Mouood Mouood English Edition
The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) aimed at opening the new Muslims’ minds on the history of their religion and prices of the divine revelation, in order that they may appreciate the value. Besides, he wanted them to pay attention to the core of Islam and the core of atheism, so that they may recognize each. Another purpose is that the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) aimed at sending a practical message to the rest of the pharaonic masters of Quraish, who were still alive, to inform them that they shouldered the offense of that atheism and shame. Nevertheless, they committed greater sins afterwards. They did not change their situation till the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) gathered them under swords of the Hashemites and Ansar on day of conquest of Mecca. Only then, they evaded being killed by declaring their embracing Islam. Thereafter, they planned for prevailing the heritage of the Islamic state that had been constructed by Allah and His Apostle, against their desires.
Death and sword of Ali Bin Abi Talib were the Lord’s means of killing a few number of the masters of that satanic treaty of Al-Kheif conference. A considerable number of them; such as Suheil Bin Amr, Abu Sufian, Ikrima Bin Abi Jahl, Safwan Bin Umaya Bin Khalaf, Hakeem Bin Hizam, Suheib Bin Sinan, Abul-Awar As-Selemi and others were still alive. They accompanied the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) in the Farewell Pilgrimage. They were listening to his statements and could remember their near past. They were admired by his pardoning them and stopping at submitting them to his full evidences.
Their extrinsic and hidden behavior, induction, the Prophet’s household’s testimony, course of history; all these things proved their delight for the Prophet’s declaring his imminent final departure. They were preparing for a new method of blockading the Hashemites in the next stage.
Hence, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) purposed for reminding them of their old plan, and how the Lord foiled it, and He would foil the coming ones.
The seventh principal of this base, which is warning the Quraishis against playing the tyrant after departure of the Prophet, is recorded in our reference books of hadith. The forecited narration recorded in Al-Heithami’s Majma’uzzawaid and related to Fahd Bin Albahiri who listened to the sermon of Arafa Day and related the Prophet’s saying, “O the Quraishis! Do not shoulder the mundane affairs, while people shoulder the Hereafter. I will not avail you in the least before God,” asserts this principal.
Thanks God, Fahd was a Bedouin. Had he been from Quraish or Kenana, he would have substituted the Hashemites for the Quraishis!
The Quraishi narrators were wont to remove every statement that might injure or censure the Quraishis. Therefore, the Sunnis’ reference books of hadith, are full of such ‘authentic’ reports regarding the Prophet’s blaming and censuring the Hashemites and sons of Abdul-Muttelib. In like manner, we could see tens of narratives dealing with the Prophet’s praising the Quraishis and ordering of selecting the leadership from them. No single prophetic saying concerning blaming or criticizing the Quraishis was saved from distortion into a prophetic blame addressed at the Hashemites, or repealing it by inventing another saying, or changing it into a prophetic praise for the Quraishis.
Son of Albahiri’s narrative respecting the Prophet’s forewarning the Quraishis during sermon of the Farewell Pilgrimage, comes in its proper time and place. The Quraishis occupied a distinctive location among the Arabs. They were the leading of people the Arab Peninsula during and after the Prophet’s lifetime. Consequently, any danger that might face the Prophet’s household would certainly be originated by the Quraishis. As well, any movement of averting Islam, and any wrongdoing Muslims may suffer would certainly be originated by the Quraishis. Other people would always be following them.
The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) is not more than a bearer of the Lord’s message, and a materializer of His claim on people. His mission is warning and admonishing so that he who would perish might perish by clear proof, and he who would live might live by clear proof.
The eighth principal of this base; warning the Prophet’s companions against breaking faith and struggling on the power, is recorded in the reference books of hadiths of the two sects directly and indirectly.
The indirect way of relating this principal is the Prophet’s saying, “After me, return not to deviation by beheading each other.”
In his As-Sunan; 2/1300, Ibn Madga dedicates an independent chapter to the prophetic sayings regarding this topic. He titles it, ‘After Me, Return Not To Deviation By Beheading Each Other.’ He records the Prophet’s sayings, “Woe is you! After me, return not to atheism by beheading each other,” and “Kill not each other after me,” and the like.
This foreordains that this process would be falling after him. As a matter, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) frankly foretold them of their struggle after him. He used the maximum degree of his eloquence, as well as sympathy, and applied the entire styles of forewarning and admonition for materializing the Lord’s evidence on them; so that they will not provide their unfamiliarity of the topic when they shall be submitted before the Lord.
Those forewarned and admonished people were none other than his companions. They were not the Jews, or the other Arab tribes, or chiefs of Quraish exclusively.
The Islamic state prevailed and affected its centering all over the Arab Peninsula. Hence, the Prophet’s anticipation of struggle for power was not addressed at the tribes that were, coercively or voluntarily, submitted to Islam, such as the Hawazin and the Ghatafan, since these tribes had nothing to do with the leadership of the Islamic state. Supposing they did, they would not obtain any unless the Prophet’s companions permitted.
Regarding the Jews, they were defeated, and a part of them was banished out of the Arab Peninsula. They had no considerable military power at that period. Despite the firmness and effectiveness of their trickeries, they would not thrive unless they passed by the Prophet’s companions.
Chiefs of Quraish lacked the dare to demand with a position of leadership in the Islamic states although they had the predominance upon majority of Quraishi tribes, as well as two thousand warriors. That was because of their being the Prophet’s ‘released’ individuals whose souls had already been in the hand of the Prophet. This meant that the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) had had the right to kill or enslave them. Hence, he opted for the second when he released them afterward. They would have no hope to hold a position of leadership unless that small number of the Quraishi Muhajirs permitted so.
This proves that the Prophet’s forewarning against struggling for the power after him, is restricted to his companions, Muhajirs, and Ansar exclusively.
Here comes the role of the direct forewarning which lacks the personal names only. It came in the form of a portrait from the unseen world. It provided the end result of those deviating and deviate companions.
This portrait was the Lord’s, Who committed Gabriel the angel, to carry it to the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family). It showed the coming day on which the Lord shall choose Mohammed (peace be upon him and his family) for chiefship of the grand assemblage. Gabriel shall hand him the pennon of Hamd. The Prophet shall deliver that pennon to Ali Bin Abi Talib, since this man is the bearer of the Prophet’s pennon in this world and the Hereafter. The entire assemblage will be under the leadership of Mohammed in whom Adam will take pride. He will be called ‘Abu -father of- Mohammed.’
The Lord shall give Mohammed exclusively the right of intercession and the Divine Pool of Kawthar. Then, delegations of the entire nations will approach him for seeking intercession. He will intercede and grant the card of drinking from that Divine Pool. That water will change their physiological structure so that they will be fit to abide in the Paradise forever.
When it will be his companions’ role, a surprise will occur. The Lord’s order of disallowing the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) to intercede for those individuals and grant them the card of drinking from that Pool will come. Then, the angels of anguish will be ordered of taking them to the hell-fire.
