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The Traditions of Ahl ul-Bayt (a.s.) against helping the oppressors

The Traditions of Ahl ul-Bayt (a.s.) against helping the oppressors

Numerous traditions have reached us in this connection. Shaykh Ansari has also recorded the following tradition from the Holy Prophet (S) in his book Warām:

“If one knowingly goes to help an oppressor, he has apostasized from Islam.”

(Majmua Warām)

 Naturally an act that makes a person bereft of the Islamic faith must be a sin that results in his destruction.

Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) says:

“When Qiyāma occurs an announcer will call: Where are the unjust, the helpers of Unjust and those like the Unjust? So much so that even if one has procured merely pen and ink for the oppressor to write the order of oppression; all these people would be bundled up in a cage of iron and thrown into Hell.”

(Wasa’il ul-Shia)

The Messenger of Islam (S) says:

“If a person even hangs up a cane for the tyrant king so that he can beat the oppressed one, Allah will change that cane into a snake, seventy thousand yards long and place it in the Hell fire (to torment him).”

(Wasa’il ul-Shia)

“Those who take the affairs of oppressors in their hands and help him in oppression will, at the time of death, be conveyed the Divine curse and news of Hell fire by the angel of death. And Hell is an evil resort. One who guides the oppressor will be considered at par with Hamān (the minister of Fir’on). And the punishment of those who help the unjust and the oppressors themselves will be more grievous than other punishments of the inmates of Hell. And if a person backbites about his believing brother to the ruler, and even though the Muslim may not have to suffer any injury from it, the backbiter will have all his good deeds nullified. However, if the Muslim had to suffer oppression at the hands of the ruler, the back-biter will be kept by Allah in that section of Hell where Hamān will be confined.”

 (Wasa’il ul-Shia)

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