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Muawiya

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• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: Was Mu’awiya seeking Qisas for the death of Uthman?
• Note
• Mawla Ali (as) did not deem Uthman to have been killed innocently
• Who Killed Uthman?
• The Opinion of Mawla Ali (as) upon Uthman and Mu’awiya
• Mu’awiya’s refusal to help Uthman during the Seige
• Mu’awiya and his supporters
• Mu’awiya exploited people’s ignorance and greed to attain support
• Mu’awiya falsely claimed that Ali (as) killed Uthman so as to garner the support of the Syrians
• Abu Sulaiman’s attempts to misinterpret the words of Imam Ali (as) as a means of defending Mu’awiya
• Imam Ali (as) questions Mu’awiya’s motives
• The Imam can only implement Qisas
• Fatwa of Shah Abdul Aziz – one that fights Ali (as) is a kaafir
• Mu’awiya’s actual motive was power
• The agreement between Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas is clear proof that the motive was power not avenging Uthman’s murder
• Mu’awiya’s testimony further proves his real motive was power not vengeance for the slain Uthman
• Mu’awiya Thaneeh’s condemnation of his grandfather eludes the fact that he fought Imam ‘Ali (as) for power
• Abu Sulaiman questions the justice of Imam Ali (as)
• Mu’awiya did not apply Qisas against Amr bin Aas
• Misuse of a Shia tradition by the Nawasib to support Uthman
• Reply One: The authenticity of the tradtion
• “This tradition is Muzamir and Musquf”
• Reply Two: The actual ‘Uthman’ mentioned in the tradition and the Nasibi distortion
• Reply Three: The actual attributes of the followers of Uthman bin Affan recoded in Sunni texts
• Chapter Three: Mu’awiya’s appointment of Yazeed as his successor
• Did Mu’awiya want to make Yazeed just a Crown Prince or Khalifa?
• Mu’awiya made Yazeed his Khalifa during his lifetime
• Mu’awiya forced people to give bayya to Yazeed
• Please see our article: Yazeed (L’aeen)
• Mu’awiya bribed people to give bayya to Yazeed
• Mu’awiya killed all those who posed a hurdle for him making Yazeed Khalifah
• Why did Imam Hussain (as) refuse to give bay’a to Yazeed?
• Mu’awiya’s development of lineal succession
• Yazeed the ‘protector of afflictions’
• Appraisal of ‘pious’ Yazeed by the Nasibi author
• Ibn Kathir’s comments on Yazeed the drunkard
• Al Bidayah Wal Nihayah (Urdu), Vol 8 Page 1169, Nafees Academy Karachi
• Mu’awiya also knew that Yazeed drank alcohol
• Ibn Hajar Asqalani’s views regarding those that praise Yazeed
• Imam Ahmad issued Takfeer against drunkard Yazeed
• Allamah Mahmood Alusi’s takfeer against Yazeed
• Qadhi Thanaullah Paani Patti’s takfeer against Yazeed
• Various other Sunni Ulema did takfeer against Yazeed and have deemed it permissible to curse him
• An appeal to our Sunni brethren
• Chapter Four: The callous killing of the Sahaba including Hujr bin Adi (ra) and of other innocent Shias
• Comment
• Wasn’t Hujr (ra) a Sahabi?
• Reply
• Allah (swt)’s displeasure at those who killed Hujr (ra)
• Was Hujr (ra) a troublemaker?
• Reply One – Dishonesty committed by the author in order to absolve Muawiyah bin Hind
• Reply Two – Imam Hasan Basri’s testimones that Hujr was a great man and his maglining Muawiyah for the murder of Hujr (ra)
• Reply Three- Imam Muhammad bin Sirin testified to Hujr (as) being virtuous
• Reply Four– Imam Dhahabi, Imam Ibn Habban and Ibn Asakir’s testimonies that Hujr (ra) was an honorable, pious and worshiper
• Reply Five – The families of Abu Bakr and Umar condemning Mu’awiya for killing Hujr proves that he was not a trouble maker in their eyes
• Comment
• Reply Six – The Sahaba deemed the killer of Hujr (ra) to be worthy of being cursed
• “If it is asked: Why the Sahaba object on him?
