Fate And Destiny (in The View Of Ahl Al-sunnah)
Fate and Destiny (In the View ofAhl al-Sunnah) The topic of fate and destiny (al-qadà’ wa al-qadar) remained in the past a complicated engima for me, as I could not find a satisfactory...
Fate and Destiny (In the View ofAhl al-Sunnah) The topic of fate and destiny (al-qadà’ wa al-qadar) remained in the past a complicated engima for me, as I could not find a satisfactory...
Shi’ah’s Belief in Fateand Destiny As soon as I became acquainted with the Shi’ah ‘ulamà’,197 reading their books, I became aware of a new science called fate and destiny. Al-’Imàm ‘Ali...
Imitation (Taqlid) The Shi’ah hold: Regarding branches of religion (furu‘ al-Din), which represent the rules of Shari‘ah (Islamic Law) related to worship acts like: salàt, sawm (fasting),...
(Belief in) Infallibility The Shi’ah observe: The Imam — like the Prophet — should be infallible against (perpetrating) all kinds of indecencies and vices, whether the apparent or hidden...
Principle of al-Badà’ It means that some idea seems to Him regarding a thing. He intends to do, but then He changes His opinion concerning that thing, doing other than what He determined...
Al-Mut‘ah(or Temporary Marriage) It means the mut‘ah marirage (nikàh), or unpermanent marriage, or temporary marriage to a determined term. It is like the perpetual marriage, as can never...
Performing Two PrayersTogether The other point which is exploited to revile the Shi’ah with, being their performing salàt al-zuhr (noon prayers) and salàt al-’asr (afternoon prayers) together,...
Al-Raj'ah(Restoration to Life) This is exclusively held by the Shi’ah. I investigated and searched in all the Sunni books but failed to find any trace of it. In this regard, the Shi’ah...
Al-Mahdi, the Awaited He also became one of the topics misused by Ahl al-Sunnah to revile the Shi’ah. Some of them transgressed the limits by making of it a point of mockery and derision,...
Notes: 1. Tafsir al-Tabari, Vol. IXV, p. 109; Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. II, p. 570. 2. It is reported by al-Tirmidhi in his Sahih, Vol. II, p. 329, and also by al-Nasà’i and al-’Imàm Ahmad. 3....
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Glimpses of the Nahj al-Balaghah by : Martyr Ayatullah Murtada Mutahhari Introduction This is the translation of sections from Martyr Mutahhari's book Sayri dar Nahj al-balaghah....