Do Islamic documents confirm the Caliphate of the Caliphs?
Please refer to Debates “Three Caliphs or not” for answer.
12 Successors and the Sunni Belief
A debate among king, king's minister and a Shia'h scholar. Click here
Toward God
According to Qur'an and Islamic narratives, God has created every human being of all times and places, based on Divine Fetrat which means that all humans, deep in their souls and hearts, know that they have a loving God and God has appointed the best of His creations to guide others; this Divine Fetrat can absolutely not be changed into something else (Quran, Surah Roome, verse 30). ... click here
Imamat, necessary or not?!
One day, some of Imam Saadeq's students were sitting with him including Heshaam son of Hakam. At that time Heshaam was very young. Imam asked Heshaam to retell his debate with Omar son of Abid. Heshaam said: I heard that Omar son of Abid was teaching a class about religion in the Mosque of Basreh. This matter made me concerned therefore, I went to Basreh to see for myself. At the Mosque,I saw many people were sitting around him and asking him questions.
I sat in front of him and told him that I was a newcomer in Basreh and said : May I ask you some questions?
Omar son of Abid: Yes
I said: Do you have eyes?...
Heavenly Power and Knowledge of the Imam
In Surah Kahf of Qur'an, we read that Moses (PBUH) was commanded by God to search and find Khed(z)r, a chosen servant of God. Moses was one of the Olol-Azm Prophets (Ibrahim, Noah, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad -PBUT- were the five Olol-Azm Prophets -Prophets with determination-, for interesting points regarding the Olol-Azm Prophets, we invite you to read “spring of hearts” in this site). Moses finally found Khezr and, as he was commanded, asked Khezr to let him accompany him to learn from his God-given Knowledge. click here
Mobaahelah, Ali as Mohammad's self
A group of Christians
-who, based on Jesus' prophecies, were expecting the Promised Prophet
and were responding to the invitation of Islam- traveled from Najraan
-which was a place between Hejaaz and Yemen- to Medina. Verses 59&60
of Surah Aal-E-Emraan were sent down to the Prophet in response to
their claim that Jesus was the son of God (see the article ”Adam
and Jesus(PBUT)” in this site). Their bishop based on the signs of
the
Promised Prophet as indicated in their religious documents,
knew that
Mohammad (PBUH&HP) was the Promised one. On the way
to Medina, the bishop had even confessed to his brother that Mohammad
was certainly the one they were anticipating. Later after meeting the
Prophet, the brother embraced Islam but the love of worldly
attractions and positions kept the bishop from accepting Islam and
announcing that which he knew in his heart.
After the Christians met the Prophet, and the bishop refused to submit, Allah sent the following verse down to the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP):
...say!
come and let us call Our Sons and Your Sons, and Our Ladies and Your
Ladies, and Our own Selves and Your Own Selves, then let us
both
earnestly call God, and place La'nat of Allah upon -ask Allah
to withhold His Mercy and Compassion from- those who do not reveal
the Truth.
(Qur'an, Surah Aal-E-Emraan, Verse 61)
Through this Qur'anic
verse God commanded the Prophet to call the Christians to a
Mobaahelah. Those Christians, based on their writings, knew that the
Promised Prophet's prayers would definitely be answered by God. In a
chosen day, the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP) asked the Christians,
based on the aforesaid verse, to bring their selves, their women and
their
sons to a specified location, while the people were present
too. The
Christians did so and they were expecting that the
Prophet would come
with a large number of soldiers to confront
them. To their surprise,
the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP) showed
up with only 4 people on
his side. As indicated in the
aforementioned Qur'anic verse -which is
called “The Mobaahelah
verse”- the Prophet brought only Fatima
(PBUH) as the women; the
only woman whom God and the Prophet
considered worthy to be the
woman from the Prophet and be present in the manifestation of this
Qur'anic verse, was Fatima. The Prophet brought Hassan and Hossain
(PBUT) who
were very young, as his only sons and last but not
least, the Prophet brought Ali (PBUH), as his own self (Sunni
documents: Sahih Moslem, Sonan
Termadhi, ...); God in this
Qur'anic verse had requested both sides to
bring their selves,
their women and their sons; clearly, the Prophet
Muhammad
(PBUH&HP) was, once again, introducing Ali as his own
self,
Hassan and Hossain as his only sons, and Fatima as the only lady from
him. When Mohammad, Ali, Fatima, Hassan, Hossain (PBUT)arrived in
the
indicated location they fell on their knees and started to
pray.
Allah, in the aforesaid verse had commanded both sides to
pray and He
actually was indicating that only the rightful ones'
prayers would be answered and the other side would be deprived of
God's Mercy. The Christians then, on the one hand realized that the
Prophet was sure that his prayer would be answered and not the prayer
of the other side, otherwise the Prophet would not have brought his
loved ones to the scene of the Mobaahelah; on the other hand, when
the Christians looked at those holy and heavenly faces and those
hands raised up toward the sky, they felt the earth moving under
their feet. They knew then, if those 5 kept on praying, God's Mercy
would surely be
kept away from them, forever. So, they begged
Mohammad to stop and
the Prophet did so. This event proved the
Divinely bestowed position and power of Mohammad, Ali, Fatima, Hassan
and Hossain (PBUT) and their rightfulness to any one who have a fair
and bright heart and mind. But
those who have dark hearts and
minds, Qur'an not only guides them
not, but also adds to their
darkness. (Qur'an, Surah Esra, Verse 82, …)
The Prophet also recited
the famous “Tathir” verse on that same day
to repeatedly,
introduce the Ahl-Ol-Bait and their exalted position.
In that
verse, God clearly announces to every one that the
Ahl-Ol-Bait are
purified, impeccable and infallible and they are the
chosen ones:
This
is it and nothing but this, Allah has Willed to put away all that is
not
pure, from you, The AHL-OL-BAIT, and make you immaculate and
pure, in the most possible purified status.
(Qur'an, Surah Ahzaab, Verse 33)
O' our beloved Mahdi! You are the last reminder of the Ahl-Ol-Bait (PBUT); you, just like your mother and fathers are an unlimited ocean of chastity; you are the gentle breeze of honesty; you are the fresh stream of limpidity; come! And teach us the celestial meaning of humanity ... .
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