بیشترلیست موضوعاتDownloading the EncyclopediaIntroductionVERSION 2.0
Chapter 1.a
VERSION 2.0Quran and Ahlul-BaytWhy
School of Ahlul-Bayt?
Who are Ahlul-Bayt?
Part iPart iiPart iiiPart ivPart vPart viPart viiThe Word House (Ahlul-Bayt) in QuranSunni Feedback on the Issues of Infallibility
and Ahlul-Bayt
Chapter 1.b
VERSION 2.0Who Offended the Blind?
Infallibility of the Prophets
Part iPart iiPart iii
Leadership and Infallibility
Part iPart ii
The Twelve Imams
Part iPart iiThe Holy Quran and the Pure ImamsThe Reward of Loving Ahlul-BaytHow to Send Greetings to Prophet
Muhammad?Is Being a Member of a Party Forbidden in
Islam?The Term "Shia" in Quran and
Hadithal-Azhar Verdict on the Shia
Chapter 2
VERSION 2.0The Last LuminarySunni Documentation on Imam al-Mahdi (AS) Special specifications of Imam al-Mahdi (AS)
Necessity of the Existence of Imam al-Mahdi
(AS) More on Imam al-Mahdi (AS) The Knowledge of the Unseen & the
Knowledge of the BookSome Traditions on the Virtues of Imam Ali
(AS)
Chapter 3
VERSION 1.5
Caliphate of Imam Ali (AS)
The Major Difference Between the Shia and
the Sunni
Ghadir Khum
Part iPart iiPart iiiCertainly your Master is .Who is the successor of the Prophet
(PBUH&HF)?The Prophet Announcing His Successor in
His First PreachHow is This Possible?The Opinion of Imam Ali (AS) on
Caliphate
Chapter 4
VERSION 1.5Respecting the Righteous CompanionsA Shi'ite View of the CompanionsThe Tragedy of ThursdayConspiracy Against Imam Ali (AS)Attacking the House of Fatimah (AS)Usurping the Land of FadakLady Fatimah (AS) protests against Abu Bakr's
ActionsMore Facts on FadakA short history of Fadak after the
Martyrdom of Fatima
Chapter 5.a
VERSION 1.5Muawiyah and Abusing Imam Ali (AS)More on MuawiyahDevelopment of History and Hadith
Collections
Islam of Abu Talib (Parts I through IV)
Part iPart iiPart iiiPart ivWas Azar the Father of Prophet Abraham?Who was Umm Kulthum the wife of Umar?On the Companions who Murdered UthmanThe Innovations of the Early CaliphsAre Munafiqeen Counted Among the Sahabah?Shia vs. Iran
Chapter 5.b
VERSION 1.5Imam Husain (AS): A brief Description and
AnalysisSome Traditions on Imam al-Husain (AS)Reasons Behind the Commemoration of Imam
al-Husain (AS)Did Imam al-Husain (AS) Know He Would Be
killed?The Martyred Ones
Tragedy of Karbala as reported by the Sunnis
Part iPart iiPart iiiPart ivPart vPart viPart viiPart viiiPart ix
Chapter 6.a
VERSION 2.0
Temporary Marriage in Islam:
Part 1: Evidences From Quran and the Sunni
CommentariesPart 2: Evidences From the Sunni Hadith
CollectionsPart 3: Evidences From the Sunni
History/Fiqh/Misc. BooksPart 4: Some Contradicting ReportsPart 5: Purpose of Marriage; Prohibition of
Illegal Sex & AlcoholPart 6: Similarities and Differences of
Mut'a and Regular MarriagePart 7: The Necessities and the
Advantages of Mut'aPart 8: Some Frequently Asked Questions on
Mut'aDebate on the Legitimacy of Mut'a:
Chapter 6.b
VERSION 1.5
al-Taqiyya/Dissimulation
Part iPart iiPart iiiKhums (one fifth)Tawassul (Resorting to Intermediary)Evidence for Tawassul by a Sunni WriterDid Muhammad Receive Revelation by
Mistake?!
