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Why were the early Caliphs killed in ways that are unfitting for Islam's elevated human morality?

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It is not expected that those who strove to eliminate the Rightly Guided Caliphs would adhere to noble character. Abu Bakr was poisoned by the Jews, Omar was stabbed by a Majusi (Zoroastrian), Uthman was killed by a conspiracy orchestrated by the Jew Abdullah ibn Saba and some wicked individuals, and Ali was killed by the Kharijite Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam. These people have no morals. Allah honored these virtuous individuals with martyrdom.

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