Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 225
19 March 1908 225 this, he was very displeased and said it would never be possible for the daughter of the Messenger of God and the daughter of the Enemy of God to be united in one household, and if that is what he still wanted to do, then Fatimah ra should be divorced. The Kharijis, in fact, go to the extent of saying that <mark>Hazrat</mark> <mark>Ali</mark> ra himself—God forbid—deliberately killed <mark>Hazrat</mark> Fatimah ra by poisoning her in order to fulfil this wish of his, and did indeed fulfil this desire. The wives of the Holy Prophet s as have been called the moth- ers of the believers in the Holy Quran. Thus, it is as if <mark>Hazrat</mark> <mark>Ali</mark> ra has kept arguing with his ‘mother’ [i. e. , <mark>Hazrat</mark> Aishah] for a long time. <mark>Hazrat</mark> Hasan ra gave up his homeland due to the conflict with <mark>Hazrat</mark> Mu’awiyah, but <mark>Hazrat</mark> <mark>Ali</mark> ra did not give up quarrelling with his ‘mother’. Indeed, it is established that <mark>Hazrat</mark> <mark>Ali</mark>, may Allah honour and exalt him, had even deferred making the pledge of allegiance with <mark>Hazrat</mark> Abu Bakr ra in the very beginning. Then, after reaching his home, something that only God knows caused such a sudden change of heart that he immediately rushed back, wearing just his cap and not waiting even to put on his turban—which he had brought to him later on—to take the pledge of allegiance. It seems that it occurred to him that it was a grave sin and, for this reason, he showed so much haste that he could not wait even to put on his turban. The fact of the matter is that all these issues arise as a result of not pondering over the Holy Quran.