reference of abu bakr in the holy qur'an

8/9/2019 Reference of Abu Bakr in the Holy Qur'An

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These Ayats from Surah Al-Baqarah[The Heifer or Cow] are an explicit reference to ABU BAKRb. Uthman al-Taymi, following his usurption of the Caliphate...The fitnah Abu Bakr caused in hisinitiating the Ridda Wars...their plunder and destruction through his appointed general Khalid b.al-Waleed. Since, there are no surviving historical records from the Umayyad Caliphate about thePre-Umayyad Caliphate, the propagandist and heavily spun accounts of the usurper Caliphs AbuBakr, Umar and Uthman are the products of the 'Abbasid' Caliphate. With their historical accountspublished 125-200 years AFTER the passing of Rasulallah(SAW). Shia scholars were brutallyeliminated and none of their written works ever saw the light of day during the UmayyadCaliphate.

They did far worse in massacring the DIRECT blood descendants of Rasul Muhammad(SAW) inImam Husayn and family as well as Hazrat Zayd ibn Ali [Zayn al-Abidin] and later, his son HazratYahya ibn Zayd...

Here are some of the varying translations of these holy ayats from Surah al-Baqarah...

When Abu Bakr delivered his speech about those who follow "Muhammad...Let them know he isDEAD. But Islam is still alive..."

This coming from an alleged devout Sahabi who didn't see fit to even attend Rasulallah'sFUNERAL...

This same Abu Bakr who CONFISCATED the Garden of Fadak...Rasulallah's personal propertypassed on by him as a gift to his ONLY daughter Sayyida Fatima bint Muhammad az-Zahra...If you will not aid him, Allah certainly aided him when those who disbelieved expelled him, hebeing the second of the two, when they were both in the cave, when he said to his companion:Grieve not, surely Allah is with us. So Allah sent down His tranquillity upon him and strengthenedhim with hosts which you did not see, and made lowest the word of those who disbelieved; andthe word of Allah, that is the highest; and Allah is Mighty, Wise. [Surah Tauba Ayat 40]

This is what Aqa Mehdi Pooya said about this verse:-

As has been mentioned therein, inside the cave, the companion of the Holy Prophet, Abu Bakr, was frightenedand had started crying in anguish when he heard the voices of the enemy. Then the Holy Prophet said:

"Do not fear. Allah is with us."

Compare this fear to the tranquillity of Ali described in the commentary of verse 207 of al Baqarah which wasrevealed to honour and glorify Ali. It also points out the fact that wherever in the Quran those who receivedtranquillity (sakinah) from Allah have been mentioned Abu Bakr must be excluded because his fear has beenhistorically recorded and referred to in this verse. "His companion" (sahibihi) and the "second of the two" imply nomerit. See verse 37 of Kahf in which out of the two "mutual companions" one was a believer and the other was adisbeliever.

SURAH KAHAF: [Pickthal 18:32] Coin fo r them a simili tude: Two men, unto one of who m We had assignedtwo g ardens of grapes, and We had surroun ded both with date-palms and had put between them ti llage.[Pickthal 18:33] Each of the gardens gave its fruit and withheld naught thereof. And We caused a river togush forth therein.[Pickthal 18:34] And he had fruit. And he said unto hi s comrade, when he spake with him: I am more thanthee in wealth, and stronger in respect of men.[Pickthal 18:35] And he went into hi s garden, while he (thus) wronged himself. He said: I think not that allthis wi ll ever perish.[Pickthal 18:36] I think not that t he Hour will ever come, and if indeed I am brought back unto my Lord Isurely shall find better than this as a resort.[Pickthal 18:37] His comrade, when he (thus) spake with him, exclaimed: Disbelievest thou in Him Whocreated thee of dust, then of a drop (of seed), and then fashioned thee a man?

But th is is n ot what the Quran means by t rannquility [ sakeena]. Its a divine state that comes down fro m Al lah swt t o the s in cere b eli evers, and o ne o f i ts eff ects i s an in crease in Imaan [Fath , verse 4] . If sakeena

simply mean 'a state of peace and quiet', then this would be shared by believers and non believers a like.Yet the Quran indicates that this is not the case, that it's a special thing reserved for a select few.


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[48:4] He it is Who sent down tranquil lity in to the hearts of the believers that they mig ht have more of faithadded to their faith-- and Allah's are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and Al lah is K nowing, Wise

[48:18] Certainly Al lah was well pleased wi th th e believers w hen they swo re allegiance to you under thetree, and He knew what was in their h earts, so He sent down tranquillity on them and rewarded them witha near vict ory

So:

1) Sent down fr om Allah swt2) To believers wi th a sin cere heart3) Increases faith

Clearly its more than si mply an 'untro ubled state'.

For more detail s read Tafsir AlMizan by All amah Tabataba'i, verse 9:26. This is wh ere I got the abovefrom.http://holyquran.net...izan/index.html

As it is a divine stat e, there i s no reason to l imit it to war . It cou ld be for anyo ne (i nclu ding you! ) whostruggles in the sake of Allah and has a pure heart. Allah sends his sakinah to them, and the result i s an

increase in faith. Abu Bakr w as sad , bu t that do esnt mean sakinah is necessar il y for him. You dot need to be sad to g etsakeenah, you need the prerequi sites th at Ive already mention ed. The other verses mentio n the Prophetgetting sakinah, yet there is no mmention of him being sad. Rather one verse explains the reason as 'sothat th ey may increase in Imaan'.

The sakinah is not for Abu Bakr for the following :

The verse is explaining the people how Allah aided his Prophet and how th rough aiding him, Allah madethe words of the unbelievers low. People didnt aid the Prophet, so Allah aided him and p art of that wassending tranquility on him and aiding him with the invisible hosts

[9:40] If you will not aid him , Allah certainly aided him when those who disbelieved expelled hi m , he beingthe second of th e two, when they were both in th e cave, when he said to hi s companion: Grieve not,surely Allah is with us. So Allah sent down His tranquillity up on him and str engthened him with hostswhich you did not see, and made lowest the word of those who di sbelieved; and the word of Allah, that isthe highest; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.

So the context is one of aiding the Prophet. Just look at the pronouns. Its all one flow .

I have heard that AlQurtubi says that the 'hi m' (red) is for Abu Bakr, but the 'him' (blue) is for t he Prophet! Apart from mess in g up the verse, and go ing again st the one sing le con ext, there i s another reason toreject this.

Al lah mentions aind in g the Prophet wi th 'jun ood' (hosts/soldi ers/fo rces). If you look at the other versesthat mention sakeena, you will see that these 'forces' are mentioned along side it.

[48:4] It is He Who sent down tranquil lity in to the hearts of th e Believers, that they may add faith to their

faith;- for to Allah belong the Forces of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is Full of Know ledge andWisdom;-

[9:26] But Allah did pour His calm on t he Messenger and on the Believers, and sent down fo rces which yesaw not

So theres really no reason to sp lit up the sakeena and the for ces/hosts in 9:40, giving one to Abu Bakrand the other to the Prophet!

Thats based on the assumption that Abu Bakr is a believer (mu'min). In 4:18 Allah swt says he's happywith the believers (mu'mineen) who did b ay3a, not everyone! Secondly, if you believe that it refers to allthose who were under the tree, then you will face a difficulty of trying to reconcile thise with the fact that

AbduRahman ibn Udays AlBalawi was on e of these peop le. He was also on e of the Sahaba that l ed theuprising against Uthman! (do a search on shiachat for references).

Ma'ana (with us) could be plural used for greatness rather than more than one person (just like the way Al lah uses i t for himsel f). Or i t cou ld be for bo th th e Prophet an d Ab u Bakr, bu t i n that case i t wou ld no t
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give any merit to Abu Bakr. He was with the Prophet and he was scared, so the Prophet consoled him andtold hi m you'll b e fine. God will protect you because you're with me so he's with you too.

In 26:62 perhaps the reason w hy its singular is that the verse continues ' ...he will guide me' . In otherwords: he will show me what to do. So Musa [as] was consoling th em by telling them look, God's is withme and therefore he's going to show me what to do. God obviou sly wasnt going to show all of bani israelwhat to do, rather only Musa [as] as he was the Prophet. Hence the singular.

In 9:40, it was only a case of both o f them standing i n the cave and waiting, and Allah making the spidermake its web and so on. Allah swt wasnt goin g to gui de the Prophet to do a certain thing like he did withMusa by telling him to strike the water.

Just another quick point to make with verse [9:40]:"If ye help him not, still Allah helped him when those who disbelieve drove him forth , the second of two;when they two were in the cave, when he said unto his comrade: Grieve not. Lo! Allah is with us. Then Allahcaused His tranquility to descend upon him and supported him with hosts ye cannot see, and made the word ofthose who disbelieved the nethermost, while Allah's Word it was that became the uppermost. Allah is Mighty,Wise." [9:40]

It says that Allah helped him when the those who disbelieve drove him forth.Allah is referring to the

Prophet , and is talking about the event in the cave.Allah said he helped HIM, and not

THEY.Muhammed was with Abu Bakr in the cave, so if Allah helped Abu Bakr too, He wouldhave said "still Allah helped them when those who disbelieve drove them forth".This means that Abu Bakr wasn't in danger, which is saying something.If Abu Bakr wasn't in danger, why was he"scared"?Was he faking it after all?

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Verse 2:204

Yusuf Ali: There is the type of man whose speech about this world's life May dazzle thee, and hecalls God to witness about what is in his heart; yet is he the most contentious of enemies.

Zohurul Hoque: And among mankind there is one whose conversation about the life of this worldmakes you wonder, and he calls Allah to witness about what is in his heart; yet he is the mostquarrelsome of adversaries.

T. J. Irving: There is a certain man whose talk about worldly life intrigues you. He calls God towitness whatever is in his heart. He is extremely violent in quarreling.

T.U. Hilali-M. Khan: And of mankind there is he whose speech may please you (O MuhammadSAW), in this worldly life, and he calls Allah to witness as to that which is in his heart, yet he is themost quarrelsome of the opponents.

M. Pickthall: And of mankind there is he whoso conversation on the life of this world pleaseth thee(Muhammad), and he calleth Allah to witness as to that which is in his heart; yet he is the mostrigid of opponents.

M.H. Shakir: And among men is he whose speech about the life of this world causes you towonder, and he calls on Allah to witness as to what is in his heart, yet he is the most violent ofadversaries.

Verse 2:205

Yusuf Ali: When he turns his back, His aim everywhere is to spread mischief through the earth

and destroy crops and cattle. But God loveth not mischief.


