Qadsiyyah or Faarsiyyah?

A booklet has been written to prove the permissibility of making Khutbah in a language other than the Arabic language. This booklet is very poor in terms of proof. One of the proofs presented to deceive the public, is the claim that a Sahabi had conducted a Khutbah in the Persian language. The author of this book tried dishonestly to make us believe, that it was a Khutbah of Jummah that this Sahabi had conducted in the Persian language. But in actual fact, it was the Sahabi Hazrat Said Bin Ubaid Al-Qari (Radiyallahu Anhu) who had addressed the soldiers and the Muslim fighters on the eve of a battle that had taken place in a place called Qadsiyyah. There is no mention of Persian. In reality, they removed a dot on the ق (Qaaf) and changed it into a ف (Faa). On the other hand, they opened the د (Daal) thereby making it appear as a ر (Raa). That is how قادسية (Qadsiyyah) became فارسية (Faarsiyyah). What is more ridiculous is that a group of B.A., M.A. have revised this booklet of few pages. But still, we do not know how the Ben Laden of Faarsiyyah was able to cross the net of Certified Islamic Agency. And till now, they did not yet trace him. It is really dishonesty on behalf of the B.As and M.As.

[English version of "Qadsiyyah / faarsiyyah ?" – Al Jamiat – Vol.3 No.15]