THIS IS SHI'ISM

Title: THIS IS SHI'ISM (AN OBJECTIVE STUDY)
Author: Baqir Sharif al-Qarashi
Project supervisor: Translation Unit, Cultural Affairs Department, Ahl al-Bayt ('a) World Assembly (ABWA)
Translator: ¡®Umar Kumu
Editor: Iffat Shah
Proofreader: Sayyid Baqir Husayni
Layout: Fatimah Gulzar
Publisher: ABWA Publishing and Printing Center
First Printing: 2014
All rights reserved

CONTENTS
PREFACE - 13
DEDICATION - 17
INTRODUCTION - 19
THE ORIGIN OF SHI'ISM - 27
THE ORIGIN OF SHI'ISM - 27
During the Prophet's Lifetime - 27
SCHOLARS SUPPORTING THIS VIEW - 29
1- Al-Shaykh al-Saduq - 30
2- Sa'd al-Qummi - 30
3- Imam Kashif al-Ghita' - 31
4- Allamah Muzaffar - 31
OTHER VIEWS - 32
1- Bin Khaldun - 33
2- Bin Hazm - 33
3- Uthman bin Abdillah al-Hanafi - 33
4- Bin al-Nadim - 34
5- Taha Husayn - 35
6- Bernard Lewis - 38
LEADERSHIP AN ISLAMIC NECESSITY
DEFINITION - 41
CONSENSUS ON THE FACT THAT IT IS OBLIGATORY - 42
THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP - 43
THE PROPHET AND THE CALIPHATE - 44
THE PROPHET (S) APPOINTED ALI (‘A) - 46
WHY DID THE PROPHET (S) NOMINATE
ALI (‘A)? - 47
THE AHL AL-BAYT (‘A) UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE QUR'AN AND SUNNAH
IN THE HOLY QUR'AN - 55
THE VERSE OF AFFECTION - 55
THE VERSE ON THE PRAYER CONTEST (MUBAHALAH) - 58
THE VERSE OF THE PIOUS - 63
THE VERSE OF PURIFICATION - 66
IN THE SUNNAH (PROPHETIC TRADITIONS) - 67
SHI'ITE LOYALTY TO THE PROPHET'S
HOUSEHOLD (‘A) - 75
THE SHI'AH AND EXTREMISM (AL-GHULU) - 78
SHI'ISM'S DISAVOWAL OF GHULU - 79
THE GREAT TEST
THE CONVENTION OF AL-SAQIFAH - 84
QURAYSHI PREPONDERANCE AT AL-SAQIFAH - 86
ABU BAKR'S SPEECH - 86
ABU BAKR WINS THE POSITION OF AUTHORITY - 89
IMAM ALI'S (‘A) REFUSAL TO PAY ALLEGIANCE - 90
SHARP PROTESTS - 91
THE COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL (‘A) - 91
FATIMA AL-ZAHRA (‘A) - 94
IMAM AL-HASAN (‘A) - 99
PROTESTS BY DISTINGUISHED COMPANIONS - 99
1. Salmanal-Farsi - 100
2- Ammar bin Yasir - 101
3. Abu Dharr - 102
4. al-Miqdad - 104
5. Buraydah al-Aslami - 105
6. Ubay bin Ka'b - 106
7. Khuzaymah bin Thabit - 108
8. Abu al-Haytham - 109
9. Sahl bin Hunayf - 110
10. Uthman bin Hunayf - 111
11. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari - 112
ABOMINABLE OMISSIONS - 114
SHI'AH AND THE COMPANIONS
DEFINITION OF 'COMPANION' - 119
JUDGING THE COMPANIONS - 120
FROM THE QUR'AN - 121
FROM THE SUNNAH (PROPHETIC TRADTIONS) - 125
HYPOCRITES AND RENEGADES - 127
1- Al-Walid bin Uqbah - 127
2- Khadhdham and his group - 127
3- Dhu al-Thadyah - 128
4- Al-Hakam bin Abi al-As - 129
5- Quzman bin al-Harth - 130
6- Abu Sufyan - 130
7-Mu'awiya bin Abi Sufyan - 131
8- Abu al-Adiyah al-Juhani - 132
9- Qudmah bin Mad'un - 132
CONCOCTED NARRATIONS - 133
THE SHI'ITE VIEW CONCERNING THE COMPANIONS
SUPPLICATION OF IMAM ZAYN AL-ABIDIN (‘A) - 141
SAYYID ALI KHAN'S VIEW - 142
SAYYID SHARAF AL-DIN'S VIEW - 143
THE VIEW OF A ZAYDI SCHOLAR - 145
HASAN AL-BASRI'S VIEW - 146
THE RESPONSE OF THE ZAYDI SCHOLAR - 147
DREADFUL PERIODS
AL-KHAWARAZMI'S LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF
NISHABUR - 171
TAKING RECOURSE TO DISSIMULATION (TAQIYYAH) - 191
POLITICAL SCHEMES OF THE SHI'AH
DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE - 195
REVOLTING AGAINST INJUSTICE - 198
EQUALITY - 205
MUSLIMUNITY - 208
DECENCY OF THE GOVERNING APPARATUS - 210
FOUNDATIONS FOR EDIFICATION AND MORALS IN SHI'ISM
MUTUAL COMPASSION - 217
VISITING ONE ANOTHER - 218
PROVIDING FOR OTHERS - 219
ASSISTING THE DISTRESSED - 220
FORBIDDING THE CAUSES OF DISCORD - 221
1- Estrangement - 222
2- Lack of Cooperation - 222
3- Offending and Humiliating - 224
4- Terrorizing the People - 224
5- Reviling - 225
6- Fault-finding - 225
7- Denigration - 225
8- Vainglory - 226
IMAM SADIQ'S (‘A) LETTER TO THE SHI'AH - 227
DEVELOPMENT AND CREATIVITY
VENERATING REASON (AQL) - 239
THE PROOF VALUE (HUJJIYAH) OF REASON - 241
RATIONAL ABSENCE OF LIABILITY (AL-BARA' AL-'AQLIYAH) - 241
Presumption of Continuity (Istishab) - 242
Equivalence of evidences and Preference (al-ta'dul wa al-tarajih) - 242
OPENING THE DOOR OF INDEPENDENT REASONING IN ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE (IJTIHAD) - 243
1- Sayyid Rashid Rida - 243
2- Abd al-Muta'ali al-Sa'di - 244
3- Dr. Abd al-Da'im - 244
4- Allama al-Ubaydi - 245
5- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani - 246
6- Ahmad Amin - 246
UNIVERSAL AUTHORITY - 247
THE MEANING OF MARJA'IYYAH - 248
QUALITIES OF A MARJA' - 248
1- Being a male - 248
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