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Zohurul Hoque: And when he turns back, he strives in the land to make mischief in it, and todestroy the crops and the flocks; but Allah does not love disorder.

T. J. Irving: Whenever he holds the upper hand, he rushes around the earth ruining it. Hedestroys [people's] crops and breeding stock even though God does not like ruination.

T.U. Hilali-M. Khan: And when he turns away (from you "O Muhammad SAW "), his effort in theland is to make mischief therein and to destroy the crops and the cattle, and Allah likes notmischief.

M. Pickthall: And when he turneth away (from thee) his effort in the land is to make mischieftherein and to destroy the crops and the cattle; and Allah loveth not mischief.

M.H. Shakir: And when he turns his back, he runs along in the land that he may cause mischief init and destroy the tilth and the stock, and Allah does not love mischief-making.

Verse 2:206

Yusuf Ali: When it is said to him, "Fear God", He is led by arrogance to (more) crime. Enough forhim is Hell;-An evil bed indeed (To lie on)!

Zohurul Hoque: And when it is said to him: "Revere Allah", pride carries him on to sin; sosufficient to him is Gehenna. And surely evil is the cradling.

T. J. Irving: When someone tells him: "Heed God," a [false] sense of importance leads him off tosin. He can count on Hell; what an awful couch! !

T.U. Hilali-M. Khan: And when it is said to him, "Fear Allah";, he is led by arrogance to (more)crime. So enough for him is Hell, and worst indeed is that place to rest!

M. Pickthall: And when it is said unto him: Be careful of thy duty to Allah, pride taketh him to sin.Hell will settle his account, an evil resting-place.

M.H. Shakir: And when it is said to him, guard against (the punishment of) Allah; pride carries himoff to sin, therefore hell is sufficient for him; and certainly it is an evil resting place.

As for Surah at-Tawbah or al-Bara'at[The Repentance or Atonement], it is 'Abbasid' theologianswho came up with the concept of 'Caliphate-e-Raashida' or 'The Rightly Guided Caliphs'...Theyhad to include Imam Ali in this for historical authenticity...No Umayyad scholars are listed asexpounding on the Ayat 40 of Surah Tawbah/Bara'at, only the scholars about 125-200 years

AFTER the passing of Rasulallah(SAW)!

If the Ayat is examined very carefully, it is the SECOND of the TWO in the cave who says to theFIRST to "Have no fear, for Allah is with us"Why would Rasulallah be the SECOND of the TWO? If Abu Bakr was indeed his companion ofthe cave, why would he be the FIRST of the TWO?On what basis? Age? No, as he was 3 years younger than Rasulallah(SAW)...Did he precedeRasul in the Hijrah to the cave? No. All alleged 'Abbasid' accounts has Abu Bakr accompanyingRasulallah(SAW), not preceding him in the hijrah(migration)...Why would Rasulallah(SAW) say toa BELIEVER to have "No fear, for Allah is with us". If Abu Bakr was such a follower ofFAITH(IMAN), Rasulallah(SAW) would not have to say this to him...

And where was Uriqat, the bedouin guide and escort of Rasulallah? Alternate 'Abbasid' accountsclaim Rasulallah(SAW) had more than one guide and escort to Taybah(Madinat-ul-Nabih)...Uriqatwas documented as not being a Muslim but a kafir(unbeliever) or a mushrik(polytheist) at the

least. It is wholly understandable that URIQAT have doubts and fears at the oncoming,murderous party of Waleed b. Utbah and company. It is also logically explicable that Uriqat be the


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FIRST of the TWO...Why? Because technically, he was Rasul's escort and guide whileRasulallah was his PASSENGER...The SECOND of the TWO. After the miracle of the cave atJabal Thawr, Uriqat the Hejazi Bedouin, became a believer...After witnessing the effect of thespider's newly spun web and the nesting rock dove at the mouth of the cave...

Rasul also made his hijrah not from the city of Bakka but from his camp at Shoab Abi Talib,where he had been driven out to...The Qur'anic sequence of events in this holy ayat CLEARLYstates that Rasulallah made his hijrah to Jabal Thawr following his banishment into the wildernessfrom Wadi-al-Bakka by the Quraysh...Not directly from Mecca...And this CONTRADICTS allOrthodox Muslim accounts which supposedly have Rasulallah stopping by Abu Bakr's house andthen slipping away from MECCA CITY together with him, meeting up with Uriqat at the outskirtsof Mecca. And then you have the other immense CONTRADICTION...Rasulallah had ONE escortor companion NOT TWO...The Orthodox Muslim[i.e. "Sunni"] narratives have THREE individualsin the detour of the hijrah(migration) via Jabal Thawr...Where did Uriqat disappear to?? Whywould Rasulallah NEED Abu Bakr who was not qualified as a desert guide and escort...All thosecomplicated, varying hadith(narratives) explaining that Abu Bakr financed the hijrah of Rasulallahand the acquisition of multiple guides to Taybah(Madinat-ul-Nabih) do not comply with the holyQur'anic ayat no. 40 of Surah Tawbah/Bara'at...

For example: Here is one of the Sunni hadith(narratives) about an alleged goatherder named Amir b. Fuhayrah. Supposedly, this goatherder was a former slave freed by Abu Bakr whoassisted in the hijrah of Rasulallah and Abu Bakr. Now this adds a THIRD COMPANION to thehijrah(migration) of Rasulallah(SAW)!!! Amir b. Fuhayrah supposedly followed closely behindUriqat, Rasulallah and Abu Bakr with his goatherd in order to cover up the cameltracks. Thispresents the problem of how did Waleed b. Utbah's party track Rasulallah to Jabal Thawr if thecameltracks were virtually wiped out by the tracks of the goatherd?? And somehow, this Sunnihadith(narrative) expects us to wonder what Waleed b. Utbah and his murderous party thought ofwhen arriving at Jabal Thawr and finding this goatherder and his flock out in the midst of virtuallynowhere at this remote mountain?? This whole narrative of Amir b. Fuhayrah, the goatherder,was probably CONJURED up to further support Abu Bakr's value to Rasulallah in the hijrah...Amirb. Fuhayrah supposedly provided the goatmilk which sustained Rasulallah and Abu Bakr duringtheir stay at Jabal Thawr...As for Uriqat, he leaves the story at Jabal(Mount) Thawr and otherguides are hired by Abu Bakr, somehow, from the midst of the remote Jabal Thawr to guide andescort Rasulallah and Abu Bakr to Taybah[Madinat-ul-Nabih]...

Again, this particular account does not at all comply with the holy Qur'anic ayat 40 of SurahTawbah/Bara'at...

Surah At-Tawbah[The Repentance] or Al-Bara'at[The Atonement]

Ayah Number 40

Yusuf Ali's Translation: If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him,when the Unbelievers drove him out: he[[Rasulallah]] had no more than one companion; they twowere in the cave, and he[[Rasulallah]] said to his companion, "Have no fear, for Allah is with us":then Allah sent down His peace upon him, and strengthened him with forces which ye saw not,and humbled to the depths the word of the Unbelievers. But the word of Allah is exalted to theheights: for Allah is Exalted in might, Wise.

Pickthal's Translation: If ye help him not, still Allah helped him when those who disbelieve drovehim forth, the second of two[[Rasulallah]]; when they two were in the cave, when he[[Rasulallah]]said unto his comrade: Grieve not. Lo! Allah is with us. Then Allah caused His peace ofreassurance to descend upon him and supported him with hosts ye cannot see, and made theword of those who disbelieved the nethermost, while Allah's Word it was that became theuppermost. Allah is Mighty, Wise.

Shakir's Translation: If you will not aid him, Allah certainly aided him when those who disbelieved


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expelled him, he[[Rasulallah]] being the second of the two, when they were both in the cave,when he[[Rasulallah]] said to his companion: Grieve not, surely Allah is with us. So Allah sentdown His tranquillity upon him and strengthened him with hosts which you did not see, and madelowest the word of those who disbelieved; and the word of Allah, that is the highest; and Allah isMighty, Wise.

We only have the documentation of the 'Abbasid' scholars that place Abu Bakr b. Uthman al-Taymi as the companion of the cave...There are no Umayyad accounts supporting this claim andallegation as they were the earlier dynasty of Caliphs...Again, a gap of 125-200 years AFTER thepassing of Rasulallah(SAW) before any Sunni tafseer first appeared about the Ayats of the HolyQur'an...As for any possible Shia account on this event, we might never know from anarchaeological standpoint as none of their documents were ever allowed to be published duringthe Umayyad Caliphate. The Umayyad Caliphate brutally crushed all Shia proponents and alltheir written works. And again, they did far worse in massacring the DIRECT blood descendantsof Rasul Muhammad(SAW) in Imam Husayn and family as well as Hazrat Zayd ibn Ali [Zayn al-

Abidin] and later, his son Hazrat Yahya ibn Zayd...-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Salam...All these "DISTINCTIONS" and "VIRTUES" are all fabricated, propagandists spin of the

'Abbasid' Caliphate. They were gradually built up via exegesis[tafseer] 125-250 yearsFOLLOWING the passing of Rasulallah(SAW). You will find similar "VIRTUES" in the history ofCatholicism as well on some so-called pontiffs of God on earth[the Popes] of whom some wereamong the most cruel and horrible people to have EVER LIVED...Those tafseer are naturally fromthe Sunnih commentators who are the supporters of the MUNAFIQ Abu Bakr...Abu Bakr theTHIEF. Why has there never been any such tafseer from the Umayyad Caliphate??

The concept of 'Caliphate-e-Raashida' was a product of the 'Abbasid' Caliphate NOT theUmayyads...More LIES and FABRICATIONS have been told about ABU BAKR than probablyanyone in early Islamic history. This individual's subsequent actions, from the days whenRasulallah(SAW) was dying and the USURPTION of the Caliphate by him CLEARLYCONTRADICTS his SO-CALLED perceived "virtues" attributed him by Sunni(Orthodox Muslim)exegetes...

There are NO historical instances that place Abu Bakr and Umar or Uthman in ANY of the Jihadsof Rasulallah's LIFETIME...Even those MANUFACTURED hadith that mention the names of AbuBakr and Umar have always been blurred in any details. Also, from a purely archaeologicalperspective, the thousands of years of Pharoanic history of Egypt clearly attests to the concept ofFABRICATION of such powerful rulers. Far too many of them SUBSTITUTED their own nameson the obelisks of their predecessors to STEAL their glory...These LIES were WRITTEN INSTONE no less!!

