In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
1. Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa (sawas) the true Prophet was my cousin and my father-in-law.
2. Hadrat Hamza (ra) the chief of martyrs was my uncle. This fact is known to one and all.
3. Hadrat Ja'far (ra) who remains flying with the angels, morning till evening, was my brother, born to the same mother, as was made known to all by the true informer (The Holy Prophet )
4. The solace of eyes (daughter of Prophet ) was my close companion and wife.
5. Fatima's (sa) and my blood, flesh and skin are close together as being one and the same.
6. From our blood, flesh and skin came into being my sons, the pleasure of my sour the grandsons of the Holy Prophet
Is there anybody who possess these qualifications and merits ?
7. I embraced Islam in childhood, before attaining adolescence.
8. From the day that my relationship as son in law was established with the Holy Prophet I got a status that demanded by all Muslims to respect and give obedience to me.
9. Misery and ruin is destined for him, who will come on the Last Day as a known enemy of mine.
When Abu Bakr (ra) became Calipah, Abu Sufyan came to Imam Ali (as) and inquired why in his presence the caliphate is being assigned to a junior tribe. He requested Imam Ali (as) to extend his hand for taking allegiance, and if people opposed him, he would post a huge contingent of soldiers and horsemen in Madinah for his support. Imam Ali (as) replied " Abu Sufyan, you are always in pursuit of inflicting harm to Islam. I do not your require counsel and admonition. We have selected Abu Bakr (ra) as calipah finding him most competent. (Tabari vol. 3, p 202)
Peer Karam Shah Sahib al-Azhari in his 'Maqalaat' writes
When Abu Bakr (ra) became Calipah, Abu Sufyan came to Imam Ali (as) and inquired why in his presence the caliphate is being assigned to a junior tribe. He requested Imam Ali (as) to extend his hand for taking allegiance, and if people opposed him, he would post a huge contingent of soldiers and horsemen in Madinah for his support. Imam Ali (as) replied " o abu sufyaan you are an enemy of Islam and all you want is to destroy Islam"
A point to be consider is that the 12rs shias are in an agreement with Abi Sufyan here. They believe that the sahabas failed to recognize Imam Ali (as) imamate, but Abu Sufyan was aware of it, and ready to back Imam Ali (as) as well. On the contrary we sunnis follow Imam Ali (as) sunnah when he gave bayah to Abu Bakr(ra), while 12rs wish the sunnah of Abu Sufyaan sunnah have been established which is to get Abu Bakr (ra) and Imam Ali (as) to pull their swords against each other.
Here is clip which discusses the Imam's last day of Ramadaan.
Imam Ali (as) and his Last Days By Shaykh Nazim Al Haqqani
Seyyadina Ali (ral) was entering a mosque for his morning prayer, when he saw his murderer lying face down and he tapped him with his foot saying "Oh man, I know for what you have come here. You are sleeping like Shaitan on your face. Don't sleep like this". A person who sleeps on his face may be well known by his face. The slaves of Shaitan sleep on their faces so that people cannot see their faces and about what bad they are going to do. Don't sleep like Shaitan is sleeping. Ali (ral) looked at this person's face and knew that he was trying to kill him. He knew that, that was what Allah Almighty had chosen for him. So Ali (ral) was saying "You Allah Almighty are trying to test me, by showing me who is going to kill me, to see whether I am accepting your will or not". Yes Seyyadina Ali was perfect through this test. He said to his killer" You are going to kill me". But that person fell on Ali's (ral) fees saying "Oh Imam don't let me do that. You kill me". But Seyyadina Ali said to him "How can I do that. If I kill you I will be killed under Islamic Law. I cannot tell as an excuse that because I knew that you will kill me one day that I I killed you. Shariat will not accept this defense. Therefore I cannot kill you". Ali (ral) knew what his Lord had chosen for him. He was not trying to change that for he said "No need, for what reason should I change it".
