<prompt> unaweza kugeuza matini haya ya swahilikwa kiingereza?ili kuepukana na kazi ngumu ya kutafuta ukweli, mustashriq wamekubaliana tu na wanahistoria wa sunni kwamba muhammad, mtume wa uislamu, hakuwa na chaguo au upendeleo katika suala la urithi wake mwenyewe; na lolote lililotokea ndani ya saqifah kwa hiyo, lilikuwa ni sawa na halali, na pia lilikuwa kwa faida kubwa ya umma wa waislamu.  <response>: eschewing the laborious search for truth, the ori- entalists have merely concurred with the sunni historians that muhammad, the prophet of islam, had no wishes or preferences in the matter of his own succession; and whatever happened in saqifa was, therefore, right and justified, and also, was in the best interests of the muslim umma community. 