As for your quotes from the Qur'anic Surahs pertaining to Abu Bakr and Umar in OrthodoxMuslim tafseer, those are again mostly stolen from the real MUMININ of Rasulallah(SAW)...Ifthese SELF-SERVING, OPPORTUNISTIC, HYPOCRITES can STEAL the Caliphate from itsrightful owner and nearly 1200 years of propagandist tafseer favoured this usurption, even whenso many Sunni hadith clearly RECORD the appointment of Imam Ali by Rasulallah(SAW)HIMSELF in front of 130,000 Muslim Hajis...Anything is expected in the form of inaccurate andmisleading tafseer when it pertains to the likes of Abu Bakr and Umar--THE HYPOCRITES andTHIEVES...

Read the ayats 204-206 of Surah al-Baqarah AGAIN and AGAIN and it will become evident that itis referring to none other than this "virtuous" Abu Bakr...

And Abu Bakr was NOT the first person to accept Islam nor the first man...That was Rasulallah'spaternal uncle Hazrat Abu Talib. The complete LACK of COMMON SENSE and LOGIC in Sunnitafseer and history of Islam is amazing. The person who stood by and supported

Rasulallah(SAW) ALL his life, got BANISHED from his own city of which he was GOVERNOR asthe Sharif of Bakka, died supporting Rasulallah(SAW) after spending all his wealth in the way of


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Rasulallah(SAW)...According to Sunni tafseer, died a KAFIR[astaghfirullah]!!! And yet these sameSunni exegetes have hadith(narratives) PRAISING the likes of 'Abu Sufyan', Muawiyah, Amr ibnal-Aas, Khalid b. al-Waleed["the bittersest sword AGAINST Islam"], etc., etc...

According to some of these hadith, 'Abu Sufyan' is PROMISED paradise!!! While Hazrat AbuTalib and Hazrat Abdullah[Rasul's own father] died UNBELIEVERS!!! The very laqab(epithet) of'Abdullah' means "Worshipper of Allah"...And yet he passed on as anUNBELIEVER[astaghfirullah]??? LOGIC and COMMON SENSE is missing from these Sunniexegetes and the likes who uphold such misinformed beliefs...

Abu Bakr was probably the MOST UNDESERVING recipient of the VIRTUES of the REALmuminin of Islam...

Prophet Muhammad pbuh said: " Whoever abuses my Companions, upon th em is the curse of Allah, theangels and all t he people" [Saheeh, At-Tabaranee].

And the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, " The s ign o f faith i s love of th e Ansar and th e sign of hypocr isy is thehatred of Ansar" [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim].

Salam...

The hadiths(narratives) are well received indeed. Those "companions" are the REAL and TRUEcompanions--the Ashab ul-Maimanna...

It is referring to the great ones outside the family of Rasulallah(SAW) such as:

Hazrat Salman al-Farsi//Hazrat Abu Dharr Jundab b. Junadah al-Ghaffari//Hazrat Ammar b. al-Yasir//Hazrat Miqdad b. al-Aswad//Hazrat Hudhaifah b. Usayd//

Hazrat Jabir b. 'Abdullah' al-Ansari//Hazrat Zayd b. al-Harith b. Sharajih/Hazrat Musab b. Umayral-Yamam...etc., etc...

YES. Whomsoever abuses them, the curse of Allah(SWT) be upon them!

Also, the Ansar were the people of the Banu Yathrab, Banu Khazraj, etc...

It did not INCLUDE Abu Bakr, Umar or Uthman...

You also forgot to mention the hadith of Rasulallah(SAW) that stated that "...FATIMA IS OF ME.WHOEVER HURTS HER, HURTS ME..."

What did this so-called "virtuous" Abu Bakr DO that HURT Bibi Fatima bint Muhammad(SAW) SO

MUCH that she REFUSED to speak to Abu Bakr till she passed away?...Now this is CLEARLYmentioned in Sunni hadith or did it just slip from your collective memories??

The REAL proof that the GREAT ONES, the Muminin Hazrat Salman, Hazrat Abu Dharr, Hazrat Ammar, Hazrat Miqdad, Hazrat Jabir DID NOT get any PROMINENT posts in the Caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar or Uthman CLEARLY attests to the fact that they were interested in the Dawaaof Al-Islam and Rasulallah's Sunnah!!They were NOT interested in political gain and financial greed as those trio of usurper Caliphs...

In fact, Hazrat Ammar was MARTYRED fighting alongside Hazrat Ali at Siffin against Muawiyah;Muawiyah's mercenaries decapitated Hazrat Ammar in that battle...

The REAL WORK of spreading ISLAM was done via Dawaa by Hazrat Salman, Hazrat Abu DharrJundab, Hazrat Ammar, Hazrat Miqdad, Hazrat Bilal, Hazrat 'Abdullah' b. Masud, and thegreatest of ALL the Daiyyin--HAZRAT AQIL ibn Abu Talib al-Hashimi...


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Not the seekers of conquest, treasury and power that were Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Amr b. al-

Aas, Saad b. Nufayl Abi Waqqas, Talhah, Zubayr, etc., etc...

Abu Bakr INDICTS himself as a HYPOCRITE and a LIAR from his very own words--

In the speech where he stated that "...whomsoever mourns over Muhammad, let them know thatHE IS DEAD. But Islam is still alive..."

When the Azan or Call of the daily Salat is given around the world, what does it declare? Thatthere is no Divinity but The Divinity and that Muhammad IS HIS MESSENGER!!

It is not stating this in its PAST TENSE but its PRESENT tense TO THIS VERY DAY and tillYawm al-Qiyamah...

And Allah(SWT) CLEARLY stated in the Holy Qur'an that those who live, work and pass on in theway of Allah, are NOT DEAD but still alive...

Where does this leave Abu Bakr???

And all the LIES and FABRICATIONS in all the world could not change the FACT that NEITHER Abu Bakr, Umar or Uthman ATTENDED RASULALLAH'S FUNERAL and BURIAL!!

Trying to reach out to our BRAINWASHED Sunni/Wahhabi/Salafi Muslim brethren about the truecharacter of Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman is the same as trying to reach out to over 2 BILLIONChristians [Ahlul Kitab] that Nabih Isa(A.S.) IS NOT THE SON OF GOD...

Salam...

Hazrat Salman, Hazrat Ammar served as GOVERNORS under Umar?? Governors of where,

what and when exactly??Umar was a PARANOID Caliph...He deposed and reinstated more governors and administratorsin his domain than Abu Bakr, Uthman, Muawiyah and Marwan COMBINED!

Yes Zubayr was supposedly the "first" to draw his sword in "defense" of Hazrat Ali that is why hewent to war against him to capture the Caliphate by force! A rebellious act of treason...Did Imam

Ali raise his sword to take back what was rightfully his when Abu Bakr STOLE the Caliphate fromhim??Or did Imam Ali raise his sword against Umar or Uthman either??? NO! Even though he hadevery right to do so he did not as he did not want to cause fitnah within Islam...

Which is PRECISELY what Abu Bakr DID...The so-called wars of "apostasy" were allpropagandist fabrication to JUSTIFY Abu Bakr's real quest for wealth and power...

Abu Bakr's wars of "APOSTASY" were the historical forerunner to the so-called Christian"CRUSADES" against the Muslim World waged during the Middle Ages...

The same pretext the European Christians and the Papacy used to unjustly invade the MiddleEast during the Crusades, is what Abu Bakr used centuries EARLIER during the Ridda Wars...

In fact, Abu Bakr was the EXAMPLE set for the European Christian "Crusaders" who invaded,plundered and butchered mostly innocent people of the Middle Eastern/Islamic world...

The real reason and purpose of the Christian European Crusades were the SAME as that of Abu

Bakr's Ridda Wars...Greed, power and control.


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Shams? b. Abdu Manaf?] who allegedly participated as one of the 313 Muslims in the Battle ofBadr and was killed in the Battle of Al-Yamamah in 11 A.H (633 A.D.); This latter battle is the onewhere over 700 Huffaz-ul-Qur'an were killed fighting for "Islam"...

His alleged sister was Henda b. Utbah, the wife of 'Abu Sufyan'...And his alleged brother wasWaleed b. Utbah whom Imam Ali slew at Badr...

This 'Abu Hudhayfah' Hisham b. Utbah could not have been appointed GOVERNOR by Umar b.al-Khattab AT ALL as he was allegedy killed in battle the year before Umar became Caliph; Umarbecame Caliph in 634 A.D. ...If it is indeed the same one you identify...

And Umar b. al-Khattab is not the most reliable source to uphold that az-Zubayr defended Imam Ali...This is the same Umar who claimed to have wed Imam Ali and Sayyida Fatima's daughterHazrat Umme Kulthum, who supposedly bore him a son named Zayd and a daughter namedRuqayya...

Umme Kulthum b. Ali wedded her cousin Muhammad b. Jafar b. Abu Talib al-Hashimi and hadNO BIOLOGICAL OFFSPRING...Which every Shia Ulema in the world will ATTEST to...

Salam...There were quite a few 'Hudhayfahs'...

Abu Hudhayfah ibn al-Mughirah was a sahaba of Rasulallah(SAW)...Master of Yasir ibn Amir, Sumayyah bint Khabbab and their son Ammar ibn al-Yasir.

There was another sahabi named Hudhayfah Abu Khunays as-Sahmi...

Abu Hudhayfah b. Utbah, whom we have already discussed...

Hudhayfah b. Usayd al-Yaman[aka al-Ghifari]...

And as you have pointed out, Hudhayfah b. al-Yamani...Etc..Etc..

THE Hazrat Hudhayfah which I was referring to is Hazrat Hudhayfah, Son of Usayd the Yemeniwho passed away the same year as Hazrat Salman al-Farsi[Rouzbeh] which was 656 A.D. ...They are both BURIED at Madayan, 30 miles from Baghdad. Also, Hazrat Jabir ibn 'Abdullah' al-

Ansari is BURIED there as well...

The problem with all our collective history based on hadith(narratives) are that they are allHEARSAY in the purest sense of the word...

For example:

What we have is so-and-so said that so-and-so said that Umar b. al-Khattab said....etc..etc..

Archaeologically there are no authentic manuscripts written by Umar himself that is preserved tothis day...Or Abu Bakr, Uthman, etc...

Its not like the preserved writings of Julius Caesar(100-44 B.C.) HIMSELF in his "Commentaries"or Marcus Aurelius(121-180 A.D.) HIMSELF in his "Meditations"...There is no dispute as to theauthors of these ancient literary works...