• Reply Seven – Even the hardline Nasibi companion of Muawiyah was on saddened at the murder of Hujr (ra)
• Reply Eight – The Sunni Ulema’s recognition that Hujr was Shaheed (a martyr) proves that he was not a baghi (rebel)
• Reply Nine – Prophet’s prediction proves that Hujr bin Adbar (rh) and Malik bin Ashatar (rh) are amongst the Momineen
• Abu Sulaiman defends the method of killing
• Mu’awiya killed Malik bin Ashthar (ra)
• Mu’awiya killed the sahabi Amr bin al-Hamiq
• Muawiya kept Shia women as prisoners in dungeons
• Mu’awiya killed the two children of Ubaydullah ibn Abbas
• Abdurehman bin Hasaan was buried alive by Muawiyah
• Mu’awiya gave an order to slaughter the Shi’a
• During Mu’awiya’s brutal reign, Shia Muslim women were made slaves and were sold in the market place
• The punishment for killing a Momin from the Qur’an
• Chapter Five: The peace treaty with Imam Hasan (as)
• Reply One
• Reply Two – The Prophet (s) saw the Banu Umayya climbing his Pulpit and this saddened him
• Reply Three – Imam Hasan deemed Mu’awiya an unjust thief
• Reply Four – Imam Hasan (as) deemed the Khilafath to be his own right
• A Nasibi excuse and its reply
• Reply Five – By making peace Imam Hasan (as) was able to show the Ummah that Mu’awiya was a hypocrite
• Reply Six – The peace treaty in the eyes of the Sunni Ulema
• Reply Seven – Mu’awiya was not well intentioned when he made peace with Imam Hasan (as)
• Reply Eight – Imam Hasan (as) made peace on account of pressure
• Reply Nine – If you see Mu’awiya on my pulpit kill him (hadeeth)
• Reply Ten – Banu Zarqa cannot be Khalifas
• Reply Eleven – Imam Hasan (as) made peace to protect Muslim lives, property and honour, and thus provided an example for those people faced with difficult choices
• Reply Twelve – According to Sunnies it is permissible to make peace with unjust people
• Reply Thirteen – The Tulqa cannot be khalifas
• Reply Fourteen – Mu’awiya took the Caliphate by force
• Reply Fifteen– Imam Hasan (as) said he had the right to kill Mu’awiya
• Reply Sixteen – Textual evidence from Quran
• Reply Seventeen – Infallible ones under pressure from common men
• The bay’a given to Mu’awiya
• Reply One – The meaning of bayya
• Reply Two – Nawasib have stupidly assumed that peace means bayya
• Mu’awiya’s poisoning of Imam Hasan (as)
• Who was Ja’da bint Asha’ath bin Qays?
• Now, how did Asha’ath bin Qais repay this favor?
• Reasons behind the poisoning of Imam Hasan (as)
• Mu’awiya’s pleasure upon hearing about the death of Imam Hasan (as)
• Nasibi conjecture about Imam Hasan (as) receiving stipends from Muawiya’s government
• Reply one
• Reply Two
• Reply Three
• Reply Four
• Reply Five
• Nasibi accusation on Aqeel bin Abi Talib
• Reply One – We have already provided an array of replies about accepting stipends from a tyrant
• Reply Two – Aqeel always held Ali (as) to be on the right path as compared to his views on Muawiya
• Reply Three – The Bani Umaya fabricated texts to cast aspersions over Aqeel’s relationship with Ali (as)
• Reply Four – Aqeel didn’t participate in battles alongside Ali bin Abi Talib (as) due to illness
• Refuting the Nawasib claim that there existed a reciprocal warmth, respect and affection between Imam Hussain (as) and Muawiya
• Muawiya’s will for his son Yazeed
• Muawiya threatened to kill Imam Hussain (as)
• Concluding this chapter
• Chapter Six: Mu’awiya the baghi (rebel)
• Ali (as) was the Imam and rightful caliph of the time
• Muawiya faught Ali (as), the Imam and rightful caliph of the time
• It was incumbent to fight alongside Imam Ali (as)
• Abdullah bin Umar’s regret he didn’t fight the baghi Mu’awiya
• The early Sahaba fought alongside Imam Ali (as)
• Abu Sulaiman’s refusal to describe Mu’awiya as a baghi
• Defining baghi (rebell)
• The Sunni scholars deemed Muawiyah as a baghi, Khariji and tyrant
• Mu’awiya’s rebellion was in violation of the Qur’an
• Mu’awiya’s rebellion was in violation to the Sunnah of Rasulullah (s)
• Mu’awiya was from amongst Qasateen (those refrained from giving bayya to Imam e Haqq)
• Mu’awiya was amongst the Fajireen (perpetrators of debauchery)
• Abu Sulaiman’s plea that both parties were believers
• To rebel against the Imam is tantamount to Zina in a Mosque
• If a Baghi dies in war don’t perform his funeral prayers
