Objection 5: If CONTINUED FROM PART 1 ......
One who has raised the above doubt and said: Why Ali (a) did not
stage an uprising? Or how his modesty permitted him to watch such a treatment
being meted out to his wife; should reply to the same objection regarding
Prophet Lut (a):
The wife of Prophet Lut (a) was a disbeliever, the community of
Lut (a) was sinful; the disbelievers forced themselves into the house of Lut (a)
and saw handsome youths there. They expressed their satantic desires with
regard to those youths. Prophet Lut (a) said: Fear Allah; if you refrain from
this vile deed, I will marry my daughters to you.
Now, a number of questions arise at this point, which the doubt
raisers should reply:
Why Prophet Lut (a) was not ashamed of the evil behavior of his
disbelieving community, why he did not take to arms and attack them? On the
contrary, he suggested to them that he was ready to give his daughters in
marriage to them. Can – God forbid – Prophet Lut (a) be blamed from
shamelessness?
Pay attention to the translation of the verse of Quran in this
regard:
وَلَمَّا جَاءتْ رُسُلُنَا
لُوطًا سِيءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا وَقَالَ هَـذَا يَوْمٌ عَصِيبٌ {77}
وَجَاءهُ قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَمِن قَبْلُ كَانُواْ يَعْمَلُونَ
السَّيِّئَاتِ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ هَـؤُلاء بَنَاتِي هُنَّ أَطْهَرُ لَكُمْ فَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ…
“And when Our messengers came to Lut, he was grieved for
them, and he lacked strength to protect them, and said: This is a hard day. And
his people came to him, (as if) rushed on towards him, and already they did
evil deeds. He said: O my people! these are my daughters- they are purer for
you, so guard against (the punishment of) Allah…” (Surah Hud 77-78)
If not staging an uprising by Amirul Momineen (a) is an occasion
for some questions, why with regard to not staging an uprising by the Holy
Prophet (s) in Mecca
for thirteen years is not having any objection?
Did the Messenger of Allah (s) not witness tortures and unlimited
oppressions on Muslims in Mecca ?
Amirul Momineen (a), by this same argument did not show any reaction that the
Messenger of Allah (s) at the time of killing of Sumayyah, mother of Ammar
Yasir at the hands of the idolaters and his confrontation with them did not
show any reaction.
Ibne Hajar Asqalani has written in Isabah:
Sumayyah binte Khabbat…mother of Ammar Yasir is the seventh to
embrace Islam. Abu Jahl harassed her and stabbed her in the lower abdomen with
a spear till she achieved martyrdom. She was the first female martyr in Islam
and since she had embraced Islam and did not give it up, the family of Bani
Mughira tortured and harassed her till she was martyred. The Messenger of Allah
(s) witnessed the scene of torture of Ammar and his parents in Mecca and said: O family of Yasir, be
patient, as Paradise is promised to you.[1]
Since the Messenger of Allah (s) was seeing that idolaters like
Abu Jahl were harassing Muslim ladies, he did not display any reaction to it and
also ordered them to be absolute patient in all this.
Was the Messenger of Allah (s) not the most modest and valiant
person of the world? Thus, why he did not defend the Muslim ladies? Why he did
not take up the sword to strike off the head of Abu Jahl?
Whatever replies the Wahabis give with regard to the absence of
staging uprising by the Holy Prophet (s), we will give the same reply to the
topic of Amirul Momineen (a) not staging an uprising.
