“I married you to the best person of my Ummah: the wisest of them, the
most forbearing and the first from them who embraced Islam.”1
And he said: “The best man among you is Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) and the
best woman among you is Fatima, daughter of Muhammad.”
And he said: “Ali is the best of men. One, who does not accept this is a
disbeliever.”
And he said: “One, who does not say that Ali is the best of men, has become
a disbeliever.”
And he said to Lady Fatima Zahra (s.a.): “Indeed, Almighty Allah glanced at
the folks of the earth and chose your father from them and selected him for
prophethood; then he glanced the second time and chose your husband.”
And he said to Lady Fatima Zahra (s.a.): “Indeed, Almighty Allah chose two
men from the folks of the earth: one being your father and the other your
husband.”2
Alas, if I only knew how this giving of precedence is correct on his part,
whereas Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) deemed him as his soul as is mentioned in
the Holy Quran and Allah deemed him to be pure through verse of purification.
And in clear cut verses of the Holy Quran He has equated His Wilayat and
Wilayat of His messenger and Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) declared him to be in
relation to him as Harun was Musa (a.s.) and did not excepted for himself
anything other than prophethood.
On the day of pledge of brotherhood, on the basis of similarity in capacities
and manners, he deemed him to be his brother? Then how can this be true when
there was someone in the Ummah more deserving than him?
I don’t know how Ali Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) is the most beloved creature
in the view of God and Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) whereas in the Ummah
there is someone who is more superior to him?
In the authentic tradition of the roasted fowl, it is narrated from Holy
Prophet (s.a.w.a.): “O God, send to me the person most loved by You, so that he
may share this bird with me.” Thus Ali (a.s.) arrived.3
And Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said to Ayesha: “Indeed, Ali is the most
beloved in the Ummah and the most respected in my view, so recognize his right
and accord respect to him.”
And he said: “Among the people the most beloved to me is Ali.”
And he said: “Ali is the most beloved to me from them and the most beloved
in view of God.”
And don’t forget the statement of Ayesha regarding this: “By God, I never saw anyone more liked by Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) than Ali.”
And also the statement of Buraidah and Ubayy, who said: “The most
beloved of the people in view of Prophet from the females was Fatima and from
the males was Ali.”
The point is how Lady Fatima Zahra (s.a.) passes away whereas she was
infuriated at Abu Bakr and Umar, who are supposed to be the best of men? How
her call reached the mercified community when she takes refuge at the grave of
her father and says:
“My father, O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.); what all we had to bear at the
hands of the son of Khattab and son of Abu Qahafa!”
How she said to the two best and most superior persons: “Indeed, I make
Almighty Allah and angels witness that you two have angered me and have not
pleased me and when I meet the Prophet, I would complain to him about you?”
And the tradition of her sigh and wailing was well known to historians.
How is it that she makes a bequest to be buried at night and that Abu Bakr
should not pray on her bier and those best persons should not attend her funeral.
Yes, the secret is that Lady Fatima Zahra (s.a.), like her cousin, Ameerul
Momineen (a.s.) did not recognize anything about this invalid and false
statement, and perhaps someone who reads the fifth and sixth volumes of Al-Ghadeer,4
will come to know, who is better and more proximate than those two.
We believe that the brilliant and free thinking researcher, after being aware
of what is mentioned throughout the last five volumes of the ten first volumes of
Mausua Ghadeer,5 will not doubt that the narrators of these baseless and
fabricated statements, and those, who are restricted by its meaning, and those,
who due to blindness and deafness humble before these statements, in fact have
exaggerated in excellence.
فَقَدْ جَاءُ وَظُلْمًا وَزُورًا
“So indeed they have done injustice and (uttered) a falsehood.”6
وَإِنَّ فَرِيقًا مِنْهُمْ لَيَكْتُمُونَ الْحَقِّ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ
“And a party of them most surely conceal the truth while they know (it).”7
فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا قَوْلًا غَيْرَ الَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمْ
“But those who were unjust changed it for a saying other than that which had been spoken to them.”8
فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَى اللَّهِ وَ كَذَّبَ بِالصِّدْقِ إِذْ جَاءَهُ
“Who is then more unjust than he who utters a lie against Allah
and (he who) gives the lie to the truth when it comes to him.”9
فَاصْفَحْ عَنْهُمْ وَقُلْ سَلَمٌ ، فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ
“So turn away from them and say, Peace, for they shall soon come to know.”10