“The easiest thing for Talha and Zubair was to rebel against Uthman and
weaken him. So they gathered people against him and pressurized him; and those
wanted Caliphate for themselves, and they were first of those to condemn him
and were last of those who obeyed till they spilled his blood?!”1
Those were the two individuals, who staged an uprising against the Imam of
the time whose obedience was obligatory on them, broke their pledge, stoked the
fire of injustice against him and fought him till they were killed? And these two
are the clearest implication of the statement of Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) who
said:
“One, who dies without recognizing the Imam of his time, dies the death of
Ignorance.”2
Those two were the same, who led the army of pledge breakers against battle
with chief of the progeny, and brought out the wife of Prophet from her home and
became leaders of pledge-breakers, to fight whom Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.)
had urged Ali and his just companions, and encouraged them for their
confrontation?!
Thus, whether one, whom Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) permits to fight and
regards that to be a Jihad, which is obligatory to be fought can never be counted
to be from the folks of Paradise?
إِنَّمَا جَزَٰٓؤُا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحَارِبُونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَسَادًا أَن يُقَتَّلُوٓا۟ أَوْ يُصَلَّبُوٓا۟ أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم مِّنْ خِلَـٰفٍ أَوْ يُنفَوْا۟ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ لَهُمْ خِزْىٌۭ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَلَهُمْ فِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ (٣٣)
“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His
apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that
they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their
feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be
imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world,
and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.”3
And is this is one, to whom the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said in an
authentic tradition: “You will fight against Ali, while you would be unjust.”4
And is abode of one, who commits injustice against Ali (a.s.) and fights him,
Paradise? Whereas the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said in an authentic tradition: “I am at war with one, who fights against Ali (a.s.) and I am at peace at
one, who is at peace with Ali (a.s.).”
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
“What then is the reward of such among you as do this but
disgrace in the life of this world, and on the day of resurrection
they shall be sent back to the most grievous chastisement, and
Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.”5
When Umar was stabbed, he said to Zubair: “As for you, O Zubair, you are
bad mannered and greedy when you are a believer and when you are enraged,
you are a disbeliever; you are a human being one day and a disbeliever the next;
and if you get Caliphate, you would be at Batha (Mecca); you would sell it for a
handful of barley. Tell me if Caliphate is given to you if I only knew the day you
are a satan and are infuriated, who would heed the call of people? And Almighty
Allah as long as you are as such, would not gather the command of the Ummah
for you.”6
And also told him: “As for you O Zubair, then by God, one day or one night
your heart has not softened, and you are always foolish, furious and nasty.”7
And is it not the same Talha, who killed Uthman, and did not allow him
water and prevented his burial in the cemetery of Muslims, and Marwan killed
him in revenge of Uthman and in spite of that, these two are two of those given
glad tidings of Paradise?
O God, we seek forgiveness from You and salvation is from You only.
Whether this Talha is not the same, whom Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) adjured
on the day of Jamal exhausted proof for him and mentioned tradition of Wilayat:
Of whomsoever I am the master, this Ali is also his master. And he put forth the
excuse that he had forgotten the tradition, but after that he did not give up his
deviation and in spite of having allegiance to Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), did not
assist him and did not leave the truth to its folks till the arrow of Marwan hit him
and caused his gradual death, while he had staged an uprising against the Imam
of his time? Do you believe that those who had staged an uprising against the
Imam and the Imam, would both of them be in Paradise?