Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 182
182 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH The incident of Hadrat Abu Hurairah ra is worth noting. When the armies of Hadrat Ali ra and Hadrat Muawiyah ra came face to face in the battle of S af i n then, in spite of the distance of one mile between them, when the time of Prayer came Hadrat Abu Huraira ra went to the camp of Hadrat Ali ra , and at the time of meals he went to the camp of Hadrat Muawiyah ra. Somebody asked, “How strange it is that you are coming and going to the Majlis of Hadrat Ali ra on one side and the Majlis of Hadrat Muawiyah ra on the other side. What is the matter?” He said, “Prayer is better at the side of Hadrat Ali ra , and meal is good at the side of Muawiyah ra. Therefore, at the time of Prayer I go there and at the time of meal I come here. ” He was served sumptuous meals at the side of Muawiyah ra , so he went there at that time. But the Prayer of Hadrat Ali ra was charged with humility and submission, so he joined him at the time of Prayer. An Incident of a Dissentient The condition of some of our dissentients is also the same. The incident reported about one of them is even more remarkable than that of Hadrat Abu Hurairah ra. Once I was sitting with Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan ra and someone told us about a dissentient who said that, “We hold the correct beliefs, but the prayers of Miy a ń Sahib are accepted more”. Just as Abu Hurairah ra said, “The meal of Muawiyah’s side is good and Prayer of Ali ra is better”.