• One who rebels is from the Party of Satan
• One who fights Imam Ali is Zaalim and Faasiq
• Testimony of the Sahabi Amar Yasir (ra) that Mu’awiya and his cohorts were misguided ones
• By fighting Maula ‘Ali, Mu’awiya fought against the truth, the Qur’an and Rasulullah (s)
• Muawiya’s opposition was motivated by his hatred of Imam ‘Ali (as)
• Answering Abu Sulaiman’s criticism that Imam ‘Ali (as) should have left Mu’awiya alone
• Answering Abu Sulaiman’s criticism that Imam ‘Ali (as) started the battle, contradicting the Qur’an (astaghfirullah)
• Imam ‘Ali (as) fought for interpretation of the Qur’an in the same way Rasulullah (s) fought for the revelation of the Qur’an
• The martyrdom of Ammar bin Yasir was comprehensive proof that Mu’awiya was a baghi
• Ammar deemed those that fought Imam ‘Ali (as) to be the same munafiqs that tried to assassinate Rasulullah (s)
• Abu Sulaiman’s defence of ijtihad
• Reply One
• Reply Two – A Mujtahid has to be a pious / just man
• Reply Three – Mu’awiya was not a mujtahid
• Reply Four – Imam Ali (as)’s verdict that Mu’awiya should be killed as he has no grounds to oppose him
• Reply Five – Maula Ali’s expose on Mu’awiya’s character destroys the defence of ijtihad
• Reply Six – Abdullah bin Umro’s regret that he fought alongside Mu’awiya at Sifeen
• Rasulullah’s condemnation of Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas refutes the defence of ijtihaad
• Abu Sulaiman’s verdict that both parties were on truth and cannot be criticised
• It is narrated on the authority of ‘Abdullah b. Mas’ud that
• Imam Taymeeya al Nasibi’s Fatwa that killers of Amar lead people to Hell
• Chapter Seven: Mu’awiya instituted the bid’ah of cursing Imam Ali (as)
• Mu’awiya asks Sa’d to curse Ali (as)
• Al-Nawawi offered lame excuses to defend Mu’awiya
• 1st critique – Nawawi’s misguided innovation in Islamic Sharia to defend the Sahaba
• Incidents of Sahaba Cursing/Abusing each other
• 2nd critique – Al-Nawawi applied this insane logic, so as to defend Mu’awiya (i.e. no textual proofs)
• 1st Hadith that Al-Nawawi & Co. Concealed
• 2nd Hadith that Al-Nawawi & Co. Concealed
• Al Bidayah wa al Nahayah, Volume 7 page 341, Chapter: The virtues of Ali
• 3rd Hadith that Al-Nawawi & Co. Concealed
• 4th tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
• 5th tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
• 6th tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
• 7th Tradition, that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
• 8th Tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed – Imam Hasan (as) asking Muawiya not to curse Ali (as) from the pulpits
• Al-Abar fi Khabar min Ghabar, Volume 1, page 18 Chapter: Year 37 the battle of Sifin
• Comments
• Sunni scholars rejected Al-Nawawi’s conjecture pertaining to Sahih Muslim’s episode
• Shaykh Wajihuddin Umar bin Abdulmuhsin
• Imam Muhammad bin Shahab al-Zuhri
• Shaykh Musa Shahin Lashin
• Allamah Muhammad bin Abdulhadi al-Sindi (d. 1138 H)
• Sharh Sunnan ibn Majah, Kitab al-Muqadma, Chapter: Merits of Ali bin Abi Talib (ra)
• Muhammad al-Amin al-Hurarri
• Ibn Tamiyah
• The Governors of Mu’awiya started cursing Mawla Ali (as) upon the instructions of Mu’awiya
• Muawiya’s Governor Marwan bin Hakam cursed Imam Ali (as)
• Mu’awiya’s Governor Mughira bin Shu’ba (la) cursed Imam Ali (as)
• Sunan Nasai al-Kabeer, Kitab al-Manaqib, Volume 7 Hadith 8148, Merits of Abdurehman bin Auf
• Mu’awiya’s Governor Busr Bin Artat cursed Maula Ali
• Muawiya’s Governors Ziyad and Kathir ibn Shahab cursed Imam Ali (as)
• Mu’awiya would curse Ali after the Friday Sermon and this bid’a became a tradition during the Banu Umayya reign
• Mu’awiya refused to follow the peoples’ demands that he abolish the practice of cursing Ali (as)
• Mu’awiya changed the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) to ensure that the people heard the cursing of ‘Ali (as)
• Faiz al Bari Sharah Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1 page 722 No. 954, Kitab al-Eidayn
• Testimonies of prominent Sunni scholars that Ali bin Abi Talib (as) used to be cursed from pulpits
• Learned Scholar Ahmad Zaki Safwat’s comments on the Governors of Mu’awiya
• Imam of Ahle Sunnah Awzai also reviled Ali (as) as a means of acquiring gifts from the Umayad rulers
