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SERMON 60
Amir al-mu'minin also said:
Do not fight(1) the
Kharijites after me, because one who seeks right but does not find it, is not like one who
seeks wrong and finds it.
as-Sayyid ar-Radi says: Amir al-mu'minin means
Muawiyah and his men.
(1).
The reason for stopping people from fighting the Kharijites was that Amir al-mu'minin was
clearly perceiving that after him authority and power would devolve on people who would be
ignorant of the proper occasion of jihad, and who will make use of sword only to maintain
their sway. And there were those who excelled even Kharijites in holding and calling Amir
al-mu'minin bad. So those who are themselves in the wrong have no right to fight others in
the wrong. Again, those who are wilfully in the wrong can be allowed to fight those who
are in the wrong by mistake. Thus, Amir al-mu'minin's words make this fact clear that the
misguidance of Kharijites was not wilful but under Satan's influence. They mistook wrong
as right and stuck to it. On the other hand, the position of misguidance of Muawiyah and
his party was that they rejected right realising it as right and appropriated wrong as the
code of their conduct fully knowing that it was wrong. Their audacity in the matter of
religion reached the stage that it can neither be regarded as a result of misunderstanding
nor can it be covered under the garb of error of judgement, because they openly
transgressed the limits of religion and paid no heed to the Prophet's injunctions in
comparison with their own view. Thus, Ibn Abi'l-Hadid has written (vol. 5, p. 130) that
when the Prophet's companion Abu'd-Darda' saw utensils of gold and silver being used by
Muawiyah he said he had heard the Prophet saying, "One who drinks in vessels of gold
and silver will feel flames of the fire of Hell in his stomach" whereupon Muawiyah
said, "As for me, l do not find any harm in it." Similarly, creating Ziyad ibn
Abih's blood relationship with himself by his own opinion in total disregard of the
Prophet's injunction, abusing the descendants of the Prophet over the pulpit,
transgressing the limits of shariah, shedding blood of innocent persons and placing over
Muslims (as so called Khalifah) a vicious individual and thus opening the way to disbelief
and atheism are events that to attribute them to any misunderstanding is like wilfully
closing eyes to facts.
.Forward to Sermon 61.Back to Sermon 59.
