- ID Book
- Cover v.1
- Preface
- Short introduction of the Book
- THE FIRST SESSION
- SECOND SESSION
- PART ONE
- SECOND SESSION
- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT ORIGIN OF THE SHIA SECT
- ABSURD TO ASSOCIATE ABDULLAH BIN SABA WITH SHIAS
- MEANING OF SHIA
- FURTHER MERITS OF SHIA
- SHIAS' MERITS PROVEN FROM SUNNI BOOKS
- RANK OF SALMAN, ABU DHARR,MIQDAD, AND AMMAR
- CAUSES OF IRANIAN'S RECEPTIVITY TO SHIA'ISM
- DEBATES BETWEEN ALLAMA HILLI AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE CONCERNING THE IMAMATE
- PART TWO
- ISLAM FORBIDS BOASTING ABOUT ANCESTORS
- ISLAM ALSO FORBIDS RACISM
- CONDEMNATION OF THE EXTREMISTS
- SHIAS SEPARATE FROM GHALIS
- CLARIFICATION ABOUT REVERENCE TOWARDS IMAMS
- THE PEOPLE OF YA SIN REFERS TO THE PEOPLE OF MUHAMMAD
- SALAWAT (BLESSINGS) ON MUHAMMAD AND AHLE-MUHAMMAD IS THE SUNNA (COMMENDABLE), AND IN RITUAL PRAYER IT IS COMPULSORY
- PART ONE
- THIRD SESSION
- FOURTH SESSION
- FIFTH SESSION
- PART ONE
- PART TWO
- PART THREE
- SLANDERS BY ABU TAIMIYYA
- ABU HURAIRA'S CHARACTER AND HADITH CALLING FOR HIS CONDEMNATION
- REPLY TO THE SUPPOSED HADITH THAT ALLAH SAID "I AM PLEASED WITH ABU BAKR - IS HE ALSO PLEASED WITH ME?"
- AHADITH IN PRAISE OF ABU BAKR AND UMAR AND THEIR DISQUALIFICATION
- HADITH THAT BOTH HASAN AND HUSAIN ARE THE FOREMOST OF YOUTH OF PARADISE
- PART FOUR
- PART FIVE
- "PEOPLE OF THE REMEMBRANCE" ARE THE AHLE MUHAMMAD, THE DESCENDANTS OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- CITATION OF A VERSE OF THE HOLY QUR'AN ABOUT THE APPOINTMENT OF THE FOUR CALIPHS, AND A REPLY
- ARGUMENT FROM THE "VERSE OF CAVE" AND ITS REPLY
- FACTS ABOUT ABU BAKR'S ACCOMPANYING THE HOLY PROPHET
- BARSISA ABID
- THE SENDING DOWN OF PEACE WAS ON THE PROPHET OF ALLAH
- Cover v.2
- ID Book
- Preface
- SIXTH SESSION
- PART ONE
- PART TWO
- PART THREE
- PART FOUR
- SEVENTH SESSION
- PART ONE
- PART ONE
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASSUMED UNITY AND REAL UNITY
- THE VERSE OF IMPRECATION (MUBAHALA) PROVES THE UNITY OF THE SOUL OF ALI WITH THE HOLY PROPHET
- MERITS OF ALI, FATIMA, HASAN AND HUSAIN PROVEN BY THE VERSE OF IMPRECATION
- FURTHER NARRATIONS AND HADITH AS EVIDENCE OF THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF THE HOLY PROPHET AND ALI
- PART TWO
- PART THREE
- PART FOUR
- PART FIVE
- PART ONE
- EIGHTH SESSION
- PART ONE
- EIGHTH SESSION
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ISLAM (SUBMISSION) AND IMAN (FAITH)
- ASSOCIATION OF SHIA'ISM WITH IMAM JA'FAR SADIQ
- CRITICIZING THE COMPANIONS DOES NOT MEAN INFIDELITY
- ACCORDING TO ABU'L-HASAN ASH'ARI EVEN CALLING ALLAH OR HOLY PROPHET BY EVIL NAMES IS NOT INFIDELITY
- MOST COMPANIONS ABUSED ONE ANOTHER BUT NOT REGARDED AS INFIDELS
- HOLY PROPHET OF ISLAM KNEW ALL GOOD AND BAD ACTIONS OF SAHABA
- PART TWO
- PART THREE
- PART FOUR
- PART FIVE
- SUNNIS' DOUBT ABOUT MEANING OF MAULA
- MEANING OF MAULA AS "GUIDE", "MASTER" IN LIGHT OF THE VERSE' YA AYYUHA'R-RASUL BALIGH
- REVELATION OF VERSE "THIS DAY HAVE I PERFECTED FOR YOU YOUR RELIGION" AT GHADIR-E-KHUM
- ALI'S ARGUMENT BASED ON HADITH OF GHADIR IN THE MOSQUE AT KUFA
- SAD PLIGHT OF THOSE WHO DID NOT CONFIRM HADITH GHADIR
- COMPANIONS' BREAKING THEIR PROMISE MADE ON THE DAY OF GHADIR
- PART SIX
- PART SEVEN
- PART EIGHT
- MAHDI TO FILL THE EARTH WITH JUSTICE
- AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, THE HEAD OF THE HOLY PROPHET WAS ON THE CHEST OF AMIRU'L-MU'MININ (A.S.)