Our Muslim history really began being written down with the 'Abbasid' Dynasty of Caliphs..Asthere are no surviving works of the earlier dynasty of Caliphs WITH THE EXCEPTION of Imam

Ali's oratorials and letters that were first published during the brief Caliphate of the Umayyad


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Umar b. Abdul Aziz(r. 717-720 A.D.)...These of course being NAHJUL BALAGHA(Peak OfEloquence)...

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The 'Abbasids' were in general terms the founders of the Sunni schools of thought...They weretreacherous enemies of the Shias...What is termed 'Batini' enemies. When I use the term'Abbasid' it is in clear reference to the Sunni school of thought NOT Shia...

Umar appointed, deposed and reinstated SO MANY people, whether they be anti-Shia or pro-Shia, that further investigative research is warranted as to the EXACT dates as to who served aswhat and when. That is what is accepted in modern investigative historical research. Not justtaking ONLY collections of hadiths(narratives) as undisputed fact.

In this respect, I have admiration for occidental professors of research and their no-nonsenseclinical approach to facts and fallacies...

In Imam Ali's compilation of NAHJUL BALAGHA, some of his letters which are included clearly

outline the historical events...Even the phraseology and verbiage used by Imam Ali attest to their AUTHENTICITY...For instance, he refers to Madinah Munawwara as "Taybah"...This being theORIGINAL name of Madinat-ul-Nabih, city of the Banu Yathrab tribe...descended from Yathrabi,one of the ancient salaf(predecessors) of Rasulallah(SAW)...

Even when scrutinized meticulously, acknowledged "Shia" works during the 'Abbasid' period havesome questionable things...Whether Majlisi's compilation or Usul al-Kafi...Again these arecompilations taken from many Sunni source materials as well as Shia oral traditions.

The Fatimid Caliphate's original source materials were far more favourable to the Shias eventhough they were Ismailiyyas...The Al-Azhar Islamic University is one of their enduring legacies...

If I had more time, I would include the detailed excerpts here but currently, I do not. When I do, Iwill certainly do so...

It will require a bit of time for me to look up those discrepancies in Majlisi and Usul al-Kafi andpresent them in excerpts here in these posts. But they are there believe me...

And finally, my original post had really to do with Abu Bakr and the Qur'anic reference to whichmany a top Shia Ulema have brought up in their qutbas(sermons)...

The fool Umar was not the subject of edification. His very own words sums it all up.."If there wereno Ali, there would be no Umar..!"It was undoubtedly Imam Ali's influence on that FOOL which probably had a lot to do with the trueMuminin being appointed as governors or administrators during his Caliphate...

Salam...

This is a belated reply to brother 'ix777'...

When you presented this thread about Rasulallah(SAW) SUPPOSEDLY taking counsel from AbuBakr and Umar, you should have read the AYATS 152-157 BEFORE it VERY CAREFULLY...

First of all you made a clear ERROR in identifying Ayat 158 of the 3rd Surah AAL-I-IMRAN['Family of Imran']...The verse which you presented was from AYAT 159 of this 3rd Holy SurahNOT AYAT 158...

Furthermore, this Holy Surah is not entitled "AL-IMRAN" but "AAL-I-IMRAN"...


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The AYATS 152-159 of AAL-I-IMRAN are about what occured during the JIHAD-UL-UHUD...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------003.152YUSUFALI: Allah did indeed fulfil His promise to you when ye with His permission Were about toannihilate your enemy,-until ye flinched and fell to disputing about the order, and disobeyed itafter He brought you in sight (of the booty) which ye covet. Among you are some that hanker afterthis world and some that desire the Hereafter. Then did He divert you from your foes in order totest you but He forgave you: For Allah is full of grace to those who believe.PICKTHAL: Allah verily made good His promise unto you when ye routed them by His leave, until(the moment) when your courage failed you, and ye disagreed about the order and ye disobeyed,after He had shown you that for which ye long. Some of you desired the world, and some of youdesired the Hereafter. Therefore He made you flee from them, that He might try you. Yet now Hehath forgiven you. Allah is a Lord of Kindness to believers.SHAKIR: And certainly Allah made good to you His promise when you slew them by Hispermission, until when you became weak-hearted and disputed about the affair and disobeyedafter He had shown you that which you loved; of you were some who desired this world and ofyou were some who desired the hereafter; then He turned you away from them that He might try

you; and He has certainly pardoned you, and Allah is Gracious to the believers.

003.153YUSUFALI: Behold! ye were climbing up the high ground, without even casting a side glance atany one, and the Messenger in your rear was calling you back. There did Allah give you onedistress after another by way of requital, to teach you not to grieve for (the booty) that hadescaped you and for (the ill) that had befallen you. For Allah is well aware of all that ye do.PICKTHAL: When ye climbed (the hill) and paid no heed to anyone, while the messenger, in yourrear, was calling you (to fight). Therefor He rewarded you grief for (his) grief, that (He mightteach) you not to sorrow either for that which ye missed or for that which befell you. Allah isInformed of what ye do.SHAKIR: When you ran off precipitately and did not wait for any one, and the Messenger wascalling you from your rear, so He gave you another sorrow instead of (your) sorrow, so that youmight not grieve at what had escaped you, nor (at) what befell you; and Allah is aware of whatyou do.

003.154YUSUFALI: After (the excitement) of the distress, He sent down calm on a band of you overcomewith slumber, while another band was stirred to anxiety by their own feelings, Moved by wrongsuspicions of Allah-suspicions due to ignorance. They said: "What affair is this of ours?" Saythou: "Indeed, this affair is wholly Allah's." They hide in their minds what they dare not reveal tothee. They say (to themselves): "If we had had anything to do with this affair, We should not havebeen in the slaughter here." Say: "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whomdeath was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death"; but (all this was)that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts. For Allah knowethwell the secrets of your hearts.PICKTHAL: Then, after grief, He sent down security for you. As slumber did it overcome a partyof you, while (the other) party, who were anxious on their own account, thought wrongly of Allah,the thought of ignorance. They said: Have we any part in the cause? Say (O Muhammad): Thecause belongeth wholly to Allah. They hide within themselves (a thought) which they reveal notunto thee, saying: Had we had any part in the cause we should not have been slain here. Say:Even though ye had been in your houses, those appointed to be slain would have gone forth tothe places where they were to lie. (All this hath been) in order that Allah might try what is in yourbreasts and prove what is in your hearts. Allah is Aware of what is hidden in the breasts (ofmen).SHAKIR: Then after sorrow He sent down security upon you, a calm coming upon a party of you,and (there was) another party whom their own souls had rendered anxious; they entertained

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not reveal to you. They say: Had we any hand in the affair, we would not have been slain here.Say: Had you remained in your houses, those for whom slaughter was ordained would certainlyhave gone forth to the places where they would be slain, and that Allah might test what was inyour breasts and that He might purge what was in your hearts; and Allah knows what is in thebreasts.

003.155YUSUFALI: Those of you who turned back on the day the two hosts Met,-it was Satan whocaused them to fail, because of some (evil) they had done. But Allah Has blotted out (their fault):For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Forbearing.PICKTHAL: Lo! those of you who turned back on the day when the two hosts met, Satan alone itwas who caused them to backslide, because of some of that which they have earned. Now Allahhath forgiven them. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Clement.SHAKIR: (As for) those of you who turned back on the day when the two armies met, only theShaitan sought to cause them to make a slip on account of some deeds they had done, andcertainly Allah has pardoned them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Forbearing.

003.156

YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! Be not like the Unbelievers, who say of their brethren, when theyare travelling through the Earth or engaged in fighting: "If they had stayed with us, they would nothave died, or been slain." This that Allah may make it a cause of sighs and regrets in their hearts.It is Allah that gives Life and Death, and Allah sees well all that ye do.PICKTHAL: O ye who believe! Be not as those who disbelieved and said of their brethren whowent abroad in the land or were fighting in the field: If they had been (here) with us they would nothave died or been killed: that Allah may make it anguish in their hearts. Allah giveth life andcauseth death; and Allah is Seer of what ye do.SHAKIR: O you who believe! be not like those who disbelieve and say of their brethren when theytravel in the earth or engage in fighting: Had they been with us, they would not have died andthey would not have been slain; so Allah makes this to be an intense regret in their hearts; and

Allah gives life and causes death and Allah sees what you do.

003.157YUSUFALI: And if ye are slain, or die, in the way of Allah, forgiveness and mercy from Allah arefar better than all they could amass.PICKTHAL: And what though ye be slain in Allah's way or die therein? Surely pardon from Allahand mercy are better than all that they amass.SHAKIR: And if you are slain in the way of Allah or you die, certainly forgiveness from Allah andmercy is better than what they amass.

003.158YUSUFALI: And if ye die, or are slain, Lo! it is unto Allah that ye are brought together.PICKTHAL: What though ye be slain or die, when unto Allah ye are gathered?SHAKIR: And if indeed you die or you are slain, certainly to Allah shall you be gathered together.

003.159YUSUFALI: It is part of the Mercy of Allah that thou dost deal gently with them Wert thou severeor harsh-hearted, they would have broken away from about thee: so pass over (Their faults), andask for (Allah's) forgiveness for them; and consult them in affairs (of moment). Then, when thouhast Taken a decision put thy trust in Allah. For Allah loves those who put their trust (in Him).PICKTHAL: It was by the mercy of Allah that thou wast lenient with them (O Muhammad), for ifthou hadst been stern and fierce of heart they would have dispersed from round about thee. Sopardon them and ask forgiveness for them and consult with them upon the conduct of affairs. Andwhen thou art resolved, then put thy trust in Allah. Lo! Allah loveth those who put their trust (inHim).SHAKIR: Thus it is due to mercy from Allah that you deal with them gently, and had you been

rough, hard hearted, they would certainly have dispersed from around you; pardon them thereforeand ask pardon for them, and take counsel with them in the affair; so when you have decided,


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And these holy ayats do NOT FLATTER Abu Bakr and Umar at all!!!

READ AYAT 159...This ayat is an OPEN INSULT to Abu Bakr and Umar if they were evensupposedly present at the Ghazwah Jabal Uhud...

READ AYAT 154 VERY CAREFULLY and all will know what is meant by "...consult with themupon the conduct of affairs..."---

"....while another band was stirred to anxiety by their own feelings, Moved by wrong suspicions of Allah-suspicions due to ignorance. They said: "What affair is this of ours?" Say thou: "Indeed, thisaffair is wholly Allah's." They hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to thee. They say (tothemselves): "If we had had anything to do with this affair, We should not have been in theslaughter here." Say: "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death wasdecreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death"; but (all this was) that Allah

might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts. For Allah knoweth well thesecrets of your hearts..."

