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Mu’awiya Work file: the_muawiya.pdf Project: Answering-Ansar.org Articles Revisions: No. Date Author Description Review Info 1.0.0 29.06.2003 Answering-Ansar.org 2nd Edition 2nd Edition includes many new references and analysis. 0.0.4 5.02.2002 Answering-Ansar.org More corrections made to the text. 0.0.3 31.01.2002 Answering-Ansar.org Many grammatical and spelling mistakes corrected. 0.0.2 25.01.2002 Answering-Ansar.org Revised and addde more content and references. 0.0.1 10.11.2001 Answering-Ansar.org Created Copyright © 2002-2003 Answering-Ansar.org. • All Rights Reserved Page 2 of 99 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 7 2. WAS MU'AWIYA SEEKING QISAS FOR THE DEATH OF HADHRATH UTHMAN? 8 1.1. MU'AWIYA AND HIS SUPPORTERS 10 1.2. MU'AWIYA EXPLOITED PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE AND GREED TO ATTAIN SUPPORT 11 1.3. ABU SULAIMAN'S ATTEMPTS TO MISINTERPRET THE WORDS OF IMAM ALI (AS) AS A MEANS OF DEFENDING MU'AWIYA 11 1.4. IMAM ALI (AS) QUESTIONS MU'AWIYA'S MOTIVES 11 1.5. THE IMAM CAN ONLY IMPLEMENT QISAS 12 1.6. FATWA OF SHAH ABDUL AZIZ - ONE THAT FIGHTS 'ALI (AS) IS A KAAFIR 13 1.7. MU'AWIYA'S ACTUAL MOTIVE WAS POWER 13 1.8. THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN MU'AWIYA AND AMR BIN AAS IS CLEAR PROOF THAT THE MOTIVE WAS POWER NOT AVENGING UTHMAN'S MURDER 13 1.9. MU'AWIYA'S TESTIMONY FURTHER PROVES HIS REAL MOTIVE WAS POWER NOT VENGEANCE FOR THE SLAIN UTHMAN 14 1.10. MU'AWIYA THANEEH'S CONDEMNATION OF HIS GRANDFATHER ELUDES THE FACT THAT HE FOUGHT IMAM 'ALI (AS) FOR POWER 15 1.11. ABU SULAIMAN QUESTIONS THE JUSTICE OF IMAM 'ALI (AS) 16 1.12. MU'AWIYA DID NOT APPLY QISAS AGAINST AMR BIN AAS 16 3. MU'AWIYA'S APPOINTMENT OF YAZEED AS HIS SUCCESSOR 18 1.13. DID MU'AWIYA WANT TO MAKE YAZEED JUST A CROWN PRINCE OR KHALIFA? 18 1.14. MU'AWIYA MADE YAZEED HIS KHALIFA DURING HIS LIFETIME 18 1.15. MU'AWIYA FORCED PEOPLE TO GIVE BAYYA TO YAZEED 19 1.16. MU'AWIYA BRIBED PEOPLE TO GIVE BAYYA TO YAZEED 21 1.17. WHY DID IMAM HUSSAIN (AS) REFUSE TO GIVE BAY'A TO YAZEED? 21 1.18. MU'AWIYA'S DEVELOPMENT OF LINEAL SUCCESSION 22 1.19. YAZEED THE 'PROTECTOR OF AFFLICTIONS' 23 1.20. NASIBI APPRAISAL OF 'PIOUS' YAZEED 24 1.21. IBN KATHIR'S COMMENTS ON YAZEED THE DRUNKARD 25 1.22. IBN ATHEER'S COMMENTS ON YAZEED 'THE DRUNKARD' 25 1.23. ALLAMAH DHAHABI'S NARATION AND VERDICT ON YAZEED 'THE DRUNKARD' 25 1.24. IBN JAUZI'S COMMENTS ON YAZEED 'THE DRUNKARD' 25 1.25. IBN HAJR'S COMMENTS ON YAZEED 'THE DRUNKARD' 26 1.26. IMAM AHMAD ISSUED TAKFEER AGAINST YAZEED 26 1.27. AN APPEAL TO OUR SUNNI BRETHREN 26 4. THE CALLOUS KILLING OF HUJR BIN ADI (RA) 28 1.28. THE PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING A MOMIN IS HELL 28 1.29. WAS HUJR A TROUBLEMAKER? 