Message #15086

[N. Truth Seeker]

Good one Sister.  My head has been reeling over this issue for years.  I can't describe how adamantly the Shiia Muslims have had their minds conditioned.  Let alone the Ahl-e-Bayt or the 12 imams, anyone who calls himself an "imam" or is even known as "Hojatoleslam" which is only an honorific title becomes "infallible" to their eyes.  If you criticize Ali Khamanei, they will start by accusing you of being against the family of the Prophet, then they will claim you are against the Prophet (pbuh) and then you will be ostracized as a deviant.  It goes on exactly the same lines as the criticism of Sunni hadith would get you branded as "anti-sahbahs" and consequently "anti-Prophet" in the eyes of Sunni Muslims. 

Your evidences and arguments are totally solid.   But those who don't want to wake up and grasp guidance will forever be asleep.  They will only wake up on the Day of Judgment .. toooo late!

Prophet Yunus fled onto a ship.  According to tafsirs and commentaries, the reason for this was that Prophet Yunus initially avoided the responsibility of his mission entrusted to him by Allah.  The vessel in which he boarded after fleeing was overloaded with too many people.  To avoid overloading and to lessen the number of people on board, they apparently had a system for rejecting passengers by 'lucky draws.'  The name of Prophet Yunus came in the lot; subsequently he was a rejected passenger of the ship, thrown overboard and swallowed by a big fish.

Btw, this is one of the very rare tafsirs which tallies with the Quranic contents of the particular subject.  After reading verses 37:140-142 when I had checked a similar tafsir some time ago, for the first time I thought I could trust a single commentary.  Most others waver wide off the mark, it doesn't even seem they're talking on the same topic.

Thanks a million sister Ruhi.  May Allah reward you for this hard work and efforts for unveiling the truth.