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: azolfag@phoenix.princeton.edu (Ali Zolfaghari)Subject:Re: WahhabisDate: 15 Aug 93 04:28:16 GMTAssalamu Alaikum:In article hassan@cs.ubc.ca (Moustafa Hassan) writes:|> There are many scholars, most notably Ibn Teymiyyeh and|> Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, that are very misunderstood,|> but I'll limit the discussion to M.'Abd al-Wahhab.|> To begin with, Arabia was, at a time in history, as mixed|> up and full of bid'ah as many of the other Muslim countries|> today.Comparing Ibn Taymiyeh to Mohammad Ibn abdul Wahhab is like comparingapples and oranges.Yes they are both contraversial but one (ibn Taymyieh)was an early scholar who had some unique ideas even though I and a lotof Muslims do not agree with them, Ibn Abdul wahhab however wasa pseudo-scholar that appeared under the British influence and was used bynon-muslims (British) in their quest to bring the Arabian peninsula under aunified rule of an ally Ibn-Saud family in their bid to weaken the Ottamanempire through the control of the holy sites of Islam.These are historicalfacts.Ibn Abdul Wahhab issued declarations (fatwa) that branded evry muslim inArabia who was in dispute with the Ibn Saud family a Kafir Through Bida'a.Yet for him to declare Islamic the hereditary rule of KINGS (malik) fromIbn Saud family was the biggest Bidaa around in Arabia.He announced in hisinfamous fatwa that the ruling of Arabia should be a hereditary right ofthe sons of Saud (who by the way was related to him through marriage of hisdaughter).Many wars followed the fatwas that Ibn abdul Wahhab issued and in thosewars with the help of the british and through declaring other tribesMushrik, the Saud family from Najd managed to become the undisputed tribein Arabia.All of us have seen the recent events in Arabia and it is easyfor us to see how these similar events happened in the past.The ldea ofWahhabism is strictly a political affair of the early colonial era ratherthan an Islamic movement with Fiqh bases.That is why it is never thoughtof as a madhab even though they have tried to make it into one.(I'm originally from Egypt, and I include Egypt|> in this list of countries filled with bid'ah.I'm not|> protecting 'Abd al-Wahhab because I'm from Arabia.)I don't think of Egypt as a country full of bidaa.To say that all Islamic countries are filled with bidaa takes a lot ofnerves.Are you trying to tell us that Arabaian Hijaz is not!! because theystick to Wahhabism, That somehow is an inconsistency that all of us can seethrough.The rule of Kings is and has been the biggest Bidaa in Islam and thatstarted with Muawiayah the son of Hind (The woman who ate the heart ofHamza, prophet's (sawaws) uncle) and the first of Umawi (ummayad) Khulafa.The bidaa that affects the leadership of muslims is the gravest of allbidaas.Isn't it?|>|> Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab is disliked for three reasons:|>|> 1.He did follow a single madh-hab, or school of thought.(some stuff deleted)No my brother, he is disliked for the reasons I cited above.|> 2.Ignorance.He fought many of the psuedo-scholars of his|> time.The pseudo-scholars gained power and prestige by|> people following their traditional practices, so they slandered|> him and opposed him.Many true Muslims today still oppose him|> because they were taught that his teachings are heretical; this|> is not true.It IS true my brother.Do you want me to cite you the infamous fatwa Imentioned above, by him.No other real scholar of Sunni madhab has EVER declared a family to berightful hereditary ruler of Muslim land, that is against Islam.Let me bring you an example:It is said that the son of Imam Ahmad was a judge for the stablishment ofKhalifa at the time, something he did with displeasure and just becausehe felt the need for the people to be judged according to Islam.He laterleft his post since he was in dispute with the hereditary khalifah kingdom.He calculated all the money he earned from his post and bought bread withthemoney to give to the poor because he even disliked the money he was paid.He told his household to let the poor receipient of the bread know thatthe bread was bought with the money from the khalifah and that he did notconsume any of the bread himself.He did that to have a clear conscious.The poor did not accept the breads even though they were hungry.The breads rotted, and he ordered them be thrown in Euphrates river, andhe NEVER ate fish from Euphrates till he died.That is how strongly the real Ulemma disliked the Kingdom and kinghood.The terms "Malik" (king) and "malik of all maliks" were the terms mostdisliked by our prophet (sawaws).|>|> 3.He was Arabian, and there seems to still be quite a bit of|> racism in the Muslim world.Racism is futile, and more importantly|> is against Islam.We should not feel contempt towards a scholar|> (or any person) simply because he's from a certain part of the|> world.The leaders of all four Madhabs of Sunni sect and alot of other respectableulema are arabic, Your statement is not logical my brother.