Muslims believe that Allaah created the worlds and the creations to test the creatures to whom He would grant the power of intellect and the ability of choice. Those who succeed will enter Heaven where they shall reside forever in complete and continuous pleasure; and those who fail will fall into Hell where they shall remain in utter and constant pain.
In this gigantic examination hall, man knows the good and the evil both of which are equally visible to him, as Allaah says in the Holy Qor’aan:
{And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways[1].}.
And in this corridor to the Hereafter, Allaah created various magnets that pull human beings towards Heaven, and in parallel to this he also created different inducements that push them in the direction of Hell. And these armies of good and evil are very well matched and equal in force.
The evil-commanding self is countered with the self-reproaching self; the bad friend is matched with the good friend; animal desires can be controlled by the intellect… And in this hard battle between the good and the evil pulling powers, the examinee remains in total choice; he can choose Heaven over Hell or the other way round.
Moslems also believe that in the previous worlds Allaah tested these rational beings, and chose a number of them to become His messengers to His creatures in the next worlds, to guide them to the right path and to help them elevate through the levels of perfection and completion.
After passing their tests, these messengers were given special qualities and powers that were necessary for Allaah’s representatives and by which they were distinguished. And this was not subject to race or age, thus cEesaa was born a prophet whose conception and birth were miraculous as Allaah reveals in the Holy Qor’aan[2]. And Mohammad’s birth was surrounded with many miracles that were witness around the world[3], and his light was seen in the faces of his grandfathers so much that the Idolaters made countless attempts to kill them, and even his twentieth grandfather, cAdnaan, was attacked by around eighty worriers who wanted to kill him to prevent the birth of Mohammad[4].
These people who are called prophets and awseyaa’ have different ranks and positions; each one is senior to some and junior to others. Every prophet is senior to his wasi[5] or awseyaa’; and Nooh, Ebraaheem, Moosaa, cEesaa and Mohammad are the most senior prophets, the latter being senior to the former.
Mohammad is the most complete of Allaah’s creations, and he is senior to all of the prophets before him; and his Twelve Awseyaa’ are the most complete of Allaah’s creations after him, and as such they are more senior to all of the prophets and the awseyaa’ before Mohammad.
However, Faatimah the daughter of Mohammad is senior to eleven of her father’s awseyaa’, thus she is the third most complete of Allaah’s creations after Mohammad and his first wasi, cAli; and she is senior to all the prophets and their awseyaa’ before Mohammad.
Allaah and Rasoolollaah[6] said that her satisfaction and anger is that of Allaah; her content and discontent is that of Allaah; her love and hate is that of Allaah. Loving her is a redemption of sins; hating her would render all one’s good deeds void. She is the Chief of the Women of the World; she is the Chief of the Women of the Heaven.
Among other things, Allaah granted her the highest levels of cEsmah[7], cElm al-Ghayb[8], al-Walaayah al-Takweeneyyah[9]… She was one of the reasons for the creation of the worlds as Allaah reveals:
((O Mohammad! if it were not for you, I would not have created the universe; and if not for cAli, I would not have created you; and if not for Faatimah, I would not have created either of you[10].)).
((Verily, I have not created any erected sky nor any flattened land nor any illuminating moon nor any shining sun nor any circling planet nor any flowing sea nor any sailing ship but for the love of these five [Mohammad, cAli, Faatimah, Hasan and Hosayn][11].)).
But because this world is a gigantic examination hall in which the examinees have to choose a path on their own without being forced into any direction, Allaah subjected both the good and the bad, and the right and the wrong to the law of “sabab and mosabbab”, cause and effect; as Imaam[12] Saadiq(AS)[13] says:
((Allaah has declined to run the affairs of creation except through [their] causes[14].)).
And He subjected His Message and His Messengers to this rule; so at times they were loved and they were revered and they were followed, and at other times they were hated and they were hurt and they were killed; and similarly, the propagation of their messages depended on the amount of support they had from the people. Allaah says:
{All do We aid—these as well as those—out of the bounty of your Lord; and the bounty of your Lord is not confined[15].}.
And Faatimah was not an exception to this rule, she was hated and she was hurt and she was killed when she supported the Rightful Khelaafah[16] against its usurpers; and the propagation of her message—Islam depended and will forever depend on the amount of support from her followers.
And these messengers repeatedly pointed to this fact and called their followers to make known their Way to the people, so that those worthy of Heaven may be guided to it, as the scholars narrate from many of the macsoomeen[17] who said:
((Make known our Way, may Allaah have Mercy on those who make known our Way[18].)).
