By the way...

By the way, I wonder where the entire Sahaba were while the Hashemites were detained in Cols of Abu­Talib, having from leaves of trees and their children were sucking sands due to their starvation and thirst!! It is, positively or divinely, fair to measure the detainer and the detained in the same scale? (What is the matter with you?!

On which grounds are you judging?!) Second Face For the following reasons, the claim of reckoning those who malign any of the Sahaba, with the miscreants, is not acceptable: Since Islam is the last and final heavenly form of God's religion, it is presented and designed in a way enables every individual to understand it according to individual capability. Ideal understanding, however, is that fitting the legal intendment of the text so as to attain what God has exactly meant.

This mission, at any rate, is not easy. It is perfectly a matter of specialization. This is why God forwards messengers with the Divine Books, and guides with the guidance. In the same way, it is the reason beyond the existence of Imams and the prophets' leadership. As a result, it becomes obvious that Islam is different from our understanding of Islam which depends upon our diverse education. Difference of opinions and variance of cognition cannot be regarded as disbelief.

It is to add that there was a number of Sahaba who maligned the Prophet and criticized his justice. As an example, you may refer to Ibnul­Khuweissira's following saying: “O Mohammed! Be just. You, by God, did not seek God's satisfaction by opting for such a sort of distribution!” The Prophet, however, did not describe him as a miscreant or a hypocrite. He only answered him with the following statement: “Woe is you!

Who will be just if I am not?!” Are the Sahaba enjoying a standing higher than the Prophet's, then? How come do you rule of ultimate decency of all of the Sahaba while the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), the leader of mankind, says: “I am but a human. I may be right or, may be, wrong?” Sunnis unanimously agree, or might be only showing so, that the Prophet is right, and what he has come with is right, too.

As long as the Sahaba were the only persons who transferred these rights to us, they are the only witnesses on authenticity of their beliefs. Those vilifying at those Sahaba are attempting to negate the Book and the traditions we are pursuing.