Part 8 The last but not least Abdullah ibn Abbas RA They way he taught/shared information Have we then finished with this point? asked Abdullah and their reply was: Allahumma, naam - O Lord, yes! Abdullah went on: As for your statement that Ali fought and did not take prisoners of war as the Prophet did, do you really desire to take your mother Aishah as a captive and treat her as fair game in the way that captives are treated? If your answer is Yes, then you have fallen into kufr (disbelief). And if you say that she is not your mother, you would also have fallen into a state of kufr for Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has said: The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves and his wives are their mothers (entitled to respect and consideration). (The Quran, Surah al-Ahzab, 34:6). Choose for yourself what you want, said Abdullah and then he asked: Have we then finished with this point? and this time too their reply was: Allahumma, naam - O Lord, yes! Abdullah went on: As for your statement that Ali has surrendered the title of Amir al-Muminin, (remember) that the Prophet himself, peace and blessings of God be on him, at the time of Hudaybiyyah, demanded that the mushrikin write in the truce which he concluded with them: This is what the Messenger of God has agreed... and they retorted: If we believed that you were the Messenger of God we would not have blocked your way to the Kabah nor would we have fought you. Write instead: Muhammad the son of Abdullah. The Prophet conceded their demand while saying: By God, I am the Messenger of God even if they reject me. At this point Abdullah ibn Abbas asked the dissidents: Have we then finished with this point? and their reply was once again: Allahumma, naam - O Lord, yes! One of the fruits of this verbal challenge in which Abdullah displayed his intimate knowledge of the Quran and the sirah of the Prophet as well as his remarkable powers of argument and. persuasion, was that the majority, about twenty thousand men, returned to the ranks of Ali. About four thousand however remained obdurate. These latter came to be known as Kharijites. To be continue..........
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