Imamat vs. Prophethood
Part iPart iiFinality of the Prophethood
Chapter 7
VERSION 1.5
The Shia/Sunni Jurisprudence:
Shia ScholarsThe Rules of Modesty (according to five
Schools)Fasting (according to five Schools)Call for Prayer (Adhan) and Ablution
(Wudu)Joining Prayers and Other related
IssuesPrayer (according to five Schools)
Chapter 8
VERSION 1.5
Shia/Sunni and Quran:
Belief of Shia in the Completeness of
QuranDifferent Arrangements of QuranSome Sunni Reports on the
Incompleteness of QuranThe Quran Compiled by Imam Ali (AS)Tabarsi and incompleteness of QuranThe Book of Fatimah (AS)Can ANY human do that?Early Debates on the Integrity of the
Quran (Incomplete)
Chapter 9
VERSION 1.5Outline of DifferencesTraditions which falsely allege physical
attributes to AllahAbu Huraira vs. PaulSimilarities of Jews/Christians/MuslimsIbn Taymiya and his WorksThe Wahhabis
Chapter 10
VERSION 1.5
Abdullah Ibn Saba
Part iPart iiPart iiiPart ivPart v
Kaab al-Ahbar
Part iPart iiPart iii
Chapter 11
VERSION 1.5Kumail's Invocation and other
SupplicationsFree Will and FatalismDivine Justice and the Problem of EvilSome traditions from al-Kafi on the place of
reason in religionSome stories on Imam Ali (AS)Islamic Scientistsتوضیحاتافزودن یادداشت جدید From: kaamran@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.caJews/Christians/Muslims(Part 1: Is there any similarity?)The following was sent a few months ago.Now it is going to continue:The sequence of articles is important because some of conclusions arenot valid until the last article.Sahih Muslim,Rendered into English byAbdul Hamid SiddiqiPrinted at Hafeez Press,Sh.Muhammad AshrafKashmiri Bazar, Lahore(Pakistan)Chapter MCXII, titled asFollowing the footsteps of the jews and the christians#6448Abu Said Alkhudri reported Allah's messenger (May peace be upon him)as saying: You would tread the same path as was trodden by thosebefore you inch by inch and step by step so much so that if they hadentered into the hole of the lizard, you would follow them in thisalso.We said: Allah's messenger, do you mean Jews and Christians(by your words)"those before you"? He said: Who else(than those tworeligious groups)?#6449This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Atab b.Yasarthrough another chain of transmitters.-The same hadith is given in Sahih Bukhari with a little difference oftranslation.Here it comes:-The translation of the meaning of Sahih al-BukhariArabic-EnglishDr.Mohammad Muhsin KhanIslamic University, Medina al-MunawwaraKaze Publications.1529 North Wells Street, Chicago.ILL.60610(USA)(3rd revised, 1977)(4th revised Edition, March 1979)- 9.422:Narrated Abu Sa'id al-Khudri:The Prophet said, "You will follow the ways of those nations who werebefore you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) somuch so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure, you wouldfollow them." We said, "O Allah's Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews andthe Christians?" He said, "Whom else?"Also shiat has narrated the similar traditions through its own reliablenarrators.As I recall, you can locate such traditions in Tafaaseerunder theSourah[84] Aayah[19]Laterkabonna tabagan an tabagenSourah: ensheghaghO.K.Let see if anybody can go through the hole of a lizard(!!??)Since I have not seen such creature among human beings, I answerto myself that this is not possible.There is no way that even a thinman can pass through the hole of a lizard.If not, then what thesetraditions mean? The way that this example is given in thesetraditions confirms the case of impossible acts.I conclude,therefore, that if any of Jews and/or Christians have done animpossible action, the same action would be perfomed by a muslim too.Some of you may have already been searching for these traditions sincethey seem very strange.Will muslim worship an idol as Jews did whenthey worshipped a caw figure? Will muslims kill prophets while we knowthat there is no prophet after Mohammad(SAS)? Then what these traditionsmean? How about the miracles that Muses and Jesus performed? How aboutthe distortion they made on their books? Will muslim change their bookby their hand? Will they think that Jesus is the son of God? andthousands of these questions.One more point:Will the sequence of events be kept in the same way?For example, will there be Jesus after Yahya(Jashowa, I think)?We know that it is almost impossible to imagine muslims to worshipJesus as the son of God, to worship caw instead of true