Re: Revile towards the Sahaba will indicate kufr (part 2)
^ i knew this was coming but i didnt want to sugar coat anything, as unlike u i dont come here to "win" debates that might support a certain sectarian agenda.
umar b abdul aziz may Allah elevate his station and include him with the best of believers in akirah is much better than the summary judgement that u have passed on him.
He lived in a time of extreme hostility to ahlulbayt , he inherited a system that was repressive to religious classes esp those who had sympahties for ahlulbayt.
He inherited a society deeply divided amongst alids, khawarij , ummayyads and zubarids.He set about the task of heeling their rifts and did so quite successfully, he had the bigger interests of religion at heart and this was above the memory of any sahaba good or bad.Obviously the only way to quell these debates was to discourage by all possible means discussion of sahaba conflicts.If you ever thought at the supra-sectarian level you would realize that this was the best possible decision at the time.
so in summary i do believe that criticzing sahaba has no islamic prohibition, but thats different from the harsh charges ofdisloyalty and total disregard of their services which 12ers do by selective reading of historical sources,
in end i wud like to tell u that sayyidna ali when he encountered khawarij in his time ( who considered ali an infidel after arbitration) did not call khawarij kafir ...he neither prohibited them from attending the mosque or stopped their stipends from bay ul mal