The Shi’a and the Ahl al-Bayt in the View of Imam al-Rabbani Ahmad Faruqi Sirhindi

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This paper examines the Shi’a and the Ahl al-Bayt in the view of Ahmad Fārūqī Sirhindī who is one of the most eminent sufīs of Naqshbandī-Mujaddidī Order. It has been written a treatise and some apostles by him concerning the Shi’a/Rafida views. According to him, the Shi’a denies some followers of the Prophet and curses some of them such as Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and the Prophet’s wife Aishe. Sirhindi emphasizes that their thoughts and claims about them have never been accepted and moreover they must have been totally refuted. His view and attitude to the Ahl al-Bayt is different from the Shi’a. All of the descendants of Prophet Muhammed that are known as Ahl al-Bayt aren’t Shi’a and at the same time they must have been respected by the Sufis and Sunni Muslims.