God, to go forhunting on Saturday as Jews did.What I can conclude from the traditionsis that the similar action will be done, but not exactly the sameaction.For example, it is been told that the prophet warned muslimsabout different interpretation of Quran:You will not change anything inside of Quran as previouslydone in the bible(Torat and Enjil), but you will certainlychange the meaning of aayaat(verses) of Quran.To me, there is no difference between these two events.In both casesyou can hardly detect the truth since you usually do not follow theoriginal sources of the religion and you listen to others(scholars)instead of searching for yourselves.There is no difference betweenchanging the bible and misleading people through the interpretation ofthe Quran.What I conclude is that the similar acts would be done bymuslim people.They may not kill a prophet after the prophet sincethere is no prophet.But it is not hard to imagine that some of themmay have attempted killing their best knowledgeable men (scholars,...)How about the sequence of events? Surely there is no point in thesetwo traditions that the sequence of events will be untouched.Thewords"inch by inch" is interpreted inside of the hadith:such that if one did XXXX, you will do XXXX tooAs the result, the sequence of events are not kept.In other words,similar act to worshipping caw may not happen exactly in the time ofthe prophet as it happened in time of muses.However, it may happen atthe end of time.Although Jesus will not appear as the prophet tointroduce christianity, he will come at the end of times as narrated.I summerize the conclusion I would like to make in this article:1)- The very similar events would take place for Muslims people asthey happened for Jews and Christians.In case that the act ispossible, muslims MAY do the EXACT act as others did.(I will explainwhat I mean by "possible" in my next articles.)2)- The sequence of events are not necessarily preserved.For somecases, this sequence MAY be maintained.In next article, I will, insha-allah, talk about some attitiudes ofpresent muslims which are attributed to Jews and Christians.***************************************************************************From: kaamran@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.caSubject: Jews/Christians/Muslims (Part 2: Hiding the Truth)* The likeness of those who are entrusted with the Law of Moses,yet apply it not, is as the likeness of the ass carrying books*Wretched is the likeness of folk who deny the revelations ofAllah* And Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk (Quran 62:5)In part one, I proved that there are similarities among Jews,Christians, and Muslims.The above verse is apparently about Jews.Just around and among yourselves (Muslims).Don't you see those whoclose their eyes and ears and hearts and do not look at their book ofAllah, and the evidences from their own book?They prefer to deny the orders of Allah, and insist in theirignorance.And do not mix up the truth with the falsehood, nor hide thetruth while you know (it) (Quran 2:42)O followers of the Book! Why do you confound the truth with thefalsehood and hide the truth while you know? (Quran 3:71)And when Allah made a covenant with those who weregiven theBook: You shall certainly make it known to men andyou shall nothide it; but they cast it behind their backs and tooka smallprice for it; so evil is that which they buy* (Quran 3:187)Those whom We have given the Book recognize him as theyrecognize their sons, and a party of them most surely concealthe truth while they know (it)* (Quran 2:146)Surely those who conceal any part of the Book thatAllah hasrevealed and take for it a small price, they eat nothing butfire into their bellies, and Allah will not speak to them on theday of resurrection, nor will He purify them, and they shallhave a painful chastisement* (Quran 2:174)I have shown in the first part of this series that whatever hashappened on Jews/Christians should happen similarly on muslims.Although the sequence of events may not be the same (sooner or laterthat the event in previous nations), they would happen, not exactlybut very closely.