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I would request you to join me and Omar in requesting Ali to come forward and take up the reigns to rule our destiny as the one nearest to the Holy Prophet both in his relation to him and also in his personal purity and excellence declared about the Ahlul-Bait by the Lord in the verse of 'Tatheer' (33:33).
How readily the muslim public would have accepted such a proposal how best would have been the result, is given out in the opinion of even a non-muslim historian which has been quoted by Justice Amir Ali in his famous work 'The Spirit of Islam':-
"Had" says Sedillot: "The principles of hereditary succession in favour of Ali been recognised at the outset, it would have prevented the rise of those disastrous pretentions which engulfed Islam tn the blood of muslims. The husband of Fatema united in his person the right of succession as the lawful heir of the Prophet as well as the right by election. It might have been thought that ALL WOULD SUBMIT THEMr SELVES BEFOR HIS GLORY: SO PURE AND SO GRAND." (The Spirit of Islam by Amir Ali).
 Had Omar and Abu Bakr acted as above none could have doubted the bonaflde of their intentions in their activity at the Saqeefa and today their act would have been held as a golden deed and their praise would certainly have decorated the pages of the Islamic History. Neither the Omayyids had come to power nor any one of the members of the House of the Holy Prophet had suffered any of the miseries and the calamities, and the wholeale heart-rending massacre of Karbala would never at all have taken place, the world today, under the godly rule of the Ahlul- Bait had enjoyed the heavenly bliss on earth.