On the Shore of Contemplation, Volume 1

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Author(s): Akbar Asad Ali Zadeh

Translator(s): Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Publisher(s): Islamic Publishing House (Canada)

Category: General Prophethood amp; Imamate

Topic Tags: inquiries wilayatul faqih Miscellaneous information: nbsp;Written by Akbar Asad Ali Zadeh under the auspices of the Imam as-Sadiq Research Institute [Qum, Iran] supervised by Ayatullah Ja’far Subhani

Featured Category: Resources for Further Research

Person Tags: Imam Khomeini

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Wilayatul Faqih, The Governance of the JuristThis text is a response to some inquiries about the nature and role of the Governance of the Jurist (Wilayatul Faqih). The author discusses in this text some of the important issues related to Wilayatul Faqih; for example, whether the Jurist's authority is limited or absolute, whether he is elected or appointed, and whether it is obligatory to follow his orders.

Foreword by the Publisher

We live in an age of mass confusion in which the political landscape of countries around the world is changing at a rapid pace. It is an era in which nations are unilaterally deciding to invade sovereign, free countries under the pretext of ‘liberation’, ‘freedom’ and putting an end to ‘state-sponsored terrorism’ – an act which “they” refer to as ‘pre-emptive strikes’. It is also a time in which countries are actively and whole-heartedly engaged in the greatest crimes against humanity which can be classified as nothing other than genocide and the enactment of their own state-sponsored holocaust by subjugating those whose land they occupy and enacting fear on their neighbors who want nothing other than to live in peace and harmony.

In such

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