- INQUIRING ABOUT IMMEDIATE SUCCESSION OR VICEGERENCY
- HOLY PROPHET'S WILL CONCERNING ALI'S VICEGERENCY EXISTS IN ALL AUTHENTIC BOOKS
- HOLY PROPHET WAS PREVENTED FROM WRITING HIS WILL AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH
- HOLY PROPHET WAS PREVENTED FROM WRITING HIS WILL AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH
- DISOBEDIENCE TO HOLY PROPHET'S COMMAND UNBELIEVABLE
- AUTHENTIC REPORTS CONCERNING THE PROPHET'S BEING PREVENTED FROM MAKING HIS WILL
- IBN ABBAS WEEPING BECAUSE THE HOLY PROPHET WAS PREVENTED FROM WRITING HIS WILL
- UMAR PREVENTED THE HOLY PROPHET FROM WRITING HIS WILL
- SOURCES OF HADITH OF "PREVENTION OF WILL"
- UMAR SAID: "THIS MAN IS SPEAKING NONSENSE, THE QUR'AN IS SUFFICIENT FOR US"
- THE HOLY PROPHET ORDERS THE QUARRELING COMPANIONS TO LEAVE HIM
- TO CALL THE HOLY PROPHET "THIS MAN" WAS GREAT INSOLENCE
- THE WORD 'HAJAR' USED BY UMAR MEANS NONSENSE
- INSOLENCE AGAINST HOLY PROPHET IS INFIDELITY
- FIRST MISCHIEF IN ISLAM IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- COULD THE HOLY PROPHET SPEAK NONSENSE?
- WORDS "THIS MAN SPEAKS NONSENSE" WERE MOST INSULTING
- A CALIPH CANNOT BE EXONERATED FOR DISOBEYING THE HOLY PROPHET
- THE HOLY PROPHET NOT UMAR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SECURITY OF THE RELIGION
- HOLY QUR'AN ALONE IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR OUR GUIDANCE
- HOLY QUR'AN ALSO ASKS US TO CONSULT AHLE DHIKR, THAT IS, AHLE BAIT
- PART NINE
- ABU BAKR WAS NOT PREVENTED FROM WRITING HIS WILL
- SO IT IS CLEAR THAT ALI WAS HOLY PROPHET'S IMMEDIATE SUCCESSOR
- CALIPHATE BELONGS TO THE HEIR OF KNOWLEDGE
- ALI'S VERDICT CONCERNING A WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD AFTER A SIX-MONTH PREGNANCY
- HADITH 'LA NURIS' NOT APPLIED TO OTHER PROPERTIES
- ABU BAKR'S RETURNING FADAK TO FATIMA AND UMAR'S INTERVENTION
- PART TEN
- CALIPH'S RETURNING FADAK TO DESCENDANTS OF FATIMA
- PROOF THAT FADAK HAD BEEN GIVEN TO FATIMA
- CONTENTION THAT ABU BAKR ACTED ACCORDING TO "VERSE OF EVIDENCE" AND ITS REPLY
- TO DEMAND WITNESSES FROM OCCUPANTS WAS AGAINST RELIGIOUS LAW
- REJECTING WITNESSES OF FATIMA WAS AGAINST RELIGIOUS LAW
- "TRUTHFUL ONES" REFERS TO MUHAMMAD AND ALI
- PART ELEVEN
- CALIPH ABU BAKR DID NOT FOLLOW LAW OF EVIDENCE IN OTHER CASES
- ALI AND FATIMA WERE REFERENTS OF THE VERSE OF PURIFICATION
- PROVING THAT THE VERSE OF PURITY WAS NOT IN PRAISE OF THE PROPHET'S WIVES.