Seyyadina Ali was a person who destroyed armies by himself. It was not possible for a person to fight face to face with him and kill him. It was impossible. But when he was praying and when this person attacked him he never tried to defend himself. Qiyarath "Allah's act" - the killing flight of the arrow came to him and it was only like a mosquito touching him and he died because the Divine Command and Divine Choice made it that way for him.
During the battle of Hazrath Ali (ral) and Muawiya, one sahaba, reported that "after Magrib we were sitting on our tent and when it was dark, a person came to our tent and we found out as to who it was and that person gave salams to us saying Aslamu Alai Kum Ya Sahabil Kiram" and we replied "Wa Alaikum Salam Ya Ali" after recognizing him. We wondered as to how Hazrath Ali was going around the battle tents after dark all alone without even his bodyguards. When we questioned Hazrath Ali (ral) he replied that Allah Almighty had said that
there were Angels protecting Allah's true servants from front and behind from any harm. They are protected unless harm comes with the "Arrow of Ajal" which is the "Arrow of Destiny" which finishes our lives and brings death to us.
When that arrow touches a person, his life finishes and since Allah's true servant knows when the Arrow of Ajal comes, and since he knows that he is protected by Allah's bodyguards or Angels, he will know when the Angels will open the protection for the arrow to pass. He knows that when that time comes nothing can be done to protect him or anyone else. Therefore Hazrath Ali was going about undeterred and making his patrol rounds. Yes Hazrath Ali had reached to a level of Kashf where the veils of the heart were taken away and he could look at the Preserved Tablet (lawhul mahfooz). In the same manner the Saints are looking and are likewise continuing on their path. If this is shown to common or ordinary people they may look at their Qadr (Destiny) and want to escape from it. Therefore Allah Almighty is not showing this to ordinary people, but only to the Awliyas (Saints). It is shown to them and they always submit to the Will of the Almighty. Ordinary people will not submit to the Divine Will and they will always try to find a means of escape by taking more bodyguards or more statepolicemen in order to protect themselves from any harm. If Allah Almighty in that level (the level of Awliyas) sends any harm to these people they will always accept it and be willing to carry out the Divine Will.
Therefore, when Hazrath Ali (ral) was murdered, who do you think paid for his compensation (Deeyath), for one killed by mistake? Allah Almighty paid the compensation for Hazrath Ali's murder. He asked him to be patient and there was no objection from Seyyadina Ali (ral) with regard to his fate. Hazrath Ali (ral) accepted his fate because his teacher was a perfect teacher who was none other than Seyyadina Muhammed Rasoolullah (Sal). Seyyadina Rasoolullah (Sal) was his perfect teacher and he taught him everything.
The tyrant rulers believed that leadership was based on cruelty, wealth and power. These tyrants who ruled over the Ummah lived in palaces. When Imam Ali (as) entered Kufa, he was offered a palace as well. However, the Imam did not have any desire to live in a palace. In fact, he disliked it. Instead Imam Ali (as) asked the people of Kufa about where the local mosque was, and when he discovered it the imam built a small house next to it.
Imam Ali (as) used to shop for clothes at places where the people would not recognize him. Once Imam Ali (as) had 5 dinars to spend. He went to a tailor and asked him to sell him the cheapest materials for a set of clothes. With that 5 dinars the imam bought 2 separate pieces of clothing. One piece of the clothing material was worth 2 dinars, and the other was worth 3 dinar. The imam gave the material worth 3 dinars to his servant and kept the cheaper material for himself.
