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Secondly: Your question concerning the Sayyid leader of the Zaydîs — the Imam of Yemen — is truly important and auspicious. However, it arrived at an inauspicious time. Both my mind is preoccupied and heavily burdened, and the circumstances do not allow me, and so on...
Suffice it to say this much: The renowned "Imam Zayd" is one of the noble and eminent Sayyids and among the Imams of Âl al-Bayt. He is a personage who rejected the Shi’a factions who fell into ifrât (al-Rawâfid), saying:
اِذْهَبُوا اَنْتُمُ الرَّوَافِضُ1
and refused to dissociate from Hazrat Abu Bakr and Hazrat ‘Umar while accepting and respecting those two illustrious Khalîfahs. His followers are the most steadfast on the path of istiqâmah and the most Sunni among the Shi’a. They are a community characterised by fairness and a readiness to accept the haqq easily.
InshâAllah, just as they will become a means to repair the destruction caused by the Wahhabis, the separation of the Zaydîs from Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamâ'ah will likewise gain istiqâmah, and they will join and unite with Ahl al-Sunnah. This âhirzaman is in immense turmoil, and this fitnah of the âhirzaman signals that it will give birth to extraordinary and astonishing things.
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اَلْبَاقِى هُوَ الْبَاقِى
Your Brother
Said Nursî
1 Imam Zayd bin ‘Ali — the grandson of Husayn (ra.) — rejected the extremist group that approached him demanding to speak ill of the noble Sahabah, specifically Abu Bakr (ra) and ‘Umar (ra), and asking him to dissociate from them. He rebuked them and drove them away, declaring: “Go, you are the Rafida!” — a term that literally means “those who abandon or deviate from the haqq.” In the terminology of Ahl al-Sunnah and the Zaydîs, al-Rawâfid (the Rafida) is a historical designation used for rejected Shi’a factions who fell into ifrât by rejecting the early Khalîfahs, Abu Bakr (ra) and ‘Umar (ra).
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