristics of Imam Mahdi (a). On the basis of this it is obligatory on all believers to know the Imam of the Time (aj) with his distinguishing features so that they may not be de-ceived by the false claimants of this holy office.
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Imam Sadiq (pbuh) is a great academic personality which the human history has come to know. He has advanced this great colossal (amount) of constructive and effectual contributions, in the interest of service to humanity and the building of civilization. Such as, and indeed he has [contributed to], bettering off the Islamic intellect by means of what he propogated of the kinds of sciences full of fundamentals of life. And in addition to that, the brilliant intellectual treasures, and that which is considered to be the pillar of the academic revival to his era. So the Imam (pbuh) has left for us a collection of the visions transmitted from him regarding his interpretations of dreams. So that there is [a book] by Imam Sadiq (pbuh) of Dream Interpretations specifically by him, that is circulating among the people and to a nearby age.
And the reality is that a book specific for this subject was not provided by the Imam (pbuh). Rather it was upon our gathering of visions ascribed to the Imam, we discovered a large collection from these visions in the book (Ta’ateer AlAnam) by Nablusi, and of which the author backing [the chain of narrations] is Imam Ja’afer AlSadiq is from a book ascribed to him called (Biltaqseem(By Distribution)). And the author cites in his book: (And I have accredited) concerning that upon the foremost books and the respected Sheikhs’ views such as: Essentials by Daniel AlHakeem, and the book the Distribution by Ja’afer AlSadiq, and the book the Compilers by Muhammed bin Seereen.
And we cherish the reader when we place before you this book that we ask our Master, Praise and Glory to Him, to grant the good of His acceptance. And lastly our supplication is that all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
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