An inflammatory article published on 20-May-2021 in a Mumbai-based Urdu daily Sahafat demonstrates the bigoted and biased attitude of the pretentious researcher, Maulvi Abdul Hafeez Islami. The half-baked and slanted article not only exposes Abdul Hafeez’s rancour towards the infallible family of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) but also to the lowest levels of partisanship that…
Abd al-Baaqi Umari Afandi , a very famous poet and a descendant of Umar al-Khattaab, has said a poem in the glorification of Ameerul Momineen Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) whose first verse was as follows: “O Ali! You are a lofty existence from the above world Whose birth Allah the High has decreed in…
Famous Bakri scholar Muhammad Ibn Ahmad al-Dhahabi (exp. 748 A.H.) in his book “Seyar A’laam al-Nubalaa” vol. 14, p. 133, after praising the celebrated scholar of the Ahle Tasannun Abu Abd al-Rahman Ahmad Ibn Shuaib al-Nasaai (exp. 303 A.H.), writes: “In the third century of Hijri, there was no scholar more learned than Nasaai. He…
Introduction The matter of the appointment of Ameerul Momineen Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) as the rightful Caliph of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) has been often discussed as the defining factor for being declared as Shia. So much so, that we find several scholars of the Ahle Tasannun are forced to adopt undesirable practices to retain…
For any Muslim, anything remotely connected to the Holy Prophet (peace be on him and his progeny) is sacrosanct. Even a strand of hair considered to be belonging to him (peace be on him and his progeny) is revered by Muslims around the globe. There is no doubt that the ahaadith/sayings written on paper and…
“Repeat a lie so many times that it becomes more reliable than the truth” goes a famous proverb. Some Ahle Tasannun scholars – in their attempt to glorify their leaders – have fabricated and spread such lies that these have become like “famous truths” today. One of them is the canard that Abu Bakr was…
The Ahle Tasannun are vociferous and voluble in insisting that the Holy Prophet (peace be on him and his progeny) did not appoint anyone as his successor and left the world intestate. He (peace be on him and his progeny) left this most important issue in the hands of the people! This belief is not…
One of the most grossly misreported and misunderstood facts of history is that Ameerul Momineen Ali Ibn Abi Talib (peace be on them both) paid allegiance to Abu Bakr. Let us see how one of the most important chroniclers of history, who is not a Shia and belongs to the Shaafei sub-sect of the Ahle…
One of the most important criteria to qualify as a companion of the Holy Prophet (peace be on him and his progeny) is to obey him unconditionally because he (peace be on him and his progeny) does not speak of his own accord. He (peace be on him and his progeny) only speaks what is…
In Ziyaarate Jaameah Kabeerah, we find the following sentence: ْ مَنِ اتَّبَعَكُمْ فَالْجَنَّةُ مَأْوَاهُ وَ مَنْ خَالَفَكُمْ فَالنَّارُ مَثْوَاهُ (O Ahle Bait)! Whoever follows you, then Paradise is his abode and whoever opposes you, then Hell is his dwelling. (Man Laa Yahzorohu al-Faqeeh by Shaikh Saduq (r.a.), vol. 2, p. 613) In the light of…