Is it permissible to single out 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) with the phrase "May Allah honor his face"?
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And it is that 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)—and I do not say "May Allah honor his face," and I say "May Allah honor his face," I do not say and I say, I say: May Allah honor his face, and May Allah honor the faces of all the Rightly Guided Caliphs and the noble Companions. But I do not say it on the occasion of mentioning 'Ali (may Allah honor his face); because this is a Shi'ite convention, and what we must be cautious of are usages that appear to be mercy on the surface, but whose inner reality is torment. So, May Allah honor his face, there is no doubt or ambiguity, but we do not distinguish him with a phrase, we do not single it out for the other Caliphs, rather they are equal in that. Naming a known place, Miqat Dhu al-Hulayfah, as "Abwar 'Ali" is a superstition; because they claim that 'Ali fought the jinn there and triumphed over them. So when the one intending 'Umrah reaches that place, which is known in the Shari'ah as Dhu al-Hulayfah, there he should enter the state of ihram before the ihram, if it is easy for him to take a bath, where he camped in Madinah, and that is good and excellent. If it is not easy for him, there is a place near Dhu al-Hulayfah, I think in the bathrooms, what is it? A person can take a bath there, and this means taking a bath, meaning pouring water, and that is it, a few minutes and the matter is done. It is not a place for cleanliness; this is a legal cleanliness, not a physical cleanliness. Then he goes out to outside the mosque to the valley there where the pebbles and sand are.
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