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Conspiracy Against Imam Ali (AS)
A Sunni brother mentioned that:
It is quite difficult for us to digest the so-called "conspiracy
theory.

" Despite many years of companionship, how could only few
people out of all his companions hold on to Muhammads instructions on
the issue of Caliphate and the rest disobey him?
I would certainly accept the argument of this brother if he can convince me
why almost all the companions of Moses became worshipers of a golden calf
after so many years of training?! According to Sahih al-Bukhari, the
Messeenger of Allah has told Ali that the story of Moses and Aaron (Haroon)
is similar to that of the story of him and Ali.

The tradition is as
follows:
"Your position to me is like the position of Aaron to Moses, except
that there shall be no Prophet after me"
Sunni References:
(1) Sahih al-Bukhari, Arabic-English version, Traditions 5.

56 and 5.

700
(2) Sahih Muslim, Arabic, section of virtues of Ali, v4, pp 1870-71
(3) Sunan Ibn Majah, p12
(4) Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v1, p174
(5) al-Khasis, by al-Nisai, pp 15-16
(6) Mushkil al-Athar, by al-Tahawi, v2, p309
Now, the position of Aaron (Haroon) to Moses is given by the verses of
Quran, among which are the following three:
(Moses said: "O Allah) assign me a vizier from my family, (that is)
my brother Aaron (Haroon) .

.

.

," (Allah) said: "We granted your
requests, O Moses.

" (Quran 20:29-36).

Allah, Exalted, also said:
"Surely We gave the book to Moses and assigned his brother Aaron as
his vizier.

" (Quran 25:35).

He, Exalted He is, also said:
".

.

.

And Moses said unto his brother Aaron: Take my place in my
comunity.

" (Quran 7:142).

Notice that "Ukhlufni" and "Khalifa" (Caliph) are exactly from the same
root.

Now, to realized what was narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, we need to
replace the word "Moses" with "Muhammad" and "Aaron" with "Ali", and we are
all set!! The sentence becomes "And Muhammad (PBUH&HF) said to his
brother Ali, take my place among my community.

" Of course, the tradition
in Sahih al-Bukhari excluded the Prophethood for Imam Ali, and what remains
for him is the leadership of the community.

Putting the above 3 verses of Quran beside what has been narrated by al-
Bukhari and Muslim, Ibn Majah and many others, we solves the mystery! Ali
is the "brother" and his deputy/successor.

By the above authentic
tradition, the Prophet (PBUH&HF) meant that as Moses had left behind Aaron
to look after his people when he went to Miqaat (meeting Allah), in the
same way he was leaving Ali behind to look after the affairs of Islam after
he met Allah (i.

e.

, his death).

Confirming what the above tradition implies, we find in the many reports
that Imam Ali (AS) received the title of the "brother" of Prophet when
Prophet established the "brothering" among his followers (see Sahih al-
Tirmidhi, v5, p363; Sirah Ibn Hisham, p504; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, v4, p251).

Interestingly enough, the Prophet in that occasion made Abu Bakr and Umar
brother of each other (al-Tabaqat, by Ibn Sad, v3, part 1, p123).

If Abu
Bakr was really the closest to the Prophet, he would have chose him for
himself instead of Imam Ali.

In fact, if we look deeper to the situation of after death of Prophet
Mohammad (PBUH), and the leaving of Moses to MIQAAT (appointment with
Allah), we will see more analogy to what Prophet (PBUH) said to Ali (AS).

Quran states that: Moses (AS) with the order of Allah, assigned Haroon (AS)
as his successor (Caliph) and left his people to him, and left for MIQAAT
(appointment with Allah) for a total of forty days.

After leaving of Moses,
most of his companions turned against Haroon, and were deceived by Sameri,
and became worshipers of a golden calf.

(See Quran 7:142, 20:90-97, 20:83-
88).

The analogy that Prophet (PBUH) mentioned in the above tradition, seems to
be a reality after his demise.

Most of companions (except Abu Dhar, Miqdad,
Salman al-Farsi, Ammar, and .

.

.

) became disloyal to Ali (AS) after the
death of Prophet (PBUH), turned against him, and preferred some other
people to him.

The majority of people disobeyed Ali (AS), as their
forefathers disobeyed Haroon (AS).

They did not take lessons from Quran
and the history, and thus the history repeated over and over again.

The
repetition of the history of the Children of Israel for Muslims is
confirmed by Prophet (PBUH&HF):
Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 9.

422
Narrated Abu Said al-Khudri:
The Prophet said, "You will follow the ways of those nations who were
before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.

e.

, inch by inch) so
much so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure (lizard), you
would follow them.

" We said, "O Allahs Apostle! (Do you mean) the
Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?"
This tradition is also narrated by Muslim in his Sahih , v8, p57.

It is
also narrated in Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v3, pp 84, 94.

Think for a while.

.

.

Why would the Prophet (PBUH&HF) compare his companions
to the Jews and the Christians, knowing full well that the Jews and the
Christians have mutilated and perverted the religion of Allah (SWT)?
Because Allah (SWT) had told him (PBUH&HF) that your companions will turn
back, except the select few.

