Mouood Mouood English Edition
This is the morrow of those companions, communicated by the ever most true-tongued individual on this earth.
It is indeed a terrible scene. Gabriel; the Chaste, carried it to the Prophet, so that he would inform his people,during the Farewell Pilgrimage, of its destined occurrence.
It is the gravest catastrophe to the companions of the greatest prophet. The reason beyond this is certainly their causing the Prophet’s nation falling in the greatest catastrophe in the morrow.
Excepting the like of scattered animals of a cattle, none of those companions will escape. This picture is recorded in the most authentic narratives of the most adoring to those companions. It is an extraordinary expression. Those scattered animals are those escaping the cattle.
This means that the entire group of the Prophet’s companions shall be in the hell-fire, and only few shall escape.
Moreover, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) explained that the companions, who should be in the hell-fire, are of two groups. This indicates that there are two lines taken by two parties of the companions.
This is proved through the forecited report recorded by Al-Hakim, who decides it as authentic on the criterion depended by the two Sheiks -Muslim and Al-Bukhari-. In this report, he records, “Another group shall be occluded, too. None shall escape but a few groups like the scattered animals in a cattle.”
It is a distressing question, indeed. It is hardly acceptable and credible, especially for the Muslims who are brought up on cherishing the entire companions of the Prophet; the best century, the unique generation, the statement of “My companions’ like are the stars, you will be guided if you follow any,” and the splendid representations and examples of those companions. It will be a great shock for such a Muslim if he is faced by that horrible satanic picture of those companions.
Had it been any person other than the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) who uttered these words, they would have reckoned him with the enemies of Islam, who aim at ruining this religion by means of maligning the Prophet’s companions.
It is most surely the Prophet himself who uttered these words. His words, as an undeniable reality, are not produced due to his personal caprice and not spoken out of desire. Nevertheless, the Quraishis claim the Prophet’s speaking in states of satisfaction and rage. And his words in states of rage are not decided as evidences.
As a matter of fact, the Prophet’s words involved, are a revelation of the Lord of the worlds!!
This truth is grievous. However, it is not necessary for truths to be always delightful. Similarly, the right is not always designed as we like or inherit.
How can we behave before the fact that the prophetic texts regarding the companions whom shall be deposed, rejected and precluded from having from that Divine Pool, occupy numerous situations in the most authentic Sunni reference books of hadith?! Furthermore, they occupy more numerous situations in the other reference books of hadith. All these say that none of those companions shall escape except a few like the scattered animals of a cattle.
According to the Arabic-Arabic dictionary compiled by Al-Jawhari, the Prophet’s wording refers to the animals of a cattle that lost their supervisor.
At any rate, the most remarkable point in this discussion is recognizing the reason beyond the Prophet’s submitting that topic during the Farewell Pilgrimage.
Primarily, the reason is that the Exalted Lord had given him the orders of submitting this topic in that very time. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) does never speak out of desire, and lacks awareness of his companions’ next deeds and their coming judgment on the Resurrection Day unless he is informed by the Lord.
The following questions can be provided here. What did those companions commit after the Prophet’s decease? Did they return to atheism? Or did they apostatize, as the prophetic text describes? Did they misrepresent this religion? Did they kill each other for power?
A simple answer for all these questions can be said here. You should admit what your Prophet said, and keep peace, and evade being Rafidite -rejecter and protester-.
Another question is cited. What for did the Lord opt for this style in forewarning? What for did He not extinguish those individuals, who will deviate thereafter, or give His Prophet the order of killing them, or scandal them before the entire Muslims so that they would be avoided?
The answer is that this is being the Lord’s policy in materializing the claim thoroughly on His slaves, and leaving them to their free deeds, so that he who would perish might perish be clear proof, and he who would live might live by clear proof. God, at length, is not to be asked for an explanation for His deeds, while people shall be asked for theirs. The Exalted Lord is the Owner of His servants, and He enjoys the full freedom to interrogate them. The Elevated Lord does not make errors; therefore, He is not submitted to inquiry. He; the Praised, is the most Knowledgeable. The non-most knowledgeable is not applied to inquire or impeach the most knowledgeable.
Another question is cited here. What were the consequences of that prophetic forewarning? Did Muslims, as well as the companions, hurry up towards the Prophet asking for showing the straight path? Did they ask him to nominate a man they would follow thereafter, so that those dangerous companions would not lead them astray?
The answer is that the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) did nominate the two weighty things for people to follow. He named the Book of Allah and his household. He also foretold of the coming of twelve godly imams.
Before and after the Farewell Pilgrimage, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) defined his household several times. He named them; Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein (peace be upon them).
Reports of the most authentic reference books of hadith declare that the Prophet did identify them materially when he covered them with a Yemeni cloak, and declared, “Those are my people; my household.”
Sufficed not by these procedures and declaration, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) caused the Muslims to halt under the harsh heat of sun in Al-Juhafa in Ghadir Khum, and took Ali from the arm to announce his being the next religious and political leader. He then installed a tent for him, so that the entire Muslims would greet him confessing his being the prince of the believers, and congratulate him on his being nominated, by the Lord, as the next leader. They all congratulated and acclaim him. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) then ordered his women to congratulate Ali for gaining that position. They approached the tent and offered congratulations. They admitted their loyalty to Ali’s chiefship of the nation.
In his final disease, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) aimed at attesting that evidence on his nation in a written form. He asked the retinue to fetch him a pen and a paper so that he would record a document protects them against deviation perpetually. Unfortunately, they rejected unrelentingly. They said to him, “Well! Thanks, Apostle. We decided to deviate after you. This decision is taken while we are enjoying full awareness, intention and option. We do not want you to record a document that we should comply with Ali, Hassan, Hussein and nine individuals from Hussein’s offspring; their progeny. Hence, shamelessly, they said, “Fetch not any pen or paper!!”
How can the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) provide a more consistent evidence?