- WIVES OF PROPHET ARE NOT INCLUDED IN AHLE BAIT
- NUMEROUS HADITH CONCERNING "VERSE OF PURITY" BEING IN PRAISE OF HOLY FIVE
- HADITH OF UMME SALMA ABOUT 'HARRIRA' (A SWEET LIQUID FOOD) OF FATIMA AND REVELATION OF "VERSE OF PURITY"
- PART TWELVE
- FADAK WAS TAKEN AWAY FOR POLITICAL REASONS
- KHUMS INTERDICTED
- CALIPH MAY NOT PASS AN ORDER IN VIOLATION OF A CLEAR ORDINANCE OF ALLAH AND THE PRACTICE OF HOLY PROPHET
- FATIMA REMAINED INDIGNANT WITH ABU BAKR AND UMAR UNTIL HER DEATH
- FATIMA'S DISTRESS IS ALLAH'S AND PROPHET'S DISTRESS
- ALLEGATION ABOUT ALI'S INTENDING TO MARRY ABU JAHL'S DAUGHTER
- PART THIRTEEN
- FABRICATING OF HADITH DURING MU'AWIYA'S PERIOD
- MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT FATIMA'S INDIGNATION BEING NON-RELIGIOUS
- FATIMA WAS FREE FROM WORLDLY ATTACHMENT
- FATIMA WAS FREE FROM WORLDLY ATTACHMENT
- FATIMA'S INDIGNATION MOTIVATED BY RELIGION
- FATIMA'S SilENCE DID NOT INDICATE HER ACQUIESCENCE
- ALI WAS NOT FREE TO ACT DURING HIS CALIPHATE
- ABU BAKR AND UMAR TRIED TO VISIT FATIMA TO EXPLAIN THEIR POINT BUT IN VAIN
- ABU BAKR REALIZED THE SERIOUSNESS OF FATIMA'S ANGER
- FATIMA WAS BURIED AT NIGHT, A PROOF OF HER LASTING DISPLEASURE WITH ABU BAKR AND UMAR
- PART ONE
- NINTH SESSION
- PART ONE
- NINTH SESSION FRIDAY NIGHT 2nd Sha'ban 1345 A.H.
- SHIAS' ACCUSING A'YESHA OF ADULTERY AND ITS REPLY
- A'yesha 'S EXONERATION FROM THE CHARGE OF ADULTERY
- A HUSBAND AND WIFE DO NOT NECESSARILY SHARE THE SAME LEVEL OF ATTAINMENT
- MEANING OF FAITHLESSNESS OF NOAH'S AND LOT'S WIVES
- FAITHLESSNESS OF WIVES DOES NOT IMPLY IMPURITY
- A'yesha GRIEVED THE HOLY PROPHET
- NO SUCH REPORTS ABOUT OTHER WIVES OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- UMMU'L-MU'MININ SUDA DID NOT GO OUT EVEN FOR HAJJ OR UMRA
- PART TWO
- A'yesha GOES OUT TO FIGHT AGAINST ALI
- HADITH IN PRAISE OF ALI'S VIRTUES
- AUTHORS WHO NARRATE HOLY PROPHET'S HADITH ABOUT HYPOCRITES' HATRED OF ALI
- SLAUGHTER OF SAHABA (COMPANIONS) AND INNOCENT BELIEVERS IN BASRA BY ORDER OF A'yesha
- SHIAS SAY ABOUT A'yesha EXACTLY WHAT HISTORY SHOWS
- NO EVIDENCE THAT A'yesha REPENTED
- A'yesha PREVENTS BURIAL OF imam HASAN NEAR THE HOLY PROPHET
- A'yesha 'S PROSTRATION AT MARTYRDOM OF AMIRU'L-MU'MININ
- PART THREE
- CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS OF A'yesha ABOUT UTHMAN
- HADITH OF MENDING SHOES IS THE GREATEST PROOF OF THE imamATE AND CALIPHATE OF ALI
- DIFFERENCE IN MODE OF APPOINTMENT OF THE FIRST THREE CALIPHS IS PROOF OF INVALIDITY OF THEIR CALIPHATE
- OTHER PROOFS FOR INVALIDITY OF CONSENSUS (IJMA')
- HOLY PROPHET'S NOMINATION OF ALI IGNORED AND ABU BAKR'S NOMINATION OF UMAR UPHELD
- OBJECTION TO MAJLIS-E-SHURA (CONSULTATIVE BODY)
- OBJECTION TO ABDU'R-RAHMAN BIN AUF BEING ARBITER
- ACCORDING TO THE HOLY PROPHET, ALI SHOULD BE FOLLOWED IN PREFERENCE TO ALL THE OTHERS