And because of this repeated call, I decided to compile this wok and carry out some of my duty to help the younger generation of Moslems living in the West to know something about the life and mission of their Prophet’s only daughter; and in the second place to give the Western people a brief account of the life and mission of this eighteen year old lady who literally shook the world; and in the third place to provide the fair-minded Bakris[19] with some of the information recorded in their references about Sayyedat Nesaa‘ al-cAAlameen[20]. And I hope that Allaah will honor me and grant me the strength to finish this journey, and what greater honor?!
In many subjects of this book I have relied on highly respected and widely used Bakri references, not because I have any special regard or appreciation for them as a whole or for their authors, but for the fact that one’s confession about himself is more effective and more penetrating than someone else’s testimony.
After the assassination of Rasoolollaah(SAA)[21] when the Bakri party forcefully usurped his khelaafah, it fabricated numerous commendations for its leader Aboo Bakr(LA)[22], and worked very hard to hide the countless praises of the late prophet about his God-appointed successor, Ameer al-Mo’meneen[23]. These tireless efforts to create and strengthen this false legitimacy and to hide and enshroud that holy appointment continued for centuries.
Since the first day Aboo Bakr sat in that usurped position until today, the Bakris have always oppressed the Moslems for refusing to give in to their regime and for rejecting their many alterations and distortions of the Islamic history.
They call the Moslems many names, including: “al-Raafidah”, the Rejecters, and even Communists and Infidels and Polytheists and Idolaters. They persistently tell their children wild fairy-tales, making them grow up hating the Moslems; they have even made a scary image for the Moslems not entirely human—a creepy being with a tail! This sounds unbelievable in the fifteenth Hejri[24] century, the era of the space travel and cloning, but it is exactly what the Bakri Grand Mofti of Syria, Shaykh Kaftaaroo, firmly asserted in 1983 in a public gathering in Damascus-Syria, and despite the outrage he never retracted his statement!!
All of this is expected from the Bakris, after all in some parts of the world such as Iran, the Bakris burned any Moslem they could find with fire for the sole reason of being a Moslem, and for decades to come they called the victims’ children and grandchildren “Pedar-Sookhteh”, Burnt-Father, or the Son of the Burnt [father][25]. And this ‘heroic’, ‘courageous’, ‘Islamic’ and ‘humane’ treatment of Moslems has been well documented in Bakri references. For instance they write in the biography of Ahmad ibn Esmaaceel Aboo al-Khayr, a prominent Bakri scholar who resided in Qazween-Iran:
((…And the Shaykh (Aboo al-Khayr) said: I will not stay in Qazween after this. And he left the city, and the people left with him, and the king also went with him.
He then said: I will not return until you engrave the names of Aboo Bakr and cOmar on an iron and brand the foreheads of Sheecah[26] leaders.
So they accepted his condition, and they did as he had requested!![27])).
However what is not expected and what is most hurtful is that some people who call themselves Moslems stab other Moslems in the back and oppress them for the excuse or in the name of Moslem Unity.
Their hidden agenda to destroy Islam, or at least their ignorance and lack of knowledge about Islam and its beliefs and teachings, brings them to change and distort its principles and practices.
Instead of achieving a political and economical and social unity between all those who recite the Shahaadatayn and stand facing the Kacbah, they want to completely destroy the structure of Moslem belief so that it becomes indistinguishable from the Bakri system of belief.
However, some groups within this powerful minority have proceeded so far away from Islam, abandoned numerous principles, introduced various beliefs, rejected innumerable historic facts and invented many falsifications, that they can hardly call themselves Moslems.
But regardless of the different levels of deviation within this minority, one can attribute this movement, in the recent times, mainly to two schools of thought: One in Iran which, on top of everything else, promotes the idea of Wahdat al-Mawjood[28]; and the other in Iraq which, on top of everything else, preaches that hurting Faatimah is not forbidden by Islam, contrary even to what the Bakris say!![29]
This powerful minority fiercely attacks everything and everyone that transmits information damaging to the Bakri party, even if it has been recorded in Bakri references; and it condemns and denounces everything and everyone that speaks highly in favor of the Rightful Khelaafah.
And in this regard, a number of individuals and some groups all of whom call themselves Moslems, and who are adherents of either school, showed a lot of aggression when I published my first book: ‘Rasoolollaah, the Messenger of Allaah’.
