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of the Muslim State. The presence of Muaweyah and his
like in positions of power was expected to be an important
obstacle which Ali would face if he were to come to power.
As a matter of fact
the difficulties and obstacles were
steadily increasing and accumulating during Omar's reign
and continued to increase after his death until it became
impossible for Ali to rule peacefully.
This was not due to a weakness in Ali
but it was due
to the events which took place before his arrival to power.
These events were not inevitable
for those events were
made by man and his will
and were not pre-destined by
God. Had Omar not placed Muaweyah in a position of
power or had he not kept him in power
Muaweyah would
not have become an obstacle in Ali's path
for without the
governorship of Syria
Muaweyah would have been an
ordinary man.
What the Prophetic Word Meant
What the Holy Messenger said about his vision in
which he saw the children of Omayad reaching the pulpit
of the Holy Prophet was a warning to the nation to take a
road that will not lead to this consequence. But the nation
took the road which brought the Omayads to that pulpit.
The Holy Messenger informed the nation that his grandson Al-Hussein would be killed
and that Ali would fight
those who breached the covenant
the aggressor party and
the Kharijites (seceders). He also informed Ali that the
nation would betray him. He informed Al-Zubeir that he
would fight Ali unjustly. He informed the mother of believers
Ayeshah
that she would be barked at by the dogs
of Al-Hou-ab
while she is deviating from the right road.
He also informed the Muslims that the aggressor party
would kill Ammar Ibn Yasir.
The Holy Prophet did not inform the Muslims of all
these events to tell them that they were pre-destined from
God. He did not mean to tell the Muslims that the predicted
events were inevitable and that the will of man would not
be a factor in bringing them or preventing them.
Had he meant that then the disobedients the sinners
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