(Of course there is another choice that the prophet of Allah haslied.Obviously, a muslim does not accept such choice at all.Betterto think and learn from previous nations.)One of behaviours of Jews/Christians is that they knew the truth andthey hided it.They knew the prophet of Islam very clearly and betterthan their own sons, and they denied him.They knew that Allah is oneand everything was revealed by islam was true and they did not informtheir people of it.They kept their people in darkness in order to geta good ride on them.Unfortunately, this story is completely happened in islamicenvironment.Scholars who knew the truth tried to hide it from theirpeople.When you say that such and such exists, people open theirmouth as if a new law is fallen.The true islam is unfortunately hidenfrom the eyes of usuall people who have little access to the sourceof traditions.Others who hear the truth and confess to it, are afraid of revealing it.It is good to warn ourselves that the promises of Allah is not a game.When he implemens his plan, he will do as severe as he can, and Allahis the hard punishing God.**************************************************************************From: kaamran@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.caSubject: Jews/Christians/Muslims (Part 3: Religious text books)Another similarity among Jews/Christians/Muslims is about some oftheological deviations.When you open the old testement, the firstthing you read is:And the God created humans in his image.When you go further, you read a wrestling between this God and Jacob.And other stuff.You can locate in new testement that God, word and Jesus are one plusJesus is the son of God and so on.In Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim andshiat sources (which were famous as "Israeelyyat" afterwards), youcan easily locate several similarities.Although there is no wrestlingbetween God and Jacob, there is a wrestling between Mouses and theangel of death.The first sentence of the old testement was accuratelytransfered to the book of Hadith.What went wrong?In this article, I am trying to clarify one reason for such behaviourin religious text books.It is one of the narrators.In my mind, thereare too many similarities between two people of two religions,Christianity and Islam, Paul and Abu Huraira.Abu Huraira Paul1)- Abu Huraira was a Jew and | 1)- Paul was a Jew and becamebecame muslim.| christian.|2)- Abu Hurair saw the prophet | 2)- Paul saw Jesus in his vision,only three years out of 23 | or in his dream (I do not care)years of the prophethood of| It is very short time compared toMohammad (SAAWS).| the prophethood of Jesus (I guess,| three years or so).|3)- Abu Huraira started | 3)- Paul started his preaching aboutnarrating about 30 years | 30 years after the disappearanceafter the death of the | of Jesus.(I do not care why.)prophet.|(I do not care why.) ||4)- Abu Huraira was supported | 4)- Paul was supported by the presentby the present Government | government of his time.of his time.||5)- Abu Huraira narrated quite | 5)- Paul narrated quite a few sentencesa few traditions which were| which were taken from the old romanvery similar to Jewish text| theology, and Jewish theology ofbooks.| that time.|6)- Abu Huraira narrated a | 6)- Paul narrated a miracle narratedmiracle about himself which| only by himslef which was relatedwas related to the prophet.| to Jesus.|7)- All of Abu Huraira speeches| 7)- Paul narrated quite a few sentenceswere related by the prophet| from the mouth of Jesus.|8)- Abu Huraira's narrations | 8)- Paul is now called "the father ofbecame the source of | christianity".differences among muslims |of that time.(Just to be |polite to muslims.) |About 40% of the theological differences among different branches ofIslam, from Sunni and Shiat to Sufism have come from the narrations ofAbu Huraira.(Shiat brothers should note that I am not talking aboutpractical differences right after the death of the prophet.) Suchestimation is my personal data as a person who has read both shiat andsunni sources and others (such as Ahmadyya, and so and so).Source for above claims??? Read the articles which weresent to SRI about one month ago.**************************************************************************From: kaamran@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.caSubject: Re: What Muslims lack> Article: 7387 of soc.religion.islam> From: gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer)Well, I would like to have a chit-chat with a respectful man, a verythoughtful muslim named as: Basaalat Ali.I would like to call himAli in my articles.> What we call Islam nowadays is a lot more than the final message to> all people that was sent to us from Allah.We have added> interpretations on top of interpretations of interpretations.I do> not know what a.faris' intent is in answering the article in the> manner that he did.Very nice paragraph.