They had two main objections to the book:
First: that I called the followers of Aboo Bakr: ‘Bakris’ (followers of Aboo Bakr), instead of how they call themselves: Sonnis (followers of the tradition of Rasoolollaah) or Moslems (believers in the Islamic religion). This is when everyone agrees and admits that the Bakris follow Aboo Bakr; and this is when neither the Holy Qor’aan nor Rasoolollaah or any of his Rightful Kholafaa’ ever called the followers of Aboo Bakr “Sonnis” or “Moslems”. In fact the Holy Qor’aan and Rasoolollaah and his Rightful Kholafaa’ clearly state that the followers of Aboo Bakr are non-Moslem[30].
Second: that after mentioning the names of the Bakri party leaders, I wrote “May Allaah distance them from His Mercy”, instead of writing: “May Allaah Be Pleased with them”, as the Bakris say and write. This is when the Holy Qor’aan and Rasoolollaah and his Rightful Kholafaa’ repeated on innumerable occasions about these people what I wrote about them.
This aggression became so intense that some of these so called Moslem priests in the UK threatened me with injury and even death; and some of them publicly marked the book as: ‘A Book of Aberration’. And a so called Moslem group in a Western country threatened the distributors of ‘Rasoolollaah, the Messenger of Allaah’ to stop distributing copies, and the group put sand in the engine oil of one of the distributors’ cars and put sugar in the petrol tank of another one of their cars!!
This happened, when I only repeated some of what the macsoomeen had said, the very people whom this minority reveres as its leaders. And this happened despite the fact that some researchers and scholars have compiled a number of multi-volume works recording what the Holy Qor’aan and the Fourteen Macsoomeen(AmS)[31] had said against Bakri leaders.
But the tongues utter one thing and the hearts hold another. Is anyone listening and is anyone seeing?!
[1] Holy Qor’aan = soorah (chapter) 90, aayah (verse) 10.
{And mention Maryam in the Book when she drew aside from her family to an eastern place * So she hanged a curtain (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our Rooh, and there appeared to her a well-made man * She said: Surely i take refuge from you to the Beneficent God, if you are one guarding (against evil) * He said: I am only a messenger of your Lord: That i will give you a pure boy * She said: When shall i have a boy and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have i been unchaste? * He said: Even so; your Lord says: It is easy to Me: and that We may make him a sign to men and a mercy from Us; and it is a matter which has been decreed * So she conceived him; then withdrew herself with him to a remote place * And the throes (of childbirth) compelled her to betake herself to the trunk of a palm tree. She said: Oh, would that i had died before thes, and had been a thing quite forgotten! * Then (the child) called out to her from beneath her: Grieve not, surely your Lord has made a stream to flow beneath you; * And shake towards you the trunk of the palmtree, it will drop on you fresh ripe dates: * So eat and drink and refresh the eye. Then if you see any mortal, say: Surely i have vowed a fast to the Beneficent God, so i shall not speak to any man today * And she came to her people with him, carrying him (with her). They said: O Maryam! surely you have done a strange thing * O sister of Haaroon! your father was not a bad man, nor was your mother an unchaste woman * But she pointed to him. They said: How should we speak to one who was a child in the cradle? * He said: Surely i am a servant of Allaah; He has given me the Book and made me a prophet; * And he has made me blessed wherever i may be, and He has enjoined on me prayer and ppor-rate so long as i live; * And dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me insolent, unblessed; * And peace be on me on the day I was born, and on the day i die, and on the day i am raised to life.}. (Holy Qor’aan = soorah 19, aayaat 16-33)
[3] Rasoolollaah, the Messenger of Allaah / by the author = page 29.
[4] Montahaa al-AAmaal / al-Qommi (Arabic translation) = vol. 1, page 43.
[5] A successor of a prophet, chosen by Allaah and appointed by that prophet. A wasi is not, himself, a prophet. Also khaleefah or caliph. Plural awseyaa’.
[6] Messenger of Allaah; a title exclusively given to Prophet Mohammad by Allaah.
[7] The state of immunity from committing sins, making mistakes, or any act of forgetfulness, etc. whilst the choice to commit sin remains open to the individual. Prophets and their awseyaa’ have this attribute and are called macsoom.