28 1.30. THE KILLER OF HUJR SHALL RECEIVE THE WRATH OF ALLAH (SWT) 30 5. THE PEACE TREATY WITH IMAM HASAN (AS) 32 1.31. MU'AWIYA TOOK THE CALIPHATE BY FORCE 32 Copyright © 2002-2003 Answering-Ansar.org. • All Rights Reserved Page 3 of 99 1.32. MU'AWIYA'S OWN ADMISSION THAT HE TOOK THE CALIPHATE BY FORCE 33 1.33. THE BAY'A GIVEN TO MU'AWIYA 33 1.34. MU'AWIYA'S POISONING OF IMAM HASAN (AS) 34 1.35. REASONS BEHIND THE POISONING OF IMAM HASAN (AS) 34 1.36. MU'AWIYA'S PLEASURE UPON HEARING ABOUT THE DEATH OF IMAM HASAN (AS) 35 6. MU'AWIYA THE BAGHI (REBEL) 37 1.37. HADHRATH ALI (AS) WAS THE RIGHTFUL IMAM AND THE IMAM OF THE TIME 37 1.38. IT WAS INCUMBENT TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE IMAM ALI (AS) 38 1.39. ABDULLAH BIN UMAR'S REGRET HE DIDN'T FIGHT THE BAGHI MU'AWIYA 39 1.40. THE EARLY SAHABA FOUGHT ALONGSIDE IMAM 'ALI (AS) 39 1.41. ABU SULAIMAN'S REFUSAL TO DESCRIBE MU'AWIYA AS A BAGHI 40 1.42. DEFINING BAGHI (REBELL) 41 1.43. MU'AWIYA BECAME BAGHI BECAUSE HE FOUGHT IMAM 'ALI (AS) 42 1.44. MU'AWIYA'S REBELLION WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE QUR'AN 42 1.45. MU'AWIYA'S REBELLION WAS IN VIOLATION TO THE SUNNAH OF RASULULLAH (S) 43 1.46. MU'AWIYA WAS FROM AMONGST QASATEEN (THOSE REFRAINED FROM GIVING BAYYA TO IMAM E HAQQ) 43 1.47. MU'AWIYA WAS AMONGST THE FAJIREEN (PERPETRATORS OF DEBAUCHERY) 44 1.48. ABU SULAIMAN'S PLEA THAT BOTH PARTIES WERE BELIEVERS 45 1.49. TO REBEL AGAINST THE IMAM IS TANTAMOUNT TO ZINA IN A MOSQUE 45 1.50. IF A BAGHI DIES IN WAR DON'T READ HIS FUNERAL PRAYERS 45 1.51. ONE WHO REBELS IS FROM THE PARTY OF SATAN 46 1.52. ONE WHO FIGHTS IMAM 'ALI IS ZAALIM AND FAASIQ 46 1.53. BY FIGHTING MAULA 'ALI, MU'AWIYA FOUGHT AGAINST THE TRUTH, THE QUR'AN AND RASULULLAH (S) 46 1.54. MUAWIYA'S OPPOSITION WAS MOTIVATED BY HIS HATRED OF IMAM 'ALI (AS) 47 1.55. ANSWERING ABU SULAIMAN'S CRITICISM THAT IMAM 'ALI (AS) SHOULD HAVE LEFT MU'AWIYA ALONE 48 1.56. ANSWERING ABU SULAIMAN'S CRITICISM THAT IMAM 'ALI (AS) STARTED THE BATTLE, CONTRADICTING THE QUR'AN (ASTAGHFIRULLAH) 48 1.57. IMAM 'ALI (AS) FOUGHT FOR INTERPRETATION OF THE QUR'AN IN THE SAME WAY RASULULLAH (S) FOUGHT FOR THE REVELATION OF THE QUR'AN 49 1.58. ABDULLAH IBNE UMAR DECLARED MU'AWIYA A BAGHI IN HIS COMMENTARY OF SURAH HUJURAAT VERSE 8 50 1.59. THE MARTYRDOM OF AMMAR BIN YASIR WAS COMPREHENSIVE PROOF THAT MU'AWIYA WAS A BAGHI 50 1.60. AMMAR DEEMED THOSE THAT FOUGHT IMAM 'ALI (AS) TO BE THE SAME MUNAFIQS THAT TRIED TO ASSASSINATE RASULULLAH (S) 52 1.61. ABU SULAIMAN'S DEFENCE OF IJTIHAD 53 1.62. IMAM ALI (AS)'S VERDICT THAT MU'AWIYA SHOULD BE KILLED AS HE HAS NO GROUNDS TO OPPOSE HIM 55 1.63. MAULA ALI'S EXPOSE ON MU'AWIYA'S CHARACTER DESTROYS THE DEFENCE OF IJTIHAD 55 1.64. ABDULLAH BIN `UMRO REGRET THAT HE FOUGHT ALONGSIDE MU'AWIYA AT SIFEEN 55 