- ACCORDING TO THE HOLY PROPHET, ALI SHOULD BE FOLLOWED IN PREFERENCE TO ALL THE OTHERS
- WORST INJUSTICE DONE BY UMAR TO AMIRU'L-MU'MININ'S POSITION
- CALIPHATE OF ALI WAS ORDAINED BY ALLAH
- REAL BASIS OF ALI'S CALIPHATE IS NOT CONSENSUS BUT THE HOLY PROPHET'S DECLARATIONS
- ALI WAS SUPERIOR TO ALL THE OTHER CALIPHS
- HADITH OF HOLY PROPHET REGARDING ALI'S SUPERIORITY
- ALI'S PURE ANCESTRY
- PART Four
- ALI'S CREATION FROM LIGHT AND HIS ASSOCIATION WITH THE HOLY PROPHET
- ALI'S PHYSICAL ANCESTRY
- AZAR WAS ABRAHAM'S FATHER
- FATHERS AND MOTHERS OF THE HOLY PROPHET WERE NOT POLYTHEISTS BUT THEY WERE ALL BELIEVERS
- MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT ABU TALIB'S FAITH CLARIFIED
- SHIA CONSENSUS REGARDING BELIEF OF ABU TALIB
- MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT CONCOCTED HADITH OF ZUHZAH CLARIFIED
- PART FIVE
- EVIDENCE FOR ABU TALIB'S BELIEF
- ABRAHAM'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROPHETHOOD AND HIS CONVERSATION WITH AZAR
- ABU TALIB ASSURES HOLY PROPHET OF FULL SUPPORT AND ALSO RECITES COUPLETS IN PRAISE OF ISLAM
- ABU TALIB WAS A SUPPORTER AND GUARDIAN OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- NOT PROPER TO CALL MU'AWIYA 'KHALU'L-MU'MININ'
- MU'AWIYA PRONOUNCES TAKBIR AT imam HASAN'S MARTYRDOM
- MUHAMMAD BIN ABI BAKR WAS KILLED THIRSTY AND BURNT TO ASHES FOR LOVE OF AHLE BAIT
- MU'AWIYA WAS NOT A SCRIBE OF WAHI (REVELATION) BUT ONLY OF LETTERS
- PART SIX
- EVIDENCE FOR MU'AWIYA'S INFIDELITY
- EVIDENCE FOR MU'AWIYA'S INFIDELITY
- EVIDENCE FROM SURAS OF THE HOLY QUR'AN AND HADITH MU'AWIYA AND YAZID ARE CURSED
- MURDER OF PROMINENT BELIEVERS, LIKE IMAM HASAN, AMMAR HAJAR BIN ADI MALIK ASHTAR, AND MUHAMMAD BIN ABI BAKR, , BY ORDER OF MU'AWIYA
- MURDER OF 30,000 BELIEVERS BY BUSR BIN ARTAT ON ORDER OF MU'AWIYA
- MU'AWIYA ORDERED THAT ALI BE CURSED
- THE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET WERE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF UNDERSTANDING
- IN THE WORDS OF THE HOLY QUR'AN "SAHAB" AND "SAHABA," MEANING "COMPANIONS", HAVE NO REVERENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE
- HOLY QUR'AN PRAISES GOOD COMPANIONS BUT ALSO CONDEMNS BAD COMPANIONS
- ABU TALIB WAS A FIRM BELIEVER
- ADDITIONAL PROOF OF ABU TALIB'S BELIEF
- ABU TALIB CONCEALED HIS FAITH WHILE HAMZA AND ABBAS PROCLAIMED THEIRS
- EVIDENCE FOR MU'AWIYA'S INFIDELITY
- PART SEVEN
- MUT'A MARRIAGE AND HAJJ NISA WERE LAWFUL UP TO ABU BAKR'S TIME BUT MADE UNLAWFUL BY UMAR
- SUNNIS ARE REALLY RAFIZIS AND SHIA ARE SUNNIS
- ARGUMENTS FOR LAWFULNESS OF MUT'A
- ARGUMENTS FOR LAWFULNESS OF MUT'A
- AHLE-SUNNA REGARDING LAWFULNESS OF MUT'A
- COMMAND PERMITTING MUT'A WAS NOT REPEALED
- DISTINGUISHED COMPANIONS AND IMAM MALIK INSIST THAT THE ORDINANCE OF MUT'A WAS NOT ABROGATED
- ALL CONDITIONS OF WEDLOCK ARE FULFILLED BY MUT'A
- WAS QUR'ANIC COMMAND FOR MUT'A ABROGATED BY THE HOLY PROPHET?
