Imam al-Shafi’i set the standard for loving Sayidena Abu Bakr and Sayidena Ali and showed how there is no conflict in doing so(from The Perfect Family p61):<\/p>\n

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If we speak well of \u02bfAl\u012b, we will be called Raw\u0101fi\u1e0d[1]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And the ignorant fools will accuse us of taf\u1e0d\u012bl[2]<\/a><\/em>;<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we speak of the virtues of Ab\u016b Bakr,<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will be accused of na\u1e63b[3]<\/a><\/em> merely by mentioning them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems that, because of how I love them both,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will be guilty of raf\u1e0d <\/em>and na\u1e63b <\/em>until the day I die!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Al-Bayhaq\u012b said, \u2018Al-Sh\u0101fi\u02bf\u012b only said this when the <\/span>Khaw\u0101rij <\/span><\/i>jealously and unjustly accused him of being a <\/span>R\u0101fi\u1e0d\u012b<\/span><\/i>.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> The Raw\u0101fi\u1e0d <\/em>were the ones who refused [rafa\u1e0d\u016b<\/em>] to accept the Caliphates of Ab\u016b Bakr, \u02bfUmar and \u02bfUthm\u0101n.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Taf\u1e0d\u012bl <\/em>means to consider \u02bfAl\u012b superior to all the other Companions<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Na\u1e63b <\/em>means jealous hatred of the Prophet\u2019s s Family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imam al-Shafi’i set the standard for loving Sayidena Abu Bakr and Sayidena Ali and showed how there is no conflict in doing so(from The Perfect Family p61):   If we speak well of \u02bfAl\u012b, we will be called Raw\u0101fi\u1e0d[1] And the ignorant fools will accuse us of taf\u1e0d\u012bl[2]; If we speak of the virtues of Ab\u016b Bakr, We will be accused of na\u1e63b[3] merely by mentioning them. It seems that, because of how I love them both, I will be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ahl-al-bayt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visions-of-reality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}