This holy ayat is EVIDENCE as to what Abu Bakr, Umar and those who RAN AWAY at JabalUhud REALLY WERE...SO THE COUNSEL OF AFFAIRS which Rasul Muhammad(SAW) isinstructed by Allah(SWT) to consult WITH THEM[i.e. Abu Bakr, Umar, etc.] is CLEARLYOUTLINED in Ayat 154...

That is to take counsel or consult WITH THEM not FROM THEM...CONSULT in the contexts of'talking things over';'a meeting with a plan of action';'TO CONFER'...As in a formal meeting fordiscussion...Regarding their feelings of anxiety and suspicions in the cause of Allah(SWT). Thesesuspicions due to the ignorance of Abu Bakr, Umar and those who FLED from the battlefield atJabal Uhud!!

The AFFAIR or CAUSE in question is the 'affair' or 'cause' of Allah(SWT)! Rasulallah(SAW) isinstructed by Allah(SWT) to CONSULT WITH THEM [Abu Bakr, Umar and those who abandonedNabih Muhammad and fled the battlefield at Uhud] regarding this particular AFFAIR or CAUSE of

Allah(SWT)...Why did they [Abu Bakr, Umar, etc.] have feelings of anxiety and wrongfulsuspicions in the CAUSE or AFFAIR of Allah(SWT)?? Rasul Muhammad(SAW) is instructed totake counsel with them [Abu Bakr, Umar and those that fled] on these specified issues...

It has NOTHING AT ALL to do with TAKING advice from the likes of Abu Bakr, Umar, etc...

And it most certainly DOES NOT COMPLIMENT Abu Bakr, Umar and those others who RAN AWAY from the battlefield at Jabal Uhud...It is a terrible DISGRACE!

If Abu Bakr and Umar were in fact even present at Ghazwah Jabal Uhud, then these holy ayatsCLEARLY state what WEAK-HEARTED cowards Abu Bakr and Umar were!

That Abu Bakr and Umar were amongst those who ran uphill when Rasulallah(SAW) was callingupon them to fight the Meccan kuffar! They ABANDONED Rasulallah(SAW) when he called uponthem...!

It is Allah(SWT) who counsels Rasulallah(SAW) to be lenient with Abu Bakr and Umar and theothers who ran uphill, abandoning Rasulallah(SAW)...

If Rasulallah(SAW) were to have been stern and harsh with Abu Bakr, Umar and those others,

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So Allah(SWT) counsels Rasul Muhammad(PBUH) to PARDON the likes of Abu Bakr and Umarand to ask for FORGIVENESS for their faults and consult with them upon the conduct ofaffairs...THEIR CONDUCT IN THE AFFAIR of Allah(SWT) during the battle of Jabal Uhud...

Rasulallah is then instructed by Allah(SWT) to make a decision[i.e. decide upon a solution] as towhat he should do regarding the disobedience, cowardice and abandoning BY Abu Bakr, Umarand those who did thus at Ghazwah Jabal Uhud...To make a resolution so such things can be

AVOIDED in the future!

There is nothing flattering about Abu Bakr and Umar in these holy ayats...They are a CLEARDEBASEMENT of the pathetic actions of Abu Bakr and Umar and some others at Jabal Uhud...

This is what occured at Jabal Uhud, where REAL ISLAMIC HEROES like Hazrat 'al-Hamzah',Hazrat Musab bin Umayr, Hazrat 'Abdullah' Ibn Jubayr and the SEVENTY that were MARTYREDfighting in the battlefield...While Abu Bakr and Umar and some others RAN AWAY...

These holy ayats 166-171 of Surah Aal-i-Imran attest to these shaheed(martyrs) as well as themunafiqun(hypocrites)--i.e. the Abu Bakrs and Umars--present at Ghazwah Jabal Uhud---

003.166YUSUFALI: What ye suffered on the day the two armies Met, was with the leave of Allah, in orderthat He might test the believers,-PICKTHAL: That which befell you, on the day when the two armies met, was by permission of

Allah; that He might know the true believers;SHAKIR: And what befell you on the day when the two armies met (at Ohud) was with Allah'sknowledge, and that He might know the believers.

003.167YUSUFALI: And the Hypocrites also. These were told: "Come, fight in the way of Allah, or (atleast) drive (The foe from your city)." They said: "Had we known how to fight, we should certainlyhave followed you." They were that day nearer to Unbelief than to Faith, saying with their lipswhat was not in their hearts but Allah hath full knowledge of all they conceal.PICKTHAL: And that He might know the hypocrites, unto whom it was said: Come, fight in theway of Allah, or defend yourselves. They answered: If we knew aught of fighting we would followyou. On that day they were nearer disbelief than faith. They utter with their mouths a thing whichis not in their hearts. Allah is Best Aware of what they hide.SHAKIR: And that He might know the hypocrites; and it was said to them: Come, fight in Allah'sway, or defend yourselves. They said: If we knew fighting, we would certainly have followed you.They were on that day much nearer to unbelief than to belief. They say with their mouths what isnot in their hearts, and Allah best knows what they conceal.

003.168YUSUFALI: (They are) the ones that say, (of their brethren slain), while they themselves sit (atease): "If only they had listened to us they would not have been slain." Say: "Avert death fromyour own selves, if ye speak the truth."PICKTHAL: Those who, while they sat at home, said of their brethren (who were fighting for thecause of Allah): If they had been guided by us they would not have been slain. Say (unto them, OMuhammad): Then avert death from yourselves if ye are truthful.SHAKIR: Those who said of their brethren whilst they (themselves) held back: Had they obeyedus, they would not have been killed. Say: Then avert death from yourselves if you speak thetruth.

003.169YUSUFALI: Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding theirsustenance in the presence of their Lord;

PICKTHAL: Think not of those, who are slain in the way of Allah, as dead. Nay, they are living.With their Lord they have provision.


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SHAKIR: And reckon not those who are killed in Allah's way as dead; nay, they are alive (and)are provided sustenance from their Lord;

003.170YUSUFALI: They rejoice in the bounty provided by Allah: And with regard to those left behind,who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (Martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear,nor have they (cause to) grieve.PICKTHAL: Jubilant (are they) because of that which Allah hath bestowed upon them of Hisbounty, rejoicing for the sake of those who have not joined them but are left behind: That thereshall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.SHAKIR: Rejoicing in what Allah has given them out of His grace and they rejoice for the sake ofthose who, (being left) behind them, have not yet joined them, that they shall have no fear, norshall they grieve.

003.171YUSUFALI: They glory in the Grace and the bounty from Allah, and in the fact that Allah sufferethnot the reward of the Faithful to be lost (in the least).PICKTHAL: They rejoice because of favour from Allah and kindness, and that Allah wasteth not

the wage of the believers.SHAKIR: They rejoice on account of favor from Allah and (His) grace, and that Allah will notwaste the reward of the believers.

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Hazrat Ali received an arrow in his thigh DEFENDING Rasul Muhammad(SAW) AND SAVINGRASUL'S LIFE...Fighting off the Meccan-Qurayshi onslaught while Abu Bakr, Umar and someothers RAN AWAY!

In these holy ayats 172-174 of Surah Aal-i-Imran, Allah(SWT) makes explicit reference to Imam Ali and the Muminin who were wounded at Ghazwah Jabal Uhud and who ANSWERED Rasul'scall!! Believers such as Imam Ali who were FEARLESS while the likes of Abu Bakr and UmarRAN AWAY!!---

003.172YUSUFALI: Of those who answered the call of Allah and the Messenger, even after beingwounded, those who do right and refrain from wrong have a great reward;-PICKTHAL: As for those who heard the call of Allah and His messenger after the harm befellthem (in the fight); for such of them as do right and ward off (evil), there is great reward.SHAKIR: (As for) those who responded (at Ohud) to the call of Allah and the Messenger after thewound had befallen them, those among them who do good (to others) and guard (againstevil)shall have a great reward.

003.173YUSUFALI: Men said to them: "A great army is gathering against you": And frightened them: Butit (only) increased their Faith: They said: "For us Allah sufficeth, and He is the best disposer ofaffairs."PICKTHAL: Those unto whom men said: Lo! the people have gathered against you, therefor fearthem. (The threat of danger) but increased the faith of them and they cried: Allah is Sufficient forus! Most Excellent is He in Whom we trust!SHAKIR: Those to whom the people said: Surely men have gathered against you, therefore fearthem, but this increased their faith, and they said: Allah is sufficient for us and most excellent isthe Protector.

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PICKTHAL: So they returned with grace and favour from Allah, and no harm touched them. Theyfollowed the good pleasure of Allah, and Allah is of Infinite Bounty.SHAKIR: So they returned with favor from Allah and (His) grace, no evil touched them and theyfollowed the pleasure of Allah; and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.

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These verses of Ayat 154--"..but (all this was) that Allah might test what is in your breasts andpurge what is in your hearts. For Allah knoweth well the secrets of your hearts..."--Allah(SWT)CLEARLY states that he TESTED Abu Bakr, Umar and some of those others who RAN AWAYfrom Nabih Muhammad(SAW)...And THEY FAILED the TEST!

Furthermore, these verses of Ayat 155--"..Those of you who turned back on the day the two hostsMet,-it was Satan who caused them to fail, because of some (evil) they had done."--Makes itEVIDENT that Abu Bakr, Umar and some of those others that fled the battlefield on the day the"two hosts Met"[i.e. The Muslims and The Meccan-Qurayshi kuffar] FELL UNDER THEINFLUENCE OF SHAITAN!! These munafiqs(hypocrites) Abu Bakr and Umar were amongst

those who were caused to stray by SHAITAN! That Abu Bakr, Umar and some of those othershad done some EVIL!

The verse of Ayat 152--"..Among you are some that hanker after this world.." CLEARLY appliesto Abu Bakr and Umar specifically! Their hunger for the CALIPHATE PROVED what Allah(SWT)stated in this holy ayat...!

**P.S.--In the English transliteration of the original Classical Arabic verses regarding the "...takecounsel with them in the AFFAIR...", the literal translation should have been "...take counsel withthem in (or about) the COMMAND..."

For example in Ayat 154--

'Ya-quuluuna hal-lanaa minal-'AMRI min-shay' ["They said: Have we any hand in theCOMMAND?"]