> Nonetheless, I do think that "Islam" needs to change.If I were you, I would have followed what you said above and wouldhave been precise to say:I do think that the interepretation of "Islam" needs to change.> Is Islam the Shia/Sunni debate? Anyone reading SRI would think so.I am sorry.People should be informed that the so called "debate"between shiat and sunni comes to net every other month, or more.As myrecords show, the first article on this was sent about one month ago.That was from a SUNNI himself.About a few days (or I think one week),SOME of SUNNI people kept firing at shiat with no shame.Then Shiatstarted to answer these ignorant people.It will not come to net if you moderators be careful when approvingthe very first article.If any revolution should be seen in SRI, it is>from the moderators first, among you.> it has consumed some of the finest minds of dozens of generations.> This part of Islam needs to change.What I brought to SRI was thrown away hundred years ago.Shiat simplydoes not care about this debate.Shiat has closed and patched thisdebate forever.If you think that shiats are sitting in Iran finding abetter solution for this debate, you are wrong.The present and mainconcern of shiat scholars in Iran is to locate sources and find the bestway of handling muslim society, or islamic government, such asgovernmental issues, taxes, economy, and so on.They did not do thatbefore, and they realize how ignoring about this fact they were before.They are coming to solve the problems of present society through islamicsources.They have simply put such "debate" to the bookshelves.Thefirst book on the islamic government was written about 200 years ago.Look at yourself, then.> No.The simple fact is that we have allowed all this to happen to us.> It happens because of the hatred we have in our hearts.Very nice sentence, and many more nice paragraphs.> Are we Muslims? Or are we too arrogant to learn from this? Do we> have a monoploy on the faith of Islam?> The real backwardness is to live out our lives amongst our own> heresies and bidaa.We have already left islam.We need to return to> it.Again, good advices.Since you are not arrogant, and learn fromchristians and jews faster than a muslim, I would like to bring oneexample for you:I saw an interview three nights ago.It was about a groupwhich were shaped three years ago.75 christian scholarsfrom all over the world gathered again, this year.The officialname of this group is "Jesus Seminar Study".What they do and whatthey have done? They bring several different sciences such asarcheology, history, phsychology, and many more.To do what?They are reading the present NEW testament (which is referred inthis article as Bible) sentence by sentence.They verify whichsentence was spoken really by Jesus himself, and which onewas spoken by his followers.How others twisted the exact wordof Jesus.What do you think about the outcome of their search?They announced that about 80% of the Bible is not from Jesus,himself, but rather from a few writters some of whom came afterJesus death.They announced that there is no single word truelyspoken by Jesus which says that Jesus is the son of God.Thereis no single word which says that Jesus is God, or there arethree Gods.The announced, also, that Jesus was one prophet himself.Is this a backward?Your answer: No.How? Are they not reading the history, and the Bible and"wasting" their time on 2000 years ago?Your answer: Yes.How? Don't they understand the Bible better than thousandyears ago? Are you not happy with their outcomes?That was about christians.How about Jews? Let me give you anotherexample.Perhaps, you would understand the meaning of backward better.About 40 years ago, a great discovery occured around the dead sea, andthe findings on that area became famous as "dead sea scrolls." One isperesently kept in Isreal musem named as "The Temple Scroll".Although, the finding was related to Jews, it talks about a theologywhich matches islamic theology more than the old christianity (as someare claiming).If you read Quran, you will find some verses which arereferring to some verses of the old testemant.You can not find thereferred verses in the present old testemant.But these Quranicreferences are found in the dead sea scrolls.One of the most importantpart is named "The book of Enoch".NowIs this a backward?Your answer: No.How come? These people are looking at the scrolls which werewritten (as some claim) before the birth of Jesus.Your answer: Yes.How come? They have broken these contents of these scrollspiece by piece, they are understanding their book betterthan hundred years ago.How is this a backward?My humble suggestion:If muslims want to solve the present problems of islamic society,they have to analyze what others have recorded hundred years ago.Muslims have to sit and find out which narration (or Hadith) istruely spoken by the prophet.