law may interfere in theoretical matters and in secondary matters which are not categorical, but these people of misguidance who follow no school of law want to mix their ideas in the essentials of religion as well and to change matters which it is not possible to change, and to oppose the incontrovertible pillars of Islam. So they are bound to attack the Companions, who are the bearers and supports of the essentials of religion. Alas! It has been proved decisively in the Twenty-Seventh Word that not animals in human form like them, but true human beings and the greatest of the saints even, who are the most perfect of true human beings, cannot win the case claiming equality with the least of the Companions.

O God! Grant blessings and peace to Your Messenger, who said: “Do not insult my Companions! By the One in Whose hand is my self, if one of you were to spend gold equivalent to Mt. Uhud, he could not attain to the equivalent of two handfuls that one of them spent, or even half that.” [^12]

[^12]:Bukhārī, Faḍā’il Aṣḥāb al-Nabī, 5; Muslim, Faḍā’il al-Ṣaḥāba, 221, 222; Abū Dā’ūd, Sunna, 10; Tirmidhī, Manāqib, 58; Ibn Māja, Muqaddima, 11; Musnad, iii, 11.

Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed, You are All-Knowing, All-Wise.(2:32) ∗ ∗ ∗