[8] Knowledge-of-the-Unseen. An all-encompassing knowledge granted by Allaah to a person without the usual methods of learning; a knowledge that covers everything and everyone, and is not limited by time or space, neither is it crippled by what plagues the knowledge gained through education, such as inaccuracy, forgetfulness, etc. cElm al-Ghayb includes the Unseen-World just as it includes the Seen-World; and it has various levels. Prophets and their awseyaa’ have cElm al-Ghayb.
[9] Authority over the laws of nature. A power and ability granted by Allaah to a person. al-Walaayah al-Takweeneyyah has different levels of strength in accordance with its bearer’s position to Allaah, and the degree of his obedience to Him. Some levels are limited to the earth and earthly things, whereas other levels exceed our planet.
[10] Min Feqh al-Zahraa’ / The Martyr Aayatollaah al-cOzmaa Sayyed Mohammad Sheeraazi = vol. 1, page 19.
[11] See page 129 of this book.
[12] Leader, good or bad, religious or otherwise. This title has been used for any person with a religious leading role, such as a public prayer leader or leader of a religious group or movement. But in this book it is only used as a title for one of the twelve God-appointed successors of the Prophet Mohammad. Plural a’emmah.
[13] cAlayhes Salaam, peace be upon him.
[14] Behaar al-Anwaar / al-Majlesi = vol. 2, page 90.
[15] Holy Qor’aan = soorah (chapter) 17, aayah (verse) 20.
[16] Successorship of Rasoolollaah. Also caliphate.
[17] Plural of macsoom: a person who does not commit sins, does not make mistakes, does not forget, etc. although he/she has the choice to commit sins. Prophets and their awseyaa’ are macsoom. The Fourteen Macsoomeen are the Prophet Mohammad, his daughter Faatimah, and his twelve God-appointed successors.
[18] For some instances of these narrations see: Behaar al-Anwaar / al-Majlesi = vol. 2, pages 30 and 151; vol. 52, page 126; vol. 71, page 187; vol. 74, page 223; vol. 81, page 219.
[19] Plural of Bakri: a follower of Aboo Bakr. Opposite Moslem, Sheecah, follower of Rasoolollaah. Some people unknowingly call the followers of Aboo Bakr “Sonni”. Sonni means a follower of the tradition of Rasoolollaah; and since the followers of Aboo Bakr follow him and not Rasoolollaah, it is wrong to call them Sonnis.
[20] Chief of the Women of the World; a title given exclusively to Faatimah, the Daughter of Rasoolollaah, by Allaah.
[21] Sallallaah cAlayh wa Aalih, Allaah’s Blessings be upon him and his descendants.
[22] Lacnatollaah cAlayh, may Allaah distance him from His Blessings and Mercy.
[23] Commander of the Faithful; a title given exclusively to Imaam cAli by Allaah.
[24] The Moslem lunar calendar. It has 12 months and 355 days in a year; it starts from the year of Rasoolollaah’s migration to Madinah. AH: after the Hejrah (Rasoolollaah’s migration), BH: before the Hejrah.
[25] Paaidaari taa Paaye Daar / Mondhir = page 85. Many books have been written about the suffering of Moslems at the hands of the Bakris throughout the Islamic history. These books record names and give detailed accounts of barbaric executions and horrific tortures which targeted Moslem men and women of all ages and social standings, especially the scholars.
[26] Moslem: a follower of Rasoolollaah and Ameer al-Mo’meneen. Opposite Bakri: a follower of Aboo Bakr. Sheecah is used as singular and as plural.
[27] Aathaar al-Belaad wa Akhbaar al-cEbaad / al-Qazweeni = page 402.
[28] The belief that everything is one thing and that thing is God, thus man is God, and the feces of a pig is also God; and so the eye that sees these as two different things is defective!!
[29] In recent times, this particular school of thought in Iraq has had three influential promoters—a “grand teacher”, a “teacher” and a “student”. Between them, they introduced many grave deviations, one worse than the other, which evolved to something hardly called Islam.
In “al-Mabaani fi Sharh al-cOrwah al-Wothqaa = al-Nekaah, page 364” the “grand teacher” says that hurting Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen is not prohibited by Islam, where he states: ((…And the mere fact that it hurts Faatimah does not make it forbidden!!)).
This is despite the fact that countless Bakri scholars narrate many ahaadeeth from Rasoolollaah about Faatimah such as:
((And she (Faatimah) is a part of me, and she is my heart, and my soul that is between my sides. So whoever annoys her, he has surely annoyed me, and whoever annoys me, he has surely annoyed Allaah.)).
((Faatimah is a part of me, tires me what tires her.)).
