AHLULBAYT - THE DIVINE PROOFS ON EARTH
All the constituents of the Noorani Rooh created by the Manifest Self descended in human form in the desert of Arabia. The special relation that Prophet Mohammad had with the Manifest Self cannot be denied anymore. Unfortunately, lately we were witness to special campaigns by a section of Muslims to make the people believe that Prophet Mohammad was just an ordinary mortal and there was no need to address prayers to God through him. The tombs of the Ahlulbayt have been razed to the ground and those who go there to pay homage to God’s proofs on earth are beaten and punished. All attempts are being made to erase the name of Ahlulbayt from memory, to the extent that edited versions of supposedly authentic Sihah-e-Sitta (the six books that the Muslims had themselves chosen as authentic out of the innumerable books that contain Prophet’s traditions) are now in the market; the only editing being of the traditions highlighting the position of the Ahlulbayt.
So much importance was being paid to the Ahlulbayt, the Quran guaranteed their purity (verse 33:33), several verses were revealed praising their actions, the Prophet talked of them as the lord of heaven without whom salvation was nullified, several of Prophet’s traditions highlighted their importance in his eyes as well as in the eyes of the Creator and the history showed that these Ahlulbayt were the greatest practitioners of the teachings of subservience to God (which are collectively called Islam), they were the most knowledgeable and the most pious men of their times; yet the present day Muslims give no place to them in their Islam. What’s more, majority of Muslims won’t even know who the Ahlulbayt are? Presence of the word Ahlulbayt in Quran doesn’t raise their eye-brows, nor does the word Noor (Light) in Quran make them relate it to the several traditions of Prophet Mohammad elaborating who are referred to by the term Noor.
Some of the most authentic declarations of the Holy Prophet regarding his cousin Ali, who later became his son-in-law, are:
Ali is of me and I am of Ali.
Ali is with the Quran and Quran will be with Ali.
Ali is with the Right and the Right will be with Ali.
The Quran and the Ahlulbayt are the Two inseparable Entities, each perfect in itself reflecting then others. – (left behind among the people by the Holy Prophet for their guidance till the Day of Resurrection, assuring the Muslims of being safe from getting astray, should they stick up to these Two Inseparable Ones.)
And the Holy Prophet declared:
I am the City of Knowledge and Ali its Gate.
Moreover, the Holy Prophet before departing from this world had openly and repeatedly made the following guiding announcements, for the people to abide:
Of whomsoever I am the Lord, This Ali is the Lord.
Hadees-e-Ghadeer-e-Khumm
The Holy Prophet further announced:
The likeness of my Ahlulbayt is that of the Ark of Noah. Whosoever getteth into it, is saved and whosoever turneth away from it, is drowned and lost.
And in what is known as Hadees-e-Saqalain, the Holy Prophet, before his departure, had declared:
I leave behind me amidst you Two Weighty (very important) things, the Book of God (the Holy Quran) and my Ahlulbayt. Should ye be attached to these two, never shall ye get astray and never shall these Two be separated from one another until they meet me at the Spring of ‘Kausar’ (i.e. Paradise).
Tafsir-e-Kabir, Tafsir-e-Durre Mansur and others
(Hadees is also present in Sahih at-Tirmidhi, Ibnul-Athir, and most books of traditons)
There is a hadees known as Hadees-e-manzilah. In the expedition of Tabuk (in the month of Rajab in the ninth year A.H.) the Prophet left Ali as his deputy in Medina. Ali exclaimed with dismay: “Are you leaving me behind?” The Prophet asked him:
O Ali, are you not satisfied that you have the same position in relation to me as Harun had to Musa except that there is no prophet after me?
The Prophet thereby meant that as Musa had left behind Harun to look after his people when he went to receive the Commandments, in the same way he was leaving Ali behind as his deputy to look after the affairs of Islam during his absence.
Then there is the occasion of communicating the verses of Surah al-Barrah (Chapter 09) to the people of Makkah. First Abu Bakr was sent to proclaim it before the pagans. Later the Prophet sent Ali to take the Surah from Abu Bakr and announce it at Makkah. Abu Bakr returned to Medina from his journey midway enroute to Makkah and asked the Prophet whether any verse or order was received from Allah against him announcing the surah. The Prophet said:
Gabriel came to me and said that no one shall deliver the message except myself or the person who is from me.
This reveals truly that the role which Ali had with Mohammad could not be matched by Abu Bakr.
The moral principle evident in these declarations of the Prophet is also expressed in the following tradition which has been accepted by all sects.
The Prophet said:
Ali is with the truth and the truth is with Ali; whithersoever Ali turns, the truth (also) turns with him.
Another is the hadees of “Divine Light” (Hadees an-Noor). Sayyid Ali Hamadani writes in Muwaddatul qurba, on the authority of Salman Farsi that the Prophet said:
I and Ali were both created from one and the same Noor (Divine Light) four thousand years before Adam was created, and when Adam was created that Noor was given a place in his backbone. So we continued to occupy the same place till were separated in the back of Abdul Muttalib. Therefore in me is the prophethood and in Ali is the caliphate.
In Riyadul-fadail, the last words of the above hadees are written as follows:
Then He made me a prophet and made Ali a wasiyy (vicegerent).
Likewise on the occasion of Mubahila, the Holy Prophet had to invite the Christians of Najran who were not amenable to reasoning, to a spiritual contest to prove the truthfulness of Islam against Christianity, under the following command of Quran:
And unto him who disputeth with thee therein after the knowledge hath come unto thee, Say! (O’ Our Apostle Mohammad!) (Unto them) ‘Come ye, let us summon our sons, and (ye summon) your sons, and (we summon) our women and (ye) your women, and (we summon) our selves and (ye) your selves and then let us invoke and lay the curse of God on the liars!
Quran, 3:61
It is the unanimous report of all historians that on that memorable occasion of proving the truthfulness of Islam against the contesting Christian world, the Holy Prophet appeared in the field with Husain who was then only a baby, in his lap, Hasan held by his hand, followed by his daughter Fatima (the Lady of Light) and behind her, her husband Ali ibn Abu Talib - his son-in-law and cousin brother. Standing in the open field with a multitude of Muslims and the Christians surrounding him, turning his face towards heaven, the Prophet declared:
Lord! These are my Ahlulbayt.
Sahih Muslim
We may conclude that whoever is included in this verse and Verse 33:33, is undoubtedly included in the term ‘Siddeeq-e-Akbar’, i.e. The Greatest Truthful, and ‘Shaheed’, i.e. The Martyr, and if there were any others, males or females entitled to these terms at that time they would have been included. This is supported by what Ali has said:
Ana Siddeequl Akbar wa Farooqul Aazam
La Yad’aeeyahum ghairi illa Kazzab.
I am the ‘Siddeequl Akbar’ (The Greatest Truthful) and the ‘Farooqul Aazam’ (The Greatest Distinguisher of Truth and Falsehood). None shall claim this besides me save the greatest liar.
The same identical status of Ali with the Holy Prophet has been declared by the Holy Prophet for Fatima, Hasan and Husain saying:
Fatima is a part of mine, whoever annoyeth her annoyeth me.
And in some other place the Holy Prophet has been reported to have declared about Fatima:
Whoever maketh her angry hath made me angry.
Fatima is the Chief of the ladies of Paradise.
The same expression has been recorded about Hasan and Husain: that they are the Two Chiefs of the Youths of Paradise and they (both) are Imams (divinely commissioned guides), be they active or retired. The Holy Prophet has also declared:
Husain is of me and I am of Husain.
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