Their Dispute With Ali (A.S.) and Respect for AL-ZAHRA’ (A.S.)

 

Someone says that the dispute of the assailants with Ali (A.S.) did not prohibit them from loving and respecting al-Zahra’ (A.S.) for there may be one candidate competing with another to be elected and wishing to drop him from the elections, but having a dispute with him does not stop him from respecting the wife of his competitor for one reason or another.

The answer is that we notice many matters regarding this statement:

 

FIRST: The case of Ali (A.S.) with those who assailed him and his house, usurped his right and disobeyed Allah and His Messenger (A.S.), has no similarity with the competition between two candidates. Rather, it is similar to a military coup d’etat carried out by a sweeping and devastating force, though it was not that obvious yet deeper in its implications and indications.

 

SECOND: Respect for the competitor’s wife is not known by conjecture or assumption. Rather, it is known by practice, stand, and movement on the real grounds. We have seen these folks being very cruel and crude against the wife of the person described by this same individual as a “competitor”! It is the practice that lacks any mercy or compassion in their hearts. So let the reader read the description of what went on in various texts and legacies which we do not exaggerate if we say that they are consecutively reported as the kind reader will see for himself.
 

THIRD: Even if we submit that the assailants respected her, or even loved her (A.S.), respect and love did not stop them when she stood in their faces and threatened them with her aspirations and was the reason for the failure of their serious plan. All that did not stop them from turning against her and treat her with utmost cruelty.

Even if the doers were their brothers and offspring, they would still confront them with the same violence, for love for authority and the seriousness of what they wanted to carry out would put them in a fateful dilemma which would act as a catalyst for deciding the matter by force. The matter for them was much more serious; it was stronger than and ignoring such a respect.

We know that one who loves or respects another does not usually love him more than loving his own self. If both norms of love collide, the bracelet would not love any but the wrist it surrounds, nor would the hand be cut off in order to safeguard the bracelet. Rather, a thousand expensive bracelets would be broken in order to safeguard one’s hand...