1.65. RASULULLAH'S CONDEMNATION OF MU'AWIYA AND AMR BIN AAS REFUTES THE DEFENCE OF IJTIHAAD 56 1.66. ABU SULAIMAN'S VERDICT THAT BOTH PARTIES WERE ON TRUTH AND CANNOT BE CRITICISED 56 7. MU'AWIYA INSTITUTED THE BID'AH OF CURSING IMAM ALI (AS) 60 Copyright © 2002-2003 Answering-Ansar.org. • All Rights Reserved Page 4 of 99 1.67. MU'AWIYA ASKS SA'D TO CURSE HADHRATH 'ALI (AS) 60 1.68. MU'AWIYA WOULD CURSE ALI AFTER THE FRIDAY SERMON AND THIS BID`A BECAME A TRADITION DURING THE BANU UMAYYA REIGN 63 1.69. MU'AWIYA REFUSED TO FOLLOW THE PEOPLES' DEMANDS THAT HE ABOLISHES THE PRACTICE OF CURSING HADHRATH 'ALI (AS) 64 1.70. MU'AWIYA'S GOVERNORS WOULD CURSE HADHRATH 'ALI (AS) 64 1.71. MU'AWIYA AGREED WITH IMAM HASAN (AS) THAT HE WOULD NOT CURSE ALI (AS), BUT THEN RENEGED ON THE PROMISE 65 1.72. THE ADMISSION BY AL MUHADDITH SHAH ABDUL AZIZ DEHLAVI THAT MU'AWIYA CURSED HADHRATH 'ALI (AS) 66 1.73. THE ADMISSION BY LEADING DEOBANDI ULEMA THAT MU'AWIYA INTRODUCED THE BID`AH OF CURSING ALI (AS) 66 1.74. MU'AWIYA'S BID`AH OF CURSING IMAM ALI DURING THE FRIDAY SERMON WAS A PRACTICE THAT CONTINUED DURING THE BANU UMAYYA REIGN UNTIL THE REIGN OF UMAR BIN ABDUL AZIZ 67 1.75. MAULA 'ALI (AS) WAS CURSED FOR NINETY YEARS 68 1.76. SUMMARY OF REFERENCES 68 1.77. CONCLUSIONS 68 1.78. RASULULLAH (S) CURSED THOSE WHO COMMIT BIDAH 68 1.79. ALLAMAH ABDUL QADIR GILANI'S FATWA AGAINST AHL'UL BIDAH 68 1.80. ALLAMAH SA`DUDDEEN TAFTAZANEE' S FATWA THAT AHL'UL BIDAH SHOULD BE CURSED 69 1.81. CURSING ALI (AS) IS TANTAMOUNT TO CURSING ALLAH (SWT) 69 1.82. HANAFI FATWA DECLARING IT KUFR TO CURSE HADHRATH 'ALI (AS) 69 1.83. FATWA OF AL MUHADDITH SHAH ABDUL AZIZ - THOSE THAT CURSE 'ALI ARE KAAFIR 69 1.84. FATWA OF AL MUHADDITH SHAH ABDUL AZIZ - WHOEVER DISRESPECTS AHL'UL BAYT (AS) IS A MURTAD 70 1.85. AN APPEAL TO JUSTICE 70 8. THE PHANTOM MERITS OF MU'AWIYA 71 1.86. WAS MU'AWIYA THE WRITER OF THE REVELATION? 71 1.87. PROMINENT ULEMA OF AHL'UL SUNNAH HAVE NOT COUNTED MU'AWIYA AS WRITER OF THE REVELATION 71 1.88. MU'AWIYA WROTE LETTERS NOT THE REVELATION 72 1.89. A WRITER OF THE REVELATION BECAME A KAAFIR 72 1.90. WAS MU'AWIYA A HADI? 73 1.91. A HADI IS ONE WHO GUIDES HIS FOLLOWERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN AND SUNNAH 74 1.92. MU'AWIYA 'THE HADI' MADE DECISIONS THAT CONTRADICTED THE SHAR'IA ON INHERITANCE 74 1.93. MU'AWIYA 'THE HADI' CONTRADICTED THE SHAR'IA ON BLOOD MONEY 74 1.94. MU'AWIYA 'THE HADI' CONTRADICTED THE SHAR'IA ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF WAR BOOTY 74 1.95. MU'AWIYA 'THE HADI' DRANK A PROHIBITED SUBSTANCE 75 1.96. MU'AWIYA 'THE HADI' TOOK INTEREST 75 1.97. MU'AWIYA 'THE HADI' MADE CHANGES TO THE EID SALAT 76 1.98. MU'AWIYA 'THE HADI' ISSUED A FATWA DEEMING IT PERMISSIBLE FOR A MAN TO MARRY TWO SISTERS AT ANY ONE GIVEN TIME 77 1.99.