Goog job Ali Abbas. Well said
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For my brothers and sisters:
A’YESHA GRIEVED THE HOLY PROPHET
The fact that A’yesha grieved the Holy Prophet is not only related by Shia ulema, but by your own
eminent ulema. Imam Ghazali in his 'Ihya’u’l-Ulum, vol. II, ch. 3, Kitab-e-Adabu’n-Nika, p. 135,
has reported many hadith condemning A’yesha’s conduct. Among them is her quarreling with the
Holy Prophet and Abu Bakr’s intervention. This event is also narrated by Mulla Ali Muttaqi in
Kanzu’l-Ummal, vol. VII, p. 116; Abu Yala in his Musnad and Abu’sh-Sheikh in his
Kitab-e-Amthal. They write that when Abu Bakr went to see his daughter, he found that there was
a grievance between A’yesha and the Holy Prophet. The decision was left in Abu Bakr’s hands.
A’yesha used insulting language in her remarks. In the course of her conversation, she asked the
Holy Prophet to be fair in his attitude. This insolent remark made Abu Bakr so indignant that he
slapped her so severely in her face that blood flowed down her clothes.
Also Imam Ghazali in the same Chapter on Marriage and others, too, have narrated that once,
when Abu Bakr reached his daughter’s house, he found that the Holy Prophet was displeased with
A’yesha. He asked them to tell him what was the cause of their grievance so that he might bring
about reconciliation. The Holy Prophet asked A’yesha if she should begin telling it. She replied,
‘You may begin but you should speak the truth.’ In her next sentence she added, ‘You are a man
who really thinks himself to be a Prophet!’
These remarks show that A’yesha did not believe that the Holy Prophet was the divinely
appointed Prophet. Such degrading remarks are reported in your books in large numbers. They
were the cause of great anguish to the Holy Prophet.
NO SUCH REPORTS ABOUT OTHER
WIVES OF THE HOLY PROPHET
You will note that the ulema and historians of both the sects have not recorded such things about
the other wives of the Holy Prophet. They have not attributed such things even to Hafsa, daughter
of Umar. It was only A’yesha’s behavior which led to her indignity. We related only as much as
your prominent ulema have said about her. Have you not studied Imam Ghazali’s books, the
histories by Tabari, Mas’udi and Ibn A’tham Kufi etc. which report that all your eminent ulema
have described her as disobedient to the Holy Prophet. Still, you complain because I have
criticized Ummu’l-Mu’minin’s conduct. Can there be any clearer blot on one’s character than
transgression against the order of Allah and His Prophet and revolution against the Caliph of the
Holy Prophet?
In the sura of al-Ahzab (The Clans), Allah has addressed the wives of the Holy Prophet: “And
stay in your houses and display not your finery like the display of the ignorance of yore.” (33:33)
Of course the other wives of the Holy Prophet complied with this order and never left their
houses without an urgent reason. Even A’mash has reported this fact.
UMMU'L-MU'MININ SUDA DID NOT
GO OUT EVEN FOR HAJJ OR UMRA
It is reported in the Sahih and other books of your traditionists and historians that people asked
Suda, wife of the Holy Prophet, why did she not perform the Hajj and the Umra. She replied, “It
is compulsory for me to perform one Hajj and Umra and no more. And He says: ‘And stay in your
houses.’ So in obedience to this command, I shall not go out of my house; rather, my intention is
that I will not, as far as possible, go out of the room in which the Holy Prophet of Allah had
placed me until I die.” In fact she did this and it was her dead body which was taken out of the
room.
Suda, A’yesha, and Umme Salma, were wives of the Holy Prophet and were mothers of the
believers. Of course they differ from one another because of their conduct.
According to the community, A’yesha and Hafsa are worthy of respect, not because they were the
daughters of Abu Bakr and Umar, though you respect them on that score, but because they were
the wives of the Holy Prophet. But the wives of the Holy Prophet deserve honor when they are
devout, as it is clearly stated in the Holy Qur’an. “O wives of the Prophet! you are not like any of
the other women.” (33:32)