Salaam **Aqeel **First and foremost if you are really honest and love honesty then you should censure and condemn all the Shia sites who knowingly and willingly with evil in their minds mistranslated Imam Ali’s (ra) letter.
This evil deed was done just to score cheap advantage in fooling the people believing into Falsehood.
Was there no fear of Allah (swt) in their hearts?
So this proves that Shias will stoop to any level, using all means whether halal or haraam by hook or crook to meet their goal of deceiving the honest people.
In other words Tuqiyyah at work
I don’t have to go to anti shia sites to dig out the TRUTH.
I have a very dear friend who in an Iranian from a very prominent Shia family, having done his own research said good bye to Shiaism a decade ago. He is source of my information.
He is well versed in Shia Sunni issues. Six to Seven years ago he was source of frustration and irritation for Shias on debating forums.
He is the author of now famous article – “How to debate with Shia”. I was so impressed with the article that posted it on couple of forums.
And that was my first post on this Forum.
Read it.
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/religion-and-scripture/83916-how-to-debate-with-shia.html
Firstly Sunnis do not agree with authenticity of Nahjul Balagha.
In the above sermon Hz. Ali is contradicting himself with Letter 6 in Nahjul Balagha where he deemed Hz. Abu Bakr, Hz. Umar and Hz. Uthman’s (May Allah be pleased with all)selection as the right of Muhajireen and Ansar and it was done with pleasure of Allah (swt).
If at all Hz. Ali (ra) was divine appointed as successor to the Prophet (saw) he has no right to relieve himself from the great appointment.
Refer to Sermon 91 of Nahjul Balagha
When people decided to Swear allegiance at Amir al-mu’minin’s hand after the murder of `Uthman, he said:
Leave me and seek someone else. We are facing a matter which has (several) faces and colours, which neither hearts can stand nor intelligence can accept. Clouds are hovering over the sky, and faces are not discernible. You should know that if I respond to you I would lead you as I know and would not care about whatever one may say or abuse. If you leave me then I am the same as you are. It is possible I would listen to and obey whomever you make in charge of your affairs. I am better for you as a counsellor than as chief. **Nahjul Balagha SERMON 91 **
Here he asking the people choose anyone they want and he will willingly follow him!!!
Can a divinely appointed person dare do this??? NEVER!
Refer to Prophet Muhammad’s (saw) resolve and reaction when asked by his dear uncle to go ‘easy’ on deities.
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Abu Talib who was aware of the cost that his nephew Muhammad had to pay if deserted . Abu Talib sent for Muhammad and told him the news, “Spare me and yourself and put not burden on me that I can’t bear”. Muhammad thought that his uncle would let him down and would no longer support him, so he replied: “O my uncle! by God if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition that I abandon this course, until God has made me victorious, or I perish therein, I would not abandon it.” Muhammad got up, and as he turned away, his uncle called back and then said “Go and preach what you please, for by God I will never forsake you.”.*
Refer the following ayahs. Prophet Muhammad (saw) is clearly ordered and warned to carry out his mission or faces the consequences!!
*“O Messenger (Muhammad)! Proclaim (the Message) which has been sent down to you from your Lord. And if you do not, then you have not conveyed His Message. Allaah will protect you from mankind” [al-Maa’idah 5:67]
“And if he (Muhammad) had forged a false saying concerning Us (Allaah),
We surely would have seized him by his right hand (or with power and might),
And then We certainly would have cut off his life artery (aorta),
And none of you could have withheld Us from (punishing) him” [al-Haaqqah 69:44-47] *
Good now you got problem with 90% of believers – because they have similar beliefs to that of mine. – Tough luck.
[200] – And we affirm the khilaafah (caliphate), after the Messenger of Allaah sall Allaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam firstly for: Aboo Bakr as-Siddeeq (radi Allaahu anhu) – affirming his excellence and precedence over the whole of the Ummah; then, for ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (radi Allaahu anhu); then for ‘Uthmaan (radi Allaahu anhu), then for ‘Alee ibn Abee Taalib (radi Allaahu anhu), and they are the rightly guided khulafaa (caliphs) and the rightly guided Imaams.
http://realtruthaboutislam.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/aqeedah-tahawiyyah-english-text-in-point-form/