((Faatimah is a part of me, saddens me what saddens her.)).
((Faatimah is a part of me, makes me suspicious what makes her suspicious.)).
((Faatimah is a part of me, angers me what angers her.)).
((Faatimah is a part of me, so whoever makes her angry, he has surely made me angry.)).
((Verily, Faatimah is a part of me, enrages me what enrages her and annoys me what annoys her.)). (To read more of these ahaadeeth with their Bakri references, see the section ‘Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen in the Holy Hadeeth’ of this book).
And in “Feqh al-Sheecah = vol. 3, page 126” the “grand teacher” states: ((And therefore we say that the first two usurpers of the khelaafah of Ameer al-Mo’meneen were Moslems, because they did not show hostility towards Ahl al-Bayt, but rather challenged them in coming to power, whilst recognizing their status and rank!!)).
This is despite the fact that Aboo Bakr and cOmar took part in several futile attempts on Rasoolollaah’s life. And despite the fact that many of the Macsoomeen have said that Aboo Bakr and cOmar planned and ordered the assassination of Rasoolollaah; and despite the fact that even the Bakris record some of the evidence which point to Aboo Bakr and cOmar. (For more details see: Rasoolollaah, the Messenger of Allaah / by the author = page 181).
And this is despite the fact that all Moslem scholars and a very large number of Bakri scholars agree that Aboo Bakr ordered his men to raid the home of cAli and Faatimah; and that cOmar, along with three hundred Bakri ruffians, attacked their home, surrounded it with firewood and set fire to it with its Ahl al-Bayt occupants: Ameer al-Mo’meneen, Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen, Imaam Hasan and Imaam Hosayn still inside, crushed the six-month-pregnant Faatimah between the burning door and the wall, penetrated her chest with the nail, lashed her with the whip, hit her with the sword, slapped her face, kicked her in the stomach, killed her six-month fetus Mohassin, put a rope around cAli’s neck and pulled him in the streets, unsheathed the swords to execute him in the mosque… And Moslem and Bakri scholars agree that Aboo Bakr actually ordered Khaalid ibn al-Waleed to assassinate cAli. And Moslem and Bakri scholars also agree that the first two usurpers of the khelaafah repeatedly and systematically denied the status and the ranks of Ahl al-Bayt; rejected their testimonies and accused them of lying.
So how can a person who just speaks against Ahl al-Bayt be called a Naasibi (a person who shows hostility towards Ahl al-Bayt), yet Aboo Bakr and cOmar who were the killers of Ahl al-Bayt and the founders of the hostility against them not be Naasibis but be Moslems instead?!!
And in “Bahth Hawl al-Walaayah” the “teacher” states: ((cOmar’s slapping Faatimah on the face was a matter of his jurisprudential opinion!!?)).
Besides the fact that no Bakri scholar brings this excuse for cOmar’s actions, since when did cOmar become a mojtahid (jurist—a scholar who is able to extract Islamic laws from its sources)?! According to Bakri references, cOmar did not even have enough knowledge of the Holy Qor’aan which is one of the sources of Islamic law; so how can the “teacher” call cOmar a mojtahid?! But supposing that cOmar was a qualified mojtahid, what part of Islam did allow him to hit Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameem?!! The person who was chosen by Allaah and appointed by Him as the Chief of the Women of the World; a person about whom Rasoolollaah said:
((Faatimah is the mother of her father.)).
((I won’t agree until she agrees.)).
((Your father be your sacrifice.)).
((I am at war with whoever fights you, and I am in peace with whoever is in peace with you.)). (To read more of these ahaadeeth with their Bakri references, see the section ‘Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen in the Holy Hadeeth’ of this book).
And if we agree with what the “teacher” writes in the above book, then we must believe that cOmar will actually be rewarded by Allaah for hitting Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen!! Since Allaah rewards a mojtahid twice, if his jurisprudential opinion is right, and He rewards him once, if his jurisprudential opinion is wrong; as the Bakris say. Now maybe he was rewarded twice!!?
And in “Mabaahith al-Osool = part 1, section 2” the “teacher” states: ((And the Sonni rule which was headed by the first three Wise Kholafaa’ and which was based on Islam and justice, cAli took his sword to defend it when he fought as a regular soldier in the battles of al-Raddah under the leadership of the First Khaleefah Aboo Bakr!!?).
Although Bakri scholars have always tried desperately to create some kind of legitimacy for Aboo Bakr as the first khaleefah of Rasoolollaah, but none of them has ever claimed what the “teacher” writes in the mentioned book!!