- ARGUMENTS CONCERNING ITS ABROGATION DURING THE TIME OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- COULD CALIPH UMAR ABROGATE MUT'A?
- COMMAND OF ALLAH OR OF THE HOLY PROPHET MAY NOT BE ABROGATED BY A CALIPH
- EXPEDIENCY NOT GROUNDS FOR ABROGATION
- ABU TALIB'S FAITH WAS WELL KNOWN DURING THE TIME OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- ALI'S BIRTHPLACE WAS THE KA'BA
- THE ORIGIN OF ALI'S NAME WAS THE UNSEEN WORLD
- AFTER THE NAMES OF ALLAH AND THE HOLY PROPHET, ALI'S NAME IS WRITTEN ON ARSH
- WORDS USED BY ADAM FOR ACCEPTANCE OF HIS REPENTANCE WERE THE NAMES OF THE FIVE PURE ONES
- WAHI (REVELATION) AND ILHAM (INTUITION) BESTOWED ON PERSONS OTHER THAN PROPHETS, EVEN ON ANIMALS
- PART EIGHT
- PART NINE
- ZURAR'S CONVERSATION WITH MU'AWIYA CONCERNING ALI
- THE PROPHET'S RECOGNITION OF ALI'S PIETY
- ALLAH AND THE HOLY PROPHET CALLED ALI IMAM U'L-MUTTAQIN (CHIEF OF THE PIOUS)
- AS imamU'L-MUTTAQIN ALI HAD NO INCLINATION FOR SELF-INDULGENCE OR AUTHORITY
- ALI'S REFUSAL TO PAY ALLEGIANCE TO ABU BAKR PROVES THE METHOD OF HIS APPOINTMENT AS CALIPH WAS NOT RIGHT
- SILENCE OF HOLY PROPHETS
- ALI'S SITUATION SIMILAR TO Aaron'S
- THE HOLY PROPHET COULD NOT EFFECT DRASTIC CHANGES FOR FEAR OF PEOPLE
- PART TEN
- AFTER THE DEATH OF THE HOLY PROPHET ALI'S PATIENCE WAS FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH
- AMIRU'L-MU'MININ'S LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT EXPLAINING HIS SILENCE WHEN DEPRIVED OF THE CALIPHATE
- AMIRU'L-MU'MININ'S SERMON AFTER MARTYRDOM OF MUHAMMAD BIN ABI BAKR
- SERMON OF SHIQSHIQAYYA ALSO EXPLAINS ALI'S SILENCE
- DOUBT ABOUT THE SERMON OF SHIQSHIQAYYA
- SEYYED RAZI
- SERMON OF SHIQSHIQAYYA RECORDED LONG BEFORE THE BIRTH OF SEYYED RAZI
- PART ONE
- TENTH SESSION
- PART ONE
- ASSESSMENT OF UMAR'S KNOWLEDGE OF ISLAMIC LAW
- CONFISCATION OF ANY PORTION OF MEHR IS UNLAWFUL
- UMAR'S DENYING THE PROPHET'S DEATH PROVES THAT HE WAS IGNORANT OF SEVERAL VERSES OF THE HOLY QUR'AN
- UMAR'S ORDER TO STONE FIVE PEOPLE AND ALI'S INTERVENTION
- UMAR'S ORDERING A PREGNANT WOMAN TO BE STONED TO DEATH AND ALI'S INTERVENTION
- UMAR ORDERING AN INSANE WOMAN TO BE STONED AND ALI'S INTERVENTION
- UMAR'S IGNORANCE CONCERNING TAYAMMUM (SUBSTITUTE FOR ABLUTION)
- PART TWO
- ALI'S KNOWLEDGE AND MERIT
- MU'AWIYA DEFENDING THE POSITION OF ALI
- UMAR'S ADMISSION OF HIS IGNORANCE CONCERNING DIFFICULT PROBLEMS AND HIS DECLARATION THAT IF ALI HAD NOT HELPED HIM, HIS DIFFICULTIES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SOLVED
- ALI WAS MOST SUITABLE FOR THE OFFICE OF CALIPHATE
- ALI'S "ALLEGIANCE" TO CALIPHS WAS FORCED
