Who is Imam Ali? And why do philosophers glorify and surmount him? Part4
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Who is Imam Ali?
His intellectual heroics and military bravery:
Quraysh has waged very aggressive wars against Muslims after their departure from Mecca to another city, which its people accepted and believed in the Gods Prophet, and voluntarily embraced Islam with all the love and faith. So the first battle was because the Qurayshis had stolen the Muslims properties in Mecca and tried to sell them along with whoever was left behind of the Muslims sons in the slavery market in Damascus. So when Quraysh convoys, which contained the stolen things, were passing by near Yathreb (Al Madina) on their way to selling them in Damascus, Muslims attacked them trying to catch them, hence was the first battle, Badr battle, when Imam Ali alone killed about half of the idolaters knights.
Imam Ali had never started a fight, and had always offered his enemies peace over war. He used to negotiate and preach them that he was fighting for Almighty God, not for his own glory, and that his religion asked him not to be aggressive and to accept peace from them if they have chosen it over war, but if they stubbornly decided to go on with their assault, only then would he fight them.
He was the one who ripped out a door in an enormous fortress, called (Khaibar), which was impossible to be moved not even by a group of people, it was reported that it required twenty men to open it. Inside that fortress , there was a horrifying man, whose followers believed that he was immortal and would never die, he was called Marhab.
He was the leader of the knights of an old sect of Jews who fought Muslims and conspired against them along with the idolaters, although they had a brotherhood treaty with Muslims. Imam Ali killed the Khaibarian Marhab.
Before that, Imam Ali and the Muslims were besieged in Yathreb (which was called later Al Madina Al Monawara "The Enlightened City"). After two battles (Badr and Ohod) Quraysh gathered a huge army leaded by the best Arab knight, the so called Amr bin Abdi Wid Al Ameri, who was known as the "thousand killer" which meant that he used to fight like a thousand knights united.
Amr bin Abdi Wid Al Ameri challenged Muslims. Knights Ran away from his fencing, while he was repeatedly calling for a fighter. Because of his toughness, solidity and reputation amongst Arabs, no one accepted his challenge. Yet, every time he called for a fighter, Ali stood and said "O messenger of God I can fence him" ( Please check Al-Tabari and Al-Maghazi history) Until the messenger of God permitted him (SAW).
Thus, Al Ameri was defeated. When his sister mourned him, she splurged that he was killed on the hands of a greater knight, the most honorable and the most honest man of the Arabs, who is Ali bin Abi Taleb.