When Umar ibn Abdul Aziz (radi Allahu anhu) who can be considered the 6th khalifah, not a king came, and he found that the propaganda and the rumors that were spreading by officials that was nowstandard procedure was not Islamic behavior- remember, we may have slipped, all of this position that the 1st king in Islam institutionalized that became a pillar of themonarchical establishment was attributed to an ayah. They had to have some misinterpretation of an ayah to extend all ofthese deviations to, and that ayah was concerning the death or the murder of Uthman (radi Allahu anhu), And, whoever hasbeen killed or murdered without a basis of justice, then WE have allocated to his guardian 1st of kin, an authorization(Surah Al-Isra' verse 33) They stopped here,the ayah says He should not beexcessive in taking corrective measures for a person who was killed without justice (Surah Al-Isra' verse 33) So, all of this wasextended to give a veneer of legitimacy to the vile language that was used to condemn Ali and his family.Imagine, a khutbah just like this during jum'ah, and then someone would come usewords that we cannot use- these were official words and public pronouncements,and then when Umar ibn Abdul Aziz came, he didn't say that in his khutbah. Hedidn't say any of these institutionalized statements that have been repeatedfor years and generations and then someone stands up and tries to remindthis Muslim who is trying to follow his conscience and tells him "Youshould be following the sunnah" Meaning the Sunnah means you should becondemning Ali and his side; and Umar ibn Abdul Aziz said to him "An innovation! AnInnovation!" and he obliterated or put an end to this type of policy and theseofficial statements from the Mimbar and he replaced it with something that isstill used today- it doesn't come from the time of Allahs Prophet- when you go tothe conventional andtraditional type of Masjid, you hear every khutbah ending with Verily, Allah ordersJustice and that you be patient and dutiful totally for His sake and that you be forthcoming to kin and He forbidsevil deeds and the things which are prohibited and aggression and oppression.Allah admonishes you so that you may take heed. (Surah An-Nahl verse 90) That was not the waythe khutbahs ended during the time of Allahs Prophet. This is the way it began to end when Umar ibn Abdul Azizreplaced those condemnation statements with this ayah from the Qur'an andwe still have it today. People who are not aware of these details think thatthey are saying something that belongs in the time of Allahs Prophet. No!They are saying something that can be traced back to correct what the 1stking in Islam did.
This tradition above is found in the esteemed salafi scholar Ibn Kathir's book. Ibn Kathir in his book The Rightly Guided Calipahs says
The Ummayads use to abuse Ali bin Abi Talib in speeches, but when Umar bin Abdul Aziz became the calipah, he put an end to that by writing to his provincial rulers, ordering them to stop that tradition and quoted the verse.
"Allah commands justice, the doing of good, and liberality to kith and kin, and he forbids all shameful deeds, and injustice and rebellion: he instructs you, that ye may recieve admonition." (Al-Nahl:90). This is verse was always quoted in their speeches from then onwards. (Biographies Of RightlyGuided Caliphs, Ibn Kathir Pg 393)
Most scholars agree that Umar bin Abdul Aziz is superior to Muawiyah ibn Sufyaan, for his matchless justice, modesty and asceticism. (Biographies Of Rightly Guided Caliphs, Ibn Kathir Pg 398)
Online Link for the above source: http://abdurrahman.org/seerah/BiographiesOfRightlyGuidedCaliphs-IbnKathir.pdf
A lot of 12r shia make false accusation against Hz Umar (ra) for placing Muawiyah into power by making him a governor in Syria. Imam Al Asi says this is not the case. In fact, Umar (ra) wanted Muwaiyah's influnce to leave Mecca so another civil war would not occur between Mecca and Madina again. On top of that, when Hz Umar (ra) arrived in al Quds and saw that Muawiyah wore an expensive outfit, so he turned away from him and even ignored his salaam.
Imam Qadhi Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi (d 448 Ah) an esteemed Ahle Sunnah scholar of the past authenticated a saying by Imam Ali bin Abi Talib his book 'adb al-dunya wa deen'. أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ كَرَّمَ اللَّهُ وَجْهَهُ: إنِّي أُحِبُّك وَأُحِبُّ مُعَاوِيَةَ. فَقَالَ رضي الله عنه: أَمَّا الانَ فَأَنْتَ أَعْوَرُ، فَإِمَّا أَنْ
تَبْرَأَ وَإِمَّا أَنْ تَعْمَى
(adb al-dunya wa deen )
In his book he authenticates a story of a man that came to Ali and said "I love you and I love Muawiya " To this Ali replied that you are a ONE EYED MAN. The eye that loves me has vision and that loves muawiya is blind. If you persist with it then you will be total blind.