'Qul 'innal-'AMRA kullahuu lillah' ["Say thou: Indeed, this COMMAND Is wholly Allah's"]

'Yaquuluuna law kaana lanaa minal-'AMRI shay-'umaa qutilnaa haa-hunaa.' ["They say: If we hadhad anything To do with this COMMAND, We should not have been In the slaughter here."]

And in Ayat 159--

': fa'-fu 'anhum wastagfir lahum wa shaawirhum fil-'AMR.' ["..pardon them therefore and askpardon for them, and take counsel with them about the COMMAND."]

The Arabic word 'Ammar'["Command"] is the KEY word in these holy verses;'Ammar'["Command"] when combined with 'Allah'["The Divinity"] becomes'AMRULLAH'["Command of The Divinity"]...

'Ammar'["Command"] is also directly related to 'Ammara'["Commanding"] and'Amir'["Commander"]...

The members of ShiaChat and other Islamic Forums who are pro-Abu Bakr, pro-Umar, etc...Canbring all the fabricated hadith(narratives) in the world which show the SUPPOSED, ALLEGEDgreatness of these MUNAFIQS('Hypocrites') but Allah(SWT) says something else entirely in theHOLY QUR'AN..


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This is Surah AT-TAHRIM ["The Prohibition"]--

This AYAT is part of an explicit CONDEMNATION of the actions of AISHA BINT ABU BAKR andHAFSA BINT UMAR!!

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066.004YUSUFALI: If ye two turn in repentance to Him, your hearts are indeed so inclined; But if ye backup each other against him, truly Allah is his Protector, and Gabriel, and (every) righteous oneamong those who believe,- and furthermore, the angels - will back (him) up.PICKTHAL: If ye twain turn unto Allah repentant, (ye have cause to do so) for your hearts desired(the ban); and if ye aid one another against him (Muhammad) then lo! Allah, even He, is hisProtecting Friend, and Gabriel and the righteous among the believers; and furthermore the angelsare his helpers.SHAKIR: If you both turn to Allah, then indeed your hearts are already inclined (to this); and if youback up each other against him, then surely Allah it is Who is his Guardian, and Jibreel and -thebelievers that do good, and the angels after that are the aiders.

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Both Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthal and Abdullah Yusuf Ali [two of among the most widelyread Qur'anic commentators] UNMISTAKABLY IDENTIFIED both AISHA b. ABU BAKR andHAFSA b. UMAR as the subjects of this Qur'anic Surah...

Again, you have MISIDENTIFIED the Holy Qur'anic Surahs which you have presented in defenseof the munafiq Abu Bakr...

However, even in misidentifying the personages of Aisha and Hafsa as Abu Bakr and Umar isVERY REVEALING indeed...

It may be a psychological, FREUDIAN SLIP in misidentifying TWO treacherous spouses with theirequally treacherous FATHERS!!

Even though these exegetes identify the "...believers that do good..." as SUPPOSEDLY Abu Bakrand Umar, that is a matter of interpretation and perception. It certainly is not as POSITIVE anidentification as Aisha and Hafsa being compared in that same Surah of At-Tahrim to thetreacherous spouses of the earlier Nabihullahs Nuh(A.S.) and Lut(A.S.)...AND Allah(SWT) DOESNOT NAME THEM by their given names but by EXPLICIT REFERENCE!

The "...believers that do good..." COULD NOT POSSIBLY have been Abu Bakr and Umar as theirsubsequent actions from when Rasulallah(SAW) lay dying and onwards clearly OUTLINED andEVIDENCED...

Neither Abu Bakr and Umar even had the DECENCY to ATTEND the funeral and burial service ofRasulallah(SAW)!!!

Those "...believers that do good..." is an explicit reference to Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Aqil, Hazrat Jafar,Hazrat Salman, Hazrat Ammar, Hazrat Abu Dharr Jundab, Hazrat Jabir, Hazrat Miqdad, HazratHudhayfah, etc., etc...NOT Abu Bakr and Umar! In this, we must disagree with Pickthal and A.Yusuf Ali.

Pickthal and A. Yusuf Ali must have bowed under the sociopolitical pressure from thePOWERFUL Ahl-ul-Sunnah and Wahhabite Ulema to include the names of Abu Bakr and Umar in

the tafseer(exegesis) of the Ayat 4 of Surah At-Tahrim...


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bint Abu Bakr and Hafsa bint Umar...

That if they back each other up AGAINST Rasul Muhammad(SAW), they will wind up like thespouses of Nabihs Nuh(A.S.) and Lut(A.S.)...In JEHANNUM[HELL]!!

Also, Allah(SWT) makes it clear in Ayat 5 of Surah At-Tahrim that both Aisha bint Abu Bakr andHafsa bint Umar are NOT submissive, faithful, obedient, or penitent...

This is certainly NO TRIVIAL MATTER where Rasulallah(SAW) is BACKED by Allah(SWT);Malak ul-Jibreel; the REAL and TRUE 'believers that do good'[i.e. Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Aqil, HazratJafar, Hazrat Salman, etc.]; and the Angels...AGAINST the treachery of Aisha b. Abu Bakr andHafsa b. Umar!

So you see how it makes no sense AT ALL that the "...believers that do good..." could POSSIBLYbe Abu Bakr and Umar! And that they would be the ones being backed by Malak ul-Jibreel andthe other Angels AGAINST their very own daughters!

This is where Pickthal and A. Yusuf Ali run into to a HUGE PARADOX in their tafseer(exegesis)

on the Ayat 4 of Surah At-Tahrim...

It was when Surah at-Tahrim was revealed to Rasulallah(SAW), that both Aisha bint Abu Bakrand Hafsa bint Umar LOST their status as 'Ummul Muminin'...

While the other believing spouses [i.e. Hazrat Salma bint Khazeefah, Hazrat Zaynab bint Jahsh]each RETAINED their privileged status as 'Ummul Muminin'...

**The Ahl-ul-Sunnah exegetes have Hafsa b. Umar instead of Aisha b. Abu Bakr as the one whoBETRAYED Rasulallah's confidence; The majority of the Shia exegetes have it to be Aisha b.

Abu Bakr, however. The Sunnih Ulema have always been trying to protect Aisha's reputation asmuch as possible...

And once again--

The members of ShiaChat and other Islamic Forums who are pro-Abu Bakr, pro-Umar, pro-Aisha,pro-Hafsa, etc...Can bring all the fabricated hadith(narratives) in the world which show theSUPPOSED, ALLEGED greatness of these MUNAFIQS('Hypocrites') and their daughters but

Allah(SWT) says something else entirely in the HOLY QUR'AN...!

You noticed in the holy ayat 40 of At-Tawbah, Allah(SWT) NEVER actually says the FIRST ofTHE TWO...

Allah Malik says 'SAANI-YASNAYNI..' ("The Second of the Two") WITHOUT actually STATINGthe 'SAAHI-BIHII..'("His Companion") to be the FIRST of THE TWO..

There is NO WAY anyone in creation could even be mentioned OFFICIALLY as the FIRST ofTHE TWO when it involves Ashraf ul-Anbiya Rasul Muhammad(SAW)!!!

Brother Jalal27...You should READ my responses to 'ix777' in the post entitled REFERENCE OF ABU BAKR IN THE HOLY QUR'AN. The REAL tafseer about Ayats 152-159 of Surah AAL-I-IMRAN["Family of Imran"]...It is post # 1365851.

These Ayats PROVE what Abu Bakr and Umar REALLY WERE in the very words of Allah(SWT)!!

All the commentators and exegetes unanimously IDENTIFY Abu Bakr and Umar as among the

subjects of Ayats 152-159 of Surah AAL-I-IMRAN...


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However, the Sunnih exegetes and commentators only mention the last few words "...And takecounsel with them in the AFFAIR (COMMAND)..."

They changed the TAFSEER to make it favourable to Abu Bakr and Umar when these holy ayatsfrom 152-159 of Surah AAL-I-IMRAN CLEARLY DISGRACE Abu Bakr and Umar!!!

The deeper symbolic meaning of the event at the cave in Jabal Thawr is that even though Uriqatwas Rasul's earthly "guide", Rasulallah(SAW) was Uriqat's spiritual GUIDE. Uriqat was akafir(unbeliever) by birth or a mushrik(polytheist) at the least...

The incident at the cave, guided Uriqat to Islam and monotheism...

The defining moment of Rasul's Hijrah(Migration) was the miracle of the cave at JabalThawr...The spider weaving its web and the rock dove nesting at the mouth of the cave...

That is why Allah(SWT) mentions it in His Holy Qur'an. Not in specific detail but implicitly...

"So Allah sent down His tranquillity upon him and strengthened him with hosts which you did not

see."--The Malayka who guided the spider and the rock dove were the "hosts which you did notsee"...

It has also been suggested that what appeared to be the spider was really Jibreel and the rockdove was Mikaeel...

Jabal Thawr(Mount of The Bull) housed the cave called Qar al-Thawr(Cave of The Bull); TheClassical Arabic Thawr("Bull") is related to the Latin Taurus("Bull") and its Spanish derivativeToro("Bull")...

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The sequence of events as follows--

27th Safar 1 A.H.(Thu 12th Sep 622 A.D.)--Commencement of Hijrah to Jabal Thawr[8 milessouth of Shoab Abi Talib] by Rasulallah(PBUH) with bedouin guide and escort Uriqat;Rasulallah(PBUH) slips away undetected from his camp at Shoab Abi Talib in the early eveningwhile later that same evening, assassins, each one a member of a different opposing clan of theQuraysh plan to slay him while he lay sleeping in his tent. Even though each of the assassinswere armed with daggers just in case they might need them, they had planned to smotherRasulallah(PBUH) in his sleep with pillows. Instead, they find 15-yr-old Hazrat Ali laying inRasulallah's bed as decoy. The Quraysh assassins further notice that Rasul's camel Quswa ismissing, something they did not notice initially upon their stealthy arrival at Shoab Abi Talib.

28th Safar 1 A.H.(Fri 13th Sep 622 A.D.)--Arrival at Jabal Thawr of Rasulallah(PBUH) with escortUriqat before dawn(fajr), via an intentionally roundabout, zig-zag route; A rock dove is nesting atthe mouth of the cave but is not disturbed or frightened by the arrival of Rasulallah(SAW) andUriqat; Uriqat makes a mental note of this occurence; Uriqat tethers Quswa and his own camel ata safe distance from the cave, clearly out of view in a gorge; Uriqat tends to the camels once aday, including feeding and watering them from an extra mashshakk.

