Imam Ali (a.

Imam Ali (a.s.) further says: I told the people that in the month of Ramadan except for daily prayers they must not come for any other congregation prayer and announced that praying collectively in recommended prayers is innovation. Some soldiers who had fought under my command shouted: O, Muslims! Look, the tradition of Umar is altered. Ali wants us to give up recommended prayers of Ramadan. So with such mentality of the people, Ali says that he feared mutiny. [5] ” [6] [1] Ibid. Pg.

240 [2] Rasool Ja’faryan: Tarikh wa Seerah Siyasi Amir-e-Mominaan Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) [History and political biography of Ali (a.s.)], Pg. 230 [3] Ibid. Pg. 232 [4] Quoting from: Daimul Islam, Vol. 1, Pg. 384, Nahjus Saada, Vol. 1, Pg. 229 [5] Quoting from: Rauza Kafi, Pgs. 58-63; Tarikhul Khulafa, Pg. 136 [6] Yusuf Gholami: Pas az Ghuroob (After Sunset), Pg. 240 Circumstances such as these also did not allow Ali to restore Fadak during his own rule.

[1] Anyway, from time to time at an opportunity whether short or long, Ali utilized to express his victimization and the tyranny done against him. Ibne al-Hadeed writes: “Narrations that have reached us in continuity inform us about the situation of Ali. He has told something like this: I have been oppressed since passing away of Prophet right till this day.” [2] Historical documents show that the people were also exercising a severe force on Ali.

When such an opinion prevails generally Imam Ali (a.s.) refers to them (Abu Bakr and Umar) with great circumspection. This widely disseminated opinion snatched from him the possibility of criticizing them openly. To be acquainted with the necessity that forced Ali to accept the past as it preceded him refer to the third volume of this series.

A little attention to historical documents indicates the elements that existed during Ali’s Caliphate which impeded him to criticize or censure his predecessors, particularly Umar. The following document, for example, shows the stringent conditions that ruled over Ali. From this, we can grasp the tight and narrow possibilities that were at Ali’s disposal: Muawiyah in his letter to Ali writes: “I have heard the news of your remembering them (Caliphs preceding Ali) with mercy and kindness.

This could be either of the two reasons – to which there is no third. This might be due to dissimulation because you are afraid that your soldiers with whom you fight against me would desert you. And the second reason is what you say is false and wrong.