- THERE SHOULD BE NO "BLIND FAITH" IN RELIGION
- FAITH SHOULD BE BASED ON REASON AND HONEST INQUIRY
- PART THREE
- PROPHET'S ORDER TO OBEY ALI
- NO HADITH EXISTS DESIGNATING OTHER CALIPHS AS THE "GUIDES OF THE COMMUNITY" OR "GATES OF KNOWLEDGE"
- PROSTRATION ON DUST BY SHIA'S OBJECTED TO BY OTHERS WITHOUT REASON
- DIFFERENCES AMONG THE FOUR SCHOOLS ARE IGNORED BUT SHIAS' ARE NOT TOLERATED
- VERDICTS BY SUNNI SCHOLARS IN CONTRADICTION TO QUR'ANIC INJUNCTIONS
- WASHING OF THE FEET IN WUZU' IS AGAINST THE QUR'ANIC ORDINANCE
- WIPING OVER THE SOCKS AGAINST THE EXPLICIT ORDINANCE OF THE HOLY QUR'AN
- PART FOUR
- THE WIPING OVER THE TURBAN IS AGAINST THE QURANIC ORDINANCE
- SHIAS ALONE BLAMED FOR SUCH DIFFERENCES
- ACCORDING TO SUNNI ULEMA PROSTRATION ON DRY EXCREMENT AND DUNG IS LAWFUL
- PROSTRATION ON FLOOR COVERINGS INSTEAD OF THE GROUND IS AGAINST QUR'ANIC INJUNCTION
- SHIAS DO NOT CONSIDER PROSTRATION ON DUST OF KARBALA COMPULSORY
- OLD AGE IS NO CRITERION FOR THE CALIPHATE
- Ali appointed for conveyance of verses of Sura Bara'a (the immunity) of the Holy Qur'an
- PART FIVE
- AFTER THE HOLY PROPHET ALI WAS THE GUIDE OF THE COMMUNITY
- ALI HATED CORRUPT POLITICS
- REBELLION DURING AMIRU'L-MU'MININ'S CALIPHATE WAS DUE TO ENMITY AGAINST HIM
- A'yesha WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REVOLT AGAINST ALI
- ALI'S BATTLES OF JAMAL, SIFFIN, AND NAHRWAN WERE LIKE THE BATTLES OF THE HOLY PROPHET AGAINST THE INFIDELS
- ALI POSSESSED KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN WORLD
- ALI POSSESSED KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN WORLD
- IS KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN RESTRICTED TO ALLAH?
- KNOWLEDGE IS OF TWO KINDS DHATI (SELF-EXISTENT) AND ARZI (ACQUIRED)
- QUR'ANIC EVIDENCE THAT PROPHETS POSSESSED KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN
- CLAIMS FOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN THROUGH OTHER MEANS ARE FALSE
- VICEGERENTS OF PROPHETS ALSO HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN
- PART SIX
- SUNNI ULEMA WHO HAVE NARRATED THE HADITH OF "CITY OF KNOWLEDGE"
- SUNNI ULEMA WHO HAVE NARRATED THE HADITH OF "CITY OF KNOWLEDGE"
- TO NARRATE ALI'S MERITS IS WORSHIP
- HADITH "I AM THE HOUSE OF WISDOM"
- ELUCIDATION OF THE HADITH OF "GATE OF KNOWLEDGE"
- HOLY PROPHET OPENED 1,000 CHAPTERS OF KNOWLEDGE IN ALI'S HEART
- JAFR-E-JAMI'A AND ITS NATURE
- PART SEVEN
- GABRIEL BROUGHT A SEALED BOOK FOR WASI (SUCCESSOR) OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- ALI'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF SALUNI (ASK ME) AND THE REPORTS OF THE SUNNIS.