(Obviously, Quran is complete, andneeds no verification).But the traditions need to be differentiate.If muslims want to solve the present problems of islamic society,they have to look at the INTERPRETATAIONs again.See whatmuslims have eaten during the time.Why have muslims have acceptedfrom their scholars, (or should I say, islamic churches?).Whymuslims have trusted their scholars so much, and how muslimshave been deviated because of this trust.If muslims want to help, they have to return to Islam.As yousaid and I agreed with, what muslims have is NOT islam.Whatmuslims believe in is NOT islam.Islam is over there, sitting andwaiting for muslims to come and understand it.What muslims havedone instead was to trust some scholars, and carry their hatredin their hearts, and FIGHT.This is what most people inheritatedfrom their fathers.***********************************************************************From: kaamran@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.caSubject: the Shi'ites and Sunnis> From gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu Mon Jan 17 15:46:22 EST 1994> Article: 7892 of soc.religion.islam> From: gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Basically, a small number among the Sunni believe and claim that the> Shia are non-Muslim; a number among the Shia hold a somewhat similar> opinion of the Sunni.As a person who belongs to that small group of shiat, I am declaringthat none of us has ever told that sunni is non-muslim.Briefly about shiat:1)- Shait says that "Logic" is very important and is a part of life.As you eat, you must use the logic.2)- The point is not that Ali-Ibn-Abitalib should have been the Caliph.That is not the case any more.It is too late to choose Ali as thefirst Caliph after the death of the prophet since it is almost 1350years by now.(Even if all muslims, shiat and sunni, agree rightnow that Ali must have been the first Caliph, nothing can be done.)The point is that the true knowledge is transferred to muslimsthrough Ali and his sons, and other sources are not as reliable asthis chain.The point is to know that it is not too late to listen,think, and obey these true sources of knowledge, Ali-Ibn-Abitaliband his sons.*************************************************************************From: kaamran@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.caSubject: Health rules in Hadith books?I am getting closer to realize what Islam says about health of human.I strongly urge scientists to investigate the following importanttraditions.I hope that when they get Nobel Prize on this, share it withme (say %5 only).I would be grateful if my sunni brothers and sisters tell me if theyreally benefit these islamic laws or not.Thanks a lot.-7.673:Narrated Abu Huraira:Allah's Apostle said, "If a fly falls in the vessel of any of you, lethim dip all of it (into the vessel) and then throw it away, for in oneof its wings there is a disease and in the other there is healing(antidote for it) i e.the treatment for that disease."4.537:Narrated Abu Huraira:The Prophet said "If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you,he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a diseaseand the other has the cure for the disease."7.746:Narrated Abu Huraira:Allah's Apostle said, "None of you should walk, wearing one shoe only;he should either put on both shoes or put on no shoes whatsoever."I understand that there might be some use not using any shoe, and moreadvantage using both shoes.I do not understand where ONE shoe can beapplicable, and if not applicable at all, why it is mentioned anyway.Thanks for your comments.The traditions are taken from Sahih Bukhari:The translation of the meaning of Sahih al-BukhariArabic-EnglishDr.Mohammad Muhsin KhanIslamic University, Medina al-MunawwaraKaze Publications.1529 North Wells Street, Chicago.ILL.60610(USA)(3rd revised, 1977)(4th revised Edition, March 1979)Call Number(In library of Waterloo university): BP135.A124E54