CONTROVERSIES AND OBJECTIONS

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 02)
Verses 68-69CAUSE OF THE REVELATION

CONTROVERSIES AND OBJECTIONS

      The most important objection that is shown about the appointment and presentation of HAZRAT ALI in Ghadir is on account of the two or threefold meaning of the Arabic; `VALI'. Some say friend and friendship of Imam Ali was purposed in prophet's speech, and some insist that the prophet meant other shade of the meaning of VALI, which is Governing Guardian and Khalif of the prophet.

      A group of Muslims particularly among the Sonni Sect of Islam, say:- ``True that the prophet in his famous speech in Ghadir, said; he whose Vali was I, Ali shall be his vali or Mowlج; by Vali or Mowla the prophet intended friend, and not guardian, successor, or a man of authority and etc.''

      It is indeed strange to hear such that reasoning and translation! Did the prophet in that hot, dry and burning desert, at the Khomm gathered hundreds of thousands of Muslims, to tell them; Ali is my friend, and he is a friend to all my friends!? Who knew not that; closer than a friend, Ali was the prophet's adopted brother, real cousin and son in law; the husband to Fatima, prophet's only and the beloved daughter?! Was Ali's friendship something that Muslims knew it not so far, and the prophet had to proclaim it in that great congregation!?

      Was Ali not recognized by all, as a true Muslim brother and a friend to all, and was he not the first of male converts in Islam?!

      Any impartial and unbiased man knows that here in the prophet speech, Mowla means authorized leader, and guardian; and the prophet's unique and likeless successor and Khalif, who was elected by God and not by a few men in a private meeting!

 

 

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