30th Safar 1 A.H.(Sun 15th Sep 622 A.D.)--That night, a large spider begins to weave its web atthe mouth of Qar al-Thawr; the following morning Uriqat notices the freshly spun web coveringthe entrance of the cave and is about to break it when he is stopped by Rasulallah(SAW).

1st Rabi-ul-Awwal 1 A.H.(Mon 16th Sep 622 A.D.)--Miracle of the Cave at Jabal Thawr; The

spider has woven a very large web and the rock dove continues to nest at the mouth of the cavedeceiving the murderous party of Waleed b. Utbah, Hisham b. 'Shaybah', Yazid b. 'Abu Sufyan',


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Utbah b. 'Abu Sufyan' and Muawiyah b. 'Abu Sufyan' who were all intent on slayingRasulallah(PBUH). Uriqat is at first stunned, not expecting to be found at Jabal Thawr and thenloses all hope for his life as well as Rasul's; Rasulallah(SAW) calms him.

2nd Rabi-ul-Awwal 1 A.H.(Tue 17th Sep 622 A.D.)--Uriqat feels it is safe to depart Jabal Thawrbut Rasulallah(SAW) instructs the bedouin to wait for a few more days before resuming the

journey to Taybah(Madinah).

4th Rabi-ul-Awwal 1 A.H.(Thu 19th Sep 622 A.D.)--Departure from Jabal Thawr for Taybah(akaMadinat-ul-Nabih) by Rasulallah(PBUH) with escort Uriqat.

9th Rabi-ul-Awwal 1 A.H.(Tue 24th Sep 622 A.D.)--Arrival at Quba of Rasulallah(PBUH) withescort Uriqat, a village at the outskirts of Taybah (City of the Banu Yathrab tribe).

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Remember who was outside the cave to slay Rasulallah(SAW)...Waleed b. Utbah; Hisham b.

'Shaybah'(Waleed's paternal first cousin); Yazid b. 'Abu Sufyan'; Utbah b. 'Abu Sufyan'; and lastbut not least, Muawiyah b. 'Abu Sufyan'...!!! Muawiyah(602-680 A.D.) was age 20 at the time. Also, the three sons of Henda binte Utbah--Yazid, Utbah and Muawiyah were Waleed's nephews!

This of course is not including the hired hands of this murderous party which included an expertbedouin TRACKER, a bedouin guide, and servants...

Here are actual photographs of Jabal Thawr[Mount of The Bull] and Qar al-Thawr[Cave of TheBull]--

Notice the rocky terrain of Jabal Thawr in the picture below...


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Salam...

I never stated that my post was the widespread Shia view. It is the perception of a few selectMujtahids whom I came across...

Many of the traditional Shia doctrines from the 'Abbasid' Era were taken from traditional Sunnihsources...

As I have tirelessly mentioned so many times, NOTHING from the Umayyad Dynasty waspreserved by the 'Abbasids' IF they were even propagated at all...

Certainly NONE of the Shia doctrines were even allowed publication during the UmayyadDynasty with the exception of Imam Ali's NAHJUL BALAGHA...

And that due SOLELY to the pro-Aal-i-Muhammad Caliph Umar ibn Abdul Aziz.

Even Imam Ali's collection of qutbas and letters underwent some editing where it contradictedanything the Umayyad's propagated.

Only the Holy Qur'an has survived 100% INTACT in its ORIGINAL form!

Also, I don't care how many hadith from either Shia or Sunni state about Rasulallah(SAW) andHazrat Abu Talib returning back to Mecca after being banished into the nearby wilderness atShoab Abi Talib...

The Holy Ayat 40 of Surah At-Tawbah CLEARLY states that Rasulallah's Hijrah via Jabal Thawrfollowed his being caste out from Mecca by the Unbelievers that were the Banu Quraysh! Nothingat all is mentioned of Rasulallah(SAW) returning BACK to Mecca City before his hijrah(migration)

anywhere in the Holy Qur'an!

That day when Rasulallah(SAW) commenced his hijrah(migration) was the very same day thatthe Banu Quraysh had planned to murder him in his sleep...

If he was ever there in the first place, how could Rasulallah(SAW) POSSIBLY slip away fromMecca City along with Abu Bakr from Abu Bakr's house WITHOUT BEING DETECTED??

Especially, when he would have been under very tight SURVEILLANCE on that fateful day IF hehad been in the city...The day he was to be slain by the Quraysh!!

Also, the nonsense about Abu Bakr's son, the so-called "Abdullah", arriving with camels at JabalThawr defies logic and common sense! Did it ever occur to anyone that if the Banu Quraysh weredesperately seeking out Rasulallah(SAW), they would wonder what Abu Bakr's son is doingleaving the city of Mecca with some camels...? That if Abu Bakr WAS indeed withRasulallah(SAW) that he too was on the hit list...

Nobody in Mecca had the brains to figure out what "Abdullah" b. Abu Bakr is doing leaving thecity with some camels...Or did he purchase the camels OUTSIDE Mecca somewhere in theremote wilderness??

They could easily have put a tail on this "Abdullah" and found Rasulallah(SAW) at JabalThawr...Especially, since when more than a dozen hunting parties searched back and forth all thepossible routes from Mecca to Taybah(Madinah) and found no TRACE of Rasulallah(SAW)...

Also, how did "Abdullah" b. Abu Bakr KNOW where Rasulallah(SAW) was?


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How did "Abdullah" b. Abu Bakr know to bring specifically TWO camels?

And how did he get to Jabal Thawr and with whom??

And what happened to Uriqat...Where did he disappear to???

Also, where did the original camels disapppear to??

How did Rasulallah(SAW) end up with NO camels when there were 3 camels involved--Rasulallah's she-camel Quswa; Uriqat's camel; and allegedly Abu Bakr's camel??

And whatever happened to Rasul's she-camel Quswa? Quswa is mentioned in a few narrativesas making the journey from Mecca to Madinah...Rasul's she-camel Quswa had more value toRasulallah(SAW) in his Hijrah(Migration) than Abu Bakr from a purely practical viewpoint...

Also, it was understood that Quswa and the other camel were tethered at quite a distance fromJabal Thawr behind a gorge. That terrain surrounding Jabal Thawr is quite rocky. Uriqat wassmart enough to bring Rasulallah(SAW) there since that area is mostly rocky and tracking camels

was virtually impossible. No bedouin tracker, no matter how good, could track unshod camelhoofs over rocky terrain. Waleed's hunting party tracked Rasulallah(SAW) and Uriqat to nearbyJabal Thawr as long as the tracks could be picked up but lost it where they came upon the rockyterrain surrounding Jabal Thawr. There was only one nearby cave there and that was at JabalThawr which was nearest to where the cameltracks ended. The camels were tethered at a safedistance clearly out of view and would have been impossible to track over the rocky terrain.

How did "Abdullah" b. Abu Bakr know to bring exactly TWO camels to Jabal Thawr? Was hePSYCHIC or have special TELEPATHIC communication with Abu Bakr at Jabal Thawr??

Was there a CONTACT man between "Abdullah" b. Abu Bakr and Rasulallah(SAW) andsupposedly Abu Bakr?

Or was Uriqat the contact man between these two parties?

Uriqat would have been the ONLY ONE who knew that Rasulallah(SAW) and supposedly AbuBakr were at Jabal Thawr and he was the ONLY ONE who could have brought this "Abdullah" b.

Abu Bakr there...

Not to mention that the Banu Quraysh were SEARCHING for Uriqat as well as THEY WERE AWARE HE WAS RASULALLAH'S escort and guide!

So it couldn't be Uriqat who was the contact man between Rasulallah(SAW) and supposedly AbuBakr and this "Abdullah" b. Abu Bakr, could it?

And who guided Rasulallah(SAW) and supposedly Abu Bakr to Madinah from Jabal Thawr afterUriqat inexplicably left them at Jabal Thawr??

And all these hunting parties seeking out Rasulallah(SAW) were all on HORSEBACK whileRasulallah(SAW) and Uriqat were riding camels!

Interest in seeking out Rasulallah(SAW) never really waned. The Meccans were just exasperatedwith failure...

Also, correct me if I am mistaken, wasn't this "Abdullah" b. Abu Bakr the same son who allegedlyfought against Abu Bakr at Badr or was that the other son of Abu Bakr named "Abdur Rahman"??

And why would a son of Abu Bakr allegedly ASSIST him in Rasul's Hijrah IF he were AGAINSThis own father, whom he fought against at Ghazwah Aab ul-Badr??


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Furthermore, both these sons of Abu Bakr supposedly named "Abdullah" and "Abdur Rahman"were born somewhere between 595-602 A.D. or 6-13 years before Rasul received his Nubuwat atJabal Hira...

How were they ever named "Abdullah" and "Abdur Rahman" when their father was at that time amushrik or kafir??

Salam...

How would have Abu Bakr followed Rasulallah(SAW)? How would he have known where Rasulwas? Do you really think Rasul would have told him in advance...?

Of course Rasul knew where he was going before Uriqat even knew it...Rasul let Uriqat come upwith a suitable detour to Taybah(Madinah) while the Quraysh hunting parties were unrelentinglyseeking out Rasulallah(SAW)...

But do you really think Rasul would have divulged that prophetic knowledge to anyone, knowing

the risks it involved...?

Especially someone like an Abu Bakr...A weak-hearted individual which he PROVED at the Battleof Jabal Uhud! If he was even present at that battle...

And if Abu Bakr was supposedly such a CLOSE(??) friend of Rasulallah(SAW), don't you think itwould seem odd him leaving Bakka after Rasul? Knowing that the Quraysh would be watchingthe two of them like hawks...Abu Bakr would have LED the Quraysh right to Rasulallah(SAW) atJabal Thawr if he followed Rasul to Jabal Thawr somehow...

When Hazrat Abu Talib passed away, Rasulallah(SAW) would automatically become the newSharif of Bakka!

The long term implications of that would be potentially disastrous for the Banu Quraysh. As itwas, their foreign alliance with the Kingdom of Ethiopia was strained with the arrival of the MuslimMuhajirun as migrant persecuted refugees...

Not to mention that both rulers, Armah II of Axum and Barrah bin Azib of Taybah(Madinah) wereallies of the late Hazrat Abu Talib...

The Quraysh could not eliminate Rasul anywhere within Wadi al-Bakka(Valley of Mecca) as itwould obviously appear that they had done it!

Rasul Muhammad's person was too important a person from a sociopolitical(siasat) standpoint aswell as a religious one to just brazenly murder...

The Quraysh desperately wanted to do away with Rasulallah(SAW) as they wanted to take awaythe rulership of Bakka from the longtime Hashimite Nobility who had turned completely Muslim!

