Re: The issue of Fadak
Peace Texan_Dude
Actually I am not calling anyone wrong in this matter, but clearly you have decided to call someone faultless and the other totally blameworthy, this is the unfairness I am bringing to you with evidence and sound reasoning.
To explain I can present to you a little example.
A man goes to a masjid and hammers a nail at the doorway, cleans his shoe on it and enters the building. Another man comes along from inside the building sees the nail and removes it throwing it away ... Who has done wrong?
The answer is none of them: Because the essence of a deed is based on the intention.
If the intent of the first man is to maintain the cleanliness of the masjid and the intent of the second is to protect people from getting hurt ... both will get their reward with Allah (SWT).
Such is the matter that you dwell on, because you loathe to attribute good intentions to all of the high ranking sahabah and judge their intentions without knowledge it is you who are doing this not I. I am merely saying Fatimah-tu-Zahra (AS) was right from one angle, but the angle you want her to be from makes her seem wanting of worldly possession and Abu Bakr as-Siddiq as a cruel man - thus defaming both. My interpretations do not make her seeking a worldly thing but a gesture of love for her father and his (RA) action as a gesture of upholding the law without any self-interest, but he (RA) did, as references annotate seek the pleasure of Fatima-tu-Zahra (AS) because she was from the family of Muhammad (SAW).
By claiming that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq a man who gave away all his wealth and cleaned an old women's house during his caliphate is going to leave the daughter of Muhammad (SAW), to be angry and upset without trying to make her happy and to assume that she would leave this world holding a grudge is an accusation at both of these great people's intentions, even when we have lots of character hadith of both of them and references which go against the version which suits your particular political bias.
And that is what it comes down to ... bias, and I have no cause to be bias.