Interpreting Ghadir event as a message of “friendship” and its repercussions: with special emphasis on Sunni resources

The current study aims to outline the conclusions drawn from interpreting Ghadir event as a message of “friendship”. The above interpretation is desired and often arrived at by Sunni scholars.The present research seeks to analyze and explore this interpretation from Ghadir event. In so doing, it adopts a descriptive-exploratory approach and employs a qualitative research design to answer this core question: what repercussions or effects will interpreting Ghadir as a message of friendship can have on the beliefs of people? A thorough analysis of Suuni writings on Ghadir event reveals that most Muslims in the era of Imam Ali not only had no friendship towards him but also attacked his abodence, fought him at wars and cursed him even eighty years after his martyrdom. Based on these very same resources, it can be said that being at war with Imam Ali, enmity towards him and cursing him has repercussions such as hypocricy, sedition, corruption , straying from salvation and injustice of companions. These repercussions are the pillars upon which the cult of anti-Shias has been built.