5. Statement Five
He says: “According to the belief of Jews, women do not have waiting period, Shia also do not have waiting period.”
Reply to Statement Five
Shia regard it obligatory for women to observe the waiting period as
legislated by Quran and Sunnah and it is that if the divorcee women get menses,
they should observe a waiting period of three menstrual cycles; and if they don’t
get menses, they should observe waiting period for three months. And the waiting
period of pregnant women end at the delivery.
وأولاتُ الْأَحْمَالِ أَجَلُهُنَّ أَنْ يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ
“Their prescribed time is that they lay down their burden…”1
Waiting period for widows is four months and ten days, if they are not
pregnant, otherwise from the aspect of reconciliation of two verses, they observe
longer of the two periods: waiting period of widow and delivery. If divorced
slave girls get menses, they should observe waiting period of two menstrual
cycles; and if they do not get menses, they should observe a waiting period of one
month and a half.
If the husband of the slave girl dies while she is not pregnant: her waiting
period would be two months and five days and if she is pregnant, she would wait
for whichever is longer: delivery or waiting period. A slave mother, in the
instance of the death of her master, whose child she carried, is four months and
ten days; and the Mutah wife after having intercourse and after completion of the
fixed duration or if the husband separates from her; her waiting period is two
menses if she is getting menses and other than that it is forty-five days.
If the woman in Fixed-time marriage (Mutah) is not pregnant when the
husband dies, or she did not have intercourse with him, she has to observe a
waiting period of four months and ten days. If she is pregnant she has observe the
longer of the two periods: delivery or four months and ten days.
If the woman in Fixed-time marriage (Mutah) is a slave, and her husband
dies while she is not pregnant, she has to observe a waiting period of two months
and five days.
These are the rules of waiting period among Shia mentioned in all books of
Shia jurisprudence.
Now, it should be asked whether this man has seen such a fabricated
attribution in any Shia book? The Almighty Allah is a witness that it is not so.
In most instances, his conduct is such that he bewilders people through big
lies and does not exercise any restrain in this.
6. Statement Six
He says: “Jews regard shedding the blood of every Muslim lawful and Shia are also as such.”
Reply to Statement Six
Has this man gained access to any Shia source, which states this?
Shia is one, who recites the Quran night and day and he is confident that its
verses are divine revelation and were revealed on the Prophet from Almighty
Allah; and in those verses, it is mentioned that one, who eliminates a believer is
condemned to Hell forever. Also the verses of retaliation are mentioned therein.
In addition, Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and Shia Imams issued numerous
statements prohibiting killing of believers. They mentioned its repercussions and
also explained its retaliation and blood monies. Chapters on retaliation and blood
monies are invariably found in books of Shia.
In spite of all this, you will become certain that these shameful attributions
and allegations have no basis, except a cheap imagination due to severe enmity
and foolish prejudice.
7. Statement Seven
He says: “Jews interpolated the Taurat and Shia have also interpolated the Quran.”
Reply to Statement Seven
The sole point of reference of the Shia in exegesis and interpretation of
Quran and in every law and teaching, are reliable traditions, which have reached
us from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and Ahle Bayt (a.s.). It is definite that the
people of a house are most aware of what is there in the house and traditions of
those persons are neither illogical nor do they have any contradiction with the
established fundamentals of religion; neither are they taken from Qatada or
Zahhak or Siddi and their like, who interpreted the Quran according to personal
views and they are remote from the source of prophetic wisdom.
If you want you become familiar with distortion of statements and reversing
facts, you should refer to books and commentaries of Ahle Sunnat to become
aware of lifeless justifications, illogical, futile, imaginative causes, degraded
viewpoints and denial of established principles of religion and judge for yourself,
which sect is more resembling the Jews; and sufficient for you would be
examples from Minhajus Sunnah of Ibne Taymiyyah and other books, which
shall be mentioned.