The Reality of Khilafah — Page 47
C H AP T E R ON E—K HIL C H AP T E R ON E—K HIL A A FAH FAH 47 Hold your tongue and strive to be of the righteous. Would you be pleased to be buried among disbelievers and flanked on either side by traitors and usurpers? How can you allow what you would not desire for yourself to happen to the Chief of the Righteous? You are surely attracting the wrath of the Mighty, the Supreme. How can you place Khairur-Rusul [the Best of Messengers] in a position which you cannot accept for yourself ? Did you not even bring to mind the fact of his infallibility? Where have your mor- als, reasoning, and understanding gone? Were they abducted by the jinn of your illusion that has left you bewitched? In fact, as you abuse a s - S idd i q, the most righteous one, you equally insult ‘Al i al-Murta da , because you made him out to be—God forbid—a hypocrite: sitting, as it were, at the doorstep of ‘the disbelievers’ in order to regain his lost status. No doubt, such despicable conduct is contrary to piety and is the hallmark of hypocrites. If the prejudiced Shiites are asked who the first adult was who parted from the disbelievers and accepted Islam, they are obliged to say that it was Ab u Bakr. Again, if they are asked who migrated with the Seal of Prophets, leaving behind all those dear to him and following the Holy Prophet wherever he went, they have to admit that it was Ab u Bakr. If they are asked who the first Khalifah was, even though he was a usurper in their eyes, they acknowledge that it was Ab u Bakr. If they are asked who collated the Quran so that it could be spread to all nations, they must say it was Ab u Bakr. If they are asked who were the people buried next to the Best of Messengers and the Chief of the Pious, they cannot but say that they were Ab u Bakr and ‘Umar. It is astonishing that every honour was accorded to those whom the Shiites label as ‘hypocrites and disbelievers’. Moreover, the superiority of Islam was established at