- ALI'S CLAIM THAT HE COULD JUDGE CASES ACCORDING TO THE TORAH AS WELL AS THE GOSPELS
- PROPHESYING THAT SINAN BIN ANAS WAS THE MURDERER OF IMAM HUSAIN
- FORETELLING THE STANDARD BEARING OF HABIB BIN AMMAR
- FORETELLING MU'AWIYA'S OPPRESSION
- FORETELLING OF DHU'TH-THADIYYA'S MURDER
- PART EIGHT
- PROPHECY ABOUT HIS OWN MARTYRDOM AND ABOUT IBN MULJIM
- "CITY OF KNOWLEDGE" PROVES ALI'S RIGHT TO BE THE FIRST CALIPH
- ACCORDING TO THE HOLY PROPHET ALI EXCELLED ALL OTHERS IN KNOWLEDGE
- DESCRIPTION OF ZONES OF SPACE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE MODERN SCIENCE OF ASTRONOMY
- ALI MASTERED ALL SCIENCES
- IBN ABI'L-HADID'S ADMISSION OF ALI'S SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE
- IMAM HUSAIN'S BIRTH AND THE ANGELS' CONGRATULATIONS
- NAWAB SAHIB'S ACCEPTANCE OF SHIA'ISM
- PART ONE
- LAST SESSION
- BIRTHDAY OF IMAM HUSAIN
- GENUINE LIBERTY
- SUNNIS BELIEf CONCERNING THE MEANING OF "THOSE VESTED WITH AUTHORITY"
- LEADERS OF ISRAEL SELECTED BY MOSES WERE CONSIDERED WORTHLESS
- INFALLIBILITY OF THE HOLY IMAMS GENERALLY REPORTED
- KNOWLEDGE OF THE AHLE BAIT
- WHY THE NAMES OF THE IMAMS DO NOT APPEAR I N THE HOLY QUR' AN
- THERE IS NO MENTION OF UNITS (RAK'ATS) OF PRAYERS IN THE HOLY QUR'AN
- Ull'L-A.MR REFERS TO ALl AND THE IMAMS OF THE AHLE BAIT
- NAMES OF THE TWELVE IMAMS AND THEIR NUMBER
- THE NUMBER OF CALIPHS AFTER THE HOLY PROPHET IS TWELVE
PESHAWAR NIGHTS (Shiah Islam in Sunni Traditions)
ID Book
Peshawar Nights: A Public Debate Between Shi'a and Sunni
Author: Sultanu'l-Wa'izin Shirazi (Prince of Preachers from Shiraz)
Translation by: Hamid Quinlan and Charles Ali Campbell
Publisher: Pak Books, P.O. Box EE, Palisades, NY 10964, in 1996 and Reproduced with permission by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project team and for the third time produced in different formats by the specialized center of Ghadirestan in Iran- Isfahan
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Preface
Translator's preface
Translators' Preface
Recently the non-Muslim world has forcibly learned that Islam is divided into two sects, Shia and Sunni,
but there is so little material in languages other than Arabic and Persian on the Shia side of the issue that
real understanding is all but impossible. This is the consequence of the historical accident that Western
contact with Islam was almost entirely with Sunni communities, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ottoman Turkey,
most of Muslim India, etc. The present work corrects this imbalance in a most extraordinary way, for the
case for Shi'ite Islam is argued and supported virtually entirely from orthodox Sunni sources. The
political, juridical, and spiritual legitimacy of the Shi'ite position has been argued and documented in the
English language, and from sources that the West has largely overlooked.
In fact, it is shown here that the most authoritative source for interpreting of the message of the Prophet
Muhammad was his cousin and son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, and the eleven other designated
successors after him, who constitute the Imams of the Ithna Asheri (Twelve Imam) Shias. At various
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