Imam Ali (AS) was still a divinely-appointed Imam during the time of the
first three rulers, and what these rulers could take from him was the
rulership (which is one of the rights of Imam) and not the position of
Imamat.

As for Imam Ali pledging Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman, he was
compelled to that since he had no choice and he was compled to do so.

We,
however, never accuse the Imams of being cowards.

What Imam Ali did was his
duty which is similar to what Haroon did as his duty.

Quran states that when Moses (PBUH) came back from MIQAAT he was very angry
since Allah had informed him that his community went astray during his
absence.

Moses came and started questioning his brother Haroon, that why he
did not take action to prevent this corruption.

Quran states that Haroon
(Aaron) replied:
"(O Moses) people did oppress me and they were about to kill me.

"
(Quran 7:150).

The above verse gives another striking similarity between Ali and Haroon.

Since Muslims all believe that Haroon was a true prophet of God, they do
not allow themselves to call him coward.

In fact Taqiyya (dissimulation) is
mentioned in Quran in several verses.

This requires another article by its
own, to explain the importance of Taqiyya according to Quran and the
numerous traditions of Prophet (PBUH&HF) reported in the authentic Sunni
collections.

Nevertheless Ali did his duty after the death of the Messenger of Allah, as
Haroon (Aaron) did:
"Before this, Aaron had already said to them: O my people! you are
being tested in this, for verily your Lord is (Allah) Most Gracious;
so follow me and obey my order.

" (Quran 20:90).

Sahih al-Bukhari confirms that Imam Ali refused to give his allegiance to
Abu Bakr for six months.

He gave his allegiance to Abu Bakr only after the
martyrdom of his wife Fatimah al-Zahra, Daughter of the Holy Prophet, six
month after the departure of Prophet.

(see Sahih al-Bukhari, Arabic-English
version, Tradition 5.

546).

After the death of Prophet (PBUH&HF), for forty days, Ali (AS) was
contacting the well-known people at night, reminding them the instructions
of prophet about his right to Caliphate, asking them to join him to get the
power.

But non responded except Abu Dhar, Miqdad, and Salman al-Farsi and
some more.

The Prophet had already instructed Ali that if the number of his
followers at that upheaval exceeds 40 men, he should take the action
otherwise he should keep silent since the only remaining pious people would
be killed without being able to help Islam.

Ali (AS) was not afraid of
being killed, and he kept silent only to keep the faded lawn of Islam
alive.

After he was sure that there would no success in his revolting, he
kept silent.

During his silence, he indeed started cooperating with the
first 2 Caliphs as consultant and did his best to decrease the damage as
much as possible.

If he had not done so, Islam would have been destroyed
completely.

Imam Ali said: "I tolerated those periods as if there was a
thorn in my eye and a sharp bone stuck in my throat.

" (Nahjul Balagha,
the sayings of Imam Ali).

Islam was very young at that time (only 23 years old!) and division among
Muslims could have totally removed Islam from the surface of the earth.

So
he kept silent, as Haroon (Aaron) kept silent to prevent division:
(Moses) said: "O Aaron! what kept you back when you saw them going
wrong?".

.

.

(Aaron said:) ".

.

Truly I feared you would say You caused
a division among the Children of Israel and you did not respect my
word!" (Quran 20:92-94).

Abu Sufyan was one of those who wanted to destroy the young Islam by
encouraging Ali to revolt when he was sure that Ali will have no success
due to small number of his followers.

But the revolt of Ali would at least
cause the civil war and the destruction of Islam.

al-Tabari reported:
When people gathered to give their oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr, Abu
Sufyan came while saying, "By God, I see a cloud of smoke which
nothing but blood will clear.

O family of Abd Manaf! Who is Abu Bakr
that he should be the master of your affairs? Where are Ali and al-
Abbas, the two oppressed ones?" He then said (to Ali): "O Abul Hasan!
stretch your hand so that I give you the oath of allegiance.

Ali
rebuked him, saying: "By God, you do not intend anything but (to stir
up) Fitnah (dissension).

For long you have desired evil for Islam.

We
do not need your advice.

"
Sunni reference: History of al-Tabari, English version, v9, p199
As we quoted the tradition of al-Bukhari earlier, the Prophet confirmed
that
the history of the Children of Israel will be repeated for Muslims.

In
fact Quran has mentioned the stories of the Children of Israel to give us a
way to understand the true history of Islam itself.

There are many other
striking similarities in this regard written in Quran.

Please see the
artcle of "The Twelve Imams (Part II)" for the Quranic verses in this
regard.

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Side Comments

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A Sunni brother mentioned that Aaron (Haroon) died during the liftime of
Moses, and as such, this is not a correct analogy to confirm the caliphate
of Ali using the tradition of Sahih al-Bukhari in which the Prophet said:
"Your position to me is like the position of Aaron (Haroon) to Moses but
there is no prophet AFTER me.

"
The claim that Aaron died during the life-time of Prophet Moses (if true)
does not hurt this argument at all, if you very carefully read the
following paragraphs:
As Moses (AS) had left behind Aaron to look after his people when he went
to Miqaat (meeting Allah), in the same way the Prophet (PBUH&HF) was

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