Objection 6: If
Wahabis, in order to deny the attack on the house of revelation,
have raised objections like the one mentioned above:
The Holy Prophet (s) was able to train thousands of loyal persons
and those devoted to Islam; that they should be present on the path of Allah
and defend it; and his Ahle Bayt (a) laid down their lives for its sake. In
case we accept the attack on the house of Fatima (r), which the enemies of
Islam consider to be true, the question arises that why Bani Hashim witnessed
the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (s) being slapped, burning down of the
door of the house, killing of the six month old Mohsin…but not once did they
utter the least protest? All of them were sincere and loyal Muslims, who had
ties of relationship with the Prophet and also had communal ties with him; what
happened that they kept absolutely quiet and did not raise any objection?
With attention to many similarities, which exist between the
previous doubt and the present one, many replies can also be common, but
despite that we will mention some instances.
Firstly, the above statement is having more emotional and
provoking words than reasoning and logical proofs, because reports have been
recorded in Ahle Sunnat books with correct and proved chains of narrators and
we mentioned them in the first part of this book, thus confirming attack on the
house of Lady Fatima Zahra (s) and Amirul Momineen (a) and removing all kinds
of doubts in this matter.
Moreover, with reference to authentic Ahle Sunnat and Wahabi
texts, it can be easily concluded that even if the people of Medina had wanted to defend, they did not
have any power to take any such steps due to the circumstances that arose there.
While Amirul Momineen (a) was busy with the last rites of the
Messenger of Allah (s), Quraish and its leaders: Abu Bakr and Umar usurped his
right and through the greed of characters like Abu Sufyan managed to win the
loyalties of some people of Quraish. By this description it becomes clear that other
tribes did not have the strength to confront Quraish.
Abu Bakr and Umar had gathered in Medina numerous nomad tribes
who had embraced Islam at the point of the sword and attracted the attention of
new Muslims to their personal gains, as Amirul Momineen (a) in all the battles
was the pivot of victory of Islam and they harbored deep animosity with him and
the hypocrites took advantage of this same malice.
Thus, taking advantage of the divisions in this group and also the
nomadic desert tribes of the outskirts of Medina
surrounded the house of Amirul Momineen (a) and wanted to reduce it to ashes.
Tabari in his Tarikh, Mawardi Shafei in Hawiul Kabir and
Abdul Wahab Nuwairi in Nihayatul Arab say:
The Aslam tribe had crowded Medina
in such a way that lanes and by-lanes were overflowing with them so that
allegiance of Abu Bakr may take place. Later, Umar used to say: When I saw the
Aslam tribe, I became sure of victory.[1]
