Re: The 4th Calif - Ali Karam Allah Wajho - Sunni Only
Did Allah grant Succession to 'Ali **radhiyAllahu 'anhu?**
Since Allah didn’t grant khilafat to Imam Ali after the demise of Muhammad sallAllahu alayhe wasallam and after the death of Abu Bakr and Umar radhiyAllahu 'anhum, even his khilafat couldn’t be estabslished after ‘Uthman radhiyAllahu 'anhu, this shows that khilafat was not for ‘Ali radhiyAllahu 'anhu, it was not destined for him by Allah.
Not only Ali radhiyAllahu 'anhu but for all the people from Hasan radhiyAllahu 'anhu to the Alleged Mahdi, no one ever succeeded to achieve khilafat.
Allah didn't grant 'Ali radhiyAllahu 'anhu with Khilafat
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 87, Number 170:
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
A man came to Allah's Apostle and said, "I saw in a dream, a cloud having shade. Butter and honey were dropping from it and I saw the people gathering it in their hands, some gathering much and some a little. And behold, there was a rope extending from the earth to the sky, and I saw that you (the Prophet) held it and went up, and then another man held it and went up and (after that) another (third) held it and went up, and then after another (fourth) man held it, but it broke and then got connected again." Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Apostle! Let my father be sacrificed for you! Allow me to interpret this dream." The Prophet said to him, "Interpret it." Abu Bakr said, "The cloud with shade symbolizes Islam, and the butter and honey dropping from it, symbolizes the Quran, its sweetness dropping and some people learning much of the Qur'an and some a little. The rope which is extended from the sky to the earth is the Truth which you (the Prophet) are following. You follow it and Allah will raise you high with it, and then another man will follow it and will rise up with it and another person will follow it and then another man will follow it but it will break and then it will be connected for him and he will rise up with it. O Allah's Apostle! Let my father be sacrificed for you! Am I right or wrong?" The Prophet replied, "You are right in some of it and wrong in some." Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Prophet! By Allah, you must tell me in what I was wrong." The Prophet said, "Do not swear."
Now view this hadith from Sahih Muslim and Sunan-e-Abi Daud:
Hadhrat Abu Hurayrah radhiyAllahu 'anhu states that
a man came in the service of Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam and said, ‘Ya Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam I have had a dream at night that
There is a shed from which butter (ghee) and honey is dropping. I saw people were looting it with their hands full of it. Some collected lots of butter and honey from it and some collected less.
Then I saw a rope hanging from the sky to earth and I saw ya Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam that you held the rope and went up, then another person came, he held the rope and he also climbed up, afterward a thrid person appeared and he held the rope and he also went up. Then a fourth person came, he held the rope but it (the rope) broke from the middle, the rope then connected on its own and the man went up, and the rope was lifted up’.
Hadhrat Abu Bakr radhiyAllahu 'anhu asked, ‘Ya Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam grant me the permission to interpret this. He (sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam) allowed him for that, he said:
The shed means Islam and the butter and honey dropping from it means the softness and sweetness of Quran. Some people learnt more (from) Quran and some less.
The rope which is hanging from the sky to earth means Truth (huq) on which you are standing, when Allah lifts you up from this world then another man after you will hold it, but then he also will leave this world, then another man will control the matters but he as well will leave this world, afterward a third person will hold it but he will leave this world too, then a fourth person will hold it but the rope will break and then automatically it will be connected and the man will also go up.
After this Hadhrat Abu Bakr radhiyAllahu 'anhu asked, ‘Ya Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam, have I interpretted correctly?, he (sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam) said, ‘a part is correct and some of it is wrong’, on which Hadhrat Abu Bakr asked, ‘Ya Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam, by Allah you inform me where I have mistakened?’, he (sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam) said, ‘Don’t swear’.
(Abu Daud, volume 2, page 288)
Another hadith from Bukhari and Muslim be viewd:
Hadhrat 'Abdullah bin 'Umar radhiyAllahu 'anhu states:
'We i.e Companions, in the leadership of Rasoolullah sallAllahu alayhi wasallam used to say to each other that after Rasoolullah sallAllahu alayhi wasallam, Abu Bakr is the best (excellent), then 'Umar and then is 'Uthman. And after them we didn't regard anyone else superior (excellent) to another'.
One more narration from Abu Daud:
Hadhrat Jabir bin Abdullah states that one day Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam said, ‘I saw in my dream that a pious man was weighed with Abu Bakr, then Abu Bakr was weighed with Umar, then Umar was weighed with Uthman'.
Hadhrat Jabir says when we came out from the service of Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam, we agreed on this that the pious man means Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam himself and that they were weighed as one with the other shows the rule which they will be given on this task which has been given to Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam to be sent (to us).
The number of such narrations is so big in Abu Daud that they reach the level of tawatur. Anyone who is interested should read Hadhrat Shah Waliullah’s Azaalat-al-Khafa.
But Abu Daud, with a Sahih Sanad, has narrated one narration which is decisive, and Abu Daud has ended the description of Caliphs at this narration. Which clearly shows that the same is the conclusion of Imam Abu Daud. The matter of this narration goes like this:
Hadhrat Samrah bin Jundub radhiyAllahu 'anhu states that a man said to Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam, ‘Ya Rasoolullah sallAllahu 'alayhi wasallam, I saw in my dream that a bucket was hanged from the sky, Abu Bakr held both the edges of bucket and drank some water from it, but there was a weakness in his drinking (weakness means small period of caliphate), then Umar held both the edges of bucket and drank some water from it, then Uthman came and he also drank to his fill, afterward Ali came and he held the wood of bucket, but the bucket with a jerk dropped from his hand and some drops of water from the bucket sprinkled on him'.
(Abu Daud, volume 2, page 289)
Keeping in view these narrations, Hadhrat Shah Waliullah issued this verdict that
Hadhrat Ali radhiyAllahu 'anhu was not a Caliph, because he couldn’t get hold of the administration of State, and under his control only one city of Kufah was left.
The Decision of Allah goes against Shias’ Claims
وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُواْ الصَّـلِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِى الاٌّرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِى ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِّن بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْناً يَعْبُدُونَنِى لاَ يُشْرِكُونَ بِى شَيْئاً وَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الْفَـسِقُونَ ]
Allah has promised those among you who believe and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them succession in the land, as He granted it to those before them, and that He will grant them the authority to practise their religion which He has chosen for them. And He will surely give them in exchange a safe security after their fear if they worship Me and do not associate anything with Me. But whoever disbelieved after this, they are the rebellious.
(An-Nur:55)
And Allah didn’t grant Saiyidina ‘Ali radhiyAllahu 'anhu succession in the land.
Saiyidina ‘Ali radhiyAllahu 'anhu couldn’t have Authority over Ummah as Ummah was divided and his Khilafat kept on diminishing till it became limited to Kufah only.
The period of Saiyidina Ali radhiyAllahu 'anhu was not that of safe security, but of chaos, fitnah and civil war. 100,000 people were killed in a number of battles. People lived in the state of Fear.
This Fear, Fitnah and Civil war was removed by Allah through Saiyidina Ameer Mu’awiyah radhiyAllahu 'anhu and according to the above verse and Sahih hadiths, he was surely a Khalifah of Mu’mineen as blessed by Allah. Off course he ruled with justice and united the disintegrated Ummah.