The only way to do that was to slay Rasulallah(SAW), the legitimate heir as the Sharif ul-Bakki...However they needed to do it in such a way where they would not be blamed. It had toappear as an accident of fate...

What the Quraysh had planned was that once Barrah bin Azib and the Taybah Shura(Council)decided to give permanent asylum to the Muslim Muhajirun in Ethiopia, they knew thatRasulallah(SAW) would then depart Shoab Abi Talib and head for Taybah(Madinah)...

It was then, that the Quraysh would orchestrate Rasul's murder...Once Rasul would depart fromShoab Abi Talib for Taybah(Madinah), they would tail him for a great distance till he was far


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enough away from Wadi al-Bakka and then slay him at night while he would be sleeping sometime during the journey...

They would shower Rasul and his party with arrows and spears then dispose of all the bodies tomake it appear that wild desert brigands would be the obvious ones most likely to be blamed. Thedisappearance of the corpses would be chalked off to wild beasts of the desert wilderness...

That is why the Quraysh did not plan to slay Rasul and his family at Shoab Abi Talib but waitedfor him to eventually depart for Taybah(Madinah), which they were sure he would eventuallydo...The journey to Taybah(Madinah) would be the perfect opportunity to pull this off!

However, Rasulallah(SAW) sent the only remaining relatives left at Shoab Abi Talib on aheadwithout him and Hazrat Ali...They were Hazrat 'al-Hamzah' and his immediate family and SayyidaFatima binte Muhammad(S.A.)...

Rasul knew what the Quraysh were planning and he did not want to jeopardize the life of his mostbeloved, one-and-only daughter Sayyida Fatima(S.A.), nor his paternal uncle 'Al-Hamzah' and hisimmediate family as well...So he sent them all ahead much to the extreme reluctance of Sayyida

Fatima(S.A.) and also Hazrat 'al-Hamzah'...

Rasul assured them that he would be fine, that Hazrat Ali was with him; Amir-ul-Muminin was 15years old but he was already of fully grown size, in both height and weight.**

Uriqat, upon Rasulallah's request, had found a fellow bedouin guide to escort Hazrat 'al-Hamzah'and party to Taybah(Madinah)...

Since the departure of the feared Hazrat 'al-Hamzah' and party, the Quraysh kept daily tabs onRasul at his camp in Shoab Abi Talib from a distance via servants and hired hands. It was not a24/7 surveillance because that was not really needed. All they needed to know was when Rasulleft his camp for Madinah and they would set up a tail on him...while slaying him later, far enoughaway from Wadi al-Bakka...They knew he would be riding his she-camel Quswa while they wouldtail him from an undetectable distance on horseback to eventually finish him off at the right placeand time...

That his how Rasulallah(SAW) MANAGED TO SLIP AWAY "UNDETECTED" FROM SHOAB ABITALIB!!!

However, Rasul frustrated their plans when after Hazrat 'al-Hamzah', Sayyida Fatima(S.A.) andfamily left. He DID NOT FOLLOW THEM just days later!

The Quraysh were actually almost euphoric when they came to know that Hazrat 'al-Hamzah',Sayyida Fatima(S.A), etc...left on ahead without Rasul and also Hazrat Ali...Now, the Qurayshhad less bodies to do away with and dispose of! To them, their plan just got easier!

However, Rasul kept postponing his departure to Madinah and the increasingly frustratedQuraysh could not figure out WHY??

Rasul had an agenda of his own...He outwitted the Quraysh as he knew that if he and Hazrat Alileft together for Madinah, they Quraysh would have kept up with their ORIGINAL PLAN whichwas to slay him in the remote desert halfway to Madinah along with Hazrat Ali...

When Rasulallah(SAW) asked Imam Ali to lay down his life for him, Rasul was actually SAVINGImam Ali's life as well...

Rasul so frustrated the Quraysh by NOT departing for Madinah in the seemingly near future, that

he knew they would not be able to contain themselves and would eventually come after him atShoab Abi Talib, with a newly improvised plan to slay him...Which the Quraysh DID!


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Rasul played his own plan very, very close...He slipped away alone upon Quswa from Shoab AbiTalib without being detected just a couple hours or so before the Quraysh assassins arrived tomurder him in his tent...Rasul joined up with Uriqat, who was awaiting his arrival at a pre-plannedrendezvous where the two set out for Jabal Thawr via a roundabout, circling path...The daleel thatwas sent to keep a distant surveillance upon him left to return to Mecca to report that Rasulretired into his tent to sleep early...When the daleel split, Rasul seized the opportune moment toslip away from Shoab Abi Talib, leaving Hazrat Ali behind.

Imam Ali was asked by Rasulallah(SAW) to sleep in his tent and bed as decoy, which Amir-ul-Muminin jumped at the chance of doing, not really knowing the outcome of what was tooccur...Rasul did not go into any details of the events that were to transpire in his tent, eventhough he being Nabihullah, knew exactly what was going to transpire...

When the Quraysh assassins finally arrived to slay Rasulallah(SAW), they were so focused andtense at what they were actually about to do, that they did not initially notice that Quswa was nottethered anywhere nearby...These assassins had trotted out halfway to Shoab Abi Talib fromBakka City on their horses then dismounted and went on foot the latter half of the way. A couple

daleels tended to their horses.

The Quraysh assassins did not arrive at Rasul's tent with SPEARS or LANCES to slay him...Theycame with their own pillows to smother him in his sleep and make it appear that he unexpectedlyDIED IN HIS SLEEP...They had no intention to slay Hazrat Ali at all with this newly improvisedplan...They figured on executing this plan with SUCH STEALTH, that Hazrat Ali should be fastasleep in his own bed and tent, unaware of their actions...! When Hazrat Ali would awake thefollowing morning, he would find that Rasulallah(SAW) inexplicably had DIED in his sleep! Thenthere would be no way the Quraysh could ever be blamed for his "accidental" death at his campat Shoab Abi Talib! Hazrat Ali would be the living witness to this...as he would have seen or heardnothing the night BEFORE, having been fast asleep!

That was the Quraysh plan of action...However, just to be prepared, they sent enough assassins,each armed with formidably large daggers just in case Rasul or Hazrat Ali awoke, then theywould have to slay them both the hard way!

The number of assassins chosen were for both symbolic and (potentially) practical reasons...Ifthey would need to use the daggers, the more assassins, the easier...So each Quraysh clan thatwas opposed to Islam and Rasulallah(SAW) had a hand in this slaying, one member of each clanwas selected to carry out this execution...

So that was why the Quraysh assassins did not use any spears or lances to murder Rasul in histent...even though they came armed just in case...

Also, for logistical reasons, if they were to have used lances or spears upon Rasul's sleepingbody, they WOULD NOT HAVE LIFTED THE BLANKET COVERING HIM FIRST!!

They were aware which tent was Rasul's from the observances of the daleels they had sent onceor twice a day to check up on Rasul's camp from a distance...

They would have thrust the lances or spears FIRST and THEN LIFTED THE BLANKETCOVERING HIM WHERE HE LAY TO MAKE SURE HE WAS INDEED STONE DEAD!!

Because it got so cold in the evenings out at Shoab Abi Talib, you had to sleep with the blanketcovered OVER YOUR HEAD.

It was because they had planned to smother Rasul in his sleep with a pillow which they brought

themselves, not relying on any possible pillow of Rasul in his tent, THAT THE QURAYSH ASSASSINS LIFTED THE BLANKET FIRST TO SUFFOCATE RASUL AND FOUND HAZRAT


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ALI LAYING IN HIS BED INSTEAD!!

Otherwise, Amir-ul-Muminin WOULD HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED IN PLACE OF RASUL IF THEQURAYSH ASSASSINS WOULD HAVE THRUST THE LANCES OR SPEARS FIRST!!

There would have been NO REASON FOR THESE ASSASSINS TO LIFT THE BLANKET FIRSTBEFORE THRUSTING THEIR LANCES, IF THEY WOULD HAVE PLANNED IT THAT WAY TOSLAY RASUL! They were positively sure they were in Rasul's tent and facing Rasul's bed whenthey entered to murder him in his sleep!!

That is how Amir-ul-Muminin WAS SAVED FROM BEING KILLED WHEN HE LAY DOWN HISLIFE FOR RASULALLAH(SAW)!!!

These Quraysh assassins didn't even bother to enter Hazrat Ali's tent...All they did was take apeak in to see what appeared to be a person[supposedly Hazrat Ali] asleep with his blanketcovered over his head. Rasul had also asked Imam Ali to stuff some pillows under his ownblanket to appear and simulate him being fast asleep. The assassins only lit a single torch to beable to see inside the tents. When they found Hazrat Ali in Rasul's bed, they then went into

Hazrat Ali's tent to see if Rasul was sleeping there, having switched places. It was when theyfound the pillows underneath the blanket, that they realized they had been fooled. It was whenthey realized that they had been clearly OUTWITTED by Rasulallah(SAW), that the Qurayshassassins took immediate notice that Quswa was in fact missing from the camp! They thenhurried back to where their horses were held and rushed back to Bakka City. The followingmorning, beginning at the crack of dawn(fajr), the first hunting parties set out seeking outRasulallah(SAW)...That was the morning of 28th Safar 1 A.H.(Fri 13th Sep 622 A.D.).

Imam Ali had been given further instructions by Rasulallah(SAW) which were for him to fold uptheir tents and close out their camp at Shoab Abi Talib the morning following Rasul'sdeparture...To ride his camel out to the far outskirts of Bakka City and watch for the first caravanto depart from there and join up with it, paying his way with what little money he had left.

As it turned out, Rasul's instructions were realized when a small caravan from Yemen toDamascus, passing thru Bakka, did arrive which Imam Ali tagged along with...This small caravanhad an automatic stopover at Taybah(Madinah) which was on the road to its destination. Also,coming from Bakka, all travelers passed thru the nearby village of Quba before enteringTaybah(Madinah). Imam Ali's journey began on the morning of the 28th Safar 1 A.H.(Fri 13th Sep622 A.D.) with him arriving with this caravan at Quba on 11th Rabi-ul-Awwal 1 A.H.(Thu 26th Sep622 A.D.)...

Caravans travelled at a more leisurely pace which accounted for the length of this journey...

Also, this caravan passing thru Mecca City was not bothered with by any of the multiple huntingparties seeking out Rasulallah(SAW) and Uriqat. There was no reason for it as they all knewwhere it came from and where it was headed...

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reference of abu bakr in the holy qur'an

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