Dear Readers the very first question which divided followers of Muhammad s.a.w.a immediately after his holy demise and made Muslims wondering in desert and fighting one against other.Here I will write true and meaningful discourse, enough for any man of heart to contemplate and understand.A truthful man must accept the truth even if it goes against oneself.
...First of all we have to understand what is khalifa means, who give the title khalifa.
Khalif means :Representative, one who comes after
what will be the criteria to be khalifa….let the first thing first
Quranic Discourse: the creation of man…Hazrat Adam.
Allah said…”And when your Lord said to the angels,I am going to place in the earth a khalif, they said: What! wilt Thou place in it such as shall make mischief in it and shed blood, and we celebrate Thy praise and extol Thy holiness? He said: Surely I know what you do not know”. (2:30)
The reader should very carefully understand this occurrence….here Allah s.w.t declaring His will ( creative) .
From above verse it is clear that selection/raising/ appointing of khalif is Allah’s work and His work means His will.
Let us take other verse where Allah s.w.t in Bakara:247
“…….Allah hath appointed Talut as king over you." They said: "How can he exercise authority over us when we are better fitted than he to exercise authority, and he is not even gifted, with wealth in abundance?" He said: "Allah hath Chosen him above you, and hath gifted him abundantly with knowledge and bodily prowess: Allah Granteth His authority to whom He pleaseth. Allah careth for all, and He knoweth all things."
Kindly ponder on the bold words. Also remember this declaration was from the prophet of their time.
So appointment of the khalifs are from Allah s.w.t. and it is a open declaration.
Then how can people after demise of Holy Prophet s.a.w.a chose khalif ? They chose it in a meeting of 20-25 people at sakifa?
Where as Allah said “This was Our way with Our messengers whom We had sent before you, and you shall not find any change in our way.(Bani Israil:77)
If there is no changes in Allah way, why they change it? Whether it at a meeting of 22-25 people or direct appointment (2nd khalif) or by a committee!
General Discourse: From the above discourse it can be easily understood that some people “snatched “ the authority of appointing khalif/imam/leader from Allah s.w.t to their own. As some group of people may tell that they will select who will be their prophet or the most nonsense work if a group of people select their own god( as the musriks do)
It should also understand what are the qualities to be a chosen one? Every where Allah said that ..the knowledge. Ponder on this Allah wills to make a khalif in the earth so what was the intention to tell this to the angles? Certainly there was many things to clear. See when angles gave their opinion that they are superior on the basis that they praise Allah more , but Allah s.w.t nullified their claim on the basis of knowledge of names( I will write about those names.) surly at that time adam did not offered any ebadat. The criteria was only knowledge not age ! Is one who said about himself ‘saluni’(Ask me) equal to others?
Here only I wanted to discuss the who is the authority to select khalifas and the criteria . And it is clear that only Allah s.w.t is the authority not any prophet or any group of people.
I will write about certainty of Khilafat /imamat of ‘Ali a.s .
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Please, disable moderation if possible to make it more publicly. After all every one should have its own rights of free speech! And this will draw more visitors as every on like to see their coments publish then and there, I guess!
Please, disable moderation if possible to make it more publicly. After all every one should have its own rights of free speech! And this will draw more visitors as every on like to see their coments publish then and there, I guess!
ok I am stoping oderate option.
How long you gonna make us waiting for the story of your journey from Sunni to Shia?
Plz publish as soon as possible coz I want to draw attentions of my other fellow forum friends!
Ya Bro, I will soon complete the story and..article...
Further clarification needed! Sunnis have no problem to take Ali(r.a.) as a Khalif but what r da proofs for Abu Bakr being less knowlegable than Ali?
what r da historic quotations of how many ppl were there when Khalif was appointed?
"...Sunnis have no problem to take Ali as Khalif..." It Has no sense becoz they regards Ali as 4th one..instead of Absolute khalif and the main thing is that sunnis snatched the right of selecting khalif from Allah to their hand...and as every one will recognize that this rebellion is enough the make them magzubi...( those who under the rath of Allah) sura Fatihah
Again ..." sunnis have no problem to take Ali as khalif.." they had problems. They never selected/ appointed Ali as khalif...rather after the death of usman there was havoc and instability and people came out and gave bayat to the hand of ali..as before they had also gave bayat to ali at gadie e khum. and sunnis have aslo problem with Ali...they fought 3 war against Ali..2 nos war of Jamal and at siffin to dislodge ali Khilafat. and today's sunnis regard all who fought against Ali was right and deweller of Zannat.
I think u don't get my points!
May b da sentence doesn't make any sense to u but i just wanted to get exact references 4m da author as i came accross such topics several times 4m sunni bros...
And what does the "4th one" mean? Sunnis doesn't consider ne 'ranks' for da Khalifs. Rather da 1st 4 Khalifs r considerd as Khalifa-e-rashedin. Does it matter who become first when he has been there?
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