This whole zahir batin thinking should worry all munineen, nay, all truth lovers. This will quickly lead to distrust and the paradox “ I am a Cretan. And I am telling you that all Cretans are liars”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox
Follow the following chain of thought.
A Bhai saheb says: There is a mazoom in zahir and another one in batin.
1.) An adna mumin: But you/we were giving misaq, and you repeated for 50 years that this is the mazoom, and now you are saying something different. So were you not sincere in your misaq.
2.) Bhai saheb: No, that was in taqiyat, and we are allowed to lie in such cases. The real mazoom was different.
3.) Adna mumin: So are you sure that Burhanuddin Moula did nass on Mufaddal Moula?
4.) Bhai saheb: Yes. [And suppose he/she was a witness, he can say.] And I was a witness.
5.) adna mumin: But you were also saying for 50 years that he was the mazoom, and now you are telling me he was not the “real” mazoom. So why should I believe what you say now about the nass?
Gets to the point of: If you lied once, and you now say it is okay to lie about that thing, how can I be sure that what you are saying now is true? Lead the lack of credibility and the above paradox.
If statement 1 is correct, then he is lying in statement 2. If statement 2 is true, then he was lying in 1, so how can we be sure now. So those people who gave the misaq and are now/were talking of zahir-batin; and they are saying we are witness to the nass, they lied once, so how/why can we believe them now?
You can see that things like zahir-batin and takiyat (it is okay to lie if necessary) can and should be fairly damaging in the court of law. If you say that it is okay to lie when necessary, how can we believe your testimony in the court of law. You might just be thinking that it is necessary to lie about this matter, and you could just be lying under oath. So even under oath, and in a court of law, your testimony should carry no weight.
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Quaid Zohar bhai saheb: [In Azad Maidan;] We will do their Baraat. And all the coercion, forced signatures, etc.
In the court submission on April 29th: We have not done any baraat of them. Or any coercion.
Now Quaid Zohar bhai saheb in the court of law: I was a witness to the nass.
But then, you said the above contradictory things, and lied: So how can we/court trust you now that your above claim to be a witness to the nass is correct? You may be lying about that? And you might think it is necessary and okay to lie.
If all the Qasr-e-Ali believe in this doctrine of zahir-batin, taqiyaat, their words in the court of law, and also with regular mumineens, should not carry much weight.
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Honestly, this lying has been very distressing to me, has shaken my faith, and I am just trying to keep my Islam and Iman strong. Allah give us all strength. Some other time I will write about how these event have shaken my faith. I think others should write too about how the events of the past 8 months have hurt them, may be in a separate topic.
In short, it has been the following: If you can lie about this matter of nass, and commit (may be) fraud in matter, what other claims that you have been making in all the matters of faith should we now doubt? How can we believe all the stuff you said in the matter of religion? And that has shaken me up.
Example: Mufaddal Moula added a son of Imam Hassan during the last moments of Imam Hussein in one of his waiz. We never heard that before. If it is repeated for 50-100 years, we all maybe gone, and the people then will take it as accepted truth. But it is a current addition. Well, what else was added over the past several centuries that we take for granted now, but I should start doubting? You can see how this leads to doubting things about the faith. I pray to Allah to guide us to the path of Haqq and keep the Iman and Islam strong. Allah, you have given Islam and Iman at birth, I pray that you help us preserve it. Ameen. That is the prayer I will end with.