• The admission by al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi that Mu’awiya cursed Ali (as)
• The admission by leading Deobandi Ulema that Mu’awiya introduced the bid`ah of cursing Ali (as)
• Learned Sunni Scholar Abu Zahra
• Taha Hussain
• Shaykh Hassan Saqqaf
• Imam of Ahl’ul Sunnah Muhammad Abdul Hai Lucknawi
• Qadhi Thanaullah Paani Patti al-Uthmani
• Imam Ibn Hazm Andlasi
• Jawami al Seerah
• Imam Muhammad Zahed al-Kawthari
• Maula Ali (as) was cursed for ninety years
• Summary of references
• Conclusions
• Rasulullah (s) cursed those who commit bidah
• Allamah Abdul Qadir Gilani’s Fatwa against Ahl’ul bidah
• Allamah Sa’duddeen Taftazani’s fatwa that Ahl’ul bidah should be cursed
• Cursing Ali (as) is tantamount to cursing Allah (swt)
• Fatwa of al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz – those that curse Ali are kaafir
• Fatwa of Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz – whoever disrespects Ahl’ul bayt (as) is a murtad
• An appeal to justice
• Chapter Eight: The phantom merits of Mu’awiya
• Was Mu’awiya the writer of the revelation?
• Reply One – Prominent Ulema of Ahl’ul Sunnah have not counted Mu’awiya as writer of the revelation
• Reply Two- Mu’awiya wrote letters not the revelation
• Reply Three- A writer of the revelation became a kaafir
• Was Mu’awiya a Hadi?
• A Hadi is one who guides his followers in accordance with the Qur’an and Sunnah
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ declared Ziyad, the bastard son of Abu Sufiyan as his real brother contradicting the Sharia
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ made decisions that contradicted the Shar’ia on inheritance
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ contradicted the Shar’ia on Blood money
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ contradicted the Shar’ia on the distribution of war booty
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ drank a prohibited substance
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ used to smuggle alcohol
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ used to sell idols to polythiests helping them to worship the idols
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ undresses and inspects the body of a naked woman
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ tells the people to consume haraam items and kill each other
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ took interest
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ made changes to the Eid Salat
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ reduced the number of Takbeers from daily prayers
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ reduced Iqamah from daily prayers
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ issued a Fatwa deeming it permissible for a man to marry two sisters at any one given time
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ abandoned to apply the mandatory punishment for theft in Islam
• If a right hand parts from its left?
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ and his Nasibi adherents abandoned the Sunnah due to their hatred of Ali (as)
• Sharah Sunan Nasai
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ and his fellow Nasibi rulers of Bani Ummayah abandoned to recite ‘Bismillah’ loudly due to their hate towards Ali (as)
• Comments
• Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ wore prohibited items despite the fact that he was aware that Rasulullah (s) deemed them haraam
• An appeal to justice
• Rasulullah (s) criticised those that praise Ahl’ul Bidah
• Rasulullah (s) made three Dua’s, one that was rejected
• Rasulullah (s) even prayed for Abu Jahil to be guided
• Not all of Rasulullah’s prayers were accepted
• Allah (swt) never guides a wrongdoer
• The narrator of this ‘Hadi’ hadith is not a reliable authority
• Not a single hadith in praise of Mu’awiya is Sahih
• Rasulullah’s advice for Mu’awiya is also a fabrication
• Reply One – This verse merely states Allah (swt) emboldened the believers on that day
• Reply Two – The verse only benefits believers in the true sense of the word not those that stood in the ranks of the Muslims but were pagans and hypocrites
• Chapter Nine: Abu Sulaiman’s plea of clemency for Mu’awiya
• Chapter Ten: Was Mu’awiya a Momin or Munafiq?
