- ID Book
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE
- PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION FOR THE EXEGESIS OF VERSE OF ISMA SUMMARY OF THE THREE VERSES OF GHADIR
- FIRST DISCUSSION
- SECOND DISCUSSION
- THIRD DISCUSSION
- FOURTH DISCUSSION
- FIFTH DISCUSSION
- THE QURAISHIS ARE THE REASON BEYOND THE PROPHET’S NEED FOR AN ADDITIONAL PROTECTION
- QURAISH IS ROOT OF VILLAINS
- CLANS OF QURAISH.
- CONQUEST OF MECCA BEWILDERS THE JURISPRUDENTS
- THE QURAISHIS AFTER CONQUEST OF MECCA
- THE QURAISHIS EMBRACE THE LEADERSHIP OF SUHEIL BIN AMR
- SUHEIL WORKS FOR INDEPENDENCE
- CONSEQUENCE OF THE INCIDENT
- OMAR THE CALIPH ATTESTS TERGIVERSATION OF THE QURAISHI
- CHAPTER TWO
- VERSE OF ISMA
- LOCATION OF THE VERSE
- THE SUNNI SCHOLARS’ OPINIONS
- ASHAFII’S INDIRECT REPORTS
- THE INDIRECT REPORTS ARE ESTIMABLE OPINIONS
- WAHABISTS AND HADITH OF GHADIR
- THE PROPHET’S PROGENY’S OPINION
- GENERAL REMARKS REGARDING THE OTHER OPINIONS
- EVALUATION OF THE OPPOSING OPINIONS
- QUESTIONS INVOLVING THE VERSE
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- VERSE OF IKMALUDDIN
- SURA OF MAIDA IS THE FINAL QURANIC CHAPTER
- THE PROPHET’S PROGENY’S OPINION
- SUNNI NARRATIVES CONCORDANT TO THE PROPHET’S PROGENY’S OPINION
- THE CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS
- ORIGINATION OF THIS CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS
- INDICATION OF THE TWO STORIES
- OTHER OPINIONS
- VERSE OF IKMALUDDIN
- VERSE OF IKMALUDDIN AND THE FORBIDDEN MEAT
- MEANINGS OF PERFECTION AND COMPLETION THROUGH THE QURAN AND NAHJUL BALAGHA
- THE OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE
- CHAPTER FIVE
- VERSE OF MAARIJ
- EVENTS STIMULATED BY THE QURAISHIS
- THE QURAISHIS’ NEW PREPARATIONS AFTER THE GHADIR DAY
- THE OLD ENVY AND THE ‘BLOOD LICK’
- SONS OF ABDUD-DAR, CARRIERS OF THE QURAISHIS’ PENNON
- SONS OF ABDUD-DAR GIVE A LESSON IN DEFENSE
- AN-NADR BIN AL-HARITH; CHIEF OF SONS OF ABDUD-DAR
- AN-NADR; A MEMBER OF THE PHARAONIC CONFERENCE AGAINST THE PROPHET
- AN-NADR; THE MESSENGER TO THE JEWS
- THE REGISTRAR OF THE FIRST ACCURSED DOCUMENT
- DEMISE OF THE FIRST PHARAONIC DEMANDER
- AN-NUDEIR; AN-NADR’S BROTHER AND SUCCESSOR
- FOR THE PRO-QURAISH NARRATORS; AN-NADR WAS MUSLIM, IMMIGRATOR AND MARTYR
- DID AN-NUDEIR FOLLOW HIS BROTHER AND NEPHEW IN OBJECTING AGAINST THE PROPHET?
- THE TWO -OR MORE- MOST LICENTIOUS OF QURAISH
- REFERENCES
AYATUL GHADIR
ID Book
Verses of Ghadir
A SEARCH REGARDING THE PROPHET’S SERMONS ON THE
FAREWELL PILGRIMAGE, AND AN EXEGESIS OF QURANIC
VERSES OF GHADIR
AUTHORED BY:
AL-MOSTAFA CENTRE OF ISLAMIC RESEARCHES
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE SUPREME ISLAMIC
AUTHORITY
SAYYID ALI AL-SISTANI
INTRODUCTION
THREE QUESTIONS REGARDING MISSION OF THE
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE
MERCIFUL
PRAISED BE ALLAH, AND HONORABLE AND PERFECT
PEACE BE UPON MOHAMMED AND HIS INFALLIBLE
IMMACULATE PROGENY.
There are three questions regarding missions of the prophets. These questions
were not regarded adequately by scholars.
First question: Conveying the Lord’s missive is the original mission of the
prophets. It is the pivot on which the prophets’ duties and deeds are grounded.
This is purposed for substantiating the Lord’s claim on His servants.
A prophet, then, is a conveyor of an epistle. He fears the Lord and evades His ire
and torment if he squanders or violates the instructions. For this reason, the
prophets were wont to call people to witness perfection of their conveyance.
In addition, the prophets are not asked to coerce or compel people on admitting
and accepting their missions. By the same token, they are not admitted to submit
people to their missions.
As a second rule, it is to say that coercion and compulsion is rejected in matters
respecting the divine religion. It is obligatory to preserve people’s freedom of
believing or refutation. They are, likewise, free to commit themselves to the
religion or deviate.
This is the very meaning of opening school of life in this world, and testing people
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