Re: some questions regarding Abu Bakr thread
texan_dude you are tying up too many things with the personality of abu bakr[ra] .....how can he be held responsible for what muawiyah and yazid did ?
even the people at the time who opposed his election admitted that ....
read the prophetic words by a badri sahabi Hubbab b Mundhir [ra] when he says that the "children of ansar will be begging for bread & water at the gates of Quraish" .....when abu bakr[ra] asked "do you expect that from me" Hubbab[ra] "No.... but from those who might come after you"
So even if we dont agree with the election of Abubakr[ra] as the first caliph ....that is no reason to hold him accountable for everything that went wrong in islamic history ...we shud all admit that he was amongst the earliest muhajireen and their status [along with those of the ansar] is confirmed in Quran ....abu bakr[ra] fought his own father in Badr ....he liberated Bilal[ra] and Khabbab[ra]
sadly there is one group of muslims who elevate his station to a level which even he did not consider himself ref. his first speech after assuming caliphate] while another group ignores all his merits and services to islam.
His sons also stood up for truth and justice ...one of them being a martyr & loyal partisan of Ameerulmomineen ALi [as] from whose progeny comes the mother of Imam Jafar sadiq and other Abdul rehman[ra] who till his last breath opposed the decision of muawiyah to nominate yazid as caliph