How they tried to hide the sun with lies?
No man in the history of mankind was subjected to what Imam Ali, peace be upon him, was subjected to distortion. He was the first Muslim after the Messenger of Allah and his wife Khadija, embraced Islam on the basis of reason and conviction, as he said to the Messenger of Allah when he called him to faith, "I want to consult my father." Then he spent a night thinking while he was just a nine-year-old child and returned the next day to the Messenger of Allah and uttered the two testimonies. The Messenger, PBUH, asked him: “Did you consult your father?” He said: “I went to complete that, but I thought, if my Lord had created me and did not consult my father, then how can I consult my father in believing in what my Lord called me for?!”
This early mental ingenuity, and that life blessed by faith and work, the hypocrites in his life and after his death did not leave a sin except they did it to hide its light. From inventing stories and attributing them to the biography of Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon him, to the denial of Abi Talib’s Islam to show their hatred for his son, to the claim among the peoples ruled by the Banu Umayya that Ali did not embrace Islam and that he was a polytheist so that when the people of Levant were called to them, Ali was assassinated in the niche of the Kufa mosque, they asked: “Was he a worshiper?”
In addition he beared tribal hatred generation after generation to avenge the polytheists who were killed by Ali, peace be upon him, in the Battle of Badr and other battles before the conquest of Mecca.
In fact, whole books were written only to distort Ali’s sayings by spreading lies and attributing them to Ali, and by fabricating stories and cramming Ali’s name among their heroes until what was attributed to Ali other than his sayings became more numerous and more widespread than what is attributed to him and befitting him.
Not to mention insulting and cursing him from the pulpits of the Muslims throughout the Umayyad kingdom, from the time of the founder of the invalid kingdom Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan to the last kings of the Umayyads, except for the stage of the fair and good person Omar bin Abdul Aziz.
Even the sayings of the Imam, peace be upon him, were attributed to the tyrant Muawiyah, or those who said it were ignored and attributed with their greatness to "an unknown."
Including the distorted saying about an old saying by the Imam and attributed to others, which is "pardon upon ability." The correct opinion is that Amir al-Mu’mini said, "If you are able to your enemy, make the pardon from him thank the ability for him."
Its interpretation is that the ability to conquer the enemy is a blessing, and thanksgiving for the blessing is a duty, and pardon because it is something that Allah Almighty has commanded. So if you want to be grateful for this blessing, it is better for you to thank by forgiving him.
On the other hand historians mention that the son of Abi Sufyan is foolish with rhetoric and insignificant jurisprudence and knowledge, although he is shrewd in injustice, crime and judgment other than what Allah has revealed. He hired propaganda services from that time to write complete books and then promote them as sayings and sermons to Ali only to insult the Imam, peace be upon him. His sons and his relatives from the Umayyad sultans were able to do it, also the Abbasid sultans and the mighty men of the countries that ruled in the name of Allah and his Prophet falsely and wrongly followed their footsteps.