This gives total legitimacy to Aboo Bakr, something that Ahl al-Bayt were suppressed for two hundred and fifty years for insistently refusing to do.
Now, if the Bakri rule was based on Islam and justice, then why did Ameer al-Mo’meneen and Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen oppose it so strongly?! And if the Bakri rule was based on Islam and justice, then it must have been right in suppressing Ameer al-Mo’meneen and Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen, who must have become traitors to Islam and justice when they rose up against Aboo Bakr and his rule and therefore deserved to be punished!!?
And what part of the Bakri rule was based on Islam?! The Bakri party claimed that the successor of Rasoolollaah must be chosen by the Moslems, and they claimed that Aboo Bakr was chosen by the Moslems, who really was not. And later on his deathbed, Aboo Bakr appointed cOmar as his successor; so what happened to the right of the Moslems to choose their leader?! And later on his deathbed, cOmar formed an all-time joke of a council of six for choosing his successor, with the swords unsheathed to kill them if they strayed from his specific instructions!! Besides, does the “teacher” not claim that he believes, like other Moslems, that Allaah chose the thirteen leaders of Islam—the Prophet and his twelve successors?! So did the Bakri rule follow the leadership of Allaah’s chosen leaders of Islam to be based on Islam?! How can the “teacher” say that the Bakri rule was based on Islam when it fought Islam and its God-appointed leaders?! And if the Bakri rule was based on Islam, then the “teacher” must be an infidel, since he claims that he does not follow it.
And what part of the Bakri rule was based on justice?! Killing Mohassin?! Killing Sayyedat Nesaa’ al-cAAlameen?! Usurping her positions?! Usurping Rasoolollaah’s inheritance?! Assassinating opposition leaders?! Raping their women?!
Besides, if one really believes that cAli unsheathed his sword to defend the Bakri rule, then he must forget all about Ahl al-Bayt and grab onto the blood-stained robes of their killers—the Bakri rulers such as Aboo Bakr and cOmar.
And the “student” who is the creation and the invention of the fist two, has broken all records in the number of deviations he has introduced in numerous Islamic fields. In the field of Islamic history, he denies the fact that the Bakri leaders raided the home of cAli and Faatimah and killed Mohassin and Faatimah!! In the field of Islamic theology, he disputes the prophethood of some of the prophets and he rejects many of the powers and abilities and attributes of the Fourteen Macsoomeen!! In the field of Islamic law, he has declared as permissible many prohibitions and has marked as prohibited many permissibles!! In the numerous fields of the Holy Qor’aan and the Holy Hadeeth, he has also left his dirty finger prints; he even says that there is a mistake in the Holy Qor’aan!!
The list of his deviations and distortions and aberrations is virtually endless; it is such that many of the maraajic have issued decrees and statements against him and his beliefs, announcing that they are not part of Islam; and several scholars have written books against him and his beliefs. To read more about the opinions and the beliefs of this man, see: ‘Ma’saat al-Zahraa’ and ‘Khalfiyyat Ketaab Ma’saat al-Zahraa’.
[30] For instance, while returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage, Allaah revealed the following aayah to Rasoolollaah:
{O Apostle! deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord; and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His message, and AllAAh will protect you from the people; surely Allaah will not guild the infidels.}. (Holy Qor’aan = soorah 5, aayah 67)
And after Rasoolollaah appointed Ameer al-Mo’meneen, by the order of Allaah, as his first khaleefah, Allaah revealed the following aayah:
{This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion.}. (Holy Qor’aan = soorah 5, aayah 3)
These two aayaat clearly show that the Islam without the khelaafah of Ameer al-Mo’meneen is not the complete Islam, just as the Islam without the Prophethood of Rasoolollaah is not the complete Islam; and they show that accepting these teachings without accepting the appointment of Ameer al-Mo’meneen as Rasoolollaah’s first khaleefah is not the same as accepting Islam, just as accepting these teachings without accepting the appointment of Rasoolollaah as the last prophet is not the same as accepting Islam. Therefore a person who does not believe in the khelaafah of Ameer al-Mo’meneen cannot be called a Moslem, just as the person who does not believe in the Prophethood of Rasoolollaah cannot be called a Moslem.
Furthermore, in the last part of the first aayah, Allaah actually calls those who do not accept this revelation Infidels.
[31] cAlayhemos Salaam, peace be upon them.