• The sign of a Munafiq is hatred of ‘Ali (as)
• Fada’il al-Sahaba, Volume 2 page 549 (Published in Makkah Mukkarmah, Saudi Arabia)
• It is not permissible to refer to a Munafiq as Sayyidina
• ‘Ali (as)’s testimony – Mu’awiya is my enemy
• An enemy of Ali (as) is an enemy of Allah (swt)
• One who fails to accept ‘Ali as his Maula is not a Momin
• Chapter Eleven: The ‘true’ merits of Mu’awiya bin Hind
• The meaning of Mu’awiya
• Love and hatred of Ali is the difference between one being legitimate and illegitimate
• Ayesha’s testimony about methods of Nikah during the time of Jahiliyya
• Mu’awiya bin Hind was the product of a combined Nikah
• Ayesha’s testimony that Hinda committed Zina
• The ‘virtues’ possessed by one born illegitimately
• One born illegitimately can not be a Khalifa
• One who fights the rightful Imam is a Fasiq
• One who turns his back on the right path is a Zaalim and Fasiq
• Mu’awiya’s Conquests
• Mu’awiya’s declaration that Ziyad was the son of ‘Abu Sufyan is proof that he was a fasiq
• It is a religious duty to expose the deeds of a fasiq
• A Zaalim Ruler
• Praising a fasiq leads to incurring the wrath of Allah (swt)
• Muawiya was wicked and is cursed
• Mu’awiya was a Nasibi
• Fatwa of Imam of Ahl’ul Sunnah, Shah Abdul Aziz that Nawasib are equal to dogs and pigs
• Appraisals of Mu’awiya
• Appraisal of Mu’awiya by Rasulullah (s)
• First appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya’s stomach
• Nasibi excuses for the Prophet’s curse on Muawiya’s stomach
• Reply One
• Reply Two
• Reply Three
• Reply Four
• Reply Five
• Reply Six
• Second appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya, his brother father and Amr bin Aas
• Third appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas
• Fourth appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya, his father Abu Sufyan and his son Yazeed
• Ffith appraisal – Mu’awiya shall die a kaafir
• Sixth appraisal – Mu’awiya shall be raised with a different Ummah on the day of Judgment
• Seventh appraisal – Mu’awiya shall be in the deepest part of Hell Fire
• Eighth appraisal – Mu’awiya and Amr bin al-Aas can never gather for a good cause
• Ninth appraisal – Mu’awiya is Kafir
• Tenth appraisal – Mu’awiya shall be killed if tried to sit on Prophet’s pulpit
• Umar’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• First appraisal
• Second appraisal
• Maula Ali (as) appraisal of Mu’awiya
• First appraisal
• Second appraisal
• Third appraisal
• Fourth Appraisal
• Fifth Appraisal
• Ayesha’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• First appraisal – Mu’awiya’s Government compared by Ayesha to Firawn (Pharoah) and other Kaafirs (Pagans)
• Second Appraisal – Ayesha cursed Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas
• Saad ibn Waqqas’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Mu’awiya the second’s appraisal of his grandfather Mu’awiya
• Qays bin Sa’d bin Ibada’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• These words suffice to destroy the Nasibi appraisals of Mu’awiya. Or should we question by the truthfulness of the Sahaba?
• Abu Hurrayra’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Muhammad bin Abi Bakar’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Samra bin Jandab’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Miswan, appraisal of her husband Mu’awiya
• Mamun Abbasi’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• The people of Madina’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Ibn Katheer’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Imam Shafiyee’s appraisal of Mu’awiya that his testimony is unacceptable
• Imam of Ahle Sunnah al-Atiqi al-Baghdadi’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Imam of Ahle Sunnah Ali bin Ja’ad’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
• Mu’awiya – According to the Imams of Ahlulbayt (as)
• A German scholar’s recognition of the contribution made by Mu’awiya