Date of Release :18 July 2022 - 07:07

“Ghadir Khumm and the Orientalists” by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi

(Another) way of finding the meaning in which the Prophet used the word “mawla” for ‘Ali is to see how the people in Ghadir Khumm understood it. Did they take the word “mawla” in the sense of “friend” or in the meaning of “master, leader”?

According to Rahyafte(the missionaries and converts website) The 18th of Dhu ‘l-Hijja is celebrated in the Shi’a world as the ‘idd of Ghadir Khumm in which Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said about Imam ‘Ali: “Whomsoever’s master (mawla) I am, this ‘Ali is also his master.” This event is of such significance to the Shi’as that no serious scholar of Islam can ignore it. The purpose of this paper is to study how the Orientalists handled the event of Ghadir Khumm. …

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