Hadiyyatush Shia part 1

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents Chapter two The Promise of Succession and Authority   It is also established from the Noble Qur’an that whatever transpired was correct and in order. If you are not convinced, then here is the fourth verse:     وَعَدَ  اللّٰهُ  الَّذِیْنَ  اٰمَنُوْا مِنْكُمْ وَ عَمِلُوْا الصّٰلِحٰتِ لَیَسْتَخْلِفَنّهُمْ فِیْ الْاَرْضِ کَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِیْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَ لَیُمَکِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِیْنَهُمُ الَّذِیْ ارْتَضٰی لَهُمْ وَ لَیُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِّنْۢ […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents Chapter three The lofty status of the Sahabah in the light of the verse of Surah al Fath   At this juncture, it is possible that some of the Shia might present the following argument:   We accept that the three Khulafa were on the truth and in their respective eras they were the most virtuous, however, when the caliphate of ‘Ali radiya Llahu […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents Chapter four The belief of badaʼ and the confusion of the Shia scholars   The Shia scholars will now have no choice except to acknowledge the superiority of the Sahabah or they will have to resort to the principle:   الضرورة تبيح المحظورات Necessity permits the prohibited. and thereafter return to their age-old tenet and say:   We accept that the Qur’an proves what […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents Chapter five The belief of taqiyyah   Nevertheless, if the Shia assert that they bear enmity for the first three Khalifas because of what the Imams have said about them, we have shattered the premise of this excuse as well. Yet we know that the Shia will not abandon the prejudice which spurs them on hating the Sahabah in a misconstrued sense of love […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   اِلَّا تَنْصُرُوْہُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَہُ اللهُ اِذْ اَخْرَجَهُ الَّذِیْنَ کَفَرُوْا ثَانِیَ اثْنَیْنِ اِذْ هُمَا فِی الْغَارِ اِذْ یَقُوْلُ لِصَاحِبهٖ لَا تَحْزَنْ اِنَّ اللهَ مَعَنَا If you do not assist him, then indeed Allah had assisted him when the kuffar drove him out (of Makkah). He was the second of the two (the other being his bosom friend Abu Bakr radiya Llahu `anhu) when they […]