***************************************************************************WahhabisThe following article is written by a Sunni brotherFrom: bdogan@eecs.wsu.edu (Bilge Dogan)The founder of Wahhabism was Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab of Banu Tamimtribe.He was born in Uyaina village near Huraimila town in the NajdDesert in 1111 and died 1206(1792).Formerly, with the idea oftravelling and trading, he went to Basra , Baghdad, Iran, India andDamascus, where he won the name "Shaikh an-Najdi" because of hisclever and defeatist attitude.He saw and learnt a great deal atthese places and set his heart on the idea of becoming a chief.He hadthought it proper a to found a new religious reformation and movementto reach his goal , and, in preparation for this goal, attended thelectures of the Hanbali 'ulama' in the blessed city of Medina andlater in Damascus for some time.When he went back to the Najid, hewrote pamphlets on religious subjects for villagers.His harmful,heretical ideas which he took from Mu'tazila and other bid'a-groupsand introduced in these small books deceived many ignorant villagers,particularly the inhabitants of Dar'iyya and their ignorant chief,Muhammed ibn Sa'ud (grand grand father of saudi royal family) as atool to disseminate his reformation which he named Wahhabism.Heintroduced himself as the qadi and Muhammed ibn Saud as the Hakim.Hehad it declared that both would be succeeded only by their childrenIn 1306 when the book Mirat al-Haramain was written, the amir of theNajd, 'Abdullah ibn Faisal, was a descendant of Muhammed ibn Sa'ud,and the qadi, that is, the head of religious affairs, was a descendantof Muhammed ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab.Mumammed ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab's father , ''Abd al-Wahhab, who was apious pure alim in Medina, his brother Sulaiman ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab andhis masters had apprehended from his statements, behaviour andheretical ideas, which he frequently had put forward as questions tothem when he was a student in Medina, that he would harm Islam frominside in future.They advised him to correct his ideas and theMuslims to avoid him.But they encountered the very thing they wereafraid of very untimely, and he started disseminating his hereticalideas openly under the name of Wahhabism.To deceive the ignorant,stupid people, he came forward with reformism and innovations muchimpetuous to deem as kafirs the true Muslims who followed the Ahlas-Sunnat wa'l-Jamaa.He regarded it polytheism to ask Allahu taalafor something through the mediation of the Prophet or other Prophetsor awliya and to visit their graves.According to Muhammed ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, the person who talks tothe dead, when praying near a grave becomes a mushrik ( Fat'h al-majid, p208) He asserted that attributing an action or effect tosomeone or something beside Allah, for example , saying "[such andsuch] medicine cured" or " I obtained whatI asked through our masterRasulullah" was polytheism, and the Muslim who said so would becomepolytheist.Although the false documents Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab made up tosupport his statements were nothing but all lies and slanders, theignorant people who couldn't distinguish right from wrong, theunemployed , opportunists and the hard-hearted soon accepted his ideasand took part of his side and regarded the pious Muslims of the rightpath as kafirs.When Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab applied to the rulers of Dar'iyya with theview of disseminating his heresies easily through them, they willinglycooperated with him with the hope of extending their territories andincreasing their power.THey strove with all their might todisseminate his ideas everywhere.They declared war against those whorefused and opposed another in joining the army of Muhammed ibn Sa'udwhen it was said that it is halal to plunder and kill non-Wahhabis.In1143, Muhammed ibn Sa'ud and Muhammed ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab hand inarrived at the conclusion, that those who wouldn't accept Wahhabismwere kafirs and mushriks and it was halal to kill them and confiscatetheir possessions, and publicly announced their declaration sevenyears later.Then Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab started fabricating ijtihad whenhe was thirty-two years old and announced his false ijtihads at hisforty.As-Sayyid Ahmad ibn Zaini Dahlan, Mufti of the blessed city of Mecca,described under the topic "Al-fitnat al-Wahhabiyya" the hereticaltenest of Wahhabism and the tortures of the Wahhabis inflicted uponMuslims (Al-futuhat al-Islamiyya, v2, p228-233, Cairo1968) Hw wrote: " To deceive the Ahl as-Sunna 'ulama' in Mecca andMedina , the Wahhabis sent their men to cities, but these men couldnot answer the questions of ulama.It became evident that they wereignorant heretics.A verdict about their being disbleivers waswritten and issued everywhere.Sharif Mas'ud ibn Sa'id , Amir ofMecca, ordered that the Wahhabis shall be imprisoned.Some Wahhabisfled to Dari'yya and told what had happened to them.The ulama of Hijaz belonging to all the four madhhabs, includingMuhammed ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab's brother Shaikh Sulaiman and also hismasters who trained him studied Muhammad's books, prepared answers tohis disunioninst writings, which were distructive to Islam, and wrote,to call the attention of Muslims, well-documented books in refutationto his heretical writings and proclaimed Wahhabite tenets to beheretical and harmful.Bilge Dogan