Q. & A. 711 to 1707 with solved Papers css 1971 to date

Arbitration
Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) sent his envoy to Hazrat Mu’awiya (Rad.A) to find out what he meant by making the Holy Qur’an a judge. Hazrat Amir Mu’awiya told him that he wanted an arbitration through judges, one from his side and the other from Hazrat Ali’s side, and that both the parties should abide by the decision of the judge. Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) accepted it. He tried to make Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas as the arbitrator from his side, but some of his followers objected to it on the ground that he was related to Hazrat Ali (Rad.A). They proposed the name of Hazrat Musa Ash’ari (Rad.A). Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) accepted their proposal and he was appointed as the arbitrator of ’Ali’s (Rad.A) side. Hazrat Mu’awiya
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appointed Amir bin A’s (Rad.A) as the arbitrator from his side, and none of his followers questioned his choice although he was related to Amir Mu’awiya. This shows that the followers of Hazrat Mu’awiya were more united than the followers of Hazrat Ali (Rad.A). There were many Sabaites in Hazrat Ali’s camp and they were the real cause of such differences. Wherever they saw the Muslims uniting they tried to create confusion with the aim of disuniting them.
In case the two arbitrators could not come to an agiesment, the decision was to lie with eight hundred men (four hundred from Hazrat Ali’sxamp and four hundred from Hazrat Mu’awiya’s camp) and it would be settled by the majority. A place named Dumat-ulJandal, in betweeft Syria and Iraq, was proposed for the talks. Both the judges with 800 would go there to finalise their award by the month of Ramzan and to make it public. A temporary agreement was signed on 13th Safar, 37 A.H. between Hazrat Ali (Rad.A) and Hazrat Mu’awiya. The two armies then left for their homes leaving about 90,000 men dead in the field of Siffin, which number exceeded the total Muslim casualties in all the Islamic battles against the nonMuslims by the time.10