بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
One of the most hotly debated and controversial issues between the two sects (shia/sunni) is the status of Aisha. Sunnis often are outraged at the level of abuse and insult thrown at her, as the wife of the prophet and mother of believers she should be respected and venerated. On the flip side the shia claim Aisha was a wrong doer and aught to be cursed. All emotions and sentiments aside, Islam requires a person to have evidence and proof for their beliefs otherwise that person is liable to answer to God in the next life. The burden of proof is on the shia to demonstrate that cursing Aisha is Islamicly legal. The following essay will investigate the validity of this claim.
Our view is that marital relationships with a prophet, messenger, or imam does not necessitate the requital or protection or screening of the wives from reproach and criticism, rather the wives of the prophets, messengers, and imams should submit to research and inquisition through which we recognize whether or not they deserve our loyalty and respect. Allah (swt) pointed to this in the Quran when he says:
and Lot were treacherous, insolent, and deviant. Likewise it has been established by the very wording and context of the Quran that Aisha and Hafsa were treacherous, insolent, and deviant. Allah (swt) reveals the following verse about them:
In addition to the above, Allah (swt) did not reveal in the Quran that Aisha and Hafsa have believed and repented after their failed plot against the prophet pbuh therefore through the wording of the Quran, their disbelief, treachery, and deviancy still remains.
The hadiths report that Aisha defied the prophet in his lifetime on dozens of occasions and events causing the prophet pbuh to be annoyed with her and to describe her and hafsa in the likeness of "the women of joseph " and described Aisha as the fountain head of disbelief and the very horn of the devil. Allah (swt) tells us those who annoy the messenger are cursed:
, killing hundreds of innocents among them the unarmed treasurers of Basra, and causing thousands more to be killed in the battle of Jamal.
Below is a hadith narrated in Biharul Anwar that the prophet pbuh authorized Ali on his behalf after his death to divorce the disobedient wives from the prophet pbuh, thereby removing the honor of being the mother of believers from her.
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
One of the most hotly debated and controversial issues between the two sects (shia/sunni) is the status of Aisha. Sunnis often are outraged at the level of abuse and insult thrown at her, as the wife of the prophet and mother of believers she should be respected and venerated. On the flip side the shia claim Aisha was a wrong doer and aught to be cursed. All emotions and sentiments aside, Islam requires a person to have evidence and proof for their beliefs otherwise that person is liable to answer to God in the next life. The burden of proof is on the shia to demonstrate that cursing Aisha is Islamicly legal. The following essay will investigate the validity of this claim.
Our view is that marital relationships with a prophet, messenger, or imam does not necessitate the requital or protection or screening of the wives from reproach and criticism, rather the wives of the prophets, messengers, and imams should submit to research and inquisition through which we recognize whether or not they deserve our loyalty and respect. Allah (swt) pointed to this in the Quran when he says:
- Quran 66:10
"Allah sets forth an example to those who disbelieve the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut: they were both under two of Our righteous servants, but they acted treacherously towards them so they availed them naught against Allah, and it was said: Enter both the fire with those who enter."It has been established for us in the Qur'an that the wives of Noah
and Lot were treacherous, insolent, and deviant. Likewise it has been established by the very wording and context of the Quran that Aisha and Hafsa were treacherous, insolent, and deviant. Allah (swt) reveals the following verse about them:- Quran 66:4-5
"If ye twain turn unto Allah repentant, (ye have cause to do so) for your hearts desired (the ban); and if ye aid one another against him (Muhammad) then lo! Allah, even He, is his Protecting Friend, and Gabriel and the righteous among the believers; and furthermore the angels are his helpers."All Muslims, Sunni and shia are in agreement that the two wives addressed by the verse above are Aisha and Hafsa, daughters of Abu bakr and Umar, when they both conspired and plotted against the prophet pbuh in the well known story of the honey drink, and for this reason Allah (swt) made well-known their plans and exposed them both in the Qur'an by disclosing the injury they have caused his beloved prophet pbuh and called them to repent because their hearts had inclined away from Islam. Finally warning them with the possibility of the prophet divorcing them and replacing them with other wives who are better than Aisha and Hafsa "will give him in your place wives better than you, submissive (muslims), faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins." That is to say that Aisha and Hafsa were not submissive, or faithful, or obedient, or penitent or adorers. Had they posessed these qualities Allah (swt) would not have said "better than you".
"Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you, submissive (muslims), faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins."
In addition to the above, Allah (swt) did not reveal in the Quran that Aisha and Hafsa have believed and repented after their failed plot against the prophet pbuh therefore through the wording of the Quran, their disbelief, treachery, and deviancy still remains.
The hadiths report that Aisha defied the prophet in his lifetime on dozens of occasions and events causing the prophet pbuh to be annoyed with her and to describe her and hafsa in the likeness of "the women of joseph
" and described Aisha as the fountain head of disbelief and the very horn of the devil. Allah (swt) tells us those who annoy the messenger are cursed:- Quran 33:57
"Those who annoy Allah and His Messenger - Allah has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment."History also testifies that after the prophet's pbuh death Aisha completely disregarded the injunctions of the Quran Where Allah (swt) commands all Muslims to obey the people in authority among the muslims.
- Quran 4:59
"O you who believe! Obey Allah and his Apostle and those in authority among you"She gathered an army in defiance of the Khalifa of her time and the rightful leader of the Muslims Imam Ali
, killing hundreds of innocents among them the unarmed treasurers of Basra, and causing thousands more to be killed in the battle of Jamal.Below is a hadith narrated in Biharul Anwar that the prophet pbuh authorized Ali
on his behalf after his death to divorce the disobedient wives from the prophet pbuh, thereby removing the honor of being the mother of believers from her.- Biharul Anwar Vol.28 Page 107
The messenger pbuh said to Ali
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