The Sunnis also consider it harmful to discuss the rebels at the Siffin War, lest either those inclined to Wahhabism or extremist Shi'is cause harm to Islam.

The prominent authority of the science of theology (kalām), Sa'd al-Dīn al-Taftazani, said about villains like Hajjaj the Tyrant, Yazid, and Walid, that it is permissible to curse them, but he did not say that it was compulsory or that it was a good thing or earned reward. For there are innumerable people who deny both the Qur'an and the Prophet (UWBP) and the Companions' sacred conversations; there are many of them everywhere. There is no harm according to the Shari'a if a person does not recall those deserving of execration and does not curse them. For unlike goodness and love, execration and vilification are not included among good works, and if they are harmful, that is far worse.

At the present time, there are covert dissemblers everywhere who, inclining towards Wahhabism, exert an influence over certain hojas, who more than anyone are charged with protecting Islam and the truths of the Qur'an; they accuse the people of truth of Alevî-ism, exploit one against the other and try to deal awesome blows at Islam. You wrote briefly about this in your letter. In fact, you know that they found the hojas to be the most effective tool to wield against myself and the Risale-i Nur. The Wahhabis, who rule the two sacred mosques of Mecca and Medina, and, — with the fascinating works of the famous, awesome geniuses Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzi having long since got into the hands of some Istanbul hojas — a group of hojas who favour the innovations and want to use them against the saints (evliya) and to screen their permissive way, may make a pretext of your ruling (ijtihād) which arose from love of the Prophet's (UWBP) family and should not now be publicized, and deal a blow at both yourself and the Nur students. There is no command in the Shari'a not to vilify and accuse of unbelief but there is an injunction concerning such actions, and to unjustly execrate and impute unbelief causes serious harm. If it is justifiable, there is no good or reward involved. Those who deserve it are innumerable. But there is no injunction in the Shari'a concerning not vilifying or accusing of unbelief, so it is not harmful in any way. It is because of this fact that the people of reality, the Sunnis, and foremost the Four Imams and the Twelve Imams, [^79] took the sacred law based on the above truth as their guide, and did not consider it permissible among Muslims

[^79]:The Four Imams are the Imams al-Shāfi'ī, Abū Ḥanafī, Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, and Mālik, the founders of the four schools of law that became established in Sunni Islam. The Twelve Imams are the Imams of Twelver Shi'ism. [Tr.]