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Question:Do the Shia loathe Islam, as the Jew loathe Christianity?
Answer: the writer of the book <al-‘Aqd al-Farid> said (1):
“The Shia is like the Jews of this community; because the same as the Jews loathe the Christianity, the Shia loathe Islam and consider it as their enemy”.
In response to this unfair accusation, we say that:
How can we tolerate this painful word, while it has been stated in the holy Quran that “إِنَّ الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُوْلَئِکَ هُمْ خَیْرُ الْبَرِیَّةِ: (as for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the -best of men” (2) and the Prophet (s.a.) has told Ali (a.s.) about this verse that: “those people [the best of men] are your Shiite (follower) and you”. (3) In a narrative, it has been mentioned that the Prophet (s.a.) told Ali (a.s.) that: “your Shiite and you are in the paradise”. (4) And he also has said that: “on the Day of Judgment, the people will be called by their own names and their maternal names, except than this person –Ali- and his Shiite (follower) who will be called by their own names and their paternal names. Because they have been born purely”. (5)
The Prophet has also told him that: “O Ali, surely God has forgiven you, your progeny, and children, family, Shiite and those who love your Shiite”. (6)
He has also said that: “(O Ali), you will meet God soon, while your Shiite and you are satisfied with God and He is too”. (7)
The Prophet has said that: “you will be the first person who will enter the paradise, and your Shiite will sit on luminous pulpits and while their faces are shiny and they are around me. I will intercede for them and they will be my neighbors in paradise on the Day of Judgment” (8).
He has also said that: “I am like a tree, Fatimah is its branch, Ali fertilizes it, Hasan and Hussain are its fruits and the Shiite are its leaves. The root of this tree locates in ‘Eden, and its other parts locate in other places of paradise”.
He has said that: “surely Ali and his Shiite are prosperous on the Day of judgment”. (9)
The Prophet (s.a.) has said in a sermon that: “O people, those who seek vengeance for my households, they will be gathered together, as Jews on the Day of Judgment by God. When my community were on the world of clay (Tin) -before being created in the world of pre-existence (Zar) and the world of natural disposition (Tinat)-, I had seen them and owners of flags (different groups) (10) passed before me. I asked God’s forgiveness for Ali and his Shiite there”. (11)
He has said that: “my specific intercession includes those who love my household. Those people are my Shiite”. (12) (13)
1. Al-Aqd al-Farid 1:269 [2/104]
2. Bayinna Sura: 7
3. Tafsir Jami al-Bayan, 30:146 [collection 15, 30/264]
4. Tarikh Baghdad 12:289
5. Maruj al-Zahab 2:51 [3/7]
6. Al-Sawaiq: 96, 139 and 140 [161, 232 and 235]
7. Nihayah ibn Athir 3:276 [4/106]
8. Majma’ al-Zawaid 9:131; Kifayah al-Talib: 135 [P. 265, chapter 62]
9. Al-Manaqib: 66, P. 111, Tradition 120; P. 265, Tradition No. 247 and Tazkarah al-Sabt: 31 [P. 54]
10. Maybe it refers to this matter that, he has seen each group with their Imam and the one who has hold the flag, while been vanguard. It has been mentioned in Quran, about the Day of Judgment that: “یَوْمَ نَدْعُو کُلَّ أُنَاسٍ بِإِمَامِهِمْ: (remember) the day when we will call every people with their imam”. Al-Isra Sura: 71
11. Majma’ al-Zawaid 9:172
12. Tarikh Khatib 2:146
13. Shafi’I Shahrudi, a comprehensive s e l e c tion of al-Ghadir, P. 268
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